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Voices/Letters Signs, health care and climate change ....................................................4 The Week in Review POTUS, Mountain Line and a Griz win ........................................6 Briefs Wolf-pelts, tribal colleges and fantasy sports........................................................6 Etc. Remembering Dale Sherrard ....................................................................................7 News Mountain Water employee, others vie for open Ward 4 seat.................................8 News Progress anticipated on long-awaited Hotel Fox project ......................................9 Opinion Rep. Wittich wages tasteless attack on welfare recipients..............................10 Opinion Griz teacher sees hope after talking with Montana students .........................11 Feature Author Sharma Shields’ monsters and demons...............................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Holy Lands play serious songs for the party crowd...............................................18 Music Wartime Blues, Skull Fist and Sleater-Kinney .....................................................19 Theater In Montana Rep’s Gatsby, Daisy steals the show ............................................20 Books Black River promises depth it can’t provide .....................................................21 Film Whiplash wonders: How far is too far?.................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ......................................................23 Munchies Score on Super Bowl Sunday.......................................................................24 Happiest Hour The Front Brewing Company..............................................................26 8 Days a Week Reading is believing .............................................................................27 Mountain High The Fly Fishing Film Tour ...................................................................33 Agenda Burning (mini)Van...........................................................................................34

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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology......................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott, Kate Whittle COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Pumpernickel Stewart CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Tracy Lopez, Will Peterson ADMIN, PROMO & EVENTS COORDINATOR Leif Christian CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Jule Banville, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Migizi Pensoneau, Brooks Johnson, Sarah Aswell

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Jan. 27, near the corner of Pine and Higgins.

Who do you like in this weekend’s Super Bowl?

Follow-up: Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest food fest in America, after Thanksgiving. What will you be eating during the game?

Jennifer Meyer-Vaughn: I like Katy Perry and love the halftime shows. That’s the main reason I watch. Keepin’ it fresh: Vegetables and fruit. The last Super Bowl I was first trimester pregnant so I couldn’t stand all the smells of bacon and cheese and fatty foods … and I still can’t now.

Troy Lucas: Seahawks. I’m a Steelers fan, but [I root] for anybody who can beat the Patriots. Big dipper: My wife’s guacamole, her black bean salad and her chili bean dip.

Jennie Drake: I gotta go with the Patriots. The East Coast, Boston—that’s where my father passed away, so I have a strong connection there. Cheese head: Cheeze-Its and root beer.

Nicholas Gilbert: The cheerleaders. The Seahawks’ cheerleaders. Their form is impeccable. Little dipper: Pita bread dipped in curried hummus … hippie food. And beer.

James Smith: I hope there’s a wardrobe malfunction by Katy Perry.

Finger lickin’: Hopefully a lot of chili, finger foods and snacks and stuff.

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Danger signs

Timberjack thanks

It is with real dismay that I have noticed the proliferation of signs at Brooks and Stephens. While a new and updated CVS store looks great, the fact that it appears to have a large separate sign with digital reader board at a busy intersection along with huge CVS signage on two side of the store itself seems excessive and possibly in violation of Missoula’s signage regulations. Add to that the Holiday Village strip mall sign virtually right next to the CVS sign, and I feel like Missoula is being glutted with eyesores and distracting overload. Will every business in Holiday Village be allowed its own sign? How will that work? Will each store have a big sign on the roadway like CVS, and signage on the storefront? The single sign for the strip mall redo at Albertson’s, Ace and The Book Exchange works and should be the solution for a strip mall, in addition to facade signs. It is what I would prefer to signs standing on the roadway for every business present. This is not the box-store strip and stores should not be allowed individual signage as if they are standalone stores on five acres.

When Missoula’s sign code was established, we had decades of tasteful successful signs that made our city look good.

Businesses along Broadway look so good because of the strict enforcement of sign and landscaping codes. What has happened? Why are we sliding into total mediocrity? Why are we willing to have more and more eye pollution at street level pushed into our faces along Brooks?

Brooks is a busy, busy street. It should be a beautiful entry into our city from at least the new Kohl’s into the old downtown, not just where Rose Park starts. We asked for beauty on Broadway and I think Missoulians should be reminded about the battle for trees, landscaping and minimal signage along Broadway toward the airport. You might think Broadway looks pretty commercial and hardly beautiful. Well, I would ask you to look at pics from the ’70s and ’80s, before existing businesses and new properties started implementing the codes for signs and landscaping. And if you like the look of Missoula, I would ask you to remember the battles we continue to have over eye pollution in this town.

As Brooks starts to renovate its older areas, it needs to comply with our sign codes. And if our codes allow what CVS has done, we will become that mediocre, ugly town CVS would be happy to do business in. There are always compromises but we don’t need excessive signage for our businesses to be successful.

Gayl Teichert Missoula

Sixty-year-old memories of the gala world movie premiere of Timberjack infused the Bonner gym on Friday night as 300 folks gathered to enjoy popcorn and the movie, and to support the Bonner Milltown History Center and Museum’s fundraiser to return Stan Cohen’s extraordinary collection of Timberjack memorabilia to Bonner. This helps keep our Bonner area and timber heritage alive for the enjoyment and education of the public at our local history center.

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“Why are we willing to have more and more eye pollution at

enough information to act. As President Obama stated, “I’m not a scientist, either.

But you know there are a lot of really good scientists at NASA and NOAA and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act purposely, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts, floods, wildfires and global disruptions that can trigger human oppression around the world.”

I’m counting on our Sen. Jon Tester to redeem himself after his short-sighted and offensive vote in favor of the tar sands pipeline, and I’m hoping that Sen. Steve Daines will at very least acknowledge the overwhelming science behind climate change so that he can be an informed and productive Senator for the people of Montana.

Chris Henderson Missoula

street level pushed into our faces along Brooks?”

BMHC’s success is due totally to volunteerism at its finest: a melding of individuals from near and far, businesses and institutions donating time, money and/or space to preserve a unique place. Many thanks to all who contributed in so many ways.

Judy Matson and Minie Smith BMHC Bonner

No greater threat In his State of the Union address, President Obama brought the issue of climate change to center stage saying, “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” He reiterated his administration’s commitment to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which would set the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants, and he vowed to make sure big polluters and their friends in Congress don’t carry out their dirty work. His message: “I will not let this Congress endanger the health of our children by turning back the clock on our efforts.”

Most importantly, the president noted the scientific consensus acknowledging the reality of climate change and the need to act is now. As the president said, some folks, such as Montana’s Sen. Daines, try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists and that we don’t have

Cervical health month Cancer prevention is an important issue for all Montanans and Planned Parenthood of Montana is raising awareness of cervical cancer. Planned Parenthood of Montana encourages women to take advantage of the means that are now available to prevent cervical cancer and is working to make sure that these methods are accessible to girls and women in Montana.

According to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide with 500,000 new cases and 250,000 deaths reported each year. In 2013, the NCCC estimates that the U.S. will have had about 12,000 new cases of invasive cervical cancer and about 4,000 women will die from cervical cancer.

Approximately 268 cases of gynecologic cancers were diagnosed each year from 2004-2008 in Montana. The majority of these, about 250 each year, have been cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is easily detected with a Pap screening. Women aged 21-65 should get regular Pap screenings to find cervical cancer in its earliest stages even before symptoms are noticed.

Human papillomavirus is found in about 99 percent of cervical cancers. Infection with HPV is common, and in most people the body is able to clear the infection on its own. There are now two vaccines approved for the prevention of HPV infection.

Have you received your regular Pap test?

Kate Everhart Nessan Planned Parenthood of Montana Great Falls

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, January 21 Ravalli County District Court Judge Jeffrey Langton sentences Mikeal Shane Pruett, 55, to 200 years in prison for sexually assaulting and impregnating an 11-year-old girl. Pruett was the girl’s legal guardian.

Thursday, January 22 Popular Missoula vlogger Hank Green joins fellow YouTube stars GloZell Green and Bethany Mota to conduct a live-streaming interview with President Barack Obama.

Hank asks about drone warfare, health care and medical marijuana.

Friday, January 23 Mountain Line announces Corey Aldridge, formerly of RiverCities Transit in Longview, Wash., as the public transit agency’s new general manager. Aldridge succeeds Michael Tree, who helped make the system’s buses free to ride.

Saturday, January 24 Southern Utah guard A.J. Hess misses a three-pointer at the buzzer, and the University of Montana men’s basketball team hangs on to beat the Thunderbirds 58-56 at Dahlberg Arena. The Griz move to 6-1 in Big Sky Conference play.

Sunday, January 25 Before a game at Glacier Ice Rink, the University of Montana’s coed club hockey team honors teammate Jake Kallen, 19, who was hit and killed early Friday morning on Interstate 90 in Missoula.

Monday, January 26 The Missoula County Attorney’s Office sets a coroner’s inquest into the fatal New Year’s Eve police shooting of Kaileb Williams for March 9. During the inquest, a jury will determine whether the shooter, Missoula police corporal Paul Kelly, committed a criminal act.

Tuesday, January 27 Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announces the Missoula County Attorney’s Office is in compliance with an agreement signed last June to end a legal dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice over the office’s handling of sexual assault crimes.

A flock of mallards takes flight from Silver’s Lagoon after warm temperatures on Jan. 26 melted a small opening in the ice.

Legislature

The fantasy sports debate Fantasy sports weren’t exactly a key stumping point for Rep. Forrest Mandeville, R-Columbus, during his first-ever legislative campaign last year. But in the first weeks of the 2015 session, he’s managed to spark a debate among legislators and gambling industry reps about Montana’s longstanding ban on online fantasy sports betting—a ban he feels is out of balance with a majority of the country.

“When I was in college out of state I won a payleague through ESPN, got the T-shirt and all that,” Mandeville says. “I come back to Montana and can’t win prizes anymore. Says right on the little disclaimer, ‘If you live in Montana, you can pay for the league but we’re not going to send you the prize.’”

Montana is currently one of five states where wagering on the outcome of such leagues is strictly illegal. Sites like DraftKings and FanDuel specifically caution users that state laws may make them ineligible for participation. Mandeville’s House Bill 181 would amend the existing prohibition by legalizing

fantasy sports leagues with a buy-in of $100 or less, including Internet-based leagues.

“We’re not talking throwing in thousands of dollars on horse racing daily,” he says.

“Fantasy sports, low-level stuff, probably $35 average buy-in.”

The state’s gambling industry is far from enthusiastic about the approach.

During a Jan. 16 committee hearing, representatives from the Montana Tavern Association, the Montana Coin Machine Operators Association and the Gaming Industry Association of Montana voiced staunch opposition to HB 181.

GIAM lobbyist Neil Peterson said he’s not opposed to fantasy sports as “I play them myself ” (free leagues are not illegal), but concluded the issue needs to be vetted further before any action is taken.

Rick Ask, administrator for the state Gambling Control Division, concurs that there are problems with the bill. Some fantasy sports gambling is presently allowed, specifically through live leagues hosted by bars or the league run by the Montana Lottery. However, HB 181 raises a number of concerns, he says, including lack of regulation and the potential for credit gambling, which is also illegal. Ultimately Ask feels the measure could “open the door to some possible abuses.”

“To say it’s not a gambling activity is not accurate,” Ask says. “It is gambling, very much so.”

Mandeville isn’t the only one pushing for change.

Lawmakers in Washington state have proposed a similar measure this month, and the Fantasy Sports Trade

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[news] Association has been lobbying in statehouses in Arizona, Iowa and Maryland for years. Mandeville says he’s willing to work with the bill’s critics on changes, but adds Montanans deserve the same opportunities as fantasy sports fans in most other states.

“I think their concerns are largely unfounded since it’s okay just about everywhere else,” Mandeville says. “Federal legislation has specifically carved out fantasy sports as not gambling.”

Alex Sakariassen

Tribal colleges

Solving a disparity Over the past year, administrators at Montana’s seven tribally controlled colleges have grown increasingly vocal about a disparity in state funding for higher education. While per-student reimbursements to institutions like Flathead Valley Community College have gradually increased due to inflation and changing economic conditions, similar considerations have not been extended to funding for non-Indian students at tribal colleges, resulting in a serious lag.

“Whenever we educate a non-Native student, it costs us,” says Blackfeet Community College President Billie Jo Kipp. “We have no problem because we believe education should be available to everybody, but Montana tends to see it differently.”

The Montana Budget and Policy Center released a report on the issue last week, revealing that tribal colleges receive roughly half the financial support for a non-Indian student as other community colleges would for the same student. The report concluded that “our state investments should not promote inequality.” Kipp echoes the sentiment, calling the disparity “racial inequity in educational funding.”

“Compared to what Dawson Community College gets, we get $3,000,” she says. “They get $6,740.

We provide similar services, we provide similar—if not more—training programs, workforce development programs, to non-Natives as well.”

With the help of several other state lawmakers from tribal communities, Rep. Susan Webber, D-Browning, has spent the past few weeks working on a potential fix in the Montana Legislature. House Bill 196, which drew support from administrators and non-Indian students during a committee hearing Jan. 26, would remove the $3,024 cap on nonIndian student funding to tribal colleges set in 2013

and replace it with a baseline amount for allocations to be adjusted for inflation each biennium.

“The idea is that we’re all in the game of educating Montanans,” says Rep. George Kipp III, D-Heart Butte, adding that tribal colleges have increasingly become “feeder schools” to bigger campuses like the University of Montana and Montana State University.

Webber, who also serves on BCC’s board of trustees, says the increased funding proposed in the bill could help accelerate the growth already taking place on Montana’s tribal college campuses, and would harness the influx of non-Indian students in recent years. Non-Indian students now make up 30 percent of total enrollment at Salish Kootenai College; Kipp notes a similar increase at BCC in response to the expansion of its nursing program and its continued development of four-year programs.

“All we’re trying to do with this bill,” says Sen. Sharon Stewart-Peregoy, D-Crow Agency, “is equal the playing field and provide adequate resources for tribally controlled colleges who are providing a service to all Montanans.”

Alex Sakariassen

BY THE NUMBERS

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Acres of Plum Creek Timber land purchased

by The Nature Conservancy along the Blackfoot River last week. The deal was estimated at $85 million.

On, Wed., Jan 14, University of Montana sound artist Dale Sherrard died at age 53. Filmmaker Andrew Smith shared his thoughts on the passing of his close friend and colleague:

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“Hopefully that will enable us to continue a relatively stable harvest level,” Giddings says, “because after a while, if people can’t do something with the pelts, they’re going to lose interest in the season … and that would hurt our management.”

FWP obtained the tags through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, an international agreement designed to ensure that trade in plant and animal products does not threaten the species’ continued survival. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, any state or tribal governments seeking to issue those permits “must set up and maintain management and harvest programs designed to monitor and protect CITES furbearers from over-harvest.” Giddings admits the demand for CITES permits for wolf-pelts in Montana probably isn’t Wildlife “huge,” but adds his agency’s decision to pursue FWS approval stemmed largely from public feedback.

More fur for Canada “We’ve heard for a number of years, since we Earlier this month, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service approved Montana’s request to start issuing inter- started our seasons I think three or four years ago, nationally recognized export tags for wolf-pelts, that [hunters and trappers] would like to have that making it the second state in the country behind ability to export the pelts,” he says.

Montana has already been issuing CITES export Alaska to allow hunters and trappers to sell wolf-pelts directly on foreign markets. It’s a direction Montana tags for bobcat and river otter pelts for decades. FWP believes the addition of wolves to that list will be of interest primarily to Montana trappers, who have increasingly taken to selling various pelts through major Canadian venues like the North American Fur Auctions in Toronto.

“That’s something that’s changed over the years,” Giddings says. “In the old days they’d kind of just sell things locally or regionally, and now most of them ship or sell things directly to those fur auctions where they usually bring in more dollars.”

North American Fur Auctions this week released results from its January photo courtesy of Emmanuel Keller event. While the notice did not include Fish, Wildlife and Parks has been moving in for sev- any figures for wolf-pelt sales, it did mention that coyeral years, says Brian Giddings, the agency’s statewide ote-pelt values had “pushed well beyond” industry furbearer coordinator, and could help stabilize sea- highs recorded last spring.

Alex Sakariassen sonal wolf harvest totals moving forward.

Last Father’s Day, a few of us celebrated “Dads’ night out” by going out for a drink and watching playoff basketball. Dale Sherrard—a wonderful father to his daughter Aja— joined us, despite his lack of interest in the NBA. Always up for a lark. After some gin, juice and animated conversation, Dale sauntered off “to peruse the moonlight” (i.e. he wisely went home to be with Prageeta, light of his life).

One of my basketball friends, who had engaged with Dale about films, music, cheese (how he loved a good cheese), and living by the train tracks (how he loved trains), turned to me and said with all the right kinds of awe, “He’s some kind of genius, isn’t he?”

Yes. Dale’s the kind of guy who never gives you a rote answer; he comes back to you with the proper question. The breadth of his learning I think of as widescreen, and his soul, supersonic. A particular (and peculiar) energy-force, sound artist of the highest order, with the rare ability to creatively collaborate as easily as he breathed, Dale created the “archival” sound elements for my film, Winter in the Blood—set in 1974, with flashbacks in the late 1950s. He made “period” radio jingles, news clips, stock reports, weather voices, static art, buzzing wires from the right transformers—a layer of resonant verisimilitude that gives the film a precise sheen.

A beautifully malevolent combination of Michael Nesmith and, say, Chet Atkins or Rick Rubin, Dale found a mighty calling in creating and producing music. His work with my wife, filmmaker Courtney Saunders, and many local musicians, personified “hep tone.” Dale could get all baroque on a song, or spare it to bones; his sense of the right tone, always splendid.

For legions of UM students these last five years, there was Dale, giving himself over to their films, helping them create Nutella-thick “better halves” to their images. He built a sound studio, updated our editing systems, provided a sound library and led by example, regularly blowing student minds with the sprawling, spangled bandwidth of his ferocious imagination.

Dale, you’re bona fide, the straight dope, the good stuff. As Jim Welch wrote, “Always good to be with. Even on a rainy day.”

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Seeking council Mountain Water employee, others vie for open Ward 4 seat

by Ted McDermott

Before Greg Gullickson joined Mountain Water Company 17 years ago, he worked for the Missoula Job Service, where he helped run retraining programs for those who’d spent their lives working in the city’s then-shuttering lumber mills.

“It’s kind of scary in a sense,” Gullickson says, “because my biggest fear when I dealt with these people was, I’d run into a lot of guys who were 55 years old and lost their job and had done pretty much the same thing their whole life and found themselves at a really difficult time in their life to be out looking for another job. So I always used to think, ‘I hope that doesn’t happen to me.’ And I’m pretty close to that possibly happening to me here.”

“Here” is an office at Mountain Water, Missoula’s privately held water utility, which the city is trying to forcibly acquire through condemnation. Gullickson and his colleagues have opposed the city’s action and, in a letter dated Oct. 13, declined a Stipulated Offer of Employment from the city, should it succeed in its takeover effort. So with the possibility of unemployment looming, Gullickson is applying for a new position: city councilman.

The seat came open earlier this month, when Ward 4 representative Caitlin Copple resigned to focus on her day job with Hilltop Public Solutions, a political consulting firm. The city began accepting applications Jan. 27 and will accept them until Feb. 6. Already, Gullickson is one of at least three people who have decided to vie for the open seat.

Richard Bitz, a retired Montana Rail Link engineer, and John DiBari, a member of the city’s planning board and the owner of a small business, are also aiming to fill the position.

Once all applications are in, city council will select candidates, conduct interviews and vote to decide who will serve. According to City Clerk Marty Rehbein, council hopes to make the selection at its Feb. 23 meeting.

With a strong council majority supportive of Mayor John Engen’s effort to acquire Mountain Water, Gullickson believes he faces an “uphill battle” to get votes— and Copple agrees. She says council’s majority is unlikely to act against its own interests on such an important issue.

“I do think it’s something that will come up in the interview questions,” Copple says. “And as you’ve seen, we have 11 pretty firm votes in support of moving forward with the [condemnation] case, and I don’t expect that that will change.”

[8] Missoula Independent • January 29–February 5, 2015

Copple sees council’s support of the takeover as reflective of the preference of a majority of her constituents, but Gullickson isn’t so sure. He argues the public has largely been left out of the conversation about Mountain Water, and that even council has been acting without sufficient information.

“One of the questions that I put to [Ward 4 council members] Jon [Wilkins] and Caitlin when this whole thing began with Mountain Water is, ‘How much are you prepared to spend on this?’” Gullickson says. “And I didn’t get the feeling that they had a very good idea how much any of this was going to cost. And

“It provides another level of ability of the city to help carry out its vision,” DiBari says.

DiBari has been involved in crafting and carrying out that vision for years by serving on the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board, the Missoula County Open Lands Citizen Advisory Committee and the Lewis and Clark Neighborhood Council.

With that experience, DiBari says he’s interested in working on issues of planning, development and the “overall enhancement of the form and function of the city and the quality of life for its citizens.” But he’s also concerned about how the city pursues— and pays for—those enhancements.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

So far, a Mountain Water employee, a city planning board member and a retired railroad engineer are competing for Caitlin Copple’s soon-to-be-vacant city council seat. Candidates have until Feb. 6 to apply for the position.

that scared me, to be quite honest with you.”

While Gullickson is acutely aware of his self-interest in the fate of Mountain Water, he says he’s more concerned about the broader issues condemnation points to, such as the city’s “fiscal irresponsibility,” local government’s lack of transparency and Missoula’s rising property taxes. In fact, Gullickson says he would recuse himself from matters pertaining to his employer, if selected.

“I think I could lend my voice to the discussion,” Gullickson says, “but I would not vote on those issues.”

DiBari, on the other hand, says he would vote to support the city’s effort to make Mountain Water a publicly owned utility, which would allow for it to be managed in the best interest of Missoula citizens. That, DiBari says, would help control costs, improve efficiency and “incentivize the kind of development that [the city] wants to see.”

“There’s so many really cool projects that we do and we want to do as a community,” DiBari says. “And in and of themselves they’re great. … But I do understand, and I’m coming to understand, about the cumulative effects of having all of those really cool things. And it’s a concern about how we wind up paying for it all.”

While DiBari has a range of expertise and experience, and Gullickson has a personal connection to the work council is doing, Bitz is more open-ended about his interest in the seat. He calls himself a “regular Joe” whose main qualification for the position is a willingness to listen and learn without bias.

“And anybody that tells you they have an agenda, I don’t know about that,” Bitz says. “Because the way I look at it, you’d want to learn what you’re doing before you say too much.” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

[news]

Corner market Progress anticipated on long-awaited Hotel Fox project

by Ted McDermott

In the case of the Hotel Fox, the MCBC Jim McLeod, senior managing direc- two-acre Fox site, MRA selected the Hotel tor for Farran Realty Partners, can’t say Fox project in January 2012 and gave Far- wants to see the project built with union much about his group’s plans for a long- ran and its partners exclusive one-year labor, allow future employees to organize, awaited downtown development to be rights to develop the land. Since then, and accommodate various environmental known as the Hotel Fox, but he will say however, the project has faced delays, due and sustainable-transportation initiatives. both to requests from the city and compli- According to Anderlik, the coalition’s prithis: “We’re moving forward.” mary leverage for compelling the city and After years of delays, this indication of cations confronted by the developers.

In the meantime, Mark Anderlik of the Farran to negotiate is simple: If the develprogress, however murky, has observers excited about a project intended to transform AFL-CIO-affiliated Missoula Area Central opers will work with the MCBC, the coalia prime piece of riverfront property just west Labor Council has been doing some plan- tion “will be advocates for this project” and of the Orange Street bridge from a parking ning and organizing of his own. He says he’s help combat skepticism on city council and in the community. lot into a mixed-use development As evidence that the stratthat will include a hotel and a egy can work, Anderlik points conference center, among other to some 30 projects across the amenities. According to Chris county where union organizing Behan, assistant director of the has helped gain concessions Missoula Redevelopment Agency, from private developments the progress McLeod alludes to done with public subsidies. isn’t yet a concrete plan for the He’s eager to see if the model site but is a major step in the right can be successful in Missoula, direction: a feasibility study for the conference center, which will Within the next few weeks, developers of the mixed-use now that Farran and its partHotel Fox project are expected to release a feasibility help determine its size and loca- study that will pave the way for the first significant ners finally seem prepared to proceed. tion on the site. progress on a development initially proposed in 2011.

“Hopefully, they’re doing “They need to know those things to start fitting in the rest of the puz- spoken to environmental, neighborhood all their work and they’re really prepared zle pieces for that whole area,” Behan says. and activist organizations about “what the and we can sit down and start talking He expects that study to be presented to community should be getting out of ” the specifics,” Anderlik says. “We’ll wait forcity council in the “next couple of weeks.” Fox project and how to “exert community ever. We’re not going away. Whenever When that happens, Behan believes “we’ll leverage” in order for those aims to be they’re ready, we’ll do it.”

Though much about the project is have some good answers and be able to re- achieved. The result was the formation of ally lay things out for folks, so they can take the Missoula Community Benefits Coali- still unknown, Behan believes the opportion. It’s a small group, but Anderlik has a tunity for the kind of public discussion the a look and see what’s possible.”

MCBC hopes to pursue will come soon.

The effort to develop the area extends broad vision for what it can accomplish.

“It would be nice to say, ‘Well that’s “We want to stand up for the community at least to 2008, when MRA established the Riverfront Triangle Urban Renewal District, to get what it should expect from every de- where we’re really gonna be able to start a swath of land that includes the Fox site. velopment,” Anderlik says. “And if we’re suc- to plan and build,’” Behan says of the By designating it an urban renewal district, cessful with this, we’re hoping this will set a coming feasibility study. “But having that MRA is able to capture tax revenue in the pattern for other large developments in Mis- key piece of information allows us to rearea and use it to fund demolition and in- soula as well ...” That, Anderlik argues, would ally start having the conversation about frastructure, as well as encourage invest- help “institutionalize this idea that the com- what it is that we want.” ment. After issuing a request for proposals munity should not sell itself short in getting for mixed-use development of the nearly value for a subsidy for a private business.” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Poor form Rep. Wittich wages tasteless attack on welfare recipients

by Dan Brooks

The House Human Services Committee subpoenaed three Montana aid workers to testify last week, ostensibly about problems with the computer system that administers welfare benefits. Under the supervision of Committee Chair Art Wittich, R-Belgrade, however, the hearing quickly devolved into a series of anecdotes about people who got welfare but didn’t need it.

Libby aid workers Kirsten Brown and John Desch, as well as retired Kalispell aid worker Linda Ruther, testified under oath that they had heard of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, recipients who drove Humvees, Medicaid applicants who lied about being pregnant and welfare mothers who “posted pictures of vacations online.”

None of these stories came with a name or a case number. The witnesses who testified had not reported them, in most cases because they had no contact with the cases directly. They heard about them from coworkers, sometimes thirdor fourth-hand. Of the many frauds they warned the committee about, not one had been documented.

At one point, Rep. Ellie Hill, D-Missoula, asked whether any of the abuses Ruther described had been reported to fraud control units within her department. Could she provide any dates or case numbers?

Ruther responded that she knew of one case in which a coworker had personal knowledge of an applicant’s living situation. “She went to her supervisor,” Ruther said, “and said, her husband, they’re not separated. First she said she had no income—” “So this is all hearsay?” Hill asked.

Yes, Ruther answered, it was. Before Hill could continue, Wittich interrupted the proceedings. “I’m not sure we want to have names and case numbers publicly discussed at this point,” he said, “in case there is some sort of a prosecution.”

[10] Missoula Independent • January 29–February 5, 2015

It was an odd concern, given that he had convened the committee to discuss specific problems with the administration of Montana’s welfare system. But that wasn’t really the purpose of last week’s hearing. The purpose of last week’s hearing was to indulge the fantasy that poor people don’t really need our help.

Before we go any further, we should note that the documented national payment error rate for SNAP—better known as food stamps—between 2011 and 2013 was 3.2 percent. Over the same period,

“The purpose of last week’s hearing was to indulge the fantasy that poor people don’t really need our help.” only 3.8 percent of improper Medicaid claims involved overpayment.

Underpayment of benefits is 30 times more common than overpayment. In aid offices across the country, applicants are much less likely to defraud the government and much more likely to be denied benefits by employees like Ruther, whose professional obligations take a back seat to their gut feeling that the person in front of them isn’t really poor.

Three quarters of the TANF recipients in Montana are children. These numbers are not anecdotes. They are not stories I heard. They are vetted, quantitative data from the USDA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

But in Helena last week, real information about how we administer welfare took a back seat to office gossip. Sworn

witnesses appeared before the House to present rumors as facts, and Wittich encouraged them.

Maybe our elected representatives should lead us away from unsourced conjecture about the poor. In calling these witnesses before the Human Services Committee and treating their break room stories as information, Wittich indulged the worst in human nature.

We want to believe that anyone who asks for help doesn’t need it, because we hate to think that people are really suffering.

So we decide that the woman with the EBT card in the checkout line ahead of us isn’t really poor, not because we saw her application but because she’s wearing a nice coat.

We tell ourselves that single moms would rather get $400 a month than find work, not because raising a family on five grand a year is such a sweet deal, but because if they’re not lazy, then maybe we’re cruel.

I don’t know about you, but I am selfish and dumb. When I think of poor people, I fill in what I don’t know with a story that says they’d be just fine, if only they worked as hard as I do. Last week, Wittich urged us to call our made-up stories facts.

He pandered to the worst in us, and he did it at the expense of poor kids.

He also probably did it at the expense of a handful of people gaming the system.

But if 25 children have to go hungry to get one liar out of her Humvee, I’m not sure I want to make that deal.

It’s anybody’s impulse to think that people on welfare are faking it. But our elected representatives are supposed to be better than just anybody. There’s a word for someone who tells you your ignorance is better than information, and all your prejudices are right—that welfare moms are liars, and the best way to help poor people is to give them no help at all. There is a word for people like Art Wittich, and it is not “leader.”

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and demagogues at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Bearing down Griz teacher sees hope after talking with Montana students

by Bill Cook

“Afterbirth; what about afterbirth?”

The earnest 7-year-old pressed his question—a very smart one. I’d just given my spiel on grizzly bears to students in a Montana school so rural and remote that all the classes put together, kindergarten through eighth grade, consisted of just 15 kids.

I’d warned them that grizzlies are omnivores that will eat things that we humans don’t recognize as food, so that stuff like garbage or deep-fryer grease attracts bears to ranches, farms, resorts and towns. I also reminded them that bears have acute senses of smell, often gravitating toward items that seem—to us—thoroughly rank and nasty.

The second-grader reflected on what he’d seen at his home ranch and connected the dots, so, yes, I told him, a cow’s afterbirth left on rangeland after calving might well attract a hungry grizzly.

That was a good moment for this new teacher.

I’m a volunteer for Montana WILD, an education center outside Helena run by Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department. Before retiring, I worked for a long time in Oregon as a wildlife lawyer and had a short stint teaching wildlife law. My focus these days: Talking to young Montanans about learning to get along with grizzlies.

At times, Montana WILD sends me out to classrooms, not just in elementary, middle and high schools, but also to colleges, alternative schools and even psychiatric hospitals. But most often, the kids come to me. They come from all over Montana to our facility above Spring Meadow Lake, sometimes traveling as many as 400 miles one way.

We get boot-wearing kids from ranches and farms. Patagonia-clad kids from the college towns of Missoula and Bozeman. Kids in camo shirts and caps, Native American kids from the reservation, sunburnt kids from the Bakken oil patch. We even get kids from Hutterite

colonies, the girls in long skirts, aprons and kerchiefs, and the boys in dark jackets and black hats.

“I’m really glad you’re here,” I tell them. “Because the story of the griz is a success story, a Montana story that you’re already a part of.” The kids’ eyes widen as I point out that the grizzly, originally both a mountain and a prairie animal, was once found not only in the Rockies but also as far east as the Dakotas, Nebraska and

“I get no pushback from my student audiences when I describe how grizzlies are expanding their range into ranchland, farmland and resort areas.”

Kansas. I describe how humans wiped out the big bears in the Great Plains and vastly reduced their numbers in the mountains, leaving just a few remaining populations, mostly right here in Montana.

I show them how, thanks to the Endangered Species Act and the hard work of many people, two populations of grizzlies have made particular strides toward recovery. I zero in on the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem population, centered in Montana’s huge “crown of the continent” region, extending from Glacier National Park through the Bob

Marshall Wilderness complex. I describe how, with the population now around 1,000, grizzlies from the Northern Continental Divide are beginning to move out of the mountains and recolonize areas where they haven’t been seen in more than a century.

“In recent years, for the first time since the 1800s,” I tell the kids, “we had grizzlies denning for the winter on the prairie.”

At this point I pause, and scan the room for reactions. During my career in the grownup world, I attended many legislative proceedings and public hearings where adults either demanded removal of large carnivores from the landscape or insisted that they be confined to public lands.

But now, as I enter my third season of talking with Montana kids about bears, my experience is completely different. I get no pushback from my student audiences when I describe how grizzlies are expanding their range into ranchland, farmland and resort areas. Instead, the students anticipate the next portion of my presentation about how to coexist with griz, and begin peppering me with tough, practical, solution-oriented questions, comments and suggestions.

Thus we end up discussing such things as the effectiveness of electric fencing, what makes for a griz-proof cooler, the composting of carcasses that attract nosy grizzlies. These discussions offer some hope, especially now, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers whether to take grizzlies of the Northern Continental Divide population off the threatened species list.

When it comes to the hard work of understanding conservation through coexistence, the kids of Montana are all right.

Bill Cook is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes in Helena.

missoulanews.com • January 29–February 5, 2015 [11]

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It’s more about figuring out how to make it a good business.” (Los Angeles’s KCAL-TV) KNOW-IT-ALL FOLLIES – During her trial for defrauding landlords, Toronto resident Nina Willis, 50, pleaded “the fifth,” only to have prosecutor Craig Power point out the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution doesn’t apply in Canada. (Toronto Star) Evidence cited against accused murderer Faramarz Bakhshi, 23, at his bail hearing in Cook County, Ill., included his Facebook post: “It’s only murder if they find the body; otherwise, it’s a missing person.” (Chicago Tribune) FRUITS OF RESEARCH – Researchers linked the decline of marriage in the United States to the rise of free Internet pronography. One of the study’s authors, Michael Malcolm, a professor at Pennsylvania’s University of West Chester, explained that the reason is tied to the relationship between marriage and sexual gratification. If pornography is seen as a alternate means to sexual gratification, Malcom said, then it could be undercutting the need for marriage to serve this function. (The Washington Post) Fast food might be making people stupid as well as fat, according to researchers at Ohio State University who compared fast-food consumption and test results among children. “Our results show clear and consistent association between children’s fast-food consumption in eighth grade and academic growth between fifth and eighth grade,” the researchers reported. (The Washington Post) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – Sheriff’s deputies in Traill County, N.D., said Brian Cutshall, 40, threatened to kill his 9-year-old son if the boy didn’t call 911 while the parents argued over a game of Yahtzee. The boy told deputies that his mother was beating up his father when the dad made the threat. 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(New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times) DRONE ON – Michigan lawmakers introduced a ban on using drones to hunt deer and other game animals. “This came from hunters and outdoor enthusiasts” who felt the use of drones “takes away from the spirit and tradition of what hunting is supposed to be about,” chief sponsor Sen. Phil Pavlov said. Concerned that anti-hunting groups might also use drones to interfere with hunting, lawmakers are considering companion legislation to ban the use of drones to harass or interfere with hunters. (Detroit News) INSTANT INDULGENCE – The brewer of Bud Light introduced an e-commerce app that lets drinkers in Washington, D.C., order 12-packs or 24-packs for delivery within an hour. The move by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA follows that by MillerCoors to provide free delivery of Miller Lite in Boston, New York, Seattle and Washington. The companies view e-commerce as a way to market their products to young consumers who have become accustomed to using an app to have food and other products delivered. (The Wall Street Journal) Pizza Hut is developing ways to order pizza faster. Claiming to have “the world’s first subsconscious menu,” Pizza Hut incorporated retina-scanning technology and “psychological research” to create a special eye-tracking tablet at its 300 locations across the United Kingdom. The digital menu shows 20 toppings and computes orders based on which ones the customer looks at the longest. “Finally, the indecisive orderer and the prolonged menu peruser can cut time and always get it right, so that the focus of dining can be the most important part: the enjoyment of eating,” a Pizza Hut official said, noting that the menus feature a “restart” button to ensure accuracy.

LEGALIZE, SCHMEGALIZE – Although Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, Rhode Island topped the nation in the percentage of residents who reported using pot in 2012-2013, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. (Denver Post)

[12] Missoula Independent • January 29–February 5, 2015

missoulanews.com • January 29–February 5, 2015 [13]

photo by Young Kwak

S

harma Shields is in a bakery on Spokane’s South Hill, bobbing a tea bag in her mug, looking to kill some time before her kids get done with preschool.

Behind oval-shaped glasses, her eyes can burn hot, but the heat is offset by a recurring smile and stories that all seem to end in selfeffacement and a sharp laugh.

Shields pulls a paperback book out of her bag and places it on the table with little fanfare. It’s fresh out of the box from the publisher, she says, rubbing a hand over the small likeness of an ape-like creature on the cover that Northwesterners know well. In a matter of weeks, the title will be in bookstores.

The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac is going to further change Shields’ life, which has been full of more peaks and valleys over the past few years than her book’s mountainous terrain. This sort of sudden literary fame, by way of national magazines and interviews before her debut novel hit shelves, would rattle most 36-year-olds. Shields feels like she should be rattled. But things are okay, at least for now.

Shields, though quick with a hug and possessing a warm demeanor, is a pessimist, a skeptic, a believer that the world is a tough, vicious place. She loves fairy tales, but mostly the ones where something awful happens. A lot of awful things happen in her writing,

because she’s waded through some awful things—addiction, disease, guilt and humiliation, to name a few.

Now a very good thing is about to happen to her, but she’s not sold, even if big magazines like Entertainment Weekly have gushed about her book and a major production company already has secured the television rights.

She’s written a monster of a book about monsters, some real and some metaphoric, that could only come from the mind of a woman who spent years trying to forget her youth and her hometown and just find a way to tell stories. In the end, she may have delivered a story that’s more about herself than she ever intended.

“I’m thrilled that it’s getting the attention that it is. I keep waiting for someone to stand up and say, ‘She’s a fake!’ Maybe everybody feels that way a little bit. I’m always really skeptical about success. I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac spans more than 60 years and four generations over the course of 383 pages of storytelling that warps reality and rewards those willing to believe in its magic.

[14] Missoula Independent • January 29–February 5, 2015

We meet Eli Roebuck as a child, serving cookies to a massive creature in an ill-fitting suit that his mother has brought to their cabin on the Washington-Idaho border. The thing’s name is Mr. Krantz and he has wooed Eli’s mother away from the family home and into the woods, leaving Eli to deduce that his mother left him for a Sasquatch. So he becomes a podiatrist (feet, get it?), starts a family in the city and then transitions into one of the region’s leading authorities on the mythic beast, all the while not merely hunting for a Sasquatch, but Mr. Krantz himself.

You’re allowed to believe in Sasquatch, if you’d like, but you don’t have to because you’re never sure what to make of Mr. Krantz. You also don’t have to believe in lake monsters or witches or magic hats or unicorns in Shields’ book, because you’re prepared for whatever might come your way by the time any of those creatures appear. Which they do.

We see Dr. Roebuck age and become a father, then divorce and have another daughter, and soon the novel is occupied as much by stories of childhood pain and wonder as it is tales of apelike creatures.

You’ll set out seeing Dr. Roebuck as a hero in search of the beast so many Northwest kids grow up wondering about, but he’s harder to admire by the page. It’s the women in the book who carry the story.

“There’s a lot about family love and forgiveness, and how we move on and how we think about others and our family,” says Shields.

There’s a lot of Sharma Shields here. She experienced some of the weirdness you’ll read in the book.

She’s never gone after a Sasquatch, but a gypsy woman stopped her in Spain when she was studying abroad and gave her an unsolicited palm reading, informing Shields that the boyfriend she’d been obsessing over back home wasn’t the one for her. The gypsy didn’t curse her entire family, though, unlike in the book. Shields also didn’t leave her baby outside to be swooped up by an eagle, but she did struggle with postpartum depression. She didn’t ever tell a counselor that she’d hit a unicorn with her car, but she’s seen a therapist for years.

The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac takes place throughout the Pacific Northwest, but you’ll never see the word “Spokane.” She calls it the Lilac City. The name change allowed her to make her hometown an island of fantasy in a sea of reality.

“I think that was me playing with reality a little bit. I love ‘Lilac City’ because it sounds like a place in a fairy tale,” she says. “I love the image it provides and the smell, but I wanted people to know that this was an Inland Northwest book.”

It’s a loving ode in many ways, but Shields hasn’t always been on the best terms with the Lilac City. At least not the real one.

She was sitting on the floor of her bedroom, 17 years old and sobbing. It was 1996 and the man on the other end of the line was from the Spokesman-Review, the same reporter who had waited outside her house and appeared at her high school track practice.

She says he told her that because of her lies, she was going to go up in flames in the newspaper the next day. She sobbed and said she didn’t lie about anything.

Yes, she had confessed that she’d been cited for a DUI coming home from a party, but there were a lot of lies and halftruths folded in there, too.

She’d told the paper—and the Lilac Festival committee that had just seen her elected a Lilac Princess for Ferris High School—that she had one beer, her first beer ever. She’d had beers before, and more than one that night. She’d said she’d been pulled over for a broken headlight. In reality, the arresting officer said she’d almost hit the patrol car.

Inside the Spokesman’s newsroom, there was debate over how to cover the arrest of a girl whose DUI arrest would have been irrelevant had she not won the honor of wearing a purple dress. Anne Walter was the editor of the Our Generation section of the paper, which featured high school writers from around the region. She recalls fighting like hell to keep the story off the front page.

Making things more complicated, Shields was the student editor for Walter. For Shields, working at the Spokesman was the pinnacle of a high school career that also saw her become homecoming queen, student body president and soccer captain. But now the paper had Shields and her misdeeds on its front page.

Lilac Festival committee members fought among themselves about what to do with Shields. Radio talk shows took up the issue and the Spokesman wrote about the committee’s decision. Apparently people were reading, because when Shields opened her hometown paper on her 18th birthday, the entire Opinion section was devoted to letters to the editor, either in support of her or calling for her head.

“Protecting the Lilac reputation was far more important than forgiving this kid’s mistake,” says Walter, now a school counselor after 16 years at the Spokesman. “And it was tough to see a kid that age vilified in the newspaper where she worked.”

Shields lost her Lilac Princess crown and finished up high school as quietly as she could. The sort of people who write letters to the editor continued to do so for weeks to come.

She enrolled in the University of Washington’s honors programs and thrived on her newfound anonymity in Seattle, with Spokane and the mistake of that one stupid night a state’s length away. With

the novel coming out, Shields wondered if people would remember the ordeal. She still doesn’t exactly know why it ever became such a circus, but she can make a guess.

“People love an Ophelia story. They want to see the young girl drown,” she says. Part of her doesn’t really blame them. She knows she screwed up.

But she learned to love Spokane again, and she’s trying to learn to forgive the 17-year-old brat who drank and drove and lied, and then lied a little more.

“There will never be a time when I won’t regret it. I’m not even sure I know what forgiving myself entails,” she says.

It’s been tougher than she thought, but there had to be some pleasure in dumping a Lilac Princess into Dr. Roebuck’s Lilac City, complete with the over-involved parents and crowded parade route. Her husband had suggested she include it one afternoon during a walk. It seemed like most people wouldn’t

care about a silly Spokane tradition, but she did it anyway. And wouldn’t you know it: That Lilac Princess ends up going up in flames—literally—about halfway through the book.

Sharma Shields never doubted that she would be a writer, but adulthood had a way of making her dream a little harder than she expected.

She spent a few years working in bookstores after graduating from the University of Washington. She’d been a devotee of the classics prior to that gig—“dead white guys” and the like, she recalls—but was now able to keep an eye on new writers.

Shields was accepted to the MFA program at the University of Montana, where she met Simeon “Sam” Mills, a graphic novelist and short fiction writer whom she would eventually marry. Shields wrote one novel during graduate school, another the year after graduation while slinging coffee. The second was a horrible detective novel inspired by film noir, one she never thought seriously about publishing.

She then found a job in Missoula selling tour packages to foreign countries, and was unexpectedly competitive in the position.

“I don’t know why I was that way, but what’s the saying, ‘Always be closing?’ I was all about that,” she says.

While the gig enabled her to take a couple of trips abroad, the work was the sort of cubicle-and-headset drudgery that left her emotionally and physically exhausted at the end of the day, meaning she wasn’t about to sit down in front of a different computer and begin writing. It was depressing, and

she started drinking more and more as a result.

Mills had been teaching at the university as an adjunct and finding other odd jobs when there wasn’t a spot for him, so after a visit to Shields’ family cabin on a remote part of Lake Pend Oreille, they made a decision on the drive back to Missoula. They’d quit their jobs and be at the lake by Feb. 1, 2008, intending to rededicate themselves to writing. “Go lake, 2/1/08” became their mantra.

They actually did it, putting their life in Missoula into a storage unit and heading for the wilds of North Idaho in the dead of winter. But that winter was the one that all but shut down the Inland Northwest and they couldn’t even get to the cabin, which meant spending a month living in Spokane with her parents.

Panic began to seep into Shields’ world.

“I had this huge fear that someone was going to recognize me in a grocery store and say, ‘There’s that lying, sack-of-shit princess’ or something,” she says, acknowledging the narcissism required to believe that such a thing might actually happen.

The panic attacks became so intense during that month that she tore muscles in her chest and developed a sense of agoraphobia. A lot of it was processing the guilt of her past, but there was more to it. She wondered if she and Sam had bitten off more of their literary dream than they could follow through with.

“It was a perfect storm of quitting a job and leaving my home in Missoula, which we loved, and uprooting in a day,” she says. “Rededicating yourself to fiction when you don’t know if you have any real talent is terrifying.”

The snow receded some and the couple were ferried out to the simple two-bedroom cabin—accessible only by boat—by a loving old man named Lou who lived on their bay. Their days were spent writing and reading and taking long hikes into the woods. They’d

The daughter of a cardiologist, Paul, and a cardiac nurse also named Sharma, Shields grew up with a brother one year her senior, and three older half sisters. She and her brother would spend their days running through the woods behind the family home.

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watch movies and spend ample time reading.

About once a week, Lou would take them across the lake, often in numbing weather, to shop in Sandpoint and peruse the public library.

Shields eventually pulled out her work from grad school and managed to land a number of her short stories in prominent literary journals. Her new writing took on the magic of the lake and the new stories were her weirdest yet, all of them cemented firmly in the Inland Northwest landscape she grew up with.

Winter seeped into spring and the clock expired on their retreat. They always figured they’d return to Missoula, which in their minds would always be their home, but they didn’t go home. They went to Spokane.

Somewhat improbably, Shields was heading back to the hometown she still feared. But she found a job selling books at Auntie’s, and another as an information specialist at the Spokane libraries. She managed her way into a literary community that welcomed her and her talents. No one yet has come up to her and told her she’s a lying piece of shit. Instead, she’s become a community leader, albeit a reluctant one at times; a mainstay at literary events and a champion for the city’s booming writing scene.

She even organized and hosted a woman-centered short story collection and reading event called Lilac City Fairy Tales, making her a mentor of sorts for many of the city’s female writers.

Along the way, she published Favorite Monsters, a collection of short stories that feature the spooky and weird seeds of the fantastical that would bloom in her novel.

“I think she’s incredibly generous as a writer and a member of this community,” says poet and Eastern Washington University instructor Ellen Welcker. “She is constantly promoting the arts and promoting the great things in Spokane outside of the arts, too.”

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You won’t find the house Sharma Shields grew up in. Well, you won’t find it in Spokane, at least. If you go to her childhood address at the top of the South Hill, you’ll find a Target and an apartment complex. The house was lifted off its foundation and moved to another town. She’d like to go see the house in its new spot, and maybe bring her kids along for the weirdness alone.

But in her youth, her backyard went out into the woods. The daughter of a cardiologist, Paul, and a cardiac nurse also named Sharma, Shields grew up with a brother, John Paul (“JP” to her), one year her senior, and three older half sisters.

Sharma and John Paul roared through the woods, the brother indulging his sister’s fascination with Greek and Roman mythology, an interest that continues to make it into her writing.

“I was always Artemis,” says Shields.

She always knew she wanted to write. By elementary school, she was whipping together a newsletter via the magic of a DOS program and circulating it to classmates. A story she wrote around that time predicted that she would become a famous detective during the day and write novels in her free time.

“There was never a time when she wasn’t writing. If you want to buy into that concept of a calling, she found her calling very early in life

and always wrote,” says John Paul, a classically trained guitarist and instructor who performs throughout the region.

Both siblings say their parents were endlessly supportive of whatever the kids wanted to do. If they showed an interest in a subject, their mom came home from the library with an armload of books for them to study. Creativity was encouraged and storytelling was always part of the family.

There’s always been a sort of darkness to Shields that began in her youth and extends to the pages of The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, a book whose characters never get off the hook and are all chased by demons. Shields remembers her first bad dream, and thinks maybe that was the start of her life of thinking darkly.

It began with a schoolhouse perched on a hill, the bell ringing in the belfry, the wind gently brushing past her. Then everything broke into puzzle pieces.

“I don’t know where that comes from. I’ve always had dreams like that,” says Shields. “I’m never being chased, but it’s always something unsettling.”

In her early teen years, her brother remembers her night terrors. She’d sleepwalk around her room and unleash the occasional scream. One night she stormed to John Paul’s bedside, yelling that her parents were being murdered in the next room. She awoke the next day not having remembered any of it. To this day, she’s unapologetic about her view that the world is a dark place.

“I really love people and I am a loving and affectionate person, which is good, but I do believe the world is a cruel place and it’s unfair.

Some of us are born luckier than others,” Shields says, adding that she’s one of the lucky ones, one of the “spoiled ones.”

It’s a couple of weeks before Christmas and Shields’ 2-year-old daughter romps around the living room, sucking on a Popsicle, nursing a runny nose that’s keeping her home from preschool with her 5-year-old brother. She sits on her mom’s lap on a couch vandalized at some point by Magic Marker as Shields relays some good news: The novel’s television rights have already been optioned by a production company.

This isn’t a life-changer right off the bat, but it will make the approaching holiday a little more fun around the house, she says. And if it actually makes it through the mucky Hollywood path, it could be huge. A few weeks later, Entertainment Weekly would name her book one of the top releases to expect in 2015 and listed her as a star to watch. Accolades from O magazine and Marie Claire soon followed. All of this weeks before the book was even available.

Things have been good, but sometimes that’s when Shields starts to worry. The good seems to always come with the bad. She sees it like a wicked seesaw that balances, or maybe unbalances, her highs and lows.

The bad tossed its heavy load on the other end of the seesaw one night in 2013. It could have been a scene from one of her stories—a woman stumbling through the dark forest, reaching for the light in the distance. But this was reality, and

Shields was the woman in the woods. It was a writers’ conference in the Methow Valley, and she was trying to make her way through a seemingly inconsequential patch of trees to a party for the festival’s featured writers, a designation which included her. She wanted her brain to put her feet in front of each other, the way they’d dutifully been doing for more than 30 years, but there was a disconnect somewhere. Her feet were numb and she could hardly move. She stumbled her way toward the light and made it out, but in the coming weeks, the numbness she’d already been feeling in her arms would lead to an MRI revealing that she had multiple sclerosis.

“On one hand, there was the up that my book was possibly selling, and the down being that I now had this really awful disease,” she says.

Those first few days, Shields was pissed. She’d see a television commercial with an old couple strolling happily together (“They were always for cruise ships or something,” she recalls) and she’d figure that such a scenario would never happen for her. It made her think a lot about the future and her kids and all the novels she still hadn’t written yet.

As if MS wasn’t enough of a battle, the diagnosis was coming on the heels of Shields conquering another demon that had been chasing her around for a couple of decades.

Tears build under her glasses as she tells it, gripping her daughter tight to her chest.

“It makes me want to weep just thinking about it,” she says, then blurts out an ugly truth: “I went to a play date and drove home drunk with my kids in the car.”

She drank wine and beer and had a blast with the other parents. She had a lot—she’s not sure how

much—but her friends said she didn’t seem out of control. They offered her to get her a ride home, but she drove. She remembers none of this.

Shields hasn’t had a drink since. She’s an alcoholic, she admits. Maybe not the whiskey-in-the-coffee sort of alcoholic, but drinking, and drinking to the point of blacking out, had become routine since her

“I had just gotten sober and felt that the rest of my life could begin, and then a couple months later I get this diagnosis,” she says.

Each night, she gives herself a shot, and it hurts like a son of a bitch a few minutes after she punctures the skin. Still, she’s never missed a day of shots. Her most recent MRI showed that some of the lesions on her brain

“I really love people and I am a loving and affectionate person, which is good, but I do believe the world is a cruel place and it’s unfair. Some of us are born luckier than others.”

20s. People, including her husband, worried about her, so there were times when she’d stop drinking.

She also was sober for both of her pregnancies. Still, alcohol made its way back into Shields’ routine, and after the night she drove with the kids, she figured her drinking was eventually going to kill someone.

After a day spent puking into the toilet, she went to an AA meeting and made it through the brutal first 90 days of sobriety.

The drinking was wrestled to the ground, but MS was a new sort of monster.

are healing, and her doctors tell her that’s progress. She’s changed her diet and made a habit of getting out and walking most days. MS sucks the energy out of its host, so she’s sure to lay down and rest every day.

For an admitted pessimist, Shields has an oddly positive perspective on her disease.

“I actually think the MS diagnosis keeps me grounded. Sometimes I get so happy about how my literary career has taken off that I feel like I could just float away or explode. I just get so elated about it; it’s really cool to feel that sort of happiness,” she says.

Shields has no shortage of reasons to be happy, and it’s perfectly logical and sane that someone who wrote as good a book as she has would allow themselves that happiness. The loving mother doesn’t always believe everything is going to be great, because a lot of times, she’s found, it isn’t. And she doesn’t always trust the world.

“I’m a skeptic about everything by nature, including Sasquatch,” she says.

She can’t cure her MS or her anxiety or her guilt by writing a book, no matter how big an impact it makes on the literary landscape, and she can live with that. The real world, like the Lilac City in The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, can be a dark place. She’s found a way to relate to that world through her writing, and there’s some comfort in that.

“I think everyone struggles with something. Maybe that’s really naïve of me to think. Maybe there are some people who are really buoyant and can do it, but what’s really interesting about life is that we can love and let ourselves be loved, even if we have issues with ourselves,” she says. “I think there’s so much tension in the world, and I like putting my finger on the tension. That’s what’s fascinating to me as a writer.”

Sharma Sheilds reads from The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac on Fri., Feb. 6, at Shakespeae & Co. 7 PM. This article originally appeared in the Inlander, Spokane’s weekly paper. editor@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Sacred fun Holy Lands play serious songs for the party crowd

by Erika Fredrickson

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

H

oly Lands is an odd name for a band whose members wear creepy animal masks on stage. It’s nearly impossible to hear the words “holy lands” and not think of the Dome of the Rock and sacred tombs, or people surrounded by ruins, wearing crucifixes and praying. It’s such a loaded name.

But the Missoula post-punk band doesn’t have a problem with conflicting imagery. For their song “Lighthouses,” guitarist Cory Fay sings about burnedout beacons and lost ships, and in “I’m So Proud of You” he explores the disorienting effect of Alzheimer’s. But on any given night he might be performing those songs in his girlfriend’s nightgown or a rabbit mask—or both—all while exchanging bonkers stream-of-consciousness banter with drummer Chris Justice, bassist Duane Raider and keyboardist Lauren Tyler Norby. Eventually, they’ll play “California Maki Suicide”—a tribute of sorts to David Bowie’s “Rock and Roll Suicide”—and invite everyone in the crowd on stage to dance. Even if the audience understands the heavier meanings behind Holy Land’s songs (and it’s not clear they do), the band’s funny and laid-back style has given them full-on permission to have a good time anyway.

“I think we’ve played shows where—not to sounds like dicks—but we’ve had more fun on stage than people did watching us,” Fay says. “And people came up and said it was a really good show and that’s

cool because we felt like assholes because all we did was get up there and had practice.”

On a recent Thursday night at the VFW, the members of Holy Lands are sitting in the glow of the Keno machines trying to figure out which boy band personality they match.

“I like to think that as the late-20, early-30s boyband-for-Pavement-fans that we are, you are the pretty one,” Raider says, pointing to Justice. “I just want to throw that out there.”

“If I can’t be the talented one, I’ll be the pretty one,” Justice says with deadpan resignation.

Holy Lands is the current band-in-residence at the Ole Beck VFW, which means every Thursday night of the month they play in the dimly lit back room to whoever shows up. They also get to choose what acts play with them, and for the last few weeks they’ve mixed it up with hip-hop artists, stand-up comedians, smart-ass folksters and noise rockers, among other styles. It makes sense considering the group’s own eclectic background. Raider played in metal bands Mekung Fu, Shramana and Doomfuck. Justice is known best as a member of hardcore punk bands Thug Nasties and My Two Dads. Fay performed rock tunes under the moniker The All-Hail and Norby, an accomplished visual artist, played in the freak folk outfit Ampersand and the Alsos. Raider and Justice also have a long history as programmers and managers at KBGA College Radio. Being so familiar in the

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music scene is partly what inspired Holy Lands to shake things up on stage.

“I was making the band wear masks to get away from all of our friends thinking, ‘Oh, Holy Lands is just Cory, Chris and Duane on stage playing music,’” Fay says. “I wanted to get away from our identities and go into commedia dell’arte a little bit.” He laughs.

“Because I’m such an artist. And then we started getting more into the philosophy that if you’re in the room with Holy Lands, you’re part of Holy Lands. We began throwing masks to audience members and making them put them on and come on stage. And we’ve sort of run with it.”

To describe Holy Lands’ sound is an exercise in futility, but a fun one. One of their friends dubbed them sludge-gaze—a combination of sludge and shoegaze—and it’s a good, general description. But what’s weird about Holy Lands is that sometimes they sound like Fugazi playing Tom Waits tunes, or Pavement colliding with David Bowie, and other times a whole breakdown feels like a lost section from a Pixies song.

Yet there’s no guarantee Holy Lands will satisfy fans of these more famous bands, mostly because they don’t try too hard to parrot any one sound. And despite their veteran status, their musicianship isn’t super tight—for one thing, Justice has never played drums before—but the slight sloppiness adds an element of off-kilterness that works well with the musicians’ confident charm. When they all yell a cappella,

“Back before! Back when you were something. Broken boards! Now your hands are nothing,” the whole room is captivated.

A few weekends ago, the band went to Butte and recorded an album at a studio in the basement of Montana’s oldest record store, Len Waters Music. Fay says he hopes the recording will give listeners a chance to experience the more serious side of the band. “I don’t think anyone is sitting down at a show now and listening to the Colin Meloy-esque sound of the band that is my lyric writing ability,” Fay jokes.

“But maybe with the record people will listen and decide that we are brilliant in that way. They’ll be able to sing along. It will be great.”

In the meantime, the band seems satisfied with playing to a crowd that’s game to mount the stage, beer in hand, and keep them company for the night.

“We all realize we’re four people playing at the VFW for 30 people, but it’s fucking fun as shit,” Raider says. “And it wouldn’t be if everyone wasn’t here. So when we play ‘California Maki Suicide,’ we’re saying, ‘Hey! We love you. Thank you for propping up our delusions of grandeur—and let’s dance.”

Holy Lands play their final residency at the VFW Thu., Jan. 29, at 9 PM, along with Razorwhip, Zebulon Kosted, False Teeth and Eat Strike. $2. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Lone star

EVENT! 10-4

Wartime Blues’ latest offers snapshots from Texas After a three-year hiatus, Missoula’s Wartime Blues are back with their most cohesive album yet. If the 2011 Passenger was an aching dispatch from the Midwestern grain belt, and 2009’s Doves and Drums was a raucous, college crowd debut, April, Texas is what happened when those two met in rehab, rented a cabin in the desert and decided to sit down and make something substantial.

I listened to this album on a solo drive out of Missoula on one of those thick, moonless nights. By the time I hit Lolo things on the roadside had turned all gauzy and poetic: a vacant Ford dealership lit up like a star, a man watching his dog crap on the shoulder, people licking dip cones in the Dairy Queen parking lot. Texas does a lot of this acoustic-backed snapshotting, like in “Amarillo,” where “the sky’s filled with the memory of a girl/ twirlin’ in a JCPenney’s dress at the tri-state rodeo,” and in “Fredericksburg,” a beautifully simple track with a hard snare and outbursts of cello, where the protagonist is headed to a motel out on Highway 71, running from the rain.

Wartime Blues is good at sophisticated rural commentary, and the album’s thematic elements—truck stops, dry rivers, roads, leaving things behind—set an appropriate landscape for songwriter Nate Hegyi’s raspy, mezcal-infused musing. (The band’s hiatus was partly

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due to Hegyi leaving Missoula for a stint in Texas.) Aptly named, “The Island” stands alone as the only forgettable tune, lacking any real peaks or troughs, and is an unfortunate introduction to such a thoughtful album.

As a departure from their previous work, April, Texas offers a little more quiet time. “Nebraska” is a nearly perfect song, which includes a modest banjo shuffle and not much else. In every track, Hegyi’s vocals are reduced, let loose at the right moments, providing space for a little instrumental flexing. Play this album on the way to Marfa for some enchiladas, set the cruise control and let it turn all those bobbing oil rigs into something pretty. (Micah Fields) Wartime Blues plays an album release show at the Top Hat Fri., Jan 30, with Love is a Dog from Nebraska. 9 PM. $5.

Skull Fist, Chasing the Dream Urban Dictionary defines a “hair farmer” as “A member of a heavy-metal band, usually in the 1980s,” marked by their flowing locks, the better to headbang with. I am here to tell you that hair farming is alive and well, and the torch is carried by bands like Toronto’s Skull Fist. The group’s 2014 album, Chasing the Dream, is chock-full of thrashy goodness, chugging riffs and wicked-fast guitar solos. Even the album artwork, adorned with glowing skulls, wouldn’t seem out-of-place in the background of Wayne’s World.

If you’re old enough to have partied to ’80s metal the first time around, Skull Fist might seem

derivative to the point of absurdity, and I’ll admit that Chasing the Dream’s endless arpeggios and nasally vocals can wear out their welcome after a while. On the other hand, if you were literally an infant when bands like Poison and Slaughter were topping the charts, here is your chance to experience totally rad heavy metal like it was the first time. Let your hair down and live the dream. (Kate Whittle) Skull Fist plays the Palace Sat., Jan. 31, along with American Falcon and Letters to Luci. 9:30 PM. $8.

Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love No Cities to Love is one of those albums you want to go out of your way to share with people. When Sleater-Kinney first got together in 1994, that meant via mixtapes. Today it may just be a link on Facebook. The medium never mattered, though. The trio that helped create the Riot Grrrl sound has picked up where it left off, more relevant and rocking than ever.

Expectations have been high for this reunion album, the first release in 10 years from the Northwest staple. No Cities to Love had to be searing and smooth, forceful but not forced. It’s that and more—it sounds like the feeling of being on

the edge of your seat for 30 minutes. It’s punk with a proud sense of disorder; there’s a ringing urgency in every note as Corin Tucker’s voice finds new highs. Carrie Brownstein’s lead riff on “Surface Envy” will dig its way into your head as Tucker sings: “We win, we lose, only together do we make the rules.” Likewise, the title track proves catchy, but wait for the selfaware “No Anthems” and the intense “Bury Our Friends” to get really hooked. It all leaves me hoping it’s not another 10 years before we get more of the same. (Brooks Johnson)

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[theater]

On the money In Montana Rep’s Gatsby, Daisy steals the show

by Erika Fredrickson

photo courtesy of Terry Cyr

Kelly Campbell, center, stars as Daisy Buchanan, along with Mason Wagner, left, as Nick Carraway and Amber Rose Mason as Jordan Baker.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a fascinating story made wildly vivid through the novel’s delicious language. The colors that pop up throughout—yellow, blue and green—create cohesive visual threads, literary Easter eggs and symbolism.

Themes of idealism and decadence, disappointment and self-destruction, surface and re-surface in a pattern that makes the novel feel like an impressionistic painting. No word is squandered, no ends left loose.

It seems like it would be a nightmare to take such onpage genius and bring it to the stage, but Simon Levy’s 2006 adaptation doesn’t fail like it really should. It will never be the novel, sure, but it isn’t second-rate either.

If some adaptations—film, theater or otherwise—feel like they were created just for the hell of it, this isn’t one of them. This one feels like its own work of art.

The Montana Repertory Theatre production of The Great Gatsby, directed by Greg Johnson, takes full advantage of Levy’s great script with pacing and energy essential to a story that deals in ambivalence and nuanced emotional shifts. In the story we meet Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a rich couple with plenty of leisure time and just as much strife. Daisy’s cousin, Nick Carraway, is the down-to-earth narrator and it’s through his eyes we see the decadent lifestyle of early 1920s West Egg, Long Island. Central to the story is Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man living in a mansion who we learn has a past with Daisy—and his passion for her sets in motion a domino effect that leads to some shocking events.

The set is an incredible angled backdrop of windows behind which a screen shows images of a stunning blue bay, and at other times rain storms and greenery. Designer John Shaffner, who has worked on every sitcom you can think of—from “Friends” to the “Big Bang Theory”—shows the brilliance of what an Emmy-award-winning eye can do, making the set into its own moody character.

The cast, made up of professional equity actors and local talent, doesn’t have a weak link. Some performances rise above others, however, the most obvious being Kelly Campbell as Daisy Buchanan. She has a certain Helena Bonham Carter madness to her— more chipper and Jazz-age cool than gothic, but the manic charm and fragile weirdness is the same (and so is the hair style). Physically, Campbell is tiny, but her presence on stage is huge. Whether she’s flirting

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or chiding, laughing or falling apart with sadness, she is the gravitational pull—the sun that everyone else orbits, despite the danger that they could get sucked in by her energy and burn.

Daisy is often described by literary critics as shallow and careless, and to a certain extent she is. She’s also the coveted fantasy for every straight male—the manic-pixie dream girl of the 1920s. I like the way Carey Mulligan plays Daisy with sad reservation in the 2013 film adaptation alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

And Mia Farrow is fabulously neurotic in the 1974 version. But Campbell breaks the mold in a refreshing way. She is frightening in her sweeping dramatics, but it’s the little things—the way she trails off her sentences, the way her voice cracks, the way her laugh becomes hollow—that makes her feel human. She isn’t a dream; she’s the nightmare of what happens when women live in a world where their only currency is their bodies. She’s the collateral damage of the male gaze. If she stays with her husband, she’s stuck in a world where no amount of money can bring anyone happiness. If she goes with Gatsby-—who knows? Once he gets her, will he lose interest? No matter what, she’ll grow old, and that terrifies her. Campbell carries the weight of the no-win situation into every gesture. If she has a “voice full of money,” like Tom says she does, it’s only because that’s how spurned men see her.

Hugh Bickely plays Tom with a solid mix of cruelty and sympathy and Mark Kuntz—who played the hardass sergeant in Montana Rep’s 2013 Biloxi Blues—delivers an aloof and assured Gatsby. But it’s the women in this play who take the most satisfying theatrical risks. I especially enjoyed the performance of Elizabeth Bennett as the nasally Mrs. McKee. She’s a young actress with range who dives into her roles with an adventurous spirit. In many ways, she’s the comic relief, but like Campbell she keeps her outrageous character from becoming caricature. I’m not sure what Fitzgerald thought of his Gatsby women but, in this case, he should be proud.

Montana Rep’s The Great Gatsby continues at the Montana Theatre Thu., Jan. 29–Sat., Jan. 31, Thu., Feb. 5 and Sat., Feb. 7, at 7:30 PM nightly, with a Sat., Jan. 31, matinee at 2 PM. $10–$20. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[books]

Shallow waters Black River promises depth it can’t provide

by Kate Whittle

The opening chapter of Black River, the debut triguing. But as the story drags on, the pathos somenovel from Spokane author S.M. Hulse, packs a hefty how feels forced. It isn’t helped by the dialogue emotional punch. It details, pretty realistically, the scenes, which are filled with descriptions of each final days of a woman named Claire as she succumbs character’s smallest facial expressions, a device that to cancer. “When the doctors first told her there was is often distracting.

Hulse has worked so hard to make the characters something wrong, she lay very still at night and tried to feel the disease, the cells building up in her mar- understated and terse, the manliest of men, that they row, thickening her blood, coursing through her come off as dull at times, and our protagonist’s inner life just isn’t all that veins,” writes Hulse. engaging. Other “Now there’s nothing characters could use but the pain of the illa little more attenness and its treattion, like his stepson, ments, always there, Dennis. We’re told under and above that after Dennis everything else.” began to act out as a Unfortunately, teenager, Wes forced the rest of the novel Claire to move away doesn’t quite live up to Spokane, leaving to the promise of Dennis alone to fend that first chapter, as it for himself as a 16follows Claire’s widyear-old. That’s a ower, Wes, and his screwed-up thing to trip back to the town do to a kid, to say the of Black River, a ficleast. I’d like to know tionalized version of how Dennis feels on Deer Lodge. Most of the subject now that the story is told in he’s an adult, but we third-person from his never get any narraperspective, tion from his point of with flashback view. chapters narrated by Much of the Claire. book’s emotional Wes is a serious, weight is supposed grim-faced 60-someto hinge on Wes remthing, and underiniscing about how standably devastated much he loved playat losing Claire, who Black River ing fiddle in a local seems to have been S.M. Hulse bluegrass band, and his only source of joy hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt how he tried to teach after an incident that his stepson to play took away his ability 240 pages, $24 before their relationto play music. Most of the meat of the novel is relayed as backstory, in- ship became too strained. The fiddle represents Wes’s cluding Wes’s work as a corrections officer at Mon- love for life, and being unable to play has quashed his tana State Prison, and how his fingers were broken ability to enjoy anything. If the reader didn’t get the by a cruel inmate who held Wes hostage during a idea the first time around, it’s repeated ad nauseum.

As Wes revisits traumatic parts of his past, the prison riot. Wes is a hard man, unwilling to forgive anyone’s faults, even those of his troubled stepson, story raises worthy questions about heritage, forgivewho was the result of Claire being raped as a young ness and whether sons are destined to repeat the sins woman. Wes returns to Black River to leave his wife’s of their fathers. It doesn’t really resolve those quesashes there, but also to speak at an upcoming parole tions, though. Wes finds a bit of redemption when he hearing for the prisoner who tortured him all those finally comes face-to-face with the inmate who’d tormented him, in an ending that’s easy to see coming. years ago.

Hulse does demonstrate a talent with fluid, effiMuch of this novel seems inspired by the long trip on I-90 from Spokane to Montana. Early on, cient prose, and clearly put a lot of effort into accuWes is driving down Lookout Pass and thinks of rately depicting horsemanship and small-town life. how easy it would be to jerk the steering wheel just There’s promise in Black River, especially in how a little bit and end it all—thoughts that anyone Hulse observes the northwest and its people, but it’s who’s careened around those curves can probably too difficult to stay invested in the drama.

S.M. Hulse reads from Black River at Fact identify with.

Black River’s jacket is covered in favorable blurbs and Fiction Fri., Jan. 30, at 7 PM. from people like Daniel Woodrell, the author of Winter’s Bone, so I’d anticipated something gritty and inkwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Whiplash is a tightly wound picture about a good artist on the verge of being great. In pursuit of that passion, whom will the artist hurt and what will he have to give up? Besides a whole lot of apparently good jazz music, the film features an abusive, sadomasochist relationship masked as tutelage. It comes in the shape of a raging, perfectionistic bandleader who aims to inspire greatness from his musicians through bullying, humiliation and literal violence. The movie poses the question as though it’s up for debate, kind of a “How far is too far?” I don’t think there are any calls for throwing a chair at a student, personally, but we’ll get to that.

Whiplash is written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and stars Miles Teller as a 19-year-old jazz drumming prodigy named Andrew in a performance so good it was apparently invisible to the voting academy. He plays his own drums and I’m willing to bet at least some of that blood splattered on his instruments is likewise authentic.

Teller’s the straight man compared to Fletcher the bandleader, played by the always great University of Montana alumnus J.K. Simmons. Fletcher happens upon Andrew practicing his drumming after hours at a prestigious music conservatory in New York City, where he’s a first-year student. Fletcher invites Andrew to try out for his band, which is like a freshman making varsity. When Fletcher walks into the room, the students ready their instruments and stand with the reverent attention of scolded dogs. One minute he’s warm and affable, the next he’s slapping you in the face and calling you a “faggot.” It’s the exact same way an abusive partner rules the roost. “I must be bad,” the victim seems to say. “If I can just be perfect, he (or she) will love me.”

Paul Reiser shows up as Andrew’s dad, and it’s a bit of a shock to see how old and ordinary looking he’s become since whenever last we saw him. Andrew’s dad wanted to be a novelist, but like so many failed authors, he ended up teaching high school English instead. Reiser’s character provides a subtle but important example of what an unrealized dream looks like. As an old, marginalized man, he seems perpetually anxious to shield Andrew from the dull pain of failure.

Whiplash has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay

and Supporting Actor for Simmons. In particular, I’d like to see Tom Cross win for Best Editing. People who know something about jazz have said that the movie is cut like the rhythm of the music. I’ll have to take their word for it. (In the film, Fletcher makes them play the same part of the song over and over, screaming “Not my tempo! Again!” and I’m thinking, “Every single take sounds the same to me.”) But the images—they cut from close-ups of sheet music to spit pouring out of a tired trombone onto the floor and then back to the sweaty musician’s brow, all of it culminating into a subconscious understanding of what it’s like to be a musician in that band room in that singular moment. It’s damn good editing.

Finally, there’s the subject of what Whiplash is really about. Fletcher insists he acts out of a sincere desire to create and inspire a truly great artist. “There are no more destructive words in the English language than ‘good job’,” he says, because it breeds laziness and complacency in an artist who could have been great. To me, there’s nothing worse than a monster who thinks he’s doing good. This movie enters troubling, provocative waters when Fletcher’s bullying proves effective. It really does drive Andrew to play to his fullest potential, and as viewers, it’s hard to know what to do with that.

I once dated a real tyrant. For four long months I tiptoed around his explosive emotions, desperately trying to say and do the right thing. One quirk in particular: He would fly into a rage whenever I left scraps of food in the sink after doing the dishes. At one point he told me in that half joking but ultimately serious way that every time he found food in the sink, he’d cut off a finger. Two years later I’d like to think most of his influence has faded, but still I never, ever leave food in the sink. In this way, the bully left me just a little bit better than he found me. But was it worth all the pain? And what if we replace food scraps left in the sink with the discovery of the next Charlie Parker?

You’re asking the wrong person. I don’t even like jazz.

Whiplash continues at the Wilma. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK BLACK OR WHITE Kevin Costner stars as a grandfather battling for custody of his young granddaughter. Also starring Octavia Spencer and Gillian Jacobs. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

THE IMITATION GAME Benedict Cumberbatch plays computer genius Alan Turing. Guest Reviewer Kate’s Mom says, “Just when I think I never want to see another WWII movie, this blew me away. I’ll see it again when the DVD comes out, feel like I missed a lot with the annoying uber jerk squeaking his chair behind me.” Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE LOFT Five married guys realize that their secret sexxx penthouse is gonna get them in trouble when a lady turns up dead. Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden and Wentworth Miller. Rated R. Carmike 12.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LES CONTES D’HOFFMAN Yves Abel conducts in the Met’s production of this lusty opera, featuring soprano Hibla Gerzmava singing three different parts. Screening at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 31 at 11 AM and Tue., Feb. 3 at 6:30 PM. Visit mtlive.org.

PROJECT ALMANAC When teens build a homemade time machine, things start to go awry. Kids these days! Starring Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D’Elia and Virginia Gardner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

THE SECRET OF KELLS Even though I keep misreading it as “The Secret of Kelis,” there are no milkshakes in this children’s animation about medieval adventures and a mysterious fairy. Screening at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 31, at 5 PM. THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA (KAGUYAHIME NO MONOGATARI) This richly illustrated hand-drawn animation brings Japan’s famous folktale of a mysterious young princess to life. The English dub features voices of James Caan, Mary Steenburgen and Chloë Grace Moretz. Screening at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 30–Sun., Feb. 1 at 7 PM, plus 4 PM matinee on Sunday.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING In Stephen Hawking’s college days, his developing illness tests his relationship with his wife.

“Downton Abbey: The Nerdy Years.” The Imitation Game opens Friday at Carmike 12.

Starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones and Tom Prior. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

YONGARY: MONSTER FROM THE DEEP A prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile rampages through Seoul in the ‘67 Korean B-horror classic. Screening at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 29, at 8 PM, with live score by Love is a Dog From Nebraska.

NOW PLAYING THE BOY NEXT DOOR Oh, you betcha J.Lo didn’t need a body double for the sex scenes in the sultry thriller about a teacher’s torrid affair-turned-wrong with a younger man. Also starring Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth. Rated R. Carmike 12.

FOXCATCHER I’m gonna need a to-go box for all the beefcake after this intense drama about an Olympic wrestling team led by a nose-y trainer. Starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo.

Rated R. Wilma.

INTO THE WOODS Meryl Streep chews on hella scenery as a witch who assigns a couple with daunting fairy tale tasks. Also starring Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

MORTDECAI A obnoxiously mustachioed rogue searches for a stolen painting that might be the secret to finding Nazi gold stores. Starring Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor. Rated R. Carmike 12.

PADDINGTON A London family is surprised to find that inviting a talking bear to their home causes more comedic trouble than they expected. Starring Hugh “Lord Grantham” Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and Julie Walters. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

SELMA Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights advocates on the historic 1965 march to Montgomery, Ala. Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo and Tim Roth. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

STRANGE MAGIC Goblins, elves and other magical critters battle over a potent potion, in a kids’ musical animation inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Featuring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelley and Kristin Chenoweth. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

WHIPLASH Our homeboy J.K. Simmons stars as a music instructor who’s merciless to promising young students. Also starring Miles Teller and Melissa Benoist. Rated R. Wilma. (See Film.)

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-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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How to score on Sunday

by SOUStown CHEF The Super Bowl is my favorite food holiday. Not Thanksgiving, because I’m confined to the typical turkey-stuffing-cranberry dishes. Not Christmas, because I’m required by loved ones to stick to traditional family favorites. But the Super Bowl? I can make anything I want, as long as I make a ton of it, it’s fun to eat and it goes well with cold beer.

I’m not the only one who gets excited about cooking for the last football game of the season. The National Chicken Council reported in 2013 that 1.23 billion servings of wings are consumed during Super Bowl weekend. Pizza joints report the big game as their single busiest day of the year. Fans are also expected to eat more than 11 million pounds of potato chips, 4 million pounds of pretzels and 3.8 million pounds of popcorn.

Then there’s beer—roughly 49.2 million cases are sold on game day. These are numbers far more exhilarating to me than any conversation about Tom Brady’s balls.

If you read this column every month, you’ve already been treated to some of my favorite Super Bowl recipes (see: huckleberry wings in Feast and my slow-cooker buffalo chicken dip from December). But thank goodness I have more recipes for this day than Pete Carroll has wacky conspiracy theories. Here are three more go-to winners.

Grilled potato skins What you need: 2 large russet potatoes, 4 tablespoons melted butter, salt and pepper to taste, 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, 6 slices bacon (cooked and crumbled), 1 cup sour cream, 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish, 3 tablespoons sliced green onions, ½ cup chopped tomatoes and chopped chives for garnish. (Makes 4 servings.)

How to make it: Bake potatoes in 350-degree oven for 1 hour. When done, allow to slightly cool and cut into halves.

Bring grill to medium heat. Scoop out the pulp, leaving a ¼-inch thick shell for the toppings. Cut the potatoes into quarter wedges, brush with butter and season with salt and pepper. Place on grill and cook until crisp, about 10 minutes. During the last few minutes of grilling, remove potatoes and place on a cookie sheet. Top the potatoes with cheese and bacon and place back on top of grill.

While potatoes are grilling, combine the sour cream and horseradish in a small bowl and mix well.

Place potatoes on serving plates and top with the green onions, chopped tomatoes and the sour cream horseradish sauce. Sprinkle with chopped chives, for garnish.

Why to make it: These skins are much less controversial than the football team from Washington.

Plus, while everyone loves potato skins, not everyone has had the pleasure of grilled potato skins.

Layered cheese sticks What you need: 16 slices white sandwich bread, 1 ½ pounds fresh mozzarella (sliced ¼-inch thick), 8

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ounces thinly sliced prosciutto, 1 cup fresh basil leaves, 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon dried basil, ½ teaspoon garlic salt, 6 eggs, ¼ cup olive oil, 2 tablespoons milk, ½ teaspoon kosher salt, ½ teaspoon black pepper, 2 cups panko bread crumbs, 12 cups vegetable oil, some purchased marinara sauce for dipping and thirty six 6-inch wooden skewers.

How to make it: Layer a slice of bread with mozzarella, prosciutto and basil leaves. Repeat with 2 more layers of bread, cheese, prosciutto and basil; top with a fourth slice of bread. Each layer should cover surface of bread without hanging over. Trim off bread crusts.

Here comes the fun part: Take 9 of the skewers and poke them into the top of the sandwich in a “tictac-toe” grid. Cut each sandwich with a serrated knife, into thirds lengthwise (approximately 1-inch-wide), then lay flat and cut each strip into thirds crosswise (approximately 1-inch-wide). This will give you 9 skewered bread sticks; repeat the above steps with remaining bread, cheese, basil and meat ingredients.

Mix flour, dried basil and garlic salt in a shallow dish; set aside.

Whisk together eggs, olive oil, milk, salt and pepper in a second shallow dish. Set aside.

Pour panko into a third shallow dish. Set aside.

Heat vegetable oil in a large pot over mediumhigh to 350 degrees. Preheat over to 200 degrees.

Dredge each stick in flour mixture, lightly coating all sides, then dip in egg mixture and into panko. ( You can make the sticks to this point, then tightly wrap and refrigerate up to a day in advance.)

Fry sticks in heated oil in batches of four or five until golden, about 2-3 minutes. Remove sticks to a paper-towel-lined baking sheet and keep warm in over. Serve with heated marinara.

Why make it: So worth it for all the crunchy, cheesy goodness. This recipe, by the way, takes about an hour and makes 36 cheese sticks. My recipe says that’s about 12 servings—unless I’m at your party.

Then it’s more like six.

Marinated steak bites What you need: ¼ cup soy sauce, 3 tablespoons fresh ginger, 4 cloves chopped garlic, 1 ½ teaspoon sugar, 3 sliced green onions (just the tops), 4 small red chilies (seeded and crushed), 1 ½ pounds sirloin steak (sliced), 2 tablespoons canola oil and 1 tablespoon chopped black sesame seeds (toasted) or regular sesame seeds, and an additional 1 ½ tablespoon of soy sauce.

How to make it: Combine soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sugar onions and chilies. Marinate steak in mixture for at least 30 minutes. Heat oil. Strain steak from marinade, add to hot oil. Cook to brown each side.

Remove from heat. Sprinkle with the extra soy sauce and sesame seeds.

Why make it: An easy and delicious way to have steak at your Super Bowl spread.

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The Front Brewing Company HAPPIEST HOUR peels completely off the top, The beers: Earlier this creating something of an month, brews from Great aluminum pint cup. Ziegler Falls-based The Front Brewsays TFBC became just the ing Company started showfifth brewery to adopt the ing up on local shelves. specialized can, although Four-packs of Mountain that number has grown to Man Scotch Ale, Keep Cool 11 or 12 since then.

Creek Blonde Ale and River Water IPA can now be Enough business. Talk found across town at many photo by Cathrine L. Walters about the beers: We’re fine retailers, such as Good Food Store, Orange Street Food Farm and smitten by the smooth yet smoky Mountain Man (6.8 percent ABV), which is high praise Summer Sun Garden & Brew. considering there’s a certain other scotch ale The story: Head brewer Trever Ziegler has that’s already won the hearts of Missoula beer been with TFBC since it opened about three drinkers. Ziegler says the Mountain Man gets years ago. At first, the beers were only avail- its distinct flavor from eight different malts, plus able on tap at the Great Falls brewery (which a dash of molasses and natural honey. The restarted as a coffee shop), and then in Helena sult is a complex ale that goes down a little too and select spots along the Hi-Line. Demand easily. “I tell folks all the time: You don’t want increased to the point where Ziegler couldn’t to play King of the Hill with the Mountain Man, keep up, so TFBC built a new production fa- because you will lose,” Ziegler says. cility last summer. In addition to reaching MisWhere to find it: We’ve covered where soula and Bozeman, Ziegler says there’s talk of also soon expanding to the Flathead Valley. to find the four-packs, but if you want to meet Ziegler in person and try his beers, he’ll be at The cans: The first thing you’ll notice the Top Hat Lounge Thursday, Jan. 29, to celabout TFBC four-packs are the cans, and ebrate the arrival of TFBC in Missoula.

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Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$

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. $$-$$$

Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3?

(Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ 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. $$-$$$

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Ruby’s Cafe 2101 Regent St. at Brooks 728-9890 True American Diner! Come join us at the counter, grab a booth or find a table. Breakfast all day, Lunch & Dinner. Homemade Pies. Homemade Soups. Mon-Sat 6am - 9pm and Sun 8am - 3pm. “You keep us cookin!” $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ 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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January 29–February 5, 2015

Backseat strummer. G Love and Special Sauce play the Top Hat Mon., Feb. 2, along with Matt Costa. 8 PM. $25. 18-plus.

THURSDAYJAN29 The cream of the crop’ll duke it out at the Singer-Songwriter competition for cash prizes at the Palace. 7 PM, all ages. Prizes include $300 cash and recording time. Visit tanzer4.com.

Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners, led by Harriet Alterowitz and Marina Zaleski, including basic poses and breath work. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4-5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks, or $10 drop in.

nightlife Ticket holders to the Ruby Jubilee Art Auction Exhibition are invited to the posh champagne reception this evening, where they can peruse dozens of artworks available in live and silent auction. Missoula Art Museum, 5-8 PM. Mary Place and Blue Moon heat up the af-

ternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thursday from 5:30-8 PM. Free.

Barnaby Wilde gets your motor runnin’ with hillbilly jazz and western swing at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., 6-8 PM. No cover.

The clinically developed MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction offers tools in chillin’

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Future’s so bright. The Boy & Sister Alma play Stage 112 Sat., Jan. 31, along with Cain and Fable, Boston McDonald and Carson Luther. 9 PM. $5. 18-plus.

out and coping with what life throws your way. Meets at Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Jan. 15 and 29 from 6-8 PM. Free.

Sip Bacardi like it’s your birthday after the Night Club Two-Step class, with Cathy Clark and NW Country Swing at the Sunrise Saloon, with level II classes from 7-8:15 PM. $5.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406-396-5934 to sign up early.

Colorful characters are on tap for the Missoula Community Theatre’s interactive rendition of Clue: The Musical. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Jan. 23-24 at 7:30 PM, Jan. 25 at 6:30 PM, Jan. 28-Jan. 31 at 7:30 PM, Feb. 1 at 6:30 PM. Plus, 2 PM matinees on Sundays. $15-$21. Visit MCTinc.org, 728-7529 or the box office for tickets.

The Montana Rep Theatre puts on the green light for Simon Levy’s stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Performances at the Montana Theatre, Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 5 and 7 at 7:30 PM. Saturday matinee on Jan. 31 at 2 PM. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. (See Theater.)

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. Small town girls, city boys and whomever that leaves out can share the night on and on and on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore, at the Badlander on Thursdays. No cover, plus $1 wells from 9 PM to midnight.

The Soul City Cowboys tie on one at the Sunrise Saloon, corner of Strand and Regent. 9 PM. No cover.

Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails get messy and ‘nessy at the Top Hat, starting at 9 PM. No cover.

Get a spiffy start to the year by venturing out on the town to see Holy Lands, who are holding down the fort at the VFW’s Thursday night residency for January. Shows start around 10 PM, with covers ranging from free to a couple bucks, and with guests like Wormwood and Dragon Parfait. (See Music.)

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FRIDAYJAN30 Celebrate the best of children’s literature with the Mock Newbery Awards party, featuring treats, prizes and announcement of the winners of Missoula’s votes for best kids books. Contenders include Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover, Patricia Reilly Giff’s Winter Sky and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming. Party down at the Missoula Public Library starting at 4 PM. The 2015 AA Speech and Debate Tournament showcases creative and whip-smart young folk, but it takes a lotta judges to get the whole shebang rolling. Events are at Sentinel High School, with rounds starting at 3:30 on Friday and continuing through Saturday. For more information and to register to judge visit missoulaspeechanddebate.com.

nightlife Let it go, just like in that one Frozen song, at the inaugural Burning (mini)Van, in which a full-size wooden minivan full of written regrets, do-overs and hopes, will be set ablaze as the grand finale to a Mamalode diaper drive for Mountain

Home Montana. Headwaters Dance and Mayor Engen will be on hand to add to festivities (though I don’t think Engen will be doing a dance performance.) Flanagan Motors, 1776 Stephens Ave. 6 PM. (See Agenda.)

Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to the Emerald Isle with the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover.

S.M. Hulse reads from her debut Western, Blackriver, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. (See Books.)

British chap Gareth Emery plays his rescheduled show at the Wilma, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20. If you had a ticket for the Nov. 6 date, it will be honored for this one.

The saucy ladies of the Cigarette Girls troupe get weirder than a Brony-porn chatroom with Once Upon a Bump N’ Grind: A Night of Disney Burlesque. Stage 112, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 in advance at Stage 112.com. 18-plus.

Symphony Superhero Fortissimo does battle with the evil Dr. Dissonance as part of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s family concert at the Dennison Theatre, featuring classics from Beethoven, Brahms and Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” 7 PM. $8.

Visit missoulasymphony.org.

The quick-witted Zootown Improv troupe is back in action with the Jackie’s Faves show at the Stensrud Playhouse, which will be filmed for the HGTV show “Living Big Sky.” Tickets must be purchased ahead of time and you must arrive by 7 PM to attend, so scootch over to stensrudplayhouse.com real quick-like. $12/two for $22.

Colorful characters are on tap for the Missoula Community Theatre’s interactive rendition of Clue: The Musical. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Jan. 23-24 at 7:30 PM, Jan. 25 at 6:30 PM, Jan. 28-Jan. 31 at 7:30 PM, Feb. 1 at 6:30 PM. Plus, 2 PM matinees on Sundays. $15-$21. Visit MCTinc.org, 728-7529 or the box office for tickets.

The Montana Rep Theatre puts on the green light for Simon Levy’s stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Performances at the Montana Theatre, Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 5 and 7 at 7:30 PM. Saturday matinee on Jan. 31 at 2 PM. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. (See Theater.)

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 610 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

[calendar] Professors of Bassology are classing up the joint for Shift: Back to School, the dance party for all you lucky ducks who are back in town to rock this semester. Monk’s, starting at 8 PM. $3/$8 for ages 18-20. Drink specials include Jack Daniels happy meals and Kool Aid vodkas, which is a thing apparently.

Park your hoverboard outside the American Legion for the Back to the Future party, with DJs including Chaddabox, Geeter Tron, Witty, Web, Hauli and more. 8 PM. $6. 18-plus.

Win big in Arlee at the weekly karaoke contest, with everything from Asia to Zeppelin in the book to choose to from. Stockman’s, starting at 8 PM. Best singer wins 50 bux.

Put on your big-girl thong, hunty, and head to the Panty Rock Drag Show, which features thrilling performance, libations and dancing with DJ Mermaid into the night at the Palace. 9 PM. $5/$10 for ages 18-20.

Proceeds benefit the UM Women’s Resource Center’s annual Vagina Monologues production.

You hoes down? Cuz it’s time for a hoedown with Sho Down at the Sunrise Saloon, corner of Strand and Regent. 9 PM. No cover.

Look on the sunny side when Miller Creek Band and OVER EZ do the groove thang at the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. $5.

John Brownell, of Oblio Joes and Secret Powers fame, plays the Real Lounge at 7 PM to celebrate the upcoming production of I’m a Patriot, a feature film from Blake Koemans and Jordan Marvin. No cover.

Commune with that inner party vibe when Joan Zen busts out with the soulful ‘do at the Union Club.

9:30 PM. No cover.

Wartime Blues spreads the good stuff around with a CD

Holy balls, we made it all the way through January, so let’s celebrate with The Whole Family’s tunes at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover.

get sassy

Get all squared away when Basses Covered plays jazz and rock favorites at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4 PM, music from 6-8.

I am quite fond of the annual Panty Rock Drag Show. I seem to recall first going when it was held at the old Dauphine’s on Broadway. The lights! The ladies! The lacy undies all waving in the air! Sadly, Dauphine’s is no more, but Panty Rock carries on,

Slap on some sunscreen, ‘cuz the Boots to Beaches party with the UM Alumni Association is putting on July in January with dinner, silent auction, entertainment and raffles at the Hilton Garden Inn. Tickets are now $25, and summer outfits are encouraged.

Learn more at grizalum.org.

WHAT: Panty Rock Drag Show WHO: UM Women’s Resource Center WHERE: Palace photo by Cathrine L. Walters

WHEN: Fri., Jan. 30, at 9 PM HOW MUCH: $5/$10 for ages 18-20

promising an evening of booty shaking and revelry that’s free of the constraints of gender. This year, Panty Rock at the Palace features emcees Hexx Shadow and Johnny Spritzer, who will doubtless deliver ribald commentary on the dazzling performers before the evening gives way to a dance party with DJ Mermaid.

The long-running show isn’t just a chance for fabulous people from across the gender spectrum to

release party at the Top Hat, along with Love is a Dog From Nebraska. 10 PM. $5.

SATURDAYJAN31 Historian Richard Ellis chats about “The Dog Soldier Ledger Book: Art as a Source of Indian History” as part of the Winter Storytelling series; young kids will be kept entertained with children’s stories and activities.

Traveler’s Rest State Park visitor’s center. 11 AM. $5 for adults/free for members. Visit travelersrest.org.

strut their stuff. It’s also a fundraiser for the UM Women’s Resource Center’s annual Vagina Monologues performance, which will be held on February 13 on campus. In turn, proceeds from Vagina Monologues benefit the international V-Day project, which has sponsored women’s shelters in the Middle East, workshops in Afghanistan and anti-violence conferences in South Asia. So put on your big girl panties and give a gift that keeps on giving.

The new Missoula Winter Public Market features all manner of produce, meats, eggs, honey and treats, plus coffee and craft vendors.

800 S. Third St. W. Now open every Saturday, Jan. 10-April 25. 10 AM-2 PM. Visit facebook.com/mslawinterpublicmarket.

Fine fishy folk are schoolin’ together at the Fly Fishing Film Tour, with 11 films showcasing adventurous anglers from around the world at the Wilma. Showing at 4 and 8 PM. $17 at flyfilmtour.com/$14 if purchased at shops including Grizzly

—Kate Whittle

Hackle, Missoulian Angler, King Fisher Fly Shop, Blackfoot River Outfitters and The Trail Head. (See Mountain High.)

nightlife The Montana Rep Theatre puts on the green light for Simon Levy’s stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Performances at the Montana Theatre, Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 5 and 7 at 7:30 PM. Saturday matinee on Jan. 31 at 2 PM. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. (See Theater.)

The Bitterroot Dancers kick up their heels twice a month upstairs in the Bedford Building in downtown Hamilton. 7-11 PM. $8 when a live band is playing/$5 during DJ nights.

Visit letsdancemt.wix.com/letsdancemt or call 381-1392.

Colorful characters are on tap for the Missoula Community Theatre’s interactive rendition of Clue: The Musical. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Jan. 23-24 at 7:30 PM, Jan. 25 at 6:30 PM, Jan. 28-Jan. 31 at 7:30 PM, Feb. 1 at 6:30 PM. Plus, 2 PM matinees on Sundays. $15-$21. Visit MCTinc.org, 728-7529 or the box office for tickets.

The Montana Rep Theatre puts on the green light for Simon Levy’s stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Performances at the Montana Theatre, Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 5 and 7 at 7:30 PM. Saturday matinee on Jan. 31 at 2 PM. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. (See Theater.)

The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Letters to Sala, a drama about a girl’s survival in a WWII Nazi labor camp. Bring tissues. Performances at the O’Shaughnessy Center, Jan. 31Feb. 1, at 7:30 PM. $10/$8 students.

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[calendar] Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM. Two-fer-one Absolut vodka drinks until midnight. No cover.

Bozeman’s electro-pop outfit The Boy & Sister Alma plays Stage 112, along with Cain and Fable, Boston McDonald and Carson Luther. 9 PM. $5. 18-plus.

Walk, crawl, wobble or roll to the Union Club when Three-Eared Dog busts out tunes all nite long, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

Let Blue Collar do all the work while you do all the boot-scootboogying at the Sunrise Saloon.

9:30 PM. No cover.

273-2297 to sign up. No cover.

The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Letters to Sala, a drama about a girl’s survival in a WWII Nazi labor camp. Bring tissues. Performances at the O’Shaughnessy Center, Jan. 31Feb. 1, at 7:30 PM. $10/$8 students.

Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs, plus a selection of local coffees and tees for your apéritifs.

Music starts at 8 PM. Free.

Mark the Sabbath with some Black Sabbath or whatever else twangs your heartstrings at the Sun-

Canadian hair-farmers Skull Fist put the \m/>.<\m/ into Saturday nite, along with local crushers American Falcon and Letters to Luci. Palace.

9:30 PM. $8. (See Music.)

As part of the Fly Fishing Film Tour after-party, eight-piece Reverend Slanky does the funky monkey at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5/free with a Fly Fishing Film Tour ticket stub.

SUNDAYFEB01 Celebrate your Sunday Funday with Newtflix, the new curated film screening and drunken banter session hosted by Newton Wise, the first Sunday of the month at the VFW. No cover, plus dranks are halfoff all day. Feb. 1 features the Weird Al classic UHF and Forbidden Zone.

Huzzah, the sugar fairy is here, and bestowing Ice Cream for Breakfast, where families can hang out at the Wilma, enjoy activities with the Children’s Museum and dabble in the breakfast bar offerings of waffles, bacon, ice cream and sundae toppings. 9-11 AM. Free.

Keep a couple “underinflated balls” jokes up your sleeve, ‘cuz the Top Hat hosts a Super Bowl party with special menu and general cheer. 4:30 PM. No cover.

nightlife The Lolo Squares host beginning square dance lessons for all you hot-steppers out at the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 2.5 miles west of Lolo on Highway 12. Sundays at 5:30 PM. Call 273-0652 to learn more.

Colorful characters are on tap for the Missoula Community Theatre’s interactive rendition of Clue: The Musical. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Jan. 23-24 at 7:30 PM, Jan. 25 at 6:30 PM, Jan. 28-Jan. 31 at 7:30 PM, Feb. 1 at 6:30 PM. Plus, 2 PM matinees on Sundays. $15-$21. Visit MCTinc.org, 728-7529 or the box office for tickets.

Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ BearCave Bar and Grill offers scintillating prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-

at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon-1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org.

troductory level class at St. Patrick Wellness Center. Mondays, 6:30-8 PM, until Feb. 23. $36 for four weeks. Email ann@aniysa.com to learn more.

Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.

Nathan Fillion fans, revv your engines, ‘cuz the Roxy is showing episodes of the cult-classic sci-fi series “Firefly,” starting with the pilot on Jan. 5., and continuing on Mondays at 7 PM. $5-$7.

Local restaurateurs take note, the Missoula City-County Health Department hosts open houses to answer questions about recent changes to health codes. 301 W. Alder, Mon., Feb. 2 from 2-4 PM and Wed., Feb. 4

Whisper sweet nothings, my dear, while Captain Wilson Conspiracy gets into a syncopated rhythm at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. No cover.

old school

WHERE: Palace WHEN: Sat., Jan. 31 at 9 PM HOW MUCH: $8

The new Letters to Luci album, Broken Glass

day Funday evening karaoke at the Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., featuring $1 domestic drafts and wells.

Free.

MONDAYFEB02 Author Joan Bird chats about whether we’re alone in the universe when she reads from her book, Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials, which chronicles sightings in the state including the famous 1950 Great Falls incident. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. 7 PM. Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness, a gentle class led by Rasa O’Neill, with an emphasis on mindfulness. Beginners are welcome, but previous experience is helpful. Meets

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The Missoula One Billion Rising group is putting on a flashmobstyle dance to raise awareness of the global epidemic of violence against women. Learn the dance with practice sessions at the Missoula Senior Center on Feb. 3, 5, 10, 11, or 12, from 6-7 PM. Take note the Feb. 12 practice is for men and boys only. Dances at on Feb. 6 and Feb. 13. Find Missoula One Billion Rising on Facebook to learn more.

Communicate better with your little one at the Baby Signing Class, hosted by the new Simply Signing studio at 800 Kensington Ave., Tuesdays from 9-10 AM through Feb. 24. $50 for one adult and child to attend the four-week series. Call 218-8695 for info.

WHO: Letters to Luci

Pepprock spent much of the late ‘70s and early ’80s in the wilds of Missoula, Seattle and LA punk scenes, but eventually he came to settle more quietly in Montana. Occasionally he turns it up to 11 as a frontman for the band Letters to Luci. The band boasts a throwback rock and old-school punk sound with gravelly, lived-in vocals reminiscent of Rancid’s Tim Armstrong.

TUESDAYFEB03

Bitterrooters can get a hand figuring out the Affordable Care Act signup with the informational sessions at the North Valley Public Library, Tuesdays, Jan. 27-Feb. 10, from 10 AM-2 PM. Appointments preferred, so call Kelsey at 273-4633.

You can’t judge books by their cover, as the cliché goes, and so it goes that unassuming Bitterroot business owner Randy Pepprock boasts a pretty crazy history of hanging out with some of the biggest names in rock ‘n roll. As a musician living in Los An-

geles in the ’80s, he played in bands with guys like Black Flag legend Ron Reyes and Duff McKagan, the bassist of Guns ‘n Roses. Pepprock met McKagan by putting a note on his windshield and asking to hang out. (So that’s how people made friends before Facebook. Huh.)

ning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

photo by Chad Harder

and Pills, mixes things up with songs like the country-fied “Dear Luci” and the slow-burner ballad “Some People [Need Killing]”—a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with. And Pepprock’s still got connections to some rock legends: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament plays bass on “Girl with the Black and White Mind.”

Letters to Luci play the Palace on Saturday, along with local rockers American Falcon and Canadian metalheads Skull Fist.

from 7-9 PM. Call 258-4755 to learn more.

Drop-in Mondays for Young Artists imparts fundamentals, history, techniques and more while working with a variety of mediums.

ZACC, 3:30-5:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Cruise over to zootownarts.org/youngartists.

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. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

You provide the belly, Aniysa provides the expertise at the ongoing Middle Eastern Dance Classes, where dancers will incorporate finger cymbals and other props into an in-

The duo of Sporman ‘n Yost teams up as NextDoorPrisonHotel, providing creative sound stylings at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. No cover.

G. Love and Special Sauce pour a bucket of the hip-hoppy soulful stuff all over the Top Hat, along with Matt Costa. 8 PM. $25. 18-plus.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: What three teams have made it to the Super Bowl the most times? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spin-

The ongoing Weekly Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly lunch hour class to help de-stress and reengage. Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from noon-1 PM. $35 for four classes, or $10 drop-in. Visit redwillowlearning.org.

Master the rainbow at Understanding Color with Marilyn Bruya, an art workshop for adults at Missoula Art Museum, Tuesdays from noon-3 PM until Feb. 24. $125/$112.50 for members, plus $35 for a packet of supplies that you’ll need to pick up at the UM bookstore.

Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Bev Glueckert will guide young ones to artistic excellence with the After-School Art Adventure in all manner of media for ages 7-11. Meets at the Missoula Art Museum on Tuesdays, 3:45-5:15 PM, until Feb. 17. $50/$45 for members. Register at 728-0447 or missoulaartmuseum.org.

Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40.

Students must have doctor’s okay.

nightlife The ongoing, uninstructed Open Figure Drawing invites adults to pop in to the Missoula Art Museum for the chance to observe and sketch a live model. 5:30-7:30 PM, $7/$5 for members. Some art supplies available. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

[calendar] Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the corner of Third and Reserve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Learn how to express your inner feelings and appreciate othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at Express Yourself: Communication Tools, a workshop at Patrick Marsolek Hypnotherapy, 210 N. Higgins, Suite 207.

Meets Tuesdays from 6-7:30 PM until Feb. 10. $65, or $120 for two.

The homies of the Moon-Randolph Homestead invite input and discussion about how to preserve this historic patch of Missoula and its mission. Burns Street Bistro, 1500 Burns St., 6-8 PM. (Trivia answer: Cowboys, Steelers and the Patriots.)

Delve into the basics of intaglio (which, full disclosure, I do not know how to pronounce) at the five-week Copper Etching Class, where students will create etched plates and prints.

Meets at the ZACC, Tuesdays 6-8 PM, through March 3. $115/$105 for members. VIsit zootownarts.org.

Kerry Maier and Kate Chapin facilitate The Beauty of Imperfection: A Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group, which invites gals to reconsider the un-ending quest for perfection and find self-acceptance. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets 6-8:30 PM on Tuesdays, Jan. 13-Feb. 17 and March 30-April 21. $145 for six-week course. Visit redwillowlearning.org.

Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Get hip 2 the monthly Square Dance at the Top Hat, where steps will be taught as you go and beginners are welcome. 7:30 PM. First Tuesday of the month. Feb. 3 features tunes from Sassafras Stomp. 21-plus after 9 PM. Impress your friends! Crush your enemies! Or at least strum a guitar tunefully, same diff, at Stage 112â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic, hosted by Joey Running Crane. 9 PM. No cover. Call him up at 229-0488 to get a slot.

Strum some post-trivia victory chords at the Singer-Songwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover.

gentle course with Leslie. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Wednesdays, noon-1:15 PM, from Jan. 14-March 3 and March 25 to May 13. $80 for eight-week course. Doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release required. Visit redwillowlearning.org or call 7210033.

Phish heads, phish heads, roly poly phish heads get together for Sharinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; In The Groove, a screening of live Phish shows with audio and video at the Top Hat. Every Wednesday at 4:30 PM, which as we all know, is just 10 minutes after 4:20. No cover.

Local restaurateurs take note, the Missoula City-County Health Department hosts open houses to answer questions about recent changes to health codes. 301 W. Alder, Mon., Feb. 2 from 2-4 PM and Wed., Feb. 4 from 7-9 PM. Call 258-4755 to learn more.

nightlife Knock back a pint or three in honor of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival at the Kettlehouse Northside Community uNite benefit, 5-8 PM. Proceeds benefit BSDFF. Get a moo-ve on to the 43rd annual Agri-Business Banquet, with the Missoula Chamber of Commerce.

Cocktails at 5 PM, dinner at 6 PM, with entertainment by, of course, the Divine Bovines. Call Kimberly at 5436623 for info.

New and beginner farmers can learn how to manage those dolla dolla bills at Farm School: Ask An Accountant. Burns Street Bistro, 1500 Burns St. 5:30-8 PM. Bring a dish to share; beer is provided.

Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. First Wednesday of the month from 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201D;7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

Move in the right direction when the West Coast Swing class with Cathy Clark takes over the Sunrise Saloon on Wednesdays. Instruction for intermediate levels from 7-8:30 PM. $5.

Two-step the mid-week blues away at the 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 Wednesdays. Call 381-1392 for more info. $5.

Live those â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Idolâ&#x20AC;? fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials and the chance to win $50 big ones if you enter the drawing when you sing. 7:30-10:30 PM. No cover; must stick around for the prize drawing to be eligible to win.

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WEDNESDAYFEB04 Come right on down for the Gameshow Extravaganza art class, where young artists will learn how to design their own boardgames or card games and leave with a finished product. Meets at the ZACC Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30 PM, until March 11. $90/$80 for members.

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I’ll bring the peanut butter, y’all bring that sweet jaaaaam to the Soul Kitch’n Blues Boogie sesh at the Dark Horse, starting at 9 PM. $50 prize for best act each week. No cover.

THURSDAYFEB05 As part of the Open Country Reading Series, poets and novelists including Erika Wurth, M.L. Smoker and Heather Cahoon present “Voices from Indian Country” at the Crystal. Adam Sings in the Timber and his band provide some tunes, too. 7 PM. Free.

Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners, led by Harriet Alterowitz and Marina Zaleski, including basic poses and breath work. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4-5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks, or $10 drop in.

nightlife Dozens of influential prints just might make an impression at the reception for the exhibits Robert Schwieger: The Dakotah Series and Selections from the Montana Museum of Art & Culture Ackerman Print Collection. Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences building, 5-6:30 PM. Warm up and kick back with Tom Catmull, providing tuneage at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-8 PM. No cover.

Folks dealing with cancer are invited to the eight-week Cancer, Courage and Creativity workshop, where you’ll find artistic therapy. Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. Meets Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 PM, through March 26. Free, but registration is required by emailing youpa@livingartofmontana.org or calling 549-5329.

The Social Sustainability Series invites business-y types to kick back with some refreshments and get hip to cultivating happy, productive employees, with topics like transit-friendly workplaces, inclusive work environments and environmental health. Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine St.., On Jan. 22, Feb. 5 and Feb. 19, from 5:30-7 PM. Free. Visit sustainablebusinesscouncil.org.

Mary Place and Blue Moon heat up the afternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thursday from 5:30-8 PM. Free.

The Missoula One Billion Rising group is putting on a flashmob-style dance to raise awareness of the global epidemic of violence against women. Learn the dance with practice sessions at the Missoula Senior Center on Feb. 3, 5, 10, 11, or 12, from 6-7 PM. Take note the Feb. 12 practice is for men and boys only.

Dances at on Feb. 6 and Feb. 13. Find Missoula One Billion Rising on Facebook to learn more.

Bust out the epee for a Foray into Fencing class on the first Thursday of the month at Missoula Fencing Association, 1200 Shakespeare, Ste. A. 6:30-7:30 PM. Ages 9 and up are welcome to join in; just wear gym clothes and bring a water bottle. Free, but limited to first 16 people. Visit missoulafencing.net or call 251-4623 with questions.

Legendary photographer and filmmaker John Cohen presents “From Still Photographs to

Appreciate the gravity of the situation. Comedian Brian Regan performs at the Dennison Theatre Thu., Feb. 5, at 7:30 PM. $42.50.

Moving Pictures” as part of Big Sky Documentary Film Festival festivities. Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Studio B, 216 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Seating is limited.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406396-5934 to sign up early.

The Montana Rep Theatre puts on the green light for Simon Levy’s stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Performances at the Montana Theatre, Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 5 and 7 at 7:30 PM. Saturday matinee on Jan. 31 at 2 PM. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. (See Theater.)

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Funnyman Brian Regan chats about his homeboy David Letterman and other topics of amusement at the Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $42.50. Visit umt.edu/dennisontheatre for tickets and info.

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. Small town girls, city boys and whomever that leaves out can share the night on and on and on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore, at the Badlander on Thursdays. No cover, plus $1 wells from 9 PM to midnight.

Baby, get your blue jeans on and head on over to the Sunrise, where Wild Coyote Band plays dancing tunes starting at 9 PM. No cover.

Shake that moneymaker at the J. Sherri residency, with a gaggle of groovemeisters, arty types and “carnal delights” at the VFW, Thurs-

days in February, starting at 10 PM. Cover charge TBA. Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform.

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Don’t fear the reef-er when Denver’s Coral Thief delivers a hit of reggae-rock at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.

It’s Puppy Bowl time, y’all. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra 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 of the page at missoulanews.com.

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The Fly Fishing Film Tour comes to the Wilma on Saturday, with two showings featuring several short documentaries.

The subjects span the globe, with films like Yow: Icelandic for Yes, which explores the dramatic and chilly landscape of Iceland with a hip surfer dude. In one scene, a gleeful angler pulls in a catch while triumphantly laughing and saying, “Yow!” The selections also include a Mongolian conservation doc about the need to protect the largest salmonid species in the world. Another, The Lost Boys of Yantarni, focuses on a remote chunk of Alaska where men battle the ele-

ments in search of glittering Coho salmon.

Closer to home, Breaking Through: The Story of Larry Fivecoats, depicts a Vietnam veteran who finds relief from PTSD through a therapeutic fly fishing program.

Whether fishing is your casual weekend hobby or a reason to explore the world, the films are a reminder that one person’s hobby can be another’s life-saver.

—Kate Whittle The Fly Fishing Film Tour presents 11 films showcasing adventurous anglers at the Wilma on Sat., Jan. 31. Showings at 4 and 8 PM. $17 at flyfilmtour.com/$14 if purchased at shops including Grizzly Hackle, Missoulian Angler, King Fisher Fly Shop, Blackfoot River Outfitters and the Trailhead.

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The venerated OSCR Cross Country Ski Race swishes through the Seeley Creek Trails, starting at 9 AM, with chili feed and frolicking to follow. Visit seeleylakenordic.org.

As the earth tilts on its axis, the Montana Dirt Girls switch gears to host weekly hikes in the Missoula area, Tuesday evenings at 6 PM, November through March, with the chance to grab dinner afterward. Foot-grippers and headlamps advisable.

Find out locations and info by signing up for the mail list at mtdirtgirls.tripod.com.

The Cross-Country Ski Outing, hosted by the UM Outdoor Program, invites newbies and experienced folk alike to a junket up Lolo Pass, 8 AM-5 PM. $40 includes rental, instruction and transportation. Outings are on Saturdays, Jan. 31 and Feb. 7. Call 2435172 to learn more or register.

Unthaw those buns at the classic Freezer Burn, which has been revamped in recent years, but remains a fundraiser for the Health and Human Performances Department. Runners will be shuttled from Linda Vista Golf Course to the start line at a point-to-point 10-mile course along scenic Miller Creek Road; then run aaaall the way back down for post-race partying and warm breakfast. 8:15 AM. Visit runnersedgemt.com.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 2 The Winter Walking Tours series invites folks on guided winter walks/hikes through conservation lands in the Missoula area. Snowshoes provided if they’re necessary. Meets at Currents Aquatic Center on Mondays at 9 AM, with hot cocoa provided after. $5. Call 721-7275.

The Clearwater-Blackfoot Project Public Meeting aims to discuss the Nature Conservancy’s recent acquisition of 117,000 acres of local watershed. Discussion meeting to chat about the whole shebang is out at the Lubrecht Conference Center in Greenough at 7PM. Visit blackfootchallenge.org.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4 Wax on, wax off at the hands-on Ski and Snowboard Maintenance Clinic, hosted at the UM Outdoor Program (inside the Rec Center on campus) at 6 PM. $10.

As part of the Secret Science Night series, the Montana Natural History Center hosts a screening of the bird documentary Winged Migration. 120 N. Hickory St. 7-8:30 PM. Free.

Hump day just got friskier with the Wednesday Night Ski Race League, where teams of four (including at least one woman) race weekly at Snowbowl, Wednesdays from 7-10 PM until March 6. $395 per team. Contact missoulaalpinerace@gmail.com or 240-0836 for info.

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If you’ve seen a wooden minivan trundling around town on a trailer, or a poster for the upcoming “Burning (mini)Van,” don’t worry, it’s not tied to any LSD-soaked bacchanals. Rather, Burning Van is a unique donation drive (drive... get it?) spearheaded by the Missoula-based parenting magazine Mamalode.

Throughout the month, Mamalode has been seeking donations of diapers and baby wipes to go toward Mountain Home Montana, which provides a safe haven and assistance for at-risk young mothers. You can drop off diaper donations and baby wipes at Betty’s Divine up until Friday afternoon.

Burning Van culminates in a party on Jan. 30, where attendees are asked to fill the minivan with written letters about regret or guilt. Then, the whole darned thing will be set ablaze in cathartic glory. “The era of mom guilt is over,” according to the event Facebook page.

Headwaters Dance Co. will be on hand to provide entertainment, and Mayor Engen will emcee the proceedings.

—Kate Whittle The inaugural Burning (mini)Van bonfire and fundraiser is at Flanagan Motors, 1776 Stephens Ave, on Fri., Jan. 30. 6 PM. Visit the Mamalode Facebook page to learn more, or email burn@mamalode.com to submit an message to be burned.

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 2

The National Alliance on Mental Illness’s Missoula chapter hosts an informal support group and meeting every Thursday at the Providence Center in Missoula, Room 109. 10 AM-noon. Email namimissoula@gmail.com to learn more.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting.

Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

Adults with mental illness can get friendly support at NAMI Connection, every Thursday at the NAMI office in St. Paul Church, 202 Brooks St., Room 210. 1:30-3 PM. Find the “NAMI” sign on the courtyard door. Email namimissoula@gmail.com for info.

The Lake County Democrats and Republican Women are teaming up to present “The CSKT Water Compact and You,” an informational session with CSKT attorney Rhonda Swaney and other experts at the SKC Theatre in Pablo. 7 PM.

FRIDAY JANUARY 30 Project Homeless Connect offers a one-stop array of services for folks who are homeless or at-risk. First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Volunteers are appreciated, so visit missouladowntown.org to find out how.

Discover some tricks to harmony and compassion with the Empowered Relationships workshop, led by Cheyenne Rivers at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Take the back entrance to the community room. 6-7 PM. $5-$10 suggested donation. Visit balancedview.org.

SATURDAY JANUARY 31 Bonnie Tarses leads the drop-in Paper Weaving Saturday workshop, a Creativity for Life class open to anyone facing illness or loss. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. Free, no art experience necessary. Call 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org/Programs.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note the group is now meeting on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4 Get ahead of the game at the St. Patrick Hospital Trauma Services low-cost helmet sale, with el cheapo bike, skateboard, ski and equestrian gear. Garden City Medical Building, 601 W. Spruce, Ste. G. from 9 AM-3 PM and Mon., Feb. 16 from 8 AM-4 PM. Cash or check only.

Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a peaceful communication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-play stressful situations and practice responding calmly.

Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5 The National Alliance on Mental Illness’s Missoula chapter hosts an informal support group and meeting every Thursday at the Providence Center in Missoula, Room 109. 10 AM-noon. Email namimissoula@gmail.com to learn more.

Adults with mental illness can get friendly support at NAMI Connection, every Thursday at the NAMI office in St. Paul Church, 202 Brooks St., Room 210. 1:30-3 PM. Find the “NAMI” sign on the courtyard door. Email namimissoula@gmail.com for info.

Connect with other new or expecting parents at Meet the Doulas, an informational session hosted by the Missoula Birth and Postpartum network. Nursing Nook, 734 Kensington. Jan. 8, Feb. 5 and March 5 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Call 552-8319 or email melinda@thelotusprojectmt.org.

The citizens of Missoula Moves To Amend host a chili feed and legislative roundup about the latest in corporate malfeasance. St. Paul’s Lutheran, 202 Brooks St. 6-9 PM. International relations expert Kelly Greenhill presents “Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an Instrument of Foreign Policy,” part of the President’s Lecture Series. University Center Ballroom. 8 PM. Free.

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

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LEAVE STORY I had an amazing first date with this guy: dinner, a movie, a stroll around the park, and a passionate good-night kiss. That was two weeks ago. Since then, I haven't heard a peep.

How was it awesome for me but not for him? Were we, unbeknownst to me, on two different dates?

—Disturbed When a man disappears on you after a great first date, it's natural to search your mind for the most plausible explanation -that is, whichever one doesn't shred your ego and feed it to your fish. Top choices include: 1. He was kidnapped by revolutionaries. 2. His couch caught fire while he was setting up candles around a shrine to you, and he's now homeless and, more importantly, phoneless. 3. He doubleparked at 7-Eleven, and then a witch put a spell on him, turning him into a Big Gulp, and some skater kid drank him.

The reality is, maybe you and he actually were, "unbeknownst to (you), on two different dates." We have a tendency to assume others' thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and desires match our own, explains psychologist Nicholas Epley in "Mindwise." What we forget to consider are what Epley calls "the broader contexts that influence a person's actions." For example, maybe smack in the middle of all that "awesome," the guy was raking through a few thoughts -- like whether he's truly over his previous girlfriend, whether he likes the woman from Tuesday better, whether he's straight.

And sorry, but despite the "passionate" kiss, it's possible the attraction to you just wasn't there. One of my guy friends, a reformed cad, explained: "I used to do this all the time with women. I'd realize I wasn't that attracted to them, but since I was already there on the date, I'd keep moving forward and see if I could get laid, 'cause why not? So from their point of view, the date was 'awesome,' but what they didn't know was that there was never going to be a second date."

The hurt and "huh?" you feel when this sort of thing happens is a measure of the distance between expectations and reality.

You can avoid this by managing your expectations, and the best way to do that is by not allowing yourself to have any. In short, until your phone rings and the guy is on the other end asking you for a date or another date, he doesn't exist. When you're on a first date that seems to be going well, the attitude to take is to enjoy yourself to

the fullest in the moment -- which is loads easier when you aren't all up in your head figuring out what you'll say when the little girl you two have together comes home at age 8 demanding to be allowed to have her nipples pierced.

PAL RIDER I've been friends with this guy for almost five years.

We've always been attracted to each other, but we've never been single at the same time. Now we're starting to date, and I have to say I feel a lot more safety and trust because we were friends first. I'm also not as concerned that he'll take me for a ride or play games. Am I being unrealistically optimistic, or is there some truth to this?

— Been Hurt Before There is safety in having been friends with a person for a while, like how you can be reasonably sure that when he says “Here, let me help you into the car,” it won’t be the trunk. And because we evolved to care deeply about maintaining our reputation, it also helps that you two have mutual friends. (A bank robber is less likely to hit a branch where all the tellers know him by name.) However, once you're in a relationship, all sorts of emotional issues can pop up and start biting, and what prevents that is not having been friends but having done the work to fix whatever was bent or broken.

To be realistically optimistic, make yourself look at the guy's worst qualities, and decide whether you can live with them. You should also consider what went wrong in your prior relationships.

Sure, getting hurt is sometimes a random act, like a stove falling out of the sky onto your car. But often, it's something you could have seen coming -- and would have, if you hadn't been so busy sewing all the red flags into a big quilt. Finally, even if a guy doesn't have a skull in his kitchen cabinet labeled “Marcy,” keep in mind that there are special surprises that will only reveal themselves once you're “more than friends” -- like his superhero underwear and his habit of taking over a bed “alphabet-style” (warding off zombies by sleeping in the letter X).

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you," writes poet John Ashbery, "at incredible speed, traveling day and night, through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, recognize you when he sees you, give you the thing he has for you?" This passage might not be literally true, Cancerian.

There may be no special person who is headed your way from a great distance, driven by a rapt intention to offer you a blessing. But I think Ashbery's scenario is accurate in a metaphorical way. Life is in fact working overtime to bring you gifts and help. Make sure you cooperate! Heighten your receptivity. Have a nice long talk with yourself, explaining why you deserve such beneficence.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When I attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, my smartest friend was Gemini writer Clare Cavanagh. She headed off to Harvard for her graduate studies, and later became a pre-eminent translator of Polish poetry. Her work has been so skillful that Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czselaw Milosz selected her as his authorized biographer. Interviewing Milosz was a tough job, Clare told blogger Cynthia Haven. He was demanding. He insisted that she come up with "questions no one's asked me yet." And she did just that, of course. Formulating evocative questions is a Gemini specialty. I invite you to exercise that talent to the hilt in the coming week. It's prime time for you to celebrate a Curiosity Festival.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The cosmos seems to be granting you a license to be brazenly ambitious. I'm not sure how long this boost will last, so I suggest you capitalize on it while it's surging. What achievement have you always felt insufficiently prepared or powerful to accomplish? What person or club or game have you considered to be out of your league? What issue have you feared was beyond your understanding? Rethink your assumptions. At least one of those "impossibilities" may be more possible than usual.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have an entourage or posse that helps you work magic you can't conjure up alone? Is there a group of co-conspirators that prods you to be brave and farseeing? If not, try to whip one up. And if you do have an inspirational crew, brainstorm about some new adventures for all of you to embark on. Scheme and dream about the smart risks and educational thrills you could attempt together. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you especially need the sparkle and rumble that a feisty band of allies can incite.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1768, Britain's Royal Society commissioned navigator James Cook to lead a long naval voyage west to Tahiti, where he and his team were supposed to study the planet Venus as it made a rare transit across the face of the sun. But it turned out that task was a prelude. Once the transit was done, Cook opened the sealed orders he had been given before leaving England. They revealed a second, bigger assignment, kept secret until then: to reconnoiter the rumored continent that lay west of Tahiti. In the coming months, he became the first European to visit the east coast of Australia. I foresee a comparable progression for you, Leo. The task you've been working on lately has been a prelude. Soon you'll receive your "sealed orders" for the next leg of your journey.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to computer security company Symantec, you're not in major danger of contracting an online virus from a porn website. The risk is much greater when you visit religious websites. Why? They're often built by inexperienced programmers, and as a result are more susceptible to hackers' attacks. In the coming weeks, Virgo, there may be a similar principle at work in your life. I suspect you're more likely to be undermined by nice, polite people than raw, rowdy folks. I'm not advising you to avoid the do-gooders and sweet faces. Just be careful that their naivete doesn't cause problems. And in the meantime, check out what the raw, rowdy folks are up to.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Life has a big, tough assignment for you. Let's hope you're up for the challenge. There's not much wiggle room, I'm afraid. Here it is: You must agree to experience more joy and pleasure. The quest for delight and enchantment has to rise to the top of your priority list. To be mildly entertained isn't enough. To be satisfied with lukewarm arousal is forbidden. It's your sacred duty to overflow with sweet fulfillment and interesting bliss. Find ways to make it happen!

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may have never sampled the southeast Asian fruit called durian. It's controversial. Some people regard it as the "king of fruits," and describe its taste as sweet and delicious. Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace said it was like "a rich custard highly flavored with almonds." But other people find the durian unlikable, comparing its aroma to turpentine or decaying onions. TV chef Anthony Bourdain asserts that its "indescribable" taste is "something you will either love or despise." I foresee the possibility that your imminent future will have metaphorical resemblances to the durian, Scorpio. My advice? Don't take things personally.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Talking will be your art form in the coming week. It'll be healing and catalytic. You could set personal records for most engaging phone conversations, emails, text messages, and face-to-face dialogs. The sheer intensity of your self-expression could intimidate some people, excite others, and generate shifts in your social life. Here are a few tips to ensure the best results. First, listen as passionately as you speak. Second, make it your intention to communicate, not just unload your thoughts. Tailor your messages for your specific audience. Third, reflect on the sometimes surprising revelations that emerge from you. They'll give you new insights into yourself.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let's say you want to buy an 18-karat gold ring. To get that much gold, miners had to excavate and move six tons of rock. Then they doused the rock with poisonous cyanide, a chemical that's necessary to extract the good stuff. In the process, they created toxic waste. Is the gold ring worth that much trouble? While you ponder that, let me ask you a different question. What if I told you that over the course of the next five months, you could do what's necessary to obtain a metaphorical version of a gold ring? And although you would have to process the equivalent of six tons of raw material to get it, you wouldn't have to use poison or make a mess. Would you do it?

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1899, the King of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just four months old. It took a while for the new King to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from his grandmother and uncle. Eventually he showed great aptitude for the job, though, and ruled until his death at age 83. I'm getting a Sobhuza-type vibe as I meditate on you, Aquarius. New power may come to you before you're fully ready to wield it. But I have confidence you will grow into it, especially if you're not shy about seeking help.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 1951 animated movie version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice says to herself, "I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it." I hope you won't be like her, Pisces. It's an excellent time for you to heed your own good advice. In fact, I suspect that doing so will be crucial to your ability to make smart decisions and solve a knotty problem. This is one of those turning points when you really have to practice what you preach. You've got to walk your talk.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DP-14242 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: KAREN L. MILLER, 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 (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 William Applegate, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 4732 Graham Street, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated January 23, 2015. /s/ William J. Applegate, Personal Representative, 4732 Graham Street, Missoula, MT 59808

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN14-96 Department No. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps, III SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING J.D., A YOUNG IN NEED OF CARE. TO: ORVILLE JAMES DILLMAN Re: J.D., born March 2007 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of

Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services, Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care and Temporary Legal Custody for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 17th day of February, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the Youth should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the Youth for six months or until further order of the Court; why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. Orville James Dillman is represented by a Court-appointed attorney at 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406)523-5140.

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A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406)258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 9th day of January, 2015. /s/ Robert L. Deschamps, III MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-13 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EARL L. SHERRON, JR. Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Donna Jean Sherron has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN T. GIBLIN, JR., Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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.

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1 The P of PBR 6 "How do you measure, measure ___?" ("Rent" lyric) 11 Org. for pinheads?

14 Birth country of Amy Adams and Rose McGowan 15 Music in some "Weird Al" Yankovic medleys 16 Cafeteria coffee holder 17 She got a Worst Actress nomination for a 10-Down for "The Other Woman" 19 Hang behind 20 "Dark Angel" star Jessica 21 "Aw, shucks!"

22 Many South Africans 24 #2 on Time's 10 Worst Songs of 2014 28 Absolute last-minute day for shopping 29 Formal footwear 30 Bicycle shorts material 33 Go after flies 35 Aspirations 38 Reptilian squeezer 39 Sworn enemy 42 Grammy winner Kool Moe ___ 43 It's not worth much 45 Facts 46 Out there 48 "The Golden Notebook" author Lessing 50 Anti matter?

51 "Conscious Uncoupling" person of 2014, instead of just saying "divorce" 57 Muslim veil 58 NYC thoroughfare 59 "Am ___ only one?"

61 "I ___ Rock" 62 John Travolta mispronunciation that made Rolling Stone's "Worst TV Moments of 2014" 66 "Morning Edition" producer 67 Big top figure Last week’s solution

68 2006 movie subtitled "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" 69 Eeyore, for one 70 "The Waste Land" poet T.S. 71 Apartments, e.g.

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1 12-point type 2 In any way 3 Animated ruminant 4 ___-Kinney (band with Carrie Brownstein of "Portlandia") 5 Norse god 6 Breathing interruption 7 Climber's calling?

8 Whitney with a gin 9 "Alias" equivalent 10 Award celebrating bad movies 11 Bring into a private conversation 12 Author of "The Cat Who..." mysteries 13 Teen turmoil 18 Fearsome sort 23 The Daily Bruin publisher 25 "Thirteen" actress ___ Rachel Wood 26 ___ apso 27 Rumored Himalayan beast 30 "Selma" role 31 "Oh, it's ___" 32 Glass containers 33 Chart-topper 34 Soaked 36 Mal de ___ (seasickness) 37 Turn from liquid to Jell-O 40 Use Pro Tools, say 41 Santa's laundry problem 44 Coffee coast of Hawaii 47 "Can you hear me now?" company 49 Mail-in offer 50 Ran off 51 Accra's country 52 Scaredy-cats 53 Caveman diet 54 Prevent, as a disaster 55 "SNL" alumna Cheri 56 ___ Thins 60 911 responders 63 The Mavericks, on scoreboards 64 "Never Mind the Bollocks" closer (or label) 65 "Aladdin" monkey ©2015 Jonesin’ Crosswords

PUBLIC NOTICES filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of January 2015.

GEISZLER STEELE, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 13th day of January 2015. /s/ Thomas Harrison Hayes, Jr., Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-260 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HOWARD FRANK KAMMERER., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Dave F. Kammerer, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 W. Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 6th day of January, 2015. /s/ Dave F. Kammerer c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-15-4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STEPHEN CLEVELAND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Patricia Barrackman, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled 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 8th day of January, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Patricia Barrackman BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Patricia Barrackman, Personal Representative

[C6] Missoula Independent • January 29–February 5, 2015

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/31/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200723791, Book 805, Page 797, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Bruce A. Hart and Stephanie A. Hart, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 9 of Lake View Addition, a Platted Subdivisioin 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 10/06/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 9, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $239,811.22. This amount includes the outstanding princi-

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pal balance of $209,886.89, 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 April 16, 2015 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. (TS# 7023.110684) 1002.275961File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/14/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200533743 BK 766 Pg 391, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which James K. Harbison and Susan E. Harbison, as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The E1/2 of Lot 25, all of Lot 26 and 27 and the W1/2 of Lot 28 in Block 61 of Supplement to Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Recording reference: Book 522 of Micro records at Page 733.

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 01/31/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 9, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $209,239.43. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $193,022.70, 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 April 21, 2015 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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# 7023.111330) 1002.276205File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 10, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 15 and 16 in Block 90 of SOUTH MISSOULA, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in Book 1 of Plats at Page 19. Jeffrey M Dunthorn and Donald J Dunthorn, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 12, 2004 and recorded on January 12, 2004 in Book 724, Page 1901as Document No. 200400901.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $692.55, beginning May 1, 2014, 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 14, 2014 is $67,491.79 principal, interest at the rate of 5.7500% totaling $1,755.22, late charges in the amount of $123.62, suspense balance of $-439.66 and other fees and expenses advanced of $157.24, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.63 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 31, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Finan-

MNAXLP cial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 31st day of October, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Citimortgage Vs Dunthorn42090.160 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 10, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in U.S. Government Lot 4, S.E. ¼, Section 10, Township 11 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the South onequarter corner of Section 10, Township 11 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, thence N. 89° 41’ 00”E. along the section line common to Sections 10 and 15, Township 11 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana to the Southeast corner of U.S. Government Lot 4, a distance of 1302.72 feet: thence N. 0° 18’ 14” E. along the easterly boundary of U.S. Government Lot 4 a distance of 512.15 feet to the true point of beginning: thence continuing N. 0° 18’ 14” E. along said easterly boundary of U.S. Government Lot 4 distance of 774.19 feet to the Northeast corner of said U.S. Government Lot 4; thence S.89° 42’ 09” W. along the northerly boundary of said U.S. Government Lot 4 a distance of 1080.94 feet to a point on the northerly rightof-way boundary of the original Northern Pacific Railway; thence S. 52° 50’ 51” E. along the northerly boundary of said original Northern Pacific Railway right-of-way a distance of 1098.90 feet; thence continuing along the northerly boundary of said railway right-of-way a non-tangent curve to the left having a radius of 681.53 feet a distance of 227.98 feet to the true point of beginning. Containing 10.12 acres. Certificate of Survey No. 1129. John Scott Tubbs, and Eva DeAnn Tubbs, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Zen Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by

Deed of Trust dated on December 22, 2006 and recorded on September 7, 2007 in Book 805, Page 447 as Document 200723441. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-1. 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 $943.25, beginning February 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 15, 2014 is $219,084.84 principal, interest at the rate of 4.12500% now totaling $7,124.53, escrow advances of $2,717.51 and other fees and expenses advanced of $96,844.96, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.76 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: November 3, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 3rd day of November, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Specialized Loan Vs Tubbs 41807.650 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 16, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 1, 2, AND 3 IN BLOCK 80 OF SOUTH MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David O Larson, and Theresa J Larson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 11, 2007 and recorded January 18, 2007 in Book 790 Page 982 under Document No 200701444; Modification Agreement recorded May 20, 2013, Book 913, Page 253 under Document No 201309687 Modification

Agreement recorded May 23, 2013, Book 913, Page 448 under Document No 201309882. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. 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 $917.92, beginning January 1, 2014, 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 November 21, 2014 is $209,402.43 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% totaling $8,645.58, escrow advances of $7,349.31, suspense balance of $-46.07 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,024.18, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.72 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: November 6, 2014 /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 6th day of November November, 2014 before me, a notary public in and for said 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/ Lisa J. Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Bac V Larson 42104.051 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 30, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana:

CLARK FORK STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 44, 103, 176, 237. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 2/16/2015 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 2/19/2015 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 ANASTASIA•Anastasia is a 6-8 year-

MAX• Max

is a five-year-old male Lab/Golden Retriever mix. He has a lot of energy and would be great in an active family with older kids. Max still needs some basic manners training, but loves to play fetch. Come meet your new hiking buddy!

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KHLOE•Khloe is a 9-month-old female

old female black Domestic Short Hair cat.

She is one of our longest-term residents and seems pretty aloof and antisocial in her kennel. However, as soon as you bring her out, she lights up and becomes rather social. Her favorite spot is curled up in a cat bed on a counter.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

MR. BUTTONS•Mr. Buttons is a 9-11

Collie/Pit Bull Mix. She is a very sweet and timid girl. Khloe can be a bit fearful of new people, but easily accepts them when introduced by someone she knows.

She is good with young children, and would love a home with a family who can help her build her confidence.

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SAMPSON•Sampson is a 1 1/2-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. He's a very affectionate dog when you have him one-on-one, and is good around older kids.

South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Sampson is very active and loves to go for 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) walks. He knows the commands sit and lay down. Samspon is good with most 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) dogs, and would need an owner who could Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) make him mind.

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

year-old male seal point Siamese cat. He is one of our longest-term cats at the shelter. Mr. Buttons would love a home where he could spend his day lounging on a cat tree or in a window sill. If you're interested in a truly independent feline, Mr. Buttons might just be your guy.

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

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

APRIL• April is a 3-5 year-old female

www.dolack.com

Domestic Medium Hair cat. She prefers to receive her affection by being petted and brushed, but doesn't seem comfortable being picked up and carted around.

April loves to find little hiding places to hang out and will take some time to coax out of her shell.

Original Paintings, Prints and Posters 139 W. Front St., Missoula (406) 549-3248

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 NATE• Say hello to Nate! He is a handsome, sweet boy looking for a loving home.

He enjoys pets, treats, and a warm lap to snuggle on. Nate would love to find a home that could give him plenty of TLC and playtime. Come visit him today at the Humane Society of Western Montana!

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139 West Front St. inside the Monte Dolack Gallery, Downtown Missoula, MT

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FANCY•Meet Fancy! She is a 6-year-old

guy looking for his furrever home. Noodle is smart, playful, responsive and friendly.

Playing with other dogs, going on car rides, going on walks and hanging out with people are some of his favorite activities.

Noodle also enjoys taking naps on his bed or in his crate.

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ALVIN• Alvin

is a sweet, loving guy looking for his forever home. He is young, playful and responsive. Playing with other dogs is one of his favorite activities. When he isn't playing with other dogs Alvin loves sleeping on his bed and going on walks.

Come meet this social, outgoing guy today!

gorgeous girl. She can be a little shy at first, but warms up very quickly, especially if treats or toys are involved. Fancy is looking for a family that can provide her with lots of love and a kitty condo for her to relax on. Come meet her today!

MYA• Mya is a fun loving Lab/Shepherd

BLACKBERRY•Blackberry is a black and white beauty looking for a loving home. Blackberry enjoys gentle pets and playing with her toys. Blackberry is looking for a quieter home where she can relax and soak up the sun next to a window.

Stop in today! We are open 1-6 Tuesdays through Fridays and 12-5 on Saturday.

NOODLE• Meet Noodle, a young, active

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mix who loves to play with other dogs and go for car rides. This 1-year-old girl is looking for an active family that enjoys hiking and biking as much as she does. Mya is a very smart girl and knows some basic commands but would love to learn more with her new forever family in our Basic Manners class.

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PUBLIC NOTICES All that certain Lot, Piece or Parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the county of Missoula, State of Montana, bounded and particularly described as follows, to wit: Tract 17 of Grass Valley Tracts Subdivision No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Being the same property converted by fee simple deed from Raymond H. Burg and Ruth Mary Burg to Randall T. Burg, dated 09/07/2001 Recorded on 09/10/2001 in Book 667, Page 1173 in Missoula County records, State of MT. Randall T Burg, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Finiti Title, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiFinancial, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 3, 2007 and recorded on April 6, 2007 in Book 794, Page 1375 as Document No. 200708078. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiFinancial Servicing LLC. 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 $1,371.48, beginning May 9, 2014, 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 December 13, 2014 is $149,091.15 principal, interest at the rate of 10.3860% totaling $19,882.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,257.56, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.01 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: November 18, 2014 /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 18th day of November, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said 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/ Lisa J. Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Citifinancial Vs Burg 42044.084 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 9, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of Rossignol Orchard Tracts, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Linda

MNAXLP K Schell, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 09, 2006 and recorded on October 13, 2006 in Book 785, Page 212 as Document No. 200626598. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon, f/k/a The Bank of New York, as trustee for the certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust 2007-16CB, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007-16CB. 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 $1,223.75, beginning April 1, 2013, 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 27, 2014 is $170,887.07 principal, interest at the rate of 8.0% totaling $21,381.74, late charges in the amount of $795.42, escrow advances of $3,895.67, and other fees and expenses advanced of $186.64, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale

is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, 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 31, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 31st day of October, 201, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Select Portfolio V Schell 42085.062 Request for Qualifications for Architectural Services Missoula Public Library The Missoula Public Library seeks qualified licensed architects to develop designs for a new public library building located at 301 East Main St, Missoula, MT 59802. Statements of qualifications will be accepted until 5:00 PM, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Interested firms may obtain the RFQ on the library’s website at http://www.missoulapubliclibrary.org/rfq. Questions answered by Jim Semmelroth, 406-258-3849 or jims@missoula.lib.mt.us.

RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $575, LEASE INCENTIVES. Downtown, coin-op laundry, carport, offstreet parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

1315 E. Broadway #6. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coinops, pet? $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1502 Ernest #4 1 bed/1 bath, W/D hookups, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $575$650, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

1914 S. 14th St. W. “C”. Studio/1 bath, newer, W/D included, central location. $575.

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2 bedroom, 1 bath, $595, Lolo 4 Plex, DW, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking, W/S/G paid.

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1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $625$825, New Complex, DW, A/C, coin-op laundry, storage, offstreet parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1024 Stephens #5. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, DW, coinops, cat? $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1115 Rollins: 2 Bdrm, Large, Nice condition, Parking, Heat paid, $775. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106.

1304 1st: 1 Bedroom, Near Trail System, Small pet OK, $575.

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1315 E. Broadway #3. 1 bed/1.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, carport, pet? $700.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

2 bedroom, 1 bath, $625, Southside near mall, DW, W/D hookups, carport, storage, offstreet parking. No Pets, No Smoking.

GATEWEST 7287333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $750, (2 Weeks Free w/6 Month Lease) 62 and older community, elevator, AC, balcony, large bathroom, storage, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking.

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2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895, Brand New 6 Plex, DW, A/C, large closets, patio/balcony, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 2 bath, $925, South Hills condo, vaulted ceilings w/fans, washer/dryer in unit, DW, Microwave, attached garage, balcony, W/S/G paid.

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GATEWEST 728-7333 2306 Hillview Ct. #1. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, shared yard, storage. $600.

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RENTALS 720 Turner St. “B” 3 bed/1.5 bath Northside, pet? $900 Grizzly Property Management 5422060 912 Marshall: 2 Bdrm, Wood floor, Slant Street, Small pet OK, $725. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106.

Are you a first time renter and not sure how to pick the right property choose a NARPM professional property manager. Our members have a code of ethics that require managers to educate our tenants on fair housing laws. westernmontana.narpm.org Clyatt Apartments. 4-Plex at 101 Pullman Court on the Northside.

Well-maintained, spacious, 2 bedroom. Dishwasher, garbage disposal, W/D hookups. $625.00/month, $650.00 security deposit. W/S/G paid. This is an income qualifying property, so please call for information. Matty Reed, Missoula Housing Authority.

406.549.4113 x130 Got vacancy? Contact a NARPM member and see how you can put their expertise, education and commitment to work for you. westernmontana.narpm.org Looking for the right property and not sure which one to choose? Choose a NARPM professional property manager.

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MOBILE HOMES

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Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com

Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034

627 Plymouth: House, 2 Bedroom, By Rose Park, Dishwasher, Basement Den, Yard w/Care $1,095. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 5496106. $100 Costco gift card!

DUPLEXES 1717 13th St. “B”. 3 bed/1 bath triplex, central location, W/D hookups, shared yard. $1000.

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The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

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HOMES FOR SALE

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $299,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $249,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

110 Rolling Green. 3 bed, 2 bath with deck & 2 car garage adjacent to Highlands Golf Course. $239,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

1633 South 4th West. 1920’s era 4 bed, 2 bath with fenced yard, patio and many new upgrades. $299,900.

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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University District home. $439,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Plex By The River 319/321 1st St. Dream location!

3-plex and alley house (2 efficiencies and 2 one bed units) behind Bernices ‘hood, River views and end of the street. Reduced

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $275,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call

THE UPTOWN FLATS Come check out the condos at The Uptown Flats.

1 bed 1 bath plus high-end amenities. Starting at $149,900 2014 Best Real Estate Agent

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$365,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 612 Parkview. 3 bed, 2 bath in Farviews with 2 car garage. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home.

Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Farviews Home 404 Westview. Three bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable Farviews neighborhood for $265,000!

Solar panels, views, great home.

KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Former MUD Site 633 Phillips - $150,000. Excellent opportunity to own a home at the former MUD demonstration site on the Northside. Many outbuildings and so many possibilities.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I’ll save you time and energy. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. I know Missoula and have lived here 30+ years.

Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM 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. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers.

Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Orange Street Triplex 201 S Orange Street Triplex. Reduced $300,000. Location is awesome, near the river and downtown and river trails and bike trails and all sorts of conveniences. Two main floor units, one upper. Some hardwood floors and some upgrades and tons of character! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate.

(406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Rattlesnake Farmhouse A friendly home with large garden in the middle Rattlesnake.

1145 Lolo Street. At corner of

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REAL ESTATE Gilbert and Lolo Streets. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 10,200 sq. ft. lot [0.23 acres] Fruit trees. Access to town and trails. For sale by owners of 24 years. $279,000. Main and Second floors have 1,375 Sq. Ft. Unfinished basement 240 Sq.Ft. Parking off street. Fenced yard and garden. All SIDs paid including city sewer,sidewalk.

Natural gas heat. Roof one year old. Taxes $2304.33 in 2014.

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Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com

South Hills Ranch Style 2615 Arcadia - $255,000.

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1-3. 3 bed/1 bath. Open floor plan, gorgeous updates including kitchen abd bath, backs to open space, large backyard. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

1545 Cooley Unit D. 2 bed, 1 bath with single garage near Burns Street Bistro. $106,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.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) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real

WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

1823 H Montana. 3 bed, 2.5 bath near Good Food Store & Source Gym. $134,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 3811 Stephens #30. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Lewis & Clark neighborhood with single garage. $135,500. Mary Louise ZappKnapp, Lambros ERA Real Es-

tate.

532-9296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $168,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 $160,000. Three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. One of the best things about Burns Street Commons is its gorgeous exterior and great community atmosphere.

KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com

nierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

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Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more.

Clark Fork River Condo 1401 Cedar Street #16. $122,500. Charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhouse set on the Clark Fork River. What an amazing home! KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. an-

435 Ernest Dr, Stevensville $299,000

Ranch style home, south of Florence. Magnificent views of the Bitterroot Mtns, 5 acres, fenced and cross fenced for horses.

Attached dbl car garage, 44 x 32' shop with office, small tack room and barn. MLS# 20150284 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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REAL ESTATE

Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns #10. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op.

2 bedroom unit for $119,000.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.

1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND

FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

COMMERCIAL Great Business Opportunity! Excellent Hwy 93 exposure! 8 Unit motel, coffee &

gift shop all with the back drop of the gorgeous Mission Mountains. Comfortable living quarters, offers the opportunity to earn a paycheck out of your own home. The town of St Ignatius adds the country charm!

Great spot to raise a family and have the flexibility of your own business. Priced at $349,500.

Contact Jill Ursua @ 406-2408386

4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Frenchtown home on 5.4 acres. $300,000. Prudential Montana. For more info

call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $180,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4-plex behind Bernice's Bakery with river views. Front unit has one 1 bedroom and 2 studio apartments. Back unit is 1 bedroom with finished attic space.

REDUCED

201 S. Orange $300,000 3-plex near river, downtown & McCormick Park. Main floor has one 1 bedroom and one efficiency unit. Upper floor is a 1 bedroom apartment.

Homes 2615 Arcadia Many upgrades including kitchen and bath. Open House Sunday 1-3..................................$255,000 319/321 S 1st St W 4-plex Bernice's neighborhood. River views. .................................................Reduced $365,000 633 Phillips Northside Sweetness ............................................................................................................$150,000 404 Westview So much house in a great 'hood! .........................................................................................$265,000 201 S Orange Triplex. Great location, great rental .....................................................................................$300,000

Townhomes/Condos

406 Aspen View Rd. Polaris Amazing Home and Area ........ 1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Unit On One Level .....$160,000 ............................................................................$345,000 1400 Burns Last 2 Bedroom Unit ....................$119,000 2348 River Road 2.23 Acres in Town ..................$535,000 Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views!...........$162,000

Commercial:

Uptown Flats #312 Efficient 1 Bed.................$151,900

2309 Grant Commercial Building & Land..........$155,000

1401 Cedar St. #16 Next To River Trail--Income Restrictions........................................................$122,500

9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres....$375,000

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MORTGAGE We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-2587522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

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Homes With Land

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

1633 South 4th West • $299,900 1920's style 4 bed, 2 bath on new foundation with new roof, fenced yard, patio & covered front porch.

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

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512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com