NEWS OPINION
BEYOND YOGA PANTS: PROPOSED BILLS TARGET ABORTION ACCESS, MIDWIFERY
ZINKE MAKES CASE FOR U.S. TROOPS ON THE GROUND
NEWS
FBI TARGETS REGIONAL MEGALOAD ACTIVISTS
MUSIC
HOW A MONTANAN HELPED START ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES
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NEWS OPINION
BEYOND YOGA PANTS: PROPOSED BILLS TARGET ABORTION ACCESS, MIDWIFERY
ZINKE MAKES CASE FOR U.S. TROOPS ON THE GROUND
NEWS
FBI TARGETS REGIONAL MEGALOAD ACTIVISTS
MUSIC
HOW A MONTANAN HELPED START ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES
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News
Voices/Letters Net metering and water ..........................................................................4 The Week in Review Jordan Gregory, Big Sky winners and arson................................6 Briefs Missoula Developmental Center, ALEC and the FBI ............................................6 Etc. The long fight against a super-sized Bitterroot development..................................7 News Proposed legislation targets abortion access, midwifery.......................................8 Opinion Did you know Rep. Ryan Zinke was a Navy SEAL? It’s true! ............................9 Opinion Crude political tactics worked against the sage grouse .................................10 Feature Before Boyhood, Richard Linklater got his start in Missoula...........................12
Arts & Entertainment
Arts How a Montanan helped start St. Paul and the Broken Bones .............................16 Books Harrison explores an eighth deadly sin in faux mystery ...................................17 Dance Hoover offers a modern take on the Cold War woman.....................................18 Film Breaking down the Oscar odds, from J.K. to Boyhood.........................................19 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ......................................................20 Flash in the Pan Bitter principles.................................................................................21 Happiest Hour Kay Faulconbridge ...............................................................................23 8 Days a Week Always ready for our close-up..............................................................24 Mountain High Marshall Mountain Winter Carnival....................................................29 Agenda Race to Nowhere ..............................................................................................30
Exclusives
Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology......................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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[voices]
The heart of it
STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, Feb. 17, near the corner of Broadway and Higgins. What actor or film are you most pulling for in this weekend’s Academy Awards? Follow-up: Our cover story this week is about a little-known connection between one Oscar nominee and Missoula. What is your favorite Montana-made or -inspired film?
Michelle Fields: It’s hard to say, I’ve seen so many! Ida for the best foreign film and Selma for best picture. I really liked the alcoholic, communist aunt in Selma as well. Book to film: Winter in the Blood. I read the book and can only assume the movie will be great. And A River Runs Through It.
Cassidy Thompson: American Sniper is the only film I’ve seen that’s been nominated. I should probably go off a reliable source. Oh, I’ll never leave Montana, brother: A River Runs Through It.
Autumn Biggins: J.K. Simmons. Whiplash was great. He’s such an asshole, you’ll love it. Six degrees of Kevin Bacon: The River Wild.
My husband and I have a small-scale, family owned and operated farm in Lewistown. Three years ago, we installed a 15kW solar array on our barn roof. The system has performed flawlessly. It’s the best investment we ever made. We have a net metering agreement with Fergus Electric Cooperative and it has worked well. We’re fortunate that all of our buildings and operations are served by a single meter. Friends and neighboring ranchers who’ve seen our system are starting to see solar as a great way to cut costs on one their biggest expenses—electricity. However, most have separate meters for their house, barn, shop, irrigation systems, etc., which creates a major obstacle to gaining control over their energy costs. Montana’s current net metering law states that output from a renewable energy system can only be credited to one electrical meter. So if a ranch has five electric meters, they need five separate solar systems to net meter with public utilities. This is unreasonably restrictive and prohibitively expensive. Montana Senate Bill 134 would change current law to allow installation of one solar or wind system to offset electricity use at multiple meters. This proposal makes renewable energy more accessible to farms and ranches with multiple electric meters, by allowing them to apply net metering credits from one renewable energy system to all their electrical meters. Ranching and farming are the heart of Montana’s economy. Montana family owned ranches and farms deserve an energy policy that makes sense and works for, not against, them. Laurie Lohrer Lewistown
In the dark Sarah Blackfin: Grand Budapest Hotel was awesome and Michael Keaton is always amazing. Boyhood was good, too. Marky Mark: I think part of the movie Shooter was shot in Montana.
Melissa Stephenson: I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson so I wouldn’t mind seeing Grand Budapest Hotel win—not even because it’s an excellent film but because he makes such good-looking films. Mr. and Mr. Smith: Winter in the Blood, second only to Andrew and Alex Smith’s first film, Slaughter Rule. I think it was Ryan Gosling’s first film. It was fabulous.
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Montana legislators are holding onto the past rather than progressing Montana’s energy future. In the last week, committees in the Senate and House tabled four bills that would have expanded opportunities for Montanans to invest in their own local renewable energy system. Why? Our legislators decided to support utility interests instead of their constituents. Business owners, citizens and city governments advocated in favor of expanding net metering, testifying to legislators that net metering would make a positive economic impact in their commu-
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nity. Who was in opposition? NorthWestern and MDU. NorthWestern was looking to maintain its monopoly on the energy market, not looking to protect its customers, as the company alleged. Utilities earn guaranteed returns from the sale of power and don’t want to lose revenues when their customers go solar. Net metering allows consumers costcompetitive energy choices. Otherwise, consumers are subjected to rate hikes with no alternative. Nationwide, states have adopted net metering policies to the benefit of utilities and all their customers.
“Why is NorthWestern so afraid of customers producing their own renewable
tantly, do you have thousands of dollars, sitting in your bank account, that you have no better use for than paying an attorney to go to Water Court? Hopefully the answer to the former is yes, and the latter is no, because Montana’s water users—especially farmers, ranchers and irrigators—will be forced to bear the financial burden of the tremendous amount of litigation that will ensue if the CSKT Water Compact doesn’t pass. The CSKT Compact defines the tribal water rights of the CSKT, while simultaneously protecting existing water rights. However, without this agreement there will not only be thousands of new claims filed in the Montana Water Court, but many of the basins that have been through the adjudication process (approximately 35) will be reopened. The reopening of the adjudication on these basins alone will cost over $70 million, and that’s not including the thousands of other claims that would be filed. Our elected officials in the Montana State Legislature need to pass the compact—we can’t afford the alternative. Bridget Holland Helena
energy?” I supported expanding net metering because my small business could have benefited if the legislation passed. As a carpenter who builds sustainable housing and believes in responsible building practices, these bills would have enabled more of my customers to invest in their own renewable energy source. These bills would also have resulted in larger projects across Montana, meaning renewable energy installers would have been looking for guys like me to join their crews. I am disappointed that these opportunities were denied me. Why is NorthWestern so afraid of customers producing their own renewable energy? They know that allowing small scale renewable energy generation reveals a future where their archaic business model does not stand a chance. Expanding net metering was an opportunity for Montanans to look to the future. Instead, NorthWestern Energy is working hard to keep customers in the dark. Mic Smith Billings
Costly alternative Do you have thousands of dollars sitting in your bank account? More impor-
A world of hurt The looming deadline for the state to ratify the CSKT Water Compact should have farmers and rancher squirming. This legislative session is the last chance for the compact to be approved. Sixteen tribal compacts have been signed in our state— and the CSKT Water Compact needs to be one of them. Should the state fail to approve a compact, the water rights of water users across Montana will be uncertain. If the compact isn’t finalized, the cost of litigation fees alone will bring many farm and ranch operations to a halt. Montana’s agriculture industry can’t afford to have uncertain water rights and then wait in line with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other farmers to determine how much water I can or can’t use. The compact will protect all existing rights for domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial, stock water or non-irrigation users—and avoid creating an overwhelming backlog of claims in the Montana Water Court. If we don’t pass the compact, Montana’s water users will be in a world of hurt. Martha Humphreys Noxon
etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence. Letters to the editor must include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number for confirmation, though we’ll publish only your name and city. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication. Preference is given to letters addressing the contents of the Independent. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and clarity. Send correspondence to: Letters to the Editor, Missoula Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or via email: editor@missoulanews.com.
“WE BROUGHT ZEYDA HOME. BECAUSE WE
BROUGHT HER TO
COMMUNITY.” AT ANY OTHER HOSPITAL, BABY ZEYDA MAY NOT HAVE SURVIVED. But over three decades of experience have taught us that not every birth goes as planned. So, we had everything Zeyda needed very close at hand. And rushing her to our neonatal intensive care unit meant just moving her into the next room. TODAY, ZEYDA AND HER FAMILY ARE THRIVING.
missoulanews.com • February 19–February 26, 2015 [5]
[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, February 11 A stretch of Highway 12 remains inaccessible as Montana Department of Transportation crews drill, blast and otherwise work to clear rocks and boulders that slid into the roadway about 14 miles west of Lolo on Tuesday.
Thursday, February 12 A Montana Rail Link train traveling east at approximately 50 mph approaches two men who have just crossed a trestle over the Blackfoot River. One man gets out of the way, but the other is struck, injured and hospitalized.
Friday, February 13 Winners of the 12th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival are announced during an evening reception at the Top Hat Lounge. Siblings Are Forever takes Best Feature, while Love and Terror On the Howling Plains of Nowhere wins the Big Sky Award.
Saturday, February 14 It takes three overtimes and a pair of Jordan Gregory free throws with just 2.2 seconds left for Montana’s men’s basketball team to beat Northern Colorado in Greeley, 83-81. The Griz improve to 14-10 on the season and move into a tie for second place in the Big Sky Conference.
Sunday, February 15 Missoula firefighters respond to reports of a blaze at the East Broadway Motel. By the time they arrive, employees have extinguished the fire. Police later arrest Ralph Lockwood on charges of criminal mischief and arson.
Monday, February 16 The Senate Judiciary Committee convenes its first hearing on Senate Bill 262, which would ratify a long-disputed water compact between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the state and the federal government.
Tuesday, February 17 Missoula police end their search for a “missing and endangered” man from Washington. Jawn Harris is found in good health after his vehicle was discovered abandoned on Sunday with his dog inside.
Missoula Community School’s caped Superheroes of Kindness surprise Hellgate High School students on Feb. 12 by handing out fresh flowers donated by Bitterroot Flower Shop. The superheroes’ efforts were part of National Kindness Week.
Disability
Abuse persists at MDC According to a recent Montana Department of Justice report, staff neglect at the Montana Developmental Center led to the latest in a long string of instances of client abuse at the state facility in Boulder. The latest MDC incident involves an alleged sexual assault in the facility’s secure Assessment Stabilization Unit on Jan. 28, when staff members Beau Welch and Tyler Fletcher took a break at the same time and left a resident with a history of sexual aggression unsupervised for 26 minutes. During that time, the report claims, the client in question sexually assaulted a 19year-old intellectually disabled male resident. (The names of the clients involved were redacted from the publicly available report.) The assault occurred despite various and ongoing efforts to end a cycle of abuse at MDC, which is charged with caring for some 50 cognitively impaired adults at a time. In 2013, officials pledged to improve training and hire a new facility superintendent. The same year, lawmakers directed the DOJ investigate all future claims of abuse and authorized Disability Rights Montana, a federally mandated civil rights and advocacy group, to view those findings.
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When the 19-year-old client reported the Jan. 28 incident, the DOJ immediately launched an investigation, viewing security camera footage and interviewing staff and clients. A week later, on Feb. 4, the DOJ issued its report, which found the allegations of sexual abuse and staff neglect to be substantiated. “That’s appalling in itself,” says Bernadette FranksOngoy, executive director of Disability Rights Montana. But what Franks-Ongoy finds far more alarming, she says, is how the MDC responded to the DOJ’s findings. Rather than accepting the DOJ’s findings and resolving to learn from them, the MDC’s Event Management Committee— a task force charged with reviewing the DOJ’s abuse reports and determining appropriate corrective action—denied that a sexual assault had occurred at all. According to administrative comments included with the DOJ report, “The Event Management Committee disagrees that client-to-client sexual abuse occurred. The video evidence clearly indicates that both clients appear to be enjoying the activity.” Franks-Ongoy calls the committee’s response “absolutely outrageous.” “Anybody who knows anything about sexual violence and power and control would never claim that a sexual assault is an enjoyable activity,” she says. “This is like saying that a female who is being raped
by a male and the female doesn’t scream, therefore she enjoyed it. Clearly, the facility is totally mismanaged and does not have any clinical expertise on how to treat people with sex-offending behavior.” Since the report was released, the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees MDC, announced it would “reconsider the evidence” and “review the issue of consent.” In Helena, meanwhile, lawmakers are continuing to seek ways to improve resident care and reduce abuse at MDC. Rep. Gordon Pierson, D-Deer Lodge, introduced HB 468 to the House Human Services Committee on Feb. 16. If passed, it would reduce the maximum involuntary commitment period for individuals with developmental disabilities from one year to 90 days. It would also set a one-year maximum on community treatment plans for the same population. Individuals, however, could be recommitted after undergoing an evaluation. “We all agree that people with these disabilities deserve to be integrated into the community,” Pierson told his fellow committee members during the Feb. 16 hearing. Moving clients out of MDC is a central aim of Disability Rights Montana, and Franks-Ongoy supports HB 468—even if she’s deeply pessimistic about the possibility of true reform.
[news] “Any little change that can be made to help support the function of the facility, then we ought to be doing that as well,” Franks-Ongoy says. “But do I have an opinion about whether the facility is incapable of being rehabilitated? Yes, I do. I do think that it’s incapable of being rehabilitated.” Ted McDermott
Direct action
Groups unfazed by FBI Helen Yost received an odd text in late December from someone claiming to be an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The individual expressed an urgent need to speak with her, and Yost, a representative with the climate action group Wild Idaho Rising Tide, kept her response short and to the point: “No!” “Of course, your heart rate goes up a little,” Yost says. “But quite frankly we were a little surprised it took them this long to directly contact us.” Yost is one of a number of activists across the Pacific Northwest claiming to have been contacted by the FBI since last fall. One WIRT activist in Bellingham, Wash., alleged that two agents had shown up at his house in October. Yost’s text exchange prompted her to immediately alert other WIRT members via Facebook and caution them about their rights. “We saw it as a validation that we’re actually making a dent in fighting back some of these fossil fuel invasions that have been happening across the region,” she says, adding that the FBI appears to have focused on groups directly opposed to megaloads as well as oil and coal train traffic. The incident quickly became a topic of conversation for coal train protesters in Missoula. Nick Engelfried of the Blue Skies Campaign and Jeff Smith of 350 Missoula confirm that Yost’s experience came up during meetings earlier this year. Neither knows of any local activists who have been contacted by the FBI, but, Smith says, “You can’t read these stories without wondering who’s next on the list.” Ayn Dietrich-Williams, media coordinator for the FBI’s Seattle Division, could not comment on specifics, but told the Indy that contacting a person “does not mean that the person is the subject of an investigation.” She added the FBI is careful to distinguish between constitutionally protected and illegal activities, and that its authority to investigate is based “not on the individual’s political views, position or any other beliefs.” The bureau’s interest in regional protest groups isn’t unprecedented. In July 2013, six members of Rising Tide Seattle submitted a statement to The Stranger detailing in-person exchanges with individuals who identified themselves as FBI agents. The activists were outspoken
critics of the Keystone XL pipeline, tar sands development and increased coal train traffic to West Coast ports. Engelfried and Yost both find it puzzling that federal agents would hone in on groups dedicated to nonviolent direct action, even if blockades have resulted in a few misdemeanors now and then. Smith argues the FBI should instead put coal and oil interests in the hot seat. “The FBI should maybe turn its focus on some of those folks and the politics and corruption behind all that stuff,” he says, “and leave the people that are working to improve the climate alone.”
photo by Alex Sakariassen
Yost says her experience is prompting WIRT to be “even more bold and more open with what we’re doing.” The possibility of FBI calls hasn’t dampened anticoal-train enthusiasm in Missoula, either. In fact, Engelfried says, Blue Skies is already working on another major direct action event for next month. As usual, he’s keeping the details close to the chest—for now. Alex Sakariassen
Medicaid
Beyond the town halls The national nonprofit Americans for Prosperity found itself the subject of intense scrutiny from both sides of the aisle this month after hosting three “town hall” meetings in Kalispell, Dillon and Roundup focused on the issue of Medicaid expansion in the Montana Legislature. Media stories and online videos depicted a tense face-off between the group’s state director, Zach Lahn, and Rep. Frank Garner, RKalispell, who claimed he was not invited to the gathering held in his district. Proponents of Medicaid expansion in Montana have long argued the merits of extending coverage to residents at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Gov. Steve Bullock has repeatedly stated expan-
BY THE NUMBERS Years in prison Markus Kaarma received
fatal shooting of 17-year-old Ger70 formantheexchange student Diren Dede. Dis-
trict Judge Ed McLean said Kaarma wasn’t protecting his home, but rather “went hunting.” sion would benefit some 70,000 uninsured Montanans and reduce the burden of uncompensated care on hospitals across the state. He recently toured the Teton Medical Center in Choteau—where 42 percent of patients don’t have health insurance—to promote his Healthy Montana Plan, which would utilize Medicaid dollars made available through the Affordable Care Act. Bullock’s plan is scheduled for a hearing before the House Human Services Committee March 6. AFP equates Bullock’s plan to “more Obamacare,” and cites the nonprofit Heritage Foundation in saying that expanding Medicaid will cost the state upwards of $138 million through 2022. AFP’s opposition is hardly new. The group advertised two free workshops in Missoula last spring titled “Surviving ObamaCare 101,” a course it promised would explain why Medicaid expansion is a “bad economic and bad health policy.” Bullock’s Healthy Montana Plan has also come under fire from groups other than AFP. The recent meetings included speeches by Kristina Ribali, a representative with the Foundation for Government Accountability, regarding the impacts of Medicaid expansion. Ribali’s foundation has spent years actively calling for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, operating the antiACA website UncoverObamaCare.org and peddling pamphlets at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and Nation Policy Summit in December 2013. State lawmakers in Tennessee defeated a Medicaid expansion proposal touted by Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Feb. 4. Two days later, Wyoming’s state Senate rejected a similar measure supported by Republican Gov. Matt Mead. The Foundation for Government Accountability ran active opposition campaigns to the bills in both states, including radio ads and public speeches by Ribali throughout Wyoming. “With strong opposition to ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion in Idaho, Utah, Montana and elsewhere, we expect to be hearing more stories like this very soon,” said the foundation’s CEO, Tarren Bragdon, in a statement Feb. 6. The foundation is currently running a radio campaign opposing Medicaid expansion in Utah, along with a website titled unhealthyutah.com. So far there have been no such ads in Montana. Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Exactly nine years ago, in February 2006, Sunnyside Orchards, LLC submitted a development proposal to Ravalli County. According to the plan, 368 acres of agricultural land northeast of Stevensville and right across the Eastside Highway from the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge would be converted into a major subdivision called the Legacy Ranch. On cue, critics came out of the woodwork, citing everything from environmental concerns to the estimated addition of 9,271 daily vehicle trips in the area to potential overcrowding at the nearby Lone Rock School. Over the next seven years, those opponents continued to protest the plan, Ravalli County officials reviewed the proposal and the developers modified their application. And when the plan came up for public comment in 2013, the comments were overwhelmingly against the 639unit subdivision. Soon after, however, the Ravalli County Commissioners did what you might expect, if you follow Ravalli County politics at all: They unanimously approved it. Claiming the commission failed to fully consider and address the subdivision’s potential impact, the nonprofit Bitterrooters for Planning sued. Now, after another long delay, the case is at last beginning to move through court. On Feb. 4, lawyers filed briefs in Hamilton’s 21st Judicial District Court. Oral arguments are scheduled to begin by May 29. No one expects the case to end soon, though. And if the courts rule in the developers’ favor, the end of the longstanding uncertainty will still be decades away. According to the proposed timeline, the Legacy Ranch will take 30 years to complete. Jim Rokosch, president of Bitterrooters for Planning, says allowing the project to “hang over the community’s head” for so long is “untenable.” But allowing the project to go forward without a fight, he says, would be far worse. For Rokosch, the fate of the 500 acres is about more than just abstract legal proceedings. It’s what he sees when he looks out the window of his home, which has a view of what could become a sprawling subdivision with more residents than Corvallis. “I live with this everyday,” Rokosch say. “I wake up to it in the morning, and I drink my first cup of coffee and stare at it. And I look at it when the sun goes down, every evening. What I see, at this point, are agricultural acres that offer functional wildlife habitat as well as productive agricultural acreage—and that oughta remain so.”
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[news]
Beyond yoga pants Proposed legislation targets abortion access, midwifery by Kate Whittle
Last week, state Rep. David “Doc” Moore’s off-hand comment about yoga pants and his proposed strengthening of Montana’s indecency laws made headlines from Time to Mother Jones to The Onion. But other Republican-sponsored bills currently working their way through this year’s legislature could affect women’s personal choices in more far-reaching ways, says Maggie Moran, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Montana. “We actually have a lot going on, even though some of it has been relatively quiet,” says Moran, who ticks off several bills that she says are more worrisome than stretchy pants. The proposed legislation targets everything from restrictions on abortion to alternative health care at a time when, after two abortion clinics in the state closed in the last year, “we should be promoting [access],” Moran says. The list of troublesome bills includes Rep. Albert Olszewski’s HB 479, which would establish a rule about “fetal pain,” and Sen. Cary Smith’s SB 349, which would require company insurance plans that offer abortion to also include plans that do not cover abortion. Nationwide, one of the most divisive debates has been over so-called “personhood” amendments that aim to change the legal definition of “person” to fetuses at any stage of development, including fertilized eggs. Moran says personhood amendments, if passed, pose very real threats to pregnant women’s rights and could even restrict some forms of birth control. On Monday, the state House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HB 425, which requests amending the state constitution to include a declaration about personhood. According to NARAL’s Twitter account, anti-choice organizations handed out “fetus dolls” at the hearing. Personhood amendments draw controversy, but in practice are difficult to pass. Amending Montana’s constitution to include a personhood amendment would require approval from both the state legislature and voters. Three previous citizen initiatives to put a personhood amendment on the November ballot have already failed. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Matthew Monforton, R-Bozeman, has acknowledged publicly that HB 425 would be an “uphill battle.” Even so, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee this week and is expected to reach the House floor later this month. Another bill proposed in the House drew opposition from women’s health ad-
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vocates, but primarily for how it might affect a family’s decision on alternative medicine and home births. HB 438 would have established a review board of physicians to oversee medical practitioners, including dentists, naturopaths, chiropractors and midwives. Bill Gallea, vice president of the Montana Medical Association, says HB 438 was drafted at his organization’s request to help resolve debates over scope of practice and whether caregivers are “following best practices to give care safely and effectively.”
HB 438 ultimately died in committee on Feb. 16, and its sponsor, Rep. Olszewski, R-Kalispell, was among those voting to table it. In an emailed comment to the Indy, he acknowledged the “passionate testimony” about the bill. “My intent was to develop a fact finding committee that can help the legislature in determining scope of practice at a time when physicians are unable to meet the needs of all Montanans due to a physician shortage that will, with time, worsen,” he wrote.
photo courtesy of Heritage House
NARAL Pro-Choice Montana says anti-choice lobbyists handed out fetus dolls at a recent committee hearing for HB 425, which would amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception. It’s just one of many bills targeting abortion rights during the current legislative session.
Darla Torrez, a practitioner with Tierra Madre Midwifery in Missoula, protested the bill, saying it would “essentially gut” the powers of the state’s existing Alternative Health Care Board. She sees it as an attempt by the MMA to limit the practices of naturopaths and midwives. Torrez also notes that in her experience, many Montanans who access alternative medical services tend to be conservative Christians, and she says Republican-sponsored legislation restricting alternative care could wind up alienating their core constituents.
MMA’s Gallea says he understands that, historically, physicians have been resistant to the expansion of other professions like naturopaths and midwives, but the new legislation isn’t intended as a turf war. Though the current bill died in committee, he says the MMA will keep trying to push through changes to how these practices are overseen. “I understand why people of other professions might be skeptical, but we are inviting them to take a fresh look at this and collaborate with us,” he says. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
[news]
On the offensive Did you know Rep. Ryan Zinke was a Navy SEAL? It’s true! by Dan Brooks
Rep. Ryan Zinke marked the end of his first month in the U.S. House last week by correcting the president. In his request for congressional authorization to use force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Obama ruled out large-scale ground operations. Zinke told the Billings Gazette that’s a mistake. “The hard facts are that air operations alone won’t degrade or defeat ISIS. It will take U.S. ground troops in the form of embedded special operations forces to ensure that our air power is effective,” Zinke said. “In my experience, this is not only an East and West battle. It’s also a battle within Islam. We have to ensure Islamic terrorist organizations do not become the mainstream Islam.” Obviously, these remarks form Montana’s freshman congressman came as a surprise. I think I speak for all of us when I say I am shocked to learn that Ryan Zinke served in the U.S. military. The results of my research will probably blindside you, but it turns out Zinke spent 23 years with the Navy SEALs—the same outfit that brought us Jesse “The Body” Ventura and, unless someone has been fooling around with Wikipedia, Henry Kissinger. Zinke won a Bronze Star and retired with the rank of commander. In addition to conferring the right to refer to himself as “Commander Zinke” at any time, this experience more than qualifies him to advise the president on how best to conduct a multi-branch combat campaign against a non-state actor—and, of course, to shape the development of mainstream Islam. Frankly, it’s a little irresponsible of Zinke not to have mentioned this before. If only Obama had some way of knowing about Zinke’s service, I’m sure he would have consulted Montana’s representative-atlarge before he addressed the House. Planning a whole pacification campaign against a crypto-criminal theocracy and then finding out you know a guy from SEAL Team Six is like executing an eminent-domain takeover
of a municipal water supply and then learning your neighbor is a plumber. If only we had known! But it’s understandable that Zinke never revealed his military background, what with America’s pervasive bias against those who served. Across the U.S., support for our troops has fallen so low that people need bumper stickers to remind them. Films like American Sniper and Zero Dark
“Without the representative from Montana, thousands of men and women in our armed services might never know what it’s like to fight a land war in Asia.” Thirty depict military service as the kind of thing any very handsome person can do. And for the last decade, a series of quick and decisive victories in the Middle East has reinforced Hollywood’s message that war is a pastime for ineffectual dorks. Given this toxic attitude toward military service, it’s no wonder Zinke hid his record. Our representative is no fool, and he learned from the disastrous example of former Sen. John Walsh, forced to withdraw from the 2014 race after it was revealed he served in the National Guard.
Montana voters are fickle, and we simply have no patience for a man in uniform. But let us not judge Rep. Zinke too harshly. He has finally done the honorable thing and mentioned that he used to be in the Navy. We cannot know his motivations, but I suspect Zinke didn’t do it for himself. He did it for his fellow servicepeople. Zinke’s call to commit ground troops to the fight against ISIS came not a moment too soon. With the last decade’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over almost before they began, America is in danger of forgetting its armed forces entirely. The U.S. military is like a fondue pot: we never use it, and we’re tired of waiting for people to come over. The only way to ensure that America continues to give our troops even a modicum of respect is to get them into combat immediately. It won’t be easy. Telling other people to stand up for freedom never is. Men like President Obama—who never served in the military and therefore rose to power with no political liabilities—will hesitate to take a hawkish stance against terrorism, because they fear public backlash. But Zinke has been in combat, so he knows better. He knows what it’s like to stand with his friends in a hail of bullets and never tell anyone about it. He knows what it’s like to live with the secret shame of military service. Most of all, he knows something many Americans never will: how it feels to risk his life for his country. Now that he’s a congressman, Rep. Zinke is ready to give a new generation of young people that opportunity. I applaud his decision to finally break his long silence. Without the representative from Montana, thousands of men and women in our armed services might never know what it’s like to fight a land war in Asia. I don’t think anyone could feel good about something like that. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and fondue at combatblog.net.
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For years now, the oil and gas industry has been stirring up trouble for sage grouse. The possibility that the prairiedwelling birds might receive Endangered Species Act protection gives oil executives high-grade anxiety. It would threaten jobs, they say. It would ruin the economy. It would reduce profits. All the noise the industry has made finally paid off. Last Dec. 16, President Obama signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill that was chock-full of unfortunate compromises, including a rider introduced by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev. The rider effectively bars the Interior Department from listing either the greater sage grouse or its Gunnison cousins under the Endangered Species Act during the current fiscal year. Oil and gas interests are delighted, of course, having worked hard to make this happen. For at least three years, the industry has waged a sophisticated lobbying campaign aimed at preventing federal protection of the birds. In ads and reports and TV spots, Big Oil tried to frame the sage grouse issue as an economic rather than a scientific matter, while portraying supporters of an endangered species listing as unsavory agitators. And in the months before the recent rider’s passage, the tone of this campaign intensified. From August to October 2014, for example, the Western Energy Alliance— a consortium of major oil companies such as Halliburton and Anadarko—ran online and radio ads meant to undermine the trustworthiness of environmental groups working on the sage grouse issue. With creepy tunes blaring in the background, one video reported that “environmental activists, teamed with powerful out-of-state lawyers, are using bad science and the courts to stop responsible energy development. ...” The ad failed to mention the energy alliance has long relied on the courts to get its way, suing the Bureau of Land Management in 2010, to open up backlogged oil and gas leases.
Another video, featuring bucolic shots of horseback riders and mountain bikers, claimed that a federal listing would threaten “our rural Western way of life.” These scare-tactic ads ran in six states. The Western Energy Alliance has also tried to discredit scientists working with federal agencies, claiming on its website and in published reports that “disproportionate influence from a small group of activist scientists” has tainted government studies of sage grouse. In a commissioned report, it went so far as to publish and then criticize the
“Berman told the oil representatives that they must wage an ‘endless war’ with environmental groups.” emails of Pat Diebert, a federal employee whose findings displeased the industry. Supporters of this anti-grouse agenda included many other industry groups and a herd of congressmen and senators. In June, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and thenRep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., now a senator, introduced a bill meant to prevent the sage grouse from being listed under the Endangered Species Act for 10 years. According to a Center for Responsive Politics database, Big Oil donated more than $600,000 to Gardner during the 2014 campaign season alone. Enzi, for his part, has taken in more than $500,000 in oil-industry campaign dollars throughout his congressional career. Perhaps the best insight into the industry’s strategy of tarnishing supporters of a
sage grouse listing came during the Western Energy Alliance’s annual meeting in Colorado Springs last summer. The meeting featured presentations such as “Big Green Radicals: Exposing Environmental Groups,” with Richard Berman, a Washington political consultant, serving as keynote speaker. Berman told the oil representatives that they must wage an “endless war” with environmental groups. The industry will win, he added, only by taking away “the moral authority” of its opponents and “reframing the debate” on its own terms. According to The New York Times, he told the industry that the challenge was either to “win ugly or lose pretty.” Oil and gas interests continue to insist that they, too, want to protect grouse. An alliance report notes that the industry “implements, on average, 6.5 restrictive measures per project to protect the Greater Sage-Grouse.” But some question the efficacy, not to mention the sincerity, of these efforts. The report “does not address whether these measures are (or) have been adequate to protect the species,” says Mark Salvo, a Defenders of Wildlife staffer. There is a sad irony to all of this. The oil and gas sector, desperate to keep sage grouse off the endangered species list, has done more than any group to impede the state-based conservation efforts that are the best chance there is to avert a listing. By undermining federal law, by politicizing scientific facts, by using scare and smear tactics, and pushing its weight around Congress, it has poisoned the debate. All the while, grouse populations continue to decline. In the end, this is about more than birds. Big Oil wants unfettered access to the public lands, and it is determined to win ugly. Jimmy Tobias is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). A former Indy staff writer and trail worker with the Forest Service, he now works as a freelance journalist in California.
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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Police looking for a bank robber in New Kensington, Pa., found suspect Shane Lindsey, 32, two blocks away at a restaurant where he stopped for chicken and biscuits. Officers entered the restaurant hoping its surveillance video might show the suspect passing by, only to spot Lindsey eating at a booth. (Tarentum’s Valley News Dispatch) Sheriff’s deputies suspected drugs when they stopped a car outside Daytona Beach, Fla., but found none. Passenger Candyce Harden was getting back in the car to leave when an 11-month-old boy with her reached into her blouse and pulled out a bag of cocaine. She was arrested. (The Daytona Beach News-Journal) TAX DOLLARS AT WORK – The National Institutes of Health gave Daniel Resnic $2.4 million to develop an “origami condom,” described as a non-rolled, silicone-based condom designed to “increase pleasure,” but then canceled the project after a former employee accused Resnic of spending the funding on trips to Costa Rica, lavish parties at the Playboy mansion, full-body plastic surgery, a condo in Provincetown, Mass., and patents for numerous “get-rich-quick” schemes. (Washington Free Beacon) Alaska taxpayers are funding a two-year, $400,000 University of Alaska study aimed at combating fetal alcohol syndrome that involves making free pregnancy tests available in bar bathrooms. (Alaska Dispatch News) Kentucky spends $2 million a year to pay 41 elected county jailers who have no jails to run. According to the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, the figure includes nearly 100 full- and part-time deputies the jailers employ, many of whom are family members. Several jailers also work other jobs, a few of which are full time. (Lexington Herald-Leader) The U.S. government spent $500,000 to build a police training facility in Afghanistan that disintegrated within four months of completion, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Its report said the contractor used substandard materials, including bricks made only from sand, that caused water to become trapped between the walls, making the building look like it was “melting.” Inspector General John Sopko called the project “an utter failure and embarrassment.” (Fox News) NEIN ON THE RHINE – Some 500 German right-wing protesters arriving for an anti-immigration rally in Schwerin were handed banners and stickers reading “mvgida.de,” which they assumed was the website for Mvgida, their xenophobic, anti-Islam organization. The site actually opposes right-wing extremism and urges tolerance. The duped protesters, many of them professed neo-Nazis, learned hours later that they had been demonstrating on behalf of immigrants instead of against them. (The Washington Post) A few days later, members of Germany’s far-right National Democratic Party boarded a train to attend a neo-Nazi protest in Freiburg. They missed the rally because they went 200 kilometers in the opposite direction before realizing their mistake. “We don’t feel their absence here,” Freiburg Mayor Otto Neideck said after organizers canceled the rally due to low turnout. (Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Allan Johnston, 40, received four years in prison for robbing a woman in Stirling, Scotland, authorities there said, by using “a can of Red Bull to mimic a gun.” (BBC News) REVENUE STREAM – When Washington, D.C., officials announced an unanticipated $38 million shortfall in projected revenue from traffic cameras, they explained the drop was evidence that motorists were obeying the law. A subsequent probe, however, found that many of the 338 speed and red-light cameras were broken. Police Assistant Chief Lamar Greene said last winter’s extreme cold kept workers from changing burned-out batteries, but since then police “have taken additional steps to enhance internal temperature controls.” Indeed, automated traffic enforcement revenues for the first quarter of the new fiscal year jumped $13.1 million. (The Washington Times) THOU SHALT NOT SPARE THE ROD – Pope Francis said spanking children is permissible, as long as their dignity is maintained. The pope made his remarks while outlining the role of fathers, noting that a good father forgives but is able “to correct with firmness.” (Associated Press) SELF-INTEREST – Joe Morrissey, 57, is a Virginia legislator who’s also serving a jail sentence after being accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl he hired as a receptionist at his law office in Henrico County. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and now is on a work-release program that lets him spend days at the General Assembly while spending nights in jail. When a bill to prohibit pornography in jail came up for a vote, Morrissey voted against the measure. It passed anyway. (Associated Press) PRETTY GOOD EATS – A Korean restaurant in central China began offering free meals to the 50 best-looking customers each day. The Jeju Island restaurant in Zhengzhou escorts arrivals to a “beauty identification area,” where a panel of local plastic surgeons evaluates their faces, eyes, noses and mouth. Protruding foreheads are a particular advantage. City authorities accused the restaurant of damaging the city’s image, but manager Xue Hexin vowed the promotion would continue. (Britain’s The Telegraph) DEFINE “LIFE-THREATENING” – After Facebook and Instagram service went down in San Francisco’s East Bay area, five people called 911 to ask when the sites would be back online. “Even though Facebook is important to a lot of people, it’s not a matter of life and death when it stops working,” the dispatcher said after asking residents to stop calling to complain. “One caller even called back to tell me I was being rude because I told her it wasn’t a life-threatening emergency.” (San Francisco’s KCBS-TV) Authorities reassigned a 911 operator in Anne Arundel County, Md., after he told a woman who called to report her father had been hit by a car to “stop whining.” After repeating his response to the caller’s emotional pleas for help, the dispatcher asked if there was anyone else at the scene he could talk to and later told her to “stop yelling.” The victim died. Fire department Capt. Russ Davies acknowledged that the dispatcher might have handled the call differently but insisted dispatch time wasn’t affected. (The Baltimore Sun) GETTING ALONG – The Oneida Indian Nation announced plans to open a $20 million casino in Chittenango, N.Y., honoring author L. Frank Baum, who was born in the village and wrote “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Baum also called for the “total annihilation” of Native Americans. Ernestine Chasing Hawk, a descendent of the 300 Sioux slaughtered at Wounded Knee, called the project a betrayal, asking in the Native American Times, “Would the Jews build a casino to honor Hitler?” (The Washington Post)
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“Hey, I’m back in Missoula.” The first words in Richard Linklater’s first feature film are played on a cassette tape, a kind of recorded letter from a friend. Linklater, the movie’s protagonist as well as its director, listens to the message in his Austin, Texas, living room. The Missoula friend talks about being in school and about not wanting to get a summer job. Eventually, the friend invites Linklater to visit. “The only thing I feel like doing is, I don’t know,” the voice on the taped message says. “I was thinking if you maybe wanted to blow off school or something, you could come up here for a while and hang out. It’s pretty nice up here. Good hiking weather. There’s a big concrete ‘M’ up on the side of the mountain. Maybe we could hike up there or something.” And that’s exactly what happens. Over the next 40 minutes of the movie, Linklater leaves Austin, boards a train, watches the world pass outside his window and arrives in Missoula, where he and his friend shoot pool, hike the “M,” put air in a basketball at Ole’s and otherwise spend their time ambling around town. The movie is called It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. Released in 1988, it’s 86 minutes long and about a third of it takes place in the Garden City, plus a side trip to Glacier. It’s a road movie about someone who’s going nowhere, except it’s written, directed, edited and shot by Linklater, who also plays the lead role. So in that sense, Plow is an autobiographical document about a college dropout who’s beginning the long journey from total obscurity to the height of American filmmaking. Earlier this year, Linklater’s newest movie, Boyhood, won three Golden Globes. It’s also up for six Oscars during this Sunday’s Academy Awards, and Linklater has been nominated for three of them: Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. Critics have lauded Boyhood for its radical encapsulation of real life and the passage of time. Audiences have flocked to get lost in a film that shows, on the big screen, something at once typical and amazing: someone growing up. But while Boyhood is undoubtedly innovative, it is less an aberration and more a culmination of what Linklater has been working toward for his entire career. To see where he began and how he got where he was going, it’s instructive to start with Plow. There, you will find a film committed, like Boyhood, to finding, rather than inventing, the utter remarkability of the everyday.
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When Linklater came to Missoula in the mid1980s with his Super 8 camera, he was a bookish former college baseball player who’d dropped off the team and out of school after being diagnosed with a heart infection. He’d worked on an oil rig for a couple of years, then moved to Austin to obsessively pursue his interest in film. He was in his mid-20s. “I remember feeling like everything outside my life that wasn’t cinema was kind of this void,” Linklater says in a commentary track accompanying the Criterion Collection’s edition of Plow. “You know, relationships, family connections, everything. It was probably that necessary period where you have to separate yourself from everything you knew before, as you sort of define yourself as an adult.”
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Linklater watched movies, made shorts, sat in on film classes at the University of Texas without ever enrolling and, in 1985, helped found the Austin Film Society, which started as a mechanism for screening movies with his friends and has since added a 100,000-square-foot studio to its offerings. The same year, he began filming his actual life, plus the occasional fictionalized scene, for what he believed would be his first full-length movie. It would be about some skewed version of his life. To make it, he would use material from his daily routine, as he was living it. In part, the mundanity of the movie’s subject matter was an outcome of the severe limitations of Linklater’s resources and of filmmaking technology at the time. Linklater only spent $3,000 to make Plow, and he did everything himself. That meant not only operating the camera but also acting in front of it. It also meant using a cheap Super 8 camera, a medium more commonly used for home movies than for feature-length films. These restrictions led directly to Plow’s distinct style. Because he had no cameraman—much less a crew—and since he appears in nearly every scene, Linklater would set up his camera on a tripod, turn the camera on, move into what he could only hope was the right part of the frame, and perform. Every shot is perfectly static, and every scene is recorded with as much objectivity as a security camera. As a result, Plow has a strange tone that combines deep intimacy and complete detachment. It’s a highly personal and seemingly autobiographical film, but it’s imbued with a pervasive sense of alienation. It’s also strikingly uneventful and almost devoid of dialogue. “I think I was obsessed with banality at the time,” Linklater says in his commentary. “The nature of this film was, anything—a trip to the grocery store or a trip around the country on a train or any element of my life that I was doing—I could find some angle. Something could fit into this film, just about the banality of life, whether it was food preparation or shaving. Why isn’t that ever in film? … I’ve always been obsessed with those kinds of details of life, because I think that’s where we all reside, in just our own life maintenance.” And so for Plow’s first eight minutes, Linklater is shown flipping through an Austin phone book, sitting in a chair, boiling water on a stove, doing his laundry and carrying a blank canvas into a building. Then something cinematic happens: Linklater raises a shotgun to his shoulder, points it out a window and fires. Then something very strange and un-cinematic happens: The camera doesn’t show us the shooter’s tar-
get or reveal what—if anything—he has hit. Instead, the movie proceeds without comment. The next shot is of an Amtrak train. The one after that is of Linklater on that train, heading to Missoula.
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Suzanne Shope was standing in the alley behind the Top Hat when she first saw Linklater, in 1985. He came around the corner carrying his Super 8 camera. Shope—then an undergraduate at the University of Montana and now an instructor at Bitterroot College—didn’t recognize Linklater, but she knew the people he was with: James “Frank” Goodwin and Dan Kratochvil. Shope invited them inside, to Richard Linklater, pictured above early in his filmmaking career, shot much of his first feature in Montana. Below hang out and have a drink. are stills from that film, depicting Glacier National Park, downtown Missoula and the “M.” “It was just like in Slacker,” Shope says, referring to Lin“Why do people do this? Climb up here?” Lincision to shoot in Missoula largely had to do klater’s second film, which follows hip young charac- with Goodwin’s presence and with the town’s com- klater asks. ters around Austin as they go about their desultory fortable vibe. “You gotta do something,” Goodwin answers. lives. Eventually, Linklater, Goodwin and two young “Missoula, Montana, was a fun little town,” LinShope says she spent the next two weeks, off and klater says in his commentary. “Bars everywhere, and women take a brief, uneventful road trip to Glacier, on, with Goodwin and Linklater and others who were people hanging out. It was a lot like Austin. It’s that where Linklater brushes his teeth before the glorious involved in Plow, either actively as actors or passively cool town—every liberal arts college, whether it’s mountains. When they return to town, it’s more of the as interested friends and acquaintances. They Athens or Boulder or like Missoula, Austin—every same: watching TV, shooting hoops, eating in a diner watched movies, hung out in Shope’s Front Street state has one or a few that people drift toward if and discussing how to pronounce a slogan on a Russapartment, went to bars, walked around town and you’re a musician or if you’re different in any way.” ian T-shirt. Later, we learn what the slogan means: “It’s played pool. Though it was casual, Shope says LinPlow’s Missoula section begins with Linklater impossible to learn to plow by reading books.” klater served as something of a “director of the situa- waking up in a sleeping bag on the floor of Goodwin’s Then Linklater films Missoula receding from the tion,” perpetually seeking ways to turn life into art. back of a bus, hitchhikes to Whitefish and continues Northside house. In the next shot, they’re talking. “He was never without his camera, no matter “Anything in particular you want to do in Mis- his journey. what we did in Missoula that whole two weeks he was soula?” Goodwin asks. here,” Shope says. “No, not really,” Linklater answers. “Whatever’s Nearly all of Plow’s scenes include Linklater and going on.” Goodwin, the friend from the taped message and a As it turns out, not much is going on. Linklater Linklater shot his Missoula material in two differreal friend from high school in Huntsville, Texas. Ac- and Kratochvil discuss going to the Double Front ent phases, between 1985 and 1987, a time when cording to Shope, who never appears in the film but (“They’ve got a bar underneath. You can get food making movies without the backing of a Hollywood is thanked in the credits, Goodwin got the nickname there.”). Linklater and a couple friends talk on Main studio was incredibly difficult and almost no one suc“Frank” from a love of Frank Zappa that ran so deep Street at dusk, with the Missoula Club’s neon lit up ceeded in doing so, especially not in Montana. During he decided to go to school in Missoula after hearing in the background. They walk through the Orange that period Joel Baird was a graduate student at UM the song “Montana” (“I might be movin’ to Montana Street underpass, toward the Ceretana building and and an employee of the Crystal Theater. He made soon/ just to raise me up a crop of/ dental floss”). Ac- up to the “M,” where they collapse on the concrete video art and can think of a handful of others working cording to Linklater in his Plow commentary, the de- letter and wonder why they bothered. in the medium at that time—Swain Wolfe, Gene
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Bernofsky—but he mostly recalls how rare it was for Dale Sherrard tipped him off to the movie, and anyone locally to complete and screen anything due Smith showed the Missoula section to his class. “To me, it’s a fascinating kind of time capto the “extraordinary limitations” of contemporary sule, when you look at it. You sometimes forget technology. “You would be so hard-pressed to even project that Missoula was ever that sort of undiscovsome really crappy-looking video in Missoula in the ered and just a very working-class town. And ’80s,” says Baird, now the general manager of Mis- that’s the town I grew up in,” Smith says. “So I love looking at it, soula Community Access Telgoing, ‘Oh, yeah, I reevision. “Nobody had that member when the equipment.” bus station was Even so, the rare local “Missoula, Montana, downtown.’ You look film project was able to get was a fun little town. … at it as a kind of a geoff the ground—most noographical archive of tably, perhaps, Heartland, a It’s that cool town—every a city that’s mostly Western about a woman’s just in your memory. struggle to survive in liberal arts college, … I have memories Wyoming. Though filmed whether it’s Athens or of [Plow] that may primarily in central Monhave melded with my tana, Heartland was prola, Missou like or r Boulde own memories of duced by two Missoulians, Austin—every state has being a child here.” Beth Ferris and Annick But Smith says Smith. According to a 1981 one or a few that people Plow does more than New York Times story, the merely capture the pair “mortgaged their land, drift toward if you’re a past. He says it also their homes and virtually musician or if you’re offers a long look at everything they owned” how Linklater to get the movie made. different in any way.” sought—and found— It starred Rip Torn and not only his persistpremiered in 1979, at the —Richard Linklater ent and ongoing Festival of American Indeinterest in the “aimpendent Films. It played in less and everyday” cities around the country. Six years later, Linklater came and went from Mis- but also a way to turn that interest into the soula without anyone but his friends noticing. Even kind of narrative that can be displayed on the now, it’s difficult to track down anyone in the area’s big screen. “I feel like it’s a film about a young filmsmall but increasingly prominent filmmaking scene who’s seen Plow. One exception happens to be An- maker trying to figure out if he has anything to Though Linklater is best known for understated independent movies like Slacker and Boyhood, nick Smith’s son, Andrew. Along with his twin say,” Smith says of Plow. “Or what he’s going he has occasionally broken from the mold to make mainstream comedies like School of Rock. brother, Alex, who lives in Austin, Andrew Smith has to say if he does.” gone on to become a successful filmmaker, with titles called It’s Impossible to Learn to Make Movies by he just had, a dream that seemed “completely real,” including The Slaughter Rule (2002) and Winter in Reading Books.” except “there was nothing going on at all. It was like the Blood (2013). And while Plow is undeniably a kind of student The Omega Man. There was just nobody around. I In a brief essay on Plow, the filmmaker Monte Andrew first heard about Plow a few years ago, Hellman writes of receiving a copy in the mail soon film—albeit made by someone not enrolled in any was just traveling around, staring out the windows while preparing to teach a course on American inde- after it was completed, in 1988. On its “unlikely” school—it’s also more than that. It’s a beguiling and of buses and trains and cars.” pendent cinema at UM. His close friend and colleague title, Hellman writes, “It might as well have been complete work of art. The idea of Plow as a dreamy precursor to “It’s easy to look back on something you did so Slacker makes sense—and is something Linklater has long ago and think, ‘Oh, you know, I didn’t really explicitly acknowledged. In both films, he avoids put much thought into that. I was really young,’” constructing a plot in favor of capturing the munLinklater says in his commentary. “But I think you dane complexity of life. The results are films that are kind of who you are. That’s why I sort of, in a feel, at times, aimless and slow. But that, it seems, strange way, stand behind this film. … I watched it is what Linklater was after: finding ways to slow again and thought, ‘That’s where I was at that time.’” down time in order to impede the rate at which life It was not, of course, where he would remain. passes, since the slower it goes the more it can be Linklater kept moving forward. After editing Plow appreciated and examined. And while there are defat Austin’s cable-access station, there wasn’t much inite exceptions—School of Rock, Bad News Bears— to do with it. He aired it on cable-access, and he sent this is what he’s been working on ever since, in films tapes to some people he admired. But while Plow like Dazed and Confused (1993), Waking Life never reached a broad audience and has since (2001), the Before trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013) and, slipped into obscurity, it was key to establishing not most famously now, Boyhood. Linklater took 12 only Linklater’s cinematic vision but also his repu- years to capture the life of one boy, his sister and tation as a filmmaker. Hellman, for example, wrote his divorced parents—using the same actors the young filmmaker an encouraging letter that throughout the process—and condensed it into 185 helped Linklater raise money for his next movie, the minutes so that audiences can see those lives disgroundbreaking Slacker. But the connection be- tilled and from the outside, as if from a Super 8 camtween Plow and Slacker is more than financial. era set up on a tripod. Released in 1991, the opening of Slacker was All movies slow time, in that they literally “sort of a continuation” of Plow, according to Lin- capture a series of moments and allow us to return klater. Except for being shot on higher quality but to it whenever we want. But Linklater’s films, still unprofessional 16mm film, its first scene follows beginning with Plow, find ways to exploit this straight from the previous movie. A completely still potential for the purposes of prolonging reality camera records Linklater looking out a bus window. and savoring life—including the parts set When he disembarks in Austin, loud instructions in Missoula. blare over the station’s PA system, just as they do so Boyhood is nominated for six Oscars at this Sunday’s Academy Awards. Linklater, shown on often in Plow. Then, after Linklater jumps in a waittmcdermott@missoulanews.com the set of the movie, is personally nominated for three, including Best Director. ing taxi, he starts talking to the cabbie about a dream
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Soul on fire How Montana’s Jesse Phillips accidentally started up a band called St. Paul and the Broken Bones by Erika Fredrickson photo courtesy of Dave McClister
St. Paul and the Broken Bones includes Montana’s Jesse Phillips, far left.
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hen I finally get a hold of Jesse Phillips, the bassist for St. Paul and the Broken Bones, he and the band are stranded in Texas. That morning, they’d awakened to a fire alarm and billowing smoke in their tour bus. “It was an electrical fire or some kind of meltdown,” Phillips says. “So, we’re marooned at this Motel 6 in Wichita Falls until a new bus gets here from Nashville to pick us up and carry us on our way.” Only a couple of years ago—before the existence and increasing popularity of St. Paul and the Broken Bones–the scenario for any one of the musicians would probably have played out something like this: tour van (not tour bus) catches fire and everyone hops on a Greyhound to go home, cutting the tour short. But for the Birmingham, Ala. soul outfit, which has been playing sold-out shows in the biggest clubs across the nation, a comfortable rescue mission out of Texas is no big thing. In 2014, St. Paul and the Broken Bones played 200 shows across the U.S., including the Americana Awards Festival, broadcast by Austin City Limits, where they shared the stage with big names like Loretta Lynn, Jackson Browne, Jason Isbell and Rosanne Cash. But it was St. Paul and the Broken Bones—relatively unknown to the crowd—who brought the audience to its feet with a dynamic performance of “Grass is Greener,” an original song off their album Half the City. The central appeal of St. Paul and the Broken Bones is frontman Paul Janeway. He looks more like a guy who writes code for computer software rather than someone who can belt out gorgeous soul. And so when he opens his mouth and sings, it’s jaw-dropping. Phillips, who started the band with Janeway and co-wrote at least half the songs on Half the City, is
also an oddity. Born in Grassmere, British Columbia, but educated just across the border in Eureka, Mont., he’s the only non-Birmingham member of the band. He jokes that the other members try and keep it a secret that they have a Canadian-Montanan in an otherwise authentic Alabama soul band. He spent his college years in Missoula playing Americana and rock music in bands like The Pillar Saints with friends and local musicians Kier Atherton and Jesse Netzloff. He also worked several seasons in the Flathead National Forest, including as a fire-lookout in what he calls a “very Kerouac-ian” job. “It’s lonely work,” he says. “But I read heavy novels—the ones I didn’t have the attention span for in my normal life. And I had instruments up there to play.” In the off season, he struggled to find work— and it was the hard luck of not being able to find a job in Missoula that led him to Birmingham in May 2006. “A friend from college, his family owns a chain of music stores in Alabama and they offered me a job,” Phillips says. “It was a much better prospect than anything I’d found. So I basically moved there to stave off outright financial destitution. I didn’t know too many people. I just started playing music with whomever would have me. I ended up subbing in a band called The Secret Dangers and Paul was a singer in that band.” The band eventually fell apart when the guitarist moved away, but Phillips and Janeway stayed friends, playing coffee shops and writing songs together, without any larger goals for the future of their music. It felt like it was time to move on to other things, Phillips says. “Paul was trying to get his life together,” he says. “He had a serious girlfriend and was going to accounting school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with myself for a career.”
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A friend of theirs who owned a studio encouraged them to do some casual recording, so they obliged. Over the course of nine months, they wrote and played together on a weekly basis and eventually called in some musician friends to help fill out the recordings. Phillips was new to the Birmingham music culture, but he brought with him an audiophile spirit: raised on his parents’ classic rock and outlaw country, formed by Seattle grunge, and eventually drawn into classic and obscure vintage R&B. What had started as a weekly lark became a songwriting project with a soul spin. “By the time that was all said and done we had accidentally started a band,” Phillips says, laughing. “And before we knew it we had accidentally started a version of those old classic soul bands—not as good, but the instrumentation was the same. Then we started going on tour and very quickly got a record deal. And management. And then a booking agent and then a lawyer. It happened very fast once it started moving.” In January, the band played their hit “Call Me” on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” where they were treated to an unusual introduction from the host. “The first time I heard this song I was screaming ’til I cried,” Letterman said to the band as they stood on the Ed Sullivan stage. “That’s what I want. Can you do that for me tonight? Because—and it won’t be your fault, but if I don’t get that, I’m going to stop the show and we’ll do it over.” “We’d done some TV before,” Phillips says, recalling the show, “but when we got this long off-the-cuff introduction from Dave, it was completely unexpected. And it ended up making the experience superbly surreal.” Janeway and the rest of the band seemed to take the push from Letterman to heart. The performance
is a perfect example of why the band is getting noticed. As the horns bleed into Phillips’ bass line, Janeway yells, “This ain’t the heartache that I thought I knew! This ain’t the party that I thought we’d do! You got your limit baby, I got mine. 611-3369,” and it’s like some old ghost from soul’s past is bursting from him. “It makes me laugh hysterically whenever I read something like ‘these guys must be put together by a record label’ or ‘there must be all kinds of money behind this,’” Phillips says. “It’s pretty much the complete opposite of that. It happened really organically. It’s not like we had to say to Paul, ‘We want you to do this kind of punk-rock Otis Redding thing.’ He was already there.” Part of the band’s charm is its combination of raw talent and humility. Packed shows in clubs like San Francisco’s Fillmore and upcoming appearances at festivals like Sasquatch are glamorous to a band that’s just hit the tipping point. But it’s when they go home, back to Birmingham, to play for fans and friends who knew them before they gained popularity, that they really realize how far they’ve come. “All of this is as much a surprise to us as it is to anybody,” Phillips says. Last summer, the band also visited Phillips’ home, playing songs from the album to a crowd at the high school auditorium in Eureka. “Of the 450 people who came I think I probably knew 350 of them,” Phillips says. “It was my uncles and aunts, cousins and great grandparents, teachers, friends of my parents. It was great.” He pauses and laughs. “And it’s the only place on planet Earth where I am more famous than Paul Janeway.” St. Paul and the Broken Bones play the Top Hat Sat., Feb. 21, at 8 PM. Sold out. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Violent act Harrison’s faux mystery explores eighth deadly sin by Chris La Tray
Jim Harrison’s latest novel, a follow-up of sorts poisoning. Is Monica, the cook for the family, the to 2011’s The Great Leader, opens with our hero, 66- killer? Could it be Lemuel Ames, the “runt” of the clan year-old retired Michigan police detective Simon Sun- whom Sunderson befriends, a thoughtful, bird-loving derson, revisiting a memory from his past. This time man who spent most of his youth in prison for bank he is a feverish 10-year-old, forced to go to church robbery? Or could it be another member of the psyand endure a frightful sermon focused on “The Big chotic bunch? Sunderson’s survival while negotiating Ames famSeven” deadly sins, hence the new book’s title. A common thread throughout the meandering story to ily treachery becomes the focus of The Big Seven, just follow is Sunderson’s continued reflection on these as his own existential grappling with alcohol and its transgressions as they relate to his own life, particu- contribution to the failure of his marriage to Diane, larly lechery and gluttony. He struggles to come to his one true love, continues. There are other women, of course, whose ungrips with retirement, dilikely fallings into his vorce and his repeated bed (or bendings over affairs with beautiful and his kitchen table, as the much (yes, unbelievcase may be) further ably) younger women. complicate matters. Sixty pages in and the If it all sounds rather randy old goat has manimplausible, it is. If the aged to have sex, albeit lustings of a 66-year-old guiltily, with his 21-yearman for young women old (sort of ) adopted disgust you, it’s a novel daughter (long story) you should probably and also begin a short avoid. The antics of the live-in relationship with Ames clan are despicable, a 19-year-old. As events and could probably flip unfold, Sunderson wonsome triggers for people ders why there isn’t an who have suffered from eighth sin for violence, domestic abuse, child and he decides to write abuse or rape. None of it an essay making a case is glorified, certainly, but for it. This effort continit’s there. Sunderson at ues to the final pages of times seems to turn a The Big Seven. rather casual eye to it as I’ve seen both this well, but that isn’t necesbook and The Great sarily out of character for Leader billed as detecthe man. It’s clear he is on tive, or even mystery, The Big Seven Jim Harrison a mission to find some novels. Harrison himself hardcover, Grove Press kind of redemption for calls Seven a “faux mys352 pages, $26 the misdeeds of his life. tery,” which is an apt As enjoyable as I found it, The Big Seven is far enough description. Where Leader is a more typical investigation type story—Sunderson has only just re- from perfect. There is significant repetition; Sundertired from the police and continues pursuing an in- son’s bemoaning of his divorce, for example. The old vestigation into a cult leader—The Big Seven is less detective’s scorecard with the ladies is laughable. I so. There are crimes committed, but Sunderson is don’t think it would kill the story if Sunderson didn’t only peripherally involved in solving any of them, bed every other woman he speaks to within a page serving instead as a conduit to pass information along or two of meeting her, even if it is in spite of himself. to his successor in the Marquette Police Department. There are enough of these niggling problems to spoil In an effort to get his post-retirement life to- the book for some people, but they didn’t for me. The beauty of Harrison’s writing is what makes gether, the impressively alcoholic Sunderson buys a small fishing cabin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. His the book, despite its shortcomings, still worth the neighbors, the Ames family—a lawless clan of crimi- time. His descriptions of nature, his understanding nals whose antics are believable only when viewed as of people (even those gross habits and lustings we the blackest of comedies—soon entangle Sunderson pretend we don’t have), his anecdotes from Sunderin their web of incest, violence and domestic abuse. son’s life that one suspects are based on events from He hires the young Lily Ames to continue in the ca- Harrison’s own, all create a rich experience that I pacity she had for his cabin’s previous owners as can’t get enough of. Every time I set the book aside I something of a caretaker; she is killed shortly there- couldn’t decide if I immediately wanted to go fishing, after in an AK-47 shoot-out with her cousin, Tom. Her or eat and drink myself into oblivion. The Great Leader may be the better Sunderson sister Monica takes Lily’s place and immediately becomes Sunderson’s lover. We meet several other book, but The Big Seven is a worthy follow-up. members of the Ames family, even as they begin to die one after the other from some kind of mysterious arts@missoulanews.com
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Bare Bait Dance’s Happier with a Hoover pokes at 1950s-era culture to reveal contemporary reality.
If the ’50s taught us anything, it’s this: nuclear bomb shelters aren’t worth the labor, communism isn’t as scary as the people who enforce it and women can do more than bake casseroles in pumps and poodle skirts. Bare Bait Dance Company’s Happier with a Hoover takes that final lesson to the stage in a half-serious, half-satirical and frequently hilarious look at femininity through the lens of mid-century depictions of women in mainstream culture. Think early, black-and-white TV ads for cleaning products, “ladies’ advice” columns in Cosmo, floral aprons and that time when everyone was supposed to have an electric can opener under their cabinets. As seen in her previous work, artistic director Joy French explores marginalized perspectives. She illustrated small town histories in Views from Grandma’s Porch, unpacked the intricacies of memory and obligation in How to Open a Cupboard and humanized the lives of incarcerated journalists in Wall City News. In Hoover, French’s choreography serves to embody the female personae seen at a distance on screens and stages, but also shows a more dynamic and complex view of femininity. Much of the performance’s first half features dancers circling the floor with plastered-on smiles and arms spread in a rigid V, as if they’ve been bolted to a conveyor belt for endless, revolving entertainment. Like America’s perceived Cold War woman, seen in magazines pulling pies from ovens in heels and lipstick, the dancers are on display, but they’re also poking fun at the shallowness of all those counterfeit portrayals. They’re deconstructing the narrative. After a few rotations, one of the dancers halts, frozen in her false pose of grace. It’s clear the position has become more constricting than liberating, and her motions become stuttered, mechanic. Soon, all the dancers struggle to move fluidly around the room. Then they start hopping, then racing, running freely from their locked postures of superficial beauty. For a moment they slow down and gather. They support and mirror each other. They become friends, consoling and laughing, but quickly revert to their original allegiance to performance. They never forget they are being watched, rated and assessed. A blend of audio recordings accompany their movements—collage style excerpts of advertisements and PSAs from the 1950s and 1960s, countered with
snippets of distorted electronics—and this sense of historical contrast runs throughout the piece. French acknowledges that while women might have gained some ground, we’re still struggling to dismantle the constructs of perceived femininity, the idea that women are there to be passive and observed. “We’re women in the 21st century, long past that era,” says French, “but what’s the residue of it? Looking at that veneer of femininity is really important to me.” In another scene, women don exaggerated makeup and pose individually for French and visiting dancer Erika Randall. Their performance is scored with paddles and nods. The mood is lighthearted at first, but gradually becomes somber. Amidst a performance that’s mostly a glimpse into the past, here is a practice that’s grounded in contemporary reality. These are conventions that haven’t dissolved with time. We still rate and judge each other, and only the styles change. Yesterday’s stifled housewife becomes today’s airbrushed stomach wrinkle, and so on. “We still have beauty pageants,” French says. “A lot of that still exists. We’ve let go of a lot of things, but it wasn’t that long ago.” As the show progresses, dancers perform solos that work deeper into themes presented in the first half. Those issues of femininity become complicated and intimate. The score shifts to original recordings by Helen Gurley Brown, one-time editor of Cosmopolitan and self-help extraordinaire, who offers tips on “finding love for even the non-pretty girls,” and other self-defeating tidbits. There’s even a portion directed at men, which advises them on how to treat mistresses nicely when cheating on their wives. The whole thing is slightly creepy but appropriate, and creates a poignant backdrop for French’s progressively sobering interpretations of the struggle to break from unequal standards. Happier with a Hoover might draw from historical artifacts, but the questions it presents resonate soundly today. Bare Bait Dance Company presents Happier with a Hoover at Stage 112 Fri., Feb. 20–Sat. Feb. 21 and Fri., Feb. 27–Sat. Feb. 28, at 7:30 PM nightly with a 2 PM matinee on Sat. Feb. 28. $12/$10 advance. arts@missoulanews.com
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Up for grabs Breaking down the Oscars, from J.K. to Boyhood by Molly Laich
It’s Academy Award prediction time! The most important event of the year! The Super Bowl for indoor girls! The last several years have been tragically predictable, but the academy is a little out of its gourd this year (no Lego movie!?) and there’s a feeling in the air like anything could happen. Here are my predictions, preferences and write-in nominees. Best Picture These things always boil down to a couple of films, so why even talk about Selma or The Theory of Everything? This year it’s a face-off between Boyhood and Birdman. Vegas odds give it to Boyhood, but a Birdman upset almost feels more likely. Will win: Boyhood Should win: Boyhood or Birdman. Dark horse: Birdman Write-in: Under the Skin Best Director Again, it’s Birdman versus Boyhood, and I’m thinking whoever doesn’t take best picture will be awarded in this category instead. My gut says Alejandro G. Iñárritu has this, but I think all the quality people in the room will agree it would be awesome to see Richard Linklater take the stage. Will win: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman Should win: This is like Sophie’s choice, I can’t even. Dark horse: Richard Linklater, Boyhood Write-ins: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler; Jennifer Kent, The Babadook Best Actor Ever since Jared Leto won the 2013 Oscar for his admittedly splendid performance in Dallas Buyer’s Club, it’s been kind of hard for me to take the art of acting seriously. As far as I’m concerned, most actors in Hollywood are just fine, and what we’ve come to know as brilliant performances are more a reflection of the writing and directing. Every now and then somebody comes along and puts that extra finish on it though, don’t they? I’m thinking of the way Benedict Cumberbatch smiles sheepishly in The Imitation Game when his boss says to him sarcastically, “Since we’re such good friends.” And I didn’t even really like that movie. Will win: Michael Keaton, Birdman Should win: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game Dark horse: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything Write-ins: Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel; Tom Hardy, The Drop; Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler Best Actress Kind of a lackluster year for female performances, wasn’t it? It’s almost as though our collective
consciousness still thinks men are the best conduits for vicariously experiencing adventures and women are better suited for crying and going batshit. I haven’t seen Still Alice but Julianne Moore’s is the name I’ve heard floated around for best actress most often and the clips seem Oscar-worthy enough to me. I love David Fincher but I still don’t understand why he cast a breathy British woman the likes of Rosamund Pike for such a pivotal role. Why do people think she’s good in Gone Girl? Has the whole world gone crazy? Will win: Julianne Moore, Still Alice Should win: Julianne Moore, I assume. Dark horse: Reese Witherspoon, Wild Write-in: Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons is a lock, and hey, he earned it. I suppose him showing up for the award wearing Griz gear under his cummerbund is too much to hope for, right? Will win: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash Should win: Anybody but Robert Duvall. The Judge hurt my eyes. Dark horse: None Write-in: Zach Galifianakis, Birdman Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette is the heart and soul of Boyhood. Nobody else comes close. Waking up every morning as Keira Knightley or Emma Stone is its own reward, so no statue needed. Will win: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Should win: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Dark horse: Meryl Streep I guess? Write-in: Elisabeth Moss, Listen Up Philip Here are a few other projections, offered without comment or ceremony: Best Adapted Screenplay Will win: The Imitation Game Should win: Inherent Vice Dark horse: Whiplash Write-in: Noah Best Original Screenplay Will win: The Grand Budapest Hotel Should win: Nightcrawler Dark horse: Birdman Write-in: The One I Love Best Visual Effects Will win: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Should win: Interstellar Dark horse: Interstellar Write-in: Star Wars Episode 7 trailer arts@missoulanews.com
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[film]
OPENING THIS WEEK BIRDMAN A typecast actor who used to play a superhero tries to recover his career with an artsy new role. (Look up “meta” in the dictionary.) Starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis and Edward Norton. Screening at the Roxy Fri. Feb. 20-Thu., Feb. 26, nightly at 8 PM. BREAKING AWAY Four dudes in Indiana graduate high school and try to figure out what they want out of life in the Academy Award-winning 1979 comedy. Starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Feb. 25, at 7 PM. THE DUFF Sadly, this movie has nothing to do with Hilary Duff, but rather, is about a high school senior riling up the establishment after finding out she’s been labeled the “Designated Ugly Fat Friend.” Starring Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne and Robbie Amell. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 Goofy dudes have to change the future in order to save their past that’s really the present. Starring Adam Scott, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke. Rated R. Carmike 12. THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS (YUME TO KYOKI NO OUKOKU) See how the magic happens in a behind-thescenes documentary about Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Screening at the Roxy Fri., Feb. 20Sun., Feb. 22 at 7:30 PM. MCFARLAND, USA Kevin Costner is a cross-country coach determined to lead his team to a championship. I didn’t realize it was Feel Good Sports Movie season already. Also starring Maria Bello and Morgan Saylor. Rated PG. Carmike 12. PASS THE LIGHT A Christian high school kid decides to run for Congress to “protect the faith,” in a story that one reviewer called “an insincere, half-assed film lacking the subtlety of even a PSA.” Starring Cameron Palatas, Dalpre Grayer and Alexandria DeBerry. Not rated. Carmike 12.
NOW PLAYING 2015 OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATION SHORTS Pixar animations and indie hand-drawn pieces compete for this year’s Academy Award. Wilma.
Um, dude, don’t look now, but there’s something behind you. Birdman opens Friday at the Roxy.
2015 OSCAR NOMINATED LIVE ACTION SHORTS Nominated shorts for 2015 include international dramas and comedies set in Tibet, Northern Ireland and Jerusalem. Wilma. AMERICAN SNIPER Clint Eastwood directs the based-on-a-true-story tale of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Kyle Gallner. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA Explore the life and times of Hindu swami Paramahansa Yogananda and his success in bringing yoga and meditation to Western audiences in the 1920s. Screening at the Roxy Sun., Feb. 22 at 5 PM. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY A naive young woman dates a controlling loner. It’s totally not abusive or manipulative, though, because he’s hot and rich. ‘K. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Jennifer Ehle. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. THE IMITATION GAME Benedict Cumberbatch plays computer genius Alan Turing. Guest Reviewer Kate’s Mom says, “Just when I think I never want to see another WWII movie, this blew me away. I’ll see it again when the DVD comes out, feel like I missed a lot with the annoying uber jerk squeaking his chair behind me.” Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
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JUPITER ASCENDING A genetically engineered warrior-hunk and predestined heroine get together to fight bad guys and change the cosmos. They probably also make out at some point. Starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis and Eddie Redmayne. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE A slick, modern spy organization recruits a smart-talking kid off the street. Will the protege be able to save the world from an evil genius in time?!?!? Gosh, I have no idea. Starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson. Rated R. Carmike 12. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IOLANTA & DUKE BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Soprano Anna Betrebko stars in a Tchaikovsky double bill of a whimsical fairy tale followed by a sexy erotic thriller. Screening at the Roxy Tue., Feb. 24 at 6:30 PM. Visit mtlive.org for tickets and more info. THE SEVENTH SON A young dude whose destiny is to fight evil spirits must first do battle with the badass witch lady Mother Malkin. Starring Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore and Kit “Know Nothing Jon Snow” Harington. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER The Square One embarks on a quest for a stolen recipe that takes him onto dry land. Starring Tom Kenny, Antonio Banderas and Bill Fagerbakke. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT) A young Belgian woman learns that her company is about to fire her and distribute her salary as a raise to its other employees. She gets the weekend to convince them not to do it. Sounds stressful! Starring Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione and Catherine Salée. Rated PG-13. Wilma. WHIPLASH Our homeboy J.K. Simmons stars as a music instructor who’s merciless to promising young students. Also starring Miles Teller and Melissa Benoist. Rated R. Wilma. THE WIND RISES (KAZETACHINU) Miyazaki’s last film chronicles the life and times of Jiro, an innovative airplane designer in the early 1900s. Screening at the Roxy Fri., Feb. 13Sun., Feb. 15 and Fri., Feb. 20-Sun., Feb. 22 at 7 PM nightly, plus 5:15 PM matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Bitter principles by Ari LeVaux A baby will put almost anything in its mouth, even a sour lemon, without flinching. But bitter foods are quickly ejected with a grimace. We are born with zero tolerance for bitterness, presumably because most toxins are bitter. Yet, many non-toxic, beneficial foods, as well as many types of medicine, are bitter as well. Distinguishing among good and bad sources of bitterness is an important part of growing up. Through careful experimentation, we learn which bitter foods are okay. Most Americans eventually figure out that coffee, beer and chocolate, for example, are good. As we learn to tolerate bitterness, we learn to distinguish among its many forms. Tannin bitterness in wine is not the same as burnt toast bitterness, which is unlike the bitterness of broccoli. Understanding this nuance, and associating the positive effects of certain foods with their bitter tastes, often leads to a new appreciation of bitter flavors. My wife eats radicchio leaves like some people eat potato chips. She can annihilate three heads in a single sitting, using the maroon and white foliage to scoop up whatever is for dinner. She says she only eats it because she’s too lazy to make a big enough salad, and radicchio is the most convenient and efficient proxy for that daily dose of raw plant matter that her body has come to crave. The dressing she uses is half olive oil, with the other half being equal parts soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. Bitter foods like radicchio can be among the most super of the “superfoods.” They are full of vitamins, antioxidants and myriad phytonutrients—aka, biologically active plant compounds that are associated with positive health effects, such as the very bitter and beneficial glucosinolates found in broccoli. This understanding can be enough for some people to give bitter flavors a pass. And perhaps some people are so tuned into their bodies that they can, at some level, feel the positive impacts. But not everyone can learn to tolerate bitter, even as adults. Some people are genetically endowed “supertasters” with so many bitter receptors that the responses to certain bitter foods are amplified to intolerable levels. The human genome codes for at least 30 different types of bitter taste receptors, each of which can be expressed in different densities and locations—not limited to just the tongue—in different people. This creates a huge level of genetic variation in the human ability to perceive bitterness. We each have a unique bitter side to explore. Compared to many Asian and European cultures, North Americans aren’t very enthusiastic bitter eaters. But that may be changing, argues Jennifer McLagan in her latest cookbook Bitter: A taste of the world’s most dangerous flavor. Consumption of hoppy beers, bitter greens and dark chocolate are all on the rise, she writes, as is interest in cocktails containing bitters. And these niche products are just the beginning.
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McLagan believes there is a place for bitterness in almost every bite you take. “Without a touch of bitterness, your cooking will be lacking a dimension,” she writes. Her recipes run the gamut from simple, like roast celery, to involved, like Pork Chops in Coffee Black Currant Sauce. And each recipe contains a trick or concept to preparing bitter foods that can be used elsewhere. This diversity of bitter-laced meals is enough to lull you into the idea that bitterness is the center of the culinary universe, which for McLagan, it is. “I crave bitterness, quite a bit,” she says during a phone interview. “When I’m creating a meal or a menu I really want to get some bitterness in there.” If bitterness is making a comeback, the forces of anti-bitter have never been stronger either. There is a niche in the food industry that’s devoted to suppressing the taste of bitterness in foods by using agents known as “bitter blockers.” There are several reasons why bitter blockers might be used, explains Luke Haffenden, chief flavorist of Novotaste Corporation, a purveyor of “high quality, innovative, and competitive flavoring systems.” Maybe you’re a pharmaceutical maker with a product that’s too bitter, Haffenden explains, or maybe you want to tone down the bitterness in a product flavored with grapefruit juice. “We come up with different strategies to fight bitter compounds found in finished products,” he says. Fittingly, Haffenden says he’s not personally a huge fan of bitter taste. “I can appreciate it in low amounts, when it’s balanced,” he says, and therein lies his advice for serving bitter ingredients to a fickle crowd. “Increase the complexity. Start playing around with the other sensations of the tongue,” Haffenden says. He suggests playing with the levels of acid, salt, sweetness and fat, as well as elements of mouth feel, like texture and crunchiness, to tone down the bitterness. McLagan, on the other hand, doesn't like to get too busy with her bitter. When I told her about a tasty venison stir-fry I’d recently made with radicchio and grapefruit, she hesitated. “I’m careful about putting too many bitter things into one dish,” she says. “It’s more interesting to make it subtle, to the point where it’s not bitter on the first taste, but as you eat the dish it’s more complex and interesting and fascinating. When there’s just a little undercurrent of bitterness, that’s when I think it works the best.” Another of her bitter peeves: neutralizing it with sweetness. Fat and salt are McLagan’s pairings of choice for bitter. They elevate the flavor of the dish without diminishing its bitter tastes. “Bitter makes you stop and think about what you’re eating,” she says. “If it’s sugary sweet you just jam it down your face.”
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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Bernice’s is committed to keepin’ Missoula sweet and there is no better time to share our treasures than Valentines. Tempt her with a strawberries-n-cream cream puff. Hold her hand and share a Red Velvet Heart Cake. Show the office how much you love ´em and get ´em a dozen roses. Rose cupcakes that is! Mini and full size. The infamous hand-frosted sugar cookie awaits with a special message or choose our new Vintage Valentine design. So much to choose from. What better way to say I love you than to stop by Bernice’s and buy Missoula’s signature sweet treats for your sweetheart. xoxo bernice. www.bernicesbakerymt.com p.s. Ordering ahead is always appreciated. $-$$
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Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 84. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$
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Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Eagles Lodge #32 Missoula 2420 South Avenue 543-6346 Tailgate with us before each Griz home game, and get a FREE ride to the game on our shuttle. Soup, salad and burgers served for lunch Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 2:30pm. Don’t forget to stop in for our Thursday Night Matadors & Friday Night Burgers, 6:00 to 8:00pm both nights. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday night and admission is always FREE! El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 FREE DELIVERY DOWNTOWN. Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$
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[dish] Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:303pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$
Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Ruby’s Cafe 2101 Regent St. at Brooks 728-9890 True American Diner! Come join us at the counter, grab a booth or find a table. Breakfast all day, Lunch & Dinner. Homemade Pies. Homemade Soups. Mon-Sat 6am - 9pm and Sun 8am - 3pm. “You keep us cookin!” $-$$
Kay Faulconbridge HAPPIEST HOUR Who’s serving: Kay Faulconbridge, 71, has been slinging drinks at the Union Club Bar since she left Fred’s Lounge & Casino in Frenchtown 16 years ago. When a regular wanders in, Faulconbridge knows the libation desired before she is even told. Though admittedly bad with names, Faulconbridge says she remembers her customers by drink. “I’ll be like, there goes Bud Light,” she says. What she’s serving: Faulconbridge herself doesn’t drink, but her favorite concoctions are bloody’s and margaritas. “I just like making ’em,” she says. The backstory: Faulconbridge was married at 15 and raised six children on a bartender’s wage. When she was younger, she says her husband served as Roy Orbison’s bass player, and they traveled the country while he toured. Her polka-dot cat-eye glasses suggest a more gregarious disposition, but really, she says she’s quite bashful. She considers her coworkers family, and notes that once someone works at the Union they don’t leave until they’re ill or retiring. She has no plans to retire anytime soon. Who you’re drinking with: Faulconbridge says the Union brings in good people
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of all backgrounds and ages, looking to have a good time. “Everybody thinks downtown is just for young people,” she says, “It’s not. We get everybody.” When to catch her: Faulconbridge’s favorite shift is Sunday, when the Union offers free pool and dollar shots. She’s the only one working the bar from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., but don’t worry about any lag in service. “I don’t lolly-gag,” she says. “I take care of people.” Where to find her: The Union Club is located downtown at 208 E. Main St. —Kellen Beck
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Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3? (Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full
Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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Shake that moneymaker at the J. Sherri residency, with a gaggle of groovemeisters, arty types and “carnal delights” at the VFW, Thursdays in February, starting at 10 PM. Cover ranges from free to a coupla bucks.
February 19–February 26, 2015
Hips are shaken, not stirred when Good Old Fashioned plays honky tonk rock ‘n roll at the Top Hat, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Check out Josh Farmer Band’s groovin’ ways on the big screen when The Roxy screens the local band’s episode of Montana PBS’ “11th and Grant.” 7 PM. $5-$7.
This year’s TEDxUMontana centers on the theme of “language,” with speakers including climate change communicator Susan Joy Hassol, journalist Clay Scott, poet Sheryl Noethe, MSO conductor Darko Butorac and more. Dennison Theatre, 4-9 PM.
Young artists ages 2 and up can get off on the right foot at Art Start, a morning DIY series at the ZACC, where you and your kid will work on an array of engaging projects at your own pace. Thursdays, 11 AM-1 PM, through Feb. 26. $6/$5 for members; drop-ins welcome.
Young artists can check out cardboard sculpture master Chris Gilmour and learn his techniques at the Cardboard Sculpture class at the ZACC. Fridays, 3:30-5:30 PM through March 13. $90/$80 for members. Visit zootownarts.org/youngartists.
The Social Sustainability Series invites business-y types to kick back with some refreshments and get hip to cultivating happy, productive employees, with topics like transit-friendly workplaces, inclusive work environments and environmental health. Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine St., Feb. 5 and Feb. 19, from 5:30-7 PM. Free. Visit sustainablebusinesscouncil.org.
nightlife Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to the Emerald Isle with the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover. Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. No cover.
nightlife Mary Place and Blue Moon heat up the afternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thursday from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Party down with the divine Ms. Caroline Keys when she brings Jeff Turman along to boogie at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover. The Bitterroot Valley Rugby Team hosts sign-ups for junior high and high school boys and girls at the Florence High School Gym Lobby, 6:30-8 PM. UM groups host a screening of Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture, about overstressed and overburdened students who enter college depressed and uninspired. Oof, I need a beer just thinking about that. Anyhoo, there’s also a discussion to follow with Phi Delta Kappa and UM’s College of Edu-
Load up on Vitamin R when Cain and Fable, Fallow and Dragon Fruit Parfait bring the rock ‘n roll music down to the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.
No butts about it. Twiddle plays the Top Hat Thu., Feb. 26, along with Cure for the Common and Kitchen Dwellers. 8 PM. $12/$10 advance. 18-plus. cation and Human Sciences. University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free. Brainiac Christopher Comer, professor of neuroscience, chats about “A View of Art Through Your Brain” and how the brain processes art at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7 PM. Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Ea-
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gles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406-3965934 to sign up early. The UM School of Theatre and Dance explores love and conflict in 19th century Ireland in Translations. Performances at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb.
The nimble-witted Stensrud Improv troupe presents local sketches and offthe-cuff hilarity at the Stensrud Playhouse. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $12/$22 for two, plus discounts for UM students. Visit stensrudplayhouse.com.
24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for students who are required to attend. Visit umt.edu/theatredance.
Visiting Hugo Fellow and frequent Best American Poetry contributor Thomas Sayers Ellis reads from his works at the Dell Brown Room in Turner Hall. 7 PM.
Small town girls, city boys and anyone that leaves out can share the night on and on and on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore, at the Badlander on Thursdays. No cover, plus $1 wells from 9 PM to midnight.
This month’s edition of Homegrown Shorts features dramatic and sometimes romantic films directed by local women, including Erin Hale, Courtney Saunders, Brooke Swaney, Alana Waksman and Lynn-Wood Fields. Screening at the Roxy at 7 PM. $5-$7.
[calendar] Missoula Curtain Up! Company celebrates young performers in Transitions, a family friendly musical with live band. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Feb. 20 at 7 PM and Feb. 21 at 2 and 6 PM. $14 adults/$10 students. $25 for Saturday night gala performance. Tickets available at On Center Performing Arts, 1521 Cooper St., or call 542-0730. Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Free. The UM School of Theatre and Dance explores love and conflict in 19th century Ireland in Translations. Performances at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for students who are required to attend. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. See the feminine mystique in action when Bare Bait Dance Company presents Happier with a Hoover, featuring original choreography by Joy French and guest performances. Fri., Feb. 20– Sat., Feb. 21 and Fri., Feb. 27–Sat., Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on Feb. 28. $12/$10 in advance at barebaitdance.org. (See Dance.) Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 6-10 PM. $3. Call 2409617 to learn more. Warm up with Texas crooner Granger Smith, playing the Wilma along with the preeminent Earl Dibbles. Wilma. 8 PM. $15. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com. Singer-songwriter Kate Voegele, who also spent plenty of time acting on “One Tree Hill,” (that show with Chad Michael Murray, if my teen years serve my memory correctly) plays Stage 112 at 9:30 PM. Leroy Sanchez opens. $15/$12 in advance. Tickets at katevoegele.com. Cut loose and go hog-wild when the Wild Coyote Band plays tunes at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., starting at 8 PM. No cover. Revv up the laugh track for the fourth annual Comedy Competition hosted by Missoula HomeGrown Stand-Up Comedy, with preliminary rounds on Friday, Feb. 20, March 20 and April 10, leading up to the finale in on May 8. Crystal Theater, 8–10 PM. $8 to compete or spectate. May the odds be in your favor at the three-week Battle of the Bands, Feb. 6, 13 and 20 at the Palace, with semifinalists including Dripping Orface, Time to Kill and Boston Tea Party duking it out each night, with finals to be held in March. Doors at 9 PM. $12/$10 in advance. 18-plus. VIsit tanzer4.com for tickets and more info. Emily Post says the third anniversary is for leather, so suit up, sexy beasts, when I’ll House You marks three years of bumpin’ beats with DJs Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Hotpantz up in the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover, plus $4 vodka ‘n energy drinks all night. With heavy lyrics and a roots-rock sound, Tom Catmulls Radio Static will play at the Union on Friday. The show starts at 9:30 PM.
sexy on Valentine’s is over, and my cupboard is stocked with way more clearance-section red-and-pink M&Ms than I need, but that doesn’t mean that celebrations of love and sexuality are over. Blue Mountain Clinic’s annual Off the Rack features a fashion show and performances, where local artists create
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wearable art made out of hundreds of condoms. This year’s theme is “Bringing Sexy Back.”
Proceeds from Off the Rack benefit Blue Mountain Clinic and its nonprofit health services, which are offered to the whole family on sliding-fee scales. BMC is an unusual clinic for its family practice model that offers everything from primary care to mental health counseling to abortions and transgender-specific care. So what better than a fun and quirky celebration to help support it? —Kate Whittle
Off the Rack is worth seeing not just for the nifty ways that artists craft condoms into everything from a three-piece suit to a sweeping gown, but also for the saucy and daring performances advocating consent, safe practices and fun. Healthy sexuality takes a lot more effort than just writing a catchy pop song;
Have a sassy, bluegrassy kinda evening when Lil’ Smokies take over the Top Hat, with special geusts Big E and the Stomp. Doors at 9:30, show at 10 PM. $7.
SATURDAYFEB21 Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin presents Flute, Concertina and Song as part of the Irish Concert Series at UM. Music Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. $15/$10 for Friends of Irish Studies members, with discounts if you purchase a ticket to all four concerts in the series. Visit Rockin Rudy’s or friendsofirishstudies.com. Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7-11 PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more. The inaugural Brain Bee sets whipsmart high schoolers competing in their knowledge of the noggin. Skaggs Building, starting at 9 AM. Free to spectate. The new Missoula Winter Public Market features all manner of produce, meats, eggs, honey and treats, plus coffee and craft vendors. 800 S. Third St. W. Now open every Saturday, Jan. 10-April 25. 10 AM-2 PM. Visit facebook.com/mslawinterpublicmarket. Little ones can feel the rhythm at Kids’ Vibrations, a 45-minute educational blast with local musicians on the third Saturday every month through the school year. Missoula Senior Citizens’ Center, 705 Higgins Ave. 11–11:45 AM. The Five Valleys Orchid Society answers all your pressing questions with a day of presentations on the care and nurturing of the family Orchidaceae, including Biology of Orchids at 12:30 PM, When to Water at 1:30 and an Introduction to Growing Orchids at 2:30. Caras Nursery, 2727 S. Third St. W. Free.
nightlife Missoula Curtain Up! Company celebrates young performers in Transitions, a family friendly musical with live band. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Feb. 20 at 7 PM and Feb. 21 at 2 and 6 PM. $14 adults/$10 students. $25 for Saturday night gala performance. Tickets available at On Center Performing Arts, 1521 Cooper St., or call 542-0730. Tom Catmull sets up shop and gets to work at Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, with tunes from 6-8 PM. No cover. The soulful sounds of St. Paul and the Broken Bones induce girlish squeals (from a certain local newspaper editor, anyway) when they play the Top Hat, along with Sean Rowe. Doors at 7 PM. Advance tickets sold out. The UM School of Theatre and Dance explores love and conflict in 19th century Ireland in Translations. Performances at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for students who are required to attend. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. See the feminine mystique in action when Bare Bait Dance Company presents Happier with a Hoover, featuring original choreography by Joy French and guest performances. Fri., Feb. 20– Sat., Feb. 21 and Fri., Feb. 27–Sat., Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on Feb. 28. $12/$10 in advance at barebaitdance.org. (See Dance.) The Missoula Folklore Society Dance invites one and all to cut loose at the Union Hall, with tunes from Skippin A Groove. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for members and students/free for volunteers and kids. Blue Mountain Clinic’s eighth annual signature fundraiser fashion show, Off the Rack, is “Bringing Sexy Back” with creative and clever wearable art made
out of condoms. Healthy sexuality rules, y’all. Wilma, 7:30-9:30 PM. $25. Visit bluemountainclinic.org/events/off-therack. (See Spotlight.) Women rawk, as you well know, and we will see just how hard when Rock Lotto III: Tokyo Drift brings dozens of Missoula musicians together for a night of rock, roll, yell-talking and tributes to influential female rockers at the Palace. Doors at 8 PM, tunes at 9. $7. Proceeds benefit the ZACC’s Girls Rock camp. Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. Two-fer-one Absolut vodka drinks until midnight. No cover. For some country-rock dancing join the Russ Nasset and the Revelators at the Union, tunes starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.
SUNDAYFEB22 Learn when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em at the poker lessons hosted by Montgomery Distillery from 2-4 PM, in advance of the Downtown MIssoula Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament on March 22. Lessons are free. Visit missouladowntown.com/poker. Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every second and fourth Sunday of the month at the Rustic Hut in Florence, 1-4 PM. $4/$3 for members. Call 240-9617 for info. The creativity—and the drinks—flow at Art on Tap, a guided, social painting class where you’ll leave with a finished piece of work. Montgomery Distillery, 25 PM, on Jan. 25, Feb. 22, March 22 and April 12. $32. Visit artontapmissoula.com for registration and info.
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power ranger Okay, guys, Riff Raff is coming to the Wilma, and I don’t mean the Rocky Horror character. Let me tell you about why I am delighted at this turn of events. Riff Raff got his start on the 2008 MTV reality show “From G’s to Gents,” which aimed to make “misdiWHO: Riff Raff, Illest Uminati, Frodie WHERE: Wilma WHEN: Sun., Feb. 22, at 7 PM HOW MUCH: $25 MORE INFO: thewilma.com
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rected young men” into classy fellows. On the show, the cornrowed Houston rapper talked about his lifestyle, where he parties from Thursday to Sunday and sleeps from Monday to Wednesday. He also showed off his “MTV Riff Raff” neck tattoo, which he got after carefully considering that he liked both music and TV. Riff Raff was kicked off “From G’s to Gents” without seeming to have learned much about classiness, but it’s worked out fine for his career. Riff Raff has worked with other rappers like Soulja Boy and Action Bronson, and James Franco played him in the 2013 movie Spring Breakers.
Whether you’re interested in Riff Raff as a master of trashy performance art or entertaining rapper—or a combination of both—he offers something to entertain or shock just about everyone. —Kate Whittle
The Contact Improv Class & Jam invites you to groove on a Sunday afternoon and get hip to the ways of improvised dance and community spirit. Meets at the Downtown Dance Collective on every other Sunday from 2:304:30 PM, until the end of May. $1-$7 sliding fee scale.
Doors at 7 PM. $25. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.
See it to believe it when the CanadAfrica duo of Okaidja Afroso and Mike Stevens combines Ghanaian-inspired lyrics and dance with American bluegrass and harmonica. Seeley Lake High School, 3 PM. $14/$12 seniors/free for ages 18 and under if accompanied by adult.
Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers scintillating prizes like cabin stays and bar plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-2732297 to sign up. No cover.
Load up on all kinds of good stuff at Garden City Harvest’s Wintergreens, a homegrown supper featuring primarily local ingredients and a cash bar for organic Blackfoot beers. Mayor Engen auctions off local cakes and pies, too. Governor’s Room of the Florence Hotel, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM. $25/$12 for kids ages 2-10. Visit gardencityharvest.org for tickets.
nightlife No need to duck for cover when Bob ‘n Weave play tunes at Draught Works, 5-7 PM. No cover. The Lolo Squares host beginning square dance lessons for all you hotsteppers out at the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 2.5 miles west of Lolo on Highway 12. Sundays at 5:30 PM. Call 273-0652 to learn more. Southern rapper Riff Raff, who has produced poetry such as “Yo, wanna know something about my right arm?/ I done flex so hard I set off fire alarms,” plays the Wilma, y’all. Openers include Illest Uminati, Frodie and Flex Gang.
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He combines a Lisa Frank-meets-Teen Beat aesthetic with a surprisingly skilled delivery of absolutely ridiculous/amazing lyrics. If you peruse YouTube, you can find videos of him doing cocaine and freestyling for minutes at a time. On his studio album Neon Icon, which came out last summer, he brags nonsensically, “Yeah, we can talk, don't be a stranger/ Step inside the club and I smell like Power Ranger.” He later indicates that he also smells like Miami.
It’s Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, and we all just live in it. The saxophone frenzy goes down at the Top Hat, with openers Brownout. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20/$18 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and the Top Hat. 18-plus.
The American String Project, featuring Maria Larionoff, violin & Barry Lieberman, double bass, brings the masterful performance of “Death and the Maiden” to the UM Music Building. 7:30 PM. $24/$20 seniors/$10 students and kids. Visit griztix.com. Comedians are doing it for the lulz at the monthly No Pads, No Blazers comedy hour. This evening features Clinton Lawson, Kyle “Lutefisk” Kulseth, Duane Raider and the musical stylings of “Spencer” Spencer. VFW, 245 W. Main St. Starts at 8 PM and really does last one hour, unlike your mom. (Heh.) No cover, plus half-price dranks.
MONDAYFEB23 Shake, rattle ‘n roll at the Beginner/Intermediate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer Meyer-Vaughan on Mondays at Downtown Dance Collective, 7:30-8:55 PM. Regular rates apply. The Adventure in Exploring Acrylics class with Ke’vin imparts the method of painting right out of the tube and onto the canvas, no persnickety pre-sketching
or drawing. Meets at the ZACC Mondays from 6-8 PM. $325/$300 for members. Check out zootownarts.org/kevin.acrylic.
nightlife Nathan Fillion fans, revv your engines, ‘cuz the Roxy is showing episodes of the cult-classic sci-fi series “Firefly,” on Mondays at 7 PM. $5-$7. Visit theroxytheater.org. Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes or shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander, including picture and music rounds. 9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: Laura Dern plays Reese Witherspoon’s mother in Wild; they’re both nominated for their performances at this year’s Academy Awards. Dern is how many years older than Witherspoon? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. 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. No cover.
TUESDAYFEB24 The legume rebellion will not be televised, so check it out when Missoula native Liz Carlisle chats about her book, The Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America, with food tasting to follow. North Underground Lecture Hall in Urey. 7-8:30 PM. Free. Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.
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nightlife Debate the merits of your favorite merlot with the good eggs of Montana Campus Compact, the beneficiary of this evening’s fundraiser at Caffe Dolce, where 15 percent of proceeds from dinner and drink sales from 5-9 PM benefit the nonprofit. Sip some suds to benefit Missoula’s favorite college radio station, KBGA 89.9 FM, at the Cheers for Charity at Draught Works, where proceeds from every pint sold between 58 PM benefit ka-bee-geh. The UM School of Theatre and Dance explores love and conflict in 19th century Ireland in Translations. Performances at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for students who are required to attend. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. The club’s going up on a Tuesday with synthy jam outfit Lotus, along with Zion I at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30. $25/$22 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and the Top Hat. 18-plus. (Trivia answer: Dern, at 48, is 9 years older.) New York-based experimental electronica gal Pharmakon plays the Real Lounge, 112 Front St., along with Hot Car Death and False Teeth. 9 PM. $8/$5 in advance at standupmt.com. 18-plus. Mike Avery hosts the Singer-Songwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Email michael.avery@live.com ahead of time to sign up. Feb. 24 features Chris Pumphrey, Keith Hardin, Andre Floyd, Travis Yost, James Green and John Quackenbush.
20, with rehearsal from 6-7:30 PM, and performance at the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday on May 15. $225. Email missoulakidschoir@gmail.com to learn more. As part of the Food Film Series, the Missoula Community Food Co-op screens The Real Dirt on Farmer John, about a free-spirited midwestern farmer and sustainable ag advocate. 1500 Burns St. 6:30-8:30 PM. Free. The concession stand will be topnotch at the Dinner and a Movie Night at the Crystal Theater, which features a screening of the Jon Favreau film Chef and y’all can order off the Silk Road tapas menu while you watch. 7 PM. $7 for admission; food’ll cost ya. The UM School of Theatre and Dance explores love and conflict in 19th century Ireland in Translations. Performances at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for students who are required to attend. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. Hear the First Amendment like you ain’t never heard it before at Freedom Sings, a musical performance that explains the story of free speech using contemporary rock and pop tunes, brought to you by the UM Journalism School’s centennial celebration. Dennison Theatre, 7:30 PM. Free. Armed with their wits and guitars, the rockers in Fallow celebrate an album release show, with guests Eat Strike, Naked Limbs and something called Yeezazee. ZACC. 7:30 PM. $3, all ages, no booze in the venue, y’all.
THURSDAYFEB26 Shake that moneymaker at the J. Sherri residency, with a gaggle of groovemeisters, arty types and “carnal delights” at the VFW, Thursdays in February, starting at 10 PM. Cover ranges from free to a coupla bucks. Young artists ages 2 and up can get off on the right foot at Art Start, a morning DIY series at the ZACC,. 11 AM-1 PM, through Feb. 26. $6/$5 for members.
nightlife Yeast meets West(ern) when The Fermenters play Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover. The UM School of Theatre and Dance explores love and conflict in 19th century Ireland in Translations. Masquer Theatre Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for students. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. Vermont jamsters Twiddle bring the funky to-do to the Top Hat, along with Cure for the Common and Kitchen Dwellers. 8 PM. $12/$10 in adv. 18-plus. Tickets at the Top Hat and Rockin Rudy’s. I’d like to thank the Academy... Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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Missoula County Growth Policy: Shaping Our Place, Charting Our Future How should we preserve rural character, protect natural resources, and respect individual choice? Comment on draft goals and identify future actions. x Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.: East Missoula Community Hall, 314 Montana Ave., East Missoula x Feb. 24, 6:00 p.m.: Swan Valley Community Center, Mile Post 42, Condon x Feb. 25, 6:00 p.m.: Frenchtown Fire Station, 16873 Marion St., Frenchtown x Feb. 26, 6:00 p.m.: Evaro Schoolhouse, Hwy 93 at Grooms Road, Evaro x March 3, 6:00 p.m.: Lolo Community Center, 12345 US 93, Lolo
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Classical pianist Spencer Myer leads a refined evening at the Top Hat, along with appearances from stars of the MSO like violinist Margaret Baldridge, clarinetist Maxine Ramey and oboe-ist Susi Stipich. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7:30. $10-$35, with bar seating, cabaret and VIP options available. Visit tophatlounge.com.
x March 5, 6:00 p.m.: Target Range School 4095 South Ave. W., Missoula Please note: the Seeley Lake meeting is being rescheduled due to a meeting conflict. The new meeting date will be announced on the website soon. Visit www.mcgrowthpolicy.us for more information Call: 406Ǧ258Ǧ4657 Email: caps@co.missoula.mt.us
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.
nightlife The Coptic Bookbinding Class introduces newbies and experienced binders alike to this old-school artform that includes hard covers and exposed sewing on the spine, and makes for a nifty journal or sketchbook. Vespiary Book Restoration and Bindery, 1221 Helen Ave. 5:30-8:30 PM. $45, materials included. Visit thevespiary.com. Flickering flames, top-shelf hooch and the musical stylings of the multitalented Dan Dubuque make for a fine evening at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive. Tunes from 6-9 PM. No cover. Let your little ones sing their hearts out at the new Missoula Kid’s Choir for ages 8-13, directed by Joshua Farmer and Caleb Van Gelder. Meets at Sussex School on Wednesdays, Feb. 18-May
Learn to stomach it. Kate Voegele plays Stage 112 Fri., Feb. 20, along with Leroy Sanchez. 9:30 PM. $15/$12 in advance.
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f you're a lover of snow, this recent bout of sunshine and 50 degree weather could be quite the killjoy. I know, usually at this point we’re all complaining about the cold, gray weather we are so fedup with, but isn’t snow what winter is all about? If you’re searching for some wonderland fun, but not willing to foot the bill to ski in the wet cement covering—or not quite covering—local hills, perhaps your answer is to attend the inaugural Marshall Mountain Winter Carnival this Sunday. Due to weather, the snowshoe and nordic ski races have been canceled, but that's no reason to cancel a party. The free event includes ski tuning stations and avalanche safety courses, which will hopefully have useful information you can utilize around Missoula next year.
There will also be sled dog demos, food, libations and live music for those of you who maybe want to pretend like winter is still a thing. All proceeds benefit Reach MORE, which is Parks and Recreation’s outdoor recreation program for people with disabilities. —Kellen Beck The Marshall Mountain Classic Winter Carnival is Sun., Feb. 22, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Free hourly shuttle to the carnival from McCormick Park, 600 Cregg Ln., from 10:30 AM-3 PM. Visit missoulaparks.org or call 721-PARK to learn more.
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19 The Bitterroot Trout Unlimited Meeting brings “indefatigable” MFWP biologist Chris Clancy to give the good news and the bad news about the Bitterroot River. Hamilton Elks Lodge, 203 State St. 7 PM. (Plus, folks are having dinner with Chris at Spice of Life at 5 PM prior.)
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20 The water is fine at the annual Super Grizzly Dip, where plungers shall dunk into a pool of water on the UM Oval as part of a fundraiser for Special Olympics. You can also register as “chicken” and raise pledges without getting wet. Registration starts at 10:30 AM, plunges start at noon. $100 minimum donation per plunger. Visit somt.org/events.plunge.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21 Folks wanting to learn how to identify animals by their tracks in the snow, and other signs, should join Northwest Connections in their Swan Valley homestead for a two-day training course, Feb. 21-Feb. 22. $250, includes lectures, field sessions and transportation around the valley. Lodging is available for an additional fee. Call 754-3185 or visit northwestconnections.org for more info. The Peter Hale Nordic Ski Race don’t mess around, with a challenging 22km loop starting at Rich Ranch, outside Seeley Lake, and onto groomed Forest Service trails. Divisions include classic and skate skiers. $35-$40 to race. Visit seeleylakenordic.org. The Winter Shrub Identification Field Trip invites y’all to hang out with the Montana Native Plant Society and walk along the eastern portion of the Kim Williams trail and ID plants with botanist Peter Stickney, leaves or no. Meet at the south end of the Van Buren Street footbridge by 10 AM; mind you, you’re not supposed to park in the Eastgate shopping center, but you can park on campus. Get the kiddos out of the house for the Winter Ecology Walk, intended for ages 5 and up, where
you’ll walk along the river trail and learn about Missoula’s wildlife and habitat. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 2-3 PM. Free for adults/$3/$1 for MNHC members.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 The Winter Walking Tours series invites folks on guided winter walks/hikes through conservation lands in the Missoula area. Snowshoes provided if they’re necessary. Meets at Currents Aquatic Center on Mondays at 9 AM, with hot cocoa provided after. $5. Call 721-7275.
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As the earth tilts on its axis, the Montana Dirt Girls switch gears to host weekly hikes in the Missoula area, Tuesday evenings at 6 PM, November through March, with the chance to grab dinner afterward. Foot-grippers and headlamps advisable. Find out locations and info by signing up for the mail list at mtdirtgirls.tripod.com. Don’t leaf early when Andrea Pipp presents an Introduction to Montana Lichens as part of the Native Plant Society’s recurring Herbarium Night. Natural Sciences building, room 303. 7:30 PM.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 Hump day just got friskier with the Wednesday Night Ski Race League, where teams of four (including at least one woman) race weekly at Snowbowl, Wednesdays from 7-10 PM until March 6. $395 per team. Contact missoulaalpinerace@gmail.com or 240-0836 for info.
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26 The fine folks of the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation host their ninth annual Winter Gathering and Silent Auction, with raffles for guided river trips and guest speakers. Missoula Winery, 6:30-9:30 PM. No cost to attend.
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Sometimes we work so hard we forget where we are going in life. Sometimes we have to work hard to try and remember where we are going. The 2010 film Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture peels back the layers behind the pressure to perform well in academia and how stress affects students’ happiness and creativity. Between juggling school work, extracurricular activities, financial concerns, family problems and social pressure, students get pushed to succeed and the pressure wears down their psyche along the way. Nearly one-third of teens feel overwhelmed and depressed, with 83 percent attributing that stress to school, according to a 2013 American Psychological Association study. About 32 percent of those teens say their stress level is on the rise. The film focuses on busy teens preparing for college, but the pressure to succeed crosses all age borders. The study reports that many teens mirror adult stress, and set themselves up for that unhealthy trajectory. Race to Nowhere highlights this issue and questions how our society can break the cycle.
The University of Montana’s education department and Phi Delta Kappa are hosting a screening of the documentary on Feb. 19. An open discussion takes place after the screening. —Courtney Anderson UM groups host a screening of Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America's Achievement Culture. Discussion to follow with Phi Delta Kappa and UM’s College of Education and Human Sciences. University Center Theater, Thu., Feb. 19, at 7 PM. Free.
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The MCPS Smart Schools 2020 Bus Tours invite community members to tour facilities that need to be updated. Meet at the MCPS administration building, 215 S. Sixth St. W. Jan. 22’s tour departs at 9 AM to visit Mount Jumbo, Whittier and Lowell schools. Feb. 19’s tour leaves at 10 AM for Hellgate, Paxson and Lewis and Clark. Sign up for the tour by visiting mcpsmt.org.
The Growing Through Pain and Progressive Loss group meets at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 S. Higgins, Mondays from 1-3 PM through March. 16. For more information call Kathy at 728-1630.
Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free, plus there’s nice beverages and snacks.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20 Grab a pen and paper and get crackin’ at Learning from Your Life: Writing for Resilience, which teaches how to work through difficult events and celebrate life’s joys through writing. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Fridays from 11 AM-1 PM through March 13. $145 for five-week course. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org for registration and info. Gals from Moms Demand Action for Guns Sense get together to present a discussion on “Guns and Domestic Violence” as part of the social justice brown-bag lunches at YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Noon-1 PM. Former Hebrew University professor Avishai Margalit chats about “The Arab Spring and the Israeli Spring” as part of the annual Henry Bugbee Lecture on Philosophy. University Center Ballroom, 8 PM. Free.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 Summit Independent’s Living Well Class gets together on Mondays from 10 AM-noon at 700 S. Hig-
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a peaceful communication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-play stressful situations and practice responding calmly. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free. Youth Opening Doors through Advocacy meets at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 S. Higgins, every fourth Wednesday of the month from 3:30-6PM. YODA is for youths with disabilities, and they participate in social and advocacy efforts. People looking for help with overeating issues can come to Overeaters Anonymous meetings on the third floor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Brooks St., Wednesdays. Newbies can come at 6:30 PM, and the regular meeting begins at 7 PM.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26 As part of Black History Month, African American studies prof Tobin Shearer presents “Homing In: The Effects of WWI on Black Women and Men,” at the Mansfield Library main floor. 6-7:30 PM. You don’t have to be a time lord to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. 7 PM. RSVP required at info@missoulatimebank.org. Check out missoula timebank.org.
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RANT’S TOMB I'm a woman in my early 20s. I do fine getting dates, but only first dates. And no, I'm not having sex with guys on the first date, but I still never hear from them again. I ran into one of these guys at a party and begged him to tell me what had gone wrong. He said, "You're kind of intense." I asked him to explain, and he said, "You do a lot of talking." I do talk a lot, but I'm informed and opinionated. Do I really have to be some mute little woman to get second dates? — Man Repellant On a date, you should merely be splashing your personality around, tempted as you may be to hold a guy down and try to drown him in it. This isn't to say you have to be "some mute little woman" to get a second date. Consider that there's a middle ground between channeling Nancy Grace and playing a shy geisha hiding behind her fan. And sorry, but being "informed" and "opinionated" does not give you a pass to turn a date into a reeducation camp with wine and entrees. In fact, this sort of conversational takeover is like a toupee; it usually ends up calling attention to whatever it was supposed to cover up (self-worth issues, nervousness, or maybe a need to push people away, despite putting yourself out there like you want a relationship). To see more of these guys than their exhaust as they drive away forever, be mindful of the purpose of a date: getting to know somebody, not getting to know how they look listening to you. As for all this information you're excited to impart, ironically, the way you get somebody interested in listening to you is by showing interest in them. You do that by listening to them—really listening (from the gut, not just nodding while waiting for them to take a breath so you can shoehorn in your next point). Being willing to share the conversational space isn't a sign you're some empty dress of a woman; quite the contrary. It's what secure people do—connecting with others instead of pepper-spraying them with words. Try an experiment on your next few dates. Say as little as possible about yourself all evening. Answer questions about yourself when asked, but focus on asking your date about who he is and what he thinks. Chances are, you'll have a much
GENERAL better time and maybe get asked on some second and third dates. Wonderful things can happen when you give a man the sense that there's a real reason for him to be there—as opposed to the idea that he could have stayed home and, in his place, sent a giant ear.
MERCHANT OF VROOM Four or five months ago, I had an amazing dinner date with this guy. I ended up sleeping with him afterward, and he disappeared. Out of the blue, he contacted me, wanting to take me to dinner. How do I know he won't pull the same jerko Houdini move? —Suspicious When you're on a first date and you'd like there to be a second date, it's okay to leave a little lipstick on the rim of the glass. Your face should not end up smeared across the guy's pillow. Sure, there are couples who had sex on (or even before) the first date and have spent the next 67.3 years living happily ever after. But if you're a woman wanting a relationship, be mindful that sex on the first date is a risky strategy. As researcher Anne Campbell dryly put it, "Women's mate value is perceived to be low if they are willing to agree to lowcost sex" (as in, casual sex). A man will probably take it if he can get it—but he's likely to, as they say, "sex it and exit." As for this guy, he's already shown you that he IS someone who pulls "jerko Houdini" moves, with not so much as a texted "thx 4 putting out!!" the last time. If despite that, you agree to see him again, what prevents him from disappearing after sex is your ending the evening with your clothes on instead of on his bedroom rug. Unfortunately, the heat of the moment tends not to be home to Spock-like rationality and reserve. To guide how soon you'll get naked, go into a date with your ultimate goal in mind— whether you have what anthropologists call a "long-term mating strategy" or whether you aren't so much looking for Mr. Right as you are Mr. Right Next To You At The Bar.
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Assembly An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company with good benefits is looking for long term employees as Dental Tool Sharpeners. Experience operating bench grinders is preferred but not required. On the job training is available. Attention to detail and good eye hand coordination a necessity. Quality performance as well as production necessary to succeed. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10107212
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Spanipelagic" is an adjective scientists use to describe creatures that typically hang out in deep water but float up to the surface on rare occasions. The term is not a perfect metaphorical fit for you, since you come up for air more often than that. But you do go through phases when you're inclined to linger for a long time in the abyss, enjoying the dark mysteries and fathomless emotions. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that's what you've been doing lately. Any day now, however, I expect you'll be rising up from the Great Down Below and headed topside for an extended stay.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1900, the world's most renowned mathematicians met at a conference in Paris. There the German whiz David Hilbert introduced his master list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. At the time, no one had done such an exhaustive inventory. His well-defined challenge set the agenda for math research throughout the 20th century. Today he's regarded as an influential visionary. I'd love to see you come up with a list of your own top unsolved problems, Gemini. You now have extra insight about the catalytic projects you will be smart to work on and play with during the coming years.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What is the proper blend for you these days? Is it something like 51 percent pleasure and 49 percent business? Or would you be wiser to shoot for 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent business? I will leave that decision up to you, Taurus. Whichever way you go, I suggest that you try to interweave business and pleasure as often as possible. You are in one of those action-packed phases when fun dovetails really well with ambition. I'm guessing that you can make productive connections at parties. I'm betting that you can spice up your social life by taking advantage of what comes to you through your work.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): There are many different facets to your intelligence, and each matures at a different rate. So for example, your ability to think symbolically may evolve more slowly than your ability to think abstractly. Your wisdom about why humans act the way they do may ripen more rapidly than your insight into your own emotions. In the coming weeks, I expect one particular aspect of your intelligence to be undergoing a growth spurt: your knowledge of what your body needs and how to give it what it needs.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When faced with a big decision, you might say you want to "sleep on it." In other words, you postpone your final determination until you gather more information and ripen your understanding of the pressing issues. And that could indeed involve getting a good night's sleep. What happens in your dreams may reveal nuances you can't pry loose with your waking consciousness alone. And even if you don't recall your dreams, your sleeping mind is busy processing and reworking the possibilities. I recommend that you make liberal use of the "sleep on it" approach in the coming weeks, Leo. Revel in the wisdom that wells up in you as you're lying down in the dark.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1962, Edward Albee published his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It won numerous awards and is still performed by modern theater groups. Albee says the title came to him as he was having a beer at a bar in New York City. When he went to the restroom, he spied the words "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" scrawled in soap on the mirror. I urge you to be alert for that kind of inspiration in the coming days, Virgo: unexpected, provocative, and out of context. You never know when and where you may be furnished with clues about the next plot twist of your life story.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Edward III, a medieval English king, had a favorite poet: Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1374, the king promised Chaucer a big gift in appreciation for his talents: a gallon of wine every day for the rest of his life. That's not the endowment I would have wanted if I had been Chaucer. I'd never get any work done if I were quaffing 16 glasses of wine every 24 hours. Couldn't I instead be provided with a regular stipend? Keep this story in mind, Libra, as you contemplate the benefits or rewards that might become available to you. Ask for what you really need, not necessarily what the giver initially offers.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To make the cocktail known as Sex on the Beach, you mix together cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, peach schnapps, and vodka. There is also an alternative "mocktail" called Safe Sex on the Beach. It has the same fruit juices, but no alcohol. Given the likelihood that your inner teenager will be playing an important role in your upcoming adventures, Scorpio, I recommend that you favor the Safe-Sex-on-the-Beach metaphor rather than the Sexon-the-Beach approach. At least temporarily, it's best to show a bit of protective restraint toward the wild and sometimes erratic juvenile energy that's pushing to be expressed.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," a lawyer hires a man named Bartleby to work in his office. At first Bartleby is a model employee, carrying out his assignments with dogged skill. But one day everything begins to change. Whenever his boss instructs him to do a specific task, Bartleby says, "I would prefer not to." As the days go by, he does less and less, until finally he stops altogether. I'd like to propose, Sagittarius, that you take inspiration from his slowdown. Haven't you done enough for now? Haven't you been exemplary in your commitment to the daily struggle? Don't you deserve a break in the action so you can recharge your psychospiritual batteries? I say yes. Maybe you will consider making this your battle cry: "I would prefer not to."
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." That's what American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson advised. Even if you're not naturally inclined to see the potential wisdom of that approach, I invite you to play around with it for the next three weeks. You don't need to do it forever. It doesn't have to become a permanent fixture in your philosophy. Just for now, experiment with the possibility that trying lots of experiments will lead you not just to new truths, but to new truths that are fun, interesting, and useful.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The art of the French Aquarian painter Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) appears in prestigious museums. He isn't as famous as his fellow Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, but he wielded a big influence on them both. His career developed slowly because he had to work a day job to earn a living. When he was 50 years old, he won a wad of free money in the national lottery, and thereafter devoted himself full-time to painting. I'm not saying you will enjoy a windfall like that anytime soon, Aquarius, but such an event is possible. At the very least, your income could rise. Your odds of experiencing financial luck will increase to the degree that you work to improve the best gifts you have to offer your fellow humans.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "It isn't normal to know what we want," said pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow. "It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement." That's the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that you may be on the verge of rendering that theory irrelevant. In the coming weeks, you will be better primed to discover what you really want than you have been in a long time. I suggest you do a ritual in which you vow to unmask this treasured secret. Write a formal statement in which you declare your intention to achieve full understanding of the reasons you are alive on this planet. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-25 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET L. VARNER a/k/a Peggy Varner, Deceased. NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above! named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to RICHARD A. VARNER, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of February, 2015. /s/ Richard A. Varner, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DP-1520 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ROSINA DARIDA CROONENBERGHS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representatives of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to pres-
MNAXLP ent 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 the Personal Representatives, Alberta K. Kronen and Steven J. Croonenberghs, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of February, 2015 /s/ Alberta K. Kronen, Personal Representative /s/ Steven J. Croonenberghs, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DP-1521 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ELVER ANDREAS HEHN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Lynette Joy Hill, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-14-216 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. HOLDEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kathleen L. Holden has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 said 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 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. We declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 28th day of October. 2014. /s/ Kathleen L. Holden, Personal Representative /s/ Richard J. Samson, Attorney for Applicant MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-26 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY IRENE 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 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 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 11th day of February. 2015. /s/ Valetta Hutcheson, Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Irene Hebert /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-19 NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR SETTLEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE TRUST IN THE MATTER OF SUPROCK TRUST, NOTICE IS HEREBY
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GIVEN that Lorraine Curtis by and through her counsel of record has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Final Account and for Settlement and Distribution of the Trust. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 3rd day of March, 2015, at the hour of 11:00 o’clock a.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Dated this 3rd day of February, 2015. BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Lorraine Curtis MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-259 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN KOZLOWSKI, 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 either be mailed to Carol Coats, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of February, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Carol Coats BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Carol Coats, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANN M. FANDRY, 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 mailed to Paul A Halttunen, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o
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J. Tiffin Hall, Attorney at Law, 124 Riverside Drive, Suite 101, Eureka, Montana 59917 and filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of February, 2015. /s/ Paul A. Halttunen, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-15-44 NOTICE OF PENDING NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF: BONITA GAIL GRIFFIN BISHOP, Petitioner. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Name Change of BONITA GAIL GRIFFIN BISHOP to obtain an order of this Court granting leave to assume the name of GAIL GRIFFIN BISHOP, will be presented to the above-entitled Court, at the Missoula County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on Tuesday the 24th day of March, 2015 at 1:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, and that at such time, application will be made for the relief sought in the said Petition. DATED this 26th day of January, 2015. WELLS & MCKITTRICK, P.C. By: /s/ JAMIE J. McKITTRICK, Attorneys for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-14-244 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SARAH JANE SAVAGE., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Teresa Nollmeyer has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 said 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 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 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 6th day of January. 2015. /s/ Teresa Nollmeyer, Personal Representative of the Estate of Sarah Jane Savage /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP14-252 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STEVEN WILLIAM BENZSCHAWEL, 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 (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 PATRICIA MAE DeFOE, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 3rd day of February, 2015. /s/ Patricia Mae DeFoe, Personal Representative NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated August 9, 2005 Grantor: Rebecca E. Titus (Married) 658 Utah Avenue, Missoula, MT 59802 Original Trustee: David R. Chisholm 175 N. 27th Street, Suite 1400, Billings, MT 59101-2048 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee and limited agent for U.S. Bank N.A. and its successors and assigns P.O. Box 2026, Flint, MI 48501-2026 Current Beneficiary: U.S. Bank National Association, 4801 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301 Successor Trustee: Scott W. Farago, Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, P.O. Box 7909, Missoula, MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded August 16, 2005 under Document No. 200521182, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 13th day of May, 2015, at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, SCOTT W. FARAGO, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantor, and all of her successors and assigns, without warrant or covenant, express of implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property. LOT 9 IN BLOCK 2 OF EAST MISSOULA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL
RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND DESCRIBED AS LOT 9 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5373. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of her successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Note in the amount of Seven Hundred Eight and 60/100 Dollars ($708.60) for the months of November 1, 2011 through January 2, 2015; together with interest which continues to accrue at the rate of 5.5 percent (5.5%) per annum; together with the escrow balance of Seven Thousand Three Hundred Fifteen and 91/100 ($7,315.91). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the principal balance of One Hundred Twelve Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Nine and 05/100 Dollars ($112,989.05), plus interest thereon at the rate of 5.5% from and after the months of October 1, 2011 to January 2, 2015, in the amount of Twenty Thousand Two Hundred Thirteen and 96/100 Dollars ($20,213.96), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate as provided in the Note, plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 15 day of December, 2014. /s/ Scott W. Farago, Successor Trustee, Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, PO Box 7909, Missoula, MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA):ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 15th day of December, 2014 by SCOTT W. FARAGO, Successor Trustee /s/ Joan D. Edmunds, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires September 01, 2016 February 19, February 26, March 5, 2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/09/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200914294 Bk 841 Pg 734, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David M Felker and Daphne J Felker, 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: Lot 2 in Block 3 of Spring Hills Addition, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has de-
PUBLIC NOTICES clared 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 09/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $215,906.31. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $208,777.03, 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 on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.112643) 1002.277068File No.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 10, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tax Id Number(s):2493109 Land Situated in the City of Missoula in the County of Missoula in the State of MT Lots 17 and 18 in Block 65 of South Missoula Addition, a platted subdivision in the city of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Commonly known as: 825 Marshall St, Missoula, MT 59801 Michael J. Patterson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 12, 2011 and recorded on December 27, 2011 in Book 887, Page 435 as Document No. 201121608. The beneficial interest is currently held by Quicken Loans Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $863.92, beginning May 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 1, 2014 is $168,770.33 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% totaling $4,184.11, late charges in the amount of $207.36, escrow advances of $694.12, and other fees and expenses advanced of $238.56, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.65 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described prop-
MNAXLP erty to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 8, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 8th day of December, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Quicken V Patterson 42010.026 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 10, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the
Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of Sweet Grass addition at Maloney Ranch Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, According to the official recorded plat thereof Steven C. Taylor and Kelley L. Taylor, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Ticor Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 23, 2006 and recorded March 1, 2006 in Book 769, Page 1035 under Document no. 200604573; Modification Agreement recorded March 21, 2012 in Book 891, Page 554 under Document no. 201205277. The beneficial interest is currently held by LPP Mortgage Ltd.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,466.45, beginning March 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 5, 2014 is $367,804.98 principal, interest at the rate of 3.00% totaling $9,316.02, escrow advances of $5,475.55, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,278.14, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.23 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or
cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 8, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 8th day of December, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Dmi V Taylor 41212.589 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 13, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 3A3 of Certificate of Survey No. 1909, being a portion of
Tract 3A of Certificate of Survey No. 1743, located in the Northeast quarter of Section 3, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. TOGETHER WITH a 60 foot private roadway easement for ingress and egress as shown on Certificate of Survey Nos. 1369, 1743 and 1909. Orion A Heath aka Orion Allen Heath, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to World Alliance Financial Corp., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 10, 2009 and recorded on March 16., 2009 Book 835 Page 611 as Document No. 200905777. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by vacating the property on March 23, 2012. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 31, 2014 is $280,056.72 principal, interest at the rate of 5.830% now totaling $1,360.61 and other fees and expenses advanced of $13,836.53, plus accruing interest at the rate of $51.20 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be
entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 3, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 3rd day of December, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Reverse Mortgage V Heath 42083.005 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 6, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 7 in Block 1 of Susan Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Keith E. Jacobsen, and Eula G. Jacobsen, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 24, 2002 and dated on October 24, 2002 in Book 691, Page 208 as Document No. 200230935. The beneficial
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 RUSTY• Rusty is a 7-year-old male Chow Chow mix. He is truly the nicest Chow you will ever meet. Rusty is great with dogs of all sizes and walks very nicely on a leash. His activity needs are moderate, and would do well in a less active home with older kids. Rusty is really a striking creature to behold and frequently steals the show in the kennel.
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BUTTERCUP•Buttercup is a 3-year-old female Border Collie mix. She is incredibly sweet and loves to lean next to you and soak up lots of attention. You will never feel lonely with Buttercup in your home. This happy little girl is always looking to please.
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ROO•Roo is a 2-year-old male brindle German Shepherd mix. He is young and has a great deal of energy which would make an active family his perfect home. South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Roo loves to play fetch and knows how to 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) sit before going through a door. He will need an owner who is willing to invest the 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) time to train and exercise to keep him bal- Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) anced.
BIG RED•Big Red is a senior male cat. This older guy is a true lap cat and loves to be brushed. Big Red originally came to the shelter after being treated for a gun shot wound in his right side. Now he is all healed and looking for a retirement home. Big Red is great with other cats, and wouldn't mind a dog sniffing him, but probably wouldn't appreciate being pestered one.
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RABBIT•Rabbit is an 8-year-old male black Domestic Short Hair. He loves to sit in laps and be brushed. Rabbit is terrified of other cats and spends most of his days at the shelter hiding in his kennel or in a corner. This gentle man deserves a home where he isn't surrounded by other animals. Only then will he ever come out of his shell.
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SOPHIE• Sophie is a 7-10 year-old female Calico/Tabby. She is currently our longest-term resident at the shelter, having been here for 113 days. Sophie has not adjusted to shelter life very well and has come to view her little cage as her only solace. She has the most pathetic meow that will tug at your heart strings.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 TED• Ted is a gentleman who loves to tell you about his adventures. He enjoys getting pets and rubs and will certainly meow his thanks in return! Originally a stray, Ted is looking for his forever home where he can have long conversations, get lots of ear scratches and have plenty of windows to look out of. Come let Ted melt your heart today!
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SOPHIE• Sophie is an active, playful girl who loves to play fetch and explore the outdoors. She is a very smart girl and already knows a few commands, but she would love to attend a Basic Manners training class with her new adopters to learn even more! If you are looking for an eager companion to share in your Montana adventures, come meet Sophie today.
SIERRA•Sierra is a beautiful lady who can be a bit shy at first. She prefers to investigate people during a quiet moment when the spotlight isn't on her. She has proved to be loving and enjoys cheek scratches and ear rubs. Sierra is looking for a quiet home to help her gain confidence so she can bloom into the star we know she is!
BENJAMIN•Meet Benjamin! Looking for a smart, quirky cat who will never cease to entertain you? Then Benjamin's your guy! He is a whiz with interactive food toys and will make you smile as he serenades you with his lovely voice. Benjamin has been at the shelter for over a year now (currently our longest resident) and it's his turn to finally find his furrever home.
MARGOT• Margot is a spunky girl who really is the Life of the Party! Margot enjoys going on hikes and playing tug, but fetch is truly the way to this girl's heart. Margot participates in our volunteer Paws Ahead training program and her adoption comes with a free private lesson with our Certified Professional Dog Trainer.
MONTE• Meet Monte!
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Monte is a big, goofy guy who is definitely still a puppy despite his size. He is very playful and has experience living with dogs and cats. Monte is crate-trained and loves his peanut butter-filled Kong toy. He knows how to sit and would love to attend a Basic Manners training class with his adopter to learn more. Stop by to meet Monte today!
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PUBLIC NOTICES interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $942.67, beginning June 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 17, 2014 is $128,772.35 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $3,483.88, late charges in the amount of $315.45, escrow advances of $1,025.73, and other fees and expenses advanced of $61.38, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the benefi-
ciary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 26, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 26th day of November, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Diana Steinmetz Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 7/16/2016 Citi V Jacobsen 42090.162 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 6, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 8 of West View No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Lori Ann Muchmore and David Muchmore, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated January 15, 2009 and Recorded January 21, 2009 in Book 832, Page 252 under Document No. 200901221. The beneficial interest is currently held by Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula
MNAXLP County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,157.18, beginning March 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 1, 2015 is $188,240.57 principal, interest at the rate of 5.50% totaling $9,490.47, late charges in the amount of $489.11, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,895.39, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then
be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INF O R M A T I O N OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 26, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 26th day of November, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 M&t Bank V Muchmore 41902.377
MURPHY STREET STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units (unit number followed by rent owed, late fees and auction fees): 20 ($2599), 27 ($1609), 41 ($1319), 52 ($959.00), 61 (($690), 74 ($1131.00), 80 ($1906), 89 ($1702), 100 ($1412), 112 ($2104), 113 ($2570), 117 ($1827), 132 ($2188), 136 ($596), 143 ($1450). Units contain personal items. Auction to take place at Murphy Street Storage, 2504 Murphy Street, Missoula, Sunday, 3/22/2015 at 2:00 p.m. Cash or money orders only.
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 129, 198, 236, 301, 456, 485, 497 & 510. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday March 2, 2015. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday March 5, 2015 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
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HOMES FOR SALE 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $299,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 110 Rolling Green. 3 bed, 2 bath with deck & 2 car garage adjacent to Highlands Golf Course. $239,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 1633 South 4th West. 1920’s era 4 bed, 2 bath with fenced yard, patio and many new upgrades. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $249,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
2227 West Kent. 2 bed, 1 bath with unfinished basement and small fenced yard. Central location. $138,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@ montana.com
3010 West Central. 5 acres in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. Borders DNRC land. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties t2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $275,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University District home. $439,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 4 Plex By The River 319/321 1st St. Dream location! 3-plex and alley house (2 efficiencies and 2 one bed units) behind Bernices ‘hood, River views and end of the street. Reduced $365,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 612 Parkview. 3 bed, 2 bath in Farviews with 2 car garage. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM
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REAL ESTATE Farviews Home 404 Westview. Three bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable Farviews neighborhood for $265,000! Solar panels, views, great home. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Former MUD Site 633 Phillips - $150,000. Excellent opportunity to own a home at the former MUD demonstration site on the Northside. Many outbuildings and so many possibilities. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I’ll save you time and energy. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. I know Missoula and have lived here 30+ years. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Orange Street Triplex 201 S Orange Street Triplex. Reduced $300,000. Location is awesome, near the river and downtown and river trails and bike trails and all sorts of conveniences. Two main floor units, one upper. Some hardwood floors and some upgrades and tons of character! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016
• jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Rattlesnake Farmhouse A friendly home with large garden in the middle Rattlesnake. 1145 Lolo Street. At corner of Gilbert and Lolo Streets. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 10,200 sq. ft. lot [0.23 acres] Fruit trees. Access to town and trails. For sale by owners of 24 years. $279,000. Main and Second floors have 1,375 Sq. Ft. Unfinished basement 240 Sq.Ft. Parking off street. Fenced yard and garden. All SIDs paid including city sewer,sidewalk. Natural gas heat. Roof one year old. Taxes $2304.33 in 2014. Pictures on craigslist. 406-4371800 or masirr@yahoo.com South Hills Ranch Style 2615 Arcadia - $250,000. OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1-3. 3 bed/1 bath. Open floor plan, gorgeous updates including kitchen abd bath, backs to open space, large backyard. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
Source Gym. $134,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $168,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 $160,000. Three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. One of the best things about Burns Street Commons is its gorgeous exterior and great community atmosphere. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com Clark Fork River Condo 1401 Cedar Street #16. $122,500. Charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhouse set on the Clark Fork River. What an amazing home! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
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Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary
Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis. 1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise
LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND- .62 ACRES. Please contact me David
Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns #10. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom unit for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
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Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 532-9296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
COMMERCIAL Great Business Opportunity! Excellent Hwy 93 exposure! 8 Unit motel, coffee & gift shop all with the back drop of the gorgeous Mission Mountains. Comfortable living quar-
ters, offers the opportunity to earn a paycheck out of your own home. The town of St Ignatius adds the country charm! Great spot to raise a family and have the flexibility of your own business. Priced at $349,500. Contact Jill Ursua @ 406-240-8386 GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! Little Montana Cafe and 3 bedroom mobile home in Grass Range, MT. Comes with full stock, furniture, fixtures, freezers, food and everything else included. Very reasonable! Call 406-4282390 or 406-366-2181 Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. 3 bed, 2 bath Victorian on over 7 fenced acres with barn & outbuildings. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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4114 Melrose • $245,000 • Pleasant View home with 3 beds, 2 baths • 900 sq.ft downstairs & 500 sq.ft. upstairs • Large 6500 sq.ft. lot with patio & fenced backyard • A/C & underground sprinklers • 2 car garage
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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Frenchtown home on 5.4 acres. $300,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-
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FOR BUYING MORE FOR LESS 110 Rolling Green • $239,900
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One-level living in this 3 bed, 2 bath Real Estate With Real Experience pat@properties2000.com that backs Highland Golf Course. 406-240-SOLD (7653) Fireplace & double garage. Estate sale. Properties2000.com
512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com
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