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News

Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Your progressive (and not so progressive) Missoula..............................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Garbage (applicant) out, horror on the Westside, and Griz have a field day ................6 Etc. The press has something to say...........................................................................................7 News Meet courthouse interpreter Norma Fender.........................................................................8 News Case managers wait, tighten belts, and hope ........................................................................9 Dan Brooks All’s fair in fun — and on Typhoons .........................................................................10 Writers on the Range An argument for mountain bikes in wilderness ................................11 Feature Stepping to the left with Billings’ democratic socialists ............................................13

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Anya Cloud searches for answers in the messy aftermath of modern dance.......17 Music Bombshell Nightlight, Le Grotto, Wharf Cat’s ACLU compilation ....................18 Books At 93, writer Jesse Bier reflects on decades of beautiful moments..................19 Film The necessity of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman...................................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................21 Market Report All ripe now.................................................................................................22 Happiest Hour Frosé at Plonk ....................................................................................23 8 Days a Week One of ’em was kinda loud.......................................................................25 Agenda Drinking wine to save the animals.............................................................................29 Mountain High Frenchtown fishing clinic..................................................................30

Exclusives

News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................31 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................32 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................34 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................37 This Modern World.....................................................................................................38

GENERAL MANAGER Matt Gibson EDITOR Brad Tyer ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR AND SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer STAFF REPORTER & MANAGING EDITOR FOR SPECIAL SECTIONS Susan Elizabeth Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERNS Michael Siebert ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer SALES MANAGER Toni LeBlanc ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Deron Wade MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Ty Hagan CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Hunter Pauli, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson, Melissa Stephenson, Ari LeVaux

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STREET TALK

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by Michael Siebert

This week the Indy profiles several Billings-based socialist candidates for local and statewide office.

What’s the most progressive thing about Missoula?

What’s the most conservative thing about Missoula?

Patricia Mayrer: The progressive nature of the city is centered around the university. Measured: Other than the university, it’s pretty moderate.

Reid Reimers: The free busses. A free bus is cool. Only 15 minutes away, in fact: The fact that it’s surrounded by Montana.

Brad Negel: Gotta be the university.

Dickensian: I think Missoula is two different towns. Once you go past Russell Street, the more conservative it gets.

Tigerlily Wagner: The community activities. There’s a lot of cultural knowledge. Partisan shards: Not recycling glass.

The weed work

Whether or not “the Dems” are working on legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis, there are indeed people working hard on the issue, like former state Rep. Ellie Boldman Hill-Smith (“Letters to the editor,” Aug. 2). Anyone interested in being a part of the effort to see adult use as a ballot initiative in 2020 should contact Emily Likins at (815) 666-2612.

Emily Likins Missoula

Outgrow coal

As Alex Sakariassen suggests, coalfired electricity is very expensive, especially when you factor in the Colstrip shutdowns (“Who’ll pay for the latest Colstrip shutdown?” Aug. 9). Those plants are the largest source of CO2 pollution in the West, and these greenhouse gases are rushing us to the brink of climate chaos.

Should Montanans make additional investments in those bogus plants? What about investments in another generation of fossil fuel generators to replace Colstrip?

Fuggetaboutit.

We are at the tipping point. Right now, the executives at NorthWestern Energy and our Public Service Commissioner are deciding Montana’s energy future. Their 20-year procurement plan is due Dec. 15, 2018.

Get involved. Make a difference. Tell them you want Montana to be the first state to move to the green economy with a 100 percent renewable energy system.

Over 90 percent of Montanans want to move to more solar power, with 86 percent favoring more wind power. (Montana Conservation Voters’ poll, 2016). Add your voice.

Now is the time to speak up and speak out.

Jeff Smith Missoula

Boss gone bad

Odette Grassi: How giving the community is. Playing your part: At the same time, there can be an old-school expectation of roles.

You guys could have had way more fun with this one! (“Street Talk: When bosses go bad,” Aug. 2). There is an employer in this town (not naming names or businesses) who commits Medicaid fraud, cheats her staff on wages, verbally and emotionally abuses her staff by calling and texting nonstop, all hours of the night, including when she’s drunk. Screams at her staff. Every single employee who has ever worked for her has left on bad terms.

She’s a bad, bad seed, man.

Rebecca Loren Merfeld facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Took that job and…

Asked at Caras Park on Thursday, Aug. 9.

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Yes. Only once though. Whenever [my boss] had a bad day he would take

it out on me. When you combine bad pay with being made to feel like crap … buh-bye!

Lexi Savitch Witt facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Work history

A few times, actually. The first time was due to sexual harassment. The second time was due to my boss being a

“Executives at NorthWestern Energy and our Public Service Commissioner are deciding Montana’s energy future. Tell them you want Montana to be the first state to move to a 100 percent renewable energy system.” blatant male chauvinist pig and micromanager. Otherwise, there were a couple of real duds along the way.

Linda J. King facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Average Matt?

Does [Matt] Rosendale live in the average ranch house behind the mailbox in his commercial? (“Brooks: Isn’t that cute? They think they’re real people,” Aug. 8). I think not!

Janis Terwilliger Schmier facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Dewclaws!

Politicians are mostly just dewclaws on society. They have no clue what it’s like to be a real, hardworking, honest citizen, living off of low wages. But, they are narcissistic, in nature. They can pretend.

But if it hits the fan, they’ll be the first ones out the windows, just like in the Depression. The real, hardworking, hardy folks are the ones deserving the respect.

Eric Sartana Horner facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Money-go-round

While 2,000 children are claimed to have been separated from their parents, some of them were actually being transported into human trafficking. But the story you are not being told is that approximately 440,000 children in America are separated from their families and placed in foster care. Montana has 4,000 children in foster care, which is double the national per capita average. Sure, some of these children absolutely need to be removed and placed in safe care, but many children are removed because of poverty, and large sums of money follow them to assist in building a system, while a little support to the family could have stabilized matters using substantially less money. The bottom line is we have a system that follows a financial entitlement for kids while they are out of their homes, and once they enter the financial hamster wheel, very few get out.

And their outcomes are no better for it.

We can do better! There will be an “Our Kids Cry Too” rally at the state capitol in Helena on Aug. 23, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Matt Furlong Helena

Testermonial

When President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Mission Act in June, it was a win for veterans and their care providers. Veterans everywhere can thank the bipartisan work of Senate Veteran Affairs’ Committee Chairman Johnny Isakson and Montana’s own Sen. Tester, who, as ranking member, wrote and shepherded the bill to passage.

Tester has worked tirelessly for us since he was first elected in 2006. The Veterans Administration is a huge, lumbering bureaucracy that’s made more than one person throw up their hands in despair. Not Sen. Tester. When one program doesn’t work, instead of defending it, he gets to work fixing it. The Mission Act is intended to allow veterans like myself to easily access care outside the veterans health-care system when I need it, while maintaining the advantages of care within the system. Tester has my back. I’m voting for him this November because I like him, I trust him, and know he’ll continue to have my back in the years to come. He’ll hold the Veterans Administration’s feet to the fire to make sure this bill is implemented properly. Thank you Sen. Tester for your service to our nation’s veterans.

Pat Tucker Hamilton

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, August 8 Dylan Conat, the 17-year-old suspect in the June shooting of two teens at Sentinel High School, is arrested mid-afternoon.

Both victims were arrested in July on unrelated charges after receiving medical care.

Thursday, August 9 An 11-year-old girl is injured while riding the Typhoon carnival ride at the Missoula County Fair. As of press time, her condition is considered serious, but not life-threatening. The county is investigating.

Friday, August 10 A West Riverside area home catches fire and is quickly engulfed in flame. Two firefighters receive medical treatment after suffering from heat exhaustion.

Saturday, August 11 Missoula Parks and Recreation officials post warning signs about poison ivy that was recently discovered at Jacobs Island Park. The plants will not be removed, as it would upset the growth of shrubs near the banks of the Clark Fork.

Sunday, August 12 The Missoula Osprey defeat the Orem Owlz (with a “z”, we promise) at Utah Valley University, marking the team’s seventh win in eight games this season so far. The Owlz lose 9–6.

Football

Stay thirsty

AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” reverberates across Dornblaser Fields as the Griz football squad runs through its second fall practice of the year. The playlist is heavy on jock jams, classics that are older than all of the players and some of the assistant coaches: “Crazy Train,” “Thunderstruck,” “Baba O’Riley.” A handful of fans who have come to watch an open practice stick to a spot of shade under trees in the southeast corner of the field.

UM alumna and Griz fan Maureen Walsh says she’s seen almost all of this year’s practices.

“Did you get in for the spring practices?” asks former Griz player Lewie Schneller.

“Yeah, it was open,” Walsh says. “One scrimmage was closed but the rest of them were open.”

“Well, these guys have already got a winning program put together here. I can see it,” Schneller says.

“Yeah, they’re pretty efficient in practice. You can tell the difference. They’re a lot more focused,” Walsh says.

They discuss the merits of having two or three good quarterbacks, in case of injury, and Schneller marvels at the levels of specialization on the field. “It’s a mini-NFL camp, is what you’ve got here,” he says.

Today was forecast to be one of the summer’s hottest, but the predicted 100-degree high hasn’t

materialized. There are portable water stations and trainers with bottles around the edges of the practice fields so players can stay hydrated. There was nothing near that amount of water available to him when he played on hot days in the 1960s, Schneller says. “They gave us salt tablets in a little Dixie cup of water, and twice at practice we would get that,” Schneller says.

“There was a consensus back in those days that water was bad. Isn’t that crazy?”

College football has abandoned a lot of other bad practices over the last 50 years, including tie games and all-white squads. These days, says UM’s Head Athletic Trainer J.C. Weida, they’re pretty clear on the importance of hydration. “They did a lot of things differently. ACLs they fixed differently, concussions they took care of differently, everything,” Weida says. “You follow the current research.” Weida says that on a day like today, when the high is outside the norm even for an August practice, he’ll make sure players are following best practices. “I pay a little closer attention to certain people, make sure they get certain fluids or foods or supplements because of that,” he says. “And then cold tubs afterwards, check their weights before and after, do those kinds of things as well.”

Today isn’t so bad, and at least it’s a dry heat, Weida says. “The humidity is what makes the biggest difference for most people.”

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Garbage wars

PSC denies L&L

Republic Services can continue its monopoly over Missoula’s trash after the state Public Service Commission on Aug. 14 turned away a would-be competitor.

The commission voted 3-2 to deny a Missoula county trash-hauling permit sought by L&L Site Services, in a case that was featured in a recent Indy cover story (“Right of Refuse,” June 14). Commissioners Bob Lake and Brad Johnson opposed L&L’s application, and Roger Koopman and Travis Kavulla supported it. The tie-breaking vote, Tony O’Donnell, remarked that he was “51 percent” in support and “51 percent” against, but ultimately voted to deny the permit.

L&L, a veteran-owned garbage company based in Gallatin County, argued during a three-day May hearing that Republic Services’ profit margins of 20 to 40 percent in Montana proved that Missoulians would benefit from competition for their trash. Republic’s monopoly in Missoula was particularly egregious, L&L pointed out, because the company also owns the county landfill.

“Here you have a single incumbent, and the incumbent is reporting, by their own testimony, a return in the mid-20 percent range. That piece of evidence in itself suggests that monopoly rents are being obtained,” vice-chair Travis Kavulla said Tuesday.

Monday, August 13 Pearl Jam performs at Washington-Grizzly Stadium to benefit the reelection campaign of Sen. Jon Tester. A free festival is held beforehand, with performances by local bands and several nonprofits assisting with voter registration.

Tuesday, August 14 Tuesday marks Missoula’s 42nd consecutive day without measurable precipitation, and the forecast is on track to match last year’s record 46-day dry spell.

I’m not the devil. I don’t have horns.”

——Missoula City Council member Jesse Ramos, during an Aug. 13 council meeting where Ramos described feeling “a lot of hatred” from other councilmembers for being a voice of fiscal conservatism.

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[news] But Lake, who represents the district that includes Missoula, said he wasn’t persuaded that Republic’s profits were unreasonable. He credited Republic for offering service to rural areas, while finding that L&L has been “cherry-picking” lucrative parts of the Bozeman market.

“Prices in the Missoula population center may be somewhat high,” Lake said, “but … using excess margin from the population center to allow a lower price in the far reaches of that district tells me that [Republic is] trying to keep everyone taken care of at a fair and reasonable price.”

Commissioners have expressed some discomfort over the state law regulating the garbage industry, which requires the state to regulate entry into each market but does not empower commissioners to control or even investigate pricing. Even as they denied the application, members of the conservative-leaning commission took pains to reiterate their free-market bona fides. Koopman was the most colorful: “The last I heard, the law of the land is still the [U.S.] Constitution, and the Constitution guarantees liberty and freedom of entrepreneurship to all of us,” he said. “The Constitution doesn’t always win out in courts of law and legislative bodies, but the spirit of the Constitution, of those great men who framed it, must continue to rule in our hearts and guide everything we do on this commission.

Generations of Americans have fallen and died for that great document, the least we can do is stand for it here.”

Given the close vote, the commission suggested that L&L consider filing a motion for reconsideration to address some of the PSC’s questions. L&L owner Lance Johnson says he is likely to take up that offer.

“It’s a bad day, but I think we’ll get some clarification to the commissioners,” he says.

Derek Brouwer

Westside

Residents ask for help

Drugged-out transients, homeless people and criminals are terrorizing the Westside, a parade of

nearly 20 neighborhood property owners told Missoula City Council this week.

Their accounts turned the Aug. 13 general public comment period into an hour-long horror show filled with anecdotes about how the twin social crises of drug addiction and homelessness are threatening an otherwise up-and-coming neighborhood.

“It’s kind of the new family-friendly, affordable neighborhood,” 27-year resident Kathy Witkowsky said as she introduced the unscheduled but coordinated show of frustration. “If we do not get more help, we are going to end up with a blighted neighborhood.”

Residents’ accounts included tales of property crime as well as complaints about the visibility of social problems. The result, they said, was an envi-

ronment in which property owners are afraid to walk to their cars at night or let their child play at the park.

The group did not have specific demands, though several people called for an increased police presence. Western Cider co-owner Matthew LaRubbio asked the city to install security cameras at the California Street footbridge, adjacent to his business, which he and other speakers described as a hotbed for transients and drug users.

BY THE NUMBERS

$11.5 million Funds raised, as of press time, to address homelessness in Seattle as part of Pearl Jam’s “Home Shows” events there last week, according to the Seattle Times. The band used its Aug. 13 Missoula concert to promote the reelection of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.

Hypodermic needles featured prominently in their accounts. A liquor store, whose owner testified, and a gas station, whose owner did not, were said to have installed sharps containers in their businesses, cited as evidence of how severe the problem has become. One person spoke of watching a man shoot up as he walked by, smiling as they made eye contact. Another claimed to have seen a women’s public bathroom boobytrapped by a needle stuck to chewing gum.

Heather Morris, who used home-security video to catch a serial peeping tom dubbed the “Westside wanker” in 2014, said she’s more recently found remnants of homeless campsites on her property.

The comments are the latest display of frustration by Westside property owners. In 2016, the Westside Neighborhood Association pressed for cleanup of Hollywood Trailer Park, saying the poorly managed park had become a den for crime and drugs. Anxieties stretch as far back as when the Poverello homeless shelter announced plans to relocate to West Broadway in 2011. Residents feared potential fallout from concentrating poverty in the area.

“I’ve stood here before, trying to prevent, with neighbors, Poverello coming into our neighborhood, right in the middle of our neighborhood,” said a woman who introduced herself as Candace Loskutoff. “I’m wondering what happened to the assurances … that this would not happen.”

Mayor John Engen offered to meet with residents to discuss solutions. After the meeting, Witkowsky told the Indy she hopes the city will form a neighborhood task force to begin addressing residents’ concerns.

Derek Brouwer

ETC. Maybe by now you’ve read one of the editorials that more than 200 newspapers across the country promised to print on Aug. 16. If you did, you understand that the goal was to call out President Trump’s “dirty war on the free press,” as the Boston Globe phrased it in that paper’s initial call for coordinated action. The campaign rightly underscores the risk that Trump’s “fake news” and “enemy of the people” shticks pose, not just to fact-based reality and the First Amendment, but to the physical safety of journalists.

But Trump is right about one thing: The media is his enemy. We stand against what he stands for, wherever we find it.

We’re the enemies of liars. Like Melissa Howard, the now-former Republican candidate for the Florida Legislature who last week copped to forging her diploma from Miami University.

We’re the enemies of officials who misuse their power and influence. Like Ryan Zinke when he colludes with a Halliburton chairman to build a brewery in Whitefish.

We’re the enemies of people in positions of trust and power who abuse, assault or kill.

Like the Charleston police officer who gunned down Walter L. Scott in 2015. Or a certain Montana congressman infamous for his way of handling the press.

We’re the enemies of masked agendas.

Think the Koch Brothers, or any individual or group, left or right, using dark money to mislead voters.

We’re the enemies of unnecessary secrecy. Oh, hello, city of Missoula. You ready to share those Mountain Water bills yet?

And sometimes we’re even the enemies of our own bosses, who in certain cases have done more to damage journalism than Trump could ever dream of. Just ask the reporters at the Denver Post or the New York Daily News — if you can find any, after corporate owners slashed those newsrooms this year by onethird and half, respectively.

We’re the enemies of bullies and provocateurs and anyone who thinks putting kids in cages isn’t abhorrent. They can call us their enemies because it’s the truth. And we’ll respond the best way we know how: with more questions aimed at the truth of the matter. Because while we may be someone’s enemy, we’re no enemy of the people. The people are you, and that’s who we work for.

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In a downtown Missoula federal courtroom, interpreter Norma Fender leans in closely toward a man facing sentencing on charges of illegal re-entry.

She’s wearing a periwinkle blue pantsuit. The defendant is in Missoula County Detention Center neon-orange.

Her arm rests on his shoulder and her speech is low and constant as she translates a judge’s words from English into Spanish. Almost the second they leave his lips, she translates the defendant’s answers from Spanish to English for the court. Today, Aug. 2, she’ll do this three times, all for men facing immigration-related charges.

It’s been a busy summer for Fender, who says things have picked up a bit compared to last year. There’s been a jump in federal immigration cases in Missoula (see “The boom in busts: Missoula immigration charges on the rise,” Aug. 9), and not only does Fender interpret in court, she also assists public defenders in meetings with clients at the county detention center.

Fender was born in Puerto Rico and came to the mainland when she was 8.

She was raised in Newark, New Jersey, and worked as a courthouse interpreter in her early 20s before joining the Navy, where she met her husband of 38 years, J.C. The Navy asked Fender where she wanted to go in 1993, offering the Fort Missoula Naval Reserve Center (which closed in 1996) as a possibility. She looked up Missoula on a map and picked it, imagining that a place surrounded by all those green-shaded mountains had to be beautiful. She and her husband have been here since. They live on five acres in Stevensville where they have goats, ducks, dogs and cats. “Seven cats — not all in the house,” she says.

Soon after she got here, a naval reservist who worked for the U.S. Marshals asked if she’d be interested in courthouse translation. In 1998, the Federal Defenders of Montana asked her to sign on as their courtroom interpreter. She’s now worked with them for 20 years.

When she speaks with a defendant for the first time, Fender spends a few minutes in conversation, establishing rapport. “I try to put them at ease, because — I don’t know if you know, but a lot of them don’t feel comfortable with the police, for whatever reason [there] may be,” she says. Fender will explain what a public defender does, and that they work for defendants and not the state.

Interpreting is physically and mentally tiring, she says, but aside from drinking a lot of water, Fender doesn’t have any special tricks to support her voice or her stamina. “Your brain gets so taxed and so tired you just want to lay down and go to sleep and not talk to anybody,” she says. She doesn’t often speak Spanish outside of work, so in order to limber up before court, she says, she’ll listen to music with lyrics in

photo by Amy Donovan

Missoula courthouse interpreter Norma Fender works with public defenders and their clients.

Some cases have stuck with her, like that of an undocumented woman in her 50s who was arrested when her son stashed drugs at her home, and who was deported after spending 40 years in the U.S. Or the child who was taken from a parent convicted on drug charges. “Even though the grandparents were alive, they couldn’t take care of him, so they gave [the child] to someone else. That was pretty sad, too. You see cases like that and you wonder, ‘Why?’” she says.

Does that ever make her think the laws are unjust? “Well, when you break the law, and the law says certain things, and if you break it, who’s wrong, the justice system or the person that broke it?”

Spanish on the drive into town, or listen to Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire and translate their lyrics in her head.

For the clients, she might be the first or only person they’ve been able to communicate with in their first language in days. “It’s hard for them, it’s really hard, not being able to speak to [their families] or write to them or know whether or not their family knows they’re in jail,” she says. “A lot of them, their families do not know that they are in jail, unless they have a cousin or an uncle or somebody that knew that he got arrested or she got arrested and they can let their family know. So it’s very hard for them.” sshepard@missoulanews.com

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Hanging on Case management waits for an answer

by Alex Sakariassen

“We’ve continued to grow in terms Winds of Change and other providers Over the past nine months, healthcare providers throughout Montana have of client numbers,” Lopuch says, “but remain unsure whether and to what debeen forced to reexamine their ability to our staffing complement has de- gree separate cuts to targeted case manoffer front-line services for mental-health creased because of the wage cuts. So agement will be backfilled. Any rate clients. The Missoula-based Western they’re having to serve a lot more peo- changes made by DPHHS will be effecMontana Mental Health Center laid off ple with a lot less energy and a lot tive retroactively to Sept. 1.

For Windecker, simply plugging nearly 50 case managers early this year fewer resources.”

Some measure of hope emerged money back into case management isn’t and has shuttered at least two rural offices. Helena Industries closed down en- last month when Gov. Steve Bullock an- enough. She also believes that DPHHS tirely this spring. And late last month, nounced that, due to an uptick in state and Bullock’s office need to convene a AWARE Inc. announced an end to case revenues, he will reallocate some $45 60-day task force with providers from management after a months-long strug- million to departments and programs across the state to discuss restructuring Montana’s case-management gle to preserve staff. system. Though case manageOther providers have ment remains a critical funcmanaged to string their servtion of behavioral health-care ices along, despite the severity statewide, she says, she doubts of the state’s cuts. Those anyone felt it didn’t require providers have given AWARE some changes. and others a place to refer case “There’s a terrible oppormanagement clients, to ensure tunity that has come from all of they don’t lose coverage comthis for the state and the pletely. Hanging on in hope of providers across the health-care a resolution has not been easy. spectrum to work together to Bryan Chalmers, chief opcreate evidence-based, outerating officer at Missoula’s photo by Alex Sakariassen come-based, sustainable proWinds of Change, says that rather than cut case manage- Ken Bumke and other case managers at Winds of grams, and use this money ment entirely, his organization Change took a pay cut to preserve the service. “While more effectively,” Windecker I could get out of the field,” Bumke says, “I love what says. decided in December to re- I do.”

Another potential bright duce case manager wages. He estimates the reduction at “14 to 20 per- hit by last year’s budget cuts. Mary spot for mental health can be found in cent,” and acknowledges that Winds of Windecker, executive director of the Be- a lawsuit filed July 31 by Disability Rights Change has subsequently faced chal- havioral Health Alliance of Montana, Montana. The suit claims that the cuts lenges with retention and recruitment. says case management should be among to Medicaid reimbursement rates violate Prior to the cuts, he says, Winds of Bullock’s top priorities, given its impor- the state constitution and the federal Change had roughly 19.5 full-time case tance to hundreds of Montanans and Americans with Disabilities Act. Lopuch management employees. That dipped to the tenuousness of the service’s current says that, based on her experience at the Aug. 1 listening session, the suit already a low of 8.5 in June before crawling back predicament.

“Many organizations tried to save appears to have encouraged DPHHS to up to 13.5 at present.

In addition to lower wages, Winds bits and pieces of it,” Windecker says, “try to work with us a little more.” Howof Change program administrator Bre “but it’s become increasingly difficult to ever, damage has already been done, and the case-management question Lopuch says case managers are having do that.”

Windecker’s argument was echoed can’t go unresolved for long. to contend with significantly higher “We’re not able to provide the level caseloads. The organization has light- by numerous health-care providers durened the load to some degree, she adds, ing an Aug. 1 listening session with the of services that we need to provide to by supplementing case management Department of Public Health and our clients, so it’s already been a huge with other services, like therapy, that it Human Services. The agency has pro- impact on the community and on the relied on less heavily in the past. Still, posed reversing a 2.99 percent across- population that we serve,” Lopuch says. reimbursement rate “It would only get worse if we weren’t Lopuch notes that Winds of Change the-board used to be diligent about capping case- reduction for Medicaid providers, and able to provide that service.” loads at 20 clients per case manager. plans to host another public meeting to discuss funding priorities on Aug. 30.

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[opinion]

Who knew?

All’s fair in fun and Typhoons

by Dan Brooks

One thing I love about living in Montana is the freedom. With its public schools and Subaru dealerships, Missoula might not be the Wild West, but little touches still let you know you’re in a land of rugged individuals. Traffic, for example, operates on a system of personal initiative. You can build high-density housing in your backyard, in contrast to the effetely-zoned East. And best of all, there are no laws governing carnival rides.

That last key freedom escaped my notice until last week, when David Erickson of the Missoulian reported that an 11-year-old girl had fallen from the Typhoon ride at the Western Montana State Fair. The good news is that her injuries, although serious, were not lifethreatening. The bad news is that freedom isn’t free.

When we learn that a child has gone to the fair, then to an unspecified height, and then to the hospital, our first impulse is to get the government involved.

That would be a mistake. Most other states have laws regulating the safety of amusement rides, and look at them: smug, expensive and overrun with children whose even gaits belie weak characters. The lawmakers of Montana have protected our own children from this outcome. Erickson quotes Missoula County Risk Manager Erica Grinde, who says that neither the state nor city has passed any laws overseeing ride operators, and the county lacks the authority.

Instead, carnival rides are governed by the wisdom of the free market. If fairgoers determine that the Typhoon spins too fast, the law of supply and demand will correct the problem. This is not to say that economic forces are the only things protecting fairgoers from centripetal forces. Northstar Amusements, which is under contract to operate the midway at the Western Montana Fair through 2020, inspects its own rides. In addition to taking pressure off fair administrators, this system puts responsibility on the party with the most incentive to keep us safe: carnival operators.

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When carnies are tempted to play fast and loose with safety, they remember their sacred duty not to take advantage of the public’s trust. After all, they have a reputation to uphold. A carnival that cuts costs by skimping on safety might make more money in the short term, but it would suffer irreparable damage to its brand in the long term.

Any business that operated on such a low-cost, reduced-safety model would

“What we have here is one of those situations were nobody did anything wrong and a little girl is in the hospital.

What can you do?” have to move to a different town every couple of weeks.

Admittedly, last week’s accident was not the first time Northstar has suffered bad luck. At the North Idaho Fair in Coeur d’Alene last summer, a child was “impaled,” in the words of the Idaho State Journal, on a metal pin protruding from the Firehouse slide. In 2014, 13year-old Melissa Cotton suffered a broken pelvis after a cable snapped on the Power Tramp ride at the Gallatin County Fair. That same summer, the Missoula County Health Department shut down three Northstar food vendors for re-

peated code violations related to unrefrigerated meat. And in 2013, a 16-yearold girl sustained a serious head injury on the bungee jump ride at the Fremont County Fair in Wyoming.

What do these accidents have in common, besides the remarkably high number of parents who reported that carnival operators swore at them afterward? They were a small price to pay when a bunch of kids who didn’t get hurt had an amazing time.

I guess the other thing they have in common is that Northstar Amusements could not be reached for comment afterward. I placed several calls to the company’s Wyoming office on Monday, but no one answered, unless you count the fax machine. Erickson’s Missoulian story also lacks any comment from Northstar.

Amid this silence, we can only assume that nothing went wrong last week, and sometimes kids just fall off rides.

Is that really anybody’s fault? Not as long as we resist the urge to hire an inspector. There are no specific guidelines for safety inspections in the contract Northstar signed with the fair last year, so we can’t blame anyone working for the county. The city of Missoula and the state of Montana don’t regulate carnival rides, either, so it’s hardly their fault if someone becomes airborne. And given their silence regarding what, if anything, happened last week, it would be irresponsible to blame Northstar.

What we have here is one of those situations were nobody did anything wrong and a little girl is in the hospital.

What can you do? Sometimes people get hurt on things that are designed to create the sensation of imminent danger. I suppose we’ll just have to ban fun, or lock all our children in protective foam crates until they turn 18, or “hire” someone to make sure carnival rides are working “properly.” Maybe we should all live in candy-cane houses while we’re at it.

Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.

[opinion]

Different gears An argument for mountain bikes in wilderness

by Daniel Greenstadt

First came the bare human foot, somewhere in Africa. Then, in no particular order, the moccasin, the shoe, the horse and saddle, boat and oar, the ski, the snowshoe and so much more.

All of these came to the backcountry and helped to enrich our travels there.

Sure, there’s been some grumbling about how some of the more recent inventions make modern life too easy, but over time, those tools and technologies have become accepted parts of our adventures in even the most remote places.

But whoa! Along came the humanpowered mountain bike and although it’s quite similar to the contrivances that hardy souls have been pedaling and pushing through cities and the backcountry since the mid-19th century, some people now consider them to be so high-tech they should be banned from wild landscapes.

Critics complain that nothing seems to say, “I can’t truly get away,” like the thought of encountering wheels on a trail. Ignoring the gears, cams, springs, levers, satellite communication tools and highly technological gadgets already filling their packs, these critics abhor the presence of bicycles in any federally designated wilderness.

It’s been suggested that the desire to allow bicycles in wilderness is an extremist campaign by a faction of off-road cyclists — people indifferent to the conservation goals of the 1964 Wilderness Act. But bicyclists treasure designated wilderness areas, which are already shared by a wide variety of recreationists, including through-hikers, day-trippers, hunters, equestrians, skiers, snowshoers, birdwatchers, climbers and boaters. And also, of course, cows.

Bills introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have renewed the conversation about whether it’s high time to lift the Forest Service’s 1984 blanket ban on bicycles in federally managed wilderness. The bills would allow federal land agencies to continue to maintain complete closures to bicycles if they thought it necessary, but the decision-making authority would move from

centralized control in Washington, D.C., to local supervisors of wilderness lands.

For evidence of the cyclists’ purported extremism, some critics look to the supposedly mainstream International Mountain Bicycling Association, which is on record as opposing bicycles in wilderness. But many members and IMBA-affiliated clubs have protested IMBA’s position, and some have even canceled their memberships. IMBA does good work on many fronts, but its stance on wilderness access is increasingly seen as a timid and mis-

“Some cyclists continue to resist proposals for designating new wilderness because they would be barred from riding in it.” guided abandonment of backcountry cyclists and a denial of cyclists’ legitimate role in the conservation community.

One of IMBA’s top three affiliated clubs, the San Diego Mountain Biking Association, called IMBA’s board “tonedeaf to the community” before severing its IMBA affiliation in early 2018. Three years earlier, the independent, 6,000member New England Mountain Bike Association was already pleading, unsuccessfully, for IMBA to support wilderness access for mountain bikes.

In 2016, IMBA surveyed its ranks and determined that 51 percent of members felt that including access for mountain bikes in wilderness was a “very important issue.” That result was significantly more pronounced in the Western states, where wilderness areas are con-

centrated. Also in 2016, one of off-road cycling’s best-known online communities, SingleTracks.com, surveyed its readers and found that 96.2 percent wanted some level of wilderness access.

It seems that the bid for wilderness access has reached the mainstream, and that the tension is less among mountain bikers and more between mountain bikers and the IMBA board of directors. Meanwhile, some cyclists continue to resist proposals for designating new wilderness because they would be barred from riding in it. As a result, wilderness proposals sometimes get abandoned or scaled back.

Andy Kerr, former executive director at Oregon Wild, recently lamented, “There are millions of acres of qualifying roadless land that could go into the wilderness system, but the prior existing use of mountain bikes politically prevents it.” In the same post, Kerr recommends “allow(ing) mountain bikes into new wilderness areas with conditions.”

This conflict is unfortunate and unnecessary, given the largely shared vision and goals of conservationists, cyclists and other wilderness users. Shouldn’t agencies be free to at least consider bicycles?

The Wilderness Act of 1964 prohibited “mechanical transport,” but how that is defined has become ever more contested as we uncover the historical record.

Moreover, bicycle opponents forget the Wilderness Act’s overarching goals, which remain the preservation of wild lands and the promotion within them of rugged, selfreliant recreation. An intrepid backcountry cyclist fits within these criteria perfectly.

It’s time to recognize that many Americans have chosen to add bicycles to their backcountry equipment and would sometimes like to use their bikes to experience the wilderness, while honoring the spirit and purpose of the Wilderness Act. Daniel Greenstadt is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is an environmental industry consultant and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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[offbeat]

HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW – Armed thieves in New Delhi, India, left a craftsman deep in debt after they made off with 500 pounds of wigs and raw hair worth more than $20,000 on July 27, according to the Associated Press. “People think wigs are cheap, but they cost a fortune to make,” wig-maker Jahangir Hussain said. In fact, he had borrowed more than $17,000 to buy hair last month from South Indian wholesalers. India exports wigs and hair extensions to the tune of $300 million a year; much of the raw materials are collected at Hindu temples where people shave their heads as a religious sacrifice, a practice called tonsuring.

THE (IM)PERFECT SEATMATE – Chicago cellist Jingjing Hu, a student at the DePaul University School of Music, found herself being escorted off an American Airlines flight on Aug. 2 after trying to return to Chicago from Miami with her instrument. Hu paid in advance for an extra seat for her cello, worth almost $30,000 and housed in a hard case, and had no trouble on her flight from Chicago to Miami, where she participated in a music festival. But on her return trip, after boarding the Boeing 737 and settling herself and her cello into their seats, a flight attendant approached her and told her she would have to leave the plane because the aircraft was too small for her instrument. Hu was booked on a flight the next day on a 767. American blamed the incident on a “miscommunication,” according to WBBM TV, but Hu’s husband, Jay Tang, said, “I don’t think we did anything wrong here, and I think the way they handled it was humiliating.”

PROBLEM-SOLVER – The list of offenses was long when Franklyn Williams, 32, appeared in Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court on July 31 to be sentenced for aggravated robbery, kidnapping, theft, misuse of credit cards and more — including cutting off his ankle bracelet late last year and fleeing to Nebraska, where he claimed he was hit over the head and lost his memory. But it was his courtroom behavior that spurred Judge John Russo to call for an extreme measure: During the hearing, Williams would not stop talking, even interrupting his own lawyers repeatedly over about 30 minutes. Finally, Russo ordered deputies to tape the defendant’s mouth shut, reported FOX 8 in Cleveland. Williams continued to talk until deputies applied more tape, and finally Russo sentenced him to 24 years in prison.

SO MANY QUESTIONS – When an employee of Sarabeth’s restaurant in New York City opened the walk-in freezer door on Aug. 5, a man jumped out, yelling, “Away from me, Satan!” and grabbed a knife from the kitchen, which he used to threaten restaurant staff. Carlton Henderson, 54, of Cave Creek, Arizona, struggled with workers but eventually fell unconscious and was transported to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the New York Post reported. Authorities don’t know (1) why and how he entered the freezer and (2) why he died, but they did determine he was charged last year with two 1988 cold-case murders in Boston. He had been released on bail the week before the freezer incident and was scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 14.

RIPE – West Valley City, Utah, has a malodorous mystery on its hands. The community stinks, and for the past year, officials have been fielding complaints about the smell, which city communications director Sam Johnson described as “a musty sewer smell ... that you can smell in certain parts of the city stronger,” according to FOX 13. The city has now launched a campaign recruiting residents to help pinpoint the source of the odor: “If you smell something, say something.” They’re hoping more complaints will spur Salt Lake County and Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality to investigate and take action.

BRIGHT IDEA! – Zemarcuis Devon Scott, 18, of Texarkana, Arkansas, REALLY wanted to attend a rap concert in another state, so on July 4 he executed his plan to get there: Scott was seen by Texarkana Regional Airport security officers around 2:30 a.m. jumping a fence and trying to get into an American Eagle twin-engine jet parked there. When police arrived, Scott was inside the cockpit, sitting in the pilot’s seat, the Texarkana Gazette reported. Scott, not a licensed pilot, told officers he thought there wasn’t much more to flying a plane than pushing buttons and pulling levers. On July 31, he was charged with commercial burglary and attempted theft; he’s been grounded at the Miller County jail.

NERD ALERT – Who knew? Apparently the unofficial “uniform” for Bay Area techies and venture capital investors is a vest, so the Japanese company Uniqlo is cashing in with a vest vending machine at the San Francisco International Airport. The airport’s public information officer, Doug Yakel, says the machine is no joke; it earns $10,000 a month on average. Do the math: At $49.90 apiece, the company is selling about 200 of its ultra-light down vests each month. “This is the first time we’ve had clothing available for sale from a vending machine, which we thought was very unique,” Yakel told Business Insider.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL – The Baltimore Sun reported that a driver’s license examiner in Glen Burnie, Maryland, got a whiff of something illegal on Aug. 6 when she approached a car about to be used in a driving test. She called Maryland State Police, who found Reginald D. Wooding Jr., 22, of Baltimore waiting in his mother’s car to take his test. But he never got the chance: Wooding was in possession of marijuana, a scale, more than $15,000 in suspected drug-related money and a 9mm Glock handgun with a loaded 30-round magazine.

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J

ade Bahr doesn’t mention socialism when she approaches voters in her Billings neighborhood. But more and more often, they do. At one door she knocked in late July, the 29-year-old Democratic candidate for the Montana Legislature says, an older man demanded to know what she thinks of it.

“Well, I like the idea,” she replied.

The man told Bahr she had wasted her time coming to his house.

Three doors away, another suspicious voter, a man in his 30s, asked if Bahr supports Medicare for all. She said yes. He then asked if she is associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the country’s largest (but still small) socialist organization.

“I wasn’t sure how this was going to go for me, but I’m just honest about where I stand,” says Bahr, a member of the DSA’s Billings chapter. “He’s like, ‘Awesome. I’ve been a member for a year.’”

Many more Americans are like the first man than the second, but that gap is shrinking. People under 30 are just as likely to view socialism favorably as they are capitalism, according to recent polling.

Dues-paying DSA members nationwide have increased from 6,000 in 2015, before democratic socialist Bernie Sanders’ 2016 primary run, to 48,000 today.

In June, 28-year-old Bronx resident and DSA member Alexandria OcasioCortez ousted the fourth-most-powerful Democrat in Congress, Joe Crowley, in New York’s 14th Congressional District primary. Her unexpected win added fuel to a debate simmering among Democrats since Trump’s election over whether the party should embrace a more progressive agenda. Socialist ideas may appeal to voters in the deep-blue Bronx, party leaders conceded, but they sure as hell won’t win in the heartland.

That theory will soon be tested in Billings. Three weeks before OcasioCortez put democratic socialism in the national spotlight, Bahr and another Billings DSA member, 24-year-old Amelia Marquez, handily won Democratic primaries for the Montana House of Representatives, campaigning in swing districts.

Their candidacies follow that of fellow chapter member Denise Joy, who won election to Billings City Council in 2017, becoming one of 35 DSA members who currently hold elected office nationwide.

Bahr’s and Marquez’s campaigns are part of an insurgent movement to put economic justice at the forefront of Democratic politics. They think Montanans will buy into a progressive populist message of universal health care, living wages and corporate accountability, even if party leaders aren’t selling it.

“It kind of feels like they’re failing us,” Bahr says. “[The party] is not really making or stating the change I want to hear. It’s not being bold enough.”

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“I am the future of politics in Montana,” Amelia Marquez says. The 24-year-old trans Latina woman is trying to flip House District 52, a swing district. She’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a left-wing group whose membership has jumped eightfold in the last few years.

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Meet the Billings democratic socialists working to win over the working class

by Derek Brouwer, with additional reporting by Susan Elizabeth Shepard photos by Adam Sings In The Timber

illings’ House District 50 contains a chunk of the city’s south side, which is poor and relatively racially diverse, and a slice of midtown, where there are plenty of parks and single-family homes. The district is dotted with Pentecostal, Catholic, Protestant and evangelical churches, a Jewish synagogue and a Buddhist dharma center. On the district’s southern edge, 20 percent of residents live in poverty. On its western edge, near a golf course, 5 percent do.

Where Bahr was born, an hour away in Crow Agency, on the Apsáalooke reservation, the poverty rate is 44 percent. She didn’t recognize the disparity for years. Bahr is enrolled Northern Cheyenne and grew up in Billings while spending summers with family on Crow. “It was home. That’s how life was. Then, the older I got, the more I saw that it was poverty,” she says.

She graduated high school at the Billings Career Center, after the alternative high school she’d attended closed. In college at the University of Montana, she discovered sociology. She says it opened her eyes to the ways race, gender and class shape social order. Her studies also taught her to think in terms of systemic injustice, which she could apply to her own experience. She came to see her father’s alcohol addiction, for example, as a “product of his environment.”

But Bahr distrusted politics, which she thought perpetuated inequality. Bahr reconsidered that view after moving back to Billings and befriending an eventual state senate candidate, Democrat Jen Gross. “I believed in Jennifer because I knew her personally. When I saw her win [in 2016], it gave me hope that not all politics is corrupt,” Bahr says.

When the friends drove to Helena to take part in the first Women’s March in 2017, Gross asked Bahr to run for office, saying the Legislature needed people like her. Surprising herself, Bahr — who hadn’t even voted during most of her 20s — agreed to put her name on the ballot.

In the meantime, she had also gotten involved with local activist groups including Not in Our Town, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Billings DSA chapter. That chapter, like many of the more than 200 that have sprung up nationwide, including several others in Montana, arose after Sanders’ narrow defeat in the 2016 presidential primary, co-chair Sonia Davis says. It began with a small mix of longtime national DSA members and newcomers “fired up” by Bernie, many of whom were acquainted from their work in

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other activist groups. In July, local chapters in Montana held the first statewide DSA meetup in a generation — maybe ever — in Helena, where 40 people, about a quarter of the statewide membership, attended.

DSA formed in 1982 from a merger of other socialist intellectual and counterculture groups. It adopts the red color and imagery of earlier socialist and worker movements. After years of political irrelevance, the organization has recently found success mobilizing people “angry about capitalism,” reporter Kate Aronoff writes in a September cover story for progressive magazine In These Times. Critics tend to

Democratic socialists connect class with social justice in a way that earlier labor movements and current Democratic leaders, in their view, have failed to articulate. “We are working-class people,” said Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender before she ran for Congress, during her primary campaign. “And to fail working-class Americans is also to fail Latino Americans.”

They see contradictions, for instance, in the “conscious capitalism” of former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who addressed racism in 2015 by encouraging baristas to write #Racetogether on customers’ cups. Schultz, whose net worth

sentative democracy if all we have are Realtors, ranchers and businesspeople,” in office, Bahr says.

While most DSA chapters, even those in larger cities, are focusing their limited resources on organizing and building support, Billings DSA quickly found itself with a slate of members determined to run for office. First, its supporters campaigned for Denise Joy, a middle-school special needs assistant who successfully ran for City Council on a platform of antidiscrimination, investment in her ward and improved resources for police, the Billings Gazette reported.

Marquez says her campaign is trying to knock on every door in the district, with particular focus on residents who aren’t in the Democrats’ voter database, because they aren’t registered to vote. The effort has taken her into south side trailer parks where residents tell her they’ve never seen a candidate come before.

“They’re the ones who are truly forgotten,” Marquez says.

Marquez pitches herself to them as a neighbor who wants to hear their concerns, rather than a candidate who wants their vote. She grew up on the south side in a Habitat for Humanity home that con-

Jade Bahr, a 29-year-old native woman from Billings, is running for House District 50 on a platform of “people before profit.” Her latest campaign tweet, on Aug. 13: “Hey you, with your head just above the water, I see you.”

conflate DSA philosophy with authoritarian socialism, when in fact the group espouses and practices democratic principles. Its members, Aronoff writes, understand democratic socialism “to mean everything from taking public goods like healthcare off the private market … to worker-ownership of the means of production.” Bahr’s personal political vision is focused on “mass redistribution of wealth and power to working people.” A vocational counselor for adults with disabilities, she sees the American promise of personal freedom as hollowed out by consolidated corporate power.

“They made that money on the backs of the people,” she says.

is $2.8 billion, per Forbes, is on the bench of billionaires considering public office.

He’s lately expressed worry that Democrats might be tempted to advance leftwing policies such as Medicare for all, which he believes are too expensive.

Democratic socialists argue their “radical” policies only seem far-fetched because those in power are disconnected from the people they should be representing. While Democrats have made strides toward inclusion on race and gender, party politics still favor the privileged — people with time, money and connections. Few elected officials experience economic struggle. “It’s not real repre-

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Bahr and Marquez are running for open seats in competitive districts. Bahr’s House District 50 was last won by termlimited Democrat Virginia Court with 55 percent of the vote. Marquez’s outgoing representative, Republican Jimmy Patelis, won House District 52 in 2016 by just 154 votes and did not seek re-election.

Each deployed aggressive doorknocking campaigns to easily win their June primaries against other first-time candidates. As Bahr and Marquez campaign in the general election, they are continuing to concentrate on appeals to working-class people who are disenchanted with party politics.

tained more kids — six — than bedrooms.

Marquez says her mother worked as a bank teller, and her father labored on ranches and washed dishes after immigrating from Chihuahua, Mexico. (He immigrated illegally, Marquez discloses, but says he eventually acquired citizenship.) A graduate of Montana State University-Billings, Marquez works as a therapeutic youth mentor for a nonprofit. In the early days of her candidacy, she worked a second job as a cashier at Herberger’s, before the department store announced it was closing.

Should she prevail in November, Marquez would be the first openly trans person elected to the state Legislature.

Her opponent, Rodney Garcia, is a former legislator and retired oil worker who says he was recruited to run by Public Service Commissioner Tony O’Donnell. He won his closely contested Republican primary with the help of a $3,000 loan from O’Donnell that the state’s commissioner of political practices has since determined was 17 times the $180 legal contribution limit. (Garcia says the contribution was above-board because the money wasn’t a campaign loan per se, just a personal loan to be used for his campaign.)

Garcia tells the Indy he is letting voters find out about Marquez’s views on their own. But some Republicans in his district have told him the race is the most important campaign of the cycle, because a Marquez win would give Marxism a foothold in state government. Garcia himself has a decidedly old-school view of the socialist threat: “Karl Marx got mad at God and became a devil worshipper,” he says.

“That’s what I read in the history books.”

While speaking with the Indy, Garcia repeatedly referred to Marquez by her birth name, out of “respect and courtesy,” he claimed. Reminded of Marquez’s chosen first name, he replied, “I just got a door hanger on my door and it says [Amelia] too, but I go by her given name.”

Neither her gender identity nor her DSA-affiliation are centerpieces of Marquez’s own campaign. She’s focused on issues: expanding health-care coverage toward a single-payer system, raising the statewide minimum wage to $15, eliminating college tuition and cutting “corporate welfare.”

That’s exactly how DSA intends to grow its movement in Montana.

“People are ready for this message,” chapter co-chair Davis says. “They might not think they are because of the bad ‘S’ word, but when it comes down to it, talking about the issues, people are on board with this in a big way.”

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arquez knows she’s a walking punchline for the right wing.

“Being up here in Montana, conservatives don’t know what to freak out about,” she recently told the LGBTQ online magazine Into. “I’m transgender, I’m a democratic socialist, and I’m also a person of color.”

The problem with political jokes, as the saying goes, is that sometimes they get elected.

With enough “shoe-leather campaigning,” it’s not out of the question that democratic socialists could win legislative races in Billings, former Montana GOP chairman and Billings state lawmaker Jeff Essmann says. If they do, Ess-

mann says, it won’t be because most residents in those districts, which voted for Trump by comfortable margins in 2016, want far-left policies. It will be because some voters want a candidate who will hear them out.

In 2009, the Tea Party was the nation’s political joke, before the movement went on to wreak havoc at all levels of Republican politics and incubate a conservative populism that ultimately hatched a reality-show president. In Montana, the Tea Party opened schisms in the GOP that resulted in a cannibalistic legislative majority that, for half a decade, struggled to govern.

The current divisions among Democrats have already sparked comparisons to the Tea Party. In October 2017 — under the headline “Could America’s Socialists Become the Tea Party of the Left?” — Politico Magazine reported that socialists, “no longer happy to languish in principled irrelevance … are plotting a Sanders-like insurgency inside the Democratic Party.”

Sitting in the office of the small oil company he owns in downtown Billings, where a boxed action figure of Hillary Clinton hangs on his door, one of the leaders of Montana’s tea party movement recalls its origin. Eric Olsen co-founded the activist group Montana Shrugged in 2009. He wears a cowboy hat and an elk antler belt buckle.

Leaning back in his chair, Olsen explains that he started the group out of frustration with the Republican party, which he thought lacked a true conservative vision and had become cozy with special interests in Washington. Olsen says he wanted principled conservatives back in power, but the only realistic path forward lay within the same GOP that he felt had betrayed its roots.

“We said, ‘Hey, let’s take over the Republican party.’”

Their power was grounded in zeal.

Olsen says the party’s county central committees went “helter skelter” after Obama’s win. His daughter, Jennifer, was able to fill the leadership void to become chair of the committee in Yellowstone County. Montana Shrugged held rallies and town halls, showed up at GOP functions and recruited candidates. By 2010, U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, of Billings, had joined the newly formed House Tea Party Caucus, and the Koch brothers’ political apparatus spent millions to support Tea Party candidacies in Montana and around the country.

After Sanders’ primary loss in 2016, “Berniecrat” progressives in Montana, as everywhere, faced a similar crossroads: Stick with establishment Democrats, abandon the party or figure out how to

co-opt it. A small number of former Sanders campaign organizers, led by Missoula’s Danielle Breck, wrote off the Montana Democratic Party as hopelessly corrupt and attempted to resuscitate the Green Party. They organized a party convention, qualified for the ballot and fielded a slate of candidates. But Democrats were able to derail the effort. In July, a district court judge in Helena removed Green candidates from the general election ballot after Montana Democrats challenged the validity of a couple hundred ballot-access petition signatures. The party also filed a complaint with the com-

is that we have full rooms,” Marquez says.

Yet Marquez expresses little interest in blind loyalty to a party she isn’t convinced voters trust. Both she and Bahr say they would have preferred to run as independents, if the system weren’t so stacked against third-party candidates.

“Both the Democrat and Republican sides have kind of made a bad name for themselves,” Bahr says. At moments, their anti-establishment, populist rhetoric can sound a lot like Olsen’s.

DSA’s Davis says the “grassroots” activism of the tea party was more akin to a “sketchbook version of what privilege in

A group called Montana Progressive Democrats formed after the 2016 election to try to prevent the latter. It describes itself as “dedicated to revolutionizing the Democratic Party and bringing economic, political, racial and social justice to all Montanans.” The group’s director is Pete Talbot, a longtime party activist and blogger who lives in Missoula. “We were afraid that the young people involved, that the Bernie folks, were going to abandon the party,” he says. “We want them in the party. We want them to advance their policies.”

Twenty years ago, Talbot was a mem-

The movement fizzled in the early 2000s, hampered by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that quashed its longterm strategy of winning influence through a ballot-box procedure, called fusion voting, that allows the same candidate to appear on multiple party lines.

Talbot has since decided to focus on advancing progressive policy while maintaining a united front against the Trump-led GOP. “Obviously the party has some stuff to work out,” he says. “Right now, it’s just too scary a time to be divisive within the party.”

The Billings Heights area is thought to be a Republican stronghold, but Senate District 22 Democratic candidate Jennifer Merecki is going door to door, armed with her hydration pack and a Sanders-style message of “progressive populism.”

missioner of political practices accusing the Green Party of benefitting from unreported, professional signature-gathering services by an out-of-state political firm, Advanced Micro Targeting, with “ties to the Republican Party.” Commissioner Jeff Mangan ruled July 20 that the Green Party must disclose Advanced Micro Targeting’s expenditures, noting that “no one has stepped forward” to say how much money was spent, or who paid for it.

Other progressives, though, are trying to influence the party from within.

DSA members and progressive allies in Billings have taken up posts on the Yellowstone County central committee, whose meetings they noticed had seemed sparsely attended. Marquez is its vice chair. “Part of the political revolution

America looks like,” whereas left-wing groups are striving for a more diverse coalition that aligns with their social-justice values. Moreover, she says, a Democratic “takeover” isn’t how DSA sees its work.

“That’s an imperialistic, old-world way of thinking. That’s not what progressives are interested in,” she says.

But they do want Democrats to share power, and Davis says she understands why a “hierarchical” party accustomed to “power hoarding” might see “this group of kids, these people who are talking about pie-in-the-sky ideas” as a threat.

A leftist intraparty revolution could renew the Democratic message, or it could splinter a coalition that’s already on a losing streak.

ber of a different progressive movement known as the New Party. That national third-party effort pursued a mission similar to DSA’s today: “to be a tool for ordinary people to wrest control of the political process away from corporate and moneyed interests, creating what it calls a ‘fair economy’ and a ‘real democracy,’” as a 1996 Spin magazine feature on the movement’s Missoula work put it.

Through door-to-door organizing and campaigning, the party managed to secure the largest voting bloc on Missoula City Council, despite a dues-paying membership base of only 80 people. Moderate Democrats were angry. One Democratic councilmember interviewed by Spin accused the party of being an offshoot of socialism.

One of Montana Progressive Democrats’ board members, Jennifer Merecki, is currently running for state Legislature in Billings. Merecki, a former Sanders campaign organizer, is the Democratic candidate in Senate District 22, a Republican stronghold district in Billings’ Heights neighborhood. Having felt the “stigma” of being a former Sanders advocate, Merecki says she sees her campaign as a chance to show the party that her “populist progressive” message can realign voting blocs.

Merecki says she is a member of the national DSA, but that her platform wouldn’t pass democratic socialist muster, and she isn’t seeking the group’s endorsement.

(She did recieve an endorsement from Our Revolution, a national Sanders-spinoff political action group.) For instance,

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she finds that voters in her district aren’t interested in single-payer health care, but are more interested in her pitch for universal coverage through public and private options. The moderation makes a difference: Merecki won the support of the Billings Chamber of Commerce, while Bahr and Marquez did not.

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n the other side of the state, Missoula offers an example of how flimsy the Democrats’ big-tent coalition has become. Behind the scenes, Democrats on both ends of the ideological rope have been tugging on the county central committee. On the progressive end was Anita Green, the state’s first openly trans delegate to the national party nominating convention in 2016, who declared at the event that “Hillary Clinton is corrupt,” and the “Montana delegation is Bernie or bust” (it wasn’t). On the other end, the committee is chaired by Dave Kendall, a health-care policy analyst for D.C. think tank Third Way. Third Way pushes a moderate platform pitched as an alternative to Sanders-style progressivism. It unveiled its “Opportunity 2020” agenda last month at an invite-only summit in Ohio.

“If the democratic socialists were able to take over the Democratic Party,” one of Third Way’s vice presidents was quoted in the October Politico piece, “I think it would become a minority party for the next 10 to 20 years.”

Kendall says he offered vocal support when Green ran for a spot on the state party committee. But in the last several months, relationships among committee members have unraveled. In July, as the Indy reported, Green obtained a temporary restraining order against committee vice chair Jennifer Cady. The same month, precinct captain Stephen Wells asked a district court judge to require Kendall and Cady to allow committee meetings to be recorded (the request is pending). Green has said she was prohibited from recording meetings, by which she intended to gather evidence of the transphobia she says she experienced on the committee. She has since resigned.

Local party politics can easily get tied up in knots — recall the full-blown coup of the Missoula County Republican Women in 2016 by the chair of the GOP central committee. It’s still being untangled in court. Kendall insists the personal conflict between Green and Cady is unrelated to the broader ideological divides the committee is working to bridge. But Green sees the dispute in a larger context of a county executive board that is “being taken over by centrists,” as she told the Indy’s Susan Elizabeth Shepard last month.

“I still believe that the Democratic Party

as a whole can change, but I don't believe that the executive board members that hurt me within the Missoula County Democrats are going to change or learn from their mistakes,” Green says. “I think that they are completely intransigent and they just want their political agenda enacted.”

In response, Kendall says that his “own views and professional work may be more pragmatic than others, but they are not at odds with the party’s sole responsibility to elect Democrats.”

The controversy in Missoula prompted words of exasperation from state party Executive Director Nancy Keenan, who told the committee in July, “I don’t even know what to do about Missoula.” The Montana

and vote on updates to the party platform.

Platform conventions are tedious affairs that simultaneously draw out ideological diversity and push participants to rally around a party line. One proposal that made it to the convention floor this year sought to add language to the platform stating that Montana Democrats “honor and recognize all gender identities and welcome them within” the party.

When the amendment opened for discussion, Marquez strode to the microphone from her seat in the back of the room. She didn’t think the party should codify respect for trans people until it walks the walk. Marquez began reading a lengthy statement from Green in which

statewide $15 minimum hourly wage, non-profit universal health care, campaign-finance reform to limit the power of “large moneyed interests” and opposing right-to-work legislation. Only the last two, which are already mainstream party positions, were adopted.

The debate among delegates over universal health care proposals was particularly spirited. While a line describing health care as a human right was adopted, more specific policy positions regarding universal health care were ultimately voted down in committee. Party veterans and moderate candidates argued that such policies would hurt Jon Tester and Kathleen Williams’ chances in

photo by Derek Brouwer

After the Montana Democratic Party platform convention July 13 and 14 in Great Falls, Montana Progressive Democrats put out a newsletter in which founding member Sue Tarpey said progressives need a “stronger strategy” for influencing the party platform.

Democratic Party did not make Keenan available for an interview for this article, but communications director Roy Loewenstein noted that Keenan’s comments in Missoula were not in reference to broad ideological issues within the party. As evidence, he provided this statement from Keenan: “Over the past 18 months, Democrats have seen unprecedented grassroots energy from thousands of Montanans who have either re-engaged with our political process or who are just getting involved for the first time. We are excited to take back the state legislature, re-elect Jon Tester, and send Kathleen Williams to Congress.”

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t the Montana Democratic Party platform convention, held July 13 and 14 in Great Falls, Marquez made sure the hundreds of delegates and party leaders knew what was going on in Missoula. The convention hosted party activists and candidates from around the state to discuss

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Green accused Missoula Democrats of marginalizing her because she “didn’t fit their agenda.” That’s when presiding committeeperson Bryce Bennett, D-Missoula, interrupted, telling Marquez to “refrain from personal attacks against anyone in the room, or in general.”

“I think it’s against an organization, and I have a right to speak as a trans woman,” Marquez replied.

The amendment entered the platform despite Marquez’s objection, with “honor and recognize” replaced with “respect.”

The evening prior, Marquez and Bahr had joined members of Montana Progressive Democrats at a booth in the Sip ’n Dip Lounge, which one supporter joked comprised the “Progressive Caucus.”

The “caucus” did not succeed in budging the party line. The Progressive Democrats had introduced five platform amendments at the convention advocating a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, a

statewide races, as well as state legislative candidates in swing districts.

“Please don’t latch my race to this issue,” said Missoula House District 96 candidate Tom Winter, who is trying to flip the seat held by Republican Adam Hertz.

“We will lose these races if we do this.”

The most divisive proposal may have been one to support legalization of recreational marijuana, which Merecki introduced. It fell just a few votes shy of inclusion. Merecki says she thinks Democrats are missing out on voters who are passionate about legal weed, though the issue isn’t listed on campaign materials she hands out to voters. Merecki notes that Texas’ GOP voted to support decriminalization in its platform in June.

“This is a populist message that usually is backed by Democrats, and we’re going to lose the vote on this,” she says.

After the convention, the Progressive Democrats issued a newsletter that criticized the party for failing to adopt a

“strong and gutsy” platform, suggesting that “by pandering to the right, we are losing the left.”

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week after Ocasio-Cortez’s upset win, National DNC Chairman Tom Perez was asked what the outcome said about the direction his party was headed.

Perez mentioned his daughters, who, he said, had texted him their excitement.

Then he referred to Ocasio-Cortez as the “future of our party.”

Marquez says she makes the same point whenever party insiders tell her she’s “radical,” or will “be the cause of us never getting a majority.”

“I always like to remind them, first and foremost, I am the future of politics in Montana,” she says.

Where Perez, who later in the same interview dodged a question about Medicare for all, sounded like someone encouraging patience, Marquez’s declaration sounds more like a mandate for the present. Why else run?

Marquez and Bahr may benefit from the fact that the Democrats’ bench is thinner in Billings than in a liberal bastion like Missoula. Matt Bell, a Bernie progressive who challenged moderate incumbent Kim Dudik in House District 94 this spring, was defeated handily. Democratic primaries around the country subsequent to Ocasio-Cortez’s win are already making her victory look more like a ripple than a wave. A hyped democratic socialist in a crowded U.S. House field in Hawaii, Kaniela Ing, was trounced on Aug. 11 by a self-described “Blue Dog Democrat,” Ed Case. Ocasio-Cortez had traveled to the state to stump for Ing. He came in fourth, with 6 percent of Democratic primary votes.

It’s also possible that the conventional post-Ocasio-Cortez wisdom — that socialism can win only where the politics are already deep blue, is backward. If there’s a political revolution brewing on the left, the place to find it may look less like Missoula and more like Billings.

“There’s such a big sense of community there,” Bahr says of Missoula. “Your life feels pretty good because you’re around people who want to take care of the environment and eat healthy and talk about hempcrete.

But here in Billings, it’s just more hard-edged, where you’re seeing and feeling the struggle pretty good. Maybe it’s just that we feel like we’re drowning, and we need to stand up and show that we are upset, and that we need to do something about this. Now. Like, yesterday. You know?” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

[arts]

Soft collisions Anya Cloud searches for answers in the messy aftermath of modern dance

by Skylar Browning

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atching Anya Cloud dance is a study in contradictions. Tall and muscular, with her hair shaved close to her scalp, she strikes an imposing figure that’s only amplified by the frequent intensity of her glower. She’s capable of lifting and supporting other dancers, demonstrating bursts of physical prowess that beautifully mess with conventional perceptions of a dancer. Yet in other moments, often within the same performance, Cloud can find a gentle and lithe touch that belies her stature. The University of Montana graduate just as easily glides above the floor with arms and fingertips extended as she withers to the ground or folds into the body of her collaborators like a vulnerable child. This level of versatility is inherent to contact improvisation, the style of dance that Cloud specializes in and that has allowed her to travel the world teaching, performing and ultimately testing the limits of the art form.

“I’m interested in physically rigorous work that asks for the full range of states and qualities, from subtle and detailed to expansive and athletic and everything in between,” Cloud explains. “Basically, I am interested in the impossible.”

Cloud describes the difficult nature of her dancing from a similarly challenging environment: She’s typing responses to interview questions on her phone, in the middle of the night following a full day of teaching and performing, while in Germany. She’s spent the past five weeks in Europe on tour with San Franciscobased choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, debuting a new piece she helped create titled “Echo,” as well as assisting in intensive contact improvisation training sessions in Vienna, Spain and, now, a festival in Berlin. As soon as she’s done with this leg of the tour — “Echo” makes its official premiere in San Francisco in October — Cloud will fly to Missoula as one of two featured guest artists at this year’s Mountain Dance Festival, starting Aug. 20.

While the travel is exhausting, it’s also provided Cloud an opportunity to expand her experience and use dance as a way of breaking down barriers. Contact improvisation promotes communication and collaboration; as the name implies, the dance form relies on participants

photo courtesy Tim Richards

UM graduate Anya Cloud specializes in contact improvisation, and travels the world performing and teaching the art.

trusting each other through an openended exploration of movement.

“The thing is that dance, contact improvisation included, is about people and movement,” Cloud says. “Dance spaces can become focused incubators for the best and the worst of current culture.”

Cloud, 35, doesn’t shy away from testing this type of interaction. Last year, she led an intensive in the Ukraine called “Contact as an Act of Resistance.” In March, she co-taught a workshop in Mex-

ico that explored how to use dance and music as a way to counteract “many of the xenophobic and divisive” elements of current society. She also recently traveled to the Israel Contact Improvisation Festival, where she, among other things, taught teenage girls at a Nazareth dance school run by Palestinian women and met with the director of a cultural center in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the West Bank.

She describes the Israel trip, with the “explicit militarization of the culture and the

people” juxtaposed by the “vibrancy of daily life,” as particularly unnerving.

“I couldn’t find my grounding there,” Cloud says. “It is the only place I’ve ever traveled where I couldn’t find the grounding through my body. … I came away with far more questions than when I arrived.”

Cloud embraces these types of complicated endeavors. While contact improvisation can be exhilarating when everything works, it can also result in dis-

aster when nothing does. Through her travels, Cloud has seen both ends of the spectrum as dancers wrestle with all types of issues that find their way to the dance space.

For instance, at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam earlier this year, the theme was deconstructing power, and the current #metoo movement played a prominent role. One of the jams was interrupted by a protest initiated by some of the dancers.

“It ended up being quite powerful.

Messy, but powerful,” Cloud says. “I think that we can’t be afraid of the mess if we want things to change.”

Cloud talks so passionately about her outreach work and continued study — after UM, she earned her master’s in 2013 from the University of California in San Diego, and she’s currently training in the Feldenkrais method of movement therapy — that it almost overshadows her presence as a performer. In her pieces with Mann and others, she’s the rare featured artist who can command an audience with even the slightest of movements, knowing anything is possible in the next moment. In her collaboration with Eric Geiger, she called this style “intelligent recklessness,” or a type of high-stakes dancing that features “soft collisions, velocity, abandon ...” It sounds contradictory and unattainable, but perhaps no more so than using dance as a form of diplomacy around the globe.

“To me, contact improvisation is a beautifully queer proposal that asks me to assert and surrender all of the time,” she says. “… I think that dance is only as powerful as the people inside of it. It isn’t the answer, but it can offer a beautifully embodied experience of questioning.

And I believe in that.”

The third annual Mountain Dance Festival begins Mon., Aug. 20, inside the PAR/TV building at the University of Montana, featuring guest instructors Anya Cloud and Faith Morrison.

On Fri., Aug. 24, participants will share their work in a 7 PM concert open to the public. More information at mountaindancefest.com. arts@missoulanews.com

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[music] Bombshell Nightlight, Placid Lake Bombshell Nightlight, the bedroom-pop project of Missoula musician Jon Cardiello (of bands Wrinkles, Fantasy Suite and Melon Painting), navigates existential angst with the incandescence of a torch in the darkness. His debut album, Placid Lake, features “Death Day,” where Cardiello and his sister, Rachael, sing about “swimming in a pool of memories” and coping with the loss of time.

The music video for “Death Day,” directed by Missoula filmmaker Marshall Granger, is worth watching, too, for how visually compelling it is. It ushers you into the Placid Lake cabin where Cardiello began his cathartic recording process two years ago. He starts a fire in the fireplace, sits down to write and is suddenly swarmed by pages flying all around him. Later he submerges himself in the frozen lake, the memories washing over him.

“Party (I Don’t Belong Here)” is about coming to grips with emotions, like being sad when you know

you should feel happy or lonely even when you’re surrounded by people. It’s about persisting to find comfort in the uncomfortable. Layers of guitar complement the complex themes Cardiello sings about.

Even within a song, he manages to convey the opposing mix of emotions, like in “Wave” where moody riffs stir up dissonance and in no time resolve the tension into calm.

This is a vulnerable and honest album, in which Cardiello evaluates his anxieties with grace.

In just a simple lyric, he’s able to capture the idea of embracing what seems beyond his control, like in “Pull,” when he sings, “The wind is tugging at my T-shirt, but I know it won’t tell me the way.”

(Noelle Huser) Bombshell Nightlight plays an album release show featuring Rachael Cardiello at the ZACC Below Thu., Aug. 16, at 7:30 PM. Mermaid Book Club and Koby open. $5.

Le Grotto Le Grotto dances through the sludge of human emotion with cunning songwriting. The surf garage rock band, featuring drummer Alec Gayton, bassist Will Willard and guitarist and lead vocalist Laith Scherer, has risen to popularity in their home of Olympia, Washington. The band’s eponymous 2016 debut album is endearing in its catchy upbeat melodies, while its 2017 sophomore album, Bump the Lamp, experiments beyond conventional surf rock. Sample sounds from the cello, saxophone, organ and xylophone result in a striking blend of grunge and groovy acid jazz.

Despite its growing popularity, Le Grotto has stuck with its independent roots. The band is known for playing at small-scale venues similar to the ZACC Below and at house shows, in the basements and garages of the Pacific Northwest. They even shared a bill with Olympia psych pop band Fruit Juice, which played a living room show on Sixth Street earlier this winter.

(Noelle Huser) Le Grotto plays the ZACC Below Thu., Aug. 23, at 8 PM, along with Dendrons and Charcoal Squids, accompanied by local digital artist Aceslowman’s psychedelic projections.

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The compilation from Brooklyn’s Wharf Cat Records dropped a few months ago, but I’ve only just had a chance to really sink my teeth into it — and appreciate it.

Proceeds from sales go the American Civil Liberties Union specifically as a reaction to the damage caused by the Trump Administration directly and indirectly. The attitude on the double album is appropriately angsty, with some serious noise rock, sloppy punk, discordant synth tunes giving it proper variety.

It’s the opening track, “Too Sensitive,” by the Dollar Band that really sets the perfect tone. The dusty, loping rock song features guitarist/singer Dylan Sharp singing about all the things he’s sensitive about. “War makes me uneasy, I like to keep my blood inside,” he sings, putting a fine point on the

normalization of violence. Fans of The Men, Profligate and Pop 1280 will not be disappointed with their contributions. I recommend Mail Thief ’s “Pliable,” which, in just a little more than a minute, captures the panic of dealing with the Trump era. Signal’s “Park After Dark” is a fast and reverb-infused take on the Brooklyn Bridge protests following the deaths of Eric Garner, Akai Gurley and Tamir Rice. Weeping Icon’s “Ankles” is deliciously menacing. Note the incredible transition between Pop 1280’s dystopian soundscape in “When No One Cares” and Jeff Zagers “Sunny Sunday Mill Valley Groovy Day,” which evokes the dreamy feeling of lying in the grass, clouds passing by and some sort of storm still in the distance, but inevitably on its way. (Erika Fredrickson)

[books]

In the wind At 93, writer Jesse Bier reflects on decades of beautiful moments

by Sarah Aswell

Jesse Bier turned 93 years old this summer, and tween the publication of his last collection, Don’t it makes permanent a good thought or idea or that took place just feet away in the front yard, half melody. I don’t know if my writing will last until the his lifetime ago: he’s done writing. These days, he lives in the same Tell Me Trees Don’t Talk in 1996, and last year.

“Mainly, I have an idea, or perhaps the first line 29th century, but it makes it lasting — and some“I was standing with my son, ready to go fishing, place that he has for 60-odd years — an impossibly on a path over there, and my wife and two daughpleasant sun-filled cottage on a hill in the Rat- of the poem, and then I let it tell me how to go,” he times, some lines should be made lasting.” tlesnake, with his cat, Mittens, who is black with four says, with Mittens figure-eighting around his legs. “I In the book’s strongest poem, “In the Wind in ters were getting ready to go hiking,” he says. “She white paws. As we sit at a little table, he reflects on think the import or suggestion of the first line or the Dark,” he talks about what he’ll miss when he’s was managing their belts, seeing that they were the vast reaches of his life, from serving as a soldier two carries me forward. That is to say: I never dom- gone — and then with humor goes on to describe okay, and the three of them seemed eager to go. I in World War II, to meeting his wife in a French hos- inate the poem. I just try to draw it out.” the ruckus he’ll kick up in his coffin: “I’ll make such had the vision of the three women in my family happital after the war, to his decades of raising a family while teaching English literature at the University of Montana.

He’s happy and quick-witted as we chat, even with the hearing loss and memory issues that come with almost a century of living. He holds his most recent, and his last, book of poems, Phenomenal Farewell, as if it has magically materialized in his hands.

Writing has always been part of his life, he says, with the exception of the war, when he explains with a gruff laugh, “I was very busy trying to stay alive.” While studying literature at Bucknell and Princeton, he started writing about the war and published both short and long fiction, including the novels Year of the Cougar and Trial at Bannock. He also wrote essays, criticism and poems, a book about the history of humor and several unproduced plays. Then, five years ago, after retiring from the university and after his beloved wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he returned to his writing desk with full force, publishing, among other writings, a novel and two novellas: Transatlantic Lives, The Cannibal and Ocho Rios.

Throughout it all, though, he Former UM English Literature professor Jesse Bier recently finished what he considers his last book of poems, Phenomenal Farewell, after 60 years of writing wrote poems. Not in any disci- poems, essays, fiction and plays.

This process makes perfect sense when you noise / that tumbling girls and toppling boys / above pily engaged, and I was standing with my son, beplined or organized way, but whenever an idea struck him while he was going about his day. In fact, he be- read the poems, which, sparse and simple, all seem will hear and hush and mark / as they lie in the grass fore we would go on an enjoyable little trek. I was gins Phenomenal Farewell with an apology about his to originate from tiny, wondrous moments in life: in the wind in the dark.” healthy, and we were all companionable.” creative process: “I am an intermittent poet, not a full- an almost-spring day in Montana, a nighttime baseIt’s the small, beautiful moments like these that Sitting in his bright home, you can see where time one who could probably write a poem at the ball game, a quilt show, a summer nap outside. All some of his poems take place: the curtained kitchen Bier has a talent for noticing and describing — and drop of a hat,” he writes, adding, “I don’t have a hat. are classically rhymed and structured. Many, as you window, the dog house, the woods. You can also for turning, line by line, into things that last.

I compose only by fits and starts, mainly — yes, fits. might expect from a man navigating his 70s, 80s and see Bier living among images of his past. When I ask Jesse Bier reads from Phenomenal Farewell Mostly, I write poems — when they come out clear or 90s, reflect on what’s really important in life, what him about his favorite memories, he doesn’t hesitate at Shakespeare & Co. on Sat., Aug. 18, at 1 PM. lasts and what is frustratingly impermanent. suddenly strong — for my own amazement.” before saying that it was “when a certain French girl and at Fact & Fiction Fri., Aug. 24, at 5:30 PM. “I’m not going to make great claims about writ- married me” (referring to his wife, who died in The poems of Phenomenal Farewell were written just like that, over a span of about 20 years, be- ing,” he says. “The most obvious thing to say is that 2016). He also remembers a moment with his family arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Spot on The necessity of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman

by Molly Laich

Adam Driver, left, and John David Washington star in BlacKkKlansman.

There’s this particular convention of modern criticism that I am against, wherein a critic plucks out a film’s topical themes, holds them vaguely up to the current political climate, and then says something like, “It really makes you think about what’s going on today,” or, “We need a film like this now, more than ever.” For example, if one were to write that The Handmaid’s Tale portends a frightening future, I would call that lazy and inaccurate. If they suggested that the giant shark in The Meg is an allegory for a power-hungry president — actually, that’s an essay I’d be willing to consider. Overall, I’m saying that usually these allusions are either obvious, imprecise or both. But in the case of Spike Lee’s latest joint, BlacKkKlansman, I find myself compelled to highlight and underline the point.

The “true” (in essence, but often embellished) story of a black cop who infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s is undeniably relevant to the recent resurgence of blatant racism we’ve seen in this country.

Lee’s vision speaks directly to the sins of our racist president and the people who support him, and it’s a powerful and entertaining call to action.

John David Washington (Denzel Washington’s son) stars as the real life Colorado Springs police officer Ron Stallworth. In the film’s opening scenes, we see a southern belle traipsing through a thoroughfare of fallen confederate soldiers, a disparate image apropos of not much, except that — BAM! — we are instantly rooted in the context of our laughable, embarrassing history.

From there, we watch Stallworth’s initiation into a pretty racist police force and the tribulations therein. He moves quickly from beat cop to undercover detective. Assignment one: Infiltrate Colorado College’s Black Student Union rally to collect intelligence on Black Panther speaker Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins), lest he rile up the youth with

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crazy ideas of liberation. Here Lee presents Kwame’s speech in its entirety, a rousing sermon about the plight of black people, the imperative to live authentically and the willingness to fight for justice. Besides Lee’s uniquely gifted filmmaking (Seriously, this segment is the most terrific piece of storytelling I’ve seen all year), Kwame’s speech has the effect of rallying Stallworth and all of us.

Next up, Stallworth will continue his undercover work by infiltrating the local chapter of the KKK, which he achieves by speaking to the organizers directly over the phone and by sending a white, Jewish officer named Flip (Adam Driver) as his in-person proxy. It’s unoriginal but true to say that Driver is among our very best actors. Here, he plays a Jewish man forced to denounce his ethnicity and everything he believes in on the daily, and besides that, it’s the best comedic performance of the lot. “You want to see my big Jew dick you fucking fag?” are words that no decent person wants to say, but when in Rome!

And then we meet the klansmen themselves, who are bumbling racist idiots, sure, but with a surprising amount of dimension, led by the creepily calm performance of Topher Grace as Grand Wizard David Duke. We expect as much from the men, but pay attention to the gaggle of complicit, if not overtly racist white wives waiting in the wings of the klan meetings with snacks and racist rhetoric all their own. If you’re watching closely, you’ll notice Lee’s particular fondness for strong black women on the liberation side. It’s a nice thing to see in a movie already teeming with life and style, a movie we need now more than ever that really makes you think about what’s happening today.

BlacKkKlansman opens at the Roxy Fri., Aug. 17. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK

ALPHA When exactly did dogs first become humanity's best friend? According to the codirector of Menace II Society, it was 20,000 years ago when one of our ancestors gave an injured wolf some water. Rated PG-13. Stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe and Jens Hulten. Playing at the Pharaohplex.

BLACKkKLANSMAN It's the early 1970s and the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department is determined to make a name for himself.

What better way than by infiltrating and exposing the Ku Klux Klan? What could possibly go wrong? Rated R. Stars John David Washington, Adam Driver and Topher Grace. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) CRAZY RICH ASIANS A Chinese-American economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore to attend his best friend's wedding only to be thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous. Rated PG-13. Stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh. Playing at the Pharaohplex.

MILE 22 Iko Uwais from The Raid and The Raid 2 teams up with Mark Wahlberg from Daddy's Home 2 to battle terrorists. Rated R. Also stars John Malkovich and Rowdy Ronda Rousey. Playing at the Pharaohplex

NOW PLAYING ANT-MAN AND THE WASP After Avengers: Infinity War left us on the darkest cliffhanger in the MCU's history, what does Marvel do next? Would you believe a light and breezy action-adventure film starring two size-changing heroes? Rated PG-13. Stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas in a CGI mask. Playing at the Southgate 9.

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN The little boy from Winnie the Pooh is all grown up and seriously lacking in imagination. But when his old stuffed animal friends from the Hundred Acre Wood show up to help out, we're all reduced to blubbering messes in the theater. Rated PG. Stars Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell and beloved character actor Piglet.

Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12.

THE DARKEST MINDS Congratulations to The Hunger Games and the XMen on the arrival of their baby! Rated PG-13. Stars Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson and Mandy Moore. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

DARK MONEY This made-in-Montana doc follows journalist John S. Adams as he works to expose the real-life impacts of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. Not Rated. Directed by Kimberly Reed. Playing at the Roxy.

DOG DAYS The State's Ken Marino directs this story about the dogs of Los Angeles and the people they bring together. Rated PG. Stars Finn Wolfhard, Eva Longoria and Lauren Lapkus. Playing at the AMC 12.

DEATH OF A NATION The president's favorite filmmaker interviews turnipfaced punch-target Richard Spencer in this “documen-

The sad thing about this is that he got the wolf from a puppy mill. Alpha opens at the Pharaohplex. tary” that posits that Hitler was really a liberal, so quit comparing him to Trump, you snowflakes. Rated PG13. Directed by Dinesh D'Souza. Playing at the AMC 12.

the voices of Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman and Janeane Garofalo. Playing Wed., Aug. 22 at 8 PM and Sun., Aug. 26 at 2 PM at the Roxy.

EIGHTH GRADE Middle school is that magical time when your body is changing, your mind is changing and absolutely everything you do will make you cringe in embarrassment as an adult for as long as you live. Rated R. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton and Emily Robinson. Playing at the Roxy and the Southgate 9.

MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN If they ever make a third film in this series of musicals powered by the tunes of ABBA, it's absolutely going to be called Mamma Mia! My My, How Can We Resist You? Rated PG-13. Stars Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Pierce Brosnan's ridiculous singing voice. Playing at the Southgate 9.

THE EQUALIZER 2 He thought his days of being a highly paid government assassin were over, but just when he thought he was out, he has to kill, like, a hundred more goons. Historians take note: this is the first time Denzel Washington has ever made a sequel to any of his films. Rated R. Also stars Pedro Pascal and Melissa Leo. Playing at the AMC 12.

THE MEG Human fist Jason Statham fights a giant prehistoric shark in a theatrical film that's surprisingly isn't a Syfy Channel Original Movie. Rated PG-13 because the studio cut out all the good deaths. Also stars Rainn Wilson and Ruby Rose. Playing at the Southgate 9, the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy and their families take a much needed holiday. I know Adam Sandler movies are often accused of just being studio-funded vacations for his famous friends, but this is getting ridiculous. Rated PG. Also stars the voices of Selena Gomez, Kevin James and Bozeman's Sarah Vowell. Playing at the Southgate 9.

INCREDIBLES 2 It's been 14 years since we last saw Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and the rest of the family battle evil on the big screen. Now the family of superheroes returns to face their greatest threat: a market saturated with too many comic book movies. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Bozeman's Sarah Vowell. Playing at the AMC 12.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE–FALLOUT Tom Cruise returns as 56-year-old secret agent Ethan Hunt to do his own stunts in the sixth film in this longrunning franchise. This time Hunt and his team are on the run after a mission goes bad. Isn't that the plot to the last five movies? Rated PG-13. Also stars Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett and Henry Cavill. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) All aboard the Catbus! A trip to the countryside takes a magical turn as two little girls befriend a lovable, huggable spirit of death. Rated G. Stars the voices of Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Tim Daly. Playing Sun., Aug. 19 at 2 PM.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM It's the fifth Jurassic Park movie. I think we all know what we're in for by this point. Rated PG-13. Stars Sinoceratops, Barynoyx, Stygimoloch and Chris Pratt.

Playing at the Southgate 9.

PETE'S DRAGON (2016) The director of A Ghost Story (yes, that A Ghost Story) reimagines Disney's classic film about a young orphan and the giant dragon who befriends him. Is there a scene where someone eats a pie for seven uninterrupted minutes? Rated PG. Stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford and John Kassir. Playing Thu., Aug. 23 and Sat., Aug. 25 at 2 PM at the Roxy.

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) A young witch, on her own for the very first time, learns the hardest life lessons while running a broom-powered air courier service. Rated G. Stars

PINA (2011) The boundless imagination of famed choreographer Pina Bausch leaps onto the screen in this kinetic and hypnotic documentary by master filmmaker Wim

Wenders. Not Rated. Playing Mon., Aug. 20 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) Sent to live with her uncle after the death of her parents in India, a young girl, her bedridden cousin and a servant boy decide to restore the hidden beauty of the eponymous secret garden. Rated G. Stars Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith and John Lynch. Playing Thu., Aug. 16 and Sat., Aug. 18 at 2 PM at the Roxy.

SLENDER MAN Usually when people say that the Internet has created a monster, they're talking about the current president, and not this well-dressed meme-gone-wild.

Rated PG-13, because of course it is. Featuring Joey King, Javier Botet and the director of I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. Playing at the AMC 12.

THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME See, usually when someone tells you that they're a CIA agent on the run from an international team of assassins, they're probably just trying to get into your pants. Rated R. Stars Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon and Gillian Anderson. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990) Four radical sewer-dwelling brothers are here to eat pizza and beat up a bad guy who has a name that sounds like a kitchen appliance, and it looks like they're all out of pizza. Rated PG. Stars Corey Feldman, Elias Koteas and baby Sam Rockwell. Playing at the Roxy Sat., Aug. 18 at 9 PM. WILD (2014) After the death of her mother, a self-destructing woman with no outdoors experience decides to get her life together by hiking one of the country's longest and toughest trails. What could possibly go wrong?

Rated R. Stars Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and W. Earl Brown. Playing at the Roxy Sun., Aug. 19 at 7 PM. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your trip to the local cinema? Get up-todate listings and film times at theroxytheater.org, amctheatres.com and pharaohplex.com to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

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AUGUST

COFFEE SPECIAL

COOL

COFFEE ICE CREAMS

Moon Bean $10.95/lb.

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

IN OUR COFFEE BAR

BUTTERFLY HERBS

photo by Ari LeVaux

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

All ripe now

by Ari LeVaux The other week at the Clark Fork Market, a vendor was busted for trying to sell Washington-grown cherries. The original point of a farmers market, after all, is that farmers sell their own produce directly to a customer, with no middleman. Many markets, like the Clark Fork and Missoula farmers markets, have rules that the produce must also be grown locally. In our case, that means in Montana.

This helps ensure that a farmers market is a reflection of where its customers live.

Vendors of prepared foods at both markets are exempt from these restrictions. Prepared food can be made from ingredients purchased at Costco or Albertsons or Sysco and then sold cheap for a decent profit. Farmers market customers, being human beings, are easily swayed by large plates of cheap food, despite the fact that those meals go against virtually every principle on which the market was founded, and that today’s shoppers expect of the farmers themselves.

The biggest victims of this double-standard are the vendors who try to do the local thing, especially the precious few — Friggin’ Fulla and Take it or Leave It come to mind — who raise and butcher their own animals and serve their cooked flesh with home-grown or locally sourced fixings. These purveyors of locavore dream brunch are tossed under

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MARKET REPORT

the food truck, economically, by regulations that allow their exact opposite to flourish.

Other vendors who aren’t animal husbands and farmers still make an effort to keep as local as possible with their prepared foods. Unfortunately, others don’t make that effort, and why should they?

They aren’t in it to protect the sanctity of the farmers market. They’re in it for the money.

Farmers also are hurt by this double standard.

Sometimes it’s a line of people waiting for Nutella waffles that’s so long it snakes in front of other booths and cuts off customers. Sometimes it’s a missed opportunity for multiple vendors, as those cherry tomatoes would make a bright splash in that stir-fry.

It bears repeating that many, if not most, vendors integrate as much as they can from their fellow vendors. It’s the right thing to do.

As for the actual market report, everything is ripe. We have arrived at peak produce. Basically anything you could expect, and a lot more, is waiting for you. The peppers are red, the corn is fat, the tomatoes are available by the box, and the melons are juicy. Get ’em while they’re good.

If you have tips on local markets worth covering, send them to editor@missoulanews.com.

[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 A Missoula gem since 1978, now serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm.

Featured items: scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice's is known for its scrumptious desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, and cakes. Gluten-free and vegan options available. A must-have for the coffee lover in your life? A bag of Bernice's signature blend locally roasted with love. Check us out on Facebook, Instagram or visit our website at www.bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 46 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Chameleon Mobile Kitchen Sinclair Kwik Stop 505 Highton St. East Missoula

214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, rice & noodle bowls, and daily specials. We are fully equipped and self-contained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pick-up.

Online menu available at chameleonmobilekitchen.com. $-$$

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza and calzones, rice and noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive and antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of house-made breakfast, lunch and dinner entreés. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula's favorite bakeries.

Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking.

Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com 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. MC/V $-$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas.

Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $$$

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Frosé at Plonk

HAPPIEST HOUR

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Mo’ Dogs 617 S. Higgins Ave. 926-1094 mo-dogs.com Mo’ Dogs – Missoula’s premier Gourmet Sausage and Specialty Hot Dog Restaurant. From our Old Fashioned Frank to our tropical “Aloha” or traditional “Chicago” we have something for everyone.

Our sauces, slaws and all-meat Angus Chili are house-made daily. Missoula Family owned and operated – we look forward to seeing you! $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily, local and regional micro brews, fine wines and signature cocktails. Vegetarian and glutenfree menu available, plus takeout and delivery daily. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$

photo by Michael Siebert

What you’re drinking: The Frosé, (pronounced fro-zay) is a frozen wine cocktail. It’s basically an adult slushie.

What’s in it: The Frosé is made from a combination of Rioja rose, grapefruit juice and simple syrup. The latter two ingredients are to ensure that the drink freezes properly.

It’s served frozen in a wine glass with a paper straw and strawberry garnish.

The taste: Despite its bright pink appearance, you’ll find very little sweetness. The Frosé embraces the wine flavor, making an already-refreshing rosé doubly so. That lack of sugar means this is also a remarkably light

drink, something you’ll definitely appreciate as the temperatures hover around 90.

The cost: Save this for when you’re splurging. The Froze is $10 for a 5 oz. pour.

Where to get it: Plonk is located at 322 N. Higgins Ave. It’s open from 3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. every day.

—Michael Siebert Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended.

Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reserva-

tions, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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MON | 8 PM

Anthrax plays the Wilma Mon., Aug. 20. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35.

TUE | 8 PM

Michael Franti and Spearhead play the Wilma Tue., Aug. 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40–$47.

SUN | 6:30 PM

Rebelution plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater Sun., Aug. 19. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6:30. $19.75–

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

Show your pride at Queers & Beers, a monthly gathering of Missoula’s LGBTQ+ community at Imagine Nation Brewing. DJ Jessi Jaymes spins the gayest hits. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Garden City Harvest’s Farm Party features a farm fresh meal, drinks and music by Moneypenny and Russ Nasset and the Revelators. Peas Farm. 5:30 PM–9 PM. $20/$8 for 10 and under.

The Summer of Dance continues at Downtown Dance Collective. Explore contact improv in a dance workshop taught by Tricia Opstad. Email info@ddcmontana.com for more info and to RSVP. 6 PM.

Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with Miller Campbell playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free.

Paul and Leva Cataldo play Draught Work Brewery from 6 PM to 8 PM. Free.

The Kimberlee Carlson Trio provides the tunes at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

YWCA Missoulaʼs Racial Justice Initiative, the Montana Racial Equity Project and Empower Montana host the Racial Justice Book Club the third Thursday of every month at the YWCA Missoula. This month’s book is Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafete-

ria?: And Other Conversations About Race.

RSVP to lschildt@ywcaofmissoula.org.

Platinum-selling country musician Justin Moore plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater.

Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $35–$47.50 Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM Bombshell Nightlight celebrates the release of its first album with a show at the ZACC Below along with Rachael Jo Cardiello, Mermaid Book Club and Koby. 7:30 PM. Free.

Mickey Utley performs a special acoustic show at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. Free.

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Saturday

The Suffers, Anderson East, the Sam Bush Band and more play the Moonlight MusicFest in Big Sky Montana.

Visit moonlightmusicfest.com for more info and registration. $65/$125 for the both days.

Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

Missoulians are obsessed with this guy. Bill LaCroix provides the banjo soundtrack every Friday at Bagels on Broadway. 11 AM–12 PM. Free.

Do you know your farmer? Missoula Farmers Market features hot coffee, sweet treats and fresh, locally grown veggies.

Circle Square by the XXXX. 8 AM–12:30 PM. Free.

Missoula Community Radio hosts a no-holds-barred punk show at the Union Hall Ballroom. Performances

by New Old Future, Easter Island, Shellshock Lullaby and A River Runs Through It. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6 PM. $5.

Stock up on farm-direct food every Saturday at the Clark Fork Market. Vendors from across Western Montana converge in the Riverside Parking Lot next to Caras Park. 8 AM–1 PM. Celebrating its 20th year, the Missoula People’s Market features an amazing assortment of artists, crafts and community.

W. Pine and Higgins. 9 AM. Free.

David Horgan and Beth Lo lay down the jazz soundtrack at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

I think dogs should vote! Crazy Dog plays its acoustic rock at the Montana Distillery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Virtuoso violinist Andrew Bird and progressive bluegrass band Punch Brothers play the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $35–$47.50.

The Lucid Furs play Monk’s along with The Selsun Blues and Atomic Candles. Doors at 9 PM. $2.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Texas rambler Zane Williams plays the VFW. 10 PM. $10.

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a mouth full of circuit boards. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM.

Get your weekend started with a round of disc golf at Granite Peak Folf Course. 10 AM. Free. Visit lolohotsprings.com for more info and registration.

Andrew Bird plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater Fri., Aug. 17. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $35– $47.50.

MASC Studio hosts a fully catered show featuring live music, theatrical circus displays and a three course meal. Cirque du Jour starts at 6:30 PM. $50. Visit mascstudio.com for more info and ticketing.

Le Petit Outre hosts a night of soul and visual art at Deep Shadows. Works and performances by June West, Kennamer, Chris Powell and Mike Steinberg. 7 PM. Free.

It doesn’t get more meta than this. [title of show], a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical, opens at

Jesse Bier reads from Phenomenal Farewell, his final collection of poetry, at Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM.

rock legend Alice Cooper at KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $35–$55.

It doesn’t get more meta than this. [title of show], a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical, continues at Downtown Dance Collective.

7:30 PM. $12/$10 students. (See Spotlight) The third Saturday of every month is for dancing. Salsa 406 at the Dark Horse Bar features free dance lessons preceding a night of salsa, merengue and more.

8:30 PM. Free.

Remember, remember the fifth of November at Missoula Outdoor Cinema. Hugo Weaving blows up a totalitarian government in V for Vendetta, starting at approximately 8:45 PM at Headstart School.

Free, but donations encouraged.

Downtown Dance Collective. 7:30 PM. $12/$10 students. (See Spotlight)

Canta Brasil provides the tunes with help from special guests at Imagine Nation. 6 PM. Free.

406, Montana’s most un-Googleable band, returns to the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

Mover and shaker John Floridis plays Draught Works from 6 PM to 8 PM. Free.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two-for-one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now.

Free.

Betray your pals at the house on the hill, settle the island of Catan and cure a pandemic at Board Game Night at Retrofix Games. 6 PM–10 PM.

406, Montana’s most un-Googleable band, returns to the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

This month’s I’ll House You gets you ready to go back to school with DJs Como Se Va and Labuda joining DJ Hotpantz on the decks. The Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Funk-rock jammers Ticket Sauce play the Top Hat. Could I get mine dry please?

10:15 PM. Free.

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The Timber Rattlers play Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Spend a paranormal evening with shock

Be at peace, be aware of your breathing, be at Joan Zen at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Sunday

David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the soundtrack at Bayern Brewery’s Jazz Brunch from 11 AM–2 PM. Free.

The Montana Fiddlers play a special performance at the Sunrise Saloon. 1 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas plays his homegrown folky tonk at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Reggae heroes Rebelution play the KettleHouse Amphitheater along with Stephen Marley, Common Kings and more. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6:30 PM. $19.75–$37.50.

Long Neck plays the Union Hall Ballroom Sun., Aug. 19. 8 PM. $5.

Spotlight

John Floridis provides the tunes at Rumour Restaurant

from 6 PM to 8 PM. Free.

The Oscillation Transia Film Festival explores the intersection of solar energy and environmental awareness through the art of film. See shorts from across the globe themed around travel, nature and movement. The Roxy. 7 PM. $8.

I bet he could also beat Shaq.

Internationally renowned harpist Nicolas Carter brings his Paraguayan harp to the University Congregational Church for a night of music. 7 PM. Donations.

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The Highlander Beer Taphouse hosts the most Missoula event imaginable.

Buzzed Yoga lets you practice your flow while enjoying cold beer. Bring photo identification and $10 every Sunday this summer. 11 AM.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM. Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there.

Every Monday from 6–8 PM. The John Floridis Trio plays Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Tiny Engine’s Long Neck and Fern Mayo play the Union Hall Ballroom with Kaylen Krebsbach and The Music. 8 PM. $5.

Anthrax and Testament unleash a night of heavy metal at the Wilma with support from local thrashers Walking Corpse Syndrome. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35. \m/(>.<)\m/

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander.

Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

Motown on Mondays puts the so-u-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander.

9 PM. Free.

[spotlight title]

In the spring of 2004, writer and actor Hunter Bell and musician Jeff Bowen stumbled across an announcement for the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival. The fest was looking for submissions of brand new, never produced musicals, and the duo was eager to submit something. The only problem was they hadn't written anything yet. That and the deadline to submit their new play was only three weeks away.

The two quickly got down to business. The idea of adapting an existing play or movie was quickly shot down, as the duo wanted to create something truly original. What if, they wondered, we just wrote a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical? What if the play itself chronicled its own creation? Three weeks later they submitted their metatextual romp [title of show] — named after the blank spot on the application form–to the New York Musical Festival. The play was accepted for the festival's inaugural season, where it became a runaway hit. Productions of the play followed both on and off Broadway, as did the awards and Tony nominations. Now, 14 years later, [title of show] has created a dedicated fan base, productions across the globe and a popular webseries. Not too shabby for a play written in three weeks.

—Charley Macorn WHAT: [title of show] WHERE: Downtown Dance Collective WHEN: Fri., Aug. 17, Sat., Aug. 18, Fri., Aug. 24 and Sat., Aug. 25 at 7:30 PM. HOW MUCH: $12/$10 seniors and students MORE INFO: ddcmontana.com

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Tuesday Every Tuesday is Walk With a Doc Day at Grizzly Peak. A health professional discusses their speciality while walking with the group. 9 AM–10 AM. Free.

Missoula Farmers Market’s Tuesday Evening Market lets you get your local veggies and farm-direct products without having to wake

up early on Saturday. North Higgins by the XXXX. Join the REI Outdoor School for a bike maintenance class at the Highlander Taphouse every Tuesday this summer. It’s a demonstration class, so no need to bring your bike. 6 PM. RSVP at rei.com.

World-renowned musician, humanitarian and artist Michael Franti performs at the Wilma with his band Spearhead. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40– $47.50.

I wonder what prompted this?

Dr. Peter Miller gives a presentation on why abolishing the Elec-

toral College and electing the President solely through the popular vote just makes sense. Missoula Public Library. 7 PM. Free.

The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia Night at Thomas Meagher Bar

lets you show off that big stupid intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What baseball legend hit his 600th home run on today’s date in 1931? Answer in tomorrow’s event listings.

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Wednesday Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week quaff a brew for the Montana College Access Network. 5 PM–8 PM. Burns St. Bistro’s Jason McMackin serves as a live sketch model for Drink & Draw at Western Cider.

5:30 PM–7 PM. Good crop o’ Josh comin’ in this year, I’ll tell you what. Josh Farmer plays Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

Death to the Xenos! Unleash your

armies at Retrofix’s Wednesday War Games. Warhammer, Hordes and more. 6 PM–10 PM. Free.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Babe Ruth.

Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train to Rocking Country Karaoke at the Dark Horse. 9 PM. Free.

Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Showcase/Open Mic brings seasoned stand-up comedians and bright-eyed newbies to the Roxy

Theater. This month’s headliner is the funniest comedian to ever come out of Havre, Montana, James Carden. 7:30 PM. Concessions purchase for admission.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Addison Lea Thompson plays the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free.

Addison Lea Thompson plays the VFW Wed., Aug. 22. 8:30 PM. Free.

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

Tom Catmull plays a solo show at Draught Works from 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with Left on Tenth playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free.

Dendrons plays the ZACC Below Thu., Aug. 23. 8 PM. $6.

Chris La Tray celebrates the release of his new collection, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World at Large, at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Can I just have pepperoni instead?

Spinal Pizza plays Texas Ragtime at the Still Room. 1609 W Broadway. 7 PM. $3.

Basses Covered plays a special performances at Wave & Circuit. 7 PM– 9 PM. $5.

New South Fork’s Fred and Emily Frank play Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Bradley Warren Jr. plays the Top Hat’s Acoustic Avenue series. 8 PM. Free.

Lake Missoula Tea Company’s Monthly Tea Talk & Tasting welcomes Lisa Mills to explain how certain teas are certified as elephant friendly.

That’s a fact I’ll never forget! 6 PM. Free.

Washington surf rockers Le Grotto are joined by Chicago’s Dendrons for a night of music at the ZACC Below with local support from Charcoal Squids and aceslowman. 8 PM–11 PM. $6. (See Music.)

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM

Michael Shaw & the Wildfires, the self-described illegitimate children of Bill Monroe, provide the hard-driving bluegrass soundtrack at the Old Post Pub. 8 PM. Free.

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Deathbed Confessions and blessiddoom unleash the end times at Armed For Apocalypse at the Dark Horse Bar. 8 PM. $5.

My DJ name can only be pronounced with a mouth full of circuit boards.

Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ TRex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

We want to know about your event!

Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost.

Agenda

They call it the dog days of summer not due to how the oppressive heat causes even our fourlegged friends to wish for a soothing blizzard, but because of the ancient Greeks noticing the star Sirius rising before the sun in late July. “Oh great, here comes Orion's dog,” the Greeks would say, interpreting the star as an ill omen.

“I guess we're either going to get a heat wave or we're going to be invaded by those jerks from Persia. Either way, we should probably drink some wine.”

Speaking of which, during the Garden City's own stay in the dog days of summer this year, Missoula Fresh Market is raising funds for

the Humane Society of Western Montana and the Missoula Animal Control Shelter with a special wine sale. Through the end of August, at both Fresh Markets, bottles of wine marked with red paw prints will have a portion of their price donated to both animal-friendly organizations.

A special adoption event, full of animals looking for their forever home, takes place on Sun., Aug. 26 in the Fresh Market parking lot.

—Charley Macorn The Cash for Critters wine donation runs through the end of August at both Missoula Fresh Market locations.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19

Imagine Nation celebrates the Garden City's nonprofits at Nonprofit Appreciation Day. 5 PM–8 PM.

Missoula Fresh Market donates a portion of wine sales to the Humane Society of Western Montana and the Missoula Animal Control Shelter at Cash for Critters. 8 AM.

YWCA Missoula’s Racial Justice Initiative, the Montana Racial Equity Project and Empower Montana host the Racial Justice Book Club the third Thursday of every month at the YWCA Missoula. This month's book is Beverly Daniel Tatum's Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race.

RSVP to lschildt@ywcaofmissoula.org. 6 PM. Great Burn Brewing hosts a fundraiser for CASA Missoula and its work to protect Missoula's children. 6 PM.

MONDAY, AUGUST 20 Montgomery Distillery donates a dollar from every cocktail sold to help local nonprofits in the Missoula area. 12 PM–8 PM.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company's Northside tap room.

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week quaff a brew for the Montana College Access Network. 5 PM–8 PM.

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

Gentle + Effective

Health Care Medical Marijuana Recommendations Alternative Wellness is helping qualified patients get access to the MT Medical Marijuana Program.

Must have Montana ID and medical records. Please Call 406-249-1304 for a FREE consultation or alternativewellness.nwmt@gmail.com

Acupuncture Clinic of Missoula 728-1600 3031 S Russell St Ste 1

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Mountain High I’m sorry, could you repeat that? What do you mean you’ve never gone fishing? Like, at all?

You’ve never stood out by the water, matching wits with an animal that can’t tell the difference between a delicious bug and a fuzzy hook? Listen, you can’t go around saying things like that. People will think you’re from New York. And sure, it might be daunting, getting into a new pastime in a city and a state that takes our outdoor recreation with deadly seriousness. But if you’re someone who wants to engage in a true Big Sky tradition, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has you covered.

After the runaway success of their inaugural fishing clinic, the good folks over at MFWP are back

with another free class for wannabe anglers. Don’t worry about bringing any equipment as fishing poles and basic tackle and bait will be provided.

Also, you don’t have to have a fishing license. So get out there and learn the basics of Missoula’s most famous pastime with the state experts who won’t care that you’ve never been fishing before.

—Charley Macorn Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park’s Fishing Clinic runs from 10 AM to 12 PM on Sat., Aug. 18 at the East Shelter of Frenchtown Pond State Park. Free.

Visit fwp.mt.gov to RSVP.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 Fore! The 18th Annual Golf Classic supports Missoula's local Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Larchmont Golf Course. 7 AM–2 PM. The Montana State Skeet Shoot puts your shooting to the test. Missoula Trap and Skeet Club. 9 AM–5 PM. Visit missoulatrapandskeet.com for more info.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 Spend the day learning about and foraging for wild medicinal plants at Montana Natural History Center's Naturalist Field Day. Visit montananaturalist.org for more info and registration. 9 AM–4 PM. $80/$70 members.

photo by Kou Moua

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks hosts a free fishing clinic at Frenchtown Pond State Park.

10 AM–12 PM. Free.

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation invites you and your kiddos to Game Day. Try your hand at the Laser Shot Hunt Simulator. 11 AM–1 PM. Free.

The Montana State Skeet Shoot continues.

Visit missoulatrapandskeet.com for more info.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 The Montana State Skeet Shoot continues.

Visit missoulatrapandskeet.com for more info.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 Connect with other female hikers and get an overview of backpacking planning, preparation and gear in a new Women's Backpacking Basics class at Highlander TapHouse. 6 PM. Free.

For tickets, visit the MSO Hub in downtown Missoula, call 543-3300 or go to

MissoulaOsprey.com.

Friday, August 17

Saturday, August 18

Sunday, August 19

Osprey T-Shirt Giveaway!

8th Annual Mega Brewfest!

Senior Sunday!

vs. Orem Owlz

The first 750 fans through the gates receive an Osprey t-shirt.

Sponsored by Hunter Bay Coffee & 102.9 ESPN Radio

Gates 6:30; Game time 7.05

vs. Orem Owlz

Bark in the Park Night!

Timberjack Saturdays!

vs. Orem Owlz

2-for1 tickets for anyone 55+ with ID.

Kids Day!

Kids promotions, music & activities.

Sponsored by NOW 106.7

Monday, August 20

vs. Grand Junction Rockies

Family Night!

4 GA tickets, hot dogs, chips & sodas for $30 ($64 value) with a donation of nonperishable food items at the ticket booth.

All food donated benefits the Missoula Food Bank & Community Center.

Sponsored by Cherry Creek Media

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

Tuesday, August 21

Wednesday, August 22 vs. Grand Junction Rockies

vs. Grand Junction Rockies

Bike to the Ballpark!

We Win "U" Win Night!

2-for-1 tickets for anyone who bikes to the game.

Nonprofit Wednesday, featuring Opportunity Resources!

Sponsored by Trail 103.3

Sponsored by Missoula Federal Credit Union

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

vs. Grand Junction Rockies

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Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

Thursday, August 23

Fans will be given a free GA ticket (good for Sun.-Tues. home games) if the Osprey win tonight! sponsored by U 104.5

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

EMPLOYMENT

BULLETIN BOARD Basset Rescue of Montana taking applications now in Missoula County for much needed foster homes. Please call (406) 207-0765 or email at bassetrescuemt@gmail.com Chris Autio Photography. Full Studio. Promotional photography for artists. Real Estate Photography. Photo restoration. Product Photography. Call Chris at (406) 728-5097. chris@chrisautio.com If you are reading this ad, you can see that classified advertising works!

Reach over 400,000 readers in Mon-

tana and beyond to promote your product, service, event and business.

To get results, contact this newspaper, or the Montana Newspaper Associa-

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Turn off your PC & turn on your life.

Bennett’s Music Studio Guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass lessons.

Rentals available. bennettsmusicstudio.com

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Earn $300-$1000 per month working part-time!

The Missoulian is looking for reliable individuals to deliver the daily newspaper in the Missoula, Bitterroot and Flathead areas. For individual route details go to: missoulian.com/carrier If you’re looking for extra income, are an early riser and enjoy working independently, you can make money and be done before most people get going with their day. If this sounds like you, please submit your inquiry form today at missoulian.com/carrier or call 406-523-0494. You must have a valid driver’s license and proof of car insurance. This is an independent contractor business opportunity.

FOH Manager: LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a restaurant to hire a long-term Front of House Manager. The FOH Manager is responsible for developing proactive recruiting programs, interviewing and hiring front of house staff, scheduling, employee counseling, and terminating undesirable front of house staff. The Manager is responsible for inventory and ordering such as napkins, cleaning supplies, dishware, takeout supplies, and barware. This position will also schedule events, book rooms, and coordinating the staff to work events. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32313.

Night Custodians: LC Staffing Missoula is now hiring for 5 Night Shift Custodians for a temporary deep cleaning project. The Custodians will work from 10pm-7am to clean bathrooms, floors, and counters. The project is estimated to last two to three weeks. Schedule is full-time with rotating days within Monday through Sunday. This position pays $12.00 per hour. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32293 Warehouse Workers: LC Staffing Missoula is working with locally-owned lumber yard to recruit for 2 temporary Warehouse Workers. The Warehouse Worker will be working in the lumber yard, assisting customers with products and questions, while maintaining a clean and well stocked inventory. This position will take on a number of responsibilities and must follow all safety rules and regulations. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32288.

SKILLED LABOR Warehouse and Delivery Driver: LC Staffing Missoula is working with an industrial supply company to hire a long-term Warehouse Worker/Delivery Driver. The Warehouse Worker will be responsible for receiving and processing incoming stock and materials, picking and filling orders from stock, packing and shipping orders, and managing/organizing/retrieving stock in the warehouse. This person will also drive a 2-ton flatbed truck in Missoula and surrounding areas to deliver the supplies and materials. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32284

PROFESSIONAL Adventure Cycling Association seeks a Director of Tours. Go to Adventure Cy-

Fletch Law, PLLC Steve M. Fletcher Attorney at Law

Social Security Disability Over 20 years experience.

Call immediately for a FREE consultation.

541-7307

www.fletchlaw.net

Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com

EMPLOYMENT HEALTH

SEIZE THE MEH

I’m a 31-year-old guy who got really hurt after a relationship ended a few years back. Now I just don’t date women whom I’ll ever really care about, because I don’t ever want to feel how I felt when my previous relationship ended. My friends say I’m being a coward and missing out, but hey, I’m not depressed over any chicks. I think I’m being smart in protecting myself. Maybe more people should take this approach.

—Comfortably Numb These days, your relationships probably start when you eyeball a woman on the street:“Whoa!

I bet she’d be seriously mediocre in bed!”

Next, you discover that she’s a real yawn out of the sack, too — and you’re in!

Now, it’s possible that you’re way more emotionally sensitive than most people, to the point where a loss that others would eventually recover from hits you like a never-ending colonoscopy (with, um, artisanal anesthesia: “If you’ll just bite this stick...”).

Even if you are super sensitive, avoiding the pain comes at a substantial price: living a gray goulash of a life, spending every day with some uninspiring somebody you don’t really care about. But consider that we evolved to be resilient — to heal from emotional injuries as we do physical ones. However, in order for you to do this — and to see that you might actually be able to stand the pain of loss — you need to view resilience not as some mysterious emotional gift but as a practice.

Resilience comes out of what clinical psychologist Salvatore Maddi calls “hardiness.” He writes that “hardiness ... provides the courage and motivation to do the hard, strategic work of turning stressful circumstances from potential disasters into growth opportunities.” His research finds that hardiness is made up of three “interrelated attitudes,” which he calls the three C’s: commitment, control and challenge.

Commitment is the desire to engage with people and life instead of pulling away and isolating yourself. Control is the motivation to take action to improve your life “rather than sinking into passivity and powerlessness.” Challenge is the willingness to face the stress life throws at you and use it as a learning experience “rather than playing it safe by avoiding uncertainties and potential threats.”

These attitudes might not come naturally to you. But you can choose to take them up, same as you might other “unnatural practices,” like monogamy and wearing deodorant. Understanding that there are steps you can take to recover from heartbreak might give you the

courage to go for a woman you really love.

Sure, that woman might leave you — causing you big-time pain. But consider that risk avoidance — like by being with a woman you don’t really care about — isn’t pain avoidance.

The pain is just different. It’s low-dose extendedrelease — like frequently experiencing the postsex horror that leads you to want to grab your clothes and make a run for it before the woman next to you wakes up. And then you remember a couple of essential points: She’s your wife, not some Tinder rando, and it’s your apartment.

Sales Representative: LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a holistic supply company to hire a long-term Sales Representative. The Sales Representative will target health food stores, vitamin stores, chiropractic centers, and more to grow sales of proprietary product and work with the product development tram to enhance existing product and meet customer demands.

For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32327

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.

MCPS is recruiting for Para Educators: For instructions for applying visit www.mcpsmt.org Click on “Employment.” Equal Opportunity Employer

GIVE PIZZA A CHANCE

I’m a straight 36-year-old woman, and I recently lost a lot of weight. My doctor’s happy. My girlfriends think I look great. They’re all, “How’d you do it?” “You look like a model!” However, my male friends think I’m too skinny now. Is there a big difference in what the sexes consider a good body?

—Slim

Though women assume that men think the ideal female body shape is modeliciously skinny, consider that construction workers rarely yell out, “Hey, hotstuff! Great set of ribs!”

In studies exploring men’s and women’s ideas of the ideal female body weight, women consistently “perceive men as being attracted to thinner female figures than is true in reality,” writes social psychologist Viren Swami. And it isn’t just North American men who like fleshier women. Swami ran a massive survey — of 7,434 men and women in 26 countries, across 10 world regions — and “men across all world regions except East Asia selected a significantly heavier figure as being most physically attractive compared to what women believed was most attractive to men.”

Swami and his colleagues speculate that “women exposed to magazines marketed to women may form skewed perceptions of what body types are most appealing to men.” But don’t despair. Swami’s study and others measure the preferences of the “average” man.There is no such person. Or, as an epidemiologist friend of mine often reminds me, there are “individual differences” — meaning individuals’ preferences vary. In other words, there are men out there who will be seriously into a woman like you — a woman who can do amazing feats in the bedroom, like removing a pair of skinny jeans without calling 911 and asking for firemen to come over with the Jaws of Life.

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

DRIVERS WANTED The Missoula Independent is looking for drivers to deliver the paper on Thursday mornings. Must have a valid driver’s license, insurance and a reliable vehicle that can handle several bundles of papers. For more information and/or to apply, email RSpringer@missoulanews.com.

No phone calls, please.

MARKETPLACE AUCTIONS Auction 9.3.18 @ 5pm at All star storage. Viewing 2-4pm. All contents: 80.

Terms: cash.

Summit Property Management will auction to the highest bidder the contents of abandoned storage units, due to delinquent storage rent. A silent auction will be held Wednesday September 5thth at 11:00 am, at 2115 S 3rd St W. Buyers will bid for the entire contents of the unit. No personal checks accepted. The winning bid must have payment in cashier’s check

or money order to the Summit Property office by 5 pm. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. Phone 406-549-3929

GENERAL GOODS Authentic Timber Framed Barns. Residential and Commercial Timber Packages. Full Service Design - Build Since 1990, (406) 581-3014 brett@bitterrootgroup.com, www.bitterroottimberframes.com

DOMESTIC 2002 Toyota Camry LE Original ONE owner with 55K miles. $2150! Contact: 4065100069

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP MONTANA 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY SUMMONS Civil Number: DV18-1033 Honorable John W. Larson Dept. No. 3 Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Tarri A. Pellant, The Unknown Heirs and Devisees of Patricia A. Gee, and Does 1-10, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA, TO THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF PATRICIA ANN GEE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the above entitled Court. A copy of same is served upon you. You must file your written answer with the above entitled Court and serve a copy upon the Plaintiff, or Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the last day this Summons is published, exclusive of the last day of publication. FAILURE TO APPEAR AND ANSWER will allow judgment to be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is for replevin of a manufactured home located in the County of Missoula State of Montana. The manufactured home is located at 6125 Mullan Road, Missoula, MT 59808 and is more particularly described as follows: 2007 Liberty Homes Anniversary Manufactured Home, ModelRR167401 Title No. G782329, VIN: 09L35923. A $70.00 filing fee must accompany the answer at the time of filing.

MONTANA 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY SUMMONS Civil Number: DV18-776 Ditech Financial LLC, Plaintiff, v. Steven A. Ball and Twila M. Ball, and Does 1-10, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA, TWILA M. BALL: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the above entitled Court. A copy of same is served upon you.

You must file your written answer with the above entitled Court and serve a copy upon the Plaintiff, or Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the last day this Summons is published, exclusive of the last day of publication. FAILURE TO APPEAR AND ANSWER will allow judgment to be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is to repossess a manufactured home described as: 1994 West TL HS used manufactured home, having Title number W735110 and VIN number 4794017N9922 located at 32230 Piney Meadow, Huson, MT 59846.

A $70.00 filing fee must accompany the answer at the time of filing.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-18-183 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: JAMES LAWRENCE MINCKLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda E. Minckler has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Linda E. Minckler,

Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of August, 2018. GEISZLER STEELE, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-18-164 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: DONALD WALTER JOHNSON, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sheree Bombard has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to the above-named attorney, as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, and filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of July, 2018. JONES & COOK ATTORNEYS AT LAW /s/ Bradley J. Jones Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-207 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAY SAGE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Julie C. Sage and James W. Sage have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Julie C. Sage and James W. Sage, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, P.O. Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 7th day of August, 2018. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C. 2625 Dearborn, Suite 102B P.O. Box 8234 Missoula, MT 59807-8234 BY: /s/ Dan G. Cederberg Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-18-196 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF:CHARLES LEWIS KAUDY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda M. Freeman has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Jones & Associates, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2625 Dearborn Avenue, Ste. 120A, Missoula, MT 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare

under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 16th day of July, 2018. /s/ Linda M. Freeman Representative of the Estate of Charles Lewis Kaudy /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Cause No.: DP-18-209 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JACQUELIN IVANOVITCH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to TARA IVANOVITCH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of August, 2018. /s/ Tara Ivanovitch, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Tara Ivanovitch, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. In the Matter of G.S., A Minor Child, by Richard Funk and Debra Funk, Petitioners. Cause No.: DA-18-31 Dept. No.: 2 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AND PETITION FOR ADOPTION. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO ANY PUTATIVE OR PRESUMED FATHER OF THE MINOR CHILD: Pursuant to 42-2605(2), MCA, notice is hereby given that the Petitioners filed a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights and Petition for Adoption in regards to the Minor Child at issue in this action. A hearing on the Petition for Termination of Parental Rights and Petition for Adoption will be held September 10, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. in the courtroom of the above-entitled Court in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, Missoula County, Montana.

Failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a waiver of the individual’s interest in custody of the child and will result in the court’s termination of the individual’s rights to the child.

DATED this 6th day of August, 2018. /s/ Brandi R. Ries, Attorney for Petitioners.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on

December 4, 2018, 12:00 PM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 8 of Hidden Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as 24600 Frenchtown Frontage Road, Huson, MT 59846. Rene Sales and Richard Sales, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Popular Financial Services, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on March 24, 2004, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 29, 2004 as Instrument No. 200408179, in Book 728, at Page 1369, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage PassThrough Certificates Series 2004-3 Assignment Dated: June 15, 2009 Assignment Recorded: June 30,

2009 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 200915905, in Book 842, at Page 946, Assignee: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-3 Assignment Dated: December 31, 2013 Assignment Recorded: January 17, 2014 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201400771, in Book 924, at Page 694. All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on July 18, 2018 as Instrument No. 201811825, in Book 999, at Page 841, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning September 1, 2016, 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. By reason of said de-

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,â&#x20AC;? writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks.Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about.

But for best results, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should. It might feel more like work than play â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and theologian Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitating human temptation is to settle for too little; to live a comfortable life rather than an interesting one. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always true about you, Taurus. But I do suspect that in the coming weeks, a tendency to settle for less could be the single most devitalizing temptation youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be susceptible to. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a smaller blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. Hold out for the best and brightest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.â&#x20AC;? So says the wise and well-educated novelist Margaret Atwood. Judging by your current astrological omens, I think this is an excellent clue for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? Have you been half-avoiding any teaching that you or someone else thinks youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x153;supposedâ&#x20AC;? to be learning? If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it with cheerful rebelliousness. Doing so may lead you to what you really need to learn about next.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sometimes you make it difficult for me to reach you.You act like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re listening but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not really listening.You semi-consciously decide that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself. When you lock me out like that, I become a bit dumb. My advice isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as good or helpful. The magic between us languishes. Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that to me now. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it to anyone who cares about you.

I realize that you may need to protect yourself from people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sufficiently careful with you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be wise to open yourself to them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant,â&#x20AC;? wrote French author HonorĂŠ de Balzac. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an exaggeration, but it does trigger a worthwhile meditation. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul, and add more of it to your repertoire.

So here are your homework meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship with your deep self? (P.S.: Fashion designer Christian Dior said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care, and simplicity.â&#x20AC;?)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of us imagine medieval Europe to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous hues: â&#x20AC;&#x153;big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches, and the colored magic of stained glass.â&#x20AC;? Maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo. I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers and pinks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An astrologer on Tumblr named Sebastian says this about your sign: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Libras can be boring people when they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves. But they can be just as exciting as any fire sign and just as weird as any Aquarius and just as talkative as a Gemini and just as empathetic as a Pisces.

Really, Librans are some of the most eccentric people youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever meet, but you might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.â&#x20AC;? Spurred by Sebastianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s analysis, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my advice to you: I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll spend a lot of time with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your mental and physical and spiritual health, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at http://venuspapi.tumblr.com.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who calls herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that make her â&#x20AC;&#x153;believe in magic.â&#x20AC;?They include the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from a crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever-changing grey green blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.â&#x20AC;? I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Since 1969, eight-foot-two-inch-tall Big Bird has been the star of the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;TV show Sesame Street. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write poetry, dance and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Big Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imagination. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m foreseeing a comparable event in your life sometime soon, Sagittarius. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll finally be able to share a secret truth or private pleasure or unappreciated asse

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and author Simone de Beauvoir was one of those Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am awfully greedy,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.â&#x20AC;? Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.â&#x20AC;? The idea is that the mistake â&#x20AC;&#x153;is a crack left open to let in the light.â&#x20AC;? Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that little voice in my head that says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even try this because it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come naturally to me and I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be very good at it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP fault, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $162,749.32, interest in the sum of $10,813.80, escrow advances of $9,490.43, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $4,255.13 for a total amount owing of $187,308.68, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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 Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale, to 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 attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return

of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 7th day of August, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 48783 NOTICE OF TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE on October 30, 2018, at 11:00 AM , 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: A tract of land located in the S1/2 of Section 10, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 9K of Certificate of Survey No. 1923. Mary B. Pielaet, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 20, 2002, and recorded on February 25, 2002 in Book 677, Page 1150, as Document No. 200205206. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company.

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning August 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 3, 2018 is $121,146.67 principal, interest totaling $4,064.75, late charges in

the amount of $214.24, escrow advances of $1,290.84, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,085.24, plus accruing interest, 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 Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. 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 trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no de-

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP fault occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 22, 2018. /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho County of Bingham. On this 22nd day of June, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 M & T Bayview vs Mary B. Pielaet 105558-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 6, 2018, at 11:00 AM 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 7 in Block 1 of Lakeview Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Donald P. Harris, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real prop-

erty to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation, its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated on October 26, 2011, and recorded on October 28, 2011 as Book 884 Page 1181 Document No. 201118154.

The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. A Montana Corporation, is currently the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning November 1, 2017, 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 March 31, 2018 is $190,234.76 principal, interest totaling $3,685.80 late charges in the amount of $121.62, escrow advances of $8.69 and other fees and expenses advanced of $65.00, plus accruing interest, 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 ex-

penses 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. 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.

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TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 30, 2018 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. A Montana Corporation Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ss. County of Bingham On this 30 day of April, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. A Montana Corporation, 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. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 J P Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. vs DONALD P HARRIS 105315-1 Occupant(s) 1735 S. 8th St. W. Missoula, Montana 59801Jennifer A. Carter 1735 S. 8th St. W. Missoula, Montana 59801Jennifer A. Carter 340 S. 5th St. W. Missoula, MT 59801Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802MTAG as Custodian for ATCF II Montana, LLC P.O. Box 54292 New Orleans, LA 70154 Alterna Funding II, LLC P.O. Box 54967 New Orleans, LA 70154 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: DALY’S ADDITION, S29, T13 N, R19 W, BLOCK 34, LOT 8 - 9. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as Parcel No. 296150. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 2, 2015. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 9, 2015. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 9, 2015, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292. The lien was subsequently assigned to Alterna Funding II, LLC as recorded on May 17, 2018 in the records of the Missoula County Clerk & Recorder at Book 996 of Micro at Page 1091. A tax deed will be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $6458.92 PENALTY $129.19 INTEREST $825.17 COST $278.92 TOTAL $7692.20 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 2, 2018, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid

on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 258-4747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Occupant(s) 2026 S 12th St. W Missoula, Montana 59801 Edward L. Truman and Marsha J. Truman 2026 S. 12th St. W. Missoula, MT 59801 Alterna Funding II, LLC P.O. Box 54967 New Orleans, LA 70154 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 MTAG as Custodian for ATCF II Montana, LLC P.O. Box 54292 New Orleans, LA 70154 Pursuant to Section 15-18212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: DALY’S ADDITION #2, S29, T13 N, R19 W, BLOCK 54, Lot 23 – 26.

The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as Parcel No. 2301109. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 2, 2014. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 9, 2015. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 9, 2015, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subse-

quently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292. The lien was subsequently reassigned to Alterna Funding II, LLC as recorded on May 17, 2018 in the records of the Missoula County Clerk & Recorder at Book 996 of Micro at Page 1087. A tax deed will be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $7614.91 PENALTY $152.28 INTEREST $1,357.55 COST $278.92 TOTAL $9,403.66 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 2, 2018, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 258-4747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance.

3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Occupant(s) 2314 Wylie Ave. Missoula, Montana 59802 Warren Iverson 2314 Wylie Ave. Missoula, Montana 59802 Warren Iverson P.O. Box 830 Shelby, MT 59474-0830 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT,

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP 59802 MTAG as Custodian for ATCF II Montana, LLC P.O. Box 54292 New Orleans, LA 70154 Alterna Funding II, LLC P.O. Box 54967 New Orleans, LA 70154 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: PARK ADDITION, S14, T13 N, R19 W, BLOCK 12, LOT 18 & 19, &N10’ OF 20 & POR OF VAC ALLEY. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as Parcel No. 2386407.

2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 2, 2014.

3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 9, 2015. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 9, 2015, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292. The lien was subsequently assigned to Alterna Funding II, LLC as recorded on May 17, 2018 in the records of the Missoula County Clerk & Recorder at Book 996 of Micro at Page 1088. A tax deed will be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $9,589.91 PENALTY $191.83 COST $278.92 TOTAL $11,891.44 7.

The date that the redemption period expires is October 2, 2018, 60 days after date of this notice.

8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal re-

quirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Occupant(s) 2503 55th St., Unit A Missoula, Montana 59803 Alterna Funding II, LLC P.O. Box 54967 New Orleans, LA 70154 Kati Lynn McLeod C/o Robert T. Bell Esq. Reep, Bell, Laird & Simpson, P.C. P.O. Box 16960 Missoula, MT 59808 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 MTAG as Custodian for ATCF II Montana, LLC P.O. Box 54292 New Orleans, LA 70154 The 55th Street Condominium Owners Association C/O Kati Lynn McLeod C/O Robert T Bell Esq. Reep, Bell, Laird & Simpson, P.C. P.O. Box 16960 Missoula, MT 59808 Provident Trust Group, LLC FBO Pamela Farnsworth IRA #W1302310 (Vestee) 115 Ka Dr.Kula, HI 96790 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 55th Street Condominiums, S07, T12 N, R19 W, Unit A. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula

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County Clerk and Recorder as Parcel No. 897901. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 2, 2015. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 9, 2015. 4.

The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 9, 2015, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292. The lien was subsequently assigned to Alterna Funding II, LLC as recorded on May 17, 2018 in the records of the Missoula County Clerk & Recorder at Book 996 of Micro at Page 1086. A tax deed will be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $7,673.66 PENALTY $153.48 INTEREST $1,264.87 COST $278.92 TOTAL $9370.93 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 2, 2018, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice

until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9.

If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Alterna Funding II, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.

The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

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2241 sq ft 3bd 2.5ba home.

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210 Grant St. #4 2bd/1ba, close to trails and the Good Food Store, w/d hkups, dw ... $850 446 Washington St. 1bd/1ba, downtown, coin-ops, cat? ... $750 612 Gerald 1bd/1ba, near University, hardwood floors, cat? ... $695 1565 Grant St. "C" studio/1ba, double garage, central location, w/d, a/c... $695

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446 Washington St. 1bd/1ba, downtown, coin-ops, cat? ... $750

1315 E. Broadway #3 1bd/1.5 ba, close to U and downtown, coin-ops on site, pet? ... $750 1565 Grant St. “C” studio/1ba, double garage, central location, w/d, a/c ... $695

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jen@mainstreetmissoula.com (black logo) REDUCED PRICE 23005 Nine Mile Road. Own a Ranchette on a branch of the creek. 4BDR/2BA + bonus rooms and den. Sheds and outbuildings with fencing. Call soon or it will be gone! ONLY $335,000 Call Joy Earls Real Estate. 406-531-9811

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1 CNN chief White House correspondent Acosta 4 Disinterested 9 Ax handles 14 ___ pro nobis 15 Grammar concern 16 ___ the side of caution 17 "Humbug!" preceder 18 Harry's kin 20 Honey ___ (Post cereal, as renamed in 2018) 22 1990s Wink Martindale game show that paid off contestants' obligations 23 Cable company alternative to streaming, for short 24 Italian racecar 28 Levy 30 St. George's state 31 Difficult responsibility 34 More sick, in old hip-hop slang, or ... more sick, in general 35 Long-running role-playing video game franchise 38 Take to the skies 39 Place to go play 40 ATM maker bought by AT&T in 1991

43 Dress code loosening 45 Without toppings 48 Suffix after tera- or peta49 Provided party music 50 Bela of horror films 52 Ocean liner's route 54 Ultravox frontman Midge 55 1980s Secretary of State Alexander 58 "Automatic for the People" group 59 Trivia magazine started in 2001 63 Org. that's (supposed to be) concerned with pollution 66 Patient waiter 67 "Helps stop gas before it starts" product 68 "Neither fish ___ fowl" 69 Light bite 70 First two words of some political yard signs 71 TV alien with a reboot announced in August 2018 (as found in the long answers)

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8 Remove, to a proofreader 9 Antagonist in "The Year Without a Santa Claus" 10 Sleeve tattoo locale

11 Waste time frolicking, old-style 12 "I've got nothing ___" 13 "The Late Late Show" host before Kilborn, Ferguson, and Corden 19 Gp. once headed by Mueller and Comey 21 "That's funny" 24 Overly muscular 25 Monopoly purchase (abbr.)

26 Some meat alternatives 27 Location of a nursery rhyme's three men 29 It's not what the P stands for in TP (unless the T is "two"?)

32 Retract, as regrettable words 33 One way to walk tall?

36 One generating a lot of interest 37 Charge for a spot 40 Capital of Chad 41 Pulitzer-winning San Francisco columnist Herb 42 Sydney suburb, or a California-based car-sharing rental company 43 A.F.L. merger partner 44 Running in neutral 45 Tests the depths 46 Entice 47 Meeting outline 51 Different ending?

53 Pyromaniac's crime 56 "One ___ land ..."

57 Show with Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester 60 Private eye, informally 61 ___ in "Oscar" 62 ___-Caps (movie candy) 64 D.C. sort 65 Dog noise

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 BRUNO•

Bruno is a 2 year old male Boxer mix. He loves to go for walks, enjoys playing in the yard, and frequently wears a goofy smile. He knows how to sit on command and is working on understanding other tricks.

He enthusiastically plays fetch and tug-of-war.

This is an all around fun-loving guy, ready for any adventure. Bruno gets along well with most dogs but would need a cat-free home.

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CADE•Cade is a 1 1/2 year old male brown tabby. When he came to the shelter, he was very skittish and fearful, prefering to spend his days hiding in a box. Now, Cade is very comfortable in the cat room. He is often at the front of his kennel, waiting to be let out. He gets along well with other cats. When a cranky cat approaches, Cade calmly re1450 W. Broadway St. • 406-728-0022 moves himself from the confrontation.

PARKER• Parker is a 13 year old male Beagle. As any true hound, Parker loves to wander around with his nose to the ground, ignoring all manner of toys or people. He loves other dogs, but doesn't enjoy rough housing. Parker has a healthy fear of cats and will avoid them at all costs. When he's happy, he'll give you that signature bay that all Beagles are known for.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 MAX AND REX• Max and Rex are a tiny pair with a big personality! These two love to snuggle up with their person and play with toys! Max prefers stuffed animals and Rex is all about anything that squeeks! They are used to an active household and love to go for walks, fetch, and Max is even up for a swim! Come meet this adorable couple during our open hours, WedFri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

MAUSER• Mauser is an active man whose favorite activities include anything where he can fetch a stick! Not only is he a big bundle of love, but he is one smart cookie too! Come meet this handsome man Wed-Fri 1-6pm and SatSun 12-5pm!

HERA• Hera, the queen of gods, is the perfect name for this mighty cat. Regal, glorious and loving, Hera is looking for someone's home to take reign of. She loves attention, but on her own terms. She will be a majestic, amazing cat in your home. Come meet this lovely lady during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

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