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THE SHRINKING DIVIDE NEW EFFORT AT UM TO STOP AT MONTANA’S NEWS OPINION SPORTSRINGSIDE BETWEEN DEMS, GOP DISCRIMINATION OF MEN YOUTH BOXING TOURNEY

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News Voices/Letters Coal, coal and more coal ...........................................................................4 The Week in Review Sexual assault, Tres Tinkle and twins..............................................6 Briefs Men, airlines and D.A.R.E. .......................................................................................6 Etc. Taking Friday off ..........................................................................................................7 News Local youth boxers learn life lessons in the ring......................................................8 News Legislature passes on changing tax-deed process ...................................................9 Opinion The shrinking difference between Republicans, Democrats.............................10 Opinion Mountain biking bandits must work with federal agencies ..............................11 Feature Behind the scenes of a corporate bill mill .........................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Remodeled Top Hat aims to become regional music destination ............................18 Music Needlecraft, Whitewater Ramble, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons and Off With Their Heads ..................................................................................................19 Music The Whizpops are not just kidding around...........................................................20 Arts Erickson crafts a name with quilted paintings..........................................................21 Film Oz prequel lacks original Wizard’s magic................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................23 Flash in the Pan Solid green ...........................................................................................24 Happiest Hour Rocky Mountain Pickleback....................................................................26 8 Days a Week These laws leave a bitter taste.................................................................27 Mountain High Harvey Locke on Yellowstone................................................................33 Agenda Mayors for Meals .................................................................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk..........................................................................................................................4 In Other News .................................................................................................................12 Classifieds ......................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess......................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .......................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle..........................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World .....................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK Asked Tuesday, March 12, near Higgins and Broadway in downtown Missoula.

by Cathrine L. Walters The Top Hat reopens Friday. What are your expectations for the remodeled venue? Follow-up: Where’s your favorite place in Missoula to listen to live music?

Taylor McAnally: I expect they’ll have a big draw because I know a lot of people are curious about what they’ve done with the place. Local yokel: The Palace or VFW because they always have the touring acts coming through … and I play there.

Many thanks to Dan Person for an absolutely fabulous article about coal mining and transport (see “Coal train coming,” March 7). I live on Orcas Island, with a view of Cherry Point, site of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal, and his beautifully written, vivid article provides the clearest description of the issues from pit to port that I’ve seen in my year of extensive immersion and local activism related to this issue. Please keep up the great writing. Citizens need and have a right to know what’s being planned for their communities along the entire route—from pit to port.

Donna Riordan Co-founder, Orcas NO COALition Orcas Island, Wash.

Black cloud Nick Hyde: I remember it was pretty nasty in its past days. I just hope the bathrooms are improved and there are more diverse shows. Out of sight: The Badlander. They have a lot of my favorite shows, even though the acoustics and arrangements aren’t the best for crowds.

Heidi Machel: I hope they’ll have great bands and hopefully it’s the same as before but with more space and better views. Deja vu: The old Top Hat! So, hopefully the new one.

Mark Seaman: I’m going to be happy that they’re bringing a demographic back to the Top Hat that will cater to everybody. I can eat lunch, dinner, bring my family or go listen to music. Change is good: I think it’s going to change to the Top Hat.

Mark Lamoreux: I look at it as not just the Top Hat but as the new face of Missoula. As old businesses remodel and new businesses come in the downtown grows. Micros ’n’ music: Draught Works Brewery. They have local bands there like three nights a week.

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Montana is in the midst of an important conversation about coal. Our state holds significant reserves of this fossil fuel, which over the decades has helped boost Montana’s economy via mining and exports and to power our nation via the coal-fired plants in Colstrip. There’s no question that coal is an important part of Montana’s history.

Yet, we’ve now reached a juncture where we must discuss how coal fits into our future. There’s great interest in mining more of this resource in our state and exporting it overseas. Local communities are concerned about the impact of increased rail traffic as a result. There’s also significant concern about how burning more Montana coal in China and elsewhere will affect our climate.

As physicians, we share these concerns, but also want to address the more immediate effects that the burning of coal has on public health. These hazards are well-documented, but tend not to get the same amount of attention as coal’s impact on the larger environment.

Coal-fired power plants do more than cloud the air; they emit toxic pollution that causes illness and death. Toxins emitted by burning coal worsen asthma, bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cause heart attacks and strokes, lung and other cancers, and lead to birth defects.

Nationwide, coal-fired plants account for 386,000 tons of dangerous pollutants each year, including acid gases such as hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride,

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which can burn the eyes, skin and breathing passages, lead, arsenic and other metals that can harm the lungs, kidneys and nervous system, and dioxins, which pose a risk for cancer.

We urge Montanans to learn more about the impacts of coal and their health, in order to insure that the coal’s affects on human health are not overshadowed in the current debates over coal and our state’s role in burning, mining and exporting it.

An informative resource to learn more about these issues is The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health by Alan Lockwood, M.D. This book from the MIT Press draws on numerous, peer-reviewed studies to examine every

“These hazards are well-documented, but tend not to get the same amount of attention as coal’s impact on the larger environment.” aspect of coal, from its complex medical makeup to the health effects of mining, burning, transporting and disposing of this fuel. These are all central issues to Montana residents.

Dr. Lockwood, an emeritus professor of neurology and nuclear medicine at the State University of New York, will visit several Montana communities this month. We encourage interested citizens to attend his lectures and to further engage in this conversation, which is so important to the future of our state and to the public health of its residents. He will be speaking March 21 at 7 p.m. in room 123 of the Gallagher Business Building at the University of Montana.

Paul Smith, D.O., Missoula Robert Shepard, M.D., Helena Robert Merchant, M.D., Billings

Under attack Your wildlife refuge is under attack from a Wyoming developer. A development with 639 residential units and 20 commercial units will be placed within 100 feet of the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge in Stevensville if the Wyoming developer sways our public servants.

In 2006, this same developer sued our county for taking too much time to consider his proposal to create a “town” the same size as Stevensville in land mass and larger than Corvallis and Victor in inhabitants in the middle of rural Stevensville. He won the lawsuit. We have already paid him once.

Now our public officials are scared.

The subdivision is back on the table and a recommendation has already been made by our planning staff to approve this subdivision. We need to tell our public servants not to be bullied into this.

The Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge is a treasure and an extremely important stop-off place for migratory birds in addition to a full-time residence for many species. This development would have a huge effect on them. Imagine the 639-plus new domestic dogs and cats that will love hunting this wildlife on our land.

Imagine the light pollution that will prevent nesting, the sewage and lawn chemical runoff that will pollute the surface and ground water, the weeds that will infest the refuge.

Not to mention the affects on taxpayers: We’ll get to buy a new school for the development, pay for more emergency services and increase the size of the highway, to name a few. Not only will the developer take the money and run, we will be left to foot the bill for this, after we have lost the revenue from the users of our currently viable wildlife refuge. This is a serious life changer.

Are you going to allow this? Please write or call your commissioners and planning staff. We elected these people and they need to listen to us. I for one will not accept the excuse that they “can’t do anything about it.” Baloney. Did we elect leaders or wimps?

Please write or call the Ravalli County Planning Department (406-375-6530, planning@rc.mt.gov) and Ravalli County Commissioners (406-375-6500, commissioners@rc.mt.gov) Sarah Roubik Corvallis

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, March 6 Missoula police detective Chris Shermer, who investigates internet sex crimes, files a lawsuit against a fellow officer claiming she sexually harassed him. Shermer alleges Lt. Sandy Kosena touched him inappropriately and whispered a sexual innuendo in his ear.

Thursday, March 7 Wayne Bengston shoots and kills Gregory Rodriguez at Bengston’s mother-in-law’s Whitefish home. Rodriguez, the television host of “A Rifleman’s Journal,” was visiting Bengston’s wife at the time of the shooting. Bengston later takes his own life.

Friday, March 8 Missoula’s Community Medical Center reports the birth of five sets of twins in the first week of March. A manager with the OB/GYN clinic says the hospital averages one set of twins per month.

Saturday, March 9 Sophomore Tres Tinkle scores 26 points as the Hellgate Knights defeat Helena Capital 58-53 in the Montana AA boys basketball championship. The win marks Hellgate’s fifth state title.

Sunday, March 10 The winning team skis nearly 50,000 feet of slopes during the inaugural Montana Snowbowl Vertical Challenge. The event raises more than $1,000 for the Missoula Food Bank.

Monday, March 11 Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee vote against restoring $4.6 million in family planning funding to the state budget, citing concerns that some of the money will support Planned Parenthood.

Tuesday, March 12 Tribal leaders, conservationists and sportsmen rally at the Capitol to oppose legislation negatively impacting bison conservation.

The event includes an address by Fort Belknap Tribal Councilman Tom Christian and free cups of bison chili.

More than 100 people endured harsh weather to gather on the Higgins Avenue bridge March 6 in an act of solidarity for the accuser in the Jordan Johnson trial. Starla Gade, pictured, said she attended for herself and her daughter as survivors of sexual violence and to support the rape victim in the trial. “It was a horrible outcome and it will make reporting rape even harder,” she said.

Business

Up in the air The Missoula Economic Partnership announced last week that, despite months of promising negotiations, Frontier Airlines will not be extending service to Missoula in 2013. While the news may seem like a setback in MEP’s effort to improve low-cost airline service, Executive Director James Grunke insists it’s not the end of the world.

“There are other low-cost carriers that we’ve talked to,” Grunke says. “We’ve also talked with both the legacy carriers, United and Delta, again saying, ‘What do we have to do to lower airfare?’ That’s our goal. The who doesn’t matter as much to us as achieving that.”

Missoula was at the top of Frontier’s list of new service locations going into the 2013 season. But the airline hit a snag in securing new aircraft for its fleet, pushing delivery of those planes into July. Instead of overnighting a plane in Missoula and operating a morning departure flight, Frontier would have had to establish a mid-afternoon schedule into and out of

Missoula that the airline and MEP both considered less than ideal.

“It didn’t really make sense for them or for us,” Grunke says.

Now, with several thousand dollars worth of commitments from local businesses for revenue incentives, MEP is continuing to court other options.

Among the low-cost carriers MEP has approached, Grunke lists Southwest Airlines, which currently services Spokane. “We’re trying to demonstrate why this market makes sense for them to enter,” he says. In addition the group is in ongoing negotiations with major carriers to hash out some incentive for them to decrease flight costs.

As for Frontier, the company is still sold on Missoula. Grunke says they’ve committed to continue working with MEP, and both parties expect Missoula to see service starting in spring 2014—barring any more turbulence between now and then.

“Until we see the planes actually taking off and landing,” Grunke says, “it’s always going to be up in the air.”

Alex Sakariassen

Politics

Democratic draft The 2014 election cycle is stacking up against Democrats in Montana. Two Republicans have already made clear their plans to oust U.S. Sen. Max Baucus.

Re-districting has dramatically altered the legislative map in key parts of the state. In the middle of it all, the Montana Democratic Party recently named a new executive director: 28-year-old Forward Montana CEO Andrea Marcoccio.

Marcoccio has not only spearheaded Forward Montana’s efforts to train political candidates and increase voter turnout, she also worked as a field organizer in Montana for President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Now the Rhode Island native and former semi-pro soccer player is preparing to ramp up grassroots operations for the Dems in 2014, replacing former executive director Ted Dick, who stepped into the position in late 2010.

“We’ve just gone through re-districting, which means the Democratic Party has a great opportunity to win back the House and the Senate,” Marcoccio

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Marcoccio’s emphasizing the need for a ground game in the next election—lots of door knocking and face-to-face interaction with voters. But she’s not the only one. Shaken by a rash of conservative defeats last year, Republicans across the country have pushed for serious change in the way the party operates. The Republican National Committee launched a new online project earlier this year aimed at attracting a more diverse voter base and bolstering the party’s grassroots efforts nationwide.

Montana Democrats may face stiffer competition on the ground in 2014, but Marcoccio’s not terribly concerned. Democrats have spent years perfecting the art of face-to-face voter interaction, she says.

When it comes to knocking on doors, for Baucus or any other candidate, “we’ll be there first.”

Marcoccio is the first woman to be named director of the Montana Democratic Party in two decades. Party leaders were “excited” to have a young woman at the helm, Marcoccio says, particularly one with a mind for maintaining the momentum of the previous election cycle. And while she doesn’t take the party helm until April, Marcoccio’s already looking for outlets for her competitive streak. “I am looking for pick-up partners to go and play soccer in Helena,” she says.

Alex Sakariassen

crotch and the bear’s left foot); to false accusations of sexual assault (the video claims 40 percent of rape allegations are fabricated).

According to Thompson, the concerns of NCFM represent a dangerous cultural and political shift. He says the recent passage of the Violence Against Women Act is the result of a pervasive anti-male agenda in America.

“Society wanted to stand up and protect women and children so we enacted legislation to address it,” he says. “But now we’re protecting our daughters at the expense of our sons.”

Last year, Thompson established a NCFM chapter at Montana State University. While he admits that

Men

Discrimination double-take In a 2006 Super Bowl commercial for FedEx, a grizzly bear kicks Burt Reynolds in the crotch. For many, groin shots are lumped into the same hardnot-to-laugh category as farts and people walking into screen doors. But for members of the National Coalition For Men, the commercial is another example of gender discrimination. And, according to NCFM Campus Coordinator Christopher Thompson, there are few places the burden of the Y-chromosome is more realized than at the University of Montana.

According to its website, NCFM has worked since 1977 to end the oppression of men and to resolve “issues which are barriers to progress and freedom.”

In an online video, the organization outlines these issues, which range from paternity fraud (the video depicts a still image of a mom with “Lies, Lies” written on her face, while dollar signs appear on the face of the “duped dad”); to male bashing (enter Reynolds’

starting the chapter was “rocky,” he wants people to know NCFM is not anti-women.

“We’re not rape apologists,” he says. “We’re just addressing sexual assaults from the perspective that innocent men are being put in prison.”

Now Thompson is turning his attention to UM. In a recent letter sent to the Indy and posted on NCFM’s website, Thompson wrote about how the federal investigations into sexual assaults at UM created a “hysteria” that “targeted star players” on the Griz football team. He used Jordan Johnson’s acquittal to illustrate the “terrifying reality” for men at the Missoula campus.

The letter also mentioned another player who “accepted a plea bargain to escape jury proceedings.” The letter does not mention that former Griz running back Beau Donaldson admitted to rape.

Thompson says his next step is to start an NCFM chapter at UM. He’ll begin by meeting with local fraternities this month.

Jamie Rogers

BY THE NUMBERS Mining Co. shares 25,000 Stillwater purchased by former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer shortly after he left office. Schweitzer and a New York-based hedge fund announced to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week their intent to take over Stillwater.

Drugs

Dare to kill old accounts Although Senate Bill 73 explicitly states “An act abolishing the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program,” Rep. Christine Kaufmann says the bill is only a housekeeping measure designed to ditch an old financial account associated with the program.

D.A.R.E. itself is alive and well.

“It was inconveniently named,” says Kaufmann, D-Helena. “It didn’t really get rid of any program. It just got rid of empty sections of the law that didn’t refer to anything that existed anymore.”

Kaufmann introduced SB 73, which was recently signed into law by Gov. Steve Bullock at the request of the Montana Board of Crime Control. MBCC Bureau Chief Don Merritt says the bill’s main goal was to eliminate an outdated account originally intended to bolster D.A.R.E.’s federal funding through optional tax return donations in the 1990s.

The idea never took off, but the account remained on the books with less than $100 in it. The account’s mere existence prompted fruitless calls from Montana residents seeking additional funding for their own community-led substance abuse programs.

D.A.R.E was founded in 1983 and has been the subject of scrutiny over the years for its effectiveness in reducing drug use among children. While it still exists in some Montana school districts through locally driven funding, it has not been used in Missoula County since 1998, when the School Resource Officer program replaced it.

Thomas Johnson, a former police officer who now serves as a community liaison with the University of Montana’s Office of Public Safety, says D.A.R.E served a special purpose in being one of the first programs that brought police officers and students together in a non-punitive way. He says it led to the broad-based SRO program that is still used in MCPS today.

“I see my young kids at the U that I taught nine or 10 years ago,” Johnson says. “Seeing that blossom over the years, it’s really unbelievable.”

Old accounts may vanish, but at least for some, the program’s impact hasn’t.

Mike Gerrity

ETC. On Feb. 5, Rep. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell, presented a bill before the State Administration Committee that, if passed into law, would answer a question as old as the Gregorian calendar: What do you do when a holiday falls on a Saturday?

House Bill 325 says observe it on Friday.

What’s interesting about HB 325 is that it basically does nothing. It’s already in Montana statute that when a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a holiday. The statute does not address what Regier referred to during the committee hearing as the “Saturday situation,” and he added that HB 325 would only create a law most Montanans believe already exists. “Schools, hospitals, banks, many businesses observe a holiday on Friday or Monday when they land on a weekend, so this is common, accepted practice in our society,” he told the committee during his 74-second testimony. “HB 325 would put into law what people expect.”

Any bill that requires so little explanation and so concise a rationale deserves a moment of recognition. Particularly when it comes from the mouth of Regier, who has made a name for himself as a master of the rhetorical arts. In 2011, Regier introduced a bill that would add offenses resulting in the death of unborn children to state homicide statutes. Though Regier maintained it wouldn’t affect legal abortions, opponents saw it as a sneak attack on reproductive rights. On the House Floor, Regier eloquently assuaged their concerns by comparing pregnant women to construction sites and cattle.

“If unfinished buildings and unborn calves have value in Montana,” he said, “shouldn’t unborn children have a value?”

Luckily, HB 325 requires Regier to do no such analogizing. The bill is the sort of unsexy minutiae legislators deal with on their way to the water fountain. Compared to stripping the state budget of family planning funds, making it easier to bring guns to school or impeding on women’s reproductive rights, resolving the “Saturday situation” doesn’t register on the Richter scale of legislative activity. Which is just another way of saying HB 325 benefits, albeit trivially, everyone. Depressing as this is to admit, perhaps Regier’s bill is the best we can expect this session.

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Sweet science Local youth boxers learn life lessons in the ring

by Jamie Rogers

When Cody Woslager prepares to was clearly limited, but given his tenacity sport, but you always pick your head up. box, he hunches his shoulders, lowers his it was not hard to see his performance as There will always be better days.”

Woslager made news in January when, head, narrows his eyes and frames his a precursor to what will some day be a forface with clenched fists. His punches have midable presence in the ring. After earn- after losing at 132 pounds, he opted to no prelude; they fly forward as if loaded ing an easy victory, Hoops slouched on a compete in a heavier weight class for anby a spring and Woslager delivers them stool as his coaches unlaced his gloves. other chance to medal at the Silver Gloves with an audible hiss. When he connects When asked to describe his fighting style, National Boxing Tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Outsized and overmatched, with a left hook, you can hear the thwap he shrugged and said, “It’s fun.”

According to Helena’s H-Town Eagles Woslager scrapped his way to a bronze. from across the gym. Though he is only His Junior Olympic bout against 15 years old, like many of his fellow com- coach Duran Caferro, though, it’s not all petitors at last weekend’s Montana State about fun. He has been working with Mount Helens Boxing Club’s Mathew McJunior Olympic Boxing Tournament in young boxers for 21 years, and while he Carl offered another opportunity to repreHamilton, he has boxed competitively acknowledges coaching 8-year-olds pres- sent Montana on a national stage. The fight since he was 8. He arrived at the competition with a career record of 41-38 and a chance to become a state champion.

Montana is not known for its boxing. The last time the Treasure State produced a viable professional fighter was in the late ’80s, when Great Falls’ Todd “Kid” Foster won his first 22 professional fights before losing a title bout to Jimmy Paul.

But despite a lack of notoriety, Montana is home to a small but ardent community of youth boxing programs organized by the Montana Local Boxing Club Committee.

Comprising about a dozen clubs, the MLBCC facilitates boxing shows statewide, including qualifying tournaments for regional and national Photo by Jamie Rogers competitions. The Junior Olympic championships at the Ravalli Boxers in the 65-pound class duke it out during the Montana State Junior County Fairgrounds was a qualifier Olympic Boxing Tournament last weekend in Hamilton. for April’s Junior Olympic regionals ents some challenges, the sport ultimately was anticipated by the Hamilton crowd as in Casper, Wyo. Youth boxing tournaments have the teaches kids the virtues of discipline. As a main event of the championship.

When the match began, Woslager apdiscordant vibe of a good carnival, where with most MLBCC clubs, all of his boxers one can be humored, awed, frightened are required to train at the gym a mini- peared hesitant. He stayed on his heels, and unsettled all in one night. Last week- mum of three nights a week. If they get throwing the occasional searching punch end, 60 boxers ranging in age (8-16) and bad grades, they don’t box. If they get in at the advancing McCarl. But then, as if by size (65-190 pounds) all received general trouble at school, they don’t box. “Boxing a switch, Woslager ignited. He assaulted checkups from an on-site physician (who requires hard work, and it’s not always McCarl with three- and four-punch comsaid he rarely sees injuries during fights) fun,” he says. “But it teaches kids about binations, the connecting swings creating a concussive thud. Each of Woslager’s adand competed in bouts that resembled commitment, and shows them results.”

Woslager is Caferro’s best boxer. vances seemed honed, and after the various versions of what the casual fan Woslager says he and his two brothers punches were landed he retreated before may or may not recognize as boxing.

Nine-year-old Richard Hoops, who were raised by their mom, who encour- McCarl could return volley. By the end of competes at 90 pounds for Fort Belknap’s aged them to participate in sports. “My the three rounds both of the boys were Nakota Fighting Club, came to the tour- mom always wanted me to have some panting frantically, but the look in nament with a 2-1 record. Like most kids male role models,” he says. “[Coach Ca- Woslager’s eyes was cool and unaffected.

As the crowd waited for the judges’ his age, Hoops is shy around strangers, ferro] has been like a father figure to me decision, the referee beckoned the fightand before his bout he gave a lackluster for the past eight years.”

Besides loving competition, he says ers to the center of the ring and held each interview. But as soon as the opening bell rang, Hoops lowered his head, closed his boxing has taught him lessons that, even of them by the wrist. Woslager stared at eyes and charged in a fit of churning fists. as a freshman in high school, he appreci- his feet as he waited for the result.

He’s now 42-38 and has a month to For three one-minute rounds, Hoops ad- ates. “When I first got in the ring when I vanced on his back-pedaling opponent, was 8, I won my first four bouts. Just really train before heading to Casper. never letting up, never slowing the wind- beat up kids. But then I lost a couple in a mill of his arms. His capacity for technique row,” he says. “You have bad days in this jrogers@missoulanews.com

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Protecting home Legislature passes on changing tax-deed process

by Jessica Mayrer

In January 2012, when she sought ad- which was valued at $264,700. MTAG purChristina Campbell spent a recent evening sitting in her attorney’s office, vice from Missoula attorney Doug Austin, chased the tax lien for $5,822.09.

Museus was an elderly recluse who weeping. She talks about struggling to Campbell began to understand the serimake the mortgage on her Seventh Street ousness of her situation. The attorney didn’t open her mail or answer her door, home while also trying to pay the doctors’ agreed that Montana Land Project’s legal says Missoula City Councilman Jon Wilkins, bills that began to mount after her hus- notices were confusing. In October 2011, who lived near Museus and expressed outband’s 2002 heart attack. Her husband has for instance, the company notified the rage in the wake of her eviction.

In 2011, Wilkins and another neighbeen unable to work since then, she says, Campbells that they could pay off the debt and her financial problems only got worse and keep their house until Dec. 19, 2011, bor, Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent, when she lost her job at a local grocery or, as Austin points out in a legal filing, “on vowed to call upon the Montana Legislastore in 2011 after 20 years of employment. or prior to the date on which the County ture to craft a new legal provision that “Along with losing my job, I lost our Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed.” would better protect people like Museus, Austin notes that the county hadn’t who might not understand the tax-deed insurance,” she says.

In 2007, Campbell and her husband officially assigned the deed to Montana process and its implications.

At the request of Wilkins and Nugent, fell behind on their property tax payments. Land Project when, at Austin’s urging, Missoula Democratic Rep. In 2009, the delinquency enEllie Hill last week introabled a Great Falls-based duced House Bill 526, company called Montana which would have required Land Project to purchase the that county law enforceoutstanding tax debt, which ment personally deliver then totaled $4,772.87, final tax-deed notices and through what’s known as a report back with a written “tax-deed process.” This summary of observations legal maneuver allows a noted during the visit, inthird-party investor to purcluding “the owner-occuchase outstanding property pant’s apparent alertness tax debt and take possession and ability to understand of a home. the ramifications of the Investors find such final notice.” transactions attractive beCampbell says that such Photo by Cathrine L. Walters cause they reap 10 percent interest annually, says Mis- City Councilman Jon Wilkins is a major supporter of increased a visit might have impressed upon her the severity of her soula County Delinquent notification requirements for the state’s tax-deed process. predicament. “There may Tax Clerk Annie Cathey. If homeowners don’t pay off a tax lien Campbell on Jan. 17 drained her retire- have been other things that I could have within 36 months, investors assume the ment account to pay the tax bill, which by done, but I didn’t understand these nodeed and, potentially, yield an even larger then totaled $12,711.89, including inter- tices,” she says.

During a hearing on HB 526 last est and penalties. return.

The Campbells hoped they could still week, Montana League of Cities and The process motivates people to pay their taxes and therefore serves as an im- keep their home, but Montana Land Proj- Towns Executive Director Alec Hansen portant enforcement tool. But the eco- ect said they missed the Dec. 19 cutoff. said that all 126 members of the league nomic decline that first hit the Missoula Missoula County Deputy Attorney Dori voted unanimously in favor of the inarea in 2007, combined with the lure of a Brownlow agrees, telling the Independent creased notification requirements.

Montana County Treasurers Associapredictable investment for companies like that the company has followed all legally tion lobbyist Ronda Wiggers, however, Montana Land Project, is causing more mandated notification requirements.

At an impasse, the Campbells in De- highlighted the fact that state law already and more local residents to lose their cember 2012 filed a lawsuit against Mon- requires individuals in jeopardy of losing homes to profit-minded investors.

In 2010, the Missoula County Trea- tana Land Project and Missoula County. their property be contacted multiple surer’s Office issued three tax deeds to They argue that because the notices were times during the three-year redemption outside investors. In 2012, 12 such deeds unclear, the Campbells should be allowed period. She also said the legislation would place a costly burden on law enforcement were issued, including the one attached to keep their home.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of and county treasurers to perform duties to the Campbells’ home.

Campbell, 58, is scared because the two other high-profile local tax-deed fore- that they’re not necessarily equipped for.

The legislation died in committee, Montana Land Project is foreclosing on closures. On March 9, 2012, John Jeffery her house, which is valued at $197,000. Parsons, 56, blew himself up in the leaving Wilkins to regroup.

As for Campbell, she’ll press on with She knew she was delinquent on her tax Kalispell home he was losing to the Monpayments, but says the notifications she tana Land Project through the tax-deed her lawsuit. She doesn’t see any other option. If she’s forced out of her home, she received from Montana Land Project were process.

In 2011, Virginia-based Mooring Tax says she doesn’t know where she and her confusing. She didn’t understand that she was in imminent jeopardy of being fore- Asset Group evicted longtime Missoula husband will go. closed upon. “I didn’t understand all of resident Betty Museus from her Park Street house. Museus had paid off the home, the legal wording,” she says. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Great divide The shrinking difference between Republicans, Democrats

by Dan Brooks

Feb. 28 was the transmittal deadline in the Montana Legislature, when any bill not related to spending or revenue had to make it through its first chamber vote or die. The deadline marked the official end of the fun season in Montana politics, when a lot of ideas notable for their audacity—including the “Sheriffs First” bill, which would have required federal agents to get permission from local sheriffs before enforcing U.S. law inside the state— foundered on the shoals of what a 90-day legislative session might actually do.

Gov. Steve Bullock’s $400 property tax rebate for homeowners seems to be among the wreckage. Although the bill is not subject to the transmittal deadline, House Republicans voted down Minority Leader Chuck Hunter’s so-called blast motion to move it from committee to floor debate. For all practical purposes, the governor’s campaign promise is dead.

But the Montana GOP never closes a door without opening a window. The day after it killed Hunter’s bill to enact Bullock’s rebate, the House passed HB 230 along party lines. HB 230 would cut Montana’s property tax levy in half, reducing general fund revenues by $52 million next year and a couple million more each year after that.

House Republicans say HB 230 will fairly benefit all the state’s property owners, large and small. Democrats say it will be a windfall for large corporations that saves the average homeowner only $44 per year. Both statements live in that political sweet spot between misleading and true, and both offer a distinction without much difference, as Rep. Scott Reichner, R-Bigfork, inadvertently demonstrated.

“I think you can see here, folks, that this is the great divide between the parties,” Reichner told the Great Falls Tribune. “Do we believe it is the government’s money that we need to keep here, or do we believe it is the taxpayers’ money that we need to give back to them?”

It was kind of a confusing remark, given the context. Which proposal would

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give the taxpayers’ money back, again? Was it the property tax rebate that Democrats supported, or was it the property tax cut that Republicans supported? And how, exactly, did the death of one and birth of the other show us the great divide between the parties? It seems to me that the collapse of the Bullock plan and the rise of HB 230 is a testament to the parties’ irritating similarity.

House Republicans blocked the $400 rebate because its passage would have

“In their insistence on beating the hell out of each other, Democrats and Republicans have advanced competing versions of the same idea and voted against them along party lines.” been a win for a Democratic governor. By sitting on it in committee, they kept Bullock from making good on his campaign promise—a move that, according to conventional wisdom, constitutes a win for the Montana GOP. The conventional wisdom is dumb. If you accept the idea that the rebate was a crucial promise in the Bullock campaign, you also have to accept that a majority of voters liked it. He did win the election, after all. A party interested in winning

votes might hesitate to strike down a proposal that a lot of voters like, but the Montana GOP could not resist its instinctive urge to thwart the other team.

One day later, House Democrats voted against a bill that comes remarkably close to duplicating one of their top legislative priorities. There are legitimate objections to HB 230 as an alternative to the $400 rebate, not the least of which are its longterm cost and top-heavy distribution. In a Republican legislature, however, it may be as close to Bullock’s refund as Democrats are going to get. More importantly, the rebate issue constitutes a rare opportunity for consensus in a bitterly divided House.

Yet the parties have agreed to disagree. In their insistence on beating the hell out of each other, Democrats and Republicans have advanced competing versions of the same idea and voted against them along party lines.

As a man whose assets remain tied up in old Mojo Nixon CDs, I do not much care whether the legislature cuts property taxes or refunds them. I suppose I would rather see homeowners get $400 all at once than landowners get maybe millions over the next decade, but we cannot have all things that please us. In the great divide between giving taxpayers’ money back now and not taking it from them later, I would mostly like to see someone start work on a bridge.

Chances are 2013 will not be the year when we see one of Montana’s political parties finally vanquished. There’s a reason they call it state politics and not state compromise, but as of this writing our elected representatives have only 45 days left in which to govern. They should take their opportunities for ideological overlap where they can get them. Lawmaking season will be over soon, and then everybody can get back to settling this Republican/Democrat thing once and for all.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and lying at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Slow your roll Mountain biking bandits must work with federal agencies

by Wayne Hare

I love mountain biking. And the trails I ride in western Colorado are as good as anyplace you can boast about. But it’s no secret that throughout much of the West, many of the mountain bike trails used today were created illegally, only later “grandfathered” grudgingly into our public land system by whatever federal agency had been “managing” the land. As a matter of fact, that’s still the pattern.

I have to confess that I’m grateful to those early outlaws, some of whom I’ve gotten to meet in my area around the city of Grand Junction. The way they see it, “bandit” trail-builders wanted somewhere to ride and just doing it themselves was the quickest way to make it happen. As an about-to-be retired public land ranger, I’m well aware that it can take a frustratingly long time to get the Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service to respond to the public. It can take decades for a federal agency to work through its planning process and build trails in areas that would tolerate riders well.

But having admitted that, I have a message for the mountain biking community here in Colorado and elsewhere, and it’s short and sweet: Enough already! Over 200 miles of legal mountain bike trails now exist on lands managed by the Grand Junction BLM, for instance, and many were constructed in the last three or four years. More are coming aboard all the time. These are excellent trails that have begun to lure bikers—and their wallets— from around the country. It’s true that millions of acres of nearby open public land seem to beckon to riders, but while it’s unlikely for a rider to get caught striking out across public lands, creating new trails is not only wrong, it’s just plain stupid and irritating.

Here’s why. First, it perpetuates an obnoxious philosophy that can be

summed up as, “This is public land; I can do whatever I want on it.” Yet I don’t know of one mountain biker who doesn’t turn up his or her nose at illegal dumping, the illegal taking of game or driving ATVs all over the sacred landscape. Many mountain bikers are even righteous about how destructive motorized users are. But how is creating bike tracks and trails all over the place for one’s personal benefit

“How is creating bike tracks and trails all over the place for one’s personal benefit somehow different behavior from what these other slobs do?” somehow different behavior from what these other slobs do?

Second, we ride where we do because we love passing through beautiful landscapes—and then we defile them with casually carved-out trails. Some mountain bikers may think that a plethora of crisscrossing trails is beautiful; most probably would admit that it’s an eyesore.

Third, solid reasons exist for allowing our land management agencies to plan and construct new trails. The West is rife with

Native American cultural sites that need to be preserved. Part of the federal planning process is to survey and identify cultural sites so that a proposed trail can go around, rather than blasting through. Our region is home to many rare plant species that also have to be surveyed and identified so that, again, the trail can be routed around and away from them. If mountain bikers are so environmentally concerned—which seems to be something we’re happy to proclaim— shouldn’t we care about where we ride? In addition, we are always sharing our trails with wildlife, and while most of us would probably agree that the potential impacts to wildlife from proposed highways, drill sites or hydro-electric dams should be considered and addressed, isn’t that also the case with mountain bike trails? Hypocrisy is such an unattractive trait.

Finally, proper trail construction is important. A badly constructed trail becomes nothing more than a useless, destructive, un-bikeable hazard.

I think that these days federal agencies have become more responsive and more reasonable to work with, though, of course, this is not true everywhere. But just as the off-highway vehicle community came together to protect the values of what they enjoyed, as well as to keep open areas open to them, the mountain biking community can and should do the same.

So here’s my advice to today’s bandits: Come in from the cold and make federal agencies your allies. It’s for the good of the land and riders everywhere.

Wayne Hare is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a grumpy, soon-to-be-retired ranger with the BLM and lives in Grand Junction, Colo. The opinions he expresses are often not shared by the BLM.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – A woman was kneeling in prayer on the kitchen floor of her Seattle home when she felt someone grab her hair from behind. She later told police she thought it was her husband playing a joke on her, but when she turned around, she saw an unknown man. According to the police report, she yelled out, “Lord help me,” whereupon the intruder fell back, hitting his head on the refrigerator. The man then stumbled out of the house, taking only a $20 bill that had been sitting on the table, and drove off in a white Cadillac. (Seattle’s KOMO-TV) A woman told police in Des Moines, Iowa, that she returned home one morning to find a strange vehicle in her driveway. She parked behind it and saw a man walk out of her front door. He told her two other men had broken in and that he was driving by, saw them and stopped to investigate. When the homeowner started to call the police, however, the man grabbed a crowbar, smashed the window of her car, put it in neutral and rammed it with his pickup truck to push it into the street so he could drive off.

Police officers spotted him and gave chase. After he crashed into a utility pole, he fled on foot but didn’t get far, according to police, who reported, “He would have been able to run faster if he wasn’t wearing snow pants.” Officers arrested Martin Thicklen, 49, on multiple charges. (Des Moines Register) IRONY ILLUSTRATED – University of Louisville police accused Terry J. Davis of shoplifting after surveillance video cameras showed him stealing a textbook and then trying to sell it back to the university bookstore. The book was titled “Resolving Ethical Issues.” (Louisville’s The Courier Journal) Days after the CQ Press City Crime Rankings rated Sugar Land the second-safest city in Texas, two teenagers burglarized the home of Police Chief Doug Brinkley, 48. After Conner Hinton and Taylor Nuttal, both 17, were arrested and confessed to the break-in, Brinkley said he’s looking into camera surveillance and a safe for his home, noting, “You never know what could happen.” (The Huffington Post) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – A month after a Texas school district voted to allow school employees to carry firearms on campus, a maintenance worker was receiving one-on-one training from a concealed handgun license instructor when a mechanical malfunction caused his weapon to fire.

The bullet ricocheted, striking the employee of the Van Independent School District in his left leg.

The victim was hospitalized in fair condition. (NBC News) A California judge said a Los Angeles police officer, who was paralyzed from the waist down when his 3-year-old son shot him with his service pistol, may proceed with his lawsuit against gun manufacturer Glock. Enrique Chavez claims that the Glock 21 lacked adequate safeguards against an accidental discharge. Collin Chavez found his father’s loaded weapon beneath the front seat of the officer’s pickup truck and shot him in the back. (San Francisco Chronicle) Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry Goodin said a 3-year-old boy found his father’s loaded handgun at a home the man was remodeling in Salem and accidentally but fatally shot the 33-year-old man. (Associated Press) SHOULD’VE QUIT WHILE THEY WERE BEHIND – When their children bought them a home in Toronto for $718,000, Shih and Yang Tseng tore down an existing rotting wooden addition and hired a contractor to build a new brick addition for $80,000. They failed to get a permit, however, and their addition was larger than allowed by today’s code. When notified by authorities, the couple embarked on a six-year legal battle that included appeals to the courts, the Ontario Municipal Board and even the United Nations. By last spring, they had spent more than $200,000 on lawyers and other professionals to save the addition. In addition, distressed members of 70-year-old Yang’s family committed suicide, according to lawyer Clayton Ruby, who argued that proceeding against the Tsengs amounts to discrimination against the disabled. Despite their protests and appeals, a committee-of-adjustment panel told the Tsengs they had 30 days to demolish the two-story addition. “This is not a human rights issue,” Councilor Adam Vaughn pointed out. “It’s a planning issue.” (Toronto Star) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – After a snowstorm, authorities in Rexburg, Idaho, said Jonathon Cliff, 31, parked his vehicle on the sidewalk. When a man trying to clear the sidewalk with a snow blower blew some snow on Cliff’s vehicle, Cliff reportedly attacked him with an ice scraper, hitting him in the head and groin. (Idaho Falls’s East Idaho News) BREAKING THE FAITH – Raymond Dolin, 39, reported that he was shot in the arm outside Glasgow, Mont., while hitchhiking across America to write a book abut the kindness of people he met along the way. Authorities launched a manhunt and arrested a 52-year-old Washington man, who they said was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. When deputies couldn’t find a gun in the suspect’s pickup, however, they returned to the scene and found a Derringer pistol in a nearby field.

They traced the weapon and discovered that Dolin had bought it in his home state of West Virginia just days before the shooting. Suspecting he shot himself to promote his book, Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier confronted Dolin, who confessed to making up the story. (The Billings Gazette and Associated Press) CADDY SLACK – While competing in the British Senior Open in Turnberry, Scotland, pro golfer Pete Oakley, 63, was assessed a two-stroke penalty because he lost his wife in the rough. Jennifer Oakley, who is his caddy, had wandered over to the wrong hole and left him without his clubs. Oakley, who won the Senior Open in 2004, sent her down the 13th fairway to ball-spot while he teed off. But when he got to his ball, in a bunker, she was nowhere to be seen. She had mistaken a ball landing in the rough for her husband’s when it was actually from another group back on the 10th tee. When a rules official informed her that she was looking for the wrong ball, she rushed back to her husband but by then had wasted too much time to escape a penalty for undue delay. (Scotland’s Daily Record) MISSING THE POINT – After Rodney Dwayne Valentine, 37, was released from the Rockingham County, N.C., jail, he refused to leave. Deputies charged him with trespassing and re-arrested him.

(Greensboro’s The News & Record)

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Cookie-cutter legislation How a corporate bill mill plays into Montana politics–and why you should care

by Alex Sakariassen • photos by Cathrine L. Walters

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n Feb. 11, House Bill 315 came to the floor of the Montana House of Representatives. The measure sought to legalize the establishment of public charter schools in the state, and as added incentive for lawmakers, proponents pointed out that Montana is one of only eight states in the country that has yet to pass such legislation. What followed was a heated debate over the bill’s exemption of charter schools from state regulation and the glaring lack of technical qualifications required of charter school teachers.

In the middle of that discussion, HB 315 sponsor Rep. Austin Knudsen, a Republican from Culbertson, inserted a rather random defense. “In the committee hearing it was suggested that this is an ALEC bill,” Knudsen said. “It’s not. It actually comes from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools.”

The source of the proposal itself may seem insignificant compared to the impassioned arguments on both sides of the charter school issue. But Knudsen’s notso-subtle attempt to distance his legislation from ALEC—the nonprofit American Legislative Exchange Council—speaks to a bigger story at play in statehouses

across the nation. ALEC touts itself as a “nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector and the general public.”

Critics question the third branch of that “partnership,” alleging ALEC is little more than a corporate “bill mill.”

Hundreds of bills introduced by legislators in dozens of states over the years have all had one obsequious tie: They originated with ALEC. More specifically, they originated from the collaboration of lawmakers and corporate representatives brought together by ALEC for the purpose of drafting model legislation.

Knudsen put distance between HB 315 and ALEC for a good reason. The group has increasingly come under fire in recent years. Opponents of the charter school measure don’t just fear the bill would enable private for-profit corporations to fund unregulated educational institutions in Montana. They worry it marks yet another attempt by ALEC and its members to push a controversial national agenda in our state legislature.

The suspicion isn’t unfounded; a similar proposal, HB 603, was carried in the 2011 session by Rep. Mark Blasdel, the current House Speaker and a member of

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ALEC’s Education Task Force. Blasdel says he was asked to carry HB 603 by the Montana Family Foundation, whose partner organizations Alliance Defense Fund and the Family Research Council happen to have strong ties to ALEC. “If folks are just going to basically scissor and paste ideas that come from a national organization funded by the right-wing Koch brothers to do harm to established institutions in Montana like, in particular, public schools, we have a big concern,” says Eric Feaver, executive director of MEA-MFT. “That’s what’s going on here. The most evidence of this is the charter school stuff. These bills didn’t get written on a desk here in Montana by anybody.”

ALEC was founded in 1973 by a clutch of Republican politicians around the core principles of small government, individual liberty and the free market. Today, the national nonprofit has become the target of increased skepticism by watchdog groups and the media, who have successfully tied ALEC to notable corporate interests including Koch Industries, led by controversial billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. ALEC’s reach extends

far beyond matters of public education. Model bills address topics as diverse as gun control, tort reform, abortion, voting rights, immigration and environmental regulation—always from a conservative standpoint. And Montana has seen its fair share of ALEC legislation, peddled exclusively by lawmakers on the right.

“To some degree, I don’t know whether ALEC found them or they found ALEC,” Feaver says. “This is a chicken-and-egg thing. But certainly they work with each other, they feed off each other and they promote a common agenda nationwide. Maybe it gets amended here and there to look more like the locale in which the bill is introduced, but it’s clearly a national movement, it’s well-funded and it’s dangerous.”

ALEC’s broad agenda isn’t implemented at the federal level. It’s done state-by-state, capital-by-capital, legislator-by-legislator, and it’s passed off as grassroots policy with ALEC’s name rarely entering the conversation. Knudsen’s desire to distance HB 315 from ALEC shouldn’t surprise anyone. These days, any hint of ALEC’s fingerprints can bring proposed legislation a whole new level of scrutiny.

tend. A list of past scholarship donors and recipients recovered by ALEC Exposed reveals a few interesting facts from Montana alone. Between 2006 and 2007, NorthWestern Energy paid $15,000 toward scholarships for numerous ALEC-affiliated state legislators. Pfizer paid $1,000 in 2006, the same year Peabody Energy ponied up $2,500. Legislators who received travel scholarships between 2006 and 2008 include Rep. Krayton Kerns of Laurel ($1,548.45), Rep. Wendy Warburton of Helena ($1,765.24), Rep. David Howard of Park City ($744.13), Sen. Verdell Jackson of Kalispell ($2,969.20) and Sen. Jeff Essman of Billings ($1,005.47), who is currently the senate president.

CMD has amassed a treasure trove of documentation on ALEC activity over the past two years, some of it from whistleblowers, some from public records requests, even some by sheer accident. But there are glaring gaps in the information publicly available on what goes on behind the scenes at ALEC. According to the nonprofit’s tax filings, membership dues only accounted for $97,321 in ALEC revenue last year. By comparison, “contributions, gifts and grants” brought in $7,759,834, leading critics to speculate that ALEC is bankrolled largely by corporate interests—which, of course, would be able to deduct such contributions due to ALEC’s 501(c)3 status.

“Most of the public doesn’t have a clue that that’s going on,” says Ed Bender, executive director of the Helena-based Institute for Money in State Politics. ALEC first caught Bender’s attention about a decade ago, when the group was backing a nationwide effort to privatize prisons. The strength of ALEC’s agenda waxes and wanes, Bender says, but it has found new life in recent years around a host of divisive regulatory and civil issues. Bender feels the real danger posed by ALEC’s

Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore teamed with the Wisconsin-based watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy to produce a spoof on the iconic Schoolhouse Rock bit “I’m Just a Bill.” The cartoon spins the simplistic message of how laws get passed in the United States into a scathing critique of ALEC, as narrated by a slick-talking, limo-riding, cigar-smoking roll of cash. The takeaway is pretty obvious: There’s a new way of enacting policy in this country, and it has little to do with the average citizen.

ALEC essentially works like this: Legislators, corporations, nonprofits and trade groups pay dues up front for inclusion in the ALEC network. ALEC members are slotted into one of numerous issue-oriented task forces, each co-chaired by one legislator and one corporate representative. During annual conferences or task force meetings, these members review legislation from various states or pitch their own policy ideas. Model bills get approved with legislators and corporations voting Sen. Jeff Essman, R-Billings, is one of numerous Montana legislators tied to the American as equals, giving corporations a level of influence that Legislative Exchange Council. He received a $1,005.47 scholarship in 2007 to travel to ALEC mere lobbying doesn’t necessarily afford. events, according to records compiled by the Center for Media and Democracy.

In July 2011, the Center for Media and Democracy launched an online database of roughly 800 pieces of published a collaborative report with Defenders of revealed heavy financing of ALEC on the part of Koch model ALEC legislation. The group dubbed the project Wildlife titled “Corporate America’s Trojan Horse in the Industries. Other groups who have launched critical reALEC Exposed.

States: The Untold Story Behind the American Legisla- ports on ALEC include the American Association for Jus“Before the whistleblower contacted me with the tive Exchange Council.” In it, the environmental groups tice, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, People for bills, first of all, no one really had a sense of the breadth highlight growing concerns over the corporate ties that the American Way, Common Cause, ProPublica and and depth of that agenda,” says CMD Executive Director define ALEC. Citing thousands of pages of financial doc- Truthout.

Lisa Graves, who’s headed the ALEC Exposed project The criticism doesn’t surprise Reichner. But he uments and tax returns, the NRDC claimed “corporasince its inception. “There are certainly some people in tions and trade associations finance virtually all of downplays the corporate prominence at ALEC, equating the states, legislators and others, who’d seen ALEC ALEC’s activities.” At the time, the NRDC found one of it to little more than another example of the type of lobaround the state legislatures or heard mention of them ALEC’s biggest underwriters to be energy mogul Enron bying done on behalf of special interests at other quasior, back a couple decades ago, seen some of ALEC’s governmental conferences, political events public sourcebooks. But ALEC for the most and in Helena. Lobbying is a big part of conpart in recent years was trying to keep their fintemporary policymaking, he says. gerprints off of those bills in essence. So there “Corporate sponsorship is relevant in were a number of bills that had been moving any organization that’s out there. They have for many years—prison privatization bills…tort their lobbyists that are trying to push their bills, education bills—that were introduced and particular agenda, and whether it be at an that were ALEC bills but nobody realized were event or up here at the Capitol … lobbyists ALEC bills. When I looked at the model bills, I are a pretty common thing,” Reichner says. realized how extensive that influence was by “They’re paid to push whatever agenda ALEC.” they’re supposed to be pushing.”

But what really shocked Graves was a sepOne of the biggest questions raised by arate document outlining the internal operaALEC critics is whether the group’s own actions of ALEC, such as task force appointments. tions legally constitute lobbying activity. As a The document described exactly how ALEC nonprofit, ALEC hasn’t registered or disfostered an environment in which public and closed any lobbying expenditures with the Inprivate sector members had an equal voice and ternal Revenue Service. The most serious vote on legislation intended for later introducchallenges to ALEC’s credibility have come in tion in state capitals. the form of several complaints to the IRS. Last Some ALEC members are quick to wave year, a group of progressive church ministers off the mounting concerns nationwide. They from Ohio known as Clergy VOICE filed a commonly assert that ALEC is just another complaint against ALEC alleging improper think tank seeking to educate citizen legislators lobbying activity and failure to comply with on the basics of lawmaking and help them navpublic charity requirements. The Clergy igate a foreign system.

VOICE letter came on the heels of another “We’re not paid professional politicians,” IRS complaint against ALEC filed by Common says Rep. Scott Reichner, R-Big Fork, and the Cause challenging the legitimacy of ALEC’s ALEC chairman for the state of Montana. “As charitable status. ALEC has repeatedly citizen legislators, what [ALEC] does is help brushed off such claims, stating it plays no you …These conferences you go to are informative, they educate you on what’s topical Last year, the Center for Media and Democracy teamed up with a political cartoonist to produce “ALEC Rock,” role in lobbying state legislators on policy and in different states so you don’t have to contin- a spoof on the famous “I’m Just a Bill” bit from Schoolhouse Rock. In the spoof, ALEC is a slick-talking, limo- dismissing groups like Common Cause as nothing more than left-wing troublemakers. ually reinvent the wheel. Some of them edu- riding, cigar-smoking roll of cash. cate you on leadership, how to work across the aisle, how to work better in a citizen legislator format model legislation is that pretty much all of it benefits There was a lot of talk across the country in 2011 so you’re not fighting all the time as parties but finding the bottom line of for-profit corporations at significant Corp. The NRDC alleged that corporations, through ALEC, “mount a wide-ranging assault against laws safe- about a host of state-level initiatives aimed at challenging expense to the taxpayer. common ground.”

“They’re implementing a business plan, that’s all it guarding public health and the environment,” primarily the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory auThere’s more to it, though. ALEC typically hosts its thority over greenhouse gas emissions. Scores of Tea through model legislation. conferences at posh resorts across the country, and cor- is,” Bender says.

Additional information uncovered by Greenpeace Party activists used the issue as a sounding board for In 2002, the Natural Resource Defense Council porations actually fund scholarships for legislators to at-

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ALEC vs. Montana: A side-by-side comparison

isn’t necessarily a practice in recog- ing of a weapon in public places as a deterrent for physnizing plagiarism. Bills often go ical harm. While the language doesn’t match up with through extensive rewrite ALEC’s bill, part of Kerns’ proposal would still pass ALEC’s model bill language: “A state, county Rep. David Howard’s immigration bill, HB processes not just to cleanse them Graves’ sniff test as being ALEC-inspired. or local official shall not attempt to inde297: “When investigating whether a viola“The lawmakers will sometimes say, ‘I didn’t get it of ALEC’s fingerprints but to localpendently make a final determination on tion of subsection (1) has occurred, the deize their significance and tailor their from ALEC. It’s not an ALEC bill,’” Graves says. “What whether an alien is authorized to work in the partment shall request the federal language to the specific style of an we know is they didn’t wake up one morning and sudUnited States. An alien’s immigration status or government to verify, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. individual state legislature. What denly create a bill that magically had the same three prowork authorization status shall be verified with 1373(c), the employment authorization you have to look for, according to visions. We don’t know always who put what bill in the federal government pursuant to 8 United status of the alleged unauthorized alien reGraves, are the key provisions con- whose hands. Sometimes the bill goes to a senior lawStates Code section 1373(c).” ferred to in the complaint. The department tained in the ALEC model. A prime maker who gives it to a junior lawmaker to introduce may not attempt to independently make example is the widely criticized it. Sometimes the NRA lobbyist is there helping to get it a final determination of whether an alien is “stand your ground” law, which has in their hands, saying it’s part of the ALEC playbook.”

ALEC’s model bill language: States local authorized to work in the United States.”

Critics have tied ALEC to the rapid proliferation swept across the country since its officials “may not be prohibited or in any of “stand your ground” legislation nationwide. The initial introduction in Florida in way be restricted from sending, receiving 2005. The bill, contained in what group does, in fact, have a model bill similar to legisor maintaining information relating to the Howard’s companion bill, HB 50: Prohibits Graves calls the “ALEC playbook,” lation passed in Florida in 2005, and the National Rifle immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of local governments from adopting regulatakes the principles of the Castle Association has long been an ALEC member. But any individual or exchanging that informations barring local officials from “sending inDoctrine—the ability to use lethal ALEC’s support for “stand your ground” laws backfired tion with any other federal, state or local formation to or requesting or receiving force to defend one’s home from last April in the wake of the shooting death of Trayvon governmental entity for the following offiimmigration status information from federal an imminent threat—and applies Martin, a black teen in Florida. ALEC had already been cial purposes … Confirming the identity of officials or law enforcement officers,” “dethem to altercations in public set- called out for its push to disenfranchise voters through any person who is detained … If the pertermining whether a person is in complitings. In essence, it makes it easier legislation like the Voter ID Act, and the group’s sudson is an alien, determining whether the ance with the federal registration laws for people to shoot other people in den tumble into a Second Amendment debate dug the person is in compliance with the federal prescribed by Title II, Chapter 7 of the Imself-defense without facing legal hole deeper. registration laws prescribed by Title II, migration and Nationality Act,” or “confirmWidespread criticism and increased public awareretribution.

Chapter 7 of the Federal Immigration and ing the identity of a person who is detained There are three basic provi- ness—what Graves calls the “disinfectant of sunshine”— Nationality Act.” by law enforcement officials.” sions in ALEC’s “stand your prompted scores of corporate ALEC members to jump ground” model. The first estab- ship. Coca-Cola backed out, as did Procter & Gamble, lishes the right to use lethal force Kraft, McDonalds, Blue Cross Blue Shield and General their broader push to gut the EPA entirely. In Montana, ALEC’s anti-sanctuary policy model draws significant in self-defense outside a home. The second shifts the Motors. The Center for Media and Democracy estimates Sen. Jason Priest, R-Red Lodge, introduced a joint reso- inspiration from the controversial Arizona SB 1070, the burden of proof to the prosecution in shooting deaths that in the past year, 46 corporate members and four lution to prevent the EPA from regulating emissions in Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods where lethal force is claimed to have been justified. The nonprofits have cut their ties with ALEC. Montana and urge President Obama to conduct a na- Act signed into law in April 2010. The Arizona law third provision protects the shooter from civil retribuSo have 71 legislative members nationwide. Rep. tionwide analysis of the impacts of such regulations on prompted protests and boycotts by civil rights activists tion.

Mike Colona, a Democrat from Missouri, had this to say the economy.

Rep. Krayton Kerns led the charge to modify Mon- about his split from the group: “Their agenda is radical who saw the push to mandate local enforcement of fedThe Tea Party agenda largely overshadowed the eral immigration law as nothing short of racial profiling. tana’s Castle Doctrine back in 2009. Among the key and wrong for Missouri. I was a member and saw firstquestion of where these EPA challenges actually origi- Even the U.S. Department of Justice took issue, filing a changes he successfully sponsored was a provision to hand the sort of extreme legislation they push on state nated. The answer can be found on the ALEC Exposed legal challenge over the constitutionality of the measure. shift the burden of proof in self-defense cases to the legislators around the country.” Sen. Rick Jones, a Rewebsite under the title “Resolution in opposition to The examples in Montana pale in comparison to a prosecution, as well as a measure to allow the brandish- publican from Michigan, told the Detroit News shortly EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean legislative slip-up in Air Act,” a bill that, among other things, stresses the Florida a year back. In “economic burden to America.” The language isn’t ver- November 2011, Rebatim; Priest’s bill offers an extensive list of localized publican Rep. Rachel facts. But the proposal’s end-goal fits neatly within Burgin carried a resoALEC’s agenda, and ALEC isn’t always as simple as lution that called on copied-and-pasted phrases. the federal govern“There are a lot of ways in which they can deny how ment to reduce corpoit was transmitted to them, but we basically say, if it rate taxes. Burgin, as looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck,” well as the resolution’s says Lisa Graves with CMD. “If it miraculously has some drafters, failed to noof the same language or the same operative terms, we tice that the measure can certainly say it advances the ALEC agenda.” still contained ALEC’s Rep. David Howard, R-Park City, carried several mission statement pieces of immigration reform in the Montana Legislature when it was first introthis winter. Two in particular show flagrant signs of out- duced. One paragraph side influence. The first, HB 297, would make it explic- read “Whereas, it is the itly illegal for Montana businesses to knowingly employ mission of the Ameriunauthorized aliens. The second, HB 50, would prohibit can Legislative Exlocal governments from enacting “immigration sanctu- change Council to ary policies.” That phrase is eerily similar to the title of advance Jeffersonian a model bill from ALEC’s playbook. principles of free marBoth of Howard’s proposals, in fact, boast a signif- kets, limited governicant amount of interchangeable language with ALEC’s ment, federalism and “No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants Act.” HB 297 individual liberty...” mimics the ALEC model in making it a misdemeanor to Burgin quickly knowingly file a false or frivolous claim stating that an withdrew the resoluemployer has intentionally hired an unauthorized alien. tion, removed the In defining immigration status, HB 50 employs the ALEC reference and phrase “lawful or unlawful” status in place of “legal,” re-introduced it 24 the same word choice offered in ALEC’s model. (See hours later under a sidebar above.) new bill number.

Upon transmittal to the state Senate, HB 50 was Identifying ALECamended to replace “sanctuary policies” with “antico- affiliated legislation Watchdog groups tied ALEC to hundreds of state-level politicians, including more than two dozen past and present Montana representatives and three past and present Montana senators. operation policies.”

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Rep. Mark Blasdel, the current House speaker, introduced a bill in the 2011 Montana Legislature to establish charter schools in the state. Critics believe the bill originated with ALEC. Blasdel, who sits on ALEC’s Education Task Force, denies the allegation and says he’s an ALEC member “in name only.”

after terminating his membership that “although there’s nothing wrong with it, I thought [attending ALEC conferences] would be looked at by my constituents as a junket.”

None of Montana’s ALEC member legislators have publicly severed their ties to the group. On March 6, ALEC leaders in the Montana Legislature held a lunchtime recruitment meeting at the Capitol in Helena.

A flyer advertising the meeting listed the point of contact as Ron Devlin, a lobbyist for NorthWestern Energy.

Rep. Blasdel refers to himself as an ALEC member “in name only.” While he holds a position on the nonprofit’s Education Task Force, he says he’s attended only one conference during his four terms in office. Even then, he went simply because he was already in Washington, D.C., for a separate, bipartisan school reform convention.

“For me, it doesn’t mean much,” Blasdel says of his ALEC membership. “Obviously there’s been talk of model legislation, but the reality is no matter where the idea comes from, it still has to be vetted by the full legislative process. I don’t think you have an upper hand on any legislation, because you still have to work through the process and have it fit with Montana laws.”

Blasdel adds it’s imperative that legislators take advantage of all available resources in drafting policy to avoid “reinventing the wheel.” Not every idea is a good fit for Montana, Blasdel says. It’s a lawmaker’s job to listen to constituents, look at all legislative solutions and “analyze who are the winners and who are the losers.”

One of those winners, in Blasdel’s mind, is the charter school proposal. He originally introduced the bill in 2011. He would have carried the issue again this session as well, but says he felt his duties as the new House Speaker wouldn’t afford him enough time. Instead, he asked Knudsen to sponsor it. The bill needed serious revision the first time around, Blasdel says. Although critics connected a successful charter school bill in Georgia last year to the ALEC model—literally word for word in places—Blasdel denies the bill he orginally introduced has any ties to ALEC. But another education reform bill Blasdel carried at the request of the Montana Family Foundation in 2011 was, by all appearances, ripped straight from the ALEC library. The bill would have established a special needs scholarship program for non-public schools, effectively incentivizing enrollment of disabled students

in private schools and driving them away from the regulatory protections of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Similar pieces of legislation have cropped up in Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin, all of them bearing strong resemblance to an ALEC model bill.

ALEC Exposed has managed to confirm the membership of 25 past and present Montana representatives, as well as three sitting state senators and two past senators. There’s no easy way of knowing how many pieces of ALEC legislation have passed through the legislature over the years. But Rep. Reichner insists the process of drafting those model bills is perfectly public.

“Where do they come up with it? They come up with it from the different states,” Reichner says. “If a guy does

a great job on an area like Medicaid reform, they’re going to go talk to that legislator and find out what they did and then try to write some model legislation that works in other states. The work comp issue I did, they brought me in and said, ‘Would you please come and do a presentation on what you did in Montana.’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’”

Furthermore, Reichner doesn’t believe ALEC differs all that much from other national legislative organizations like the Council of State Governments and the National Conference of State Legislatures. Both host lavish conferences for state lawmakers, and both expose those lawmakers to the deep-pocketed influence of corporate lobbyists. Reichner says those groups play “a big role” in state government nationwide.

“It’s part of our education,” Reichner says. “ALEC just happens to be more conservative.”

The online news site Truthout published a four-part series last July centering on what it called “the other ALECs.” The stories focused on the infiltration of bipartisan trade associations by “stealth lobbyists” seeking to advance corporate agendas, and cited a “Nightline” piece from October 2010 about the schmoozing of state legislators at NCSL events. Nightline’s investigation uncovered a rash of lobbyist influence in the form of wild parties, lavish dinners and even a golf outing during which Alabama Rep. Artis J. McCampbell replied to a student journalist’s questions by pulling a golf club out of his bag and saying, “If you don’t want me to take this to you, then leave.”

True, Graves says, there’s a lot of lobbyist schmoozing orbiting such events. But after-hours wining and dining is a far cry from sitting around a table and voting on model legislation as equals.

“What’s different about ALEC is that during the day, these lobbyists are actually voting as equals behind closed doors with legislators on these bills,” Graves says.

“NCSL does not have a procedure by which corporate lobbyists have an equal vote in these task forces. They aren’t voting on bills. Whatever they may be doing in

the evenings as far as trying to schmooze and booze lawmakers ... they’re not actually granted ‘an equal voice and an equal vote,’ in the words of ALEC, to weigh in on the legislation. I think that’s a significant difference.”

Just the fact that the internal workings of ALEC were largely a mystery until watchdog groups began pushing in recent years seems to suggest the group has something to hide. The abrupt migration last year of corporate and legislative members away from ALEC—and, on a smaller scale, Rep. Knudsen’s denial that his charter school bill was based on an ALEC model—indicates a desire for distance from growing controversy.

“They only come up when there’s a high-profile case like that,” Bender says, referring to ALEC’s “stand your ground” controversy. “Otherwise, they are absolutely down in the weeds.”

Regardless of the stigma, ALEC continues to push these corporate-backed model bills with impunity. And ALEC will no doubt continue the practice as long as there are corporations forking over cash for a chance to influence state policy. The latest flurry of legislation from the ALEC playbook centers on disclosure of chemicals used in the fracking process, offering a broad exemption for any chemicals claimed as trade secrets.

ALEC has also been tied to the proliferation of rightto-work laws. Last year, Michigan became the 24th state to enact such legislation, which undermines labor unions by allowing non-union members to benefit from union representation without having to pay dues. The language in the Michigan bill contained numerous similarities to the ALEC model, as did a right to work measure introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature this year.

Just prior to Montana’s 2013 legislative session, Sen. Art Wittich, a Republican from Bozeman, requested a draft bill to “allow right to work” in Montana. The draft is still on hold. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

In 2011, a whistleblower handed the Center for Media and Democracy more than 800 model bills developed by ALEC over the past 30 years.

Several of the bills turned over to the CMD bear a striking resemblance to legislation introduced in Montana over the years.

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[arts]

First impression Remodeled Top Hat aims to become regional music destination

by Kate Whittle

T

he new Top Hat is, well, shiny. Soft lights gleam off polished wooden and metal surfaces in every corner of the now-spacious building.

At an open house held for musicians on Friday, March 8, select Missoulians got their first look at the venerable Front Street music venue and bar, which closed in November for renovations. As Portland band Redwood Son played two sets of roots-rock, dozens of musicians mingled and chatted, grabbing complimentary beer from an ice-filled tub as servers offered platters of tapas. Even the two bouncers smiled at people walking in.

“It kinda had that dive bar feeling before,” says Sean Burress, a member of Polson’s reggae-influenced band Off in the Woods. “Now I feel classier just being here.”

The revamped Top Hat is the project of Montana businessman Nick Checota, who bought it from Nicole Garr. She took over the bar after the death of her father, longtime owner Steve Garr, in 2009. Checota says he intends for the space to become one of the premier venues in the Northwest, and one of the top 40 venues in the nation.

While still very much recognizable as the Top Hat, it’s certainly new and improved: Gone is the dividing

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

wall that created a bottleneck at the front door, and the bathrooms are now in the rear hallway—two renovations that vastly opened up the room. Gone, too, are many of the hallmarks of a well-worn place for drinking and dancing, like the years of accumulated décor. Band graffiti has been painted over in the green room, which now sports leather couches.

Checota’s $700,000 renovation of the venue— technically two conjoined buildings, dating from the 1880s—included replacing the roofs and reinforcing the structural integrity. He’s especially proud of the work to improve the acoustics. Previously, the dividing wall in the middle of the room would echo sound back, making live music tinny and warped, he says.

New sound-absorbent material on the ceiling and more open space makes for consistent acoustics and a better experience for the musicians on stage, he says.

Crowd capacity is now at nearly 600 people.

“There’s no other room in town, of our size, that really has the level of quality sound we have,” Checota says.

The building still smells slightly of fresh paint, but several shows and a grand opening event are already booked. Checota says nearly 150 musicians at the open

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house filled out surveys saying they’d like to play the venue.

Returning patrons will find that the bar operations aren’t significantly different. Red Notaris, one of a few returning bartenders who waited out the renovations while getting by on odd jobs, was working the new second bar in the corner formerly occupied by the bathrooms. “We have 19 taps now,” he says. A pint of Pabst Blue Ribbon is still $3, and well drinks have been raised from $3 to $3.50, because Notaris says they’ll contain an extra half-ounce of liquor. The well whiskey is still Old Crow.

One of the biggest changes is in the basement, which formerly stored odds and ends and sometimes hosted art shows. Now, head chef Erin Crobar commands a bright, full kitchen with a staff of about 15.

Crobar says his goal is to create “strictly traditional Spanish tapas” from local suppliers, including a Hudderite colony.

New kitchen aside, Checota says he wants to keep the Top Hat’s focus on live music. He’s hired Trail 103.3 DJ Tracy Lopez as a full-time booker and promoter. He says the venue welcomes most genres, in particular country, which not many downtown venues

currently cater to. Checota wants to avoid electronic, though, saying he thinks there’s enough places for that already and he’s observed that electronic show crowds spend less money at the bar. “Frankly, I don’t do very well as a business with electronic,” he says.

“It’s our worst nights by a long shot.”

With the first beer yet to be spilled, the Top Hat doesn’t quite seem like a place to cut loose just now.

Checota says the renovations are meant to take the abuse that hosting concerts can bring, and that’s why he chose sturdy oak flooring and metal bar tops.

“I’m realistic. It’s a music venue. It’s going to get scratched up,” he says.

Aaron Johnson, who plays in several bands including Three Eared Dog and the Skurfs, spent a couple hours checking out upgrades at the open house. He says he’s excited to play a show in the slick new space. “In 30 years, everyone will remember this moment when it was new,” he says.

The Top Hat hosts a grand reopening, with Whitewater Ramble, Kitchen Dwellers and Lil’ Smokies, Fri., March 15, at 7 PM. Free. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

[music]

Womanly arts Missoula’s Needlecraft plays sweet, surfy rock Hearken back to any recent shows and it’s pretty evident that the Missoula scene lacks a gender balance. It could be described as a sausage fest. Luckily, Missoula’s lo-fi rock band Needlecraft has returned from its fivemonth hiatus, bringing some women to the stage with a vengeance. The 75-percent-female quartet took an updated member lineup to the recording studio and the result, a self-titled album from Wäntage, is catchy, punchy and worthy of more than a few shimmies.

Imagine this line over washed-out surf rock chords: “Now that I’m home, all the tacos are gone and I am alone.” Even better: “He’s doing something with his junk, gross!” Needlecraft is like your favorite observational comic: Lyrics come from the everyday and ordinary, and in just two minutes become an adventure of their own.

The riffs are simple, the drums stick to the same fast upbeat, but the background vocal harmonies really do the trick to keep the listener hooked.

While it could be easy to compare the band to Best Coast or Cults, there’s something about Needlecraft’s ca-

sualness that defies hype or headiness. Call me old-fashioned, but it sounds like something you’d only hear out of a basement show in Missoula. (Brooks Johnson) Needlecraft plays a record release show at the Ole Beck VFW with BFFs, Oll Breds, J. Sherri and Bad Naked on Sat., March 23, at 9 PM. $2.

Whitewater Ramble, Roots and Groove Nobody mixes disco beats and bluegrass strings as proficiently as Whitewater Ramble. Roots and Groove, the second album from the Colorado “dancegrass” outfit, is packed with the ingredients that have made the group a staple of the jam band scene for nearly a decade. From the frenetic fiddle jam in “Fast as Lightning” to the electric guitar twang, dobro moans and locomotive drum blasts of the 10-minute “Beyer’s Canyon,” Roots and Groove is a tasty platter of tunes with plenty of surprises for the uninitiated.

It’s not a perfect album; the production is so slick that it often ends up being a distraction. Sometimes it feels like

the studio tricks only serve as a diversion from mediocre lyrics, and certain touches, like the excessive delay on the vocals on “Guilty as Charged,” do little to actually bolster the songs. The ballad “Paradise” becomes a standout track largely due to its simplicity, as pleasant harmonies and lilting dobro melodies, courtesy of Infamous Stringdusters’ Andy Hall, offer a soothing break in the album’s glossy finish. This is a serious step up for a sophomore release, but these guys are still best experienced on the dance floor, not through the stereo. (Jed Nussbaum) Whitewater Ramble plays the Top Hat Fri., March 15, at 7 PM. Free.

Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, Badlandia Touring can be a rough life. You spend eight hours a day in a stinking van driving from Minneapolis to Gary, Ind., eating Lunchables at gas stations and bedding in a Days Inn after yelling for four hours through a crappy Shure mic over unstoppable monitor feedback. You don’t make much money, and after a few years some promising musicians give it up for health insurance, a “real” job and a family.

Jerry Joseph, however, isn’t a quitter. He’s part of a graying legion of dudes, including John Eddie and Alejandro Escovedo, who’ve managed to eke out a living by busting night after night of rock ’n’ roll to their cultish audiences in cramped venues across the

country. His repertoire sits on a solid foundation of three-chord rock, electric fuzz and no-BS lyrics. Guys like Joseph don’t have a lot of hits, but they don’t mess around with filler either. Listen to the rural heaviness of 2010’s Badlandia, recorded live in Virginia City, as a primer for a Jerry Joseph show. It’s a collection of straightforward, crunched-out workingman songs that succinctly represents the kind of sound Joseph conjures with his backing band, the Jackmormons. (Nate Hegyi) Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons and Three Eared Dog play Stage 112 on Thu., March 21, at 9 PM. $10/$8 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and online at stageonetwelve.com.

Off With Their Heads, Home You know the guy at the party you can always count on to crank up Alkaline Trio or Lawrence Arms? I’m fairly certain he’s the guy who helped produce Off With Their Head’s new album and scrubbed the dirt behind these punks’ ears.

Home has everything that was so great about From the Bottom, the Minneapolis band’s seminal 2008 album. Ryan Young’s melodic yelling, the driving power chords and simple structures are all intact.

With choruses like “I feel like this every night,” and reliable backing “whoa-oh-ohs,” the album could be a reliable party classic, if your parties regularly involve shirtless sweaty dudes with silly tattoos.

Yet the production has a polish that just doesn’t seem familiar—unless you spent plenty of your youth listening to Epitaph Records sampler CDs on repeat. Though Home is a fun and listenable album, it’s not exactly Off With Their Heads anymore.

Take the vague rip on the Catholic Church in “Altar Boy:” The anthemic opening and progressions rob the worthwhile message of the raw edge found on older tracks like “Terrorist Attack?”

The chords and lyrics on Home cut more like a butter knife, but it’s still worth taking your shirt off. (Brooks Johnson)

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[music]

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Total players. The Whizpops include, from left to right, Margi Cates, Cameron Wilson, Steve Kalling, Daniel Kiely, Casey Shaefer and Kevin Cashman.

Family fun The Whizpops are not just kidding around

by Chris La Tray

When Missoula elementary school teachers Casey Shaefer and Kevin Cashman got together in 2007 and decided that a fun and interesting way to educate might be to put their lessons to music, it was quickly apparent they’d struck paydirt.

“The reception that we got from kids in our classroom, just playing the songs live, the kids really seemed to latch onto the songs and the ideas,” says Shaefer, a singer and guitarist.

Shaefer and Cashman took their act to places like bookstores and the “Pea Green Boat” radio show on KUFM and heard more positive feedback. At the time, it was just the two of them singing and playing acoustic guitar, but they knew there could be “something more” to the arrangement. “We realized we needed to add more members to the band,” Shaefer says, “and people kind of filtered into our lives.”

Those people became the assorted members and “honorary” members of the revolving cast of local musicians comprising The Whizpops lineup. Depending on the venue and availability (most of the members share their talents among several other local bands), The Whizpops may crowd anywhere from three to 10 members onto a stage. And there have been many stages.

“Just in the last year alone we’ve played 40 venues,” Shaefer says. “We’ve been all over: playgrounds, cafeterias, pool halls, Symes Hot Springs, the governor’s inaugural ball, the library.”

The Whizpops are in increasingly high demand because they don’t dumb down in an often mindnumbing genre. This isn’t the kind of kids’ music one may remember from elementary school, like rounds of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” or other simple melodies repeated ad nauseum. This is a crew of legitimate musicians, and their enthusiasm for what they do is infectious.

Bassist Steve Kalling remembers that his reaction the first time he played with the band was realizing, “It isn’t kids’ music, it’s ‘real’ music.”

Drummer Daniel Kiely says he considers The Whizpops a family band, as opposed to a kids’ band.

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“We’re almost like a jam band singing educational content, with the lyrics for kids, but also playing music Mom and Dad can enjoy at the Top Hat too,” he says.

Shaefer says they can play any style, from jazz and bluegrass to rock and blues, “but the core message is there: education, humor.”

The Whizpops’ enthusiasm and musical chops are captured perfectly on the band’s second record, Science and Wonder. Shaefer says he and Cashman have been the principal songwriters, but the record includes songs from other band members, including singer Margi Cates and fiddle/mandolin player Cameron Wilson.

“The lyrics always come first and we build off of that ... and then the arrangements are completely a group effort,” Schaefer says. “We come up with a chord progression, then that chord progression kind of determines the style the song will be.”

Kalling says on the first record, The Adventures of Stretch McCoy, the band had been brought in to play songs that were already written. “On this one, songs just grew from ideas in rehearsals and even onstage. Songs changed shape playing them live, and that knocked the corners off,” he says.

The result? Ten tracks with subjects ranging from dinosaurs to allergies, penguins to rainforests, all backed with a richer accompaniment than their debut. The album is also perfectly packaged with the playful art of Missoula illustrator Josh Quick.

With the second record release set and a trip to Seattle booked over Memorial Day weekend, it’s entirely possible that The Whizpops may become more than just Montana’s favorite kids’ band. Soon they may be Mom and Dad’s, too.

The Whizpops play CD release shows featuring face painting and a photobooth on Fri, March 15, and Sat., March 16, at 7 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $5, pre-sale tickets only, available at Walking Stick Toys and the Children’s Museum. arts@missoulanews.com

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Serious stitches Erickson crafts a name with quilted paintings

by Kate Whittle

An ongoing debate in the hobby community who haven’t gotten as much.”

And yet art with even the whiff of feminist intenrages: Do hobbies like knitting, sewing and quilting count as “arts” or “crafts”? Take a walk around a tions has the power to offend. Erickson says she recounty fair craft hall exhibit sometime, and examine members a man who approached her at an art show the beautiful, elaborate pieces that someone, often in Billings about 20 years ago and asked her why she a woman, has spent hours designing and making “neglected the men” in her pieces. “And it just totally using mathematics and spatial skills.

The county fair is the only public showing most of that art will get. Is it because things like socks and blankets seem too common and practical to be beautiful, or because our society doesn’t place high value on things traditionally associated with women’s work in the home?

Nancy Erickson’s art has managed to transcend the issue. She’s made a name over the last 30-plus years for her signature “quilted paintings.” No one would mistake one of her vivid and technically masterful works—some priced as high as $6,000—for a bedspread.

Erickson started “sculpting with fabric,” as she calls it, as a University of Montana MFA student in the late 1960s. While she’s also painted on canvas throughout the years, it’s her fabric work that has garnered the most attention. Today, her pieces are in permanent collections in galleries throughout the world, including Missoula, New York City, Seattle and Japan.

Nancy Erickson’s “Together,” one of her “quilted paintings,” Erickson’s work, often popu- calls attention to the plight of endangered animals. lated by furry, friendly looking mammals, typically draws on serious themes. Her vi- shocked me,” she says. “I don’t bear any ill will tobrantly colored “Backyard Bliss” quilt, created in ward males at all, naturally—I’m married to one.”

World events and the environment continue to 1984 and currently on display at Montana Art and Framing along with many of her older works, plays inspire Erickson. Her more recent works depict enoff a Cold War theme. It shows a woman reclining dangered species. The 2012 “Leave No Lights Beon a lawn with a sprinkler next to capybaras and a hind” shows a polar bear family that’s moving south, cat, in what Erickson imagines to be a husked-out away from the Northern Lights, to escape climate change. Another series of quilts, on display at the world that’s recovering from nuclear war.

Not all of her meaning is so purposeful, though. University of Montana PAR/TV building, depicts each She admits she sometimes includes motifs because wolf from the Toklat pack in Alaska’s Denali National they were practical at the time. When asked about Park. Erickson was devastated by news stories that the female figure in “Backyard Bliss,” she responds, some Toklat wolves, including the alpha female, “Oh, she was our model in the figure drawing class.” were trapped and killed.

Over the years, Erickson’s work has clarified and Another quilt, showing a nighttime scene of acid rain falling on rabbits, is subdued in gray and black vel- narrowed in focus. Though her right hand appears vets, partly because, she explains, some of that fabric to be curled with arthritis, and she says it takes her longer to get things done around the house, she has was on sale.

Many of Erickson’s quilts and paintings look like no intention of slowing down as an artist. Whether teasing nods to traditional femininity, both in subject arts or crafts, the work of creating is never done.

Nancy Erickson’s work will be showcased at and medium. Though they could be seen as following tenets of eco-feminism, which explores the con- the University of Montana Dennison Theatre on nections between women and nature, Erickson says Fri., March 16, at 7:30 PM, during Odyssey of the that’s not a conscious effort on her part. She says she Stars: Fabric of Life. $30, tickets available at the cares more about promoting animal welfare than UM Arts box office. Some proceeds from art sales benefit the College of Visual and Performhow her art is labeled.

“I don’t know that it’s feminist art, but certainly ing Arts.

I’m a feminist,” she says. “I think humans have gotkwhittle@missoulanews.com ten a lot of press, and so I’m working with animals,

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the corn stalk.”

Nothing like home Oz prequel lacks original Wizard’s magic

by Nick Davis

The movie sequel is an agreeable species, beloved

by Hollywood producers for its easy marketability, by Hollywood screenwriters for its built-in story and characters, and by the movie-going public for the pleasure of engaging those familiar stories and characters along a wide timeline. The movie prequel, though possessed of those same qualities in varying degrees, is a bit of a different beast—creatively empowered, in a way sequels aren’t, by the freedom of a genesis narrative.

So it’s no wonder that anticipation reached fever pitch in the days preceding last weekend’s opening of Oz the Great and Powerful, in which noted director Sam Raimi and a pair of screenwriters—one a Pulitzerwinning playwright—were tasked with the formidable job of imagining the backstory to one of American cinema’s most iconic properties.

That anticipation was palpable in my own household, to such degree that for the first time in my reviewing career, I was accompanied on the job by both my wife and my 7-year-old son. Consequently, it also marked the first time I’ve seen a 3D movie since my own childhood. Though I’ll spare you most of the details of Bring Your Family to Work Day, reviewer-style, I’ll relay the goriest: My wife has elevated the art of theater sustenance to the point where she brings her own mix of melted butter and spices to slather over the gargantuan refillable tub of popcorn that accompanies her and the boy on their semi-regular movie excursions, and a fair bit of my notes were damaged in the greasy carnage of popcorn overindulgence.

No matter, though, as Oz is a movie that leaves a hell of an impression, for better and for worse. The better is mostly confined to the structure of the backstory itself; Raimi and his writers took great pains to establish a highly serviceable central theme—the dramatic tension between the desire to attain greatness and the achievement of attaining goodness—and to then subtly weave elements of that story into the foundation of the epic 1939 original.

Oscar “Oz” Diggs (James Franco) is a two-bit magician and careless lothario in a turn-of-the-20th-century traveling circus when his hot air balloon is transported, via cyclone, from Kansas to an Oz under siege by a wicked witch and her legion of vicious flying monkeys.

As in the 1939 film, Oz the Great and Powerful begins

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in sepia tone before transforming to startling color when the action moves to Oz—and, in a modern augmentation to the effect, the screen ratio also moves from 4:3 to full widescreen.

Channeling Wizard of Oz again, a number of characters from the Kansas scenes reappear in different, though parallel, roles later in the land of Oz, the most effective of which is the double turn played by teenage actress Joey King, first as a wheelchair-bound girl who unsuccessfully lobbies Diggs to cure her at the circus, and then as the voice of China Girl, a digitized porcelain sweetie who very nearly steals the show as a principal escort of Diggs’ transformation from shallow cad to genuine hero.

But it’s that transformation itself that most clearly defines the huge gap between the sublime original movie and this ultimately forgettable prequel. Franco is either flat-out miscast or horribly misdirected (or, most likely, a combination of the two) as Diggs never seems to be more than a self-interested asshole even when the script has anointed him a beacon of goodness. In fact, it’s a good thing the pivotal scene of that transformation is completely telegraphed, otherwise you’d never know it happened at all.

The miscasting continues with Mila Kunis as Theodora, a witch who makes a reverse transformation from good to evil and is convincing in neither incarnation—a real tragedy for the film, as the origin of how she becomes the Wicked Witch of the West is a dandy one.

So in spite of a solid narrative foundation, dynamic performances from Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams as the other witch sisters and a mind-bending array of 3D effects, Oz the Great and Powerful just doesn’t have the heart or the guts to match its brains.

That doesn’t mean we won’t be seeing more of the Oz franchise, though. With an opening U.S. box-office weekend of over $80 million and a worldwide haul that grossed three-quarters of the film’s $200 million price tag in three days, you can bet there will be a sequel to this prequel. A presequel? Whatever you call it, here’s hoping they get it right next time. arts@missoulanews.com

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SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Based on the novel by Matthew Quick, this is the story of a former teacher returning home to his wife and parents after a stint in a mental institution. Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. Rated R. Carmike 12.

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NOW PLAYING 21 AND OVER Perennial A-student Jeff Chang is drug out by his old pals to celebrate his 21st birthday. Seems like poor planning since his big medical school exam is the next morning. What could possibly go wrong? Will there be escapades? Innuendo?

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ARGO Based on a true story, crafty CIA dudes try to bust some Americans out of the not-so-hospitable country of Iran circa 1979. Ayatollah rock and roll-a! Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Rated R. Village 6.

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IDENTITY THIEF This is a revenge comedy gone awry and back and awry again, wherein a mild-mannered fella tries to recover his stolen ID from the woman (gasp!) who is ruining his credit score with lavish spending sprees. Perhaps we shall learn the true meaning of â&#x20AC;&#x153;identity.â&#x20AC;? Starring Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Showboat.

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A kitchen garden is as much an act of self-expression as a means of growing food. But not all of a garden’s expressiveness is intentional. In the same way that pets and their owners can grow to resemble one another, gardens can reflect their gardener’s personality, including how fastidious, lazy and greedy they are.

It would be a stretch to accuse me of being overly tidy, and the same can be said for my garden. But lazy and greedy? Guilty as charged. And when I allow these tendencies to play out in the garden, the target result is high output with minimal input to indulge both my great expectations and my, shall we say, hands-off approach. My garden isn’t the most organized patch of dirt on the block, but it’s the only garden I can grow.

And it does what I ask.

At the core of my low-effort, high-return gardening style is a practice I call throwing seeds at the garden. This technique is exactly what it sounds like: After preparing the soil and deciding what I’m going to plant in a given plot, I blanket the area with seeds cast by the handful. These seeds are not for my intended crops, but for a blanket of leafy plants to cover the space between them.

The seeds, usually a mixture of leafy greens and carrots, grow into an edible, living mulch. I look at it as a bonus crop, as it grows in space that isn’t normally planted. And it fills an important function in the garden as a ground cover.

I often toss seeds at the garden multiple times in a season. This year’s first tossing, just the other week, was a mix of curly and flat-leafed endive, tall and round radicchio, escarole, lettuce, cilantro, spinach, chard, basil and whatever else I could scrounge together in the old seed bag. I even threw in sunflowers, nasturtiums and beets. I simply dumped all my old seeds from last year’s garden in a bag, walked outside and tossed my seeds at the empty brown garden by the handful, like I was seeding grass.

The garden had been put to bed last winter with early season seed tossing in mind, so it was ready. I raked the ground before and after seeding, and then watered in the seeds really well. Already the ground is dusted with green confetti.

My garden is basically one big garlic patch, which works well for my practice. Garlic is a great crop to scatter seeds at for several reasons. Garlic plants grow vertically, both above and below ground, so there is no conflict with other leaves or roots. Garlic doesn’t need much tending in general, so you won’t be stepping much on your greens and carrots. Also, garlic likes mulch, and if I wasn’t using this edible living

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mulch I’d have to mulch it with something else, like straw. After the garlic is harvested in July, it’s off to the races for the scattered carrots and greens, which suddenly have the place to themselves.

Other crops that work well with edible mulch are similarly lanky, non-spreading plants like corn, onions, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, to name a few. Tomatoes, strawberries and other slowspreading plants can work as well. After all, tomatoes don’t really fill in until July. You can grow a lot of greenery in the space between in the meantime. You can also train tomatoes vertically to allow more salad space between plants.

Even if you don’t know what main crop you want to plant yet, you can start your garden as soon as the ground has thawed enough to be worked, by throwing seed mix at your blank garden now, and planting into it when the occasion arises. Say you’re at the farmers market and see some beautiful eggplant or pepper transplants to buy. You just take them home, clear a space in the salad and carrot patch, and pop them in. While the transplants are still small you may have to “weed” the neighboring mulch plants to make sure the new starts don’t get smothered by salad. By the same token, now would be a great time to place a seed order for some leaves and carrots.

It’s well-known that eating green leafy vegetables offers multiple health benefits. In addition to the dietary advantages of edible green mulch, it’s also a basic part of my zero-tolerance policy toward exposed earth. Any piece of ground that I can glimpse between plants is a place where sunlight is being wasted. Every wasted photon is a missed opportunity for edible plant growth, and actually does damage when it strikes the earth. Sun and wind both allow moisture to escape the ground, and wind can blow topsoil away.

My edible mulch discourages such damage by forming a thick green mat that captures the sunlight and shields the ground from the elements. It also tempers the daily extremes of hot and cold, and fosters an active bacterial presence in the soil, which can make a big difference in the garden’s yield.

And, any time you want to have a salad or a stir fry, tear into that green mulch. It will eagerly grow back, which means that unless you’re a total salad addict you can harvest as much as you like. When the garden has finally run its course come fall, make sure to dig up the carrots before the tops die in the frost.

After that, the carrots will still remain happy and delicious in the ground-if you can find them. Without the tops to flag them, you won't know where to dig.

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Educate your taste buds! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and glutenfree options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! (Happy Hour 3-6 PM Mon-Sat. 2 Empanadas for $7) 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. 9am-5pm Monday-Saturday. Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ GoodieVille Paxson Plaza by Southgate Mall 406-728-0010 www.goodieville.com Missoula’s only Gluten-Free Bakery and Restaurant offers a full line of savories and sweets. We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner including Pancakes, Pizza, American and Indian fare. We also have extensive vegetarian and vegan options. Open Wed-Sat 7am-9pm and Sun 7am2pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Missoula's Tailgate Headquarters! We carry all of the spirits & accessories to make your tailgate party a success! Largest selection of spirits in Montana, including locally made whiskey, vodka, gin, rum and wine.

We're located downtown with free customer parking. Grizzly Liquor was voted Missoula's #1 Liquor Store! Open M-F 96:30, Sat 9-6. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Thursday is Trivia Night! Prizes, food and drink specials! Starting at 7 pm.

Also,check our brand new wine menu! Considering a staycation? Check out our packages. Call for more details!

Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$

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Rocky Mountain Pickleback HAPPIEST HOUR ster bartenders have taken to offering gourmet versions with chasers like pickled nectarine juice. A Wall Street Journal article investigated some of the science behind this most classy of shots, explaining: “When compounds in the brine combine in the taste buds with some of those left by the whiskey, they create a pleasant umami flavor that isn’t present in either liquid alone.”

What it is: The pickleback is traditionally just whiskey and a pickle brine chaser. The Rocky Mountain version takes its inspiration from the tequila-lime-salt shot. It combines three excellent things: pickle juice, tequila and Sriracha (God among condiments). Try it.

Just trust me.

How to get pickled: Line up a shot each of tequila and pickle juice.

Smear a dab of Sriracha on the back of your hand.

As quickly as possible, knock back the tequila, then the pickle juice, then lick the Sriracha. The rapid hit of booze, brine and spice will leave your mouth tingling and refreshed. It’s a kick-start to your evening’s drinking, and a pick-me-up during the wee hours of a house party.

The cool kids are doing it, too: Picklebacks are trendy, believe it or not. Big-city hip-

Where to get it: Bars that serve food can likely create a version of this for you, but you’re best off making it at home. You Photo by Kate Whittle most likely already have at least two of the ingredients.

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

Cinemas, Live Music & Theater

56 Up

Quartet Nightly at 7 & 9 Sat matinee 1 & 3

www.thewilma.com

WOW!

Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner.

Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink.

Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ 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. $-$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ 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, MondayFriday 7-6. $

Times Run 3/15/13 - 3/22/13

(NR) Nightly at 7 & 9:30 Will NOT show Wed (3/20) Sat matinee 1 & 3:30

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

Beer & Wine AVAILABLE

131 S. Higgins Ave. Downtown Missoula 406-728-2521

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Missoula Senior Center St. Patty's Day Corned beef and Cabbage on Friday, March 15th - 11:30 -12:30 $3.00 if on the Nutrition program, over the age of 60 and a Missoula county resident and $6 for all ages under 60. The Starlighters Swing Band is performing from 7-9:30 on Saturday, the 16th. $8 admission. Refreshments provided.

For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Serving country French specialties, Montana elk, Berkshire Pork, and delicious seafood dishes.

Delectable salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$

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Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-214-2659 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. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis's Kitchen 531-5034 sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods.

Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis's Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula "Best Pizza" Winner's for 2008-2012.

Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12"crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right!

Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ 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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Cohen. Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St., Hamilton. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

The Joe Biden-approved outfit Malarkey performs for you people at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

Sociologist, pastor and motivator Tony Campolo explains how we can collaborate and create a better community when he speaks at the UC Ballroom. 6:30 PM. $10/students free.

Visit missoulainterfaithcollaborative.org.

March 14 – March 21, 2013

The lowdown on using native shrubbery and whatnot is on the talking menu at the MNHC Evening Lecture hosted by the Montana Native Plant Society with Bill Caras and Jennie Meinershagen. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7:30 PM. Free.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams. Just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Hallways thinking of you. Danish metal and rock outfit Volbeat plays the Wilma Theatre, Wed., March 20, at 8 PM, with Danko Jones and Spoken. $35 at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

THURSDAYMARCH14 View new exhibits by Erica Spitzer Rasmussen and Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, which feature textiles, mixed media and handmade paper garments. Lecture at 5:10 PM in UM Social Sciences Bldg. Rm. 356 and reception from 6:30–7:30 PM in the UM Gallery of Visual Arts. Free.

People who have Parkinson’s disease, as well as caregivers and professionals who work with the disease, can meet for the Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group the second Thursday of each month at the Montana First Credit Union, 3708 N. Reserve St.

Call Cindy Cone at 728-8283 or Ann Houston at 543-8939 for more info. Free.

It’s fundraiser night at the Higherground Brewing Co., 518 N. First St., Hamilton, where $1 of each pint helps the Corvallis Middle School Science Olympiad Team go to the national competition in Dayton, Ohio. All ages. Live music by David Boone starting at 6 PM. 50/50 drawing, bake sale and raffle items including signed basketballs from Griz and Lady Griz, a guided float/fishing trip and 673 lbs of locally raised beef. Wowzers, it all starts at 4 PM.

nightlife Nosh on a taste of the good life during the celebrity artist tour of Follow That Thread:

Fashion and Textiles from the MMAC Permanent Collection with Laura Alvarez, Associate Professor, UM School of Theatre & Dance.

UM PARTV Center, Paxson Gallery. 5:10–6 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Think you know DNA? Trust me, you do not; I don’t care if you listen to the Information Society or not. But you can learn more at the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club Meeting which discusses The Twelve Layers of DNA by Lee Carroll and E. Dubro-

Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive” when you hit the Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free.

Ugly Pony hitches a ride to the south side of town and makes music for two-steppers and Dutch Uncles at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. Free.

Burst your ear holes and bust an old time groove in your robot walkers at Archaic Revival, an evening of electronic music with local DJs Zafira, Mermaid, MT Chachi and Cadence at the Palace. 9 PM. Free. Also includes a 2-for-1 well drink special.

Wunderkind music makers and swell dudes Boys take over the VFW Thursdays this month for fun-filled evenings of tuneage, necking

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[calendar] and possibly soaking, with Copilot Eyedrops, Haunted Maze and Trick Shot Johnson. 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. $2.

SATURDAYMARCH16 John Adam Smith don’t give a toot about your rusted roots but he’ll sing you a sweet tune that makes the cat scratchers swoon at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

FRIDAYMARCH15 Free screening of Amit Goswami’s Quantum Activist. UM Continuing Education Conference Center, Todd Building. 7 PM. Never fear baristas, line cooks and bartenders, your liberal arts degree from Reed College can still be useful. Learn how at the Putting Liberal Arts to Work career conference for “writers, readers and thinkers.” The event’s keynote address is given by Timothy O’Leary, the UM alum who combined business with creative writing, co-founder and CEO of The R2C Group: the largest consumer-direct ad agency in the United States. There are also literary agents, the mayor and the totally awesome Kate Gadbow, a former UM Creative Writing program head and current Poverello Center board member. University Center, 3rd floor. 1–5 PM. Free.

nightlife Get back to the Hat, the Top Hat that is, because it’s time for the venerable venue’s grand reopening with Kitchen Dwellers, Lil’ Smokies and Whitewater Ramble. 134 W. Front St. 6 PM. Free. (See Arts.)

Speak the language of fashion and say stuff like “hot mess” and “cloying” at the 7th annual Project Selvedge fashion show. Contestants spend eight weeks battling for supremacy and only one can be called the victor. Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave. 6:30 PM. $1.

Hey there silly crack-a-doo hamburger faces, Montana’s self-styled silliest band, The Whizpops, invites you to celebrate the release of its second

Find some good goodies or some bad pants at the Green As Ireland flea market in the First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. 9 AM–3 PM. Free.

The Missoula Winter Market is a family-friendly market much like the Saturday markets, but indoors and during wintertime! Come and enjoy local crafts, artisans, food and entertainment every weekend at 10 AM. 2036 Mullan Rd. Visit missoulawintermarket.com.

Talk to the hands and dress for success. Dead Winter Carpenters perform Americana at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., Sat., March 16, at 9 PM. $7.

album Science and Wonder. Dust off your favorite costume (Boba Fett) and dancing shoes for the Whizpops Science and Wonder Dance Party. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 pm. $5, presale only, available at The Walking Stick Toy Store and The Children’s Museum. (See Arts.)

kids. Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 8:30 PM. $15/$10 students.

Visit griztix.com.

Get totally housed tonight with DJs Hotpantz, ir8prim8, Kris Moon and Mike Stolen at I’ll House You. Bar opens at 4 PM, show at 9 PM. $4 Stoli drink specials. Badlander.

Find out if Miss Thang from the library plans to accept your embrace when Russ Nasset & The Revelators play the Union Club for what has to be the night of your young life. 9 PM. Free.

The Country Boogie Boys shake that number wang and twang the gong like Jeff Hardy doing a moonsault at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Missoula pop rawk stars Secret Powers play with the Boxcutters and Freetown Turnaround. Palace. 9 PM. $5.

More events online: missoulanews.com

The ways of women in beauty parlors down south is explored in the Missoula Community Theatre production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

Chris Pierce and Shane Alexander come to town to perform tuneage for you and yours and the UM Entertainment Management

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Don’t pet these cats unless you’re looking for cat scratch fever when The Tomcats make the music sounds go at the Dark Horse Bar, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. Free.

Have a listen to some of Missoula’s possibly award-winning bands at the Top of the Mic Semi-Finals at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free.

The Copper Mountain Band is a band based on a plan and plan

based on a band. Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. Free.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406-721-2416 or just show up.

See and hear a rare operatic revival when The MET: Live in HD presents Francesca da Rimini, an opera set in Renaissance Italy which tells the story of star-crossed lovers of course.

Roxy Theater, 7891 S. Higgins Ave. 10 AM. $20/$18 seniors/$15 students.

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. Downtown Dance Collective Studio 113, 121 W. Main St. 11–11:45 AM. Donations accepted.

Never fear lovers of fresh, local vittles, the Heirloom Winter Market at the Missoula County Fairgrounds in the Floriculture Building offers you remedies of local produce, meat, baked goods, jam, honey and so much more. 11 AM–2 PM. If your fruit trees look like they belong in a Tim Burton film, scooch on over to MUD’s Tree Pruning Workshop with Mark Vander Meer.

[calendar] 629 Phillips St. 1–4 PM. $20/$10 members. Call 493-1556 or visit mudproject.org.

Jeff Siebrecht reads from his book Warp Plane at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., and he promises to not be too punny. 2 PM. Free.

The ways of women in beauty parlors down south are explored in the Missoula Community Theatre production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 2 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

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Contra Dance, which features Skippin’ a Groove playing tunes and Morna Leonard with the call. Union Hall, 208 E. Front St. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 members. Visit missoulafolk.org.

The Country Boogie Boys shake that number wang and twang the gong like Jeff Hardy doing a moonsault at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

The ways of women in beauty parlors down south is explored in the Missoula Community Theatre production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

Help the good eggs from the Montana A Cappella Society fund a trip to Ireland at the group’s Ireland or Bust Gala Dinner Auction, which features prime rib, a performance by the group, and Master of Ceremonies Mr. Mark Heyka. St Francis Parish Hall, 411 S. Fifth St. 5:30 PM. $30. Tickets available at Chapter One Bookstore or by calling 829-5880.

Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are like Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, saving rec centers one beat at at time. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2.

Celebrate and dance to the music of Joan Zen, who celebrate the tenth anniversary of the group’s first gig. Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Don’t pet these cats unless you’re looking for cat scratch fever when The Tomcats make the music sounds go at the Dark Horse Bar, 1805 Regent St. 9PM. Free.

Do that country dance, you all gentrified and well-thighed country dancers when the Bitterroot Dancers present the Mark Dubois Band down Hamilton way, 125 N. Second St. 7–11 PM. $5-$7.

The Hoff is in the house and The Hasslers are making the night time the right time when the group performs music tuneage at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free.

UM College of Visual and Performing Arts honors textile artist Nancy Erickson at its annual Odyssey of the Stars event. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $30/$15 students. Tickets available at the UMArts Box Office. (See Arts.)

Not to be confused with the Live Summer Plumbers, the Dead Winter Carpenters perform that Americana business for you all at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 9 PM. $7.

Boogie down like great-greatgreat Aunt Bessie did back in her day at the Missoula Folklore Society

Tom Catmull & The Clerics make the room spin but they ain’t no April Wine. Check ‘em at the Union Club.

9 PM. Free.

SUNDAYMARCH17 The Trees and Miller Creek make jammin’ tunes for you and April Sunshine to spin by at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 7 PM. Free.

The Missoula Winter Market is a family-friendly market much like the Saturday markets, but indoors and during wintertime! Come and enjoy local crafts, artisans, food and entertainment every weekend at 10 AM. 2036 Mullan Rd. Visit missoulawintermarket.com.

The Irish times go down at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., during St. Patty’s Day Shenanigans which boasts tunes by Aran Buzzas from 11 AM–1 PM, Celtic Dragon Bagpipers at 4 PM and The Hasslers from 5–7 PM. First 150 peeps receive a free shirt. Free.

Blarney me this, Blarney McMasterson, where does the Missoula St. Patrick’s Day Parade begin?

Don’t answer. Broadway and Higgins Ave. is the answer. Noon is the time.

Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their guitars, mandolins, harmonicas, fiddles, banjos, Dobros, or other acoustic instrument. Music includes old-time country, bluegrass, swing, cowboy, folk, old standards, etc.

Folks who want to play or just listen are encouraged to come. For more information, call John at 381-2483.

Free.

Footloose Montana hosts a Trapped Pet Release Workshop at the Bedford Building in Hamilton, 223 S. Second St. 2–4 PM. Free.

Call 274-7878.

Have a good time for a grand cause at the Missoula American Indian Business Leader’s fundraiser at the UC Theater. The group screens the film Howdy, MT and asks for a $3 donation so they may attend AIBL’s national conference. 2–5 PM. Support them youngster musicians at the Missoula Music Teachers Association presenting From the

Time to get your Sunday Fun Day on at the Sean Kelly’s St. Patrick’s Day Block Party, where music makers such as the Lil’ Smokies, The Hasslers, Coothill and the Celtic Dragon Pipe Band start partying and throwing out all the snakes at noon. 130 W. Pine St.

Studio to the Stage, a concert to benefit the MMTA Scholarship Fund. Music Recital Hall. 3 PM. $5 students/$1 adults.

Ice, ice baby, the Missoula Figure Skating club presents its Spring Skating Spectacular, which boasts group and single skater performances. Glacier Ice Rink at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. 3:45 PM. Free, but donations are delightful.

The ways of women are beauty parlors down south is explored in the Missoula Community Theatre production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 2 PM and 6:30 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

nightlife Corned beef and cabbage, I bet that you can manage to get you some of that at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner in the Corvallis United Methodist Church, Eastside Hwy. and Cemetery Rd. 5–7 PM. Freewill offering.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini

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The Montana Fiddlers don’t just putter around your garage and organize shop towels by color, they play music, too. Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 12:30 PM. Free.

The Martial Art of Harmony

New Beginning Class for Adults starts

The ways of women in beauty parlors down south are explored in the Missoula Community Theatre production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 2 PM and 6:30 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

Tuesday, March19, 5:30 pm 4-week class meets Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30 - 6:45 pm through April 11

549-8387 www.AikidoMissoula.com 208 8 E. Main • Conveniently located locate downtown on the 2nd floor of the historic Union Hall Building

2013 MANSFIELD CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Tuesday, March 19 Session 1, 8:00-9:15 PM (University Center North Ballroom) Paul Lauren, Introductory Remarks: “Ethics, Public Affairs, Human Rights & Health” Jack Mudd, “The Practical and Moral Challenges of Healthcare Reform: Quality, Efficiency, and Personal Responsibility”

Wednesday, March 20 Session 2, 10:00-11:30 AM (UC North Ballroom) James Morone, “Political Battles Over Health Care: Past, Present, and Future” Respondents: Avik Roy & Jeremy Johnson Moderator: Robert Saldin Session 3, 1:00-2:30 PM (UC North Ballroom) Avik Roy, “The Conservative Case for Universal Coverage”

Respondents: Tom Roberts & Mark Hall Moderator: Dane Scott Session 4, 3:00-4:30 PM (UC North Ballroom) Mark Hall, “Should the Young Subsidize the Old? The Affordable Care Act’s Communitarian Values” Respondents: Susan Kohler, Megan McArdle & Larry White Moderator: Anthony Johnstone

Session 5, 7:30-9:00 PM (UC Theater) Megan McArdle & James Morone, “21st Century Health Care: Balancing the Tension between Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities” Respondents: Mark Hall & Avik Roy Moderator: Ian Marquand Thursday, March 21 Session 6, 10:00-11:30 AM (UC North Ballroom)

Megan McArdle, “Overselling Obesity: Why Lean Cuisine Can’t Solve Our Health Care Cost Crisis” Respondents: James Morone, Heather Sauro Moderator: Mark Hanson Session 7, 1:00-2:30 PM (UC North Ballroom) Round Table, “The Future of Health Care in Montana: Medicaid Expansion in the Big Sky State” Panelists: Mike Dennison, Michael

Foster, Carl Graham, & Richard Opper Moderator: Anthony Johnstone Session 8, 3:00-4:30 PM (UC North Ballroom) Round Table, “The Future of Health Care in America” Panelists: Jeff Fee, Monica Lindeen, Megan McArdle, James Morone, Jack Mudd, & Avik Roy Moderator: Sally Mauk

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA PRESENTS THE 2013

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Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

Celebrate St. Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the very most traditional Irish way, by watching local hip hoppers including Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sassy, Big In Japan, Frodie, The Orators, Wormwood, LoyalT, Rude Meets Gatsby, Codependents, B MUNĂ&#x2030; and Tonsofun. 9 PM. Palace. $2/$7 for ages 18-20.

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Wall Street Journal London Bureau Chief Bruce Orwall gives a lecture called An Old-School Playbook for Journalismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Digital Crossroads in the UC Theater as part of the School of Journalismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture Series.

Hopefully, this playbook contains a bottle of Evan Williams in the bottom drawer of the desk and really great hats. 7 PM. Free.

Music makers, get your gig on by signing up to perform at the Missoula Farmers Market. Applications accepted through April 1. A $40 stipend is provided. For more information and an application, see the Market website missoulafarmersmarket.com.

The Rough Cut Science Seminar Series shows off the brainiacs of Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scientific community, with presentations on current research each week at 4 PM in the University Center Theater. Visit montanaioe.org/rough-cut-series for the schedule.

nightlife Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

YWCA Missoula and Filmmaker Kathy Witkowsky invite all to attend a viewing of the documentary short Cherylâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spin, which shows how one woman overcame abusive relationships by learning to ice skate at Glacier Ice Rink. A panel discussion follows the screening. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 6:45 PM. Free.

Cash for Junkers ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t no funkers, check â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em out and have some nicely cooked beef at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 PM. Free.

Open Mic with Joey Running Crane at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call him up and get yourself a slot at 229-0488.

You know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotta be a real party when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.

Make like my cat and run around meowing at the electronic evening of Random Music for Random Kitties, with DJs Milcrate Mechanic, Jaguar Sleepover, Lootcakes and Earthlink. Palace Bar opens at 4 PM, show at 9 PM. $5 pitchers of PBR. Free.

TUESDAYMARCH19 Let the boys be boys and slam dut-duh-duh at the City Wide Poetry Slam sponsored by UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oval and Big Skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aerie. All slammers are welcome (No slimers, please). Cash prizes. Elkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5. 6:30 PM. Grow on and make some veggies go, cuz the Victor Community Garden is now open to receive reservations for the 2013 summer.

The garden offers 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; by 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; plots and supplies compost, mulch, tools and watering. $26 for the year, includes rent of a port-a-potty. The garden is on Fifth Ave, just west of Victor. Contact Jill at 642-3601.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best.

All are invited. Noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

nightlife Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

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Kristi Neumann plays tunes while you nosh on Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest menu, not the menu itself, but the stuff on the menu, like sugar-sugar noms-noms. Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 PM. Free.

David Cole of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute talks about fixing up our wilderness area and repairing the damage done at his talk Restoring Wilderness. The Trail Head, 221 E. Front St. 7 PM. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek and Aimee Ryan during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the University Center Rm. 330. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM. Free.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go in there, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feed the fruitinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bears! Or listen to local experts talk problems and solutions for living with bears at the community meeting Bears and the Rattlesnake. Hosted by the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group.

MonTEC, 1121 E. Broadway. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM. Visit bearapple.org.

In Soviet Russia audience lectures you. Russia on the Oval is the topic of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Community Lecture Series at UM. This week UM School of Arts Professor H. Rafael Chacon gives a spiel called Hands Held High: Soviet Propaganda Art. 7 PM. $20 for the complete lecture series/$15 for UM Alumni Association dues-paying members/$10 for students. $5 per lecture at the door.

Visit grizalum.org.

Come to understand the land upon which you stand at the Community Reading Series, sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and UM FLAT called the Wild Mercy Reading Series, which features Katie LeBlanc & Terray Sylvester. UM FLAT house, 633 Fifth St. E. 7 PM. Free.

Drink from the cup of knowledge during the Socrates CafĂŠ at the Bitterroot Public Library West Meeting room in Hamilton. Questions are chosen, terms discussed and thoughts given. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM. Free.

[calendar] Besides having an awesome name, Harvey Locke is an awesome dude, one who is a a strategic conservation adviser for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. He gives a lecture called Large Landscape Conservation from Yellowstone to Yukon and Beyond: A Shared Vision for the 21st Century, as part of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems Distinguished Lecturer Series. UM Interdisciplinary Science Bldg. Rm. 110. 7 PM. Free.

What does a pente cost? No matter, the UM School of Theatre & Dance’s production of the political thriller Pentecost uncovers how art is more than just pretty picture and instead informs our ideologies and notions of self and nationality. 7:30 PM. $10-$20. Visit umtheatredance.org.

Find your dance and yourself at Turning the Wheel’s Tapestry class, which is a self-expression-filled improvisational dance bonanza. Headwaters Dance Company studio, 1042 Monroe St. 7:30-9 PM. $10.

Proceeds benefit Turning the Wheel’s school programs.

The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free. 18 plus.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia,

which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: In millions, what is the approximate number of pints of Guinness stout drank on St. Patrick’s Day? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

its March for Meals campaign. Folks like Mayor Engen, Judge Sam Warren, Sheriff Carl Ibsen, Police Chief Mark Muir, Dave Strohmaier, Jason Weiner, Caitlin Copple, Jon Wilkins and Dick Haines help deliver meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities in Missoula. To participate or donate visit missoulaagingservices.org.

(See Agenda.)

This blend is rich like a Colombian called Escobar: Stars Upon Thars, Chris Sand (the rappin’ cowboy) and Butter do it to it on the Top Hat stage, 134 W. Front St. 9 PM. $5.

Watercolor user Kendahl Jan Jubb is the speaker at the Art Associates of Missoula 3rd Wednesday Program at the MAM, 220 N. Pattee St. 10 AM. Free.

It’s none of your business tonight, when bluegrass folks Nuno Business plays the LIve and Local Night. Badlander. Bar opens at 4 PM, show at 10 PM. Free.

Hi business owners, have you ever wondered who these people are that spend money all summer, while wearing floppy hats and shirts tucked into shorts? Me too.

Learn who these folks are at the Destination Missoula Marketing Mixer. Comfort Inn, 1021 E. Broadway. 4–6 PM. RSVP at office@ destinationmissoula.org.

WEDNESDAYMARCH20 What does a pente cost? No matter, the UM School of Theatre & Dance’s production of the political thriller Pentecost uncovers the how art is more than just pretty picture and instead informs our ideologies and notions of self and nationality. 7:30 PM. $10-$20.

Visit umtheatredance.org.

Missoula Aging Services is putting public officials to work for two days at

rounds of trivia. Badlander. 6:30 PM. Free.

Hey, winter is here and TV ain’t exactly pumping out the good stuff these days, so get off your bum for a few and take Cathy Clark’s West Coast Swing Class at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave. 7 PM. $5.

The ways of women in beauty parlors down south is explored in the Missoula Community Theatre

production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

Fill up on Danish ebelskivers before you head to the Wilma Theatre to hear Danish metaleers Volbeat do that modern rawk thang, with Danko Jones and Spoken. 8 PM. $35. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

nightlife Ron Dunbar makes you hungry for more than music at his Top Hat dinner show, perhaps a bit of savory flesh, hmm? 134 W. Front St. 6–8 PM. Free.

Show the Man how big your gray matter can get at Super Trivia Freakout. Win a bar tab, shots, and other mystery prizes during the five

YOLO Swaggins. Frodie performs at the Zoo Town Hip Hop Alliance show at the Palace, 147 W. Broadway, along with a farmer’s grip of other artists including Lil’ Sassy, The Orators, Tonsofun and Wormwood, Sun., March 17, at 9 PM. $2/$5 surcharge for those 18-20.

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[calendar] It’s a night of hidden secrets and unsolved mysteries at Shadow Palace, where local DJs including Ayjay, Osiris and Web vs.

Puz.z pi play electronic all evening.

9 PM. Free.

Kraptastic Karaoke welcomes Black Eyed Peas fanatics to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Feel the R&B and bluespower way down them loins of yours when Zeppo MT and the Kevin Van Dort Blues Band (aka KVDBB) do the thing at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 9 PM. $5. (Pub trivia answer: 13 million pints.)

THURSDAYMARCH21 Grandma’s Little Darlings drop the bad kitties in the well in favor of good music-making at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6– 8 PM. Free.

nightlife Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms,

2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. January’s guests, Kathy and Brian Derry, lead a “kitchen conversation” about Advanced Care Planning: planning for our future and the future of our loved ones. Retired cardiologist Dr. Hal Braun and Aaron Derry, PA Hospitalist, facilitate. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

Captain Wilson Conspiracy doesn’t make falsehoods, just true enough of music at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Drink four Mountain Dews and huck yourself over a cliff before heading to the storytelling event Tell Us Something: Extremes. Stories are ten minutes long. Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 6 PM. Free.

Learn of the health impacts of coal when Dr. Alan H. Lockwood presents The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health.

The good doctor focuses on coal pollution’s effects on the respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems. Gallagher Business Bldg. Rm. 123. 7–8:30 PM. Free.

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What does a pente cost? No matter, the UM School of Theatre & Dance’s production of the political thriller Pentecost uncovers how art is more than just pretty picture and instead informs our ideologies and notions of self and nationality. 7:30 PM. $10-$20. Visit umtheatredance.org.

Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 PM. Free will offering.

More events online: missoulanews.com Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The ways of women in beauty parlors down south is explored in the Missoula Community Theatre production of Steel Magnolias. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $15-$21. Visit mctinc.org.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams. Just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it.

That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

The geiger counters will be off the charts at the electronic evening Radioactive with DJs Obson and Mo. Palace. 9 PM. Free.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people.

Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent).

Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Good time boys Mark Duboise and Crossroads perform country music for you to practice mating rituals by at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive” when you hit the Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street.

9 PM. Free.

Ride the pommel horse to Dr. Funkenstein’s grave cuz funketeers Shakewell are joined by Muzikata

at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 9 PM. $5.

One of the hardest working bands around, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, perform big old sad songs for all you music lovers at Stage 112 (Inside the Elk’s Lodge), 112 N. Pattee St. 9 PM. $10/$8 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and stageonetwelve.com.

The best looking event like ever, ever takes place at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., and features the musical likes of Shahs (hawt), The Boxcutters (spiffy), Cory Fay (I say Cory Yay!) and the yumtastic I Hate Your Girlfriend. 10 PM. $2.

Butte, America is surely calling your name this St. Patty’s Day, but remember this: Only I’ve bought a car during the parade and sold it the next day for $1, sans roof. In other words, be safe when you’re celebrating this holiest of holy days. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Mar. 15 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH Imagine an unbroken ecosystem that ranges from West Yellowstone to the frozen outskirts of Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory of Canada and beyond. This 2,000-mile stretch would likely be the most vast wildlife corridor on the planet, an area where big critters like grizzly bears could safely migrate over an international border and from one side of the Rocky Mountains to the other. That’s a whole lot of mountains, watersheds and streams to protect and keep wild. And that is the goal of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

Y2Y’s founder Harvey Locke is no stranger to working with conservation groups, having been a board member for the Nature Conservancy of Montana, president of the Wildlands Network and served on the Eighth and Ninth World Wilderness

Congresses among many other notable environmental groups. None of this work goes on without ruffling some feathers; undoubtedly there are those who feel as though the earth is merely a vast place here merely to plunder. Fortunately, people like Locke are using science and stewardship to demonstrate that the earth can provide for all.

—Jason McMackin Harvey Locke’s talk, “Large Landscape Conservation from Yellowstone to Yukon and Beyond: A Shared Vision for the 21st Century,” takes place at the UM Interdisciplinary Science Building Room 110, Tue., March 19, at 7 PM. Free.

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THURSDAY MARCH 14 Hey local-oligists, get learned up by the best when the Montana Native Plant Society presents Bill Caras and Jennie Meinershagen who share their knowledge and vast their work on the landscaping at the UM’s Native American Center and the rise of native plant landscaping. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7:30 PM. Free.

FRIDAY MARCH 15 The deer and elk special drawing permit deadline is today, hunters. Visit fwp.mt.gov.

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 16 Don’t run on a full stomach during Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which occur at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. in Missoula. It’s after the run/walk that you can grab breakfast with other participants.

Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Chug a Guinness and stare down the competition at Run for the Luck of It 5K and 7-mile run. The race starts in front of Sean Kelly’s at 9 AM. Cost is $18$25. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Find out how to identify birds or simply show off your $3,000 binoculars at the Five Valleys Audubon Beginning Birder Walk at Metcalf Refuge.

The trip is two hours long and there are binoculars available for those who lack a good spy scope.

10 AM. Free. Call Terry at 214-1194 or Lynn at 544-6323.

SUNDAY MARCH 17 On your marks, get set, smoke a cigarette.

Jokes, slide and glide down the Grizzly Chute for the Montana Snowbowl Best of the Bowl race. Alpine, tele and boarder classes. Speed and style are judged. Visit montanasnowbowl.com.

Make the homes of birds more livable and lovable at the Five Valleys Audubon home improvement project on Waterworks Hill. Bring a portable drill if you’ve got one and make a bluebird’s day. 2 PM. Call Kathy at 543-4097.

TUESDAY MARCH 19 David Cole of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute talks about fixing up our wilderness area and repairing the damage done at his talk Restoring Wilderness. The Trail Head, 221 E. Front St. 7 PM. Free.

This week’s speaker at the Wilderness Institute’s Lecture Series, Wilderness on the Edge: The Emerging Roles of Wild Lands in Changing Landscapes is author and journalist Emma Marris who gives a talk titled The New Wild. UM Gallagher Business Bldg.

Rm. 122. 7:10 PM. Free.

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[community]

Here’s a bummer: Last year Meals on Wheels provided over 90,000 meals to adults with disabilities and senior citizens. I say it’s a bummer even though 120 people volunteer their time to deliver food to those in need because it’s hard to fathom that in our so-called “land o’ plenty” we have that many area folks who require such a service.

Fortunately, Missoula Aging Services provides that service, but it doesn’t come without a cost. A $10,000 annual budget is required to continue operations at their current level. That’s why MAS is seeking funds during its annual March for Meals campaign, which raised $30,000 last year. Businesses such as Pizza Hut and Wheat Montana are donating to the campaign. Mayor John Engen is also getting into the act—he’ll be one of many local officials taking part in the two-day Mayors for Meals

event. Other local dignitaries delivering meals include County Commissioners Bill Carey, Jean Curtiss and Michelle Landquist, Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir; Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen and various City Council members.

To some it might seem like a bit of politicking to have our elected officials out delivering food once or twice a year, but by doing so they send an important message to those who receive this service: They are part of the community and will not been forgotten.

—Jason McMackin Mayors for Meals takes place Wed., March 20, and Thur., March 21, as part of the month-long March for Meals campaign. To donate or volunteer visit missoulagingservices.org.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY MARCH 14 The Missoula Democrats Central Committee Meeting hosts MCPS School Board President Toni Rehbein and MCPS teachers about the upcoming Technology Levy and School Board election. Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM.

MONDAY MARCH 18 Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM. YWCA Missoula and Filmmaker Kathy Witkowsky invite all to attend a viewing of the documentary short Cheryl’s Spin, which shows how one woman overcame abusive relationships by learning to ice skate at Glacier Ice Rink. A panel discussion follows the screening. Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 6:45 PM. Free.

TUEDSAY MARCH 19 Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek and Aimee Ryan during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the University Center Rm. 330. 7–9 PM. Free.

Don’t go in there, and don’t feed the fruitin’ bears! Or listen to local experts talk problems and solutions for living with bears at the community meeting Bears and the Rattlesnake. Hosted by the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group. MonTEC, 1121 E. Broadway. 7–9 PM. Visit bearapple.org.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 20 Put in your input at the Missoula Wayfinding System public meeting, where folks can help make it easier for tourists to get around town and learn all of our secrets, like that there is no good falafel to be had at 2:30 PM. Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. 5:30 PM.

THURSDAY MARCH 21 Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 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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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 ROSE• Rose has an unforgettable face, and

her size (over 100 pounds) is pretty memorable too. She's a lot of dog physically, and she has a huge personality to match. She would do best as an only pet, but we think she'd be more than enough to keep any doglover happy all by herself!

LEONARD•Leonard is small in size, and

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JIMMIE•Jimmie is a gentle, friendly cat with interesting markings, truly outstanding whiskers, and stunning gold eyes. He was injured when he came to the shelter, but great vet care and a real desire to feel good again 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) fixed him right up!

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has a shy, quiet personality. He'd be a great companion for someone wanting a true companion. You know what we mean -- someone to make the good times even better and to give comfort when things aren't going well.

NOREEN•We can't understand why Noreen is still with us. She's a lovely cat who always keeps her coat looking nice, never makes any kind of mess, and can best be described as being a real lady. This quiet, sweet cat deserves a loving home!

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HARTLEY•Hartley reminds us a lot of a teddy bear, both in his fluffy good looks and his endearing personality. He's very quiet, but while he's stretched out relaxing in his cage he's also taking an interest in everything happening around him. He's a real lover!

Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat)

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 BEAU•What a boy, what a Beau. This sweet

LEO•Say hello to Leo, a curious 3-year-old

6-year-old Hound/Pointer mix is a must meet.

Good with kids, dogs and cats, he loves to play and creates his own sense of fun. Housetrained and intelligent, he’s a true family dog who likes to join in your activities - although, you’ll probably find yourself participating in HIS favorite game of fetch!

TUCKER•Tucker, a sweet 9-year-old coonhound, will happily tell you he loves life and the world around him – let’s just say he’s chatty. Gentle & easygoing, Tucker enjoys playing with other dogs, and has cohabitated with cats. He desires a home with older children and a family who understands his need to diet and get some fun exercise.

orange tabby who loves investigating the world around him and his immediate surroundings before finding that perfect place to nap – most likely in your lap! Sweet and a tad shy, Leo would love to be adopted with his brother Crosby – another shorthair kitty - and would do fine in a home with other felines.

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MARLEY• Meet Mr. 100% lovable.

Marley, a hound mix who has hit his stride at a comfortable 7 years old, is an outgoing & lovable pooch. He enjoys playing and gets along with dogs, cats, and thinks older kids are the best.

An oversized lapdog at times, he’s a true cuddler. House-trained, smart & responsive, he’d thrive in a Basic Manners class.

CROSBY•So you met my brother Leo? We’re both a little shy, but you couldn't find a more handsome and loving duo if you tried. I’m good with cats, and enjoy exploring my world before a good nap. Delightfully sweet, brush me and I’ll purr for you. What more could you want from a 3-year-old orange tabby and his brother?

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VICTORIA•How can you resist those eyes?

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Once you meet this gorgeous 1-year-old calico, you’ll understand. Victoria is super sweet, and social with people and dogs alike, and not a tad standoffish. She likes to be picked up, and enjoys attention. She’ll be a steady companion should you decide to adopt her, and will reward you with a lifetime of good companionship.

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COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD Big Sky Bouncers Your biggest and best bouncer house rental company this side of the divide. Half and full day rental (free delivery within 15 miles of Lolo).

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Seeking vendors for Polson’s Main Street Flathead Cherry Festival. This is a very well-attended event, held on the main streets of Polson July 20th and 21st. This unique celebration of Montana’s

cherries draws many thousands of visitors each year. Three booth sizes are available, making this affordable for anyone. Local Montana-made and cherrythemed products are preferred.

Food vendors welcome. To view and fill out an application, please visit www. flatheadcherryfestival.com. Booth spaces are limited and our deadline is May 24, 2013. This is a two-day event and we reserve the right to refuse duplicate products. You can direct questions to vendors@flat-

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By Amy Alkon GRATITUDE ADJUSTMENT My boyfriend of three months seems wonderful.

He is attentive and tries hard to please me, even in small ways (like always making sure I get tea I like when we're out). Soon after we started dating, a relative of mine died, and he made a real effort to check in on my well-being. He's always excited to see me; we kiss a lot right at the door. However, he never compliments me. He did it sparingly early on, telling me I had beautiful eyes, for example, but it's been a while. He also seems uncomfortable being complimented. I called him handsome, and he mumbled something about it being dark. I guess I could fish for compliments, but I'm not so much looking to be complimented as I am trying to make sure I'm not being blind to some red flag.

—Underappreciated Movies reveal a lot about men's and women's differing expectations for how men will communicate. Chick flicks are pretty much wall-to-wall chatter, down to that final scene where the male lead gets the girl—after giving a big Oprah-worthy speech about what an idiot he was not to love her from the start. In male-targeted action pix, the guy also gets the girl. All he has to do is grunt, glare, and incinerate 55 giant slimy things from outer space.

That said, the notion that men are mute lunks while women go around yapping like Yorkshire terriers, a claim made by self-help authors including UCSF neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine (in various editions of "The Female Brain") just isn't supported by the research. In "50 Myths Of Popular Psychology," Scott O. Lilienfeld and his co-authors note that when psychologist Dr. Janet Hyde crunched the data from 73 controlled studies, she found only a tiny overall difference in male and female talkativeness. And when psychologist Dr. Matthias Mehl and his colleagues gave 396 college students portable audio recorders to walk around with, they found that both men and women spoke about 16,000 words a day.

Where men and women do seem to differ is in emotional expression. There's a lack of conclusive research in this area, but it's clear that men have feelings—deep feelings. They just don't always communicate them in a slew of words. Many seem to walk the talk—showing their feelings instead of speaking them. And frankly, shows of affection are probably a better reflection of a man's sincerity. Any Mr. Smooth can

read Man Cosmo (Maxim, Details, etc.) and rattle off 3, 8, and 9 from "10 sweet nothings that'll have her clothes on your bedroom floor in 10 seconds or less!"

Since you say you don't really neeeeed compliments, you could just decide to accept that there are two kinds of adoring boyfriends—those who compare their girlfriend's hair to a golden meadow and those who stay up into the wee hours getting it out of her clogged drain. The thing is, research by Dr. Sara B. Algoe and others suggests that when romantic partners articulate appreciation for each other—in their thoughts and by telling their partner—both the appreciated partner and the partner doing the appreciating feel more bonded and satisfied with the relationship. It seems reflecting regularly on what you're grateful for— how your partner thinks, how Hottie McBody they look in that sweater—helps keep you aware of what you have, making you less likely to treat your partner like an old pair of shoes you keep forgetting to put out on the curb.

Your boyfriend may be uncomfortable getting compliments or just those he feels he hasn't earned. (He exists handsome simply because he came out of the birth canal instead of making like Waco, holing up in the womb and refusing to leave.) But everybody likes to feel appreciated. Instead of remarking on his looks, tell him how he's made life easier for you through some sweet thing he's done, or admire how he's solved some problem.

And don't just compliment him in words; stroke his arm or give him one of those movie kisses where all the kitchenware goes flying.

To encourage him to be more verbally expressive, sweetly tease him about how he hates to be complimented, and then tell him that it makes girls happy to hear they look pretty. Explain that this doesn't take much—just noticing stuff he likes about you and letting you know (like when he told you you have beautiful eyes). Be appreciative for whatever effort he makes, and don't start expecting miracles. In other words, be mindful of the limitations of the typical heterosexual male, who, for example, is unlikely to ever notice your hair is different unless you get it all shaved off and the stubble dyed electric blue—or it happens to be on fire.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): "If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid." That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week. Being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being judgmental should be at the bottom. Here's another mantra that may serve you well: "Those who take history personally are condemned to repeat it." I hope you invoke that wisdom to help you escape an oppressive part of your past. Do you have room for one more inspirational motto, Aries? Here it is: "I am only as strong as my weakest delusion."

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't you just love to watch the spinning of those wheels within wheels within wheels? Aren't you grateful for the way the ever-churning plot twists keep you alert and ready to shift your attitude at a moment's notice? And aren't you thrilled by those moments when fate reveals that its power is not absolute -- that your intelligence and willpower can in fact override the seemingly inexorable imperatives of karma? If you are unfamiliar with the pleasures I've just described, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get deeply acquainted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It won't be a good week to issue unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered demands. And please don't make peanut butter and jelly a part of your sex life, take a vacation in Siberia, or photocopy your butt and deliver it anonymously to your boss. On the other hand, it will be an excellent time to scrawl motivational poetry on your bedroom wall, stage a slow-motion pillow fight, and cultivate your ability to be a deep-feeling free-thinker. Other recommended actions: Give yourself a new nickname like Highball or Root Doctor or Climax Master; write an essay on "The Five Things That the Pursuit of Pleasure Has Taught Me;" and laugh uproariously as you completely bypass the void of sadness and the abyss of fear.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the mid-19th century, prospectors mined for gold in the mountains of western Nevada. The veins weren't as rich as those in California, but some men were able to earn a modest living. Their work to extract gold from the terrain was hampered by a gluey blue mud that gummed up their machinery. It was regarded as a major nuisance. But on a hunch, one miner took a load of the blue gunk to be analyzed by an expert. He discovered that it contained rich deposits of silver. So began an explosion of silver mining that made many prospectors very wealthy. I suggest you be on the alert for a metaphorical version of blue mud in your sphere, Cancerian: an "inconvenience" that seems to interfere with the treasure you seek, but that is actually quite valuable.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When pioneer filmmaker Hal Roach worked on scripts with his team of writers, he sometimes employed an unusual strategy to overcome writer's block. He'd bring in a "Wildie" to join them at the conference table. A Wildie was either a random drunk they found wandering around the streets or a person who lived in an insane asylum. They'd engage him in conversation about the story they were working on, and he would provide unexpected ideas that opened their minds to new possibilities. I don't necessarily recommend that you seek the help of a Wildie, Leo, but I hope you will come up with other ways to spur fresh perspectives. Solicit creative disruptions!

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is the term "unconscious mind" a good name for the foundation of the human psyche? Should we really be implying that the vast, oceanic source of everything we think and feel is merely the opposite of the conscious mind? Dreamworker Jeremy Taylor doesn't think so. He proposes an alternate phrase to replace "unconscious": "not-yet-speech-ripe." It captures the sense of all the raw material burbling and churning in our deep awareness that is not graspable through language. I bring this up, Virgo, because you're entering a phase when a lot of not-yet-speech-ripe stuff will become speech-ripe. Be alert for it!

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1928, biologist Alexander Fleming launched a medical revolution. He developed the world's first antibiotic, penicillin, making it possible to cure a host of maladies caused by hostile bacteria. His discovery was a lucky fluke that happened only because he left his laboratory a mess when he went on vacation. While he was gone, a bacteria culture he'd been working with got contaminated by a mold that turned out to be penicillin. I'm thinking that you could achieve a more modest but quite happy accident sometime soon, Libra. It may depend on you allowing things to be more untidy than usual, though. Are you game?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I am iron resisting the most enormous Magnet there is," wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi. He was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think there's something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel the tremendous pull of our destiny -- the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings -- and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. What's your current relationship to your Magnet, Scorpio? I say it's time you allowed it to pull you closer.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): NASA used whale oil to lubricate the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good reason: Whale oil doesn't freeze at the low temperatures found in outer space. While I certainly don't approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, I want to use this story to make a point. It's an excellent time for you, too, to use old-school approaches for solving ultra-new-school problems. Sometimes a tried-and-true method works better, or is cheaper, simpler, or more aesthetically pleasing.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The theory of the "butterfly effect" proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately impact the weather in New York. Here's how the writer Richard Bernstein explains it: "Very slight, nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end." That's why, he says, "the world is just too complicated to be predictable." I find this a tremendously liberating idea. It suggests that every little thing you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with how this works in your daily life. Put loving care and intelligent attention into every little thing.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Former football quarterback Joe Ayoob holds the world's record for throwing a paper airplane the longest distance. After it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled over 226 feet. I propose we make Ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming week.

From what I can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse and control. It's time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A source of fulfillment you will enjoy in the future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem. Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring works, including symphonies, ballets, operas, and concertos. When he was a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that frequently surged through his mind. "This music! This music!" he complained to his mother. "Take it away!

It's here in my head and won't let me sleep!"

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CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula Downtown Association, 218 E. Main Street, Missoula, Montana, until 10:00 a.m., on March 28, 2013, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Conference Room of the Missoula Downtown Association offices, for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Fabric Wall System Caras Park Pavilion Missoula Downtown Association This project consists of steel fabrication and assembly of eleven wall systems to be attached to the existing Pavilion structure.

The steel fabricator shall supply and install fabric walls, operating mechanism and attachment to existing mechanical winches, and paint.

Coordination between all subcontractors shall be the responsibility of the steel fabricator. This project shall require a two-year Parts, Labor & Service Warranty.

Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the Missoula Downtown Association, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for Caras Park Pavilion Walls” The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name and Montana Contractor’s Identification Number. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the Missoula Downtown Association against liability. The MDA is the project manager for the city-owned park, therefore no bid will be considered which includes federal excise tax, since the City is exempt therefrom and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. Prospective bidders may access the contract documents and project manual on line at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids.

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Bid results will also be posted on this website. Hard copies of the plans and project manual are available for viewing at the following locations: Missoula Plans Exchange 201 North Russell Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-5002 http://www.mpe.us iSqFt (Selbys) 1914 North Ave West Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 5 4 3 - 5 1 0 1 http://www.isqft.com Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. The Missoula Downtown Association reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the MDA’s requirements. Opening Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID STREET MAINTENANCE MATERIALS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, until 3:00 p.m. local time, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for furnishing the following Materials: City Project No. 13-006 MATERIAL BID ITEM 1,750 Gallons of Yellow Traffic Marking Paint and 2,000 Gallons of White Traffic Marking Paint Bidders shall bid on City bid proposal form addressed to the City Clerk’s office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate sealed envelope, including required bid security for the bid, plainly marked on the outside; “Bid for City Project No. 13006 Traffic Marking Paint”.

The envelope shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name and Mailing Address.

Proposals must be accompanied by cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful

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Properties2000.com bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and/or for products made in Montana, against the bid of a nonresident if the state of the nonresident enforces a preference for residents. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the bid opening at 3:00 p.m. on March 19, 2013. Bidders may obtain specifications, bid proposal forms, and other information by visiting www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids, or from the City Engineering Division, Development Services , 435 Ryman St, Missoula, MT 59802. (406)552-6092 /s/ MARTHA L. REHBEIN, CMC City Clerk

7569 adopted October 4, 2010 for a TBID consisting of noncontiguous hotel/motel lands who have voluntarily petitioned the city of Missoula to establish a TBID for the purpose of aiding tourism, promotion, and marketing within the district and allowing hotels/motels outside the city limits in the Missoula urban area to donate funds to the Tourism Business Improvement District. A copy of the proposed resolutions are on file and available at the City Clerk office. For further information contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk, at 552-6078. Any taxpayer or resident may appear at the meeting and be heard for or against any part of the proposed budget amendment. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk

then publicly opened and read thereafter. Each Bid shall be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope bearing on the outside the name of Bidder and address. Bids may be mailed or hand delivered to: Mail Delivery: Hand Delivery: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, Planning Department Attention: Paula Arneson, 800 South Main Street, Anaconda, Montana 59711. If forwarded by mail, the Bid and sealed envelope marked as described above shall be enclosed in another envelope with the notation “SEALED BID ENCLOSED- 716 EAST 3rd STREET” on the face of the outer envelope and addressed as indicated above. Rehabilitation on both structures is advertised together, the bids will be considered for each individual structure on the parcel.

PROJECT LOCATION: The Project is located in Anaconda, Montana at 716 East 3rd Street. PROJECT WORK DESCRIPTION: 716 East 3rd St.

INVITATION FOR BID CALL FOR BIDS Sealed, lump sum bid entitled: “BID for Anaconda Deer Lodge County NSP Project” will be received by Anaconda-Deer Lodge County until 12:00 P.M. local time, April 5, 2013, and

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CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula, Montana will meet Monday, March 25, 2013, at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on: A resolution amending the annual appropriations for the city of Missoula, Montana, as set forth in the Fiscal Year 2013 budget and Capital Improvement Program that increases the total city budget by $62,500 and A resolution of the Missoula City Council approving a requested increase from $1 to $2 per occupied room night assessment for the Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) created pursuant to Resolution number

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 38, 50, 94, 134, 164, 199, OS53. 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 3/18/2013 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 3/21/2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 237, 239, 358, 521, and 610. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, March 25, 2013. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES is a residential lot with two structures. There are two rehabilitation projects within this bid: 1) repair/rehabilitation on the North/main house, 2) repair/rehabilitation of the South/smaller house. The contract will be funded in whole by the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, administered by the Montana Department of Commerce, and is subject to all federal laws and regulations. All contractors and subcontractors must adhere to current wage rates as defined by the Davis Bacon Wage Rates. The Contract Documents may be examined at the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Planning offices, 800 South Main Street, Anaconda, MT 59711. A Pre-bid meeting will be held on Thursday, March 14th, at the project site at 10:30am, 716 East 3rd Street, Anaconda, Montana. No contractor may submit a bid unless already properly registered in Montana at the time of bid submission with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. AnacondaDeer Lodge County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Devel-

opment Act of 1968 also applies. Anaconda-Deer Lodge County reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive irregularities, to evaluate the bids submitted and to accept the proposal which best serves the interest of the owner.

MISSOULA COUNTY MISSOULA COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE CONTRACTORS The Missoula County Detention Facility is inviting proposals for inmate medical and pharmaceutical services. The contract period is three years with two optional one year renewal periods. Interested parties may obtain the complete Request for Proposals from the Missoula County website at: http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/ bidsandproposals/bidandproposals.htm. There will be a mandatory pre-proposal meeting and facilities tour for this RFP at 9:00AM on Thursday, March 21, 2013. Proposers planning to attend must make arrangements in advance by calling Detention Commander Jason Kowalski at (406) 2584000 no later than noon, March 20, 2013. Proposals

will be accepted until 5:00PM, Monday, April 15, 2013 at the office of Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Proposal for Detention Facility Inmate Medical Services.” Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all proposals.

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Missoula County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing to set the redefined precinct boundaries to conform with legislative district boundaries affected by the adoption of the 2013 Districting and Apportionment Plan under Article V, section 14, of the Montana Constitution. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular weekly public meeting on March 27th at 1:30 p.m., Room B14, Missoula County Administration Building at 199 W. Pine. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the proposed precincts and polling places.

[C6] Missoula Independent • March 14 – March 21, 2013

Written comments will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, 199 W. Pine, Missoula, MT 59802, prior to the hearing. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802 (406)-258-3234 Date: 3/8/13 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-10-179 Dept. 3 No. Hon. John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MICHAEL DURAN COURCHENE, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF MICHAEL DURAN COURCHENE: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Wesley G. Redden has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate 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 Wesley G. Redden, 35858 Detwiler Road, Arlee, Montana 59821, return receipt requested, c/o Law Office of Patrick G. Sandefur, 100 Ryman, Ste. 700, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2013. /s/ Patrick G. Sandefur, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DV-13-106 Dept.

No. 2 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the

Matter of the Name Change of CHRISTINE ROSE MIGNEAULTNORDHUS, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitiioner, Christine Rose Migneault-Nordhus, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District of Montana for a change of name from Christine Rose Migneault-Nordhus to Christine Rose Migneault, and the Petition for Name Change shall be heard by the District Court Judge on the 16th day of April, 2013, at 11:00 A.M. in the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 20th day of February, 2013. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley Faust, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Andy Brunkhart, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-44 Dept.

No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE EDRIS JEAN POWELL, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to K. Andy Powell, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. GIBSON LAW

OFFICES, PLLC, /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative. We declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 27th day of February, 2013, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ K. Andy Powell, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-45 Dept.

No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BRUCE W. ZEMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that David H. Straus 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 David H. Straus, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of February, 2013. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Anne Blanche Adams Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-46 Dept.

No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED A. PILE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-

named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Delbert Clarke Pile, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 28th day of February, 2013, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Delbert Clarke Pile, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-1501 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, vs. Victoria GodkinPalermo and Paul William Palermo, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, PAUL WILLIAM PALERMO: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the

PUBLIC NOTICES Complaint. This action relates to an Equitable Lien Action of a Deed of Trust upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula, State of Montana: A portion of Tract A, Certificate of Survey No. 4591, located in the Northeast onequarter of Section 15, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Northeast corner of said Section 15; thence along the North line said Section 15 N.89°48’00”W.683.14 feet to the point of beginning; thence S.34°01’53”E.789.42 feet to a point on the Southerly line of said Tract A; thence along said Southerly line N.88°22’41”W.144.86 feet; thence leaving said Southerly line N.00°05’53”W.639.84 feet to a point on the Northerly line of said Tract A; thence along said Northerly line S.89°48’00”E.299.14 feet to the point of beginning. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 21st day of February, 2013. (SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of the District Court By /s/ Jenny Scott, Deputy Clerk Dated this 12th day of February, 2013. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for Plaintiff 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Tel: (701) 227-1841 By: /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, Attorney #11880 Attorney for the Plaintiff THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification. You are also advised that upon your request within the thirty day period, we will provide you with the name and address of your original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. We are attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Cassie R. Dellwo MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Phone: 701227-1841 Fax: 701-225-6878 Attorney for the Plaintiff Cdellwo@Mackoff.com MT Bar #11880 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-11-965 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION PHH Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, -vs- F. Duke Hermann; First Security Bank of Missoula; and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, F. DUKE HERMANN: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to an equitable lien, foreclosure and quiet title action of a Deed of Trust upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula, State of Montana: LOT 27 AND 28 IN BLOCK 54 OF CAR LINE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH PORTIONS “C” AND “D” OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5681, BEING A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 1st day of March, 2013. (SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/

Andy Brunkhart Deputy. Dated this 20th day of February, 2013. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for Plaintiff 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Tel: (701) 2271841 By: /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, Attorney #11880 Attorney for the Plaintiff THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification. You are also advised that upon your request within the thirty day period, we will provide you with the name and address of your original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. We are attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-13-227 Dept. No. 2 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Paul Anthony Gaebel, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Paul Anthony Gaebel to Paul Anthony Emrich. The hearing will be on April 9th, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 02/26/2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Andrew Brunkhart, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps III Cause Probate No. DP-13-28 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE BRUCE MORRIS, ALSO KNOWN AS G. BRUCE MORRIS, BRUCE MORRIS, GEORGE MORRIS AND GEORGE B. MORRIS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice of said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Yosef Aro Morris, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, Montana 59807-9197, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 12th day of February, 2013. /s/ Yosef Aro Morris, Personal Representative, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, MT 59807-9197 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP13-23 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARION RAY (aka “Raymond”) MCWILLIAMS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patricia Wax Bowman or Helen Lavon Fair, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of February, 2013. /s/ Patricia Wax Bowman, Personal Representative /s/ Helen Lavon Wax Fair, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP13-43 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF SHANNON A. BLAKESLEE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kendra Blakeslee has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their

claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Kendra Blakeslee, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o David J. Steele II, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22nd day of February, 2013. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ David J. Steele II, Attorneys for the 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 22nd day of February, 2013 /s/ Kendra Blakeslee, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP13-47 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EDWIN BRESTER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cheryl A. Jemison-Nelson and Alona J. DeVoe have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 28th day of February, 2013 /s/ Cheryl A. Jemison-Nelson, Co-Personal /s/ Alona J. DeVoe, Co-Personal Representative. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-13-36 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY LOIS REYNOLDS, 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 Deborah Clark, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 315 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 8th day of February, 2013. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-35 NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL, DETERMINATION OF TESTACY AND HEIRS AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOYCE A. ANDERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Carl Anderson has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for the formal probate of the Will of Joyce A. Anderson, deceased, for determination of testacy and heirs, and for the appointment of Carl Anderson as Personal Representative of said Will and estate. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom at the courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 26th day of March, 2013, at 2:30 p.m., at which time all interested parties may appear and object. Dated this 28th day of February, 2013. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for the Personal Representative of the Estate of Joyce A. Anderson MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-51 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALVIRA K. WALLACE, 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 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 Richard K. Wallace, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 6th day of March, 2013. /s/ Richard K. Wallace, Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Richard K. Wallace WORDEN THANE, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-2013-32 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Leland E. Graves, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary Ellen Osowski, return receipt requested, at 401 River Drive, Lolo, MT 59847 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 8th day of March 2013. /s/ Mary Ellen Osowski MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-13-21 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN ALLAN FAHEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed the 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 FELICIA A. WICKUM, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 12th day of February, 2013. /s/ Felicia A. Wickum, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-13-54 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS JAY AZZARA, 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 CHRISTINE RUTH GINGERELLI, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 7th day of March, 2013. /s/ Christine Ruth Gingerelli, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 30, 2013, 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: A tract of land located in the Northwest one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 34, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Section 34; thence S. 89° 56’ W., a distance of 2558.60 feet; thence N. 89° 21’ 45” W., a distance of 81.40 feet; thence South a distance of 383.40 feet to the true point of beginning; thence along the boundary of West View No. 2, a proposed subdivision of Missoula County, Montana for the next seven (7) courses, East a distance of 423.02 feet to a non-tangent

curve having a radius of 50.0 feet and a chord of 99.70 feet which bears N. 45° 34’ E., ; thence easterly, northeasterly and northwesterly along said curve a distance of 149.31 feet; thence N. 13° 09’ E., a distance of 117.60 feet; thence East a distance of 231.25 feet; thence South a distance of 140.0 feet; thence S. 36°04’ W., a distance of 134.57 feet; thence South a distance of 860.0 feet; thence leaving said proposed subdivision boundary and running West a distance of 673.0 feet; thence North a distance of 924.46 feet to the point of beginning.

Recording Reference: Book 137 Page 1405 Micro Records Brady G Nelson and Cindy R Nelson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 15, 2007 and recorded June 15, 2007 in Bk-799, Pg-716, under document No. 200715183. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust company as Trustee for Starm Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-4, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007-4.

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 $2,990.00, beginning September 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 10, 2012 is $624,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 5.75000% now totaling $40,429.29, late charges in the amount of $1,820.00, escrow advances of $5,177.49, and other fees and expenses advanced of $143.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $98.30 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 27, 2012 /s/ Shandale Gordon Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339

Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 27th day of December, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Suntrust V Nelson 41531.654 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/04/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200708400 Bk-795 Pg-95, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Evangelos M. Itskos and Evanthia Itskos, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Northwest Trustee Services, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Northwest Trustee Services, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel 1: Tract 3 of Six Mile Timber Tracts, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof.

Except any part thereof that may have been conveyed to Missoula County for road purposes. Parcel II: An undivided ten percent (10%) interest in Lot 4 of Six Mile Timber Tracts No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of January 14, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $295,154.54. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $282,753.85, 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, 2013 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# 7023.103761) 1002.240673-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/23/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200612770, Bk-775

Pg-733, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Torbjorn I. Joreteg and Anita R. Joreteg, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 25 of Mission-Swan Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201224933 B: 905 P: 610, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.

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 09/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 22, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $239,322.43. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $229,489.35, 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 June 5, 2013 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 nonmonetary 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# 7037.100248) 1002.240878-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/24/93, recorded as Instrument No. 9328618 Book 398 Page 2032 and modified by Agreement recorded 1/31/2006, Instrument No. 200602265 Bk-768 Pg-264, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James W. Royan, a married man as his sole and separate property was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 and the North 10 feet of Lot 12 in Block 1 of Mosby’s Leisure Highlands Addition No. 5, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

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PUBLIC NOTICES instrument recorded as Instrument No. 199908142 Book 577 Page 274, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Manhattan Bank F/K/A Chemical Bank. 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 10/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of January 25, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $60,618.30. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $57,680.61, 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 June 5, 2013 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 nonmonetary 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# 7037.100553) 1002.241297-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 15, 2013, 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 10 IN BLOCK 14 OF HIGH PARK NO. 1, A PLATTED

SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Carlos E Casas, Jr and Sheri L Casas, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 11, 2006 and recorded December 14, 2006 under Document No. 200631999, in Bk 788, Pg- 1268. The beneficial interest is currently held by Fannie Mae (“Federal National Mortgage 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 $1,040.08, beginning December 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 10, 2012 is $202,297.08 principal, interest at the rate of 3.75% now totaling $8,405.37, late charges in the amount of $156.08, escrow advances of $7,738.81 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,934.98, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.78 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such

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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 7, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 7th day of December, 2012, 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 acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Seterus v Casas 42008.104 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 26, 2013, 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 Glaicier 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 & 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 PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007CH3. 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 January 14, 2013 is $354,160.33 principal, interest at the rate of 8.875% now totaling $108,597.31, late charges in the amount of $, escrow advances of $18,048.28, suspense balance of $ and

other fees: and expenses advanced of $4,310.10, plus accruing interest at the rate of $86.11 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 17, 2012 /s/ Shandale Gordon Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 17th day of December, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs Bayer 41954.860 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 29, 2013, 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: Unit 1330B of Edgewood I Condominiums, a residential condominium in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Declaration of Condominium, covenants, conditions and restrictions for Edgewood I Condominiums as recorded in Book 773 of Micro at Page 735. Together with a 5% interest per unit in the common area and an exclusive right to use the limited common areas appurtenant to each unit as said common areas and limited common areas are defined in the Declaration of Condominiums, covenants, conditions and restrictions for Edgewood I Condominiums CASEY J.

SHELDEN, 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 November 22, 2006 and recorded November 27, 2006 in Book 787, Page 1326 under Document No. 200630551. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $651.19, beginning August 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 27, 2012 is $93,133.06 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $3,067.17, late charges in the amount of $65.12, escrow advances of $336.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,914.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.22 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

SUSTAINAFIEDS 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 18, 2012 /s/ Shandale Gordon Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 18th day of December, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Seterus Vs. Shelden 42008.215 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 29, 2013, 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: A tract of land located in the Northeast one-quarter (NE 1/4) of Section 17, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 5798. Together with a 30 foot private access and utility easement as shown on Certificates if Survey Nos. 5622 and 5798. Jeffery

S. McBroom, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank Of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on September 11, 2006 and recorded on September 15, 2006 in Book 783, Page 328 under Document NO. 200623676. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,134.83, beginning February 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 January 17, 2013 is $382,383.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00% now totaling $78,834.91, late charges in the amount of $3,491.64, escrow advances of $26,212.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,455.82, plus accruing interest at the rate of $62.86 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 21, 2012 Shandale Gordon Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 21st day of December, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J. Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 BAC Vs. McBroom 42019.412

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Fully accessible 504 unit available. Comes with Mountain LIne E-Z Pass. Missoula Housing Authority. Contact Jordan 5494113 ext. 127. One month FREE rent Lenox Flats. Studio: $550 all utilities paid. Comes with Mountain Line EZ pass. Missoula Houseing Authority. Contact Jordan 5494113 ext. 127.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 11689 Stolen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $319,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2 Bdr, 1 Bath single-level Windsor Park home. $170,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2441 McIntosh. 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community. HOA fees include club house, yard work, sewer & garbage. $106,000.

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4 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, GrantCreek / Prospect Meadows home. $475,500. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4433A Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage, fenced yard with pergola. Many upgrades including new flooring. $177,900.

Rochelle Glasgow, Missoula Prudential, 728, 8270. glasgow@montana.com 4705 Potter Park Loop. 2 bed, 1 bath partially finished basement & 2 car garage. $169,900.

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Near city park. $339,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 annierealtor@gmail.com 6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis.

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Lot 16B MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath to be built with fantastic views. $189,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

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garage. $170,000.

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1641 Stoddard To-be-built 6plex on Northside. $650,500 Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties

Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns. 2405227 porticorealestate.com

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Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 6614 MacArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing views. $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properites.

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 803A Pattee Creek. 2. bed, 1.5 bath condo with garage in 55+ community. $129,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000, 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 839 Discovery. 2 bed, 1.5 bath at base of Mt. Jumbo. Patio, balcony, fenced yard & single

Beautiful Downtown Triplex Two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom; great rental history; great building on Historic Register with tons of character and in great shape! $359,500.

518 Alder porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. $250,000. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Townhome On The River Land Stewardship Program buy-

ers must qualify. Call KD to find out more about this 2 bedroom 1.5 bath condo with the balcony facing the river and right next to the river trail and close to downtown. $135,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats. From $149,900.

Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, car port, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES 1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 715 Clements. 3 bed, 2 bath mobile & 1 bedroom house on 1/4 acre. $120,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties, 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com

LAND 23645 Mullan. Beautiful 14 acre treed meadow west of Huson.

Modulars on permanent foundation allowed. $169,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred

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Properties.

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3.2 Acres in the Wye area. Gorgeous mountain and valley views. $65,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Klakken, Noxon. Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. $259,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

3010 West Central. Nearly 5 acres in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. Rural living in town. $499,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

514 West Spruce. Great office space in vintage building near St. Pat’s. Upgrades to wiring, plumbing, roof & more. $244,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on. $160,000. KD 2405227. porticorealestate.com

COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville.

Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Mon-

Commercial Lease Space Fantastic opportunity to be neighbors with the awardwinning Homeword Organization. New, LEED registered, high quality, sustainably-built office space close to river and downtown. $11-$15 per sq.ft.

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