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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk How ’bout that Super Bowl? ...................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Interlibrary overdrive, promoting bitcoin, and foster care cuts.....................................6 Etc. You know about Montana’s Super Bowl connection, right?..............................................7 News In Libby, A Superfund town tries to shake its asbestos stigma .......................................8 Opinion Why does regulator Travis Kavulla hate regulating? .................................................10 Writers on the Range What can we learn from Wilmot Collins?...........................................11 Feature A Flathead homeless shelter promises respite for veterans. But does it deliver? ....14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Clay Studio of Missoula focuses on the art of the cup .........................................18 Music A eulogy for the Fall after Mark E. Smith’s death..............................................19 Art The uneasy twist of Anne Cruikshank’s photos.....................................................20 Film A coming-of-age look at Jeffrey Dahmer..............................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 What’s good here Lessons learned at the Blackfoot Cafe. .........................................23 Happiest Hour A Salt Lake brewery takes flight at the Dram Shop............................25 8 Days a Week It’s almost like the weekend never happens .........................................26 Agenda Nathan Baring talks about suing the federal government .............................33 Mountain High Outdoor film fests galore ..................................................................34

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News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42

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STREET TALK

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Do you know who’s playing in the Super Bowl? Who are you rooting for?

What do you think about halftime performer Justin Timberlake? Is there anyone you’d rather see?

Alyssa Kennamer: I do not know who’s playing, although I was at a quilt meeting and there was some shade being thrown for some different teams. Everyone knows how down-home the Yellowstone Club is: I have heard about his, what is it, Man of the Woods? I think it’s garbage. I’d always want Beyoncé. Was it last year she came in and did a little Black Panther nod? [Ed. note: That was 2016. Last year was Lady Gaga.]

Kurt Hawkins: Philadelphia and New England.

I’m against football in general because of TBI, the traumatic brain injury that’s occurring. I don’t think it should be allowed. Someone should expose his nipple: Is he going to rip anyone’s shirt off? I’m not a fan of Lady Gaga per se, but I thought her [halftime show] was amazing.

Bill Munoz: New England and Philadelphia.

I’m hoping Philadelphia wins. It’s time to end the dynasty. Bring the KettleHouse to the Super Bowl: There’s dozens more I’d rather see than Justin. Nathaniel Rateliff. That’d be one hell of a show.

Act the part

I think the Montana Rep could do well by choosing material that would benefit drama students in their quests to become professionals and hold an Actors’ Equity membership (“Sentimental on the surface: Montana Rep’s On Golden Pond,” Jan. 25). Opportunities where students would be able to find roles that have characters written by playwrights for their own age group. In the legitimate theater and cinema, actors are cast accordingly.

Let’s hope the next director will keep this in mind, as there is tons of product out there.

Jerry Hopkins facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Smoke up

Cough cough (“Another smoking revision,” Jan. 25). Meanwhile, mental health people and people with disabilities run around the state with no services. And the elderly aren’t entitled to dentures. That’s enough to make one smoke.

Rebecca Loren Merfeld facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Tempted

I quit smoking a long time ago, but when I smell it, I am tempted, still.

That’s why I don’t like people smoking around me. I live in an apartment and my neighbors smoke outside, but I can still smell it and see the butts in the ashtray. I hate it! But I understand.

Athina A. Collins facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Easy peasy

How about offering a free detox program (“Homelessness in Missoula gets a panel, but no grant,” Jan. 25)? A lot of folks who are homeless are alcoholics. Getting clean and getting a job is the answer to a ton of problems.

Alex Wells facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Why I march

Kayla Nelson: No. No one. Misty Man of the Mountains Hop: No, I greatly enjoy his music.

I have been waiting for so long for him to make a new album. One of his songs that is coming out is called “Montana,” so I’m really intrigued to know if he spent some time here and the mountains worked some magic on him.

Asked Tuesday afternoon at the Confident Stitch and Butterfly Herbs

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Yes, I went [to the women’s march] because I wanted to be counted among those who are concerned about the political direction our country is going now (“Street Talk: When women march,” Jan. 25). The

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absence of anything spiritual is much more noticeable amongst our country’s leaders. The grab for power and money is vividly apparent. The willingness to use scapegoats to dull the minds of the average citizen to the truth is barked: “fake news, fake news.” We can no longer even pretend to be living up to the aspirations of our founding fathers. So, I marched.

Colleen Mattson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

“The willingness to use scapegoats to dull the minds of the average citizen to the truth is barked: ‘fake news, fake news.’ We can no longer even pretend to be living up to the aspirations of our founding fathers.

So, I marched.”

Bones to pick

The Jan. 25 opinion “Slaughter rule,” by Jeanine Pfeiffer states that “every scrap and smidgen of bison killed by tribal hunters” was utilized in some manner. She implies that “every scrap and smidgen” of every and all bison were consumed/used in some fashion. If so, why can bones still be found at former buffalo jump sites? Oh well, it’s just her opinion or perhaps an “alternative fact.”

Greg J. Houska Missoula

Talk it out

You’re right. Our panel could have and should have covered more aspects of fake news, so I’m glad you helped fill in the gaps (“Why was there no fake news at Missoula’s fake news roundtable?” Jan. 25). We could have talked more about the weaponized fake news campaigns on social media that shake the public’s confidence. I’d like to talk more about how to spot fake news. It’s sometimes hard, though, to know what the audience already knows and what it wants to talk about. For example, I thought the Missoulian did a pretty good job before the panel of taking apart Secretary of State Corey Stapleton’s email lecture on what news to pay attention to. That seemed to set up our point that, for many people, fake news isn’t really about fake information. It’s about real news they don’t agree with.

Your piece seems to suggest the need for much more discussion about this, and I couldn’t agree more. Thanks.

Dennis Swibold Missoula

Delaying HIT

Small businesses can use all the help they can get, most especially representatives in Washington who stand up for them and represent their interests. Montana’s small businesses are lucky that they have such champions in Sens. Tester and Daines, both of whom recently signed on to legislation to delay the Health Insurance Tax (HIT). The HIT is a federal sales tax on health care plans purchased by small business owners for their employees. At $430 per family per year, this tax directly raises the cost of health care, forcing small business owners to forgo hiring or paying bonuses to their employees.

The senators understand how this tax negatively affects our state’s smallbusiness community. Delaying the HIT allows small-business owners to invest in their businesses, thus growing Montana’s economy.

Sen. Tester and Sen. Daines, thank you for supporting legislation to help small employers!

Richard Miltenberger Clancy

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, January 24 Pearl Jam announces an Aug. 13 performance at the Adams Center, the band’s first Montana appearance since 2012.

Thursday, January 25 Colorado College releases the results of its eighth annual Western States Survey, revealing that 46 percent of the 400 Montanans polled approve of the Trump administration’s handling of environmental issues. Forty-five percent disapproved.

Friday, January 26 A press release announces that Dayna Causby will be Missoula County’s new elections administrator starting this spring.

Causby was a county elections director in North Carolina before being selected for the Missoula job.

Saturday, January 27 Traffic on Broadway stops in both directions as drivers let a mallard cross the street into the Imagine Nation parking lot.

Books on the move

Interlibrary overdrive

On Jan. 12, Critelli Couriers abruptly canceled its contract with the Montana Courier Alliance, the statewide association that facilitates the movement of interlibrary loans around the state. About 40,000 items travel from library to library via courier every month, according to Cara Orban, statewide projects librarian at the Montana State Library in Helena.

Critelli was supposed to have the contract through June this year, Oban says, but canceled its contracts with both the courier alliance and the Department of Public Health and Human Service. Calls to numbers for the company in Billings, Butte and Missoula reached out-of-service messages, and the company’s website is down.

A temporary contract was signed with Moon River Couriers, which does business in Montana, Idaho and parts of Washington and Wyoming.

The Missoula Public Library is the largest hub in the MCA (Billings doesn’t participate in the alliance, though Orban says that may change), moving about 10,000 items every month. That’s about an equal amount in and out, says MPL associate director Elizabeth Jonkel. “Our monthly circulation is 60,000 to 70,000 items a month, so that does constitute a pretty

good percentage of our circulation,” Jonkel says.

The library courier alliance mainly serves stops along I-90 and I-15, Orban says. The Missoula library gets a daily drop-off and pick-up of around 20 to 30 crates of books and other items (DVDs are the secondmost popular type of media shared between libraries).

That’s at least 600 items every day.

Missoula library users will likely never notice their use of the interlibrary loan system, because it’s integrated with the Missoula library catalog. Items from libraries in other cities show up in searches, and users simply request a hold and are notified when the book arrives. “Thanks to the courier project, those materials can get in the hands of people all over Montana so seamlessly that from the user side, they may not even know they ordered a book from Laurel,” Jonkel says.

Critelli didn’t show any signs of trouble before canceling the service, Jonkel says. The company also couriered medical supplies and blood samples for DPHHS. The current alliance has existed since 2009, though libraries around the state have exchanged materials far longer than that, Orban says. “Before there was a formal courier — and this still exists in other parts of the state — they have used the bus system, beer distributor trucks that go from town to town, any mode of transportation from one community to the next,” Orban says. “Amtrak — we actually did look into

that for Hi-Line libraries.”

It was up to individual libraries to figure out how to move materials around for the two weeks they were without a courier. “Everybody pulled up their bootstraps and we tried to think of ways to continue the service using our own resources,” Jonkel says. “ImagineIF Library in Kalispell was really instrumental in keeping that corridor open.”

Bidding will open next month for the annual contract, which is worth about $100,000, depending on the total volume of items moved, Oban says. Most of that amount is paid by participating libraries, with a small portion covered by federal funds.

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Budget cuts

Foster care scaled back

Four and a half years ago, Melinda stumbled across a flyer at the Good Food Store advertising Montana’s foster child program. She’d always planned to adopt, but jumped at the chance to take in a child in need. After more than a year of waiting, she welcomed a son into her home, a “cool kid,” she says, who was born with significant medical issues that required specialized care and visits to specialists outside Missoula.

Melinda, who asked that her real name not be

Sunday, January 28 Bill Pullman’s new Western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, sells out two screens at the Roxy Theater. During a post-film Q&A, Pullman says that after decades of pushing cattle on his Whitehall ranch, it felt good to play a cowboy on camera.

Monday, January 29 Former Griz football player Chase Reynolds files to run for state senator from Missoula.

Reynolds spent six years playing for the St. Louis/L.A. Rams, and now wants to tackle Missoula’s housing affordability issues.

Tuesday, January 30 Democratic congressional candidate Grant Kier hand delivers an “accountability pledge” to Greg Gianforte’s Helena office, vowing to hold in-person town halls with constituents.

Unlike Greg Gianforte.

Do a Google search for ‘20 weeks’ and take a look at the pictures that come up under Google Images.

How can we say that’s not a baby?”—Sen. Steve Daines, speaking in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act before of a failed Jan. 29 vote. Sen. Jon Tester opposed the bill, calling it “another politically motivated attack” on women and doctors.

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[news] used to protect the child’s identity, doubts she could have adjusted to those needs without help from Missoula’s Foster Child Health Program. The program — a collaboration between the city-county health department, Providence Medical Center and Montana’s Child and Family Services — aims to support the health needs of foster children and offer guidance for foster parents. Last fall, budget cuts prompted the state to cancel its contract with the program, cutting off $65,000 in funds. Health Department Director Ellen Leahy says she’d hoped to keep the program going on existing county funds, but last week she announced scale-backs to staff. One part-time nurse was laid off, and the program’s caseload will be narrowed to focus on newborns to 5-year-olds, as well as teens about to age out of foster care. “Four months into it, we were just bleeding our budget too much, and we had to start planning about how we are going to carefully transfer these kids out of service,� Leahy says. She expects the active caseload to decrease from an average of 60 cases a month to between 5 and 15.

Missoula’s Foster Child Health Program started about 15 years ago as a pilot backed by a federal grant.

In 2011, Leahy says, it was resurrected with funding from the state and the Missoula County Commission, and since then has served an estimated 600 foster children. The program was replicated in Billings and Great Falls in 2016. “These kids have a lot of acute and particularly chronic conditions,� she says of the program’s importance. “It’s surprising that children this young can have chronic conditions, but they do.�

Judith Birr has been with the program since its inception. She’s also now its sole nurse. When the services first kicked off, she says, her caseloads were large, and foster kids’ medical histories were scattered. Time has made the process smoother and more thorough, she says — an important improvement given the rise in drug-affected children coming into state custody. Birr also can’t overstate the level of help many new foster parents need, a point echoed by Melinda. “People become foster parents because they want to help children and they believe they can help a child,�

Melinda says. “If there’s not adequate support for that family ‌ that belief becomes fractured.â€?

Leahy says the program will likely have to look to private foundations for additional funding. However, with budget cuts affecting the entire health-care community, she fears she won’t be the only one looking that direction for help.

Alex Sakariassen

Growth industries

Bitcoin goes big

Expect more bitcoin mines like the one in Bonner to crop up around the state soon.

The Governor’s Office for Economic Development, the state’s business promotion arm, is marketing Montana as a destination for data center operators, including crypto mines, according to business magazine Inc. Inc’s online story was posted Jan. 26, the morning after the Indy published a cover story about the track record of the operators behind Bonner bitcoin mine Project Spokane (see The Bitcoin Barons, Jan. 25), and asserted that the state is “eager to get in on the trend further� by promoting crypto mining. The information was attributed to chief business development officer Ken Fichtler.

But Bullock press secretary Marissa Perry quickly disputed the story, writing in an email to the Indy that Fichtler’s comments had been “misrepresented.� “While the state ‘actively’ markets Montana as a place to do business, there are no specific efforts targeted at cryptocurrency mining businesses,� she wrote. The Inc. story was later updated to clarify that the Office of Economic Development is recruiting data centers generally, including those that mine bitcoin.

Whether the governor’s office actually has been working with any mining companies remains unclear.

Two Bullock spokespersons and Fichtler did not respond to follow-up requests made over the following three days for an interview on the subject.

Bitcoin mining, the transaction verification process by which new bitcoins are produced, is a highly competitive, fast-changing industry dependent

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Detached homes inside city limits listed for sale below $200,000 in April 2017, according to an affordable housing analysis released Jan. 30 by the Missoula Organization of Realtors. on expanding acceptance of cryptocurrencies. The process is noisy and extremely energy intensive— which is why cheap electricity in places like Washington and Montana are attractive to new businesses hoping to capitalize on the bitcoin craze.

Chelan County, Washington, has been flooded by requests to connect new mining operations to its ultracheap power grid, according to a Jan. 23 story by Yahoo! Finance, forcing the local power provider to weigh infrastructure upgrades required to become a mining epicenter with the risk of betting on the volatile new industry. “We want to ensure our customers don’t get left holding the bag,� a spokesperson for the local public utility district told Yahoo!.

State officials may not need to do much to attract more crypto mines. The Bonner mine could soon be dwarfed in size by facilities now planned in Butte and Anaconda. News about those projects has trickled out since December, and the Montana Standard recently confirmed that the company Bit Power LLC had purchased land in a former Butte industrial park.

On Jan. 25, a Canadian company called Global Blockchain Technologies Corp. issued a press release unveiling its partnership with new mining facilities in Butte and Anaconda. Global Blockchain claims it will soon begin running Chinese mining machines purchased for $20 million in an “existing first-rate facility at a large scale of 100MW.�

Project Spokane, which until recently claimed to be the largest bitcoin mine on the continent, has a 20MW capacity, its owner, Sean Walsh, previously told the Indy.

Derek Brouwer

ETC. There are only a few teams in America with fans as thoughtful and subdued as those of the Montana Grizzlies, so it’s lucky for Tim Hauck that he coaches for one of them: the Philadelphia Eagles. Just a few months after his brother Bobby’s return to the University of Montana, Tim is set to prowl the sidelines of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The one-time Griz safeties coach now holds that same position with the Eagles, a detail you can bet won’t go overlooked by Montana’s football faithful.

Griz fans have long memories for these sorts of things. And they’ll have more than the Haucks to buzz about this year. This week, former Griz running back Chase Reynolds broke some news of his own: He’s running for state office. Apparently the Drummond native has been kicking the idea around for a while. After record-breaking seasons at UM in 2008 and 2009, Reynolds went on to a six-year stint with the St. Louis Rams (now in Los Angeles), but wasn’t re-signed to the team in 2016.

Reynolds has now traded the NFL for a contest against Democratic state Sen. Diane Sands, whose tenure in politics dates back much further than Reynolds’ collegiate football career. She cut her teeth in the state House in the late 1990s, and was widely applauded last year for shepherding the first updates to Montana’s sexual assault laws in decades through the Legislature.

The race will be one to watch closely. Senate District 49 encompasses a large swath of southwestern Missoula County, from the Orchard Homes and Target Range districts to Lolo and the Idaho border. This is just the sort of urban-rural fringe where Missoula Republicans played and won three times in 2016, in House districts 92, 96 and 97.

What Reynolds’ specific policy interests are, we can’t yet say. The only insight he gave news outlets this week is that he’s skeptical about whether Montana is “heading in the right direction.� What we do know is Sands’ track record as a staunch defender of social justice and women’s rights. It remains to be seen whether that will resonate as loudly as the Griz fight song.

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In spring 2015, soon after being sworn in as the newest Lincoln County commissioner, Mark Peck of Libby, the county seat, drove the roughly 300 miles to Missoula to meet with University of Montana business school faculty and staff from PartnersCreative, a local marketing agency. Peck had been referred by Bill Johnston, director of the school’s Alumni Association and, like Peck, a Libby native.

(The two knew one another from when they were Little League teammates in the late 1960s.)

Peck left Libby in 1978 for a career in the U.S. Air Force. When he returned in 2010, he almost didn’t recognize the place.

Once the site of a booming timber economy with as many as five operating mills, Libby lost its last one in 2002. Market shifts and the “timber wars” of the 1990s, which significantly reduced logging on the National Forest lands that comprise much of Lincoln County, took their toll. On top of that was what Libby had become known for: its Superfund status under the Environmental Protection Agency, preceded by the 1990 closure of the vermiculite mine that caused the environmental and public health emergency. It had employed hundreds of people at a time for decades. (Libby has another Superfund site, due to groundwater contamination, that has drawn far less public attention.) “The identity of Libby carries a negative connotation with it,” Peck said in November.

“It breaks my heart, but it’s a fact. The majority of the population, when they hear Libby, Montana, thinks asbestos.”

They also might think “depressed economy.” Lincoln County’s unemployment rate in November 2017, not seasonally adjusted, was 8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the second-highest of Montana’s 56 counties and about twice the state’s rate.

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Peck knew there was more to Libby, a story lost amid the environmental and economic headlines. Despite its setbacks, the area has a small-town pace, accessible wilderness and deeply rooted residents who take pride in their community’s heritage.

Peck’s desire to help Libby move beyond the Superfund stigma and re-establish its economic and social well-being caused him to run for the county commission. His search for solutions led him to that meeting at the University of Montana.

Sitting in AuntT’s Coffee Corner in downtown Libby in December, Peck recalled that confab in Missoula. “I was just kind of stumbling through explaining, ‘I don’t how to do this, I just know we need some kind of a P.R. campaign to right the ship.’”

Sean Benton of PartnersCreative was first to respond.

“He said every small community in the western United States is trying to do, at some level, what you’re trying to do,” Peck recalled. “However, [he also said], what every other small community in the western United States lacks, and what you have, is a story.”

That story, Benton told Peck, could be of a “phoenix [rising] out of the asbestos” — if residents could agree on where they saw Libby five, 10, 20 years down the road.

A rebranding effort came out of that meeting, a public-private partnership in which PartnersCreative would engage with UM students and faculty to help residents of Libby, nearby Troy and the rest of southern Lincoln County “refresh and re-establish their identities — honoring their heritage but firmly pointing the communities toward the future,” according to the project proposal.

After briefing local economic and community development organizations and agencies on the proposal, Peck presented it to the Lincoln County Commission on Nov. 4, 2015. He told his fellow commissioners, Greg Larson and Mike

Cole, that “this is the first step in a long time where Lincoln County is taking control of its own destiny.”

All three approved proceeding with the roughly $100,000 project.

about their communities. “We need to pull the good parts to the surface,” he said. “It will help to overcome the negative issues and economic problems.”

Those good parts would inform

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Top: The vermiculite mine outside of Libby operated for more than 70 years. Bottom Left: A riverbank cleanup in Libby in August 2011. Bottom Right: Kim Peck of Glacier Insurance in Libby stands next to a display of the revamped Libby Area Chamber of Commerce website. Peck was part of the committee that oversaw the revision and, as a chamber board member, will help the community proceed with a rebranding campaign.

Within a few weeks, a team of marketers, professors and students traveled to the area. For two days, they surveyed 156 residents of Libby and Troy in a combination of in-depth and on-the-street interviews and focusgroup discussions.

The next step, Benton told The Western News at the time, was to analyze the surveyors’ data to identify residents’ commonly held feelings and beliefs

the rebranding campaign the marketing team sought to create. What was crucial, Benton said at the time, was that “this [rebranding effort] comes from the people” and not from marketers — no matter how skilled — with no connection to the area.

Benton also pointed out that rebranding the Libby area to the outside world would have an impact on locals as well. “A project like this can help in-

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still pride in a community,” he said. “It helps people see what they have in a place like this.”

The agency finished its analysis within four months and began to craft what marketers call “brand standards and guidelines,” a document containing logos, messaging and other items — including instructions — in support of a stigma-busting storytelling campaign.

In the midst of the campaign’s development, Peck and PartnersCreative held a public meeting March 9, 2016, at the Dome Theater in downtown Libby to apprise people of the project’s status and initial findings.

Addressing the more than 125 people who had gathered, Peck described it as the first step “of a longterm movement to take control of our own future.”

Kevin Keohane, the project lead at PartnersCreative, outlined some of the key elements of the branding campaign the agency was developing, which included highlighting the area’s undiscovered opportunities and the independent nature of the region’s residents.

The study had identified and described key audiences for branding efforts — including the “independent outdoor lover” and the “opportunity seeker” — as well as a positioning framework labeled “the right kind of remote” that encapsulated messaging themes such as “Pick your own path” and “Return on involvement.” The campaign’s targets were entrepreneurs as well as visitors.

The following day, Peck told The Western News that the goal of the meeting, held in advance of a completed plan, was “to bring people together to start the dialogue.” Yet in the days and weeks that followed the community meeting, the project outwardly lost momentum — something Peck takes responsibility for.

“I think I miscalculated,” he said in December. “I did not stay [involved] and engage [further] like I should have. One thing I’ve learned in this position [as commissioner] is it’s really easy to switch tracks. Derailed is not the right word. Because there’s things that come up that you don’t see coming … that you have to deal with.”

The project didn’t come to a complete halt, however. Brand standards

and guidelines were completed in September 2016. A month prior to that, a committee of local business people and city and county officials who coalesced in support of the rebranding effort — eventually taking the name Kootenai River Valley — was made a subcommittee of the Libby Area Chamber of Commerce and tasked with updating the chamber’s

“The identity of Libby carries a negative connotation with it.

It breaks my heart, but it’s a fact. The majority of the population, when they hear Libby, Montana, thinks asbestos.”

tired website, seen as a crucial first step in the rebranding effort.

Peck said he had long thought the rebranding plan’s logical home was the Libby Area Chamber of Commerce, explaining, “I’ve never seen it as government’s role to build an economy.” The chamber was struggling at the time — Peck cited dwindling membership, a revolving board and other issues — but he had hoped Kootenai

River Valley “would bring [it] strength.”

Funded by the county and the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development, Kootenai River Valley tapped PartnersCreative to develop the site in line with its rebranding plan. After about nine months of work, the new site, libbychamber.org, launched July 28, 2017, and was “a huge step forward,” Peck said.

In addition to conveying the Libby area’s attributes, Nate Bender of PartnersCreative said the website is intended to offset “the inaccurate or misleading information” about the area, especially surrounding its Superfund site status, that exists elsewhere online. To do so, Keohane said, they decided to “confront [the stigma] head on,” Bender said. “We decided early on not to brush the EPA under the rug,” he said. “We don’t sugarcoat it.”

One page of the website is therefore dedicated to an explanation of the cleanup efforts, and includes links to outside resources to learn more.

Peck said that over the course of the website’s development, the chamber had indeed transformed as he had hoped it would. He noted an influx of new and energized board members ready and wanting to help transform the community.

The Chamber disbanded the Kootenai River Valley committee following the website’s launch, according to Kim Peck, co-owner of Glacier Insurance of Libby and a former committee member who now sits on the Chamber board, yet it plans to proceed with the rebranding effort. Peck said the board will discuss next steps at its February retreat. “This won’t be ‘wholly owned’ by the chamber, because the idea of the branding is for all groups to buy in and utilize this,” she said.

Noting that “now it’s time to blow the dust off the implementation” of the rebranding effort, Mark Peck added that the community didn’t have to follow it to the letter. “But I think it’s a great foundation to start driving where we need to be,” he said. “These [ideas] aren’t earth shattering. They’re [the] kind of tried and true things that successful communities have done in order to move themselves forward.” editor@missoulanews.com

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As a hardworking Montanan, you’ve probably never heard of the internet, a connected system of computers that nerds use to masturbate. Over the last couple of decades, however, this network has become essential to America’s two remaining industries: complex mathematical calculations necessary to support imaginary systems of currency, and homemade videos necessary to masturbate. To these 21st-century replacements for manufacturing and agriculture, the internet has become what the railroads were to the Gilded Age. In keeping with its mania for re-enacting that era, the Trump administration did away with regulations requiring net neutrality in December. Because internet service is dominated by a handful of providers, and customers in most markets have only one option for high-speed service, net neutrality rules required service providers to treat all parts of the internet the same. ISPs couldn’t charge companies like Netflix more money in exchange for faster connections to their customers, and they couldn’t block those customers’ access to particular sites and services.

The idea was to prevent oligopoly companies like Verizon from leveraging their market share, and it was immensely popular. A December poll conducted by the University of Maryland found that 83 percent of respondents disapproved of the FCC’s plan to lift net neutrality regulations, but the commission did it anyway.

Last week, Gov. Steve Bullock announced his own plan to enforce a miniature version of net neutrality in Montana by awarding state contracts only to ISPs that abide by the old rules. There are more than 100 broadband internet providers in the state, but only one offers average download speeds above 6 Mbps: Charter Spectrum. If they want to do business with the state of Montana, they will need to observe net neutrality.

To the untutored observer, this plan might seem like a neat way to check the power of our monopoly cable provider. It neatly sidesteps questions of regulatory authority by matching the state’s outsized

demand against Charter’s control over supply. It’s a market-based solution — albeit a Keynesian one — to a federal regulatory issue. Yet it found a prominent critic in the vice chair of Montana’s Public Service Commission, Travis Kavulla.

Kavulla criticized Bullock’s decision on Twitter and in an interview with the Great Falls Tribune, describing the plan as “worrisome” and arguing that no law gives the governor or any other state official — including members of the PSC — the authority to enforce net neutrality in that way.

“The principle that the best economy results from doing nothing is a weird perspective for a man whose job is to regulate public services.”

It was a surprising response from a public official whose job is to regulate utility companies. One might expect Kavulla to support regulation, or at least believe in the state’s authority to enact it. But this is not the first time Kavulla has proven agnostic about the kind of service his own commission is supposed to provide.

In July, he published an editorial in the National Review arguing that net neutrality regulations were misdirected, because web companies like Google and Facebook already commit the kinds of abuses net neutrality is supposed to prevent. “The practical reality is that the dominant tech firms on the network’s ‘edge’ loom as large in their control over customers as do the providers of the physical architecture through which consumers

use the Internet,” he wrote. The editorial goes on to argue that net neutrality does not help competitors challenge the dominance of existing ISPs, and even if it did, it would apply to “a concern that the free market has not been shown incapable of addressing.”

These two arguments seem incompatible. Kavulla’s claim that Google and Facebook are the real problem is a counterexample to his argument that free markets address our concerns. If net neutrality regulations are unnecessary, how come the unregulated part of the industry — web companies — is dominated by a few large firms that exercise inordinate control over their customers?

This line of reasoning seems to have less to do with specific conditions in the internet sector than with Kavulla’s general confidence in the free market. The principle that the best economy results from doing nothing is an article of faith among many conservatives, but it’s a weird perspective for a man whose job is to regulate public services.

If I insisted that reading and arithmetic are wastes of time that distract children from important garment work, it would be just my opinion, until I ran for school board. Then it would be weird. It is similarly weird that the vice chair of the state commission tasked with regulating large companies doesn’t believe large companies should be regulated in this case — not because of the dynamics of this particular market, but because regulation is futile and the state lacks the authority to try.

I like my impassioned arguments for the free market to come from the private sector. Kavulla and his fellow commissioners are supposed to be Montanans’ bulwark against big business. The history of this state has shown that large firms will abuse their power if the government doesn’t stop them. It is dispiriting to hear a man charged with protecting consumers repeatedly argue against his own job.

Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.

[opinion]

Fixing politics What can we learn from Wilmot Collins?

by Gabriel Furshong

After a year of deepening political division on race and immigration, the defeat of a white, four-term incumbent by a black former refugee in Helena — Montana’s capital — continues to draw national and international attention. In November, Wilmot Collins defeated Jim Smith by 338 votes, becoming the state’s first African-American mayor since 1873.

Collins arrived in the U.S. in 1994 after fleeing a brutal civil war in Liberia.

He enlisted in the National Guard six months after his arrival, and he will retire later this year. He said he decided to run for mayor in part because “people think refugees come here looking for a handout, but no, we want to make a difference.”

Not long ago, a huge crowd gathered at his inaugural celebration to hear his thoughts on the unprecedented victory. But instead, they heard something else entirely.

Collins surprised his audience by refusing to explain how the race was won or to speculate about what his victory might mean. He did not describe what was broken or how he would fix it. He also didn’t engage in the fingerpointing that’s become typical of so many political exchanges today. Instead, he ceded the stage to his daughter, Jaymie, and his mother, Jamesetta.

Jaymie, an active member of the U.S. Navy, looked down at Collins from the risers. “You’re gonna get tired,” she said, adding that resilience will be critical for the job ahead, and that in order to tolerate his critics, he better choose forbearance.

“Dad,” she said, in a slightly scolding manner, “that means you can’t respond to every troll,” an allusion to Collins’ Facebook page, a digital warehouse of racist messages from people he’s never met.

Collins’ mother, Jamesetta, spoke next and reminded him where he might find strength. She spoke with a melodic West African accent in the native English of Liberia. “When I heard about the election,” she said, looking at her son, “I

told him, ‘God has a purpose for you!

And now that he has given you the chance, you must utilize it to the best of your ability.’”

Taking his cue, Collins traded places with his mother, but his speech was brief: “My mom always says, ‘God gave you two ears to listen more and

“Helena’s new mayor understands the need for fierce policy debates at times.

But the advice of his family reminds us of another need — to voice experiences and values that unite us rather than political platforms that divide us.” talk less.’ So, I open my hands to you to say I am here to listen.” Collins then stepped out of the spotlight and joined his family.

Two days later, I met the mayor at a local coffee shop to talk more about his approach to his new job. Here’s what he said: On forbearance: When we first moved here, my home was vandalized,

‘KKK, go back to Africa,’ You know, you can find that anywhere in America, but the reaction this community had — my neighbors got together and washed the walls down! That’s what my daughter is talking about. Initially, it got to me but, you know, there is always 5 percent you cannot change.

On listening: When I went on the campaign trail, I told my constituents: ‘I will listen to you.’ It is rare [to listen] in politics today but that’s not me. These people who elected me. They are my neighbors. They are my community.

On gratitude: My mother knows the life we lived before the [First Liberian Civil] war. We lived an upper-middleclass life, and then all of that was taken in a matter of days. All of that we lost. I lost two brothers in the war. I was homeless. My wife was homeless. But today, people want to meet with me. It says a lot about the community. It says a lot about the second chance we were begging for, and I always say I will do nothing to damage that second chance.

After our conversation concluded, I sat there and thought about this unusual elected official. I replayed the advice of his mother and daughter. I revisited the opinions they had shared and considered how they shared those opinions. No doubt, Helena’s new mayor understands the need for fierce policy debates at times. But the advice of his family reminds us of another need — to voice experiences and values that unite us rather than political platforms that divide us.

It is worth wondering how the toxic tenor of national political debates might change if more of us practiced forbearance and gratitude. What would happen if, in the words of Montana’s first African-American mayor in more than a century, we opened our arms to one another and said, “I am here to listen”?

Gabriel Furshong is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes from Helena, Montana.

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WAIT, WHAT? – Ikea has taken advertising in a whole new direction with its recent print ad for a crib. The ad, which appears in the Swedish magazine Amelia, invites women who think they might be pregnant to urinate on the paper to reveal a discounted price. “Peeing on this ad may change your life,” the ad reads at the top of the page. “If you are expecting, you will get a surprise right here in the ad.” Adweek reported that the agency behind the gimmick adapted pregnancy test technology to work on a magazine page.

RECURRING THEMES – In more extreme weather news from Australia, the Daily Telegraph reported on Jan. 8 that record high temperatures near Campbelltown had killed more than 200 bats, found on the ground or still hanging in trees. Cate Ryan, a volunteer with WIRES, an Australian wildlife rescue organization, came across the flying foxes and put the word out for volunteers to bring water to rehydrate the bats that were still alive. “I have never seen anything like it before,” Ryan said. “Ninety percent of the (dead) flying foxes were babies or juveniles.”

BRIGHT IDEA – Chris McCabe, 70, of Totnes, England, escaped a frigid death thanks to his own quick thinking on Dec. 15. McCabe owns a butcher shop, and he had entered the walkin freezer behind the shop when the door slammed behind him. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be a problem, as a release button inside the freezer can open the door. But the button was frozen solid. So McCabe looked around the freezer and saw the shop’s last “black pudding,” or blood sausage, which he used as a battering ram to unstick the button. “They are a big long stick that you can just about get your hand around,” McCabe told the Mirror. “I used it like the police use battering rams to break door locks in. Black pudding saved my life, without a doubt.”

He believes he would have died within a half-hour in the -4-degree freezer.

IRONIES – In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a church’s new electronic bells are creating a living hell for neighbor Bernadette Hall-Cuaron, who has lived next to Our Lady of Guadalupe for years. “The bells ring multiple times a day during the week, and play ‘Amazing Grace’ during the week, and then they run multiple times again during the weekend,” she told KOB-TV in January. “Because of the volume and frequency of the bells, this is not calling people to the church.” Hall-Cuaron called the church to complain, but said since her request, “they have added ‘Amazing Grace’ every day ... a full verse.” The pastor responded that he has lowered the volume but will not turn off the bells completely, as some in the neighborhood love them.

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– One of Quebec City’s iconic tourist attractions is its ice hotel, the 45-room Hotel de Glace.

But on Jan. 9, the hotel’s most dreaded disaster, a fire, broke out in one of the guest rooms, the CBC reported. Manager Jacques Desbois admitted that “when I received the phone call, they had to repeat twice that there was a fire in the ice hotel.” Predictably, the flames did not spread and caused little damage to the structure, although smoke spread throughout the hotel and residents were evacuated. “In a room made out of ice and snow there are few clues to look at,” Desbois said, although each room has candles, and the hotel is considering the possibility that one of them caused the fire.

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FAMILY VALUES – Alyce H. Davenport, 30, and Diron Conyers, 27, of Southbridge, Massachusetts, couldn’t make it to the funeral of Audra Johnson, Davenport’s mother, on Jan. 5 because they were busy stealing a safe from Johnson’s home. Southbridge police started searching for the pair after Johnson’s boyfriend discovered the safe was missing, reported the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. When police stopped Davenport the next day, they found the safe in the trunk of the car she was driving (also registered to Johnson) and seized it. Davenport and Conyers were arrested at a Sturbridge motel, where officers found jewelry, keys, cellphones and other documents, and the two were charged with seven counts related to the theft. “Alyce has a history of larceny, identity theft and forgery,” the police report said.

ARMED AND FRUSTRATED – Linda Jean Fahn, 69, of Goodyear, Arizona, finally succumbed to a frustration many wives suffer. On Dec. 30, as her husband sat on the toilet, she barged in and “shot two bullets at the wall above his head to make him listen to me,” she told Goodyear police when they were called to the scene. Fahn said her husband “would have had to be 10 feet tall to be hit by the bullets,” ABC15 in Phoenix reported, but officers estimated the bullets struck about 7 inches over the man’s head as he ducked. She was charged with aggravated assault.

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lacier Hope Homes was supposed to help Terrance Taylor get his life back together. The 30acre rural property in a scenic stretch between Whitefish and Kalispell was a place for homeless veterans to stay and heal, according to its founder, Jason Stevens, its livestock, barn, farmhouse and residential duplexes gave it the appearance of a bucolic retreat.

Taylor wasn’t a country guy. He is an African American from Los Angeles who had served in the Marines, and then the Army, in the 1980s. He had a welcoming smile and an easy way of communicating, drove a red Porsche and had worked in sales for Charter Communications. He’d moved to Whitefish in 2014 after coming there on a job for Charter, and rented half a house there while traveling around the country working for them. After one extended absence in 2015, Taylor returned to find that his roommate had rented his part of the house out from under him. In need of a place to stay, Taylor says he was referred by Veterans Affairs to a new shelter called Glacier Hope Homes. He got to know Stevens a little, talking at dinner, and the two were impressed with each other: Taylor with Stevens’ vision for a homeless veterans’ shelter, and Stevens with Taylor’s marketing and sales experience. He offered Taylor a job doing both for the shelter on the spot, but Taylor left after a short while and moved out of the Flathead entirely. He kept in touch with Stevens on Facebook.

The next year, after Taylor left a private security gig in Colorado that ended

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when he was assaulted by one of his clients, Stevens again offered him the job, and this time he accepted. So Taylor drove his prized Porsche up to Montana last January. He didn’t realize then that months later, he would be sneaking out of the Glacier Hope farmhouse to talk to Flathead County sheriff ’s deputies, asking them to keep him safe, or desperately trying to cobble together a few hundred dollars to fix his car so he could leave.

Out of money, unpaid for months of work he’d already done and worried about his boss’ temper, Taylor made his way to the United Way in Kalispell, where he got help to fix his car so he could get out of town. Taylor says it was a relief to get away from Glacier Hope Homes, which, far from a respite, had turned out to be a place of isolation for many of its residents who didn’t have the resources to leave. Some, like Taylor, would leave the shelter worse than when they arrived.

They tell stories of a house so unkempt there were rodent feces in the silverware drawers, of a kitchen kept locked to veterans and of being forced to work, even while disabled, in order to keep a roof over their heads.

Taylor is now living out of his car in Missoula, staying at motels or with an exgirlfriend, and trying to blow the whistle on Stevens. “He exploited a weakness in my life,” he says.

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ason Stevens had once been homeless himself. When he first came to the Flathead Valley from Omak, a town in Eastern

Washington, in 2014, he was struggling financially, with a series of failed business ventures and the end of a long-term relationship behind him. Stevens stayed at Samaritan House, a homeless shelter in Kalispell, and got a job at a grocery store.

He later told reporters that while he hadn’t served in the military himself, the stay at Samaritan House introduced him to how many veterans needed help, and so he decided to create a shelter of his own for their benefit.

In photos on the Glacier Hope Homes website, Stevens has an unassuming, clean-cut appearance. He has a fatherly gray mustache and eyes that could be described as twinkling. By multiple accounts, he can talk circles around almost anyone and persuade most listeners to his cause. That was a valuable talent to bring to the task of starting Glacier Hope Homes. He didn’t even have a computer.

He used the public library to research how to start a nonprofit business and a homeless shelter.

Stevens told the Daily Interlake in May 2015 that he had a funding plan in place: “We have private investors, a block grant from (the U.S. Department of Housing and Development) and about a third comes from what we call ‘earned income.’” The story explains that earned income “includes Medicaid, Medicare and Veterans Administration benefits.”

He’d secured a beautiful location for his shelter, the former Haymoon Ranch Resort, five miles south of Whitefish. It had multiple cabins and a large main lodge, and Stevens told the Flathead Beacon

that “the word that always comes up when people visit here is ‘serene.’ That’s what we’re going for — serenity.”

He registered Glacier Hope Homes as a domestic nonprofit corporation with the Secretary of State’s office in early August of 2015 and opened the shelter doors that month. Sen. Steve Daines visited for the ribbon-cutting and spoke to the first group of veterans to stay there. A photograph Daines posted to Twitter shows him standing on a portable stage in front of rustic buildings, talking to a number of men in veterans’ regalia sitting on folding chairs arranged on the grass.

Local news outlets published humaninterest stories about the man who’d gone from staying in a homeless shelter to running one. Stevens told the Beacon, the Interlake and the local NBC affiliate that his would be a 24/7 facility where veterans would have access to specialized care for PTSD, counseling, job training, benefits assistance and a host of services above and beyond those traditionally available at homeless shelters.

What he told the Interlake about a block grant may have been based on applications that were never submitted.

The state Department of Commerce, which administers HUD block grants in Montana, says it never received any applications nor awarded any funding to Glacier Hope Homes. Without federal funds, Glacier Hope Homes would have to rely on private donations. Stevens assured the people he began hiring to staff the shelter that those donations would be forthcoming.

One of those staffers was Tim Merklinger, a member of the Flathead Marines, a veterans group based in Kalispell. A mutual friend introduced Stevens to Merklinger, and after a meeting where Stevens presented his plans for Glacier Hope Homes, he asked Merklinger to come on board as operations manager in fall 2015. Merklinger says Stevens told him he’d already closed a deal to buy the Haymoon Resort property.

“Then I found out he hadn’t closed on it. And then it got to the end where, after a month, come time for me to get paid, he was nowhere to be found.” says Merklinger. “So shortly after that, I filed

the fall of 2015, and was unaware that his name still appeared on company records.

“I got involved to help the program get set up, and when some of the funding didn’t come through, the direction was to develop a different kind of center, and it didn’t make sense for me to be involved any longer,” Grachek says.

Karen Porteous, who was hired in 2017 to run the shelter’s mental health operations, says that two weeks after she started, she was told by Stevens that he wouldn’t have money to pay her. “I was promised $3,000 a month, but I guess I knew going into it that it all depends on funding. But I certainly felt strung along for that couple of weeks,” Porteous says.

solutely cordial to the woman, philanthropist and heiress Dr. Mary Stranahan, a retired osteopathic general practitioner who had founded a social impact investment firm called Goodworks Ventures.

Stranahan’s office confirms that she was approached by Stevens, and did tour the Glacier Hope Homes grounds in fall 2015, but that Goodworks didn’t offer the shelter funding.

Shortly after that, Stevens had to move the shelter off of the former Haymoon site after just a few months in business. By the late fall, Stevens had moved himself and the veterans to a rental property in Foys Lake, southwest of Kalispell. That house was in a residen-

come rent for $700 a month, including utilities. He says that’s the income he uses to pay his landlord $5,000 a month.

The main farmhouse has the capacity to house 10 residents, who are asked to contribute $80 a month for food and $250 a month for rent after a trial period.

The spacious property included horse pastures that caught Nicolle Chapman’s eye when she was visiting Whitefish from California in 2016. She’d been training horses since she was a young girl, and was caring for several rescue horses. She stopped by the Glacier Hope Homes property to check out those pastures and met Stevens. In what had become a pattern, he extended a job offer

tial area, and after one of the residents damaged a neighbor’s fence while driving his jacked-up Chevy around, they were asked to leave.

to a person he’d just met, asking Chapman to come work for Glacier Hope Homes as an equine therapist.

She quit her job as a home healthcare aide in California and trailered her horses to the property.

Chapman says her therapy program helped the veterans in the time she was there, from last February to the end of April 2017. “Somehow, the horses just induce them to talk, they feel very comfortable, ” she says. But weeks, then months, passed without a paycheck. “His excuse was that the deal didn’t go through, or they’re still working on it, or they’re getting their funding so I should start getting paid, but that just never happened.”

Stevens disputes this, and says Chapman

The entrance to Glacier Hope Homes near Columbia Falls.

against him and the nonprofit and the members of the board in small claims court to get paid.” Regarding Merklinger’s missing salary, Stevens now says Merklinger was a volunteer, not paid staff.

Merklinger says a board member made sure he got paid by Stevens after the claim was filed.

That board member was Mike Grachek, the owner of an insurance agency in Kalispell, who helped Stevens file his incorporation forms. Grachek was a founding director for Glacier Hope Homes, Inc., and is listed as president on the company’s 2017 annual report.

Today, Grachek says he is no longer involved with Glacier Hope Homes, having terminated his involvement shortly after

Stevens says that Porteous, as well, was a volunteer.

Stevens courted private donors with mixed success, Merklinger says. “He had a lady show up one day, he told me she was going to ‘save the day,’ she was going to write a check and purchase the grounds for Glacier Hope Homes. And I met her in the parking lot because Jason was busy and I spent five, maybe 10 minutes talking to her,” Merklinger says.

“Well, later, she decided she was not going to write the check, and Jason Stevens told everybody that it was my fault, that I was out there talking to her like I was a drill instructor.”

Merklinger, who says he is in fact a former drill instructor, insists he was ab-

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n 2016, Glacier Hope Homes moved to its third, and current, location, a 30-acre property in Happy Valley. While not a resort like the Haymoon, it had room to build additional housing. Former staff from the current location say that Stevens moved his mother into one of the residences on site, and the adult son of his ex-wife came to live there as well. The property owner financed the construction of five one-bedroom duplexes that Stevens says veterans with in-

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brought her horses to Glacier Hope Homes of her own accord and was never hired.

Chapman, who now lives in Bigfork and works at a hotel, says she occasionally returns to visit with the veterans at Glacier Hope Homes. She says some of them need more patience than Stevens can provide. “After being there and listening to the guys, listening to how Jason would talk to the guys, it’s just — they don’t need [that].” Chapman says.

“If something went wrong, he would start yelling and cussing at them. And it’s like, ‘Whoa dude, back off.’ These guys are here for help. They’re not here for any of that.”

Merklinger says Stevens’ manner with the veterans concerned him as well.

“Any veteran that would question Jason Stevens, he gave them their walking papers quickly. He would kick them out,” Merklinger says. “And I told him, ‘These are veterans, the guys are going to ask questions,’ but he didn’t want to listen to me. I knew I wasn’t going to be sticking around because [of] Jason. The vision of Glacier Hope Homes was a good idea. He was just the wrong person to be in charge and get it going.”

tions are ridiculous. There’s a huge pool of raw sewage in the front yard. The house is infested with rats and mice,” Johansen says. “A couple times the power company would show up to turn the power off, so [Stevens would] run around to all the people there to take up money for the bill, and never once was anyone paid back.”

In November, Johansen was angered that Stevens was embellishing Glacier Hope Homes’ services in an attempt to qualify for Veterans Administration shelter grants, which require recipient facilities to provide case management and, for some grants, chemical dependency programs for residents. “He was saying he was providing those things and he wasn’t, such as the counseling.

the largest judgment — nearly $85,000 — coming against a countertop installation business he used to run.

Stevens started Jason’s Place in Omak, Washington, in 2011, an adultcare home he cites in his biography on the Glacier Hope Homes website.

Records provided by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services show that Jason’s Place was investigated at least twice, in late 2012 and early 2013, when the agency received complaints that Stevens was running an unlicensed adult family home. Stevens was fined $3,000 and told to get a license, as required by Washington state law, after the first investigation. An investigator on the second visit reported that Jason’s Place was still unlicensed. The owner of the

he was first starting Glacier Hope Homes, United Way of Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Glacier & Sanders Counties Executive Director Sherry Stevens (no relation) says he hasn’t formed relationships with the existing network of service providers, and hasn’t requested funding from her agency.

“I’ve never been to Glacier Hope Homes. I saw a presentation, and I met once years ago with Jason,” she says.

“They’ve pretty much stayed to their own. I don’t know that he really has any relationships with any of the services.”

Jeni Leary, who runs the VA’s Homeless Program for the area, says she’s aware of Glacier Hope Homes, but says the VA doesn’t contract with Stevens’ shelter for any services.

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quine therapy would have joined a long list of services advertised on the Glacier Hope Homes website: housing, job training, psychotherapy, education assistance, drug and alcohol counseling and legal aid. Stevens now says that these services are not provided on-site, and that veterans are taken to local mental health nonprofits for counseling services.

The Montana Department of Probation and Parole put the shelter on a list of post-release housing options it provides to newly released prisoners, which is how Allen Johansen learned about it. Johansen, who served in the Army from 2001 to 2015, left prison in the summer of 2017 after serving five months for a felony DUI. “The reason I went to Glacier Hope Homes was to get PTSD counseling that I was promised,” Johansen says. “When I got there, there was absolutely nothing.”

But he says Stevens told him he could earn some money if he stayed and worked. Johansen stayed for three months, but instead of getting paid, he says he ended up lending money to Stevens. Dave Castro, the Department of Probation and Parole’s deputy chief in charge of Region V, says Glacier Hope Homes remains on its list of post-release housing options, and that the department doesn’t make recommendations.

Johansen paints a picture of a barely functional residence. “The living condi-

Glacier Hope Homes is situated on a 30-acre property owned by local businessman Dan Scheffer.

… And I said, ‘I don’t want you getting [money] from the VA for me when you’re not providing me with services.’”

Johansen says that Stevens gave him three days to leave the facility, so he asked to be repaid the money he’d lent, and Stevens wrote him a check that Johansen says bounced. Johansen says he’s filed a complaint with the Flathead County Attorney, and the Flathead County Sheriff ’s Office confirmed that it has issued a warrant for Stevens’ arrest on a felony bad check charge.

Stevens says that Johansen gets a substantial monthly income from military retirement and disability benefits, and that the money Johansen calls a loan was actually his back rent on one of the duplexes.

Bad debts and unpaid taxes show up in a review of Stevens’ entrepreneurial career. Several different building-supply businesses owned by Stevens were taken to court between 1995 and 2010, with

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house out of which Jason’s Place operated said he had no knowledge of the business, but he, too, said he was owed several thousand dollars by Stevens.

Stevens’ website biography also claims degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Nebraska, including a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, though neither institution was able to find records matching Stevens’ claims. Stevens later told the Independent that he never completed his bachelors, and obtained an associate’s degree from the University of Illinois.

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lacier Hope Homes has remained isolated from the Flathead community of nonprofit service providers and veterans’ groups, according to executive directors of Kalispell nonprofits and workers with homeless services. Aside from Stevens introducing himself when

Glacier Hope Homes’ most recent publicly available 990, for 2016, states that the organization had expenses of $181,387 that year. The document lists no paid staff and indicates that Stevens did not draw a salary from the nonprofit.

Chris Krager, executive director of Kalispell’s Samaritan House, remembers meeting Stevens when he stayed there years ago, but says Stevens never asked him for help launching Glacier Hope Homes. Krager says that for a 24/7 shelter facility to have no paid staff is unusual, and that an annual budget that size wouldn’t cover even the basics. “Even if you’re just serving eight to 10 people, there’s still personnel, maintenance,” Krager says.

“There’s all kinds of times we’ve invited [Stevens] to veterans’ services providers meetings, and he hasn’t participated,” Krager says. “There are some things I’d like to know about it. I wonder

about outcomes, I wonder about the number of people served. Why is there no community collaborative effort?”

Glacier Hope Homes had one consistent and generous benefactor, a Fort Benton business owner named George Ackerson whose company, Safer Medical, manufactures natural supplements that it sells through Amazon. Ackerson formed his own nonprofit, Veterans Seal Team, in October 2015 and says he supported Glacier Hope Homes with donations amounting to nearly $300,000 in 2015 and 2016. In early 2017, business troubles kept Ackerson from continuing to donate to Glacier Hope Homes.

Merklinger says that an apparent quid pro quo arrangement in which Ackerson would get endorsements from Glacier Hope Homes about the efficacy of a new supplement to treat PTSD bothered Stevens. “Jason, he was very upset about that, he was pacing and throwing up his hands in the air.”

Stevens disputes this claim and says that Ackerson only provided supplements to the veterans and asked for feedback on their efficacy. Ackerson says testimonial videos were made at Glacier Hope Homes, and Stevens’ notes from a 2015 staff meeting say that Glacier Hope Homes and Safer Medical would partner to market a new supplement to veterans.

Ackerson says he gave Terrance Taylor personal financial assistance, but doesn’t wish to speak to him anymore. “I told him I was leaving the country,” he says. Ackerson considers his donations to Glacier Hope Homes worthwhile and helpful for veterans who are able to do their part. But, “what we’ve found are the vast majority of these vets [in the Flathead] are non-combat. They want to take, take, take, don’t want to give anything back,” Ackerson says. “I’ve been in combat. It changes the perception you have in life, but when you’ve got these guys that never had a bullet go by, what are they pissing and moaning about?”

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hen Taylor was trying to leave Glacier Hope Homes, he came across warnings about Stevens’ inability or unwillingness to pay his debts in the comments on a 2015 post on the now-defunct Montana politics blog 4&20 Blackbirds, and took it upon himself to start connecting people who had worked for Stevens or stayed at Glacier Hope Homes and received poor treatment.

Taylor spent the longest time of anyone he’s met working without pay — several months — after Stevens hired him as marketing director. “He and I were under the understanding [that] I’m not in [the] homeless veterans program,” Taylor says.

“I work here and I expect to make a wage, based on my performance, and a guaranteed wage.” Taylor pursued grants and donations for Glacier Hope Homes and worked on the shelter’s social media and crowdfunding presence. After Taylor’s car broke down, Stevens started making him do farm labor on the property. “Jason forced me to work [against] doctor’s orders because of my torn Achilles,” Taylor says. “He forced me to do heavy labor or I wouldn’t have a place to live.” The United Way’s Sherry Stevens remembers helping Taylor, and also remembers his distress: “He seemed fearful. I said, ‘If you feel like you need to leave, you should.’”

Taylor says he had become afraid in part because Stevens and his stepson and friends would make jokes or threats — he wasn’t sure which — about hanging Taylor, who is black, from a tree.

Taylor filed a wage complaint with the state Department of Labor and Industry, but failed to follow up on it. Stevens says he never hired Taylor, and that the state determined Taylor had not been an employee. Documents supplied by the DLI do not indicate a determination of employee status, but do confirm that Taylor’s complaint was dismissed. By September Taylor was in Missoula, staying at the Poverello Center, where he met other veterans who’d had bad experiences at Glacier Hope Homes. Taylor also reached out to a man named Preston Crowl, who he’d heard had lost a significant asset in his attempts to help Stevens.

Crowl runs a landscaping business in Hawaii, but took regular trips to Montana to stay at a home he owned just down the road from Glacier Hope Homes. He hadn’t noticed the shelter while visiting in the fall of 2015, but saw a front-page feature story about Stevens and his shelter in the Flathead Beacon when he picked up the weekly paper before a flight to Salt Lake City.

Crowl decided to call Stevens to see if he could help. The land his log-cabinstyle home was on, where he took his children for Christmas vacations, was adjacent to the Glacier Hope Homes property. Crowl says Stevens described a desperate situation: He’d failed to secure a large loan from a private donor, and if he didn’t find a solution soon, Glacier Hope Homes and the veterans staying there would be homeless by the end of December.

“At Christmastime of 2015, they have to move out of the place that they were renting, they were getting kicked out,” Crowl remembers. “So push came to shove, these guys needed a home, it’s the middle of winter,” Crowl says. Crowl flew back to Montana for the holidays and decided he could save the day by offering

his own home as collateral for a down payment on a new 30-acre property that could not only house Glacier Hope Homes, but also generate lease income for the nonprofit. “With a little bit of knowledge of some people up there and a little bit of real estate savvy, I whipped together a private money lender and find a 30-acre ranch,” Crowl recalls. “I put the real estate deal together, I go to a buddy of mine, who gives me a hundred grand in a brown paper sack.” Crowl says he horsed around with the bag of money, putting it on the back of his 4Runner while his children took “gangster pho-

a deal on the new location for Glacier Hope Homes.

But he neglected to get one thing done before handing over the deed to his property. “This deal happened so fast, these guys were going to be homeless, and Jason always promised me that we were going to get paper together in writing when this went down,” Crowl says.

He asked his lawyer to draw up a repayment agreement and a lease. “Jason dogged me and never signed the papers.

And trust me, I’ve learned a life lesson, and so have my children. Don’t do any deal until all the papers are signed.”

that problems arose when Crowl sought to get the lender to make a larger down payment. “The time came for the money to be paid back, and obviously I didn’t have it and Preston didn’t have it. I don’t blame him,” Stevens says. “I would be upset, too, but I would be a little more cautious in what I had done.”

The lender was local business owner and developer Dan Scheffer, owner of the Midway Mini Mart in Whitefish. Scheffer formed an LLC called Vet Ranch to function as the owner of the property, and made his own deal with Stevens to allow Glacier Hope Homes to continue operating there.

Contacted by phone in January, Scheffer said he was not closely associated with Glacier Hope Homes. “I’m not behind them. I rent to Glacier Hope Homes,” Scheffer said. Asked if Stevens had continued to struggle to pay rent for the property, Scheffer said, “A big chunk just got caught up. I’ll just say this: We were struggling, but now we’re doing very well.”

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Jason Stevens at Glacier Hope Homes’ second location, Christmas 2015.

tos” before taking the cash to the bank to be put in escrow. Stevens’ end of the deal was to come up with $100,000 to pay back the cash lender within a few months, or else the lender, armed with a quitclaim deed, would take Crowl’s home. Stevens convinced Crowl that it wouldn’t take him long to raise the money, that he had arranged meetings with Montana senators and donors.

Within a week, Crowl furnished the quitclaim deed to the cash lender and closed

Crowl provided the Independent with correspondence between himself and his attorney, Leo Tracy, about the proposed paperwork. Stevens did not come up with the money to pay back the loan of the down payment, nor was he able to keep up with the payments on Glacier Hope Homes’ new ranch, Crowl says. So the lender took possession of both by the end of summer 2016.

Stevens says that the deal was entirely between Crowl and the lender, and

common refrain from those who claim they were burned by Stevens is that they wanted to help veterans, and didn’t pursue money they say they were owed out of fear that any consequences for Stevens would be felt most keenly by the veterans at Glacier Hope Homes.

“I guess I just feel that was my gift to my veterans, and I don’t harbor resentment for it,” says Porteous, the former mental health staffer.

“I believed in his song and dance for the veterans. My heart was in the veterans,” Crowl says.

A contract worker who says they’re owed money for producing a benefit for Glacier Hope Homes and wishes to remain anonymous says they refrained from reporting theft of services for fear that the veterans would suffer if Stevens ran into legal trouble. The Independent spoke separately with seven individuals who say they’re owed money for work they performed for Stevens and Glacier Hope Homes. Of those, the three who filed for relief in court or with an agency are veterans: Merklinger, Taylor and Johansen. Only Merklinger says he collected what he was owed. All were angered that a man who had never served was using their service as a means to house his own family members while not providing the counseling and help he claimed to offer veterans.

Stevens says that none of the people who say they are owed money were ever hired by him, and that all are either disgruntled former residents or volunteers who decided after the fact that they should have been be paid. “There’s been

so much of this, people coming in and [saying] ‘I love this program, I want to help with this program. What can I do?’ and then all of a sudden it’s like ‘Well, now you owe me,’” Stevens says. “And we keep running into that up here, and I’m not sure what it is.”

Stevens says it’s inevitable some residents won’t be happy with their experience at Glacier Hope Homes. “There’s a reason why any one of these guys are here. If they were capable of getting out of prison or if they were capable of getting out of the situations they were in, they wouldn’t need our services. Every day we’re dealing with mental health, we’re dealing with guys who have drug and alcohol issues,” Stevens says. “I understood from the get-go that there were going to be some that no matter what I did, that was not going to satisfy them.”

Stevens says he now has volunteers sign an acknowledgment of their volunteer status in order to prevent further misunderstandings.

Taylor says that Stevens tried to discredit anyone who attempted to warn others about Glacier Hope Homes.

“When you leave, he tells everybody that you’re crazy.” People who spoke to the Independent say Stevens told them Taylor has PTSD, which Taylor says he’s never been diagnosed with, and doesn’t think he has, since none of his military service was in combat.

After working for months unpaid at Glacier Hope Homes, then leaving suddenly and under duress, Taylor found himself living out of his Porsche on the streets of Missoula after getting into a fight with another Poverello resident. He says the agencies he was working with to find housing have blacklisted him because of what Stevens has told them. So he continues to try to prevent other people from getting involved.

Crowl says he misses his Montana home but has soured on the Flathead after his experience with Stevens. “I don’t see really how I’m going to get anything back, because my deal in borrowing the money was all legit, it was all recorded, with a quitclaim deed,” Crowl says. “I don’t know what he’s got up his sleeve, but he’s not a straight shooter, Jason.”

Stevens says he has been spending a lot of time traveling to Texas in order to set up another shelter, to be called Veterans Hope Home, in the Houston area.

“We were just awarded our contract, so I will be headed back down there in a week,” Stevens says. “It’s a Homeless Veteran Grant. It’s a grant for homelessness.” The VA hasn’t yet responded to a request to confirm the award. sshepard@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Back to basics The Clay Studio’s juried show focuses on the art of the cup

by Erika Fredrickson

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n her 2015 story about a ceramics studio in Portland, writer Katherine Cole makes a great case for cups.

Conventional wisdom from serious wine drinkers states that the stemmed, cutglass vessels are best, she says. “And yet, in rural old-world grape-producing regions, where wine is essential to timeless social rituals, no value is placed in one’s ability to parse the subtleties of a wine’s aroma, acid-tannin balance or finish.

High scores and luxury price tags, too, are immaterial. Here’s what does matter: pouring with the proper hand, always

The coffee mugs are often equally intriguing: pear-shaped or glittered from kiln-ash or garishly decorated.

The cup is rudimentary and beloved, which is why the Clay Studio of Missoula hosts a juried exhibit of cups called the International Cup every other year. The cup show takes artists back to a standard form and allows them to reimagine it, and it pulls in work from across the globe. (This year features work from the U.S., Denmark and Canada.)

“There are so many approaches just in this show,” says Shalene Valenzuela,

“It looks like a folded over slab,” Valenzuela says, “like the idea of a vessel.

It is a deconstructed cup.”

Valenzuela is known for her slip-cast pieces that play with 1950s and ’60s imagery in a way that critiques domestic stereotypes. She half-jokingly calls her work “dysfunctional,” but even she sometimes goes back to the basic cup.

“Even when you don’t start out making functional things, you end up making functional things at particular times,” she says. “You sort of get led into it. And then you do end up with cups — it’s the

“Finally, I ask myself if the piece has something — or the seed of something — distinctive; something I haven’t seen before,” she says.

And that is a tough question, Tirrell says, because it’s so subjective.

“It is a little uncomfortable,” she says. “I’m not a teacher and I don’t like to be super judgmental about people’s work. I know how hard working with clay is and getting to a point where you feel you are expressing yourself in a way that works. My immediate thought is to welcome everybody into the show — but

drawing and painting and narrative work with something functional or three-dimensional — and I really like the tactile quality of it. And it’s where I began forming my own opinions about what makes an appealing cup.”

Tirrell says the magic of taking an “ugly, dirty ball of clay” and turning it into something you use is appealing to people across cultures and ages.

“To use something you made for coffee or tea or give it to somebody else to use, is a really powerful experience,” she says. “Part of that is mysterious.”

The International Cup 2018 features conventional and abstract cups including, from left, pieces by Will McComb, Robert W. LaWarre III and Lin Xu.

making sure your neighbor’s cup is full or never placing an empty cup on the table. Notice that the word here is ‘cup.’”

Go to any dinner party hosted by a ceramicist or ceramics collector and you’ll experience the culture of the cup. Ceramic artists make cups to give away to friends and often collect cups from their favorite artists. The making and exchange of cups creates something like a breeding ground.

The insides of their cupboards are full of clay vessels, often of many shapes and sizes—speckled, painted, wood-fired, sodafired. Some are like sculptural works of art that are still functional, others are simple vessels with exquisite flaws such as a lopsided rim or an asymmetrical indentation.

the Clay Studio of Missoula’s executive director. “There’s the traditional standard coffee mug and tumbler and sake cup, but also some people work in more of a sculptural vein in approaching the vessel. So it might be something that people wouldn’t initially think of as a cup at first glance, but when they approach it, they find that it is.”

Robert LaWarre III’s “Often the Perfect Target,” for instance, features what looks like a stoneware clown. Look closer, and you’ll see the hat comes off and the clown’s head becomes a vessel to drink from. Canadian artist Lin Xu has created an untitled sculpture that you couldn’t drink from, but still riffs on the idea of cup.

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largest thing around our house — and you just end up accommodating them.”

This year, Pray, Montana-based potter Sue Tirrell served as juror, selecting 40 cups out of 135 entries. She calls ceramic cups the “gateway object” for ceramic collectors.

And for students working in clay, she says, the cup is often the first form attempted by hand or by wheel. To judge the cups, Tirrell asked several questions, including: Is the piece presented as functional? If so, is it well-crafted? Is the surface inviting to the lips and hands? If the cup is decorated or embellished, does it enhance or undermine the form? If the piece does not have function at its core, is it saying something interesting about the idea of a cup?

that’s not what it’s about. A juried show is juried for a reason. And so I think about it as a way of being instructive, peer to peer, which is something we can all do for each other in this community of artists.”

Tirrell makes ceramic sculptures, but also functional items such as plates, bowls and cups. She started out wanting to go into illustration or graphic design, but she took a clay class and became a convert.

“A cupboard full of handmade cups belonging to my first ceramics professor was a catalyst for me becoming a potter and collector,” she says. “Taking this clay class I could see how you could combine

And she says the cup is often one of the best forms to see an artist for who they are.

“Cups are interesting as social objects,” she says. “But they’re also very expressive of the maker. I put a little of everything I do into cups. It’s like a business card or a calling card. And that’s where it gets hard for me. When I was asked to jury this show, I felt like when I looked at a group of 150 cups, I saw 150 different people. They’re that individual.”

The Clay Studio of Missoula hosts a reception for the International Cup 2018 juried show Fri., Feb. 2, from 5:30 to 9 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Real is waking Eulogy for the Fall after Mark E. Smith’s death

by Tim Midyett

The Fall formed in 1976 and released dozens of albums between then and last year. Frontman Mark E. Smith died Jan. 24, 2018.

Every phase of the Fall offers something indelible. There’s the scratchweed ambition of the early years, the lumbering double-drummer phase (my favorite, must I choose). There was Brix Smith’s time with the band, which provided occasional cheer (second favorite), and invigorated forays into near-trance and Italian house.

Always quite a sound. The 7-inch with “The Man Whose Head Expanded” — released in 1983 — was the first record I heard, two years after its release, at a friend’s Missoula apartment. Steve Hanley’s insistent and juxtapositional bass playing worked its way into my musical life. Never left. But it was Mark E. Smith’s onslaught of spat words that made the whole thing — from 1976 to 2018 — the Fall. At first whack, the lyrics were sometimes inscrutable, but, once unrolled, unerringly engaging and stuffed with meaning.

The Palace of Swords Reversed compilation was the first of my 23 Fall LPs, bought at Rockin Rudy’s on the occasion of its 1987 release. “How I Wrote Elastic Man” is a prescient lament of the underappreciated artist by a young Smith, who may have intuited he’d end up the same: “The only thing real is waking and rubbing your eyes.”

“L.A.,” from 1985’s This Nation’s Saving Grace (also purchased in 1987 at Rudy’s) was an ideal critique and ode: “Bushes are in disagreement with the heat … They have filled boulevards with white snow, scum-ball.”

There are literally a hundred other tracks we could work over this way.

I talked to Smith exactly one time, for a scheduled interview for Seattle’s now-defunct The Rocket, while I was on tour with my band Silkworm. I shifted around nervously, calling from someone else’s kitchen, phone on a short cord. It seemed best to come at the material (Middle Class Revolt, 1994) sideways. So, “Do you watch much television?” was Question No. 1. Well-received. All went swimmingly. I knew from Smith’s reputation that it didn’t always go this way.

Later in life, Smith spent a lot (all?) of his time onstage (and offstage?) impaired to some extent.

He replaced long-time allies as they sloughed off.

He managed to recruit fellow travelers who marshaled an attack, moving forward. There’s a lot one could say about him as an accused abuser and, at very least, a prick. Rightly or wrongly, it’s not his full legacy, any more than it is James Brown’s. His output won’t forgive all sins, but will elide a few.

And when it comes to “art,” if it’s monumental enough, it can be a force, apart from the world.

That was the Fall. You were either on the ride or not. Did you get any on you? If not, congratulations may be in order. Perhaps close contact was best avoided. But you might feel lucky, as I do, just to have run alongside it. Requiescat. arts@missoulanews.com

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[art]

Alternative take The uneasy twist of Anne Cruikshank’s photos

by Sarah Aswell

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“I like the juxtaposiDigital photogration of stock animal phopher Anne Cruikshank is tos and actual human passionate about hybeings who are gone now brids: taking a mundane — someone cared about image or idea and marrythese pictures and these ing it to a contrast. Even people a lot, but now if the contrast is a tiny they’ve been discarded,” one, it changes the entire Cruikshank says. “I used feel and meaning of the to pair them with endanpiece, tripping up an gered or extinct animals, emotional reaction in the because both are vanishviewer. Whether that reing or have vanished, but action is laughter or hornow I use other animals, ror, well, Cruikshank like goats, because they doesn’t mind either way. translate so perfectly to “I was at the MADE humans.”

Fair, and people would Besides her wild cabstart looking through my inet cards, Cruikshank prints and laugh and also gets playful with the laugh,” she says. “I don’t see why other people Photographer Anne Cruikshank creates half- idea of mass-produced think they’re hilarious — human, half-creature characters out of an- art in Mindscape/Landtique cabinet cards. scape, a new show she I find them a little creepy — but I like when they get any big reaction. shares with landscape painter Deborah Traer at E3 Whether it’s positive or negative, expected or un- Convergence Gallery. Baffled by the art you can buy at places like Lowes, Pier 1 and Target, she wanted expected, I just want to avoid a void.”

Cruikshank grew up in Great Falls and has a to recreate the feel of the pieces, but add a contrast background in media arts that dates back to her that evokes a feeling. One piece looks like it could time as an undergraduate at the University of Mon- be for sale at Home Depot as far as style and prestana. While she used to spend much of her cre- entation, except that it features an octopus tentacle ative time taking pictures, she started straying wearing a bowtie. Another depicts a sparse bouquet from traditional photography simply because her of flowers, wilting and tied with string.

“I started looking at these pictures that are deinterests in that area — castles and gothic architecture — aren’t readily available here in Missoula. void of meaning — like the ones you can find at What is available, though, is Photoshop, and Target or a dentist’s office — of innocuous flowers Cruikshank found she loved playing with images or a single feather or an oar and a canoe,” she says.

“I thought, what would make this interesting? What using the software.

“The process of [digital photography] is metic- would make it offensive or upsetting? What small ulous and time-consuming,” she says, “but I find it change would suddenly stop someone from hangvery relaxing. They are my version of adult coloring ing it in their living room?”

As with her hybrid animal-humans, she doesn’t books.”

Her biggest current interest is altering Victo- know what people might feel when they see her rian cabinet cards by replacing the image’s human strange mix of mass-produced art and H.P Loveheads with animal heads. Cruikshank gets the craft-inspired twists.

“The most important thing about art is that worn portraits from second-hand stores and eBay, though more recently, friends and loved there’s an emotional reaction and interpretation,” ones have been sending them to her to alter. she says. “Art isn’t necessarily something you can Then she matches human with animal — either process with your head, you have to process it by getting inspiration from the person on the cab- emotionally. I want to give you an emotional reinet card or by finding a specific cabinet card that sponse.”

Mindscape/Landscape opens at E3 Conlooks like an animal she’s interested in working on. Then the tedious work begins: finding an vergence First Friday, Feb. 2, with a reception image that matches in tilt and light source, and from 5 to 9 PM. then tinkering with the scale, density, contrast and grain to get it just right. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Creep in waiting A coming-of-age look at Jeffrey Dahmer

by Molly Laich

Ross Lynch stars as the young Jeffrey Dahmer in My Friend Dahmer.

If you’re looking for the kind of violent, provocative and cathartic experience promised by typical serial killer thrillers, you’ve come to the wrong place. My Friend Dahmer doesn’t contain a single on-screen murder, kidnapping or instance of cannibalism. It’s closer in structure and content to a coming-of-age high school drama (Think The Breakfast Club, Better off Dead) than to anything David Fincher ever made (Seven, Zodiac).

The picture comes to us from a graphic novel of the same name, written and illustrated by a former classmate of Jeffrey Dahmer’s named John Backderf (or “Derf ”), played here by Alex Wolff.

Marc Meyers directs the picture from his adapted script of the source material. There’s no distracting bookends or knowing voiceover from the Backderf of today, who will one day grow up to write the story he’s starring in. Overall, I admire the filmmaker’s straight and painful delivery. I should warn you that the picture drones a bit, but that’s just the tradeoff for a story that favors showing over telling.

To be clear, I find our collective fascination with killers problematic at best. What possible good does it do to study, ruminate on and glorify this shit? Yet, when it comes to ogling killers, I’m among the worst of us. I’ve always been curious about Dahmer, whose pathology is so unlike many other serial killers. He was homosexual, alcoholic and overly emotional. Racked by guilt after his killings (at least at first), Dahmer insisted he never wanted to hurt his victims, even as he was drilling holes into their heads. He seemed motivated more by necrophilia than a simple desire to make people dead. After Dahmer was caught and confessed, he gave candid and contrite interviews about the killings and the depth of his own psychosis. His story ends anticlimactically in 1994 when he was beaten to death by fellow inmates in a Wisconsin penitentiary.

This is what drew me to Backderf ’s inside account of Dahmer, whom we see as an awkward,

pitiful teen, who tried desperately to fit in during the school day, then spent his evenings dissecting roadkill in the woods. Ross Lynch stars as young Dahmer, a guy we meet during his junior and senior year at an unassuming high school in Ohio in 1977 and 1978. (Parts of the film were shot at Dahmer’s real childhood home, nestled on two acres of woods.) He lives with his mother (Anne Heche), who was by all accounts an anxiety-ridden pillpopper, and his well-meaning chemist father (Dallas Roberts). His parents fight a lot and eventually divorce, which is chaotic, sure, but hardly enough to create a killer on its own, right? At school, Derf and a couple of his buddies notice Dahmer’s bizarre behavior, befriend Dahmer and initiate a “Dahmer fan club,” characterized by equal parts mockery and sincere affection. Derf and his friends are neither popular, nor losers. They are among the most convincing teenagers I’ve seen on film, and their complexity and depth mark the picture’s biggest strength.

There’s been more than a few films about Dahmer by now. (I recommend two others with total enthusiasm: 2002’s Dahmer starring Jeremy Renner, which feels more like a stage play than anything, and the 2012 documentary, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files). My Friend Dahmer occupies a strange, uncomfortable space in that canon. I think we come to serial killer pictures for the bloodletting. Here, we get something far worse: an unlovable teen, doubtlessly troubled from the start, teetering perilously between a life filled with the century’s most despicable violent acts and mere unhappiness. Every high-schooler feels like a creep sometimes. But Dahmer showed us, right? He became the sickest, weirdest person on earth.

My Friend Dahmer plays the Roxy Thu., Feb. 8, at 7 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK WINCHESTER She built a labyrinthine mansion to appease the ghosts of all those killed by her family’s deadly and famous rifle. Anything to avoid common sense gun control, I guess. Rated PG-13. Stars Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke and a thousand unnecessary jump scares. Playing at the AMC 12.

NOW PLAYING 12 STRONG The game plan for beating the Taliban in Afghanistan involves help from an unexpected source. That source, of course, being horses. I’m a little upset they didn’t just call the movie Horse War or Horse Soldiers or literally anything other than the boring and generic title it ended up with.

Rated R. Stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael “Pottersville” Shannon and Rob Riggle. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME A Jewish-American boy living in northern Italy falls head-over-heels in love with a bookish and musical grad student. You’ll never look at peaches the same way again. Rated R. Stars Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Playing at the AMC 12.

COCO (2017) Inspired by Día de los Muertos, Pixar’s new film follows a young boy on his way to an otherworldly family reunion. I hope you have a box of tissues ready. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt and Edward James Olmos. Playing at the AMC 12.

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) Did you love The Shape of Water? Check out the Universal classic that inspired it. A jungle expedition finds something fishy in South America.

Rated G. Yes, really. Stars Richard Carlson, Julia Adams and creature design by Milicent Patrick and Bud Westmore. Playing Sat., Feb. 3 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

DARKEST HOUR As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe, the new Prime Minister of Great Britain has to make the hardest decisions of his life. Rated PG-13. Stars Gary Oldman, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas. Oldman sure loves being in movies with the word Dark in the title, doesn’t he? Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12.

“Ironically, I only agreed to do this movie so I could buy a house of my own. “ Helen Mirren stars in Winchester, opening at the the AMC 12.

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN P.T. Barnum might be best known for coining the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute,” but the life of the famed circus founder still has a few surprises up its sleeve. Rated PG. Stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya. Showing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12.

LADY BIRD Applying to college, auditioning for the school play and throwing yourself out of a moving vehicle to avoid a conversation with your mother.

High school never changes, does it? Rated R. Stars Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Odeya Rush. Playing at the AMC 12.

GROUNDHOG DAY (1993) I got you, babe! A weatherman lives the same day over and over until he figures out how to not be a jerk. Rated PG. Stars Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Michael “Pottersville” Shannon. Playing all day at the Roxy Fri., Feb. 2.

THE MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE After being delayed by three years, the Maze Runner series comes to an end with more of the same stuff we saw in the Hunger Games movies.

Rated PG-13. Stars Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Barry Peppers. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

HOSTILES Unrelated to Eli Roth’s series of torture films which are spelled differently anyway, an army captain is tasked with transporting a dying Cheyenne war chief from New Mexico to Montana. You had me at Montana. Rated R. Stars.

Christian Bale, Wes Studi and Ben Foster. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. (See Film)

MY FRIEND DAHMER You remember that one really weird kid you hung out with in high school? I wonder what he’s up to now. Rated R. Stars Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff and Anne Hece. Playing Thu., Feb. 8 at 7 PM at the Roxy. (See Film)

DUNKIRK (2017) Director Christopher Nolan takes a break from blowing our minds with high-concept sci-fi to create a perfect double feature with Darkest Hour.

Rated PG-13. Stars Harry Styles, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy. Playing at the Roxy Fri., Wed. 7 and Sun., Feb. 11 at 7 PM.

I, TONYA Did you know figure skater Tonya Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition? Of course not. We all remember her from the wildest scandal in sports history instead. Rated R. Stars Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan and Allison Janney. Playing at the Roxy.

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) Sadistic go-go dancers break free from their nightclub to tear through the desert on a hotrodding quest for a hidden fortune. Not Rated, but this is a Russ Meyer movie. Stars Tura Satana, Lori Williams and Dennis Busch. Playing Fri., Feb. 2 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE It took them 22 years, but Jumanji is finally getting a sequel without any of the original cast. Didn’t they learn their lesson with Zathura? Rated PG13. Stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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PADDINGTON 2 Everyone’s favorite marmalade-loving bear is back in a sequel to 2014’s surprise hit. This time he’s in prison, which, to be honest, is a pretty bold choice for a kid’s movie. Rated PG. Stars Hugh Bonneville, Peter Capaldi and Sally “The Shape of Water” Hawkins. Playing at the AMC 12.

PHANTOM THREAD The Ghost Who Walks emerges from the fourcolor world of comic strips to slam evil in this big screen adaption of Lee Falk’s purple-clad super hero. Just kidding, this is Daniel Day-Lewis’ supposed last film. He plays a tailor in charge of dressing the high-and-mighty of Postwar Britain. I don’t think he slams any evil. Rated R. Also stars Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Playing at the Roxy.

THE POST In the 1970s, the federal government was lying to the American people and attacking the free press, a cornerstone of our democracy. I’m sure glad things aren’t like that anymore! Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Bob Odenkirk. I wonder who is going to play me when they eventually make a movie about the Indy? Playing at the AMC 12.

THE SHAPE OF WATER Did you ever watch Creature from the Black Lagoon and think to yourself, dang, I wanna have sex with that? Guillermo del Toro did, apparently.

Rated R. Stars Sally “Paddington 2” Hawkins, Doug Jones (not that one) and Michael “Pottersville” Shannon. Playing at the Roxy, the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12.

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI A bold and evil empire takes what it wants and destroys those who stand in its way. Who will oppose this tide of darkness? So far it’s already bought Marvel, 20th Century Fox and Star Wars.

Rated PG-13. Stars Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (2016) Extreme energy, the end of economic growth and the people caught in the middle dominate this documentary about the battle to keep Earth sustainable. Not Rated. Directed by David Lavalle.

Playing Thu., Feb. 8 at 8:30 PM at the Roxy.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

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.

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photo by Carly Vester

Lessons learned at Blackfoot Cafe

by Carly Vester

WHAT’S GOOD HERE

The fine dining experience at Missoula College is full of surprises.

The Blackfoot Café, staffed by Culinary Arts students, serves lunch Tuesday through Friday. Yes, they take reservations. And yes, you might need one.

Think about butternut squash agnolotti with thick sage cream sauce, a recent special. Now think about it for $10, served in a “river level” restaurant with front row seats to one of the three industrial kitchens where students train.

I didn’t expect Blackfoot Café to become my go-to lunch spot until I began a graduate assistantship with Missoula College last year, but once people know it’s there, they tend to become regulars.

Founded in 1968, the program’s existence surprised even chef Thomas Campbell, who became the program’s director in 2003. Campbell cut his teeth working in Seattle kitchens, owned a restaurant, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and was a chef instructor at the Seattle Art Institute before he heard about the program he now runs. It’s the only one in Montana accredited by the American Culinary Federation. Campbell credits his colleagues for what the program has become. Graduates are highly sought after, and some even own their own restaurants.

But first, they have to get through the program.

“They come in here with stars in their eyes before reality hits in the form of 50 pounds of potatoes that need to be peeled,” Campbell says.

Students’ schooling isn’t limited to the “back of the house.” Each student serves diners in the café, whether that’s retirees out to lunch, students or, well, me.

While Blackfoot Café’s salad and sandwich staples are hardly trifles, it’s the daily specials that steal the show. Standouts include eggplant cheesecake, Jamaican oxtail stew and seared scallops with beurre blanc — all at less than $20 a plate.

But for Campbell, the real gems of Blackfoot Café are the students, not the food.

Yes, Blackfoot Café is open to the public, filling a niche in Missoula’s lunchtime scene. But the students are here to learn. As a result, diners get to sample some uncommon dishes. And considering the meatloaf and mashed potatoes many of those students were cooking when Campbell first started, well…

“We’ve come a long way,” he says.

The Blackfoot Café is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with expanded brunch options for spring semester.

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[dish] Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com

Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm

531 S. Higgins

541-4622

(Breakfast ‘til Noon)

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm

(Breakfast all day)

Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar & Grill is the place to relax and unwind while enjoying our New Feature Menu. Great selection of Montana Brews on tap! Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour every day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials changing daily. Thursday Trivia from 7:30-9:30. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner.

Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile!

No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune.

Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of

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[dish] 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ 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. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts.

Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to

name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$

Salt Lake takes flight at the Dram Shop

HAPPIEST HOUR

Rumour 1855 Stephens Ave. 549-7575 rumourrestaurant.com We believe in celebrating the extraordinary flavors of Montana using local product whenever it's available. We offer innovative vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, meat & seafood dishes that pair beautifully with one of our amazing handcrafted cocktails, regional micro-brews, 29 wines on tap or choose a bottle from our extensive wine list. At Rumour, you'll get more than a great culinary experience....You'll get the perfect night out. Open daily: restaurant at 4.00pm, casino at 10.30am, brunch sat & sun at 9.30am Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 • tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

photo by Micah Drew

What’s going on: The Dram Shop is hosting a tap takeover by Squatters Pub Brewery. Dram Shop owner Zach Millar considers these events part of his mission: to educate customers on beer, let them sample the wares of new breweries and learn about their own palates.

What you’re drinking: Four brews from Salt Lake City’s Squatters Pub Brewery will be on tap. The Hell’s Keep Belgian Golden just won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival, and its sweeter taste makes for a great ski beer. For the hophead, the light, bright Off Duty IPA and its jacked-up cousin (at a whopping 9 percent ABV), Hop Rising Double IPA, are brewery flagships. Then there’s Outer Darkness, an aptly named, thickbodied Russian Imperial Stout. You can shine a flashlight on the side of a pint glass and see just a black hole with a chocolate-milk head.

Who brewed it: Squatters was founded in 1989 by two dudes who love beer, biking and skiing. Current master brewer Jason Stock can be seen posing with a pitchfork on the label of his Double IPA. When you’re drinking it: Feb. 7, from 5 to 9 p.m. Rumor has it that the brewers may be on site to talk about their craft. Try a flight of all four beers for $10.

Where to find it: At the Dram Shop Growler Fill Station and Tap Room, 229 E. Front St., next to the Pearl Cafe.

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

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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TUE | 8 PM Gramatik plays the Wilma Tue., Feb. 6. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$27 advance.

WED | 6:30 PM Illusionist Bryan Drake at UC Ballroom Wed., Feb. 7 at 6:30 PM. Free.

FRI | 6 PM Insomnia Plague plays Imagine Nation Brewing Fri., Feb. 2 from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance.

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SAT | 10 PM Chuck Ragan plays the Top Hat Sat., Feb. 3. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $12.

335 N. Pattee ////missou missoulaartmuseum.org // Tuesday - Saturday 10AM - 5PM

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

nightlife Matt Stivers Trio plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. You want the Captain Wilson Conspiracy? You can't handle the Captain Wilson Conspiracy! Catch the jazzy tunes at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say "yes and" to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests.

725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM I think it might have fought Mothra at some point. Butter Beehemoth plays the VFW from 7 PM–9 PM. Free.

Archaeologist Kevin Obriant hosts a discussion on the indigenous traditions of mapmaking and their influences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lolo Community Center. 7 PM. Free.

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Thursday

Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$5 student.

Wester Cider hosts a preview of the 15th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. See posters from previous festivals and meet the hard-working staff. 5 PM–10 PM.

I wonder if there's a band called Missoula 615?

Nashville 406 plays the Eagles Club. 8 PM. Free.

Author Anahata Meta reads from her new book 52 Weeks, 52 Dates at Fact & Fiction.

5:30 PM–7:30 PM. Free.

Partygoers celebrate the release of its new album, Tumbleweed, with a party at the Roxy Theater. 8 PM. $5 suggested donation.

nightlife

Bradley Warren Jr. plays the VFW at 9 PM. Free.

Have you tried warm milk? Insomnia Plague plays Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

The 13th Annual Backcountry Ski Film Festival returns to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $15/$12. Visit montanabackcountry.org for more information.

Breakfast for Dinner celebrates the release of its new album The Waffles LP with a party at Free Cycles.

7 PM–10:30 PM. $5 suggested donation.

The University of Montana celebrates a 101-year-old tradition

photo courtesy Tim Goessman

The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for a night of music. 9:30 PM. Free.

Breakfast for Dinner celebrates the release of its new album with a party at Free Cycles Fri., Feb. 2 at 7 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Mudslide Charley rushes into the Union Club for a night of music. 9:30 PM. Free.

showcases original student choreography while raising funds. Open Space in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $10 suggested donation.

Rotgut Whines, Tequila Mockingbird and Perfect Blue unite for a night of music at the VFW. 10 PM. $3.

with the Foresters' Ball. Start a new century of dancing at Schreiber Gymnasium. 7 PM. $18.

Seriously, what a great house.

TopHouse plays Zootown Brew at 7 PM. Free.

The 15th annual American College Dance Association Benefit Concert

Big band, choir, steel drums, wind ensemble, cabaret, strings, percussion, chamber and more come together for Fusion IX at

WARDO headlines the inaugural installment of the Mad Hat electronic music series at the Top Hat. Doors at 10 PM, show at 10:30 PM. $5/21-plus. $10/18–20.

Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Folk rocker duo The Pickin' Pear play the Top Hat. 8 PM. Free.

Mix a glass of red with the bluesy jazz of Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo at Plonk Wine Bar. 8–11 PM. Free.

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

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk's.

9 PM. Free.

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

The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for a night of music. 9:30 PM. Free.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula's HomeGrown Comedy Standup Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free.

First Friday

Photographer Laura Verhaeghe presents her photographs of wildlife, landscapes and dogs at Berkshire Hathaway. 5 PM–8 PM.

Lee Silliman displays his 8x10 black and white contact prints of abandoned homesteads in Central Montana at Montana Art & Framing.

5 PM–9 PM.

Melodic punk band Go Hibiki provides the soundtrack to Clyde Coffee's opening of Alasdair Lyon's multimedia paintings. 5 PM–8 PM.

Artists Pamela Caughey, Beth Lo and Sean O'Connell are on hand for an opening reception of their new exhibit Shape/Shift at Radius Gallery. 5 PM–8 PM.

Amanda Krolczyk's series of mountain landscapes made out of reclaimed wood opens at 4 Ravens Gallery with an artists reception. 5 PM–8 PM.

Katie Machain showcases her woodcut prints of colorful landscapes at Bernice's Bakery. 5 PM–8 PM.

La Stella Blu displays artwork made by children at Missoula Family YMCA. 5 PM–8 PM.

Draught Works hosts The Alphabet of Love and Hate by B. Martinez. 5 PM–8 PM. Lindsey Tucker's digital photography and darkroom manipulation is on display with the music of Night Blooming Jasmine at Lake Missoula Tea Co. 5 PM–8 PM. Missoula artist Laura Blaker shows the second installment of Main Street Montana at ROAM Student Living office. 5 PM–8 PM. David Miles of Anomal Press displays his handcarved prints at Noteworthy Paper and Press. 5 PM–8 PM. Harnessing the Power and the Magic, The Artists' Shop's new exhibition of ceramics made in an Anagama style kiln, opens with a reception from 5 PM–8 PM.

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Lee Silliman displays his 8x10 black and white contact prints of abandoned homesteads in Central Montana at Montana Art & Framing Fri., Feb. 2. 5 PM–9 PM. Free.

Digital photographer Anne Cruikshank and landscape painter Deborah Traer unite for Mindscape/Landscape at E3 Convergence Gallery. 5 PM–9 PM. Bathing Beauties Beads welcomes the jewelry designs of Montana Anna. 5 PM–8 PM. Break Espresso hosts the adventure and wedding photography of Of the Wolves Photography. 5 PM–9 PM.

Artists Nicole Jean Hill, Meredith Lynn, and Lee Emma Running come together for a collaborative show about the contemporary West at FrontierSpace. 5 PM–9 PM. Engel & Volkers Western Frontier displays artwork by beWilderment Art and Jewelry by Lumin Gold & Silversmithing. 5 PM–8 PM.

Betty's Divine hosts the large-scale cutout paintings of Daphne Sweet. 5 PM–8 PM. Downtown Dance Collective hosts On and Off the Loom, the weaving, origami and digital art of Bonnie Tarses. 5 PM–8 PM. Clay Studio of Missoula hosts an international exhibition featuring 40 artists from around the world based entirely on the humble cup.

5:30 PM–9 PM.

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Saturday Winter Storytelling at Travelers' Rest State Park welcomes Mary Jane Bradbury for her presentation Martha & Me: Dora Dufran Speaks about Calamity Jane. 11 AM. $5.

The Power of Art, it's a curious thing. It makes one man weep, makes another man sing. The 46th Missoula Art Museum Benefit Auction features works by more than 80 local and nationally renowned artists. 5 PM–9 PM. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org for more info and tickets. $125.

Missoula's Big Band provides the tunes at Missoula Senior Center's Valentine's Dinner at 5 PM. $12.

Beer or wine? Ranch Club Missoula hosts a four-course meal paired with both beers and wines to see which beverage reigns supreme. 6 PM–9 PM. $55. Call 406-532-1019 to RSVP.

nightlife The Kimberlee Carlson Trio plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

The Timber Rattlers strike at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

If you can use magic to fix your glasses, why can't you just use it to fix your eyes?

Barnes & Noble hosts an evening of Harry Potter trivia, games and more. 6 PM. Free.

The University of Montana celebrates a 101-year-old tradition with the Foresters' Ball. Start a new century of dancing at

Spotlight

Schreiber Gymnasium. 7 PM. $18.

The Missoula Folklore Society Contra Dance at the Union Hall lets you party like it's 1699. All dances are taught and called. No partner necessary. Workshop at 7:30 PM, dance at 8 PM. $9.

The 15th annual American College Dance Association Benefit Concert showcases original student choreography while raising funds for students to attend a dance conference in Boulder, Colorado. Open Space in the PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. $10 suggested donation.

Bases Covered plays the Stensrud Potluck. 8 PM–10 PM. Free, but bring dish, you mouch.

I wonder if there's a band called Missoula 615? Nashville 406 plays the Eagles Club. 8 PM. Free.

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

Free.

Brrrrrrr. The Shiver plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Chuck Ragan plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $12/free if you attend the Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Wilma.

Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club while I've got a herd of cattle to brand.

Typical. 9:30 PM. Free.

hog wild

I think we can all agree that 1993's Groundhog Day is one of those films that's going to be around forever. It's a hilarious and often heart-warming film made by legendary filmmakers at the top WHAT: Groundhog Day challenge WHERE: The Roxy Theater WHEN: Fri., Feb 2, starting at 11 AM. HOW MUCH: $10–$25 MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org

of their game. It also has the benefit of being tied to a completely useless holiday. Why not watch a movie about a TV weatherman inexplicably repeating the same day?

And while Bill Murray's character's arc only takes about 100 minutes of screen-time, the question remains, how long was he trapped in that time loop in the fiction of the film? The original screenwriter set the time trapped as 10,000

years. Director Harold Ramis, however, revealed in his DVD commentary that he always thought Bill Murray's character was trapped repeating Groundhog Day for only about 10 years. It's better than 100 centuries, but still a very long time.

The Roxy Theater celebrates the film with another day-long marathon of the comedy classic. This year, however, adds a little twist. While you can stop in for any screening of Groundhog Day during the 12-hour marathon, if you make it through all six screenings of the movie, without checking your phone, cracking a book or falling asleep, you win a full year of free movies and free popcorn at the Roxy.

—Charley Macorn

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Monday

Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. The Gamelan Indonesian Percussion Quartet share an evening of traditional music at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

nightlife Every Sunday is "Sunday Funday" at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

All I know is I eat too much of it.

Kelly Moore from Missoula County Extension teaches a free cooking class all about the history, nutrition and taste of chocolate. Missoula Food Bank. 12 PM. Free. Visit missoulaclasses.com for registration.

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

ing. Sign up when you get there.

Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

nightlife The Acousticals play the Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Motown on Mondays puts the s-ou-l back into Missoula. Resident

DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander.

9 PM. Free.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.

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Lolo Hot Springs hosts its inaugural Super Bowl Chili Cook Off Party. Catch the big game while filling your own super bowl with chili. 10 AM. Free.

The Iron Griz hosts a wine tasting featuring Grenache, Syrah and Counoise. 5 PM–7 PM. $12.

Author Molly Caro May reads from her new book Body Full of Stars at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM–8 PM.

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Wednesday

With a name like that, you'd think he could spell better. Gramatik plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$27 advance.

Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company's Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support Vital Ground Foundation.

5 PM–8 PM.

Terror Pigeon, Real Dom, Carpool and Clementine Hepburn unite for a night of music at Union Hall. 8 PM. $5.

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades and also install solar panels on the roof of my apartment building. Climate Smart Missoula and its partners host an informational workshop on how to go solar. Missoula Federal Credit Union. 6 PM–8 PM.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week's trivia question: What crooner made his radio debut on today's date in 1943? Answer in tomorrow's Nightlife.

Terror Pigeon plays Union Hall Tue., Feb. 6 at 8 PM. $5.

This next song is about drinking a LaCroix in your Subaru with your

dog. Missoula Music Showcase features local singers and song-

writers each week at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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

Fifty cents from every pint sold at Bitter Root Brewing goes to support the Lost Trail Ski Patrol.

self, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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Illusionist Bryan Drake performs at the University Center Ballroom at 6:30 PM. He'll also be doing street magic on UM's campus before the show. Just look for the guy with the Bart Simpson hair. Free.

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

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

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

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

nightlife Look at all those double consonants! Revelators frontman Russ Nassett plays a solo show at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

You never know what skills could save your life one day. Learn to lap dance like a pro at Lap Dance 101 at the Fox Club. 5 PM–7 PM. $35.

Singer-songwriter John Floridis plays Bitter Root Brewing from 6 PM–8 PM. Free

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Montana Native Plant Society's Februar y lecture features a talk about the prairies of Saskatchewan and the plants that grow there. Gallagher Business Building. 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

- Los AnI think it's spelled Oregon. geles-based soul band Orgone play the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance.

Tyler Barham presents a special night of music at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk's. 9 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring him-

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

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Agenda

THURSDAY, FEBRUAY 1

Missoula Public Library kicks off two weeks of fundraising for its new facility. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org/grow for a list of ways to support our library.

Nathan Baring, one of 21 plaintiffs suing the government over climate change, speaks at the Roxy Theater. 3:30 PM. A rally follows. Free.

FRIDAY, FEBRUAY 2 Nathan Baring At the age of 15, Nathan Baring began to recognize the effects of climate change in his own community. Growing up 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Fairbanks, Alaska, Baring saw in his short time a staggering change in weather. The first snowfall of the year started creeping further and further back on the calendar. Massive and devastating ice storms raged during the winter, while the state burst into flames with unprecedented forest fires in the summer, poisoning the air quality.

As an asthma and allergy sufferer, Baring found the very act of going outside potentially lethal.

Baring is one of 21 youth plaintiffs suing the U.S. government over climate change. The suit was originally filed against the Obama Administration,

but the Trump Administration, which once called climate change a hoax “created by the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” is the current defendant. The plaintiffs allege that the government's actions contribute to our climate crisis, and violate our Constitutional rights to liberty and property. Nathan Baring talks about this suit, as well as what we can do to combat climate change in our own communities. A march and rally across Higgins Avenue bridge follow his talk.

—Charley Macorn Nathan Baring speaks at the Roxy Theater Thu., Feb. 1 at 3:30 PM. Free.

The Light of Hope Gala raises funds to train court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children at Missoula College. 6 PM–9 PM. Visit casamissoula.org for more info and registration.

The 15th annual American College Dance Association Benefit Concert showcases original student choreography while raising funds for students to attend a dance conference in Boulder, Colorado. Open Space in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $10 suggested donation.

SATURDAY, FEBRUAY 3 The 15th annual American College Dance Association Benefit Concert showcases original student choreography while raising funds for students to attend a dance conference in Boulder, Colorado. Open Space in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $10 suggested donation.

MONDAY, FEBRUAY 5 Fifty-percent of sales between 3 PM and 8 PM at Five on Black go to support Missoula Food Bank.

TUESDAY, FEBRUAY 6 One dollar from every drink sold at Western Cider goes support Missoula Youth Homes.

THURSDAY, FEBRUAY 8 Fifty cents from every pint sold at Bitter Root Brewing goes to support the Lost Trail Ski Patrol.

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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Mountain High s Montanans, we have unparalleled and immediate access to a bounty of outdoor sports. Just walk far enough in literally any direction and you'll shortly find yourself viewing one of our trademark vistas. Either that, or you'll walk into a wall. Let's be smart about this. But sometimes it's nice to enjoy the world of outdoor sports while relaxing with a beer, right?

This week the Wilma is hosting two outdoor sports film festivals. First up is the Backcountry Film Fest featuring a series of award-winning short films about adventure, environment, climate and ski culture. Produced by the Winter Wildlands Alliance.

Funds raised at this screening will stay in Missoula to support human-powered recreation, conservation efforts and winter education and avalanche safety programs.

Next up is the Fly Fishing Film Tour, featuring several short films all about the most Missoula of

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pastimes. Filmed across the globe from Wyoming to Greenland, Honduras to Michigan, each short takes you through the remarkable stories that only happen on the river. Even better, buying tickets to the Fly Fishing Film tour gets you free entry to the Chuck Ragan show a the Top Hat that evening. So while the beauty of Montana will always be there for you to explore, take a night off, have a drink and go inside to enjoy outdoor sports from around the world.

—Charley Macorn Backcountry Film Fest takes place Fri., Feb. 2 at 7 PM at the Wilma. $15/$12 advance. The Fly Fishing Film Tour takes place Sat., Feb. 3 at 3 PM and 7 PM. $18.

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Women in Wilderness, a bi-monthly conversation series highlighting inspiring, dedicated and intelligent women in their fields of expertise tied to wild and public lands, kickss off at 6 PM in room 333 of the University Center. Free.

Pro-skier Lisa Desmore Ballard hosts a two-day women's ski clinic at Discovery Ski Area. $50.

Visit bobwards.com for more info and registration.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 The 13th Annual Backcountry Ski Film Festival returns to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $15/$12. Visit montanabackcountry.org for more information.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 The Fly Fishing Film Tour returns to the Wilma for

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an evening of the best fly-fishing movies that aren't A River Runs Through It at the Wilma. 4 PM and 8 PM. $18.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Tie flies while enjoying a cold beer at Imagine Nation Brewing. Bugs and Beers starts at 6 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 The Missoula Natural History Center's Evening Lecture Series continues with Hunting and Gathering: Learning to Read the Landscapes. 7 PM. MontanaNaturalist.org for more info.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Montana Native Plant Society's February lecture features a talk about the prairies of Saskatchewan and the plants that grow there.

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SLEEP ACTUALLY

I got dumped four months ago, and I’m still not sure what happened. All of my boyfriend’s explanations seemed vague, and the breakup really came out of nowhere. I don’t want to contact him. How do I sort this out so I can move on?

—Desperately Seeking Closure Science has yet to figure out a number of life’s mysteries — questions like: “What came before the big bang?” “Why is there more matter than antimatter?” and “If we’re such an advanced civilization, what’s with short-sleeved leather jackets?”

Freak breakups — unexpected, inexplicable endings to relationships — are really tough because our mind doesn’t do well with unfinished business. It ends up bugging us to get “closure” — and by “bugging,” I mean like some maniacal game show host in hell, shouting at us for all eternity, “Answer the question! Answer the question!”

This psychological spin cycle we go into is called “the Zeigarnik effect,” after Russian psychologist and psychiatrist Bluma Zeigarnik. In the 1920s, Zeigarnik observed that waiters at a busy Vienna restaurant were pretty remarkable at remembering food orders they had taken but had yet to deliver. However, once they’d brought the food to the patrons, they had little memory of what the orders were.

Zeigarnik’s research (and subsequent modern research) suggests that the mind remains in a “state of tension” until we complete whatever we’ve left incomplete — finishing the task we’ve started or finally answering some nagging question.

This might seem like bad news for you, considering the mystery you’ve got on your hands.

However, you can make use of psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s research. He explains that our brains are “expensive” to run; basically, it takes a ton of energy to keep the lights on up there. So our mind is programmed to take mental shortcuts whenever it can — believing stuff that has even a veneer of plausibility.

As for how this plays out, essentially, your mind assumes that you’re smart — that you don’t believe things for no reason. The upshot of this for you is that you can probably just decide on a story — your best guess for why your now-ex-boyfriend bolted — and write yourself an ending that gets you off the mental hamster wheel.

Should any of those old intrusive thoughts drop by for a visit, review the ending you’ve written, and then distract yourself until they go away — like by reciting the ABCs backward or by pon-

dering the mysteries of human existence, such as vajazzling (gluing Swarovski crystals to one’s labia and thereabouts). No, ladies, your vagina will not be more fun if it’s wearing earrings.

MOMMY DREARIEST

I’m a woman in my early 40s, married for 12 years. I gave up my career as a dancer to be a mom. I can afford not to work, as my husband makes great money. However, my kids are now 12 and 13 and don’t need me like they did when they were little. I feel as if I don’t have any purpose in my life, and it’s getting me down. I can’t go back to dancing now. What do I do?

— At Loose Ends Sure, your kids still need you, but mainly to drive them places and then (ideally) be kidnapped by Mexican drug cartel members, only to be miraculously released just when they need a ride home.

In fact, in these modern times, it can feel like much of your job as a mother could be done by a stern-voiced Uber driver. This is a problem. As social psychologist Todd Kashdan explains, “Years of research on the psychology of well-being have demonstrated that often human beings are happiest when they are engaged in” activities that bring meaning to their lives.

As I explain in Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck, living meaningfully means being bigger than just yourself. It means making a difference — making the world a better place because you were here.You do that by, for example, easing people’s suffering — and you don’t have to be a hospice nurse to do that.

You can do as my wonderfully cranky Venice neighbor @MrsAbbotKinney does as an adult literacy volunteer — teach people how to read. I always get a little misty-eyed when I see her tweets about taking one of the people she’s tutored to apply for their first library card.

Because doing kind acts for others appears to boost general life satisfaction, doing volunteer work should lead you to feel more fulfilled. This is especially important in a world where daily hardships involve things like struggling to remember your new PIN to get milk delivered from the online supermarket — as opposed to trekking through a snowstorm to the freezingcold barn so you can get friendly with the downthere on a cranky cow.

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4 0 6 . 8 3 0 . 3 3 2 7 katie@carmodyhollidaylaw.com Counsel for Plaintiff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY CAUSE NO. DR-17-526 Dept.

No. 1 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN RE THE PARENTING OF: P.J.P. CONNIE JO PLOYHAR, PETITIONER, and ERIC DWIGGINS, RESPONDENT. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: ERIC DWIGGINS of Klamath County, Oregon. The above-captioned action is a Cause of Action against you is in relation to a parenting plan.A lawsuit has been filed against you. Within 21 days after the service of this summons on you or (42 days if you are the State of Montana, a state agency, or a state officer or employee), you must serve on the plaintiff an answer to the attached complaint or a motion under Rule 12 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure. Do not include the day you were served in your calculation of time. The answer or motion must be served on the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney, if plaintiff is represented by an attorney, whose name and address are listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.You also

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(SEAL) SHIRLEY E. FAUST, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT BY: /s/ Molli Zook, DEPUTY CLERK Missoula County Invitation for Bids Missoula County Fairgrounds is soliciting sealed bids for the materials needed to build 200 horse stalls at the Missoula County Fairgrounds.The full Invitation for Bid (IFB) may be found on Missoula County’s website: https://www.missoulacounty.us/government/administration/auditor-s-office/bids-proposals/test-rfp-page Bids will be accepted until February 2, 2018 at 4:00 PM. Late bids will not be accepted.

The sealed bids must be marked “Missoula County Fairgrounds Horse Stall IFB’ and sent to David Wall, Missoula County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

Bids may be hand delivered to David Wall, Missoula County Auditor, 199 W Pine Street Room 136, Missoula, MT 59802, where the bids will be opened and read aloud at 4:30PM on February 2.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In all of history, humans have mined about 182,000 tons of gold. Best estimates suggest there are still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we’ve already gotten. We need better technology. If I had to say who would be the entrepreneurs and inventors best qualified to lead the quest, my choice would be members of the Aries tribe. For the foreseeable future, you people will have extra skill at excavating hidden treasure and gathering resources that are hard to access.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stories have the power to either dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts of your soul. And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Anaïs Nin said, “There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” For two reasons, Anaïs’s formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you more inclined right now to favor temporary involvements and shortterm promises? Or would you consider making brave commitments that lead you deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological omens, I vote for the latter. Here’s another pair of questions for you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collaborations? I’m hoping you’ll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In March 1996, a man burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a recording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many varieties of the nettle plant will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems.

Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Knullrufs is a Swedish word that refers to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks.You’re in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your coiffure.You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his “Crazy Lake Experiment” documented on YouTube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness?

Your tolerance? Your insight into human nature?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1989, a man spent four dollars on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you imagined it would be.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the 1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo ultimately became the second-most-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was in my early twenties, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better.

Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider.

Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? I’m not saying you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just that now is your special time to seek redemption.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP claims against that said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to P. Mars Scott, the Personal Representative, returned receipt requested, at P.O. Box 5988, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 18th day of January, 2018 /s/ P. Mars Scott Personal Representative Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Probate No DP 18-10 District Judge Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARJORIE M. JENSEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as the 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 their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be mailed to Mark S. Jensen, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Crowley Fleck PLLP, 500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street, Suite 500, P.O. Box 2529, Billings, Montana 59103, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 11th day of January, 2018 /s/ Mark S. Jensen, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marjorie M. Jensen, deceased NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: Hayes Family-Potomac Project A hearing on a proposal to use up to $295,000 of Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 569 acres located off of Potomac Rd. near Potomac, MT. Five Valleys Land Trust would hold the conservation easement. The cost in bond funding per acre would be approximately $518. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 2:00 p.m.,Thursday, February 8, 2018, in Room 151 of the County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners. Offices: 199 West Pine. Mail: 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. FAX: (406) 721-4043.

Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Community and Planning Services, 323 W. Alder, Missoula, Montana. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on May 29, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which George E. Clark and Gloria J. Clark, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for American Brokers Conduit, beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated January 24, 2007 and was recorded on January 30,

2007 as Instrument No. 200702493, Book 791 at Page 514 Micro Records, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 111 Willow Ridge CT, Missoula, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 29 OF WILLOW RIDGE TOWNHOUSES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF.The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Banc of America Funding Corporation 2007-3, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee.The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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.

The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments totaling $10,867.73 beginning April 1, 2017 through December 26, 2017; plus corporate advances of $1,166.00; plus property inspection fees of $64.05; plus legal fees of $12.51; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable.

By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $123,735.59 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.12500 percent per annum beginning March 1, 2017; plus outstanding fees and corporate advances of $1,257.56; plus escrow of $2,088.89; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

Dated: January 11, 2018 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A.“Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on June 4, 2018, 10:30 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 18B of the Homesteads, a platted Subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof, recorded in Book 20 of Plats, at Page 4.

More commonly known as 2229 Hillside Drive, Missoula, MT 59803-1152. Alfred K. Greene and Erica Davis-Greene, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana,

a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, its successors and assigns,

by Deed of Trust on August 27, 2015, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on August 28, 2015 as Instrument No. 201516444, in Book 950, at Page 327, of Official Records.

The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Pingora Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Assignment Dated: December 28, 2016 Assignment Recorded: December 28, 2016 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201623519, in Book 972, at Page 947, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 1, 2017 as Instrument No. 201703702, in Book 975, at Page 760, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning August 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $177,832.28, interest in the sum of $3,853.01, escrow advances of $878.77, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $249.52 for a total amount owing of $182,813.58, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason.

In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor

Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 25th day of January, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 48810 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on March 13, 2018, 01:00 PM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: A tract of land located in the SE1/4 of Section 33, Township 14 North, range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 1-9 A of Certificate of Survey No. 3446. More commonly known as 4747 Gleneagle Way, Missoula, MT 59808.

Kenneth Knie, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for

IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., a federally chartered savings bank, its successors and assigns , by Deed of Trust on February 2, 2006, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on February 8, 2006 as Instrument No. 200602994, in Book 768, at Page 993, of Official Records.

The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY as Trustee for INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-AR4, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES Series 2006-AR4 Assignment Dated: July 19, 2014 Assignment Recorded: August 6, 2014 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201411772, in Book 932, at Page 495, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on April 21, 2017 as Instrument No. 201706714, in Book 977, at Page 972, of Official Records.The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning April

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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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable.

The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $318,941.64, interest in the sum of $43,320.12, escrow advances of $14,465.55, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $3,504.49 for a total amount owing of $380,231.80, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Benefi-

ciary, 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 by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason.

In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 2nd day of November, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 49501 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on May 25, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana:A piece, parcel or tract of land lying in the South ½ of Lot 12, Section 16, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, Montana Principal Meridian and more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the line of the north right-of-way of U.S. Highway No. 10, S.67 32’00”E. a distance of 90.00 feet from the intersection of the west line of said Lot 12 and the north right-of-way of

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said U.S. Highway No. 10, thence S.67 32’00” E. along the north right-of-way of said U.S. Highway No. 10 a distance of 123.00 feet; thence N. 22 03’46” E. a distance of 350.89 feet; thence S.89 58’00” W. a distance of 328.10 feet to the intersection of the west line of said Lot 12; thence S.00 07’00” W. along the west line of said Lot 12 a distance of 18.60 feet; thence S.67 32’00” E. a distance of 90.00 feet; thence S. 00 07’00” W. a distance of 225.00 feet to the point of beginning. Deed Exhibit #3683. Recording Reference: Book 111 of Micro Records at Page 927. Anthony Hummel Jr. and Crystal Hummel, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Gilbert S. Rice and Janet A. Rice, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture dated April 20, 2015, and recorded that same date in Book 942, Page 1345, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded January 16, 2018, in Book 991, Page 1072, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.

The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $102,776.54, plus interest at a rate of 6% totaling $1,267.11, late fees and other fees totaling $372.00, for a total amount due of $104,415.65, as of January 17, 2018, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs.The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantors are in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 17th day of January, 2018. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ))ss . County of Missoula) On this 17th day of January, 2018, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp (SEAL) NOTARY PUBLIC for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires May 07, 2021

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