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CAN POT BE LEGALIZED? MONTANANS ARE TRYING.
HIGH-INTEREST LOAN COMPANY FINDS A HARBOR ON THE ROCKY BOY REZ
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JESUS NEEDS TO MOVE OFF OF FEDERAL LAND
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CAN POT BE LEGALIZED? MONTANANS ARE TRYING.
HIGH-INTEREST LOAN COMPANY FINDS A HARBOR ON THE ROCKY BOY REZ
RANGE
JESUS NEEDS TO MOVE OFF OF FEDERAL LAND
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SOME THINGS WE’D LIKE TO SEE IN 2012
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Suppose you get out of bed one morning and your will to live doesn’t follow you. It hurts to move, but the world expects you to carry on anyway. You look at the Clark Fork River and find it cold and unforgiving. You think of people who have drowned in the river, of dead Cover illustration by Jonathan Marquis fish floating to the surface and the politics that led to their poisoning, one bad thought leading interminably to another. The way you felt floating it on an inner tube just months before seems far away. Yet on another day, your feet are light and it’s all changed. The snow sparkles in the sun and you can see yourself on the river ice making tracks. Look how hearty the crows are! You’re in love with everything. The world can be rearranged in your hands. But it’s the same river, isn’t it?....................................14
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News Letters Are the homeless deserving of pity or are we suckers? ..................................4 The Week in Review Alcohol-free New Year’s? How’d that work out? ......................6 Briefs Montana’s on track to be the country’s microbrew capital..............................6 Etc. A sad farewell to conservationist Bill Worf ...........................................................7 Up Front A payday lender digs in on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation ...........................8 Up Front The tired feet and noble cause of Stephen T. Millhouse ............................9 Ochenski Montana’s Supreme Court champions the little guy................................10 Range It’s time for Jesus to get off public land.........................................................11 Agenda Raising money for Speak Out Tunisia ..........................................................12
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Asked Monday, Jan. 2, at the Jacob’s Island Dog Park.
You’re killing me Ari LeVaux’s column [“Milk is murder,” Dec. 29] appears simultaneously schizophrenic and intentionally provocative—but his apparent ignorance of any milk other than animal-derived calls for a response. Why should humans steal animals’ milk and lives when delicious, nutritious, plant-based options exist— coconut, rice, soy, and almond? Answer: Because the dairy industry has been brainwashing consumers and raking in subsidies for decades. True, factory farm-produced milk is murder, and cows and calves grieve when separated. Not only do animals lead emotional lives, they also value their own lives. In fact, our forebears, the animals, want pretty much what we human animals want—life, liberty and the pursuit of their own interests. The doe and fawn wanted that, but LeVaux was okay blowing them away because they were “spared the grief of losing one another.” An ounce of compassion doesn’t negate the forcible robbery of life—call it murder if you want. “The inherent tragedy of consuming animals”? Oh please! Since consuming animals isn’t necessary for human health (despite decades of the livestock industry brainwashing consumers and raking in subsidies), it’s an elective tragedy of human appetite. I agree with LeVaux that meat-eaters who kill their own are more honest about the violence and death they’re consuming than are those who
Do you believe in magic? Follow-up: If you could cast any spell, what would it be?
Greg Johnson: To an extent, yes. I believe that if you’re dedicated and try really hard for something, well, things happen that get you there. Do you call that “magic”? I don’t know. Down with drones: I want the ability to get rid of violence in the world. All the armies, artillery and aggression would be gone and everybody would just be happy-golucky. That would be fine by me.
Paula Scoggins: Of course. Believing in magic allows you to create your own reality and not be a victim of things that happen to you. I’m a lavender farmer in Paradise and my whole life is magic. Powder, please: Recently, I’ve been wishing for bike-riding weather and I’ve been getting it. But maybe I should give up on that for the skiers. It’s been making me feel a little bit guilty.
Talks-a-Lot Renew: You’d have to. Magic is everywhere, especially in this canyon. I mean, you can call it what you want, and you can pray to whatever entity you want, but it’s obvious that there’s something magical out there. That’s not to say I play with it, though. Sharin’ the love: I’ve got what I need. So I’d wish for everybody to be happy, healthy and wealthy.
“Not only do animals lead emotional lives, they also value their own lives. In fact, our forebears, the animals, want pretty much what we human animals want—life, liberty and the pursuit of their own interests.”
Keep it warm A belated congratulations on “The invisible man” [Dec. 22]. Jayme Feary and the Independent bring up the important issue of homelessness at the perfect time. It’s January. Everybody knows what that means. The recession has caused more homelessness than people realize—after all, not all homeless people panhandle. I’ve never been homeless myself, but I know many people who are and many more who are close to being so. I commend Feary and the Independent for bringing a compassionate perspective to the panhandling debate. And kudos to the awesome cop who pointed the way to the Pov—which is virtually the only shelter in town, by the way. Also big thumbs-up to the kids (and dogs too, I guess) who still see and pay attention to the world around them. And to the adults who cared: good for you for seeing outside the bubble most of us travel in. Speaking of the Poverello Center, please support them in their vital work. Also the YWCA and Missoula’s Family Promise faith-based program (I’m not religious myself, but I deeply appreciate Christians who walk the talk). If you shuffled by a panhandler today, for whatever reason, please give the money you might have given him or her to one of these laudable programs. Gwen McKenna Missoula
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Francis Tence: No, because it doesn’t exist. Science exists, though, and sometimes science is presented as magic. At the same time, there’s just so much stuff in our universe; can you really know? Peace of gold: The proverbial “world peace,” of course. I mean, what am I supposed to wish for, riches? Wealth can come and go and besides, if you can wish for riches then someone can wish it away. Neil Bruno: I’d like to, but really, I know they’re just illusions, like when that magician Criss Angel “levitates” a cup by sticking his thumb through the back of it. It’d be cool if it was real, but it’s not. Peace out, word: I’d like to be able to cast a spell that makes people aware of the impacts they have, not just on the environment but on all the people around them. Too bad we need a spell to get that.
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eat factory-farmed misery (letting Tyson Foods do the dirty work). But “more honest” is damning with faint praise. Total honesty would be admitting that you’ve made a decision of conscience to submit to “savage hormones” and kill for mere appetite. Kathleen Stachowski Lolo
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It’s a jamboree Occupy Missoula has saved the county and city taxpayers money by maintaining and improving the courthouse lawn, promoting the peace and providing human services to those in need [“Ghost town,” Dec. 29]. I’d be more concerned with the county and city’s programs of socialism for the rich, private/public partnerships against the will of taxpaying voters. Dec. 29, 9:39 a.m. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for these people on the lawn. But this town has the biggest bunch of liberal, wimpy morons running it. Just go out and get them off the lawn—what is the problem?
Typical liberals, so afraid to exercise authority in the face of public opinion, so afraid the public would perceive them as being “mean” or “intolerant.” Meanwhile, they’ll railroad anyone that they think might harbor an ill thought against gays, trans-genders, or some other politically correct notion. What a bunch of leftover ’60s potheads we have running this town . Jan. 2, 7:15 p.m.
The season of giving Thank you for your inspiration, Andrea Gelfuso Goetz [“A new Xmas tradition,” Dec. 22]. I followed your example on Christmas Eve in our local Goodwill store. My giving was rewarded
with big eyes, happy smiles and a heartfelt “Merry Christmas.” I know this will be a part of my Christmas tradition every year. Dec. 29, 3:15 p.m.
Grow up Has Sarah Gilman actually been to Butte and seen the pit? [“Beauty and the beast,” Dec. 29] Her starry-eyed, bucolic view of environmental destruction escapes me; “…the deep-blue water that now fills the pit”—last time I looked, it was dark and reddish-brown! Bucolic indeed; ugly and poisonous would be a more accurate description. Grow up, Sarah. Dec. 29, 3:06 p.m.
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The Missoula County Sheriff’s Department releases the name of a 22-year-old Missoula woman killed in a Reserve Street collision the day before. Jessica Hill dies as a result of injuries she sustained when her passenger vehicle, in the early morning hours of Dec. 27, crashed into a propane tanker.
• Thursday, December 29 Alberto Guillen is sentenced to 40 years in prison for running over his brother, Roberto, near their North Missoula home. Prosecutors say an enraged Alberto intentionally drove his van into Roberto, who was riding a bicycle. Roberto survived but is paralyzed.
• Friday, December 30 Not quite two months after the Nov. 8 citywide elections, Missoula Mayor John Engen swears in a newly minted crop of city council members. Newbies include Adam Hertz, who now represents Ward 2; Ward 3’s Alex Taft; Caitlin Copple, who unseated Lyn Hellegaard in Ward 4; and Mike O’ Herron, who steps up in Ward 5.
• Saturday, December 31 The Missoula Cultural Council hosts its 18th annual First Night, an alcohol-free celebration of the arts featuring 90 events in 30 venues. Despite the boozefree options, intoxicated people flood downtown. One man apparently takes imbibing too far and falls on his head inside Monk’s on Ryman Street.
• Sunday, January 1 Montana’s minimum wage increases by 30 cents to $7.65 an hour. According to the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, roughly 20,000 workers statewide will directly benefit from the raise. Fulltime minimum-wage employees will bring in roughly $600 more in 2012 to earn a total pre-tax annual income of $15,912.
• Monday, January 2 The University of Montana women’s basketball team overcomes a slow start to beat Eastern Washington University 53-46 in its Big Sky Conference opener in Cheney, Wash. The game marks the Lady Griz’s fourth straight win in the run up to the team’s Big Sky home opener Jan. 7 against Idaho State.
• Tuesday, January 3 Authorities release the name of a Butte man killed in a weekend avalanche near Philipsburg. The Great Falls Tribune reports that 20-year-old Jasen D. Kellogg died Sunday after his snowmobile triggered a slide near Discovery Ski Area. Kellogg is one of three people to die in avalanches over the New Year’s weekend.
A two-room, 7-foot-tall and 20-foot-long log structure sits empty in Missoula’s Greenough Park Jan. 3. More than a dozen such structures, all assembled with remains of the city’s six-year logging project to eradicate invasive Norway maple trees from the park, dot its north end.
Marijuana Decriminalize it Montana medical marijuana activists have been on the defensive since last January, when the Montana Legislature convened with its conservative majority intent on stifling the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. But now some marijuana activists are attempting to render the state’s strict new medical marijuana law moot by decriminalizing marijuana altogether. Last week, the Montana Secretary of State’s office green-lighted a petition for an amendment to the state constitution establishing that “adults have the right to responsibly purchase, consume, produce and possess marijuana, subject to reasonable limitations, regulations and taxation.” Constitutional Initiative No. 110 is sponsored by Barb Trego, a former deputy reserve sheriff in Lewis and Clark County. It will appear on the 2012 ballot if Trego and other advocates who make up the newly formed pro-pot group Montana First can collect 48,674 signatures (10 percent of the total number of qualified voters in the state, including
10 percent of the voters in each of the 40 legislative house districts). Montana First will begin collecting signatures this month, says the group’s treasurer and Montana NORML Director John Masterson. The deadline is in June. CI-110 would add two sentences to a section of the state constitution dealing with adult rights. “After voters pass it,” Trego said in a statement, “there will be work to do to define limits and regulations.” The amendment would go into effect on July 1, 2013. Federally, marijuana possession would still be illegal. Masterson says marijuana advocates’ recent success in gathering 24,337 signatures to place a referendum of the legislature’s reform bill on the 2012 ballot bodes well for the decriminalization effort. “I think that energy is still high, and with this constitutional initiative I think we’re going to attract new energy also—people who believe strongly in the privacy rights of Montana adults and also people who acknowledge that the chasing around of adults for personal marijuana use is not a good use of public resources.” Matthew Frank
Microbrews Seeking higher ground Jasper Miller and Fenn Nelson can’t keep up. They opened their new brewery, Higherground, in Hamilton about three weeks ago. On a recent day, it had already sold out of its Dry Fly IPA, and taped a note above its taps announcing that it’s not filling growlers yet. It needed to ration so as not to disappoint walk-in samplers. Miller and Nelson, both 24-year-old Hamilton natives and University of Montana graduates, say they didn’t advertise Higherground Brewing Co.’s opening on Dec. 19. “We just unlocked the doors and they flooded in,” Miller says. Bowser Brewing Company, in Great Falls, also opened in December. The two now give Montana 30 breweries, pushing the state closer to earning the distinction of having the most breweries per capita in the country. “I hesitate to use the word ‘booming,’” says Tony Herbert, director of the Montana Brewers Association, “but it’s definitely a continuing growth industry. And, of course, as we’re adding breweries,
A people free to choose will always choose peace. ~Ronald Reagan
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our existing breweries are also growing in terms of their capacity.” Last year, the Colorado-based national Brewers Association ranked Montana third in the number of breweries per capita, behind Vermont, with 21 breweries, and Oregon, with 121. That was when Montana had 27 breweries. With Missoula’s Draught Works opening a few months ago, and now Higherground and Bowser, Montana’s 32,981 people per brewery approaches Oregon’s 31,662 and Vermont’s 29,797. Herbert says he expects two more Montana breweries to open in 2012 and as many as four others are in the works. Thirty-four breweries would put Montana in the top spot, based on the 2010 figures. “It’s a moving target,” says Herbert, who hopes to market Montana as the country’s microbrewery capital. “But it’s all good news in terms of the industry in Montana. We’re growing…and people are more than interested and willing to work with these small breweries, which is what we’re seeing there at Higherground.” Miller and Nelson say the breweries in the Bitterroot, and, in general, those all around the state, compete with macrobrews more than with one another. “I think there’s plenty of demand to go around,” Nelson says. Adds Miller: “Most of the people who drink beer still drink Miller, Bud or Coors. So microbreweries are teaming up, trying to get that good-beer word out there.” Matthew Frank
Labor Workers say ‘enough’ The last time Franny Buckley went to the Missoula Food Bank to restock her cupboards, she saw familiar faces. “I ran into two of my coworkers,” she says. “It’s pretty sad.” Buckley, 40, is a certified nursing assistant at Missoula Health and Rehabilitation Center. She says CNA pay at the 53-bed nursing facility on Rattlesnake Drive has been frozen at $9.30 hourly for nearly five years, despite the hazards of working with residents who can be tough to manage. “I’ve had fecal matter thrown at me. I’ve been slapped. I’ve been spit at. I’ve been bit…for $9.30 an hour,” she says. “We’re the ones taking care of these residents.” On Dec. 30, the pay freeze and other grievances prompted Buckley and more than half of the facility’s dieticians, housekeepers and patient care
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assistants to formally ask nursing home administrators to voluntarily recognize their attempts to form a union. Employees that same day also petitioned the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency that provides the legal framework to conduct union elections. Health and Rehabilitation employees want to balance the playing field between management and workers by securing collective bargaining rights through membership in Unite Here Local 427, which represents roughly 500 maids, hospitality
workers and dishwashers across the state. “We’re hoping that the company respects the rights of their employees to a free and unthreatening election,” says Unite Here’s executive officer and Missoula Area Central Labor Council President Mark Anderlik. Health and Rehabilitation Administrator Dale E. Polla was hired to oversee the facility six months ago. On Jan. 3, Polla told the Independent that he’s still learning the ropes and hadn’t yet had time to evaluate the workers’ formal requests, so he was not prepared to comment for this article. “I just found out about it this morning,” he said. Buckley says stagnant wages are only one of the workers’ grievances. Another stems from the fact that she and her coworkers are sometimes required to work through lunch, yet they’re still not paid for the time. “That’s especially true for the [patient care assistants], who are required to stay on the facility during their lunch break,” she says. “If anybody puts on a call light, they have to get up and go answer.” Health and Rehabilitation staffers aren’t asking for a slew of perks, Buckley says. They simply want a living wage and a healthy work environment. As far
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as she’s concerned, they’ve earned it. “We’re the ones keeping that facility afloat.” Jessica Mayrer
Coal Square one for Tongue River Count one for Mark Fix. The Montana rancher lives smack dab in the path of a proposed coalhauling rail line near the Tongue River, east of Billings—a project he’s been fighting for years, and one the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back to the rail yard Dec. 29. The 9th Circuit’s ruling found that the Surface Transportation Board had “failed to take the requisite ‘hard look’ at certain material environmental impacts” when it green-lighted the Tongue River Railroad in 2007. Those impacts include nearby coal-bed methane development and future mining of the coal tracts at Otter Creek. The court criticized the STB for relying on stale data such as years-old aerial survey photographs in determining the risks to native plants and wildlife. It found that it was “inherently illogical” that the STB’s evidence was sufficient, and held that the board had violated the National Environmental Protection Act. “The Surface Transportation Board did what we call ‘a windshield study,’” Fix said in a statement last week. “It’s almost as if they drove around and looked out the car window and based their analysis on that. It’s not fair to landowners like me who could be condemned by this railroad.” Fix is also the former chair of the Northern Plains Resource Council, which filed the original legal challenge against the railroad in 1997. The Tongue River Railroad Company first set its sights on a track south of Miles City in the late 1980s; three sections eventually emerged, connecting the line to coal beds near Decker. At the time, the company intended to transport coal from Montana and Wyoming to markets in the Midwest. But with rising demand in China, the plan has since shifted to target overseas markets The project appeared ready to forge ahead last summer when candy bar mogul Forrest E. Mars Jr. teamed up with Arch Coal and Burlington Northern Sante Fe to purchase the Tongue River Railroad. But in the wake of the 9th Circuit’s decision, the STB will have to conduct a new environmental study before the proposal can move forward. That study will now have to consider the cumulative impacts of coal development at Otter Creek. Alex Sakariassen
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etc. We were saddened to learn that Wilderness Watch founder, Montana native and legendary conservationist Bill Worf died of natural causes at his Missoula home Dec. 21. Worf, 85, “was the father of wilderness stewardship,” says Wilderness Watch Executive Director George Nickas. “Bill was there on the ground when wilderness management got started.” Worf was one of the conservation movement’s old guard, a handful of stubborn populists and visionary preservationists who fought often-bitter battles to ensure the country’s wild and forested places remain that way for all Americans rather than a profit-driven few. “That kind of willingness to defend the public interest against powerful interests doesn’t exist in the government right now,” says Nickas. When the United States Forest Service hired Worf in 1950, he quickly got to work curbing overgrazing on Utah’s Uinta National Forest. Locals in his adopted community of Heber weren’t pleased that an interloper was ordering them to reel in their cattle. Shop owners refused service to the Worf family, forcing them to make the 60mile round trip to Provo for supplies. “That’s the kind of heat that forest rangers used to have to take in order to be good stewards of the land,” Nickas says. In 1961, when the Forest Service appointed Worf supervisor of the Bridger Wilderness in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, he grew increasingly enamored with the idea of keeping wild lands unscarred forever. So he worked to draft the nation’s first wilderness management program and advocated for passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act. After the 1964 act became law, the Forest Service had Worf pen policies to implement the legislation. The National Wilderness Preservation System now protects 109 million acres from Alaska to New Mexico and South Carolina to New York. Montana’s share is 3.4 million acres that roll across the Lincoln-Scapegoat, Bob Marshall and Selway-Bitterroot wildernesses. “Most of the policies and regulations that he wrote are still in force,” Nickas says Worf wasn’t ready to give up the fight when he retired from the Forest Service in 1983. In 1989, he helped found Wilderness Watch, a national nonprofit that today remains a watchdog dedicated to ensuring Worf’s vision remains intact for future generations. “Bill just always believed that if you set your mind to do something and what you were doing was right, you can get it done,” Nickas says. “It’s just amazing what he accomplished.”
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There’s little to the Plain Green Loans website to suggest a connection to Montana. A physical address in Box Elder and some fine print claiming company ownership by the Chippewa Cree Tribe are the only obvious links to the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, the online lending company’s official headquarters. The customer service number goes to a call center in Las Vegas. Public relations requests are directed to an office suite on International Plaza in Fort Worth, Texas. Yet CEO Neal Rosette, an enrolled tribal member, trumpets Plain Green Loans as a boon for Rocky Boy’s. The company employs 29, he says, and has an eye to future expansion, including employing 20 more people in an on-reservation call center. Roughly 40 percent of the company’s gross revenue will go back to the tribe, he adds. “Plain Green has been a real godsend” for the tribe, Rosette says. “We just got through two floods—two presidential declarations—over the past couple years. The revenue stream and the economic development opportunity has come at a very, very opportune time.” So far, Plain Green Loans is Montana’s sole example of a national push by payday lenders to find sanctuary from increasing demands for regulation of non-bank entities. Tribally owned and operating largely online, the company is currently free to charge interest above the 36-percent cap passed by voters in November 2010. The average annual interest rate on a $600 loan from Plain Green is just a hair over 359 percent. Numerous states have responded to lax oversight of non-bank lending entities in recent years by setting interest rate caps or passing all-out bans on payday loans. Payday lending is illegal in 13 states; 17 states and the District of Columbia have enacted double-digit caps. Since Montana passed Initiative 164, the number of licensed payday lending companies in the state has dropped considerably. The key to mounting such hurdles, from the payday lender perspective, lies in operating beyond the reach of state and federal governments: on Indian reservations and the internet. Last month, Sen. Jeff Essman of Billings called on Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock to launch a deeper investigation into the potential skirting of state laws by tribal affiliated payday lenders. Bullock’s chief of consumer protection, Jim Molloy, later explained that Bullock had already spoken with tribal representatives on Rocky Boy’s, who assured him Plain Green Loans was not in violation of any state laws.
“At this point, the tribe has assured us of two things,” Molloy says. “One is that it is a tribal-owned entity, and second [is] that they will not lend to Montanans.” There are a number of tribal-affiliated payday lenders in other states that have caught Bullock’s attention, Molloy says. Any online lenders conducting business with Montanans have received stern warnings to comply with state law. The situation is made more difficult, Molloy adds, by the fact that these companies are headquartered not just in other states, but often in offshore locations. “We communicated with one and got a return correspondence from an attorney in the Isle of Malta,” Molloy says. “Obviously the Montana Attorney General’s Office isn’t going to be able to go over to the Isle of Malta and challenge them…But where the company is based in a location we can find them, we are aggressive with telling them
A $600 loan from Plain Green compounds at 359 percent.
they’ve got to either comply with our law or get out of the state and quit lending to Montanans.” Bullock’s office is preparing to “go to battle” with one such company in court later this year, Molloy says. Payday lenders have often been characterized as predatory, a point seemingly held up by a White House report on financial security last month. The report states that payday loans in 2010 totaled $29 billion. High fees associated with those loans cost Americans an average of $4.2 billion a year. The regulatory and legal lines of payday lending on reservations remain blurry, which has led to a flurry of questions around new companies. A joint investigation by CBS News and the Center for Public Integrity this fall delved into the questionable ownership status of a tribal-affiliated online payday lender in Colorado. The
Federal Trade Commission has since launched an investigation of its own. Allen J. Parker in California recognized a promising business venture six months ago. He now brokers partnerships between federally recognized tribes and non-bank lenders, and says he’s so far had “lots of interest,” about three or four calls a week. On his website, Consultants4Tribes.com, Parker refers to these partnerships as the “Sovereign Model.” He says the prime motivation for payday lenders moving to reservations is the “lack of consistency in the 48 states.” “It’s growing,” Parker says. “But this is a relationship-building endeavor.” Parker did note that earlier last year, the relationship was far more exploitative. Tribes didn’t own many of the early companies, he says. Now it’s evolved, with tribally owned companies like Plain Green providing new revenue streams for tribes. The Native American Lenders Alliance is now implementing best practices for those businesses. “E-Commerce has provided a new opportunity for Native Americans to realize their dream of sovereignty—which cannot exist without economic development and self-determination,” the NALA Board said in a joint statement to the Indy. Pat Barkey, director of the University of Montana-based Bureau of Business and Economic Research, believes the presence of companies like Plain Green Loans could indicate a continued demand for short-term loans regardless of high interest. The question, he says, is “whether or not getting rid of payday loans is worse than having them.” “If they’re indeed moving to the reservations, it proves that A: reservations are entrepreneurial, which I think we already know,” Barkey says. “But it also shows that there’s a demand that’s not met when the rate is capped because the companies who were doing it are out of business.” For Rosette, Plain Green is a vital alternative for tribal members unable to secure small, short-term loans from banks. The company is growing fast, he says, which is probably why it’s gained so much attention. He’s aware that in any industry, “there are good actors and bad actors”— and he says Plain Green is taking huge strides as a good actor. “We’ve provided scholarship money for our tribal college,” Rosette says. “We also went above and beyond on Thanksgiving. We purchased turkeys and all the trimmings for every tribal member and delivered it to their house.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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One step at a time Former Missoula homeless vet walks to L.A. by Skylar Browning
Stephen T. Millhouse knew things were “I was never sleeping on a cardboard Millhouse says he accomplished bad as soon as he heard a pop. The Sentinel box on the street, I was never among the almost all of his goals during the march. He High School and University of Montana chronically homeless—but I saw how made it to L.A., mostly camping along the graduate was putting on his shoes just out- quickly things could change,” he says. route and carrying all of his possessions in side of Jackpot, Nev. when he heard the Millhouse eventually moved back to a pack he rolled behind him. He learned sound. He’d been nursing a stress fracture in Montana, where he camped and lived on how other communities support the homehis foot but he had no idea how bad it had family property near Lolo Hot Springs. less, such as the centralized resources in become—and he didn’t care to find out. He didn’t find a home until the local VA, Vallejo, Calif., and the outreach coordinator Millhouse had already walked from Missoula which had been providing him with working between area homeless and busito the Nevada desert in an effort to raise medication, suggested he look into Valor ness owners in Santa Barbara. He also genawareness and donations to erated publicity and raised fight homelessness, and his awareness of homelessness plan was to reach Skid Row with more than 25 media in Los Angeles. Despite the interviews in four states. pop, he laced up his shoes He says the publicity is and kept walking. important, but only if it encourages members of the “I stopped at VA clinics community to get involved. throughout Nevada and That’s a sentiment echoed they all told me I should by local advocates who have stop,” says Millhouse, who followed his march. “I think left Missoula Aug. 3. “It for people to make a differwasn’t until I hit Martinez ence it has to go beyond just in the Bay Area [nearly 600 what they read in the newsmiles from Jackpot] that a paper,” says Tessa Johnson, VA doctor told me the the Poverello’s director of bones were starting to float homeless veterans proaround in my foot. She grams, who applauds knew I wasn’t going to stop Millhouse’s efforts. “They and, on her own dime, out have to take the next step of her own pocket, she purand participate in their own chased a state-of-the-art community. That has to be a walking boot and had it part of the solution.” shipped next-day air. She The one goal Millhouse said it was her donation to admits he hasn’t accomthe march. I’ve been overplished is raising $1 million. whelmed by the number of As of last week, he only had people like her who underPhoto by Chad Harder about $3,000. He hopes to stand the importance of Stephen T. Millhouse, trying to mitigate homelessness step continue working toward the what I was doing.” by step monetary goal by speaking to Despite his fractured community groups, churches left foot, a right foot that he says “is just flopping around” from over- House, the Missoula facility affiliated and shelters along his route and sharing compensating for his injury and countless with the Poverello Center and specifical- what he learned. “I don’t know whether or not raising blisters, Millhouse, 53, completed his ly tailored to help homeless veterans. 1,460-mile march on Monday, Jan. 2. “That was the start of the road back $1 million is feasible, but I don’t want to be “It was never a question for me of for me,” he says. “I was at Valor House for the one to say, ‘No, you can’t do it,’” says whether or not I would finish,” he says dur- a year and was able to get a Section 8 Naomi Lichtenberg, a board member and ing a phone interview on the last stretch of housing voucher and then I was released grant writer at MCT. “I’m all for someone his march. “The only question was what [from the workers compensation case in pursuing an important cause like this one, working as an inspiration to others and sort of difference I would make, if any. California] to go back to work in 2008.” That’s a question I’m still trying to answer.” Millhouse, who acted in Missoula helping to make it happen.” The shortfall is part of the reason The issue of homelessness is a per- before heading to L.A., landed a partsonal one for Millhouse. After graduating time custodial job at Missoula Children’s Millhouse admits he’s questioning what from Sentinel in 1976, he joined the Theatre. The job became full-time soon impact he’s made with his march. But he Marines and used the G.I. Bill to attend after. He says the march is his way of pay- tries not to make it about the money. “It’s a UM, and, later, Bradley University for a ing back those who helped him. He human issue,” he says. “It deserves and it master’s degree. By 1999, he wanted to decided to do it after his niece was killed demands a human response. I’ve found try something new and moved to Los in a car accident last February and he was just how much more work there is to do.” He says he’s eager to get started, just as Angeles to pursue an acting career, only left to reflect on his life. to suffer an injury that left him unable to “I realized I’ve been lucky,” he says. soon as he rests his feet. work. He soon depleted his savings, was “I wanted to do something that could Learn more about Stephen Millhouse forced out of his apartment and started maybe make a difference. This was my and his march at MyOneManMarch.org. living in his car and a storage facility. way to pay it forward.”
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Supreme showdown Montana ruling upholds state campaign-finance laws As 2011 came to an end, the Montana Supreme Court issued a 5-2 ruling that flies in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision holding that, under the First Amendment, government cannot limit the ability of corporations to make political donations. The majority of Montana’s court bravely sided with its citizens, in a ruling that likely will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In overturning a district court ruling and upholding Montana’s ban on corporate expenditures in political campaigns, the Montana Supreme Court relied on the history of corporate corruption in Montana and the way that unlimited corporate spending could take us back to the bad old days of corporate domination of the media, the legislature and the courts. Montana’s Anti-Corruption Act was passed by initiative a century ago, shortly after the state constitution was amended to allow citizen initiatives. Montana Chief Justice Mike McGrath wrote that the “Montana law at issue in this case cannot be understood outside the context of the time and place it was enacted, during the early 20th century… Those tumultuous years were marked by rough contests for political and economic domination primarily in the mining center of Butte, between mining and industrial enterprises controlled by foreign trusts or corporations. These disputes had profound long-term impacts on the entire state, including issues regarding the judiciary, the location of the state capitol, the procedure for election of U.S. senators and the ownership and control of virtually all media outlets in the State.” Faced with a loss of control of their destinies, Montanans made it illegal for corporations to contribute or make expenditures “in connection with a candidate or political committee that supports or opposes a candidate or political party” as well as prohibiting “a person, candidate or political committee” from accepting or receiving such contributions. At the same time, the law allows for “a separate segregated fund” to make such donations, provided that “the fund consists
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only of voluntary contributions solicited from an individual who is a shareholder, employee or member of the corporation.” Those provisions were challenged by three entities: the Montana Shooting Sports Association, headed by gun-rights activist Gary Marbut: a sole-owner corporation named Champion Painting, Inc.: and American Tradition Partnership (formerly Western Tradition Partnership). The last entity, the court found, “claims to be a for-
The Montana Supreme Court relied on the history of corporate corruption in Montana and the way that unlimited corporate spending could take us back to the bad old days. eign corporation but it is not a business corporation. Its purpose, according to unrebutted evidence submitted to the district court by the state, is to solicit and anonymously spend the funds of other corporations, individuals and entities to influence the outcome of Montana elections.” The Court quoted ATP’s 2010 Election Year Program Executive Briefing, which said, “Finally, we’re not required to report the name or the amount of any contribution that we receive. So, if you decide to support this program, no politician, no bureaucrat, and no radical environmentalist will ever know you helped make this
program possible. The only thing we plan on reporting is our success to contributors like you who can see the benefits of a program like this.” Montana’s top court also cited UM history professor Harry Fritz’s affidavit, in which he warned that “the dangers of corporate influence remain in Montana. What was true a century ago is as true today: distant corporate interests mean that corporate-dominated campaigns will only work in the essential interest of outsiders, with local interests a very secondary consideration.” In short, Montana’s Supreme Court found that our law allowing the formation of political action committees “is an easily implemented and effective alternative to direct corporate spending for engaging in political speech.” Justices Beth Baker and James Nelson dissented from the majority opinion, saying the Citizens United decision overruled Montana’s law. Although Nelson added he “never had to write a more frustrating dissent,” he wrote, “In sum, what has happened here is essentially this: The Supreme Court in Citizens United…rejected several asserted governmental interests; and this court has now come along, retrieved those interests from the garbage can, dusted them off, slapped a ‘Made in Montana’ sticker on them and held them up as grounds for sustaining a patently unconstitutional state statute.” For now, Montana’s battle to preserve electoral integrity has come down on the side of the citizens and campaign-funding transparency. How long Montana’s law will stand, and which justices are right or wrong in their opinions, is anyone’s guess. To read the entire fascinating and historic 80-page ruling as well as the dissenting opinions, go to courts.mt.gov/supreme. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.
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Go down the mountain It’s time for Jesus to take a powder by Tim Lydon
When they emerge from the trees while cruising down a popular run at Montana’s Whitefish Mountain Resort, skiers suddenly encounter the back of a lifesize statue of Jesus Christ. Clad in a flowing blue robe, the statue’s arms stretch toward the Flathead Valley below. It has been here for over half a century—a fixture on the slopes of Big Mountain. So when the U.S. Forest Service, the resort’s landlord, recently tried to evict Jesus in response to a complaint that the statue violated this country’s guarantee of the separation of church and state, the ensuing uproar attracted national attention and the ire of Montana’s lone congressman. I’m probably in the minority, but I think the Forest Service was right. Nonetheless, I like the statue. It’s a familiar landmark that’s been there almost as long as the ski area and it’s a great place to meet for the day’s last run. It’s part of the history of Flathead County, a close-knit place where memories run as deep as Rocky Mountain powder. The statue was erected in the 1950s by a group of World War II veterans, modeled after the religious shrines that the soldiers of the famed 10th Mountain Division encountered while fighting in the Alps. Since 1953, the local chapter of the Knights of Columbus has maintained its permit for a 25-foot square of national forest. So why did this enduring tradition suddenly attract controversy? The Wisconsinbased Freedom From Religion Foundation, an ardent advocate of church-state separation, claims responsibility. According to copresident Anne Laurie Gaylor, the likeness of Jesus on federal land is an “illegal display” that amounts to government endorsement of religion. The argument swayed Forest Service officials. In August, they denied what had historically been a routine permit renewal request from the Knights of Columbus, suggesting, instead, a compromise: moving Jesus about a half-mile away, to private land still at the ski area.
Reaction was swift. The Knights claimed that the statue was too fragile to move; besides, they said, it was a war memorial, not a religious monument. Montana’s Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, who’s running for senator, scolded the agency and hosted a packed meeting in Whitefish. He later introduced a landswap bill to accommodate the statue.
Our public lands are among America’s proudest inventions, contrived for the use and enjoyment of everyone and built upon a democratic underpinning that celebrates our diversity. Like a Montana larch in a blizzard, the Forest Service swayed again, rescinding its decision and inviting additional public comment. But it warned that previous court decisions made the statue’s removal likely. I hope the Forest Service maintains this line. In August, the agency convincingly tied its permit denial to Supreme Court decisions and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits religious promotion or affiliation by the government. It also cited agency policy limiting permitted uses to those not “reasonably accommodated” outside national forest boundaries.
Even supporters might admit that, as a veterans’ memorial, the statue of Jesus is a poor one since it marginalizes America’s non-Christian veterans. It’s also prone to vandalism and irreverent displays. Skiers and snowboarders commonly jump from a mound and “jib Jesus,” whacking the icon with their skis and causing such regular damage that the resort had to build a fence to protect it. A recent AP photo shows Jesus decked-out in ski helmet and goggles, holding ski poles in his outstretched hands. Yet all of this misses the point that our public lands have a sacredness all their own. They are among America’s proudest inventions, contrived for the use and enjoyment of everyone and built upon a democratic underpinning that celebrates our diversity. This goes equally for the 25-foot parcel underneath Jesus’ feet on Big Mountain, for Yellowstone National Park, for the Bureau of Land Management’s red-rock lands of Utah and for the millions of acres of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Monopolizing any of these lands with one version of America’s myriad spiritual approaches doesn’t square with our democratic tradition. Frankly, it’s more reminiscent of the shameful intolerance of 1950s McCarthyism, something not to be celebrated on our public lands. I have to admit, though, that I’ll miss the statue of Jesus if it leaves Big Mountain. The end of any tradition is sad. But I believe that our public lands were never meant to become religious shrines. This particular icon has other options, anyway; there is plenty of room on nearby private lands. As for Congressman Rehberg, I’d like him to get serious and work on the economy. Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a wilderness ranger in southeast Alaska who also spends time living and skiing in Whitefish.
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With the Arab Spring a little more than a year old, the real work of democracy has begun in Tunisia. What better way to make sure that democracy continues to grow than by training a free and fair modern press corps? That’s the goal of Missoula photojournalist and videographer Anne Medley and the group Tunisian PaCTE. Medley has begun a Kickstar ter fundraising project to secure $19,000 for a course titled Speak Out Tunisia. The money will be used for equipment to train a beginning and an advanced group of journalists in both urban and rural Tunisia. For those unfamiliar with Kickstarter, it’s an online fundraising website that allows people to become backers of projects as varied as restaurant start-ups and purse manufacturing. Backers receive a gift from the group based on the amount donated. In the case of
Speak Out Tunisia, a $100 backer can receive a pair of balgha, traditional Tunisian slippers, but you can donate as little as one dollar. (Medley has experience in this sort of pursuit, as she ran a similar multimedia education project, Congo in Focus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010.) The group already has raised nearly $5,500. Potential backers have until Wed., Jan. 25 to donate. If the monetary goal isn’t reached by then, the money will be returned to the backers and an opportunity to aid a burgeoning democracy via a free press may pass us all by. —Jason McMackin
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The National Coalition Building Institute hosts a Martin Luther King Essay and Art Contest for kids in grades 3-12. Essays should be 250 words or less and artwork should fit on 8.5x11 inch paper. Drop off entries at the Missoulian by Fri., Jan. 6. Each work should be inspired by a MLK quote chosen by NCBI. Email Jessica@ncbimissoula.org for quotes or more info.
Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information call 543-3955.
The Northern Rockies Rising Tide fights for the northern Rockies, including tackling the megaload issue and so much more. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center back room. 510 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 PM.
SATURDAY JANUARY 7 Lady Griz Basketball this Weekend!
Saturday, Jan. 7th @ 2 pm Montana v. Idaho State Halftime performance by Summit Cheer Please bring a food donation to any Grizzly Athletics event to help support the Student Athletic Advisory Committee’s food drive!
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Thursday, Jan. 12 @ 7 pm Montana v. N. Arizona
Saturday, Jan. 14 @ 2 pm Montana v. Weber State Hoops for Hounds – Come find your new best friend when the Missoula Humane Society brings several dogs available for adoption to the game!
Grab your ginkgo and zip over to Chamber of Commerce’s Health Fair at Southgate Mall for a free Chinese Medical Health Screening by Bitter Root Acupuncture. 7–1 PM. If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.
MONDAY JANUARY 9 With all them new guvment rules and such, building renovators ought to check the COT’s Certified Lead Renovator Training, which will be held on Jan. 17 and 18 from 8–5 PM. $240 for non-students/$200 UM a n d C OT s t u d e n t s . S i g n u p i n a d v a n c e a t http://www.cte.edu/outreach/lead_ 2012.aspx. Need to brush up on that algebra or writing course before you pay a king’s ransom to get a D in Comp 101 at the university? Sign-up for the Lifelong Learning Center’s Adult Education Program, which hosts seven weeks of college prep assistance. 310 S. Curtis. Mon.-Thu., from 8–11:30 AM. Free. Call 549-8765. The Bonner Milltown Community Council Meeting discusses traffic control systems on Hwy. 200, near the Towne Pump and parking congestion on Tamarack Dr. Bonner School Library. 7 PM.
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The Flathead City-County Health Dept. hosts Growing Up Female for parents and daughters, ages 10-13. The program focuses on the importance of communication and uses films and discussions to aid families. 5:30–8:30 PM. $20 per couple, includes dinner. Preregister by calling 751- 8150. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11 Sign-up for Citizens Law Enforcement Academy and learn some of the ins and outs of the Missoula PD. Applications are due by Jan. 12 for the nine-week session. Guess what? It includes a ride-along. Go to the City of Missoula website and head to the public relations tab in the police section. If English isn’t your native language, head to the Lifelong Learning Center’s Adult Basic Education, which aids in cultural and vocabulary studies. 310 S. Curtis. 8:30 AM. Free. Call 549-8765. Give up the go-juice and help a buddy out, at the American Red Cross Blood Drive. 2401 N. Reserve St., Ste. 6. 3–6 PM. On first read the Rattlesnake Bears Action Planning Workshop seemed like the kind of spam e-mail I often receive; however, it is not. If you’re a Snaker and looking to live in harmony with the bears and your neighbors this meeting will explore options for dealing with furry garbage can visitors. MonTEC. 1121 E. Broadway. 7–9 PM. RSVP to Katie at rattlesnakecreek.watershedgroup@gmail.com.
THURSDAY JANUARY 12 The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Catherine Ponder’s book,The Healing Secrets of the Ages, 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.
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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Two thieves stole $500 worth of Christmas decorations from a lawn in Sweetwater, Fla., that included a Mickey Mouse on a horse, hugging penguins, Snoopy on a doghouse and Santa on a sled. Police arrested two women who lived less than a block away after victim Inrid Alemendarez notified police that she’d spotted those same stolen items on their lawn. (Associated Press) While acting as his own attorney at his robbery trial in Lehigh County, Pa., defendant Philome Cesar, 32, asked a witness who’d been robbed at gunpoint to describe what the robber sounded like. “He sounded like you,” Daryl Evans testified. The jury broke into laughter. Moments later, Cesar asked another witness to describe the robber’s voice. “It sounded exactly like you,” Charlotte Sine answered. Cesar dropped that line of questioning. After a rambling closing argument, during which Cesar paraphrased a quote attributed to deceased ‘Family Circle’ cartoonist Bill Keane (“The things that happened yesterday are history.”), the jury promptly pronounced him guilty. (Allentown’s The Morning Call)
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KISSES OF DEATH - Merlin Holland marked the 111th anniversary of the death of his grandfather, the writer Oscar Wilde, by unveiling Wilde’s renovated tomb, now declared to be kiss-proof. The oftvisited Paris tomb had been closed for repairs because it was “being eaten away by lipstick” caused by “endless women kissing it,” according to actor Rupert Everett, who appeared at the unveiling ceremony. A glass screen now prevents visitors from touching the stonework, although tourists have already started leaving their lipstick marks on a nearby tree. (BBC News) LITIGATION NATION - The Iranian-born owner of Eastern Shore Toyota outside Mobile, Ala., sued Bob Tyler Toyota in nearby Pensacola, Fla., after Bob Tyler’s sales staff branded their Alabama competitor “Taliban Toyota” and told customers that anyone who bought cars there was funding terrorism. Bob Tyler’s attorney argued that Shawn Esfahani failed to prove the slurs caused his sales to slump and suggested the jury clear Esfahani’s name by ruling in his favor but awarding only one dollar in damages. Unswayed, the jury awarded Esfahani $7.5 million. (Mobile Press-Register) Three softball players who were disqualified from playing for their team in the 2008 Gay Softball World Series filed a federal lawsuit against the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, claiming discrimination because they are bisexual, not gay. The organization banned Stephen Apilado, Laron Charles and John Russ after other teams protested that their San Francisco team had exceeded the league limit of two heterosexual players per team. The NAGAAA settled before the case went to trial in Seattle by paying the players an undisclosed sum and awarding their team the secondplace trophy it was denied. (Associated Press) Jesse Dimmick filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Jared and Lindsay Rowley, seeking $235,000 in damages. Dimmick, who was convicted of kidnapping the Topeka, Kan., newlyweds in 2009 while fleeing from police, contends that they reached a legally binding, verbal contract that they would hide him for an unspecified amount of money. Instead, they fled the house when he fell asleep, and the police rushed in. His suit claims that they reneged on their contract, “resulting in my being shot in the back by authorities.” Complaining the gunshot “almost killed me,” Dimmick stated that his hospital bills alone “are in excess of $160,000, which I have no way to pay.” (The Topeka Capital-Journal) A suit filed by the family of Agnes Zimmick charges that after her death, Zimmick’s granddaughter and great-granddaughter were at the cemetery and watched as graveyard workers “jumped up and down on the casket, apparently to force the casket into a gravesite which was not large enough for the casket…repeatedly walked along the top of the casket…[and] also repeatedly struck said casket with poles.” The suit against the Catholic Cemeteries Association of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh seeks a jury trial and at least $25,000 from each defendant. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) WHAT NEXT: PLEDGE DRIVES? - China’s government has banned commercials interruptions in dramatic programs lasting at least 45 minutes. An official at the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television declared that eliminating ads from programs would make the shows conform to “public interests and aspirations” and “help TV dramas develop in a scientific and healthy manner.” But the move also follows the Communist Party’s announced intention to raise TV’s entertainment and ideological value to hold the attention of people who’re increasingly turning to the Internet for alternate viewpoints. The new rule came after most advertising contracts for the new year had already been signed. TV advertising revenue in 2010 amounted to $78 billion, much of which supported the nation’s 3,240 TV stations. “The government could really take our lives if it bans all commercial breaks during the most-watched TV series,” one station executive said. (BBC News) WALK A CROOKED MILE - After Jack Johnson, 62, pleaded guilty to soliciting and accepting more than $1 million in bribes during his term as county executive of Prince George’s County, Md., his lawyers asked for compassion at his sentencing, pointing out that their client, who entered the courtroom using a cane, has advanced Parkinson’s disease and insisting that a lengthy prison term would amount to “a death sentence for him.” Prosecutors disputed the claim, citing photos from the U.S. Attorney’s office that show Johnson playing golf and carrying a full bag of clubs. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte sentenced Johnson to 87 months in federal prison, labeling his crimes “a deliberate march down a long path of kleptocracy.” (The Washington Post) THE GLOVES ARE OFF - Some Michigan residents have accused Wisconsin of stealing their state’s long-standing mitten image after the Travel Wisconsin website posted a knit mitten shaped like Wisconsin. Michiganders have long held up a hand to show where they live, representing the state’s outline and sometimes adding the other hand showing the state’s Upper Peninsula to the one-handed state outline. “Wisconsin already took the Rose Bowl from us this year,” Dave Lorenz of Travel Michigan said. “They’re not going to take the Mitten State status from us.” Lisa Marshall of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism insisted the winter tourism campaign isn’t an attempt to usurp Michigan’s claim to be the mitten state. She explained that its fall promotion used a leaf shaped like Wisconsin and that it’ll have a new image for spring. (Associated Press)
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uppose you get out of bed one morning and your will to live doesn’t follow you. It hurts to move, but the world expects you to carry on anyway. You look at the Clark Fork River and find it cold and unforgiving. You think of people who have drowned in the river, of dead fish floating to the surface and the politics that led to their poisoning, one bad thought leading interminably to another. The way you felt floating it on an inner tube just months before seems far away. Yet on another day, your feet are light and it’s all changed. The snow sparkles in the sun and you can see yourself on the river ice making tracks. Look how hearty the crows are! You’re in love with everything. The world can be rearranged in your hands. But it’s the same river, isn’t it? And now it’s 2012 and you’re wondering how you made it this far. When the ball dropped and the calendar rolled over, was your body electric with possibility or did you feel dead inside? Did you love the person you kissed at midnight or was it complicated? Maybe you were alone. Maybe you were asleep. It’s time to rise and shine. Here’s how I did it.
I was trying to write about the empty spaces inside of us in a true and heartbreaking way. It was never meant to be a political or moral statement, and I didn’t mean to hurt anybody’s feelings—but that’s what happened. People got really mad. I was prepared to be seen as weak-willed, lazy and gross, but I didn’t get to choose how I was perceived. People weren’t mad at me for abusing marijuana; they were mad at me for feeling bad about it. Other people just felt sorry for me. I got several invitations to join 12-step programs, but I’d already blown the whole anonymous thing, hadn’t I. People wrote me to say that they saw themselves in the article. Many of them very sensibly asked that I keep their identities secret. I also got a lot of good feedback, but it hardly mattered because the haters were so much louder. I felt the Jedi force of every pot enthusiast’s anger amidst muffled and baseless assurances that it was all a very good thing for me. I imagined men with pitchforks outside my window at night, screaming “Why do you hate people with cancer?!” or offering contrary evidence of pot’s unequivocal goodness, such as “I smoke pot all day long and I have a 4.0 and lots of money and a hot girlfriend!” Some of them wore white lab coats and shouted out helpful accusations like “You’re bipolar!”
Remembering Mary Jane Last September, I wrote a story for the Indy, “Forgetting Mary Jane,” about my experiences with marijuana. I wrote it in part because I have a high threshold for humiliation and my art is more important than my dignity. Plus, I didn’t want to do any research other than smoking a lot of weed.
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Seeing a stoned and yellow-haired cartoon of myself on every street corner for a week was a trip, to put it mildly. I’m a big-time narcissist, so this was just the kind of reality I would create for myself. It’s not at all normal. I think everyone should try it. Meanwhile, I prowled around outside the Golden Rose, ravenous and desperate, as usual. My mother says her spirit animal is a hawk; every time she sees one, it’s good luck. I think my spirit animal is a partied-out fraternity brother, because in those first few weeks of September, they were lumbering through the night to haunt me. There was the man in a torn Billabong T-shirt, his hand stretched out in front of him and crossing Broadway with a limp. He seemed to be calling out for me but who knows what he was saying. For a second I thought I’d stumbled into a teenage boy’s fantasy and this was the zombie apocalypse. On the way home, I had to step over another one sprawled across the sidewalk. I thought about calling for help, but the corpse was breathing normally and smiling, with a full, open can of Old Milwaukee sitting calmly on the pavement next to him. Imagine the mind that thought grabbing that last can was a good idea and the vibrant, beating heart of the boy whose entire life had led up to that moment. I thought about taking the beer, but you know. Germs. A nearly full moon hung overhead as I made my way up the three flights of stairs to my Northside attic apartment. On a night like that, it was easy to imagine that the house was a monster and I lived in its brain. Outside, the train ground its metal teeth something awful. I looked around and couldn’t find anything I liked.
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I still had to go to work every day as Molly Llama, calendar editor. Remember in Jerry Maguire when Tom Cruise writes a mission statement and slips it in all his co-workers’ mailboxes before he has time to think it over? Up the circulation to around 30,000 and replace inspirational with “Hi, I’m a drug addict” and that was me every day at the office. The Indy is a hip place to work and all, but still. It was time to put down the bong and pitch Robert, the head editor, some more story ideas. I don’t even think real journalists enjoy pitching stories, and I’m a fake journalist, so you can only imagine. Robert talks fast and tends to take ideas in directions you would have never thought were relevant or sane. He doesn’t want you to write about the forest; he wants you to find one tree in the forest and then knit a sweater around its trunk. I pitched a few forest ideas that met with lukewarm enthusiasm. We were both getting bored. “Come on,” he said. “What else have you got?” I looked out the window and thought about the frat-boy zombies and marijuana boogie men crawling through the window of my haunted house, and about my increasingly delusional notions that I’d somehow made the whole world up in my head. “I don’t know,” I said, “how about magic?” “Crackerjack idea!” Robert said, or something like that. (I’m paraphrasing.) Magic could go a long way toward healing my wounded heart. I couldn’t bear to write anything painful and I was already an avid moon worshipper who owned multiple spell-casting books. It wasn’t a stretch. “I think this is going to be a really therapeutic project for me,” I said. But it had been nine seconds and Robert was already drinking a green smoothie, yelling at reporters through his office window and arranging a conference call all at once, because that’s the kind of crackerjack editor he is. “Therapeutic?” he said. “I don’t care about that. Just write me a good story.” Poof. I’m a witch. I’d set my experiment to correspond with the lunar cycle, beginning on the full moon of September 12 and ending 30 days later with the next full moon, in October. First, I’d make a list of things I wanted to manifest. Then I’d cast spells and work hard to reorganize my thinking. I’d forego skepticism and practice pathological optimism. I’d ask the universe for things and fully expect to get them. At the end of the experiment, like a scientist, I’d come back and show you everything the universe had given me. September 12 was one of those full moons that poked out yellow and fuzzy through the clouds, but only sometimes. Since my overarching quest was for magic itself, I chose an incantation from my book, Moon Spells, aimed at “promoting psychic abilities and invoking the power within. I had to cast a circle and face north. I used the rocks that I collect on walks and store in a Crown Royal bag to build a circle around me on the floor of my apartment. The spell called for odd-colored candles: purple, orange, silver and white, and would you believe it, I had all of them on hand. Other things the spell required: a bell or gong, incense, deep-purple felt and red wine. Each item is designed to engage the senses. For the bell, I plucked the high E string of my guitar and dutifully said out loud, “I hear the power.” I smelled the incense and said, “I smell the power.” Tasted the red wine: “I taste the power.” Caressed the Crown Royal bag and said, “I feel the power”—and here’s the humiliating kicker: As instructed, I raised my hands to the ceiling and ended the spell (by the power of Grayskull?) declaring, “I am the power!” The book suggests that after you blow out your candles and step out of the circle, you should take a few more celebratory sips of your wine, but to really make sure, I went ahead and finished off the bottle. Figuring out what I wanted to manifest was a little harder. You have to know what you want, and harder still, you have to believe you deserve it. I looked around my filthy attic apartment with the weirdly shaped rooms and low, slanted ceilings. I was single and alone.
There was no oven in the kitchen. My bathroom had no sink and no mirror. What do you get the girl who has everything? I want what people want: a career—in my case, to write and teach for a living. Someday I’d like a husband or something like it. Probably not kids, but a dog, maybe? I was thinking too big. I didn’t want or need any of that stuff to happen right away. The idea was to focus on quick manifestation, tasks that were achievable in the next 30 days. I imagined my many hooded sweatshirts picking themselves off the floor, folding mid-air and flying onto their shelves. Maybe little mops would sweep through, scrubbing surfaces and making it look like someone other than a dead person lived there. I wrote “clean apartment” on the list and tried to believe that might happen. Next, I wrote, “Find a new boyfriend” but it looked laughable and far-fetched, even with the weight of the universe on my side. The whole list was complicated further by the fact that I was leaving Missoula in October to go to a writer’s colony in the woods of New Hampshire and had no idea if I’d be coming back. I remembered with horror one of the last things my ex had said to me, “Be careful with your love. It’s like a loaded fucking gun.” I crossed off “Find a boyfriend” and replaced it with “Sexual healing,” which probably just meant “masturbate per usual,” and from there it all seemed much more attainable. When I was a little girl, on every birthday cake and shooting star, every single time, I wished for one million dollars. What was the grown-up equivalent of one million dollars, adjusted for inflation? I settled on “happiness.” You’re not supposed to be so vague, but I couldn’t think of any other way to put it. I shut my eyes and tried to imagine what happiness looked like. My mind was a blank. My list became a free-associated parade: acceptance letter from The New Yorker, a hotplate, Converse All Stars, psychic powers, my car continuing to work, gemstones, Kombucha. At the top of the list, I wrote “Free ukulele” as the ultimate test. I wanted a ukulele to come out of nowhere and I wanted it to be free. If I could make that happen with my mind, I could do just about anything. ’Tis a far, far better thing doing stuff for other people—right? I once overheard someone say that there are angels floating around everywhere, eager to do our bidding, if we’d only think to ask for their help. They’re especially happy to help you help others. But it’s hard to know what, specifically, your friends want and need, apart from what all of us want (love, one million dollars). How often do you even ask yourself that? I asked my friend Richard. He said he wanted a big-screen TV and to get rid of his car. I thought I was off to a good start until he added, “But this isn’t going to work because there’s no such thing as magic.” I saw that I’d made a mistake by letting Richard in on the process. His doubt would sully the spell. If I were going to wish things for my friends, I’d have to try to anticipate their needs and do it without their knowing. For this, I really started swinging for the fences: Cory finds a good band to play with. Brett makes friends in Kansas. Mental health for Josh. Men fall hopelessly in love with Alice. Obama passes the American Jobs Bill. Sally the dog heals her wounded foot. Making a list is easy enough. Believing that any of it is possible is harder. I don’t think I realized just how cynical my thinking was until I took the time to shine a flashlight on it. My brain is a veritable museum of selfdefeating slogans and deep-seeded beliefs like “There’s no place for me in this world,” “I’m the size of a rhinoceros and therefore undeserving of real love,” “There’s never any money,” “Life is incredibly painful” and the ultimate: “Nothing matters and nothing ever works out.” Think about it, gentle reader. What horrible, limiting beliefs do you repeat to yourself again and again and again? And how’s that working out for you? It’s magic Weird things started to happen. Some of my spells came true. One thing I’d asked for was “Forgiveness from Jack.” Jack is a character from “Forgetting Mary Jane.” I’d written it just like that,
even though that’s not his real name. Still, he was sore about the way I’d portrayed him. It was all true, but perhaps indelicate. There’s more to people than the drugs they dabble in, but non-fiction is manipulative. In the business, we call it “lies of omission.” More than anything, I probably should have told him I was doing it. I tried to smooth things over, but Jack just kept repeating, “You threw me under the bus.” He sent an email to the editor with the subject line “I am Jack’s bitter sense of resentment.” “That’s actually pretty witty,” Robert said. “I know,” I said. “He’s fascinating. Why do you think I keep writing about him?” Jack’s email to Robert said I was among his worst customers ever, paying in crumpled bills and coming up short besides. Late-night demands. General rudeness. In my defense, Jack charges too much and lives in an inconvenient part of town. The last text he’d sent me had come shortly after he discovered the article. It said, “Wow, you suck.” At least now, for once, we had something besides just weed in common. Thanks to me, we both knew what notoriety felt like. I thought I’d never talk to Jack again, and it was a bummer. Ours is a dysfunctional relationship, but a life worth living requires a few good frenemies, and when Jack is gone, I miss him. About a week after I cast the spell, he texted me at 1 in the morning: “Hi.” So there it was. Forgiveness from Jack. My first act of magic. There’s a bartender who used to work at the Golden Rose named Joe. Forever clad in basketball shorts, he’d slap the bar twice when he handed you a drink and was always prompt and courteous about it, even though we were dumb and demanding customers and even though he doesn’t drink. I said to Ted, my good friend, one of the best writers I’ve ever known and for whom I wished a better job and more money and for his novel to be published—I said, “Ted. Look at how great Joe is. Can’t you see?” I used a finger to point at the otherworldly elegance in the way Joe wiped the bar down with a wet rag. “What,” Ted said. “He’s just an ordinary dude in basketball shorts. He’s a pretty good bartender.” On the slip of wishes, I’d written “Something good for Joe,” because who knew what Joe wanted. That night, Joe told me that he’d put in his two weeks’ notice, that he was going to go into physical therapy and eventually be a U.S. Marshall, which is not just a cop but a super-cop. That didn’t sound good to me, but it sounded like something Joe wanted. Later that night, instead of climbing over the bar and sticking my tongue in Joe’s mouth, I went home and crossed “Something good for Joe” off the list. My friend Mackenzie tore his hand open from rope-burn while rehabilitating a horse, and that same week his partner, Sarah, messed up her ankle rock climbing. The two of them lumbered around town like prizefighters, as though they’d turned their fists on one another. I asked the universe to heal them, and it’s true, they did get better. “Of course it’s your magic that healed us,” they both agreed. “Yes,” I said, dutifully optimistic and ignoring basic tenets of biology. “Angels came down from heaven and healed your broken bodies because I asked them to.” In those first few days of the experiment I was still wading unhappily through life. I’d barely smoked any weed since my pot piece came out, in large part because all of my dealers had blacklisted me, but I drank a lot to make up for it. During that window, if someone had handed me crack I probably would have smoked it. I had a lot of self-destructive tendencies but luckily not a lot of ambition to carry them through. Friday night, September 16, we all got drunk at the VFW per usual. We after-partied at Mackenzie and Sarah’s and nothing particularly bad happened. I talked loud and said stupid things but so did everyone else. Still, I rode home hating myself in a fresh, new way. I cried in my filthy apartment. I cried some more and smoked the very last of my pot, which—hey, Missoula, do you have any familiarity with pot? It has this uncanny way of making a person stop crying.
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I didn’t hear any whispering voices in my ear. There were no visions. But the next morning, I was struck with the sudden conviction that I had to stop equivocating, that there was no such thing as moderation for me and if I ever wanted to seriously accomplish everything I was meant to in this life, I had to stop drinking and doing drugs forever and ever and ever. I made my resolution on Saturday, September 17 before noon, and then my hangover and I biked to a howling football stadium to cover the Griz game for the Indy’s football feature. It didn’t occur to me that suddenly and inexplicably kicking my decade-long addiction just days after I’d gotten down on my knees and asked the heavens for help had anything to do with magic until much later.
“thank you.” If you want the universe to be kind to you, you have to start by being kind to the universe. Remember, too, that built into this philosophy is a convenient, selfpreserving paradox: if you don’t believe in magic, it can’t work. If it’s not working for you, it could be that you just didn’t believe enough. I’ve gone looking for God on a spiritual retreat, where we took a vow of silence and did nothing but eat, sleep and meditate for 10 days, and I didn’t see Him once. Didn’t even catch a glimpse. I expected something extraordinary to happen but it turned out to be the opposite. Your heart slows down and the chatter in your mind becomes a low hum. If anything, it’s more ordinary.
Ways of looking at a bluebird October 12 came and I decided my magic experiment had been a bust. A few things on the list came true, mostly when it came to other people, but so much of it went unanswered. Being sober felt like being trapped in a room with stabbing fluorescent lights. I had a hard time remembering to stay positive. The month felt clumsy and realistic, like all the others. On October 15, I left Missoula. Now, many weeks later, I can see it more clearly: 30 days is nothing. In November, I went to the MacDowell Colony on an eight-week fellowship, to be a captive in the woods with “the freedom to create.” MacDowell, it turned out, was a great place to be a witch. I worked in a little stone hut where every day the staff brought me a picnic basket. I wrote about 40,000 words of what I might someday rearrange into a novel. I meditated, a lot. I logged my first 90 days of sobriety. You might think being in the woods made it easier, but it didn’t. MacDowell was like a special kind of rehab where everybody is allowed to drink and smoke but me. I felt Midwestern, poor and painfully shy. The prophetic dreams I asked for in September didn’t arrive until I started sleeping in the colony’s convent-like dormitory. There, every night before I fell asleep, I asked the spirits to tell me something. “Why did I have to stop using? It doesn’t seem fair. Why am I the only one who’s not allowed to have fun? Why is it so hard and when is it going to get easier?” I dreamt about Charles Bukowski’s poem “Bluebird.” In the dream, the poem was paraphrased to “There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.” Bukowski tells the bird to go away. He says, “Be quiet, I don’t want anyone to see you.” He pours whiskey on it and blows smoke in its face. My spirit guides are snarky. “The lesson is obvious,” they said. “You invited us in, didn’t you? You said, ‘I want to be happy.’ Well, this is how it’s done. Stop murdering your bluebird.” “But it still hurts,” I said. “I’m lonely, and I don’t know how to live like this. It’s like there’s a pane of glass separating me from everybody else. How much longer is this going to last?” Naturally, this is a dramatization. Even in dreams, the spirits don’t use voices to talk to me and the images are sketchy. I see the bluebird a little, flailing and wet and then shaking dry her feathers, but it’s more like a feeling. And then the answer to how much longer comes in a dream hug, roughly translated: “A while.” So now I’m in my old bedroom at my mother’s house in Waterford, Mich. I’ll be here for the next four months while I teach composition at my old community college. Something tells me I’ll be back in the spring with flowers, pleading, “Missoula, forgive me. I don’t know what I was thinking. Take me back.” Michigan feels like a way-station now, but the layover seems necessary. Spell binding There are some rules and caveats for thinking your way into a life lived with purpose and precision, where you have everything you ever wanted and the world is a paradise because you created it. You have to get your brain buzzing right. It’s not enough to vaguely hope for things. And it takes wisdom to even know what you want. Once you know, you have to get into the correct vibrational frequency to reach out and grab it. If you want a pony, you’d better get a stable first. If you want the angels to talk to you, you need to clear a space in your brain for them. Remember to say “please” and
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Meditation is the single best way I know to temper the dragons in my head without drugs. I recommend that everybody do it all day, every day. Or, you know, whenever you can find the time. It’s all your fault. If you’re going to sign on to the idea that your thoughts create your reality, you’ll have to take the good with the bad. I still haven’t fully learned how to reconcile this one. Do you want to be the girl in the flowing skirt telling the mother of an 18-month-old who is dying of leukemia that her son brought the illness on himself with his bad attitude? Me either! There was a classic moment with the Dalai Lama on “Larry King Live” shortly after Hurricane Katrina when he tried to explain to the audience, in broken English, that the hurricane was society’s fault, because of builtup karmic energy. It was not well received. Just remember that your thoughts are powerful and learn to use them responsibly, I guess. Frame your requests in the positive. You’re probably already a brilliant manifester without even realizing it. When you focus on lack, you’ll find your life lacking. I know, it’s a favorite refrain of self-help books—but have you ever been a jealous girlfriend? Your boyfriend is going to leave you for a prettier girl; you just know it. You see these prettier girls everywhere. He’s a flirt. One day, he leaves you for a prettier girl, and—aha!—you were right all along. It’s because you’re so powerful. You threw your entire life-force energy into it and you made her out of clay. The lesson here is that you have to work hard to accentuate the positive. In other words, whatever you do, don’t think about an elephant. I tried telling Jack that his cynicism created a maelstrom that forced me to betray him, by the way. I don’t know if he bought it. Really, you’re doing all the work. Take the hotplate I wished for: Did I think the countertop was going to give birth to a hotplate if I meditated on it long enough? Oh, I got the hotplate all right. First, I wrote down that I needed a hotplate. A week or two later, I went to a thrift store and bought one using dollar bills out of my wallet. There’s something therapeutic about the simple act of taking a moment to think about what you really want and need. Just writing it down gives it weight. You don’t need to light candles or throw pennies at the moon. Instead of magic, you can call it goal-setting.
The retreat taught me that we orient ourselves in the world entirely via sensations in the body. I saw clearly for the first time that there’s no real there out there. We imagine the world to be a certain way, we react, and it generates sensations of pleasure, pain and the murky spaces between. For a few days afterward, I was able to hold onto the knowledge that my thoughts were directly generating my experience. But the matrix is distracting. I stopped meditating regularly. One day, I woke up cranky about the way the world had wronged me and eager to blame it on anyone but myself, and I knew that I’d lost it. Two years later, I’m only just getting it back.
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If the angels don’t want you to have it, then you can’t. Sometimes our short-term wants don’t mesh up with our long-term needs. That’s because the universe knows more than we do. Remember the boyfriend who left us for the clay woman we created? Remember how much our heart burned with certainty that he was our one-and-only and that our lives were nothing without him? Remember how wrong that turned out to be? You have to take the long view and trust that things are going to work out. As horrifying as it was to see my face all over town when I published my pot story, weeks later it hardly mattered. Those same pages were used to line a rabbit’s cage. A hundred years after that, the paper will have turned to dust and we’ll all be dead. When it came to the stuff on my list, most of what I didn’t get were material things. Meanwhile, I clocked 26 days of sobriety that I never asked for and barely even knew I wanted. Most disappointing was not getting the free ukulele. I thought I did everything right. I dreamed of Hawaiian instruments. I thought about how a ukulele would feel in my hands and I promised to learn how to play well when one came to me. I even tried to help the spell along by posting a Craigslist ad with the heading “Wanted: Free Magical Ukulele.” On a long enough timeline, maybe I’ll understand why the angels decided to be such dillweeds about it. Right now, I’m still bitter. I mean, seriously, guys: They’re not that expensive. Where’s my fucking ukulele? editor@missoulanews.com
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Sprouting local produce in winter FLASHINTHEPAN When I met Debrilla Ratchford, she was selling sprouts at a farmers market in the parking lot of Albuquerque’s University Hospital. A former flight attendant, Ratchford holds the first patent on rolling airport luggage. Few could deny that patent No. 4,094,391 has made their lives easier. And she hopes to make an even greater impact with her new occupation. Most of today’s health problems, including socalled diseases of civilization like diabetes, heart disease and cancer, are diet-related, and the farmers market where I met Ratchford was purposefully set up so that hospital patients, visitors and employees would have to walk through it on their way in. Legions of fat, sick people waddled and wheeled past Ratchford’s stand en route to expensive medical interventions for problems they could have avoided by eating fewer corn dogs and more veggies. I bought a bag of Ratchford’s “seven bean sprout mix,” which includes mung, adzuki and soy beans, four types of lentils, and wheat berries. Lightly salted, they were al-dente and earthy, with a vibrancy I normally associate with sushi and raw oysters. Local produce can be hard to find in winter. Gardens die, farmers markets close, local growers hibernate and local food snobs are forced to choose between their principles and bodily needs. But it doesn’t need to come to this. Fresh produce is available from sprouted seeds any time of year, and it’s as local as your kitchen sink. Dormant seeds are equipped with the energy supplies and building blocks they need in order to grow to the point where they can get what they need from the sun, air and soil. These nutrients can be locked in forms that are difficult for the human body to digest. When dormant seeds absorb water, their metabolic activity increases. Complex proteins, starches and lipids are broken down into simple compounds that are easier for baby plants and humans alike to digest. Vitamins, chlorophyll and other nutrients are synthesized, while phytates are neutralized. Phytates, which are present in lentils and grains, inhibit nutrient absorption. Different sprouts offer different benefits. Bean and alfalfa sprouts are especially high in protein; adzuki bean sprouts contain every amino acid but tryptophan. Alfalfa sprouts are high in chlorophyll
and minerals. Sunflower sprouts are a good source of omega-6 fatty acids. Broccoli sprouts contain practically everything good but winning lottery tickets, including sulforaphane, which acts on DNA to stimulate production of certain enzymes. This action has been shown to fight cancer in humans, and research suggests that it’s good for the heart, brain, lungs, prostate and other organs. Enzyme activity is one of the main characteristics of living foods. Since enzymes start dying at 120 degrees, living foods are by definition raw. But living
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food means not that the whole organism is alive, only that biological activity continues. After a lettuce plant is plucked for salad, the organism as a whole might be dead, but leaf cells are still alive. If you expose those leaves to carbon dioxide and light, they’ll spit out oxygen. Sprouts take the concept of living food to the extreme, because the entire organism is alive when you eat it. “When you eat a sprout, it’s one living being communicating with another,” explained Ratchford. “When you eat a cooked food, it’s dead. There’s no communication.” Sprouts don’t require fancy gear to grow. Simply soak seeds overnight in plenty of water. Within minutes of submersion, little bubbles of waste gas start streaming toward the surface. In the morning, drain and rinse the seeds and keep them loosely covered in a dark place, rinsing three or four times daily. A colander works for large seeds, like Ratchford’s mix, allowing for easy rinsing under the tap. Cover the sprouting seeds with a damp towel between rinses. Bean sprouts are ready when white shoots are just
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emerging from the bean seeds. Sometimes the shoots wrap around the beans, making them look like sperm doing yoga. Split lentils and peas won’t sprout, because the seeds are broken. Whole lentils and peas, as well as most other seeds you might sprout, are available from websites like sunfood.com and sprouthouse.com, and sometimes your local bulk bin. While bulk bins are inexpensive and convenient, specialized sprout seed sellers test for diseases like E. coli, which caused a recent deadly sprout-borne outbreak in Europe. Ideal conditions for sprouting also tend to favor bacterial growth, which is why clean seed and frequent rinsing with clean water are important, and why the young, old, pregnant and people with weakened immune systems are advised not to eat sprouts. Those same hi-risk groups are also advised against eating sunny side up eggs. A finished sprout is a miniature plant, complete with roots, stem and leaves. If you’re growing your sprouts at home, especially leafy sprouts like alfalfa, radish, broccoli and clover, you might want to finish the job with a few hours of sunlight to encourage the little plants to synthesize some green chlorophyll for your aesthetic and anti-oxidative pleasure. Because the metabolism of sprouting begins as soon as water is absorbed by the seeds, it isn’t necessary to finish full sprouts before enjoying the benefits. Soaking beans or lentils before cooking not only reduces their cook time, it also makes them more nutritious—even if they get cooked long before they sprout. Along these lines, Sprouthouse.com has several sprout mixes designed to be soaked overnight and eaten for breakfast, like cereal, the next morning. Fully sprouted seeds can be cooked as well. And while they lose some of their live enzymes, cooked sprouts are still good food. The Vietnamese beef soup called Pho is usually served with a pile of mung bean sprouts, which are added to the hot soup at mealtime, while the Thai noodle dish Pad Thai incorporates a mountain of stir-fried mung bean sprouts. So before you fork over your hard-earned green for that jetlagged California chlorophyll, remember, you have options. Sprouts, even partially sprouted sprouts, are the locavore’s secret weapon of winter. And all you have to do is add water.
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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. $-$$
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 As January darkens Missoula with our traditional grey sky…..think Bernice’s. New wood floors, brick walls, and huge windows beckon those who need to see light, feel warmth and sit quietly as the new year begins.
Big Sky Drive In 1016 W. Broadway 549-5431 Big Sky Drive In opened June 2nd 1962. We feature soft serve ice cream, shakes, malts, spins, burger, hot dogs, pork chop sandwiches and breaded mushrooms all made to order. Enjoy our 23 shake and malt flavors or the orange twist
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ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve 541-BLUE (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Winter Hours: 4pm - 9 pm Seven Days a Week. $$-$$$
the The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 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, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$
Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken, 75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless. Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 39 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. $
Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula 424 N. Higgins 542-3847 www.flbcofmissoula.com Known for their “Bar Burgers” a masterpiece of deliciousness; Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is unfiltered sophistication atop the skyline of Missoula Montana. Downtown or Uptown, any way you look at it, Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is your best destination for great food, wine and spirits. Come on in and join us. We can't wait to see you. Cheers!!! $-$$
Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm ThursSat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius.
Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$
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HAPPIESTHOUR Higherground Brewing Company New brew: Montana’s newest microbrewery, Higherground Brewing Company, in Hamilton, opened Dec. 19. After two weeks, brewery co-owners Jasper Miller and Fenn Nelson say they can barely keep up with Bitterrooters’ thirst for local beer. Claim to fame: Miller and Nelson, lifelong friends who grew up in Hamilton and graduated from the University of Montana in 2010, are both 24, making them the youngest brewers in the state, and, they figure, among the youngest in the country. What you’re drinking: The chalkboard above the bar lists an IPA, Irish red, stout, scotch ale, Belgian white, hefeweizen and a crystal ale. You opt for the crystal ale, a light, refreshing beer that’s been the most popular so far, Miller says. “A lot of other breweries over-flavor you, and I wanted something neutral in flavor and still drinkable.” Plus, it goes great with…
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What you’re eating: Simple, tasty woodfired pizza. The kitchen also serves soups and salads. Where to find it: 518 North First Street in Hamilton, about an hour south of Missoula. —Matthew Frank Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.
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Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Brooks and Browns Trivia Night is back. $7 Bayern Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday from 7-10pm. $50 Bar Tab to winning team. Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf-stuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Everyone loves our SUNDAY BINGO NIGHT! Sundays 6-9 pm at Brooks and Browns. Same happy Hour specials ($5 pulled pork sliders, ? order wings, ? nachos; $6 Bud Lite pitchers) Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center 101 East Front St hunterbay.com • 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees and espressos plus made-from-scratch, healthy sandwiches and soups. Enjoy the sunshine from our patio! Free Wi-Fi and Free Parking in the upper deck lot. Open Monday through Saturday.
Comfort Food At Really Comfortable Prices.
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:303:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. $-$$
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Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $
Dark Roast Shade Grown Fair Trade Missoula’s Best Coffee
Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312• www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$
The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all-new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked inhouse. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our night-
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ly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net 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-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun - Wed 83pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ 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. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. • 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Build it your "weigh" at 42 cents per oz. for most items. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook.
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Takin’ care of business. Molly Gene One Whoaman Band blasts you with one-woman blues punkness at the VFW Wed., Jan. 11, at 10 PM with opening one-man band PD Lear and whiskeyed honky-tonker Aran Buzzas. Free.
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A one man slide guitar soul band, Dan Dubuque gets it done his way at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free.
Bring your miscellany of talents down the ‘Root for the Roxy Theater’s Open Mic Night. Anything goes: comedy, juggling, music and prescient children rapping about the streets. Hamilton. 120 N. 2nd. 7 PM. $5. The Global Issues and Foreign Film Series presents The Devil’s Miner, a film about a teenager who works in a Bolivian silver mine and worships the
devil. Whoa. Roxy Theater. 718 S. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free. (see Spotlight this issue)
end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Jan. 6, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to the Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.
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Hey Tom Sawyer, check out the moving pictures when the Badlander hosts The Cold Smoke Awards People’s Choice Tour, a fest of outdoor films, featuring action, action action, beer and schwag. 7 PM. (See Mtn. High this issue)
History Reproductions, at Montana Art and Framing. 709 Ronan St. 5–9 PM. Free. George Carlton belts out some tunes for your wintertime pleasure at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Tasting Room. 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 5–9 PM. Free.
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7–10 PM.
See the water colors of Daniel Agosto, not to mention photography by Mary Hurley and the works of up-and-comer Kyle Stevens, at the River’s Mist Gallery in Stevi. 317 Main St. 6-9 PM. Free.
Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s Trivia Night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.
Forget the known knowns, these are The Unknowns and they are doing it for the kids at Family Friendly Friday, at the Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free. The Northern Rockies Rising Tide fights for the northern Rockies, including tackling the megaload issue and so much more. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center back room. 510 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 PM.
Go bonkers on the dance floor during The Badlander’s Prehab dance party, featuring electronic and hip hop spun by DJs Kris Moon and James Two, plus $1 wells and $1 PBRs from 9 PM to midnight. $2 or free with promo coupon. Missoula reggae regulars Chele Bandulu look to get irie at the Top Hat with a free show for all us broke suckas. 9:30 PM. The Juveniles begin their month-long residency at the VFW, where they’ll play for the next four Thursdays and curate each show with bands of their choice. Joining them tonight are Ax Raccoons and One Day Wonders. 10 PM. Free. Get wild and woolly at the Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com.
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Since the kids are probably already taller than Martin Scorcese there’s no reason those between the ages of 10 and 16 can’t make a movie when you sign them up for Cell Phone Cinema Workshop at the Roxy Theater in Missoula. The course is five days long and begins Mon., Jan. 9. 4–6 PM. $100. wildlifefilms.org. The National Coalition Building Institute hosts a Martin Luther
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Get your acoustic fix when John Patrick Williams plays the Symes Hot Springs Hotel . 8–10 PM. Free. Mary Ann Papanek-Miller’s “Pass the Hat” is one of the many pieces currently on display at MAM in anticipation of the museum’s February 40th anniversary benefit. First Friday reception kicks off Fri., Jan. 6, from 5 to 8 PM, with music by Russ Nasset. 335 N. Pattee St. Free.
King Essay and Art Contest for kids in grades 3-12. Essays should be 250 words or less and artwork should fit on 8.5x11 inch paper. Drop off entries at the Missoulian by Fri., Jan. 6. Each work should be inspired by a MLK quote chosen by NCBI. Email Jessica@ncbimissoula.org for quotes or more info. Go liger hunting at Bill Gabriel’s photo exhibition Birds and Beasts, at the Montana Natural History Center. 120 Hickory St. 4:30–6:30 PM. Free.
nightlife Shorty get low at the the Rock Bottom Gallery (below the Top Hat) when you gander at the works of Shannon Corsi. 5–8 PM. Free. First Friday never smelled better. The Palace hosts the works of Neeko Page, Justine Abraham, Adelaide Every, Zinnia Zafira and Justin Lewis. 5–8 PM. Free.
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Digital Reflections by John Jarvis is on display at Prudential Montana Real Estate, 314 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free. Conversation Pieces: Experiments in Collaboration is a group exhibition combining the works of 23 UM MFA writers and visual artists. Brink Gallery. 111 W. Front. 5–8 PM. Free. Your junk can be pretty, and we ain’t talk about “vajazzling,” Sarah. IMUR Art Mad Studio creates multi-media works of art from recycled materials. Union Club. 5–8 PM. Free. This First Friday, get a gander at the goods that will be available for the MAM’s 40th Anniversary Benefit Auction taking place on Feb. 4. Artists are on-hand to discuss their pieces and Russ Nasset plays the guitar. 335 N. Pattee St. 5–8 PM. Free. See a bevy of old timey map reproductions by Kim Lugthart in her exhibit Artful
Forget all you have seen and dig out your robot walkers for Fishbowl Friday: The Art Walk Afterparty, which features dubstep and the like by Ebola Syndrome, Iammusi Shan and Nic James. The Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Throw on them Swatches, your pegged Guess? jeans and get busy at the ‘80s Dance Party hosted by the Palace. 147 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Get your swerve on, player, and dance with that special someone you’ve been obsessing about on Facebook, when Zeppo MT plays the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Get your country swagger on and dance with some gals and/or dudes during the Mark Duboise Band’s performance. Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Enjoy the lo-fi glad sounds at The Be Helds CD Release Party, along with The Skurfs, Ancient Forests and Jacob Milestone. 10 PM. $3. (See Noise this issue)
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The Voodoo Horseshoes play a benefit for Mark Doty at an all-day affair. Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand Ave.
Grab your ginkgo and zip over to Chamber of Commerce’s Health Fair at Southgate Mall for a free Chinese Medical Health Screening by Bitterroot Acupuncture. 7–1 PM. If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.
PM. $15 per family/$7 adults/$5 seniors and students. For more info. call 752-8226. Put a bird on it and head to the Missoula Folklore Society’s called dance, with Sleeping Child String Band. Come early for lessons. Union Hall, upstairs. 208 E. Main St. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 members. For the Missoula Chamber Music Society, 36 chambers
is a mere pittance, see for yourselves when they perform at the Missoula Winery. 5646 W. Harrier Way. 8 PM. $5.
PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free.
Show ‘em how to Dougie when Sister Fix plays funky, soulful juh-juh-jamz at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8-10 PM.
The Palace is gonna need a big ol’ litter box during the Red Carpet Devils, Cat Heaven and King Elephant show. 147 W. Broadway. 9 PM. $5.
Swig drinks while listening to old-school rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9
The Wild Coyote Band has no time for mice but plenty of time to swing out, sister. Check them out at the Valley Bar in Ronan. 118 Main St. 9 PM.
SPOTLIGHT devil’s details
nightlife Investigate Montana’s olden times and olden peoples through the eyes of artists Fra Dana and Frances Carroll Brown, at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, on the UM campus in the PARTV building. 4–6 PM. Free. Enjoy the modern, but not mod, country-like stylings of Tom Catmull at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 5–9 PM. Free. Watch out for spiders when Cellar Door plays some bluesy fusion rock and roll, at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free. When it rains, it pours buckets of blood when thrashers Judgment Hammer hit the stage, along with metal-makers Blessiddoom, Defeating the Grave and Temper-Airily. Roxy Theatre at 120 N. 2nd in Hamilton. 7 PM. $5. A bunch of ragtag musicians with who knows what kind of instruments get together on the first Sat. of every month for The Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree, a musical concert from 7–9:30 PM at The Grange Hall, 1436 South 1st St. Call Clem at 961-4949. Kids, grab your parents and head to the Contra Dance at the Kalispell Senior Center. Beginners workshop at 7:30 PM. 403 2nd Ave. W. 7:30–10:30
As a nation, we are easy to mock. But that doesn’t make mocking us any less entertaining. For those with little time, there is a Twitter feed called FirstWorldPains that sums up our litany of moans, whines and grouses. Examples include: “Phone’s battery is drained, charger is upstairs.” “My iPad is so cold in the morning!” “My gum has lost its flavor.” You’ve probably surmised that you are being set up for a guilt trip. You would be right. We are a pathetic lot at times. If you are interested in WHAT: Screening of The Devil’s Miner WHO: Global Issues and Foreign Film Series WHEN: Thu., Jan. 5, at 7 pm. WHERE: Missoula’s Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. HOW MUCH: Free
what true daily struggles look like, see this month’s installment of the Global Issues and Foreign Film Series at the Roxy Theater. The Devil’s Miner (2005) follows the day-to-day struggle of 14-year-old Basilio Vargas as he works in the Cerro Rico silver mine in Bolivia and struggles to support his mother, brother and sister. The mines are over 450 years old and in the film a miner claims that as many as eight million people have died while working in the noxious, forever crumbling, dust-filled mines. The workers only make money if they find silver. Besides the physical strain the miners experience there is also a spiritual struggle. Vargas and the other miners worship the Tio, an idol of Satan. Each mine has a Tio, and while they may be Catholics above ground, they worship the Tio below, bringing him coca leaves, tobacco and alcohol in return for his protection. The amazing thing about Vargas is that he manages to attend school all the while in the hope that he can someday get out of the mines for good. There will be a discussion after the screening. Certainly, you’ll have something to say. —Jason McMackin
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Honky-tonkin’ is what they do best. Russ Nasset and The Revelators unleash the bump and twang, at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo declare war on dat ass and send it packin’ during Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free. Get your country swagger on and dance with some gals and/or dudes during the Mark
tarists, mandolin players and others, from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949.
nightlife Face it, you’re getting old. May as well join the Lolo Squares for Beginning Square Dance Lessons. Lolo Square Dance Center, 9955 Hwy. 12. 5:30 PM. Call 273-0652 for more info. Put some swing in your second Sunday when the Ed Norton Big Band plays the Missoula Winery from 6–8 PM, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. missoulawinery.com.
Jan. 17 and 18 from 8–5 PM. $240 for non-students/$200 UM and COT students. http://www.cte.edu/outreach/l ead_2012.aspx. ¡Que bueno, ustedes! The Missoula International school offers Adult Spanish Classes for beginners to advanced speakers. Classes begin on Mon., Jan. 9 and continue on Mondays and Wednesdays until Mar. 28. $10 per class. Consult mismt.org for times and to register. Need to brush up on that algebra or writing course before you
3011 American Way. 6–9 PM. $35 per household or $20 per person. The High Country Carvers welcomes carvers of all abilities to their meetings, which take place at the Evergreen Fire Dept. No power tools, but you need gloves and a bench hook. 2236 Hwy. 2. 6:30–8:30 PM. The Bonner Milltown Community Council Meeting discusses traffic control systems on Hwy. 200, near the Towne Pump and parking congestion on Tamarack Dr. Bonner School Library. 7 PM. Meet up for S.A.F.E.’s Book Club to discuss Sena Jeter’s Ahab’s Wife. Chapter One Book Store. Hamilton. 252 Main St. 7 PM. Free. Have the best sandwich in Missoula (the Italian) and check out Tom Catmull, at the Red Bird. 7-10 PM. Free. So you think you can fill in the blank? Prove it at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night this and every Monday at 8:30 PM. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign up.
More devils! Locals The Red Carpet Devils play loud rock and roll joined by Cat Heaven and King Elephant, at the Palace Sat., Jan. 7, at 9 PM. $5.
Duboise Band’s performance. Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free. The Dodgy Mountain Men are leaving the still for the night to bring you some bluegrass and folk, along with their bluesloving attorneys Mudslide Charley. Top Hat. 9:30 PM. $5. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.
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Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for gui-
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Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight and live jazz & DJs during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with the Donna Smith Trio. Free.
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pay a king’s ransom to get a D in Comp 101 at the university? Sign-up for the Lifelong Learning Center’s Adult Education Program, which hosts seven weeks of college prep assistance. 310 S. Curtis. Mon.-Thu., from 8–11:30 AM. Free. Call 549-8765. Me escucha los más pequeños, learn to read those palabras at Afterschool Youth Spanish Classes at the Missoula International School. Classes begin Mon., Jan 9 and continue on Mondays and Wednesday until Mar. 28. 1100 Harrison St. 4–5:30 PM. $10 per class. mismt.org
Go ahead and “treecycle” that bug infested pagan symbol you call a Christmas tree down at Playfair and McCormick Parks, Ft. Missoula’s South Ave. lot and EKO Compost, 1125 Clark Fork Ln. Please remove the decorations. Seriously.
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With all them new guvment rules and such, building renovators ought to check the COT’s Certified Lead Renovator Training, which will be held on
Homeward hosts a course called Get Ready for Home Ownership for those peeps who are looking to join the landed gentry. Lambros Realty,
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Do some rhymin’ and stealin’ in a drunken state at Milkcrate Monday’s with the Milkcrate Mechanic, which features DJs Special K, Birdman, and the Mechanic himself, starting at 9 PM. Did I mention the Soled Out breakdance crew? Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR. The hardest working man in all reggae-dom, Yabba Griffiths, plays Fergie’s Bar in Hot Springs. 9:30 PM.
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Learn what Nescafe is at the Missoula International School Open House; but more importantly, learn about enrolling your pre-school through eighth-graders. 1100 Harrison St. 9-10 AM. mismt.org. The Bitterroot Public Library hosts the monthly Marjorie A Crawford Literature Seminar. This month’s discussion is presented by Shawn Wooten on the play R.U.R by Karel Capek.
Discussions of utopian lives and robots in the home will abound. 9:30–11:30 AM. Free. The Cultural and Art History Club of Whitefish meets to discuss the only things that matter, like Johannes Vermeer. Stumptown Art Studio. 10– 12 PM. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited. 12–1. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information call 543-3955. Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 5:30 PM. occupymissoula.org. The Flathead City-County Health Dept. hosts Growing Up Female for parents and daughters, ages 10-13. The program focuses on the importance of communication and uses films and discussions to aid families. 5:30–8:30 PM. $20 per couple, includes dinner. Pre-register by calling 751- 8150.
nightlife Aim your sights on the 8 ball when the Palace hosts a weekly 9 ball tournament, which is double elimination and starts with sign up at 6 PM, followed by games at 7. $10 entry fee. You saw House Party, you still can’t do the “Kid ‘N Play.” Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip Hop dance class, with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com Throw your jazz hands in the air and join Chris Duparri and Ruthie Dada every Tuesday evening for Jazz Martini Night, with $2 off all top-shelf martinis at Brooks and Browns, 200 S. Pattee. Free. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts Y WCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking cir-
Mama, I’m comin’ home. Erin Snyder and friends plays bluegrass, old time and originals at the Hangin Art Gallery on Hwy 93 in Arlee, on Wed., Jan. 11, at 6 PM. She’ll be passing the hat.
cle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.
pers Codependents perform at Badlander’s Live and Local Night. Music at 10 PM. Free.
Fans of genealogy please stand up, please stand up and head to the Western Montana Genealogical Society meeting, where an archivist from the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula will give a program on, you guessed it, genealogy. Missoula Public Library. 7 PM. Free.
Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.
Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What song did The 5th Dimension top the charts with in 1969? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Yabba Griffiths continues his tour of Hot Springs when he plays a spot of reggae at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, from 8–10 PM.
Hey Fogelberg fanatics, grab your git-ar and head to the Top Hat’s Zootown Acoustic Throwdown and show the kids how “Leader of the Band” is done. 10 PM. Free.
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Sign-up for Citizens Law Enforcement Academy and learn some of the ins and outs of the Missoula PD. Applications are due by Jan. 12 for the nine-week session. Guess what? It includes a ride-along. Go to the City of Missoula website and head to the public relations tab in the police section.
T h e B r o a d w a y ’ s Tu e s d a y Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.
If English isn’t your native language, head to the Lifelong Learning Center’s Adult Basic Education, which aids in cultural and vocabulary studies. 310 S. Curtis. 8:30 AM. Free. Call 549-8765.
Stand up and shout when experimental electronic music maven Jimmy aka Big in Japan, funk fusionaters G.R.I.T. and hip hop-
Give up the go-juice and help a buddy out, at the American Red Cross Blood Drive. 2401 N. Reserve St., Ste. 6. 3–6 PM.
nightlife Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip Hop (7-10 years old), at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are welcome, just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com This week’s Community UNite Fundraiser supports the Montana Repertory Theatre. Come down, watch actors drink, enjoy evening. Northside Kettlehouse. 5– 8 PM. Get you mid-week bluegrass fix with Erin Snyder at the Hangin Art Gallery in Arlee, where they’ll be passing the hat for the gal. 6–8 PM. (Pub Trivia Answer: “The Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” medley.) Mark Snider discusses Spiritual Maturity and Wisdom, at Between Two Worlds in Hamilton. The discussion imparts universal methods of getting along with all stripes of religiosity. 205 W. Main St. 7–8:30 PM. Free. On first read the Rattlesnake Bears Action Planning Workshop seemed like the kind of spam e-mail I often receive; however, it is not. If you’re a Snaker and looking to live in harmony with the bears
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and your neighbors this meeting will explore options for dealing with furry garbage can visitors. MonTEC. 1121 E. Broadway. 7–9 PM. RSVP to Katie at rattlesnakecreek.watershedgroup@gmail.com. Murdering indie folk bandits Joy Kills Sorrow came all the way from out east to perform at the Missoula Winery. 5646 W. Harrier Way. 8 PM. $10. Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at The Badlander for Kraptastic Karaoke, at 9 PM and features $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. Drop what you’re doin’ cuz I am about to ruin whatever silly
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An aquarium of cosmic purple light! The Bassface Krew presents Fishbowl Friday: The Art Walk Afterparty at the Badlander featuring dubstep and other electronic styles by locals Ebola Syndrome, Iammusi Shan and Nic Jaymes starting at 9 PM. Free, and $5 fishbowl drink specials.
sissy-lala plans you had. Pack up your good blues shoes and head to the VFW for the Molly Gene One WhoaMan Band show (fresh off tour with Scotty Biram), with local dirty blues maker P.D. Lear and honky tonk hero Aran Buzzas. 10 PM. 245 W. Main St. Free.
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Holy Knudson, the Missoula Senior Center hosts a Swedish Pancake Supper followed by bingo. 705 S. Higgins Ave. 4 pm, with bingo at 6 pm. 543-7154.
nightlife Learn the yoga ways at Yoga in the Root’s Introduction to Yoga course. 4371 Eastside Hwy. 6 PM. Donations accepted. The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Catherine Ponder’s book,The Healing Secrets of the Ages, 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670. The Acousticals bring their three-headed bluegrass monster to the Bitter Root Brewery for an evening of picking and/or grinning. 6–8:30 PM. Free. Bring your miscellany of talents down the ‘Root for the Roxy Theater’s Open Mic Night. Anything goes: come-
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dy, juggling, music and prescient children rapping about the streets. Hamilton. 120 N. 2nd. 7 PM. $5.
Kris Moon and James Two, plus $1 wells and $1 PBRs from 9 PM to midnight. $2 or free with promo coupon.
The Institute of Noetic Sciences Community Group wants you to make more smarter your brain with Dr. Steven G. Schram’s presentation, Core Principles to Improve Brain and Body Health for Success, Happiness and Longevity. Bohemian Grange at 125 Blachard Lake Rd., Whitefish. 7 PM. Donations accepted.
Yabba Griffiths does the yabba do and plays the reggae too, at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. $5.
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7–10 PM. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s Trivia Night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free. Bring it all together at Synergy Sessions, which features a gang of electronical tunes by Kid Traxiom, Deftesla, Osiris and Logisticalone, plus painters and more. Palace, 147 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Party Trained does it like they do on the Discovery Channel, at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Free. Go bonkers on the dance floor during The Badlander’s Prehab dance party, featuring electronic and hip hop spun by DJs
He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. The Juveniles begin their month-long residency at the VFW, where they’ll play for the next four Thursdays and curate each show with bands of their choice. Joining them tonight are Spirit Hole and...holy smokes! the reunion of Missoula 1990s band VTO. 10 PM. Free. Get wild and woolly at the Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com.
Here’s something to consider: What if winter is done already? No matter, please send me your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Jan. 6 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
MOUNTAIN HIGH S o far La Niña hasn’t produced like she did last year and, avalanche conditions being what they are, winter already may seem like a dud. But if you’re down in the dumps because it hasn’t dumped, maybe you just need to get your stoke back. Fortunately, the Cold Smoke Awards People’s Choice Tour is coming to town with a batch of films that are sure to get you superstoked for the coming gnarmageddon. The movies aren’t all ski porn. The tour is about celebrating winter culture, so the films also showcase the beauty, danger and fun of life in the wintertime. At the event, held at the Badlander, viewers will have a chance to watch films in their
entirety as well as win ski passes and gear. Folks will have a chance to vote for their favorite film and, at the awards ceremony held later this year in Bozeman, a winner will be crowned. Word on the street is that the tour is a raucous affair with shenanigans galore. With Big Sky beers at $2 per pint, mirth-making will surely ensue. —Jason McMackin The 2012 Cold Smoke Awards People’s Choice Tour screens at The Badlander on Thu., Jan.5, with doors at 7 P M and the show at 8 PM. 208 Ryman St. coldsmokeawards.com
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drops at 8 AM. Call Tom for more info. at 210-3506.
Help the littlest one cultivate a positive connection with nature and the outdoors at the miniNaturalists Pre-K Program, hosted by the Montana Natural History Center. This month’s theme is Winter Birds. Best for ages 2-5. 120 Hickory St. 10–11 AM. $3 for non-members/$1.
Explore your worls with the Flathead Audubon Society during A Winter Wander in the Mission Valley. Bring your good peepers and lunch. Meet up at the Park ‘n’ Ride at intersection of Hwy. 93 and Hwy. 82 near Somers. 8 AM. Call Leslie to sign-up 837-0446.
You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.
FRIDAY JANUARY 6 Hey little archers and aspiring archers, Bowhunter Certification Courses will be held Sat., Jan. 23 and Sat., Feb. 11, from 8:30–5:30 PM. The field course for both will be Sun., Feb. 12, from 1–4 PM. 3201 Spurgin Rd. Register by following the education links at fwp.mt.gov. Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.
SATURDAY JANUARY 7 It’s National Winter Trails Day so get off the couch and grab up a pair of the free snowshoes Lone Pine State Park has for you and kids’ use today. Not tomorrow, though, just today. 300 Lone Pine Rd. For more info. call 755-2706. The Hanson Brothers would mos def approve of the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament, held next to Lindey’s Steakhouse. 120 players are expected. Puck drops at 8 AM. Call Tom for more info. at 210-3506. Did somebody say hot chocolate? The Montana Natural History Center hosts Saturday Discovery Day, a family-oriented walk that uncovers and discovers what’s happening in the urban outdoors. Hot chocolate for the kids and parents at the center, postwalk. 120 Hickory St. 10–12 PM. $5 suggested donation/members free.
SUNDAY JANUARY 8 The Hanson Brothers would mos def approve of the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament, held next to Lindey’s Steakhouse. 120 players are expected. Puck
MONDAY JANUARY 9 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com. Learn what the FWP has in mind for the ‘12 and ‘13 hunting seasons. Bitterroot River Inn, Hamilton. 139 Bitterroot Plaza. 6:30 PM. Hey buckarinos, the Flathead Audubon Society presents a virtual tour of a Glacier Park horseback ride circa 1926. Tom Nelesen narrates A Look Back at Glacier’s Dude Ranch Days, at The Summit in Kalispell. 205 Sunnyview LN. 7 pm. Free. How do you make your home more attractive to birds? Learn the answer to that question at Five Valleys Audubon and Native Plant Society’s meeting which hosts Madeline Mazurski of Montana Native Landscapes and Poody MacGlaughlin of Five Valleys Audubon. Gallagher Business Building, Rm. 123. 7:30 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11 Learn what the FWP has in mind for the ‘12 and ‘13 hunting seasons. Doubletree Hotel, Missoula. 6:30 PM. This month’s meeting of the Rocky Mountaineers features a spiel by Mike Hoyt aka The PhotoHiker on snow and skiing in the Bitterroots. 221 E. Front St. 7 PM. Free. rockymountaineers.com
THURSDAY JANUARY 12 You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students. Learn what the FWP has in mind for the ‘12 and ‘13 hunting seasons. Seeley Lake Community Center. 6:30 PM. calendar@missoulanews.com
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Arts wishes for 2012 Hope springs eternal with a flip of the calendar by Skylar Browning
It’s time to stop looking back. As the holidays slip past, resolutions begin to take shape and students start to sneak back into town, now is the time to take stock of the current arts scene and highlight what’s next. Call it a wish list—a few of the things we’re desperately hoping for or eagerly anticipating. If and when these happen, 2012 will shape up to be a very good arts year. A new home
The Montana Museum of Art and Culture includes more than 11,000 works of art and is considered one of the best publicly-owned collections in the Pacific Northwest. For 118 years, Montana’s only state-owned museum devoted to art has only been missing one thing: the actual museum. Right now the University of Montana-based collection is spread between several campus buildings and storage space. A year ago, UM emerged as a potential buyer of the Macy’s building on Front and Higgins, with the MMAC viewed as a main tenant, but the deal fell through. A Virginiabased developer purchased the downtown building instead. Alternative locations for MMAC have been considered over the years, and Director Barbara Koostra says the latest proposal involves an on-campus building that would house the collection and serve as a UM’s welcome center. 2012 would be the perfect time to finally give this prized collection the commitment and showcase it deserves. Long Wait over
Deciding on the greatest Montana band ever is a barroom debate that has yet to be settled. Mission Mountain Wood Band certainly has its devotees. I once heard a passionate argument for death metal duo Black Jesus Vomit based almost entirely on the name. For many, though, the answer is Silkworm. The post-punk indie band first formed in Missoula under the name Ein Heit. In early 1990, original members Andy Cohen, Joel Phelps and Tim Midgett moved to Seattle, joined with drummer Michael Dahlquist and went on to become one of the more formative groups of their era.
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“Their utter lack of attitude or affectation made them the left-handed albinos of ’90s guitar rock, and their no-nonsense approach managed to wrangle the respect of nearly every big-deal no-name rock band of the past 10 years,” wrote the Boston Phoenix in naming Silkworm the state’s “all-time best band.” Director Seth Pomeroy and producer Shawn Girvan have been working the last six years to bring Silkworm’s story to the big screen. Couldn’t You Wait?, named after one of their more popular songs, covers everything from the band’s modest Missoula beginning to its tragic end in 2005 after Dahlquist was killed in a car accident. Among those interviewed for the feature film are fellow Missoula rock legend and Silkworm producer Steve Albini, Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Ike Turner and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. One scene reportedly involves a long-lost Ein Heit interview. “Andy must be 14,” said Midgett of the scene after viewing the rough cut. Pomeroy says Couldn’t You Wait? is currently being submitted to film festivals. “We’d love to show it in Missoula and I’m certain we will,” he adds, but as of now no date has been set.
shows. With Montana Rep Missoula expected to return to the Crystal for its 2012-2013 season, and the new faces gaining traction, the future of local theater could be bright. Blood on the big screen
One of the most talked about arts stories of 2011 involved the pre-production and shooting of Winter in the Blood, the feature film adaptation of James Welch’s landmark debut novel. The production is full of local connections both behind and in front of the camera. Montana natives Alex and Andrew Smith (The Slaughter Rule) wrote the screenplay and are directing. It was shot on location in and around the Hi-Line, including the Fort Belknap Reservation where Welch was reared. The cast features a number of local actors such as Chaske Spencer, who grew up on reservations in Montana and Idaho and most recently appeared in The Twilight Saga, and UM graduate Lily Gladstone. The film is currently in the editing process and slated for a 2012 premiere. If it stays on schedule and meets even a fraction of the early expectations, it’ll surely be one of the biggest arts stories of the year. Sold to the right bidder
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Last year was not kind to local theater. Montana Actors’ Theatre, the company in residence at the Crystal Theatre, went on hiatus and shows no sign of returning. Montana Rep Missoula cut back its schedule to just two shows and chose to stage both at the Masquer Theatre on UM’s campus rather than at a downtown venue. The result was a dearth of regular downtown theater in a town that’s shown it can support it. Things are expected to change in 2012. The void is being filled by new acts and some new venues. Sketch comedy from the likes of Teresa Waldorf and Rosie Ayers and a new theater troupe headed by David Simmons and his wife, Marilyn Rice, occupied the Crystal Theatre with separate events in December. The Top Hat and Downtown Dance Collective have also stepped into the picture, hosting independent dance performances, live theater and burlesque
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The sale of the Wilma Theatre should matter greatly to the local arts scene. The 1,100-seat, 90-year-old venue hosts more than 50 concerts a year, two major local film festivals and dozens of other community or special events. Every night it screens alternative movies that would otherwise get passed over by the two mainstream theaters on North and South Reserve. Whether the new buyer comes from Missoula or out of state, it’s imperative that the Wilma’s role in the community be at least maintained or, at best, enhanced. Return of the stadium show
It’s been more than five years since the Rolling Stones performed inside Washington-Grizzly Stadium and 13 years since Pearl Jam kicked off its 1998 North American tour in the same venue. It’s about time someone else stepped to the base of Mount Sentinel and treated more than 23,000 attendees—plus those enterprising onlookers atop Sentinel and Jumbo—to another stadium-style show. But who’s up for it? That speculation makes for almost as much fun as hearing Keith Richards mumble mid-set about wanting to move to Big Sky Country. It’d have to be an act with considerable stature, preferably with some cross-generational pull. The act must also fit Missoula’s particular artistic sensibilities. In other words, you have as much a chance of catching Lady Gaga in a pair of Dockers as you do of seeing her perform here. Taylor Swift and Kenny Chesney, both of whom outgrossed Gaga’s ticket sales in 2011, would appeal to the local country crowd. U2, last year’s top grossing act, would certainly suffice and is no more unrealistic than the Stones. Can’t you just hear Bono preaching about the plight of bison and the demise of the American dream as a lead-in to “Bullet the Blue Sky”? Other candidates: Prince and Bruce Springsteen. The wildest suggestion belongs to Indy calendar editor Jason McMackin, who notes Van Halen (with David Lee Roth, but not, unfortunately, bassist Michael Anthony) recently announced plans for a 2012 summer tour. Specific stops have yet to be released, meaning Missoula still has a chance to make the cut. One can only wish. sbrowning@missoulanews.com
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The Be Helds Volume I self-released
This album is the perfect soundtrack to those long forgotten Super 8 films squirreled away in your grandma’s attic. The LP transports the listener to simpler times, when love and its fellow concerns seemed to be all that mattered. The opener, “Leave It Be,” jangles and lolliwoggles into 1960s lo-fi garage pop territory and seems instantly recognizable, like the essence of pop music cooked down to its barest elements. With a hint of blues in the harp playing and distant, fuzzed out vocals, it’s hard not to imagine an afternoon spent holding Olivia d’Abo’s hand in kneedeep grass. It’s worth mentioning that The Be Helds–a local band–are a duo made up of drums and guitar. What
The Ax Fossils of Our Kind Whoa! Boat Records
Considering the blistering power and thump of The Ax’s music, it’s amazing that vocalist and guitarist Chris Pierce can deliver his lyrics with the practiced calm of your cool uncle who rides motorbikes and dates teenaged girls. It has been noted by local experts that when a drummer is too busy being awesome he can take the rock right out of
ASAP Rocky LiveLoveA$AP Polo Grounds/RCA
Calling ASAP Rocky’s LiveLoveA$AP a mixtape is less an act of description than an aesthetic statement. Technically, these 16 bass-blurred purple drank tracks constitute a mixtape because they’re available for free on the internet. But the aesthetic is what’s important: LiveLoveA$AP is a refutation of New York hip hop and the gilded event-albums that have come to define it. Rocky has made no secret of his disdain for Harlem’s rap culture, and his love of all things Houston is evident from the leviathan opening beats of “Palace” to his persistently un-New York twang. It’s southern rap that proves the South begins at
Laura Veirs Tumble Bee Raven Marching Band
This is not a children’s album. It matters not that the cover reads “Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children” and four tracks are lullabies, and that another song is giddily titled “Jump Down Spin Around.” All of those things merely offer the appearance of a children’s album, the sort of collection that gets dismissed by most grownups like a Christmas jingle in January. Tumble Bee deserves better.
they lack in numbers they make up for with hooks-a-plenty and charming, “aw shucks we’re just a couple of happy boys” vocals, as in “Whose Afternoon.” This track is forlorn and lonesome and hopeful all at the same time. Its appeal lies in the lockstep simplicity of the drums and the minor crescendo of warbling “woos” that end the song. Like the best music, Volume I transports you to another world, a world made up of the grainy footage of nearly forgotten memories. (Jason McMackin) The Be Helds play an album release show at the Top Hat Friday, Jan. 6, at 9 PM with The Skurfs, Ancient Forest and Jacob Milestone. $3. rock and roll—think Tool. But in the case of The Ax, the eptitude of drummer Adam Jelsing is frightfully grooving and face-slamming, not to mention intriguing. The dissonant tones and stock metal riff on “The Flood” is made new again by the percussive choices Jelsing makes. “Bent the Wires” begins nastily enough but as the nattering guitar figure repeats, the song digs up some serious dirt and starts to hammer like a classic Tad track. With NW music legend Jack Endino (Melvins, Nirvana) doing the knob-twisting in the studio, The Ax sounds positively heavy and punchy. You almost don’t notice the lack of a bass player. Almost. This is an album that ends much too soon. At eight tracks, some of which clock in at around one minute, this 10” feels like a full-on Lolita-style tease. (Jason McMackin) 5 9 th S t r e e t , b u t internecine heresy is not what makes LiveLoveA$AP so remarkable. If the development of rap can be understood as the exploration of ever more conversational flows, ASAP Rocky is friggin’ Magellan. He is a master of meter, constructing rhymes whose diction dictates rhythm so surely that they seem to rap themselves. Rocky is bringing the triplet back like he’s in Naughty By Nature. After an hour of LiveLoveA$AP, Ghostface sounds like Kurtis Blow. The lyrics are startling and lazy in turn, but the flow is audacious, and real like the day after yesterday. (Dan Brooks) Veirs offers up 13 thoughtful folk tunes expertly arranged to showcase her sugary vocals and mask any hint of medicine. Kids can bounce along happily or soothe themselves to sleep, but astute older listeners will appreciate some of the album’s choices. A cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Why Oh Why” wonders why grandpa ain’t grandma, among other questions. “The Fox” includes a colorful description of the title character’s fowl dinner. A catchy version of the calypso standard “Jamaica Farewell” is about leaving friends behind. UM grad and longtime Veirs collaborator Colin Meloy even makes an appearance with “Soldier’s Joy,” a very un-kid-like Civil War-era song. (Carson Ellis, another UM grad and Meloy’s wife, designed the album cover.) Tumble Bee may sound like, and be marketed as, a children’s album, but adults will be the ones throwing a hissy fit to hear more. (Skylar Browning)
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Western made Teddy, six-shooter in hand, leaps off the page by Robert Meyerowitz
Roger L. Di Silvestro’s Theodore Roosevelt in Topping it all off were the spectacles that the badly the Badlands is a terrific piece of the great man’s nearsighted Teddy needed, which were far less combiography, but there’s a paradox at its core. The mon than they are today. And that inevitably led to land Roosevelt visited in the 1880s was still a virtu- trouble. Roosevelt stopped one night at Nolan’s Hotel al blank in American culture. Its myth was already in Mingusville, Montana. He’d no sooner stepped building, however, and Roosevelt’s tales would inside than he came up against a large, drunken bully burnish it, so that what today might seem like with a six-shooter in each hand who ordered “Four clichéd adventures in part created the legends. Eyes” to buy drinks for everyone in the bar. Roosevelt And they’re all true—as Di Silvestro meticulously tried to ignore him, but, he wrote, “The fact that I wore demonstrates. glasses, together with my evident desire to avoid a fight, Teddy was the scion of an old and affluent New apparently gave him the impression—a mistaken one— that I would not resent an York family. Yet he was a injury.” So Roosevelt put small, sickly child. Getting his Harvard boxing lesinto Harvard was less a sons to use and decked challenge for him than the man. His reputation building up his body. He in the Badlands was did it, though, through secured. force of will and endless Besides his investhours of exercise—and he ment, which eventually learned to box, and shoot, foundered, Roosevelt was and hunt, setting him on a in the West to hunt big course for “the strenuous game. He especially wantlife” he extolled ever after. ed a buffalo head to He wasn’t truly good at adorn the wall of his new most of these things, as he house on Long Island. He was quick to admit, but that would become the father wasn’t the point. It was of the conservation movedoing them at all that matment in the U.S., but in tered to him, and eventual1883, with buffalo on the ly, to millions of Americans. verge of extinction, He was the man of letters Roosevelt finally killed a and action combined, a big bull in eastern Hemingway long before Montana. “I never saw there was one. any more buffalo after In 1881, when he was that,” his guide recalled. 22, Roosevelt was elected Roger L. Di Silvestro “They disappeared from to the New York State leg- Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands Hardcover, Walker & Company the range.” islature. The next year he 368 pages, $27.00 More than escapades published his first book, a history. He had a promising future—and then, in and derring-do, the West seems to have been the place 1884, his mother and his young wife died on the that gave Roosevelt the common touch that would same day. Teddy got on a train in New York and, five serve him so well in the White House. Unlike the days later, was in the Dakota Territory. He was sure urban, East Coast world he’d known, the West didn’t he would never be happy again and thought he value lineage and connections. If a man could ride and might as well personally buttress his investment in rope and shoot, and shoulder his share of misery, he the cattle business and drown his sorrows as a cow- was in. For the rest of Teddy’s crowded life, this boy. He started off running several hundred head of paragon of manliness was quick to credit his time in the cattle in Medora, just a few miles east of the West with making him a man. This is exciting history, of Roosevelt and the West, Montana line. Roosevelt arrived “decked out in all the cow- limited only by its scope. It’s virtually impossible to boy splendor that New York City haberdashers read about Roosevelt and not want to know more. could conceive,” Di Silvestro writes. “He carried We’re lucky to have so many fine studies of him, such ivory-handled six-shooters, his initials carved on as the splendid three-volume biography by Edmund one side of the handle and the head of a bison on Morris, the third volume of which was just published the other… He wore silver spurs also emblazoned last year, as well as lively studies that break off pieces of with his initials, and he strapped them to alligator his career, as Candice Millard did in her eminently readboots; his belt flashed with a silver buckle engraved able River of Doubt and as Di Silvestro has done here. with the head of a grizzly, his gun belt and holster It’s an important part of an important life, for the were tooled, his Colt revolver was engraved with Badlands, as Di Silvestro writes, “had served as a crurich scrollwork and plated in silver and gold; he cible for Theodore Roosevelt, and what it had made of carried a bowie knife, a species of weapon with a him was about to emerge on the national stage.” good western pedigree…but his was custom-made at Tiffany’s.” editor@missoulanews.com
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Top tier Cruise delivers the goods in Mission Impossible by Dave Loos
I’m just going to take a guess here and say that in the real world the IT folks at the world’s tallest building probably wouldn’t put the main server room on the 130th floor. For starters, it would take up prime real estate that could otherwise be allocated to luxury condos, not to mention that it’s a long elevator ride for the tech guys when e-mail goes out … you know what, I’m just going to stop trying to be logical about this. In
A typical day at the office.
Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, the server room has to be on the 130th floor. And you know there’s only one way to access it without being detected, right? I’m sure there will be other films that one day take advantage of the cinematic opportunities offered by the brand new 163-story Burj Khalifa, but the fourth installment of Mission: Impossible uses the Dubai skyscraper as a set piece to such a high degree of awesomeness that I weep for others who try to imitate it. That the film maintains this level of excellence as it dashes around the globe from Budapest to Moscow to Dubai to India is something of a surprise given that the previous two installments of the series weren’t particularly memorable. Also, let’s not forget that Tom Cruise hasn’t starred in an above-average film since Minority Report nearly a decade ago. That streak ends here. Ghost Protocol is the best of the series, and the credit here goes as much to Cruise and his entertaining entourage of IMF operatives as it does to director Brad Bird (The Incredibles and Ratatouille), who for the first time in his career helms a film starring humans not Pixar characters. Ghost Protocol has some of the most memorable action sequences since the Bourne films, but it also has a level of self-awareness here far greater than the previous M:I installments that pushes it into territory occupied by the best Bond movies. Ethan Hunt may be the ultimate no-nonsense IMF agent, but the filmmakers understand that Hunt works in a ridiculous world where cryptic messages selfdestruct and hidden computer consoles are always available no matter what Russian back alley you’re hid-
ing in. So it’s fantastic when early on, one of those messages doesn’t explode and requires a tap from Cruise to give us the bang we’re looking for. It’s a wink to the audience that never really stops, especially in the early scenes that make about zero sense if you think too hard. But damn if it isn’t cool to watch Hunt and his IMF sidekick Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg, reprising his entertaining role from M:I 3) impersonate Russian military officers as they infiltrate the Kremlin’s archive room. The plan fails, Hunt and Dunn barely escape, there’s a very large explosion and next thing you know the U.S. is being blamed for a terrorist attack on Russia. This doesn’t bode well for Hunt and his team, which includes agent Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and, eventually, a mysterious IMF analyst played by Jeremy Renner. The President disavows the entire agency, leaving the rogue foursome without assistance or backup as they try to pursue the real bad guys who’ve stolen nuclear launch codes from the Kremlin. Lucky for us, the secret meet-up between the guys with the launch codes and the guys with access to the nukes takes place in Dubai at the aforementioned very tall building. And so begins the best 30 minutes or so of the film, where Hunt & Co. must pull off a series of double switches that includes confusing the bad guys into thinking they’re on a different floor of the building than they actually are. It’s often funny and always entertaining, and we haven’t even gotten to Hunt’s astounding adventure on the exterior of a 2,000-foot building. There’s actually video evidence that Cruise shot this scene on location without a stunt double, which I hope at least earns him another level or two up the Scientology ladder. While Ghost Protocol consistently delivers a healthy dose of adrenaline every 10 minutes or so, the film occasionally cools off when it returns to a mysterious back-story involving Hunt and Renner’s character, William Brandt. It’s extraneous and silly, made worse every time Brandt gives us a new iteration of the pained-expression face. Renner is supposedly the heirapparent leading man in the series once Cruise steps away. I hope this isn’t true. And let’s hope Cruise doesn’t step away anytime soon, because he seems to have hit his stride with this one. I’m okay with three or four more, especially if they include Simon Pegg as the comic relief, and even more so if they keep Cruise from pursuing Top Gun 2, which is rumored to be in development. Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol continues at the Carmike 12 and the Village 6. arts@missoulanews.com
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Scope Noise Books Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK THE DEVIL INSIDE Here comes a daughter with the look of a sleuth in her eye, as she seeks to discover how her mother died and perhaps who her mother killed during an exorcism. Starring Fernanda Andrade and Simon Quarterman. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Stadium 14: 12:20, 2:45, 4:55, 7:10 and 9:25 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:10, 4, 7:10 and 9:25 pm, Mon.-Thu. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY One last mission. Retired spy George Smiley returns to duty and looks to foil a Soviet Cold War plot, in this film based on John le Carré’s book. Starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9:15 pm, with Sat. matinees at 1 and 3:15 pm. Stadium 14: 12:45, 3:45, 6:40 and 9:30 pm, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. 1, 3:45, 6:40 and 9:30 pm, Mon.-Thu.
the world’s power supply. Let’s hope the intrepid youth get tweeked and decide they need their iPods recharged. Starring Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby. Village 6: 3D: 9:15 pm on Fri. and Sat. Stadium 14: 6:45 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 6:50 pm, Mon.-Thu.
pm shows on Fri. and Sat., and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12, 12:45, 3, 6, 6:45 and 9, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1, 3, 6, 6:40 and 9, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 pm.
THE DESCENDANTS George Clooney takes his daughters on a trip to confront the man she has been cheating on him with. Did I mention his wife is on life support? Stadium 14: 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 and 9:20, with a midnight show on Fri. 1:05, 3:45, 6:40 and 9:20 pm, Mon.-Thu.
THE MUPPETS Gen-Xers rejoice, the Muppets are getting the band back together to save their beloved theater from a rich old oil tycoon. Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Fozzie and Miss Piggy star. Carmike 12: 1:15 and 4:25 pm. Stadium 14: 12 pm Fri.-Sun. 1 pm Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:20.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (U.S.) Based on Stieg Larsson’s book, a journalist gets some help finding a person from a spooky lady. Stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Carmike 12: 1:40, 5:20 and 9 pm. Village 6: 5 pm, with 9 pm shows Fri. and Sat., and 1 pm matinees on Sat.
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Michelle Williams plays Marilyn Monroe in this story about the terse relationship between Sir Laurence Olivier and the actress during production of The Prince and the Showgirl. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 pm.
WAR HORSE A young man’s horse is enlisted for use by the British cavalry during WWI, so of course the young man joins up for a spot of adventure and to find that beloved creature. Spielberg directs, cue welllit faces. Carmike 12: 2, 5:30 and 9 pm. Big D: 1, 4:30 and 7:45 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 pm nightly, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12, 2:20, 3:15, 5:25, 6:30, 8:30 and 9:40, with a midnight show Fri. 1, 3:20, 4:15, 6:25, 7:15 and 9:20 pm. Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 pm. WE BOUGHT A ZOO Matt Damon buys a struggling pet sanctuary and makes his heinous old wife, played by Scarlett Johansson, live there with their kids and the mechanic guy from that TV show “Wings.” Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:30 and 7:45 pm. Village 6: 4:45 and 7:45 pm, with 10 pm shows on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm mati-
I wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers. The Devil Inside opens Friday at the Carmike 12 and Stadium 14.
NOW PLAYING THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN A boy and his dog have marvelous shipboard, airborne and motorcycle-straddling adventures around the globe. Starring Simon Pegg, Daniel Craig and Carey Elwes. Directed by Spielberg. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4, 6:40 and 9:15 pm. 3D: 7:35 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm. 3D: 3 pm, Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 3:30 pm. 3D: 1, 6:50 and 9:30 pm. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIP-WRECKED Alvin and his bros., along with the Chipettes, fall off a cruise ship and drown. Jokes. They end up on a desert island. Starring Jason Lee and the voices of Justin Long and Amy Poehler. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:10, 6:30 and 8:45. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:10 pm, with matinees at 1:35 pm on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:20, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:40 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1, 4, 7 and 9 pm, Mon.-Thu. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm. DARKEST HOUR Leave it to the aliens to land in Moscow and attack
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and Sun. Stadium 14: 12, 3:20, 6:30 and 9:30, Fri.-Sun. 1:10, 4:20 and 7:45 pm, Mon.-Thu. Pharaohplex: 7 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Mountain: 1, 4, 6:50 and 9:45 pm. On Sun., Jan 8: 1:45, 4:45 and 7:45 pm. HUGO Based on a children’s book no one in this office has ever read, Hugo is the story of a Parisian orphan who lives in the walls of a train station during the 1930s. There is a mystery, too, involving a robot and the boy’s father. Directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. Carmike 12: 3D: 7:35. Village 6: 3D: 4:30 and 7:40 pm, with matinees at 1:35 pm on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 6:30 and 9:30 pm. Pharaohplex: 3D: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL Ethan Hunt and his crew are forced to go rogue, y’all. Told you not to bomb the Kremlin. Starring Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg. Carmike 12: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with 10
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NEW YEAR’S EVE The lives of many couples cross paths many times and many lessons are learned about love and its many splendors. Directed by Garry Marshall and starring everyone not busy that day, including Robert DeNiro, Halle Berry and Ludacris. Village 6: 4 and 7:15 pm, with 9:45 pm shows on Fri. and Sat and matinees on Sat. and Sun at 1 pm. Stadium 14: 9:45 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Perhaps Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson will match wits with Professor Moriarty once again. Indubitably. Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45 and 8 pm. Big D: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with 10 pm shows on Fri. and Sat., and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:10, 1, 3, 4, 7 and 9. No 12:10 pm show Mon.-Thu Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30. Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9:35 pm.
nees Sat. and Sun Stadium 14: 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30, with a midnight show on Fri.-Mon. 1:15, 4, 6:45 and 9:30 pm Tue.-Thu. Mountain: 1:45, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:20 pm. YOUNG ADULT This movie is about how hard it is to be pretty on the outside and not so on the inside. It stars Charlize Theron, who returns to her hometown to rekindle a romance with her high school beau. Stadium 14: 3:45 and 9:45 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 3:45 and 9:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Jan. 6. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–5417469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ; S t a d i u m 14 i n Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.
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Missy is an active young lady who gets along with everyone and who would really enjoy having a home that includes another dog as a playmate. Of course, playful people would probably suit her just fine too!
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Ruby's hind end is ALWAYS wiggling! She loves to go for walks on leash and meet new people. Ruby has never met a dog she didn't like and gets along great with cats. Ruby will provide quiet companionship and her smile is contagious! She is approximately 2 years old and enjoys training.
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Manala was a happy girl, living her life in a home that she loved, until the new baby became allergic to her. She is hoping she gets a chance to find a forever family to unconditionally love her just as much as she loves them.
JUNE
The afternoon summer sun, blue sky, white puffy clouds...June is not only a beautiful month, but June is also a beautiful kitty. You can enjoy June all year long by giving her a forever home! Equus & Paws, L.L.C.
BOULDER
A boulder is defined as a large, smooth piece of rock detached from its place of origin. Boulder was detached from his place of origin as a kitten during our 2010 kitten season. He is a beautiful 1 1/2 year-old Tuxedo kitty. 715 Kensington Ste 8
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Taken away from his home with his lifelong companion, and who was adopted from AniMeals not long after arriving, Shy became somewhat reclusive. This 3-year-old went through a tough time and internalized his pain of losing what he thought was his forever home. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at
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PET OF THE WEEK Dixie This 5 year old tortoiseshell LOVES to lounge! She is quiet and easy going. Want to win her heart? Just give her a gentle scratch behind the ears and you’ll be rewarded with a purr. She is a “Sidekick” based on the MYM personality assessment. A sidekick wants to hang out with you but also enjoys their alone time. She’s great company and even gets along well with other cats! Call the Humane Society at (406)549-3934 or visit www.myhswm.org for more information.
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AXING A GIRL OUT You overlooked the danger when you replied to the woman who was invited on a hiking date by a man she’d had a crush on. You said that he probably got interested because he saw her with her new boyfriend. Well, he could also have wanted to murder her because of that. Every year, there’s news of a female body being found in a remote area—or not found after a disappearance. —Prudent Woman Recall that this guy spent seven years barely noticing this woman before noticing she had a boyfriend and asking her out. This is not exactly the behavior of a man obsessed, brimming with jealous rage. Chances are, he just thought, “Hmm, I could hit that.” (And I very much doubt he meant “over the head with a shovel.”) How likely is it that a date could end in a shallow grave? Well, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2005, 513 women in the U.S. were murdered by “boyfriends” (men they were dating but not married to) and 164 men were murdered by “girlfriends.” (And yes, men, too, are victims of domestic violence, much of which goes unreported.) These intimate partner murder stats are a bit unreliable because the FBI doesn’t always identify the perp/victim relationship, but even if you include the 2,363 uncategorized murders of women, a woman’s chances of being a victim of “dinner and a murder” are seriously small. Divide the 513 number by the population of unmarried American women ages 15 to 64—45,752,000, per a 2009 Census Bureau sample—and a woman has an 11 in a million chance of getting offed by her date. (Statistically, she’s far more likely to speak Cherokee.) Of course, those odds of getting murdered really only apply if she’s anywoman on anydate with anyman. Unfortunately, partly because people are reluctant to be seen as “blaming the victim,” there’s a politically correct popular notion that intimate partner violence happens at random, to random victims, kind of like an air conditioner falling out of a high window just as you’re underneath walking the dog. But, various authorities on violence, including personal security expert Gavin de Becker and domestic violence researcher Jacquelyn Campbell, have independently identified very similar coercive, autonomylimiting behaviors in men who murder their female partners. These behaviors echo the four items from a 1993 Statistics Canada survey that researchers Martin Daly and Margo Wilson noted were strong
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predictors that a woman will experience serious violence from a male partner: “1. He is jealous and doesn’t want you to talk to other men; 2. He tries to limit your contact with family or friends; 3. He insists on knowing who you are with and where you are at all times; 4. He calls you names to put you down or make you feel bad.” Although government agencies and victim assistance organizations parrot the politically correct warning that intimate partner violence “can happen to anyone,” the truth is, certain women are more likely to be victimized, and research shows a stew of contributing social, financial, and cultural factors. (Poverty and prior experience of family violence are two biggies.) Amazingly, there’s almost no research showing the particular psychology that might make one more prone to get into (and stay in) a physically violent relationship. (In the scant findings there are, researchers are unable to tease out whether, say, low self-esteem precipitated victimization or was caused by it.) But, it seems likely that women who have low self-worth, who are “pleasers,” and who have abandonment issues—women who are more likely to stay in emotionally abusive relationships—are more likely to stay in physically abusive ones. De Becker, in his vast experience with victims and victimizers, concurs, observing in “The Gift of Fear” that “men who cannot let go choose women who cannot say no.” The muzzle of political correctness— intended to protect the feelings of victims— actually makes women more likely to be victimized by stifling discussion about who becomes a victim and how they might prevent it. Interestingly, the bounds of political correctness don’t extend to how we portray men. But, demonizing all men as deadly is like demonizing crossing the street because many people die each year at intersections (983 in 2009). A better idea is to look both ways. In relationships, this means assessing your individual risk for victimization and fixing feelings of low selfworth instead of trying to plaster over them with a partner—a partner you may feel compelled to cling to no matter what. In dating, this means engaging your judgment—not going off into the woods with some guy you barely know but also not seeing life as one giant “Law & Order” episode: “Hey, pretty lady...in the mood for a murder-suicide, or would you rather just see a movie?”
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s impossible for the human body to run a mile in less than four minutes—at least that’s what the conventional wisdom used to say. And indeed, no one in history ever broke that barrier until May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister raced a mile in three minutes, 59.4 seconds. Since then, lots of athletes have done it and the record has been lowered by another 17 seconds. In fact, the sub-four-minute mile is now regarded as a standard accomplishment for middledistance runners. I suspect that in 2012 you will accomplish your own version of Bannister’s feat—a breakthrough that once seemed crazy difficult or beyond your capacity.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his book Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures, former FBI agent Robert K. Wittman tells the story of the world’s second largest crystal ball. Worth $350,000 and once belonging to the Chinese Dowager Empress, it was stolen from a museum. Wittman never located the actual robber, but years later he tracked down the crystal ball to a person who had acquired it quite innocently and by accident. She was a young witch in New Jersey who, unaware of its origins or value, kept it on her bedroom dresser with a baseball cap on top of it. I suspect you may have a comparable adventure in the coming months, Gemini. If you look hard and keep an open mind, you will eventually recover lost riches or a disappeared prize in the least likely of places.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Back in 1958, 17-year-old Bob Heft created a 50-star American flag for a high school project. Hawaii and Alaska were being considered for U.S. statehood at that time, and a new design was needed to replace the old 48-star flag. Heft’s teacher originally gave him a grade of B- for his work. But when his model was later selected to be the actual American flag, the teacher raised his grade to an A. I suspect that a similar progression is in store for you in the coming year, Leo. Some work you did that never received proper credit will finally be accorded the value it deserves.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Once every decade or so, you’re asked to make a special point of practicing forgiveness and atonement. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that time will be the next few months. I think it’ll be quite important for you to cleanse the grungy build-up of regrets and remorse from your psyche. Ready to get started? Compose a list of the sins you could expiate, the karmic debts you can repay, and the redemptions you should initiate. I suggest you make it into a fun, creative project that you will thoroughly enjoy.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happiness isn’t a state you acquire by luck. It takes hard work and relentless concentration. You have to rise up and rebel against the nonstop flood of trivial chaos and meaningless events you’re invited to wallow in. You have to overcome the hard-core cultural conditioning that tempts you to assume that suffering is normal and the world is a hostile place. It’s really quite unnatural to train yourself to be peaceful and mindful; it’s essentially a great rebellion against an unacknowledged taboo. Here’s the good news: 2012 will be an excellent time for you to do this work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): More and more musicians and authors are choosing to selfpublish. That way they retain the full rights to their creative work, keeping it from being controlled and potentially misused by a record label or publishing company. One example is singer-songwriter Terri Hendrix, who owns all 14 of her master recordings. She lives by the motto, “Own Your Own Universe.” I urge you to adopt her approach in 2012, Aquarius. The coming months will be prime time for you to do all you can to take full possession of everything you need to become what you want to be.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming months will be a time when you’ll thrive by seeking out novel ideas, using new words, and regarding your imagination as an organ that’s as important to feed as your stomach. In that spirit, I’m offering you a slew of freshly made-up terms that’ll help tease your brain in ways that are in alignment with the upcoming astrological factors. They all come from the very NSFW dictionary at http://tinyurl.com/Dixtionary. 1. Assymectricity: energy generated by lopsidedness. 2. Enigmagnetic: a person who attracts mysteries. 3. Indumbnitable: incapable of being dumbed down. 4. Beneviolent: helpful chaos. 5. Fauxbia: a fake fear. 6. Craptometry: ability to see through all the BS. 7. Adoregasm: when you treasure someone to the point of ecstasy.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) Landscape Architecture, Engineering, and related services to include Design Development Plan, phased development plan and cost estimates for Missoula County-owned portion of Fort Missoula Regional Park (FMRP), approximately 62 acres.Missoula County, Montana Submittal Deadline: Monday, February 13, 2012 Late submittals will NOT be accepted. Attention: Missoula County Fort Missoula Regional Park Design Development Project RFQ 317 Woody Missoula, MT 59802 Five (5) copies, plus one electronic copy, of the proposal must be received by the deadline. Questions should be directed to County Parks’ Office (lmoisey@co.missoula.mt.us) (406)258-4716 To view the full RFP, including project overview; scope of services; and organization and submittal requirements; please visit Missoula County Website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals/bidandproposals.htm
MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Director of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 2:00 P.M. local time, on January 19th, 2012 for the construction of the Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes the demolition of existing septic tank, installing new, sanitary forcemain piping and grinder pump station, and abandoning existing septic drain field including appurtenant piping, sitework, and facilities required for the operational pressure sewer system. The sanitary forcemain is supplied by the Owner, but all remaining items shall be supplied by the Contractor. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for site cleanup and other miscellaneous work items involved with pressure sewer system per plans and specifications. PROJECT FINANCING: The “Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project” is funded by Missoula County. Bidders must meet all requirements of the appropriate Federal/State, County and City agencies, as indicated in the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The work as mentioned above will be as shown on the plans and
defined in the specifications. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within fourteen (14) calendar days for all bid items after the commencement date of construction is agreed upon by Missoula County and the said Contractor. However, if a construction date is not able to be agreed upon, the Owner shall make the final decision once the Owner issues the Notice to Proceed. Contract time will be extended in accordance with the contract documents. DOCUMENT EXAMINATION AND PROCUREMENTS The Bidding and Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations “Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project”: Missoula County—Public Works 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801 Missoula Plans Exchange 201 N. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 Great Falls Builders Exchange 202 2nd Ave. S., #1 Great Falls, MT 59405 NW Montana Plans Exchange 2303 US Highway 12 East, Kalispell, MT 59901 Billings Builders Exchange 2050 Broadwater Avenue, Suite A Billings, MT 59102 Helena Plans Exchange 1530 Cedar Street, Ste. C, Helena, MT 59601 Butte Builders Exchange 4801 Hope Road Butte, MT 59701 Bozeman Builders Exchange 1105 Reeves Road West Bozeman, MT 59718 Copies of the Contract Documents may be purchased by mailing check or money order to: Attn: Devie Bessette HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801 PH: 406-532-2200 A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished to the Contractor making application therefore from HDR Engineering, upon payment of $60.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash can not be accepted). No refunds will be allowed. Full-size drawings are not available. BID SECURITY: Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid
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proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of Missoula County against liability. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-4447734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for out-of-state contractors.) All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with Missoula County’s Business Licensing requirements. Proposals must be sealed and marked “ Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project”, “Opening” January 19th, 2012 at 2:00 PM and marked “Sealed Bid” with the Contractor’s name, address, current state license number, and, Montana Contractors Registration Number and be addressed to: Missoula County Director of Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 No facsimile bids will be accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Board of County Commissioners Office prior to the scheduled time of bid opening January 19th, 2012 at 2:00 PM. WAGE RATES: This project is funded by Missoula County. As a result, Montana Prevailing Wage Rate Determination (Davis Bacon Wage Rates for Public Works Contracts in Montana) applies to this project. A copy of the said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00825. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders shall attend a mandatory pre-bid conference which will be conducted jointly with the Owner and Engineer, at the Missoula County Road Department Shop, located at 6089 Training, Missoula, MT 59808 at 2:00 p.m. on January 12th, 2012. If the Prospective bidder does not attend the mandatory pre-bid conference, the bidder shall be considered non-responsive. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the Engineer. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The Engineer for this project is: Sean Everett, P.E. HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801-4708 Telephone: (406) 532-2200 OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the Owner and to re-advertise. The bid shall be determined on the basis of the lowest responsible bidder for all bid items listed in Section 00300. Bids received that do not include pricing for all Bid Items will be considered non-responsive. The Owner reserves the right to authorize construction of any combination of, or all of, bid items defined at the bid amounts presented in the Contractor’s Bid Proposal Date: December 29th, 2011 Owner: Missoula County By: Amy Rose Missoula County Public Works MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-11-231 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH N. GIBSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 MARK W. GIBSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of December, 2011 /s/ Mark W. Gibson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-223 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF OPALMAE H. FREY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Clifford A. Frey has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be for-
ever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Clifford A. Frey, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 14th day of December, 2011. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 598078234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-224 Dept. No. 4 Notice To Creditors IN RE THE ESTATE OF: Perry Eraine Tschida, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan TschidaBonde has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Joan Tschida-Bonde, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Judith A. Loring, Attorney At Law, PO Box 4, Stevensville, MT 59870, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 21st day of December, 2011. /s/ Joan Tschida-Bonde, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-11-221 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUN CHA MAST (a/k/a KIM MAST, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Nancy P. Gibson of GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 12th day of December, 2011. /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-11-112 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA ANN RICHARDS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed the Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the 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 LARRISAANN RICHARDS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 29th day of June, 2011. /s/ Larrisa Ann Richards, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/14/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201103167 B: 874 P: 182, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Christopher C. Curtice, a married person and Jennifer L. Curtice was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 81 of Maloney Ranch Phase VII, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 7, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $361,712.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $343,865.45, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200
West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96325) 1002.204666-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 09-0171529 Title Order No. 090803610MTGSI The following legally described trust property to be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/09/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. ReconTrust Company is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which WILLIAM R NOONEY AND ANNA M NOONEY as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MOUNTAIN WEST BAN,, N.A.. as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/13/2004 and recorded 04/19/2004, in Document No. 200410393 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 729 at Page Number 1754 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LOT 11 OF CHAPPELLE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3000 SAINT THOMAS DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. Together with any default in the payment of recurring obligations as they become due. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $491,768.64 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 12/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent,
unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 11/23/2011 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee Amanda Green 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 4143938 01/05/2012, 01/12/2012, 01/19/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on April 24, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A parcel of land located in the S1/2 of Section 32, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 5630. Western States Land Company, Inc., as Grantor, conveyed the real property of Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Kerry J. Harrill and Jana L. Harrill, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2011, in Book 883 of Micro at Page 686, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded December 5, 2011, in Book 886, Page 645, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $400,000.00, plus late fees of $1,000.00, for a total amount due of $401,000.00 as of November 22, 2011, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, accrued interest, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing fees. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 13th day of December, 2011. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula) On this 13th day of December, 2011, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 5-7-2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 14, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 3 OF AMENDED PLAT OF COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Brian W Jones and Kathlyen N Jones, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 14, 2004 and Recorded on January 20, 2004
under Document # 200401525, in Bk-725, Pg-354. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,318.29, beginning June 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 13, 2011 is $165,334.74 principal, interest at the rate of 5.75% now totaling $3,741.93, escrow advances of $-467.93, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,212.79, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.05 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an 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. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 12, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 12 day of October, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know 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 he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage V. Jones 42011.113 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 27, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of 1he First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801., the following described real proper-
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PUBLIC NOTICES ty situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 12 of KNOWLES ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 25 Kim L Richardson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 29, 2007 and Recorded January 29, 2007 in Book 791, Page 394, as Document No. 200702373. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,086.17, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 29, 2011 is $173,469.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.1250% now totaling $30,919.35, late charges in the amount of $1,505.18, escrow advances of $5,938.26 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,937.90, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.11 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, 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. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 21, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 21 day of October, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know 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 he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 CitiMortgage v Richardson 41926.296 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 6, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT 43 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1925 LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT ACROSS TRACTS 29 THROUGH 39 INCLUSIVE FOR ACCESS, INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED BY WARRANTY DEED RECORDED IN THE BOOK 165 OF MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1010 Cordel M. Earl, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity Nat’l Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Indymac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 24, 2006 and recorded on February 01, 2006 in Book 768, Page 436 under Document No. 200602437. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee of IndyMac Residential Mortgage- Backed Trust, Series 2006-L1, Residential Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-L1. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,427.93, beginning February 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 28, 2011 is $170,247.10 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $28,335.56, escrow advances of $770.69, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,071.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.56 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, 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. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 30 day of September, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know 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 he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Onewest V Earl 41969.591
other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30 day of September, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know 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 he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Guild V Wiley 41291.570
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 6, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: UNIT NO. 6 OF THE CEDARS CONDOMINIUM situated on Tract D of Hillview Heights No. 1, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof and according to the Declaration of Condominium on file and of record in the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder in Book 121 of Micro Records at page 107, filed and recorded pursuant to the provisions of the Montana Unit Ownership Act, Section 67-2301, et seq, R.C.M. 1947 as amended. TOGETHER WITH an undivided fractional interest in the general common elements equal to fractional ratio such unit owner’s unit bears to the total area of units and 100% right to use the limited common elements appertaining exclusively to his or her unit Kathleen Wiley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property 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 Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on July 10, 2009 and recorded on July 13, 2009 at 04:22:31 P.M. o’ clock in book 843, page 1038, under document No. 200917396. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $985.12, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 1, 2011 is $129,746.07 principal, interest at the rate of 5.50% now totaling $4,058.68, late charges in the amount of $157.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $500.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.55 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, 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
Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/02/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CAMERON Z GRIGGS, AND KATHLEEN M GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS AND NOT AS TENANTS IN COMMON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to OLD REPUBLIC NATIONAL TITLE CO as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN# 100015700052546252, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 08/04/2005, in document No. 200519979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 757 at Page Number 859 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY SITUATE IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: A TRACT OF LAND IN N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 49’ 04” E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S. 35 16’ 43” E., 442.74 FEET; THENCE S. 38 23’ 38” E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N. 40 21’ 56” W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 68; THENCE N. 40 58’ 12” E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS BY DEED FROM CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS RECORDED 08/13/2004 IN DEED BOOK 737 PAGE 1511, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA, COUNTY MONTANA. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND IN N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 DEGREES 49’ 04” E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212
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AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S. 35 DEGREES 16’ 43” E., 447.74 FEET; THENCE S. 38 DEGREES 23’ 38” E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N. 40 DEGREES 21’ 56” W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468; THENCE N. 40 DEGREES 58’ 12” E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 306 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 970. Property Address: 9800 BUTLER CREEK RD, Missoula, MT 59808-9081. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, OF HARBORVIEW 2005-13 TRUST FUND. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $298,586.45 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.125% per annum from 08/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/16/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110111402 FEI NO. 1006.147970 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/02/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JAMES R JONES as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES (MISSOULA) J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/31/2006 and recorded 09/01/2006, in document No. 200622490 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 782 at Page Number 530 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 3 IN BLOCK 2 OF VIRGINIA VILLAGE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFIICAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6 VIRGINIA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803-1234. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2006-HE2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2010, and all subsequent
installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $184,387.24 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 9.40% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/16/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110116624 FEI NO. 1006.147971 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/03/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROBERT D MUSCUTT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to AMERICAN PIONEER TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/09/2006 and recorded 05/06/2008, in document No. 200810219 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 818 at Page Number 595 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 21 OF BITTERROOT MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 13343 GREEN TREE CT, Lolo, MT 59847-9624. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWABS, INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-22. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN
THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $241,919.08 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.875% per annum from 11/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/17/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110138432 FEI NO. 1006.147995 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/04/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M CERASANI, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/06/2006 and recorded 12/12/2006, in document No. 200631786 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 788 at Page Number 1055 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 12 OF BEYER MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 12676 CONESTOGA WAY, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following item: 1. Public forum for a proposal from Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks for a Special Exception to allow a fishing access site and Variances from parking, screening, buffering, and landscaping standards of the County Zoning Resolution on property legally described as Tract 2 of COS 6118 located along Harper’s Bridge Road. See map S. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning and Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For a complete legal description or additional information regarding the special exception and variance request you may contact Jamie Erbacher at the same number or by e-mail at jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us.
PUBLIC NOTICES due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $387,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 03/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/18/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110141266 FEI NO. 1006.148053 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/09/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which STEVE LLEWELLYN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E NOENNIG as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/20/2004 and recorded 12/27/2004, in document No. 200435748 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 745 at Page Number 865 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 6 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 8540 MOURNING DOVE DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE MLMI TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-WMC2.
There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $173,106.13 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 10.625% per annum from 06/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/22/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110021249 FEI NO. 1006.138217 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/13/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LLOYD BERMINGHAM, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to SERVICELINK as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/24/2008 and recorded 06/05/2008, in document No. 200812522 in
PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula County Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. PUD Rezoning Request – Flynn Ranch Lot 1 PUD A request from Stockyard Investments, LLC to rezone property from RM1-45 to RM1-45 with a PUD overlay. The property is legally described as Lot 1, Flynn Ranch Subdivision and is located adjacent to George Elmer Drive, west of Hellgate Elementary School and north of Mullan Road. See Map I. 2. Amendment to Missoula City Subdivision Regulations, Article 4 In Response to 2011 State Legislature The 2011 Montana State Legislature revised two sections of the Montana Code Annotated, Title 76 Land Resources and Use, Local Regulation of Subdivisions statutory language to include review procedures for townhouse proposals as a subdivision exemption within existing condominium review procedures (based on HB 460)and modify the review procedures of preliminary plat approval (based on HB 522). Proposed amendments to the Missoula City Subdivision Regulations 4-040 - Review Procedure for Condominiums and 4-070 - Preliminary and Final Plats reflect these legislative changes. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The proposed Missoula City Subdivision Regulations, Article 4 amendments are available for public comment and can be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Send comments to Lewis YellowRobe at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, 59801, or to lyellowrobe@co.missoula.mt.us. The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on Item #1 at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 6, 2012 at City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula. The request is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on Item #2 at a time to be determined. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending the meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.
JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r Book/Reel/Volume Number 820 at Page Number 100 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS: THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 7 AND ALL OF LOT 8 IN BLOCK 42 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 754, PAGE 971, DATED 6/14/2005, AND RECORDED 06/15/2005, IN MISSOULA COUNTY RECORDS. TAX ID: 2504205 Property Address: 1031 COOPER ST, Missoula, MT 59802-2613. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $174,079.33 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 09/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGTHE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 25, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items:1.A request by Treasure State Ranches Inc. and James and Deanna Lane to have a 13,750 square foot grocery store near the corner of South 3rd Street West and Reserve Street, which is a Special Use (80%) in the City Special District #2.
SEE MAP OIf anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 2584657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the 2583869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.
other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 12/01/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110142378 FEI NO. 1006.148994
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RESOLUTION NUMBER 2011-134 A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO AMEND THE JTL SPECIAL DISTRICT ZONING FOR PROPERTY LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS ALL OF TRACT 1-A, CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY 4971 , LOCATED IN SECTION 6 OF TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M. (SEE MAP H), TO AMEND THE HOURS OF OPERATION TO ALLOW FOR LIMITED NIGHTTIME OPERATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS WHEREAS, 76-2-201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76113, as amended; and WHEREAS, 76-2-202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and WHEREAS, a request to amend zoning for the property legally described above was reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board at a public hearing held December 6, 2011; and WHEREAS, a notice of public hearing was advertised in the Independent on November 17, 2011 and November 24, 2011; and WHEREAS, a hearing was held by the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County on December 21, 2011, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed zoning amendment; and, WHEREAS, the County Commissioners resolve to make a clear record that they conditioned the approval of the zoning to require the following: 1.The gravel pit operator shall notify OPG in writing prior to any operations occurring after 6:00 PM and before 7:00 AM. The notification shall include the contract with the public agency requiring the nighttime operations, the approved Missoula City-County Health Department permits, and the dates and hours for the nighttime operations for the specific contract. 2.During hours of operation after 6:00 PM or before 7:00 AM, the gravel pit operator shall provide the following notifications two weeks prior to commencement of nighttime operations: Written notice to any Home Owners Associations representing properties within 300 feet of the JTL Special District; written notice to the owner of the Westview Mobile Home Park; posted notice at a location visible from Wilkie Street adjacent to the west boundary of the JTL Special District and at a point visible from Wheeler Drive along the south boundary of the gravel pit. 3.During hours of operation after 6:00 PM and before 7:00 AM, all vehicles and machinery shall utilize white noise indicators rather than backup beepers, until hours of darkness at which time strobing light warnings shall be utilized per OSHA requirements. In addition, any lighting installed for nighttime operations shall be shielded so that no light is emitted beyond the property. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will receive written protest for a period of thirty (30) days after publication of this notice on December 29, 2011, from persons owning real property within the contiguous boundaries of the JTL Special District. FURTHER, copies of the amended JTL Special District are available for inspection at the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder and the Office of Planning and Grants PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 21st DAY OF DECEMBER 2011 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: MISSOULA COUNTY Vickie Zeier, Clerk and Recorder Jean Curtiss, Chair Bill Carey, Commissioner Michele Landquist, Commissioner
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ALLOWANCE. Call Betsy for more info 880-4749. Nice split entry 4 bed home with lots of room. Brand new furance, hot water heater and pressure tank. Radon mitigation system in place. Nice large deck, large fenced yard with many mature fruit and pine trees. Centrally located very close to schools and shopping but has a rural feel. $227,000. MLS#20110384. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. r i c e t e a m @ bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Rattlesnake dream property with a 1 bedroom apartment! 3
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REAL ESTATE bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage located on over 1/2 acre manicured & landscaped gardens & lawn. UG sprinkler, “secret garden” & fenced yard. $425,000. MLS#20114396. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.2404rattlesnake.com. View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula.com OR call 5503077 Well maintained 4 bed home w/ hardwood flooring in living, dining and kitchen. Fully fenced backyard w/ deck. Nicely landscaped w/ mature trees and srubs. UG sprinklers in both front and back yard. 232 Cap De Villa, Lolo. $239,000. MLS#20116816. Robin Rice @ 240-6503.
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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Anne Jablonski has moved to Portico Real Estate. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com It’s football Season and for a limited time a purchase of a condo at the Uptown Flats will include a large flat screen TV and assistance with up to $5000 Buyers closing costs! The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units at $149,900. Call Anne 5465816 for showing. www.movemontana.com
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NEW LISTING • 3 bed, 2 bth, 2 car garage • 3 acres, partially fenced • Plenty of room for entertaining • Low maintenance vinyl siding • $190,000 • MLS# 20117486
NEW LISTING • Well maintained 4 bed, 1.5 bath • Fully fenced back yard, nice deck • Landscaped, trees, shrubs • UG sprinklers in front and back • $239,000 • MLS# 20116816
• 1 acre country living close to town • Double detached garage • Additional living quarters • 3 bed, 2.5 bath, covered deck • $299,900 • MLS#20115937
NEW LISTING • 3 Bed, 2 Bath, Garage • Pleasant View, well maintained • Landscaped, underground sprinklers • Patio, privacy fence in backyard • $219,900 • MLS#20120024
MANUFACTURED HOMES New Listing! Manufactured 3 bed 2 bath home, permanent foundation, low maintenance vinyl siding, 3 acres, partially fenced, double garage. Large deck with awning over looking the Bitterroot Valley. Large master bedroom with nice master bath. 663 Ridge Road, Stevensville. $190,000. MLS#20117486. Robin Rice @ 2 4 0 - 6 5 0 3 . riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.
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COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com I can help you sell your home! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 5 4 4 - 7 5 0 7 . w w w. r o c h e l l e glasgow.com
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