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cover photo by Cathrine L. Walters

News Voices/Letters Coal and morons..............................................................................4 The Week in Review Suicide, square dancing and the Zoo Music Awards..................6 Briefs Rez Made, police districts and birds ....................................................................6 Etc. Snow, flooding and, now, potholes.........................................................................7 News Community Medical’s partner choice could mean big changes...........................8 Opinion Help wanted for oilfield workers...................................................................10 Feature Prison is no place to die ..................................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis revisit Wildwood ...................................................18 Music Helms Alee, The Weekenders and Kool AD & Kassa Overall .............................19 Books Blood Will Out profiles a con man....................................................................20 Theater UM’s Days spins an outdated scripts..............................................................21 Film Dark secrets unravel slowly in The Past ...............................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Make plov, not war ...........................................................................24 Happiest Hour St. Patty’s Day......................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Orange is not the new black ...............................................................27 Mountain High Ultra-marathoner Mike Wolfe.............................................................33 Agenda Maternal and Infant Mortality in Low-Income Countries ...............................34

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Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................10 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, March 11, near the corner of N. Higgins and Broadway.

Missoula City Council recently passed a controversial ban on sitting and soliciting downtown. How do you feel about the council’s decision?

Follow-up: If you could improve or change one thing about Missoula’s downtown core, what would it be?

Aaron Simpson: It kinda makes sense.

I’ve never had a problem myself but I can understand from a business standpoint. If they sat at a table it would be okay, just not on the ground. Bi-stander: I have no problem with Missoula’s downtown. The only thing I would change is all the oneway streets surrounding downtown.

There are too many.

Dawn Soul: It sounds reasonable to me if it helps the businesses. I live at the Palace apartments and have to step over drunks sometimes, but I’m okay with it. Beer here: I love this town, I like it the way it is. Maybe some more bars.

Adam Rissien: Criminalizing the homeless seems morally wrong. The ordinance is aimed at resolving the problem after the fact, when we need to do a better job at stemming the cause of homelessness. Use the quads God gave you: Get rid of the cars. We have parking garages, let’s use them.

Talia “Chip” Schultz: I guess I understand where they’re coming from in an effort to “clean up” the downtown, but I think it’s unfortunate for the folks that live downtown and look for help from passersby. Night owl: Maybe to have things open a little later at night. I’m from Portland and I’m used to bigger cities having things open late.

Adam Smith: I’m good with the not lying or sleeping. It’s not safe for them because something could happen to them while they’re sleeping. I see no problem with people sitting on the sidewalk so long as they’re not harassing anyone. Bike pains: Get rid of the bike lanes. And that’s coming from a cyclist. It’s a heavy traffic corridor and it’s not safe for cyclists.

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Moron manifesto

Cut the leash

If you aren’t clear what a moron is, let me set that straight before moving on. For the purpose of this article a moron is any person you observe, think wtf and then categorize with a curse word or some other disparaging comment, like “Moron!”

Have you noticed that the number of and frequency that you run into morons is dramatically increasing? Have you ever wondered why? If you keep reading I may be able to explain it.

There are people out there doing things, acting in ways, saying stuff (out loud, on the opinion page of the newspaper, or with social media) that just rub you the wrong way, conflict with your beliefs, annoy your sense of what is right and make you wonder what has gone wrong with the world. This might be as simple as someone cutting in front of you on the highway a little closer to your car that you are comfortable with. It might also be as significant as violating a deeply held and publicly stated religious, philosophical or spiritual belief (an affront to all that you hold dearly and central to the existence of humanity on the planet.)

Look around, make sure no one is watching, and raise your hand if you have run into one of these morons today, in the last hour or can see one right now. Now look around, do you see anyone else raising their hand? Are they looking at you? Yep, that’s right—you might be their moron.

At some point we are all someone else’s moron and the U.S. Constitution, that I fought and killed people for during my years in the Marines, protects each of our rights to act like a moron. It is this diversity that makes our country strong. Morons all over the world are imprisoned and worse because they lack the freedoms we Americans take for granted when we disagree with another of our citizens and categorize them as a moron.

Now is where I ask for your help ridding the world of morons. Accept that what makes us different individually makes us stronger as a nation. Attempt to begin to understand—because it only works if you try to understand as often as you judge. Realize, yes, occasionally you are someone else’s moron and the right you enjoy to judge them is shared by those judging you.

Eventually stop calling people morons.

Only then will we rid the world of morons.

Only you can stop moronism.

Tim Peterson Corvallis

With lemming-like precision, most Democrats fell in line with the environmentalist narrative about global warming and have joined with them in attacking all things related to coal. It was highly remarkable (heretical in some circles) then that last week a group of four Democratic U.S. senators declared that they are charting a middle path for coal—that is, acknowledging the problems with climate change while not being blind to the fact that we will need to consume increasing amounts of coal to meet our energy needs in the future.

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“Do you see anyone else raising their hand?

Are they looking at you? Yep, that’s right—you might be their moron.”

The four senators—from North Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia and Indiana—denounced the “keep it in the ground” strategy advocated by environmental groups and supported by the Obama administration, especially the opposition to clean coal technology that promises to reduce future emissions while still providing low-cost and reliable energy.

They couldn’t be more right. Pretending that we can replace coal with alternative energy is simply a fairy tale. The federal Energy Information Administration projects that alternative energy will be able to supply just 8 percent of U.S. energy demand by 2040, even assuming the continuation of massive taxpayer subsidies. Their forecasts show that coal will meet about the same amount of energy demand 30 years from now as it does today.

And that’s just the United States— around the world demand for coal is

growing. There are still 1 billion people in the world who do not have access to basic electricity. Energy poverty relegates people to substandard conditions in health care, education and all sorts of other categories.

The problem of energy poverty is equal to, if not greater than, that of global warming. How can we look at those 1 billion people and tell them they can’t have basic advantage of electricity?

That’s the appeal of the “middle path” for coal now being adopted by a few brave Democrats. We can reduce emissions by developing new technology to make coal cleaner, while still keeping energy costs low. This doesn’t have to be an either-or proposition. Thus the frustration with environmental groups that are attempting to block exports of American coal, and with the Obama administration, which has declared a de facto moratorium on construction of high-tech, coal-fired power plants through proposed EPA regulations.

If the U.S. doesn’t take the lead in developing clean-coal technology, then who will?

No state has more at stake in this than Montana. Over 60 percent of our electricity is generated from coal and we have by far the largest coal reserves in the U.S. Those massive reserves, valued at $1.5 trillion, present the single biggest economic opportunity for our state with the potential for tens of thousands of new jobs.

With so much at stake, it’s disappointing that Montana’s two U.S. senators were not front and center with their Democratic colleagues in advocating the “middle path” on coal.

Gov. Steve Bullock has already shown leadership in this regard. In a recent letter to the EPA asking they back down on proposed coal regulations, the governor wrote, “The U.S. EIA forecasts that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation’s energy future for several decades … in the long-term, we’ll still need coal and advanced coal technologies that reduce carbon emissions. This will only happen with a strong commitment to research and development.”

Why aren’t Sens. Jon Tester and John Walsh adding their voices to one of the most critical issues that affects Montana?

Maybe it’s time they show a little leadership and cut the leash from the Sierra Club.

Bob Lake Montana Public Service Commission Hamilton

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, March 5 Stillwater Mining Co., Montana’s largest mining interest, reports a $270 million net loss for 2013. Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who participated in a hostile takeover of the company last year, currently serves as chairman of the company’s board.

Thursday, March 6 Cerberus Capital Management, a gigantic private equity firm that owns the Albertsons grocery store chain, announces plans to buy Safeway, Inc. The deal is reportedly for more than $9 billion and would merge the two former competitors.

Friday, March 7 A notably rambunctious square dance sponsored by Old Time Missoula draws more than 50 people, young and old alike, to the Downtown Dance Collective for a spin-your-partner, do-si-do bonanza that lasts all evening.

Saturday, March 8 The Wilma Theatre hosts the second annual Zoo Music Awards ceremony featuring acrobatic performances by aerialists from the Moksha Studio. Award winners include Kristi Neumann in the Singer/Songwriter category, Lil’ Smokies for Bluegrass, Captain Wilson Conspiracy for Jazz and Mr. Soap for Hip-Hop.

Sunday, March 9 Missoula-based Warm Springs Productions premieres its new series “No Man's Land” on the History Channel. The show follows the struggles of five people as they try to survive in harsh desert environments from Arizona to Utah to Texas and beyond.

Monday, March 10 University of Montana officials close Campus Drive and shut down the M Trail after a 3-foot-wide boulder rolls off Mount Sentinel, takes out a retaining wall and comes to rest on the road.

Tuesday, March 11 Emergency responders rush to the corner of Mullan Road and Reserve Street in late morning where they find the body of a woman locked inside her vehicle. The gun she presumably used to take her own life is still in her hand upon their arrival.

Operations Manager Ethan Smith works to divert meltwater toward Rattlesnake Creek as it rushes through the northern field of the Garden City Harvest PEAS Farm on March 14. Smith says the organization has never seen this much heavy runoff in its history of running the farm.

Business

Rez Made pride In 2012, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain was sitting in East Glacier, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in the house where he grew up. He’d just returned from three years in the Midwest, where he’d studied creative writing, and he was unsure about what to do next. “I was, like, ‘Fuck, I gotta do something.’ Besides write. Because, you know, expecting to make money off of writing is silly,” he says. HolyWhiteMountain wanted to make money, but he wanted to do it in a way that would offer something to the reservation community.

“When people think about reservations,” HolyWhiteMountain says, “they think about poverty and addiction and domestic abuse and things like that. … I was like, ‘Maybe I can make something that people from Indian Country can be proud of.’ Because it’s so hard to be proud of something when you’re continuously being told that what really sets you apart from the rest of country is a sad history and a bad present. That can be so hard on people’s sense of self.”

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that would allow them to identify proudly with their reservation origins, he decided to print T-shirts that declared “Rez Made” in all-caps on the front. On the back would be a feather overlaying a circle, broadly symbolizing, he says, “the interdependence of the individual and community.”

HolyWhiteMountain, a University of Montana graduate, returned to Missoula in 2012 to get Rez Made started. In Missoula, Statriot, Zoo City Apparel and Garage Tees had all successfully launched apparel businesses.

HolyWhiteMountain contracted with Garage Tees to do his printing, and he began selling shirts at powwows around the state. He found a receptive market, selling, he estimates, more than 1,000 shirts over the next two summers.

Last month, he launched his website, rezmade.com.

While he continues to do printing for powwows through Garage Tees, the printing and shipping of online orders is done through a Chicago-based company. This, he hopes, is only a temporary arrangement. Ultimately, he would like to base Rez Made on the Blackfeet Reservation, so that he can offer people there not only something to identify with but also an important—if small—economic boost.

Ted McDermott

North Fork

One more step forward Earlier this month, the U.S. House passed the North Fork Watershed Protection Act in what conservationists hailed as a critical step for wildlife and clean water in northwest Montana. That approval, secured by Rep. Steve Daines, marks the most significant advancement yet in a fight former Sen. Max Baucus waged over four decades in Congress.

The moment itself passed quickly, in a manner typically used to approve small, non-controversial bills. The measure’s speedy passage on the House floor was attributed to the widespread bipartisan support it has gained over time. Proponents now include county commissions, city officials, chambers of commerce, sporting groups and business leaders across western Montana. Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP America and ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy have backed the bill as well.

Michael Jamison with the National Parks Conservation Association’s Glacier field office credits the broad support to a host of factors, including the North Fork’s proximity to Glacier National Park and how long the issue has been debated. In particular, he feels the bill’s

[news] simplicity has given it an edge over other state-based conservation legislation.

“The North Fork bill is 190 words long,” Jamison says. “It’s half the length of a letter to the editor. It’s probably one of the shortest pieces of legislation that Congress will look at this year because it only does one thing.

It doesn’t create wilderness and it doesn’t try to deal with timber management or any of that. It just simply says that we’re not going to offer any more [mining] leases.”

The Montana Wilderness Association promptly declared Daines’ involvement a turning point for the North Fork. MWA Executive Director Brian Sybert hopes the bill’s passage in the House is a sign not just of progress for the Flathead but of future unification by Montana’s congressional delegation around other grassroots conservation proposals.

“Getting conservation legislation out of the House ... has not been easy,” Sybert says. “So the fact that we were able to get this Montana-made bill that protects a critical watershed out of the House is significant in and of itself.”

The bill now goes to the Senate, where success is still not guaranteed despite the backing of Sens. John Walsh and Jon Tester. If the bill does cross the finish line, however, Jamison believes the credit ultimately goes to the man who first dug in his heels for the fight 40 years ago.

“Whether it’s Rep. Daines who gets it through the House or whether it’s Sen. Walsh or Sen. Daines or Sen. Tester who gets it through the Senate,” Jamison says, “the legacy belongs to Max Baucus.”

Alex Sakariassen

poses to birds in the area. The two companies took the issue to court in December, with SDG&E filing a lawsuit in California and NaturEner filing suit in Montana.

On March 4, Montana District Judge Brenda Gilbert reaffirmed a temporary injunction that prohibits SDG&E from canceling its contracts with NaturEner until the case moves forward.

The companies are arguing over certain bird-related provisions in their contracts. SDG&E believes NaturEner misled it about the likelihood of eagle mortality at the wind farm and is thereby in breach of contract. NaturEner says it uses ample precautions like bird spotters and radar systems to protect avian species and that if SDG&E backs out of its commitments the wind farm will not be able to pay off its loans.

For bird lovers, the legal spat is evidence that the improper placement of wind farms can cause serious problems.

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Energy

Bird lovers balk at wind farm A battle over birds is unfolding at a new wind farm just east of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It pits a Spanish company against a California utility, while bird lovers watch from the sidelines to see who wins.

The Rim Rock wind farm, owned and operated by the Spanish company NaturEner, is located near a highdensity breeding and nesting ground for golden eagles and ferruginous hawks northwest of Shelby.

“Kevin Rim is a great place for wind but it is also an incredible place for raptors,” says Janet Ellis, program director of Montana Audubon. “The turbines are sitting on top of this rim and they have identified seven golden eagle nests in the area, 47 ferruginous hawk nests, ... 10 different species of raptors that nest on the rim, and it has been known for a long time as a mecca for raptors in Montana.” She adds that Kevin Rim is an Audubondesignated Important Bird Area.

One of the wind farm’s principal clients, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, wants to back out of its commitments with NaturEner because of the threat the farm

“We tried to warn NaturEner as well as [SDG&E] that it could become a black eye,” says Ellis, whose organization advised NaturEner on the project design to help mitigate impacts on birds. “... There is a lot of wind in Montana and so we are just hoping that wind companies generally don’t want to be in locations that are really important wildlife habitat.”

Ellis says one goshawk and one ferruginous hawk have died at the site since the wind farm became operational 2 years ago.

Jimmy Tobias

Justice

New tax on tap?

Despite opposition from the public and within the Missoula City Council’s own ranks, the lawmaking body on March 10 moved forward with a proposal to create a new special tax district to fund emergency services.

If approved, the district would add $11 in taxes to a home valued at $250,000 by next year. In 2016, it would cost an additional $24.

BY THE NUMBERS

$50 million

Donation pledged to Montana State University’s College of Engineering this month by alumnus Norm Asbjornson—the largest private gift in state history. Asbjornson was the biggest individual backer of American Tradition Partnership, donating $70,000 to the controversial political nonprofit between 2008 and 2010.

When explaining the importance of the proposed “Public Safety and Justice District,” the Missoula Police Department itemizes its laundry list of impending needs, including the costs associated with complying with U.S. Department of Justice directives on dealing with sexual assault investigations.

According to MPD Chief Mike Brady, roughly $300,000 of the $350,000 set aside through the district in 2015 would cover costs associated with DOJ compliance. In 2016, $250,000 of the $800,000 generated would fund federal directives.

Councilman Jason Wiener supports creation of the Public Safety District. He explains that while cash would initially flow out of it quickly, the new revenue would enable Missoula to borrow at a low interest rate the $5.2 million necessary to build a training facility and evidence storage warehouse for MPD. “Once the funding is in place, then we can construct the new facility,” Wiener says.

Councilman Jon Wilkins agrees that the department needs new digs. He also endorses MPD’s efforts to improve sexual assault investigations. He takes exception, however, to the mechanism proposed to generate the money.

“I’ve seen my taxes go up and up,” Wilkins says. “It just keeps building.”

Special districts have fewer legal constraints than general fund assessments. The differences encourage the use of special districts to increase taxes with little oversight, he says. Wilkins points to a special road district created by council in 2010 as an example. In 2011, the special road district generated $300,000. This year it will raise $704,498.

Rather than leaving lawmakers to create a new pot of cash for police, fire and the courts, Wilkins says he’d like to see voters decide.

Wilkins could get his wish. In the coming weeks, the city will begin notifying property owners through the mail of the proposal. If more than 10 percent reject the pitch, the question will go on the ballot.

Council will hold a public hearing on March 24 to further debate the district.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. Old Man Winter flipped everyone the bird on his way out of town.

The temperature climbed, the snow melted and the good citizens of Missoula emerged from their hibernation to find the roads disfigured by potholes big enough to bathe in.

Like taxes and allergies, these things have become standard fare during the adolescentstage of springtime change. For at least the third year in a row, the streets took a bad beating and some unsuspecting Missoula motorists paid the price.

Consider the case of Andrew Presnar and Ashley Bilyeu. The couple was driving down Orange Street last week when suddenly a shindeep canyon beneath the underpass swallowed their tire whole.

“Our tire basically exploded,” Bilyeu says. “We were going [through the underpass] and there was this huge pothole that was filled with water. I tried to miss it but I didn’t and I hit it. It sounded like I ran someone over.”

She says the city sent her an incident report form to fill out. Once she returns it, she’ll have to wait and see if her claim qualifies for insurance coverage.

“Hopefully I get it. It would help,” she says.

“For that one tire it costs $200.”

Not long after Bilyeu’s accident, the city closed that stretch of Orange Street to repair the dangerous depression. At the same time, street maintenance crews in bright yellow vests were fanning out across the city—from the pockmarked Hillview Way on the Southside to the treacherous stretch of Second Street on the Northside—with shovels full of steaming asphalt to try and mend our eroded roadways.

They’ve done their best, but fixing potholes ain’t exactly a cakewalk.

“It’s everything we can do to keep up with them,” says Brian Hensel, the city’s street superintendent. “... Potholes are popping up like knapweed.”

When asked how many holes his crews have dealt with since the big storm, he just laughed before simply saying, “There’s a lot.”

Like everything else around town, the city’s pothole hotline (552-6360) has been flooded (with requests).

As for Bilyeu, she’s taking it slow after her run-in with the abyss.

“I’m driving around with a doughnut,” she says. “I have to be extra careful.”

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Healthy choice Community Medical pushed toward St. Pat’s deal

by Skylar Browning

Community Medical Center has spent the last six months delicately preparing staff, major donors and the general public for significant changes at the Missoula hospital. As the nonprofit’s search for a “partnering initiative” nears its end, major stakeholders are angling to influence the board of directors’ decision, while others are frustrated with the lack of transparency and public involvement throughout the process. That frustration only rises amid speculation that Community’s options include Billings Clinic and Providence Health & Services, the parent company of Missoula’s only other hospital, St. Patrick.

“This is a decision that impacts every patient in Missoula, every resident, but it’s being decided by a select group of suits behind a closed door,” said one independent physician with privileges at both Community and St. Pat’s, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the negotiations. “I don’t know if going with St. Pat’s is the best move or not, but I think that’s something the Missoula community should have an opportunity to talk about.”

Steve Carlson, Community’s chief operating officer, announced in an Aug. 15 letter to staff that the hospital hired a national financial advisory firm, Cain Brothers, to help identify and evaluate options as it adjusted to “market forces and legislative mandates for change.” Those options included remaining an independent nonprofit or “pursuing an affiliation with a regional or national system.” In October, Community eliminated 20 positions and furloughed additional workers in an effort to cut $3 million in costs. On Feb. 18, Carlson and Board Chair Scott Stearns released a letter stating the hospital had identified “several solutions now under consideration that offer us the opportunity to become part of a larger organization.” The letter added that “no final decisions have been made,” but assured the board is “committed to making the very best decisions on behalf of our community.” A separate Feb. 27 letter sent to major donors and signed by Foundation Chair Barry Kenfield specified that a partner decision will be made “within the next 60 days.”

“Non-disclosure agreements have been signed with any and all potential partners, so no potential partners can be identified,” said Mary Windecker, Community’s vice president of planning and marketing.

While none of Community’s public releases has solicited public or staff input,

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local groups are positioning themselves to make their opinions known. The Independent received one letter addressed to the Community board on behalf of independent physicians advocating for a partnership with St. Patrick Hospital.

“Your choice of a partner is an important matter that cannot be overstated and has significant consequences for all of us,” it states. “...We believe that the unity of hospitals will increase [health care] qual-

“If Community Medical Center and St. Patrick Hospital cannot establish a partnership, the attributes of both hospitals will be compromised.”

—Letter from independent physicians to the Community board

ity and will help to improve Missoula as the center of healthcare excellence. The economic benefits for the entire community cannot be overlooked.

“We believe that the division of the Missoula medical community will have an opposite and disastrous result,” the two-page letter continues. “... If Community Medical Center and St. Patrick Hospital cannot establish a partnership, the attributes of both hospitals will be compromised.”

The Independent received the same letter from two different physicians, one of whom said he agreed to sign it. The

other said he was undecided. When asked if the physicians knew whether St. Pat’s was a realistic partner for Community, one responded, “It’s what’s always made the most sense to a lot of people. It’s kind of the worst-kept secret around the halls that they’ve been exploring this from the start.”

Windecker said she was unaware of the physicians’ letter, but added that “any comments are always taken to the Board.”

The Montana Nurses Association, which represents employees at Community, St. Pat’s and Billings Clinic, said Carlson notified staff of “acquisition discussions” but its members have not been informed of any specific partner possibilities nor been asked to weigh in on the process.

“The Montana Nurses Association will continue to focus on representation of all registered nurse members who have collective bargaining agreements in place at both facilities,” said Lori Chovanak, referring to St. Pat’s and Community, in an emailed statement. “We will continue to prioritize supporting each nurse in their work environment so that they can provide the quality care necessary to contribute to optimal patient outcomes.

Additionally, we will maintain our respectful relationship with both facilities.”

Community Medical Center admits nearly 6,000 patients each year and employs more than 1,100 people with an annual payroll of over $38 million. Its medical staff includes 300 physicians.

Community offers the only obstetrical and newborn care in Missoula County, and it’s the only hospital in western Montana that provides pediatric specialty and pediatric intensive care services.

The nonprofit reports total patient revenue at $237 million, but it’s one of many facilities across the country struggling to adjust to an evolving health care system. One of the major challenges facing Community involves changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the government’s health insurance programs for seniors and the poor. A proposal in the 2013 Montana Legislature to expand Medicaid failed. As a result of these challenges, Moody’s Investors Service recently downgraded the outlook on Community Medical Center’s bond rating on $24.9 million of outstanding debt to “negative.”

It’s unclear how Community’s partnership with or acquisition by a larger organization would impact staff or patients.

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Community Medical Center says it’s identified options that will allow it to “become part of a larger organization.”

Independent physicians urged the hospital’s board to merge with St. Patrick Hospital, while others believe Billings Clinic, an existing affiliate, could emerge as the new partner.

kered a deal between two East Coast nonprofit health care entities last month, which brought Adventist Health Care’s Hackettstown Regional Medical Center in northwest New Jersey under the control of Atlantic Health System for $54 million.

Hackettstown has 111 acute-care beds.

Community, by comparison, has 146.

Among Community’s options, a merger with Providence and St. Patrick Hospital has generated the most discussion. A Catholic institution, St. Pat’s is Missoula’s second-largest employer with approximately 1,773 employees, but announced in November its own financial challenges and a restructuring plan to cut $5 million.

“There’s an argument to be made for combining resources, sure, but there are also a lot of questions about what it means to basically eliminate competition

and patient choice,” said another local physician with privileges at both hospitals.

Calls and emails to St. Pat’s requesting comment were not returned.

Billings Clinic, also a nonprofit, includes three branch clinics as well as five primary or specialty care clinics in Montana and Wyoming. Community partnered with Billings Clinic on its OBGYN oncology program beginning in 2009, and more recently collaborated on its electronic health records system.

“Billings Clinic has several relationships with Community Medical Center,” said Jim Duncan, president of the Billings Clinic Foundation & Community Relations. He referred any questions about Community’s search for a partner and Billings Clinic’s role in that process to the Missoula hospital.

With no additional information com-

ing from Community, local leaders are concerned with how such a significant decision will ultimately impact staff, patients and the city’s overall level of health care.

“You know, honestly, I don’t know much about it. Apparently there is not much transparency if I don’t know anything about it,” said Missoula City Councilman Jon Wilkins, who chairs the Public Safety and Health Committee. “I think people should know about what is going on, and they should be allowed to put their input in if it affects their life … I run the Public Safety Committee and I have heard not one word on any of this. I would like to know how this affects the people that live in Missoula.”

Additional reporting by Jimmy Tobias. editor@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Help wanted A realistic look at subcontractor jobs in the oil patch

by Theo Colborn

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On television, radio and billboards in the West, the energy industry sells the notion that natural gas production provides badly needed jobs. The ads feature stunningly clean landscapes, sound almost euphoric and are designed to make us feel good.

The contrast between the feel-good nature of the ads and the reality of many of the jobs they tout is also stunning. There are jobs available, yes, but most of the workers in the gas fields are low-paid laborers who have no job security, no health benefits, no unions and no recourse against industry abuses.

These workers are not protected under the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration because they do not work inside buildings or in a deep hole in the ground. They are just now getting some attention from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—a good thing, because injured workers who have become so incapacitated that they will never again be able to hold down a job are routinely denied workers’ compensation. Those who get sick are generally unable to prove it’s because they were exposed to something on the job.

Energy industry jobs can be split into two classes. The first includes salaried workers who receive high wages with benefits and paid vacation time. This salaried workforce includes managers who supervise drilling, energy production and the laying of the gathering lines. These jobs are limited, however, depending on how many drilling and fracking units are in operation across the country.

The second, and much larger, class involves workers who are paid by the hour and often desperately hope for overtime in order to earn a living wage. They include the members of the small teams on the well pads who travel with the drilling units, moving constantly and wondering where they will sleep next.

Beyond drilling and fracking, many other jobs need doing, from the initial clearing of the land for the pad to the task of get-

ting the raw gas to the consumer. Extraction companies routinely contract with other companies to provide auxiliary services, creating sub-subcontract and sub-sub-subcontract workers.

“Most of the workers in the gas fields are low-paid laborers who have no job security, no health benefits, no unions and no recourse against industry abuses.”

Their jobs include driving tanker trucks and heavy equipment, welding, cleaning the inside of fracking tanks, working around compressors and toxic solvents, and maintaining and repairing the vast pipeline infrastructure that delivers the methane. These workers are often the first to get to a spill in order to shovel dirt and apply dispersants.

The work they do can expose them to toxic volatile compounds that, when inhaled, can have both immediate and long-term, delayed health impacts.

Employees work long hours, take physical risks and receive little protection. Many subcontractors, for instance, make their workers incorporate themselves and paint the name of their corporations on the sides of their trucks, in order to make it look as though they are self-employed. Yet since

these workers usually work for just one subcontractor, they should be considered its employees, entitled to all the benefits that are supposed to come with employment.

When companies pull up stakes and move, these “self-employed” folks end up with no unemployment benefits, because self-employed people are also not required to pay workers’ compensation. But the drilling companies assume no responsibility for them; the workers have to cover their own taxes, health insurance and medical bills, and when the companies decide to drill elsewhere, they’re just out of luck.

Many contract workers rely on drugs, both over-the-counter and illegal, to treat job-related disorders as well as to stay awake to the end of the shift. Since they lack health insurance, they also turn to the nearest hospital’s emergency services, forcing the local community to pay for treatment that workers can’t afford.

Besides suffering problems ranging from immune disorders, hypertension, loss of libido and chronic pulmonary disorders, workers are also highly susceptible to alcohol and drug addiction. During the last decade, when western Colorado experienced a boom, Garfield County established a 90-bed rehabilitation center to assist workers who failed a urine test three times in a row.

It is unfortunate that a code of silence, tinged with fear, pervades this subcontract workforce. Often it stems from the loyalty of the workers, who would rather have these high-risk jobs than no jobs at all. Meanwhile, energy companies expect these secondorder jobs to increase to 870,000 by 2015.

Western workers deserve a better alternative.

Theo Colborn is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She established the Endocrine Disruption Exchange in 2002 in Paonia, Colo., and is co-author of Our Stolen Future.

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The first two he pointed at his head didn’t fire, but the third one did. Calling the situation “pretty unique,” Undersheriff Michael McCabe remarked, “I have never heard of anyone testing out the safety of a gun by pointing at their head and pulling the trigger.” (United Press International)

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Clint Galentine, 37, was practicing turkey calls while walking with a friend in a wildlife management area in Tampa, Fla., when a hunter shot him twice with a high-powered rifle. Michael Trott, 43, told Fish and Wildlife Conservation officials that he mistook Galentine for a deer. (The New York Times) An off-duty corrections officer reaching for his valet parking ticket at a crowded restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., accidentally triggered his concealed handgun, firing a round that sent ricocheting shrapnel into a group of patrons. One was injured, according to Police Detective DeAnna Greenlaw, who identified the restaurant as Shooters Waterfront. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

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ichayla Brilz arrived at the Missoula County Detention Center on a busy Tuesday night, April 26, 2011. It wasn’t the 27-year-old’s first time in jail. Over the previous two years, she’d been charged for, among other things, resisting arrest and driving under the influence. Now, she was booked for allegedly paying a babysitter with sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, and violating the terms of her previous release.

Detention Center Supervisor Luke Johnson was working the booking desk alone when Brilz arrived around 10 p.m., so he asked Officer Debra Ann Reiner to place Brilz in a holding cell until he had a chance to admit her into the facility.

Reiner put Brilz in Holding Cell C and told her it would be just a few minutes before someone retrieved her.

Thirty-five minutes later, Reiner returned to find Brilz seated and unconscious on the holding cell floor with a payphone cord wrapped around her neck.

She did not regain consciousness. Paramedics transported Brilz to St. Patrick Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 11:10 p.m.

Last month, nearly three years after Brilz’s death, her family entered formal

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negotiations with Missoula County to settle allegations of jailer negligence.

During interviews prior to the confidential settlement talks, family attorney Milt Datsopoulos alleged that guards failed to follow commonly accepted guidelines when handling Brilz. The detention center didn’t screen her for mental illness prior to placing her in the cell alone with the means to harm herself. She had been in the facility before, and Datsopoulos believes staff knew or should have known that she was unstable. Why didn’t they keep a closer watch?

“They violated national standards and criteria as it relates to protecting the rights and ensuring the reasonable safety of people who are incarcerated,” Datsopoulos says.

The Brilz family isn’t alone in alleging negligence at the Missoula County Detention Center. The family of 31-year-old Heather Wasson filed a lawsuit against the county in 2011, two years after Wasson died alone in a jail cell from a seizure caused by acute alcohol withdrawals.

In fact, within the past five years, four inmates have died from unnatural causes at the facility. In 2010, Jay Brian Johnson hung himself with jail-issue socks. In

2013, Danny Wayne Johnston tied towels together to hang and asphyxiate himself.

Datsopoulos took the Brilz case because he wants jailers to be held accountable and do a better job preventing suicides. Since founding his Missoula law practice 45 years ago, Datsopoulos has represented a steady stream of defendants like Brilz, people who are mentally ill and addicted. It troubles him that rather than receiving intensive treatment, they are locked up and largely forgotten. “It’s a shameful thing,” Datsopoulos says.

Armed with constitutional principles that require jailers to ensure a minimum standard of safety, Datsopoulos wants to change the system. When making his case, he acknowledges the conversation surrounding how to help people like Brilz and Wasson is at times challenging and uncomfortable. But he believes that discomfort helps fuel a tendency to dismiss their suicides as inconsequential. In light of the sprawling human and financial costs associated with inmate deaths, Datsopoulos says it’s incumbent upon lawmakers to overhaul the system. And, in his experience, Datsopoulos says the only way to force policymakers to fix something is to hit them where it hurts: the wallet.

“Otherwise, there’s a story or two on it,” he says. “The person in charge gets up and denies almost everything. And people say, ‘Well, what the hell? This was somebody that obviously was a throwaway person, or they wouldn’t be in jail. Let’s don’t worry about it. We’ve got other things to worry about.’ What disturbs me is that these people aren’t afforded serious consideration by the legal system, unless what occurred is pushed, and people are forced to look at the reality of what occurred, why it occurred, but more importantly, how easily it could have been avoided.”

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n spring 2011, Michayla Brilz felt the world was closing in. There was never enough money. Her moods turned erratic.

She angered easily and clashed with the people around her. Even seemingly mundane tasks became increasingly difficult.

Court records indicate that Brilz had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was taking Zoloft. She was especially anxious about her children. Two years earlier, she and her ex-husband painstakingly carved out custody arrangements. She’d get their two kids, then ages 7 and 4, on Mother’s Day, her birthday and two nights

a week. He would have them the rest of the time.

Brilz’s drug and alcohol use jeopardized her relationship with her son and daughter entirely. In January 2010, she was found guilty of obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest. Eleven months later, Brilz pleaded guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia. Brilz was on misdemeanor probation for driving under the influence in March 2011 when Missoula County prosecutors alleged that she paid a babysitter with drugs.

On April 26, 2011, when law enforcement came to take Brilz into custody for violating the terms of her probation, she refused to answer the door. University of Montana Public Safety Officer Casey Gunter testified during the Brilz inquest that after the woman finally let him into her apartment in the Lewis and Clark student housing complex, she asked them if they had children. She also asked, Gunter said, why they “weren’t out arresting larger criminals than herself.”

Detention center guards testified that once Brilz arrived to the jail, she was calm and coherent. She asked for her eyeglasses and talked about working to get her kids back. Officer Reiner, the guard who placed Brilz in the holding cell, encouraged Brilz to stay positive.

“I gave her a little hope and said, ‘Well, that gives you something to look forward to when you get out. You’ll see the judge tomorrow, and you’ll be fine,’” Reiner testified.

Brilz’s autopsy found nicotine, caffeine and sertraline, Zoloft’s active ingredient, in her body. Her blood-alcohol

Heather Wasson, 31, died in 2009 as a result of an alcohol withdrawal seizure while incarcerated at the Missoula County Detention Center.

content was .20, almost two-and-a-half times the legal limit.

Each of the guards who testified during the inquest said Brilz gave no indication that she intended to kill herself.

In July 2011, a six-member jury that convened for the coroner’s inquest unanimously found the county innocent of criminal negligence. That result didn’t surprise Datsopoulos. Prior to entering set-

tlement negotiations with the county, he said inquests are typically one-sided affairs, with only prosecuting attorneys—the ones who work for the county—engaging in witness questioning.

“Most coroner’s inquests result in the facility being absolved and there’s some inherent conflicts there, because it isn’t really a fair inquiry,” he says. “It’s only a onesided inquiry. There’s no real cross examination. Nobody can bring in witnesses that really impeach the people they bring in, or disagree with them. But usually, if the coroner’s inquest comes out and says, ‘Well, we didn’t see anything illegal or improper with the handling of this inmate,’ that ends it.”

The veteran trial lawyer notes further that inquests weigh criminal liability.

There’s a significantly lower threshold of proof required to show civil negligence, which Datsopoulos would have to prove if the Brilz case went to court.

Complaints similar to the Brilz family’s are often settled out of court. During an 18-month period in 2004 and 2005, for example, four Ravalli County Detention Center inmates killed themselves. According to Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman, three of those deaths resulted in litigation.

All three lawsuits were settled out of court for undisclosed amounts of money.

Hoffman says the series of deaths prompted the jail to overhaul policies governing physical and mental health care.

Ravalli County now contracts with an outside company, Spectrum Medical, to provide on-site health care. It also increased training and hired a mental health provider, who is now on call for emergencies.

While treatment services decrease nationally, prison costs skyrocket. The Missoula County Detention Center’s 2014 budget is $11.8 million, a 59percent increase from 2004.

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“It changed the way we did business on so many levels,” Hoffman says.

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mmediately after being booked into the Fergus County Jail on Jan. 3, 2011, Carl Odell Stacy told guards he intended to commit suicide. Despite the threats and the fact that Stacy attempted suicide while incarcerated at the same facility five years prior, he was left unattended for 46 minutes. During that time, he hung himself with a sheet.

The attorney representing Stacy’s family, Torger Oaas, noted during a 2012 trial to debate Fergus County’s responsibility that jailers were fully aware of

ited “complete indifference to or conscious disregard” for her health and safety.

Despite knowing she was suicidal, jailers failed to remove a string from her hooded sweatshirt. The woman used that string to hang herself.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 began spelling out the minimum standards to guide detainee health care, courts have increasingly found that jailers must protect detainees from others and themselves. Ignoring that mandate constitutes a violation of prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

While such standards better ensure prisoners receive humane treatment, jailers can be hard-pressed to satisfy them.

centers in 2006 had a mental illness. That same report found that of the 2.3 million inmates incarcerated in 2006, 1.5 million, or 65 percent, were addicts.

While the treatment needs of detainees become more complex, the volume of people being housed in jails has increased exponentially. Between 1930 and 1970, incarceration rates in the United States hovered at roughly 100 detainees per 100,000.

That number is now 716 per 100,000.

Experts say it’s not a coincidence that prison rates started to skyrocket just as lawmakers set to work disassembling the nation’s mental health infrastructure. According to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors,

Meanwhile, while treatment services decrease, prison costs skyrocket. The Missoula County Detention Center’s 2014 budget is $11.8 million, a 59-percent increase from 2004.

I

n May 2009, 31-year-old Heather Wasson seemed more nervous than usual.

She didn’t like going to the Department of Correction’s Missoula Office of Probations and Parole for her regular check-ins, the result of a 2004 conviction on forgery and criminal possession of dangerous drugs charges.

Her probation officer, Kim Lahiff, testified that Wasson normally shook when

“What disturbs me is that these people aren’t afforded serious consideration by the legal system, unless what occurred is pushed, and people are forced to look at the reality of what occurred, why it occurred, but more importantly, how easily it could have been avoided.”

—Attorney Milt Datsopoulos

Stacy’s suicide risk. “Carl was mentally ill and they knew that,” Oaas said, as the Associated Press reported. “Carl had ADHD and depression. It was all over their paperwork.”

The jury found Fergus County negligent and awarded Stacy’s family $149,000.

Similar precedents dot the legal landscape. Last year, a federal jury awarded the family of a 27-year-old Missouri woman who committed suicide while incarcerated $2.85 million after finding guards exhib-

“Counties just don’t have adequate funding and resources to provide constitutional levels of care in a lot of situations,” says Montana ACLU staff attorney Anna Conley.

Problems meeting those standards are exacerbated by the fact that an increasing number of mentally ill and addicted offenders are flooding jails. According to the National Center for Substance Abuse at Columbia University, one-third of all people detained in local and state detention

state funding for psychiatric services in 2006, adjusted for inflation and population growth, amounted to less than 12 percent of the total spent in 1955. In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed available for every 300 Americans. Today, that number is one for every 3,000.

“There’s no treatment,” says Missoula social worker Catherine O’Day, who oversees a mental health care program at the Missoula County Detention Center.

“There’s nowhere for them to go.”

meeting with her at the office. But that day she seemed even shakier.

Lahiff suspected that something was wrong and so she screened Wasson for illegal drugs. Wasson’s 2004 conviction stemmed from methamphetamine use.

After finding no contraband in Wasson’s system, Lahiff sent her home.

Two days after Wasson failed to show up for her June 16 check-in with Lahiff, the Missoula Police arrested her for violating the terms of her release. On the way to the

Danny Wayne Johnston hung himself at the Missoula County Detention Center with jail-issued socks in March 2013. He’s the fourth inmate to die of unnatural causes at the facility since 2009.

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detention center, Wasson hit her head on the Plexiglas cage in the back of the patrol car while screaming and kicking in protest.

When she was booked into the jail, Wasson told guards that for a week and a half she’d been drinking vodka and wine and in the past had experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms. She was also taking Xanax and the antidepressant Effexor. She said she was “kind of ” thinking about killing herself and that she had hit her head the previous night. She added that she didn’t want to miss her son’s birthday later that week.

“She just kept saying that she wanted to get out of there, that she didn’t belong there,” detention officer Tonia Turner told law enforcement days later.

Roughly 40 hours after Wasson was booked into the Missoula County Detention Center, she died from cardiac arrest resulting from acute alcohol withdrawals.

In May 2011, Wasson’s family filed a lawsuit alleging that Missoula County and detention center contractor Spectrum Medical Services were negligent because they failed to adequately treat Wasson.

“The defendants, and each of them, were negligent in, among other things, failing to make cell checks of Heather, and to provide adequately for her safety,” states the complaint filed in Missoula Fourth Judicial District Court. “They knew or had reason to know that she was at risk for severe alcohol/drug withdrawal.”

Wasson was left unattended for roughly 90 minutes before jailers discovered her. American Correctional Association guidelines direct guards to check on high- and medium-security inmates personally every 30 minutes. The association, which accredits 1,500 institutions nationally and has more than 20,000 members, advises more stringent oversight of mentally ill inmates.

“More frequent observation is required for those inmates who are mentally disordered or who demonstrate unusual or bizarre behavior. Suicidal inmates are under continuous observation,” ACA guidelines state.

On June 19, a guard spoke with Wasson at 7:43 p.m. Roughly 12 minutes later, an unmonitored video surveillance camera in Wasson’s cell recorded the woman having what appears to be a seizure. Her right arm stiffens and becomes rigid. The movement-activated camera then shuts off.

Doctor Walter Kemp of the Forensic Science Division determined the cause of death was an alcohol withdrawal seizure from chronic alcohol abuse. Detention Center nurse Judy Munsell testified during the Wasson inquest that her staff was providing Wasson with a half milligram of Xanax twice a day and that benzodiazepines, such as Xanax, are commonly used to ward off the potentially deadly effects of alcohol detoxification.

Munsell said Wasson didn’t exhibit any obvious signs of withdrawals prior to her death. She was just like so many other inmates that nursing staff treats on a daily basis.

“A lot of people come into the jail and their intake forms are not different from

this lady’s. It’s unfortunate, you know, that she died and I’m really sorry for that,” Munsell said. “But there just wasn’t anything on that sheet that was a big red flag. It just wasn’t for us. We see dozens and dozens of people with similar information.”

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issoula social worker Catherine O’Day says it’s disheartening to watch detention center inmates get sober and begin planning ways to tackle their addictions, only to watch them fall apart when they leave.

only place to go through a supervised withdrawal is at a hospital emergency room or in jail. And, as O’Day notes, “We’re not a detox facility. … Jail is not treatment.”

As with lawsuits filed on behalf of suicidal inmates, addiction-related litigation is costly, too. In 2011, New York City agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged a postal worker died in jail because his severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms went untreated.

In Montana, meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Lake County jailers for refusing to provide

The statistics appear to show that increased education and awareness are helping. According to a 2010 report from the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, the suicide rate in county jails decreased from 107 per 100,000 inmates in 1986 to 38 per 100,000 in 2006.

Despite the progress, Ibsen acknowledges that his officers aren’t social workers and overseeing the complex needs of the nearly 400 inmates who live at the Missoula facility on any given day can be tough.

Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen says he would welcome more community services for mentally ill and addicted inmates. “There should be better ways of dealing with them than putting them in jail,” he says, “because jail I don’t think is fixing them.”

“I see them losing hope,” says O’Day, who, in addition to running a mental health program at the jail, teaches social work at the University of Montana.

Staying sober requires support, O’Day says. Offenders become pessimistic when they discover how little support exists for them. Columbia University found that in 2005, federal, state and local governments spent $74 billion on incarceration, court proceedings, probation and parole for substance-involved adult and juvenile offenders. That number dwarfs the $632 million spent on offender prevention and treatment.

Among the biggest problems, O’Day says, stems from the fact that Missoula has no alcohol detoxification facility. Detoxing can be deadly, as it was for Wasson. But the

Bethany Cajune medication prescribed to treat opiate addiction. The ACLU alleged Lake County’s actions caused Cajune, who was pregnant and jailed for traffic violations, to go into severe withdrawal. Lake County denied wrongdoing, but settled the case out of court in 2011, agreeing in the future to provide medication maintenance therapy to addicted inmates.

Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen declined to discuss the specifics of local detention center deaths, citing pending litigation. He did note that jailers are consistently working to better manage the rigors of their profession. As an example, he says staff took advantage of new suicide prevention curriculum rolled out two years ago at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy.

“It’s a challenging thing, assessing them, making sure they’re housed properly,” Ibsen says.

In light of the challenges, Ibsen says he’d welcome more community services. “There should be better ways of dealing with them than putting them in jail,” he says, “because jail I don’t think is fixing them.”

As for O’Day, she bristles when talking about allegations directed at Missoula County jailers. She says it’s unfair for detention center staffers to accept blame for an issue that’s rooted in policies and laws that extend far beyond their control.

“It’s really a systemic failure,” she says. “We can’t change the world out there from in here.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • March 13–March 20, 2014 [17]

[arts]

Into Wildwood Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis on finding pleasure in a made-up world

by Erika Fredrickson

I

n The Decemberists’ “The Mariner’s Revenge Song,” Colin Meloy sings about two shipwrecked survivors trapped in the belly of a whale whose ribs are “ceiling beams” and guts are “carpeting.” Meloy is known for such stories of adventure and whimsy, and over the past couple years he’s applied that romantic lyricism to a series of children’s books called the Wildwood Chronicles. The story begins when the smart little protagonist, Prue, watches a murder of crows fly away with her baby brother. (“And it had been such a nice day,” Prue quips.) We learn she lives in Portland with her family, but the quest to find her brother takes her into a wilderness on the edge of the city called Wildwood, which is occupied by, among other creatures, coyote soldiers and mystics. The fantastical series is illustrated with detailed color plates by Meloy’s partner, Carson Ellis, whom he met while they both attended the University of Montana. The third book of the series, Wildwood Imperium, came out last month. We caught up with the artists to talk about precocious protagonists, Montana wilderness and staying young.

What are some of your favorite children’s books or folktales?

Carson Ellis: My favorite books when I was a kid were the Chronicles of Narnia, which I read over and over again. I loved books about horses and I loved Charlotte’s Web and The Secret Garden. As a grown-up, I think I gravitated more toward the folktales. I especially like Russian folktales like Pushkin’s Baba Yaga [in the poem “Ruslan and Ludmila.”]

Colin Meloy: I was into Tolkien at an early age as well as Roald Dahl. And Ray Bradbury—I really loved his short stories. That was sort of the fantastical stuff I was reading at the time.

just go there anyway and wing it. So I went to [UM] and got a painting degree and then I graduated and thought, “Well, now I’ll just be an illustrator.” But I really had no idea how to do that. So I spent a long time not doing that. I spent a lot of time working as a painter and bartender and a cocktail waitress.

When I was in my mid-20s I moved to Portland and was hanging out with Colin a lot … We were doing lots of collaborating on things related to his band, The Decemberists, and all of that was just kind of for fun. But when more people started noticing the band, they started also seeing the art on the albums and on the website and on the T-shirts. I started getting jobs from art directors and that all snowballed into an illustration career. It happened very organically. I was very lucky because it was what I wanted to do but I really had no idea how to do it.

Colin, your lyrics for The Decemberists are so rich in imagery and often dramatic, and I think that’s what appeals to people. The Wildwood stories don’t seem far flung from your usual style, but were there challenges in going from lyrics to writing novels?

CM: They’re really different processes and I feel like you have to use different parts of your brain. I’d like to think that I brought a lyrical approach ... to the writing of the books. You don’t

have quite as much freedom when you’re writing books—you really need to tell a story, and it needs to be clear, especially writing for children. With a song, anything goes, a little bit. But there’s a whole new world of structure and clarity with writing a book that is not often applied to songwriting, even though so many of The Decemberists’ songs tend to be narrative.

Can you trace back any of the ideas about wilderness in these books to your time growing up in Montana?

CM: I grew up in Helena and definitely spent a lot of time in the woods. I guess having grown up there I took a lot of the Montana landscape for granted. It was just what I was born into. In retrospect, it was great to have woods and hills and mountains just in our backyard to explore. It really helped develop my imagination, I think. I probably would have done the same thing had I grown up somewhere else, but having all of that at your disposal in Montana is pretty awesome.

A lot of magical books occupy made-up lands, but Wildwood takes place in Portland. Is Portland a magical place to you?

CM: I always liked books that took recognizable landscapes and recast them in a more exciting way.

So that’s sort of what I was trying to do.

CE: The wood in the story is based on Forest Park, which is a real park in Portland—a 5,000-acre forest criss-crossed with trails, but there’s nothing else there.

It’s basically in Portland, pressed up against all of this high-density city and, in real life, it feels like you’re stepping into another world when you cross into it. It wasn’t hard to imagine a world that was a lot like Portland but where Forest Park is actually an enchanted place that you had no way of leaving once you had entered it.

Did you both have a similar vision for the book or did you have to do some negotiation?

CE: We had a lot of disagreements in the beginning about medium and palette and how characters should look. The first book has coyote soldiers that initially were in medieval armor but they ended up being in Napoleonic armor. There was a lot of fine tuning and going back and forth. But … when we got to the third book it was kind of a telepathic thing.

In both writing and illustration Wildwood feels romantic and antiquated. No one’s looking at their cellphones, for instance. Was that an aesthetic you deliberately chose?

CE: Yeah, because if you’re going to create a world, why not put in it only the best things? Like the coolest old cars. We never really decided it would take place in a certain period in history, which freed us up to have there be square-rigged tall sailing ships, but also cars. And even in one of the books, there’s a computer, but still kind of an old, antiquated computer. There’s nothing very romantic about cellphones. I don’t think there are any cellphones in there, are there?

CM: No. CE: Even though in real life we never don’t have our cellphones two feet away from our faces.

There are several books out there—The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie comes to mind— that focuses on precocious, smart and smart-ass girls as the main character, and that’s true of the Wildwood Chronicles with your main character, Prue. Tell me how she evolved in your mind.

CM: Well I think what you said is proof that the Prue character is a bit of an archetype—the smart-ass protagonist girl. You need someone who is intrepid if she’s going to accept the challenge that is presented to her when her baby brother is kidnapped by crows. A more practical kid would maybe just go to the police or something like that. But for this book to have any legs, she’s got to go after him, so it does require a certain amount of steely precociousness.

CE: Moxie.

CM: Yeah, moxie. So she seemed to make sense for the story.

Carson, how did you get your start in illustration?

CE: I’ve wanted to be a book illustrator since I was a little kid but wasn’t particularly ambitious about it. I wanted to go to the University of Montana and, as you may know, they don’t have an illustration program there but I thought I would

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Are there more Wildwood stories to come?

CM: This is it for Wildwood Chronicles for a bit. I think we’d like to come back and do some stories in the future. But for now there are some other books we’re going to be working on that we’re not quite ready to talk about.

In my experience, reading magical books like this keeps you young. Did creating these books help you recapture your youth or do you always live that way?

[Laughter.]

CE: We kind of always live that way.

CM: Yeah, I’m sort of a man-child and I’ve never really quite kicked it. But at least this makes it seem like a livelihood, which is nice.

CE: We are a children’s book illustrator and a guy in a rock band, so if ever there was a case of arrested development, it’s probably us. illustration by Carson Ellis from Under Wildwood

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[music]

Storm’s abrewing Helms Alee gets epic in Sleepwalking Sailor Once you start thinking of Helms Alee’s Sleepwalking Sailor like it’s the soundtrack to The Odyssey, there’s no going back. Each track feels like the next treacherous chapter in a landscape of gorgons and angry gods, where mere mortals die smashed against rocks by an uncaring sea. The Seattle sludge band mixes mathy, stoner rock with melodies so piercing and pretty they evoke pinpoints of light in an otherwise gray and stormy backdrop. If you took the Pixies’ Bossanova on a trip through the Norwegian fjords you might get something like this album.

It’s possible that last time I saw Helms Alee perform in Missoula there were more than three people playing, but it’s also possible I imagined it because the band’s sound is so elephantine. The trio makes noise that expands to fill every corner of a room. Here’s a thought: What if they performed in a cathedral? The way bassist Dana James’ and guitarist Ben Verellen’s vocals seem to float like a mystical hymn, they wouldn’t be so out of place among the Helms Alee wooden pews and under a looming ceiling. The stained glass might explode, of course.

There are some odd sections in the songs that seem out of place, like the melodramatic, rock-opera beginning of “Fetus. Carcass.” But mostly, Sleepwalking Sailors accurately captures the peaks and valleys of an epic adventure. The hailstorm-like fury of Hozoji Margullis’ drums ground the dark clouds of reverb. The melodies add just enough luminosity. The

best moments are when you feel the instruments leading you—as if through the underworld—like a torch. That is, when there’s something to hold onto in all the chaos. (Erika Fredrickson) Helms Alee plays the ZACC basement, along with Abe Coley, Swamp Ritual and Chemical Lawns, Thu., March 20, at 8 PM. $6 advance at Ear Candy. All ages.

The Weekenders, Don’t Plan On Few acts come as close to capturing the retro vibe of ’70s classic arena rock as Salt Lake City’s The Weekenders. You know what I mean: dinosaurs like Zep, Grand Funk and Skynyrd who use a little spit, blood and sweat to slather together some boogie and groove to soar over with soulful vocals and guitar leads. Raging Slab and The Brought Low did a fine job delivering those goods in the late ’90s and 2000s, but most bands today trying to do it somehow manage to screw things up with too much pop or too much indie or too much something else that spoils the sauce.

Despite all the things it manages to nail, The Weekenders still doesn’t quite get it right on its debut, Don’t Plan On. For all the midtempo swagger, it gets a little tiresome by record’s end because there isn’t much variation in the pace. I’d like to hear these fellas cut loose on a couple tracks somewhere in excess of 120 bpm or so and just bust me in the face. Perhaps there is some of that with the group’s second record, which is, reportedly, imminent. The debut is good enough to keep me curious about what’s in store. (Chris La Tray) The Weekenders plays Stage 112 Sat., March 15, at 10 PM. $5.

Kool AD & Kassa Overall, Coke Boys 5 Two months after French Montana released the potentially redundant Coke Boys 4, Kool AD and Kassa Overall have dropped Coke Boys 5. As the title suggests, it’s kind of a stunt. Kool and Kass rap over several recognizable beats from commercial hip-hop, including “UOENO”—which is a year old last week— and Wu Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” That last one contains the couplet “I feel like Bennifer from the “Jenny From the Block” video but more pretty, though. / How come Drake said he started from the bottom but, um, he really didn’t, though?”

It is not, in other words, a serious project. Still, Coke Boys 5 feels important, if only for the density of its postmodernity. Rapping about Drake’s origin story over one of the most iconic beats of ’90s hip-hop may not be a contribution, but it is a scathing indictment.

The laziness of Kool’s work again calls attention to the inventiveness of his rapping and, in this context, the limitations of everybody else. He may lack the discipline to write a “C.R.E.A.M.” of his own, but he has the imagination to conceive rap as more than another shipment of product. (Dan Brooks)

missoulanews.com • March 13–March 20, 2014 [19]

[books]

Tinfoil prince Walter Kirn’s Blood Will Out profiles a con man

by Kate Whittle

At some point, everyone does something that to an overview of an entire city or region, or pauses they realize isn’t a great idea, but will likely make for for self-consideration, without tripping up.

Blood is an intense read and not soon forgotten. a great story. Walter Kirn, the Montana-based author of novels including Thumbsucker and Up in the Air, And yet, it’s more frustrating than Kirn’s previous admits this motivation at the start of his new nonfic- nonfiction book, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undertion book Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, education of an Overachiever, which details his days a Mystery, and a Masquerade. In the late ’90s, Kirn attending Princeton on scholarship and becoming took on the task of delivering a disabled dog from his disillusioned with the education system. In Meritochome in Livingston to a man in New York, who called racy, it’s easy to root for an underdog from Minhimself Clark Rockefeller. “He would delight me with nesota dealing with snooty rich people.

Blood isn’t necessarily so satisfying, in part becomic songs and dog menus and access to a circle I’d cause Kirn isn’t much of an thought closed to me,” underdog anymore. His Kirn writes, “and I would novels have been adapted repay him with the indulinto major films and he gent loyalty that writers rename-drops George serve for their favorite Clooney. In Blood, he’s characters, the ones, it’s also still frustrated that he said, we can’t make up.” fell for Rockefeller’s dupe.

Clark Rockefeller is As the reader with the bennot, of course, really a efit of hindsight, it’s easy to Rockefeller, which came to be annoyed with him for light in 2008 when he abfalling for it, too. The signs ducted his daughter in a were all there—from the custody dispute. Rockebeginning of their friendfeller was born Christian ship, Rockefeller tells susKarl Gerhartsreiter in Gerpiciously incredible stories many in 1961, and moved and never picks up a to America as a young check; he later claims to man. He assumed several have George W. Bush’s aliases, claimed to be personal phone number. everything from British But Kirn, who’s written beroyalty to an international fore about his own habit of banker, and charmed latching onto rich people nearly everyone he met. In for access to high society, 2009, he was convicted for was suckered. His pathothe 1985 murder of the Blood Will Out logical need to strive ever son of his landlady; he Walter Kirn higher is what undoes him. likely killed the man’s wife, hardcover, Liveright He berates himself for it too, but her body has 272 pages, $25.95 frequently in the book. “I’d never been found. Rockebowed to a tinfoil prince,” he says. feller has maintained his innocence throughout.

Kirn also presents himself as a progressive, enPlenty of articles and books have been written about Rockefeller. Lifetime made a TV movie about lightened type, and I appreciate that he calls out him in 2010, and a Fox Searchlight film is in devel- courtroom misogyny during Rockefeller’s trial, but opment. Many have tried to dissect what goes on his other descriptions give away an antiquated worldin the mind of this compulsive liar and master ma- view. In Kirn’s stories, wealthy white men are initianipulator; during the trial, psychiatrists diagnosed tors of action, self-actualized players, while everyone him with delusional and narcissistic personality dis- else is window dressing. He often describes women orders. Kirn (who still refers to the con man as according to their attractiveness, like “bottle blonde” Clark Rockefeller, so I will, as well) takes the liter- and “leggy,” even when it’s not relevant to the narraary approach, seeing Rockefeller’s machinations as tive. And of the downtown Los Angeles jurors in the inspired by plots of films and books, like The Tal- case, he says, “The euphemism that sprang to mind ented Mr. Ripley. “Some people kill for love and was ‘urban,’” which is a condescending-at-best way some for money, but Clark, I’d grown convinced, to say that they were people of color from rough had killed for literature. To be a part of it. To live neighborhoods.

Kirn’s apparent hubris still hasn’t been fatal, eiinside it.” Clark leeches knowledge from everyone, even repurposing Kirn’s stories about his Liv- ther in real life or to his storytelling, which is topingston-area ranch to impress people. Kirn specu- notch even when it’s pretentious. Clark Rockefeller lates that Rockefeller might have contemplated wreaked havoc on many people’s lives, including Kirn’s, but the writer certainly got a great story out murdering him, too.

Encountering such a intriguing fraud brings up of the deal.

Walter Kirn reads from Blood Will Out at questions about truth and about our willingness to believe, which Kirn dissects masterfully. Along the Shakespeare and Co. Tue., March 18, at 7 PM. way, his narrative collects all sorts of trivia and tidbits.

He zooms in to subtle changes in people’s faces, out kwhittle@missoulanews.com

[20] Missoula Independent • March 13–March 20, 2014

[theater]

Rural revival UM’s Days puts a spin on an outdated script

by Josh Wagner

photo courtesy of Anna Dulba-Barnett

UM’s Book of Days features a large cast that remains onstage throughout the show.

Some theater exists purely for entertainment, while some aims for big messages. An example of the latter, Landford Wilson’s Book of Days, sets out to expose a sickness in rural America, and whatever delight can be found in the play is inseparable from the discomfort of its message.

In Dublin, Missouri, where everyone knows everything about everybody, pillar-of-the-community and local cheese factory owner Walter Bates is killed during a terrible storm. Aspiring neighborhood actress Ruth Hoch, caught up in her local theater role as Joan of Arc, sets out to prove Walt’s death was no accident. Book of Days tells the story of her search for justice in a small religious community deeply entangled with personal interests.

But this isn’t exactly what you’d call a murder mystery, and the scope and shape of the story is as elusive as its heroine’s idealism.

Book of Days has a lot going on under the surface and, in the production by University of Montana’s School of Theatre and Dance, director Cohen Ambrose enhances every nuance with thoughtful and creative staging. From curtain speech to conclusion the traditional division between the actors and their characters is systematically deconstructed. The show starts explosively as characters get into costume right on set in front of the audience. During the performance, actors in flashbacks linger on in the shadows long after the normal timeline resumes. There is no backstage. Instead, a balcony of barstools looms over the floor, and when actors aren’t in scene they sit in full view of the audience, watching the show along with us like a council of judges. All this deliberate transparency takes on a haunting irony as we watch a story about secrets and cover-ups gradually unfold.

As a story, Book of Days has trouble wielding its own weight. Wilson writes some interesting moments, such as when Boyd Middleton ( Joshua Kelly) metatheatrically takes on the role of the actual show’s director and demands that his assistant (Alyssa Berdahl) “step in and do Mrs. Bates’ breakdown.” But tricks like these ultimately come off as orphaned rather than integral. When you’ve got 12 significant characters, each of whom need time for relationships and storylines, there’s not a lot of room for anything beyond exposi-

tion. And that keeps us from fully connecting to anyone. The greater part of the first act, for instance, consists of mundane dialogue and plodding character development, kept lively by the passion of the cast— and one hell of a superbly designed thunder storm.

Despite the story’s limitations, UM’s production manages not to languish or drag. Book of Days picks up steam in act two, where the slow-boiling plot complicates into conflict. The actors finally get their hands dirty with poignant moments of frustration, rage and sorrow. There are several highlights that keep the show afloat: How Heidi Mudd as Louann Bates confronts her slimy narcissist womanizer of a husband, James Bates (Nathan Adkins), in a compelling display of weariness, with eyes that look like they haven’t seen sleep in days. The way Benjamin Seratt nails his character, Len Hoch, a milquetoast who finally stands up for himself and his family. How Middleton and the perspiringly creepy Reverend Bobby Groves, played

by Mason Wagner, fence over the nature of visionary experience. There’s a chilling scene in an evangelical church where a member of the congregation collapses to the floor and begins speaking in tongues. A man with a chainsaw politely inquires of Ruth Hoch as to whether she’s given her soul to Christ.

The production is a juggling act, sometimes innovative and elegant, occasionally top-heavy and unrefined. It’s a challenging show, and the cast displays sterling endurance throughout. For me, though, the message cuts itself short. Book of Days does a great job of illustrating how “good ol’ boy” networks from small communities run circles around justice. But stories that look to shine a cynical spotlight on the hypocrisy of rural American oligarchies are starting to taste overcooked here in 2014; not because this kind of thing isn’t still happening, but because theater like Book of Days, potentially valuable in one generation for exposing problems, runs the risk of disintegrating into sanctimony in the next. I’m hungry for theater that gives us new insights.

Book of Days continues at the Masquer Theatre Thu., March 13, and Fri., March 14, at 7:30 PM and Sat., March 15, at 2 PM. $16. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Close up Dark secrets unravel slowly in The Past

by Migizi Pensoneau

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It’s difficult to summarize The Past though, on the surface, it would seem simple: Ahmad returns to Paris from Iran with the goal of finalizing his divorce with his French wife, Marie, who is with another man.

That’s pretty much all I knew about this film going into it. And, based on that knowledge, I was like, “An Iranian/French Sweet Home Alabama? What kind of hijinks will Ahmad and Marie get into? Sign me up!” But no, The Past, which was a nominee for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, is utterly devoid of Hollywood shenanigans, simple emotions and reconciliations.

In fact, the divorce is just the impetus. When Ahmad returns to Paris, he finds out that not only is Marie with another man, she’s with a younger, hotter version of Ahmad: a dry cleaner named Samir. Not only that, but Samir and his young son are living with Marie and her two daughters. Not only that, but Marie’s oldest daughter is troubled and carrying around a dark secret. Not only that, but Samir is also married, but his wife is comatose. And Samir’s wife is comatose because—and the laundry list of surprises continues.

That’s how the story unfolds. Little bits of truth emerge, each eating away at the insides of this dysfunctional family unit. Under the very capable direction of Asghar Farhadi, the story manages to be both impressive and tiring all at once. There is no true main character, as each member of the family has a secret from the past, which both informs and impedes the present. Every scene is a miniature soap opera and nearly every character gets a chance to drop some revelatory bomb and dominate the film for a while.

What keeps this film from becoming another “Days of Our Lives” is the superbly understated directing and acting. Most of the scenes take place indoors or in cars: small, stifling spaces that add to the emotional claustrophobia of the film. When the characters do have their revelatory moments, they avoid overacting. We see them tightly framed and up-close, making the subtlety of their reactions more profound.

These moments are brilliant in their patience.

The frosting on the cake is the overall look of the movie. This isn’t the hipster haven Paris of Amelie or Midnight in Paris. There’s nary a cuteness or quirk.

These characters are working-class Parisians and inhabit a proletariat space. French doors and windows open up to a view of train tracks instead of the Eiffel Tower. Marie and Samir drive an old dry-cleaning van and not a charming little car. The house that the characters occupy is damn-near ramshackle. It serves as an obvious but excellent metaphor for the state of the family. Marie and Samir are constantly doing things to the house, but all of their work is cosmetic.

They clean and paint and cover up, but it’s not until Ahmad shows up that anyone thinks about the broken sink. It’s not until he arrives that anyone thinks the truth about the family can or should be exposed, or possibly even fixed.

Be prepared for a slow burn. The Past offers emotional bangs and gut punches, but there’s no real reconciliation to be had—no Sweet Home Alabama formula where Reese Witherspoon wraps up everything in a tidy rom-com bow. In this case, that’s a good thing. Truths worth uncovering take some time.

The Past continues at the Wilma Theatre. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] puter animated treatment; in some suspicious genetics, Mr. Peabody is Sherman’s dad. Starring the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles and Stephen Colbert. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE ART OF THE STEAL A motorcyclin’ art thief plots to steal a valuable book. See, kids, books are still cool! Starring Katheryn Winnick, Kurt Russell and Jay Baruchel.

Rated R. Wilma.

NON-STOP Liam Neeson is an air marshal with a very particular set of skills, skills he’s acquired over a very long time, and he’s going to use them when bad guys threaten a transatlantic flight.

Rated PG-13. Also starring Michelle Dockery, Julianne Moore and Lupita Nyong’o. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

IN THE NAME OF THE FADA Irish-American comedian Des Bishop stars in a TV documentary about his year in Connemara learning Irish. Screening at the Roxy Thu., March 13 at 9 PM, as part of the Irish Film Festival.

JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN A French psychoanalyst becomes friends with a Native American veteran suffering from postwar trauma. This French film was shot in Montana and is based on a true story. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric and Gina McKee. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Theater March 1416 at 7 and 9:30 PM. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Don’t expect the Spanish Inquisition during the screening of this classic. Roxy Theater, March 14-16 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. King Arthur and other nobles will be partying down at the screenings, plus costumes are encouraged for ye peasant folk. Proceeds benefit the Big Sky Ren Faire.

NEED FOR SPEED Jesse Pinkman—oops, I mean, Tobey Marshall is a street racer seeking revenge after he was framed by a rich businessman. Starring Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper and Scott Mescudi. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

THE QUIET MAN Director John Ford’s Oscar-winning 1952 classic follows a retired American boxer finding love in his home village in Ireland. Starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara and Barry Fitzgerald. Screening at the Roxy Thu., March 13 at 7 PM as part of the Irish Film Festival.

SOME MOTHER’S SON Mothers try to save the lives of their sons, IRA prisoners who are on a hunger strike in British jail. Based on real 1981 events. Starring Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan and Aidan Gillen.

Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Thu., March 13 at 7 PM as part of the Irish Film Festival.

“Dammit, honey, you loaded the dishwasher with the wrong soap again.” Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian opens Friday at the Roxy.

WAKING NED DEVINE The denizens of a small Irish town hope to claim the lottery prize won by Ned Devine, who dropped dead from the shock of winning. Starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan.

Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy Theater Thu., March 13 at 9 PM as part of the Irish Film Festival.

NOW PLAYING 12 YEARS A SLAVE A free black man is lured by con artists and sold into slavery in the antebellum United States.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams and Michael Fassbender. Rated R. Winner of the 2014 Oscar for Best Picture. Carmike 12.

20 FEET FROM STARDOM Meet the unsung heroes (geddit?) in the world of back-up vocalists. What’s it like to share a stage, but none of the glory, with David Bowie or the Rolling Stones? Interviewees include Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill. PG-13. Winner of the 2014 Oscar for Best Documentary. Wilma.

3 DAYS TO KILL A Secret Service agent can take an experimental drug to cure his disease, if only he can complete one assignment in a designated amount of time.

Three days, most likely. Starring Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld and Connie Nielsen. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE Gen. Leonidas is no more, so now it’s up to Themistokles to lead the charge against the

brutish Persian forces and that jerk Xerxes. Rated R. Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green and Lena Headey. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

FROZEN A Nordic princess endeavors to find her sister and bring her back to their snowy kingdom. A whimsical talking snowman joins in the adventure, too.

Starring the voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Idina Menzel. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS A singer-songwriter dude in 1961 Greenwich Village wears neck scarves and tries to make it big.

I think I saw this before on the Your Dad, the Original Hipster blog. Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. Rated R. Wilma.

THE LEGO MOVIE The toys you grew up stepping on now star in an action-packed animated adventure to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the world together.

(P.S., I dunno how kids feel about it, but it earns an A-plus from inebriated 20-somethings.)

Brought to you by the “Clone High” writers, and starring the voices of Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks and Craig Berry. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

THE MONUMENTS MEN FDR directs an unlikely platoon of handsome men to rescue classic art pieces from the Nazis in WWII Germany. Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN The “Rocky and Bullwinkle” bit players get the 21st century highfalutin feature-length com-

THE PAST (LE PASSE) When an Iranian man leaves behind his family in France, his wife finds a new beau, and then her request for a divorce opens a whole big can o’ worms. Starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim and Ali Mosaffa. Rated PG-13. Wilma. (See Film.)

POMPEII John Snow, I mean, ahem, Kit Harington stars as a gladiator trying to save his beloved from marrying a dirtbag senator. Spoiler alert: the volcano blows up and covers the whole town. Also starring Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland.

Rated PG-13. Pharaohplex.

RIDE ALONG A smart-alec security guard tags along with his fiance’s cop brother to prove his mettle, but he could be in for more than he bargained. Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumpter. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

SON OF GOD Kicking off the Lenten season, a white dude plays Jesus Christ. Rated PG-13. Starring Diogo Morgado, Amber Rose Revah and Sebastian Knapp. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

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 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Make plov, not war

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Variations on plov, a meaty, rice-based dish, are found throughout Central Asia. The word plov is the root of pilaf, its more delicate incarnation. Many give Uzbekistan credit for being the birthplace of plov, but it’s been a beloved dish for centuries among many of the other stans in the region. More recently it’s become a cult dish further afield, and is very popular in Ukraine.

I learned much of what I know about plov at a dinner party, when 14 Uzbek businessmen showed up and proceeded to make plov. The party was full of nationals from former USSR countries, many of whom had something to say about plov.

One of the things I learned is plov preparation is traditionally a man’s work, and still carries a masculine mystique comparable to the status of grilling in the United States. A Tajik college student bluntly told me she thought women wouldn’t add enough meat if they were in charge of the plov.

When I asked one of the Uzbek businessmen about women and plov, he patiently folded his arms behind his back, and gave a silky response that equated women making plov to men giving birth to babies.

“If a woman wants to eat man’s plov,” he said, “they must order their husband or their brother to make it.

That way, they can eat with pleasure. If you want to eat something that is prepared perfectly, you must have the master prepare it. Man is the master of plov.

“It seems to us such a simple thing,” he continued.

“Our fathers taught us when we were young, taking us to parties and showing us things. Together with our fathers and grandfathers, it was very interesting to the child. So it was easy to learn how to prepare the plov.”

I also heard a more pragmatic theory: Women do it every day, so it gets old. When men do it, they do their best. Meanwhile, at least one of the Uzbek businessmen had his sights set beyond the gender divide, likening plov preparation to a spiritual quest.

“First of all, if we want to make something good or tasty or best … first we ask God for help,” he said.

“Always when I am preparing, I ask for power and knowledge. With heat we do everything: onion, carrot, garlic, meat, rice. And we use tasteful things, like spices and pepper, so the plov becomes very tasteful.”

Beyond that, for a plov to pass an Uzbek inspection it must be prepared with melted lamb fat, preferably cut from the base of the lamb’s tail, a region called kudryuka. It should be cooked over a fire, and in a dish called a qozon (if only Uzbek words were allowed in Scrabble).

Traditionally plov dishes use lamb or mutton meat, though I often substitute deer. It can be made

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with beef, although it doesn’t have a strong enough flavor to really make the dish work. The gaminess of lamb is the perfect counterbalance to the cumin, coriander and other spices in the dish.

The recipe is simple and versatile enough to accommodate all manner of substitutions and creative license. Across Central Asia, plov recipes vary between different regions, and even from house to house. The recipe that follows should be considered a refernce point as you explore your own personal plov. Your im-plov-isation, as it were.

The basic idea is to fry the meat, onions, garlic, carrots and spices into a browned, greasy mix, add rice and water (or stock, ideally), and let it cook until the rice is done.

For Uzbek-style plov, begin by melting your lamb fat in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium/high temperature, using a potato purée tool to get as much liquid fat out as you can. Then fry lamb chunks in the grease. Alternately, brown a pound (for four servings) of whatever meat you wish, cut into cubes, in the oil of your choice. Plov is also tasty enough, if less authentic, when made with olive oil or bacon grease.

When the meat is nicely browned, add an onion, sliced thinly from end to end. When the onions are soft and light brown, add the cloves of a head of garlic, chopped, and a tablespoon each of cumin and coriander, ideally freshly ground, and a teaspoon each of salt and ground black pepper. Add five coarsely grated carrots and cook for about five minutes, stirring often, until the carrots are soft.

Mix it all together. Add 2 cups of rice, and about 5 cups of water, broth or stock (if using salty broth or bullion, reconsider adding salt above).

Cover, and simmer over medium heat until the rice is done. Stir frequently to make sure the plov does not stick to the bottom of the pot. Season one last time with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Depending on the type of rice, it may be necessary to add more water until the rice is fully cooked.

Let the plov sit or “rest” for about 15 minutes with the lid on before serving. This lets the flavors settle and come to terms with one another, and for the moisture to distribute itself evenly.

If only Russian and Ukrainian diplomats could sit at a table together, talking over a resting plov as the various components come to equilibrium. It’s hard to make war against one with whom you’ve made plov.

If men can make plov together, they can make peace together.

[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you!

Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Have you checked out Bernice's website: bernicesbakerymt.com: Are you a fan of Bernice's on Facebook? Did you catch that silly Christmas video on YouTube? Viewed the Montana Home Shopping Showcase? Bernice's not only has awesome breakfast pastries, elegant cakes, signature wedding cakes, cookies & treats galore, lunch, and excellent coffee. Bernice's has great employees who rock the social media! 35 years of solid goodness! Check out our social media and then stop by to celebrate a job well done! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ 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. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns...3/14 Tom Catmull 6-9 pm. 3/17 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 41 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or fam-

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ily 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. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. 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-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, 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 smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from 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 micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$ 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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St. Patrick’s Day at Sean Kelly’s HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: Bushmills Irish Whiskey and green beer. Harp Lager with just a dash of food coloring serves as an ideal green beer, explains Sean Kelly’s bartender Darci Matovich. “It’s like a Bud Light, if you will, but way better,” she says, before adding that bartenders are flexible. “Pretty much, we’ll make any beer green.”

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. $

Who you’re drinking with: All kinds of people show up to Missoula’s Irish pub on the festive Irish holiday. Sean Kelly’s staffer Chelsi Rife says if there’s any one distinction with the crowd, it’s St. Patrick’s Day attire. “It’s just like a sea of green,” she says.

What you’re eating: On Sat. March 15, two days before the official holiday, Sean Kelly’s is rolling out a special menu featuring traditional Irish fare, including pork stew, pasties and corned beef and cabbage. On the holiday itself, March 17, the public house offers a $15 all-youcan-eat buffet featuring similar items well suited to soaking up the green beer.

What you’re doing: On March 15, dancing to live music from Shakewell, Cootehill and Ted Ness & the Rusty Nails. On March 17, the Circle of Friends and The Hasslers take to the stage.

The Celtic Irish Pipe Band will also perform.

St. Patrick’s Day specials: Pints of Guinness and Harp Lager run $4, whether they’re

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. $-$$

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green or not. (They usually cost $5.25). A shot of Bushmills will be $3, rather than the traditional $4.

How to find it: Sean Kelly’s is located at 130 West Pine Street.

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

Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open MonSun 7am-2am. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6?

Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

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. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare. Offering over 125 different Burgers.

Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers! Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East 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

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on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadwa • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$ 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 allencompassing 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.

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches.

We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. Now serving omelettes and mimosas on Sunday, 11-4. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ 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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nightlife Mixed-media works by MFA grad students James Louks and Sarah Tancred are on display at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts. Reception from 5-7 PM. Tom Catmull sings for his supper while you drink yours at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-8 PM. No cover.

March 13–March 20, 2014

Craft a nifty journal with the Leather Longstitch Bookbinding Class, an old-school form of book crafting. Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery, 1221 Helen Ave. 5:30 PM. $50.

Email info@thevespiary.com or call 396-1911 to learn more.

John Schiever melts your heart while beer warms up your liver at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Russ Nasset plays tunes at the Top Hat dinner show, starting at 6 PM. No cover.

The Three Rivers Saxophone Quartet, featuring Jesse Dochnahl, Johan Eriksson, Bob Prince and Dylan Dwyer, puts the “ax” in “sax” at Montgomery Distillery. 6 PM. No cover.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

It ain’t the wallflower who gets to take home the cutie, so get out there on the floor for the Country Two-Step dance class with Cathy Clark of NW Country Swing. Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. Due to popularity, there are now two levels: beginning two-step from 6:45 to 7:30, intermediate two-step from 7:45 to 8:30.

Live band starting at 9.

Get up close and personal with a small Baptist community rocked by a murder mystery with UM’s production of Book of Days.

Performances at the Masquer Theatre March 48 and 11-14 at 7:30 PM, with a 2 PM finale on Sat., March 15. $16. Visit tickets.umtheatredance.org. (See Theater.)

Jester? I hardly even know her. Psybient outfit Shpongle plays the Wilma Tue., March 18. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $24/$22.50 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

THURSDAYMAR13 Get some food for thought when seasoned journalist Toby Thompson reads Metroliner, a collection inspired by 40 years of East Coast reporting and train riding. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM.

The Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Ronald McDonald House, 3003 Fort Missoula Road. 1 PM. Call Cindy Cone at 728-8283 for more info. Free.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:15-5

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums.

8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

The Joey RC residency keeps on keepin’ on at the VFW, with backing from Dave Johnson and Aaron Jennings as Boss Fight, plus tunes from Shramana and Mahamawaldi. 9 PM. $3.

Get the answer you seek when Alliance for the Wild Rockies executive director Michael Garrity presents “Why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies is Challenging Collaborative Timber Sales in the Seeley-Swan Valley.” UM Forestry Building, room 301. 4:10-5 PM.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind—just be cool and ask first, lovelies. The Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

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Seattle pianist Deborah Dewey plays a benefit for the Missoula Music Teachers Association’s scholarship fund at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $20/$15 seniors/$10 students. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, Worden’s and Morgenroth. Students can attend free if accompanied by a paying adult; call Barbara at 5437819 to learn more.

Shred the gnar to tunes that shred during the annual Chamberlin Rain Jam at Caras Park, with preliminaries on Friday and finals on Saturday. Music acts include Mimosa, David Dolla G and Odezsa. 4 PM. $20-$50. Check out chamberlinrailjam.com.

nightlife The Second Friday gallery opening features Sounding Board, a collection of fable-inspired Sharpie drawings on birch bark. ZACC. 5:30 PM. Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM. No cover.

Show ‘em your best smize for the annual Project Selvedge fashion design contest at Selvedge Studio, on most Fridays through April. 6:30 PM. $1.

Sip some bitchin’ brews while Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio plays tunes at Higherground Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Enjoy zee cinema at Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema night, the second Friday of every month.

The series showcases indie and foreign films. Doors open at 6:45, show at 7 PM. Check missoula publibrary.org for info.

Astronaut and Everest climber Scott Parazynski talks about his adventures as part of the Karen Bliebtrey Memorial Lecture at the Bitterroot River Inn Conference Center in Hamilton. 7 PM. $20. Proceeds benefit Corvallis Middle School.

Get up close and personal with a small Baptist community rocked by a murder mystery with UM’s production of Book of Days. Performance at the Masquer Theater at 7:30 PM, with a 2 PM finale on Sat., March 15. $16.

Visit tickets.umtheatredance.org. (See Theater.)

Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest did the cute rom-com thing before it was cool.

Sunshine Unlimited presents the production at the Crystal Theatre March 14-16 and 21-23, at 8 PM on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. $12. Advance tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

Big E and Friends party down in Stage 112, along with Gil and the Spills. Starts with solo set at 8:30 PM, followed by full bands rockin’ til bar time.

Crack some suds and dig the mellow kicks at Thunderground, a dance night with Kris Moon and guests on Fridays in the basement of Stage 112, on the corner of Front and Pattee (aka the old Jolly Corks.) 9 PM. No cover, 21-plus.

Should I sit in the front seat, or kick it in the back seat? All will be revealed when Russ Nasset and the Revelators play the Union Club, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

Miller Creek, The Boxcutters and The Hasslers get together to rage it up at the Badlander. 9 PM. $5.

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Proceeds support nonprofit Imagine Missoula.

Hail, hail, the gang’s all here for Portland-based Irish sea shanty singin’ Rum Rebellion, with the Whiskey Hooves. Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

Pull up those stirrup-pants and find your nicest scrunchie for the March installment of Dead Hipster’s I Love The 90s dance party at Monk’s.

9 PM. $3, plus, “copious amounts of drink specials.”

The Workers get down to business, along with Frederico Brothers at Sean Kelly’s. 9 PM. No cover.

Singer-songwriter Martin Sexton plays dreamy tunes at the Top Hat, starting at 9 PM. $22/$20 in advance.

Tickets at the Top Hat and Rockin Rudy’s. 18-plus.

Lolo Hot Springs Resort hosts the weekly TomBourine Show, plus you can get your soak on and rent a cabin.

9:30 PM. No cover.

It’ll be a hootenanny fo’sho when ShoDown plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYMAR15 The annual Odyssey of the Stars honors Dean Peterson and John Schuberg with a night of music, dance, art and theater at the Dennison Theater. 7:30 PM. $30/$15 for students and children. Proceeds benefit students in the UM College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Stay true to your root vegetables with the Heirloom Winter Farmers Market, which offers produce, honey, crafts and more, in the Floriculture Building on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. 10 AM-2 PM on Saturdays.

Music is an aeroplane so share the gift of it with the chilluns at Kids’ Vibrations, a 45-minute funtime featuring local musicians, dancing and playing instruments. Missoula Senior Citizens’ Center, 705 Higgins Ave. 11–11:45 AM. Donations accepted.

The March edition features Irish tunes and artists Mohan Kartha and Soma Arens.

Get into the St. Patrick’s Day swing of things a li’l early with the block party hosted by Sean Kelly’s, featuring Shakewell, Ticket Sauce Brigade, Circle of Friends and Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails.

2 PM. Shred the gnar to tunes that shred during the annual Chamberlin Rain Jam at Caras Park, with preliminaries on Friday and finals on Saturday. Music acts include Mimosa, David Dolla G and Odezsa. 4 PM. $20-$50. Check out chamberlinrailjam.com.

Get up close and personal with a small Baptist community rocked by a murder mystery with UM’s production of Book of Days at 2 PM on Sat., March 15. $16. Visit tickets.umtheatredance.org. (See Theater.)

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Your ass is grass. Martin Sexton plays the Top Hat Fri., March 14, starting at 9 PM. $22/$20 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat and Rockin Rudy's. 18-plus.

nightlife George Carlton (not to be confused with George Carlin, which my brain insists on doing) plays tunes at Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, starting at 6 PM. No cover. Biga antipasto available, or bring your own snacks.

I’ll take some cheese with my Irish Craicers, who play traditional Emerald Isle tunes amped-up with bluegrass and folk. Top Hat. 6 PM. No cover, all ages.

Don’t tell me no lies and keep your hands to yourself when Russ Nasset plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Keep on honky-tonkin’ when the Idle Ranch Hands play the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Wild Coyote Band parties down to support veterans with a dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. 7-11 PM. $7.

The Missoula Folklore Society presents a contra dance with tunes by Skippin A Groove, upstairs at the Union Hall. Beginner workshop from 7:30-8, dancing from 8-11 PM. $9/$6 for members and students.

Check out missoulafolk.org to learn about this delightfully wholesome event.

Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest did the cute rom-com thing before it was cool.

Sunshine Unlimited presents the production at the Crystal Theatre March 14-16 and 21-23, at 8 PM on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. $12. Advance tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

Put a spring in your step with the March Tango Milonga, with dance lesson at 8 PM and social dancing from 9 to midnight, with potluck food and drinks. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10/$16 for couples.

Pipe up and show off your pipes with the Lambkins Lounge and Casino’s annual Karaoke Contest, Saturdays through April 19. Highway 200 in Lincoln. 8 PM. First place wins $300, second gets $125 and third is $75. Call 362-4481 for info.

The Top Hat celebrates one year since its spiffy renovation with tunes from Kristi Neumann, Shakewell and Muzikata. 8:45 PM. $5.

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. Now free.

Get Friday out of your head and do it all again when Josh Farmer Band plays tunes at the Union Club, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

Step out of the snowpants and into the dance pants with the Chamberlin Rail Jam After-Party, featuring Odesza, Christian Jackson, Codependents and the Trap Door Project.

Palace. 9 PM. $10. 18-plus.

Make your own references to a 2002 film starring Britney Spears when Mark Duboise and Crossroads play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM to close.

duction at the Crystal Theatre March 14-16 and 21-23, at 8 PM on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. $12. Advance tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

SLC’s The Weekenders rock out at Stage 112, 112 Pattee St., at 10 PM. $5. 18-plus.

Knock off the horseplay when Malarkey plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-7 PM. No cover.

SUNDAYMAR16 Montana Fiddlers make like Charlie Daniels at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 12:30 PM. Dance the cabin fever blues away when the Golden Age Club hosts dances on the first, third and fifth Sunday afternoons through March, an alcohol-free event with potluck snacks during breaks. 727 Fifth St. in Hamilton. 1-4 PM. $3.

Celebrate 125 years of Bonner School with a history roundtable hosted by Kim Briggeman and a panel of former students and teachers. St. Ann Catholic Church. 2 PM. St. Patrick’s Day pasty dinner to follow at 4:30 PM, $5.

More events online: missoulanews.com nightlife Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest did the cute rom-com thing before it was cool.

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Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.

The Palace hosts a birthday shindig for the one and only Milkcrate Mechanic. 9 PM. No cover.

MONDAYMAR17 Holy moley, Jameson shots are a dollar at the St. Patrick’s Day party with Monks and The Mothers, Patty Hearse and Jacob Osborne at the Badlander. 7 PM. No cover.

Get a helping hand navigating Affordable Care Act paperwork with assistance at the Missoula Public Library, Mondays from 3-4 PM and Tuesdays from 5-7 PM. Rasa O’Neill presents Therapeutic Yoga for Wellness and Healing, with gentle stretches and guided meditation. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent St. From noon to 1 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

Ongoing class. Call 721-0033 to learn more.

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[calendar] Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25.

See the Yost-ess with the mostest when Three Cornered Jack, featuring Ron Dunbar and Travis Yost, play the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7-10 PM. No cover.

Get in a snake-bashin’ mood at the Sean Kelly’s St. Patrick’s Day party, with tunes from Cootehill, Off in the Woods and the Hasslers. 3 PM.

Swim on over to the St. Patty’s party with Leftover Salmon and Hooligans, playing the Top Hat at 8 PM. $25/$22 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat and Rockin Rudy’s.

Big bellies were never generous, so belly up to the bar for some stout during the St. Patrick’s Day party with Celtic Dragon bagpipers, Bob Mislevic on accordion and Irish dancers at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 4-8 PM.

nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Dr. Genevieve Reid, with the Global Midwife Education Foundation, presents “Maternal and Infant Mortality in Low-Income Countries,” as part of the spring global public health lecture series. Gallagher Business Building Room 106, 6:30-7:30 PM. (See Agenda.)

I hereby hypothesize that some posters will be written in suspiciously parental handwriting at the 59th annual Montana State Science Fair at the Adams Center, open for public viewing on March 17 from 7-9 PM and March 18 from 8 to 10:30 AM. (Your calendar editor is not bitter or scarred from a youth of failed science fair projects. Not at all.)

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-229-0488 to get yourself a spot.

Recycle your Grinch costume for Masquerade Monday: St. Patty’s Day edition, with local DJs and masked bar denizens at the Palace. No cover.

The Pre-Fort Treefort St. Patty’s Day Party features Portland’s Sad Horse, Boise’s Sun Blood Stories, The All-Hail and Boys, before they all head down to Boise for the festival. VFW, 245 W. Main St. $5.

TUESDAYMAR18 Kick back when San Fran’s Couches play the VFW, along with Mountain Shark and Arrows to the Sun. 10 PM, after KBGA Tuesday Trivia. $3/$5 for ages 18-20.

nightlife Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center.

The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM twostep and 8 PM country cha-cha.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writer’s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Psychedelic downtempo outfit Shpongle plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $24/$22.50 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

Thumbsucker and Up in the Air author Walter Kirn reads from his new nonfiction book about murder and mysterious characters, Blood Will Out. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. (See Books.)

Eileen Rafferty presents the latest in photo techniques with “Contemporary Trends in Photography,” a free lecture hosted by the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 210 N. Higgins Ave. 7-9 PM. Get hip with the times at “Wilderness Strategies in the 21st Century,” a panel discussion with wilderness and legal experts. Gallagher Business Building, room 122.

7:10-8:30 PM. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brain-

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Hugs not rugs. Sunshine Unlimited Productions presents The Importance of Being Earnest at the Crystal Theatre March 14-16 and 21-23, at 8 PM on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. $12. Advance tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

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poet lariat If you’re ever in need of an antidote to highfalutin’ literary stuff, might I suggest cowboy poetry?

One of my oldest memories is listening to a scratchy AM country radio station play Baxter Black’s reading of “A Vegetarian’s Nightmare, or A Dissertation on Plant’s Rights,” where he confesses to harvesting his garden. “I butchered the onions and parsley./ My hoe was all covered with gore./ I chopped and I whacked without looking back,” he says. “I grated and ground ’til they made not a sound/ Then I boiled the tater alive!”

Cowboy poetry often presents a cheeky and clever affront to the face of a rough, sometimes bleak Western life, and it’s a hard thing to write unless you’ve really lived it. Montana author Wally McRae wears a lot of 10-gallon hats: as a cattle rancher in the Forsyth area, a poet who’s served on the National Council of the Arts, and a crusader against coal mining. His 1989 poem “Things of Intrinsic Worth” commemorates places lost to the Colstrip mine. “The old Egan Homestead’s an ash pond/ That they say is eighty feet deep./ The branding corral at the Douglas Camp is underneath a spoil heap.”

WHO: Cowboy poet Wally McRae WHAT: Pints, Pinot and Poetry WHEN: Wed., March 19, at 7 PM WHERE: Roxy HOW MUCH: $15

Wally McRae

McRae performs at the Pints, Pinot and Poetry evening March 19 at the Roxy, as a benefit for the Rosebud Protective Association. The group advocates for Colstrip-area ranchers, who complain of contaminated groundwater and leaking coal ash ponds from one of the biggest coal-powered electricity plants in the country. The RPA is working with other groups, like the Northern Plains Resource Council, to fight against what they say is the state’s lax enforcement. See, you have to watch out for cowboy poets: they get ornery.

—Kate Whittle

waves: Irish soda bread is named after the baking soda used to leaven it. In what country did use of chemical leaveners originate?

(See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials. Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. Liven up the mid-week blues when Pinegrass plays the Top Hat, starting at 8 PM. No cover. 21-plus after 9 PM. Solo acoustic country fella Eric Barrera plays down-home tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave, this and every Tuesday at at 9 PM. No cover.

Funky Chicago outfit Sidewalk Chalk cuts a rug at the Badlander, along with Three Eared Dog. 9 PM or so. $5.

Keep on shponglin’ all through the night with the Official Shpongle After-Party, featuring Mr. Wizard, Logisticalone and Layln Tang. Palace. 10 PM. No cover.

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Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. March 12 features Captain Wilson Conspiracy.

The tables will be turned (or just the sketchpads) at Celebrity Sketchy with Josh Quick, where the local artist will sit whilst you learn how to draw his portrait. ZACC. $12/$10 for non-members. Wine, music and instruction included.

The Fiction Writer’s Workshop invites all aspiring scribes to get together for dynamic, interactive workshopping at the ZACC. Every other week on Wednesday at 6 PM through June 11.

Open to everyone ‘cept for UM writing students (and really, they ought to be busy enough as it is). Free.

Ken Silvestro presents Narcissism, Sexuality, and Trauma, a class explaining these traits and how they influence our lives. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Wednesdays through April 9 from noon-1 PM. $100 for the five-week series. Call 721-0033 for registration and info.

More events online: missoulanews.com Pack your brown lunch bag and check out the Public Forum on Homelessness and Families, hosted in the Missoula Public Library’s community room. Noon-1 PM.

nightlife Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz

Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Wednesdays from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

Giddy-up for the Pints, Pinot and Poetry evening with “poet lariat” Wally McRae of the Rocker Six Cattle Co. ranch. Roxy Theater. 7 PM. $15, with appetizers and drinks available.

Proceeds benefit the Rosebud Protective Association, which supports Colstrip-area ranchers. (See Spotlight.)

Boogie Ghana-style when Okaidja Afroso and his band, Shokoto, present a night of world music, dancing and drumming at the Dennison Theater, along with Missoula’s Drum Brothers.

7:30 PM. $17/$15 in advance. Tickets at GrizTix outlets and umt.edu/griztix.

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[calendar] Nobody gets put in a corner at the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s Dance In Concert, with new choreography from guest artists and students. Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students. Visit tickets.umtheatredance.org.

Boogie down with friendly green giants when Colorado’s Magic Beans play the Top Hat, along with the Kitchen Dwellers. 10 PM. $5.

Bring back Wasted Wednesday in a big way when New Old Future, Kayla Hutchin and Gil and the Spills play Stage 112. 8 PM-bar time.

(Trivia answer: Historians think settlers learn to make soda bread from American Indians, who used potassium carbonate derived from pearl ash in quick breads.)

Knitting is super relaxing, as you’ll discover while chucking that half-finished scarf at the wall and cursing. But seriously, it’ll be totally chill at the Knitting for Beginners Class for basic stitches and techniques. Come to the knit side: I promise it’s cozy here. ZACC. 6 PM. $20/free for members.

If you think your Prince falsetto is good, that’s what matters, dear. Now go forth and rule the school at the Badlander’s Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program. ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Cure your cat-scratch fever at Random Music for Random Kitties, with Milkcrate Mechanic and crew, including M-AD, Butter That S$#T Up, and Headphone Steve. (Good ole Steve.) Palace. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitchers and free pool.

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nightlife I’d like to try the eclair when Nathan Eyre plays the Top Hat dinner show. 6 PM. No cover.

Caroline Keys busts a groove at Draught Works, and brings Jeff Turman along with her. 68 PM. No cover.

Dance like nobody’s watching with the Ecstatic Dance Revival, which creates a “comfortable substance-free gathering” to groove with yoga and dance. Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste B. 7 PM. Tunes from Logisticalone. $8.

8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Nobody gets put in a corner at the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s Dance In Concert, with choreography from guest artists and students. Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students. Visit tickets.umtheatredance.org.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind—just be cool and ask first, lovelies. The Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnightzzzzzz.

The Sentinel High School Drama Department presents The Laramie Project, a play based on the 1998 hate-crime assault on Matthew Shepard. Margaret Johnson Theater.

7:30 PM. $6/$5 for students and seniors.

Seattle’s Helms Alee unleashes a tidal wave of rawk to save your soul at the ZACC, along with Abe Coley, Swamp Ritual and Chemical Lawns. 8 PM. $8/$6 in advance at Ear Candy.

(See Music.)

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums.

Watch our deputy copy editor tie a cherry with his tongue while Julie Bug and Northern Exposure play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand ave. 9 PM.

Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons are back in town to ensure that your dose of rock ‘n roll is met for this eve. Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

Splish-splash. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. 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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hereby propose to put Missoula-based runner Mike Wolfe into a giant hamster wheel rigged up to a generator, and let him power the city. This could totally work, right? This is a man with enough energy to run 223 miles in three days on the John Muir Trail in Yosemite National Park—getting about 4 ½ hours of sleep the entire time. (I bet that half an hour really made a difference.) The run, which he did along with Hal Koerner, now holds the known record for that trail.

Wolfe recounts the journey on irunfar.com with the good cheer of someone who lives off gel packs and endorphin highs. The start of the trip began with an 11-mile, 6,000-foot climb to the top of Mount Whitney: “There were hordes of day hikers and peak baggers on the summit,� he writes. “All too many asked

us why we had the same outfits on, looking like limegreen aliens on the austere, rocky moonscape that is the high Sierra.� What followed was three days of pain, occasional hallucinations and eating everything from White Castle to Snickers bars. What I cannot find in Wolfe’s story is why in the name of God anyone would want to attempt such a feat, so for that, we’ll have to check out his presentation coming up at the University Center Theater. —Kate Whittle Ultra-distance mountain racer Mike Wolfe gives a multimedia presentation about his career and recent record-breaking run on the John Muir Trail Thu., March 20, at the University Center Theater, 6 PM. Free.

photo by Alex Sakariassen

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY MARCH 15 Here’s just the ticket to cure cabin fever: Currents Aquatic Center’s outdoor rec team hosts the last Snowshoe Adventure and Hot Spring Soak junket on March 15. Head up Lolo Pass and learn stuff like ascending and descending, reading topo maps, using GPS units and properly traversing snow banks.

One must always properly traverse their snow banks. Afterward, soak at Lolo Hot Springs. To learn more, contact Meg at 406-552-6271.

You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward.

Free to run.

Visit runwildmissoula.org.

May the wind be at your back during the annual Run For the Luck of It, a 5K or 7-mile run that starts at 8:50 a.m. on Pine Street in Missoula outside Sean Kelly’s. Race routes go through the Northside and food and a free Highlander beer await you at the finish. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Them waters might be chilly, but you can b.s. about trout anyway when the Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile hosts a weekly Fly Tyer’s Roundtable. Y’all can drink coffee, learn new patterns and use tools and materials for free. Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile, 73 Rock Creek Road in Clinton.

10 AM. Call 825-6440 or email rcmerc@blackfoot.net for more details.

Missoulians on Bicycles host a group ride de-

parting from the Eastgate Center at 11 AM to ride frontage roads to Clinton and Starvation Creek, doubling back for “corn dogs and chocolate milk at the Clinton store.� Tasty! Visit missoulabike.org/ride-page to learn more.

SUNDAY MARCH 16 Lace up for the Missoula Marathon and Half Marathon Running Training Class, which meets at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, leading up to the Missoula Marathon in July. $100/$75 for RWM members.

Taking registration through the end of the month.

Perhaps this will be the year you take the plunge and join the Libby Polar Bear Club, which meets at the Farm-to-Market Bridge over Libby Creek at 2 PM on Sundays through April. If the ice can be broken, the club does the dive. Check out libbymt.com/outdoors/polarbearclub.htm.

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MONDAY MARCH 17 If you’re all legs and T-Rex arms, best check out the Core Strength Training for Runners, a weekly class focusing on the upper body and areas runners might neglect. MOVE Missoula, 1900 W. Broadway.

5:15-6 PM. $88/$79 for Run Wild Members. Series runs through March. Visit runwildmissoula.org for registration info.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 Same deal, different day: the Lunchtime Core Strength Training Course is geared toward runners looking to stay balanced. Runner’s Edge basement classroom. Wednesdays at 12:15-1 PM until March 26. $85/$79 for Runner’s Edge members. Check out runwildmissoula.org for info.

THURSDAY MARCH 20 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

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Having a baby is an intense, fraught enough process even supervised by trained doctors in a modern hospital. But throughout the world, millions of women have multiple pregnancies and give birth without access to basic health care. According to the World Health Organization, 287,000 women worldwide died in 2010 due to complications like infections, hypertension and unsafe abortions. WHO estimates 12 percent of married women of childbearing age would like to avoid pregnancy, but don’t have access to effective contraception. And if you’re a woman in a developing country, like in parts of sub-Sarahan Africa, you’re 25 times more likely to die from a pregnancy com-

plication than a woman in a developed nation. (Not that we can be so quick to brag about the United States. The U.S. ranks below most of Europe, Japan and Canada for our maternal mortality rate.)

Some organizations are reaching out to help communities in developing countries better equip themselves. The Montana-based Global Midwife Education Foundation is about to launch a training program in Bolivia, where most births are at home without a trained attendant. GMEF’s goal is to educate 50 health workers and send them out into rural Bolivia with supplies. GMEF executive director Genevieve Reid, a Livingston-based doctor, gives a talk about maternal mortality, March 17 at the University of Montana.

Modern medicine has the tools to make birth as safe and comfortable as possible; it’s a matter of getting access to them.

—Kate Whittle Dr. Genevieve Reid of the Global Midwife Education Foundation presents “Maternal and Infant Mortality in Low-Income Countries,” as part of the spring global public health lecture series. Gallagher Business Building Room 106, Mon., March 17 from 6:30-7:30 PM.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY MARCH 13 The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon-1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.

FRIDAY MARCH 14 Today kicks off the YWCA’s annual Women’s Spring Retreat, three days of reflective group activities and individual stuff, like yoga, tai chi and nature walks.

Lubrecht Experimental Forest Conference and Retreat Center, 8689 Highway 200 East. $350. Proceeds benefit the GUTS program. Register and learn more at ywcaofmissoula.org.

SATURDAY MARCH 15 As part of Women’s History Month, Jennie Pak presents “Mrs. Woody’s Trunk Full of Memories,” a living history retelling of pioneer Sarah Elizabeth Woody.

Traveler’s Rest State Park, 11 AM. $4/free for members and ages 18 and under.

SUNDAY MARCH 16 Hang out with some Norwegian bachelor farmers at the Scandinavian Pancake Breakfast, including ‘cakes, ham, fruit, juice and coffee. Sons of Norway, 5795 Highway 93 South. 9 AM-1:30 PM. $6.

MONDAY MARCH 17 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a different nonprofit or good cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. March 17 benefits KBGA College Radio.

Corvallis United Methodist Church hosts the annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner from 5-7 PM. Donations appreciated.

Go green when Transition Missoula hosts a screening of Everything’s Cool, a comedic take on

global warming activism, at the Missoula Public Library. 6:30 PM.

TUESDAY MARCH 18 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.

If you’ve never been to heaven, but you’ve been to Oklahoma, get some food for thought when University of Oklahoma’s Wilfred M. McClay presents “Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America.” University Center, room 326/327. 11:30 AM-12:30 PM. It’ll be fishy, all right, when aquatic vertebrate ecology expert Lisa Eby presents “Riverscapes in Flux: Current Challenges in the Conservation of Native Fish,” part of UM’s spring water lecture series. University Center Theater, 7-8:30 PM.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 The good denizens of Seeley Lake are invited to an Affordable Care Act help session at Seeley Public Library, where certified navigators will help enroll any person, family or business. 11 AM-2 PM, 456 Airport Road. Call Alla at 406-830-3486 to learn more.

Bottoms up to help folks get on their feet with the pint night benefiting American Red Cross of Montana at the Northside Kettlehouse. 5-8 PM. Proceeds from every pint sold go toward a different nonprofit every week.

THURSDAY MARCH 20 Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door. 7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

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

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Donate used building materials to Home Resource, a non-profit that sells building materials and deconstructs buildings for reuse.

Keeping stuff that ain’t garbage outta the dump! Open everyday.

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Missoula FRIENDS OF NRA Banquet, Friday, April 4th, Double Tree Inn Edgewater. Doors Open at 6 PM, Dinner Served at 7:15.

Earlybird Drawing For A Rifle With Tickets Purchased Before March 21th. Please Contact Todd

Harrison 406.214.1343 Or Tim McCool 406.241.9946 For More Information On Attending This Banquet. Tickets Are Available At Both Missoula Les Schwab Tire Locations.

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ADVICE GODDESS

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By Amy Alkon

LOST & FOUND

THE GRATING OUTDOORS This great girl I've been dating just invited me on a camping trip. Frankly, there is nothing I would like to do less. I hate camping, and I won't know anyone but her. The trip is three days with 20 of her friends, including her ex-boyfriend, so I worry about asking her to go without me, especially since we aren't "official" yet. Can I skip this without it being a big deal, or is it a mistake to let her go when we're right at the monogamy crossroads?

—City Boy The comforts of civilization abound.

Even Walmart stocks a heated toilet seat— complete with a handy-dandy nightlight in the bowl—for a rather reasonable $119.

Yet—go figure—there are all these people who think it would be super-cool to go out for a weekend and squat behind a bush.

In other words, I'm right there with you, City Boy. My idea of camping is waiting for our room to be ready in the lobby of a hotel with exposed wood. My favorite hiking safety tip? Avoid hiking. But I understand your problem. It's a bad idea to stay home when it means she'll be out there in nature with nothing to block the view of her ex-boyfriend. Unfortunately, you're being asked on not just a camping trip but a vetting trip (even if she hasn't put it that plainly to you or even herself).

She'll be looking at how well you fit in with her friends (which will tell her something about how well you'll fit into her life) and, possibly, evaluating your camping prowess: whether you can start a fire with a single soggy match, put up a tent using only your teeth, and talk geopolitics with a raccoon.

But chances are, if she were some hardcore camper looking for the man to play Lewis to her Clark, she wouldn't even consider dating a guy whose idea of a nature hike is probably cutting across the lawn to get the mail. I shared this thought with a mentally ill friend of mine (translation: one who camps on purpose), and she agreed.

She also added that "camping with 20 people is not camping; it's 'camping.' It's getting drunk beside your car, tripping over your tent stake, and passing out next to your sleeping bag. Even a city boy can do that once."

Let your girlfriend know that camping isn't your thing but that you're sure you'll have a great time with her over the weekend. This sets her up not to expect much more of this outdoorsy business from you

while setting you up as a good sport who's willing to go out of his way to make her happy. If both you and your relationship survive the weekend, maybe you can show her a thing or two about the great indoors—like how, of all the current wonders of nature, one of the most wonderful is how you can sit in your house drinking martinis while watching them on Discovery Channel. And don't forget my absolute favorite thing about nature—the whoosh it makes as you're driving past it to get back to your hotel.

LOST DOG~ Jack ~Black/White Jack got out of fence on Sun. 3/2 in the Rosauers / Mall area. He is black with white socks and other markings. One brown eye ~ one blue eye. Red collar. Medium height, lean, about 30 pounds.

He’s sweet and energetic but a little skittish around strangers.

Jack isn’t an outside dog, we’re very worried about him ~ please help him come home ~ 4931893 pjsnoopymail@gmail.com Lost purse 3/6/14 somewhere between Clinton frontage road, Turah exit to I-90, orange St. exit to Broadway to Whalen Tires. Black Gucci bag with chain strap. Looking for guardian

FRISKIES SOUR My best friend, "Rob," is really into this girl he's been dating. She is loud, talks constantly about vapid subjects, generally rubs everyone the wrong way, and—I'm not kidding—makes cat "meow" sounds. (For instance: "I'm hungry; let's get pancakes!

Meow.") Recently, a mutual friend blurted out to Rob, "Dude, seriously, how do you put up with her?" Rob was upset, and I sympathized, but the reality is, we all think that. Shouldn't he know the truth—that none of us wants to be around him when he's around her?

—Biting Tongue

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When you're all out to dinner, you must live for those moments when she and some other woman excuse themselves to go talk about all you guys in the litter box. As hard as it must be for you to hold back, all this guy should know is that you're his friend. People mistakenly believe that you can criticize somebody into changing. You can't. What you typically end up doing is criticizing them into clinging even more tenaciously to whatever you were hoping to pry them away from.

Because, in relationships, initially adorable idiosyncrasies can turn screechingly annoying, it's possible your friend will eventually grow allergic to loud, vapid women who make cat sounds. Until then, well, that's why there's guys' night out at the cigar bar. You might also try to curb your annoyance by feeling happy for him. For him to be blind to how irritating she is, she must do some really special things in the bedroom—you know, like marking the bed with urine and killing mice and leaving them on his pillow.

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seeking a full-time ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. A minimum of six months customer service experience is required. Greets, assists and provides prompt and courteous service to guests, clients and team members. Provides the hotel executive with administrative and clerical support including word-processing, typing, e-mailing, filing, data-entry, faxing, copying, corresponding, answering telephones, processing mail, taking notes and/or dictation, making travel arrangements and performing other general office duties. $9.22 Hourly.

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Job# 10034180 Africa, Brazil Work/Study! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today!

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$300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training available. 1800-965-6520 ext. 278 Coordinator P/T Provide support and activities for high school exchange students. Volunteer hosts also needed. Apply online: www.aspectfoundation.org

Flatbed Drivers needed from the Missoula area. Home weekly to Bi-weekly • Top pay • Full benefits • New equipment • 2 years experience required • Clean driving record • Must be present to apply.

406-493-7876 Call 9am-5pm M-F only.

Pt.Coordinator and Marketing Assistant Are you looking for a dynamic career in the expanding field of health care?

Would you like to take home a paycheck reflective of your effort and commitment? We are looking for a part-time (9-12 hours per week) person to coordinate patient care and to refine and monitor our social media marketing. We need a team player who has interest in collaborative projects and experience in marketing. Experience with Quick Books helpful. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034218 Receptionist/Lab Aide MISSION MOUNTAIN LABORATORIES INC Looking for part-time receptionist/lab-aide for two days a week-will be responsible for answering phones and checking mailwill need to use own car to run to Arlee for mail (compensation will be given at current federal rates). Will be logging in samples and working with computers, so computer experience is preferred. Will be helping with upkeep and general cleaning of the lab. Will also be helping Chemists/Microbiologists with glassware cleaning. Most time on the job you will be on your feet. Dependable person needed-shift is Thur and Friday, 9-6 or 8-5, whichever works best-will also fill in other shifts for other part-time re-

ceptionist when needed. Compensation is $9-$12/hr DOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10034220

PROFESSIONAL Biological Science Technician (Plants) A career with the Forest Service will challenge you to manage and care for more than 193 million acres of our nation’’s most magnificent lands, conduct research through a network of forest and range experiment stations and the Forest Products Laboratory, and provide assistance to State and private forestry agencies. It’’s an awesome responsibility - but the rewards are as limitless as the views. This position is temporary and has a Not-to-Exceed date.

However, an extension of the appointment may be possible without further competition. The appointment may also end early due to lack of work or funds. This position is located on a Forest Service research organization. The incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of complex and recurring duties in support of ecological research on forest and/or rangeland ecosystems. These positions are with the Enterprise Program Office in the locations listed below: Arcata CA, Denver CO, Flagstaff AZ, Laramie WY, and Missoula MT The duty station for these position(s) will be at one of the locations listed above.

Final determination of duty station for each position will be made by the selecting official at the time of job offer.The applicant can only be offered employment for a location

that has been selected during application. For additional information about the duties of theposition, please contact, Jeffery Rebitzke at 559-359-8498 or jrebitzke@fs.fed.us. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034131 Progressive church with deep commitment to justice and human rights seeks full time Church Administrator. Duties included management of accounting services, working with volunteers, administering church communications, business technology, and daily administration of the church. Compensation, including benefits, is $31,000- 35,000 per year DOE. To apply send resume and cover letter describing your interest in the position and two references to: University Congregational, UCC • 405 University Avenue • Missoula, MT 59801. Or via Email to amycarter@uccmsla.org. For a more complete job description go to uccmsla.org Chemist We are now accepting resumes for someone with a minimum of 3 years on the job experience with HPLC, GC, AA, ICP/MS (need to be able to start up, run and fix HPLC,GC, AA, ICP/MS equipment with minimal supervision) in environmental and food chemistry.

Job includes daily chemistry work plus cleaning, doing dishes, helping to update and implement QC plan, SOPs, ISO certification, etc. Small company, only a few employees so need someone who is willing to work within a small budget with a can do spirit, that is interested in helping to build a small company to a larger company. Shift will be Tues-

EMPLOYMENT Fri, 8-6. Will rotate between doing AA/ICPMS, HPLC, and GC, plus research on new methods for new services. This is a bench position, not a research position which means the majority of your job will be doing bench work so someone with attention to detail is important.

The lab is located in Ravalli, just north of Arlee-Carpooling might be an option if coming from Missoula.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034208 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED FOR LOCAL HAULS • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 DELIVERY DRIVER SHEEHAN MAJESTIC seeking full-time commercial delivery driver with minimum of 3-6 months driving/delivery experience and Class A or B CDL with clean driving record. Will make local area deliveries & deliveries that involve 3 or 4 overnight drives depending on situation. May require loading truck for delivery, unload cargo using handcart and check in the order with customers. Will collect payments, complete paperwork and provide outstanding customer service. Must have the ability to operate and maintain equipment in a safe manner at all times. Must be able to lift up to 35 pounds occasionally and 50 pounds rarely. Must maintain required certifications/licenses.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034288 Field Service Coordinator/Dispatcher Axmen is seeking a detail oriented, individual to become our new field service coordinator. This position requires excellent customer service and communication skills along with attention to detail and logistics management. Duties include: Schedule and dispatch field service work according to most efficient routes and times Communicate with customers and technicians in the field regarding their appointments Enter appointments into calendar and service tracking software Bill completed service calls to customers Maintain parts inventory, includes forecasting inventory for 90 days, special ordering and assisting technician in maintaining truck inventory File warranty claims with manufacturers, and track progress for proper credit Applicant must be very computer proficient. Must have experience with Microsoft Office Suite. Previous experience with point of sale software preferred.

Previous experience with office administrative duties a plus. $11.00 $13.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034298 INVENTORY CLERK/RECEPTIONIST J & R PLANING, INC. Industry specific software for data entry, (training provided), tenkey, Excel, multi-line phone, and general office equipment operation required. Attention to detail is a must! Answering multi-line phone, daily production entry and invoicing, assisting truck drivers with paperwork, and extensive data entry.

DAYS AND HOURS: Full time position, M-F, 7:30am - 4:30pm.

WAGES: $12/hour plus benefits after 3 months—medical, vacation and sick leave. Immediate opening.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034222

PRINT TECHNICIAN Seeking a full time remote PRINT TECHNICIAN. Effective communication in English. Duties will include but are not limited to printing files uploaded to local server for hundreds of business customers nationwide. Seeking a self-starter with an eye for detail and quality and a solid work history and significant Windows and Microsoft Office experience. Graphics experience is a plus. Requires ability to learn and excel at companyspecific software for creating statements. Must have file sharing and network experience and the ability to find suitable and practical solutions that fit clients’ needs. This can be a physically demanding job and requires the ability to lift at least 50 #s of paper at a time. $12.50 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10033640 RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAX APPRAISER A combination of education and experience equivalent to two years of post-secondary education or vocational training in appraisal, construction, agriculture, or related field and two years of real estate job-related experience. One year of experience should be in real estate, construction, agriculture, forestry, surveying, or related field. Montana certification in residential property appraisal is required within one year of employment. Must conduct property reviews and discoveries, data research, and field appraisals and inspections to determine final valuation of residential properties; assists in the discovery, listing, and analysis of residential properties; analyzes, assesses, and reclassifies land uses; and assists with specification, calibration, and benchmarking of land models, sales comparisons, and property characteristics. The incumbent also coordinates and provides a range of specialized services in support of ongoing program operations and activities including responding to taxpayer inquiries; explaining appraisal activities; dispute resolution; and participating in appeal hearings. This position involves field work throughout the year and a valid driver’s license will be required to be maintained. $27,652.00 $32,445.00 Yearly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10034164 SITE COORDINATOR PROMISE AND ASPIRE

Bachelor’s degree in vocational rehabilitation, education, business management, public administration or related field. two years of experience in grant administration including program management of special education, vocational rehabilitation, in a human service program serving people with disabilities and their families. Preferred Master’s degree in vocational rehabilitation, education, business management, public administration or related field. Oversees Montana’s providers and other agencies engaged in ASPIRE such as the Office for Public Instruction (OPI), the Department of Labor and Industry (DLI); and complies with Utah’s ASPIRE project director and provides updates on changes to staffing, contracts, etc. Develops Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and develops new contracts with instate partner agencies as funding becomes available. Monitors contracts with sub-contractors including providers’ staffing patterns and directs the work of ASPIRE contractual positions. Plans, negotiates, develops and monitors budgets; analyzes monthly financials and works with budget staff as needed. Gathers and reports data to ASPIRE research team such as employment, Unemployment Insurance (UI), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), educational attendance and graduation, and post-secondary participation. Monitors and ensures OPI recruits and enrolls 140 youth ages 14-16 receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and their families to the ASPIRE project by September 1, 2015. Enters and tracks youth and their families’ participation in all interventions in ASPIRE Management Information System (MIS) or assigned alternative until MIS system is in place. Successful applicant will be subject to: Criminal History Background Check. $18.27 $22.84 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10034062

Light Products Petroleum Terminal in Missoula, MT. We are looking for a Terminal Supervisor to oversee and manage terminal operations. You must be self-motivated and detailoriented with a strong commitment to quality, teambuilding, coaching, training, strategic planning and driving execution. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to make sound decisions and lead and inspire others are necessary. Learn about our community online You will: Direct the work efforts of Terminal Operators and seasonal part-time employees ensuring safety, reliability, and environmental compliance. Manage inventory through documentation, accurate measurement and communication of petroleum product movement through the terminal.

Communicate with dispatchers, drivers, and schedulers on movement and availability of product.

Provide for efficient and effective 24/7 operation of loading rack by maintaining rack equipment, additive systems, safety systems, and training of truck drivers using rack.

Work with the Engineering group on monthly review of current and future project expenditures and terminal upgrades. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10033781 The City of Conrad is accepting applications for a Police Patrolman po-

sition. Contact Montana Job Service or the City of Conrad for details. City Hall at 406-271-3623

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SAWMILL OPENINGS PYRAMID Mountain Lumber is accepting applications for BAND SAW FILER and MILLWRIGHT positions. Medical & Dental Insurance, 401(k), Paid Vacations & Holidays, Monthly Incentive Program. Pick up application at Main Office or online at w w w. p y r a m i d l u m b e r. c o m .

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PSYCHIATRIC NURSE; LPN OR RN OPEN UNTIL FILLED, LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE OR REGISTERED NURSE, FULL OR PART-TIME, NEEDED TO DO MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS WITH DOCTORS, DISTRIBUTE MEDICATIONS, TAKE AND RECORD VITAL SIGNS. MUST HAVE THE ABILITY TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH CO-WORKERS, OTHER AGENCIES & CLIENTS. MUST HAVE A CURRENT MT NURSING LICENSE AND EXPERIENCE WITH WORD PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD PREFERRED. WILL USE PHONE, FAX MACHINE AND COPY MACHINE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Seeking wisdom and chasing after pleasure are polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both. True?

No. No. No. False. Wrong. Here's the bigger truth: Now and then, grace periods come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini? Here's the answer: It's here now!

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Humans walked on the moon before anyone ever had the simple idea to put wheels on suitcases. Unbelievable, right? Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, travelers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless containers full of their belongings. I suspect that a comparable out-of-sequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian. In some ways you are totally up-to-date, and in other ways you are lagging behind.

Now would be a good time to identify any discrepancies and start correcting them. Metaphorically speaking, I'd love you to have rolling luggage by the next time you take a journey.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever heard of the sasquatch, also known as bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that walks upright and lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us that there is no such thing. But then they used to say the same thing about the platypus. It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers' vivid imaginations. A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist. When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Kyoka is a Japanese word that means a flower reflected in a mirror.

I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what's happening in your life right now. Here are some clues to jumpstart your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A British researcher poured 300 million facts into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in history. The winner was April 11, 1954. It was selected because almost nothing important happened except an election in Belgium. I'm wondering if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The astrological omens suggest it's a possibility. And frankly, I hope that's exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated activity. You would benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your psychic batteries.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You won't be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion. That word is "shluck." Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backwards luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn't even realize you needed. To take maximum advantage of shluck's benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the old fairy tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, "open sesame." This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure.

Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says "open sesame" himself. The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers' plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of "open sesame." It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high. You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links. Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I'm not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I'm not ruling them out, either.

You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled. At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven't imagined yet.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My friend Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. "Are you kidding?" I asked him incredulously. "The dullest game on the planet?" He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. "Name one," I challenged him. He told me that "Volkswagen" is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good. "Hmmm," I replied. "That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope."

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you remember being in your mother's womb? Probably not.

But here's what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigor, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now. So let's be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It's basically a good thing. Just be aware that you may experience growing pains.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-28 Dept.

No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EVERETT EUGENE SCHULER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Sandra A. Marotta, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o J. Tiffin Hall, Attorney at Law, 124 Riverside Drive, Suite 101, Eureka, Montana 59917 and filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of February, 2014. /s/ Sandra A. Marotta, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-13-1411 Dept.

No. 4. Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Michael Andrew Risden, Petitioner. This is a notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Michael Andrew Risden to Michael Andrew Hall. The hearing will be on 4/8/2014 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/20/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehneny, Deputy Clerk of Court. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-13-242 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GLEN DAVENPORT, A/K/A GLEN WAYNE DAVENPORT, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Judith Ann Oliver, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of January, 2014. /s/ Darlene Joyce Krantz-Mendler, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury

that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 6th day of December, 2013. /s/ Judith Ann Oliver, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 6th day of December, 2013. /s/ Judith Ann Oliver, Personal Representative. DATED this 6th day of December, 2013 ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No 3 Probate No. DP14-30 NOTICE TO CREDITOS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RONALD L. RUSSELL, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Sylvia Russell, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 20th day of February, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Sylvia Russell BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Sylvia Russell, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP14-21 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES E. CROOKSHANKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lisa A. Carter and Amy L. Cooper have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lisa A. Carter and Amy L. Cooper, Co-Personal Representative,s return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins,

Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 7th day of February, 2014.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Co-Personal Representatives I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 7th day of February, 2014. /s/ Lisa A. Carter, Co-Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 7th day of February, 2014. /s/ Amy L. Cooper, Co-Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP14-39 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID B. KOESLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHARLOTTE M. CLOSE the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of March, 2014. /s/ Charlotte M. Close, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representatives. /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-14-3 DEPT. NO. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICK J. MCDONALD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Carole L. McDonald has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Howard Toole, the attorney for Carole L. McDonald, return receipt requested, at the address of 211

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N. Higgins, Suite 350, Missoula, Montana 59802-4537, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 18th day of February, 2014. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, 211 N. Higgins, #350, Missoula, MT 59802-4537 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-33 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JANET F. MONSOS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Michael T. Monsos, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o KAREN L. REIFF, Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, P.C., P.O. Box 1645, Great Falls, Montana 59403, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 4th day of March, 2014. /s/ Michael T. Monsos, Personal Representative MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/16/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201220620 BK 902 PG 497, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Frank L. Tetro, III, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A Tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 9, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M. , Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract 28B-1B of Certificate of Survey No. 2726.

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 09/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 16, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $456,297.70. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $443,823.26, 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 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.108605) 1002.263717-File No. MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/25/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200822419 Bk: 827 Page No. 204, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Leslie I. Connell was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 448 of PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO.4, Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201017040 B:865 P:533, 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 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 10/01/09 installment

payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 13, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $316,200.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $223,424.51, 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 27, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7021.16112) 1002.263264-File No. MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 18, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE WEST HALF OF LOT 9 AND ALL OF LOT 10 IN BLOCK 13 OF LOWS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Clayton S. Hopkin and Andrea Hopkin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 21, 2010 and recorded on May 25, 2010 in Book 860, on Page 447, under Document no. 201009959. 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 $772.07, beginning April 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the princi-

pal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 6, 2013 is $141,148.64 principal, interest at the rate of 4.75% now totaling $5,587.80, late charges in the amount of $164.60, escrow advances of $1,964.91, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,722.16, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.62 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 9, 2013 /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 9th day of December, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 42048.724 BoA V Hopkin MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 28, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 of Glacier

PUBLIC NOTICES Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according the official recorded plat thereof. Darren Bayer and Tami Bayer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Chase Bank USA, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 10, 2005 and recorded August 15, 2005 in Book 758, Page 117 under Document No. 200520940. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-CH3. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,920.02, beginning September 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 21, 2013 is $354,160.33 principal, interest at the rate of 8.875% now totaling $134,486.21, escrow advances of $22,931.57 and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,577.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $81.50 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 13, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Mon-

tana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 13th day of December, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Select Protfolio V Bayer 41477.993 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 7, 2014, at 11.00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2268 LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA TOGETHER WITH EASEMENTS AS CONVEYED IN BOOK 150 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1340. David J Pleasant and Kathy L Pleasant, 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 November 3, 2004 recorded in November 8, 2004 under Document No. 200431563. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association. 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 $907.88, beginning June 1, 2012, 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 20, 2013 is $152,877.53 principal, interest at the rate of 4.750% now totaling $11,875.67, late charges in the amount of $635.46, escrow advances of $5,780.70 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,217.36, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.90 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 27, 2013 /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 27th day of November, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 PNC v Pleasant 41230.881 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 8, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 13 AND THE EAST ONE-HALF OF LOT 14 IN BLOCK 6 OF GLENWOOD PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 793 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 306 Leslie A Largay and John F Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 8, 2007 and recorded March 8, 2007 in Book 793, Page 307 under Document No. 200705492. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,591.03, beginning January 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 13, 2013 is $209,707.47 principal, interest at the rate of 6.250% now totaling $39,751.19, late charges in the amount of $2,632.10, escrow advances of $12,738.93 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,555.80, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.91 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon

the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 29, 2013 /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 29th day of November, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Diana Steinmetz Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: 7/16/16 CitiMortgage v Largay 42011.428 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 14-00066-5 Loan Number: 0340160217 APN: 5803735 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 30, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: The Land reffered to in this Guarantee is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and is described as follows: Tract 16 of Certificate of Survey No. 370, located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 11, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. More commonly known as: 1035 GRIZZLY MOUNTAIN ROAD, Missoula, MT MICHAEL K FITZPATRICK, A MARRIED PERSON, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP., as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of May 4, 2012, and recorded on May 7, 2012 in Film No. 893 at Page 747 under Document No. 201208270, and rerecorded on October 25, 2013 in Film No. 921at Page 375 under Document No. 201321009, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank,

NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated January 30, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of February 11, 2017: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2013 and which payments total: $7,842.72: Late charges: $466.92 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $198,263.89 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 4.00000% per annum from August 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice.

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 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. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid 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 trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: February 18, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1084088 3/6, 3/13, 03/20/2014 MNAXLP

CLARK FORK STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 42, 45, 176, 201, 211, 237, 248, 262, 289 & 293. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 3/243/27, 2014 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 3/27, 2014 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.

"Eeeeeevil"–what can I say? It's crossword #666. by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 ___ Bator (Mongolia's capital) 5 Part of a war plane 11 Italian or Swiss summit 14 Fantasy sports option 15 Jiddah's leaned 16 ___ Paulo (Brazil's most populous city) 17 Bathrooms brimming with lawn clippings?

19 Fashion world star Anna 20 Words prior to "touche" or "tureen" 21 Obvious disdain 23 Wheat bread Pitt almost took away for 2011 26 Appomattox initials 29 Country musician Axetone 30 Just ___, skip and jump away 31 Scandinavian fans of Wiggum's kid (in Simpsons-iana)?

34 Quantity of bricks?

35 Two from Tijuana 36 Stir things up 37 British artist William with a 1745 portrait of him and his pug dog 39 Hands out 43 Bangkok bankroll 44 Utmost ordinal 45 Wood that flavors bourbon 46 Thousand dollar bills that fly and roost?

50 1052, to Tacitus 51 Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...)

52 "Two Virgins" musician Yoko 53 Folks who Owen Meany films, say 54 Pang or misgiving 56 Military turndown 59 Big poet for java 60 Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work 66 Yahoo's stock in 1996, for short 67 Start to unify?

68 Pinocchio, notoriously Last week’s solution

69 Brand Ides 70 "Grande" Arizona attraction 71 Vigorous

DOWN

1 It usually starts with "wee wee wee" 2 Hawaii's Mauna ___ 3 Off-road transport, for short 4 "Ixnay" (or a conundrum in a tube?)

5 Feat POTUS 6 Jason's mythical craft 7 Road tripe quorum 8 "I dunno," in day books 9 "___ for igloo" 10 "Mama" of 1960s pop 11 Part of ASAP 12 Hill who sang "Doo Wop (That Tee-heeing)" 13 Toepieces of discussion 18 "___ Gang" (film shorts with kid "Rascals") 22 Potful at cook-offs 23 "Right hand on holy book" situation 24 "Buzz off, fly!"

25 Capitol Hill gp.

27 Took a hop 28 Bad guys pursuant of peace, man 31 Latvian-born artist Marek 32 Mila's "That 70's Show" costar 33 Code and sea-lemon, for two 35 Transylvanian count, informally 38 Bubbling, in a way 40 Pro tour sport 41 Unworldly sort 42 Things worn to go downhill fast 46 Fined without fault 47 Hour for a British cup, traditionally 48 Gaucho's grasslands 49 How you might wax nostalgic 50 Works of art on walls 53 Auction node 55 Meanly, in nouns (abbr.)

57 City on a fjord 58 Prompt jaws to drop, say 61 UFC fighting classification, for short 62 Holm of filmdom 63 Quick shot of brandy 64 Williams with a "Mortal City" album 65 Cook bacon

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MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034

DUPLEXES 1708 Scott St. “A”. 1 bed/1 bath, shared yard, all utilities included, pet? $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

1905 S. 14th St. 1 bed/1 bath bonus room, shared yard, central location. $600 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

3909 Buckley Place 2 bed/1 bath, single garage, W/D hookups, shared yard. $725. RENT INCENTIVE. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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brant, affordable living for seniors 55+. Amenities include: on site property management, 2 elevators, off-street parking, community rooms, garages available for additional rent. Contact Kelly Abbey: 406-549-4113, ext.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

dential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on almost 5 Target Range acres bordering DNRC land. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com

1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath split-level in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-law apartment. $339,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard & garage. $225,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com

2225 Missoula. 4 bed, 3 bath on Rattlesnake creek with fireplace, outdoor hot tub & Mt. Jumbo Views. $499,000.

David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $298,500. Pru-

5 Bdr, 3 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential

Missoula 728-8270. gow@montana.com

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Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $865,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355, milyardhomes@yahoo.com I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com.

Visit my website at www.on93.com Ovando House on 1.14 acres Charming 3 bd, 1 ba house with large log shop in the Blackfoot Valley, only 50 miles from Missoula. Recently remodeled, wood floors, deck, lots of natural light. Productive gardens, aspen groves, outbuildings, even a tree fort! Irrigation off Hoyt Creek, which runs through the property. Beautiful views of the Bob Marshall and Mission Mountains. $195K OBO. RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-5428644

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REAL ESTATE CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

$55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

5505 Creekstone. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Grant Creek. $130,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com

160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $156,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

20 acres, Butler Creek. View of Snowbowl Ski Resort. Utilities in place, septic approved. $200,000. Call Pat Delaney 239-3995 53.5 acres overlooking Missoula. Utilities in place, septic ap-

proved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

NHN Frontage Road, Alberton.

2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

Bear Gulch in Garnet Mountains.

320 acres bordering BLM land. $136,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $154,500. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com

Cooley Street Condo 1545 Cooley St. #C. This upper level 2 bedroom condo provides for easy, sweet living close to downtown and has great North Hills views. $128,500 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.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

Adorable Lewis & Clark Bungalow 4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, finished basement, deck & 2 car garage. Fenced corner lot near mall & schools.

Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $162,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown.

All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE

Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com

Come check out the condos at The Uptown Flats. 1 bed 1 bath plus high-end amenities.

Starting at $149,900

Beautiful Home On Rattlesnake Creek 4 bed, 3 bath with cathedral ceilings, wood floors, gourmet kitchen, jetted tub and river rock fireplace. Lovely 2nd floor deck overlooks creek. $865,000

Call Anne to learn about the great opportunities available in the Upscale Community of The UPTOWN FLATS.

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$255,000 • MLS #20136914 Anne Jablonski

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1265 #B Dakota. Riverfront parcel for to-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage.

Classic 1950's with refinished hardwood floors,arched doorways and built-ins.

All new windows & new energy-efficient furnace.

Finished basement with family room.

Fenced yard with fruit trees & raised beds.

Double detached garage.

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REAL ESTATE OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Clinton area home on 1.6 acres. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com River Access 17430 SixMile, $285,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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