NEWS ARTS
ATTORNEY GENERAL’S TASK FORCE REVEALS BACKLOG OF MORE THAN 200 UNTESTED MISSOULA RAPE KITS
COUNTY LINE EMBRACES ORIGINALS ON NEW ALBUM
RICK WALDORF ETC. REMEMBERING
THE REVENANT BRINGS CHILLING FILM VIOLENCE, EMOTION TO SCREEN
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News
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Voices/Letters Local ag, affordable housing and clean water.........................................4 The Week in Review New council, air concerns and Marc Mariani...............................6 Briefs Squirrels, bison and abuse....................................................................................6 Etc. Remembering Rick Waldorf ......................................................................................7 News Rape kit task force reveals Missoula backlog, prompts changes ...........................8 Opinion Trump isn’t the Republican Party’s disease; he’s its symptom.........................9 Opinion Modern sagebrush rebels recycle tired Western rhetoric...............................10 Feature Going deep with Montana’s adventurous caving community.........................12
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Prima Ballerina Maria Sascha Khan returns home for VIBE ..................................16 Music County Line takes the leap into original country...............................................17 Art Taking the less-traveled road to Gallery 709 ...........................................................18 Film The Revenant details a chilling expedition ...........................................................19 Film Tarantino’s latest won’t disappoint fans ...............................................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................21 BrokeAss Gourmet Tandoori-style roast chicken ........................................................22 Happiest Hour Rattlesnake Creek Distillery’s Cinnamon Girl ....................................24 8 Days a Week I still prefer “spelunking”.....................................................................25 Mountain High Seeley Lake pond hockey....................................................................29 Agenda Marty Essen’s Endangered Edens.....................................................................30
Exclusives
Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology.....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
[voices] by Kate Whittle and Derek Brouwer
Asked Monday evening at Draught Works This week’s issue explores the hidden worlds of Montana’s caving community. What’s a place you hope to explore one day? Followup: What’s the most claustrophobic place you’ve ever found yourself in?
Clara Thomas: In terms of exploring, I would really want to go to the Nubian ruins in Ethiopia. A lot of Nubia is a huge mystery, but because of the way the Nile flows it makes sense that they passed down their knowledge to Ancient Egypt. Going up: A crammed elevator.
Tori Bigelow: Ophir Cave [near Helena], ’cause you have to rappel, like, way down in there. That one seems intense and insane and challenging. Tight squeeze: Definitely in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, the slot canyons in Moab. We did a lot of rappelling and canyoneering.
Nick Cantoni: Zion National Park. I’ve been wanting to go there for a long time. Tough guy: The slot canyons in Moab in Arches, for sure. They are tight. Though I wasn’t at all scared.
Jain Walsh: Angkor Wat [in Cambodia] would be really awesome. I want to go there and explore that. Heavy mettle: A couple years ago I took a tour of a medieval silver mine. It was in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic. It was very claustrophobic and very far down into the earth, and dripping water.
Colin Woodrow: I want to explore my inner child. I’m thinking with, like, fingerpainting. Trunk club: The trunk of a Cadillac El Dorado, with three other people, for over an hour. It was an ordeal. I got talked into it while in not my greatest state.
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Guidance needed We live and farm in Orchard Homes west of Missoula. We have a successful community supported agriculture program, sell at the farmers’ markets and collaborate with many of the local schools giving opportunities for classrooms to learn about local farming. Our own three sons are active in 4H and FFA, taking responsibility and learning the value of hard work. Many families visit our farm to explore and taste the fruits of the earth. We feel blessed to be able to build community through good food. Yet, our area is a prime target for development with a sordid history of contentious subdivisions that impact agriculture. After a lengthy public process, we ask the Missoula County commissioners to revise the current subdivision regulations and consider the impacts proposed development has on agriculture. Our county has invested a lot of research and energy into listening to citizens on all sides. While this is only one tool for addressing the rapid loss of agricultural land, we think this is a necessary step in the right direction. The main concern in our area is the impact development has on the beautiful, rare agricultural soils and the negative impacts to the current agricultural operations. During the height of the building boom, our neighborhood fought at least five major subdivisions. They were simply out of character for our area. One of those subdivisions was directly contiguous with our land. The developer annexed 10 acres into the city despite being wholly surrounded by county. Then he proposed 30 houses on those 10 acres. This parcel surrounded our family farm, as well as our neighbors’ commercial garden and horse pasture. A city subdivision was out of character for this semi-rural setting. Most importantly, it meant another 10 acres of prime soils was being lost to the bulldozer. In an unprecedented decision, the city council required the owner to set aside three of those acres for ag land preservation. While this was a huge win for those of us who support and promote local agriculture, it also created confusion and unpleasant tensions within the community. The owner and the neighborhood never expected that outcome. Everyone needed a predictable process. In that case and many others, if the governing body had clearer regulations to guide their decisions then the owner would have known what to expect when it came to developing his farmland rather than finding out in the middle of a painful, drawn out process. Meanwhile, if our county had regulations in place, then the neighborhood would have had predictability and known what their neighborhoods would look like in the face of development.
As a local family farm, we fear the negative implications of development on our “right to farm.” If a high density subdivision occurs near us, we are concerned we will lose sunlight from newly built houses, lawn chemicals will drift onto our organic crops and residents will complain about roosters crowing and tractors operating. With a set of regulations in place to consider impacts of agriculture and to alert new residents to the needs of farming neighbors, these situations will be addressed more fairly and reasonably. Guidelines will allow developers and residents an opportunity to be creative and collaborate in maintaining a neighborhood of people who care for and respect one another and the land. This will be much more productive than the typical hard feelings that have resulted in the past. Nothing good can ever come from unregulated and unguided development. That’s
“Nothing good can ever come from unregulated and unguided development.”
why we ask the commissioners to pass these regulations. These guidelines are crucial for creating welcoming communities that integrate agriculture, housing and small businesses. Missoula loves their local farms. And we want to encourage more farms for a sustainable future. Elsewhere in the nation, subdivisions that mix agriculture into the design (“agrihoods”) have witnessed a tremendous market demand that enhances rather than diminishes land values. We can do that too. We are stewards of this precious land and our communities. Let’s leave a legacy of well-developed, intentional and creative neighborhoods. For the sake of our children and yours, let’s demonstrate our care for the land that sustains us and continues our proud history of agriculture. Twenty years from now, we’ll all be glad we did. Jon and Erin Turner Missoula
Housing issues The county commissioners will likely vote on changes to the Missoula County subdivision regulations in mid January. While these modifications deal with protecting agricultural lands, I am hopeful the commission
will recognize the impacts on affordable housing in Missoula. As a veteran property manager, I often see clients who suffer from less-than-perfect credit or have inadequate income to make home buying a possibility. Many of my clients are forced to rent because they simply can’t be approved or afford to come up with a down payment to purchase a home. Indeed, sometimes clients struggle to even meet the requirements for approval to rent a home. Household monthly income should equal three times the stated monthly rent, and in Missoula, the average rent for a three-bedroom home is over $1,200. A potential renter, then, must have income of more than $3,600 per month, or annual income over $44,000. In my opinion, between 30-40 percent of those applying are unable to meet income requirements. So whether for rent or for sale, Missoula has an affordable housing shortage. Single family homes that come on the market—to rent or buy—are often snapped up, sometimes even before the home is vacant. If approved, the rewrites before the commission will make the development process more cumbersome, more complicated and more expensive and will only worsen Missoula’s affordable housing problem. I hope Missoulians will join me in encouraging the commissioners to reject the proposed changes. Sherrie Featherly Missoula Property Management Missoula
Gift for the holidays When Congress passed a spending bill for 2016 that did not contain any attacks on the EPA’s landmark Clean Water Rule, they made sure that protections for 110,000 miles of streams here in Montana, and 2 million miles nationwide, will receive protections from the Clean Water Act. Due to overwhelming public support, the Clean Water Rule has now withstood every attack that polluters could muster in Congress. Polluters and their allies played all their dirty water cards in Congress this fall, and they lost. What a great present for the holidays! Now we can rest easy knowing that all our rivers, lakes and streams will be better protected in the years ahead. Thank you Sen. Tester for representing Montanans and standing strong against big polluters’ attacks on our clean water. Today, over 110,000 miles of streams in Montana, and the waterways they feed, are one large step closer to being safe for swimming, fishing and paddling. Corey Bressler Environment Montana Missoula
missoulanews.com • January 7–January 14, 2016 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Amy Donovan
Wednesday, Dec. 30 Gov. Steve Bullock announces that Mike Cooney will serve as lieutenant governor after the resignation of Angela McLean. Cooney is a former secretary of state who had been working as deputy commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry.
Thursday, Dec. 31 The Wilma hosts a sold-out crowd for a New Year’s Eve show featuring Best Westerns and the Lil’ Smokies. At midnight, however, an anticipated balloon drop fails to happen. The miscue does not dampen spirits, according to one reveler.
Friday, Jan. 1 Nearly 400 runners kick off the New Year with the Rattlesnake Resolution Run 5K hosted by Run Wild Missoula. The oldest finisher, 88-year-old Bob Hayes, marks a 13minute-mile pace.
Saturday, Jan. 2 Montanan Ryan Payne joins the armed ranchers who seize a wildlife refuge visitors’ center in Oregon. The Indy profiled Payne in 2014, when he said he helped defend Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and would join a similar effort in the future, if called upon to fight the federal government.
Sunday, Jan. 3 Former Griz Marc Mariani makes his first start for the Chicago Bears. The wide receiver leads his team with six receptions for 80 yards, although the Bears fall to Detroit 24-20.
Monday, Jan. 4 Mayor John Engen swears in six new Missoula City Council members: Ward 1’s Heidi West, Ward 2’s Harlan Wells, Ward 3’s Gwen Jones, Ward 4’s John DiBari, Ward 5’s Julie Armstrong and Ward 6’s Michelle Cares.
Tuesday. Jan. 5 Missoula health officials issue a Stage I air pollution alert for the valley, saying sensitive groups should limit their exposure due to low-hanging smog trapped by the inversion.
Chris Baumann of Black National Recording focuses as he records local band Magpies on Jan. 3. Black National recently moved to a new location on South Fourth Street, and Magpies are the first band to record in the studio.
Bison
Victories large and small Gov. Steve Bullock handed Yellowstone bison advocates a key victory last month in their push for more freedom for the herd. In a decision signed Dec. 22, Bullock granted the bison year-round habitat on Horse Butte, something the Buffalo Field Campaign has advocated for nearly two decades. And while there were numerous hangups for BFC in Bullock’s announcement—population caps, continued hazing and slaughter practices—media coordinator Stephany Seay believes Christmas week marked a significant step forward for the species. “It’s not perfect,” Seay says. “But year-round habitat on Horse Butte is something we and the residents of Horse Butte have been working very, very hard for, so we were really excited about that.” One week later, a less widely hailed development unfolded for bison in eastern Montana as the
Bureau of Land Management proposed granting the American Prairie Reserve’s request to graze bison year-round on 13,000 acres of public land. The Flat Creek Allotment would be the third and largest swath APR has leased from the bureau for its bison herd to date, building on the nonprofit’s acquisition of more than 6,000 acres of adjacent private land in 2014. Communications and outreach manager Hilary Parker sees approval on Flat Creek as “critical” to APR’s mission particularly in light of the bureau’s strong wording in their favor. The proposed decision acknowledged the longstanding opposition among area ranchers to bison reintroduction, before pointing out that APR has been grazing the species for seven years “with no more than a handful of isolated, minor and largely unknown escape incidences.” As for any potential negative impacts to native wildlife, the bureau wrote it is “illogical to think species that have occupied and cohabitated on
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this landscape since the last ice age would now somehow be incompatible with each other.” “They basically said, ‘Yeah, we think this is great for the land,’” Parker says. “That’s incredible. That had not happened before. That got us a little fired up.” It may have gotten APR fired up, but the organization’s latest accomplishment was largely eclipsed by the Yellowstone news. Seay has her own thoughts as to why. While APR is trying to do good things by putting bison on the landscape, Seay feels it’s the wild, native nature of the Yellowstone herds that make them so compelling. Plus, the next few months will only see more newsworthy developments in that region. BFC and the Western Watersheds Project could wind up suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the end of January if the agency doesn’t respond to their petition to list the Yellowstone bison as endangered. “We have a small crack in the dam, so to
[news] speak,” Seay says. “So we’re going to keep pressing to widen that and gain more year-round habitat for the buffalo.” Alex Sakariassen
State
Disability Rights dustup Disability Rights Montana staff attorney Bridgitt Erickson says she couldn’t believe what she heard last month in Boulder. During the Dec. 3 meeting of a state council charged with overseeing the shuttering of the Montana Developmental Center, she recalls watching state budget director and council chair Dan Villa raise a sheet of paper indicating there had been no incidents of physical aggression or assault at the controversial facility. According to MDC records Erickson herself had recently reviewed, there were 18 incidents of physical aggression between Oct. 1 and Dec. 3 alone, as well as three substantiated incidents of abuse. “That was the first time anybody had seen any of these categories tallied showing zero incidents,” Erickson says, listing categories of abuse that include physical, verbal, sexual and psychological. “It was a surprise to us, for sure.” Erickson didn’t have the records handy at the time, but felt incensed enough to send a letter to all council members Dec. 17 claiming the abuse figures “as presented by the Governor’s Office” were “incorrect.” She went so far as to attach a list documenting those 21 incidents from last fall, one of which involved one MDC client striking another client “with an overhead hammer fist punch” to the back of the head. Erickson adds all of the incidents took place at MDC’s Assessment and Stabilization Unit, which the council voted to keep open during the Dec. 3 meeting. Villa dismisses the criticism as one of those “pieces of misinformation that is not helpful to the process at all.” He says the figures he produced at the meeting were tallies of staff to client incidents, not client to client as Disability Rights Montana claims. “I’m not disputing DRM’s numbers,” Villa adds. “I didn’t look at them ... I presented what I was asked to present and that was staff to client incidents, which were in fact zero.” But Erickson believes the figures were an effort to strengthen the case for keeping the Assessment
and Stabilization Unit open—an issue, she adds, that was not on the meeting’s agenda. Indeed, discussion of the ASU sparked something of a dustup among the council itself. Several members argued a vote was premature and they lacked enough information to make an informed decision. Rep. Mary Ann Dunwell, D-Helena, put it this way during the Dec. 3 meeting: “We need to put the horse before this cart.” Villa says this has been a common dynamic from the council—some feeling they’re moving too fast, others feeling they’re moving too slow. The committee has been working for six months now, he continues, and has so far made only three recommendations. He feels the 10-4 vote in favor of keeping the ASU open shows a majority of the council felt informed enough. Erickson just wishes she’d known the vote was coming. “If I had any idea that that was going to come up on the agenda,” she says. “I would have had those figures in hand.” Alex Sakariassen
Electricity
Squirreling away power The next time the electricity goes out in Missoula, a rodent could be the reason. Squirrels caused 560 power outages in Montana in 2015, according to Butch Larcombe with NorthWestern Energy. Animal-related incidents are the third leading cause of outages in the state, after system malfunctions and adverse weather. “They’re industrious little creatures,” Larcombe says of squirrels. “And so they like to climb up power poles and get on lines, and it’s not getting on just one line that gets them in trouble, it’s where they get connected up with another line or piece of equipment, that’s where we have problems.” Nationwide, squirrels and birds are some of the most common causes of power outages, according to the American Public Power Association. The APPA’s “Squirrel Index” indicates the small rodents are an on-
BY THE NUMBERS Percent of Montana road fatalities that occurred on interstates. Of the 224 deaths recorded in 2015, only 31 were on interstates. Overall fatalities were up 17 percent over the prior year, according to the Montana Highway Patrol.
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going threat to the U.S. electrical grid, and squirrel-related outages are most likely to happen in summer months. A statement by APPA Director of Energy and Environmental Services Alex Hofmann advises utilities to “remain vigilant and remember—they always squirrel their way back.” In 2015, total Montana outages cost NorthWestern Energy more than $11 million, Larcome says. He adds that NorthWestern invests about $60 million annually on preventative measures, like trimming trees and upgrading equipment. At the Missoula Electric Cooperative, member service manager Dan Rogers attributes about 10 percent of their outages to animals. MEC is in the process of installing plastic guards over unprotected electrical connections on its poles. “The plastic protectors keep the animals from contacting energized parts,” Rogers says, “thus reducing the occurrence of these nuisance outages on our system, as well as providing protection for small animals and birds.” Larcombe notes that squirrels aren’t the only critter of concern. On Sept. 16, thousands lost power after a beaver dropped a tree on a transmission line in Missoula. It damaged a substation, cutting electricity to communities as far away as Thompson Falls. The outage briefly halted an Osprey game, and TV news stations dubbed it the “Beaver Incident.” Larcombe says it’s the kind of challenge inherent to rural areas. “Montana’s a mostly rural, far flung state,” he says, “and due to that nature of the state, and the nature of the system that serves it, the potential for all sorts of wild and woolly things to happen is pretty high.” Kate Whittle
ETC. When it came time for actor/comedian Teresa Waldorf to speak at the University Congregational Church last Saturday night, she did what she does best. She worked the room. “Take a deep breath,” she said to the capacity crowd. “It’s going to be fine.” Teresa spoke the reassuring words after hundreds of friends and family gathered to say goodbye to her husband, Rick Waldorf, who died Dec. 28 after a six-month battle with cancer. Rick had played in several Missoula bands and he frequently traveled to the New Orleans Jazz Festival. It made sense, then, that Saturday’s crowd was loaded with a who’s who of Montana musicians. As friends and family found seats in the packed church, Richie Reinholdt, Frank Chiaverini and Marc Clarke of the Live Wire Choir swapped jazz licks behind the pulpit. The musical theme continued later in the service when Reinholdt sang Levon Helm’s “When I Go Away.” Music was Rick’s passion, but the outpouring of emotion at Saturday’s service was a testament not just to a well-liked musician, but to a well-loved man. After Teresa addressed the crowd, her college-aged sons Sam and Drew joined her at the pulpit. When Drew said, “My dad lived more in 64 years than most people will their whole lives,” people applauded. Things turned quiet when Rick’s longtime friend and bandmate Phil Hamilton walked to the front of the room and pulled a harmonica from his pocket. “I can’t talk right now,” he said, displaying the harp. “This will talk for me.” Many in the crowd wept as Hamilton proceeded to play “Amazing Grace.” A celebratory slideshow closed things with some more laughter and tears, and Teresa announced the establishment of the Rick Waldorf Memorial Fund, which will provide children with musical instruments, as well as financial help for struggling New Orleans musicians. Just as people reached for their coats, a dark-haired man leapt from his seat, hands in the air. “How about one last standing ovation?” he shouted. “Rick loved an ovation!” With that, the crowd exploded with cheers and applause for a life well played.
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Counting kits Rape kit task force reveals Missoula backlog, prompts changes by Derek Brouwer
More than 200 women in Missoula County have agreed to invasive forensic medical exams after saying they were sexually assaulted, only to have the resulting evidence sit untested on a shelf. While many times rape suspects are identified by other means, such untested kits have helped crack cold cases and catch scores of serial offenders across the country, prompting state officials to assess the situation in Montana. The Missoula Police Department says it hasn’t submitted 154 rape kits for analysis by the state crime lab since 1997. The tally for the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office is 66, dating back to 2004. These figures, released publicly for the first time, were compiled as an attorney general’s task force, created in November, begins to inventory every untested kit statewide, a backlog expected to be in the thousands. Even as that work gets underway, attention to the issue is already prompting change by local law enforcement officials. Missoula Police decided in October to test all future kits, and the sheriff ’s office followed suit once the task force was announced. “We decided the simplest solution would be to submit all kits moving forward, as to not add to that backlog,” says Brenda Bassett, Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office public information officer. While some states have experienced backlogs in their crime labs, Montana has not, state officials say. Rather, the tally of untested kits is the result of local officials deciding not to test them. An untested rape kit does not necessarily indicate a miscarriage of justice and often occurs because local law enforcement and prosecutors determine they don’t need the DNA evidence to pursue a case, such as when the suspect doesn’t dispute that intercourse occurred. “There is a good chunk of our rape cases where the presence or absence of a suspect’s DNA isn’t particularly relevant to a charging decision,” says Missoula Deputy County Attorney Jason Marks. But the DNA is sometimes useful in investigating other cases, and testing old kits has led to thousands of new convictions in jurisdictions around the country, fueling calls
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from advocates to get more of the kits, or every kit, tested. Just recently in Montana, DNA from a 1987 kit led to new charges in a Billings child rape case that had gone cold since 2002. “We have this possible evidence out there that could help make our communities safer by pointing us toward other people who were victimized and [those who] possibly committed crimes,” says Kim Dudik, a Missoula state legislator and task force member.
Bassett says her agency didn’t find any cases during its review where officials determined, in retrospect, that a kit should have been tested. However, members of the state task force will also review the data independently, Montana Department of Justice Communications Director John Barnes says. “If there are any kits that the task force determines needed to be submitted for testing, that will happen,” he says. Officials see the rape kit inventory as the first step in understanding the scope of the
Missoula law enforcement agencies say they have recently decided to begin submitting all rape kits to the state crime lab for analysis as attention to the issue increases.
Attorney General Tim Fox wrote to local law enforcement last month requesting that each agency prepare a “complete assessment” of unsubmitted kits, including the date each kit was performed and the reason it was not sent for analysis. While Missoula police are still studying their cases, the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office recently finished its report, which details eight different reasons kits went untested. Of the 66 untested kits, 27 related to cases that were adjudicated in court, 14 where an investigator concluded the complaint was unfounded, 13 where the county attorney’s office declined prosecution, 12 where the suspect admitted intercourse occurred but claimed it was consensual and 11 in which victims declined prosecution or refused to cooperate. In four instances, a suspect was never identified.
backlog and eventually developing solutions. While Barnes says the attorney general’s office doesn’t have the authority to create rules for local law enforcement agencies, he says the task force may recommend new protocols and best practices. Dudik sees a potential legislative role as well, particularly in helping to process the current backlog. “If that’s what’s going to happen, then the state needs to plan for it and provide the resources,” she says. But Dudik isn’t sure the solution is as simple as testing every kit. “Other states have done a very victimcentered approached,” she says. “I think that’s important, to keep the victim involved, because this will possibly open old wounds for them.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
New Year, Same Us
Tori & Dan
Get well soon Trump isn’t the Republican Party’s disease; he’s its symptom by Dan Brooks
Mock me come November, but I don’t think Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States. I admit things look bad now. Since he announced his candidacy in June, in a mall, in an apparently unscripted speech that also called Mexicans “drug dealers and rapists,” Trump has led the Republican field. He was briefly tied with Ben Carson in some national polls, but as of Monday’s aggregate, he leads his closest challenger by 15 points. Now is a good time to remember there is no national Republican primary. The first caucus of 2016 will happen on Feb. 1, in Iowa, where Trump now polls 4 points behind Ted Cruz. The billionaire is rumored to have only a half-dozen operatives on the ground—a losing strategy for Iowa’s caucus system, where delegates gather in 99 counties and try to convince one another to switch sides. A New York Times survey conducted Christmas week found the largest single demographic among Trump supporters is people who identify as Republican but are registered Democrats. It’s almost like he’s never done this before. But rank-and-file Republicans have rejected everyone who has done this before. Until December, when Cruz and Marco Rubio started dividing up Carson voters, no candidate who had ever held elected office was polling above 10 percent. Support for Jeb Bush is currently below 5 percent. The numbers are as bad or worse for Chris Christie, John Kasich and George Pataki, the Republican governors whom analysts thought would be the party’s strongest candidates. And although Rubio is polished, he is a freshman senator—as is Cruz, whose most notable accomplishment in Washington has been to shut down the federal government. It seems all the enthusiasm is on one side of the Republican Party this year and all the sense is on the other. I don’t mean the common sense of Thomas Paine’s famous Wikipedia page, but the extremely uncommon sense that knows how to win elections.
The establishment wing of the GOP—the big donors, the strategists, the national committee and the governors’ association—has thrown its support behind a series of unpopular candidates. Scott Walker and Rick Perry entered the race as favorites and left ignominiously. Bush seems to be following them out. Meanwhile, a man who spent the last 30 years as a punchline has become wildly popular by challenging traditional assumptions about how crazy you can talk on television. What, to paraphrase 4 Non Blondes, is going on?
“Trump isn’t winning because Republicans are stupid. He’s winning because he is speaking to Republicans’ fear.”
Donald Trump is not the Republican Party’s disease. He is its symptom. A symptom can still kill you, but if the GOP wants to get well in 2016, it needs to do more than quiet one embarrassing frontrunner. It needs to close the yawning gap between what its donors want and what Republican voters desperately need. Trump isn’t winning because Republicans are stupid. He’s winning because he is speaking to Republicans’ fear—the fear of aging, less-educated white people who believe they are in danger of falling out of the middle class. Those people are right to be afraid. Now is a terrifying time to be a 50-
year-old with a high school diploma. Probably, they should all vote Democrat, but eight years of focused messaging have convinced the white ones that welfare, immigration and political correctness are what took away their share of the American economy. They are cultural Republicans, but all their party offers them is a path to citizenship for their perceived competitors and massive tax cuts for the rich. Since Citizens United took the brakes off campaign finance in 2010, the rich have become the guiding force in Republican policy. They have driven candidates to call for immigration reform and flat taxes and other dreams of the upper-upper class. But those megadonors number in the dozens, not the millions. They cannot carry a vote. The GOP is in the unenviable position of having to put together a campaign that appeals to ordinary voters using money from people who oppose what ordinary voters want. Meanwhile, Trump is wealth conspicuously divorced from sophistication. He claims to be a billionaire, but he decries money in politics. He is management, but he talks trash about Mexicans and Arabs like he’s labor. He is the only viable Republican candidate who hasn’t proposed cutting taxes for the rich and raising them for the 50 percent of workers who don’t currently make enough to pay any. He is what ordinary Republicans would be if they had any power in their own party. There is a schism in the GOP, and Donald Trump flew out of it. It’s scary for the rest of us to watch him dominate the field, and it will be terrifying for the GOP establishment when his poor primary strategy leaves them without a clear nominee. But he is the symptom that tells the Republican Party it is sick. He is the fever that forces the host to get well, if he doesn’t kill it.
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Familiar fantasy Modern sagebrush rebels recycle tired Western rhetoric by Paul Larmer
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[10] Missoula Independent • January 7–January 14, 2016
Ammon and Ryan Bundy, sons of scofflaw Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, appear to have made an ambitious New Year’s resolution: Force the federal government, which has managed more than half of the American West’s lands for the past century, to relinquish them, at gunpoint if necessary, to the locals. Over the weekend, the Bundy brothers and a group of a few dozen or so militiamen and their sympathizers took over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon and declared it a safe haven for well-armed “patriots” who oppose federal land management. The group is demanding the federal government release local ranchers Dwight Hammond and his son, Stephen, who reported to federal prison this week to finish serving time for intentionally setting fires in 2001 and 2006, burning up thousands of acres of public lands. They also want the government to hand over the 1.7 million-acre Malheur National Forest. According to OregonLive, Ryan Bundy said, “many would be willing to fight—and die, if necessary—to defend what they see as constitutionally protected rights for states, counties and individuals to manage local lands.” This latest action, like the Bundy affair of 2014, is little more than the recycling of old gripes from a small cadre of ranchers and miners. Their main complaint: They don’t want to play by the rules that tens of thousands of other public land ranchers and miners abide by every day of the year, mostly involving minimal fees for the right to use federal lands owned by the public. Cliven Bundy started refusing to pay grazing fees in 1993, and the Hammonds began their “rebellion” against the feds in the early 1990s, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service built a fence to keep their cattle from trespassing on the (now-occupied) Malheur refuge. Though the militia folks attracted to the Bundy and Hammond tales of woe may not know it, the Sagebrush Rebel-
lion is really a century-long pout over the end of the open and unregulated frontier. Its modern incarnations began in the 1960s and 1970s, when Congress passed a slew of national environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the Wilderness Act and the National Environ-
“This latest action, like the Bundy affair of 2014, is little more than the recycling of old gripes from a small cadre of ranchers and miners.”
mental Policy Act, and the agencies reluctantly began to implement them. By the early 1980s, disgruntled ranchers, who largely ran local and state politics, formed the “wise use” movement. Backed by opportunistic mining and logging companies, they pushed against environmental regulation and for increased resource extraction. For a while they found a sympathetic audience in the Reagan administration, but their dream of wresting the public lands from the feds gained no national traction.
The rebellion flared again in the 1990s when President Bill Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt tried to increase grazing and mining fees, brokered a spotted owl plan that ended the Pacific Northwest’s logging spree, and protected tens of millions of acres from development through executive orders. The “rebels,” led by ranchers from New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Nevada, pushed back with a “county supremacy” movement. Dozens of Western county commissions approved cookie-cutter ordinances declaring the federal government had no authority within their borders, and they enlisted lawyers who thought they could, on constitutional grounds, “take back” the federal lands. The courts repeatedly rejected their arguments. Now the rural West is going through yet another wave of rebellion, sparked by the anxieties of a recession-scrambled, increasingly multicultural world, one that has left places like eastern Oregon grasping for a future. The rhetoric the Bundys are serving up this week sounds mighty enticing yet all-too-familiar. In a video posted on OregonLive, Ammon Bundy says the refuge takeover, which could last “several years,” aims to get “loggers back to logging, ranchers back to ranching and miners back to mining. At one time (Harney County, Oregon) was the wealthiest county in the state; today it is one of the poorest,” he says. “We’re going to be reversing this in just a few years by freeing up these lands and resources … by getting them back to where they belong.” A new and noble New Year’s resolution? No. Just a worn-out fantasy that should be rejected by anyone who understands the public lands are an irreplaceable national asset and that the West has moved on. Paul Larmer is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is executive director and publisher of the magazine.
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NEW WORLD ORDER – In December, Canada’s supportive organization The Transgender Project released a biographical video of the former Paul Wolscht, 46 and the father of seven children with his ex-wife, Marie, describing his new life as not only a female but a 6-year-old female, Stephoknee Wolscht. She told the Daily Xtra (gay and lesbian news site) that not acting her real age (even while doing “adult” things like working a job and driving a car) enables her to escape “depression and suicidal thoughts.” Among the trans-age’s favorite activities are coloring, creating a playlike “kingdom,” and wearing “really pretty clothes.” Stephoknee now lives with the couple who adopted her. [The Independent (London), 12-16-2015] UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – Thee, Not Me: American “millennials” (those aged 18 to 29) continue a “long-standing tradition,” The Washington Post wrote in December, describing a Harvard Institute of Politics poll on their views on war. Following the recent Paris terrorist attacks, about 60 percent of U.S. millennials said additional American troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State, but 85 percent answered, in the next question, that no, they themselves were “probably” or “definitely” not joining the military. [Washington Post, 12-10-2015] EXCEPTIONAL FLORIDIANS – Police in St. Petersburg reported the December arrest of a 12-year-old boy whose rap sheet listed “more than 20” arrests since age 9. He, on a bicycle, had told an 89-year-old driver at a gas station that the man’s tire was low, and when the man got out to check, the boy hopped in the car and took off. [WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg), 12-15-2015] COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – Breen Peck, 52, an air traffic controller who has been having career troubles in recent years, was arrested during a traffic stop on New York’s Long Island in December when officers found illegal drugs in his car. “That’s meth,” he said. “I’m an air traffic controller. I smoke it to stay awake.” [New York Post, 12-11-2015] In a “she-said/he-said” case, wealthy Saudi businessman Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46, was acquitted of rape in December in England’s Southwark Crown Court, apparently persuading jurors of “reasonable doubt” about his DNA found in the alleged victim’s vagina. Perhaps, his lawyer said, Abdulaziz was still aroused after sex with the other woman in the apartment and accidentally fell directly upon the alleged victim lying on a sofa. [The Independent, 12-16-2015] IRONIES – Christopher Manney was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department in 2014 after shooting a black suspect to death in a case bearing some similarity to 2015 shootings that produced “Black Lives Matter” protests—not fired for the shooting (adjudged “not excessive force”) but for improper actions that preceded the shooting (not announcing a valid reason for a pat-down and conducting a not-by-the-book pat-down). Two days before the firing, he had filed a disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder from the shooting and aftermath, and in November 2015 the city’s Annuity and Pension Board, following city law, approved the claim. Thus, Manney, despite having been subsequently fired, retired with full disability, with basically the same take-home pay he was receiving when fired. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11-5-2015; WITI-TV (Milwaukee), 10-16-2015] In November, as anti-Muslim tensions arose in several U.S. cities following the Paris terrorist attack, two chapters of the Satanic Temple church (San Jose, California, and Minneapolis) offered to protect Muslims who feared a backlash. The Minneapolis group offered “just big dudes walking you to where you need to be,” for example, grocery shopping—an offer “of genuine compassion for our fellow human beings.” (The offer was subsequently rescinded by the Minneapolis church’s executive ministry, reasoning that they are “not a personal security service.”) [City Pages (Minneapolis), 12-22-2015] WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME – In November, a 62-year-old customer at Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine, Florida, was hit in the lower abdomen area by another shooter, 71, because the victim was standing behind the target (”for some reason,” was all a fire-rescue spokesman would say). The shooter thought the man was elsewhere on the property. [Jacksonville.com, 11-27-2015] LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Oops! Jasper Harrison, 47, working inside the storage unit in Edgewater, Florida, where he grows his marijuana, heard a helicopter overhead on Dec. 9, panicked, and called 911 to turn himself in to preempt what he presumed was a SWAT raid. Actually, the helicopter belonged to a local news station headed elsewhere, but police later arrested Harrison based on the 911 call. [Orlando Sentinel, 12-10-2015] THE CONTINUING CRISIS – Elaine Williams, 47, was arrested in December in North Forsyth, Georgia, and charged with trying to buy a baby for her daughter, 14, via an ad on Craigslist. Williams said her daughter said she “wanted a baby and would get one with or without (my) help.” (Bonus: Williams lives near Jot Em Down Road.) [Forsyth County News, 12-7-2015] UPDATE – Road to Nowhere: The “Bridge to Nowhere” played an outsize role in politics a decade ago as an example of uncontrolled government spending (before Congress killed it). (Ketchikan, Alaska, planned a sleek international airport on nearby, uninhabited Gravina Island, but needed a sleek $450 million bridge to get there.) These days, reported Alaska Dispatch News in November, the original 3.2-mile, $28-million access road on Gravina Island, built to access the bridge, now just ends in a “scrub forest.” One optimistic state official said the road gets “more use all the time”—boaters come for “hunting and fishing, berry picking, things like that. It’s actually a nice road.” [Alaska Dispatch News, 11-16-2015] Thanks this week to Rich Heiden, Rachael Bock and Stuart Worthington, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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Boice was slurring her words, a sign of a serious conJoining the Grotto isn’t a huge commitment, but it t was the mid-1970s, and Mike McEachern and “Yeah, we didn’t realize that not many people are as a small group of friends were deep inside a cave cussion, though they didn’t realize it at the time. They crazy as we are,” McEachern adds. “When you’re young is the easiest way to meet some of the most committed in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The glowing decided to push on without seeking medical attention, you think everybody’s like you. You don’t realize maybe cavers in the world—including the man who’s dedicating his life to mapping the caves of Montana. flames from their carbide miner’s lamps illumi- and after a few days, she seemed to recover. how far out on the edge you are.” It was a frightening situation, but hardly enough to nated a passage they recognized. They’d need Then as now, the best way to find a cave is to join to stretch across a gap in the floor to make it to deter the intrepid couple, who first met on an archaeol- a group, find an experienced friend to show the way ogy dig in Texas. They returned to the Bob for years af- or just wander around the backcountry looking for In 1984, Hans Bodenhamer and a friend were floatthe other side. “It involved doing a step across a pit,” McEachern terward during their summer vacations, bringing in holes in the limestone topography. Even well-known ing down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon when says. “And there was a ledge down below, so we thought, supplies with packhorses, intent on pushing further into caves are unlisted on Forest Service maps as a way to a National Park Service helicopter arrived to arrest them. the depths of Silvertip Mountain. McEachern theorizes prevent inexperienced members of the public from They’d been trespassing in the canyon’s extensive system ‘Oh, if we slip, we’ll hit that.’” of caves and boating without a permit. No one had trouble making it across This didn’t really bother Bodenhamer, except Nancy Boice, McEachern’s spouse, who was then in his mid-20s. the shortest member of the group. “I didn’t trust the Park Service, so we “So trying to make this long step, she were just sneaking around,” he says. kicked really hard trying to stretch over the But on the helicopter flight, he side, and when she did that, her heel came struck up a conversation with the ranger off the ledge, and she flipped over backabout the park’s extensive system of wards and fell down the pit and missed thousands of caves, which were just bethe ledge entirely,” he says. “The worst ginning to be explored by archaeologists. thing in the world is to watch your loved “He was really impressed,” Bodenone disappear into a black void.” hamer says. “Within a month of arresting It’s the most serious accident McEachme, they hired me to be a cave specialist ern, now 72, recalls from a lifetime of exto map and inventory caves in front of the ploring caves. Caving—not to be confused people that were doing research.” with “spelunking,” a term reserved for amHis employers also stipulated that he ateurs—can be dangerous, difficult and work off the fee of the helicopter ride. frustrating, as McEachern and many cavers The friend who’d joined him skipped out can attest. Compared to elsewhere in on paying the fine. “I think they’re still North America, Montana’s caves are wet, looking for him, probably,” he says. It’s cold and especially remote. unclear if he’s joking. But caving poses the lure of being Several years and a variety of cavingone of the last ways to seek out adventure photo courtesy of Brian Gindling related jobs later, Bodenhamer, 57, is a and explore unknown territory without having to dive into the ocean or rocket Green Fork Falls Cave, found in the Scapegoat Wilderness, requires a 15-mile backpacking trip to reach its entrance. Its science teacher at Bigfork High School into space. Montana’s small but tight-knit passages connect to other caves in the area and require wading through icy pools and squeezing through tight tunnels. and leader of the only high school caving club in the state. Chechet says Bodencommunity of cavers have spent decades quietly dedicating themselves to finding subterranean that like most Montana caves, the Silvertip system might wandering in and vandalizing the cave, or getting hurt hamer has been a mentor to many young cavers in the wonders and preserving their ecological integrity. In have been known to Native American tribes, but had and needing rescue. It only takes an instant for a bum- state, including him. They met when Chechet joined the Montana’s 400 known caves, there’s still much more to never before been mapped. bling human to disrupt the ecology and formations of Grotto around 2010. Today, a commissioned painting of Silvertip’s peak a cavern that took tens of thousands of years to form. “I think that Hans would tell you that people are the be discovered. hangs over the fireplace in McEachern and Boice’s tidy That’s why McEachern and other expert cavers recom- sum of their life experiences, and he had to go through Hamilton home. Boice, a Texas native who speaks in a mend that newbies contact the state caving club, the those times to become the upstanding citizen that he is When McEachern and his group scrambled down to soft southern twang, recalls that they went back for the Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto, an affiliate of the today,” Chechet says. “I think that because of Hans’ rebelliousness, that’s why he’s able to be such a good menfind Boice, she was unconscious. For a short moment, joy of being the first people to survey the cave system. National Speleological Society. he feared the worst—until she woke up and responded Grotto President Ian Chechet says the affiliation is tor to rebellious kids today.” “We were somewhat secretive about the Silvertip stuff, On a recent volunteer weekend in October, the Bigto the group’s calls. because we were trying to come up every summer, and pretty loose, since cavers generally prefer to organize “She came to, and she had no idea where she was. our goal was to map, not just explore, but map as we go, small independent group outings. But about 144 people fork Cave Club joined the Grotto, the University of MonShe knew she was in a cave, but she didn’t know if she and that way it was fun and exciting,” Boice says. “So we are registered as Grotto members, and 60 of them turned tana Cave Club and Forest Service representatives in one was in a cave in Mexico or a cave in Montana,” he says. didn’t really want to let a lot of people know about it, be- up for the Grotto’s annual meeting at Lewis and Clark of the biggest collaborative cave restoration efforts in state “And here we were, 10 miles from the trailhead, and 55 cause we kind of wanted to keep it. And looking back on Caverns last spring, when Chechet volunteered as pres- history. Lick Creek Cave, in Lewis and Clark National Forest miles of gravel road out to the highway, so we didn’t ex- it, that was probably stupid, because nobody’s going to ident. “I have a sweet email signature for now, but that’s outside of Great Falls, is one of the most easily accessible actly know what to do. We were dunces about medicine.” go up there unless they’re really dedicated.” all it’s ever gotten me,” he jokes.
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The Scapegoat and Bob Marshall cave systems are found in alpine karst, a kind of topography marked by porous limestone, dolomite and gypsum, where water erosion creates caves over the course of thousands of years. Opposite page: Darrell Greaser pauses in Green Fork Falls Cave while on a surveying expedition for the caving magazine Alpine Karst.
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of mistakes on his own. He grew up in Arizona, and heavily vandalized caves in Montana. Its location where caves are more accessible and fragile than in isn’t marked on any Forest Service or Google maps, Montana, and often went on solo trips. Once, he says but the short, steep trailhead to its entrance is wellhe was lost in an Arizona cave alone for 15 hours. worn. He’d gone through a tight squeeze and entered a Visitors to Lick Creek must first climb down a large chamber. When he turned around, he couldn’t short rope into its first room, where they’re greeted remember how to find the exit. No one knew where by cool, moist air that stays roughly 40 degrees, yearhe was. He says he didn’t exactly keep his cool. round. After a series of muddy, slick tunnels and pits, “Oh, I was crying,” he says, and laughs. “I was a wooden ladder installed by a volunteer leads down like, ‘This is it for me.’’’ into the biggest known room of any Montana cave. Its chamber is roughly 450 feet long by 450 feet wide, Bodenhamer says, with a dome-shaped ceiling rising In the early 2000s, Bodenhamer invited Jason 50 feet above a rocky floor. Small brown bats roost Ballensky, then a college student at MSU, to come in the nooks of the ceiling. on an expedition to the Bob Marshall. They were “I always tell people you could put our whole following maps made by McEachern and Boice on high school inside of it,” Bodenhamer says. “But it is their Silvertip trips back in the 1970s. the biggest room in Montana, if not the biggest room “Mike was the one that solved the puzzle and in the western United States.” started discovering all these caves on the Silvertip Despite Lick Creek’s grandeur, vandals have felt [Mountain],” Bodenhamer says. “It’s the densest free to discard their beer cans, tissues, candy wrapdistribution of caves in the state. It’s just crazy up pers and other waste for decades. Its walls are plasthere. It looks like Swiss cheese.” tered in graffiti dating back to at least the 1930s, when When Bodenhamer and Ballensky pushed on, visitors would inscribe their names on the walls using they discovered more caves in nearby Turtlehead the sooty flame of their carbide lamps. In more recent Mountain. Its limestone bed houses the deepest years, people have used neon green and pink spray and perhaps most technically challenging cave syspaint to permanently draw hearts, arrows, rudimentem on the continent. tary penises and curse words on the walls. Most of Bodenhamer says he’s getting too old to be as its formations, like shimmering white moonstone and adventurous anymore, but Ballensky has returned bubbly “popcorn” of calcite nodes, have been irseveral times to lead some of the biggest Montana reparably damaged. cave discovery expeditions. When he and BodenDuring the restoration weekend, dozens of volhamer discovered the entrance to what’s now unteers, most wearing heavy-duty canvas bodysuits called Tears of the Turtle Cave, they were likely the and protective gear, climbed into the cave and set first humans to ever walk inside it. about various tasks, lighting up all the twisting pas“It’s possible that people had walked in a cousages and pits as bright as day. Chechet wandered ple hundred feet, but they wouldn’t have made it around with a drill and a bag of nylon climbing rope, far,” Ballensky says. “We came to an ice plug right setting up anchor bolts and traverse lines, removing away that we could see nobody had been past.” old and poorly installed lines. Tears of the Turtle also requires an exhausting In the midst of all the action, Bodenhamer photo courtesy of Elliot Stahl 44 rope drops down to its lowest recorded point. worked with a clipboard, helping students maneuver In 2014, Ballensky and a dozen other cavers went into the right spot to take measurements with a handon a 10-day trip to hike into the backcountry and held laser device. His students affectionately refer to see how far they could get into Tears of the Turtle. him as “Mr. B.” The lowest passage they could reach measured About 100 pounds of trash was removed from 1,631 feet below the surface, making it the deepest Lick Creek that weekend. When Bodenhamer and limestone cave in the U.S. The discovery went into other volunteers returned on subsequent trips in the the National Speleological Society record books. following two months, vandals had quickly struck Nor has Tears been fully conquered yet. Balagain, leaving more beer cans and candy wrappers. lensky thinks the cave continues beyond that On Dec. 13, about two months after the initial point, but he’s been stopped by a passage with an volunteer weekend, Bodenhamer and his team comphoto courtesy of Shawn Thomas impassable floor. pleted mapping Lick Creek’s 4,000 feet of tunnels. photo courtesy of Ellen Whittle “The floor is either a lake or liquid mud, we’re Back in his classroom, students spend their Geo- Top: The extensive system of caves in the Bob Marshall was first discovered and mapped in the 1970s graphic Information Systems class crouched over lap- on trips led by caver Mike McEachern. In recent years, the Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto club has unclear,” he says. The texture reminds him of the tops entering data, a process that can take several been revisiting the wilderness to completely survey and map the system. Bottom left: Montana caves silty, saturated surface of Alaska’s glacial mud flats, are wet and cold compared to other parts of the U.S., and often feature unusual ice formations. which have trapped visitors and led to their months for each cave. Bottom right: Hans Bodenhamer, leader of the Bigfork High School Caving Club, emphasizes that deaths. Nonetheless, he’s determined to rig up a Like many of the cave club’s trips, they’ll be re- newcomers to caving should always join a group of experienced cavers first. rope and cross the passage to see how far it conimbursed by the Forest Service for their travel, since they’re sharing the data they collect. The Forest Service tion between hobbyist cavers and government agen- systems. And we’ve been able to reimburse some of his tinues. “We will make it. It’s just how easy it will be is the has taken a particular interest in caves in recent years be- cies. Lauri Hanauska-Brown, with Montana Fish, mileage and per diem costs, because they’re doing cause of the threat of white nose syndrome, a fungus Wildlife and Parks, says Bodenhamer’s club and the some groundwork that we can’t necessarily because question,” he says. Even after climbing back out of Tears of the Turtle, that’s devastated the bat population on the East Coast. Grotto have been invaluable in helping reach places we don’t have the capacity for it.” And despite the inherent risks of caving, Boden- the adventure wasn’t over. To head out of the wilderSo far it hasn’t been detected in Western caves, but the where FWP, the Forest Service and other agencies don’t hamer’s club has been a notably successful and safe pro- ness, he’d planned to float down part of the South Fork Forest Service wants completed maps and population have the resources to go. “We do lots of things in streams and rivers and gram since it began around 2006. He’s led his students of the Flathead River before hiking the rest of the way counts for all known bat roosts. “White nose was awful, but it was a nice [financial] lakes but not so much underground,” Hanauska- into ice caves in the Pryors and even on special field trips back to the trailhead. The float was supposed to be the Brown says. “Hans and his group have been fabulous to the Grand Canyon without any serious incident so far. easy part, but most people in the group had brought boon for us,” Bodenhamer says. It helps that Bodenhamer has already made plenty flimsy inflatable rafts. His work also represents a remarkable collabora- in terms of mapping caves and helping us find cave
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“There was one spot along the way where there was a little bit of a rapid, and we all have these little Wal-Mart rafts, which I think are meant for two people, except it’s us with 80-pound packs each,” he says, and laughs. “I think three-quarters of the team went into the water, and there were boats floating around and people and all their stuff in the water. It turned into a little bit of a yard sale going down the river.” At that point, part of the group decided to get out of the water and bushwhack back to the trail. Ballensky and a few others who had sturdier Alpacka rafts decided to push on down the river—but the rapids only got worse, and the river narrowed into a canyon bordered by cliffs. “Eventually we got to the point where if we continued on, we were gonna die,” he says. He’d also lost his paddle and a shoe. Sodden and miserable, he managed to hike back to the trailhead to rejoin the main group. With those lessons in mind, Ballensky will be going back in summer 2016 to try Tears of the Turtle for what might be the last time. He expects that as he gets older, he’ll spend less time on strenuous exploration trips and more time on conservation efforts, as Bodenhamer and others have done before him. But Ballensky doesn’t doubt that caving will continue to be his life’s obsession. “You never know what’s going to be around the next corner or passageway,” he says. “Though eventually caves start to look the same, every once in a while they surprise you. That’s what keeps me going back.” photo courtesy of Jean Krejca
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Chris Krejca wades through a pool in Bell Cave in Silvertip Mountain in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in summer 2015.
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Life en pointe Prima Ballerina Maria Sascha Khan returns home for the Vienna International Ballet Experience by Erika Fredrickson
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aria Sascha Khan has lived what most people would consider an extraordinary life. She was just 16 when she went to Europe to become a ballet dancer. She studied first at the Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo—where she was chosen to perform at the coronation of Prince Albert II—then at the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich. Now, in her mid20s, Khan is first soloist (and the only Westerner) at the Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth largest city, on the border of Europe and Asia. International ballet websites reveal high-fashion shots of her standing en pointe in front of a harbor or in a ballroom, leg lifted à le seconde toward a chandelier. Even her speech betrays the eclectic world she has come to inhabit. Her first language is English, but her accent is an elegant mixture of French and German (she is fluent in both) and Russian, of which she has a moderate grasp. “I’m coached in Russian, so if it’s related to ballet, that’s fine—I can speak it,” she says. “If I had to give a diplomacy talk in Russian, that would be a little more complicated.” It all seems like a far cry from where Khan grew up in rural Montana. She was born on a midwife’s log cabin porch in Pine Creek and later moved with her family to Pray, a place known for very little but the rustic resort of Chico Hot Springs. In many ways, her world was simple: no TV, but plenty of mountains to explore. It didn’t strike her as an unusual upbringing for a future prima ballerina, except when she visited big cities. “I remember I was visiting a friend in boarding school in New York—I think I was 12,” she says. “I was saying how we don’t have traffic. My friend said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ I told her that sometimes the ranchers would be herding the cattle across the road and you would have to wait for a half hour, but there are no other cars around. That’s the traffic!” Still, her family didn’t fit the stereotype of rural Montanans. Khan’s mother had spent her childhood skiing in Montana, but she worked in New York City’s fashion industry as a designer and model. Khan’s father was a classical pianist. Once they moved to Montana, her mother taught Montessori classes and her father worked as a computer programmer, but they always exposed Khan and her three siblings to classical culture. “I had an amazing childhood in the mountains and was still exposed to the fact that you can do anything with your life,” she says. “And that’s something I carried with me since I was very young.”
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Maria Sascha Khan grew up in rural Montana and now enjoys the role of first soloist at a top Russian ballet company.
That worldview came into play when Khan was 10 and some former Bolshoi dancers showed up in town to dance. One of the dancers asked Khan if she wanted to be a professional ballerina some day. She was floored. “The moment I found out ballet was something I could do as a profession, my mind was made up immediately,” Khan says. “There was no question. It’s otherworldly. You step on stage and you go to another dimension.” Knowing what she wanted to do didn’t yet prepare her for the hard work ahead. Her first ballet role
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was in Berlin, at age 18, when she danced in the corps for La Bayadère. “After the performance, the next morning, I was just so dead,” she recalls. “I mean, everything hurt from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. I was like, ‘How am I going to survive this?’ One of the girls turned to me while we were warming up for class and said, ‘How are you doing?’ And of course it’s a new job, I wanted to look professional, so I was like, ‘It was great. I’m fine!’ She’s like, ‘Really? Because I’m dead.’ I found out later it is the most
difficult ballet you can dance, especially as a corps de ballet dancer.” What’s even more extraordinary is that as Khan pursued her dream, her siblings—all younger than her—followed suit. Her sister, Nadia Khan, is now a professional ballerina with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, in Rome. Brother Julian MacKay is the first American to ever graduate with a full Russian diploma from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and now dances with The Royal Ballet in London. Her youngest brother, Nicholas MacKay, is completing his professional ballet training at the Vagonova Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia. “We’ve gone all over the world but we’re all from Montana,” Khan says. “And to me, Montana is still home.” This week, Missoula audiences will get a chance to see Khan’s homecoming during the Vienna International Ballet Experience. The dance competition and conference, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre and Destination Missoula and featuring world-renowned dancers, has never been produced in the United States before, let alone in Missoula. Khan will sit on a panel discussing diplomacy and dance and she will help jury the competitions. She will also dance in the exhibition’s gala at the Wilma on Saturday, Jan. 16, which will showcase the competition’s winners. Khan is adamant that if you succeed in life, you must do good with it. She’s an ambassador for the wildlife organization Save the Tiger and an active member of Youth Arts in Action, a Bozeman-based group founded by her mother, Teresa. She sees VIBE as part of that calling—a chance to give back to the state that shaped her earliest dance years. “I think it’s important, especially for the students who will be attending from around Montana and public schools students to be exposed to what exists outside of their world,” she says. “If I had never known I could pursue it as a profession, no matter how much I loved it I wouldn’t be a professional ballerina right now. Montana is an important part of that. The upbringing I had I think prepared me for an international career because as a child I gained a lot of soul. I had a lot of beauty and nature around me. Having that as my foundation has been amazing. It’s something I always have with me no matter where I go.” VIBE presents the gala finale at the Wilma Sat., Jan. 16, at 1 PM. $25–$100 advance. The competition and other events begin Tue., Jan. 12, and are free. Visit destinationmissoula.org for more info. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Border crossing County Line takes the leap into original country by Erika Fredrickson
County Line features, from left, Doug Koester, Shawn Christensen, Mike Hegwood, Drew Barker and Stuart Jackson.
There’s no guarantee that a local band opening for a large touring act is going to get a thunderous welcome. When County Line was chosen to share the stage at the Wilma with RCA Nashville artist Jake Owen in 2010, they were excited, but they didn’t expect much. Even the best-intentioned concert-goers can seem aloof when they’re giddily anticipating the headliner. County Line, though, has a loyal audience. The country-rock band has played around Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley in different incarnations since 1994. Over the years they have seen more than 20 different members come and go. “You ask most country musicians in Missoula who have been around since the 1990s, and they’ve probably been in County Line,” says singer/acoustic guitarist Shawn Christensen. The group’s weekly shows at places like the Elbow Room and the Sunrise Saloon made them an institution. County Line often slipped in a couple of their originals during each set, but mostly they played to the bars’ thirst for old favorites like Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. or countrified versions of Poison and Billy Joel tunes. That’s what the crowd wanted, and being a cover band pays the bills in ways other gigs often don’t. The connection County Line has made with its fans paid off for the Jake Owen concert. When a young musician friend of theirs named Drew Barker took the stage to tape the band’s set lists to the floor and place a few beers next to the mics, the band could hear the audience erupt. When they came out to play, people swarmed to the front. (Barker is now the band’s drummer.) “We were not expecting that,” Christensen says, laughing and shaking his head. “That was probably one of our best shows we’ve ever done.” Besides the Jake Owen show, the band has opened for Shooter Jennings and Corb Lund, but it’s the weekly shows that have kept them rooted—and also wanting for more. Now, County Line is looking to start a new chapter by focusing on writing their own songs. Their recent re-
lease, Montana, recorded at Club Shmed, is composed entirely of originals, though some were written decades ago. The band’s newest lineup consists of guitarists Doug Koester and Stuart Jackson, bassist Mike Hegwood and Barker, whose father, Checkers (of Electronic Sound and Percussion), was also once part of the band. The songs on Montana were written by Christensen and Koester and arranged by the rest of the band. Though it’s all kind of in the same genre—outlaw country meets vintage Travis Tritt—other influences are apparent. Jackson rolls out some gnarly power rock riffs and Barker isn’t afraid to hit the skins AC/DC-style. A little bit of blues, some classic rock threads, some Rick Springfield-esque pop and hard rock give the album a diverse feel—though the lyrics dabble in wellworn territory of whiskey and women troubles. Koester’s roots go way back to when he played in the metal band Prophecy in Missoula’s 1980s. Later, he started the rock cover band Little Sister. But when he and Hegwood saw County Line perform at a show in Hamilton several years ago, Christensen’s voice—a blend of Garth Brooks and Randy Travis—blew them away. They joined the band not long after that. “I don’t have a background in country music,” Koester says. “I grew up listening to KISS and Ted Nugent. But when I heard him sing I said, ‘All right. I’ll play country.’” County Line is a live act at heart, but they’re looking to make the switch from a cover band that does a few originals to an original band that does a few covers. The thrill of a built-in audience and the comfort of secure gigs is hard to leave. Yet Koester and Christensen say the band is ready to take the risk—and they’re hoping their fans will follow. “We don’t want people to come out and hear Dierks Bentley,” Koester says. “We want people to come out and hear County Line.” County Line performs for the grand opening of Benny’s Frenchtown Club in Frenchtown Sat., Jan. 9, at 8 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Treasure island Taking the less-traveled road to Gallery 709 by Melissa Mylchreest
“Wilderness Sunset” is part of Don Mundt’s exhibit at Gallery 709.
If you want to find hidden treasure, you have to be willing to go look for it, whether it’s buried pirate booty, a dragon’s lair stacked with riches—or an outof-the-way gallery full of work by some of Missoula’s best artists. Luckily that last one isn’t so hard to find, as long as you can venture out of downtown’s First Friday comfort zone and deep into the reaches of the Slant Streets. There, near the intersection of Ronan and South Sixth, you’ll find Gallery 709 tucked within Montana Art and Framing. Both are owned and operated by Don Mundt, and while the shop is known for its highquality frames, the gallery has earned a reputation for consistently showing work by the area’s top artists, such as Nancy Erickson, Stephanie Frostad, Chris Autio, Stephen Glueckert and George Gogas. “I’ve been really lucky getting to know so many of these artists,” Mundt says. Before opening his own frame shop in 2008, Mundt spent more than two decades working at Davinci’s Framing, which allowed him to develop friendships with and earn the trust of local artists. “When I opened the gallery here, I didn’t have to seek anyone out,” he says. “All these artists just came in and said, ‘Let’s have a show.’” This month, however, Mundt is offering the public a rare glimpse of something they don’t often get to see: His own work. A highly accomplished painter, Mundt’s art has graced the governor’s mansion, appeared in calendars and hangs in prestigious galleries and collections throughout North America and beyond. While individual pieces appear here and there around town (in this year’s Missoula Art Museum annual auction, for example), it’s not often that Mundt turns the spotlight on himself. It was a default decision. There was nothing scheduled for January, so Mundt decided to dig out some of his own work and put together a show.
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“Since I’m the owner of the gallery, I guess that means I can do what I want!” he says. Spanning more than 30 years of Mundt’s artistic career, the collection includes work that hasn’t been on public display in decades. Some of it has been stashed in Mundt’s own stacks, but other pieces have been returned from previous owners—his parents, for example, or various collectors who have decided to downsize or simply lend their pieces to the show. The paintings run the gamut from grand to diminutive, bold and breathtaking to delicately subtle. Three large acrylics portray stunning Montana sunsets over venues such as the Ninepipe Refuge and the Crazy Mountains. A handful of watercolors invoke the serene, misty settings so often seen in Chinese paintings of distant hills and bare trees. Five whimsical pieces are part of a series of 17 paintings that he completed during his study at the University of Montana in the late 1970s. Focused on a previous exhibit, Wild Nails, the fun, inventive works place bent, brightly colored, unruly nails in imaginative settings—a dirt road in one, a wild river in another. “I look at these older pieces, and I wonder who was the person that did these,” he says, half joking. “Because of the technical aspects, I think I’d be hardpressed to do a lot of those things today.” While it’s fairly clear this isn’t true (his more recent work shows all the same skill and deftness), it’s this kind of quietness and humility that pervades Mundt’s personality and even the way he promotes and talks about the gallery. There are no flashing lights or pointing arrows, no marquee announcements proclaiming the riches within. But, as is so often the case with hidden treasure, this place is truly worth finding. Don Mundt’s art exhibit opens Fri., Jan. 8, with a reception from 5 to 8 PM at Gallery 709 in Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. arts@missoulanews.com
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Eight is enough Tarantino’s latest won’t disappoint fans by Molly Laich
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Going into the latest film from Quentin Tarantino, there was basically no chance I wasn’t going to like it. Out of his self-proclaimed eight features (Kill Bill’s Vol. 1 and 2 have merged in this count) there isn’t one I would give a negative review. 2007’s Death Proof comes the closest to being a bad movie, with its uneven two-part structure and only occasionally correct guesses at what women are like, but even then, it’s still pretty good. My anticipation for The Hateful Eight was bolstered by Tarantino’s own enthusiasm for the work. He shot the project on the much hyped “Ultrapanavasion 70mm film,” which makes the shot nearly twice as wide as standard and eschews the otherwise unavoidable trend of trading film for digital. Tarantino calls The Hateful Eight his best technical filmmaking to date and seems pretty pleased with the story, and I’m glad, because what’s the point of a modest artist? Having seen it twice now, I’m putting it right around the 50th percentile range among the rest of his work, and that’s still good enough to make it one of the best films of 2015. The Hateful Eight begins on an endless snowy landscape in Wyoming, just a few years after the end of the Civil War. We meet a stagecoach trying to outrun an encroaching blizzard on its way to a town called Redrock. Inside are John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his bounty, the infamous criminal outlaw, Daisy Domergue, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh with every bit of grit and charm you’ve been promised. Ruth and Domergue are handcuffed together for the duration. He’s mostly responsible for all the blood and bruises on her face, but she had it coming, and there’s something secretly adorable and then terrible about their chemistry. Later they will intersect with an unknown man named Chris Mannix ( Walton Goggins) and fel-
low bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren. Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis falls just short of too overthe-top with this one. It’s okay for now, but I fear he’s teetering dangerously close to that Al Pacino hoo-haing thing in his later years. The stagecoach will never outrun the blizzard, and so the three of them (plus driver) stop at Minnie’s Haberdashery, where the remaining hateful men are waiting. It’s a simple enough setup from there: Take a confederate general (Bruce Dern), the new hangman of Redrock (Tim Roth), a mysterious cowboy (Michael Madsen), a Mexican named Bob (Demián Bichir), two bounty hunters, the supposed new sheriff of Redrock and a convicted killer, give them a bunch of weapons and competing agendas, lock them in a single-room outpost during a blizzard and watch the murder mystery unfold. Negative reviews of The Hateful Eight hurt my feelings when they complain about long stretches of dialogue or gratuitous violence, as if that isn’t precisely what we’ve come to see. I admit the writing’s less focused compared with Tarantino’s best work, but what’s happening on screen is so thrilling in the moment that you don’t realize until later that the parts don’t point to any profound feeling. If you like Tarantino’s movies, then The Hateful Eight will undoubtedly satisfy. This is a beautifully shot film populated by insane characters and complemented by a terrifying, chill-inducing score. I invite you to savor the experience, because think about it: Only once will you ever get to see The Hateful Eight for the first time. The Hateful Eight continues at the Carmike 12.
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Violent heart The Revenant chills to the bone by Molly Laich
“I like this new game you call ‘football.’ Not crazy about the shoulder pads.”
The Revenant is a real meat-and-potatoes film, as rich in emotion and detail as it is visually mesmerizing, with enough violence and heart to chill your hardened, Montana marrow. The film opens on a fur trading expedition in a cold forest somewhere on America’s wild frontier in 1823. Among the men is Hugh Glass, a real-life character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and his fictionalized son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), who is half Pawnee and generally the light of Glass’ otherwise bleak life. They are led by Captain Andrew Henry, played by Domhnall Gleeson, who you might remember as the redhead from Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Gleeson’s had a big year, and this is my favorite of all his performances—what he lacks in physical presence, he makes up for with his intelligence and sincerity. Tom Hardy creates yet another character out of whole cloth as fellow fur trader John Fitzgerald. Everything you need to know about Fitzgerald or his values can be summarized when he says, “I ain’t got no life, just got living, and the only way I do that is through these pelts.” This movie could have gotten away with less, but Mark L. Smith’s screenplay, coauthored by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel), is built on memorable lines like these. The Revenant’s inhospitable environment makes every moment feel like a case of life or death. Their expedition carries a pall of dread even before the group is ambushed by a Native tribe. Iñárritu nails the choreography of these battle scenes—both men and women will want to puke during the attack, and that’s how you know it’s working. The film is famously shot on location in Montana and parts of Canada under unwelcoming conditions using natural lighting. Even in the safe and warm cocoon of a movie theater, Iñárritu will have you feeling cold and lost
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for the duration. The Revenant looks like a Terrence Malick film (Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line) except it’s not boring. More than Malick, I feel like Iñárritu channels Werner Herzog’s 1972 epic Aguirre the Wrath of God in that both films tackle the proud utility of an impossible expedition in the face of both known and unknown enemies. The woods are populated with warring tribes and interested parties, but two central conflicts captivated me the most. The first involves Hugh Glass and his unfortunate encounter with a mother grizzly bear and her cubs. Their fight to the death is a technical marvel and inspired in me a genuine religious experience, particularly when you compare it to the other conflict of the film: the competing egos of Glass and Fitzpatrick. In Fitzpatrick, we meet a man driven by bravado and paranoia (likely suffering from PTSD after a bad brush with Natives). The rivalry between Fitzpatrick and Glass seems to be based on pheromones and instincts, and in this way, it’s no different from the circumstantial battle between Glass and the bear. In this landscape, the bear and the humans are on equal footing. The bear has cubs and her death matters. If you know anything of the true life story of Hugh Glass, you know that he was left for dead by his party, only to travel hundreds of miles (hyperbole) crawling with his bare hands through a wild tundra in order to exact revenge on his enemies. The movie isn’t called “Go Home and Forget About It,” so we know the revenge plot stands, but what that means for the characters is stranger and less straightforward than you might imagine. This is one of 2015’s best films. The Revenant continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK
Niro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.
AN ALIEN PLACE Documentary about the 2,000 Italian and Japanese men held at Fort Missoula during WWII. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 9 and Sun., Jan. 10 at 3 PM.
MACBETH (2015) After murdering King Duncan (David Thewlis) and seizing the throne, Mabeth (Michael Fassbender) becomes consumed with guilt as the tyrant of Scotland. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 7. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes.
CLERKS This week’s Movie Cult selection is Clerks, the 1994 comedy that follows a day in the life of two convenience store clerks as they annoy customers, discuss movies and play hockey on the roof. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 9, 10 PM.
ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING After the death of Elvis Presley in 1977, a man with the voice of the King appeared. This bizarre music industry mystery probably raises more questions than it answers. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 7. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes.
THE FOREST After entering a creepy Japanese suicide forest and being warned not to stray from the path, an American woman in search of her missing sister strays from the path. Not good. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike. JAMES WHITE A 20-something New Yorker struggles to deal with his self-destructive behavior in the face of heavy family changes. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 8–Thu., Jan. 14 at 5:15 and 7:15 PM. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: JANE EYRE Charlotte Brontë’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and betrayal, before deciding to follow her heart. Showing at the Roxy Tue., Jan. 12, 6 PM. RAISING ARIZONA The Coen Brothers Retrospective continues with Raising Arizona, the story of a couple who resort to stealing a baby because her insides were a rocky place where his seed could find no purchase. Stars Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 14, 7 PM. THE REVENANT After being brutally mauled by a bear, a fur trader struggles to survive in the 1820s wilderness with only his wits and less than one bar of cell service. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Rated R, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. (See Film.)
NOW PLAYING ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP Alvin and the Chipmunks are back. This time they have to travel across the country to stop Dave from
POINT BREAK Loose remake of the 1991 action film starring Patrick Swayze’s hair, it’s the story of an FBI agent who infiltrates a gang of extreme-sports criminals. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.
“Maybe that big Jeb Bush tattoo on my back wasn’t such a good idea.” James White opens Fri., Jan. 8 at the Roxy. getting married. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and the Pharaohplex.
tions. Rated PG-13, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.
THE BIG SHORT Four outsiders who see the looming bust of the housing bubble decide to take on the big banks. Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.
THE GOOD DINOSAUR Pixar’s latest follows the exploits of an Apatosauraus named Arlo who makes an unlikely human friend. Unlikely because the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras were millions of years apart, but who’s counting? Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.
BLOOD SIMPLE The Coen Retrospective kicks off with Blood Simple, Coen brothers’ debut starring M. Emmet Walsh and Dan Hedaya. The acclaimed film noir signaled the arrival of a formidable duo who would go on to make several enduring classics, including a certain bowling movie about a guy who hates the Eagles. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 7, 7 PM. CONCUSSION Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, who identified a type of brain trauma in an ex-NFL player and went up against the powerful league to make his findings known. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike. DADDY’S HOME Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg play stepdad and biological dad, competing for the children’s affec-
THE HATEFUL EIGHT Quentin Tarantino’s latest concerns an Old West bounty hunter and his prisoner getting caught in a blizzard and finding refuge in a cabin full of typically unhinged Tarantino characters. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. (See Film.) THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 The wait is over. The final installment in the Hunger Games series finds Katniss Everdeen fighting for survival along side her ragtag group of allies/enemies. Rated PG-13. Playing at Carmike. JOY David O. Russell reassembles the team from Silver Linings Playbook for this epic about a family dynasty spanning four generations. Stars Robert De
SISTERS Two sisters decide to have one last house party before...oh, does it matter? It’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, y’all! Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. SPOTLIGHT Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton star in the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the child molestation scandal within the Catholic Church. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy through Thu., Jan. 14. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Han Solo, Luke, Leia and Chewy are back as J.J. Abrams hefts the yoke of the mighty Star Wars franchise, picking up where 1983’s Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi left off. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, and pretty much every theater everywhere. Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Tandoori-style roast chicken by Gabi Moskowitz Tandoor ovens, perhaps best known for their role in cooking naan and tandoori chicken and fish, are a mainstay in Indian and Pakistani homes and restaurants. They get extremely hot and are used to quickly cook food, often charring it a bit in the most pleasant of ways. I don’t have one in my tiny apartment kitchen, but that’s never stopped me from making—and feeling inspired by—some delicious Pakistani food I had recently. So, I decided to put a tandoor spin on roast chicken. I’m a big fan of roasting chicken at a very high heat, yielding a crisp skin and tender, juicy interior. Since this is similar to tandoor cooking, I figured if I applied tandoori flavors to chicken legs before roasting them at a high heat, I could get a similar result to traditional tandoori chicken. Though the skin is typically removed before roasting in the case of tandoori chicken (and you can feel free to do so if you prefer), I decided to leave it on, because as far as I am concerned, crispy chicken skin is the new bacon. I started by making a marinade of spices and yogurt (regular whole milk yogurt, Greek yogurt, plain soy yogurt or plain coconut milk yogurt all will work). I then bathed my onions and chicken legs in the marinade overnight (you can still get delicious chicken if you only have an hour). After tenderizing (the calcium in the yogurt activates enzymes in the meat that breaks down the protein, keeping it ultra-juicy after cooking), the chicken and onions get roasted, just like with regular baked chicken. That’s when the magic happens. The spices impart a deep, dark red color, the skin crisps and the onions get all charred and roasty. The lemons and cilantro aren’t required, but they do add an amazing pop of freshness. Serve this one with homemade naan (visit BrokeAssGourmet.com for that recipe) and a crisp green salad or slaw. Ingredients 1 tablespoon paprika 1 tablespoon ground cumin
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BROKEASS GOURMET 1 tablespoon garam masala 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 8 ounces plain yogurt (dairy, soy or coconut all work) 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 1-inch piece of ginger, peeled and minced 2 whole, bone-in, skin-on chicken legs, cut into 2 drumsticks and 2 thighs 1/2 red onion, cut into eighths (Recipe serves 2-3) Directions In a mixing bowl, combine the spices, salt and yogurt. Mix well to combine. Combine the chicken and onions with the yogurt mixture in an air-tight storage container or a zip-top bag. Make sure the yogurt covers every piece of chicken. Let marinate for at least an hour (and up to 12 hours). Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil. Arrange the marinated chicken and onions on the baking sheet, making sure to leave space between each piece of chicken. Roast for 27-30 minutes, until the chicken is slightly blackened on the outside and the meat is tender on the inside. Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before serving. Serve hot, with chopped cilantro and lemon wedges, if desired. BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.
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Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$
El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$
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Rattlesnake Creek’s Cinnamon Girl
HAPPIEST HOUR What it is: An infusedwhiskey cocktail from Missoula’s newest distillery that’s everything you wish Fireball would be. How it’s made: The drink is a simple blend of the distillery’s Hogan’s Hooch light whiskey and cream soda. What makes the Cinnamon Girl special is the well-balanced infusion, a process the distillery is playing with to spice up many of its whiskey and vodka cocktails since it opened last August. While the hooch is aged for only a couple days, it soaks up sugar and cinnamon stick flavor for about a week, according to tasting room manager Frank Jackson. What it tastes like: The hooch’s light, grainy profile helps draw out the authentic cinnamon spice flavor. It’s even a tad gritty through a stirring straw—nothing like the syrupy shots of Fireball you regretted in college. Cream soda adds a hint of vanilla and keeps the drink tasting smooth.
Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ The Iron Griz 515 South Ave. E. 728-5106 irongriz.com Located at the base of Mt. Sentinel in the UM Golf Course Clubhouse, the Iron Griz proudly serves delicious, affordable, local foods. Montana food producers, partnering with the UM Farm to College Program, supply our kitchen with the freshest, highest quality meets, produce, locally brewed beer and wines. The Iron Griz will be closed December 21st through January 5th. Beginning January 6th our new hours will be WED. – SAT. Noon- 9:00 p.m. $-$$
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What it costs: $6 Where to find it: Rattlesnake Creek Distillery’s tasting room, 128 West Alder St. Open noon-8 p.m. daily. —Derek Brouwer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 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 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a
HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. 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 nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $
Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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THURSDAYJAN7 Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails return to the Top Hat stage with their distinctive Montana-style bluegrass. 9:30 PM. Free. Many will be shocked to learn that painting existed before Bob Ross, but watercolor masters like J.M.W. Turner prefer the medium for its fluid look. Learn the ropes at Rob Peltzer’s free watercolor class. Missoula Public Library, Tuesdays, noon–2 PM.
January 7–January 14, 2016
nightlife Glorious Vistas: Art of the American West from the Permanent Collection explores the landscape and people of the Rocky Mountain West in the 19th and 20th centuries. At UM’s Montana Museum of Art and Culture. Opening reception 5–7 PM at the PAR/TV Center lobby. Andrea Harsell plays folk and rock at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. John Schiever mixes roots, blues and Americana into a big ol’ music stew at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Wisenheimers will be cracking wise at John Howard’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform; things usually start around 10. Free.
FRIDAYJAN8 Get a gander at the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival trailer at a Sneak Peek Membership Party. Also enjoy food and drinks at Shakespeare & Co., 6:30 PM. $30 to attend and get a five-punch pass. Put the biscuit in the basket at the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament. The threeday event includes A, B, co-ed and women’s brackets. Outside Lindley’s Prime Steak House today through Sun., Jan. 10. Free for spectators. Visit seeleylakepondhockey.com to register. (See Mountain High) Warm up this winter with organic, MadeIn-Montana wine and live, local music by Larry Hirshberg. Ten Spoon Vineyard. Tasting room open 4–9 PM, music starts at 6.
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Denim shirts are coming back. Trust me on this. Chris Cunningham of Storyhill joins Jenn Adams and Tom Catmull for Coming In From the Cold, a songwriter showcase. Stevensville Playhouse, Fri., Jan. 8, 7 PM. Tickets $15 at stevensvilleplayhouse.org.
Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. This week’s band is New South Fork Trio. 6 PM. No cover. Will this be the week some joker shows up with bagpipes? Find out at the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover. The Second Friday Art Opening at the Starving Artist Cafe and Gallery features works by John Thompson and Sarah Briggs. 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste. A. 6–8 PM. John Floridis brings his folk guitar artistry to Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. Three Montana singer songwriters kick off the New Year with a concert in an intimate
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[calendar] venue. Tom Catmull, Chris Cunningham (of Storyhill), and Jenn Adams share the stage at the Stevensville Playhouse. 7–10 PM. $15. Dark Horse is coming up on the outside with some danceable music at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
More events online: missoulanews.com If there was an “American Idle,” these guys would surely win. The Idle Ranch Hands play hard country and sweet surf music at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Joan Zen and her five-piece funky soul and reggae band rule the roost at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.
SATURDAYJAN9 The Loose String Band mix up bluegrass, early country, rockabilly and old time music at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Contrition is not required to run the Sorry ‘Bout That Half Marathon in Polson. Three-person relay option available, plus a $500 for winners. $35 entry fee. Visit polsonrunning.com to register. Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W.
Poet and storyteller Philip Burgess shares the story of his great grandfather’s Montana journey. Travelers’ Rest State Park, 11 AM–12:30 PM. $5 for adults, free for kids. Gesel Mason, choreographer, performer and educator, has created a new piece for UM dance majors to perform at this spring’s Dance in Concert. Get a sneak peek of the work in progress and meet Ms. Mason at the PAR/TV Center. 4 PM. Free.
nightlife Sketch to Sculpture is the featured exhibit at Sandpiper Art Gallery and Gift Shop in Polson, running through Fri., Feb. 19. Opening reception 5–7 PM.
rock rivalry
When Pinky and the Floyd perform their tribute show at the Top Hat this Saturday, it’s the closest you’ll ever get to a Pink Floyd reunion. While three of five original members still walk the earth (Syd Barrett died in 2008, Rick Wright in 2006), you’ll probably see a Kanye bluegrass album before Roger Waters and David Gilmour work together again.
from using the Pink Floyd name. Gilmour would not relent. “Roger is a dog in the manger,” he told London’s The Sunday Times, “and I’m going to fight him.” (Hang on while I get some popcorn.)
Gilmour recruited Wright, who’d left the band, to help him and Mason record A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Waters pounced on the album. “I think it’s The pair’s “creative differences” have blossomed facile, but a quite clever forgery,” he told Mark Blake in Comfortably Numb—The over the years into fullInside Story of Pink Floyd. blown enmity that over- WHAT: Pink Floyd Tribute “Gilmour’s lyrics are thirdshadows every other rate.” Gilmour fired back rock and roll rivalry from WHO: Pinky and the Floyd in Penthouse: “Pink Floyd the Everly Brothers to WHEN: Sat., Jan. 9, doors at 9 PM, show at 10 is not some sacred or halthe Toxic Twins. At the lowed thing...I’m not decore of this war of egos WHERE: Top Hat Lounge stroying anything by trying is the use of the name to carry on!” Pink Floyd. Waters al- HOW MUCH: $10 ways claimed to be the MORE INFO: tophatlounge.com Somehow the two main creative force bereconciled for 2005’s hind the band’s music, Live 8 charity concert, but don’t hold your breath for a while Gilmour—who’d been hired in 1967 to bolster repeat. “It would be impossible for us to work together the faltering Barrett—insisted he was the superior mu- on any realistic basis,” Gilmour told The Telegraph last sician. Which is true. While Waters does write the bulk September. “Roger and I don’t particularly get along.” of the lyrics, Gilmour’s sonic vision and emotive gui- Kind of like two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl. tar playing are crucial to the Floyd’s sound. When Wa—Ednor Therriault ters left the band in 1983 he sued to block Gilmour
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Anything But Suzy play a variety of styles, including folk, country and old favorites. Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. Hopefully these colors won’t make you cry when Red Onion Purple play Draught Works Brewery. 6– 8 PM. Free. The New South Fork Trio comprises three musicians. They’re playing Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. Hoot and holler, country-style when County Line takes the reins at Benny’s Frenchtown Club. 8–11 PM. (See Music.) Dark Horse is coming up on the outside with some danceable music at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. Russ Nasset and the Revelators bring their hardwood honky tonk and reckless rockabilly to the Jack, 7000 Graves Cr. Rd. off Hwy. 12. 8:30 PM. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover. Band In Motion serve up a veritable smorgasbord of styles and classic tunes at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover. You’ll think you died and went to the Gates of Dawn when Pinky and the Floyd bring their Pink Floyd tribute to the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10 at the door, or visit tophatlounge.com. (See Spotlight.)
SUNDAYJAN10 John Adam Smith plays textured folk at Draught Works Brewery. 6– 8 PM. Free. Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every second and fourth Sunday of the month at alternating locations, 1–5 PM. $4/$3 for members. Email helenj4318@hotmail.com for info. The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities who are interested in contact improvisation. Every Sunday, 3:15–5 PM. Downtown Dance Collective. $5.
nightlife The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band puts some swing in the month’s second Sunday when they play the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com.
Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep, Jasper.
MONDAYJAN11 Cash for Junkers play their bona fide brand of swinging honky tonk at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–10 PM. Free.
nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free, all ages. From the bunny hill to the double blacks, you’ll enjoy the ride even more with a properly tuned board or skis. Learn how to do it yourself at the Ski and Snowboard Tuning Basics class. REI Missoula, 6:30 PM. Free. The Badlander’s latest weekly event is Blues Monday, with a rotating cast of local blues musicians hosted by Black Mountain Moan. 9 PM, no cover.
TUESDAYJAN12 Radius Gallery features three exhibits through Sat., Feb. 20. Photographs by Lucy Capehart, kinetic assemblage by Stephen Glueckert and ceramic sculptures by Randi O’Brien are on display during regular gallery hours. Visit radiusgallery.com for more info.
nightlife Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. Various locations, 6 PM. The Craicers and Friends wield the blarney stone of music with their traditional Irish tunes at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM. Get those thumbs limbered up! The Official MPL Gamers Club meets to play Wii and Xbox 360 in the YA dept. at the Missoula Public Library. Ages 13–19, 6:30 PM. Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons, featuring styles including the waltz, cha-cha, swing and more. Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–8:30 PM, and Wednesdays at a TBA location. Bring a partner on Tuesdays, but the group is open on
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Wednesdays. Call 381-1392 for more info. $5. Learn how to capture some sick footage at Getting to Know Your GoPro, a free class offered by REI Missoula. 7 PM. Outdoor adventure rockstar Bob Clark shares slides and stories from his episodes in the Big Wilds during 2015. Rocky Mountaineers host the meeting at the Trailhead, 7 PM. Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.
“to a certain extent” by Jack Metcalf and Steve Krutek
Art aficionados and downtown revelers alike can enjoy First Friday in Missoula, wherein shops, cafes, bars and galleries host free art viewings for all to enjoy. Sometimes there’s totally excellent free wine and snacks, too. Runs about 5-8 PM every first Friday of the month. Check out missoulacultural.org/gallery-guide and our special listings. Stop by the 44th Benefit Art Auction Exhibition Opening and Artists’ Reception at the Missoula Art Museum. Preview 35 live and 45 silent auction pieces and meet the artists who created these contemporary artworks. Cash bar, hors d’oeuvres by the Good Food Store. 5–8 PM. Free.
You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What Pink Floyd producer was name-checked in an Austin Powers movie? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. The Beet Tops provide live, old-time string music for a square dance at the Top Hat. Teachers are on hand to
I don’t know who, but one of us has tuna breath. Off in the Woods play a mix of rock, reggae and funk at the Top Hat Fri., Jan. 14, 10 PM. Free show.
show you the do-si-do ropes. Bring a partner or snag one there. 8 PM. Free. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials. The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com. Open Mic Night at Stage 112 gives you a chance to show your stuff on a real mic on a real stage in front of a real audience. Also $2 tallboy cans of courage. 112 Pattee St., 9 PM.
WEDNESDAYJAN13 Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free. The Vienna International Ballet Experience (VIBE) brings together some of the best dancers from around the world. La Passion Noureev at 2 PM, Desert Dancer at 5:30 PM, and
Jack Metcalf and Steve Krutek team up for their exhibit to a certain extent at the Brink Gallery. Opening reception 5–8 PM. E3’s judges put together a showcase which exemplifies how art can make us feel and spark imagination. The juried show is accompanied by music from Ian Velikoff. Twenty percent of art sales goes to Chicks n Chaps National. E3 Convergence Gallery. 6–8 PM. Remember the warmer months of Western Montana with this collection of works from Brian Christianson Photography. Photos were shot between April and August of 2015. At the ZACC. Reception 5:30– 8:30 PM. The ZACC is staffed and peopled with loads of talented individuals. You’ll be shocked, surprised and stultified by the variety of mediums at this exhibit of their works. 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.
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[calendar] Dancing in Jaffa at 8 PM. At the Roxy Theater. For more info visit theroxytheater.org. (See Arts.)
from 6–9:30 PM. Call 741-2361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free.
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Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.
A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday. 4:30 PM, but I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free, all ages. Join fellow cyclists at the Northside Kettlehouse Community UNite to find out more about the Montana Bicycle Celebration, a festival for cycling enthusiasts of all ages happening July 15–17, 2016 in Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley. 5–8 PM. Free. Cribbage enthusiasts finally have a place to share their affliction at Cribbage Night. Enjoy a few cocktails as you look for nibs and nobs. Boards and cards provided. Rattlesnake Creek Distillers, 128 W. Alder St., Suite B. 6–8 PM. Chris Timmons plays folk music at Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. (Trivia answer: Alan Parsons.) This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” via the assistance of Mexican food and beer when “Poncho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays
West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop? Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, Dad, when the Top Hat hosts a local band every Wednesday for Jazz Night. Tonight it’s the Captain Wilson Conspiracy. 7 PM, no cover, all ages. Marty Essen shares a slideshow and reads from Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades and Puerto Rico. Shakespeare & Co., 7 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)
THURSDAYJAN14 Solo/Solo showcases eight choreographer/dancers creating six new dance works for Bare Bait Dance Co. UM’s PAR/TV Center. 8 PM. $12–$14.
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Hmm. I might need a new Florida map. Outdoor adventurer Bob Clark shares photos and stories at the Rocky Mountaineers meeting from his 2015 experiences. Tue., Jan. 12, at The Trail Head, 7 PM. Public is welcome.
ter One Bookstore, Hamilton, 6 PM. Free. (See Agenda.) Part country, part folk, part blues, all TomCat. Tom Catmull plays Draught Works Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free.
More events online: missoulanews.com Britchy play original acoustic Americana at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free.
Off in the Woods blend elements of roots rock, reggae and funk. Top Hat Lounge, 10 PM. Free. Submit your event to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Hi-res photos are always welcome. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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MOUNTAIN HIGH emember broomball? For years, a bunch of knuckleheads with a taste for cartoon violence gathered at a slab of ice somewhere in Missoula and played hockey with brooms and a soccer ball. It was a trendy sport, fading in and out of popularity within a few years. Broomball also came and went in Seeley Lake, but it spawned a spinoff, the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament. No housekeeping implements here. This is a USA Hockey sanctioned tournament, with four league levels and a required registration with USAH. Mike Lindemer, owner of Lindey’s Prime Steak House, and Brett Nogay, a Seeley Lake electrician, have run the tournament for six years. Their original idea was to bring some
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business to the town via a casual tournament. When they had money left over after their costs were covered they began splitting the excess revenue between Seeley Lake Elementary and the Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association. The tournament is a first-class event, and Nogay has even installed a 28,000-watt set of lights. It’s free to watch. Keep an eye out for the winner of the Golden Shovel Award. —Ednor Therriault The Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament runs Fri., Jan. 8 through Sun., Jan. 10. For schedules and information, visit seeleylakepondhockey.com.
photo by Chad Harder
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Put the biscuit in the basket at the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament. The three-day event includes A, B, co-ed and women’s brackets. Outside Lindley’s Prime Steak House today through Sun., Jan. 10. Free for spectators. Visit seeleylake pondhockey.com to register. (See Mountain High)
Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. Various locations, 6 PM.
SATURDAY JANUARY 9
Learn how to capture some sick footage at Getting to Know Your GoPro, a free class offered by REI Missoula. 7 PM.
Contrition is not required to run the Sorry ‘Bout That Half Marathon in Polson. Three-person relay option available, plus a $500 for winners. $35 entry fee. Visit polsonrunning.com to register.
Outdoor adventure rockstar Bob Clark shares slides and stories from his episodes in the Big Wilds during 2015. Rocky Mountaineers host the meeting at the Trailhead, 7 PM.
MONDAY JANUARY 11 From the bunny hill to the double blacks, you’ll enjoy the ride even more with a properly tuned board or skis. Learn how to do it yourself at the Ski and Snowboard Tuning Basics class. REI Missoula, 6:30 PM. Free.
Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.
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Marty Essen may be the closest thing Montana has to Col. Percy Fawcett. While the famous British explorer and mapmaker vanished when searching for the fabled lost city of “Z” in 1925, Essen has thus far had much better luck, returning from each of his globe-hopping expeditions in one piece. The Victor author’s latest book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades and Puerto Rico, is an entertaining, vivid chronicle of Essen’s encounters with the native flora and fauna from four wildly disparate environments. Essen has carved out a niche in the environmental/wildlife world, blending the genres of environmental education, adventure travel and wildlife photography to share his experiences while bringing attention to several areas of the planet where natural habitats are endangered.
Essen’s irrepressible sense of humor keeps the writing lively and the reader engaged. These are not dry, pedantic dissertations on the horrors of man’s encroachment into sensitive environmental areas. Rather, Essen chronicles his adventures and lets the reader understand that the amazing wildlife he encounters is under pressure. His eye-popping photos create a colorful travelogue, and with chapter titles like “I Got Cottonmouth with Two Russians in the Everglades but I Swear I Didn’t Inhale” you know it’s going to be a fun ride. Essen and his wife Deb have traveled the world together and always manage to find the fun as well as the pressing environmental issues along the way. From spider monkeys in Costa Rica to alligators in the Everglades, Essen handles all kinds of critters with humor and aplomb, and makes you think as well. —Ednor Therriault
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TUESDAY JANUARY 12 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13 Join fellow cyclists at the Northside Kettlehouse Community UNite to find out more about the Montana Bicycle Celebration, a festival for cycling enthusiasts of all ages happening July 15–17, 2016 in Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley. 5–8 PM. Free.
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Get off the sidelines and learn how to impact the democratic process. Montana Human Rights Network, Planned Parenthood of Montana and other civicminded organizations host the Alliance for Justice Workshop. Montana Association of Counties, 2715 Skyway Dr., Helena. 8:30 AM–4 PM. Visit action.lcv.org/ to register.
Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon–8 PM.
The Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets to discuss the book Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation. West Meeting Room. 6–7:30 PM. Free.
Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W.
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I’m a 43-year-old man, and I’m trying to build my career after years of being a stay-at-home dad. I got involved very quickly with a woman I met online, but the truth is that she’s just not smart enough for me. I feel bad because she’s very sweet, but I’d rather devote my time to my work. I’ve tried to break up with her numerous times, but she just doesn’t seem to get it. I’ll tell her I really need time to myself, but she’ll still call incessantly. How do you tell somebody it’s over in a way that is kind but gets through to them? —I’m Done You need “time to yourself”? Great. She can do that. Just call her when you’re ready. No, not on the phone. She’ll be out on your porch in her sleeping bag. Welcome to the rose-colored distortovision of being “optimistically biased”—succumbing to the human tendency to see what’s positive instead of what’s realistic. (”What I refuse to believe won’t hurt me!”) We’re especially likely to go happily dumb when our ego is involved. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers explains in “The Folly of Fools” that we “protect our happiness via self-deception.” We have a “psychological immune system” that works “not by fixing what makes us unhappy but by ... minimizing it and lying about it.” Neuroscientist Tali Sharot finds from her brain imaging research that having a distortedly positive view comes out of what she calls “selective updating.” When our brain gets information that things are going to be better than expected, it’s all, “Yes, sir, we’ll send that around.” But information that things will be worse than expected? That gets kicked under the bed—or would if the brain had feet and slept in a bed. There is another possibility here. Even if your girlfriend’s intelligence level leaves you confused about whether to take her to dinner or just water her and put her in indirect sunlight, she may be what I call instinctually smart. Possibly, it’s clear to her that you want to end it but she’s ignoring that in hopes of wearing you down. Regardless of the reason she’s still hanging around, the only way to change that is by telling her that you two are done, using very direct language, like, “I’m sorry, but it’s over between us. I am breaking up with you.” Should she keep contacting you, make it similarly clear that there’s no room at the inn for hope. This is actually the kind way to break up with a refuse-to-believe-er—being momentarily cruel, ideally as soon as you realize it’s over. In other words, putting your girlfriend
out of her misery starts with putting her through it—pronto. Keep merely hinting that it’s over and, well, if an asteroid destroyed life on earth as we know it, three things would survive: cockroaches, the Kardashians, and your relationship.
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There are times when only your actual name will do—because the alternative is “Yo, Snugglebuggle, I’m over here ... aisle 4!” But, generally speaking, the way people address each other is a statement about the kind of relationship they have. So when the nurse comes into the waiting room with a clipboard, you never hear, “Okay ... Poopooface, the doctor will see you now.” A cop, likewise, will not ask, “Do you know how fast you were going, Turtlebutt?” A pet name is part of creating a relationship “culture”—things you do and say that mark the relationship as a distinct little society. (Cutesy handles also tend to, uh, travel better than matching bones through the nose.) Not surprisingly, relationship communication researcher Carol Bruess finds that partners in happy relationships use nicknames more than those in unhappy ones. Referencing previous research, Bruess explains that nickname use both creates intimacy and reflects it. So, it’s possible that your girlfriend’s nicknamery is a ploy—perhaps unconscious— to bring you two closer. (If she talks all cootchie-cuddly-coo, cootchie-cuddly-coo might follow.) But seeing as you have been “steadily losing interest” in your girlfriend, why are you sitting around pondering nickname use? You need to do your part: Inform your girlfriend that the relationshippypoo can no longer breathe on its owniecakes, and that it’s time she started referring to you as her ex-schmoopie—or, better yet, “that heartless lowlife” she used to date.
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My girlfriend rarely, if ever, calls me by my actual name. Other women I’ve dated have done this, too. It makes me think of that country song that goes, “You don’t have to call me darlin’, darlin’.” I’ve come to realize that I’ve been steadily losing interest in my girlfriend, and maybe she senses that. Or could it be something else? Why do women do this—not calling men by their actual names? —Nameless
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transportation experience. Schedule is Friday-Monday, off Tuesday-Thursday. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10172035 Embroiderer Company seeking part-time employee to operate embroidery machine. The ideal candidate will have 2 to 5 years experience in operating an embroidery machine, be able to run the machine by themselves if need, an eye for quality, attention to detail and a desire to produce a great product for our customers. Flexible hours with an option of full time in the future. Company is fast paced and fun to work for! Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26557 Gray Wolf Peak General Manager S&K Gaming is seeking applications for General Manager in Evaro. Requires expertise in all facets of Food and Beverage, C Store and Casino Operations including goal setting for all departments and financial analysis, will man-
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PROFESSIONAL Community Supervisions Special Responsible for managing a caseload of juveniles involved in the youth court. Specific duties include attending court hearings, testifying, meeting with families, conducting screening and assessment, preparing dispositions for informal proceedings and recommendations for formal proceedings, contact placement providers and establishing placements and developing treatment plans. The ability to develop good working relationships with families and youth, other service providers and law enforcement is crucial. The position will respond to on-call and crisis situations as required by office protocol. A good understanding of youth and families at risk is needed. A full job description and a state application are available from Human Resources at shgrandy@mt.gov. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10172282 Top quality press operator(s) sought to run our Clovis, New Mexico press operation. This position includes overseeing the production of two daily newspapers, two weeklies, and several commercial print products. We want an experienced leader capable of handling training, ordering of supplies, and maintaining OSHA standards. Clovis Media, Inc. offers a benefits package (Health insurance, retirement, and vacation time) and a competitive salary. WE WILL PAY YOU WHAT YOU’RE WORTH. To apply, send resume to Patrick Cossel at pcstevenson@actaccess.net.
Youth Case Manager AWARE Inc.’s Youth Case Manager provides case management services to youth with serious emotional disturbances as defined by the State of Montana. Case management services will be provided to assist these persons in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, vocational, recreational, and other services as requested or needed. All duties will be conducted under the guidance of the YCM Service Director. Requires a knowledge of case management techniques and community resources, including the ability to access services. Also requires good oral and written communication skills and an ability to form relationships with a diverse group of people. BA/BS Degree in Human Services, Social Work, or related field. A Montana Driver’s License and clean driving record are essential. Will work Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pay is $13.75/hour plus full benefits. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10172262
SKILLED LABOR Carpenter Residential Locally owned construction firm in search of skilled and semikilled carpenters for both residential projects. Work will be full time and long term. This is not a seasonal job we are looking for employees to continue on with our company long term. Projects are in and around the Missoula area so travel is minimal. Employees must have current valid license and clean driving record. Wage DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26383 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED from the Missoula area. • Must be present to apply • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-4937876 9am-5pm M-F.
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is accessible for all. We are looking for a minimum 2 year commitment to the operating room. Assess, plan, and evaluate nursing care needs before, during, and after a surgical procedure. Work closely with the surgical patient and the perioperative team. Prepare the surgical environment. Monitor, record and communicate patient condition as appropriate using computerized documentation systems. Demonstrate critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment. Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Current Registered Nurse licensure in Montana State Current Basic Life Saving certification through the American Heart Association. Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) or current enrollment in a BSN extension program highly preferred. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10172110
bitious, productive in sales and have good customer relations. Auto sales is a plus but willing to train. Duties will be selling new and used automobiles in dealership. Hours and days vary, Monday through Saturday work days. Pay is hourly or commission, depending on sales. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170744
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ancient humans didn’t “invent” fire, but rather learned about it from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes had a similar origin. Our ancestors employed long vines made of tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid and knot the vines together for greater strength. This technology was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten, and carry. It was essential to the development of civilization. I predict that 2016 will bring you opportunities that have metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your task will be to develop and embellish on what nature provides.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To become a skillful singer, you must learn to regulate your breath. You’ve got to take in more oxygen than usual for extended periods, and do it in ways that facilitate rather than interfere with the sounds coming out of your mouth. When you’re beginning, it feels weird to exert so much control over an instinctual impulse, which previously you’ve done unconsciously. Later, you have to get beyond your self-conscious discipline so you can reach a point where the proper breathing happens easily and gracefully. Although you may not be working to become a singer in 2016, Gemini, I think you will have comparable challenges: 1. to make conscious an activity that has been unconscious; 2. to refine and cultivate that activity; 3. to allow your consciously-crafted approach to become unselfconscious again.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Remember back to what your life was like during the first nine months of 2004. I suspect that you fell just short of fulfilling a dream. It’s possible you were too young to have the power you needed. Or maybe you were working on a project that turned out to be pretty good but not great. Maybe you were pushing to create a new life for yourself but weren’t wise enough to make a complete breakthrough. Almost 12 years later, you have returned to a similar phase in your long-term cycle. You are better equipped to do what you couldn’t quite do before: create the masterpiece, finish the job, rise to the next level.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence. When he’d almost finished the manuscript, he went out on a date with his wife. While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didn’t punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic. The new edition of Of Mice and Men was Steinbeck’s breakout book. I’m guessing that in recent months you have received comparable assistance, Aries—although you may not realize it was assistance until later this year.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): British author Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) had a day job with the postal service until he was in his fifties. For years he awoke every morning at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before heading to work. His goal was to write two or three novels a year, a pace he came close to achieving. “A small daily task, if it really be daily,” he wrote in his autobiography, “will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.” I recommend that you borrow from his strategy in 2016, Leo. Be regular and disciplined and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Umbrellas shelter us from the rain, saving us from the discomfort of getting soaked and the embarrassment of bad hair. They also protect us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. I’m very much in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning. They can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or to avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. I hope you won’t do much of that in 2016. In my opinion, you need a lot of face-to-face encounters with life in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, this should be a non-umbrella year.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here’s a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I’m thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem “Tree,” California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that’s positioned next to a house. Watch out! It grows fast—as much as three feet per year. “Already the first branch-tips brush at the window,” Hirshfield writes. “Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.” I suspect this will be an apt metaphor for you in 2016. The expansion and proliferation you have witnessed these past few months are likely to intensify. That’s mostly good, but may also require adjustments. How will you respond as immensity taps at your life?
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Centuries ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food. I see 2016 as a time when you could have a comparable success. Look around at your life, and identify weed-like things that could, through your transformative magic, be turned into valuable assets. The process may take longer than a year, but you can set in motion an unstoppable momentum that will ensure success.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Imagine that a beloved elder has been writing down your life story in the form of a fairy tale. Your adventures aren’t rendered literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather through dream-like scenes that have symbolic resonance. With this as our template, I’ll predict a key plot development of 2016: You will grow increasingly curious about a “forbidden” door—a door you have always believed should not be opened. Your inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity that you will consider locating the key for that door. If it’s not available, you may even think about breaking down the door. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15-245 Dept. No. 3 Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOYCE ANN RUBLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dee Ann Ellis and Brodie L. Ellis, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of their attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suit 100, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 59807-7099 or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 17th day of December, 2015. /s/ Dee Ann Ellis, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Brodie L. Ellis, Co-Personal Representative CROWLEY FLECK PLLP, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099 By /s/ Benjamin T. Cory, Attorneys for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-246 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF DORIS P. LUCKMAN, a/k/a Doris Luckman 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 GREGORY J. LUCKMAN, 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 above-entitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of December, 2015. /s/ Gregory J. Luckman, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP15-191 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA M. RAHILLY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All person having claims
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mailed to David R. Lefler, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 15th day of December, 2015, at Port Orchard, Washington. /s/ David R. Lefler BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Dean A. Stensland, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for David R. Lefler, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Case No. DV-15-1235 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Pamela Diane Evock, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Pamela Diane Evock, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Pamela Diane Evock to Pamela Diane Warren, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 12th day of January, 2016 at 11:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 9th day of December, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Probate No. DP-15-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUTHER ERNEST LUCERO, 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 estate are required to present their claim 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 Keith A. Lee, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of September, 2015. /s/ Keith A. Lee, Personal Representative,
WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP15-244 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RUSSELL B. HICKS, 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 estate are required to present their claim 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 Gerald R. Hicks, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 11th day of December, 2015. /s/ Gerald R. Hicks, Personal Representative, WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-15-247 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD L. STEVENS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed
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PUBLIC NOTICES to Elmer P. Bender, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of December, 2015. /s/ Elmer P. Bender, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ Craig Mungas on behalf of R. Nick Jones, Attorneys for Elmer P. Bender, Personal Representative NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE December 29, 2015 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Street Missoula, MT 59802 Oc c u pant 1286 Boy Scout Road Seeley Lake, MT 59868 Kimberley Kahle 4595 Zintek Place Missoula, MT 59808 Richard E & Royle C Taylor P.O. Box 300 Seeley Lake, MT 59868 Richard E & Royle C Taylor P.O. Box 2138 Pocatello, ID 83206 State of Montana DNRC 1401 27th Avenue Missoula, MT 59804 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice hereby given: Please take notice that a property tax lien exists on the following described property in which you may have an interest. TAX ID #:722703 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: S04, T16 N, R15 W, ACRES 1.533 IMPROVEMENTS ON
STATE LAND LOT 15 SEELEY LAKE DEVELOPMENT STATE LEASE # 3062240 The property tax lien exists because property taxes were not paid on the property. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1st, 2012. Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 12th, 2012. By, law, you have a 36month redemption period, beginning on the date of the Treasurer’s tax sale, during which you may pay ALL delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and county costs to stop the issuance of a tax deed. The period ended for your property ended on December 29, 2015. If the taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid as required by Law to the County Treasurer on or before February 29, 2016, the County Treasurer may then issue a tax deed to the county by order of the County Commissioners. The amount of delinquent taxes, penalty, interest, and cost owing as of this notice as follows: Tax Year: 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014 Tax Amount: $602.88 Penalty: $10.52 Interest: $114.86 Total Amount: $728.26 Other Costs of Title Search, certified mailing, assignments & publications: $460.50 Total $1188.76 For the property tax lien liquidated, the total amount listed above must be made by February 29, 2016. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs
MNAXLP are not paid on or before February 29, 2016 a tax deed will be issued on the following day, March 1, 2016. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201323789 BK 923 P 355, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC MortgageBacked Pass-Through Certifi-
cates, Series 2006-6. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $196,430.53. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $144,175.72, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain
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Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.13715 BEERS, PATRICK T.) 1002.172506-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/10/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200808297 Bk: 817 Pg: 0074, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Robert D. Hughes was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 2 of Elms Addition No. 1, to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201209706 Bk: 894 Pg: 783, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed
of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 6, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $264,825.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $214,379.36, 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 Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on March 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. HUGHES, ROBERT D. (TS# 7023.110954) 1002.273828File No.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/08/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803260; Book 813 Page 355, mortgage records of MISSOULA Couty, Montanaa in which Teri S Lerch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 in Shelby Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana according to the Official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 13, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $147,186.20. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $140,644.24, 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 Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on March 24, 2016 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,
PUBLIC NOTICES where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Lerch, Teri A. (TS# 7023.114820) 1002.284162File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1, Block 10 of High Park Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision to the City of Missoula, according to the recorded plat thereof in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana Donald Delaney, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., a National Banking Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 4, 2010, and recorded on June 9, 2010 as Book 861 Page 58 Document No. 201010969. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A.. 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 due to Death, beginning April 12, 2015. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 11, 2015 is $384,008.07 principal, interest at the rate of 5.56000% totaling $73,163.48, and other fees and expenses advanced of $24,271.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $79.93 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 8, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 8 day of October, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said
MNAXLP County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Reverse Mortage vs Donald Delaney 100292-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND, BEING A PART OF THE SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4 OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, OF THE PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIPE DRIVEN ON THE SECTION LINE 400.0 FEET S. 89°00` E. OF THE 1/16 SECTION CORNER AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SW1/4SE1/ 4SE1/4, AND RUNNING FROM THE SAID POINT OF BEGINNING: N. 51°30` W. ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY FENCE, PARALLEL WITH AND 50 FEET NE OF THE CENTER LINE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK HIGHWAY AS CONSTRUCTED AND TRAVELED, FOR A DISTANCE OF 292.0 FEET TO THE IRON PIPE AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 OF LOLOVIEW ACRES; THENCE N. 28°24` E., FOR A DISTANCE OF 296.5 FEET TO THE IRON PIPE AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 1: THENCE CONTINUE THE SAME COURSE FOR A FURTHER DISTANCE OF 247.4 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE ON THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4; THENCE S. 89°00` E. ALONG THE 1/64 SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 247.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE ABOUT 2 FEET HIGH, DRIVE-IN THE INTERMITTENT CHANNEL OF AN OLD CREEK BED; THENCE S. 1°00` W. ALONG THE 1/64
SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 660.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE; THENCE N. 89°00` W. ALONG THE SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 266.0 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 678 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 171 Terri Lynn A. Van Ostrand and BRUCE A. VAN OSTRAND, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby and Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Phh Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on January 13, 2006, and recorded on January 18, 2006 as Book 767 Page 1119 Document No. 200601289. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation dba PHH Mortgage Services . 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 $1,202.50, beginning May 1, 2015, 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 3, 2015 is $162,121.59 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% totaling $4,277.42, late charges in the amount of $240.44, escrow advances of $114.70 and other fees and expenses advanced of $104.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.76 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 15, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 15 day of October, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, 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 Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 PHH vs Ostrand 100283-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 24, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200
West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 3 AND 4 IN BLOCK 62 OF DALY`S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BEVERLY S HAYS and PATRICK E HAYS, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Heritage Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 29, 2004, and recorded on March 30, 2004 as Book 728 Page 1530 Document No. 200408340. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. 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 $864.72, beginning April 1, 2015, 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 2, 2015 is $120,813.29 principal, interest at the rate of 5.62500% totaling $3,982.79, escrow advances of $-225.67, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.62 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 14, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of October, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, 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 Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 US Bank National Associationvs BEVERLY S HAYS PATRICK E HAYS 100227-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 24, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated
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PUBLIC NOTICES in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 36 OF ROSSIGNOL ORCHARD TRACTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. THERESA J PRICE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title, as Trustee to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 21, 2008, and recorded on November 10, 2008 as Book 829 Page 185 under Document No. 200825198. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). 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
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of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $767.17, beginning March 1, 2015, 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 23, 2015 is $122,933.20 principal, interest at the rate of 5.37500% totaling $4,252.75, late charges in the amount of $191.80, escrow advances of $1,853.45, and other fees and expenses advanced of $421.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If
MNAXLP 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 condi-
tions, 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 14, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of October, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, 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 Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Seterus vs PRICE 100360-1
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 For the month of January, Animal Control is having a Chubby Cat adoption promotion. For every pound of cat 1 year and older, adopters can take $1 off the adoption price. Have you been looking for a New Year's Resolution buddy? Here are some of the shelter's current Heavy Weights!
RUDY•
Rudy is a 5-year-old male black cat. He is one fat cat. When he came to the shelter a month ago, he weighed in at a full 20.5 lbs . His New Year's Resolution is to get in shape, and has already lost a full pound! His goal is to be able to walk across the room without dragging his belly. If you're looking for a weight-loss buddy to help with your own New Year’s resolution, Rudy might just be the cat for you!
DAVOS•Davos is a 3-5 year-old male longhaired black cat. He is a very social guy who enjoys other cats and people very much. Davos may be a heavyweight at 12 lbs, but most of that added weight is just fur. He needs no weight-loss resolution this year. Instead, Davos is hoping to make 2016 a year to remember by finding a loving forever home. SASSY•Sassy is a 7-9 year-old female Calico cat, and her name fits her personality. She is a very sweet cat with a great deal of sass. Sassy is declawed, which means she will need an inside-only home. Beyond that, she would like an owner who can help her trim down and fit into her itty-bitty, teenie-weenie yellow polka dot bikini. Her New Year's resolution is to make that happen by this summer.
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KIRK•Kirk is a 3-4 year-old male brown tabby cat. He was transfered to Animal Control from an over-crowded shelter. Kirk is a handsome boy who aims to please. He is playful and personable, loving to hang out with both people and cats. At 15 pounds, Kirk is the size of a small dog but doesn't really have a lot of extra weight to lose. His New Year's resolution is to find a home that will love him forever.
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JERSEY•Jersey is 5-7 year-old female buff cat. She is a rather shy girl that would love a quiet, child-free home. She's a little stressed at the shelter so her cranky side shows more often than we believe it would in a home environment. Jersey tips the scales at 10 lbs, but weight loss is not this year's resolution. She's looking for an owner who will help her come out of her shell.
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JANE• Jane is a 4-6 year-old female brown tabby cat. At 16 lbs, she is one of our largest cats at the shelter. She is so large, it is hard for her to keep herself groomed, and although she doesn't much enjoy it, will need an owner who can help her with the regular maintenance of brushing. One of her more admirable qualities is that you always know where you stand with her.
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SPARK• When she arrived at just 2 ½ weeks old, Spark earned her name for her spunky personality. We have learned that this sweet little lady, now about 6 months old, has a rare condition referred to as Osteogenesis imperfecta. After several broken bones due to poor bone density, a treatMissoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store ment plan including medication to increase her www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 mobility and maintain her intestinal integrity has South Russell • North Reserve made it possible for Spark to walk.
ZEUS•Zeus is a smart young man who is ready for his furrever home! He is looking for an active, adult home that will give him lots of exercise and continue the great training he is receiving from volunteers. This fast learner is active and friendly. If you are looking for a hiking buddy who is eager to please, come meet Zeus today!
LYDIA•If you are looking for a hound dog, Lydia is the gal for you. She would like to find someone who will appreciate all her houndliness and take her on new adventures. Lydia is one of the sweetest dogs around and is looking forward to meeting you today.
CHEGO• Looking for a lap-warmer on these cold Montana days? Chego was recently transferred to us from another facility and is looking for her furrever home. Her favorite activity is lounging in the Lay-Z-Boy. Friendly, social and even a bit vocal, Chego enjoys hanging out with children and other cats. If you are looking for a snuggly lap cat to keep your lap and heart warm, Chego may be the cat for you!
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FLETCHER• Fletcher is a lovely kitty who is looking for a home where he can be a comfortable indoor cat. Hunting, sleeping, playing with toys and being held are some of his favorite activities. Fletcher would love a home where he is the only cat and can be the king of the castle, preferably without canine siblings. If you are looking for an affectionate, curious snuggler, come meet Fletcher today! missoulanews.com • January 7–January 14, 2016 [C9]
RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $595, 4 plex off Mount, bright lower level, coin-op laundry, storage & offstreet parking. W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $600, end of N. Russell, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, 62+ Community, 2 Weeks FREE w/6 Month lease, $695, remodeled, DW, elevator, free basic cable, on street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333 108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, completely remodeled, DW, W/D, urban chic design in downtown Missoula. $1100 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #3. 1 bed/1.5 bath, near U, coin-ops, carport, storage, pet? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
REAL ESTATE 1502 Ernest Ave. #3. 1 bed/1bath, W/D hook-ups, storage, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895, off 3rd Street, new 6 Plex, w/d hookups, patio, A/C, storage & off-street parking. W/S/G paid, NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 3 bedroom, 2 bath, $1050, near Southgate Mall, DW, W/D hookups, A/C, storage & off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 3712 W. Central #3. 2 bed/1 bath, Target Range, W/D hookups, storage, shared yard, pet? $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 62+ Community 2+ bed, 2 bath, $750/mo includes heat, basic TV, garage available $50/mo. NO SMOKING/PETS. 549-8095 Studio-1 bedroom, 1 bath, $550-$635, quiet cul-de-sac near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333
Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1310 Mitchell St. “B”. 3 brd/1.5 bath, Northside, single car garage, W/D, DW. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1706 Scott St. “B” 1 bed/1 bath, Northside, lower unit, shared yard, all utilities paid, pet? $700 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2412 Gilbert. 2 bed/1 bath, Rattlesnake, new flooring & fresh paint, single garage, W/D. $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES 1 bedroom, 1 bath House, $700, near Higgins & South, private yard area/parking in alley. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 212 ½ S. 5th Street East. 1 bed/1 bath, newly remodeled, close to U and downtown. $775 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 Professional Property Management. Find Yourself
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206 & 210 South 3rd West. Lease space in historic storefront next to Boomswagger & Bernice’s Bakery. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 223 W. Front St: ~1,000 square feet, By Caras Park $1,250 per month. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 Looking to sublease the “Box Office” in downtown Missoula. It’s a homey & cute, small (10 x 12) space in the Warehouse Mall Only Alder). W. (725 $150/month + $20 if Internet is desired. All other utilities paid. Eclectic, friendly building where (friendly) dogs are welcome. Currently has large wraparound desk, small couch, and microwave/fridge – all of which can go if desired. Call Christie at 406-207-1782.
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HOMES 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Tina Ave Condo. $139,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $190,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, South Hills home. $350,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
2045 South 13th West. 3 bed, 1 bath with wood floors, finished attic, basement and new roof. $195,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
442 Kensington. Totally remodeled 1 bed, 1.5 bath with fenced yard, patio, deck & garage. $239,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $270,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
6743 Linda Vista. 4 bed, 3 bath with 2 car garage and great city views. $312,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@ lambrosera.com
REAL ESTATE 706 Hiberta. 2 bed, 1 bath stucco home on one +/- acre. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area since 1981. If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 2413221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Lewis & Clark Neigh-
borhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wheelchair accessible, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $299,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design, Inc.. Building Survivalist Homes, Sustainably, Off Grid. www.faswall.com, www.naturalhousebuilder.net. Ph: 406-3690940 & 406-642-6863. Real Estate. NW Montana. Tungstenholdings.com. (406)2933714 “There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor @gmail.com Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $145,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about
exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
CONDOS Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Commons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $158,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.
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1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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$183,000 3 bed 2 bath located in quiet neighborhood featuring a south-facing backyard, hand-laid brick patio, pergola & beautiful landscaping perfect for entertaining.
EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com
Homes 631 Pattee Creek Dr. Spacious 3 Bed, 3 Bath. Full Finished Basement ..............................................................$299,500 2004 Silver Tips Cluster Rustic Meets Romantic.................................................................................................$675,000
Homes With Land 856 Duck Bridge Lane Awesome Tiny Farm .......................................................................................................$250,000 406 Aspen View Rd, Polaris, MT. Wow, Check It Out! .......................................................................................$295,000
Townhomes/Condos Burns Street Commons #14 Next to Food Co-op & Bistro! 3 Bed ...................................................................$160,000 Burns Street Commons #16 Such convenience & charm.................................................................................$158,000 Burns Street Commons #17 Wow! Awesome floor plan ...................................................................................$154,000 Uptown Flats #210 Efficient 1 Bed .....................................................................................................................$149,000 Uptown Flats #301 Large 1 Bed + Bonus Room...............................................................................................$210,000
Land Old Indian Trail 4.77 Acres. South Facing Slope of Hillside at Base of Grant Creek ............................................$90,000 Old Indian Trail 15 Acres. Views of Lolo Peak & Missoula Valley .......................................................................$148,000 Old Indian Trail 19.77 Acres Buy Both Above For Less ......................................................................................$230,000
Commercial: 9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres......................................................................................................$250,000 Featured: Burns Street Commons Three 3 bed units with open floor plans & lots of storage near Missoula Food Co-op & Burns Street Bistro $154,000$160,000
1329 BRIDGECOURT
856 Duck Bridge Lane Log-sided 3 bed, 2 bath with many upgrades on 1.95 acres overlooking Clark Fork River $250,000
6743 Linda Vista Blvd. • $312,000 • Turn key 4 bed, 3.5 bath on 17,400 sq.ft. lot • Vaulted ceilings, arched doorways & lots of natural light • Kitchen nook, dining room & finished basement • Back deck & oversized double garage • City & mountain views all around
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