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Voices/Letters Water compact, death with dignity and Medicaid...................................4 The Week in Review Medicaid expansion, Comix Issue and football ...........................6 Briefs Climbing, coroner’s inquest and drag racing.......................................................6 Etc. Leaky oil trains raise a mess of questions.................................................................7 News Shane Vannatta seeks to become state’s first openly gay judge ............................8 News Missoula Safeways gradually morph into Fresh Markets .......................................9 Opinion Vote to block Medicaid expansion will haunt Republicans ...........................10 Feature As the state fights against human trafficking, victims remain elusive..............14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Shania Hill takes New York City by storm..............................................................18 Music Wing and Claw, That1Guy and Father John Misty..............................................20 Film Cinderella strips a Disney classic of its charm ......................................................21 Film Sex, drugs and P.T. Anderson................................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 Flash in the Pan St. Patty’s Day parsnips .....................................................................24 Happiest Hour Stone of Accord ...................................................................................26 8 Days a Week I do not like green beer and ham ........................................................27 Mountain High “Wilderness Research Then and Now”...............................................33 Agenda International Women’s Day banquet................................................................34
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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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Freedom to choose
STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, March 10, near the corner of Spruce and Higgins. How do you plan to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Follow-up: If you found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, what would you do with it?
Scott Ranf: Filming it. I work at MCAT and will be filming the parade from the roof. I’d also really like to catch the hurling match at the UM. Just chill: Retire. Probably buy a house and a condo around Missoula. If there’s anything left over then maybe start a video camera rental business where people can get professional-grade equipment.
Kali Becher: I’ll be in Vietnam so I will probably not be celebrating. I might raise a glass of local Vietnamese beer, though. Globetrotter: I would quit my job and travel around the world for a while.
Lisa McKinney: The McKinney family clan wakes up and makes green pancakes shaped like clovers, we send the kids to school in green clothing, Mom and Dad celebrate with a black and tan, and for dinner we eat corned beef hash. It takes a village: I would gather all my friends from all my experiences, buy a big plot of land and set everyone up for life in Missoula. Life just isn’t the same without all your cool buddies around.
Kelly Jo Jackson: We have a party at my mom’s house in Stevensville and my band, The Ruins, plays there. It’s an annual party we do every year. Play in the sand: I’d go to Belize and take my whole family and have a big vacation.
Jennifer Roff: I’m getting a massage that day and then hanging out with my family. Pay it forward: I would go back to Liberia and buy land, build a school and create jobs because they have a 98 percent unemployment rate. We traveled there with our five children last summer and fell in love with the people.
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I am grateful that I live in a state where people have options at the end of their lives. I’ve faced death and it’s scary. I was in an accident in 2011 that paralyzed me from my T6 down, and I’ve lived wheelchair dependent ever since. I work every day to be an independent citizen, and to make my own choices. Death with Dignity is a freedom that has existed in Montana for five years without any instance of abuse. The 2009 Montana Supreme Court ruling in the Baxter decision gave doctors a defense against legal prosecution for practicing death with dignity. Now some groups won’t stop until they take this freedom to choose away. The state of Oregon has allowed terminally ill Oregonians the option of death with dignity for 17 years without any problems. Not a single person has been charged with a crime associated with providing death with dignity. No elder abuse has been reported. No doctor has been arrested for providing it. Nearly one-third of those dying patients who choose to get the prescription do not ingest it. Whether a patient does or doesn’t take the medication, the terminal disease they suffer from is listed as the cause of death. These facts are indisputable. Montana is a proud and rugged state that has always believed in privacy and independence. Freedom in our democracy enriches us as a society. My belief system is “to each his own.” Death with dignity may not be a choice you would make for yourself, but I might make it for myself. Death with dignity and patient autonomy is a freedom I have the right to exercise at the end of my life. Montana needs to keep this medical practice open and authorized. Tell your legislators to vote “no” on HB477. Bonnie Kelley Frenchtown
Pass the compact The decision that our legislators make on the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribe Water Compact could shape the future of our state for decades to come. While many would have you believe that the compact only impacts the Flathead and areas west of the Continental Divide, this couldn’t be further from the truth. If the compact fails there will be far reaching consequences that will be felt by all Montanans, chief of
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which is the massive cost of litigation not passing the compact would cost water users. The Compact is a negotiated agreement that defines the federally reserved water rights of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, without which the tribe is required by state law to file claims in court to define their water rights. They would file these claims within their former aboriginal territories—which means that they could file claims as far east as the Upper Yellowstone River and beyond. The litigation of these claims would cost individual farmers and ranchers across the state thousands of dollars to defend their water rights and subject many who have already adjudicated their rights to re-adjudication.
“Death with dignity may not be a choice you would make for yourself, but I might make it for myself.” The compact prevents the uncertainty and costs associated with litigation and would protect existing water rights and ensure that irrigators receive water at the level of their historic consumptive use. Our water is our most valuable resource. Passing the compact prevents unnecessary litigation and ensures that our agricultural community has access to the water resources they need. Arleen Rice Havre
Oppose the compact I am urging you to oppose the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact! This compact will prove detrimental not only to our farmers and ranchers, but to those of us who own homes on the reservation. The proposed compact is nothing but smoke and mirrors, and its ultimate goal is to push all non-Natives off the reservation. It has
been demonstrated again and again that this is the desired outcome. Complete and thorough research has uncovered a long history of lies and deceit hidden behind this proposed compact. The vast majority of the constituents are in opposition to this compact. Its time our leaders acted like a government of the people, for the people, as our founding fathers intended. Please vote no. Caroline Hanke Polson
No one is immune If everyone were healthy what might be accomplished? This is the second legislature to consider expansion of Medicaid. My family and I are so grateful to have the benefit of Medicaid and Medicare for our son who has multiple sclerosis and Addison’s disease. Multiple sclerosis is such a cruel disease because the chronic illness usually strikes men and women during their prime years—prime years in terms of personal relationships, employment and health. My son had just graduated from Carroll College when two weeks later, a severe headache lead to an emergency room MRI that revealed multiple sclerosis. His disabilities over the past seven years are now severe. If we were to pay for his experimental drug that has stayed the rapid progression, his living expenses in a skilled health care facility, his additional prescriptions and medical appointments, these costs would have exceed our gross salaries (both my husband and I are now retired, but we had well-paid employment). When considering expansion of Medicaid, legislators must think of contributions these “able-bodied” persons might contribute. With multiple sclerosis and other chronic diseases, early detection allows current treatments including medicines that may enable people to live a relatively healthy life style. With expanded Medicaid, there will be people checked for diabetes, cancer, and there will be other health concerns. One provision of the Affordable Care Act changed the coverage for pre-existing conditions allowing coverage for all. I have always thought my son could be well, but I worried that if he could regain his health, he could not get coverage. Please contact your legislators to extend coverage to all who need it. No one is immune from poor health that may strike unbelievably quickly. Colleen Hansen Missoula
etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence. Letters to the editor must include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number for confirmation, though we’ll publish only your name and city. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication. Preference is given to letters addressing the contents of the Independent. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and clarity. Send correspondence to: Letters to the Editor, Missoula Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or via email: editor@missoulanews.com.
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, March 4 Missoula police respond to reports of an apparently suicidal man in Missoula’s South Hills, and block off part of 23rd Street to surround the man’s house. Hours later, the standoff ends with no arrests or injuries.
Thursday, March 5 After Jeffory Alan Lafield spits on his attorney, swears at a judge and is removed from the courtroom, Ravalli County District Judge Jeffrey Langton places Lafield under supervision of the Montana Department of Corrections and recommends he serve five years in prison.
Friday, March 6 Artists and other members of the community flood the Indy offices for a First Friday reception celebrating the second annual Comix Issue. One highlight of the night involves a rare public appearance from the one and only Percival Limburger, who contributed a comic strip to the issue.
Saturday, March 7 A grass fire breaks out on Mount Jumbo but only burns about an eighth of an acre before fire crews extinguish the flames. The cause of the fire—one of several to erupt in the area over the weekend—is unknown.
Sunday, March 8 Around 5 p.m., emergency crews respond to reports of a man falling from the Russell Street bridge and landing on an island below. The man is hospitalized. Officials say it is unclear how the man fell.
Monday, March 9 New head coach Bob Stitt leads the University of Montana football team through its first day of spring practice. Junior quarterback Brady Gustafson begins camp at the helm of the first-team offense.
Tuesday, March 10 Voting on strict party lines, Republicans in the Montana House of Representatives refuse to overturn a Human Services Committee decision and officially kill the Healthy Montana Act, which would have expanded Medicaid coverage in the state.
An early season visitor tours the Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces during a quiet March afternoon in Yellowstone National Park.
Climbing
Slowing down development As of March 1, the Bitterroot National Forest has issued a moratorium on new bolted climbing routes along lower Mill Creek, part of a concerted effort by forest officials to get a handle on the increased popularity of Bitterroot Valley cliffs among the local climbing community. “The thinking is that we just needed to slow down a bit and think about a longer term climbing management plan, not just for Mill Creek but for the Bitterroot, working with climbers and other interests out there in trying to determine how much route development is appropriate in various areas of the forest,” says Stevensville District Ranger Dan Ritter. Ritter adds the ban will not prevent the replace-
ment of bad bolts on previously established climbs. The restriction was announced alongside a temporary closure of two existing Mill Creek routes to avoid disturbing a golden eagle nest. Based on the level of cooperation from climbers with the same closures last year, when the nest was first occupied, Ritter doesn’t anticipate any conflicts. Word of the new route ban spread quickly among area climbers, propelled largely by the nonprofit Western Montana Climber’s Coalition. The group launched last May in part to raise awareness of local climbing issues and work with forest officials to discuss solutions to any problems that might arise from increased use. That collaboration will culminate in the next few weeks with the release of a brochure educating those new to the sport on leave-no-trace practices. WMTCC has already advertised via social media
an upcoming April 9 listening session at Freestone, where Ritter and wilderness and trails program manager Deb Gale will be on hand to field questions about the moratorium. The group also alerted the climbing public to erosion concerns at the base of Mill Creek’s “Tick Farm” and cautioned climbers about ongoing access issues. Ritter cites both rehab of the cliff base and construction of a new trail into the area as projects he hopes to work with climbers on this summer or fall, following an environmental analysis. As for the new route restriction, Ritter feels WMTCC is an invaluable resource in making sure the rules are adhered to. “We certainly need the Western Montana Climber’s Coalition on board supporting the moratorium, understanding where we’re going longterm,” he says. “Because we just don’t have the resources to be out there monitoring very much of anything. We’re relying on them to help self-regulate.” Ultimately, WMTCC Co-Chair Claudine Tobalske says it will fall to individual climbers to ensure the moratorium is observed. Alex Sakariassen
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[6] Missoula Independent • March 12–March 19, 2015 Drag racing
[news] Drag racing
Need for less speed On Sunday, Jan. 25, around 10:30 p.m., two teenagers sped down Gharrett Street in the South Hills in a Honda CR-V, going an estimated 68 mph in a 25 mph zone. When the driver lost control, he hit a fence, plowed through a yard, crashed into a house on Arcadia Street and landed upside down, his vehicle pushing through the living-room wall. Inside, in a back bedroom, Jack Nickerson, 90, had been asleep until he heard the boom. “If Jack had been in the living room, he probably would’ve died, right then and there,” says Norma Nickerson, Jack’s daughter-in-law. In the six weeks since the crash, Jack has moved out of the house while contractors work to repair the extensive damage done to his living room. During the same period, Norma Nickerson and Bart, Jack’s son, have been attempting to call attention to what Bart describes as a “pattern” of “cars racing down” Gharrett Street’s steep hill. According to Bart and Norma, many of Jack’s neighbors have reported their own sightings of vehicles speeding down the street. Crash reports seem to confirm these anecdotal accounts.
“Just prior” to the wreck at Jack Nickerson’s home, for example, a neighbor reported two other vehicles traveling at “a high rate of speed,” says Sgt. Travis Welsh, the Missoula Police Department’s public information officer. One week after the crash, a speeding vehicle reportedly drove into a nearby Gharrett Street yard. According to the Montana Highway Patrol, 15 vehicle crashes were reported on Gharrett between 2011 and 2014. Eight of those occurred last year alone. But when asked, via email, whether a pattern of speeding exists on Gharrett or in the vicinity, Welsh says no. He also says police haven’t heard complaints about drag racing in the area since 2012.
“Most of the complaints in 2012,” Welsh adds, “were due to the detour as it related to increased traffic as a result of Miller Creek Road construction.” The Nickersons, however, believe the problem persists and are asking the police to increase patrols, prosecutors to pursue charges against reckless drivers and the city to install signs, lights or a traffic circle to slow speeders. But Norma adds that Jack has a less conventional idea for calming traffic. “I don’t know if it’s legal or not,” Norma says, “but my father-in-law was talking about putting boulders in his front yard.” Ted McDermott
Police shooting
Inquest finds killing justified Soon after Sanders County Coroner Kathy Harris began Monday’s inquest into Missoula Police Corporal Paul Kelly’s New Year’s Eve killing of Kaileb Williams, two women sitting in the gallery looked at each other and said, “We’re supposed to be jurors.” The women were escorted out of the courtroom, but they never appeared in the jury box. As a result, seven— rather than nine—Missoula County residents were given the task of deciding whether Kelly was legally justified when he stood approximately 20 feet away from the Buick where Williams was allegedly holding his girlfriend hostage and sent a bullet through Williams’ head, killing him instantly. The inquest took place as a matter of state law, which says a coroner must conduct a “formal inquiry into” a death when it involves a peace officer. But while the inquest was formal, it lacked the rigor of a standard criminal trial. No judge presided. Jurors were permitted to ask witnesses questions. Lawyers from only one side—the Missoula County Attorney’s Office—were able to participate. Audience members were allowed to submit questions for witnesses. And though two fewer jurors than expected reported on time for duty, the inquest could continue. During the course of the somewhat chaotic proceedings, many in the crowded courtroom were called forward to testify, including Williams’ mother, Rhenon, and Kelly, who sat just a few rows away. While no completely agreed-upon account of Williams’ killing could be assembled, a narrative gradually emerged. Soon after Christmas, Rita Daniel came from Bozeman to Missoula to visit her boyfriend, Williams, a 20-year-old on probation. Soon after she arrived, however, things between the two became strained. Late on Dec. 30,
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Times the University of Montana has hosted both the men’s and women’s Big Sky Conference basketball tournaments in the last three seasons. Both brackets conclude with a championship game Saturday at Dahlberg Arena. the pressure gave Daniel a kind of panic attack. She was taken to the hospital, and when she returned around 1 a.m., she found Williams having sex with another woman. Desperate, Daniel called Rhenon for a ride. When Rhenon arrived, she confronted her son, who snapped, jumping down from a second-floor balcony and repeatedly punching his mother in the face. Williams then fled with Daniel in Rhenon’s car, and Rhenon called the cops. As for what happened next in the car, Daniel has given conflicting accounts. In a February interview with the Missoulian, she denied being held hostage or being scared. On the stand during the inquest, she said Williams was suicidal but “wasn’t violent” with her. In an interview with Sheriff ’s Detective Mike Dominick the night of the killing, Daniel said Williams “beat the fuck out of me” as he drove and told her she was “going to die” with him, one way or another. Whatever else happened in the car, Williams fled police in dangerously icy conditions. The chase only ended when Williams’ vehicle died on the ramp between North Reserve and West Broadway. There, police surrounded the car and tried to convince Williams to give up, put both hands out of his partially rolled-up window and release Daniel. “I don’t want to have to kill you,” Kelly says during part of the exchange captured on audio. “I don’t think anybody wants to kill you.” On the TV at the front of the courtroom, in blurry black-and-white, a video showed Kelly shooting Williams. Many in the gallery gasped. Rhenon cried. Later, on the stand, Kelly said he had no choice: He believed he had to kill Williams to spare Daniel’s life. When a sheriff ’s deputy and a chaplain came to tell Rhenon her son had died that night, they gave her the wrong information. They told her he’d committed suicide. “It was probably one of the most horrific things to hear,” Rhenon said on the stand. When she heard what did happen, it was still difficult to understand. “I don’t know what Kaileb was thinking,” Rhenon said. While acknowledging her son did a lot wrong that night, she asked, “But does that mean my son should be murdered? No, I don’t believe that for a second.” Seven jurors eventually decided, unanimously, that what Kelly did wasn’t murder. According to their verdict, the fatal shooting was legally justified. Ted McDermott
ETC. Back in mid-January, 14 rail cars toting Bakken crude were pulled from a single train at three separate stops in Washington state after workers discovered leaky top-valves had spilled a combined 25 gallons of oil during transit. Another tank car arrived at BP’s refinery in Cherry Point, Wash., two months prior more than 1,600 gallons lighter than when it had started. State and federal officials have offered scant details during the subsequent investigations, leaving folks throughout the region wondering: Where’d all that crude go? One place we can rule out is Missoula. According to Montana Rail Link, the trains in question weren’t traveling along its lines but rather those of BNSF. That narrows the field down to Montana’s Hi-Line, the Idaho Panhandle and the bulk of Washington—in other words, scores of small rural communities and along the southern boundary of Glacier National Park. The leaks, combined with the month it took BNSF to report the first incident to federal agencies, have fueled strong criticism from state lawmakers in Washington. Yet the railway insists damage was minimal and that it’s paying close attention to the increased volume of oil trains in the region. “Trust me,” said BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas in Seattle. “All eyes are on these movements.” Melonas added the leaks were “minute” and BNSF found “no visible concentrations” of oil along its routes. He attributed the problem to “valve-fitting issues,” deferring additional questions to the Federal Railroad Administration, which is heading the investigation and expects to release an extensive report this month. That FRA document may shed light on where 1,600-plus gallons of Bakken crude ended up, but the rash of leaks touch on a much broader concern. Each of the tank cars involved were higher-standard CPC-1232 models meant to reduce the potential dangers associated with older, more puncture-prone cars. Despite the stricter safety specifications issued by the Association of American Railroads in October 2011, the amount of oil spilled from trains nationwide hit a record high in 2014. Fiery derailments like those in Illinois and Ontario just last week continue to dominate headlines from coast to coast. The U.S. Department of Transportation is expected to issue stricter rules sometime this year, but those rules are reportedly months behind schedule already. No surprise there. Trackside fires burn and communities clamor for tighter regulations, yet it takes half a year and a whole lot of double-talk just to tell us where 1,600 gallons of oil wound up.
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Open seat Shane Vannatta seeks to become state’s first out gay judge by Ted McDermott
As a boy growing up in the eastern on his success as a private practice attor- the six applicants should replace McLean Montana farm town of Bainville, Shane ney and his efforts to become more on the Fourth District bench—will be up Vannatta says he didn’t “even know what knowledgeable about criminal law, in- to Gov. Steve Bullock. He has until May an attorney did.” Now, the 46-year-old cluding filling in as a Missoula County 14 to make an appointment. In the occupies a corner office in the Florence Justice of the Peace. While he admits he’s meantime, the state’s seven-member JuHotel building, where he serves as a spent less than 2 percent of his time dicial Nomination Commission will conpartner for one of Missoula’s largest law doing trial work over the past five years, sider public comment, interview Vannatta attributes part of that to his suc- candidates and select three to five names firms, Worden Thane. But while Vannatta has come a long cess in resolving cases before they ever for Bullock’s consideration. Whomever wins the appointment way to reach his current position, he’s get to court. As a judge, he says he’d ready to take the next step. Specifically, work to help defense and prosecuting at- won’t have much time to enjoy the seat. Later this year, the new District Court he’s hoping to replace retiring judge Ed torneys do the same. McLean on the bench of the Fourth Judicial District Court, which hears a broad range of cases from Missoula and Mineral counties, including divorces, business disputes and murder charges. If chosen, Vannatta would become the state’s first openly gay judge at any level of the judiciary. When asked whether this fact holds significance, the former president of the State Bar of Montana offers what he calls a “lawyer response, which is ‘yes’ and ‘no.’” “I have always strove to be a good attorney, a good president of the state bar, who happens to be photo by Cathrine L. Walters gay,” Vannatta says. “I Missoula attorney Shane Vannatta is among six applicants to take retiring judge Ed don’t want to be that McLean’s seat in the Fourth Judicial District Court. If selected, Vannatta would become gay attorney who hap- Montana’s first openly gay judge. pens to be good or that “One of the things I hope to do— judge will have to win an election to fingay president who happens to be good or that gay judge who happens to be one of the procedures I hope to imple- ish out McLean’s current six-year term. good. I want to be a good judge who just ment as a judge—is a process where the Then, just two year later, he or she will happens to be gay, because I don’t think judge gets involved early on,” Vannatta have to win a second election to garner your sexual orientation defines who you says. Doing so, he believes, would a full term of his or her own. According to JNC member Mona are. That being said, I do believe that our help cases move “along more expedijudiciary must be representative of the ently,” which would reduce costs and im- Charles, the commission will therefore prove transparency for plaintiffs and have to consider candidates’ electabilpopulation.” ity—and their readiness to almost immeVannatta is among seven applicants defendants. One thing he doesn’t expect to affect diately begin campaigning—when vying for McLean’s seat. His competition includes Brenda Desmond and Leslie his bid is his sexual orientation. Vannatta winnowing the applicant pool. “Somebody’s willingness and knowlHalligan, current standing masters of the believes Missoula, with its more visible District Court; Thomas Orr, the attorney LGBT population, is “likely the best edge that that’s what they have to do, I who represented South Avenue property place” for the state to have its first gay think is important,” Charles says. Vannatta says he’s up for the job—and owners in their suit against the city of judge. And with same-sex marriage now Missoula over lost land; and Lisa B. legal, he believes the time is right whatever extra effort it might require. “I am an energetic person,” Vannatta Kauffman, who helped represent Markus for such a judge to occupy the District say. “I plan to bring a great deal of enKaarma in his recent trial for deliberate Court bench. Ultimately, the decision about ergy to this position.” homicide. Faced with such an experienced ap- whether the time really is right—and tmcdermott@missoulanews.com plicant pool, Vannatta’s bid has focused about whether Vannatta or another of
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Market swap Missoula Safeways gradually morph into Fresh Markets by Alex Sakariassen
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Tim Topp of Missoula-based cheese wholesaler Topp Company restocks a cheese display with new products at the Missoula Fresh Market on Reserve Street.
Kneepads appear to be in vogue along the aisles of the Reserve Street Safeway on March 9. Vendors from throughout the region have gathered to relabel thousands of products as the decades-old corporate grocery changes hands. Several workers bustle about the wine department. More crowd the dairy section. They work from shelf to shelf, row to row, some standing and others crawling. The new tags are lime green, which Craig Holtet, co-owner of the new Missoula Fresh Market, feels will be the most noticeable difference for customers when the store reopens at 9 a.m. “It’ll be pretty subtle,” Holtet says. “It’s mostly just the color of the tags.” Over the next couple months, however, people will notice a gradual change as Missoula Fresh Market settles in on Reserve Street and at the former Safeway on West Broadway, where a similar change-over began this week. Contractors will rebrand every cart and swap out the signs on the building’s exterior. Fresh Market will continue operating the gas stations at both stores under new branding. Employees will sell off as much of the Safeway-specific products as they can. Any trace of the former corporate owner will vanish, allowing each store to, as Holtet puts it, “create their own vibe and get their own feel.” “These stores, we would love to have them be an icon 15, 20 years from now and have their own separate personalities,” Holtet says. “They don’t have to be the same. This store has Starbucks, and the [Broadway] store is going to have a market called Missoula Fresh Market Coffee featuring Black Coffee [Roasting Co.].” Holtet and Ron Ramsbacher have based much of the concept for their Missoula Fresh
Markets on the Orange Street Food Farm, which the pair purchased in late 2013. Holtet sees each new location becoming a reflection of the neighborhood it serves, a vision shared by Safeway store manager turned Fresh Market store manager Andrew Hill. As vendors busy themselves with relabeling, Hill succeeds in catching a short break near the pile of Safeway registers employees have already removed. He’s been at the Reserve Street store overseeing changeover efforts since 5 a.m. and has still more work to do. But the store he’ll walk into tomorrow will be a “neighborhood destination,” he says. It will also be the first time he’s worked for a company other than Safeway since starting as a bag-boy in Washington state 17 years ago. “The autonomy to tailor this store to my clientele,” Hill says, naming the biggest changes that will come from managing Missoula Fresh Market. “Not having to ask permission to do a certain display or getting the authorization to let Girl Scouts out in front of the store sell cookies. I can make those decisions at the ground level.” About a year ago, Hill tried to react to the mounting popularity of Lewis and Clark Brewing Company’s canned products by getting approval to sell those cans at Safeway. Despite the Helena brewery’s proximity to Missoula and the demand from local consumers, the corporate structure proved too great a roadblock and Hill’s efforts fell through. Now, he says, those roadblocks no longer exist. “With Lewis and Clark,” he says, “it’s just a classic example of a product that I should have had, wanted to have, but just couldn’t get because of the red tape associated with a large grocery chain.”
As Hill shares the story, a woman walks in with a bundle of new Missoula Fresh Market employee badges. Each hangs from a green braid of recycled fly-fishing line made by Missoula-based Flyvines. The idea to use the lanyards came from a river guide, Hill says, latching onto it as yet another example of the new store’s receptiveness to local ideas. Most of the action tonight is going down in the deli department, where reprephoto by Cathrine L. Walters sentatives from Missoula-based wholesale cheese distributor Topp Company are completely restocking a display island. Deli manager April Gross scurries about the nearby kitchen, trying to prepare for a host of new menu items including a chicken recipe that will be battered and cooked fresh on-site. It was great working for Safeway, she says, but the biggest challenge for her in the changeover was just controlling the anticipation leading up to 6 p.m. Now she’s basically “my own boss.” This week’s changeover at both the Reserve and Broadway locations may be subtle, but Holtet has set his sights on an elaborate and extensive grand opening later in May. The event will span 12 weeks, he says, with an ever-changing list of product deals. Overall, Holtet believes the change will be positive not just for community vibe but for price. No club cards, no sales gimmicks, he says. Just “simple, easy pricing.” “It should be reasonable, straightforward,” he says. “I want somebody to walk through here and not thinking like we’re playing a gimmick and trying to get all the money in their pocket.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Into the woods Vote to block Medicaid expansion will haunt Republicans by Dan Brooks
For two men who look great with mustaches, Rep. Art Wittich, R–Belgrade, and I sure are different. For example, look at how we spent Friday afternoon. In his capacity as head of the House Health and Human Services Committee, Wittich heard six hours of testimony on House Bill 249, which would accept federal funding to expand Medicaid coverage to 70,000 uninsured Montanans. One witness, investment banker Mark Semmens, estimated that expansion would bring $5 billion into Montana over the next six years and create 12,000 jobs. As supporters packed the Capitol, dozens of doctors and health workers urged Helena to accept federal funding to expand Medicaid. Then the 10 Republicans on the committee voted “do not pass” on HB 249, requiring a 60-vote supermajority for the bill to proceed to general debate. Under Wittich’s leadership, Health and Human Services has prevented the proposal to accept Medicaid expansion from even reaching the House floor. Meanwhile, I was up Pattee Canyon in my capacity as a rake, taking a constitutional around the third trailhead—just past the place where conjecture meets analogy. In this dark stretch of woods, where I often go to clear my head, I encountered a man lying on the ground next to a bicycle. This mysterious man lay on his side with his hands stretched toward his leg, which took one more turn than the usual leg. My detective’s eye suggested he had fallen. This suspicion was confirmed by his soft moaning and the rather immodest length of bone sticking out from his shin. I could not know for sure without risking conversation, but this man looked hurt. My first impulse was to help him. One often feels such irrational urges on seeing another person in distress. But then I remembered the question one must always ask before administering first aid: Does this person deserve it? His bicycle and helmet suggested that
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this man brought this tragedy on himself. He probably rode out to the woods with no plan in case of a compound fracture, and by helping him I would only encourage others to make the same mistake. Soon the woods would be littered with crooked bodies, moaning and awaiting handouts. And who knew what helping this layabout might cost me? Sure, today you can call an ambulance for someone else and not
“But then I remembered the question one must always ask before administering first aid: Does this person deserve it?” pay for it, but what about in the future? Probably this shiftless lackblood would run out of money, and then the laws governing contracts in the United States would fundamentally change, and bang—I’m stuck with the bill. Plus I hate doctors, so I left him there. If he didn’t want to bleed to death in the woods, he should have either not broken his leg or brought some paramedics in with him. I can’t bail out every screwup who’s too lazy to keep an intact skeleton. I know what you’re thinking: Wasn’t my Friday afternoon eerily similar to Wittich’s, when you think about it? I admit the superficial parallels are striking. But nobody asked Wittich to come up with a plan to expand insurance coverage for low-income Montanans and fund it all by himself.
Gov. Steve Bullock handed Wittich a complete plan with an established program in place, funded by the federal government. All he had to do was pass it along to the House. For our man-in-the-woods analogy to hold up, Wittich would have to come upon a bicyclist with a broken leg, see that an ambulance had arrived, and chase the paramedics away. That’s the difference between my Friday afternoon and Wittich’s. For 70,000 uninsured Montanans, help had already arrived. Our representatives in the U.S. Congress passed and funded a law to give them coverage under Medicaid five years ago. Last Friday, Wittich and his caucus blocked it, again. Henry Kriegel, a representative of Americans For Prosperity-Montana and one of the few witnesses to speak against HB 249 on Friday, summed up their attitude neatly. “It’s the only part of Obamacare that we as a state can reject,” he told the committee, “and we urge you to reject it.” Wittich seemed to agree with Kriegel—more than he agreed with 12,000 jobs, $5 billion and the health of 7 percent of this state. He has bucked popular opinion and the will of several members of his own party to stand on principle. His position is expensive, unpopular and potentially deadly, but he is sure enough to refuse to let the rest of the House even argue about it, much less vote. In his confident resistance to federal overreach, Wittich joins such storied leaders as Orval Faubus. Where the U.S. Congress, the governor and scores of witnesses have said yes, the representative from Belgrade says no. I hope he is right. It’s not the kind of mistake you want to make. I would hate to think that guy in the woods really did deserve my help, because the last thing anybody needs is a vengeful ghost. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and dudes he met in the woods at combatblog.net.
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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Gregory Dike, 38, received 11 years in jail for robbing 10 banks across England. Police arrested him after he booked a taxi for his getaway, and the driver realized what was happening and refused to wait. “He was undoubtedly a beginner,” Detective Constable Darren Brown said. “We found robbery ‘self-help’ downloads on his phone,” including one called “How to Rob a Bank.” (BBC News) Randy Gillen Jr., 28, pulled up to a bank drive-through window in Clearfield, Pa., intending to pass a fraudulent check, police said. When he found $500 that a previous customer had left in the carrier, he took it and drove off. When the customer returned for the money, police identified Gillen from the bank’s surveillance video and traced him to his girlfriend’s house, where officers found him hiding in a closet. (Johnstown’s WJAC-TV)
BUREAUCRACY FOLLIES – The Internal Revenue Service rehired hundreds of employees “with known conduct and performance issues,” including 141 who had misfiled their own returns and five known to have intentionally failed to file returns, according to an audit by the agency’s inspector general. The report noted that nearly 20 percent of the workers with prior problems continued having problems paying their taxes after they were rehired. (The Washington Times)
WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – A court in Northern Ireland convicted Morrison Wilson, 58, of assaulting a neighbor with his belly. Wilson, described as “heavy-set,” told Belfast Magistrate’s Court he was trying to get the retired woman off his lawn when he “bounced her back” with his “big belly.” (Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph)
SOUND EFFECTS – America’s best-selling cars and trucks rely on fake engine noise to simulate power and performance because today’s fuel-efficient engines lack their once-distinctive roar. Ford’s 2015 Mustang EcoBoost, for example, amplifies the engine’s purr through the car speakers to produce a sound the automaker calls “a low-frequency sense of powerfulness.” Porsche’s “sound symposer” uses noise-boosting tubes, and BMW plays a recording of its motors through car stereos. Without the artificial noise, proponents say, drivers would hear an unsettling silence or ordinary road noise. Critics, including Kelly Blue Book senior analyst Karl Brauer, want automakers to level with buyers. “Own it,” he urged. “You’re fabricating the car’s sexiness. You’re fabricating performance elements of the car that don’t actually exist.” (The Washington Post) GUSTATORY GEMS – More than 35,000 people entered a lottery for tickets to sip cocktails at London’s Annie the Owl pop-up bar while owls fly around and perch on their shoulders. Professional falconers join the patrons, who pay $30 for two cocktails and two hours of “unique owl indulgence,” according to Sebastian Lyall, CEO of start-up app company Locappy, which sponsors the weeklong event. He said a maximum of 12 patrons will be allowed to sit around each owl and that background music will be kept to a moderate level so as not to upset the birds. Annie the Owl, which pledged to donate proceeds to a U.K.-based owl charity, resulted from a blog post by the event guide Time Out London that encouraged London to follow Japan, where at least five owl cafes have opened. Tokyo’s Fukuro no Miso (“Shop of Owls”) cautions customers that its birds are tame but “can’t be potty trained.” (CNBC and Associated Press) Andrew McMenamin opened what he claims is the world’s first potato-chip sandwich café in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Simply Crispy (“crisps” are what the British call chips, which is their word for fries) offers 35 flavors. The sandwiches are served with soup (topped with crisps croutons) and fries. McMenamin got the idea from a spoof website article by Billy McWilliams and Seamus O’Shea, who observed, “Not only did people believe it, but people wanted to believe it, and the story went viral.” (Britain’s Daily Mail) Hjortur Smarason, 28, bought the last McDonald’s hamburger and fries to be sold in Iceland before the chain closed there in 2009. “I realized it was a historic occasion,” Smarason said. He stored it in a plastic bag in his garage for three years before donating it to the National Museum of Iceland. After a year, the museum returned the “hamborgarinn” to him, following complaints calling it an inappropriate exhibit. “I regard it as a historical item now,” he said. “I think it's incredible that it seems to show no signs of decomposition, although apparently the fact that there were fewer chips returned to me was because some museum visitors had eaten some of them.” He subsequently donated the souvenir to Reykjavik’s Bus Hostel. (Britain’s Daily Mail)
HOT PANTS – Michael Bain, the principal of a New Zealand elementary school, was serving as the starter for a swim meet in Havelock North when his shorts burst into flames. “I was just standing there having a sandwich, and then ‘boom,’” he recounted. “Basically, the starting-gun caps self-ignited, which set fire to my shorts.” Fortunately, Bain was standing next to the pool and jumped in. He was treated at the hospital for “a large burnt patch” on his leg. Fire official Jamie Nichol said that in his 24 years in the Fire Service, “I’ve never come across anything like this.” (The New Zealand Herald)
GUESS WHO? – The University of Michigan announced it will no longer use race descriptions to identify suspects in crime alerts unless absolutely necessary so as not to “reinforce stereotypes of black men … that negatively affect their sense of safety.” The school’s statement said it would continue to identify suspects by gender. (University of Michigan press release) IRONY OF THE WEEK – Ontario authorities reported that Adam Robert Brunt, 30, died while undergoing training for ice and water rescue at the Saugeen River in Hanover after he became trapped under ice in the “frigid and fast-flowing” water for 15 minutes. (The Toronto Star) WHAT GAVE IT AWAY? – After a Swedish educational video aimed at explaining private parts to children became a YouTube hit, Peter Bargee, programming director at public broadcaster SVT, said the clip also drew “unexpected” criticism. Some people complained that portraying the penis with a mustache and the vagina with long eyelashes reinforced gender stereotypes. Bargee responded that the video was meant to be fun and not a “statement on gender politics.” (Associated Press)
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n a rural dirt road far northeast of Missoula, a nondescript log home sits surrounded by woods and fields. Inside, up a flight of stairs, the home’s owners, Rick and Pat Freeland, have arranged two rooms with five beds, decorated as if for five little girls. A teddy bear is propped up against a pillow on each bed. “They’re very jealous of each other,” Pat says, explaining the room’s setup to a visitor. “They’ve been taught this by their pimps, and that’s how they control them.” “They” are victims of human trafficking, and this house doubles as a shelter for them known as “Traffick Refuge.” Since 2011, the Freelands have opened their doors to young women who have been sexually exploited—that is, trafficked—typically at the hands of a pimp. The Freelands lack formal training as counselors, but they do their best to help victims. Guided by their Christian faith and experience as parents, the Freelands welcome the women as “a part of our family,” Rick says. For traumatized young people accustomed to abuse, that welcome can be difficult to accept. “The first 30 days they’re here,” Rick says, “you watch them walk down the stairs and they’re wondering what’s going to hit them. So it’s all about rest, safety, change in basic eating habits—all the basic, basic stuff.” But even as the Freelands focus on offering simple, tangible forms of support— acquiring legal identification for the
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women, allowing them a night’s rest—they know how much more the victims require. “The difficult part is, everybody—good people—want to take them in, make them warm, give them a teddy bear and life is going to be okay for them, and it’s not,” Pat says. Despite their desire to shelter and assist as many trafficking victims as possible, the Freelands rarely get the opportunity. The challenge, the Freelands say, is multifold. First, women rarely escape the control of their pimps or other traffickers. If they do become free, it can be difficult to convince the justifiably distrustful victims to move out to rural Montana and live with a couple they’ve never met. (The exact location of the safe house has been protected due to concerns about traffickers attempting to retaliate against victims or to entice them back.) And even when a woman wants help, she and the Freelands must navigate the bureaucracies of the legal, penal and child-services systems. So far, in the four years since the Freelands established Traffick Refuge, they’ve only served six young women. And on a recent weekday, the safehouse is empty. The five beds remain neatly made and untouched. “Getting the girls here,” Rick says, “is the hardest problem.”
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from the Flathead Indian Reservation, where she says she was raised in a home rife with violence, sexual abuse and drug and alcohol abuse. In 2000, Wood says she was drinking, working as a stripper and in the process of losing custody of her two young children when a friend approached her and said she knew a guy who could help. “He knows how to make a lot of money really fast, if you wanna go—if you’re not scared,” Wood recalls her friend saying. “And I was like, ‘Oh, no, I’m not scared,’” Wood says. “And I went to the truck stop with them, and I made a lot of money really fast.” But the money soon began to disappear. First, the guy asked for gas money. Then, he asked for more of Wood’s earnings, for protection. Soon, he collected it all. “I didn’t know what pimps were at that time, and he was a pimp,” Wood says. “And he had five girls. There was five of them. The youngest one was, I think, 15. Fifteen going on 16. And she was the most experienced, too. He’d had her since she was 13. She was very young.” In Oklahoma, Wood entered an expansive underworld. According to widely cited data, human trafficking ranks as the second-most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world, behind only the drug trade. Globally, traffickers compel an estimated 27 million people to work in the sex trade and other sectors. In part, these alarming statistics derive from human trafficking’s broad definition as the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel a person to perform labor or commercial sexual acts. Despite the general acceptance of these numbers, questions remain about how they’re supported and whether they’re overstated. A 2011 Village Voice investigative report focused on a celebritybacked anti-trafficking campaign that claimed there were “between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States.” While The New York Times and other news outlets repeated the statistic, the Voice found only 8,236 arrests for child prostitution over a decade in the entire country. That’s an average of 824 a year, most of which occurred in major cities. Officials in Montana acknowledge the number of recorded trafficking cases in the state is low—almost nonexistent—but they don’t believe those numbers are indicative of the true extent of the problem. To make the data more reflective of the perceived extent of the problem, they say, law enforcement must find more perpetrators and, thus, more victims. “You don’t want the numbers to go up, but you want the numbers to go up,” says Bryan Lockerby, administrator for the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation. “We want the reports to increase, so that we’ll have a little better frame of mind [about the nature of the problem].” As far as investigators and activists can tell so far, sex traffickers operate far more prevalently in Montana and the rest of the country than labor traffickers. Often, though not exclusively, sex trafficking assumes the form of prostitution, primarily
of young women. And while state and local officials struggle to root out specific incidents of trafficking, they do sometimes overcome the challenge and make a bust. Guy Baker, a Missoula police detective who’s also deputized as a task force officer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says he’s personally worked “about a half-dozen” sex trafficking cases over the past three years while assigned to the FBI’s Montana Regional Violent Crime Task Force. Baker, however, believes law enforcement has barely scratched the surface of an entrenched and “steadily increasing” problem. While the Bakken has been credited with fueling demand for sex trafficking, Baker believes the problem is longstanding and pervasive. He says traffickers and their victims exist all around us—if you know where to look. Traffickers post advertisements for available women online. They prostitute young women out of hotel rooms and in parking lots. Spotters recruit girls at malls and in schools. A lack of public awareness, insufficient law enforcement training and weak laws, Baker says, allow trafficking to persist within society’s shadows. “So if you’re not in the area where this is going on, if you’re not online and on these websites, if you’re not partaking of this kind of activity,” Baker says, “the average person is oblivious to it.” In an effort to bring the problem to light and enhance prosecutions, Baker belongs to both the Montana Human Trafficking Task Force and to a broad, bipartisan coalition that has supported legislation designed to provide law enforcement with new tools, strengthen antitrafficking laws, inform the public and aid victims. The first of these laws passed in 2013, and this legislative session Rep. Kimberly Dudik, D-Missoula, has introduced a new human trafficking bill, House Bill 89, that further strengthens the law. The Freelands are strong supporters of Dudik’s bill, but they’re also adamant that the problem exceeds any quick legislative fix. “It’s real easy to get caught up in all the legislation,” Rick says. “Two of our girls testified before the Montana Legislature to help pass anti-trafficking bills. … All of that stuff is cool and everything, but how many people are willing to stay up at night with them, having their nightmares? I’ll tell you, most people are not up to the stories.” While those stories are hard to hear, they do shed light on a problem that even those involved, including Wood, find difficult to comprehend. Soon after Wood initially became involved with a pimp, she says she tried to escape the life of prostitution and to recover her sobriety, her children and her life. But she quickly found her way back to the truck stops of Oklahoma City. “I went back to the pimp, ’cause I didn’t have no one else,” Wood says. “And I was like, ‘I’ll work for you, but I need a lawyer. I need a lawyer ASAP to get my kids.’ And I told him, ‘Come on, let’s get to work.’” Wood got to work, but when her pimp took all of the money she made, she
Kat Werner, top, of YWCA Missoula, believes we are in the midst of a “paradigm shift” in how the public views human trafficking. Rick and Pat Freeland, middle, run Traffick Refuge, a shelter for trafficking victims, out of their home. Guy Baker, bottom, works with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Missoula Police Department to combat trafficking.
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began to stash small amounts on the side, in a desperate effort to save up and win back her children. When she was caught “stealing,” as her pimp considered it, Wood says he ordered three of his other prostitutes to beat her up. “And I literally crawled into the bus station, like bleeding and bruised,” Wood says. “So my mom sent me some money for a bus ticket.” Soon, however, Wood was back at it. She hitchhiked to Colorado and Texas, prostituting to pay her way. She made it to San Diego and hooked up with another pimp, who took her to Sacramento. There, she says a john took her into a field, held her at gunpoint, ordered her to strip, zip-tied her hands and feet together, and raped her. When her pimp came and got her, he admonished her but took her to the emergency room. “And I had these stupid high heels on that laced all way up my leg,” Wood recalls.
system or working in legal avenues of the sex trade, such as in a strip club. Especially vulnerable, experts say, are Native American women like Wood. In part, according to Lisa Brunner of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, this has to do with jurisdictional issues that make it difficult to hold offenders on reservations accountable, leading to “mass vulnerability that elevates the level of victimization—in particular sex trafficking— of Native women and girls.” The proximity of numerous reservations to the Bakken, Brunner says, has only exacerbated the issue for people who have long suffered from the “mass trauma” of forced removal and whose women have faced such indignities as forced sterilization. “We are being specifically targeted for who we are, as Native women,” Brunner says. Once a woman has been enticed, flattered and groomed, Baker describes how the stereotypical trafficking victim be-
in a hotel before moving on to the next city or town, as if on a circuit. “Prostitution could be someone who is willingly engaging in sex acts for compensation, whereas sex trafficking is where someone is forcing someone to engage in sex acts for compensation,” Baker says. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, if a pimp is involved with a prostitute, she’s a victim of sex trafficking.” Baker’s use of the 99 percent number is another contentious point in the fight against human trafficking, mainly because there’s no evidence to back it up. While no one disputes the need to help victims of human trafficking, painting all sex workers with a single broad stroke can also be dangerous. A recent article in The Stranger covered how consensual sex workers, including strippers, escorts and full-service massage therapists, are fighting new anti-trafficking measures in Washington state because, activists say, they go too
Baker gives a presentation at a human trafficking workshop at Salish Kootenai College. He believes trafficking is a “steadily increasing” problem in Montana.
“They were cute, but I couldn’t get them off because my hands were swollen. So they cut ’em off me. So after that, I would wear ones that you could slip on and off.”
uy Baker tends to compare the plight
G of trafficking victims, such as Wood, to that of people trapped in a burning building: They can jump or they can remain inside, but they don’t really have an easy choice. Whatever they do, they are doomed by their circumstance. From the outside, he says, it can be difficult to understand why someone would not only remain in such an exploitive and abusive situation, but also return to it. “It’s real easy for a person, or a jury member, to focus on a victim of sex trafficking as someone who’s dirty, naked and chained in a basement somewhere,” Baker says. “That’s real easy to focus on when, in reality, that’s not what’s happening.” Instead, what typically happens is what happened to Wood: A pimp seeks out a vulnerable woman, flatters her and offers support and protection. Often, the girl has left an abusive home environment and is living on the street as a runaway, being moved through the child-welfare
comes entangled in the industry. The pimp forces the woman to sell her body and takes her money. To keep victims pliable and cooperative, pimps not only use violence to establish their power but also work in more insidious ways to increase their victims’ dependence. They offer shelter and food, and they sometimes supply the women with drugs, in a deliberate effort to get them addicted and dependent on their pimp to keep them high. Drugs such as heroin also “take the edge off and make the girls more easily willing to do what [their pimps] want,” Baker says. For the pimps, he says, the trafficking of young women is extremely lucrative. “A huge thing about sex trafficking that people don’t realize is that, unlike drugs, if I have an ounce of cocaine and I sell it to you for 1,200 bucks, I make 1,200 bucks but my product is gone,” Baker says. “With sex trafficking, it’s a reusable commodity. I make $200 on this girl today, and an hour from now, I make another $200 on her. And tomorrow, I make another $600 on her.” In order to stay ahead of law enforcement and to find new clients, Baker says many pimps, especially in Montana, keep continuously on the move, scheduling sessions online and spending a night or two
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as it requires convincing a jury that a prostitute worked against her will. “And that,” Marks says, “is harder than just proving promoting prostitution or aggravated promoting prostitution. And that’s the bottom line: It’s essentially creating an additional thing that we would have to prove. It certainly sounds worse and, I think, would be a more accurate description of what’s occurring, but it’s also harder to prove. And I think our priority in these cases, number one, is getting a felony conviction on the offender. There’s no question about that.” The difficulty of proving the involuntary aspect has to do, in part, with the complex relationship that typically exists between a prostitute and her pimp, Marks says. To demonstrate a woman was forced to engage in prostitution, a prosecutor would likely have to ask the woman in question to testify to that fact. And that could be difficult, since victims generally
Rep. Kimberly Dudik, D-Missoula, has introduced a new human trafficking bill, House Bill 89, that would strengthen the state’s anti-trafficking laws and improve support for victims.
far. Widely circulated but unverified statistics are at the heart of that debate. “There’s been no rigorous evidence to prove prevalence, how many victims actually exist,” Meredith Dank, a sex-trafficking researcher and lead author of a Department of Justice-funded study published last year, told the paper. “That question has never been answered. You can’t just say 99 percent identify as a victim. Statements like that don’t help, because they’re not grounded in anything.” Danks’ DOJ study focused on eight American cities and found evidence of trafficking in each one. She reported that federal and local law enforcement felt overmatched and lacking the proper resources to fully address an underground commercial sex industry that was on the rise. But the report acknowledges that it’s unclear what percentage of the industry’s workers are consensual and what percentage are victims.
udik says her passion to stop trafficking grew out of her past work as a domestic violence advocate, a nurse and a prosecutor of child-abuse and -neglect cases. With that background, Dudik says
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she was incensed when she first learned about human trafficking and the percieved extent of the problem. “I’m like, I can’t stand for that,” Dudik says. “I can’t stand for it. It is wrong, and we need to do something about it. And I saw that I was in a position to do something. Someone has to, and I guess it’s me. So I started working on it.” In 2013, she helped two new trafficking laws pass through the legislature. House Bill 478 revised and strengthened existing prostitution laws, and established new prohibitions against the sexual servitude of a child and against patronizing a child. House Bill 488 required the Montana Department of Justice to distribute informational posters about how to identify and report possible trafficking activity. This session, she has collaborated with the Montana Attorney General’s Office to introduce HB 89, which is currently making its way through the state legisla-
ture and is expected to pass easily. But while the bill could provide meaningful reform if enacted, there remains the fundamental difficulty of apprehending alleged traffickers and prosecuting them under anti-trafficking laws. In Missoula over the past five years, a handful of apparent traffickers have been arrested. In 2010, Missoula police arrested Richard Carpita and charged him with prostituting four young women, three of whom were under 18. In 2012, an undercover sting resulted in the arrest of Clifton Oliver at Missoula’s Staybridge Suites for allegedly pimping a prostitute; he was later charged in Flathead County for pimping two prostitutes, one of whom was a minor. In 2013, Walter Hill appeared in Missoula County Justice Court on charges he pimped a 17-year-old woman. Though not as strong as the provisions included in HB 89, existing laws could have allowed for enhanced prosecution of these alleged pimps under the state’s involuntary servitude statute, which has been on the books since 2007. According to Missoula County Chief Deputy Attorney Jason Marks and Deputy Attorney Jennifer Clark, however, that statute is prohibitively difficult to prove,
don’t see themselves as victims and are unlikely to remain in the area while court proceedings drag on. “It’s not uncommon for the victims in these cases to be runaways, who may very well, by the time you’re a year, 18 months down the road, heading to trial, may not be around anymore again—or, just are traumatized,” Marks says. “Or they are back with their family wherever, and their family wants nothing to do with this and just wants to put it behind them.” Marks says other charges, such as promoting prostitution and aggravated promotion of prostitution (in the case of victims under 18), can be proven more easily, using only physical evidence and witness statements, which don’t require the victim’s participation. “We’re holding the person accountable for what they did to the victim,” Clark adds. “That’s what matters, not what it’s called.”
ust hours after Wood left the Sacra-
J mento emergency room, she says her
pimp woke her and told her, “Get up. You lost a lot of money last night.” Wood obeyed, but she soon escaped, only to return to San Diego and find a new
pimp. In addition to selling sex, they also sold drugs. Wood says they “made lot of money together” but eventually got busted. Wood took the fall. “They were going to charge him with pimping and pandering,” Wood says, “and I told them, ‘No, I smoke crack.’ I begged them to let him go, and they did. They let him go, and I ended up doing five months for my first felony, for drug sale and transportation.” Upon her release, Wood immediately returned to her pimp. Asked why she kept going back, Wood says, “I looked at it as, I’m here, and I’m making him happy. I make him happy, it makes me happy.” She adds, “I felt loved.” Wood started smoking crack, got pregnant, lost her child and continued her life on the streets. She worked as a prostitute in Las Vegas, began using meth, became addicted to heroin, sold drugs, returned to San Diego and went back to prison. When she got out, she returned to the pimp whose child she’d lost and got pregnant again. Her pimp, meanwhile, forced her to continue selling herself. “So I pulled maybe five tricks while I was pregnant,” Wood says. “And I was pregnant. Like, you could see my belly. The baby was moving. You could see her in there moving.” Wood pauses and begins to cry. “And I told him I was scared, because those guys, they can kill you. They could hurt you. And I was scared for the baby.” The danger to her unborn child came not from a john, however, but from her pimp.
The Freelands have run Traffick Refuge for four years but only housed six women. “Getting the girls here,” Rick says, “is the hardest problem.”
“He started hitting me when I was pregnant,” Wood says. “I was eight months pregnant, and he tried to kick me in the stomach. And I had him arrested. And then my baby was born.” The birth of her child was the catalyst Wood needed to finally return to the Flathead in 2008 and escape prostitution for good. It wasn’t easy—and still isn’t, she says. All told, Wood says she spent eight years, off and on, under the control of a series of abusive and exploitative pimps
who subjected her to the cruelties and indignities of an endless series of johns, working as a prostitute across the country, from Oklahoma to California to Georgia to Wyoming. She goes to therapy and attends recovery support groups, but the mental, physical and social effects linger. “It becomes like a drug, too,” she says. “You feel needed. You feel wanted.” On a recent Thursday afternoon, Wood attended a human trafficking workshop, presented by Baker and Kat Werner of
YWCA Missoula and the Montana Human Trafficking Task Force, at Salish Kootenai College, where Wood is a social work student. Wood found it strange to listen as certain things she experienced in real life were described as warning signs or discussed as hypothetical scenarios. Like many people, Wood says she didn’t know until recently what “human trafficking” meant, much less know she was a victim of it. Educating victims and the public at large about the often coerced nature of prostitution and other
sex work is key, Werner says, to combatting human trafficking. “We’re trying to decriminalize women that are engaged in the sexual service industry,” Werner says. As the law changes, public awareness increases and law enforcement efforts ramp up, Werner believes we are in the midst of a “paradigm shift” in terms of how the public views prostitution and human trafficking. These are important steps, but challenges remain for those working with women on the road to recovery. Those few who made it to Traffick Refuge, for instance, didn’t just pass through without any further problems. “They don’t need stuffed animals and toothpaste,” Rick says. “They need people that will be willing to either share talent, share time, share love of any kind. These kids are void of love. They don’t even know how to receive love. You can give it to them, and they don’t even really know what they’re looking at.” For Wood, coming to terms with the fact that she was a victim of trafficking is difficult—not because she doesn’t see she was exploited, but because she knows how many others are being trafficked. It’s hard to feel for yourself, she says, when you know the true extent of the suffering. “I think I had it easy though,” Wood says. “I’ve seen a lot of things happen to a lot of girls out there. I got off pretty easy. I had it real easy.” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com
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Storm chaser Through bad luck and hard work, an ambitious young Plains Indian artist makes it all the way to the Met by Erika Fredrickson
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ate last spring, Shania Hall, then 17, stood on top of a hill near Choteau and waited for a storm to hit. Sheets of rain hurtled across Glacier National Park and dark clouds bloomed above the plains. Hall and Big Sky High School’s Flagship program coordinator at the time, Scott Mathews, duct-taped a Fujifilm instant camera to a tripod. As the wind whipped the rain and clouds across the sky, Hall squinted through the viewfinder and began to shoot. “As I’m taking the pictures,” Hall recalls, “the photos are popping out in front of me and flying over my head, and Scott’s behind me catching them.” Mathews and Hall, along with Big Sky Spanish teacher Jay Bostrom and his wife, Jodi, had driven 250 miles from Missoula to the hill up Molly Nipple’s Road. It was an unusual school-sanctioned adventure, but it marked the chance of a lifetime. Several months earlier, an email from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had circulated in schools nationwide asking for a high school student of Plains Indian descent to submit photographs for inclusion in The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky—one of the largest Native American exhibits in the world. Hall, with the encouragement of Mathews, had her eye on that prize.
Out of the storm and in the calm light of the hotel room where they were staying, the group studied the photographs as they dried. Mathews, flustered from the chaos, recalls not being sure if what they had was going to hit the mark, but looking at the swirling imagery in front of him, he was hopeful. He numbered the prints and threw them into an envelope to be delivered to the museum. When he mailed them a few weeks later, Mathews was stressed about letting go of the originals. “I remember checking my phone watching them travel through to Manhattan,” he says. “The time stamp for when the package was received at the museum to the time we received the email congratulating Shania was, like, an hour.” Hall had made it in: the only high school student to be included in the prestigious Met exhibit. But for Hall, the months leading up to the opening of the exhibit were anything but a smooth ride.
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ven though she’s young, Hall knows all too well about the ups and downs of life. She grew up on the reservation in Browning, perusing the pictures in the pages of National Geographic. “Living, povertywise, I didn’t have money to go out all the time and
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travel,” she says. “I was a big dreamer, but everyone was telling me, ‘You need to get a job. You need to do this or that.’ And so I was kind of a rebel and did my own thing.” Hall moved with her mother to Missoula to attend high school, and by the time Hall reached her senior year, she was faltering. “I was failing some classes and I wasn’t doing well socially—hanging out with the wrong crowd,” she says. “And so some teachers recommended me to Scott Mathews. I needed someone to help me with my senior project and he did filmmaking, which I wanted to do.” In January 2014, when Mathews got the email about the Met’s call for a high school photographer, he thought of Hall. “I projected a picture of the museum up on the wall of my office,” Mathews says. “I told her I thought a project like this would take about 75 hours to complete because we’ll have to practice and learn the camera and figure out where we’re going to shoot. I said, ‘But I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t invest 75 hours in just having that chance to get into the Met.’ And she said, ‘Let’s do it.’” It was one of the worst winters of recent memory, the roads bogged down in snow drifts. Mathews
and Hall donned snowshoes and took a 35mm camera up to a Rattlesnake ranch owned by one of Mathews’ friends so Hall could put together a portfolio for the museum. After the Met approved Hall’s portfolio, they sent her the Fujifilm Instax 10 through the mail— a low-tech camera but one that makes photos that can be blown up in size. Daniel Kershaw, the Met’s exhibit designer, also sent them a picture he’d found online to show the kind of sweeping plains and stormy skies the museum was looking for—which is how Mathews and Hall ended up at Molly’s Nipple Road in the eye of a storm. At the time, Hall was still failing three classes. After the stormy shoot and before overnighting the photos to the museum, Mathews made Hall get serious about her work. He told her, “I’m not going to send the pictures out until you pass those classes and I know you’re graduating.” Hall says she buckled down, stayed up late doing homework and added extra credit work until she passed the classes and received her diploma. In June, after she was accepted at the Met, Hall joined the Youth Conservation Corps and camped all month in the woods. While she was gone, Mathews got a call that prominent New York artist Gail Bruce had heard about Hall and wanted to give her a college scholarship.
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When Hall returned home for the good news, it was overshadowed by bad news. She and her mother had been evicted from their apartment and her mother was ill. A few weeks later, on a Monday, her mom was diagnosed with cancer. She died that Friday. Hall says she fell into a depression. She ditched town without telling anyone and hitched a ride to her dad’s house in Kalispell, then to the reservation. For two months, Mathews didn’t know where she’d gone. “She went underground,” he says. “I was texting her saying, ‘You don’t have to tell me where you are
of the museum that she’d first seen projected on the wall of Mathews’ office. Inside the gallery her photos of the storm had been stitched together in a panoramic view and blown up to 16-feet-tall images spread across three large walls. “The picture was so big that it kind of looked like it did when we were up on the hill that day,” Mathews says. “We were thinking, ‘Wow, we are in New York, but this room looks like Montana.’” During the visit, Hall had lunch with Jodi Gillette, President Obama’s Native American senior policy ad-
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Shania Hall’s photos of the Montana plains are part of a large exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
just tell me you are okay.’ Nothing. But, after a while, I sensed that she had gone to Browning.” When Hall resurfaced she vowed to get herself back on track and, with the help of the scholarship, start college in the spring. But in January 2015, Hall received more bad news: this time her grandma had passed away from cancer. Hall headed back to Browning for the fourday funeral where family members and friends took part in pipe ceremonies and prayed. The day before they buried her grandmother, Hall got a call from a New York number. It was a woman from the Met telling her they wanted to fly her out for the exhibit’s opening. “I was thinking how every time something good happens, something bad happens,” Hall says. “It’s like yin and yang. Every time. I started crying. The woman, Judith, didn’t know what to do, because it wasn’t how most people react to that kind of news.”
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few weeks ago, Hall and Mathews flew to New York and took a car to the center of Manhattan. Hall looked out the window to see the grand steps
visor and an artist also in the exhibit. They took what Mathews refers to as a “Willy Wonka Factory-style” tour of the museum. “Everyone knew Shania’s story,” Mathews says. “No matter what department of the museum we went to, everyone wanted to talk to her.” Back in Missoula, Hall is still trying to let the experience sink in. She’ll attend Blackfeet Community College in the fall and, if she does well, her benefactor will pay for her to study at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. Waiting for the next big thing to happen feels unnerving to her, but also exciting. “None of this has hit me yet,” she says. “If I wouldn’t have gotten in trouble—and I’m not saying people should—I wouldn’t have met Scott and this wouldn’t have happened. I don’t know what will happen next. But photography has gotten me this far.”
efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Bohemian rhapsody Wing and Claw start small, end big There are benefits to being in a duo. Less gear to carry. Fewer pee breaks between tour stops. And, like the White Stripes, the opportunity to easily arrange badass color-coordinated wardrobes. On a more technical level, Salt Lake City’s indie-folk pair Wing and Claw challenges notions of a duo’s capability, with songs that start small, end big and get a little strange in between. On Wing and Claw’s 2013 eponymous album, tracks begin minimally, almost like meditations on objects—a tree, a train, a grave—then radiate into weirdness. At one point, in “Oak,” cellist Genevieve Smith and guitarist James Miska both play mouth trumpet to a polka beat, while plucking strings and stomping out percussion. “Freight” shows the band’s subtler side and proves that good train metaphors aren’t dead. Both musicians stick to single, deep notes, while the track chugs along with Smith’s smooth, loungey vocals. (Smith will be familiar to listeners as the former cellist of Missoula band Bird’s Mile Home.) Most of Wing and Claw’s songs contain an implied mystery, either in curious instrumental shifts
or lyrically. Though they sometimes miss the mark, slipping into discordant, clashing combos of soundboard drumming and cello slaps, tracks like “Bones” and “A Criminal” keep the album engaging. Miska and Smith have cultivated an enjoyably bizarre blend of traditional cello riffs and bohemian mysticism. Their music is also a study in multi-tasking, which is something worth witnessing in person. (Micah Fields) Wind and Claw play the VFW Sat., March 14, at 8 PM along with Bird’s Mile Home, The Shiveries and Matthew Gaydos. $3/$5 for those 18–20.
That1Guy With song titles like “Weasel Pot-Pie” and “Butt Machine,” it’s easy to mistake Mike Silverman, aka That1Guy, for another Weird Al Yankovich. That assumption is not completely off base, but it’s important to note that it is seeing what this musician is capable of—not just hearing his work—that showcases Silverman’s distinctive appeal. Years ago, I came across a small stage during the now defunct 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, Minn. In front of me stood a skinny man dressed in all black and a top hat with only a microphone and something that resembled a network of plumbing pipes placed haphazardly together. I thought I had come across some weird modern art display. It turned out the “Magic Pipe,” as he calls it, incorporates strings, percussion and sound effects, like seagulls chirping. His lyrics were silly—“The moon is disgusting, it’s made of cheese,” he sings in one song—but his music was not. The level of complexity That1Guy creates just by hitting an electronic pipe in different places is as-
tounding. His songs are funky and intricate, and it’s a little difficult to comprehend that the separate layers of one song are all simultaneously performed with one man’s hands—and, sometimes, feet. On the 2014 album, Poseidon’s Deep Water Adventure Friends, Silverman displays impressive diversity. “The Great Navigator” is basically a cello solo, for instance. Some songs, however, like those featuring synthesized vocals and heavy metal influences, tip the outlandish scale in a distracting rather than enhancing way. In a bio on his website, That1Guy writes that he tries to fit a little magic into every performance. After experiencing quite a few more live shows since the 10,000 Lakes Festival, I have to admit he does. His quirky abilities continue to impress each time. (Kellen Beck) That1Guy performs at Stage 112 Thu., March 19. Doors open at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance at 1111presents.com. 18-plus.
Father John Misty, I Love You Honeybear On his autobiographical concept album, I Love You Honeybear, Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, sings with the kind of clarity that comes with newfound love and, perhaps, maturity. The title track’s intricate lyrics and lush string arrangement offer an example of what Tillman does best musically. It’s also his most straightforward and uplifting song about his new relationship. After acknowledging what he and his new partner bring to the relationship (his mother’s depression, her aunt’s schizophrenia), Tillman sings in his aching baritone, “Don’t give into despair/ ’Cause I love you, Honeybear.” Elsewhere on the album Tillman details past relationships gone bad. The songs feel urgent, like something he needed to address in order to move forward.
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He ends standout track “Ideal Husband” by recounting an embarrassing early morning visit to a past girlfriend when he stupidly suggested they “put a baby in the oven.” And then he buries the song in crashing drums and fuzzed out guitar. The only serious misstep on Honeybear is “True Affection,” built on swirling synths and a drum machine, neither of which suits Tillman’s folk sensibilities. Despite that, the album succeeds in honestly affirming love and acknowledging its difficulties. On “I Went To The Store One Day,” Tillman sings, “For love to find us, of all people/ I never thought it’d be so simple.” From another musician it might seem too earnest, but Tillman’s sentiment feels hard won. (JP Kemmick)
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It’s time for those of us who write about film to admit it: The war for Hollywood’s soul is lost. It was lost a long time ago. The war in question is the one against the brandoriented emphasis of studio movie-making. We’ve griped for more than 20 years as sequels, remakes and franchise extensions proliferated, and all we’ve seen is a global industry more dependent than ever on familiar properties, familiar titles, familiar characters. When a live-action Cinderella emerges under the Disney banner, there’s no point pounding our fists and asking why. We know it will never stop, any more than the Marvel superhero movies will stop before there are more “phases” than Super Bowls. This is the new normal. The battle now isn’t for the “what” of brand-focused Hollywood; it’s for the “how.” It’s important to change the conversation from “Did we really need a live-action Cinderella?” to “How did this particular live-action Cinderella turn out to be so lifeless?” In theory, it’s not a terrible notion that director Kenneth Branagh’s version would be an earnest, straightforward re-telling of Charles Perrault’s fairytale via the Disney animated classic. The screenplay by Chris Weitz goes heavier on the backstory, introducing the beloved mother (Hayley Atwell) of young Ella (Lily James of “Downton Abbey”) before Mom’s untimely passing and Ella’s merchant father (Ben Chaplin) re-marrying, ultimately leaving poor Ella with a stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and two stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera) who treat her poorly as Cinderella story step-family characters are wont to do. It’s a generally bright, cheery interpretation, built around plucky Cinderella’s determination to follow her mother’s deathbed advice to “have courage and be kind.” And, again, fidelity isn’t inherently a problematic approach simply because we’re in an era where we’re used to new versions of these classic stories, like last year’s Maleficent, which shift the perspective or add thornier psychological subtext. The problem is that this version is faithful only to certain things, at the expense of the things that would have brought the whole enterprise to life. More specifically, this version is just about the humans: about Cinderella and her first meeting in the woods with a fellow who calls himself Kit (Richard Madden, who plays Robb Stark in “Game of Thrones”)
but is in fact the crown prince; about Kit trying to convince his father, the king (Derek Jacobi), that he should be allowed to marry for love; about Cinderella and Kit’s courtship at the ball; etc. It’s almost entirely a nice, slowbuild romance between two very nice people. It is, therefore, almost entirely a huge bore. Those who remember Disney’s animated Cinderella with any sort of clarity will recall that the amount of screen time actually devoted to the human characters is relatively small; the focus is on Cinderella’s animal friends, like mice Jacques and Gus, trying to help her out, all while trying to avoid being caught by Lucifer, the cat belonging to Cinderella’s stepmother. And when the focus is on the human characters, it’s often accompanied by the lovely songs like “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” “So This Is Love” and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.” CGI versions of the mice get brief appearances here— not that anyone would be eager to see a more prominent role for CGI mice—and the songs are entirely absent. In short, somebody thought it was a good idea to re-create a version of Disney’s Cinderella lacking absolutely everything that gave it charm. There’s a brief glimpse of what’s lacking during the rest of the film when Helena Bonham Carter shows up as Cinderella’s fairy godmother, goofing her way through prosthetic teeth to do the obligatory pumpkin-into-carriage and fancy-ball-gown thing. Finally a spark emerges to distract from the inexorable march toward happily ever after, and from how eerily James resembles a young Jessica Lange. Even Blanchett can’t help with that much-needed energy, despite a token effort to give the stepmother some emotional wounds to explain her cruelty (which nevertheless doesn’t prevent Blanchett from going into full eyebrows-arched villainy mode). And so we wait for the slipper to fit, so we can all smile at the nice people getting their nice ending. And with Disney currently planning its live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, we’ll have to hope that maybe next time the exploitation of intellectual property winds up with something more than sappily ever after. Cinderella opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., March 13. arts@missoulanews.com
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P.T. Anderson is one among a handful of truly great directors working today. I’m talking about the living legends: Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers—we could bicker all day over who else to include. Directors become legend by making consistently thought provoking, carefully made films. By that same token, there’s no such thing as a bad Paul Thomas Anderson film. I may only really enjoy about half of his movies, but every one of them looks terrific and evokes emotion. After a first viewing, I thought I hated 2012’s The Master, Anderson’s epic story about a Scientologylike cult in post-war America. I liked Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as an id-driven soldier but I never understood the point of his character or what the film was trying to tell me. I saw the movie several more times, and I still don’t get it, but something in the performances—Philip Seymour Hoffman, in particular—and the way the movie looks kept me coming back again and again. Which brings me to Anderson’s latest film, Inherent Vice, adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel. It’s a super ensemble cast about a bunch of hippies, squares and dopers in 1970 Los Angeles and I don’t know what the hell to think of it. The film stars Phoenix, this time as a hippie private investigator named “Doc” Sportello. In the first scene, Doc is visited in the night by an old girlfriend, Shasta Fay (Katherine Waterston). She’s come to tell him about some trouble she’s gotten into in the year or so since their last meeting. Never mind the details. What matters is their relationship with each other, how intimate, strange and seemingly random it is. Days later, word on the street says Shasta Fay’s disappeared, along with her real estate tycoon and sort-of boyfriend Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts). Their disappearance prompts Doc to embark on a marijuana-fueled, soul-searching investigation that will become the narrative scope of our film. Along the way, Doc meets what starts to seem like an insane number of notable characters. There’s the straightlaced L.A. cop/Hollywood actor named Bigfoot ( Josh Brolin), who has a weird habit of eating chocolatecovered bananas and doesn’t like hippies. Jena Mal-
one shows up as a former heroin addict with big fake teeth; these days she teaches teens about “responsible drug use.” Reese Witherspoon’s a deputy D.A. with a healthy sexual appetite. Thankfully Anderson balances out the cast with a mix of unknowns; too many big names and it starts to look and feel like a Hollywood high school pageant play. Ostensibly, Doc’s talking to all these nut bars and getting into hilarious misadventures in an attempt to find out what’s happened to Shasta Fay. But as the investigation unfolds, we see it’s much more about his quest to understand who this woman was, and just why her allure proves so profound. Doc has an understated charm and a natural ease that I found both compelling and seductive. When Shasta comes to visit him in the night, she says, “It’s not what you think,” and he says, “Don’t worry, thinking comes later.” Later on, she seduces him with tales of all the sexy things she’s been up to with other men, and he says, “Guys just love to hear shit like this.” Something about the way he both accepts wholeheartedly the actions of people around him and asserts his own need to be free with the same detached level of coolness specific to frequent marijuana users. It moves me. Inherent Vice is a period piece that succeeds valiantly in capturing a particular place and time in American history. The police are paranoid about Manson-like cults. The drugs of the ’60s are just now starting to catch up with the hippies, and capitalism is there to pick up the pieces. The plot continually brings Doc back to a cerulean colored rotary phone, and if that refraining image doesn’t make you nostalgic for an idealized past then what will? This is a strange picture for the P.T. Anderson canon. There’s a lot to admire—the trouble is that large portions of the plot are entirely confounding. I’m sure it would help if I’d read the book ahead of time. Heck, we should all be reading more, but making it a requirement in order to understand a movie is just un-American. Inherent Vice continues at the Roxy through Thu., March 19. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] discover that something has gone terribly wrong. Starring Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass and Evan Peters. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.
OPENING THIS WEEK BALLET 422 Go backstage at the New York City Ballet, where a rising star is assigned to choreograph a new dance for the company’s winter season. Screening at the Roxy Fri., March 12–Sat., March 15 at 7 PM.
MCFARLAND, USA Kevin Costner is a cross-country coach determined to lead his team to a championship. I didn’t realize it was Feel Good Sports Movie season already. Also starring Maria Bello and Morgan Saylor. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
CINDERELLA Full disclosure: I don’t care how boring or silly this particular adaptation of the fairytale is, because if it has poufy ballgowns, prancing horses and Robb Stark being handsome, take my money. Starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett and Richard Madden. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
MR. TURNER Timothy Spall stars as the eccentric but brilliant British painter J.M.W. Turner in a tale of his passionate, controversial lifestyle. Also starring Paul Jesson and Dorothy Atkinson. Rated R. Wilma.
KILL BILL VOL. 2 Uma Thurman is back to open up a big ole can of whoop-ass. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Thu., March 12, at 7:15 PM.
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Older British gals lust after Richard Gere in their little colonial enclave—er, excuse me, retirement spot—in India. Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill Nighy. Rated PG. Carmike 12.
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA DONNA DEL LAGO Rossini’s masterpiece sets the “Lady of the Lake” tale in the Scottish highlands, with bel canto stars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez. Screening at the Roxy Sat., March 14 at 11 AM and Tue., March 17 at 6:30 PM. Visit mtlive.org. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS David Hare’s play depicts a family struggling to rise out of a Mumbai slum. Based on a true story. Screening at the Roxy Tue., March 17 at 7 PM. Visit mtlive.org. REEL INJUN A documentary exploring the role of indigenous people in cinema, from to the silent era to today, and how movies perpetuate myths and stereotypes. Screening at the Roxy Wed., March 18 at 7 PM as part of the Indigenous Cinema series. RUN ALL NIGHT Liam Neeson plays a mobster and hitman torn between saving his estranged son or siding with his best friend. Also starring Ed Harris and Joel Kinnaman. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.
NOW PLAYING AMERICAN SNIPER Clint Eastwood directs the based-on-a-true-story tale of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER The Square One embarks on a quest for a stolen recipe that takes him onto dry land. Starring Tom Kenny, Antonio Banderas and Bill Fagerbakke. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. “Watch while I teach this guy a lesson about skills.” Run All Night opens Friday at Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and the Entertainer.
Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Kyle Gallner. Rated R. Carmike 12.
Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Jennifer Ehle. Rated R. Carmike 12.
CHAPPIE In a dystopian future, a police robot develops the ability to think and feel. This will probably end well. Starring Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel and Hugh Jackman. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
INHERENT VICE A drug-addled private eye investigates an ex-girlfriend’s disappearance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the Pynchon novel. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin and Owen Wilson. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy through Thu., March 19 at 8 PM.
THE DUFF Sadly, this movie has nothing to do with Hilary Duff, but rather, is about a high school senior finding out she’s been labeled the “Designated Ugly Fat Friend.” Starring Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne and Robbie Amell. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY A naive young woman dates a controlling loner. It’s totally not abusive or manipulative, though, because he’s hot and rich. ‘K. Starring Dakota
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE A slick, modern spy organization recruits a smart-talking kid off the street. Will the protege be able to save the world from an evil genius in time?!?!? Gosh, I have no idea. Starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson. Rated R. Carmike 12. THE LAZARUS EFFECT After medical students discover a way to bring dead people back to life, they are surprised to
UNFINISHED BUSINESS Dudes on a business trip to Europe stumble into unexpected situations, like fetish conventions and political summits, often to comedic effect. Starring Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. WHIPLASH Our homeboy J.K. Simmons stars as a music instructor who’s merciless to promising young students. Also starring Miles Teller and Melissa Benoist. Rated R. Wilma. Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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St. Patty’s Day parsnips by Ari LeVaux Nothing against corn beef and cabbage, but the parsnip is more Irish to me. The taproot has a subtly sweet character and stubborn perseverance that says Ireland, especially this time of year when the Irish parsnip harvest is in full swing. It’s also worth remembering that long before the potato was introduced to the Emerald Isle, it was the parsnip that provided much of the winter calories consumed there. Ireland’s climate is mild enough that the seeds can be planted in summer, with the resulting roots left in the ground and harvested all winter and deep into the spring. The Irish countryside is also home to wild parsnips, which were traditionally used in conjunction with hops to make beer, while Ireland’s English neighbors to the south prefer parsnip wine. Domesticated parsnips arrived in that corner of Europe thanks to the Romans, who discovered that they grow better in northern climates. Emperor Tiberius was so fond of the aromatic taproots that he had them cultivated on his behalf in France and Germany. But it seems that the UK is where they have found a more secure place in the cultural and culinary fabric. For a time, parsnips were commonly used as a source of sugar. In contemporary England, the parsnip is used to describe the shape of the ideal man, with wide shoulders and a narrow torso. In honor of the long, pale tuber that’s currently in season, and the approaching St. Patrick’s Day holiday, here are two parsnip-based recipes to help you celebrate. Beef and Parsnip Stout Stew You can’t get more Irish than a stout beer like Guinness. Other Irish stouts, like Murphy’s, work as well. This is a slow cooker recipe, and the longer and slower it cooks, the better. It’s best made the day before. The sweet stout is absorbed by the other contents, and the result is a dark, rich broth, faintly parsnippy. Adapted from Allrecipes.com. Ingredients 2 pounds beef, or more if the cuts have bones attached, which is preferable. I last made it with a mix of beef stew meat chunks and beef neck. Ribs would work, as would shank. Whatever you use, it should be in manageable chunks. 3 medium carrots, cubed 3 medium parsnips, cubed 1 turnip, peeled and cubed 1 large onion, chopped
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3 stalks celery, chopped 1 pint Irish stout 2 tablespoons tomato paste or pizza sauce, or ½ cup canned tomatoes 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon dried thyme 2 tablespoons garlic powder 3 cups beef broth (unless you’re using beef bones) How to make it: Brown the meat under the broiler, and add it to a slow cooker, then cover meat halfway with water. Alternatively this can be baked in a Dutch oven with tight-fitting lid. Add a tablespoon of butter to the meat browning pan, and then add the celery and onion. Brown them on the stove or in the broiler, and add to the stew. Deglaze the pan with beer and add it to the stew. Add the parsnip, carrot and turnip, thyme, garlic powder, tomato, broth and the rest of the butter. Salt to taste as it cooks. Cook 4-8 hours on low until beef is completely tender. Parsnip Apple Soup This lovely dish merges the sweet, rosy aroma of apples with the earthy sweet fragrance of the parsnips, and adds many more layers of complexity with a mix of spices. It all merges smoothly into a delightful harmony. It comes by way of YourIrish.com. Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 1 onion, chopped 2-3 parsnips (1 pound), thin-sliced 2-3 apples (1 pound), peeled, cored, sliced 1 clove garlic, pressed or crushed 2 teaspoons curry powder 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 2 pints chicken or veggie stock optional: cream, and chives for garnish How to make it: Melt the butter in a pan. Sauté the onion until it begins to get soft. Add the parsnip, apple and garlic and cook until soft. Stir in the spices and cook for 2 minutes, stirring. Add the stock and bring to a simmer, stirring continuously. Season with salt and pepper. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 30 minutes until the parsnips are tender. Puree in a blender and stir in the cream. Heat gently without allowing the soup to boil.
[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Have you checked out Bernice's website: bernicesbakerymt.com? Are you a fan of Bernice's on Facebook? Did you catch that silly Christmas video on YouTube? Viewed the Montana Home Shopping Showcase? Bernice's not only has awesome breakfast pastries, elegant cakes, signature wedding cakes, cookies and treats galore, lunch, and excellent coffee. Bernice's has great employees who rock the social media! 36 years of solid goodness! Check out our social media and then stop by to celebrate a job well done! Xoxo bernice. Bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Eagles Lodge #32 Missoula 2420 South Avenue 543-6346 Tailgate with us before each Griz home game, and get a FREE ride to the game on our shuttle. Soup, salad and burgers served for lunch Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 2:30pm. Don’t forget to stop in for our Thursday Night Matadors & Friday Night Burgers, 6:00 to 8:00pm both nights. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday night and admission is always FREE! El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 FREE DELIVERY DOWNTOWN. Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$
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Stone of Accord HAPPIEST HOUR Erin go bragh: If you’re looking for Irishthemed drinks to wet your whistle on St. Patrick’s Day, the Stone of Accord bar and restaurant has your back with a slew of drink and menu specials inspired by the Emerald Isle.
Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$
Drink up: Bartender Coral Meyers says they offer classic pairings, like drafts of Guinness or Harp lager with a shot of Jameson, or tasters of their extensive selection of Irish liquors. Meyers says she’s partial to Redbreast, a 12-year-old single-pot-still whiskey. Mix it up: You can also walk on the wild side with a few of their creative cocktails. “We’re doing something completely different with the Irish Skip and Go Naked,” she says. “It has Paddy devil-apple flavored whiskey mixed with Harp.” They also offer a Paddy’s Pot o’ Gold Moscow Mule, which delivers a fruity kick with Jameson, muddled orange and ginger beer. Don’t forget dinner: In addition to Stone of Accord’s regular offerings like Guinness chocolate cake, soda bread and corned beef, Meyer says the kitchen is whipping up specials like the Dublin coddle, which is a stick-to-your-ribs stew of cured bacon, sausage and baby red potatoes.
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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Point me there: Find Stone of Accord at 4951 N. Reserve St. Open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. —Kate Whittle Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3? (Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $
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The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full
Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Ruby’s Cafe 2101 Regent St. at Brooks 728-9890 True American Diner! Come join us at the counter, grab a booth or find a table. Breakfast all day, Lunch & Dinner. Homemade Pies. Homemade Soups. Mon-Sat 6am - 9pm and Sun 8am - 3pm. “You keep us cookin!” $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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Africa. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets from 6-7:30 PM. $5 donation requested. The Rising from the Ashes fundraiser presents a kickin’ time with Good Old Fashioned and No One’s Listening (14-year-old girl pop punk, heck yes) plus music, food, raffle and booze. ZACC, 6-9 PM. $5 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit the Russell family, who lost their belongings in a house fire.
March 12–March 19, 2015
Budsmokers unite when Bone Thugs-nHarmony plays E. 1999 Eternal in its entirety, hot damn, at the Wilma. Special guests include Frodie and Brian Meyers. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $31.50 at ticketweb.com. Spoken word artist G. Yamazawa delivers the poetry slam-bam-thank-you-ma’am at the University Center Ballroom, 7-8:30 PM, as part of the Tunnel of Oppression event. Free. Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406-396-5934 to sign up early. UM researcher Mandy Slate chats about little flora with major impact in “Slight but Consequential: The Ecological Significance of Moss.” Gallagher Business Bldg, Rm L09. 7:30-9:30 PM. Mellow rock outfit The Ruins accompanies your pudding-shot shenanigans at Feruqi’s, 318 N. Higgins Ave., 8 PM-12:30 AM. $2. Buddy “What Me Worry” Jackson takes over the March residency at the VFW on Thursday nights, and I’m going to wildly speculate that they’ll be playing Ke$ha and Neutral Milk Hotel covers. 9 PM. $2/$5 for ages 18-20. photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Fancy pants. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Pippin at the Montana Theatre, starring former Broadway performer Todd Hunter, Tue., March 17–Sat., March 21, and Tue., March 24–Sat., March 28, at 7:30 PM nightly. $10–$20.
THURSDAYMAR12 The Irish Film Night with UM Friends of Irish Studies presents the charming animated show Song of the Sea and the documentary Scéal ar Butte at the Roxy Theater. 5 PM. $6–$10, with discounts for families with kids under 14. Check out theroxytheater.org.
The second annual Thinking Its Presence conference brings together writers and thinkers to chat about race, creative writing and literature, with readings and performances around town March 12-14. Jamaican-born poet Claudia Rankine delivers the keynote address on Saturday in the UC Theater at 7 PM. Visit thinkingitspresencetheracia2015.sched.org. (See Spotlight.)
nightlife Mary Place and Blue Moon heat up the afternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thursday from 5:30-8 PM. Free. The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers interactive instruction in performance traditions from nations including Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South
DJ Nicholas Minaj pops it like it’s hot at the Palace, with special guests Energy Release Proponent and Strip Club Soundtrack. Doors at 9 PM. No cover. It’s going down in da club when Torontobased spinner Grandtheft plays Stage 112. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $20/$16 in advance. 18-plus. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and 1111presents.com. Funky outfit Baby Tyger burns it bright at the Top Hat, along with the always elevating Letter B. 10 PM. No cover.
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Those boots are made for walkin’. Home Free plays the Top Hat Mon., March 16, at 8 PM. Sold out.
FRIDAYMAR13 Artists including Louise Lamontagne, Pamela Caughey, LeAnn Boyd, Rick Phillips and Barb Schwarz Karst strut their stuff for the Form in Action exhibit, featuring works in fresco, oils, encaustic and watermedia. Radius Gallery, 114 E. Main St., 5-8 PM. Big Sky High School art students show off their stuff with an exhibit on display at Missoula Art Museum, 10 AM-5 PM.
nightlife Sneak a little peak at the third annual {mini} Show and silent auction, with dozens of teensy works on display at the ZACC’s Second Friday reception, 5:30-8:30 PM. Silent auction opens now and lasts until the gala benefit on March 21. Check out zootownarts.org. The International Women’s Day Banquet celebrates gals with cultural presentations, exhibits, a panel including prominent UM and state
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officials, plus dinner in the University Center Ballroom, 6-9 PM. $20/$15 in advance/$10 for students. Tickets available at The Source in the UC and the UM Women’s Resource Center. (See Agenda.)
Every iteration of Puff Daddy is welcome at the I Love the 90s dance party with Dead Hipster at Monk’s, which gets rolling at 9 PM. $3 to attend, with drink specials galore. Nineties outfits encouraged.
The cool kitties of MCAT host a concert with solo keyboard performer Aristotle and her ambient soundwaves followed by a spiritual reading. 500 N. Higgins Ave., 7:309 PM. Free.
The Heroes Are Gang Leaders show brings together poet Thomas Sayers Ellis and a live band in a memorable poetry groove of “literary hip-jazz-blues,” as part of the Thinking Its Presence conference. Hot damn. Missoula Art Museum, 9-10 PM. $25/$15 for MAM members. Check out missoulaartmuseum.org.
The Avant-Garde Alliance gets real experimental at the Real Lounge, along with The Catch and Philip Glasshole, who I’m sure is a lovely person. Corner of Pattee and Front. 8 PM. $3/$5 for ages 18-plus. The Zeppo rhythm ‘n blues revue does it old-school stylie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave., on Friday and Saturday starting about 8 PM each night. No cover. Win big in Arlee at the weekly karaoke contest, with everything from Asia to Zeppelin in the book to choose to from. Stockman’s, 92580 U.S. 93, starting at 8 PM. Best singer wins 50 bux.
It’ll all be a blur of activity when Band in Motion plays tunes for boogying at the Union Club, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover. LA electronic aficionado SPL spreads the bass droppings at the Badlander, along with spinners M-AD, Wargasm and Nic Stasso. Doors at 9:30 PM. $10/$8 in advance. 18-plus (and no surcharge for minors, what up.) Have a wit-filled evening when Kalispell country outfit Smart
[calendar] the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on the corner of Higgins and McLeod. Just bring a vegan dish (that’s no meat, dairy, eggs or honey, mind you) to share. Free.
Alex plays the Sunrise Saloon, corner of Strand and Regent, on Friday and Saturday starting at 9:30 PM. No cover. Bellingham Americana outfit Polecat sniffs up a good time at the Top Hat, along with Three-Eared Dog. 10 PM. $5.
Kick back and unleash your inner Van Gogh at Art on Tap, a sociable painting class led by an instructor, where you’ll depart with a finished artwork. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, on Feb. 14, March 14 and April 18 from noon-3 PM.
SATURDAYMAR14 Band against bike thieves while shaking your booty and drinking some beer at the Bands Against Bike Theft party, with volunteering and workshops from 2-5 PM and live tunes from 5 to 10 with bands like Prison Yoga, The Skurfs and more. Free Cycles, Freecycles 732 S. First St. W. Info: themissoulabikehounds@gmail.com
The Union Club hosts a benefit for Laura Jensen, who’s battling an advanced stage of lung cancer, with a potluck, live tunes, silent auction and door prizes, starting at 2 PM. Donations appreciated. No need to be a rich man to join in the Fiddler On the Roof singalong at the Roxy Theater, hosted by UM Hillel. Doors at 3:30, show at 4 PM. $10/$8 students, cash or check only.
Warm up with an Irish coffee and celebrate the Emerald Isle a little early with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which starts at the XXXXs at noon and proceeds down Higgins Ave. Dr. Dan Combo is this year’s grand marshal.
David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the tunes while you demonstrate your refined sense of bouquet. Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, with tunes from 6-9 PM. Antipasto plates available for purchase, too.
The Western Montana Veg Society hosts a monthly potluck, meeting today from noon-1:30 PM at
nightlife The twinkly-eyed QTs of Scrapyard Lullaby play tunes to sip your drinks by at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover. All sorts of Malarkey is planned for the St. Patrick’s Day Banquet and Auction, which brings together dancing, music, corned beef dinner and auctions at the DoubleTree Hotel, 100 Madison St. Cocktail hour starts at 6 PM. $30. Proceeds benefit the Friends of Irish Studies. The Solero Flamenco group arrives in Montana for a scorching evening of performance at the Flathead Lake Brewing Co.’s third-floor Galaxy Room, 424 Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $12/$10 in advance. Call 542-9270 to learn more.
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The Zeppo rhythm ‘n blues revue does it old-school stylie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave., on Friday and Saturday starting about 8 PM each night. No cover. It’s shaping up to be a folkpunk kinda evening when SLC’s Wing and Claw duo play the VFW, along with The Shiveries, Bird’s Mile Home and Matthew Gaydos. 9 PM. $3/$5 for ages 18-20.
saying please In 2002, Tony Hoagland, a white author, published “The Change,” a poem with racially charged elements about a tennis match where one tennis player is a small blonde and the other is “that big black girl from Alabama/ cornrowed hair and Zulu bangles on her arms.” WHO: Poet Claudia Rankine WHAT: Thinking Its Presence Keynote Address WHERE: University Center Theater WHEN: Sat., March 14 at 7 PM HOW MUCH: $30-$80 for conference passes/ Free for UM students and alumni MORE INFO: thinkingitspresencetheracia2015.sched.org/
Jamaican-born poet Claudia Rankine, one of Hoagland’s colleagues, called him out on it, asking why he felt comfortable describing black people in casually demeaning ways. Hoagland’s response was simply to say that “this poem is for white people.” Rankine later talked about how off-putting the interaction was, saying in a 2011 speech, “he might have treated me like a friendly colleague asking a real question since the book was in the bookstore without a Whites Only sticker.” Rankine concluded her 2011 address by saying, “My alertness, my openness, my desire to engage my colleague’s poem, my colleague’s words, actually
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demands my presence, my looking back at him. So here I am looking back, talking back and, as insane as it is, saying, please.” The Thinking Its Presence conference, hosted by the University of Montana’s creative writing program, works to examine similar conflicts and trends within the literary world, with three days of readings, workshops and discussions on the UM campus. Rankine delivers the keynote address on Saturday. This is the last year that the conference will be held here in Missoula before it moves to another host school, and it’s free for UM students and alumni. —Kate Whittle
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[calendar] Aaron Broxterman busts out the tunes with a solo set at the Dark Horse, corner of Regent and Strand. 9 PM. No cover. Whitewater Ramble moseys back into town to deliver a blast of bluegrass at Stage 112. 9 PM. $10/$7 in advance. Check out stage112.com. Throw that rawk sign all nite when Tidal Horn, Bacon & Egg and Judgment Hammer throw a rager at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.
Rudy’s, Worden’s and from Mendelssohn Club members.
MONDAYMAR16 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh chats about her public art series, “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” and how it addresses street harassment. Artist talk on March 16 at 7 PM in the UC Theatre and March 18 in the UC South Atrium at 4 PM.
Sultry blues fella Jonny Lang plays the Wilma, along with Runaway Saints. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.
Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes or shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander, including picture and music rounds. 9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: Was St. Patrick Irish? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.
The 60th annual Montana Science Fair brings all the whip-smart
Reinvent the weekend at the Masquerade Monday, where Fa-
Travis Yost invites you to the fifth dimension when the Roxy screens selected “Twilight Zone” episodes on Mondays at 7 PM. $5$7. Check out theroxytheater.org.
Pour some syrup on me when Mudslide Charley plays the blues and soulful stuff to sweeten the deal at Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.
DJ Enzymes and emcee Tonsofun come together for a bangin’ CD release party, along with rowdy friends like Wormwood, Ric Rollin, Lecture and more. Real Lounge. 10 PM. $5. 18-plus.
Keep shamrockin’ into the night when Missoula’s Craicers plays traditional Irish tunes at the Top Hat at 8 PM, for an all-ages show. Followed by the Dodgy Mountain Men at 10 PM, 21-plus. No cover.
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nightlife Enough of that horsin’ around, kids, ‘cuz Malarkey is playing Irish tunes while you settle in for some pints at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover. Spread me some jaaaaam when Umphrey’s McGee plays the Wilma, along with the Revivalists. 7:30 PM. $30/$25 in advance. Check out thewilma.com. The Mendelssohn Club celebrates its whopping 70th Annual Spring Concert along with the Montana A Cappella Society at the Music Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. $15/$6 students. Tickets available at Rockin
As part of the Sustainable Business Council’s lecture series, Staples executive Mark Buckley chats about circular economies and using waste as a resource. Gallagher Business Building, room 106, 5:30-7:30 PM. Free. $15 to attend the business reception that follows afterward. Visit SustainableBusinessCouncil.org.
The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents its rendition of the classic musical Pippin, about a young prince in a delightfully anachronistic medieval court. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center, Tue., March 17-Sat., March 21 and Tue., March 24-Sat., March 28, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors/$10 kids 12 under.
Pints of Guinness will make us stronger when Portland outfit Rum Rebellion gets the Irish folk punk party rolling at the Palace, along with P.D. Lear and Jacob Osborne and the Milwaukee VI. 10 PM. Cover TBA.
The benefit for Paul Jones, a local musician who’s battling cancer, includes live tunes, dunk tank, raffles, 50/50, auctions and more at the Sunrise Saloon, noon-8 PM. All ages.
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Painter Rick Phillips chats about “Famous Paintings of Art History as Post Modern Furniture” as part of his work on display at the Radius Gallery, 114 E. Main St., at 5:30 PM.
Cure for the Common delivers a dose of the “electro-thunder funk” with a flashy light show at the Top Hat, along with John Adam Smith Band. 10 PM. $5.
Historian Aaron Parrett reads from Literary Butte: A History in Novels & Film, celebrating the wealth of writers who were drawn to the rough ‘n tumble town in its boom days. Shakespeare & Co, 103 S. Third St., at 4 PM.
Hafa will put on a corned beef ‘n cabbage buffet from 4-7 PM ($8 per plate) followed by live tunes starting at 9 PM from Chaddabox, Headphone Steve, Mankiisi and M.R. Wizard. Show is 18-plus, and cover TBA.
Shady character. Grandtheft plays Stage 112 Thu., March 12. Doors at 9:30 PM. $20/$16 in advance.
The Young Artist After-School Program imparts art fundamentals, history and techniques while playing with a variety of mediums. Meets at the ZACC on Mondays, 3:30-5:30 PM, through June 8. $12/$10 for members a day. Visit zootownarts.org/youngartists.
nightlife Ease pain, increase energy and improve flexibility with Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, at the Learning Center at Red Willow, Mondays from 6-7 PM until March 30. $30 for three-week course. Brush up on basic belly dance, incorporating finger cymbals too, at Belly Dance with Aniysa at the St. Patrick Wellness Center, 500 W. Broadway. Mondays from 6:30-8 PM. $10 for drop-in, or $36 for monthlong series.
junior and high school student projects together under the Adams Center roof, with exhibits on display from 7-9 PM Monday and 8-9 AM Tuesday. Take note that parking in the Adams Center is a little tough due to construction.
mous Raymous hosts shenanigans down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover; feel free to wear your most intriguing mask.
Cash For Junkers kicks that case of the Mondays to the curb with an evening of western swing at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. No cover.
Spread the luck around at Draught Work’s St. Patrick’s Day blowout, which includes a slew of special Irish stouts, dancers and bagpipers. Doors open at 10 AM, performances start at 5 PM. 915 Toole Ave. No cover.
Shake, rattle ‘n roll at the Beginner/Intermediate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer Meyer-Vaughan on Mondays at Downtown Dance Collective, 7:30-8:55 PM. Regular rates apply. I don’t have to tell you that Home Free is a “country a capella” group, ‘cuz they have been on TV and stuff and they are playing the Top Hat at 8 PM. Sold out.
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The Missoula Eagles Lodge gets in the holiday spirit with a corned beef and cabbage lunch, starting at 11:30 AM and running ‘til it’s all gone. 2420 South Ave. Free. Get a little corny at the St. Patrick’s Day festivities at Stage 112, where the new restaurant
Boogie with Mr. Jameson all nite long when the Workers, Three-Eared Dog and Shakewell team up for St. Paddy’s festivities at the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. No cover. (Trivia answer: Nope, he was the child of Roman citizens living in England, and was kidnapped by Irish raiders as a child.)
WEDNESDAYMAR18 The up ‘n coming poets and scholars at Big Sky High School’s Aerie journal present the annual Citywide Poetry Slam, open to anyone who signs up by 6 PM, or just show up at Stage 112 at 6:30 PM to see the magic. $5. All ages. Artist and illustrator Theo Ellsworth leads the Teen Artist Workshop: Content and Cartoons, where he’ll talk about how to create narrative with drawings. Missoula Art Museum, 4-6 PM. Materials and pizza provided. Free. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org to sign up.
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Tim Nielson’s “St. Peter and His Ear Collection” is on display at the ZACC as part of its {mini} exhibit and fundraiser. Reception and silent auction on Fri., March 13, from 5:30–8:30 PM.
nightlife Tatyana Fazlalizadeh chats about her public art series, “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” and how it addresses street harassment and gendered expectations. Artist talk on March 16 at 7 PM in the UC Theatre and on March 18 in the UC South Atrium at 4 PM. Aww yeah, it’s time for the Chocolate Lover’s Festival and competition, with tasting and voting from 6:30-7:30 PM and live auction at 7:30. It all goes down in the Arlee Brown Building and proceeds benefit the Arlee Youth Programs and Jocko Valley Library. Call 726-5550 to learn more. This week’s edition of Dinner and a Movie brings back Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon for The Trip to Italy. Screening at the Crystal Theater at 7 PM, $7. Dinner menu from Silk Road available for your delectation. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents its rendition of the classic musical Pippin, about a young prince in a delightfully anachronistic medieval court. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center, Tue., March 17-Sat., March 21 and Tue., March 24Sat., March 28, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors/$10 kids 12 under.
THURSDAYMAR19 Pert Near Sandstone rolls into the Top Hat for a high-strung evening of bluegrass, along with our own Dodgy Mountain Men. 9:30 PM. $10. Advance tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com. Flex your head at the St. Patrick Trauma Services Helmet Sale, with cheap bike, board and equestrian helmets, plus bike lights.
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nightlife The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents its rendition of the classic musical Pippin, about a young prince in a delightfully anachronistic medieval court. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center, Tue., March 17-Sat., March 21 and Tue., March 24Sat., March 28, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors/$10 kids 12 under. Who’s playing tonight? Why, That1Guy. Y’know. That1Guy who combines magic and music in a one-man performance at Stage 112. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and 1111presents.com. Buddy “What Me Worry” Jackson takes over the March residency at the VFW on Thursday nights, and I’m going to wildly speculate that they’ll be playing Ke$ha and Neutral Milk Hotel covers. 9 PM. $2 PBR tallboy special. $2/$5 for ages 18-20. March 12 features Beatz le Vox, Hermanas Y Hermanas and Spencer, and March 19 features Holy Lands, Dead Beats and Colin Uriah Johnson. Cinderella, dressed in yella, went upstairs to kiss her fella. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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wilderness was still fairly new to our country, and is a part of the University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation. In Ream’s installment of the Wilderness Lecture Series, “Wilderness Research Then and Now: The Wilderness Institute’s 40th Year,” Ream will examine the role the Wilderness Institute and the state of Montana have played in wildland designation in the past and how it is evolving in the present. —Kellen Beck Bob Ream presents “Wilderness Research Then and Now: The Wilderness Institute's 40th Year,” March 17, at 7:10 PM in the Gallagher Business Building, Room 123. Visit cfc.umt.edu for more information.
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THURSDAY MARCH 12 Professional ultrarunner Hal Koerner stands still long enough to chat about his new book, A Field Guide to Ultrarunning, and host a screening of The Long Haul, about his and Mike Wolfe’s record-setting run of the John Muir trail. Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins Ave. Doors at 6:30 PM, event at 7. $20, includes a signed copy of the book. Advance tickets available at the store and runnersedgemt.com.
FRIDAY MARCH 13 Get in some skiing time sans dudes at Snowbowl’s For Women Only Spring Session. Make some friends while becoming a better skier with your fellow woman. Meets Fridays, 1–4 PM for three weeks, through March 20. $97 with a half-day lift ticket, $57 for season pass holders.
SATURDAY MARCH 14 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the race? Find out at Run For the Luck of It, which starts bright ‘n early with a kids’ dash, 7-mile and 5K, starting and ending on the 100 block of Pine Street. Costumes and green outfits encouraged. Visit runwildmissoula.org to learn more. $20-$25 to register. Pale ale is the new Gatorade, or so they say at Run to the Pub, a 6- or 13-mile run in downtown Bozeman, which is mostly downhill and ends at Pub 317. Wear St. Patty’s-themed gear to enter the costume contest; all runners are entered in a chance to win a trip to Dublin. Visit runtothepub.com. The Missoulians on Bicycles depart from Eastgate Center in search of corn dogs and chocolate milk this day on the Clinton-Starvation Creek ride, a 38-mile junket leaving at noon. Call John at 5433230 for info.
SUNDAY MARCH 15 Prove you’re among Missoula’s best skiers/boarders at Snowbowl’s Best of the Bowl end-of-the-year race. Compete in alpine, telemark skiing or snowboard divisions, judged on
speed and style down Grizzly Chute. Visit montana snowbowl.com. The Montana Youth Rugby Association hosts an all-ages women’s rugby clinic led by coach Luke Gross out at Fort Missoula from 9 AM-noon. Free. Call 210-2610 to learn more. Grab the two-wheeler and join MOBI for the 38-mile Happy Trails Lolo Bike/Ped Trail trip, with meets at the Lolo Conoco at 11 AM and stops in Florence for lunch. Call Lech at 207-1225 to learn more. Come climb and cheer on your friends at Rock the Rec: Climbing Competition. A great environment for all levels of climbing at the UM Rec Center, 11 AM-3 PM. $32/$25 for students and Campus Recreation members. Includes climbing, t-shirt, refreshments and prizes. Get those kiddos moving in the family friendly Gorilla Grunt, with a 1-mile run with Gus the Gorilla and 5k for kids 12 and up. Woodland Park in Kalispell, starting at noon. $15–$50. Visit 406running.com for more information.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 Raise a glass to forest restoration at the Community uNite benefit for the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Resoration nonprofit at the Northside Kettlehouse, 5-8 PM. Free to attend. Scientist Vicky Dreitz discusses how prairie birds are facing decline because of habitat loss at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7-8:30 PM. $4/free for MNHC members.
THURSDAY MARCH 19 The Clark Fork Coalition hosts a presentation on the Lost Horse Creek siphon project, a stream restoration effort that re-routed an irrigation ditch to connect the creek to the Bitterroot river. 140 S. Fourth St., noon-1 PM. Call 542-0539 to learn more. calendar@missoulanews.com
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International Women’s Day was on Sun., March 8. As many astute observers on Twitter pointed out, thanks to Daylight Savings here in the U.S., women got the shortest day of the year. But we can help make up for it just a bit with the International Women’s Day Banquet, slated for Friday in the University Center Ballroom. The evening includes exhibits, cultural presentations and a silent auction, which will raise funds for programs that benefit campus women. Dinner will also include a panel discussion featuring prominent Montana gals such as Lt. Gov. Angela McLean, environmental studies professor Neva Hassanein and the Dean of Students Rhondie Voorhees; several student leaders will be on hand, as well. The panel will discuss the challenges and goals of achieving gender equality, like closing the wage gap, electing more women to Congress and ending domestic and sexual violence.
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #MakeItHappen, and organizations including the United Nations, Girl Scouts and more are working to advance women’s leadership and achievements. —Kate Whittle UM’s International Women’s Day Banquet is Fri., March 13, at 6 PM. $20/$15 in advance/$10 for students. Tickets at The Source in the UC and the UM Women’s Resource Center. Visit umt.edu/uc.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY MARCH 12 The new Minimalist Meet-Up Group gets together to chat about a clutter-free lifestyle as inspired by the Minimalist author dudes. Break Espresso, second Thursday of the month at 7 PM. Email Cindy for more info at cindyart5@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY MARCH 13 Grab a pen and paper and get crackin’ at Learning from Your Life: Writing for Resilience, which teaches how to work through difficult events and celebrate life’s joys through writing. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Fridays from 11 AM-1 PM through March 13. $145 for five-week course. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org for registration and info. Deanna Sheriff leads a Green Tara practice and Sadhana, imparting wisdom about the female Buddha’s compassion in action. Vegetarian lunch to follow. Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 411 Woodworth Ave. Meets Fridays from noon-1:30 PM. $5 suggested donation. Contact oselshenphenling@gmail.com or email 544-2793 to learn more.
SATURDAY MARCH 14 Good eggs who are interested in lending a hand at Arlee’s Garden of One Thousand Buddhas should drop by the Ewam Volunteer Fair, which will have info on how you can help with basic landscaping, maintenance and tour guiding. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. 1-4 PM. Email Kelsang Gyatso at admin@ewam.org if you can’t make it to the volunteer fair but would like to sign up.
Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org. The Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center hosts a dharma text study and potluck brunch led by Director Bob Jacobson. 441 Woodworth Ave. Meets Sundays at 11 AM through mid-May. Suggested donation $5; bring a vegetarian dish to share.
TUESDAY MARCH 17 Communication professor Phyllis Ngai presents “Sustainable Rural Development in Cambodia: Participatory NGO Approaches and Student Internship Opportunities,” as part of the Mansfield spring brown-bag lecture series. Payne Native American Center, room 105. 4-5 PM. The Friends and Families Matter support group invites anyone who’s coping with an incarcerated loved one to an informal session on Tuesdays from 5:15-6:30 PM. 1610 S. Third St. W., Ste. 210. Visit pfrmt.org for more info.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a peaceful communication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-play stressful situations and practice responding calmly. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free. The community discussion “Spectacle of Violence From Charlie Hebdo to North Carolina: Can Missoula Respond?” brings together speakers including Dr. Mehrdad Kia, G.G. Weix, Michel Valentin, John Marks and John Lund for a panel debate. Hellgate High School auditorium, 7 PM.
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The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note the group is now meeting on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of
Author Isaac Campos presents “Reefer Madness Past and Present: Marijuana, Psychosis, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and the United States,” as part of the Hampton Lecture at the UM Gallagher Business Building, 7-8:15 PM.
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THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WESTIN There's a girl who works at the hotel where my co-workers and I go for drinks. She's hot and smart and fun, and I really like her and want to ask her out. The problem is that when she laughs, she cackles in this really annoying way. I'm wondering whether, if we started dating and hit it off, I could subtly hint to her that she should change her weird, witchy laugh. Because, honestly, she's perfect otherwise. — Bothered It's great to find a woman who laughs at your wit, but not when she sounds like she'll follow up with "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" I know, the "expected" reply to a man wanting a woman to change something about herself is, "How dare you, you shallow pig?!" And I'm aware that behaviors that initially seem mildly annoying can, in time, make you want to bludgeon the person with the soup ladle. But it does seem a shame to nix a woman you really like right off the bat simply because it's hard to tell whether she's laughing or you're around the corner from a donkey engaged in erotic asphyxiation. It's possible that her laugh really is her laugh, "designed" by the shape and location of her larynx. HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain explains that when we're laughing, the larynx gets half-closed by the epiglottis. (Laughter, most charmingly, is the sound of a person struggling for air, which we each do in our own special way.) But the reality is, some people with disturbing laughs have created them, often out of a desire to seem unique or get attention. They repeat their fabricated ha-ha, and it becomes part of them. And then time passes, and they forget to check whether their creation is still serving them or whether it might be to potential dates what garlic and crosses are to working vampires. Obviously, a woman is likely to be hurt and offended if you announce, "If we're going to have any future together, you'll need a laughectomy." However, IF you started dating her and IF you saw that she's one of those (rare) people who "would rather know," you could ask her about her laugh: "Have you always laughed that way?" But brace yourself for her to come back with something like "Do you hate my laugh?" At this point, like a rat on flotsam after a shipwreck, all you
can do is grab for a piece of flattery: "Uh, um...it's just that you're so elegant. It doesn't seem to go with the rest of you." But first things first. You haven't even asked her out. She might say no (laughing raucously and scaring away crows). Or, if she said yes, things might fizzle after a date or two. So maybe go out with her a few times, taking it slowly (no sex, tickling, or comedy club visits), and weigh whether her general fabulousness is enough to offset the intermittent cackly audio. Who knows … maybe you'll fall for her to the point where her laugh becomes endearingly awful—always making you long to grab her and kiss her in the back seat of her broomstick.
EDGAR ALLAN REPO The guy I'm seeing revealed that he is hesitant to get into a relationship because it means "taking responsibility" for another person on a level you don't have to when you're just friends with benefits. In his words: "I mean, what if you got cancer?" He wants the friendship and connection of a relationship, but he inevitably fails to step up and women bail. (What a surprise.) He did have a three-year relationship in the past, and I really like him. Should I stick around and hope he calms down? —Unsure Here's a guy who will have your back— getting smaller and smaller in his rearview mirror at the first sign of a serious problem, such as a bad hangnail. Sadly, it isn't enough to "really like" a guy. You need to really like a guy who's prepared to respond to your needs with loving concern instead of burning rubber. And in keeping with this unfortunate automotive theme, assessing a guy's boyfriendability should be approached like selling cars. The successful car salesman will not spend his morning singing the praises of heated seats and in-car Wi-Fi to the customer wearing a blanket and cardboard sandals. That guy sure could use a car, just as your guy sure could use the "friendship and connection" (and, no doubt, the sex) of a relationship, but neither will be able to make the required payments. So, yes, waiting and hoping this guy "calms down" is an option— but you'd probably have better luck waiting for the brown bird outside your window to turn into a UPS driver.
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beach, it heads for the ocean. It's only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes ten years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the "Last Theorem," a particularly knotty mathematical problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn't until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own long-running riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you're almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the old Superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: If Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying "Klptzyxm" when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I'd like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don't underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock and roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey." That's an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don't think it's accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can't get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you. Where you're headed, you would benefit from an advisor, teacher, or role model.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There's a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: "Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic." Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can't finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be?
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anais Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that's perfect for you right now. Ready? "This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that's your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change."
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can't afford to risk hurting yourself, and it's essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song "I Will Survive" in 1978. It sold over two million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the B-side of "Substitute," the song that Gaynor's record company released as her main offering. Luckily, radio DJs ignored "Substitute" and played the hell out of "I Will Survive," making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be pre-eminent.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I'm tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please please please go out and do the dicey task you've been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably not helpful or constructive for you. So here's my wiser advice: To prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling," the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile, and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I'm guessing there is. It's high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY Cause No. DDA2014-57 IN THE MATTER OF THE PARENTAL RIGHTS TO BABY GIRL M. NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS AND HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: Man known by the name of “Lase” to the birth mother whose initials are “H.M.M.” of Baby Girl M. who was born on June 26, 2014, in Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition for the termination of your parental rights to Baby Girl M. has been filed with the Montana First District Court, Lewis and Clark County, 228 Broadway, Helena, Montana 59601. The Court has scheduled a hearing for the determination of your parental rights starting at 1:30 P.M. Mountain Time on Thursday, March 26, 2015. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-605(2), your failure to appear at the hearing will constitute a waiver of your interest in custody of the
child, and will result in the Court’s termination of your parental rights. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-616(1), if you appear at the scheduled hearing and object to the termination of your parental rights and request custody of the child, the Court will then set deadlines allowing the parties to complete discovery, and will set a hearing on the determination of your rights to the child. DATED: February 27, 2015. FRANZ & DRISCOLL, PLLP /s/ William P. Driscoll Attorney for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DP-15-33 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MARTIN STIRNEMAN BEHNER, 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
MNAXLP date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Mary Grace Kibler, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 26th day of February, 2015 /s/ Mary Grace Kibler, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-15-125 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Galen Sontag Henseler, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Galen Joseph Sontag Henseler to Galen Joseph Sontag Henseler. The hearing will be on 04/01/2015 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/19/2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP15-32 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of RUTH E. DYE, Deceased. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned was appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Harold V. Dye, the personal representative, return receipt requested, at Dye & Moe, P.L.L.P., 120 Hickory Street, Suite B, Missoula, Montana 59801— 1820, or filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court. Dated: February 26, 2015. /s/ Harold V. Dye, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-39 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA L. BULEN ANDERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mailed to William A. Anderson, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of March, 2015. /s/ William A. Anderson, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-15-72 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. TREASURE STATE BANK, Plaintiff, v. LEONARD L. KNAPP, JOSEPH THERRIAULT, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MON-
TANA TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Petitioner’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of the SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land in Lots 1 and 2 of Block 3 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, in the NE1/4SE1/4 of Section 34, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, M.P.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A strip of land 30 feet wide on the southerly side and all that land in said Lots 1 and 2 lying north of the following described center line: Beginning at a point on the westerly line of said Lot 2, which said point bears northerly along said westerly line a distance of 51.6 feet, more or less, from the southwest corner of said Lot 2; thence from the said point of beginning along a curve to the right of 955.0 feet radius, 71.6 feet to a point on the easterly line of said Lot 1, which said point bears northerly along said easterly line a distance of 66.7 feet, more or less, from the southeast corner of said Lot 1, and containing in all 0.10 acres, more or less. Dated this 11th day of February, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, By: /s/ Casie Kragh, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-14-261 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: PHILIP WAYNE ZIEG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Katherine Kleinkopf, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested in care of Trent N. Baker of the law firm Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 W. Main, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 26th day of January, 2015. /s/ Katherine G. Kleinkopf Personal Representative 3010 Spurgin Road Missoula, MT 59804
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-29 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANN MARIE CARTER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Gary E. Carter has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. We declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 17th day of February, 2015. /s/ Gary E. Carter, Personal Representative of the Estate of Ann Marie Carter /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-15-31 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BARBARA J. CHAMBERLAIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cassie R. Dellwo has filed an APPLICATION OR PETITION FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF LIMITED SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR of the Estate of Barbara J. Chamberlain which may be examined in the office of the Clerk of this Court. Hearing has been set at the Courtroom of this Court in Missoula County, Missoula, Montana, on the 30th day of April, 2015, at 9:00 o’clock a.m., at which time and place all interested persons may appear and object. Appllicant, Cassie R. Dellwo, will appear at said hearing via telephone conference. DATED this 27th day of February, 2015. /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, #11880, Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm, 38 2nd Ave. East, Dickinson, ND 58601 NOTICE ANDREA FARLEY The State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, has filed a Petition against you seeking a finding of dependency and neglect in regards to your child, Chloe Cantrell. It appears that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you because your whereabouts are unknown. Your are hereby ORDERED to serve upon Stacye Choate, Attorney for the Tennessee Department of Children Services, 600 Hearthwood Court, Cookeville, Tennessee 38506, (931) 646-3012, an Answer to the Petition filed by the Tennessee Department of Children Services, within thirty (30) days of the last day of publication of this notice, and pursuant to Role 39(e)(1) of the Tenn. R. Juv. P. you must also ap-
pear in the Juvenile Court of Dekalb County, Tennessee at Smithville, Tennessee on the 8th day of April, 2015, at 8:00 A.M. for the Adjudicatory Hearing on the Petition by the State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services. If you fail to do so, a default judgment will be taken against you pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-117(n) and Rule 55 of the Tenn. R. of Civ. P. for the relief demanded in the Petition. You may review and obtain a copy of the Petition and any other subsequently filed legal documents at the Dekalb Court Clerk’s Office, Smithville, Tennessee. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by BENJAMIN T. CORY, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTORS, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTORS, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER IS/ARE: Grantors: Kevin E. Leittl, Douglas R. Wasileski, and Jerry Gordon (“Grantors”) Original Trustee: Insured Titles Successor Trustee: Benjamin T. Cory, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank as successor by merger to Mountain West Bank, N.A. (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: Kevin E. Leittl, Douglas R. Wasileski, and Jerry Gordon THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A Tract of land located in and being a portion of GOVERNMENT LOT 4, Section 2, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the section corner common to Sections 2 and 3, Township 11 North, Range 20 west; thence South 02°34’35” West, along the West line of Section 2, 10.01 feet; thence leaving said line and running North 89°53’26” East, 250.01 feet to the true point of beginning; thence continuing North 89°53’26” East, along the Southerly right-of-way line of Missoula County Road a distance of 723.03 feet to a point on the proposed Westerly right-ofway line of U.S. Highway Number 93; thence South 09°55’31” East, along said proposed Highway right-of-way line 347.27 feet to a point on a tangent curve; thence Southeasterly along said proposed right-of-way and along said tangent curve,
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JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s "Six Down"--two letters become one.
by Matt Jones
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1 Lyricist Gershwin 4 Some click them nervously 8 Martini's winemaking partner 13 Wander far and wide 14 Brickell married to Paul Simon 15 Smoove B's newspaper, with "The" 16 "Buffy" role 17 Be a gawker 18 Suit 19 Turn a monkey into a donkey, e.g. 21 Conductor's address 23 "Don't be a fool, stay in ___" 24 Depression fighter 25 Garfield's girlfriend 28 Take responsibility 32 Guy who'd probably interrupt this clue because the answer's not "Beyonce" 34 Established principle 36 "No one person could have broken up a band" speaker 37 Bill the Cat's outburst 38 Fig Newtons maker 40 "___ be an honor!" 41 SMH or FTW, slangily 42 It's often unaccounted for 43 Some iPods 45 Financial center of Switzerland 47 "___ to Zoom..." 49 Part 51 Business tycoons 54 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mike 57 Take the penalty, perhap 58 The "Dark Side of the Moon" cover has one 59 ___ Khalifa (world's tallest building) 61 "I didn't mean anything ___!" 62 Radiating glows 63 Water, in Oaxaca 64 Race parts 65 Overflows 66 "How you like ___ apples?" 67 Flock member Last week’s solution
DOWN 1 Classical column style 2 R&B's most notable sitarist? 3 Relating to love 4 Magazine with an easy crossword 5 U2 guy, with "The" 6 Zero, to Man U 7 Comes across as 8 Early part of the week devoted to De Niro, Urich and Smith? 9 Newborn's cover 10 Go (through) 11 Evening, in France 12 Digging 13 Head-butters 20 Classic MTV hip-hop show about felonies before Easter? 22 Trade gp. 26 Arrests 27 They're noted on flights 29 Certain sharp treetop? 30 Archaic preposition 31 Work areas 32 TV cartoon therapist Dr. ___ 33 They've got the rights stuff 35 "It makes sense" 39 Reacted to a laser light show 44 OK to show, like a news clip 46 2001 Penn/Pfeiffer/Fanning movie 48 1990s arcade game with real players 50 Ready to swing 52 Snow, in Paris 53 Mounts, as a gem 54 Expectorated 55 Motley ___ 56 Make the staff larger 57 Piper and Phoebe's sister, on "Charmed" 60 "Dude! No!" ©2015 Jonesin’ Crosswords
PUBLIC NOTICES being concave to the West and having a radius of 22,140.00 feet a distance of 183.37 feet; thence leaving said proposed highway right-of-way line and running West 837.37 feet; thence North 02°34’35” East, 523.52 feet to the true point of beginning. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 103 of Micro Records at Page 1455, records of Missoula County, Montana. EXCEPTING THEREFROM a parcel of land in the Northwest one-quarter of Section 2, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, as described as follows: Commencing at the section corner common to Sections 2 and 3, Township 11 North, and Sections 34 and 35, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M.; thence, South 87°43’53” East, 249.76 feet to a point on the Southerly right-of-way of Mormon Creek road and the point of beginning; thence, South 02°34’35” East, 523.52 feet to the Southerly boundary of that property described in Deeds, Book 3 (Micro), Page 299; thence along said Southerly boundary, East 249.84 feet; thence, North 02°34’35” East, 523.63 feet to the Southerly right-of-way of the Mormon Creek Road; thence along said road right-of-way, South 89°58’26” West, 249.85 feet to the point of beginning. As shown on Certificate of Survey No. 1274, records of Missoula. Recording Reference is in Book 247 of Micro Records at Page 2171. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust dated January 30, 2008 and recorded February 8, 2008, in Book 812, Page 1550, as Document No. 200802891, records of Missoula County, Montana; and Substitution of Trustee dated January 23, 2015, and recorded January 29, 2015, in Book 939, Page 1261, as Document No. 201501978, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $2,737.00 due under the Promissory Note dated January 30, 2008, as extended, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the November 1, 2014 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF JANUARY 29, 2015, ARE: Principal: $315,668.32 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 5.25% per annum. As of January 6, 2015 the interest balance is $2,542.64 and interest accrues at the rate of $45.4043 per day. Late fees: $6,210.06 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the
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Grantors or successor in interest to the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: June 10, 2015 Time: 1:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated this 30th day of January, 2015. /s/ Benjamin T. Cory BENJAMIN T. CORY Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) : ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on 30th January, 2015, by Benjamin T. Cory, as Trustee. /s/ Misti Battaiola [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: January 29, 2018 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/12/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200611513 Bk: 774 Pg: 867 and further Modified by Agreement Recorded on 9/4/2012 under Instrument No. 201217027 Bk: 899 Pg: 1104, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Nedra Gasvoda, an unmarried Woman was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J Peterson was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 358 of Pleasant View Homes No. 4, Phase 1, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201118418 Bk: 885 P: 45, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of
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the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 8, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $214,334.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $184,327.24, 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 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.north westtrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.16322) 1002.245370-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/09/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200914294 Bk 841 Pg 734, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David M Felker and
Daphne J Felker, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 3 of Spring Hills Addition, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has 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 09/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $215,906.31. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $208,777.03, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed
at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.112643) 1002.277068-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 24, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3272, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Rick D. Lloyd, 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 Deed of Trust dated June 30, 2006 and recorded July 6, 2006 in Book 778, Page 536 under Document No. 200616476. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association, as Trustee, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage PassThrough Certificates WMALT Series 2006-8 Trust. 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 $1,179.32, beginning December 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 08, 2014 is $243,927.52 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% totaling $50,068.96, late charges in the amount of $353.82, escrow advances of $16,408.81, and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,682.68, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.41 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,
PUBLIC NOTICES 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, whereis 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 16, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 16th day of December, 2014 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Chase Vs. Lloyd 41916.681 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 1, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MIS-
SOULA IN THE STATE OF MT: LOT 4 OF MODERIE LOTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jack C. Westre, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 27, 2007 and recorded February 15, 2007 in Book 792, Page 28 as Document No. 200703753. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-OA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA1. 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 $1,666.96, beginning September 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 September 18, 2014 is $463,926.59 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% totaling $80,167.54, late charges in the amount of $2,864.14, escrow advances of $21,200.65, suspense balance of $-842.77 and other fees and expenses advanced of $11,420.34, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.83 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, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environ-
MNAXLP mental 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 18, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 18 day of December, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J. Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Ocwen V. Westre 41495.892 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 15, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 11 OF CHAPPELLE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF William R Nooney and Anna M Nooney, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mountain West Bank. N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 13, 2004 and recorded on April 19, 2004 in Book 729, Page 1754 as Document No. 200410393. 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 $3,110.01, beginning January 1, 2009, 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 18, 2014 is $491,768.64 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $174,694.27, escrow advances of $69,306.55, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,073.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $79.15 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, whereis 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 INFOR-
MATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 12, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 12th day January, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Bana/nooney - 42048.193 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 4, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot A46 of Windsor Park, Phase III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Karla Tecca and Vincent Tecca, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 20, 2007 and recorded April 20, 2007 in Book 795, on Page 1176, under Document No. 200709481. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association(“FNMA”). 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 $850.23, beginning July 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 17, 2014 is $201,865.17 principal, interest at the rate of 4.0% totaling $3,718.37, escrow advances of $1,142.82, suspense balance of $133.09 and other fees and expenses advanced of $14,252.86, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.12 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 Benefi-
ciary, 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, whereis 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 23, 2014 /s/ Lisa J. Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 161, 218, 307, 369, 479, 538, 668. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday March 23, 2015. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday March 26, 2015 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 23 day of December, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J. Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Feb 18, 2020 Seterus V Tecca 42008.276 RFQ: Broadband Master Plan Master Plan for Community Fiber Optic Service Strategy. The BitterRoot Economic Development District (BREDD) in partnership with the City of Missoula and Missoula County are seeking to retain a qualified consultant to conduct a Master Plan for a Community Fiber Optic Services Strategy that determines a business and operational model to increase competition and reduce rates in order to deliver affordable high speed/high capacity broadband for the benefit of economic development in the region. Up to $60,000 is available for this project. Proposals are due April 6th, 2015. Access the full Request for Qualifications at www.bredd.org. Contact Marcy Allen with questions at mallen@bredd.org or 406-2583435.
MURPHY STREET STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units (unit number followed by rent owed, late fees and auction fees): 20 ($2599), 27 ($1609), 41 ($1319), 52 ($959.00), 61 (($690), 74 ($1131.00), 80 ($1906), 89 ($1702), 100 ($1412), 112 ($2104), 113 ($2570), 117 ($1827), 132 ($2188), 136 ($596), 143 ($1450). Units contain personal items. Auction to take place at Murphy Street Storage, 2504 Murphy Street, Missoula, Sunday, 3/22/2015 at 2:00 p.m. Cash or money orders only.
CLARK FORK STORAGE
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 95, 148, 190, 201,248. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting3/16/2015 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 3/19/2015 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MONTE• Monte is a 2-year-old male German Shepherd mix. Monte has no idea how large he is and acts more like a cowardly lion. He is very timid, but once you get him out in a yard, his personality perks up and he is a very playful, yet gentle, sport. Monte loves to lean against you for comfort and can't get enough of being close to you.
MERCI•Merci is an 8-month-old female Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MontanaSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays
ORVILLE•Orville is 10-year-old male German Shepherd. This old man is a little hard of hearing, but his eyes are bright and thoughtful. Orville is looking for a mellow retirement home with a warm, sunny spot to lay and regular short walks.
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MARTINI•Martini is a 1.5-year-old female Collie mix. She is young and playful with the gentle collie touch. Martini is 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 ready to be trained for just about any job. Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) She is good with other dogs and would 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 make a great hiking or farm dog. Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat)
orange tiger stripe kitten. She is at the age that play becomes rather feisty, and would love another young playmate to rough-house with. Because of her feisty nature at this age, she likely would not do well in a home with small children.
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PISTACHIO•Pistachio is a 2-year-old female black Domestic Short Hair. She is a wonderful cat with just the right touch of feline mischief to keep life interesting. She gets along well with other cats, and has the most beautiful green eyes you'll ever see. Pistachio has been at the shelter, waiting patiently for her forever home, since mid-December.
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CLEO• Cleo is a white and tabby female Domestic Long Hair. She is a large lady with large personality and the tiniest little meow. She loves to play with toys, other cats, string, bubbles.... basically everything! Cleo also loves to roll in catnip and drink water from a running faucet.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 TANG• Meet Tang! This cute boy loves attention and is always up for a good walk, especially in the snow. Tang is a very intelligent boy who knows lots of behaviors. He cannot wait to meet you. Come by the shelter today to see him! We are open 1-6 pm Tuesdays through Fridays and 12-5 on Saturdays.
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GARFIELD• Garfield is a friendly guy who came to us as a stray. Garfield loves getting pets and rubs and loves to meow when you talk to him and give him attention. This affectionate kitty is looking for a family who will give him lots of pets and have long conversations. Come meet this gentleman today!
REESES PIECES•Reeses Pieces can't wait to meet you. Through no fault of his own he finds himself needing a new home and would like everyone to know that he enjoys being active, but has outgrown all that puppy nonsense and can be left loose in the house for most of the day. Reeses is neutered, current on all of his vaccinations and microchipped.
MOLLY• Molly is a long-haired beauty looking for a caring home. She would prefer to be the only cat and be treated like a princess, although she may allow for some canine companions . She enjoys primping her nails on her cardboard scratching post and finding a warm lap to relax on. Come visit Molly at the Humane Society of Western Montana.
RUBY•This beautiful girl is Ruby. She is very friendly and enjoys finding a warm lap to cuddle on. Ruby is an easy going gal 1.5-year-old lady who gets along with other cats, dogs, and children. She cannot wait to become part of your family. Come meet her at the Humane Society of Western Montana today!
BENJAMIN• Looking
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for a smart, quirky cat who will never cease to entertain you? Then Benjamin's your guy! Benjamin has a bit of a silly looking face and only has 3 teeth, but that's all just part of the charm that makes him a staff favorite. He is a whiz with interactive food toys and will make you smile as he serenades you with his lovely voice.
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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $525-$625, New Complex, DW, A/C, coinop laundry, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 7287333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $525. Downtown, coin-op laundry, carport, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $675, newer complex, near Broadway & Russell, DW, A/C, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $575$650, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $600$705, quiet cul-de-sac, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1024 Stephens #5. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, DW, coinops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1115 Rollins: 2 Bedroom, Slant Street, Large, Yard, Hook-ups, Heat paid! $725. Garden City Property Management 5496106 1 year Costco membership & $200 gift card. 1213 Cleveland St. “D”. 1 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central location, shared W/D, pet? $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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1237 Kensington: Newer Studio, Full kitchen & bath, Dishwasher, Laundry, Heat paid! $640. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 1 year Costco membership & $100 gift card. 1315 E. Broadway #3. 1 bed/1.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, carport, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #6. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coinops, pet? $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1914 S. 14th St. W. “C”. Studio/1 bath, newer, W/D included, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1939 S. 3rd St. W.: 1 Bedroom, Stacking washer & dryer, *FREE DIRECTV*, Microwave, $595. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 1 year Costco membership & $100 gift card. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895, 2 Weeks FREE w/6 Month Lease, Brand New 6-Plex, DW, A/C, large closets, patio/balcony, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333
2306 Hillview Ct. #1. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, shared yard, storage. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2329 Fairview #1. 2 bed/1 bath, shared yard, close to shopping. $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2345 S. 3rd St. W.: 2 Bedroom, Hook-ups, Dishwasher, Microwave, Near Reserve, $725. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 1 year Costco membership & $200 gift card. 720 Turner St. “B” 3 bed/1.5 bath Northside, pet? $900 Grizzly Property Management 5422060 Are you a first time renter and not sure how to pick the right property choose a NARPM professional property manager. Our members have a code of ethics that require managers to educate our tenants on fair housing laws. westernmontana.narpm.org Looking for the right property and not sure which one to choose? Choose a NARPM professional property manager. NARPM members have a duty to protect the public against fraud, misrepresen-
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The Palace boasts a central downtown location, with 2 elevators and a secure building. Please call Matty Reed, Property Manager, at 406.549.4113 x130 for details!
NOW LEASING! Mullan Reserve Apartments Rugged yet refined. Secluded yet convenient. Luxurious yet sustainable. Call for a free tour. 543-0060. 4000 Mullan Road. mullanreserveapartments.com
MOBILE HOMES
River Ridge is a lovely, active community dedicated for seniors only (residents must be 55+ to qualify). This apartment complex has a mix of 1 & 2 bedrooms apartments over 3 floors. Thoughtful floor plans, radiant heat flooring and all utilities paid help make this is comfortable and welcoming place to call home. There is a large community room with a fireplace, a library, card/puzzle room, and a billiards room. 1 bedrooms $625, security deposit $550 and 2 bedrooms $725, security deposit $650. Please contact Property Manager Colin Woodrow at 406-549-4113 x131 cwoodrow@missoulahousing.org to schedule a tour.” The Palace Apartments, located at 149 W. Broadway, is now leasing studio’s, 1 bedroom & 2 bedroom units! This is an income qualifying property, with rents from $405$707 monthly. H/W/S/G/ all paid, electric is tenant responsibility. Parking must be acquired thru the Missoula Parking Commission.
Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406273-6034
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Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn In-
2318 55th Street #2. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills location. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE
Mountain Recreation Area. $299,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue
1401 Cooper. 2 bed, 1 bath with basement on large Northside corner lot. Open living room &
kitchen, wood floors. Double garage with upstairs studio space. $215,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.com 1511 Van Buren. 3 bed, 1 bath in lower Rattlesnake. Hardwood floors, coved ceilings & basement. Mt. Jumbo views. $229,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-581. annierealtor@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 5 acres in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. Borders DNRC land. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
1311 Idaho • $162,000 3 bed, 2 bath with newly remodeled addition, large fenced yard and 2 car garage. Non-vets may assume VA loan. MLS #20151243
4 Plex By The River 319/321 1st St. Dream location! 3-plex and alley house (2 efficiencies and 2 one bed units) behind Bernices ‘hood, River views and end of the street. Reduced $365,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
1401 Cooper • $215,000 2 bed, 1 bath with basement on large Northside corner lot. Open living room & kitchen, wood floors. Double garage with upstairs studio space. MLS #20151210 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University District home. $410,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Farviews Home 404 Westview. Three bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable Farviews neighborhood for $265,000! Solar panels, views, great home. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com I’ll save you time and energy. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. I know Missoula and have lived here 30+ years. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The
REAL ESTATE local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Orange Street Triplex 201 S Orange Street Triplex. $275,000. Location is awesome, near the river and downtown and river trails and bike trails and all sorts of conveniences. Two main floor units, one upper. Some hardwood floors and some upgrades and tons of character! KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Rattlesnake Farmhouse A friendly home with large garden in the middle Rattlesnake. 1145 Lolo Street. At corner of Gilbert and Lolo Streets. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 10,200 sq. ft. lot
[0.23 acres] Fruit trees. Access to town and trails. For sale by owners of 24 years. $279,000. Main and Second floors have 1,375 Sq. Ft. Unfinished basement 240 Sq.Ft. Parking off street. Fenced yard and garden. All SIDs paid including city sewer,sidewalk. Natural gas heat. Roof one year old. Taxes $2304.33 in 2014. Pictures on craigslist. 406-437-1800 or masirr@yahoo.com South Hills Ranch Style 2615 Arcadia - $250,000. 3 bed/1 bath. Open floor plan, gorgeous updates including kitchen abd bath, backs to open space, large backyard. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Sweet & Modern 949 Discovery. $225,000. 3 bed/ 2 bath energy-efficient home with a trail up Mt. Jumbo right out your door! No maintenance siding; low maintenance yard; super floor plan and kitchen, and lots of light. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broad-
way. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
tico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com
Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
CONDOS Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 $160,000. Three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. One of the best things about Burns Street Commons is its gorgeous exterior and great community atmosphere. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Por-
Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns #10. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom unit for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
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COMMERCIAL Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
LAND FOR SALE 1 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $115,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 5329296. mlzappknapp@ lambrosera.com 2 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $125,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis. 1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM
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NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres
Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley
home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-
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We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587
1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. 3 bed, 2 bath Victorian on over 7 fenced acres with barn & outbuildings. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
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17730 Wild Goose, Frenchtown. 4 bed, 2 bath on 1/2 acre by King Ranch Golf Course. Fireplace, jetted tub & 2 car garage. Anne Jablonski, Portico
FOR BUYING MORE FOR LESS 3010 West Central • $325,000
THE UPTOWN FLATS #303 • $159,710 & #312 • $151,900 Top floor units include all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offer. Ask Anne about ALL the opportunities for Ownership in The Uptown Flats or visit www.movemontana.com 2014 Best Real Estate Agent
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5 acres in Target Range bordering DNRC land. Includes 3 bed, 1 bath home and outbuildings. Perfect for the rural life in town.
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience
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512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com