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Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk I can describe that state in three words .......................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Mary Ave. freeze-out, starting a movement at the Union, and lions under fire ...6 Etc. You’re either on the bus or off the bus (or the bus is late)......................................7 News Missoula’s acquisition of Mountain Water draws one drop closer........................8 News Exploring buyouts at UM.......................................................................................9 Opinion Greg Gianforte has a decision to make ..........................................................10 Opinion Going native: the political appeal of geographic longevity............................11 Feature How did Montana’s tourism marketing contract end up in Wisconsin? .........14
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Arts Tattoo artist Rob Rez adds a paint brush to his arsenal.........................................18 Music Magpies, Jonny Fritz, and Blue Rodeo................................................................19 Books Marrying opposites with poet Sandra Lim.........................................................20 Film Elle takes risks American films won’t ....................................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 What’s Good Here So long, Tower Pizza, and thanks for all the memories ................23 Happiest Hour Drinking from the Cloven Hoof ..........................................................25 8 Days a Week The only calendar that matters ............................................................26 Agenda Running away? Peace Corps panel opportunities............................................33 Mountain High The 100th Foresters’ Ball....................................................................34
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News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
by Alex Sakariassen
Asked Tuesday night at Imagine Nation Brewing What’s the most memorable place-based marketing campaign you’ve seen? Follow-up: If you were tasked with branding Montana using three key words, what would those words be?
Mark McKenzie: I always remember California just because of Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. Maybe Montana just needs a big celebrity? Scenic touch: Rivers, mountains and people.
Liz McKenzie: Michigan for me. They kind of always just make it seem very nostalgic. And Tim Allen’s voice sticks with you. Western-style enchantment: I’d probably say rugged, magical. And maybe familiar.
Miranda Sanderson: This is hard because I’m from Napa Valley and all the marketing I saw growing up was about wine country. Even in airports, you see pictures of vineyards. Don’t forget the suds: Beer, seasons and, what’s a word articulating people knowing people? Neighborly.
Chuck Jarasek: I’m from Chicago originally, and before I even thought of moving here I saw photos of Whitefish at Christmas plastered on the L train. Bare necessities: Can I use four? Eat beef, shoot guns.
Michele Rutherford: The one that comes to mind is Discover Northern Ireland. It was photos of the landscapes—coastal landscapes, the mountains, and the people. Nail on the head: Explore, discover and live.
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Love it, but... I always look forward to reading a Dan Brooks column. Almost always thought provoking, as well as being in my basket of non-deplorables. So I was cruising right along with both thumbs up and a smile on my face as Dan gnawed on the idiocy of Rep. Usher’s so-called bike safety bill, also known as the “don’t make us slow down to keep us from killing cyclists” bill (“A wheelie bad bill,” Jan. 26). So I was grooving on Dan’s riff until I got to the second-to-last paragraph, where my brain did a locked front wheel fly-over. I quote: “We should not condemn drivers for their irrational anger at cyclists, because people aren’t rational, especially behind the wheel.” Wait, what? Well, yes, folks are often irrational behind the wheel. Just Google and enjoy the ’50s Disney animation “Motor Mania,” starring Goofy. But anyone who values life and rational thought should condemn (deplore, hold accountable) drivers who operate a machine with deadly potential while being in an irrational and even malicious frame of mind. If an irrational friend tells me she wants to put brothel-style wallpaper in her bathroom, I’d say “Hey, whatever.” If she says anyone stupid enough to ride their bike on a rural Montana road deserves to get hit, I’d say “Whoa, that’s messed up!” But thank you, Dan, for an excellent closing paragraph to go with a very good overall column. Eugene Schmitz Missoula
of training for responding to violence against women. And although the full police force is trained in responding to sexual assault, the three-hour training is arguably insufficient, even paired with a few other brief trainings. If the Missoula police department wanted to offer comprehensive domestic violence response training to all of its police force, the department could apply for a STOP grant from VAWA. I urge them to consider it. However, given the likelihood that the U.S. Attorney General will be Jeff Sessions, it is
“That Sen. Steve Daines supports Jeff Sessions’ nomination for U.S. Attorney General speaks volumes about his lack of support for Montana
Training in short supply
women.”
I am a domestic violence survivor. I also had the misfortune of witnessing my nextdoor neighbor be assaulted by her boyfriend in broad daylight last June. I called the police immediately, but by the time they arrived, the man had fled. The police spoke with my neighbor but informed me there was nothing they could do if she denied he’d hit her. They informed me that they told her they knew she was lying. I understood that they were trying to get her to help them make the arrest, but as a survivor myself I also realized that they did not have adequate training in handling the situation. Victims of domestic violence often will not admit the truth because they fear for their ongoing safety and, often, for their lives. Under the Violence Against Women Act ( VAWA), the STOP grant is one source of funding that police departments like Missoula’s can apply for to provide their officers with adequate training in responding to domestic violence calls. According to a spreadsheet on their website, three officers out of Missoula’s police force receive 28-30 hours
probable that VAWA will be eliminated entirely. Jeff Sessions has a record of voting against bills and provisions that would help the most vulnerable and oppressed populations in the U.S., and this includes his repeated votes against VAWA. That Sen. Steve Daines supports Jeff Sessions’ nomination for U.S. Attorney General speaks volumes about his lack of support for Montana women. Though I don’t hold out any hope that Daines will reverse course on his support for Sessions, I do hope that with or without VAWA grant funding, the Missoula police force can find ways to provide comprehensive training to more officers responding to intimate partner violence. Emily Withnall Missoula
Oppose Tom Price On Tuesday, Jan. 24, I and a group of Missoula constituents were turned away from a scheduled meeting with Sen. Steve Daines’ staff. What follows is the statement I would have given to the senator, had our scheduled meeting been honored: As a mother and small business owner, I am deeply concerned about Sen. Steve Daines apparent opposition to expanded Medicaid and CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides insurance for thousands of Montana children, including my daughter. On Jan. 12, 2017, Sen. Daines voted yes on a senate budget resolution that will cut federal funding for the CHIP program. Now the senator has another opportunity to stand up for Montana families by opposing the nomination of Tom Price for Director of Health and Human Services. In his senate hearings, Tom Price has refused to commit to ensuring that Montana families who depend on Medicaid for health care will not lose their coverage. However, Sen. Daines has stated that he plans to vote in favor of Price’s nomination—a decision that will have grave consequences for Montana families like mine. In addition to being parents of a 1.5-year-old daughter, my husband and I own Tandem Bakery in Missoula. We started our business four years ago as a stand at the Clark Fork Farmers market with $1,000 of our own money. We reinvested all of our profit back into the business and now we are a year-round wholesale bakery with five employees. We are entrepreneurs, building a business for ourselves, providing jobs and contributing to the local economy. But this is a new venture, and we are trying to grow without taking on debt, so we still pour all of our profit back into the bakery. This means that in addition to raising our daughter and running the business, my husband also works a day job—which does not offer health insurance. Medicaid and CHIP have allowed us to take the risk of starting a new business. Without these programs, my family would not be able to afford health insurance, and because we cannot allow our young daughter to go without coverage, we would have to close our business and fire our employees. If Sen. Daines is truly pro-family and pro-small-business, he will support CHIP and expanded Medicaid, and he will vote no on Tom Price. Beth Gherlein Missoula
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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by Amy Donovan
Wednesday, Jan. 25 A GoFundMe page raises more than $13,000 toward the medical bills of a Kalispell woman who suffered an internal decapitation in a snowmobiling accident earlier this month. Ashley Gilbert, 27, is recovering from surgery and her family says she’s able to walk and talk.
Thursday, Jan. 26 Missoula police issue a warning about a rash of thefts from cars parked on Reserve Street near the Carmike theater. Police note that most of the thefts are of wallets, purses and other valuables left in plain view on the seat.
Friday, Jan. 27 State Department of Agriculture inspectors comb through the Ravalli County Administration Building after several dead bats were found in the top floors. Tests showed the bats died of DDT poisoning. Officials are still searching for the source of the pesticide, which was banned in 1972.
Saturday, Jan. 28 Missoula Community Radio 105.5 FM hosts its first DJ training at the Union Hall, followed by a launch celebration. The nonprofit, lowpower station’s programming includes local music, political discussion and something called “Conspiranoia Maximus.”
The Thin White Dame sings David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream” at Saturday night’s Panty Rock Drag Show at the Palace. The show was a fundraiser for the UM Women’s Resource Center’s Feb. 10 production of The Vagina Monologues at Dennison Theatre.
Lions in winter
Sunday, Jan. 29 In response to the Trump administration’s immigration ban, an estimated 700 people gather in Caras Park to express support for Muslims and refugees.
Monday, Jan. 30 Three floors of the Capitol rotunda in Helena are packed with citizens decrying Republican proposals to transfer or sell federal lands. One protester’s sign reads, “Keep your pussy-grabbing hands off our wild Alaskan bush.”
Tuesday, Jan. 31 In still more protest news, Affordable Care Act supporters rally outside the offices of Montana Sen. Steve Daines and other senators in Washington, D.C. Supporters of the group say that 47 protesters have been arrested and escorted out of the building.
FWP removals draw ire Jamie Jonkel paints a pretty crazy scene up Grant Creek the past few weeks. His agency, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, observed as a female mountain lion with three kittens worked her way down the drainage in mid-January. The lion killed a dog. Another dog went missing. Unable to ignore such “red-flag behavior,” Jonkel says, FWP killed the lions on Jan. 16. Barely a week passed before another group of lions began displaying similarly troubling behavior: hanging out near houses, peering in windows, even killing a deer in a residential front lawn. Wardens were unable to haze two subadult males away from the carcass, so those lions, too, were put down. “We cut a lot of lions a lot of slack,” Jonkel says, “but when they start showing these extreme behaviors, that’s when the protocol kicks in for removal.” This winter hasn’t been an easy one for wildlife. Deep snowpack has forced deer and elk to seek easier
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forage in the Missoula Valley. Predictably, lions have followed. But FWP’s response to lion activity in the neighborhoods of lower Grant Creek has drawn the critical eye of a Sacramento-based nonprofit called the Mountain Lion Foundation. Executive Director Lynn Cullens claims the deaths of six lions were unnecessary. She points to Idaho Fish and Game’s successful relocation of a mother lion and three kittens in Pocatello on Jan. 19. “They were able to capture the kittens, relocate them, and then come back and capture the mother and relocate her,” Cullens says. “We hope that Montana will be moving toward that more humane response in the future.” Cullens’ organization became aware of the Grant Creek incidents after being contacted by several locals. Cullens acknowledges that the situation is “nuanced,” describing the compounding factors of a dry fall, a mother with kittens and heavy snowfall as a “triple whammy.” As troubled as she is by FWP’s decision to remove the lions,
she does agree with Jonkel on a key point: Much of the responsibility for avoiding such conflicts falls on Missoula residents. “These kinds of issues happen every day all across the West where mountain lions are coexisting with their human neighbors,” Cullens says, “and it really is about changing human behavior.” To that end, Jonkel is doing what he and the agency have done for years: spreading the word among locals to remove attractants that might draw deer—and deer predators—into town. If residents are illegally leaving out salt licks or food, “We are going after those folks,” he says. As for the prospect of relocating lions in the future, Jonkel has a less rosy outlook. The agency has tried it twice in the Missoula area in recent years, he says, and neither time was successful. “Mountain lions don’t do so well when you plop them into a new area,” Jonkel says. “Lions are very territorial critters. It’s cutthroat out there.” Alex Sakariassen
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[news] Resisting Trump
The start of something A ream of copy paper contains 500 sheets, and nearly all of the salmon-colored pages had been handed out by the time Women’s March on Montana organizer Rebecca Weston took the microphone at the Union Club last Saturday. The bar was packed more tightly than a rock concert, and uncomfortably so, such that latecomers squeezing around the pool tables could scarcely hear (let alone see) the speakers. A week earlier, on Donald Trump’s first day in office, many of those gathered had participated in the Montana component of one of the largest political demonstrations in U.S. history. The protests had sprung up spontaneously, lacking ties to any political organization or specific political goal, and many wondered if the energy that the marches had marshalled could be transformed into a movement. The Indy had discussed the question with Weston prior to the march, and on Saturday she pointed to the Union Club crowd as a kind of rejoinder. “Does this answer your question if this is the start of something?” she said. Activists are now trying to figure out what that “something” needs to be if they are to “stop this regime,” as Weston put it. A recent Guardian column written by an Occupy movement organizer and shared to the planning session’s Facebook page critiqued recent marches for being purely symbolic, arguing that such demonstrations alone are unlikely to lead to change. “The only way to attain sovereignty—the supreme authority over the functioning of our governments—is to use social protest to win elections or win wars,” the author wrote. “Either we can march to the ballot box or the battleground; there is no third option.” Indeed, the Women’s March was dismissed by Montana GOP chairman Jeff Essmann, who tweeted, “Montana Women’s March draws an estimated 10,000 and tomorrow morning Trump will still be president.” The weekend meetup was local anti-Trump activists’ first chance to make their next move. The salmon-colored “feedback” forms asked marchers for their suggestions, including next steps for “this movement.” The organizers, however, are not looking for silver bullets. “This is not about having one idea,” Weston said at the outset. Rather, the Women’s March on Montana is transforming into a series of local “resistance collectives” that can connect new activists with existing resources
and identify shared needs between partnering groups. So, after brief remarks, the meeting turned into a sort of activism fair where attendees shuffled between advocates representing causes that ranged from climate change to women’s health care to refugees to dismantling the electoral college. The “Berniecrats”—progressives who didn’t support Hillary Clinton for president—were represented, too. There were plenty of action items on the menu, from upcoming protests to trainings on leadership and civil disobedience. Micah Nielsen, of Montana Women Vote, implored her listeners to help the group defend the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion. She needed volunteers to make phone calls and was looking for beneficiaries of the health care law who were willing to share their personal stories. “We need to hear from you,” she said, standing on a chair to project the message through the crowd. “And we need to hear from you now.” Derek Brouwer
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Mary Avenue freeze-out It’s a mellow afternoon on Harve Avenue, same as most any other Saturday since Pete and Debra Kottre moved here back in 1996. Pete slowly rocks in his recliner, a pinkish afghan draped behind him. Debra routinely gets up to check on dinner. Whatever it is, it smells good. “I have a little basketball hoop I used to set up during the summertime and play basketball out in the street,” Pete says. “I don’t see that ever happening again.” Pete is about as fired up as a laid-back guy like Pete gets. Several nights earlier he’d attended his first-ever Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council meeting, hoping to learn more about the city’s plan to convert Mary Avenue, which currently dead-ends at the railroad tracks two blocks north of his home, into an east-west connector. Usually he would have been catching a few winks before his midnight shift at Garden City Janitorial, one of Pete’s two jobs. “They’re so far down the road now I don’t even know if there’s anything we can do,” he says. “I don’t know how the process goes, but it feels like I’ve been steamrolled already.” The Mary project, slated to go out for bid in March,
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On a recent post-snowstorm Tuesday morning, an Indy staffer waited alongside several other people lined up at a bus stop on the Northside. The bus was due any minute. They waited. As snowflakes melted on their phone screens, the Mountain Line app showed that the bus was supposed to be on time. They waited. The app refreshed, now showing that the next arrival time wouldn’t be for 45 minutes. “I don’t think the bus is coming,” remarked one young woman, whose backpack was stuffed with what looked like a poster for a class presentation. For regular riders of the Mountain Line bus system, this year’s unusually cold and snowy winter has wreaked havoc on normal schedules. Our staffer has more than once missed a bus that was running minutes off the schedule indicated by the app. Mountain Line’s outreach coordinator, Bill Pfeiffer, says it’s been a difficult season. He, too, takes the bus to work most days. “The snowier the winter, the more we’re affected,” Pfeiffer says. “We’re doing our best to respond to those issues.” Pfeiffer says winter delays are compounded by icy streets, snow berms, traffic jams and Madison Street bridge construction. The faulty app is a work in progress—Pfeiffer says different layers of GPS and scheduling data come from different software vendors, which is why the schedule information is sometimes confusing. Nonetheless, Mountain Line continues to report record ridership since starting its zero-fare demonstration project in 2015. Mountain Line counted 1.6 million passengers in 2016. Pfeiffer says the system provides more extensive service than any other municipal bus line in Montana. Not that that’s any consolation on a cold morning when our intrepid Indy staffer can’t afford to wait any longer, despite her preference for environmentally friendly modes of travel. With Tuesday deadlines to meet, she marched back to her house, brushed the snow off her car and drove to work. Her neighbors continued to wait. For many Missoulians, taking the bus is a necessity, not an option. When the bus doesn’t come, they’re left out in the cold.
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would link Reserve Street to Brooks via the Southgate Mall property. Projections put the traffic increase at 4,000 new cars per day, and Pete is convinced that up to a quarter of those will cut south on Eaton to avoid Reserve, taking them right past his house near Eaton’s junction with Harve. The proposal has been addressed in public meetings related to the mall expansion for at least a year. The Missoula Redevelopment Agency contracted a local engineering firm last spring to conduct neighborhood outreach. Still, Pete says, he was taken by surprise. He’s not the only one. “I would say at least 90 percent—and that’s a low estimate—of the people we canvassed did not know anything about the project,” says Cathy Scribner. “Or they heard vaguely that something was going to be happening.” Scribner and Pat Ortmeyer live across Harve from the Kottres with two dogs Ortmeyer rented the house 17 years ago because the area was “quiet and affordable” and eventually bought it from her landlord. Neither Scribner nor Ortmeyer had heard about the city’s plans until a few months ago. They took it upon themselves to contact roughly 30 neighbors in January to build awareness and urge others to speak up to their neighborhood council. They never received a mailer. No one knocked on their door. Ortmeyer understands the challenge facing city officials. Missoula is growing, the mall is growing, and dealing with growth is no easy task. But if residents on streets south of Mary are being asked to absorb the impacts of the new eastwest corridor, she thinks they deserve to be included—even at the 11th hour. “I feel like our feet are in cement a little bit, literally in the foundations of these homes,” Ortmeyer says. “We’re sitting here, kind of immobile, while this all happens to us. All we’ve got left is to at least have a voice in how the world around us looks.” Alex Sakariassen
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Slow drip Approaching closure on Mountain Water by Kate Whittle
With a recent Montana Supreme Court ruling denying a stalling tactic from Mountain Water, the city of Missoula now has a slightly clearer path to assuming ownership of the utility. On Jan. 26, the Supreme Court opted not to intervene in a district court judge’s order that requires Mountain Water to hand over customer and employee data. City Councilman Bryan von Lossberg says that paves the way for the city to transition smoothly into ownership. “I was glad to see the ruling,” von Lossberg says. “It feels like a dance we’ve done a few times before.” Even if the Supreme Court had intervened, that wouldn’t have changed the fact that Mountain Water lost the city’s eminent domain case in August 2016. Von Lossberg suspects that the utility’s corporate owner, Liberty Utilities, is directing Mountain Water’s continuing opposition to the city. “There’s every reason to be skeptical and wary about the actions that Liberty will take,” von Lossberg says. Aside from legal correspondence, Mountain Water is maintaining silence about the transaction. Michelle Halley, the utility’s business administration manager and media contact, says she can’t offer further comment on the condemnation process. “I point to Mountain Water’s filings that state our position on these items,” Halley says. Setting condemnation proceedings aside, a bigger question remains on the city’s horizon: how much the long-contested utility will cost. A valuation panel determined last year that the utility’s fairmarket price is $88.6 million. But a group of developers including Edgell Building, Mostad Construction and Shelter West filed suit against Mountain Water and the city in 2015 in judge Leslie Halligan’s court, claiming they’re collectively owed more than $22 million for investments they made to extend the utility into new subdivisions. If Halligan decides that the valuation panel failed to take those obligations into account, that $22 million could be added to the $88.6 million before a final cost is reached. Halligan’s decision is due at any time.
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Meanwhile, the city’s financial advisers are developing a plan to compensate Mountain Water with a short-term financing package called a “bond anticipation note”—a temporary loan tendered in anticipation of a long-term bond replacing it. City Communications Director Ginny Merriam says city staffers are still working out details of the loan, which will be issued by London-based Barclays Financial Services. Mountain Water has sharply critiqued the city’s financing plan. In a letter presented to city council in December, Mountain Water management detailed a laundry
additional costs once it takes possession of the utility. “The amount that we know about the system is only what we learned through going to court about it,” Merriam says. “We know it delivers water reliably and has a leakage rate of about 50 percent. In terms of what needs to happen with improvements to the system, the city won’t know that until we’re allowed to be hands-on with it.” She says the city’s financial advisers, including city staffers, Barclays and Minnesotabased consulting firm Springsted, feel confident that in a few years the city will be
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Missoula city officials hope this is the year they can finally take ownership and begin operation of the long-contested water utility—but important financial questions remain unresolved.
list of concerns about the short-term package, comparing the scheme to the subprime housing loan crisis of the mid-2000s. “If you can’t get the financing you need now, it’s a dangerous gamble to buy it on a short-term variable interest rate note today on the hope you can refinance it with traditional long-term fixed rate debt in a few years when interest rates are likely to increase,” the letter warns. The city defends its short-term strategy, which is intended to provide flexibility while the ultimate cost of Mountain Water is still unsettled, according to Merriam. Besides the developers’ agreements, the city anticipates discovering
in a better position to refinance the loan and take on a 30-year financing package. Mayor John Engen has stated that the utility’s profits will go toward repaying the loan. Merriam says she expects the proposed short-term financing package to come before a council committee sometime in mid-February. Von Lossberg says council members are eager to approve a financing plan. “We’re anxious to get back to that point where we’ve got something to make a decision on and go forward,” von Lossberg says. “The sooner the better.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Buyouts on the table UM explores a new strategy to right-size staff by Derek Brouwer
State and campus administrators are considering a buyout program as one way to reduce faculty and staff at the University of Montana. At the request of UM interim president Sheila Stearns, staffers in the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education are exploring legal and logistical questions to determine if buyouts could help reduce salary expenses at the cashstrapped campus, confirms Kevin McRae, the deputy commissioner for communications and human resources. While those discussions appear to be in an early stage, they indicate how quickly Stearns’ interim administration is moving to develop cost-cutting strategies. In her first public address, on Jan. 19, Stearns echoed earlier statements by campus and state officials suggesting that UM may need to reduce the percentage of its budget spent on salaries by as much as 10 percent. She has not announced a timeline for any such reductions. The Indy became aware of the buyout discussion after reviewing a copy of Commissioner Clayton Christian’s calendar, which the office supplied in response to a records request. The calendar contains a Jan. 25 appointment titled “Discuss UM Buyout Plan.” McRae says the appointment consisted of a “20-second” meeting between him and Christian in which the commissioner asked him to study options regarding an early retirement buyout or incentive program. Specifically, administrators want to determine if buyouts could be offered in a nondiscriminatory way while still achieving strategic goals, he says. “The nondiscriminatory aspects that come into play sometimes make it an unwieldy concept to administer,” he says. UM’s Director of Communications, Paula Short, was unaware of any buyout discussions when contacted by the Indy. After meeting with Stearns in Helena, where the president was receiving a Governor’s Humanities Award, Short says that Stearns’ request of Christian “was informational for her benefit and based on a question posed to her recently during a strategic planning session.”
Stearns and Christian have met at least weekly since she assumed presidential duties on Dec. 12, the commissioner’s calendar indicates. By comparison, Engstrom and Christian had no private appointments scheduled between Aug. 5 and Oct. 31. On Oct. 31, the pair was scheduled to visit for three hours. Stearns, in a subsequent conversation after an online version of this story was published, said the buyout information request was one of “dozens of wide-ranging questions” she’s asked during her first month.
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UM interim President Sheila Stearns says she asked state higher education officials to research whether the university could offer buyouts as a way to reduce staff.
Campuses in the Montana University System have not offered widespread faculty buyouts in recent history. The commissioner’s office did coordinate with Montana State University approximately 10 years ago to offer early retirement packages to a handful of faculty, according to McRae. Nationally, however, buyouts are becoming an increasingly common method for public and private universities to cut costs, particularly as faculty get older. The Atlantic reported on the
trend last June, noting that the proportion of professors over age 65 doubled from 2000 to 2011. “The buyout programs seem like a direct path to reducing the numbers of most highly paid employees,” the magazine reported. “But it also poses a risk: When those professors leave, their tenure-track positions may be replaced with non-tenure-track ones, meaning that over time, the number of tenured positions on campus could plummet.” Given UM’s enrollment crisis, University Faculty Association President Paul Haber sees buyouts as a good alternative to outright terminations. The idea has come up during his conversations with other faculty, and Haber says he’s glad to hear administrators are also thinking about it. “I’d certainly rather have people resign and feel good about it than have to fire people,” he says. “I like that a lot better.” A year ago, then-President Royce Engstrom oversaw the elimination of 192 full-time positions from the general fund budget. Most of the reductions were accomplished by scrubbing already-vacant positions and funding others through alternative budget sources. That budget-cutting exercise included 27 terminations. UM’s budget was balanced this academic year, but the future is less certain. The university system is likely to take a funding cut from the Montana Legislature this spring, while Stearns has said that her budget team is planning for a 1,400-student enrollment decline next fall. Stearns also told the mid-year address audience that UM must report its 2018 fiscal year budget to the Board of Regents in May, according to the Missoulian. McRae says campuses don’t typically present budgets until the regents’ September meeting, but adds that regents “could and might” decide to accelerate the process. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Follow the leader? Greg Gianforte has a decision to make about Trump by Dan Brooks
If Greg Gianforte did not have hundreds of millions of dollars, I would say he was unlucky. Last week, the entrepreneur and former candidate for governor announced that he will seek the Republican nomination to fill Rep. Ryan Zinke’s soonto-be-vacant seat in the House of Representatives. In a fundraising email with a Gianforte For Congress logo, he firmly aligned himself with not just the national GOP, but also that famous president we all know and love, Donald Trump. “This race will be ground zero and the first official battle waged by the Democrats to stop the Republican/Trump agenda,” Gianforte wrote. “I simply will not stand on the sidelines and allow that to happen. I’m ready to fight for our shared Montana values.” One day later, the Republican/Trump agenda took an ugly turn. In a move that triggered protests across the country and caught the Department of Homeland Security by surprise, Trump issued an executive order stopping refugees from entering the United States for the next 120 days. The order banned refugees from Syria indefinitely and barred visitors of any kind from seven other predominantly Muslim nations. Multiple federal judges issued injunctions against the order, but some customs officials refused to comply with the injunctions, even after members of Congress tried to intervene. At this writing, we are headed for a constitutional crisis. Gianforte could not have picked a less auspicious moment to align himself with President Trump. The subject of refugees was already a black mark on his gubernatorial campaign. In October, he sent out a mailer depicting a black-clad mujahideen and promising to keep refugees out of Montana—even though the governor has no authority to do so, and even though no refugees to the United States have ever committed acts of terrorism. It was the low point of an otherwise high-minded campaign, and it implied confusion about what “our shared Montana values” might really be. Worse than that, it belied his Christian principles. Gianforte’s commitment to
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biblical Christianity has been a strength and a weakness of his nascent political career. His image as an absurd literalist has dogged him ever since his remarks to the Montana Bible College in 2015. Gianforte has paid the price for his religious convictions. Why, then, would he sell them out
“For better and for worse, Gianforte has made biblical values a lodestone of his public life. Throwing them over to support Trump puts party loyalty ahead of his religious beliefs.”
for a president who wears his Christianity like a necktie—something for public appearances and important meetings that he takes off as soon as he is alone? There is nothing Christian about refusing refugees. To specifically ban immigrants with refugee status and say that the United States will only welcome people who aren’t fleeing wars or persecution inverts the values of the Christian gospels. It specifically rejects the people Jesus told
his followers to embrace. For better and for worse, Gianforte has made biblical values a lodestone of his public life. Throwing them over to support Trump puts party loyalty ahead of his religious beliefs. But even if Gianforte were just a Sunday-morning Christian, he would still be on the horns of a dilemma now. The president’s executive order, issued without consulting the DHS and other interested agencies in the usual ways to prepare the usual legal justifications, signals a willingness to ignore established protocol. Trump issued this mostly symbolic order faster than he needed to, in a way that seemed designed to provoke legal challenges. He appears to be intentionally creating a conflict between the executive and judicial branches. This weekend, members of the House of Representatives who went to Dulles International Airport to demand that customs agents abide by federal-court injunctions were turned away by police. Gianforte aspires to join the House as Montana’s representative. As a congressman, does he plan to side with the “Republican/Trump agenda” against Congress? These are choices he must make now, so that Montana voters understand what he intends to do if he does take office. It’s a good thing Gianforte has money and Jesus, because the timing of his announcement and this weekend’s incipient crisis suggests he doesn’t have much luck. But every crisis is also an opportunity. If he is looking for a chance to make his faith a meaningful part of his public life, this is it. He should repudiate Trump’s unconstitutional, anti-Christian ban on refugees and Muslims. He should put himself on the right side of history while he still can. There is a conflict coming between President Trump and the American system of government. Gianforte should take care that he does not choose the wrong side just so he can put himself in the middle of it. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the huddled masses yearning to be whatever at combatblog.net.
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Longer than you The political appeal of going native by David Strohmaier
As we brace ourselves for the likelihood of a special U.S. House election, prepare to hear boasts from candidates that “I’m a third (or fourth or fifth) generation Montanan.” This isn’t anything new, as we’ve endured identical campaign claims throughout previous election cycles. The upshot is clear, though. The longer you live in a location, the more “native” you are to it, and therefore the more qualified you are to represent it in elected office. I’m increasingly convinced that this is largely meaningless rhetoric, rooted in the belief that length of tenure leads to a superior understanding of how best to represent and legislate for the places where we live. First, a confession. Having served in elected office, I, too, have laid claim to my ancestry and roots as evidence that I’m not merely some opportunistic carpetbagger seeking personal enrichment or power, but rather someone who is here for the long haul. Indeed, my German-Ukrainian grandparents moved in the 1910s to northeast Montana, where they homesteaded a chunk of prairie south of Wolf Point, but failed to eke a living off the land and ended up moving to Oregon in the 1920s. On the other side of my family, in the 1890s, my great-grandfather operated a butcher shop in Butte before being convicted of rustling cattle to supply his shop with beef. After he died in prison at Deer Lodge, his wife and kids moved to the Pacific Northwest. In a homecoming of sorts, my wife and I moved in the 1990s to Missoula, where we’ve lived ever since. The tenure argument is not completely without merit. I do feel a special connection to the landscape knowing that my ancestors lived and died here, and that my dad and both of my kids were born here. But let’s be honest. Some of my forebears were scoundrels and not necessarily model stewards of the land. Is it really the case that my 10and 13-year-old kids are better caretakers of this place than I am, simply by
virtue of the fact that they drew their first breaths in Big Sky Country? Length of tenure is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to know or care for a place. Nor is living close to the land any guarantee that one will respect the good earth or develop the
“Is it really the case that my 10and 13-year-old kids are better caretakers of this place than I am, simply by virtue of the fact that they drew their first breaths in Big Sky Country?”
virtue of loving one’s neighbor. In some cases, such ruralism devolves into the opposite attributes: insularity, closemindedness, a shunning of diversity or openness to strangers, and viewing the land as a mere resource to use and, in some cases, abuse. Take the polarized politics of the West as another counter-argument to why length of tenure does not guaran-
tee that we all arrive at the same conclusions regarding governance or policy. I know plenty of third- and fourth-generation Montana Republicans and Democrats who are poles apart politically. Clearly, having ancestry in a location for generations does not lead inexorably to a specific political ideology or worldview. And something tells me that dyed-in-the-wool conservatives and liberals will more willingly support a newcomer (or carpetbagger) who shares their core values than vote for someone perceived to be on the wrong side of history or party platform, even if their lineage stretches back generations. If we really followed “native” logic to its ultimate conclusion, we’d elect more American Indian leaders, since when it comes length of tenure, familial connections that stretch back thousands of years make a mockery of third- or fourth- or fifthgeneration boasts. Becoming truly native to a place requires intentionality and rootedness that transcends length of tenure. Living in a place for many years, or generations, can help cultivate intentionality and connectedness and a moral sense of stewardship, but it can also arise from choosing to make a place your home during your own lifetime. Being truly native entails learning the seasonal rhythms of a place and understanding the origin of traditions while being willing to question them in light of the broader world. This, and looking out for the well-being of future generations, is perhaps a better way to understand being native, or becoming native, than mere length of residency within township, range and section borders that have little connection to how well we nurture the places where we reside. Dave Strohmaier serves on the Missoula County Board of Commissioners. He is a historian and former Missoula city councilman and the author of two books on wildfire in the Western United States.
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SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED – Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara Holbrook said she flubbed the “correct” answer for “author motivation”—in two of her own poems that were on the test. Writing in Huffington Post in January, a disheartened Holbrook lamented, “Kids’ futures and the evaluations of their teachers will be based on their ability to guess the so-called correct answer to (poorly) made-up questions.” COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – In December, James Leslie Kelly, 52, and with a 37-conviction rap sheet dating to 1985, filed a federal lawsuit in Florida claiming that his latest brush with the law was Verizon’s fault and not his. Kelly was convicted of stealing the identity of another James Kelly and taking more than $300 in Verizon services. He bases his case on the Verizon sales representative’s having spent “an hour and a half” with him—surely enough time, he says, to have figured out that he was not the James Kelly he was pretending to be. He seeks $72 million. IRONIES – London’s The Guardian reported in January that “dozens” of people have been charged or jailed recently for “defaming” the new Myanmar government, which has been headed (in a prime-minister-like role) since April by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected after her release from house detention following two decades of persecution for criticizing the longtime military regime. For her struggle for free speech, Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Said the wife of the latest arrestee, Myo Yan Naung Thein, on trial for “criminal defamation” of Suu Kyi’s regime, “This is not insulting—this is just criticizing, with facts. This is freedom of speech.” THE LITIGIOUS SOCIETY – High Finance: Sometime in 2006, a photographer on assignment roamed a Chipotle restaurant in Denver, snapping photos of customers. Leah Caldwell was one person photographed, but says she refused to sign the photographer’s “release”—and was surprised, nevertheless, to see a photo of herself in a Chipotle promotion in 2014 and again in 2015 (and on her table in the photo were “alcoholic beverages” she denied ever ordering). In January, Caldwell said the misuse of her image is Chipotle’s fault for ignoring her non-”release,” and thus that she is entitled to all of the profits Chipotle earned between 2006 and 2015: $2.237 billion. PRECOCIOUS – In December, Ashlynd Howell, age 6, of Little Rock, Arkansas, deftly mashed her sleeping mother’s thumbprint onto her phone to unlock the Amazon app and order $250 worth of Pokemon toys. Mom later noticed 13 email confirmations and asked Ashlynd if something was amiss. According to the Wall Street Journal report, Ashlynd said, “No, Mommy, I was shopping.” LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – The British think tank High Pay Centre reported in January that the average CEO among the U.K.’s top 100 companies (in the Financial Times Stock Exchange index) earns the equivalent of around $1,600 an hour—meaning that a 12-hour-a-day boss will earn, by mid-day Jan. 4, as much money as the typical worker at his firm will earn the entire year. (Around the same time, the anti-poverty organization Oxfam reported, to an astonished press, that eight men—six Americans, headed by Bill Gates—have the same total “net worth” as the 3.6 billion people who comprise the poorest half of the planet.) An organization that tracks “high net worth” investors (Spectrem Group of Lake Forest, Illinois) reported recently that, of Americans worth $25 million or more, only about two-thirds donate $10,000 or more yearly to charity. And then there is Charles Feeney, 85, of New York City, who in December made his final gift to charity ($7 million to Cornell University), completing his pledge to give away almost everything he had—$8 billion. (He left his wife and himself $2 million to live on, in their rental apartment in San Francisco.) A January New York Times profile noted that nothing is “named” for Feeney, that the gifts were mostly anonymous, and that Feeney assiduously cultivated his low profile. A “disturbingly large” (according to one report) number of smartphone apps are available devoted to calculating how much the user has “earned” per day and per year during restroom breaks answering nature’s calls while at work. Australia’s News Limited’s rough calculation estimated $1,227 for someone making $55,000 a year, but results might vary since there are so many apps: Poop Salary, ToiletPay, Log-Log, Paid 2 Poo, Pricy Poop, Poop Break and perhaps others. PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US – “Every major event in my life has been about insects,” Aaron Rodriques, 26, told The New York Times in December, home in New York City during a winter break from his doctoral research at Purdue University on the “sweet tergal secretions” of German cockroaches, and on his way to buy a supply of crickets and hornworms. (“Hornworms,” he said, have an “amazing defense” where they “eat tobacco for the nicotine, which they exhale as a gas to scare away predators.”) “When I’m feeling stressed out,” Rodriques said, he might take one out to “calm me down.” He met his first girlfriend when she was attracted to his pet giant African millipede (as long as a human forearm), but admits that “for the vast majority” of time in school, “I was alone.” Thanks this week to Brian Bixby and Mel Birge, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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ou’ve seen the green “Get Lost” stickers. You remember the state outline and the simple slogan. It’s Montana’s “Got Milk,” and in the world of 406-centric bumper art, it’s a standard-bearer. “I don’t know if I remember an ah-ha moment,” says Jeff Welch, CEO of MercuryCSC, the Bozeman advertising agency that hatched the campaign in 2010. “It’s a process of pushing and changing words and changing images until you get to a place and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is it, this is good.’” The “Get Lost” campaign was a recession recovery effort aimed at the regional “drive market”: people from Billings and Salt Lake and Spokane who might dream of getting lost, or of losing themselves, in Montana. But the slogan couldn’t be contained.
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“It went bigger than we ever expected,” Welch says. “We had no idea. You just started seeing the stickers around. Then people would send you a photo and it’s on a car in Croatia. Or a Delta Airlines vehicle going through the airport in Minneapolis.” The owner of a white mid-sized sedan covered the car’s hood and rearview mirrors with “Get Lost” stickers. “I think the beauty of ‘Get Lost’ was you’d see one on a Subaru, someone who probably had it on there for the intended purpose, which is, ‘Go out and explore this great place where we live and love,’” Welch says. “Then you’d see it on the back of a pickup that had a gun rack, a beat-up old pickup, and it was like, ‘No, really: Get lost. We don’t want you here.’ That duality
is what ended up being the genius. You get lucky sometimes.” During the nine years that MercuryCSC held the coveted Montana Office of Tourism contract, the agency was responsible for marketing Big Sky Country to the world. Remember “There’s Nothing Here”? Today, MercuryCSC is no longer part of the team pushing Montana as a travel destination. It opted out of a bidding process in 2016 that allocated as much as $9 million in annual funding for state marketing. Sources in the state’s advertising industry estimate that about $6 million of that will go toward media buys, mostly for online digital ads. That leaves as much as $3 million for agency staff and freelancers who might have worked in Montana. It’s these funds that will be diverted from in-
state creative professionals and into the portfolio of Wisconsin firm Hoffman York. Hoffman York’s website flaunts highend advertising campaigns for Yamaha outboard motors and Wahl electric shavers. The agency motto, “Return On Ideas,” has an efficient air to it. It’s firstrate work, but none of it promotes tourism. It’s not what’s referred to in the business as destination marketing. Montana is one of 49 states—Washington no longer has an office of tourism— competing with one another and the rest of the world for tourism dollars. Estimates put the total global tourism market at more than $7 trillion. Of that, Montana does well to claim $3.7 billion a year. According to the Department of Commerce, Montana’s marketing efforts helped increase visitation by
photo courtesy of MercuryCSC
Sculptures of Montana wildlife, having been installed in Chicago as part of an “It’s Time” campaign, were transported back to Montana in custom crates designed to attract eyeballs and “social chatter” in transit.
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11.2 percent between 2011 and 2015. Over the same span, tourist spending increased by 31.8 percent. That means “Get Lost” and other campaigns successfully attracted what destination marketers call “high-value visitors.” MercuryCSC’s Welch sums it up this way: “Just about any metric would show you tourism in this state is in the best place it’s ever been.” So when news broke last August about Montana’s marketing getting outsourced to Wisconsin, many Montana creative professionals were left wondering: Who better than Montanans to tell Montana’s story?
For years, it was a successful relationship. Both the state and Mercury have fond memories of posting massive billboards in Chicago and plastering every square inch of Seattle’s Westlake metro station with Visit Montana images and text.
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In Chicago, a campaign called “It’s Time” played to a fact discovered in focus groups: That a trip to Montana is on the bucket list of many Windy City residents, but too many of them just can’t find the time. The campaign erected life-size statues of bison and bears around Chicago and handed out free huckleberry ice cream. (It may also have inspired a parody by The Onion, which ran a satirical story under the headline, “New Montana Tourism Campaign Marketed Toward Urban Bison.”) Mercury says the campaign generated a 109 percent increase in Montana visits by Illinois residents in 2015, helping drive an overall 4.4 percent increase in summertime visits. Other campaigns were similarly successful. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported that during Mercury’s tenure, “Montana added 1.5 million annual nonresident visitors, whose travel expenditure increased by $500 million.” So why did the agency and the state part company last year? Mercury’s work wasn’t the problem, industry insiders say.
f this were an advertising pitch deck and you were groggily watching a PowerPoint, here is where you’d see a slide reading, “How did we get here?” Let’s start in the late 1980s, when the Wendt Kochman agency in Great Falls held the state tourism contract. That lasted for 14 years until Bozeman’s Mercury Advertising filed a formal complaint about the state’s bidding process. Mercury complained that Wendt Kochman “did not follow the rules,” according to a 2003 story in the Great Falls Tribune. The state responded to Mercury’s complaint by splitting the contract’s money and responsibilities. Mercury came away with a $600,000 budget to promote winter sports in Montana. “Obviously, any time you lose a $600,000 piece of business it’s a big deal,” Wendt Kochman President and CEO Carl Kochman told the Tribune. The agency responded by laying off six employees. Mercury eventually took over all the state’s destination marketing work, supporting six staff positions at its shop in Bozeman.
But by 2016, its relationship with the Montana Office of Tourism had become one. “Relationships… things go sour,” Welch says of the split. “It happens in this business—especially a 10-plus-year relationship. Things can go in different directions.”
coming a charged campaign issue in the 2016 Montana gubernatorial race. It also marked the moment when the once strong grip that Montana agencies held on the prized state tourism contract started to slip.
“Changes in personnel and priorities are nothing new in the marketing world. What was special about this particular parting of ways is that it would end up becoming a charged campaign issue.” John Godwin, Montana’s delegate to the American Advertising Federation—the Ad Club, as it’s known in Godwin’s hometown of Great Falls—watched tensions between Mercury and the state build to a point that the creative spark driving the partnership went out. “I believe the relationship with Mercury soured so much that [the state] said, ‘That’s it, we’re done with them,’” says Godwin. “And Mercury said, ‘Well, we’re done with you.’” The state, Welch says, was no longer happy with Mercury’s work. When asked about it in late 2016, tourism officials kept the conversation upbeat. “I don’t have any beef to report on them,” said Travel Montana marketing chief Jennifer Pelej, soon after Hoffman York won the bid. “(Mercury) did great work with us for a number of years. We had a need to go and find efficiencies and have services that are best in class.” Changes in personnel and priorities are nothing new in the marketing world. What was special about this particular parting of ways is that it would end up be-
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enny Pelej took the reins as Montana’s tourism marketing chief in 2014. She supervised Mercury for more than a year before initiating a bid process whereby agencies vied for a chance to take Mercury’s existing work and run with it. The first assignment would be to promote a series of videos produced under the direction of MercuryCSC. In April 2016, two Montana agencies—Brickhouse Creative in Bozeman and The Wendt Agency in Great Falls— competed against nine out-ofstate firms for the chance to fill MercuryCSC’s shoes. It was a daunting challenge for a small firm like Brickhouse to throw its hat in the ring. The agency spent weeks preparing a 100-plus page response to the request for proposals.
photos courtesy of MercuryCSC
A faux “Montana Mercantile” (left) and life-size bison sculpture (right) were among the street props deployed in Chicago to attract attention to MercuryCSC’s “It’s Time” campaign. Encouraging social media engagement and mentions like #MontanaMoment (inset) is an increasingly crucial element of tourism marketing.
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Then, just five hours before the proposals were due, the state unexpectedly extended the deadline for agencies to submit materials. At least one agency apparently took advantage of the extension: Hoffman York. Bidders like David Thompson, founder and principal of Brickhouse, didn’t know at the time that the deadline extension allowed more competition into the process. “That’s ridiculous,” he says now, adding that he and the other competing agencies were kept in the dark. “I only heard later that it did involve Hoffman York,” he says. Each agency in the running was judged on its “understanding of the Montana brand” and the credentials and qualifications of its staff. A review committee headed by Pelej and her staff started to evaluate the proposals and share feedback. Thompson says his agency stood out, narrowly, as the points leader after the first round of evaluation. It looked like Brickhouse might get the chance to apply all of its experience with destination marketing to the state as a whole. “A lot of our clients, although they are based here in Montana, are trying to appeal to people in other places,” says Thompson. “So when we were presented with the opportunity to be the voice of Montana to
people in other places, it felt like, ‘Well, that’s something I’ve been doing for my whole professional life in Montana.’” Thompson felt good about the process, but then Brickhouse’s fortunes started to shift. As the evaluations of competing bids continued, the scores suddenly swung in Hoffman York’s favor, according to Thompson and others close to the process. The Wisconsin agency was scored “superior” while Brickhouse went on to receive failing
tract, which is up for review annually. “But maybe I’m a small-town kid.” Godwin is especially troubled by the disclosure that a relative of Pelej’s is employed by Hoffman York. The Department of Commerce stands by its decision that the connection didn’t influence the awarding of the contract. Others have a different take, including Rep. Ken Holmlund, R-Miles City, who blasted off an indignant guest opinion to
Pelej’s boss, Department of Commerce head Meg O’Leary. Looking to flip the script on Gov. Steve Bullock, whose campaign ads branded Gianforte as an out-of-stater, the Republican produced a cartoonish ad claiming the Democratic incumbent had just shipped millions of dollars’ worth of jobs to Wisconsin. The ad was inaccurate and ineffective, and the controversy eventually died down. Pelej, however, still won’t talk
“Things go sour. It happens in this business—especially a 10-plus-year relationship. Things can go in different directions.” scores in seven different categories. In the end, Hoffman York won the bid. Hoffman York declined multiple requests for comment on this story. “This is a process that is designed to be unbiased, and it worked as it is meant to be,” Pelej insisted when she was asked by reporters, as well as by the Ad Club’s Godwin. “That’s a lot of money to me,” Godwin says of the multi-million-dollar con-
the Billings Gazette, saying the deal with Hoffman York “stinks of blatant cronyism when an out-of-state company gets a contract this large even though they have no experience in the field.” As news spread that a Wisconsin firm had taken over an account long held and coveted by Montana ad agencies, Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte seized the opportunity to make political hay, calling for the resignation of
about it. She declined multiple interview requests for this story, saying through a spokesperson that the Department of Commerce had already spent enough time and resources discussing the issue.
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offman York took over the Travel Montana contract in 2016, but the door to the opportunity had opened a year earlier, when the Department of
Commerce merged the offices of Tourism and Business Development. “We’re marketing Montana not only as a state to come on vacation, but also one that you could expand your business into, or start a news business here,” says Commerce Dept. Spokesperson Daniel Iverson, explaining the streamlining of the state’s self-promotion efforts. Iverson says Montana’s slogan of the moment—“The Sky’s The Limit”—is meant to work as an umbrella catch-phrase for the combined offices. “That’s the first campaign that we launched since this merger occurred, and it was designed to tie in both pieces,” Iverson says. “It’s all about being able to reach your potential in Montana.” Hoffman York brings a one-stop shop approach to the state’s tourism initiatives. That differs from the Montana-focused system that preceded it, which allowed local agencies to partner with outside vendors. That kept the creative work in Montana, but gave campaigns global reach through partnerships with outside public relations and media-buying agencies. Hoffman York will partner with a web development firm in Great Falls, but the bulk of the creative work will remain in Milwaukee. “We do remain confident we made the right decision, and I hope people will
PLEASE LIKE ME! The dangerous world of destination marketing Every place from Rhode Island to Ravalli County wants to be liked. So they build a marketing campaign and put themselves out there. Then the public responds, and if the elusive magic of great advertising isn’t there, the feedback is often unkind. In Montana, Havre promotes itself with “Havre Has It,” provoking laughs among the ill-informed who don’t appreciate all this jewel of the Hi-Line has to offer. They suggest a new catchphrase: “You Can Havre.” Some in Billings don’t find their hometown to be “The Magic City.” They’ve rewritten the moniker to read: “Buildings—the Tragic City.” In March 2016, a new billboard appeared just north of Lolo. It showed an angler with a largemouth bass—a nonnative species—on the line. For many Bitterroot locals, that was akin to putting a lion on a postcard for Yellowstone. The trout-loving public convulsed, with one
fisherman telling the Ravalli Republic: “It’s beyond comprehension that someone would make that kind of mistake.” All the local tourism board could do was
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apologize, admitting that no one on the billboard committee fished. In other states, the backlash to ill-conceived campaigns has been even rougher.
Like when Rhode Island launched its $5 million “Rhode Island: Cooler & Warmer” campaign in 2016. Excitement ran high, given that designer Milton Glaser, of “I ™ New York” fame, was slated to design a new slogan and logo. But then came a promotional video featuring footage of Iceland masquerading as Ocean State scenery. The blunder spun out of control just days after launch. Campaign parodies circulated online showing the Great Wall of China and Waikiki Beach with the tagline “We Are Rhode Island.” The blowback was fierce enough to force the resignation of Rhode Island’s chief marketing officer. And then there was “Say WA,” a brand-building effort that cost Washington taxpayers nearly half a million dollars. It flopped so badly it’s regarded as the beginning of the end for the Washington Tourism Office, which lawmakers closed in 2011. —David Madison
see the results of that when those metrics come out,” Iverson says, again plugging his department’s commitment to efficiency. “We did this very much to bring multiple services under one roof.” Looking ahead, Welch wonders if the marketplace that embraced “Get Lost” is still there. Given the quickly evolving digital landscape, do great bumper stickers still matter? “There’s some question as to whether tourism slogans even have any power any more,” Welch says. That’s because in the clickbait world of social media advertising, potential customers identify themselves through their own search terms and spending histories. When you’re able to reliably target anyone with an interest in Montana, you might not need a memorable slogan to draw them in. It’s easy to bombard potential customers with reminders and links through email and Facebook. The Department of Commerce likes to imagine this online target as “some guy from Connecticut.” Mobile devices and social media allow marketers to get to know Connecticut Guy intimately, right down to where he buys his hiking socks and what he likes for breakfast. Through “geo-fencing” and “psychographics,” Iverson says, marketers can track Connecticut Guy from a click on an ad in his Facebook feed to the moment
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he lands in Montana, and they can follow his travels while he’s here. “We know that was a successful conversion,” Iverson says. “And we should be doing more of whatever that was that made that happen.” As for future slogans designed to create more successful conversions, they might be influenced by a current study underway by San Francisco-based Destination Analysts. The marketing research agency plans to release the results of its Montana study in March, during Gov. Bullock’s upcoming Conference on Tourism and Recreation. Early results show that the most enthusiastic potential new visitor to Montana is a married urban male with a college degree who earns at least $80,000 a year. This fall, once Hoffman York has fully taken the creative lead on marketing Montana, and maybe debuted a new slogan, the work will be designed to charm and entice this kind of customer. In other words, a Wisconsin ad team will use data from a California research firm to target a guy from Connecticut in hopes he’ll spend money in Montana, and maybe even open a business here. And who knows—it just might work. The sky, apparently, is the limit.
In response to a focus-grouped insight that many Chicago residents aspire to visit Montana, but put it off, MercuryCSC plastered “It’s time...” messaging on urban billboards, targeting downtown consumers on commuter routes.
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[arts]
Up all night Tattoo artist Rob Rez adds a paint brush to his arsenal by Erika Fredrickson
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ob Rez’s corner inside Bound by Glory Tattoo is decorated with deer skulls, a bandolier stuffed with bullets and rows of tattoo designs detailed in lush colors. His World War II-style model airplanes hang from the ceiling, and bottles of rubbing alcohol line a bookshelf full of National Geographic magazines dating back to the 1950s. “They’re great reference material,” Rez says of the magazines. Like any longtime tattoo artist, he has a thick portfolio of commissioned work—pages of skulls, birds and pinup girls rendered in black and white or color. He loves tattooing, he says, but at night, after a full day of crafting images from other people’s imaginations, he likes to pull out his paints and let his own ideas pour onto the canvas. “Tattooing is so rigid and preplanned,” Rez says. “It has a structured outline and then you fill in your colors precisely. When I do these paintings, these are more like sketches on canvas. It’s not really the best phrase in the world but I call them ‘slappers’ because I’m just slapping the paint down in a fun way. I just let go and do it.” Rez has worked as an artist in multiple capacities for several decades, but it’s only been in the last two years that he started regularly making paintings. He began with geometric designs—Cubismstyle pieces that play with color and abstracted subjects. After that he moved on to more figurative images of flora and fauna: insects, crocodiles, flowers and snakes. He did a whole series of monsters, including a portrait of Bela Lugosi as Dracula, before he grew bored. Then he did a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Rez often works in bright aquas, reds, pinks and yellows that give the paintings a pop-art quality. The brush strokes provide a sense of movement. His approach to painting is almost exactly opposite his approach to tattooing, but similar principles of structure and anatomy apply. “I throw the colors down and hope they land in the right spot,” he says. “Then I add the lines. A lot of the time, halfway through or so, it’s like, ‘Eeee! Is this going to work? I don’t know!’ And I don’t always
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Rob Rez works at Bound by Glory Tattoo by day and creates his own paintings late at night.
trust it will, but I feel like the painting trusts me to get it onto the canvas, and it works out.” Besides being a longtime tattoo artist, Rez is an illustrator who has contributed to almost every issue of the Indy since 1994. His covers have accompanied a wide range of stories on everything from dog sled racing to the survival of inde-
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pendent bookstores. His cartoons usually accompany short news stories on local politics and environmental issues. “My favorite cartoon was about how polluted the rivers around here are,” he says. “I drew two guys swimming in the water and smiling, and they’re saying, ‘Come on in, the water is great!’ But below the surface reveals that it is one
body with two heads and there are barrels of toxic waste and gross litter.” He got his start in Dover, New Jersey, at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, which was and continues to be the only accredited school in the country devoted entirely to the art of cartooning. It was an intense education, Rez says.
“Everyone’s work gets put up on the board for everybody to tear it down,” he says. “You were supposed to say, ‘You call that a hand? It looks like meat sausages!’ I love that. That’s how you get better.” Most important of all, he says, he learned about deadlines. (For the Indy, for instance, his weekly assignment arrives on Tuesday night and he has to have it done by first thing Wednesday morning.) “That’s an important thing people don’t think about when they’re getting into art,” he says. “When you’re a kid you think, ‘Oh, I’ll just create whenever or however I want.’ No. You miss one deadline for Field and Stream, there’s 10 other magazines that are owned by the same people you’ll never get hired for.” The attrition rate at Kubert was huge, he says. If you got a C or lower in a class you were put on academic probation, during which time instructors would assess your portfolio to see if you were worth keeping around. The work ethic he learned there helped him stay disciplined later when he attended the Hussian College School of Art in Philadelphia, where he learned the fundamentals of painting. Rez is an admitted misanthrope, a lanky tattooed character with a dry sense of humor and a distrust of government and media. He loves the wee hours of the morning when the rest of the valley—minus his fellow night owls—is asleep. That’s when he can pull out his paints and let loose. He has tics from Tourettes syndrome, and painting helps him shed that electric energy. Sometimes he can’t paint fast enough—he’ll deploy a blow-dryer just to dry the last layer of paint so he can get to the next. He sometimes whips out a new painting every three hours, one per night. “People always say things like, ‘How the hell did Picasso make hundreds upon hundreds of paintings, thousands of pottery pieces and sculptures.’ He just did. You don’t let things distract you in life—Netflix, YouTube. And with this style of painting I finally hit on something that feels like a really good groove to me, that I can be prolific at.” Rob Rez exhibits his paintings at Five on Black Fri., Feb. 3, from 5 to 8 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
No exit Magpies keep the pace on Annex Magpies’ fourth album, Annex, features shimmery minor-key chords and sometimes strutting, sometimes angular riffs. It’s a mix the Missoula (by way of Havre) band has stayed true to since its 2009 release Pica Pica. The style is both gauzy and heavy and evokes postrock fuzz bands such as Shudder to Think, Built to Spill, Sonic Youth and the Pixies (mostly in their prime late-’80s/ early-’90s eras). The dual vocals of guitarist Tolan Harber and bassist Samantha Pollington sound somewhere between a snarl and a purr and offer interesting tension even when the narrative isn’t clear. That tension is dominant on the 2012 release Pretty Big Time, with
songs like “Glitter Bomb Lovespill” and “Gasoline Semen.” It felt like the soundtrack to speeding down the highway past alfalfa fields at night—really pretty, but kind of precarious. Annex still mostly feels like you’re barrelling through the dark in a mesmerizing rock haze, and the tightest and most powerful tracks—“Winterkill” and “Next 3 Exits”—are also the most highoctane. But the album also includes some more introspective moments, as in “Sycamore” and “Sentimental Stone,” and those roadside turnouts provide welcome contrast. (Erika Fredrickson) Mag pies play the VFW Fri., Feb. 3, at 10 PM.
Jonny Fritz, Sweet Creep Jonny Fritz’s newest album is the kind you listen to and then immediately have to replay. I got it for Christmas and it’s been a go-to on my walk to work ever since. The first track, “Are You Thirsty,” unpacks addiction and sets the tone for a strong record filled with songs about relationship failure, crappy motels, cruddy tours and chili dogs. Even with some pretty bleak material, Fritz has got a way of making it upbeat. Fritz is a country musician in the same way Lana Rebel is country. It’s the genre that seems closest to the music he’s playing, but it’s probably not what lots of people think of as country. (Fritz is also pretty clear in the liner notes that he doesn’t think of Sweet Creep
as a country record.) He stays clear of cliché and the well-trodden lyrical pitfalls of country, and the result is a wonderfully personal and intimate troubadour record. There’s some humor in Sweet Creep, but not too much jokey stuff. These are songs written by a guy whose observations of quirky scenarios like “Brokeback Mountain on a TV screen, Brokeback re-enactment room 213” (on “Stadium Inn”) always seem to come easy to him. Fritz has a beautiful voice, and I love that for this album he enlisted some songwriting support from Montana’s Izaak Opatz of the Best Westerns. (Josh Vanek)
Blue Rodeo, 1,000 Arms “I wonder how this ends/You lying on the floor/With your head in your hands.” Funny, that line from “Long Hard Life” describes how I frequently listened to Blue Rodeo’s first three albums in the early ’90s. Diamond Mine in particular was my wallowing soundtrack after a long-term relationship ended with all the finesse of a locomotive plunging into a gas station. The Toronto band’s big break never came, but I’ve been digging their compelling roots rock long after I forgot that girl’s face. The one-two punch of guitarist-singers Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor is one of those rare pairings that keeps pumping out satisfying songs full of harmonies and dynamic punch and enough musical variety to keep things interesting. On 1,000 Arms they employ
a pawn shop’s worth of stringed instruments and keyboards to deliver their signature sound, singing grown-up songs about the complex facets of love and life. Keelor’s rustic bray plays off Cuddy’s silky alto like peanuts on ice cream, but Keelor gets the emotional prize for “Mascara Tears,” a gorgeous ballad that drifts on a cloud of acoustic guitar and Wurlitzer organ. “Jimmy Fall Down” is harder, a sneering kiss-off to that wastrel we all know, “walking down the street, a box of records and a bag of weed.” Gram Parsons fans will recognize the doomed country-rocker in “Superstar,” a jaunty examination of life in the fast lane. It’s always great to run into old pals and discover that they’re still great friends from your past, sometimes even improved with age. (Ednor Therriault)
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[books]
Darkness into light Marrying opposites with poet Sandra Lim by Melissa Stephenson
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In the poem “The Dark World,” Lim writes, “I am My first poetry teacher told me that all poems are about longing and despair. They are? I asked. He terrified because I love the world but which one.” Is laughed and said, Maybe, but don’t take my word for she narrating the inside of my head? Yes, she is narit. You figure it out. I was 17 then, living in the woods rating the inside of my head. She nails in a single line of Northern Michigan, and I’ve been fascinated with the dilemma I’ve been dragging around all month like a wet wool blanket. poems ever since. Lim has an uncanny ability to marry opposites like Twenty-five years later, I might whisper to you in beauty and carnage in a sinsecret that I think he’s gle line, whether she’s comright. I will declare pubparing a cut-up heart to licly and without hesitalace, or spring to “a platter tion that the poetry I love of the daintiest cakes.” I most is rooted in the ferwasn’t surprised to discover tile territory of longing that The Wilderness was seand despair. This is part lected for publication by the of the reason I’m so taken Pulitzer Prize-winning poet with the poetry of Sandra Louise Glück, who, I would Lim, the University of dare to say, writes anthems Montana’s spring semesfor longing and despair, anter Hugo visiting writer. thems built out of dormant Lim was born in irises and Greek gods. Seoul, Korea, but grew up Glück has been a favorite of on the West Coast and atmine since the time, as a tended a string of top-tier teen, I first loved any poems institutions (Stanford, the at all. I’m happy that these Iowa Writer’s Workshop years later I’m still reading and UC Berkeley). Her and discovering new fapoems, however, possess vorites, like Lim. a kind of radical intelliIt is, of course, fair to gence and emotional ask why we should emwildness that was not brace difficult feelings like born in any classroom. longing and despair. Avoid Her first book, Loveliest Grotesque, came out on Sandra Lim is the University of Montana’s visit- them, you might say. Down with longing and despair! Kore Press in 2006. The ing Hugo poet for spring semester. Here’s the thing: These are title alone is an indicator the feelings that make us human. If we deny them, of the opposites that collide in Lim’s writing. Her poetry contains a kind of magic specific to crush them, or try to bury them like a broken piece of the form: It takes the shame, fear, remorse and hurt our mother’s best china, we risk dulling our capacity we keep so close that it becomes part of ourselves for compassion and becoming something less than and holds that tangled mess at arm’s length. Lim human (which is a dangerous way to be in the world). Maya Angelou argues in the closing line of her brings this darkness into the light so that we can regard it with a healthy detachment. She turns dark essay “Graduation,” “ . . . we survive in exact relationmatter into something lovely. I experienced the kind ship to the dedication of our poets (include teachers, of relief one might feel after an exorcism as I turned musicians, and blues singers).” Poetry is a form of spirthe final page of Lim’s second and most recent col- itual survival, and reading it during dark times can revive one’s spirit. This is why sitting down with Lim’s lection, The Wilderness. Published by Norton in 2014, The Wilderness feels intuitive and insightful words on a late winter Sunday incredibly timely right now, after a January that has is good medicine. Even better? Hearing her read out been cold and dark in ways beyond the literal. Most loud. I’ll be there with my human-size portion of longof the collection’s poems are built around winter im- ing, despair and this feral sort of thing called hope. Sandra Lim reads from her poetry at the Dell agery—snow, ice, white as far as a person can see— and the distant notion of a thing called spring. One of Brown Room of UM’s Turner Hall Fri., Feb. 3, at the book’s epigraphs comes from a character played 7 PM. by Sissy Spacek in the movie Badlands—a national park that has been on my mind in recent days. arts@missoulanews.com
[film]
Unsafe spaces Elle takes risks American films won’t by Molly Laich
Isabelle Huppert stars in Elle.
Finally, Montanans get a chance to see one of the most provocative, sexy and complex films of 2016. In Elle, Isabelle Huppert plays Michèle Leblanc, a formidable video game designer both resilient and mutable. It’s the best female performance of the year, and her Academy Award nomination almost (but not quite) makes up for the film’s egregious snub in the best foreign film category. (I’ve only seen one of the five nominated films so far, but that’s enough to justify my outrage. Is Elle better than Sweden’s sentimental opus A Man Called Ove? The answer, unequivocally, is yes.) When I was a kid, I thought getting raped meant that a strange man pulled you into an alley and slashed away at your clothes with a razor blade. I must have linked the verbs rape and rip—a tame and helpful definition for a child who watched too many movies, but wasn’t ready to digest sex yet. I mention this because Elle opens with a rape scene that feels almost as contrived as my simplistic childhood understanding. Michèle is alone in her kitchen, minding her own business, when a masked man breaks in, rips open her blouse and has his way with her. Is this a nightmare, a rape fantasy or both? And how could that be? It’s so much the stuff of nightmares that it feels staged, and that only makes it worse. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch filmmaker with one of the most inconsistent track records around. This is the mastermind behind tightly wound classics like Robocop (1987) and Total Recall (1990). He’s also responsible for smutty, lesser pictures like Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1997). Basic Instinct has its moments and could have been great (focus groups had a heavy hand in influencing the final cut, or so the legend goes), while Showgirls mostly deserves its terrible reputation. It’s supposed to be erotic, but the sex scenes feel shameful and oddly frantic. With Elle, Verhoeven once again has his head on straight. By making a film that’s both sexy and violent,
he’s swimming in dangerous waters, and that makes for a thrilling emotional experience for viewers. In Michèle, we have a character with a tragic past that informs her present in strange and fascinating ways. She doesn’t cry or call the police, for example, but she’s not passive, either. She gets tested for STDs and purchases mace and an ax. (It’s more menacing than a gun—this is a woman who’s prepared to get her hands dirty.) When the rapist continues to taunt her with text messages and other lewd clues, all the men in her life become suspects, which makes us, the viewers, look for the worst in all of them. Elle was originally intended to be an American film. In interviews, Verhoeven says he eventually chose to set the story in France, with French characters, when it became clear to him that U.S. distributors didn’t want to touch the film’s provocative material. If that’s the case, I suspect it’s because Michèle doesn’t react to rape the way she’s supposed to, because she isn’t always nice, and—here’s the real elephant in the room— it’s not OK to get off on sex that isn’t consensual. American culture is in a bizarre place right now, with artists falling over themselves to signal their virtue. Are you on the side of women’s rights or are you against? Michèle doesn’t fit in that dichotomy. She’s cunning and misogynistic, and her behavior makes us uncomfortable. Making this a French story gives American audiences just enough distance to wash our hands of the uncomfortable bits. Great cinema requires courage, and it bugs me that U.S. distributors might have rejected this story out of fear. When we feel the need to qualify off-color art with trigger warnings and apologies—or worse, to avoid uncomfortable topics altogether—I think we’ve gone too far. This should have been an American movie. Elle opens at the Roxy Fri., Feb. 3. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] there are six of these movies? Rated R. Stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter and Ruby Rose. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK ELLE The head of a leading video game company is attacked in her own home. When she tracks her assailant down, they are both drawn into their own deadly game. Rated R. Stars Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte and Charles Berling. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film).
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away a band of rebels must steal the designs for the Galactic Empire’s new super weapon, a moon-sized, planet-destroying Death Star. Rated PG-13. Stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and the CGI ghost of Peter Cushing. Playing at the Carmike 12.
LION Twenty five years after getting lost on a train and being taken thousands of miles away from his family, a man seeks out his lost home with the help of Google Earth. Rated PG-13. Stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman. Playing at the Roxy. RINGS Twelve years after its last outing, the cursed VHS tape that kills all who watch it returns with a technological update for the digital era. Rated PG-13. Stars Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe and Vincent D’Onofrio. Playing at the Carmike 12. THE SPACE BETWEEN US The first human born on Mars is now a hormonal teenager making his first trip to Earth to visit his online girlfriend and hopefully not die in our atmosphere. Rated PG-13. Stars Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson and Gary Oldman. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
NOW PLAYING CHASING ICE National Geographic photographer James Balog uses time-lapse cameras to document the world’s vanishing ice and bum us all out. It’s probably all that hairspray I used back in the ‘80s. Rated PG-13. Playing Mon., Feb. 6 at 7:30 PM at the Roxy.
SING The best way for a broke koala to save his failing theater is to host a local singing competition. Too bad his assistant offered $100,000 in prize money they don’t have. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Nick Kroll. Playing at the Carmike 12.
“Seven Days. Also make sure to like, comment and subscribe for future videos.” Rings opens at the Carmike 12. chipper, and the most tenacious pregnant sheriff you will likely ever see. Rated R. Stars Frances McDormand, William H. Macy and Steve Buscemi. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Feb. 4 at 8 PM.
John Glenn in orbit while they worked at a segregated facility. Rated PG. Stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
FENCES Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson, a failed baseball player struggles to keep his bitterness from affecting his family while working as a garbage collector. Rated PG-13. Stars Denzel Washington, Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley Henderson. Playing at the Roxy Wed., Feb. 8 at 7:30 PM.
JACKIE Follow Camelot’s first lady from her early days in the White House through her life after JFK’s assassination. Rated R. Stars Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig and Peter Sarsgaard. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., Feb. 2.
THE FOUNDER Do you want fries with your biopic of McDonald’s big wig Ray Kroc? Rated PG-13. Stars Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch. Playing at the Carmike 12.
WAYNE’S WORLD SCHWING! Public access TV metal heads get their shot at the big time. Excellent. Rated PG-13. Stars Mike Myers, Dana Carvey and Tia Carrere. Playing Wed., Feb. 8 at 7 PM at the Carmike 12.
LA LA LAND An aspiring actress falls in love with a jazz pianist in this love letter to Hollywood musicals. Rated PG-13. Stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and John Legend. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE Vin Diesel’s thrill-seeking secret agent returns after taking the last sequel off to recover stolen military secrets. He also has a motorcycle that works on water. Rated PG-13. Also stars Donnie Yen and Ruby Rose. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Returning to your hometown is always tough, especially when you’re returning to raise your orphaned nephew. Rated R. Stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Lucas Hedges. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., Feb. 2.
YU-GI-OH!: THE DARK SIDE OF DIMENSIONS A young man, possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian pharaoh, plays an even nerdier game than Magic: The Gathering against a cult of puzzle enthusiasts. Rated PG. Playing at the Carmike 12 Sat., Feb. 4 at 4:30 PM.
A DOG’S PURPOSE A heroic pooch is resurrected as a series of different breeds. Doesn’t that sound nice? Maybe Google what happened behind the scenes before seeing this one. Rated PG. Stars Dennis Quaid, Josh Gad and K.J. Apa. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
GOLD Based on the true story of the Bre-X mining scandal, a schlubby businessman teams with a geologist to get rich in the jungles of Indonesia. Rated R. Stars Matthew McCon-AU-ghey, Édgar Ramírez and Bryce Dallas Howard. Playing at the Carmike 12.
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS A 13-year-old girl trains to be the first eagle hunter in 12 generations of her Kazakh family. Rated G. Directed by Otto Bell, narrated by Daisy Ridley. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., Feb. 2.
GROUNDHOG DAY 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 Chris Elliott. Playing at the Roxy Thu., Feb. 2 at 7 PM.
MONSTER TRUCKS Hidden inside the workings of his homemade truck is a tentacled monster with the need for speed. See, this is why no one trusts American-made cars. Rated PG. Stars Lucas Till, Rob Lowe and Barry Pepper. Playing at the Carmike 12.
FARGO The Coen Brothers’ frozen-noir classic features boneheaded criminals, someone getting fed into a wood-
HIDDEN FIGURES You think you’re underappreciated at work? These African-American women did the calculations that put
RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER Alice returns to zombie apocalpyse ground zero to battle the evil Umbrella Corporation. Can you believe
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SPLIT After being kidnapped by a man with 24 personalities, three women discover something truly terrifying: they’re in an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Rated PG13. Stars James McAvoy, Betty Buckley and Haley Lu Richardson. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-todate movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
[dish]
photo by Alex Sakariassen
Preaching in the house of pies by Alex Sakariassen I recently struggled for nearly a week trying to explain to a coworker the reason for Tower Pizza’s local status as a house of something akin to worship. I was still struggling as he and I stood near the counter, sipping beers and waiting for a table. We inched closer to articulation when we bumped into two longtime Tower disciples who described their half-hour wait for takeout as a welcome and familiar ritual. But as Derek, forehead wrinkled, continued to study the crowded interior—and the food—I finally turned to the most devout Tower Pizza congregant I know: my uncle, a man who, despite living in Pennsylvania, manages to take communion in the form of a Tower Special once a year. His response to my text was elegantly simple. Asked what makes Tower Pizza so special, he replied with one word: “Pizza.” News of Tower Pizza’s imminent closure (sometime in the next few months, according to the restaurant’s Facebook post) rocked a good portion of Missoula last month. And I’m willing to bet that for a lot of those mourners, like my uncle, Tower’s menu of memories comprises much more than a thin crust laden with generous helpings of red sauce, veggies, meat and cheese. For them, this was the pizza of childhood, of college, of countless family dinners. Their progeny took up the mantle, never bothering to question why because their mouths were too full of a good thing. For 45 years, Tower has been slinging the same old pies in a world increasingly populated by chain
WHAT’S GOOD HERE restaurant gimmickry and gourmandized toppings. It did so without stuffed crust, without goat cheese, without wearing its Missoula-ness on its sleeve. It didn’t have to. Tower made pizza. Memory made Tower. With a large Tower Special filling the void between us, Derek and I discussed the nostalgic power of food, but we kept stopping short of a true metaphysicality, constantly circling back to the here-andnow of it all. His first slice fell apart under the weight of black olives, onions, pepperoni and sausage, and he confessed to being underwhelmed by everything save the Canadian bacon. The pizza, the decor—none of it, he said, really made a strong impression. I countered with a pitch for the frankness of the pie, the lack of pretension and frills. There’s beauty in straightforwardness, I said, in a place that serves a time-tested product with confidence and pride. I reminded him that Oscar-winning actor and UM alumnus J.K. Simmons is an outspoken apostle. I missed the mark. Perhaps if I’d done a better job framing Tower as the pizza of my people, or of Missoula’s people, or of Missoula before the coming of Bridge Pizza, Biga and scores of others, he might have walked away a convert. At least he might have grasped the magnitude of Tower’s closing. But apparently it takes more than one Tower Special to turn a skeptic into a believer. If only our Tower Specials weren’t numbered. asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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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. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ 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. Locallyroasted 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 $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ 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 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. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
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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 Seasonal Fish, Three Course Bistro Menu Tuesday through Thursdays, 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, bistro menus, 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! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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What’s on sale: Freshly butchered local pork and lamb, plus the occasional beef and/or goat. In coming weeks, the Cloven Hoof will also offer a small selection of craft beer, cider, PBR and wine to take home and pair with your dinner. Who’s selling it: Abe Jindrich and Cathy Walters, proprietors of Cloven Hoof. (Disclosure: Walters is an occasional contributor to and former photo editor of the Indy.) They’re capitalizing on the success of their summer farmers market stand by remodeling the front office of their commercial kitchen on Johnson Street into a small shop. About that pork: Tender, marbled cuts of pork are the primary offering from Cloven Hoof, which sources its Berkshire pigs from Tucker Family Farms in the Bitterroot. Jindrich expects to butcher two or three hogs each week to keep with demand, but keep in mind that what you see is usually what’s available for the week. Walters says tenderloin tends to
go fast, but she’s delighted to guide you to other tasty offerings. Pro tip: Try the uncured pork belly in any recipe that calls for bacon. Eat your veggies: Balance out that meat and booze with a rotating selection of readymade sides from Riversong Gourmet, which shares the commercial kitchen with Cloven Hoof. Riversong serves up dishes like roasted beets with basil and smoked butternut squash soup. Where to find them: At 101 N. Johnson Street, in the same semi-industrial ’hood as Zombie Tools and VonCommon. Most of Cloven Hoof’s decor, from the sliding larder door to the cast-iron shelf brackets, were made with help from nearby craftspeople. When they’re open: Thursdays through Fridays from 11 to 7 and Saturdays from 10 to 5. Opening day is Thursday, Feb. 2. Check out Cloven Hoof’s Facebook page for info on specials and menu selections. —Kate Whittle
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THU | 2/2 | 8 PM | WILMA Attention people of Earth! Galactic plays at the Wilma Thu., Feb. 9. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$25 advance.
FRI | 9 PM | PALACE Grammy nominee Q Dot plays at the Palace Sat., Feb. 4 at 9 PM. 21-plus. $5.
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FRI | 8 PM | HAMILTON PAC Virtuoso mandolin-player Sierra Hull plays at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center Fri., Feb. 3 at 8 PM. $34
SAT | 10 PM | TOP HAT Pigeons Playing Ping Pong play funk at the Top Hat Sat., Feb. 4. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$10 advance.
FRI | 10 PM | VFW Magpies celebrates its latest album with a show at the VFW Fri. Feb. 3. 10 PM. Free.
FRI | 9 PM | PALACE Rooster Sauce plays the Palace Fri., Feb. 3 at 9 PM. Free.
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Thursday Friday The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
nightlife Learn, connect and get involved at Climate Smart’s monthly meetings at Imagine Nation Brewing. This month’s topic is how to encourage zero waste. 5 PM–7 PM. How are we responding to hate and fear today? A panel speaks about navigating identity and what Montanans can do at Imagine Nation. 6 PM. The Andy Sydow Band brings slide guitar to Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM– 8:30 PM. Free. Russ Nasset plays at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Iration is a reggae band. I, Ration is the memoirs of a package of sugar in post-war Great Britain. Don’t confuse the two because one of them is playing the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28/$25 advance. Archaeologist Milo McLeod describes his findings of an old fur-trapping era cache along the historic Jocko Indian Trail connecting the Mission and Swan Valleys. Lolo Community Center. 7 PM. Free. All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park continues at the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students. If you’re flush with cash but just want to avoid the clubs, suit up for a heartpounding night of poker at Stockman’s. Chief’s Birthday Poker Tourney starts at 8 PM. $100 plus $10 No-Limit Hold ‘Em. Lucky Penny, Tiny Plastic Stars, No Fancy and Kaylen Alan Krebsbach aren’t just the partial contents of my junk drawer. They’re also the bands playing at the Palace tonight. 9 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Knock knock? Who’s there? Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. Sign up at 9:30 PM. Show at 10. Free. Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.
The American College Dance Association Benefit Concert helps UM dance students raise funds to attend the annual ACDFA northwest conference. Open Space in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. Minimum $5 donation.
Stevensville celebrates the first Friday of each month with music, food and art. For more info visit mainstreetstevensville.com. I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my work week by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
Virtuoso mandolin-player Sierra Hull plays at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center. 8 PM. $34. Vive la resistance! Rooster Sauce, June West and PCCs storm the Palace. In a musical way. Not in the October 1789 Versailles way. 9 PM. Free.
nightlife Tom Schenarts’ works with watercolor and acrylic to engage the viewer to recall memories, real or imagined. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. 314 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. All the cool kiddos should check out Mismo Gymnastics’s Friday Night Children’s Party, where ages 5-plus play games and explore obstacle courses. 1900 W. Broadway St. 5:30-9:30 PM. $25/$20 for members, plus $10 for additional siblings. Limited to 80 kids, so zoom over to mismogym.com or call 728-0908 to sign up. Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover. The Top Hat presents Family-Friendly Friday, a time where parents and their kids can socialize, listen to music, eat great food and have fun. Free. 6 PM– 8 PM. Padyn Humble explores the relationship between masculinity and sexuality
Shakewell’s Friday Night Fever Disco Party at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. with a First Friday exhibit at Zootown Brew. 121 W. Broadway. 6 PM–8 PM. TopHouse provides the tunes at Break Espresso. 6 PM–9 PM. Free. The Montana Backcountry Alliance hosts the Backcountry Film Festival at the Wilma Theatre. Raffle items include yurt stays and guided backcountry trips. 7 PM. $12. BetweenTheLines Theatre presents Nick Payne’s Constellations. A play about free will, friendship, quantum multiverse theory and love. 7 PM. The Roxy. $20. Visiting Hugo Writer Sandra Lim reads her poetry in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall. 7 PM.
WHAT: Ghost town photos WHO: Lee Silliman WHEN: Fri., Feb 3, 5 PM–9 PM WHERE: Gallery 709 in Montana Art & Framing HOW MUCH: Free
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The fourteenth annual American College Dance Association Benefit Concert features performers and choreographers working in genres from romantic ballet to modern dance. 7:30 PM. Open Space, PARTV Center. $10 donation. Souvenir, a new play about the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman with more money than singing talent, comes to Missoula Winery’s stage. Starring Alicia Bullock-Muth and Travis Kuehn. 7:30 PM. $15.
Get down and boogie at Drop Culture at the Badlander. This month Mark Myriad welcome guest DJ Kalub Swirvin. 9:30 PM. 21-plus. Free. Strike the motherlode of music when Paydirt plays Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. Band in Motion makes its way to the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Can you dig it? Put on your tallest shoes and get ready for Shakewell’s Friday Night Fever Disco Party at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. Magpies celebrate the release of their latest album with a show at the VFW. 10 PM. Free.
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Spotlight When I was in high school, now a dozen-plus years in my rearview mirror, my geometry teacher leant me a VHS copy of the classic western Shane. He and I had a friendly relationship based around our mutual love of film, despite me be a real dummy in class. He was a fan of movies in the way I wanted to be a fan of movies. Shane blew me away, but what I remember even more vividly was my teacher’s in-depth
Celebrate a century of tradition at the University of Montana with the 100th Foresters’ Ball. 7 PM. $30/$50 couples.
Fishbowl Friday: Body Talk features live body painting from over twenty local artists and music from Rooster, Wild Card and Tempo Tantrum. All that plus $5 Fishbowls. Monk’s. 21-plus.
knowledge of not only the film’s cinematography but the American West as well. It’s rare when a childhood anecdote so perfectly sums up a First Friday event. Lee Silliman, that since-retired geometry teacher, shows off his eye for the old American West with an exhibit of photographs of ghost towns. Taken with a hand-made Wisner Technical Field 8by-10 view camera, weighing in at over 15 pounds without a lens, Silliman's photos blend the early days of our state with the early days of photography. Along with a collection of old maps from the Rocky Mountain Map Gallery, the black and white photos revive a bygone era of America where the expanding nation pushed itself to new frontiers. Lee Silliman in no Alan Ladd, but he's still one of my heroes. —Charley Macorn
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You’ll be bright-eyed and bushytailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.
Souvenir, a new play about the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman with more money than singing talent, comes to Missoula Winery’s stage. Starring Alicia Bullock-Muth and Travis Kuehn. 7:30 PM. $15.
Get your fresh produce and farmdirect goodies when Stage 112 hosts the Missoula Valley Winter Market from 9 AM–1 PM.
There can be only one. Following a performance by Boston Tea Party, Gavin McCourt of the Skurfs hosts Guitar Duel V. 7:30 PM. Free.
Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM.
I guess that David Sandberg movie was more memorable than anyone gave it credit for. Monk’s Lights Out party features hip hop and EDM and not murderous ghosts. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$7 advance. 18-plus.
Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
Linda Leslie mixes Victorian style with a contemporary focus on feminine power. Downtown Dance Collective hosts a reception Fri., Feb. 3. 121 W. Main. 6 PM–8 PM. Five on Black hosts the paintings of Rob Rez. 325 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. See the landscapes and wildlife photography that make Montana magnificent at Montana Natural History Center’s exhibit of Tom Curry’s work. 120 Hickory. 4:30 PM–6:30 PM. It’s not just for LOTR fans anymore. Bathing Beauties Beads hosts Maxon McCarter of Astro Loki Lab and their metal-forged bronze and silver jewelry, leather masks and hand-forged swords. 501 S. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. The Artists’ Shop hosts an opening reception for Sandee McLaughlin’s photographs of spray paint art. 127 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. E3 Convergence Gallery hosts watercolors and photography about nature by artists Lisa Gibson and Merle Ann Loman. All that and a poetry slam. 229 W. Main. 5 PM–9 PM. B.MartiNez’s meditations and mixed media on scrap wood at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Marlo Crocifisso’s new collection of work inspired by the absence of presence opens at Le Petit Outre. 129 S. 4th. W. 5 PM–8 PM.
Goertzen Adventure Equipment hosts Timeless, a mixed media exhibit by Erin Roberts. 707 Ronan. 5 PM–8 PM. Gallery 709 in Montana Art and Framing exhibits Lee Silliman’s photographs of ghost towns. Wait, my old geometry teacher? That is scary. 709 Ronan. 5 PM–9 PM. (See Spotlight) The fifth annual Adornment Show at 4 Ravens Gallery features the sculptural earrings and necklaces of Cheryl DeGroot. 248 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. Glacier Sotheby’s International Realty hosts a solo exhibition by Laura Blue Palmer. 321 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. Bernice’s Bakery hosts the paintings of Madeline Mikolon. 190 S. 3rd St W. 5 PM–8 PM. HaigaGraph: A Haiku Art Collaboration features the haiku of California author Andrew Dugas, seen through the eyes of Montana artist Linds Sanders. The Public House. 130 E. Broadway. 5 PM–8 PM. An exhibition showcasing ceramic work exploring the connections to nature selected by Adrian Arleo from 60 artists across North America at the Clay Studio. 1106 Hawthorne. 5:30 PM–9 PM.
Saquoia Penelope captures the physical representation of emotional turmoil in a special exhibit at American Made Tattoo. 234 W. Front. 5 PM–9 PM.
Linda Leslie mixes Victorian style with a contemporary focus on feminine power. Downtown Dance Collective hosts an opening reception. 121 W. Main. 6 PM–8 PM.
Eyesore, rust bucket or pile of junk? According to artist Mark Alexander, none of the above. Betty’s Divine hosts the beauty of broken down cars in mixed media. 509 S. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM.
Is there art in your kitchen? Slump by Christopher Powell lets you touch, feel and imbibe a living environment at Real Good Art Space. 1205 Defoe. 7 PM–10 PM.
Winter Storytelling at Travelers’ Rest State Park celebrates the Salish tradition of sharing stories during the long, dark winter every Saturday in January and February. 11 AM. $5.
Grammy nominee Q Dot plays at the Palace with Square Bizz, Wormwood and Loyal T. 21-plus. 9 PM. $5 DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. $5. Despite what its name might suggest, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
The Montana Natural History Center presents activities for kids every Saturday. Free with admission to Center. 2 PM.
Grab a beer and enjoy the live music of Packwood and Dixon Duo at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Tune into Tom Catumull’s Last Resort at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free. Just like my grandfather used to order! Good Old Fashioned plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Celebrate a century of tradition at the University of Montana with the 100th Foresters’ Ball. 7 PM. $30/$50 couples. The Shades of Orcus focuses on an art critic whose dark speciality leaves him broken. That is until he’s asked to created the most beautiful art piece ever: someone’s suicide. The Public House hosts a stage reading of Joshua Kelly’s new play. 7 PM. Free, but donations encouraged. (See Spotlight).
Strike the motherlode of music when Paydirt plays Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. Who’s that writin’? Russ Nasset and the Revelators open the seventh seal at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free Green Ribbon books celebrate their first two years in Missoula with literary trivia and prizes. 10 PM–6 PM. Bring a potato dish and copies of the recipe to Groundhogs Day Potato Potluck at Moonlight Kitchens. Meet local farmers and check out the commercial kitchens. 4 PM–8 PM. The Foresters’ Ball Auction Dinner honors those who worked to put the Forester’s Ball in the century club. Dinner, public speakers and live and silent auctions. $50. Holiday Inn Downtown. 5 PM. Nothing is quiet here. J.D. and Western Front play at the Jack Saloon. 8:30 PM.
UPCOMING EVENTS
nightlife Get your paddles in the air for Missoula Art Museum’s 45th Benefit Art Auction. Battle it out in the fast-paced sport of bidding. 5 PM– 9 PM. $125/$100 for members.
play way more funk than they do ping pong. The Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$10 advance.
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Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
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Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore the Tower Street Open Space. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
BetweenTheLines Theatre presents Nick Payne’s Constellations. A play about free will, friendship, quantum multiverse theory and love. 5 PM. The Roxy. $20.
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.
Every Sunday, Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination, the perfect excuse to indulge your inner Lisa Simpson. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.
Every Monday the Learning Center at Red Willow hosts Yoga for Wellness. 12 PM–1 PM. $40 for four classes, $12 for drop in.
Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes. 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up. No cover.
Shake off your Monday blues at the Dram Shop with $3 drinks every Monday. 12 PM–9 PM.
Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25. Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707. Veterans are invited to take a free Tai
WHAT: The Shades of Orcus stage reading WHO: Writer Joshua Kelly WHEN: Sat., Feb. 4 at 7 PM WHERE: The Public House HOW MUCH: Free, but donations encouraged
Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. Find out how the Garden City grows
at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays. Larry Hirshberg plays at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 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. 21plus. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
memento mori
Spotlight The Shades of Orcus, a new play by Missoula-based writer Joshua Kelly, follows infamous art critic Thom Warren, who has raised public scorn by publishing a collection of reviews of suicides. Warren receives dozens of macabre submissions every week from people ironically hoping their deaths will immortalize them.
Chi class from the Learning Center at the Missoula Vet Center. 3 PM. Call 406-721-4918 to register.
the audience about the dark and taboo subject matter. The reading is also a preview for an upcoming, fully staged production of Orcus that will take place in Kalispell. “We’re hoping people are inspired to give their thoughts on any aspect of the play that strikes them for consideration of the final draft,” Kelly says. The title references the Roman god of death and comes from a passage in The World As Will And Idea by
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. In the book, Schopenhauer warns against suicide: “The shades of Orcus allure [them] only with a false appearance of haven and rest.” “That entire passage suggests that we live in an eternal present that cannot be escaped,” Kelly says. “This is the concept I attempt to stage in this work.” —Charley Macorn
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Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. The Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Tuesday at 12:10 AM at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four classes/$12 drop-in. Call 406721-0033 for more info. The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from This week: 1PM–2:30 PM. Yoga Beyond Cancer meets every Tuesday at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four sessions. Call 406-7210033 for more info and registration.
nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Learn the two-step and more at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander, 7 PM–10 PM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Who was the first person to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Parkinson’s Wellness Yoga meets every Tuesday at 10:30 AM at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four classes. Screening form required. Call 406-721-0033 for more info and registration.
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Wednesday Great Burn Brewing hosts a night of music with Dan Henry. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Chris Mothersole, principal clarinet of the Great Falls Symphony and Chinook Winds, presents an evening of music for clarinet and basset horn by Scriabin, Marshall, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn at the UM Music Building. 7:30 PM. A panel discussion on making renewable energy work for Montana discusses energy conservation and storage in the University Center Theatre. 7 PM. Free. Every Wednesday the Learning Center at Red Willow hosts Yoga for Wellness. 10 AM–11 AM. $40 for four classes, $12 drop in. If you or your loved ones are looking for an Alzheimer’s support group, join Summit Independent, 700 Higgins Ave., every second Wednesday of the month for their meetings from noon–2 PM. Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-
443-3439 for more information.
soula causes. 5 PM–8 PM.
People suffering from Lyme disease, as well as their family and friends, are invited to the Lyme Disease Support Group at St. Francis Community Hall, 411 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. Meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 1 PM. Call 360-1415 or 360-0170 for more info.
Still got that back ache? Yoga for chronic pain at the Learning Center at Red Willow every Wednesday. 5 PM. $40 for four ongoing classes. Call 406-721-0033 for more info.
Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.
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Learn the ins and outs of farm planning with a series of workshops Wednesdays at the Missoula County Extension Building. This week learn how to manage your financials. $15. Visit farmlinkmontana.org for more info and registration. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.
At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.
This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.
Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Mis-
Got two left feet? Well, throw them away and head down to Sunrise Saloon for beginners’ dance lessons. 7 PM. $5.
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, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Joanne Woodward. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Halfprice whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.
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The 2017 Western Montana Grazing and Agriculture Conference unites natural resource professionals and university researchers with farmers and ranchers for a two-day event. $75/$50 advance. Visit lakecountyconservationdistrict.org for more info and registration.
Rocking Country Karaoke at the Sunrise Saloon lets you live our your rhinestone cowboy dreams. 8:30 PM.
Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.
Easter Island, Wojtek, Cannon and Drift created an archipelago of music at the Palace. 9 PM. Free. 21-plus.
The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
nightlife Tom Catmull plays Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Join Melissa Lafontaine for a festive pre-Valentine’s Day workshop to rediscover the meaning of flowers while creating a custom dried arrangement for yourself or a loved one. $40. Visit mudproject.org for more info. I don’t think they look particularly pants-like. Britchy play Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
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Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
Tom Catmull plays Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class on the dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. every Thursday from 6–7 PM. $5 donation. Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month. Community Room, 6 PM– 7:30 PM. Free and open to the public. 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.
BetweenTheLines Theatre presents Nick Payne’s Constellations. A play about free will, friendship, quantum multiverse theory and love. 7 PM. The Roxy. $20. Attention people of Earth! Galactic plays at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$25 advance. 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.
Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free. Karl Marx’s favorite band, the Workers, at the Top Hat Lounge. 10 PM. Free. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoula news.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. 8 Days Missoula regrets the continued use of the phrase “given the current political climate.”
Agenda In 2016, Missoula was named the number one metro area for producing Peace Corps volunteers per capita, beating out our archrival Burlington, Vermont by a sizable margin. Out of every 100,000 residents, 12.3 Missoulians volunteered two years of their lives to work with governments, school and nonprofit organizations in underdeveloped countries. This is nothing new for the Garden City, as we held this same position in 2011. So what about the Peace Corps is so appealing to Missoulians? Is it because we feel the need to give of ourselves to help those less fortunate than us? Is it our love of travel? Whatever the cause, the Peace Corps has provided an altruistic opportunity that we as a city have embraced over the years. And with the upswing in Missoulians wanting to give back to their world, the Peace Corps provides an ongoing opportunity to make the world a better place. Monday, February 6, the Peace Corps hosts a panel on volunteer opportunities in the University Center. The panelists will discusses volunteering abroad and here in our own nation as well.
Volunteer Service Panel: Opportunities at Home and Abroad runs from 3 PM to 4:30 PM in University Center Room 329 on Mon., Feb. 6.
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Learn, connect and get involved at Climate Smart’s monthly meetings at Imagine Nation Brewing. This month’s topic is how to encourage zero waste. 5 PM–7 PM.
Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.
How are we responding to hate and fear today? A panel speaks about navigating identity and what Montanans can do at Imagine Nation. 6 PM.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. A girls youth group, ARIELS, meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 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. Veterans are invited to take a free Tai Chi class from the Learning Center at the Missoula Vet Center. 3 PM. Call 406-721-4918 to register. Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
This panel is the first of a series of six hosted in the coming months focusing on volunteering, the Peace Corps and civic duty. —Charley Macorn
It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1PM–2:30 PM. Yoga Beyond Cancer meets every Tuesday at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four sessions. Call 406-721-0033 for more info and registration. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted. Parkinson’s Wellness Yoga meets every Tuesday at 10:30 AM at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four classes. Screening form required. Call 406-721-0033 for more info and registration.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8 A panel discussion on making renewable energy work for Montana discusses energy conservation and storage in the University Center Theatre. 7 PM. Free. Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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ack in 1917, the United States was teetering on the edge of a world war, Russia was falling under the thrall of a charismatic dictator who had some pretty wacky ideas about politics and the University of Montana held its inaugural Foresters’ Ball. It’s crazy to see how unrecognizable the past is. But despite all the changes the world has seen in the last century, one institution has been chugging along, year after year, recreating a little piece of history on UM’s Campus. Celebrating its Platinum Jubilee, the Foresters’ Ball recreates a turn of the century logging town in Schreiber Gym. A saloon, general store, jail, chapel and chow hall stretch out through the gymnasium, transporting revelers to a time before the ongoing threat of nuclear oblivion hung over their heads. At 100 years, it is the second only to Grizzly football as longest running program at the University of Mon-
tana. Since it’s creation the world is a much different place. It is older than the USSR, penicillin and television. Generation after generation of UM students, myself included, have spent those early weekends in February exploring the gymnasium, and engaging with our own past. It’s reassuring to know that the Foresters’ Ball has survived every major catastrophe of the last century. And, with any luck, it will survive all the ones that follow. —Charley Macorn The 100th Foresters’ Ball runs Fri., Feb. 3 and Sat., Feb. 4 in Schrieber Gym. $35/$30 for couples. Visit forestersball.com for tickets and more info.
photo courtesy Peter Kearns
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my work week by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission. The Montana Backcountry Alliance hosts the Backcountry Film Festival at the Wilma Theatre. Raffle items include yurt stays and guided backcountry trips. 7 PM. $12. Celebrate a century of tradition at the University of Montana with the 100th Foresters’ Ball. 7 PM. $30/$50 couples.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s
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Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Winter Storytelling at Travelers’ Rest State Park celebrates the Salish tradition of sharing stories during the long, dark winter every Saturday in January and February. 11 AM. $5. The Montana Natural History Center presents activities for kids every Saturday. Free with admission to Center. 2 PM. Celebrate a century of tradition at the University of Montana with the 100th Foresters’ Ball. 7 PM. $30/$50 couples.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore the Tower Street Open Space. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM12 PM. $5.
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By Amy Alkon IS IT SOMETHING I WED? Two of my girlfriends just got divorced. Both recently admitted to me that they knew they shouldn’t have gotten married at the time but did anyway. Just this weekend, another friend—married for only a year and fighting bitterly with her husband—also said she knew she was making a mistake before her wedding. Can you explain why anyone would go through with something as serious and binding as marriage if they have reservations? —Confused Consider that in most areas of life, when you’re making a colossal mistake, nobody is all, “Hey, how about a coronationstyle party, a Caribbean cruise, and a brand-new blender?” But it isn’t just the allure of the star treatment and wedding swag that leads somebody to shove their doubts aside and proceed down the aisle. Other influences include parental pressure, having lots of married or marrying friends, being sick of dating and feeling really bad about guests with nonrefundable airline tickets. There’s also the notion that “marriage takes work”—meaning you can just put in a little emotional elbow grease and you’ll stop hating your spouse for being cheap, bad in bed and chewing like a squirrel. However, it also helps to look at how we make decisions—and how much of our reasoning would more accurately be called “emotioning.” We have a powerful aversion to loss and to admitting we were wrong, and this can cause us to succumb to the “sunk cost effect.” Sunk costs are investments we’ve already made—of time, money or effort. The “sunk cost effect” is decision researcher Hal Arkes’ term for our tendency to—irrationally, ego-servingly—keep throwing time, money or effort into something based on what we’ve already put in. Of course, our original investment is gone. So the rational approach would be deciding whether to keep investing based on whether the thing’s likely to pay off in the future. A way to avoid the sunk cost trap is through what psychologists call “prefactual thinking”—thinking out the possible outcomes before you commit to some risky course of action. Basically, you play the role of a pessimistic accountant and imagine all the ways your plan could drag you straight down the crapper. But don’t just imagine all the awful things that could happen.Write out a list— a detailed list. So, for example, if you sense you could be making a mistake by getting married, don’t go all shortcutty, like “get divorced!” Parse out the itty-bitties, like “fig-
ure out how the hell to find a decent divorce lawyer”; “get lost on the way to the lawyer’s office and stand on the side of the road weeping”; and “start working as the indentured servant of a bunch of sorority girls to pay the lawyer’s retainer.”Yeah, that kind of detail. Making potential losses concrete like this helps you weigh current costs against the future ones.This, in turn, could help you admit that you and your not-entirelybeloved might have a real shot at happily ever after—if only the one of you in the big white dress would bolt out the fire exit instead of walking down the aisle.
EXPIRATION DATING I’m a 32-year-old guy using dating apps. I was in a long-term relationship that ended badly, and I’m not ready for anything serious right now. I get that many women are ultimately looking for a relationship. I don’t want to ghost them if they start getting attached, but saying from the get-go that I just want something casual seems rude and a bit presumptuous. —Conflicted Not everybody likes to spoon after sex. You like to slip out of the house without being noticed. It isn’t presumptuous to explain “from the get-go” that you aren’t ready for anything serious; it’s the right thing to do. Lay that out in your online profile (or at least in your first conversation) so women are clear that you’re an aspiring sexfriend, not an aspiring boyfriend. Consider, however, that research by anthropologist John Marshall Townsend finds that even women who are sure that casual sex is all they’re looking for can get clingy afterward—to their great surprise. Townsend explains that women’s emotions evolved to “act as an alarm system that urges women to test and evaluate investment and remedy deficiencies even when they try to be indifferent to investment.” Ghosting—just disappearing on somebody you’re dating, with no explanation—is dignity-shredding. If a woman does end up wanting more than you can give, you need to do the adult thing and tell her you’re ending it. Sure, that’ll be seriously uncomfortable for both of you. But keep in mind that bad news is usually the road to recovery, while no news is the road to randomly running into a woman everywhere, including your shower.
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Bartenders Frenchtown employer needs part-time BARTENDERS to mix and serve drinks for bar, restaurant and casino. Preparation of simple bar food is sometimes necessary. Cash-handling experience and knowledge of casinos is necessary. Shifts are nights and weekends. Must be able to work weekends. Wage is $8.15 + tips and hours will vary. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10263722 Camp Support Local employer is seeking several seasonal CAMP SUPPORT members. You only need the annual RT-130 Yellow Card. If you do not have RT130 we can still use you for day positions. Must provide your own sleeping bag, tent, & personal hygiene items. Food & Lodging provided. Duties include running wash stations, setting up and taking down camps and other duties assigned. ON CALL BASIS. Pay is up to $15/hr depending on task. Need Yellow Card? Visit www.outbackfirefighting.com for a schedule of training dates. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10258749
Handyman Duties include landscaping, janitorial work, light carpentry, snow removal and various other duties. Skilled at using carpentry tools, lawn mowers, cleaning and ability to drive a manual transmission. Must have high school diploma or equivalent, current driver’s license and clean driving record. Employer conducts random drug testing. Work days and hours vary Monday - Sunday; part-time and full-time available. Wage is DOE with review after 30 days. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10258718 Line Cook Missoula sushi restaurant is seeking highly motivated part time LINE COOK. Cooking experience preferred but employer will train. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment. Work days and hours will vary and employer is flexible. Potential for full time work. Starting wage is $9.00 per hour or more depending on experience, plus tips. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10263041 Maintenance Worker Property Management company seeking a maintenance worker immediately! Must have valid Driver’s License with clean driving record, and
clear criminal background. Previous maintenance experience a plus. Wage $10-$12/hour DOE. Duties: minor maintenance, cleaning, lawn work, window washing, minor appliance repairs, painting, sanding, staining, changing bulbs and batteries, assisting with inspections, etc. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39076 NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033 Nelson Personnel is in search for CONSTRUCTION/CONCRETE workers $13/HR. Must have construction experience, reliable transportation, and clean record. Call 543-6033 NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill PRODUCTION SUPPORT, JANITORIAL, & WAREHOUSE positions for a manufacturing company. $11/hr – Full-Time. Call Us at 543-6033 Office Assistant Looking for a seasonal receptionist for local lawn care office. Will be responsible for answering phones, entering data, scheduling, filing, helping customers and assisting others in the office. Have a positive attitude, be well-organized and have the ability to work in a fast paced environment. Some sales experience helpful.This is a short term assignment starting end of February thru end of October. 35 hrs/week $10.00$14.00/hr DOE. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39045 Property Manager/ Administrative Assistant One of Missoula’s best property management companies is in need of a Property Manager/Administrative Assistant. You must have reliable transportation and are well organized, have time management skills and be de-
EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.
tail oriented. Excellent communication skills, the ability to smile in a busy office setting and reliability an absolute must! Duties: Answering multi-phone system, handling tenant issues, coordinating maintenance appointments and assisting customers with their application process. Providing written/verbal communication to clients, vendors and residents. Database management, managing multiple projects, and 2-4 years experience in an office setting. Upon satisfactory completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, the company offers benefits. . $12.00/DOE. M-F 8:00-5:00. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39038 Server Local retirement home needs a SERVER as soon as possible. Must have excellent customer service. Employer prefers experience in working with the elderly. Position requires standing & walking during entire shift. Pay depends on experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10263125 WORK FOR MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Nelson Personnel needs people to help fill-in for various shifts for the school cafeterias. $8.05/HR Call Us at 543-6033 WORK OUTSIDE! NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill a Maintenance position for a property management company. $10/hr. Full-time. Call Us at 5436033
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SKILLED LABOR Auto Body Technician If you have a love for cars, a steady hand and an eye for detail, this is the job for you! Locally owned auto body shop is looking to hire an Auto Body Technician. Some experience would be nice, but willing to train the right person. Qualified candidate must have a valid Driver’s license with a clean driving record. Duties include: Customer Service, Assisting technician Tear down on damaged vehicles. Cleaning the shop. $10-$12/hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39050 Carpenter Construction firm in search of a semi-skilled carpenter for residential projects in and around Missoula area. Must have experience framing, stairs, siding, windows, insulation, drywall, painting, etc. Must have current valid driver’s license and clean driving record. Must have own tool bag and basic hand tools. PPE will also be provided. Must be able to lift 75#.Wage $13-$14/hour. 40 hours per week. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39095
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Programmer Keres Consulting, Inc., a Native owned small business, is seeking an entry to midlevel Programmer for a federal contract. Will be required to perform PHP and PostgreSQL development along with supporting test code. May also provide end-user assistance via telephone and email to support a website; requirements gathering, UML design, database administration, linux server administration, management of source control and bug tracker. Knowledge of Agile / XP development, Object Oriented Programming, PHP, CSS, Javascript, HTML, SQL, PL/pgSQL. This is a telecommute position in the Missoula area; applicant must supply own work space and computer. May require travel. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10263033
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The 17th-century German alchemist Hennig Brand collected 1,500 gallons of urine from beer-drinkers, then cooked and re-cooked it till it achieved the “consistency of honey.” Why? He thought his experiment would eventually yield large quantities of gold. It didn’t, of course. But along the way, he accidentally produced a substance of great value: phosphorus. It was the first time anyone had created a pure form of it. So in a sense, Brand “discovered” it. Today phosphorus is widely used in fertilizers, water treatment, steel production, detergents and food processing. I bring this to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, because I suspect you will soon have a metaphorically similar experience. Your attempt to create a beneficial new asset will not generate exactly what you wanted, but will nevertheless yield a useful result.you’re anchored in your sweet, dark wisdom and your holy, playful creativity.)
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the documentary movie Catfish, the directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, present a metaphor drawn from the fishing industry. They say that Asian suppliers used to put live codfish in tanks and send them to overseas markets. It was only upon arrival that the fish would be processed into food. But there was a problem: Because the cod were so sluggish during the long trips, their meat was mushy and tasteless. The solution? Add catfish to the tanks. That energized the cod and ultimately made them more flavorful. Moral of the story, according to Joost and Schulman: Like the cod, humans need catfish-like companions to stimulate them and keep them sharp. Do you have enough influences like that in your life, Leo? Now is a good time to make sure you do. (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The city of Boston allows an arts organization called Mass Poetry to stencil poems on sidewalks. The legal graffiti is done with a special paint that remains invisible until it c VIRGO gets wet. So if you’re a pedestrian trudging through the streets as it starts to rain, you may suddenly behold, emerging from the blank grey concrete, Langston Hughes’ poem “Still Here” or Fred Marchant’s “Pear Tree In Flower.” I foresee a metaphorically similar development in your life, Virgo: a pleasant and educational surprise arising unexpectedly out of the vacant blahs.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When he was in the rock band Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh took his time composing and recording new music. From 1978 to 1984, he and his collaborators averaged one album per year. But when Mothersbaugh started writing soundtracks for the weekly TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, his process went into overdrive. He typically wrote an entire show’s worth of music each Wednesday and recorded it each Thursday. I suspect you have that level of creative verve right now, Libra. Use it wisely! If you’re not an artist, channel it into the area of your life that most needs to be refreshed or reinvented. (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many vintage American songs remain available today because of the e SCORPIO pioneering musicologist, John Lomax. In the first half of the 20th century, he traveled widely to track down and record obscure cowboy ballads, folk songs and traditional African American tunes. “Home on the Range” was a prime example of his many discoveries. He learned that song, often referred to as “the anthem of the American West,” from a black saloonkeeper in Texas. I suggest we make Lomax a role model for you Scorpios during the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to preserve and protect the parts of your past that are worth taking with you into the future.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):The mountain won’t come to you. It will not acquire the supernatural power to drag itself over to where you are, bend its craggy peak down to your level, and give you a free ride as it returns to its erect position. So what will you do? Moan and wail in frustration? Retreat into a knot of helpless indignation and sadness? Please don’t. Instead, stop hoping for the mountain to do the impossible. Set off on a journey to the remote, majestic pinnacle with a fierce song in your determined heart. Pace yourself. Doggedly master the art of slow, incremental magic.
certain circumstances, a human can prevail. In June of every year since 1980, the Man Versus g under Horse Marathon has taken place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells.The route of the race weaves CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Who can run faster, a person or a horse? There’s evidence that
22 miles through marsh, bogs and hills. On two occasions, a human has outpaced all the horses. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns will have that level of animalistic power during the coming weeks. It may not take the form of foot speed, but it will be available as stamina, energy, vitality and instinctual savvy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Who would have guessed that Aquarian Charles Darwin, the pioneering theorist of evolution, had a playful streak? Once he placed a male flower’s pollen under a glass along with an unfertilized female flower to see if anything interesting would happen. “That’s a fool’s experiment,” he confessed to a colleague. “But I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” Now would be an excellent time for you to consider trying some fools’ experiments of your own, Aquarius. I bet at least one of them will turn out to be both fun and productive.
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PUBLIC NOTICES Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-7 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Sean David McClure, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Sean David McClure to Sean David Quartz. The hearing will be on February 14, 2017 at 11:00 a.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: January 5, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Cady Sowre Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-16-249 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Douglas D. Moeller, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be either mailed to Vicki L. Moeller, Personal Representative by certified mail, return receipt requested, c/o Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP, Attorneys at Law, P.O. Box 1178, Kalispell, Montana
59803-1178, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED January 19, 2016 /s/ Vicki L. Moeller, Personal Representative Personal Representative’s Attorneys: Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP By: /s/ C. Mark Hash MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-21 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEO ALBERT RHEIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate.All person having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Antonia Manus, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. Dated this 27th day of January, 2017. /s/ Antonia Manus, Personal Representative By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-17-32 Dept.
No. 2 The Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION NANCY SELDIN, Plaintiff, vs- MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (MERS), as nominee for GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, its successors and/or assigns, Defendant. TO: GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint for Partial Quiet Title in this action which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County, Montana described as follows (the “Property”): The East 210 feet of a strip, piece or parcel of land situated in the SW1/4 of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the West boundary of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, and 4010.85 feet South of the Northwest section corner of
Section 14; thence North 89°54’ East a distance of 370.0 feet; thence South 0°15’10” East a distance of 133 feet; thence South 89°54’ West a distance of 370 feet; thence North 0°15’10” West, a distance of 133 feet to the place of beginning. Recording Reference Book 316 of Micro Records at Page 1105. The action also contains a request for (1) a decree declaring and adjudging that Plaintiff owns the Property free and clear of the HELOC Deed of Trust that is the subject of the action, by virtue of having fulfilled all conditions for reconveyance, and that the HELOC Deed of Trust is no further force and effect, and shall be treated as if it was properly reconveyed; and, (2) that pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. § 71-1-307, the Defendants are liable to the grantor for the sum of $500.00 and all actual damages resulting from Defendants failure to reconvey the Property. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 19th day of January, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust MISSOULA COUNTY CLERK OF COURT (COURT SEAL) By:/s/ Molly A. Reynolds Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-16-1129 Dept. No.: 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Mat-
ter of the Name Change of Stephen N. Greymorning, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Stephen N. Morgan Greymorning to Neyooxet Morgan Greymorning. The hearing will be on 02/07/17 at 3:00 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 12/29/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-16-1130 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Sara Ellen Vilhuber, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Sara Ellen Vilhuber to Sara Ellen Sunshine. The hearing will be on 02/15/2017 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 12-30-16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-2 Dept. No.: 2 In the Matter of the Name Change of Jenna Lynn Ruff, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jenna Lynn Ruff
to Jacob Lynn Troy Ruff. The hearing will be on 03/07/2017 at 11:00 a.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 1/24/17 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-22 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Hunter DiBrito, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Hunter Lynn DiBrito to Hunter Lynn Doty.The hearing will be on February 21, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: January 10, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-58 Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. MARY ANN WONDERLY and THOMAS O. WILSON, Plaintiff’s vs. MARIAN DAHL, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the Complaint adverse to Plain-
tiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title, whether the claim or possible claim is present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: Marian Dahl; and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the Complaint adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title, whether the claim or possible claim is present or contingent. YOU ARE HEREBY summoned to answer to the Complaint in this action as filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorneys within 21 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title, in favor of Mary Ann Wonderly and Thomas O. Wilson, to land situated in Missoula County, Montana and described as follows: That certain mining claim known as the CATO LODE QUARTZ LODE MINING CLAIM, situate, lying in, and being in Section 33, TWP 13, Range 14 of the Coloma
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PUBLIC NOTICES Mining District in the County of Missoula, State of Montana. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court this 24th day of January, 2017. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 PROBATE NO. DP-17-15 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEANNETTE S. TAWNEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHARLES E. EISEMAN, JR., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806-4747, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of January, 2017. /s/ CHARLES E. EISEMAN, JR. c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN
THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-17-13 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RITA MARTINEZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that John Martinez has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W. Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 24th day of January, 2017. /s/ John Martinez, Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.
No. 1 Probate No. DP-17-4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RAYMOND HEBERT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Valetta Hutcheson has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W. Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 10 day of January, 2017. /s/ Valetta Hutcheson, Personal Representative of the Estate of Raymond Hebert /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-17-57 Judge John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Merry Ann
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/s/ Dana G. Millhouse, Personal Representative DATED this 6th day of January, 2017. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Evonne Wells, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-17-11 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ROY H. WINSLOW, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nancy Winslow has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Martha L. Goodloe, Attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 1603 Jackson St., Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 24th day of January, 2017. /s/ Nancy Winslow, Personal Representative of the Estate of Roy H. Winslow /s/ Martha L. Goodloe, Attorney for Personal Representative. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEBRA KATHLEEN WILTGEN, Deceased. Probate No.: DV-16-17 Dept. No.: 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON THE 21st DAY OF February 2017 AT 1:00 P.M.; A PUBLIC ONLINE AUCTION @ storagetreasures.com WILL BE HELD FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD’S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF 3 (THREE) STORAGE UNIT(S), STORED AT THE U-HAUL MOVING AND STORAGE OF MISSOULA. THE GOODS TO BE SOLD ARE GENERALLY DESCRIBED AS HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, FURNITURE, AND CLOTHING. THE FOLLOWING ROOMS WILL BE SOLD UNLESS THE PAST DUE AMOUNT IS SATISFIED ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 21st, 2017 AT 1:00 P.M. AT 820 STRAND AVENUE, MISSOULA, MT 59801. Unit 104: Aleta Drumm, 369 Montezuma Ave. Sante Fe, NM 87501 - Unit 120: Amy Johson, 5265 Connell St. Missoula, MT 59801 - Unit 109: Donald Mogstad, 1500 Stoddard Missoula, MT 59802
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has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Halaron W.Wiltgen, return receipt requested, c/o Rhoades, Siefert & Erickson, PLLC, 430 Ryman, Second Floor, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 19th day of January, 2017. /s/ Halaron W. Wiltgen, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RITA FAYE WILTGEN, Deceased. Probate No. DP-16-236 Dept No.: 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will forever be barred. Claims must either be mailed to Daniel C. Wiltgen, return receipt requested, c/o Rhoades, Siefert & Erickson, PLLC, 430 Ryman Street, Second Floor, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 27th day of January, 2017. /s/ Daniel C. Wiltgen, Personal Representative
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/12/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200811160 B: 819 P:137, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Gary R Bush and Debbie Bush, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the Westerly portion of Tract 8, Roseland Orchard Tracts No. 3, a Platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Parcel A of Certificate of Survey No. 193.
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 12, 82, 103, 191, 199, 217, 242, 271. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 2/20/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 2/23/17 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.
PUBLIC NOTICES Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 22, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $219,317.27. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $213,262.03, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on April 13, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.Tender of these sums shall effect
a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Bush, Gary R. and Debbie (TS# 7023.117450) 1002.289586-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/08/14, recorded as Instrument No. 201414027 B: 933 P: 1350, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Aaron L Hunt and Tina A Hunt husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as the nominee for Horizon Credit Union, successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lands located in the SW1/4NE1/4 of Section 27, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, M.P.M., described as follows: Beginning at a point which bears South 89 degrees 30’ West from the East quarter corner of said Section 27, a distance of 2048.3 feet; running thence North 33 degrees 50’ West to an iron pin in North boundary of U.S. Highway No. 10 a distance of 50 feet; running thence North 52 degrees 56’ East a distance of 180 feet to an iron pin; running thence Southeasterly at right angles to last named course a distance of 183.2 feet to an iron pin in quarter section line; running thence South 89 degrees 30’ West a distance of 223.9 feet along quarter section line to place of beginning. Deed Exhibit #652. Recording Reference: Book 193 of Deeds at Page 408 By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201520087 B: 952 P: 1170, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned
to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.As of December 8, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $266,396.20.This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $250,281.91, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.Ten-
der of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Hunt, Aaron L. and Tina A. (TS# 7023.117586) 1002.289813-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/31/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200714360 Book 798, Page 1446, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Roy D. Loewen and Karen C. Loewen was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 3240, located in the Southwest quarter (SW) of Section 21, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201601146 B: 956 P: 971, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee for MFRA Trust 2015-2. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of
December 15, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $207,530.80.This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $167,304.71, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. Loewen, Roy D. and Karen C. (TS# 8410.20399) 1002.289817File No.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on March 14, 2017, 9:00 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: A parcel of land situated in the State of Montana, County of Missoula, with a street location address of 7140 Buckhorn Ln; Missoula, MT 59808-5688 currently owned by James B Keller and Margaret Keller having a Tax Identification Number of 04-2199-11-102-18-0000 and further described as Country Crest 3-Lot 17 1.17AC MORE CORRECTLY DESCRIBED AS: Lot 17 of COUNTRY CREST NO. 3, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Parcel ID 04-219911-1-02-18-0000 More commonly known as 7140 Buckhorn Lane, Missoula, MT 59808. James B. Keller and Margaret Keller, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, Attorney at Law, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on November 10, 2007, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on January 17, 2008 as Entry No. 200801167, in Book 811, at Page 1400, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignor: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns Assignee: Bank of America NA Assignment Dated: June 17, 2014 Assignment Recorded: June 19, 2014 Assignment Recording Information: as Entry No. 201408245, in Book 929 at Page 1168 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 November 1, 2016 as Entry No. 201620150, in Book 970, at Page 378, 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 July 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 $34,422.10, interest in the sum of $6,888.94, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $2,082.76, for a total amount owing of $43,393.80, 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
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"Exaggeration"– way more than necessary. ACROSS
1 Contacts electronically, in a way 4 They're the result of extracted genes 8 Chunks of fairway 14 Buck's counterpart 15 "___ that a kick in the pants?" 16 Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny 17 "Friends" costar Courteney 18 Falco of "Nurse Jackie" 19 Kitchen protectors 20 Theme park chain, grossly exaggerated? 23 French realist painter Bonheur 24 "Conjunction Junction" conjunction 25 Chef DiSpirito 28 End of many failed '90s businesses? 31 Autumn mo. 33 "The Fault in ___ Stars" 34 "Wayne's World" actress Carrere 35 Feeling of amazement 36 Caricatured 37 Morris's favorite cat food, wildly exaggerated? 41 Green dip, for short 42 Tats 43 Eden matriarch 44 Adjective for 2017 (but not 2018) 45 Enjoy brunch, for instance 46 Rabbit relative? 50 "Sons of Anarchy" extra 52 For emus, it's greenish 55 Negative in Nuremberg 56 "Gone with the Wind" plantation, insanely exaggerated? 60 Duke University city 62 "___ Jury" (Spillane detective novel) 63 Architect I.M. ___ 64 Beezus's sister 65 Group led by Master Splinter, initially 66 "Wow," when texting 67 Like beer or bread dough 68 They may have polar bears and giraffes 69 Why the exaggeration? Because it's this number raised to the nth power
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1 It usually includes a photo 2 Cow sound in "Old MacDonald" 3 Like some illegal hiring practices 4 "Mozart in the Jungle" star ___ Garcia Bernal 5 Computer music format 6 Big Mac ingredient 7 "Mad Men" pool member 8 Twofold 9 To a certain extent 10 Leo follower 11 Doctor's ear-examining tool 12 Camel tone 13 Draft lottery org., once 21 Milk-related 22 "Eh, I'm not buying it" look 26 Helps with lines 27 Chicago airport letters 29 Contents of a cruet 30 Sasha's sister 32 "E! News" subject 35 Astronaut affirmative 36 Johnson & Johnson skin care brand 37 Car on the Autobahn 38 Result of evil acts, supposedly 39 "___ Inside" (computer slogan) 40 Apple Chief Design Officer Jony ___ 41 One of the Bluth brothers on "Arrested Development" 45 Given to traveling 47 Drink container 48 "Black ___" (historic 1961 book) 49 Lieutenant's underling 51 Community character 53 Glamor partner 54 Controversial naval base in Cuba, informally 57 "If ___ be so bold ..." 58 "I don't believe this!" 59 Barclays Center squad 60 Martini preference 61 Abu Dhabi loc.
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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 cancelled. 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 9th day of November, 2016. /s/ 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. 47748 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on March 23, 2017, 9:00 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: A tract of land located in the Southwest One-Quarter of the Northeast One-Quarter of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana more
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particularly described as follows: Beginning at the center of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 21 West; thence due East on and along the North boundary of Missoula County Route #16 for 330.00 feet; thence North and parallel to the center of section line of said Section 36 for 860.0 feet; thence due West for 330.0 feet to the center of section line for said Section 36; thence South on and along the center of section line for said Section 36 for 860.0 feet to the point of beginning, as shown as Tract A on Deed Exhibit 3836. LESS AND EXCEPTING THEREFROM that portion conveyed by Warranty Deed to the Frenchtown Irrigation District recorded in Book 120 of Deed Records at Page 157. Recording reference in Book 172 at Page 68 Micro Records. Parcel ID 1304209 More commonly known as 14150 Harpers Bridge Road, Missoula, MT 59808. Marcia L. Seymour, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WMC Mortgage Corp., by Deed of Trust on August 22, 2002, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on August 28, 2002 as Entry No. 200224636, in Book 687, at Page 1031, of Official Records.The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignor: WMC Mortgage Corp. Assignee: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the Registered Holders of GSAMP Trust 2002-HE, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2002-HE Assignment Dated: May 6, 2005 Assignment Recorded: July 19, 2005 Assignment Recording Information: as Entry No. 200517924, in Book 756, at Page 445 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 October 25, 2016 as Entry No. 20169508, in Book 969, at Page 1136, 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 May 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the
principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said 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 $105,002.05, interest in the sum of $5,466.70, escrow advances of $994.76, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,977.87,for a total amount owing of $113,441.38, 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 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 cancelled. 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 17th day of November, 2016. /s/ 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. 47783 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 2, 2017, 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: Tract C of Remick’s Swan River Tracts No. 2, Block 2, Lots 1-6, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Michael S. Sapp and Faye H. Sapp, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to se-
cure an obligation owed to Citizens Alliance Bank, f/k/a First Valley Bank, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated January 15, 2008, and recorded January 24, 2008, in Book 812 of Micro Records at Page 342, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded January 20, 2017, 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 Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its 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 $96,058.97, which includes interest at a rate of 8% per annum, plus late fees of $585.00, for a total amount due of $96,643.97, as of January 19, 2017, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs.The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 23rd day of January, 2017. /s/ Kevin S. Jones,Trustee STATE OF MONTANA))ss . County of Missoula) On this 23rd day of January, 2017, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires May 07, 2017
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BONNER 4Bd/2Ba FENCED YARD Mobile home with covered deck, pets possible. Tenant pays heat and electric. SWG included. $1090. Nancy 880-8228
1324 S. 2nd Street West “B”. 3 bed/2 bath, central location, single garage, W/D. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $495/month. 406-273-6034
650 South Avenue East. 3 bed/1 bath, blocks to U, W/D hookups, double garage, fenced yard $1400. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
DUPLEXES
COMMERCIAL
1706 Scott Street “B’ 1 bed/1 bath, Northside, all utilities paid, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
210 South 3rd West. Lease space available by the Hip Strip near Bernice’s Bakery. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
1920 S. 14th Street W. “C.” Studio/1 bath, newer unit, double garage, W/D. $675 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2205 ½ South Avenue West. 3 bed/1 ¾ bath, all utilities included. $1225. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
524 S. 5th Street E. “A”. 3 bed/2
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REAL ESTATE HOMES
MANUFACTURED
1001 Medicine Man Cluster. Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $950,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
For Sale 2- 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $35,000 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663
18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home. $270,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com www.mindypalmer.com More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com
LAND NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tungstenholdings.com. (406)293-3714
COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
OUT OF TOWN
CONDOS
122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
801 N Orange Street #303, Missoula, MT 59802 MLS #21605224 $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Pinnacle Townhomes. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage on Charlo Street. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $300,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
“You gotta love where you live!”
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bring 25 years of real estate experience, knowledge of financing, honesty and integrity to my business to help buyers and sellers make sound decisions for their future. My career in real estate is a lifestyle for me, rather than a job that I go to everyday. I balance my life with my love of the outdoors that includes hiking, canoeing, camping, backpacking and skiing. Here in Montana we love the seasons and utilize them to the fullest. We are truly lucky to live in a beautiful place and an amazing town! My motto for my clients is “You gotta love where you live!” And Missoula offers all the requirements to love where you live. For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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Rochelle Glasgow Office: 406.728.8270 Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com
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5578 Circle Drive, Florence. 3 bed, 2 bath on one acre near river trail. $263,000. Shannon
Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MARYLAND•
Maryland is a 5-year-old female Boxer mix. She is a very stoic lady that understands several commands. Maryland definitely lacks a silly bone and listens to commands with a regal, authoritative attitude. This girl takes life seriously, and if she doesn't think you're serious, she'll give you the cold shoulder. Maryland would do best as an only pet.
SHELBY•Shelby is a 7-year-old female Bulldog mix. She is what shelter staff affectionately term as being "intensely happy!" If Shelby could write, she'd end every sentence with a minimum of three exclamation points!!! Shelby loves life to the fullest, and is excited to go where ever you want to go. She loves people, and if she's given the chance, all 50 pounds of muscle will load up in your lap.
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MAYNARD• Maynard is a 2-year-old male Pointer mix. He has been waiting for a home since July 6, 2016, making him our longest term shelter resident at 210 days. He is also fearful of moving bikes, skateboards, and strollers. Maynard is quite the athlete and is not only able to jump 6 feet in the air, he can also climb chain link! Maynard would make a great agility dog with a little training.
NANETTE• Nanette is an approximately 10-year-old female brown Tabby. She has a tipped ear, and is obviously more comfortable around fewer humans than the shelter life can provide. Nanette's days of being a mouser are long past now, as she has no teeth to hunt and catch live prey. Instead, she prefers to spend her time in comfortable little cat nooks. EINSTEIN• Einstein is a 15-year male longhaired cat. This sweet old man is looking for a retirement home that can keep him for the rest of his days. Einstein doesn't require much; a warm comfy cat bed, a window sill, portioned meals, the occasional grooming, and a little attention will keep this handsome fellow one content cat. Einstein doesn't mind other cats, although his playful rambunctious years are in the past.
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SIF• Sif is a 1 1/2-year-old female brown Tabby. Sif is a funny little cat with tons of spunk and spirit; she is convinced she is part lion with her mighty roar! We affectionately call her "Squawk Box" due to her very loud meow. Sif loves to play, and just about anything becomes a toy. At the same time, she's happiest running around chasing feather toys, balls, or laser pointers.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 MIDNIGHT• Midnight is a super smar1-
year-old lab cross who loves being the center of attention and going on adventures! We picture Midnight as the kind of dog who would totally sky dive if he could! He is up for anything, though he can be selective about which dogs can join in on his fun. Come by and meet Midnight today! 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula.
To sponsor a pet call 543-6609
MACEY• Macey is a stunning purebred Persian with a heart of gold. He may take a moment to warm up to you; he looks to his older brother Sash for guidance. But soon Macey will be begging to sit on your lap! This beautiful boy is up to date on all his vaccines and is neutered; he is declawed in front, but it does not seem to detract from his mobility. He has lived with his brother all his life and they would love to go home together!
BABY• Baby is a Shepherd/Border Collie who
is still trying to figure out life indoors. She has lived outside her whole life, but she spent tons of time with her people, playing tag, wrestling, and snoozing! Baby is extremely loyal, and can take some time to warm up to strangers. She enjoys the company of other dogs and would love to go to an adult family. Come get to know her!
PENNY• This lovely hound is looking for an understanding home where she can live life to the fullest in spite of several health issues. Sweet Penny was recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism and has thyroid tumors. She's currently taking medicine and is as spunky and houndy as ever! She would prefer to be the only fur baby in the home.
SASH• Sash is handsome, purebred Persian who loves prowling around and showing off his good looks and stunning coat! He lived with his brother, Macey, enjoyed visiting kiddos, and met multiple types of dogs with a super relaxed, Persian-y attitude! This good-looking gentleman is declawed in front, but he doesn't seem to be bothered by it! Sash is a fan favorite and part of our Senior for Senior program.
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HORSE• Horse is one cool cat. He enjoys spending time with dogs of all sizes and loves to explore the outdoors. He is active, enthusiastic, and a one-cat opera musical! Horse was recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which we have begun to treat with daily medication. We're hoping he'll be feeling much more himself once the medicine kicks in, but his condition will likely require long-term management. missoulanews.com •February 2 - February 9, 2017 [C11]
REAL ESTATE
NHN STONE STREET
Amazing 2.52 acre parcel in Orchard Homes! This flat parcel has great views, frontage on an irrigation fed pond, and city sewer is close. If you're needing a little more room for gardens, animals, a shop, or all the above, come take a look. $174,900
Thinking of Selling? Call us for a free evaluation of the Current Market Value of your property. 509 Hastings • $329,900
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker
Wonderful 2 bed, 2 bath U area home with 2 Real Estate With Real Experience bonus rooms in basement. Hardwood floors, pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653) fenced backyard & single garage. Properties2000.com
Homes 4000 W Carlton Creek Rd- Small 2 bedroom 1 bath home on over an acre. Double detached garage and fenced yard for dogs...............................................................................................$168,000 2301 Hilda Ave - Beautiful University area home with lovely character................................................................$385,000 2128 Burlington - Great floor plan, enormous yard and great location ...............................................................$215,000 5614 Gharrett St. Expansive 4 bedroom,3 bath home overlooking the South end of Missoula Valley ..................$324,900 301 Woodworth- Three bedroom/three bath, built in 1939 and same owners for 50 years! Great potential with this University home ...........................................................................................................$409,000 412 W Artemos- Truly amazing Mid-Century Modern home in Pattee Canyon. Three bedrooms, one full bath and one 3/4 bath ................................................................................................$417,000
Townhomes/Condos
Uptown Flats #303 Third Floor South Facing 1 Bed 1 Bath .....................................................................................$159,710 1401 Cedar St #13 This is your chance to own an amazing home in Clark Fork Commons. ..................................$145,000
For Lease
255 South Russell St- LEASE SPACE IN THE SOURCE HEALTH CLUB .....Modified gross lease of $21 sqf/year/$2,660/month
Featured: 1401 Cedar St #13 The location is perfect-just a few minutes from downtown and easy access to the bike trail $145,000
2301 Hilda Avenue 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Beautiful University area home with lovely character. Sweet, solid, smart! $385,000
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Call Matt at 360-9023 for more information