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Tom Maclay, who’s proposed the Bitterroot Resort, owes the bank $23 million. He has less than a year to turn the Maclay family ranch into cash or else he’ll lose the land. “There’s always a Plan B,” he says. “The train is leaving the station on the public [resort].” Instead, “Why not just have a private club?” He envisions an exclusive community where only residents can access the slopes, something akin Cover photo by Chad Harder to the Yellowstone Club. “That can be easier to do,” he says. “It’s a simpler, faster model.” Faster being the key word ............................14

News Letters Rehberg’s wasting my money on Jesus ...........................................................4 The Week in Review Driving down the Kim Williams trail........................................6 Briefs UM defends response to sexual assaults...........................................................6 Etc. Hey kids: You’re the boss......................................................................................7 Up Front Local cartographers make new wilderness maps ........................................8 Up Front CSKT launches comprehensive climate-change study ................................9 Ochenski Court rulings ding democracy—for now ..................................................10 Range It’s not all fracking ..........................................................................................11 Agenda Montana Farm to Restaurant Connection ....................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan The state of the chicken ................................................................18 Happiest Hour Pub Trivia .........................................................................................19 8 Days a Week Prettier than Cancún 365 .................................................................21 Mountain High Sno-Mazing Weekend ......................................................................29 Scope A nomadic protagonist and the illusion of convenience................................30 Noise Bacon & Egg, 907Britt, Futurebirds, Po Po .....................................................31 Art Kia Liszak time-travels with rice, beans and LPs ..................................................32 Film Between laughs, Wanderlust has a point ..........................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-11 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jason McMackin STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITOR Ted McDermott PHOTO INTERN Michelle Gustafson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jenn Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Rhonda Urbanski, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Jon Baker MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, George Ochenski, Nick Davis, Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Azita Osanloo, Jamie Rogers, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks

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Asked Monday, Feb. 27, on the streets of downtown Missoula. In a special Valentine’s Day issue of the student newspaper The Hellgate Lance, students at Hellgate High published material that school administrators later deemed too sexually explicit. How do you feel about censoring student publications? Follow up: What was your experience when you first punched your V-card? Rochelle Hansen: What administrators need to remember is that no matter how young these students are, what they have to say is real and honest and people relate to it. Besides, even if they’re not allowed to print it, they’ll still be thinking about it. Onward and upward: You know, I don’t remember it all that well. I was 16 and probably so shamed that I blocked it out— but, it’s really probably best to get that first one out of the way so you can get on with it and get better at it! Josh Kosar: I think some censorship of student newspapers could be appropriate but it shouldn’t be overbearing or repressive. Mostly, they should focus on encouraging education. Bump, set, spike: I was 17, and it made me late to volleyball practice. My friends were in the car waiting for me, and let’s say that I remember a lot of honking going on in the driveway.

Erin Schmiel: I don’t think they should be censored, really. Student newspapers are part of kids’ freedom of expression. If administrators don’t like what the kids are saying, that’s too bad. One to build on: Wow, that is a personal question! I was in my early 20s and I guess I’ll just say that it wasn’t a dreamy experience.

Jeremiah Rasmussen: Honestly, I think that parents put their kids into school trusting that someone is going to be responsible for them. There’s a time and a place for sexually explicit material and student newspapers aren’t one of them. Head first: I had just dropped some acid, I was 19. I was scared for part of it, but after it was all done I remember wondering, “I waited for this?” It was a strange experience, not positive or negative, but I did learn from it. Curtis Kutzler: Administrators should be more concerned about kids knowing how to spell the words describing explicit things than about kids doing those things. Reading, writing and learning how to exercise and build on their freedoms— that’s what they should be teaching them. The kids will learn about censorship soon enough. Summer of ’69: I was 15 and me and a buddy were walking along the Heart River in North Dakota when we saw some girls skinny-dipping. They invited us to jump in, so we did—and had a very good time.

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Trapping not a “sport” Angelo Pecora, in his Feb. 23 letter defending trappers, misses several points. He equates trapping with walking one’s dog and believes if someone wants to do an activity, so be it, and mind your own business. Unfortunately for this line of reasoning, wildlife are a public resource and as such, everyone has a say in how they are managed. Fur-bearers are not the exclusive property of the trapping industry and unlike Pecora, I would argue this commercial endeavor is not a “sport.” I agree, however, that society should allow people to choose their activities as long as they do not infringe on everyone else or are morally repugnant or cruel. Trapping, however, is one of those “sports” that does infringe. First of all, trappers are a very small minority of people in Montana, less than one-half of one percent. Yet they basically take over the woods from Thanksgiving until the spring. Why is this? Well, while trappers are fond of saying their industry is “highly regulated,” the lack of rules in several areas allows a small minority to have a large impact. Two of these lapses are no mandatory check period and no limit to the number of trapping devices. This allows trappers to place as many traps as they can, with traplines up to hundreds of miles long. The ability to take as long as necessary to check these traps also contributes to this large number. If there was a threeday check period, as in Idaho, a trapper could manage only so many traps and snares. On the other hand, putting a specified trap limit on each individual would more effectively cut down the impact to the rest of the public. What unrestricted trap numbers mean is that traps are everywhere, and encountering them is commonplace. It would be different if it was rare occurrence. It would also help if FWP would require traps to be placed much farther away from trails than currently. Finally, Pecora generally dismisses animal cruelty, which requires trapping to be specifically exempted from Montana statute. In his letter, he mentions only one trap, the “body gripper” or conibear, but conveniently leaves out other trap types. Just because someone is making money “doing what he wants” doesn’t require that everyone else make accommodations, nor does it make it any less cruel. Mike Koeppen Florence

On coal, state biased The recent district court ruling on the Otter Creek coal tracts lease expressed faith in the capacity of state agencies to effectively and objectively go through the permitting and regulatory process for that proposed mine. I fear that the court’s faith may be misplaced.

The state of Montana is Arch Coal’s business partner and the Land Board’s lease was just the first step in that business relationship. Frankly, the state’s strong financial interest in seeing that the Otter Creek coal is mined creates a conflict of interest. It’s naïve of the court to assume that the Land Board could say “no” to a per-

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one in my Helena firm lobby for Arch. I want to thank the Independent for quickly removing this comment when it was brought to the editor’s attention. The poster, calling himself “Dan,” posted this comment on other newspaper web sites as well, using a different name, in an apparent attempt to discredit Jesse Laslovich behind a cloak of anonymity. Had “Dan” taken two minutes to check the Secretary of State’s web site, “Dan” would have realized that his information about me was wrong, and thus his theory regarding my donation was wrong. But that would have taken two minutes; apparently far too long for “Dan” to wait. For the record, my contribution to Jesse’s campaign was a personal one, made with my money because I like and respect Jesse, and consider him a personal friend. Not that it’s any of your business...“Dan.” John MacDonald Helena

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Jesus doesn’t save taxes

“I am sure the veterans that this statue is meant to honor would be ashamed and

money spent saving a memorial to veterans. I think that they would want this money spent helping our veterans recently returning from war.” mit for the mine if it ever moves forward. Having leased the coal, the Land Board has started the wheels in motion for bringing money into state coffers. There’s little chance the Land Board would refuse a permit or even put restrictive conditions onto it. Montanans would be left dealing with the impacts when most of the coal will be sold to Asian customers. Experience has taught us that getting state agencies to enforce safeguards can be a big enough challenge. How can we seriously expect the state to also be an effective enforcer of the laws protecting our land and water and air when it is exercising oversight over its own business partner?  Janet McMillan Greenough

Don’t believe “Dan” An anonymous commentator stated in a post that appeared in the online version of the Missoula Independent on Feb. 23 that I am a lobbyist for Arch Coal. I am not, nor have I ever been, nor does any-

I have lived in the state of Montana for 42 years and have been luckier than most. I have never found myself between jobs. I have worked in many occupations, including home health care, nurse’s aid work, aerobics instruction, ranch work, dog grooming, auto detailing, food service, bartending, snow plowing, janitor work and contract driving for the U.S. Postal Service. I have held this contract driving job for the USPS for the past 12 years. I have never had to accept any government handouts such as farm subsidies, food stamps, or any program Rep. Denny Rehberg labels as welfare. I have been paying approximately 35 cents on the dollar in taxes. I have been following stories in the newspapers about Rehberg’s attempt to save the Jesus statue on the ski hill. I would appreciate any information Rehberg could give me regarding how much the plane rides to Washington, the lawyers and the man hours spent saving this statue has cost me, a Montana tax payer, so far. I am sure the veterans that this statue is meant to honor would be ashamed and embarrassed about the amount of money spent saving a memorial to veterans. I think that they would want this money spent helping our veterans recently returning from war. Rehberg is running for political office on a platform that includes the desire to keep big government out of our daily lives, while simultaneously hard at work to allow Homeland Security the right to trample every environmental law created in this state 100 miles south of the Canadian border. I am not sure whether he is trying to save this memorial for political or religious reasons, but common sense tells me he is wasting my money as a tax payer. Tonya Marshall Polson

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Gov. Brian Schweitzer appoints Missoula’s Pat Williams, a former nine-term congressman, to the state Board of Regents, which oversees the university system. Schweitzer also appoints Jeffrey Kraus, of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. They replace Stephen Barrett and Clayton Christian.

• Thursday, February 23 Postmaster General Patrick Donahue announces that the U.S. Postal Service’s mail processing center in Missoula will remain open. “Our goal now is to keep pressuring” the Postal Service “to keep open as many of its processing centers and post offices as possible in the months ahead,” says Sen. Jon Tester.

• Friday, February 24 In another blow to Montana’s campaign finance laws, U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell, in Helena, strikes down a state ban on false statements in election materials. But Lovell upholds, for now, the state’s limits on campaign donations. The rulings follow lawsuits filed by the conservative group American Tradition Partnership.

• Saturday, February 25 A wolf tours Kalispell. It’s spotted near the Kalispell R e g i o n a l M e d i c a l C e n t e r, F l a t h e a d C o u n t y Fairgrounds and Kalispell Middle School before loping out of town, according to the Daily Inter Lake. The wolf wears a radio collar but wildlife officials aren’t able to determine where it came from.

• Sunday, February 26 University of Montana football player Brian Maus, 20, is arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after rolling his pickup in the South Hills and nearly hitting a house. Maus, who allegedly refuses a breath test and gives police a fake ID, also faces an obstruction of justice charge, among others.

• Monday, February 27 Ronan’s Paul Silas Amyotte, 19, appears in Missoula County Justice Court after he allegedly, late on Saturday night, drives his car across the Van Buren Street footbridge and then west down the Kim Williams trail, where he hits a pedestrian. Amyotte is charged with criminal endangerment and negligent vehicular assault.

• Tuesday, February 28 In Sidney, Michael Spell, 22, and Lester Van Waters Jr., 47, the two suspects in the abduction and presumed killing of 47-year-old Sidney school teacher Sherry Arnold, are arraigned in state court. They plead not guilty.

Aerial silking performer Bethany Stanbery practices her art high on the ribbons during a recent session at Freestone Climbing Gym. A trained dancer and silking instructor, Stanbery wraps the fabric around her feet, legs and arms, using resistance to perform tricks such as climbing and dropping.

Environment Where there’s smoke... Russia is on fire. Farmlands, forests and rural hamlets are all feeling the combined heat of drought conditions, negligent burning and shifting government policy. Moscow suffered such poor air quality in the summer of 2010 that medical authorities claimed a few hours’ walk around the city was equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes. Last week, a delegation representing several non-governmental Russian agencies stopped by the U.S. Forest Service’s Aerial Fire Depot and Smokejumper Center in Missoula. They were escorted by Sheila Slump, a USFS spokeswoman from D.C., and Audrey Wood, a program associate with the San Francisco nonprofit Pacific Environment. They were here to pose questions on how to calm the blaze back home. “What these guys were looking for was more how to work with the community, how to engage the community in protecting themselves from fires and how to really educate the community about fire safety,” Slump says. The USFS has a long history of aiding Russia in matters of firefighting policy and practices, from

smokejumper exchange programs to research projects on black carbon in the Arctic. The agency’s Brad Kinder says that over the years, he’s had Russian representatives inquire about how the U.S. prioritizes wildfire fighting in hopes of improving wildfire management in vast forested areas like the Russian Far East. Many of Russia’s woes are tied to a 2007 decision to decentralize the country’s forest management and firefighting responsibilities, effectively laying off 70,000 forest wardens. Some fires are now under the jurisdiction of private logging operations, others of small fire brigades run of organizations such as those whose delegates visited Missoula. According to a 2010 United Nations report by German forest researcher Johann Goldammer, Russia’s ability to ensure sustainable forest management “has dramatically weakened” under the new Forest Code. Scientists like Goldammer now fear that unchecked fires in Russia could rapidly accelerate global warming and, in some regions, release radioactive particles leftover from nuclear accidents. The Russians that the USFS and Pacific Environment have partnered with often talk about the lack of jurisdictional clarity in firefighting,

Kinder says, especially when it comes to agricultural burns. Some regions have gone so far as to ban slash fires, but it seems to Kinder that the rules are often ignored in the wake of the new policy. Who deals with the subsequent blaze is a question often tangled in red tape. “I think that’s kind of the niche our partners are trying to fill,” he says. Alex Sakariassen

Megaloads Chapter’s end? The Idaho Department of Transportation caused a flurry of excitement for activists in Moscow, Idaho early Tuesday, Feb. 28. The agency said the shipping company Mammeot would be transporting three of the last megaloads that night. The alert changed later that afternoon, stating it would be just one. Has the megaload saga finally come to a close? Both announcements proved a false start. Due to bad weather, the loads were put on hold, as they had been repeatedly throughout February. But with Imperial Oil paying a monthly storage fee at the Port of Lewiston, expectations are high that the loads will move north soon, to Alberta’s tar sands.

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When they do, Helen Yost of Wild Idaho Rising Tide says the opposition will be ready to give them a fitting send-off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping for some major civil disobedience, which of course I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really disclose the particulars of,â&#x20AC;? Yost says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the point where the citizens want our message to be heard more widely. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like a national audience, since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing this so long.â&#x20AC;? Snowstorms aside, the megaloads have been hard-up for a win over the past year. Most recently, Judge Ray Dayton ruled Feb. 17 that the Montana Department of Transportation had violated environmental policy in approving Imperialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kearl Module Transportation Project. The environmental review process is back at square one. Idahoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s megaload protesters have been particularly adept at getting under Imperial Oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skin since starting up last July. In only three days last August, 10 of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members were arrested. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of citizen opposition Yost laments not seeing elsewhere along the megaloadsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new interstate route. Yost says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torn about seeing the last loads roll through Moscow. Having the shipments in their backyard gave her group a platform from which to protest tar sands development. Yost fears people will lose sight of the bigger picture as the first chapter in the megaload story closes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In terms of fighting the tar sands, it could be trouble,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid, just from the dynamics Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen over the last year, that people [in Idaho] will forget about the tar sands altogether.â&#x20AC;? Alex Sakariassen

Marijuana Nothing to oversee here Missoula Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Initiative 2, which recommended that law enforcement make adult marijuana crimes their lowest priority, never got much respect. Fifty-five percent of voters supported the measure in 2006. Soon after, county officials decided voters didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand the implications of their vote and changed the law so that it only applied to misdemeanor crimes, not felonies. The Missoula County Marijuana Oversight Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual reports found that marijuana offenses actually increased following the lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passage. That was because Missoula police ignored it; it was a county, not city, directive. And then the 2011 Montana Legislature made I-2 moot. Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg helped draft House Bill 391, which prohibited local initiatives from establishing priority of

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enforcement of state law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad policy,â&#x20AC;? Van Valkenburg said during the legislative session. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People at the local level should not be deciding how state laws are enforced.â&#x20AC;? Now that the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer bound to enforce I-2, the Marijuana Oversight Committee is dissolving. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners wrote a letter to committee members last month saying that â&#x20AC;&#x153;significant changes in the landscape of laws related to marijuana negate the efficacy of the initiative and the committee.â&#x20AC;? John Masterson, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chaired the committee since its inception and is also the director of Montana NORML, is discouraged but realistic. With the new law and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;explicit non-compliance assert-

ed by every relevant local law enforcement official,â&#x20AC;? he recently wrote in a note to fellow committee members, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we have good reason to call it a day and save the county the expense and hassle of administering the back-office details associated with the existence of the committee.â&#x20AC;? Before the committee dissolves, Masterson wants to publish one more report on the number of marijuana incidents in the city and county in 2011. In it, he hopes the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight members will contribute a statement reflecting on the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. Masterson, for one, is going to â&#x20AC;&#x153;give some advice to members of the community who had optimism about the impact that I-2 might have in terms of establishing a more sane and just policy with regards to responsible adult marijuana use. That optimism has been dashed, and so I think a question that many voters will be asking is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, hell, that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. What can we do?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? One answer, he says, is to support Constitutional Initiative 110, which would decriminalize marijuana in Montana altogether. Matthew Frank

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Engstrom fires back On Feb. 28, University of Montana President Royce Engstrom fired back against claims that UM bungled its response to two recent sexual assault allegations and, in doing so, gave the alleged assailant a chance to flee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are understandably angry that this perpetrator escaped,â&#x20AC;? Engstrom said during a student forum on campus Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m angry that he escaped. But he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t escape because the university sat on information about sexual assault for a week.â&#x20AC;? During the past two months, UM has been made aware of 10 allegations of sexual assault involving UM students dating back to the fall of 2010. The most recent allegations stem from one male studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavior during two separate incidents that took place in the early morning hours of Feb. 10. That afternoon, a woman reported to UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Public Safety that a male student had forced her into a car. Engstrom said the woman told campus police that the man gave her alcohol and drugs. Campus police characterized the incident as alcohol related, not as a sexual assault. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The female did not report a sexual assault. And to this day the incident has not been characterized as a sexual assault,â&#x20AC;? Engstrom said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Campus police, in consultation with the City Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, that day determined the crime to be providing alcohol to a person under 21.â&#x20AC;? Engstrom said that UM only became aware of sexual assault allegations lodged against the same male student Feb. 17. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when a second alleged victim told UM Dean of Students Charles Couture that the aggressor forced her to drink alcohol and then raped her. That rape allegedly occurred hours after the first woman said she was abducted and forced to drink alcohol. Despite recent reporting to the contrary, Engstrom said there was no delay between the time UM first learned of the sexual assault Feb. 17 and when administrators emailed a safety advisory to the campus community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The day that the sexual assault was reported, our dean of students took action,â&#x20AC;? he said. After learning of the allegations Feb. 17, the Missoula Police Department began monitoring the alleged assailant, Engstrom said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But with no criminal charges filed by the victim, the perpetrator was not taken into custodyâ&#x20AC;ŚThe perpetrator subsequently fled and left the country.â&#x20AC;? Jessica Mayrer

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The crowd inside the Wilma Feb. 23 was surprisingly small, given the nature of the discussion at hand. The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival had just wrapped a screening of Cafeteria Man, which chronicles Tony Geraciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fight to revolutionize nutrition in Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public school system. Geraci himself took the stage to talk about classroom farms and local produce. Roughly 50 people stuck around. The next morning, hundreds of students from the Missoula County Public Schools filled the Wilmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seats for a second screening of Cafeteria Man. When Geraci stepped to the mic, the buzz of adolescent murmurs turned to raucous cheers. One student asked about rooftop gardens. Another said he felt powerless to change the food system. The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director, Richard Chisolm, knew the answer: Do what the students in Cafeteria Man did, he said, and make the school board eat from your trays. Geraci knew how to sow the seeds of change, too: Be reckless, he said. Be rebellious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want a better school system, make a better school system,â&#x20AC;? Geraci told the youthful masses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the boss.â&#x20AC;? Again, cheers. Since stepping down as food service director for the Baltimore public schools, Geraciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken to the road slamming pre-plated lunches and plugging fresh, locally grown alternatives. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently overseeing the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest school system merger, in Memphis, and making sure nutrition doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suffer as a result of growth. Ed Christensen, MCPSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant food and nutrition adviser, says Geraciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolution isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as simple as going to the nearest farmer for carrots. The cost restrictions alone are daunting. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way MCPS can afford Montana ground beef at $5 a pound, Christensen says, when the district has under $3 million a year for its entire food services operation. Missoula doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the value-added processing facility necessary to adequately prepare local fare either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just turn a switch and everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of pieces that have to be in play.â&#x20AC;? Still, MCPS has already made strides in local food, Christensen says. About 90 percent of MCPSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baked goods are made with flour from Wheat Montana. All its apples come from the Bitterroot Valley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MCPS food service is going to be seen as one of the pioneers in local foods,â&#x20AC;? he vows, â&#x20AC;&#x153;at least in the state of Montana.â&#x20AC;?

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Paper trails Local cartographers make new wilderness maps by Matthew Frank

Robertson and Hagen-Dillon, who is 25, pull up the Rattlesnake map-in-progress on their computer. It’s an intricate web of data sets—elevation, vegetation, ownership, shaded relief and contours. “We find that a lot of people really like the shaded relief in addition to the contour lines, because you can sort of absorb all of the knowledge about the terrain without having to study it,” Robertson says. The information comes from different agencies; boundary lines from the U.S. Forest Service, hydrological data from the U.S. Geological Survey. They overlay it with the GPS data they collected. “The big thing that we do is print trail mileages,” Robertson says. For example,

what Robertson and Hagen-Dillon are doing is “pretty spectacular...It’s the first map that has been GPS ground-truthed of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, so it’s super-accurate.” Robertson is on his third pair of boots since they started mapping; Hagen-Dillon is on her fourth. They average about 15 miles a day. The two met five years ago, while working for a nonprofit that was mapping the spread of invasive species in the Greater Yellowstone area. Hagen-Dillon remembers thinking, “It’d be so fun to make our own maps instead of collecting data.” They figured they could combine their cartography expertise and love of the backcountry into a business, especially since many maps of western Montana wilderness areas hadn’t been updated in years. Not everyone believes in Cairn Cartographics’ mission. Cass Chinske, one of the local conservationists who in the ’70s pushed for the Rattlesnake’s wilderness designation, says such technology doesn’t belong in the backcountry. “Personally, I think Photo by Chad Harder that going out with Mapmakers Amelia Hagen-Dillon and Jamie Robertson in their home office in the lower GPS [devices] and Rattlesnake Valley mapping everything, Complex and 200 in the 61,000-acre you can see that when walking trail No. getting it precise, misses the whole point of Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and 534, it’s exactly 1.5 miles from the junction wilderness,” he says. “You go out there and of trail No. 516, on the Stuart Peak Ridge, to meet the area on its own terms. You don’t Wilderness. try to conquer it, because you can’t.” On a recent afternoon, Robertson, a trail No. 329, toward Worden Lake. They hope to release the Rattlesnake lanky, blond and bearded 27-year-old GIS In any case, Robertson and Hagenwhiz who works half the year in the map in a digital format for GPS devices in Dillon are planning to head back to the University of Montana’s IT department, late 2012. wilderness this summer, though they’re Cairn Cartographics’ map of the not sure which one. Perhaps the 1.3 milpoints to an old Rattlesnake map taped to their office wall. “This trail coming down north half of the Bob Marshall Wilderness lion-acre Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, out of Porcupine Creek, it’s close to a mile will also hit local stores in April. It com- 74,000-acre Mission Mountain Wilderness off,” he says. There are a number of such plements its map of the south half—the o r 2 8 , 0 0 0 - a c r e We l c o m e C r e e k discrepancies—“way more than we thought company’s first—released a year ago. For Wilderness. That’s to be decided later. For for an area that’s this close to a population that, Robertson and Hagen-Dillon, and now, they’re hard at work in their tiny Robertson’s brother, Thomas, hiked home-office putting the finishing touches center like Missoula.” Their new waterproof, tear-resistant about 800 miles during the summer of on their new maps. Like their first Bob map of the Rattlesnake, due out in April, 2010. They used the web-based fundrais- Marshall Wilderness map, they’ll be will correct them, applying modern global- ing platform Kickstarter to collect the sold at the Trail Head, Rocky positioning technology to Missoula’s $5,000 they needed to print the first run Mountain Map Gallery, Bob Ward & Sons, rugged backyard wilderness, which was set of 2,500 maps. REI, and Cairn Cartographics’ website, aside by Congress in 1980. It improves Keagan Zoellner, director of the Bob www.cairncarto.com. The Rattlesnake upon the official Forest Service map of the Marshall Wilderness Foundation, which and Bob Marshall Wilderness maps will area, last updated in 1995. And it will coordinated food drops in 2010 so the cost $11.95 and $14.95, respectively. include all of the non-Forest Service trails cartographers could hike longer disbetween the Rattlesnake and Missoula. mfrank@missoulanews.com tances and minimize backtracking, says Jamie Robertson’s and Amelia HagenDillon’s world expands and contracts with the seasons. In the summer, they’re out hiking hundreds of miles of western Montana’s sprawling backcountry, charting trails with GPS devices. In the winter, those landscapes are shrunken onto a computer screen in their cramped and cluttered lower Rattlesnake Valley apartment, where their GPS data is merged with topographical information to make new, more accurate wilderness maps. Last year, the duo, who make up Cairn Cartographics, logged about 600 miles on foot between July and November—400 miles around the northern half of the 1.5million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness

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Taking the broad view CSKT launches comprehensive climate-change study by Jessica Mayrer

For generations, Salish and Pend d’ Orielle people have taught their children about the great Ice Age that helped shape western Montana. Traditional creation stories say Coyote lived then. He prepared the land for the people and left landmarks—the mountains, rivers and lakes—so those born here would remember his deeds. Traditional indigenous teachings reflect environmental shifts that geologists say occurred thousands of years ago. For instance, the Mission Valley was once home to glaciers some 2,500 feet thick. Missoula

Forestry Department is launching a groundbreaking pilot project to evaluate the future impacts of a climate in transition, aided by the U.S. Forest Service and Britain’s University of Leeds.. “How is that change going to affect...cultural-use plants over a short period of time, and water and animal species?” Durglo asks. Temperatures are rising. Fire seasons are lengthening on the Flathead Reservation. Summer is arriving earlier and autumn later, with rainfall taking the place of snow. And, as with many other parts of

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Old Sun Glacier, on Mount Merritt, at Glacier National Park. The glacier, like others in the area, is receding.

would not exist if warming temperatures hadn’t caused an icy dam to thaw 10,000 years ago. When the dam released, the contents of the mighty Glacial Lake Missoula rushed out over the surrounding lands. Sediments and rocks from the flood sculpted the landscape for miles around. “The personal perspective is that climate does change,” says James Durglo, who oversees the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’s Forestry Department. “Going back to the... tribal coyote stories, there’s a discussion about the receding of the glaciers and things like that, so the tribes’ presence on the land base speaks to climate change.” To better understand what warming temperatures mean to the future of forestry, water management and wildlife on the Flathead Reservation, the CSKT

the Rocky Mountains, pine beetles, which thrive in warm temperatures, are tearing through forests on the Flathead Reservation. The decline of the white-bark pine is particularly troubling for CSKT wildlife biologist Janene Lichtenberg. “That’s going to affect the wildlife that depends on those trees and the food,” she says. Lichtenberg’s worked for the tribes for 10 years. She says among the most alarming trends she’s noticed in that time is the drying of wetlands in the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge marks one of the largest pothole areas west of the continental divide and provides vital nesting habitat for waterfowl including mallards, northern shovelers and gadwalls. Montana experienced an extended draught between 1999 and 2006. During those years, the wetlands nearly went dry, she says. “We

were doing brood counts, year after year. You’re seeing fewer and fewer pairs and fewer and fewer pairs of offspring.” A series of wet springs have since brought the local water table up. But Lichtenberg says she still worries about the long-term effects of a changing climate. “It makes you really wonder what that means for waterfowl, and certainly, the other animals and plants.” The CSKT pilot project was prompted by a 2009 decision from the Secretary of the Interior to establish the federal government’s first-ever comprehensive strategy to address climate change on tribal lands. As part of the project, CSKT will interview non-native reservation inhabitants, and tribal elders, including ranchers and farmers. The project is unique because those independent historical and cultural perspectives will be incorporated into future planning efforts. “It makes an impact on our management, keeping the elders there,” says the C SKT Forestr y Department’s Roian Matt. “We get to share what we know about the forests scientifically. And they get to share what they know culturally, who we are as Indians.” Research social scientist Alan Watson from the Rocky Mountain Research Station is consulting with the tribes on the project. Watson, who’s worked to reconcile ideas about wilderness and ecosystems with environmental and political realities across the globe, says scientists and communities are increasingly seeing the value of incorporating social science with planning efforts. But it’s still unusual for personal and cultural perspectives to be included in climate change adaptation efforts. “We’re breaking new ground,” Watson says. “It’s more common to do a quantitative survey...kind of thing, and assume you know what the possible answers are.” The project also stands out because the tribes are using specialized interactive software developed for the CSKT at the University of Leeds. The software will enable the tribes to gather and compile a comprehensive report about how interview subjects feel about perceived changes in their physical environments. CSKT intends to publish the report. “There’s a lot of social and cultural and historical meaning to that landscape,” Watson says. “We’re trying to think, ‘Okay, healthy ecosystems, we think we know what we need to do. Well, wait a minute. How does what we think we need to do form a biophysical perspective? How does it fit and interact with these cultural meanings that people have and expectations for how we manage that land?’” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Montana vs. the Machine Court rulings ding democracy—for now The U.S. Supreme Court handed Montanans some very bad news last week by overturning two recent rulings by Montana’s Supreme Court. First, the high court ruled in favor of out-of-state megacorporation Pennsylvania Power and Light, saying the corporation could not be charged rent on riverbeds occupied by their hydroelectric dams. The Court followed up that corporate kowtowing with another ruling that will allow, for the first time in a century, corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in so-called “independent expenditures” to influence state and local political races. The stage is now set for Montana vs. the Machine–which is just another way of describing a fight by the people against the corporatocracy which rules our media, courts and politics with an iron fist. To understand the PPL case, one has to go back in Montana history to the tragic decision by the Montana Legislature to deregulate utilities, in the late 1990s. Aided and abetted by a Republican-dominated legislature and Republican Gov. Marc Racicot, the Montana Power Company brought in a massive deregulation bill late in the ’97 session. MPC, the largest and oldest utility in the state, was a vertically integrated corporation that owned the sources of its gas and electric power as well as the distribution lines with which the power was delivered to consumers. The state allowed MPC to sell those vital utilities to consumers with the caveat that the company could charge consumers for virtually all of its building, operation and maintenance costs, but was restricted to a reasonable profit on those operations. The company was solid and its stocks were owned by thousands of Montanans who considered MPC “our” utility and believed, naively as it turned out, that the company’s future was long and bright. Moreover, thanks to that regulatory structure, Montanans enjoyed the sixthlowest electricity costs in the nation and the lowest in the region. Despite there being no problem to solve, MPC rolled out a vision of how Montanans could enjoy even cheaper rates by allowing utilities to purchase power on the open market, because competition would drive rates down. To the Republicans, “competition” and “free market” are foundational ideological beliefs and, despite the fact that maybe a tiny handful of legislators could even explain or understand the implications of the bill, it was passed and sent to

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Racicot, who happily signed it into law. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, MPC’s real motives were revealed as the company announced it would be selling off its generation assets—primarily the hydroelectric dams that provided the cheap electricity—to raise capital to transform itself into a telecommunications company boastfully named Touch America. Shortly thereafter, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) bought the dams and reasonable power rates came to an end. Montanans now pay the highest electricity prices in the region.

If there’s a silver lining to the black clouds the U.S. Supreme Court has sent to Montana, it’s that the stay of Montana’s political spending law is temporary. Ironically, the Montana Power Company and its successor corporation also came to an end, albeit ingloriously. Both companies collapsed, pensions were lost and their stocks became worthless. Some might call it poetic justice for their legislative perfidy. A few years afterward, Montana’s Land Board decided that, since PPL’s dams were occupying riverbeds to which the state claimed ownership, it was time to start charging them rent like everyone else who uses state lands. PPL challenged the move, but the Montana Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state, so PPL appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which, in keeping with its overriding allegiance to corporations, ruled primarily in their favor last week that the lands occupied by the dams were not “navigable” waterways. The implications of that ruling, much like the implications of utility deregulation, will play out in the future. In its second decision last week, the same U.S. Supreme Court followed up its highly controversial Citizens United rul-

ing, in which the court magically gave corporations the same rights as real people and equated corporate political spending with free speech, and struck down Montana’s century-old Corrupt Practices Act. The Montana Supreme Court had ruled that the state’s Corrupt Practices Act, which was implemented a century ago by citizen initiative to counter rampant corruption by the Anaconda Company, was constitutional and should stand intact. That ruling was applauded by advocates for citizen rights, political integrity and fair and honest elections. But the handwriting was on the wall. Two of Montana’s justices ruled against the state–although with great reservations–saying that the Citizens United decision would ultimately prevail over Montana’s law. Unfortunately, last week’s ruling proved them right. The suspension of Montana’s Corrupt Practices Act, like utility deregulation and the PPL ruling, will have impacts far beyond the courthouse. Many Montanans fear an influx of corporate spending that, in our lightly populated state, will have the ability to buy elections. Even former Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Karla Gray, who was an attorney and lobbyist for Montana Power Company, expressed dismay at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, saying that as little as $60,000, not millions, could sway races–especially those for judges. If there’s a silver lining to the black clouds the U.S. Supreme Court has sent to Montana, it’s that the stay of Montana’s political spending law is temporary. The court ruled that the plaintiff in the case must file a writ and if it doesn’t, the stay is lifted. Should the plaintiffs file, and should the court decide to hear the appeal of the Montana Supreme Court’s ruling, the stay would be in effect until the high court issues a ruling. But make no mistake, a seething undercurrent of discontent with the ascendency of corporate rule is afoot in America. Winter is over in much of the nation and the Occupy Movement and its ancillaries will once again seek to restore some balance between the influence of moneyed corporations and a true democracy that puts humans, not corporations, first. This battle is far from over. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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It’s not all fracking And for some of us, fracking’s really not new by Jonathan Thompson

A widely reprinted Associated Press story recently broke the stunning news that the energy industry doesn’t like “fracking.” They like fracking itself—injecting water, chemicals and sand into wells to break hydrocarbons free of tight rock formations. What they hate is the word: “Fracking” sounds just plain nasty. “It’s Madison Avenue hell,” says Dave McMurdy, CEO of the American Gas Association. Once relegated to use as an expletive in the television series “Battlestar Galactica,” the word “frack” has recently become one of the most common terms tossed around by greens and “fracktivism” their latest cause célèbre. These days, you wouldn’t know we were in the midst of an energy boom. Rather, you’d think we were experiencing a fracking boom. As much as I might like to see the industry flacks squirm, I, too, am worried about this fixation on fracking. When we focus on hydraulic fracturing as the most evil part of energy development, we risk overlooking other, equally malignant impacts of oil and gas production. We risk losing the forest for the tree. Five years ago, the general public hadn’t even heard of hydraulic fracturing. Activists were fighting against the drilling that was industrializing large swaths of the West. Fracking was just one item on a long list of concerns. On a national level, on-theground impacts were largely overlooked by Democratic politicians and environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. Both were touting natural gas as the clean-burning fuel that would bridge the gap between coal and renewables. Then, in the summer of 2008, drillers set their sights on the Marcellus Shale Formation in the East. With the boom now in their backyards, The New York Times, ProPublica and others started paying attention, and the national dialogue shifted significantly over the next year or two. The Sierra Club changed its tone and even started turning down fat donations from Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas

giant. And “fracking”—once industry lingo—became a buzzword for greens and the media. Given the shift in the debate and rhetoric, you would think that fracking was new. Actually, it’s been used commercially since 1949. By the turn of the millennium, industry estimates pegged the number of wells fracked at around 1 million. Nor is there reason to think that fracking has

When we focus on hydraulic fracturing as the most evil part of energy development, we risk overlooking other, equally malignant impacts of oil and gas production. become significantly more harmful since 2008. As early as the 1980s, studies showed that there was a danger of hydraulic fracturing harming groundwater. Gas-patch residents have long suspected that fracking might be causing their faucets to flame. But back then, fracking was seen as just one in a long list of impacts resulting from the messy and violent process of oil and gas development. Long before the Marcellus boom, hundreds of acres of piñon-juniper forests had been scraped bare for drill pads and their associated roads. Drill bits, lubed by chemically enhanced “drilling muds,” pierced thousands of feet into the earth. The stars that were once visible over empty mesas had been blotted out by the glaring lights and

flares that pierced every gas field’s nights. Oil and gas wells produced hundreds of billions of gallons of salty, oily, toxic water that was pumped back into the earth, dumped into streams or poured into wastewater ponds that become deadly traps for unsuspecting birds. Yet to read much of the media coverage of the current drilling booms, you might think that these non-fracking-related impacts had simply gone away, replaced by the harms of fracking alone. Recently, a story in The Christian Science Monitor said that a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that fracking released more methane from a Colorado gas field than previously thought. In fact, the study didn’t mention fracking as the cause—it referred to oil and gas production in general. In the rush to implicate fracking, accuracy has gone out the window and the big picture has been obscured. That’s not to say hydraulic fracturing is benign. On the contrary, the practice must be closely scrutinized and its strange soup of ingredients disclosed. Impartial, methodical studies must determine how and where fracking fluid migrates underground. As for the fracking-focused rhetoric, it may not be all bad. The most extreme form of fracking in history occurred in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when nuclear devices were detonated under western Colorado and northern New Mexico to free up gas and oil. One of the early outspoken opponents to nuclear fracking was a young politician named Dick Lamm. He became Colorado’s governor in 1974, and later credited the outrageousness of the nuclear fracking with jumpstarting the state’s then-fledgling environmental movement. Jonathan Thompson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is currently a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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I’d like it if my chef and the rancher who supplies her with the goods had speed-dated. You know, if they sat across from one another for 10 minutes, chatted about what they made, what they needed and desired. What if they realized that they wanted one another’s business so bad they could taste it? Literally. Turns out that can and does happen thanks to the Western Sustainability Exchange out of Livingston. The group sets up just such a thing for food producers and restauranteurs to meet and discuss products. The exchange brings in folks from all around the state and has them talk up their products face-to-face. This allows the parties to create lasting local and semi-local connections. Not to mention that the producers have been certi-

fied by WSE for sustainability practices, environmental stewardship and humane treatment of animals. For those of us who eat, this is a wonderful thing: the cook knows where the food comes from, the money stays in-state and we have the opportunity to enjoy a wider variety of seasonal menus and better food overall all while maintaining the legacy of Montana agriculture. Western Sustainability Exchange hosts a Montana Farm to Restaurant Connection meeting at the Double Tree Inn on Mon., Mar. 5 from 12:30 PM to 5 PM. The cost is $25 for non-members and $15 for members. For more information or to register go to westernsustainabilityexchange.org.

THURSDAY MARCH 1

TUESDAY MARCH 6

The Diversity Film Series at UM hosts Wal-Mart: The High Price of Low Cost. Personally, I don’t need a movie to tell me that store is gross. UC, Rms. 326 and 327. 6 PM. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsoleck during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin PEace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Peace and Justice Film Series hosts Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story, which follows a shootout that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 between AIM members and the FBI. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

FRIDAY MARCH 2 Community rights activist, educator and all-round rad dude Paul Cienfuegos speaks on the subject: Cities are Exercising Their Rights of SelfGovernance: Will Missoula Be Next? Gallagher Business Building, Rm. 123. 7 PM. Free. The Northern Rockies Rising Tide fights for the northern Rockies, including tackling the megaload issue and so much more. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center back room. 510 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 PM. The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info.

SATURDAY MARCH 3 Activist Paul Cienfuegos holds a two-day workshop titled First Steps in Dismantling Corporate Rule: We the People are More Powerful Than We Dare to Believe. The Barn at Orchard Gardens, 210 N. Grove. Call Brian for more info. and to register at (320) 310-7104.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information call 543-3955. Transition Town Missoula hosts a movie you should ride a bike to, A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash. This film wonders what will happen when we run out of cheap oil. Missoula Public Library, Large Meeting Rm. 6:30 PM. Free. The UM Wilderness Institute brings scholars, writers, scientists and explorers together to share stories of how water shapes our lives, landscapes and politics in the Wild Waters in the West Lecture Series. This week, Chris Pallister, president of Gulf of Alaska Keeper, gives a lecture titled Oceans of Marine Debris: Rescuing Alaska’s Shoreline. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 Take a knee and hear what Tim Tebow has to say during this City Life Fundraiser. Also, watch his YouTube highlight reel from the NFL Combine. He fast. Adams Center. Noon. $100-$30. griztix.com. Celebrate International Women’s Day by watching Miss Representation, which investigates how powerful women are under-valued and used by the media, part of the Diversity Film Series. UC Theatre. 6–9 PM. Free.

If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

THURSDAY MARCH 8

MONDAY MARCH 5

Rural Employment Opportunities and the Bitterroot Job Service host a WECAN event for those seeking employment, receiving financial education information or people looking to become mentors. Bitterroot Job Service. 274 Old Corvallis Rd. 5 PM. Free.

Blue Mountain Clinic, along with the Missoula AIDS Council, offers free, anonymous and bloodfree HIV testing. 610 N. California. 1–4 PM. Free. Call 721-1646. For all those affected by epilepsy come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center. 700 SW Higgins. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.

The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30–6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment. 120 Hickory.

The latest installment in the Peace and Justice Film Series is Your Mommy Kills Animals, which looks at the animal rights movement in the US. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

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

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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police arrested convicted cockfighter Danny Pham, 36, for violating his parole after he showed up at the post office in Lake Worth, Fla., to claim a live rooster delivered through the mail. Pham insisted the bird in the box was “not his chicken” and that he was “picking it up for a friend.” Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies found 89 roosters in cages in Pham’s backyard. (The Palm Beach Post) A gunman entered a London bank and ordered the teller to put 700,000 pounds ($1.1 million) in a bag. Only instead of giving the cashier the bag, the robber held onto it and handed him his gun. He quickly realized his mistake, but before he could grab it back, the teller had time to activate the bank’s security shutters, locking out the suspect and leaving him empty-handed, except for a bank worker’s bicycle, which he stole for his escape. (Britain’s The Telegraph) BETTER THAN BILLBOARDS - The Los Angeles Police Department warned city real estate agents to stop using unmanned aircraft to take aerial photos and videos of homes for sale. Noting the pictures being posted on Realtors’ websites have been taken from several hundred feet off the ground, the same altitude many police helicopters fly at, Sgt. George Gonzales explained the drones pose a potential safety hazard and could violate federal airspace regulations. (Los Angeles Times) The new FAA Reauthorization Act orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop rules for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015. Once the agency clears their use, the commercial drone market in the United States could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It forecasts that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020. The FAA has already licensed hundreds of drones to police and other government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, and to a handful of research institutions. (The Washington Times) CURRENT EVENTS - A helium-filled balloon, probably a Valentine’s gift, knocked out power to 15,099 Southern California Edison customers. Edison official David Song said metallic balloons often cause power outages by shorting out lines and transformers, but in this case it shut down an entire substation in Fontana. Song said balloons cause the most outages around Valentine’s Day and June school graduations. (Associated Press) LIBERTARIAN HEALTH CARE - Police said Hubert Lee Credit, 39, stole an ambulance that responded to an emergency call in Tampa, Fla. “I got beat up by four guys,” Credit explained after officers stopped him. “I saw the ambulance, and I was going to drive myself to the hospital.” Instead, police charged Credit and had ambulance personnel drive him for treatment for a head wound. (Tampa Bay Times) MISSING THE POINT - Five pharmaceutical companies that make the children’s leukemia drug methotrexate said they’ve slowed or stopped manufacturing the drug because a critical nationwide shortage is causing high demand. (ABC News) At least 37 people were killed in South Sudan during a shoot-out at a peace conference aimed at ending violence. Deputy Defense Minister Majak D’Agoot explained the gunfight in Mayendit began after “a problem occurred” between police attending the conference from Unity state and police attending from neighboring Warab state. “Each side thought they were attacked” by the other and returned fire, D’Agoot said. (BBC News) LIKE A CANDLE IN THE WIND - A woman who lit a candle at her home outside Manchester, England, to honor songstress Whitney Houston wound up setting the house on fire. Fire official Rick Taylor said the woman apparently failed to snuff the candle when she went to bed. The flame ignited a curtain, starting a blaze that gutted the living room. (Manchester Evening News) HOW RIGHTSIZING WORKS - Concessions International announced it was laying off 530 servers, bartenders, kitchen managers and other workers at its restaurants at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The announcement was followed by another that the airport is adding concessions, including several restaurants operated by Concessions International, that will result in some 1,600 new jobs. “We’re hoping that some of the people being laid off will capture some of those 1,600 jobs,” Deborah Lum, executive director of the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency, said. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW - Conceding that it has no chance of passing, Arizona Rep. Katie Hobbs introduced a bill that would require advertisers who retouch photos to run a disclaimer alerting consumers: “Postproduction techniques were used to alter the appearance in this advertisement. When using this product, similar results may not be achieved.” Hobbs said she hopes to bring attention to “body-image issues, especially with young girls.” (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic) AMMO UPGRADES - U.S. weapons experts are developing a self-guiding bullet that can steer itself to its target. Using an optic sensor to identify the target and tiny fins to correct its course, the 4-inch bullet, developed by a subsidiary of defense contractor Lockheed Martin, is designed to be accurate at distances of at least a mile and a quarter. “We can make corrections 30 times per second,” researcher Red Jones said. Calling the bullet “a revolution for ground forces” that “may help cut down on civilian casualties in future conflicts,” Britain’s Royal United Services Institute think tank worries nevertheless about its being marketed to the public, especially after the researchers issued a press release identifying potential customers as “the military, law enforcement and recreational shooters.” (BBC News) U.S. and German researchers have come up with a new gun and bullets that don’t have to hit their target to kill, just come close. Prototypes have been tested by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Intended to negate the advantage of cover, the 25mm bullets have a small computer that monitors their flight path. A computer in the XM25 rifle programs each round before it’s fired. When the bullet nears the target, it explodes, sending shrapnel that strikes anyone in the vicinity, even those behind cover. The gun costs around $35,000, and bullets cost several hundred dollars each. They’re made by hand, so the cost could lower to around $25 once production is automated. (The Economist) NEWS OF WARMAGEDDON - This winter’s weather has been so mild in North America that Winnipeg, which has enjoyed its third-mildest January in more than a century, was forced to truck in 200 loads of faux snow for its annual snow-sculpting competition. Festival du Voyageur official Emili Bellefleur said she knows of only one other year that the 43-year-old festival had to buy artificial snow. (Reuters)

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ummer, 2008: Tom Maclay stands on a ridge above 6,000 feet, looking over the Bitterroot Valley. It’s the high point of his land, a nearly 3,000-acre ranch that rises steeply into timber and meets the edge of national forest. The housing market just fell off a cliff. The high-end resort market in the West is tumbling. A few months before, Tamarack Resort, in north Idaho, filed for bankruptcy protection. But Maclay, who’s already cut ski runs through the ranch’s treed hills for his proposed Bitterroot Resort, is optimistic—perhaps foolishly so. This is a defining characteristic. Maclay is in his early 50s and fit. His boyish hair, thick and straight, is beginning to turn gray. His planned resort is well positioned, he maintains. He’s only borrowed about $19 million against the ranch’s value. He hasn’t yet tapped investors for the roughly $200 million he says he needs to build ski lifts and infrastructure and a resort village. Without

the kind of debt load that sunk Tamarack, and having not built much yet that could plummet in value, Maclay says he can weather the recession. “It’s very good to be standing outside of that,” he says. He’s content to wait for the market to bounce back. He’s sure it will. Nearby is Jim Gill, the well-paid manager Maclay hired a few years before to help him develop the resort. Gill’s a 30-year veteran of the ski industry, having held top posts at Breckenridge, in Colorado, and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, in Wyoming. “You try to set yourself up for when things start picking back up again,” Gill explains. Yet, even if things do pick up soon, Maclay and anyone else paying attention have reason to doubt his grand vision for a four-season resort, with the greatest vertical descent in North America, a golf course and 2,700 houses. The Forest Service has rejected his attempts to access public land between his ranch and

Lolo Peak. Now his proposal, which originally asked for more than 11,000 acres of public land, has been scaled back to 3,000. And, though few know it, Maclay is having trouble paying his bills. He’s quietly selling off small chunks of his land. But Maclay insists the Bitterroot Resort will be built. “It can’t not work out,” he says.

DOWNHILL RACER Over the next three years, Maclay’s problems snowballed. Several contractors placed liens on his land. He let Gill go, unable to pay his $11,000-a-month salary. He halted his snowcat-skiing operation. He sold more land. The resort market continued its downhill run. The Yellowstone Club, the private playground for the mega-rich, and the ski resort Moonlight Basin, both near Big Sky, filed for bankruptcy protection, their failures calling into question

the use of real estate to support high-end resorts in the West. And Maclay missed payments on his $19 million loan, most of which MLIC Asset Holdings, part of the insurance giant MetLife, gave him in 2005, near the height of the housing boom. The collateral: the entire Maclay ranch. In October 2009, MLIC began foreclosure. With interest, Maclay now owed more than $23 million. On Wednesday, Feb. 22 of this year, a dreary day that couldn’t decide between rain and snow, a crowd congregated inside the entrance of the Missoula County Courthouse. If it hadn’t been so gray, you could have seen Maclay’s white ski runs on the flanks of Lolo Peak through the courthouse’s large arched window. A sheriff ’s deputy stood at the bottom of the courthouse steps and auctioned off Maclay’s land, a public shaming Maclay chose not to attend. A man bid $1 million. “Going once,” the deputy said. “Going twice.”

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Tom Maclay has a year to save the ranch that’s been in his family since the 1870s.

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The Forest Service has rejected Maclay’s attempts to develop a ski resort on the public land between his ranch and Lolo Peak.

Then another man leaning against the stairwell railing bid $22.5 million. “Sold,” said the deputy. The second man, the winner, was a Billings attorney representing MLIC. Maclay’s land wasn’t gone yet, however, not quite. The auction started the clock. Maclay now has one year to pay back the loan and save the ranch, which has been in his family for five generations, since well before Montana became a state. He says he’s optimistic.

the peak altitude of 9,075 feet, would reveal the Missoula and Bitter Root valleys, through a 12 or 13-mile climb to the crest of Mount Lolo, offering one of the most attractive scenic roads in the West, in the belief of forest officials.” The road wasn’t built. Lolo Peak continued to tempt development. In the 1960s, forest officials saw the mountain’s potential for skiing. The district ranger

enlisted forester Roger Lund to help study the feasibility. Lund drove Jeep trails up onto the Forest Service land above the Maclay ranch, roaming around Carlton Ridge and in the Carlton Creek and Mill Creek drainages, evaluating grades, snow depths and possible sites for ski lifts. He used aerial photos and a stereoscope to lay out a potential ski development. The idea, he says, was for the district to prepare itself should a developer come forward. “The apparent potential of Lolo Peak as a winter sports center is so great that it can properly be classified as a national resource,” Lund wrote in a Forest Service memo in 1966, when Tom Maclay was just a boy. “Full development of this resource is in the best interest of the American public and should be a recognized goal of the Forest Service. Any development allowed on the area should be directed toward the ultimate full development of the resource.” No developers came forward, however, and Lund’s study was stashed on a Forest Service shelf. Meanwhile, national forest management philosophy evolved. In 1970, Congress enacted the National Environmental Policy Act, a reflection of the country’s growing environmental awareness. The act required all federal agencies to prepare assessments of the environmental impacts of proposed projects. 1976 brought the National Forest Management Act, a systematic approach to resource management that expanded public involvement and limited agency discretion. Increasingly, the highest and best use of forest land was to leave it alone. In 1987, 920 acres of alpine larch forest above Maclay’s land became the Carlton Ridge Research Natural Area. The Forest Service designated the RNA to provide “non-manipulative research, obser-

vation and study of undisturbed ecosystems” for perpetuity. In 1988, the concept of a resort on Lolo Peak was put on a Missoula County ballot. It was approved by 63 percent of Missoula voters. In 1990, a private feasibility study concluded that a resort, accessed from Highway 12 to the north of Lolo Peak with a base area below 5,900 feet, lacked “adequate natural snow to be competitive as a destination ski resort of national significance.” All the while, the Maclays kept ranching. “My family lived here, and that’s how we made our living, clear through ’til we sold our cattle in 2001,” Bruce says. Tom, the second of Bruce and Mary Maclay’s three children, didn’t see a future in ranching. “He could see the ski possibilities and decided that’s the way he wanted to go,” Bruce says. Other Maclays had considered that the ranch could be part of a ski resort, but “not to the point where they acted on it,” he says. Tom began discussing a possible ski resort with the Forest Service in 1999. In 2000, he, along with his ex-wife and his parents, took out a $2.25 million mortgage loan from MLIC. In 2003, Tom began cutting ski runs up to the Forest Service boundary. In 2004, the Forest Service told him that his plan to access public lands was incompatible with the Lolo and Bitterroot national forest plans. Still, in 2005, Maclay publicly announced his proposal and asked the Forest Service for access to more than 11,000 acres. His application didn’t make it past the agency’s first screening. Later that year, MLIC loaned Tom and his parents another $16.55 million. In 2006, the Forest Service sued Tom for cutting about 400 trees on public land, including within the Carlton Ridge Research Natural Area. The sides settled and Tom paid a $20,000 fine. In 2008, the

Forest Service rejected Maclay’s scaleddown proposal. In 2009, MLIC decided it wanted its money back. In some ways, the wonder is that Tom got even this far. Roger Lund, the forester, who’s now 82 and lives in Paradise, Mont., says that in the 1960s, the Forest Service “felt that the national forest was a good place for recreation, and didn’t really think [development] was a conflict of uses. Today, they feel that that’s taking away land and tying it up in private management to the detriment of people who just want to look at it and walk around on it.”

THE CONSPIRACY On a recent morning, about a week before the sheriff ’s sale, Tom Maclay rolls out an old map on a table in his home. It’s the ski resort map drawn by Lund, dated November 1966. It details sites for ski lifts, including a gondola, hotels and lodges. “They had a pretty good understanding of what it took,” Maclay says. To him, the fact that the Forest Service supported the idea of a ski resort on Lolo Peak a half-century ago appears to prove that he’s getting screwed now. Maclay lives in a 5,565 square-foot Douglas fir log home on the hillside overlooking the Bitterroot Valley, fit for the pages of glossy Western real estate magazines. Maclay paid for it with the first of the two MLIC loans. He offered public tours of the home in 2006, billing it as an example of the kind of local craftsmanship that would characterize the Bitterroot Resort’s residences. Six years later, it’s still the only home at the end of a winding dirt road, near McClain Creek and in the shadow of empty ski runs. On the way here, about 40 elk were spotted grazing in the edge of the timber.

RANCH TO RESORT McClain Creek, which flows east out of the Bitterroot Mountains and across the Maclay ranch, is named for T.A. McClain, Tom Maclay’s great-great-grandfather, who settled in the lower Bitterroot Valley in the 1870s. The first Maclay to arrive there was D.R. Maclay, Tom’s greatgrandfather, in 1883. D.R. was a cattle rancher. He bought his land. That’s an important distinction for Bruce Maclay, Tom’s father; he doesn’t want anyone thinking the family was handed the ranch. Tom’s grandparents settled on the ranch after getting married in 1923, Bruce says. Bruce and his sister were raised on it. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Roosevelt’s New Deal bolstered Montana’s economy with capital and job-creation programs, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps. On March 26, 1935, the Missoula Sentinel reported that the CCC planned to build a road to Lolo Peak, then known as Mount Lolo: “This road, ascending from 3,620 feet to

A Missoula County sheriff’s deputy auctions off the Maclay ranch Feb. 22. The lender Maclay owes placed the winning bid.

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Maclay’s never been media-friendly, but today he’s parading through local news outlets. He wants to share his version of the story, of how a man who inherited one of the most beautiful ranches around might find himself homeless in a year. Sitting at the table, reading glasses resting on the edge of his nose, Maclay reads from a notepad, delivering calculated, opaque quotes. He reads Lund’s memo about the Lolo Peak area being a “national resource.” He notes the 1988 ballot results. He claims that the area has been among the top three sites in the Forest Service’s inventory of potential ski areas. He says the agency “brilliantly” modeled the site in Lund’s day and that the north-facing fall lines are “wonderful.” “It just so happens that this ranch holds all the keys,” he says, “including a four-lane highway corridor, ranch water rights, base-lands for development—all the pieces were here.” So why has the Forest Service repeatedly said no? Maclay alleges a conspiracy.

He says he’s spent the last year following the threads of a “complex web” of coordinated misconduct within the Forest Service dating back to the ’60s. It involves the building of a Forest Service road that triggered a landslide that damaged his property, a protracted court battle, a threat to condemn and devalue his land and, most egregiously, he says, conflicts of interest among agency staffers with incentives to see his proposal fail. He can’t prove it, but he’s trying to through the Freedom of Information Act. He’s been stymied so far, he says, partly because the stack of documents he seeks would cost, he was told, about $200,000 to produce. “There’s probably a file this thick somewhere that explains a lot,” he says. In any case, he’s convinced that what he’s uncovered shows that he’s been stiffed, and as a result, his resort proposal has been whittled down to a point where it’s no longer attractive to investors. “I’ve burned up our family’s ranch equity thinking I was in a fair process,” he says.

Maclay now hopes to develop a private resort on his land. “We certainly remain optimistic to move forward and obtain investment,” he says.

Many doubt that a ski hill on the Maclay ranch, which abuts national forest land at about 6,000 feet, would get enough snow to be viable.

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In his Missoula office, Paul Matter, the Missoula District Ranger, essentially shrugs. “I think from the perspective of somebody who was around in the ’50s and ’60s and had this idea that Lolo Peak was a good place for a ski area—well, things evolved and changed and obviously we’re not in the same time and place,” he says. Maclay and the Forest Service have exchanged more than 100 letters over the years. Some of them are strewn on Matter’s desk. He finds the rejection letters the agency sent Maclay in 2004, 2005, and 2008. That Maclay’s proposals— including the one from 2008 that asked for access to 3,000 acres for gladed skiing, Nordic skiing, guided touring and mountain biking, none of which would require ski lifts on public land—haven’t jibed with forest plans is “huge,” Matter says. “Those are insurmountable problems.” Maclay’s early proposals ran into trouble largely because he proposed ski runs and a lift in the Carlton Ridge Research Natural Area. The scaled-back proposal in 2008 was rejected because it would have affected lynx habitat and big game winter range and wasn’t consistent with soil, water and visual quality standards. And public sentiment had turned decidedly against the resort: In 2007, when the Lolo and Bitterroot national forests were taking comments on their revised management plans, more than half of the roughly 2,000 letters received were specific to the management of lands around Lolo Peak, and about 80 percent of those were in opposition to a resort, according to a Sierra Club analysis.

“I don’t know if it’s possible or not to have a major resort fit the plans,” Matter says, “but the proposals he came forward with did not.”

TICK...TICK...TICK Maclay is moving on. He has to. He has less than a year to turn the Maclay family ranch into cash. “There’s always a Plan B,” he says. “The train is leaving the station on the public model.” Instead, “Why not just have a private club?” He envisions an exclusive community where only residents can access the slopes, something akin to, though less extravagant than, the Yellowstone Club. Or maybe just a modest public resort. Either way, the development would be based only on the existing ski runs. “There are plenty of people who see a shorter return on a private model than a pubic model—and a lower up-front investment,” he says. “That can be easier to do…It’s a simpler, faster model.” Faster being the key word. “We certainly remain optimistic to move forward and obtain investment,” he says. Can he secure enough to pay off his existing debt and finance the development? He says the ranch is worth “multiples” of what he owes, but he doesn’t put a number on it. MLIC put a number on it—$22.5 million. That’s about $8,000 an acre. Bill Zader, a real estate agent with an office just

below the Maclay ranch, guesses that the ranch land is worth between $12,000 and $14,000 an acre, or at least $33.6 million. Maclay has his supporters. Dick King, the former director of the Missoula Area Economic Development Corporation, says some members of the business community, “who think this is really a good idea, especially now with the economic changes that we’ve experienced,” have recently gotten together in hopes of salvaging the resort and its potential economic benefits before Maclay’s clock runs out. Five years ago, the MAEDC and the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce commissioned a study, by Portland, Ore.-based economic consultants ECONorthwest, that compared the economic impacts of a Bitterroot Resort with access to skiing on public land versus one without. It predicted that in the first decade, the “destination” resort would create about 4,600 jobs and generate more than $450 million in economic activity in Missoula and Ravalli counties, while the smaller resort would generate about 800 jobs and $90 million. That was before the recession. Meanwhile, with the door nearly closed on developing Lolo Peak, Friends of Lolo Peak is working to slam it shut. The group, which formed in 2004 to fight Maclay’s proposal, is lobbying to add the Lolo Peak and Carlton Ridge areas to the adjacent Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. “We’re looking to put in the last piece of the puzzle up there,” says Friends of Lolo Peak member Steve Seninger.

The Maclay ranch is one of the last remaining swaths of intact ranch land in the lower Bitterroot. Maclay says he can give directions to the ranch at night by telling people to “drive out of Missoula until it gets dark, because there’s this two-by-three mile black hole that’s surrounded by development.” It’s going to be developed, too. The question is how and by whom—Maclay or MLIC, or whomever MLIC might sell it to. The company won’t say what its plans might be should it take ownership in a year. Maclay’s original proposal called for a dense resort village. Now the ranch seems more likely to become another hillside dotted with five-acre ranchettes. “One of the things that really seems significant to me,” says King, “is that a well-planned resort with supporting infrastructure—water and sewer, etc.—has a far less harmful impact on the environment than the other alternative for development, which we tend to call sprawl.” Allan Foss, a long-time neighbor of the Maclay family, who attended the sheriff ’s sale, says he fears that a subdivided Maclay ranch will just add to the “unsightliness” of much of the Bitterroot. Years ago, when Maclay first proposed the resort, Foss was on “both sides of the fence,” he says. He wasn’t convinced that enough snow falls on the hillside for a viable ski resort. But, “being as I own property right next door, even though I didn’t honestly believe in what he was doing, I kept the properties because I thought, ‘Well, possibly, if the thing

works out, it could be something that would help my own economy.’” Foss says he tried to keep an open mind, but as time went on, he saw Maclay make too many mistakes—contractors who went unpaid, development plans he didn’t like. He wrangled with Maclay over water rights and access to Forest Service roads. Foss believes all the goodwill the Maclay family created over years is gone, “basically because of one man.” The scars, he says, are on the mountain.

“It turned out to be a huge fiasco,” Foss says. “And the thing is, the repercussions of this are going to be in people’s minds for a long time. I’ve had this property for 46 years and I’ve lived on it a good number of those years. I’m familiar with the family, I love the ranch. I’ve always just thought it was the most beautiful place there was. And even in my own mind, it’s a big black cloud now.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

In 1966, Forest Service staffer Roger Lund wrote that Lolo Peak’s skiing potential made it “a national resource.”

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State of the chicken FLASHINTHEPAN The age-old debate over which came first seems close to being resolved in favor of the chicken. After years of hens being treated as little more than eggdispensers, concern is rising for the well-being of the layers themselves. Meanwhile, the practice of personal flock-keeping is on the rise. Across the country, and in many parts of the world, chicken-first approaches are supplanting the simple quest to create the cheapest eggs possible. In the industrial egg factories where most of America’s eggs are laid, the newly introduced Egg Products Inspection Act would, if passed, make life easier. The bill grew from a compromise between United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States. It would mandate replacing the nation’s 280 million chicken-sized battery cages, as they’re called, with group cages equipped with amenities like dust baths and perches, while banning some of the cruelest practices associated with egg farming. While bonds may be loosening for the jailed birds on life’s lowest perches, the ranks of the privileged few are growing. Chicken society’s one-percenters, the personal flocks of subsistence and hobby chicken farmers, have reached a size that actually resembles a percentage point. And now, finally, the scattered tribes of backyard flocksters have a bible to call their own: The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery, with a forward by his colleague, the outspoken chicken farmer Joel Salatin. The exact, or even approximate, number of flocksters (Ussery’s term) in America is not known. “I’ve looked for some government census type info for years, but apparently backyard poultry enthusiasts fly under their radar,” Backyard Poultry editor Elaine Belanger told me. For what it’s worth, she offered, the magazine’s circulation has quadrupled to 80,000 in the last four years. A representative from Murray McMurray Hatchery, the go-to chick supplier for many hobbyists and small farmers, told me via email they ship 1.7 million baby chicks per year. “Seventy to 80 percent of those would be egg-laying,” said the rep, who didn’t know his company’s market share. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock is oriented toward an ideal integration of flock and homestead, to whatever degree context allows—be it a two-hen Brooklyn roost or Ussery’s spread in the boondocks of Virginia.

The essence of chicken farming is working with what you’ve got, and Ussery makes the point gracefully, dropping practical knowledge on every page. Whether you feed your girls purchased mix, homegrown grain, collected acorns, or crème brulée, the eggs will grossly surpass any store-bought version. And Ussery has a lot to teach about accessible ways to improve your birds’ nutrition. I may not need to know how to grow amaranth or other chicken feeds, but Ussery’s information on soaking and sprouting grains, especially in winter to provide extra sustenance when foraging is slow, got my wheels turning. Ussery’s discussion of proper scalding technique helped explain why my last plucking attempt was a

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disaster. And I didn’t know that those plucked feathers, being a great source of protein, can be tossed back in the coop as feed (I’ve been using the feathers as a garden fertilizer, which also works, since protein equals nitrogen). And if you’re one of those flocksters who toasts and grinds your cracked eggshells before feeding them back to the chickens (to replenish their calcium), Ussery says you’re wasting time. “Just crush coarsely by hand and toss them out.” The Small-Scale Poultry Flock also provides valuable insight into how the other 99 percent lives, which will help you understand how much the Egg Products Inspection Act will do for the egg slaves. The book includes, for example, a discussion of the production-boosting practice of forced molting, which the new legislation would ban. “The birds are starved for a period ranging from five to 21 days, either by complete withholding of food or sometimes the feeding of nutritionally deficient feeds—water may be withheld for briefer periods as well—together with light manipulation and feeding of drugs, hormones, and metals such as

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dietary aluminum and zinc.” It’s common for hen body weight to drop by 25 to 35 percent, he explains, as all the trauma of winter is packed into a few days in order to reset the laying cycle. If passed, the bill would mandate that all egg cartons be labeled as “cage-free,” “free-range,” “enhanced cages,” or “caged.” The “caged” option would be eliminated over an 18-year phase-in period. This would be the first instance of production practices being raised to the status of ingredients— information you have a legal right to know. Not surprisingly, other livestock producers are calling fowl on the poultry legislation. Kristina Butts, director of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said in a public comment, “currently there’s no production practices in federal statute and we want to keep it that way.” The reason United Egg Producers agreed to help draft this bill is that they were losing, state by state, in referendums on the issue. The terms differed with each loss, threatening to make interstate egg commerce way too complicated. UEP didn’t want to deal with 50 different state mandates. But many on the chicken-rights side of the compromise lament that the new legislation is little more than lipstick on the pig of industrial egg farming, and that 18 years is a long time to wait for full fruition. If the compromise fails, the battle returns to the states, where it favors the chickens. Humane Society spokesman Josh Balk told me last July that while the deal doesn’t raise the quality-of-life bar as high as he and others would like, similar laws recently passed in Europe have encouraged producers to exceed baseline conditions. “There’s a thriving cagefree market, even though the new EU laws don’t require cage-free housing systems,” he said. “More than half the eggs in the U.K. are from cage-free hens.” While both cage size and backyard poultry enthusiasm are on the rise, chicken society remains far from perfect. Those at the top are a minority, and a middle class is practically nonexistent. But like a Ronald Reagan economic fantasy, the working-class chickens are doing better, and the elite class is growing. This is good for the hens whose ovulations put breakfast on the table. And it’s good for egg eaters, because as any flockster will attest, when the chicken comes first, good eggs will follow.

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the pattied, charbroiled and made to order. We have over 18 mouthwatering specialty burgers to choose from and there’s always a Burger Deal of the Day. Check out our selection of Far Out Phillies made with Certified Angus top sirloin-tossed with our own housemade sauces. Even the burps taste good! Open Monday thru Saturday 11am to 8pm. Call ahead or order to-go 549-2194. Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 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. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm SunWed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ 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. We deliver and we cater! Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder • 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken, 75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless.

Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Brooks and Browns Trivia Night is back. $7 Bayern Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday from 7-10pm. $50 Bar Tab to winning team. Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf-stuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Everyone loves our SUNDAY BINGO NIGHT! Sundays 6-9 pm at Brooks and Browns. Same happy Hour specials ($5 pulled pork sliders, ? order wings, ? nachos; $6 Bud Lite pitchers) Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

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HAPPIESTHOUR Pub Trivia Who you’re playing What you’re doing: with: Ideally, a carefully Missoula has fallen head drafted band of friends with over drunken heels with liberal arts degrees and pub trivia over the past few unhealthy obsessions with years. Scores of teams canceled Fox sitcoms. A welldescend on local bars weekrounded team should ly to test the limits of their include the music nerd, the useless knowledge. What Photo by Alex Sakariassen wannabe sportscaster, the was the first combat submageography geek and the rine to sink an enemy warship? How many teeth does the average human movie nut. Picture rounds can be tricky; if somehave? How does George Costanza’s fiancée die one can tell the difference between Zoe on Seinfeld? Pub trivia is like the SAT, only with Deschanel and Katy Perry, it may mean the difmore pop culture questions and more booze. ference between a free growler of beer and an Throw in a music round—usually a mishmash of empty wallet. Be warned, there’s an art to teamsemi-obscure ’80s tunes—and you can see why name selection. Inappropriate wordplays and cracks about celebrities are strongly encouraged. there’s a quiz nearly every night of the week. What you’re drinking: Tuesday night trivia at Sean Kelly’s is sponsored by New Belgium Brewing, meaning Fat Tire pitchers are on special for $7. Flathead Brewing’s five-round quiz every Wednesday features a blind beer test—in other words, every team gets a free sample and guesses which of Flathead’s brews it is. And Thursday, March 1, Missoula’s Trivial Beersuit is celebrating its one-year anniversary at the Lucky Strike Casino: Beers are $2, Crown and Fireball are $3, there’s a $100 grand prize and the first 50 people through the door get a free Jello shot.

How to find it: Tuesday nights, you’ve got a choice between the Lucky Strike Casino and Sean Kelly’s. Wednesday night you’ll find quizzes at Flathead Brewing and the Press Box. Thursday look to Brooks and Browns, the Central or the Lucky Strike for your trivia fix. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

YOUR DOWNTOWN SANDWICHES CONNECTION SOUPS SALADS FOR FAMILY, ESPRESSO S, GOOD FRIEND FREE WIFI AND GOOD FOOD ! CONGRATULATIONS GRIZZLIES ON BRINGING THE BIG SKY CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT BACK TO MISSOULA! 728-8900 • 223 W. BROADWAY • OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Missoula Independent Page 19 March 1 – March 8, 2012

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 Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. $-$$

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Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

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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. $

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The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$

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The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$

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Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. 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

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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! Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm. Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street • 830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive • 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. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook. Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! $

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Arts & Entertainment listings March 1 – March 8, 2012

THURSDAY March nightlife

Oh word, soon-to-be-famous-best-buy-oneof-her-pieces-while-you-can-afford-them artist Courtney Blazon opens her new exhibit called My Street Has Strange Houses at the UC Gallery. This deal is multimedia, two–and three-dimensional and undoubtedly rad. 5–7 PM, with an artist talk at 5:30 PM. Free. Peek at the works of UM’s School of Art students during the MFA Thesis Reception, which features two exhibitions Giving the Ghost, an individual and collaborative works by Will Hutchinson and Nathan Tonning, and Suspension of Disbelief by Yaro Shon Neil. UM Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences Building. 5–7 PM. Free. The Diversity Film Series at UM hosts Wal-Mart: The High Price of Low Cost. Personally, I don’t need a movie to tell me that store is gross. UC, Rms. 326 and 327. 6 PM. Free. Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free. Join the Lost Trail Ski Patrol for Powder Thursday, a fundraiser and a fun time with funky music by Kung Fu Kongress. Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free. Bring your miscellany of talents down the ‘Root for The Roxy’s open mic night. Anything goes: comedy, juggling, music and prescient children rapping about the streets. Hamilton. 120 N. 2nd. 7 PM. $5.

The VonCommon Art Studios hosts a grand opening celebration with works from resident artists Jonathan Marquis, Adelaide Every, Rebecca Swantner and Chase McBride with music by DJ Mermaid and the Mountain Breathers at 127 E. Main St., Ste 316 on Fri., Mar. 2, from 5 PM until 10 PM. Free.

Peace and Justice Film Series hosts Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story, which follows a shootout that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 2, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to the Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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1975 between AIM members and the FBI. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. Meditate in motion during the Dance of Universal Peace. Fragrance free, and by donation. 378 Winkler, Hamilton. 7 PM. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. 7–10 PM. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $ 16 / $ 14 s e n i o r s a n d s t u dents/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free. Dust off the Chacos and get a sitter–Leftover Salmon plays the Wilma Theatre. 8 PM. $21. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s. Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM.

She’s got legs. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance in Concert, an evening of eclectic dance forms with 13 different performances from Wed., Mar. 7 through Sat., Mar 10 at 7:30 PM at the Montana Theater in the UMPARTV Center. Tickets are available at the UMArts Box Office and cost $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under.

Man, I was in Ibiza one time and I can’t tell you a thing about it, but I can tell you that Pulse hosts a Foam Party tonight, with two big daddy meatstraw foam makers. Anything goes. Located inside the Press Box. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Set your hair on fire and no one will notice when Big John Bates is burping out his roots-punk numbers, with the Juveniles at the Dark Horse. 1805 Regent. $7.

Grab ye olde acoustic and learn “Sundown” before you roll into Sean Kelly’s Open Mic night. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursdays to sign-up. 8:30 PM–Midnight.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. The Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Zooey Deschanel is not pretty. She’s beautiful! However, she has nothing to do with punk-tweethrash ukelele act S.L.F.M. who performs at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman. 9:30 PM. Free.

It smells like teen spirit and urinal cakes when Bird’s Mile Home begins their month-long residency at the VFW, with PD Lear and King Elephant. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.

Grab a paddle and your best booty shorts for Whitewater Ramble’s bluegrass extravaganza at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $7/$5 if you bring your Leftover Salmon ticket stub.

If you’re a chickenhawk huntin’ for a chicken check with Athens, Georgia’s psych-country purveyors Futurebirds for possible sightings, with Airstream Safari and Skeeterhawk. Palace. 9 PM. $5.

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Bite an ear and tell him you love him during the Ugly Pony show at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

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from the Permanent Collection, which features over 11,000 seldom seen delights. UM PARTV Center. 4–6 PM. Free. Opposites people, you love ‘em so check out Matthew Suib’s and Nadia Hironaka’s exhibit Black Hole/Whiteout, a collaborative video installation. Montana Museum of Art & Culture in the UM PARTV Center. 4–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Winner: best guest at a First Friday event goes to Families First Children’s Museum where the Cat in the Hat appears alongside the art by the kids from Clark Fork School. 227 W. Front. 5–7 PM. Free. Get down with Bpow, aka Brian Powers, and his landscape and portraiture photography at Computer Central. 136 E. Broadway. 5–7:30 PM. Free. bpowphoto.com. Local smithy Joe Keeton’s exhibit Living Iron brings the metal to the Rising Lion’s gallery with music by 907Britt. 131 E. Main. 5–8 PM. Free. Sorry Disco Stu, Josh Hilzendeger ain’t making disco balls for his exhibition Mosaic Art Mirrors at Taco Del Sol, or is he? 422 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. Alan Chan brings his exhibition New Works to the Dana Gallery. 246 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. The MAM boasts a tootsy fruitsy sweet as pie First Friday featuring Paul Soldner’s wood-fired ceram-

ic vases and the dancing of the Bare Bait Dance troupe at 7 PM. 335 N. Pattee. 5–8 PM. Free. The Monte Dolack Gallery hosts, guess who? Monte Dolack and his surreal retrospective exhibition Mythic Moonrise with music by Dan Dubuque. 139 E. Front. 5–8 PM. Free. For your viewing pleasure, Karen Jorgenson displays her acrylics on canvas at A & E Architects. 222 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. Abstractionist Kelly Loder displays her collected works titled Emotion in Motion at Taco Sano. 115 1/2 S. 4th W. 5–8 PM. Free. Hey parents, do that thing where the wife wears a wig and pretends that she is from out of town while the kids hang out at MISMO Gymnastics Studio and listen to the tunes of The Whizpops! and bounce around on all the goodies. 1900 W. Broadway. 5–8 PM. $20/$10 per additional kid. In partnership with Run Wild Missoula Neil Chaput de Saintonge captures the agony of victory in his exhibit of race finishers titled Photo Finish at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. 216 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. Get low and hit up the Rock Bottom Gallery below the Top Hat and see the works of Rachel Marne Jones. 5–8 PM. Free. See friendly writing at Early Rising; Contemporary Callig-

raphy by Amity Parks. The dedicated artist created all the work before sunrise. The Artists’ Shop. 304 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. Open Aid Council (formerly Missoula AIDS Council) hosts the photography of Carmine Leighton the photos of which feature an array of council employees dressed to thrill, with folk singing by Rhanda Johnson and Bruce Allen. 500 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. Artist Laura Blaker hosts a spring cleaning and open studio event. Help her get right with the man. 126 W. Broadway, Masonic Temple, 2nd Floor, #1. 5–8 PM. Free. Get jacked on Mountain Dew and Nerds before you head to the Brink Gallery’s exhibition Atari Aesthetic, a juried art exhibition of works linked to the Atari 2600 that features wide-ranging artists. 111 W. Front. 5–8 PM. Free. (See Spotlight this issue) Hey freedom rockers, check out Kia Liszak’s exhibition of classic replicated album covers titled Rock, Yarn and Beans. Betty’s Divine. 521 S. Higgins. 5–8 PM. (See Art this issue) No biker gangs here, Billy Jack performs at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free. Well lookey here, a new art studio. Voncommon Art Studios and Exhibitions hosts a grand opening

celebration with resident artists Jonathan Marquis, Adelaide Every, Rebecca Swantner and Chase McBride. Music by Mountain Breathers and DJ Mermaid. 127 E. Main, Ste. 316, 5–10 PM. Free.

The Northern Rockies Rising Tide fights for the northern Rockies, including tackling the megaload issue and so much more. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center back room. 510 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 PM.

Jeff Crosby of Equaleyes performs for the First Friday crowd at the VFW. 5:30–7:30 PM. Free.

So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office.

Go into the Clay Studio for their exhibition Out of the Wilderness, which hosts the work of like 10 UM ceramic grads. 1106 Hawthorne. 5:30–9 PM. Free. More than Big Macs, the 7th Annual Red Shoe Ball for the Missoula Ronald McDonald House with live and silent auctions and libations, no clownin’. Hilton Garden Inn. 3211 Eldora. 6 PM. redshoeball.com. Take a pre-electricity trip back in time to Barb Schumaker’s and Jan Jost’s Classical Guitar Opus II at the N. Valley Public Library. 208 E. Main, Stevi. 6–7:30 PM. Free. Wrap up them babes and haul ‘em down to the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday with Manik Harum Gamelan Orchestra for an evening of kids behaving badly. 6–8 PM. Free. How rad are alpacas? Seriously rad. By proxy that makes Lisa Archer’s felted hats and shawls made from alpaca fibers at Archers Silks in Stevi rad. 213 Main. 6–8 PM. Free. See the ceramic work of Richie Carter in his exhibition Narrative Marks with music by Danny Whitney and The Best Westerns. La Petit Outre, 129 S. 4th W. 6–9 PM. Free. The well-organized and thoughtful fellas of the Discount Quartet are performing for free at (they aren’t the Mark-up Quartet!) Brooks and Browns inside the Holiday Inn Downtown. 6–9 PM. Stevi’s best and brightest illuminate the art world when Stevensville High School AP Art students present their works at River’s Mist Gallery. 317 Main. 6–9 PM. Free. Attention amateur fashion designers, there’s another round of Project Selvedge about to set the MSO fashion scene agog. Fashion show at 6:30 PM. Community rights activist, educator and all-round rad dude Paul Cienfuegos speaks on the subject:Cities are Exercising Their Rights of Self-Governance: Will Missoula Be Next? Gallagher Business Building, Rm. 123. 7 PM. Free.

Hear the tickling of the ivories at the Keyboard Society Concert at the Music Recital Hall. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. You think you’re a tough guy? Jump up and touch you knees to your chest 20 times like the dudes fighting in the Missoula Mayhem MMA bout. Adams Center. 7:30 PM. $38.50 to $18.50. The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info. Our pals at Trail 103.3 host a Local Launch with reggae dudes Chele Bandulu at Monk’s Bar. 8 PM. 225 Ryman. $3. Sell your soul to the devil for tickets to the old-timey American musical Damn Yankees at the University Theatre. 8 PM. $35. griztix.com. It don’t get more relaxing than singer/songwriter John Patrick Williams playing the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat. Jam-a-rama ding-dong, it’s ZooTown G.R.I.T. Down with double alternating sets by Equaleyes and G.R.I.T. at the VFW. Costumes encouraged. 9 PM. $5. Join all the over dancing outlaws at the Hideout south of Hamilton for the music of the Soul City Cowboys. 942 Hub Ln. 9 PM. Free. Fishbowl, fishbowl but just one straw is all you need at Fishbowl Friday: The Communal Rubbing Edition, a night of dubstep, house and bass beats from DJs Mikee Sev, Arahant and Comoseva. The Badlander. 9 PM. Free. $5 Fishbowls, yo! Shot down, wasted, Burnside’s chasing after me and Sho Down’s playing country music at the

Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. This is not a threat: I’ll House You with DJs Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Hotpantz does happen at The Jolly Cork’s. 112 N. Pattee St. (Front St. entrance). 10 PM. Free. Relive glory days when you opened for a legendary hip hop crew in Las Vegas when former Jurassic 5er Chali 2na performs at the Top Hat, with House of Vibe and Ambedext. 10 PM. $15/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

SATURDAY March

Activist Paul Cienfuegos holds a two-day workshop titled First Steps in Dismantling Corporate Rule: We the People are More Powerful Than We Dare to Believe. The Barn at Orchard Gardens, 210 N. Grove. Call Brian for more info. and to register at (320) 310-7104. If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org. Get help with them taxes so we can pay for wars, roads and drones at UM’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. Bring your ID, Social Security cards, W-2 and any other tax docs you may have. Both spouses must be present if you’re filing jointly. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 209. 9 AM–4 PM. Free.

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SPOTLIGHT game on Generation X, the pseudoironic worship of our childhood is at an apex or nadir depending on your opinion of such things. Of course, we have our parents to thank. They’re the ones who bought us Star Wars figurines, Stompers and Transformers. That list alone explains why we continue to revel in our childhood. The brown Subaru Brat Stomper? Rad. The Hoth Battlestation? Totally rad. Starscream? Oh, word. The toys that arrived during our formative years are simply the greatest toys of any generation. But the pinnacle of childhood gimcrack has to be the Atari 2600 game console.

cial, inspiring day of playing Atari with her cousin Justin. “Its graphics were so low-tech, one’s imagination had to piece it all together. I could imagine myself in it,” she says. While they played he told her that the Care Bears live upstairs in the attic. “I was so happy to be alive. I thought, ‘The bears live upstairs and we can do anything.’” Including be the hero in Pitfall.

Andy Kemmis said yes to the exhibition as soon as he heard the word Atari. He immediately sought out his old Atari playmate Lou Ghaddar to see if he happened to have the machine they played on back in 1982 for use in the exhibit. The importance of the Atari is not to be Ghaddar does not disappoint. Kemmis explains, “It’s in its original box, a 1982 receipt from Skaggs Drugstore What: Atari Aesthetic juried art exhibition. taped to it, with all the controllers and everything.” Who: A wide variety of artists working in various mediums, with Juror Jen Erickson. Like many kids, Matt Cameron grew up in one of Where: The Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. those houses that did not have an Atari, nor soda pop. But that When: Fri., Mar. 2 from 5 PM to 8 PM. Prizes awarded didn’t keep him from experiencat 7:30 PM. ing the machine’s magic. “Atari How much: Free and grape soda was paradise at a friend’s home,” he says. He used dye made from grape soda in his understated. Ask the artists participating in the piece. Nostalgia done right. Brink Gallery’s Atari Aesthetic juried art exhibition. –Jason McMackin It reminds participant Courtney Blazon of a spe-

Montana Constitutional Convention. Missoula Public Library. 10:30–Noon. Free.

It ain’t horse pucky; it’s Malarkey playing the Draught Works Brewery. 5:30–7:30 PM. Free.

History is alive and well at the Whitefish Community Library when former Anne Frank classmate Hannie J. Voyles reads Storming the Tulips, which details the horrors of Nazi occupation. 11 AM. Free.

The UM Japanese Student Association hosts the Japan Rising Opportunity Fundraiser Dinner to commemorate the first anniversary of the Tohuku earthquake and tusnami at the First Presbyterian Church. 6 PM. $25/$15 students. For tickets call 243-2226.

The guild that sews together stays together, so join Selvedge Studio at its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike. 509 S. Higgins Ave. 12–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free). Don’t be a doll, make a doll at the ZACC’s gallery inspired event: Doll Making and Storytelling, with Mona Mondava. 235 N. 1st. 3–5 PM. Free. zootownarts.org.

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Things are about to get right a bit rural down at Hamilton’s Roxy Theatre when Dan Freund is joined by The Tennessee Two Piece for an evening of down home tuneage. 7 PM. $5. Careful with that axe Eugene, cuz the 10-piece tribute outfit Pinky and the Floyd are performing some Pink Floyd tunes (Dark Side in its entirety) with aerialists, trippy lights and a conference call with Roger Waters (One of those things is not true.). Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $18.

Impress your associates and gain favor with you grandmother with a trip to the opera down at the Roxy. The Met: Live in HD presents Verdi’s Ernani. Encore presentation. 718 S. Higgins. $20/$18 seniors/$15 students. A bunch of ragtag musicians with who knows what kind of instruments get together on the first Sat. of every month for The Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree, a musical concert with Scatter the Mud from 7–9:30 PM at The Grange Hall, 1436 South 1st St. Call Clem at 961-4949. Bury the leprachauns in the ditch and check out the traditional Irish and Scottish musical stylings of Celtic Knots. Hidden Legend Winery. Sheafman’s Corner. 7–10 PM. Free. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard.

Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office. Contra dance with the best of ‘em at the Flathead Senior Center. Tunes by Birdhop and calling by Kathy Neff. 403 2nd W., Kalispell. Ages 10 and up. Free. For her birthday she wants to see Larry Hirshberg perform at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, trust me. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guarandamnteed to do work tonight, no doubt, during Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. The Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free. You know what? Best band name in town: Country Boogie Boys perform you know what at the Lumberjack Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Rebellion is over. But it hasn’t been crushed. Whiskey Rebellion performs its final show as Whiskey Rebellion. Come to the Union Club to find out the new band name. My vote is for Death By Train. 9 PM. Free. I don’t give a god dang what your computer says, all you suckers better be prepared to rock when Bacon & Egg unleash their latest CD on the masses tonight, with Spirit Hole and Total Combined Weight. Palace. 9 PM. $5. (See noise this issue.) Shot down, wasted, Burnside’s chasing after me and Sho Down’s playing country at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799. Don’t rear-end Mike Pinto when comes to town to play that reggae/ska stuff. Top Hat. 10 PM. $5. Only 15, pick-up truck, out of money, out of luck, it’s Stumbling Free, yeah, from Helena. Monk’s Bar. 10:30 PM. 225 Ryman. $4.

SUNDAY March

Join photog Eileen Rafferty for the Ansel Adams Drop-In Tour at the MAM and get insider info on the best-known photog of all-time. 335 N. Pattee St.

Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others, from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949. Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2–4 PM. occupymissoula.org. Support the Sanders County Art Council at their fundraiser featuring the David Morgenroth’s Piano Jazz. Plains United Methodist Church. 3 PM. $6.

nightlife Listen to some real live writers during the Second Wind Reading Series, where MFA students and teachers share their stories with the world. This week it’s Dana Fitz and Karin Schalm. The Top Hat. 5 PM. Free. Zut alors! The Tournees French Film Festival showsWhite Material with an introduction by professor Michel Valentin. UC Theater. 5 PM. Free. Kick out the Girl Scouts and check out the music of J.A.M.M.’s Jason Lane with guest Tim Anderson. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free. Get your thumbs warmed up for an evening of gaming action at Missoula Bar Fights, a fighting game tournament featuring Super Street Fighter II, SF III and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Feruqi’s, 318 N. Higgins. Registration is at 7 PM. Prizes for podium finishers. $5 per game. Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with the Donna Smith Trio. Free.

MONDAY March

Real simple: eat food, help your community during First Monday at Scotty’s Table where a burger (veggie or real), fries and local brew runs $15 and aids Partners in Home Care. 131 S. Higgins. Those looking for mother-to-mother breast feeding support can find it when the La Leche League meets every first Mon. of the month at 10 AM at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth St. W., and on the third Mon. of the

month at 6 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Children and babies are always welcome. Blue Mountain Clinic, along with the Missoula Open Aid Council, offers free, anonymous and bloodfree HIV testing. 610 N. California. 1–4 PM. Free. Call 721-1646. For all those affected by epilepsy come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center. 700 SW Higgins. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707. If you understand the title of Stephen J. O’brien’s President’s Lecture Series seminar A Moving Landscape of Comparative Genomics in Mammals you are stoked to attend, no doubt. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. 123. 3:10–4:30 PM. Free.

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Hit the Red Bird Wine Bar and chew with your mouth while Cash for Junkers plays during your supper. 7–10 PM. Free. Don’t just express yourself, be expressive at the ZACC’s weekly, one-hour poetry workshop. 235 N. 1st St. 8 PM. Free. Learn if we are closer to a cure for AIDS at Stephen J. O’Brien’s President’s Lecture Series lecture Three Decades of Genomics and AIDS: Tiptoe Towards a Solution. University Theatre. 8 PM. Free.

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It’s okay to be upset during Missoula Area Dubstep (MAD) with the Milkcrate Mechanic and DJs Geeter, M-AD and Def Tesla. The Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR. Open Mic at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. Call Skye on Sunday at 531–4312 to reserve your spot in the line-up or I bet you could roll in and be all, “Dude, I do a perfect Sublime.”

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WWW.UMT.EDU/UC Welcome to the machine. Ten-piece band Pinky and the Floyd pays tribute to the legendary Pink Floyd with a full performance of Dark Side of the Moon and more at the Wilma Theatre on Sat., Mar. 3 at 8 PM. Tickets are $18 and available at Rockin Rudy’s.

Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited. 12–1. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free. Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsoleck during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information call 543-3955.

nightlife Start making sense at the weekly Taking Pounds Off Sensibly Meeting (TOPS) at First Baptist Church in Whitefish. Weigh-in at 5 PM. Meeting at 5:30 PM. For more info., call 862-5214. Aim your sights on the 8 ball when the Palace hosts a weekly 9ball tournament, which is double elimination and starts with sign-up at 6 PM, followed by games at 7. $10 entry fee. You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com The VFW hosts my kind of threeway during a night of Singers,

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Songwriters and Spaghetti, with food provided by the Blue Bison Grill. 245 W. Main St. 6 PM. Free. Y W C A M i s s o u l a , 1 1 3 0 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691. Transition Town Missoula hosts a movie you should ride a bike to, A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash. This film wonders what will happen when we run out of cheap oil. Missoula Public Library, Large Meeting Rm. 6:30 PM. Free. The UM Wilderness Institute brings scholars, writers, scientists and explorers together to share stories of how water shapes our lives, landscapes and politics in the Wild Waters in the West Lecture Series. This week, Chris Pallister, president of Gulf of Alaska Keeper, gives a lecture titled Oceans of Marine Debris: Rescuing Alaska’s Shoreline. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. The Opossum is in town for a night of country classics, if you can afford it. George Jones performs at the University Theatre. $75-$55. 7 PM. griztix.com. So you think you can dance? Come down to the Unity Dance and Drum’s African Dance Class at the Missoula Senior Center and prove it. Or if you don’t think you can dance, learn. 7–8:30 PM. $10 per class or $35 for four.

Take a load off while you get a load of some of the area’s better musicians during the Musician Showcase at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200 S. Pattee St. Free. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office. Clarinetist Christopher Patrick plays the greatest woodwind in the world during the UM School of Music Faculty and Guest Artist Series. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $12/$8 seniors and students. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Who is the biggest selling female music artist off all-time? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5. The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free. Unlock the secret letters of scarlet O’Hara when The Blox perform at the Badlander’s Live and Local Night. Locals Fine Lightning and DJ 007, too. 9 PM. Free. The name says it all: Marty Party plays electronica and dubstep. Top Hat. 10 PM. $12/$10 adv.

WEDNESDAY March

Take a knee and hear what Tim Tebow has to say during this City Life Fundraiser. Also, watch his YouTube highlight reel from the NFL Combine. He fast. Adams C e n t e r. N o o n . $ 10 0 - $ 30 . griztix.com.

nightlife Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip Hop (7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is

necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com Lovers of the environment and the beer head to Green Drinks Missoula to hang out with likeminded folks and casually talk about your world. Flathead Lake Brewing Co., 424 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. Check out The Wild Mare in Corvallis for their First Wednesday Wine Tasting at 6 PM. You can taste some wine, have some appetizers, you know, whatever. This month features wine from Oregon. 283 2nd St. thewildmare.com. Hear the stories of strangers and learn stuff about things and life and all at the live storytelling event Tell Us Something. This edition’s theme is Rites of Passage. 6 PM. Top Hat. 6 PM. Artists of all levels are invited to the MAM’s non-instructed Open Figure Drawing Class. This class gives artists the opportunity to draw from a for-real person. Ages 18 plus (you and the model). 335 N. Pattee St. 6–8 PM. $7/ $5 members.

Celebrate International Women’s Day by watching Miss Representation, which investigates how powerful women are under-valued and used by the media, part of the Diversity Film Series. UC Theatre. 6–9 PM. Free. Archeologist Doug McDonald is the Marty McFly of archeology cuz he’s gotta go back in time during his Montana Natural History Center Evening Lecture Montana Before History. 120 Hickory. 7 PM. $4. Author Mark Sundeen, formerly the Dean of Mean, reads from his latest book The Man Who Quit Money at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. (See Scope this issue.) Hey brightboy, bring your noggin over to Broadway Sports Bar and Grill’s Trivia Night hosted by Dave Linzmeyer. 7–9 PM. Free. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office.

Watch them kids get up and get, get down during the UM Theatre & Dance Program production Dance in Concert, which features 13 eclectic dance performances choreographed or restaged by UM students, faculty and guests. UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20/ $16 seniors and students/$10 12 and under. Solas is Irish for an eclectic variety of Celtic, folk and jazz-inspired song performances. University Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20. Show off you big egg and please your mother at Flathead Lake Brewing Co.’s Pub Trivia Night. 424 N. Higgins. 8 PM. Free. Relive that day in the dorm when your roommate made love in the top bunk while you pretended to sleep when G-Love and Special Sauce do work down at the Wilma. 8:30 PM. $25/$20 adv. Tix at Rockin Rudy’s. Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander during Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Get mixed up and try the gum with the stripes at the Ear Candy Experiment, a night of DJs and live music playing together to make it all happen. Palace. 9 PM. Free. Check out the piano action of Andy Frasco’s blues/jazz/ piano rock with 3 Eared Dog and Javier Ryan. 10 PM. Cover TBA. Pub trivia answer: Madonna with over 300 million units (tee-hee) sold.

THURSDAY March

The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30–6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment. 120 Hickory.

nightlife Rural Employment Opportunities and the Bitterroot Job Service host a WECAN event for those seeking employment, receiving financial education information or people looking to become mentors. Bitterroot Job Service. 274 Old Corvallis Rd. 5 PM. Free.

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hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free. Forget the work day and prep for the weekend with the tunes of Karma and JT Baker at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM.

Bring your miscellany of talents down the ‘Root for the The Roxy’s open mic night. Anything goes: comedy, juggling, music and prescient children rapping about the streets. Hamilton. 120 N. 2nd. 7 PM. $5.

Grab ye olde acoustic and learn “Sundown” before you roll into Sean Kelly’s Open Mic night. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursdays to sign-up. 8:30 PM–Midnight.

The latest installment in the Peace and Justice Film Series is Your Mommy Kills Animals, which looks at the animal rights movement in the United State. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. The Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Sublime with Rome plays Sublime songs even though Brad asked them not to do it, with Everlast. Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $40/$37 adv.

Pitch perfect. The Opossum, George Jones, performs his classic country hits on Tue., Mar. 6 at the University Theatre at 7 PM. Tickets are $53 to $73 and are available at griztix.com.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. 7–10 PM. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton

Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night,

BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 Rock, Yarn, and Beans: Kia Liszak presents a series of classic album covers replicated in traditional kindergarten art forms without sparing any detail. Enjoy 64 Tuna on the Betty's stage! Taro Sharp (bass), 7th grade, Ollie Barrow (guitar), 7th grade and Levi Barrow (drums), 4th grade. Inspired by Green Day, B-52's, and Bon Jovi, but they write almost all their own material. Small rockers who pack a serious punch and put on a great show. KID PUNK not PUNK KIDS. Treats & Wine! 5-8pm www.bettysdivine.com.

Grab your gal pals and motor over to the Silver Slipper’s Ladies Night for Karaoke by Figmo. Do that one about the shack where love is. Be sure you have a ‘Fred’ lined up. 4055 Brooks. 9 PM. Free. Get high on the tunes of Northern Lights when they ultra-countrify the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9 PM. Free. Three lock box rockers The Blox kick out the

SELVEDGE STUDIO 509 S. Higgins, 541-7171 Join us for Project Selvedge. This week's fashion design challenge features menswear! All Fashion Shows start at 6:30pm at Selvedge Studio (509 S Higgins). Admission is $1. Project Selvedge is an amateur fashion design competition (modeled loosely after Project Runway). Each week designers are given a specific challenge and guidelines. They have one week to sew (all supplies are provided by Selvedge), and each Friday at 6:30 we host a live fashion show and judging here at Selvedge. One designer will be eliminated each week until we have a winner!

BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Please join Butterfly Herbs for their March First Friday celebration! The art wall will feature new work by Pete Davis. Reception 5-8 p.m.

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jams at the Pulse inside the Press Box. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Hey pew, what’s that smell? It’s Bird’s Mile Home at the second week of their VFW Residency with The New Hijackers, Cat Heaven and Airstream Safari. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free. Cinch your chinstrap and adjust your lid at Synergy Sessions, a night of glitch hop and electronic stylings with Sydney, Australia’s Mr. Bill and Electrocado, with locals Inevitable Thought and MetaTron. Palace. 9 PM. $7/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20. He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Multi-instrumentalist and all rad bad ass kitty Lynx brings her beat boxing and genre splitting tunes to the Top Hat with DJ Mermaid and Tahj. 10 PM. $10/$8 adv. Live it up, friends. Hook me up with the goods by sending your event info by 5 PM o n F r i . , M a r. 9 t o c a l e n d a r @ m i s soulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

SUSHI HANA DOWNTOWN 403 N. Higgins, 549-7979 Eric Ashcraft presents a series of digital prints made from a mixture of collage and digital manipulation of personal drawings, paintings, and photographs at Sushi Hana on March 2 for First Friday, 5-8pm. Showing through April 5th.

MOUNTAIN HIGH T his week’s pick for weekend outdoor fun is easy-peasy, nice and easy. Edge of the World hosts its annual Sno-Mazing Weekend with plenty of slopeside action up at Montana Snowbowl. Ladies first. Saturday’s Girls on Shred! is a gals only afternoon of buddying up and riding with like-minded ladies. Meet up at the bar patio at noon and rally the mountain until 4 pm. Leave the dudes down the hill at Hooters or let them watch the kids. There is also a slope-style competition as well for riders of all ages and abilities with cash prizes and a chance to win a new board. Sign-up between 9 am and 10:30 am at the

bar. The cost is $10. Sunday boasts the 24th Annual Chicken Gully Banked Slalom. This event is open to anyone with $10 and the desire to mach down the mountain with speed and steez. Register at the bar between 9 am and 10:30 am. The slalom also has cash prizes and schwag out the wazoo. Winter is waning, gear up and finish it in beast mode. Edge of the World’s Sno-Mazing Weekend takes place at Montana Snowbowl on Sat., Mar. 3 and Sun., Mar. 4. thoughout both days. Call 721-7774 or go to edgeoworld.com/zoo for more information.

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THURSDAY MARCH 1 You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students. If you don’t wanna be a pinhead no more take the Pine Needle Basket Making course given by Montana Natural History Center which shows you how to make a basket and explains the purpose of conifers’ needles. Ft. Missoula Native Plant Garden, near the big water tower. 5:30–7:30 PM. $10/$5 members.

FRIDAY MARCH 2 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

SATURDAY MARCH 3 Leave the big city lifestyle back at the casa and join the MT Wilderness Association for an overnight camping trip at Monture Creek near Ovando. Snowshoes + backpacks = fun! Of a sort. Meet at Trixi’s in Ovando at 9:30 AM. Call Casey to sign-up and get the details at 890-4117. Hands down, one of the best events in Western Montana: The Lost Trail Ski Patrol Steak Fry. Fire, music, beer, steaks. ‘Nuff said. Lost Trail Powder Mountain. 4 PM. Free. Douglas Chadwick wildlife biologist and author of The Wolverine Way gives a presentation on that crafty old devil the wolverine. Hamilton City Hall. 223 S. 2nd. 7 PM. free.

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Slideshows, movies and all sorts of artifacts, not to mention fibs, lots of ‘em (you provide those and any other artifacts you’d like to share). 4825 N. Reserve. 5–6:30 PM. Free.

MONDAY MARCH 5 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

TUESDAY MARCH 6 Hunter Education classes for that up and coming bull shooter take place at Lone Rock School. The course is three nights long with a Saturday field course. 1112 Three Mile Ck. Rd. 6–9 PM. Register at fwp.mt.gov.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 What’s better than getting lost? Knowing how to use a GPS to find your way back to the pick-up. Missoula Parks and Rec. teaches you how to run that gadget during its GPS Class. Currents Aquatic Center. 6–8 PM. For ages 11 and up. $8. Call 721-PARK to register.

THURSDAY MARCH 8 Dudes, come get your climb on during Freestone Climbing’s Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

FRIDAY MARCH 9

Grab that hat with the fake dreads and haul your can up to Lookout Pass Ski Area for the Moose Drool Scavenger Hunt and Crazy Costume Contest. Prizes and embarrassed teenaged daughters abound. 11 AM. skilookout.com.

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Celebrate Snowbowl’s 50th Anniversary with skiers of yore and riders of now at Ruby’s Inn.

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Living without Author Mark Sundeen reflects on his nomadic protagonist by Julie Tompkins

The Man Who Quit Money is Mark Sundeen’s fourth book and it is an exquisitely timed one. The turbulence of our economic class system, the tenuous future of our natural environment and the entire history of man’s inhumanity to man, whether for gain, gold or god, provide the perfect shotgun rider to this parable of modern struggle. The lifestyle chosen by the book’s nomadic protagonist, Daniel Suelo, riddles us this: Can we throw over the desire to financially prosper that has been cultivated in us from birth? Sundeen has always been fast friends with the outsiders of the game. Fondness for his native Kalifornia kulture of weirdness has mixed with his writing for years. He is an affable, laidback guy who teases out the gist of a conversation no matter his political or philosophical bent. He follows Suelo into the desert to see if the myth of living without is probable. Dumpstered fried chicken and fundamentalist concepts around the fire lead to larger questions of individuals in a society of individuals—the fearless freaks, the ones who want to be them, the ones who want to save them and the ones who want to work them to death. The Man Who Quit Money is a slim, quick read that belies the weightiness underneath. The very quality that makes us see a “man walking in America” (Suelo’s words) and be simultaneously attracted and repelled is exposed here in beautiful detail. Now, Sundeen spills his guts:

in his family, he comes full-circle to acceptance of his faith. Is Daniel the most exceptional Christian you’ve ever met? Sundeen: One of my favorite of Daniel’s lines is when an angry Christian said to him, “What, you think you can live like Jesus?” Daniel responded, “Well, yeah, don’t you?” Daniel would never claim to be a divine being or a prophet or the messiah. However, he does try to “live according to Jesus’ teaching” about sharing, non-possession, forgiving, and not just helping but actually living among the poor

Indy: You’ve lived in trailer courts surrounded by beauty and intentional poverty surrounded by wealth. Past a certain age, what is it that makes one choose a simple life? Sundeen: I always loved that vision of the Lost Generation living in Paris and being artists, and when I lived in San Francisco in 1991–1993, I realized that the Author Mark Sundeen famous bohemia was not a result merely of urban sophistication, but of economics. In S.F. I was going to have to work full time and marginalized. It raises a good question about who just to pay the rent, and that defeated the whole purpose Jesus was, a question that has been debated for centuries. of being there, to be a writer. So I moved somewhere Those tending secular like to believe he was just a rightwhere I could live for about $150 month rent: Moab, Utah. eous human like the Buddha who walked the earth in Yes, it was beautiful, and in those years it felt like real free- robes and sandals teaching us how to be good. Those tenddom, to only work eight months out of the year and then ing doctrinaire might say his teachings were secondary to spend a lot of time writing. I didn’t appreciate it then, but his divinity: He is the son of God, and it doesn’t really matthe people I met living in school buses and growing their ter how good of a person you try to be in this life, because own food were actually the ones in dissent from hierarchi- if you believe, then you’re going to heaven. The first type cal American life, much more than the ones living in cities, sometimes tells Daniel, “Wow, that’s so great, you’re like working office jobs 50 hours a week to support their “alter- Jesus!” While the second type says: “How dare you think native” writing/art/music hobby. you’re like Jesus!” Indy: Daniel Suelo grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home but has embraced a pantheistic worldview. He’s also gay. Yet not only do you find unconditional love

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Indy: You describe three times in Daniel’s life where he has near-death experiences. You also write very Whitman-like passages about his body returning to the

desert in the sustenance of animals and plants. He’s over 50 and healthy but aging. Did he speak to you about fears of mortality? Sundeen: People ask me, “Yeah, but is he really happy?” and it’s forced me to think hard about how to define happiness. I mean, he’s often in a pretty good mood—does that mean he’s happy? Sometimes he’s lonely and miserable, too. But when I was asking him questions about dying, I realized he was really not afraid of it. He did not express a desire to live beyond this life, either spiritually or through family or through a pile of interestaccruing money. He seems to accept his fate to be eaten by ravens. I find that courage to be rare, which is how I ultimately decided that yes, he is pretty happy. Indy: There’s a part in the book where you describe washing out a plastic baggie because you know you should but you really don’t want to. That resonates with many of us— being responsible is hard. Sundeen: There are dozens of little conveniences that we’ve become accustomed to that, if we look at it soberly, are decadent and irresponsible. Filling the ocean with a Texas-sized swirl of plastic is just one of them. One of the loudest complaints about modern America is that we spend too much time in cars, driving out to box stores to fill up on foreign-made junk, because it saves time and money. But here in Missoula, we actually can choose to do it differently because we have a functioning downtown. From my house I am within walking or biking distance of just about anything I need to buy. The trade-off is that it takes more time and costs more money. So let’s say that in a two hour walking tour of downtown, I spend $100. I could have bought similar stuff on Brooks or Reserve Street for $80, in one hour. In my car trip, I’ve spent a miserable hour in order to Photo by Chad Harder save $20; I’ve given $80 to businesses whose models are unsustainable and make my town a crummier place to live. On my walking trip, I’ve enjoyed my two hours, I’ve run into friends, I’ve listened to someone playing music on the street, I’ve leaned over the river bridge and seen birds in the marsh, I’ve bought food from a local farmer that isn’t available for any price at Wal-Mart. I’m out $20 which means I’m just going to have to survive on less, but that extra $20 is now distributed among my neighbors, whose existence has enabled me to spend two hours that, while neither modern nor convenient, was quite enjoyable. Isn’t money something we use to improve our lives? Mark Sundeen reads from The Man Who Quit Money at Shakespeare & Co. Wed., March 7, at 7 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Mom says to start the day with a healthy breakfast. If you’re lacking the federally mandated allowance of rock ’n’ roll vitamins such as soaring vocals, noodling guitars and choruses extolling the virtues of rocking, then a 13-track serving of Bacon & Egg awaits, piping hot. Excess is a grand thing in rock, but only when in service to the song (Sorry, Yngwie). These are well crafted and surprising: B&E’s vocal sound reminds one of Faith No More’s Mike Patton, with a similar, anything-goes approach. “Prepared to Rock” puts pantywaist wannabes on notice. B&E fly ad astra on Bacon’s cherubic wail, while Egg spitfires talk-singing and Marty

907Britt Middle of the Rainbow self-released

If you love upbeat, breathy folk music and simple lyrics, plus layers of mandolin, banjo and fiddle beefing up an otherwise uncomplicated composition, 907Britt’s sophomore album is for you! Alaskagrown Britt Arnesen (907 is Alaska’s area code) sings with a sweetness that’s most striking when it’s balanced by local bluegrass legend Richie Reinholdt’s

Futurebirds Let’s call Futurebirds’ sound countrified psychedelic indie rock. Showcasing pedal steel, banjo and guitars, this is definitely related to and inspired by country music: The ever-so-slightly-de-tuned strings, the distant plunk of a barroom piano. But layered as it is with lavish reverb, nasal vocals, scratchy chords and four-part harmonies, it sounds more like country’s strange, cool cousin. At times this six-member outfit is reminiscent of Band of Horses, especially on “Via Flamina,” off the EP of the same name. At other times, that comparison fails utterly. “Wild Heart” is a repetitive yet remarkably effec-

Po Po Dope Boy Magick Mad Descent

Po Po makes it six tracks into Dope Boy Magick before delivering an echoing guitar solo constructed around triplet arpeggios. When they finally do it, it’s a nod to the elephant in the room. For all the talk about post-hop and garage and whatever the shrinking genre of rock has divided itself into, and despite the universal insistence on referring

Friedman-approved hot licks. This is much more than a pair of dudes in cucumber-stuffed leather trousers: “World of Mystery” has a hook sharp enough to snag the most peevish rockers, and Bacon’s vocal on “B.C.E.” is meant to spook, and does. “Lord of the Jam,” the bastard son of Fishbone and Rob Halford, marks this basket of tunes as the one that can lead us out of the desert of modern rock. (Jason McMackin) Bacon & Egg perform a CD-release show at the Palace with locals Total Combined Weight and Spirit Hole on Sat., March 3, at 9 PM. $5. deep harmonies. And she plays guitar with gusto. Or maybe it’s guts. Having grown up in Juneau’s folk music scene, I think I know what a young Alaskan folk musician is up against: You need guts and an audience. 907Britt’s audience likes cheery, uptempo, lighthearted folk. “The world can be lewd and crude, but your daughter’s music doesn’t have to be,” her website says. Also, warning, two songs on the album feature animal sounds: a chorus of cats meowing in “Come on Over” and, on “Getting the Paper,” a “woof!” My fave is “Rosemary Fly,” where Reinholdt adds a touch of David Rawlings-esque twang to a tender goodbye. (Keema Waterfield) 907Britt plays a CD-release show at Ten Spoon Winery Sat., March 3, at 6 PM with Richie Reinholdt. Free.

tive tune that soars over a train-rhythm of chords, asking again and again, “Where is reason? Don’t blame it on me, blame it on my wild heart.” It inspires the listener to forgivable brashness and freewheeling impulses. A product of the Southeast’s mini music-mecca, Athens, Ga., this young band has been making quite a name for itself touring with the likes of Widespread Panic and the Drive-by Truckers. They’ve only released one album, Hampton’s Lullaby, and two EPs, so their future remains to be seen. It’s a good start. (Melissa Mylchreest) Futurebirds plays the Palace Thu., March 1, at 9 PM with locals Airstream Safari and Skeeterhawk. $5. to Po Po as the Pakistani duo from Philadelphia, what Dope Boy Magick sounds like most is Jane’s Addiction. First of all, I mean that as praise. Second, it’s the vocals that do it: high and breathy and reverbed out, improving on Perry Farrell by being totally unintelligible. The tracks on Dope Boy Magick are meatier and less organized than anything by Jane’s Addiction, with rawer drums and guitar and less progression. The album is a sound first and songs second, and that sound is immediately compelling; studio psychedelia ironizes the exuberant rhythm section and there are just enough snatches of Aeolian mode to sound eastern without invoking that horrible descriptor “exotic.” If it were arranged into verses and choruses, it would be pop. As it is, Dope Boy Magick sounds like notes for something fantastic. (Dan Brooks)

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Kia Liszak time-travels with rice, beans and LPs by Jason McMackin

Simpler times. We all crave them. Or say we do. Nostalgia was thrust upon Gen-Xers by their Boomer parents, who began to relive the ’60s as soon as it was the ’70s. George Lucas’ 1973 paean to simpler times, American Graffiti, comes to mind. Why must we constantly look forward? Why is a youthful appearance okay but not youthful pursuits? We can’t we keep collecting Star Wars action fig-

McQuilkin of Betty’s Divine helped, too. So began a hectic few weeks of tweezer play. Each piece—there’ll be at least eight in the show—takes around 40 hours to complete. “I almost feel like a teenager working on it at two in the morning and listening to music,” she says. The teenager in her asks, “What’s more epic than album covers?” The adult says, “If it wasn’t album covers I wouldn’t have the patience for it.”

ures? Why can’t a mother of a five-year-old glue beans and rice to the cover of Madonna’s True Blue? She can. Kia Liszak celebrates the heroes of her youth with a collection of iconic images covered in what some might call food. It all started back when albums were important cultural commodities, Liszak says. They “were what I asked for, for my birthday or Christmas. It’s what I always wanted.” She doesn’t own an iPod. She has a smart phone, but it’s still not the same, she says. “Albums are a thing that you have. Now there’s nothing to hold onto. My generation is: you get the album, you put it on, you sit and stare at the cover while you listen to it.” Liszak was inspired by the projects she does at home with her son. She wanted to take that to the next level. An exhibition deadline from Aimee

The process comes down to “figuring out what details need to be there and what details can go,” she says. “Eventually, the album itself gets lost.” This is where beans and insanity meet. She’ll search for a single bean for fifteen minutes. The perfect bean. “It’s like solving a puzzle,” she says. And the rice? It opens up worlds of shading, she says. She’s the crazy bean lady in the bulk section of the Good Food Store whose art has “changed the way I look at pictures and people,” she says. “The whole world is transformed into beans and rice.” Kia Liszak’s exhibition Rock, Yarn, and Beans opens at Betty’s Divine Friday, March 2, at 5 PM, with music by punker children 64 Tuna. 521 S. Higgins Ave. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Au naturale Between laughs, Wanderlust has a point by Molly Laich

Wanderlust marks the second time I’ve seen a fully naked man in a major motion picture this year, and it’s only February. I’m beginning to think this is a trend that’s here to stay. It makes sense in context, sort of: A winemaking nudist/novelist (Joe Lo Truglio) is running toward a straight-laced couple frantically backing up in their car, telling them, no, no, the bed & breakfast/hippie commune they’re looking to stay at for the night is this way! The audience was howling with laughter at the screening I attended, but the moment is filled with warmth and tenderness, which makes it more than just a cheap gag.

(Michaela Watkins), embodies her role as a Real Housewife of Atlanta with increasing incredulity. At one point, she tells Linda, “I read an article that said if I keep smiling, I can trick my mind into believing that I’m happy.” It’s such good writing—and just watch how Marissa lets the horror of her situation barely slip out of the corners of her lips. The couple can’t take Atlanta anymore, and in desperation, they head back for a two-week trial period at the “intentional community,” which for them exists as a respite between the horrors of fast-paced Manhattan life and the bleak reality of the Atlanta suburbs. The

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Wanderlust is the latest comedy from David Wain, the director of Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer. There’s plenty of gross-out humor and crude moments, but really what he’s given us is a sweet story about lifestyle and relationships. All the characters both embody and transcend their stereotypes, which is the key to making the film so hilarious and successful. We begin with Linda and George (Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd) attempting to live the dream in a tiny and overpriced Manhattan apartment. Everyone is drinking triple lattes and living lives of quiet desperation; it’s very modern-day Thoreau. The couple’s rise and fall in New York is the stuff of swift, spot-on social commentary; within minutes, market forces send them packing to Atlanta. On the way to Georgia, the couple pulls off at an organic produce stand that also claims to be a bed & breakfast, and it is here that they encounter the naked wino and so much more hilariousness. They spend a magical night at the commune, banging drums and getting high. The group’s aging hippy founder, Carvin (Alan Alda), tells them that money buys nothing. “You mean metaphorically, right?” George says. He doesn’t quite get hippy life, but it’s growing on him. Their charismatic and somewhat shifty leader, Seth (Justin Theroux), invites them to stay forever, and this plants a seed in their heads. The plan was to stay with George’s brother Rick (Ken Marino, who also co-wrote the script), who has made a generous living selling porta-johns to construction sites. He plays the kind of guy who thinks it’s charming to be a complete douche all the time with perfectly exaggerated accuracy. His wife, Marissa

movie finds a good balance between making fun of hippies and exploring their virtues. Rudd and Aniston are almost the straight men here, although Aniston does have an insane drug trip somewhere in the middle, so, you know, straight-ish. Why do people hate Jennifer Aniston? I think she’s funny and pretty, even if she is too small and her tan makes no sense. Her face has really come a long way since her 1993 film debut in Leprechaun! Paul Rudd is just untouchable. He always seems as though he’s playing himself, and I mean that in a good way. Wanderlust is incredibly funny, but I particularly admired the way it dealt with real-world issues, such as: What does it mean to be happy? How do you balance making money with living an authentic life? And how do you define a marriage? As someone who would genuinely love living at a rural commune in Georgia, I think I missed out on some crucial jokes, like when a horse walks into the couple’s bedroom because hippies don’t believe in doors. What, is that weird? Or when the woman who has recently given birth brings the placenta and umbilical cord still attached to the breakfast table because the couple is waiting for it to fall away naturally. Is this a gross-out moment? After I was born at home aided by midwives, my mother buried my placenta under a pine tree in the backyard and now that tree is 30 feet tall and I have psychic powers, so...I don’t know why everybody was laughing. Wanderlust continues at the Village 6. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise Arts Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK A DANGEROUS METHOD Jung versus Freud, toss in a romantic entanglement and you got yourself a movie. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. Rated R. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, except for Sat., Mar. 3 and Wed., Mar. 7. DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Make Fox News angry and take your kids to this story of young boy’s love of a girl and the grumpy fella that protects the environment. Starring the voices of Taylor Swift and Danny Devito. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 6:45 and 9 pm. 3D: 1, 4, 6:30 and 8:45 pm. Village 6: 7 pm, with 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. 3D: 4 pm, with 10 pm shows on Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex: 3D: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium

Alex Veadov and dozens of uncredited SEALs. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:20 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Mountain: 2, 4:15, 6:50 and 9 pm. THE ARTIST Will talking pictures end silent film star George Valentin’s career? Will he find love with a young dancer? It seems black-and-white to me. Starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Rated PG-13. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly. Stadium 14: 12:15, 2:35, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:35 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 and 9:40 pm, Mon.-Thu. CHRONICLE Three high school boys gain superpowers and

and 9:25 pm, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. 1:35, 6:45 and 9:25 pm, Mon.-Thu. Showboat: 4, 7 and 9 pm. GONE Amanda Seyfried’s sister disappears and Amanda is such an egomaniac that she thinks the serial killer who tried to kidnap her two years ago is the culprit, cuz it’s always about Amanda. Rated PG13. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10 pm. Stadium 14: 4:05 and 9:40, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 4:05 and 9:45 pm, Mon.-Thu. THE GREY Wolves hunt Liam Neeson in Alaska after his plane goes down. Wolves, you just messed up. Rated R. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with shows at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun.

Heigl gets a job at her cousin’s bail bond business and finds herself hunting a cop from her romantic past. Will they or won’t they? Also starring Jason O’Mara. PG-13. Showboat: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 pm. SAFE HOUSE A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. Denzel shows up and stuff gets real. Starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 1, 4, 7 and 9:35 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY A family of four-inch tall people are discovered living in regular-sized people’s house. Worlds collide. Starring the voices of Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Rated G. Carmike 12: 1 and 4 pm. Stadium 14: 12:30, 3:30 and 6 pm, Fri.Sun. 3:40 and 6:40 pm, Mon.-Thu. STAR WARS: EPISODE I 3D Two Jedi Knights uncover a galaxy-wide plot. This time in 3D. Starring Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 3D: 7 and 10 pm. THIS MEANS WAR Two CIA agents battle for Reese Witherspoon’s affections with gadgets galore, will either try writing her a poem? Starring Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:30 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 2, 4, 7 and 9 pm. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35 and 9:55 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:25 pm, Mon.-Thu. TYLER PERRY’S GOOD DEEDS A wealthy businessman learns how the other half lives when he falls for the gorgeous cleaning lady. Starring Tyler Perry and Gabrielle Union. Rated PG-13. 4:15 and 7:15 pm, with shows at 9:45 pm of Fri. and Sat. and 1:15 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun.

“Tomorrow we split the atom.” Project X opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Stadium 14 and Mountain Cinema.

14: 12, 4:30 and 9:15 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1 and 6:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. 3D: 12:30, 2:15, 2:40, 5, 6:45, 7:15 and 9:30 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:30, 3:30, 4, 7, 9 and 9:30 pm, Mon.Thu. Mountain: 2, 4, 7 and 9 pm. PROJECT X What happens when the YouTube generation throws a rager? Same thing that happened before camera phones. Starring Thomas Mann and Oliver Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12: Big D: 1:45, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:50 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30 and 9:50 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and 9:35 pm shows, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 pm.

NOW PLAYING ACT OF VALOR The world’s finest navy, the United States Navy, unleashes Navy SEALs on kidnappers and terrorists. You done messed up again, terrorists. Starring

have a surprising lack of control when it comes to their urges. Starring, Michael B. Jordan and Michael Kelly. PG-13. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with matinees at 9:30 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 8:10 and 10 pm, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. 9:35 pm, Mon.-Thu. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm. THE DESCENDANTS George Clooney takes his daughters on a trip to confront the man his wife has been cheating on him with. Did I mention his wife is on life support? Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm of Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:55, 3:55, 6:55 and 9:25 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:05, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:15 pm, Mon.-Thu. GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Fire in the hole! Johnny Blaze sets his head on fire and does battle with the devil. Starring Nicolas Cage. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 3D: 1, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 pm. Stadium 14: 2:30 pm, Fri.Sun. 4:25 pm, Mon.-Thu. 3D: 12:10, 4:40, 7:10

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HUGO Based on a children’s book no one in this office has ever read, Hugo is the story of a Parisian orphan who lives in the walls of a train station during the 1930s. There is a mystery, too, involving a robot and the boy’s father. Directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 3D: 7:35. Stadium 14: 3D: 1:05 and 7:05 pm. JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND A kid and his mom’s boyfriend search for grandpa on a topsy-turvy island where big things are small and vice versa. Opposites, people love ‘em. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Michael Caine. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 4:45 and 9:45 pm. 3D: 1:45 and 7:15 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 12:05 and 5:05 pm, Fri.-Sun. and 4:25 pm Mon.Thu. 3D: 2:25, 7:25, 9:45, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 7:25 and 9:45 pm, Mon.Thu. ONE FOR THE MONEY A newly unemployed and divorced Katherine

THE VOW Hello V-Day! Rachel McAdams wakes up from a coma with severe memory loss and finds her hunky husband romancing her once again. Starring Channing Tatum. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees Sat. and Sun at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:35 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7 and 9:15 pm. WANDERLUST A couple of busy Manhattan professionals find themselves out of work and living on a rural commune and having sexy, topless good times. Starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston. Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm of Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:25, 2:45, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 and midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 and 9:20 pm, Mon.-Thu. Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Mar. 2. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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Janie appears to be all white at first glance, but a better look will reveal that she actually has some very faint black spots. That's just one interesting thing about this young dog; the other is that she's very sweet and loving.

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Jeffery is full of energy and is really hoping to be adopted into an active family that will keep him busy with walks, hikes, playing, and perhaps even agility training. He loves everyone and is ready for a new home.

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TUX

Tux is a fun-loving Boston Terrier mix. He gets along great with most dogs and is already cratetrained. You can see the worry in his eyes as the days pass by and he is still waiting for a home. He is energetic and adventurous and loves to hang out with people!

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Elliot is just a youngster, but he's already learned that a big smile will go a long way when it comes to making friends. This handsome boy loves to play and would make a great addition to any family. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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ZEUS

Handsome Zeus is quite the character! He always has a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye. Zeus LOVES to play with toys, rearranging them in his kennel to his liking. Zeus is a very large German Shepherd cross who is roughly 7 years old.

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Sweet Eclipse is a young lop rabbit. He is very outgoing. He rushes to the front of his cage for attention as soon as you enter the rabbit room. Eclipse is already neutered so he wouldn't mind sharing his hutch with another bunny friend.

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Helsinki has striking tabby markings and is an easygoing guy. Nothing seems to phase this young adult. He'll add lots of personality and charm to his new home. Helsinki worries that he'll have to wait a long time to be adopted. Can you make his dream of a home come true?

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Celeste could very well become your own piece of heaven. She is a big, beautiful four-year-old who came to us in the Spring of 2011. Being that her name means “heavenly," we can’t think of a better angel for any household, and neither can she!

BOULDER

A boulder is defined as a large, smooth piece of rock detached from its place of origin. Boulder was detached from his place of origin as a kitten during our 2010 kitten season. He is a beautiful 1 1/2-year-old Tuxedo kitty. Equus & Paws, L.L.C.

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The epitome of glamour. This charming green-eyed five-year-old was born to be the star of her own show in her own home. Although she has called AniMeals home since June of 2011, she is not giving up hope that her forever family is coming to get her. 715 Kensington Ste 8

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Serena means calm or serene in Latin. I think that is pretty fitting for me considering I never get too worked up about anything. I just sit back and take life as it comes. If I’ve learned one thing in my five short years it’s that sweating the small stuff just isn’t worth the worry. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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SOME UNENCHANTED My boyfriend lacks romantic ambition. In our two years together, we’ve never gone out to dinner someplace I can wear a dress and heels, and he never brings me flowers or does anything for our anniversary or Valentine’s Day. I’ve suggested he pick out lingerie he’d like to see me in and shown him how to set a romantic mood in our apartment. I’ve told him things like “Nothing makes me happier than fresh flowers, especially lilies,” and tried flat-out asking him why he never brings me flowers. He said, “I was thinking about doing it yesterday, but then I forgot! But now that you’ve asked me, I don’t want to because it will seem like I bought them just because you asked.” When I encourage him to take initiative in planning a night out, he’ll say that he’s worried he’ll choose wrong and that I complain about things I don’t like, so I always end up deciding what we do. I know he loves me (from his other actions); I just want some romance! It’s as important to me as good sex and intimacy. Should I just accept this as his flaw? —Roseless You two have a fairy-tale romance. Unfortunately, it’s the part of the fairy tale where two elves stand around scratching themselves in a mud hut. You aren’t asking for much. It would just be nice if Valentine’s Day felt like something other than a Tuesday and if, on some random Tuesday, he’d stop at the grocery store and pick you up some flowers. Otherwise, even St. Paddy’s Day can be a downer. You’ll see him getting himself a green paper hat and drinking two-for-one green beers—which stands in stark contrast to how he celebrates your anniversary: by getting amnesia. You’ve done everything but hand him a pictorial to-do list complete with store addresses and closing times. So what’s stopping him? Well, maybe because he doesn’t need this flowers and chocolates business, he thinks you shouldn’t, either. And if he starts doing sweet things for you, he’ll have to keep doing them. And we all know how buying flowers and making reservations at a restaurant with white tablecloths is like breaking rocks in a quarry. The problem is, as I wrote in a recent column, women evolved to feel a need for commitment cues from men. They didn’t have cute cards back in the Stone Age, but a thoughtful giftie of fresh roadkill (some wildebeest that got trampled by elephants) probably made some ancestral lady’s heart go pitter-patter. And that’s the point here. Falling in

Ken's Barber Shop love isn’t like falling in a big bottomless hole (one tumble and you’re done). There’s maintenance required. Your boyfriend should care about doing the little things that make you happy. If he doesn’t, maybe instead of going for “long walks on the beach” (planned by you), he should be making short trips out to his car to load up boxes of his stuff. Explain that you need him to do these things so you feel loved, and explain that the only way he can really go wrong is by doing nothing. Even the smallest remembrances count—like scrawling a heart on a Post-it and anchoring it with a chocolate or drawing “You ‘N’ Me Forever” on your dirty car window. You, in turn, need to be sure you show appreciation for whatever effort he does make—even as he’s seductively drinking Champagne out of your scuzzy old bedroom slipper.

ONCE YOU GO LEWIS BLACK... My boyfriend loves making fun of me, although he calls it “just ribbing.” I’m not humorless, just tired of hearing about how badly I drive or how long I take to order food. Yesterday I mispronounced “cumin” while reading a recipe, and he had a field day. What ultimately bugs me is that I’m most often made the brunt of a joke when others are around to witness his hilarity. —Ridiculed Just because a convenient subject for humor presents itself (or you happen to pick it up in your car and take it out to a restaurant) doesn’t mean you should seize the opportunity. If your current relationship were a movie, it would be “Eat Prey, Love.” Good-natured teasing can be a bonding thing, but publicly making fun of somebody sensitive is often an act of aggression. It’s possible that the behaviors your boyfriend “ribs” you about annoy him and his joking is scorn dressed up in clown shoes. Tell him that being the joke butt isn’t working for you and that he either needs to find another source of material or another girlfriend. If he loves you, he’ll take the mature, restrained approach to getting laughs and stand on a chair trying to light his farts on fire.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sister Jessica, a character in Frank Herbert’s Dune books, says, “The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.” I encourage you to use that theory as your operative hypothesis for the foreseeable future. Here are some specific clues about how to proceed: Don’t obsess on your crazy-making dilemma. Instead, concentrate on skillfully doing the pleasurable activities that you do best. Be resolutely faithful to your higher mission and feed your lust for life. Slowly but surely, I think you’ll find that the frustrating impediment will be drained of at least some of its power to lock up your energy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A few years ago, the Hong Kong company Life Enhance sold briefs and boxer shorts that were supposedly designed by a master practitioner of feng shui. On the front of every garment was an image of a dragon, which the Chinese have traditionally regarded as a lucky symbol. To have this powerful charm in contact with your intimate places increased your vital force—or so the sales rap said. By my estimates, Scorpio, you’re not going to need a boost like that in the coming weeks. Without any outside aids whatsoever, your lower furnace will be generating intense beams of magical heat. What are you going to do with all that potent mojo? Please don’t use it on trivial matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are times in your life when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. In my astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter kind of research. If you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: Take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing both the content of what they say and the tone with which they say it. Some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm and insightful. Welcome all the voices in your head into the spotlight of your alert attention. Ask them to step forward and reveal their agendas.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We turn to Dr. Seuss for help in formulating your horoscope this week. He told a story of dining in a restaurant with his uncle, who was served a popover, which is a puffy muffin that’s hollow on the inside. “To eat these things,” said his uncle, “you must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” Drawing a lesson from these wise words, Dr. Seuss concluded, “As you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.” I expect your coming week will be successful, Aquarius, if you apply these principles.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You should be like a rooster, Pisces: dispensing wake-up calls on a regular basis. You should be nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out of their stupor. What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodle-doo!”? It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!” or “Stop making excuses!” Come up with attention-grabbing exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can possibly ignore or feel defensive about. For example: “Let’s leap into the vortex and scramble our trances!”?

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CITY OF MISSOULA COMPETETIVE SEALED PROPOSAL (CSP) TO INSTALL NEW METERS AND APPURTANCES TO EXISTING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN VARIOUS CITY PARKS Project # PR12-03 MC The City of Missoula is requesting proposals to Install New Meters and Appurtances to existing irrigation systems in various parks, City Project No. PR12-03 MC. The City will select one (1) final Respondent to provide labor, equipment and materials necessary to complete the meter conversions as outlined in this request. SCOPE OF PROJECT This project consists of the conversion of approximately 43 irrigation supply sites having either existing flat rate systems, or oversized metered systems. The project scope will be to convert these to appropriately sized metered irrigation supplies. The water utility company will supply the meters and certain fittings and associated elements as further described in the proposal requirements and the selected Respondent (supplier), will supply the necessary valves, fittings, pipe and other such appurtances as may be necessary to complete the installations. The basis of measurement and payment for the contract work will be per specific site as individual lump sum line items as provided in the proposal sheet. DESIGN GUIDELINES & SPECIFICATIONS Most of the sites requiring modification are contained within standard meter pits and the work will take place within them. A small number of the sites do not have meter pits or have identified suspect, or faulty, valves and these sites will require excavation and restoration to complete the installations. Refer to the Proposal Packet for a complete listing of requirements and specifications. A guided tour/inspection of the project sites will be conducted on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Interested respondents are strongly encouraged to attend. Any resulting questions or concerns will be addressed in an addendum which will be emailed beginning Thursday, March 8, 2012 to those respondents having signed for Proposal Packets and provided email addresses. Any Respondents not availing themselves of this tour/inspection will not be provided another opportunity other than to inspect the sites on their own. COMPLIANCE Installations must comply with all applicable Federal, State and Municipal codes, requirements and specifications, including, but not limited to, Mountain Water Company’s requirements and the Montana Public Service Commission. In accordance with MCA 493-207 and Chapter 9.64, Missoula Municipal Code , Nondiscrimination Provision in All Public Contracts and the city of Missoula’s affirmative action plan, the Supplier will ensure that hiring is made on the basis of merit and qualifications and that there will be no discrimination in employment on the basis actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, political ideas, sex, age, marital or familial status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or because of their association with a person or group of people so identified of their actual or perceived except where these criteria are reasonable, bona fide occupational qualifications. The Respondent and any entities doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 399-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. The Supplier is required to have registered with the DLI prior to submitting a proposal on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for out-ofstate Suppliers.) All workers employed by Supplier in performance

of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The Supplier shall utilize the Montana Davis-Bacon Wage Rates for Highway Construction effective to the most recent date posted prior to bidding. Questions concerning the CSP should be directed to: Missoula Parks & Recreation Attn: Alan White, Project Manager 100 Hickory Street Missoula, Montana 59801 406.552.6261 awhite@ci.missoula.mt.us The City of Missoula shall be exempt from any liability for costs incurred by unsuccessful Respondents in preparation of the proposals. PROPOSAL SUBMITTAL AND CONTENT Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 5:00 pm MST, March 13, 2012 and must be addressed as follows: Proposal for City Project # PR 12-03 MC. CSP to Install New Meters in Various City Parks Attn: Marty Rehbein, CMC City Clerk City Clerk’s Office 435 Ryman St Missoula, MT 59802-4297 No proposal may be withdrawn within a period of sixty (60) days after the proposal due date. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procurement and with MCA Ch. 18.4 Part 3 and relevant ARM. Accordingly, the City of Missoula reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate at the sole discretion of the City of Missoula. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, and V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Interested Suppliers are encouraged to sign up for automatic notifications and updates on this and other City projects by visiting www.ci.missoula.mt.us/ bids. Click on the “Bid Notification” button in the upper right hand corner of the page to sign up. The award will be made to qualified Respondent whose proposal is deemed most advantageous to the City, all factors considered. Unsuccessful Respondents will be notified in writing as soon as possible. Full CSP packets are available at the Currents Aquatic Center Front Desk, 600 Cregg, Missoula, MT 59801 and must be picked up in person and signed for to establish a plan holders list for Respondents. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the CSP due date of 5:00 p.m. March 13, 2012. Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one Cemetery mower. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Cemetery mower., Closing, 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 27th, 2012”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking asso-

ciation located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 27th, 2012; Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 5526387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from Montana DNRC to work within the Blackfoot River floodplain. The proposed project is to remove the abandoned railroad bridge piers located near the former Stimson Lumber Company property in Section 22, Township 13N, Range 18W. The full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application #12-20 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., March 23, 2012. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 2584841 for more information. MISSOULA COUNTY FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS The Office of Planning and Grants has received the following applications for Floodplain Development Permits: 1. County Floodplain Permit Application #12-18. An application from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to work within the Clark Fork River floodplain. The project is located at the end of Harper’s Bridge Road in Section 36, Township 14N, Range 21W and includes the construction of a fishing access site and latrine on Tract 2 of COS 6118. 2. City Floodplain Permit Application #12-04. An application from Lamar Outdoor Advertising to work within the Clark Fork River floodplain. The project is located on the top of the riverbank near the intersection of West Broadway and Scott St in Section 21, Township 13N, Range 19W and includes the pouring of a concrete slab to protect an existing billboard. The full applications are available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in these applications may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., March 23, 2012. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

MISSOULA COUNTY The Clinton Rural Fire District is selling a 1988 Western Star type one fire engine and numerous miscellaneous fire appliances and fittings. Any comments should be sent to Clinton Rural Fire, P( Box 237 Clinton, MT 59825 or in person at a board meeting. The next board meeting is March 12th at 7pm at the Clinton fire station. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No 1 Cause No. DV-11-1557 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. ESTATE OF RICHARD HOWARD WILLIAMS, Deceased, DARINDA WILLIAMS, Personal Representative, and DARINDA WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, vs. ROBERT C. SAMUEL, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: Robert C. Samuel. You, the Defendant, are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within (21) twenty one days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought to obtain relief of which is stated in the Complaint, specifically for the purpose of determining ownership in the Irrigation system purchased and used by Richard Williams and Darinda Williams on the Kona ranch Leasehold. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, the 7th day of February, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: Andrew Jenks, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-07-32 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IRVING FRANK SATZER, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to PATRICIA ECKER and JUNE HAIG, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Semansky Law Office, at PO Box 3267, Great Falls, MT 59403 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED 13th day of February, 2012. /s/ Patricia Ecker, Co-Personal Representative /s/ June Haig, Co-Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-29 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM R. BLAIR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary O. Blair, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of her attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 17th day of February, 2012 CROWLEY FLECK PLLP. /s/ Dirk A. Williams, Attorneys for Personal Representative. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-11-1258 Judge: Hon. Ed McLean Dept. No. 1 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. ZINVEST, LLC, Plaintiff, vs KIM SHEA, a/k/a KIM L. HALVORSON, individually and as surviving joint tenant of MICHAEL SHEA; BENEFICIAL MONTANA INC., d/b/a BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO., YOUNG ELECTRIC SIGN CO., DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, CHILD SUPPORT; DEANNA SAALE, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint and adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO

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PUBLIC NOTICES PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to respond to the Complaint to Quiet Title in this action which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, W. Scott Green, 2817 2nd Avenue North, Suite 300, Billings, Montana 59101, within twenty-one (21) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the arrangement prayed for in the Complaint. This action is brought to quiet title to the Plaintiff in the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SE1/4NW1/4 of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the southwesterly boundary of Lot 3, Block 3 of Donovan Creek Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, which said point of beginning is south 1575.5 feet and east 2392.1 feet, more or less, from the northwest corner of said Section 17; thence from said point of beginning S.56º00’E., along said southwesterly boundary of Lot 3, Block 3, 310.0 feet to a point which is south 1748.8 feet and east 2649.1 feet, more or less, from said northwest corner of Section 17; thence S.34º00’W., 100.00 feet to a point which is south 1831.7 feet and east 2593.2 feet, more or less, from said northwest corner of Section 17; thence N.56º00’W., 310.0 feet to a point which is south 1658.4 feet and East 2336.2 feet, more or less, from said northwest corner of Section 17; thence N.34º00’E., 100.0 feet to the point of beginning. As shown in Warranty Deed recorded September 8, 1970 in Book 25 of Micro Records at Page 197. Excepting therefrom the following described portion: Beginning at a point on the southwesterly boundary of Lot 3, Block 3 of Donovan Creek Acres, which said point is South 1575.5 feet and East 2391.1 feet, more or less, from the Northwest corner of said Section 17; thence S.56º00’E., a distance of 175.5 feet to the true point of beginning of this description; thence continuing S.56º00’E., a distance 134.5 feet; thence S.34º00’W., a distance of 100 feet; thence N.56º00’W., a distance of 129.0 feet; thence N.30º51’18”E., a distance of 100.14 feet to the point of beginning. As shown in Warranty Deed recorded March 23, 1973 in Book 47 of Micro Records at Page 248. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 7th day of February, 2012. (SEAL) SHIRLEY E. FAUST, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Casey Kragh, DEPUTY CLERK Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-12-178 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Sarah Ann Zbinden, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Sarah Ann Zbinden to Sarah Ann WinterNight. The hearing will be on April 4, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be a the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/17/2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-26 Ed McLean, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF KENNETH E. LIZOTTE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Victoria A. Otto, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 17th day of February, 2012. /s/ Victoria A. Otto, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Wendy F. McQuaide, 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 Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Repre-

sentative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 14th day of February, 2012. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON & JONES, PLLC. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-11-222 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BRUCE B. GAMBLE, 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 decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: December 13, 2011. /s/ Elizabeth Caldwell, Personal Representative. /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorney for Personal Representative Notice of Public Hearing The Missoula County Park Board will conduct a public hearing on the draft Missoula County Parks and Trails Master Plan, which will replace the 1997 Missoula County Parks and Conservation Lands Plan. The public hearing will be held during the regular Missoula County Park Board meeting, scheduled for Thursday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, Montana. Interested parties are invited to attend and provide comments on the Plan. A copy of the draft plan is available for public inspection on the Missoula County Website and at the Missoula County Parks Office, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. For additional information, please contact 258-4716. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 2584716. Missoula Countywill provide auxiliary aids and services. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/30/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201008604, B:859, P:491, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark Edward Baker and Bernice G. Baker, unmarried 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 of Warren Acre Tracts, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 27, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $114,223.10. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $109,881.06, 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 8, 2012 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.98015) 1002.206882-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/06/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200523744, Bk 759, Pg 1351, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Veronica L. Morgan, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel 5 of Certificate of Survey No. 351, located in the NW1/4 of Section 13, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 29, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $284,820.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $264,607.47, 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 11, 2012 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.95442) 1002.200790-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200917604, Bk 843, Pg 1246, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jhawn D. Thompson and Misty J. Thompson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 57, together with the Northerly half of vacated Bedard Street adjoining said Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown as vacated by Resolution recorded April 7, 1966 in Book 2 of Micro Records at Page 533. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201119250, Bk 885, Pg 877, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was as-

signed to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 3, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $168,374.51. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,856.94, 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 16, 2012 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.97589) 1002.207163-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 3 AND ALL OF LOTS 4 AND 5 IN BLOCK 81 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jason Bagaoisan, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 15, 2009 and recorded on April 22, 2009 in Book 837, Page 1298 as Document No. 200909262. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, 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 $673.21, beginning June 1, 2011, 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, 2011 is $121,409.54 principal, interest at the rate of 5.000% now totaling $2,522.37, late charges in the amount of$ 148.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $301.87, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.63 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to

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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 7, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 7th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Guild V Bagaoisan 41291.630 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 12 OF LOST MINE SUBURBAN TRACTS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF John S. Weiss and Carla J. Weiss, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated July 12th, 2007 and recorded on July 23th, 2007 in Book 802, Page 149, under Document No. 200718747. The beneficial interest is currently held by MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife Bank, 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 failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,018.48, beginning February 1, 2010, 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 17, 2011 is $261,472.03 principal, interest at the rate of 6.6250% now totaling $33,960.76, late charges in the amount of $264.12, escrow advances of $6,141.01 and other fees and expenses advanced of $104.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.46 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, cer-

tified 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 BEUSED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 5, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 5th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Metlife v Weiss 41305.274 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT B26 OF WINDSOR PARK, PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David Englund and Teresa Englund, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 27, 2006 and recorded December 29, 2006 in Book 789, Page 1057 under Document No. 200633176. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $1,544.17, beginning May 1, 2011, 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 19, 2011 is $176,711.37 principal, interest at the rate of 6.8750% now totaling $7,685.99, late charges in the amount of $427.63, escrow advances of $1,237.76, and other fees and expenses advanced of $506.80, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.28 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 6, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5-26-2015 Citimortgage V. Englund 42011.569 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the South Door of the First American Title Company of Montana, located at 1006 West Sussex, in Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: LOT 12 IN BLOCK 2 OF MOUNT SENTINEL ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. PARCEL II: LOT 13 AND THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF MOUNT SENTINEL ADDITION NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 780 OF MICRO AT PAGE 1244 John Bakos, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 2, 2008 and recorded on July 8, 2008 under Document No. 200815987, Book 822, Page 767. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,437.67, beginning November 1, 2010, 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 22, 2011 is $371,336.74 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $28,066.57, late charges in the amount of $365.64, escrow advances of $6,570.55 and other fees and expenses advanced of $837.56, plus accruing interest at the rate of $67.40 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 5, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 5th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 BAC v Bakos 42019.252 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 05/29/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which WILLIAM C BOWERS, AND THEO JOSEPHINE BOWERS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/25/2006 and recorded 09/29/2006, in document No. 200625008 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 784 at Page Number 257 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 3 AND 4 IN BLOCK 2 OF SOL ACREAGE TRACTS SUBDIVISION, 2ND FILING, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 11915 VIRGINIA LN, Missoula, MT 598049766. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $224,376.77 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.00% per annum from 09/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the benefi-

ciary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/13/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0002029 FEI NO. 1006.151666 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/04/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RONNY L. STRAIGHT AND VICKI L. STRAIGHT HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/25/2003 and recorded 07/31/2003, in document No. 200327979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 713 at Page Number 573 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 8440 PHEASANT DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $110,421.58 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 11/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 1/20/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0029886 FEI NO. 1006.132267 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SCOTT KNIGHT, AND BILLIE ANNE KNIGHT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 07/12/2005, in document No. 200517167 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 1215 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ALSO SHOWN OF RECORD AS LOT 5 IN 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 109 WAPIKIYA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803-1230. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $153,245.73 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.75% per annum from 03/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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

Central Mini Storage will action to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 14, 17, 24. Units contain misc items. These units may be viewed by appt only by calling 543-9798. Please speak to Shannon. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage offices at 401 SW Higgins Missoula, MT 59803 prior to March 2, 2012 at 4:00pm. Auction sales will be final after this date. Buyers bid will be for the entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. ONLY cash or money order will be accepted as form of payment.

taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0006202 FEI NO. 1006.152741 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/08/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Subdivision Request – Reilly Acres A request from Reilly Acres, LLC, represented by Martinsen Surveys, to subdivide a 28.30 acre parcel into 12 residential lots. The property is located at the base of McCauley Butte, between Ringo Drive and Humble Road in Target Range. See Map A.

The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Item #1 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. The hearing will be held in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 2584657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS D. ERVING AND MIKELL K POTTER, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/14/2007 and recorded 11/20/2007, in document No. 200730276 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 809 at Page Number 177 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 11A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1872. Property Address: 16600 TOUCHETTE LANE, Frenchtown, MT 59834. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following applications:A request from Linda Lennox of Epcon Signs for Special Signs; Signs as Part of Building for North Centre II located at 2800 N. Reserve St. (SEE MAP T).Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. E-mails can be sent to hkinnear@co.missoula.mt.us. Project files

may be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana.If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 2584657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

"Dishing on Celebrities"–you'll eat this up.

by Matt Jones

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1 Dickensian outburst 4 Jeremy Lin's arena, for short 7 If ___ (when necessary) 13 Tina's "30 Rock" co-star 15 "Baudolino" author Umberto 16 Not liabilities 17 Bank (on) 18 Lousy, at the Louvre 19 State capital home to the Xcel Energy Center 20 Baked dish made of eggs, cheese, cigarette butts and cocktails? 23 Vodka brand, for short 24 Former Shanghai Shark ___ Ming 25 1,000 times a "mil" 26 Multipurpose doc, for short 28 Active chemical in cannabis 30 Slip of paper? 33 Seafood dish with butter, served in a bed of NBC News dispatches? 38 Huge ride 39 Masi of "Heroes" 40 From ___ Z (the whole ball of wax) 41 Stadium cheer 42 Ending for author or weather 43 Sphere in a scepter 44 Fish dish served with lemon and pepper, simmered in pretty hate and dissonant synthesizer lines? 47 Awards, like a slot machine 49 Mountain Dew energy drink 50 Org. with a "100 Years..." series 51 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's "___ Crossroads" 53 Facebook event of 2012 55 Former Illinois governor, in headlines 59 Dessert served a la mode, while the waiter jabbers about winning a million dollars? 62 1970s Mocedades hit that translates to "It's You" 63 "You ___ Here" (mall map phrase) 64 Permeate 65 Keister

66 On the ___ (fleeing) 67 Chicken 68 Key that's really C 69 Yellowfin tuna variety 70 Herbert of the "Pink Panther" series

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1 Root beer brand 2 Native Alaskan 3 Prefix before trope 4 Internet version of a bandwagon fad 5 One of the Spice Girls 6 Foe that looks impossible to defeat 7 Part of CSNY 8 Abbr. on a cornerstone 9 Apparel brand name big in the 1980s 10 Sloth, for example 11 AC measurements 12 Course for intl. students 14 Tidal patterns, e.g. 21 Talk about in an indirect way 22 Partner 27 Neon aquarium fish 29 Peller of the 1980s "Where's the Beef?" ads 31 Author Mario 32 Finito 33 Fingerprint pattern 34 Gumbo ingredient 35 Fallout victims? 36 Rent splitter 37 They put up a Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list 45 University city north of Stockholm 46 Realty database site 48 California peak 52 James Lipton interviewee 54 Host with a 276-car stunt 56 Bubbling, like hot water 57 Doohickey 58 Naptime, perhaps 59 Upsides 60 Wednesday, figuratively 61 Prefix before sphere 62 Low point

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PUBLIC NOTICES Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $397,581.09 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.375% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0026415 FEI NO. 1006.131552 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/11/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the

Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROGER W OLSON 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 Trust Indenture Dated 08/25/2008 and recorded 10/03/2008, in document No. 200822659 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 444 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF LOT 11, THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF LOT 12 AND THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF THE WEST 24 FEET OF LOT 13 IN BLOCK 94 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, RECORDING REFERENCE IN BOOK 265 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1439. Property Address: 1828 HOWELL ST, Missoula, MT 598022136. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if

any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $128,519.12 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.25% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0005244 FEI NO. 1006.152563 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/08/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front

steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROBERT HURT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to AMERICAN PIONEER TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/24/2006 and recorded 09/18/2007, in document No. 200724262 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 805 at Page Number 1268 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS COMMITMENT IS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, AND IS KNOWN AS 1317 COOPER STREET, MISSOULA, MT 59802 BEING FURTHER DESCRIBED AS: THE REAL PROPERTY SITUATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOTS 5, 6 AND THE EAST 20 FEET OF LOT 7, IN BLOCK 57 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. REFERENCE FOR RECORDING PURPOSES; BOOK 165, PAGE 161, MICRO RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: LOT 5, 6 AND THE EAST 20 FEET OF LOT 7, IN BLOCK 57 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. REFERENCE FOR RECORDING PURPOSES: BOOK 165, PAGE 1611, MICRO RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 1317 COOPER ST, Missoula, MT 59802-2317. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-15. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their

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successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $172,666.20 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from 07/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0089870 FEI NO. 1006.142991 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/13/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the inter-

est in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRADLEY K WATKINS AND ALISA J WATKINS, JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/15/2008 and recorded 02/21/2008, in document No. 200803740 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 813 at Page Number 835 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 7 OF SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO FOOTHILLS ESTATES NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2517 HIGHWOOD DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with

late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $215,141.87 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 1/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0006816 FEI NO. 1006.152743

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 120 N Easy St.: Enjoy one-level living a short walk from the river in this turn-key 3bd/2bath home on a concrete foundation. 1 block from a city park, and minutes from the university, this home features a large fenced yard, landscaping, and an area in the private back yard that is wired for a hot tub. $179,000 - MLS # 20120171. Call Shannon Hilliard at 239-8350 today! www.120NEasy.com 18737 Sorrel Springs Lane, Frenchtown, $379,000 MLS # 20113420, 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath, Beautiful home on 4 acres with spectacular views. Call Betsy Milyard for a showing today at 880-4749.

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NEW LISTING • 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car Garage • 32499 Bible Lane, Alberton • Seller motivated, nice home • Close to Clark Fork river • $159,900 • MLS# 20121030

• 1 acre country living close to town • Double detached garage • Additional living quarters • 3 bed, 2.5 bath, covered deck • $299,900 • MLS#20115937

PRICE REDUCED • Well maintained 4 bed, 1.5 bath • Fully fenced back yard, nice deck • Landscaped, trees, shrubs • UG sprinklers in front and back • $229,000 • MLS# 20116816

PRICE REDUCED • 4 Bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • Large deck over looks yard • Lots of room & basement • New furnace & water heater • $225,000• MLS# 20110384

541-547 S 2nd W • Missoula $275,000 MLS# 20120840 Newer rubber membrane roof. Owner has architectural drawings on file for condo conversion. Seller is motivated!

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REAL ESTATE Rattlesnake dream property with a 1 bedroom apartment! 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage located on over 1/2 acre manicured & landscaped gardens & lawn. UG sprinkler, â&#x20AC;&#x153;secret gardenâ&#x20AC;? & fenced yard. $425,000. MLS#20114396. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.2404rattlesnake.com. Three story townhome near North Reserve. Two Bed, one Loft, three bath with fenced yard and double car garage. GREAT Deal at $180,000. MLS #20117696. 3741A Concord, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula.com OR call 550-3077 Wonderful 5 bed, 3 bath home @ top of Fairviews with 2 car garage. Level lot! Borders open space. All new carpet & interior paint. Trex deck off dining room. Great views! Back yard is fenced. $275,000. MLS#20116161. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.110artemos.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES For a limited time a purchase of a condo at the Uptown Flats will include a large flat screen TV and assistance with up to $5000 Buyers closing costs!The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units at $149,900. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks st. Close to downtown, neighbor-

hood coffee shop/restaurant, and university. Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $275,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 5465816 for details. www.movemontana.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES Beautifully Newly Remodeled. 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Lot rent is $255/mo Setup in beautiful park. 626-4514 or 546-9475 Great single wide 2 bed, 2 bath mobile on large lot with double car garage. Fenced yard, lots of trees and curbing around the landscaping. Covered deck. 1641 Stoddard, Missoula. $99,500. MLS#20116883. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. PRICE REDUCED! Manufactured 3 bed 2 bath home, permanent foundation, low maintenance vinyl siding, 3 acres, partially fenced, double garage. Large deck with awning over looking the Bitterroot Valley. Large master bedroom with nice master bath. 663 Ridge Road, Stevensville. $179,000. MLS#20117486. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

LAND FOR SALE Almost 1/2 acre building site with great views. Close to Ranch Club Golf course and fishing access. City sewer stubbed to the property line. NOW ONLY $65,000. MLS# 10007449. Robin Rice @ 240-6503.

riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. Owner may finance. 23645 Mullan Road, Huson. $169,900. MLS#20112135. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL QUICK CASH FOR REAL ESTATE NOTES and Land Installment Contracts. We also lend on Real Estate with strong equity. 406721-1444 www.Creative-Finance.com

916 Kern St. $124,500 1bd/1ba, 670 sq. ft. + bsmt storage. Room to ad on. New furnace & electric. Owner may carry.

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