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Jesse Spaulding plays his thumbs over a pair of joysticks on a hulking remote controller. The CineStar zips south, then east, cutting across blue sky and a pale moon. If he wanted, Spaulding says, he could send the thing two miles away—over the South Hills, maybe farther—before it would drop out of range. A decade ago, Cover photo by Alex Sakariassen technology such as this was largely out of reach for filmmakers in western Montana. Now it seems the sky’s the limit. Cameras boast increasingly higher quality at lower cost and come in smaller sizes that can shoot both still photos and video. Anyone can get their hands on the basic equipment needed to make a film. Succeeding as a filmmaker, however, is a different story .....................14

News Letters The sad story of Cody Marble .........................................................................4 The Week in Review Bullock picks a running mate ..................................................6 Briefs Tester and Rehberg get social with ad buys ......................................................6 Etc. It’s Hill vs. Hellegaard, fight, fight, fight!..............................................................7 Up Front Hamilton mulls protections for LGBT students ..........................................8 Ochenski The Bakken bust: Are we protected? ........................................................10 Range Farmers fend off animal-rights activists ..........................................................11 Agenda The Zootown Solidarity Network Outreach & Benefit Concert ..................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Straight talk on braising.................................................................19 Happiest Hour Bayern’s Bakken Bock......................................................................20 8 Days a Week We spend every weekend watching The Godfather.........................22 Mountain High Jon Turk lectures on Ice and Water ................................................29 Scope Grandfatherglen on folk, tea and Godspell ....................................................30 Noise Magpies, Slugabed, Aseethe, The Men ............................................................31 Soundcheck A man, a plan, a canal: it’s TacocaT! ....................................................32 Film Wait—21 Jump Street doesn’t suck?! ..................................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

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

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Asked outside the Adams Center on the afternoon of Monday, March 12.

This week’s feature looks at local filmmakers. What’s the best movie ever? Follow up: What’s the worst?

Christina Bloeman: Casablanca! The emotion behind it, the acting, the period it was made. You can really feel the emotions of the people in it. I’ve probably seen it 15 times. Zionist humor: You Don’t Mess with the Zohan... I just didn’t think it was any good.

Tyler Carlson: Tombstone. It’s super awesome! The acting is pretty incredible; it’s a Western, so that’s always good; and there’s lots of ass-kicking. I'd rather be: Abducted. It’s awful. It’s almost as if the actor in it, Taylor Lautner, wrote the script.

Devyn Ost: Reservoir Dogs. I really like Quentin Tarantino movies. It’s simple and short, and it’s gruesome! Classic Tarantino. Aye, Matey! Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind first, especially the very last one. I don’t know if I even finished it. It was just too much. They should have stopped at the first movie.

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Free Cody The story of Cody Marble is a sad case study in Missoula County’s investment in crime (see “Did Cody do it?” Dec. 15, 2011). Instead of supporting a kid, grieving for the loss of his mother by suicide, Cody was reportedly brutalized by a Missoula city police officer, placed in the new juvenile detention facility and left unsupervised except for occasional “cell checks” that allowed the smaller, younger boys to be bullied and left those in charge wondering what went on. Sheriff ’s Deputy Brad Giffin, a very successful Democratic candidate for sheriff in the last election, led the child he was questioning in a very unprofessional manner, literally putting words into the youngster’s mouth. You have the judge sentencing a kid to a long adult prison sentence. The most revealing statement in this sad story is that every kid that was in the Juvenile Detention Center with Cody is either in prison or dead. And then you have Fred Van Valkenburg threatening to charge R.T. (who threw an apple at his brother and swore at a police officer to be incarcerated) with perjury if he recants his original testimony! Then Van Valkenburg takes the opportunity to smear the Innocence Project! Where is the accountability? Cody is one of the nearly 13,000 people Montana has under correctional supervision, a number that has quadrupled since the 1980s and the beginning of the war on drugs. It is nice to see the Missoula Independent peeping open its sleepy media-watchdog eyes. The only way tyranny of the kind that has been wrought on this community ends is when industrious journalists write the truth. Rena Wetherelt Stevensville

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Joshua Sanders: 300. I loved the cinematography. It was a really interesting integration of computer imaging and real life. Those aren't pillows: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It just didn’t seem funny to me at all.

Recently, the Leadership Institute at MSU Bozeman brought Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) to speak and participate in a student panel discussion. Clark’s focus was on economic growth and what Montanans should do to improve it. Fracking shale, digging and

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“It is nice to see the Missoula Independent peeping open its sleepy mediawatchdog eyes. The only way tyranny of the kind that has been wrought on this community ends is when industrious journalists write the truth.” our healthy, sustainable landscape and lifestyles. He was unable to recognize that for most Montanans, being close to wild landscapes is intentional. We are here for a reason: We value our reciprocal relationship with these relatively intact mountains, rivers, forests and prairies. We are already rich. Some Montana communities learned too late that extractive industries take a huge

toll. Once the resources have been exported to global markets, what’s left is a useless, degraded landscape and the enormous social problems that accompany it. The continued existence of our chosen home as we know it depends upon our cooperation with the natural world. Our community is long overdue for dialogue and a plan as to how to protect this “last best place” from a dominant world view intent upon its exploitation. We are the last vestige of sanity in an increasingly insane world that is headed our way. Let’s behave powerfully and deliberately to define and defend our riches. Or we can sit back and let others treat us like a goody bag. Our choice. Thanks for the heads up, Gen. Clark. Marilyn Olsen Emigrant

Dr. Seuss inspires Here are some of the inane lies people have told me and apparently tell themselves: Humans are not animals. Animals can’t think, reason or feel pain. Trapping is a sport. Only humans have autism. Cancer is not caused by pesticides. Herbicides are safe. All developmental malformations are genetic. Saving newborns, including children, would damage the economy. A male deer born with no scrotum will grow a scrotum when it matures. Goats are born with an underbite because they are Nubians. Llamas are born with an underbite because they are llamas. You can’t fix underbite with a pill. Foals are born with underbite or overbite because they are inbred. There are too many white-tailed deer, so they are inbred. Inbreeding causes the deer to be born with an underbite and reproductive malformations. We are not seeing any underbite on big game animals. When beef calves are born with underbite, it is because of the bull. Now that is a lot of bull! Judy Hoy Stevensville

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Lead is lead Capri Richardson: Love and Basketball. I liked it because it captures a good tale of love and determination from a minority perspective. Not afraid: Any of the Paranormal Activity movies. They were pretty lame and poorly put together. There really hasn’t been a good scary movie in years... I love scary movies. I love the feeling when you leave the theater and go home that you haven’t quite left the movie behind.

liquefying coal and building pipelines and power lines were the jobs he identified for us and for our landscape. When he looked at Montana, he saw a smorgasbord of riches to be gobbled up. He didn’t realize that our unique spot on the map already has a rich, job-providing habitat for humans and wildlife. Or important ecosystem services, such as clean air, water and soils, and abundant recreational and economic opportunities associated with

This is such bullshit that I can’t even muster my usual restraint and more appropriately say “B.S.” (see Etc., March 8). Lipstick, lead bullets and lead fishing sinkers are used in all 50 states. Lead is toxic in all 50 states. Jon Tester wants a federal agency to regulate one but not the other. If regulating toxic lead ammo should fall to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, then regulating toxic lead lipstick should fall to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Or maybe both should be regulated at the federal level! No, that isn’t the NRA position,

hence, that isn’t Tester’s position. He’s all politician, no integrity. Pandering to the NRA crowd on one hand, pandering to women voters on the other. Disgusting. Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:02 a.m.

Don’t crap in my yard It is always a good idea to know and understand a subject before we write about it (see “Oil change,” March 8). Why not get over to North Dakota and make arrangements with an exploration company to see firsthand what goes on and exactly how things are done? The oil and

natural gas trade has been my work off and on for 40 years. I am an environmentalist. If you don’t take a crap in my yard, I won’t crap in yours. When I see something wrong in the field, I will express my views. If I observe something unsafe, I will stop the job until the situation is rectified. It has been my pleasure to work alongside some of the greatest minds in the petroleum exploration and production departments.  It does get a little old hearing the same banter from the illinformed, whacked-out lot that writes for your paper. Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:15 p.m.

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The University of Montana men’s basketball team earns a berth in the NCAA tournament with a convincing 85-66 win over Weber State in the Big Sky Conference championship game at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula. The team’s 25 wins ranks second in school history.

• Thursday, March 8 Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock, the presumptive Democratic candidate for governor, introduces Brig. Gen. John Walsh, retired former commander of the Montana National Guard and decorated Iraq War veteran, as his running mate. Bullock calls Walsh an “experienced leader” who’s “dedicated to our future.”

• Friday, March 9 The Buffalo Field Campaign sues the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service over the management of Yellowstone National Park bison. The group claims the agency has withheld records relating to bison population control experiments, bison held in quarantine, funding agreements and reports tracing sources of brucellosis in Montana cattle.

• Saturday, March 10 A 16-year-old male wearing a Ghostface mask from the movie Scream robs the Town Pump in Lolo at gunpoint, getting away with an undisclosed amount of cash. His mother later sees a news story about the robbery, finds the mask, gun and cash and turns her son in.

• Sunday, March 11 Missoula firefighter Andrew Drobeck breaks the world firefighting stair climbing record at the 21st annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle, Wash., a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Drobeck carries more than 50 pounds of gear up 69 stories in 10 minutes and 38.2 seconds.

• Monday, March 12 A 35-year-old man jumps off the Higgins Ave. Bridge, swims across the Clark Fork River to shore and breaks a glass door at the Boone and Crockett Club to gain entrance. Police arrive on the scene within minutes and transport the man to Saint Patrick Hospital for psychological testing.

• Tuesday, March 13 Two late winter storms with high winds knock power out in the Bitterroot and Flathead valleys. Afternoon gusts of up to 49 miles per hour in the Bitterroot upend a tree that lands on a power line and leaves hundreds of homes and businesses without electricity. KPAX reports that 1,400 people are left without power in Columbia Falls, Kila and Marion.

Nearly two dozen NFL scouts descended on Washington-Grizzly Stadium March 9 for Griz “Pro Day,” an opportunity to observe Griz football players and record their performances in strength, speed and agility drills. The NFL draft begins April 26.

Griz “Tru” awaits payday University of Montana football player Trumaine Johnson must be getting used to the buzz. The National Football League is calling him “arguably one of the best and most polished NFL prospects to come out of the Big Sky Conference in quite some time.” ESPN analyst Todd McShay recently said Johnson might have the greatest upside of any defensive back in the NFL Draft. And last fall, Missoula police tased him at a rowdy party. That incident, which resulted in Johnson pleading no contest to a disorderly conduct charge, wasn’t the first time he made headlines in Missoula for his off-field behavior. In March 2009, Johnson and another football player allegedly assaulted a fellow student at a frat party, fracturing his cheekbone. The victim didn’t press charges, but then-coach Bobby Hauck punished Johnson by benching him for a game. UM’s student paper, the Montana Kaimin, broke the story months after the fact, and Hauck responded by stonewalling Kaimin reporters for weeks, for which he was lambasted by ESPN and Sports Illustrated columnists, among others.

Representatives from more than 20 NFL teams came to UM’s pro day last Friday to watch Johnson, known as “Tru,” work out in Washington-Grizzly Stadium. He played cornerback for the Grizzlies, but his size—6’2”, 204 pounds—has some NFL scouts pegging him as a safety. Analysts expect the Stockton, Calif., native to be selected in the second round of next month’s NFL Draft, which means he figures to be among the top draft picks to ever come out of UM, joining the company of Griz legends and fellow second-rounders Steve “Okie” Okoniewski, a defensive lineman the Atlanta Falcons took with the 41st pick in 1972, and offensive tackle Scott “Lurch” Gragg, taken by the New York Giants with the 54th pick in 1995. A cornerback selected in the middle of the second round of last year’s draft signed a fouryear contract worth about $4 million. In a recent Sports Network interview, Johnson was asked about overcoming Montana’s “small school” label. “I get that a lot,” he said. “But...everything happens for a reason. I’m just going to take advantage of my opportunities, like I’ve done out here at Montana.” Matthew Frank

Coal Mining the middle of nowhere Last Friday, a video feed put University of Montana economist Tom Power before a Montana State University Billings conference room full of citizens wary that more Montana and Wyoming coal mining could bring round-the-clock train traffic through downtown Billings. Before that happens, though, the coal companies plotting to tap southeastern Montana’s massive deposits must overcome a geographic disadvantage. “All due apologies to the Billings area,” Power said, “but one of the chief disadvantages is that that coal is found literally in the middle of nowhere, at least…when it comes to where the demand for that coal is.” That would be Asia. The international energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie forecasted last week that U.S. coal exports will reach 500 million tons annually by 2030—about five times the current level. Much of it will come from the Powder River Basin, the West Virginia-sized deposit spanning southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming, which suggests that the advantages of that coal—its low price and low sulfur content—will overcome its iso-

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lation. New train tracks would go a long way toward solving the problem, which explains why BNSF and Arch Coal are trying to build the Tongue River Railroad to reach Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Otter Creek coal tracts. China could use the coal. Its large deposits in Inner Mongolia are â&#x20AC;&#x153;more in the middle of nowhere,â&#x20AC;? Power said. Shipping Powder River Basin coal across the Pacific appears to make sense, economically. It may not make sense to Montanans waiting at railroad crossings. Power estimates that if two proposed export terminals in Washington state are built, sending 140 million tons of coal across the ocean every year, about 60 coal trains, each more than 100 cars long, would cross Montana every day. BNSF doubts it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assuming all the facilities get built, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re operating at full capacity yearround because coal demand is that high, BNSF carries every ton of that coal and we route it through Billings,â&#x20AC;? BNSFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zak Anderson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be the case.â&#x20AC;? Still, coal dust could be a problem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The benefits of the coal trains go to the coal companiesâ&#x20AC;ŚThe costs are coming to the individual citizens that happen to be living in the community, particularly the people who live along the tracks,â&#x20AC;? said Robert Merchant, a Billings pulmonologist. Matthew Frank

Insurance Next step Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health insurance market is on the cusp of some serious change. Last month, the state green-lighted a $25 million deal that will see 8,600 insured New West Health Services clients transferred to Oregon-based PacificSource. Just days before, the grassroots Montana Health Cooperative received a $58 million federal start-up grant to help launch its operation. PacificSource signed a letter of intent late last year to purchase a sizable chunk of New West, until now the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second largest health insurer. The approval of that deal by Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen marks the last step in a scale-down of New Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business in Montana. The deal â&#x20AC;&#x153;brings another choice for consumers in Montana,â&#x20AC;? Lindeen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the more choice we have, the better.â&#x20AC;? Lindeen says her office was careful to ensure that the 8,600 customers transferred to PacificSource would maintain the same benefits they presently have with New West. The agreement will also give PacificSource a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bigger stakeâ&#x20AC;? in the Montana mar-

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ket. PacificSource already had some 1,600 enrolled members in Montana, gained in the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 purchase of Clear One for $46 million. Farther down the road, the Montana Health Cooperative could be giving established insurers a run for their money. Project officer Larry Turney says the co-op board recently established a search committee for a CEO and hopes to fill the position by July 1. The long-term goal of the co-op is to make the insurance market more competitive and bring even more choice to Montanans.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;By the middle of 2013, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a staff of between 20 and 25 people,â&#x20AC;? Turney says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready to offer insurance by October 2013.â&#x20AC;? The Montana-built co-op will differ from other insurers in one major way: Control of the company will largely rest in the hands of customers. Within two years of selling insurance, Turney says, the board will be elected by insured members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a lot to say as far as how we spend our money and how we do business. Hopefully thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll help to control costs and keep our administrative costs down below 10 percent.â&#x20AC;? The Montana Health Cooperative was one of seven cooperatives across the country to receive funding through the Affordable Care Act this year. Lindeen has not yet seen a licensure application from the board. Alex Sakariassen

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ed along the bottoms of YouTube videos. They feature Rehberg or Bullock or Baucus and plug different messages: Vote for. Vote against. Sign up. Join the fight. With the 2012 election season getting hotter, Montana politicians are staking out territory in the one place desk jockeys canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get away from. Sen. Jon Tester recently launched an aggressive social media campaign against his Republican challenger, Rep. Denny Rehberg. (Rehberg himself dropped $550 late last year on Facebook advertising.) Third-party groups, too, increasingly are taking their messages online; the Montana Wildlife Federation is now running an ad on Facebook criticizing Rehberg for his stance on the Roadless Release Act. The web buys are on the rise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cost-effective way to get a message out,â&#x20AC;? says Rehberg spokesman Erik Iverson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to tell is, are you reaching new people or are you reaching political junkies?â&#x20AC;? Social media sites recognized a coming trend last year. Twitter announced in September it would be selling political advertising distinguished by small purple checkmarks and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;promoted byâ&#x20AC;? disclosure. A survey conducted during this Januaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iowa Straw Poll showed that 46 percent of political advertisers would invest in Twitter ads; 92 percent said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d invest in Facebook ads. Until recently, most of the advertising in Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contested Senate race has played out on television; estimates put the amount spent by third party PACs on pro-Rehberg ads in the past year at more than $1 million. Now Tester is on the offensive, countering with YouTube banner ads that criticize Rehberg for his reliance on super PAC assistance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ads are a response to the TV ads weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing plastered on TV by pro-Rehberg super PACs,â&#x20AC;? says Tester spokesman Aaron Murphy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The internet strategy we went with simply points out the fact that Congressman Rehberg has been very good for these secretive organizations, and so it makes sense theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re returning the favor.â&#x20AC;? Iverson says advertising on social media is new for Rehberg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never had to do it before.â&#x20AC;? The latest spate of ads is hardly exclusive to the Tester-Rehberg bout, however. Gubernatorial candidate Steve Bullock has highlighted his position as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the biggest threat to Citizens Unitedâ&#x20AC;? via Facebook buys, hoping to sway users well in advance of the polls. And Max Baucusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;still two years away from the end of his current termâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has appeared in a Facebook ad lately urging Republicans to â&#x20AC;&#x153;stop their attacks on Planned Parenthood.â&#x20AC;? Alex Sakariassen

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We grew giddy this week when we learned that recently ousted Missoula City Council member Lyn Hellegaard is polishing up her six-shooter to go gunning for Democrat Ellie Hill. We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have dreamed up a better political grudge match. Hellegaard, a Republican, aims to unseat Hill in House District 94 this November. Both politicians are lightning rods, prone to controversy. They also use inflammatory and, at times, polarizing language. While on council, the fiscally conservative Hellegaard periodically lambasted Missoula budget crunchers. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crapâ&#x20AC;? is among the adjectives she used to describe the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget process). Similarly, Hill drew media attention last year when she took aim at Havreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republican legislator Kris Hansen: After Hansen introduced a bill that aimed to overturn Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-discrimination ordinance, Hill took to Facebook vowing to unseat her, saying,, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your days are numbered, Rep. Hansen.â&#x20AC;? Cue the theme song of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. We caught up with Hill less than 24 hours after she learned that Hellegaard had tossed her 10-gallon hat into the race. The incumbent was chomping at the bit to further brand herself a social progressive. Hill eagerly pointed out that Hellegaard was only one of two city councilors to vote against Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-discrimination ordinance. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a coincidence, Hill said, that Hellegaard lost her Ward 4 seat to gay rights activist Caitlin Copple. That skirmish over social policies foreshadows others to come when the Montana Legislature convenes next year. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little doubt that reproductive rights will again be on the agenda, as will questions of LGBT equality. Hellegaard didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t return calls from the Indy seeking comment. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running as the only Republican in the House District 94 race, meaning sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already in it for the long haul, past primary season and into November. Hill must win a June primary against two other Democratic challengers, Pete Burridge and former Missoula Councilwoman Lou Ann Crowley. Crowley served on the Missoula City Council between 1996 and 2005. While there, she earned a reputation as a moderate able to work across party lines. She ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2005. In 2010, she lost a race in HD 94 to Hill. But now, should Hill and Hellegaard blow one another to smithereens, Crowley will no doubt be ready to saddle up and head to Helena in 2013.

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Where will it end? Hamilton School Board debates LGBT protection by Jessica Mayrer

Others said that many people face On March 6, Alyx Steadman’s hands need to do this.” Amsden and Steadman, however, discrimination for a variety of reasons, and voice shook as the 18-year-old explained why lesbian, gay, bisexual and appeared outnumbered. Multiple pastors including social status and body type. transgender students should be considered spoke against adding LGBT people to They asked if new policy language could protected classes of people in the Hamilton protected classes. Sexuality and gender, simply prohibit bullying against everyone they said, are topics for parents to teach, and protect equal education opportuniSchool District. ties for all. “I survived the torture of middle not schools. Hamilton isn’t alone in grappling Pastor Kevin Horton of Crossroads school,” he told the Hamilton School Board and roughly 100 parents, teachers and stu- Christian Fellowship, in Victor, said that if with these issues. The Montana Office of dents who convened at Daly Elementary the school board approved policies protect- Public Instruction and Board of Public School. They were there to debate the mer- ing LGBT people, it would be perceived as Education are now deliberating similar its of adding sexual orientation and gender an endorsement of anti-Christian values. questions as they tweak accreditation expression as protected classes in district “Sexual orientation is a behavioral deci- standards for schools across the state, says policies governing harassment and intimi- sion,” Horton said. “You will be offending Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Dennis Parman. “The dation, equal educational opportopic of bullying is reaching the tunities and employment. national discourse level.” The Hamilton-Bitterroot A state-appointed task force is Valley Chapter of Parents Families now updating Montana’s accrediand Friends of Lesbian and Gays tation standards, which set a baseasked the school board to make line for school districts. The task the changes. If they’re approved, force has discussed adding gay and discrimination and bullying lesbian students as a protected against LGBT students and teachclass in equal opportunity maners would be expressly prohibited. dates. However, Parman says, the Steadman was the only gay task force is now leaning toward student to speak during the meetincorporating the phrase “prejuing. He told the crowd that he dice toward none” rather than listknew he was gay early. He came ing protected classes. “It could be out to a few friends during recess their sexual preference...it could while attending fifth grade in be their gender, ethnicity…reliHamilton. Steadman recalled that gious background. This language by middle school, “a few people says none of that matters—this told a few people, who told protection’s for all.” everyone else.” Other boys called The Board of Public him a “faggot,” he says. The worst Education, in conjunction with part was being ostracized. the Superintendent of Public He’s now a skinny, bearded Education, is slated to deliberate Hamilton High School senior. changes this September. The well-spoken young man told the crowd that homophoThe Hamilton School Board bia remains pervasive in parts of plans to vote on its proposed Photo by Michelle Gustafson the Bitterroot. policy changes during a March That would be no different Hamilton High School senior Alyx Steadman has a 27 meeting. than in other parts of the nation. news flash for you: There are gay people in the As for Steadman, he started Bitterroot Valley, too. According to a 2009 survey by the Bitterroot Valley’s first LGBT the Gay Lesbian and Straight youth group in January—it now Education Network, nine of 10 LGBT stu- those who happen to have a Bible view of has eight members—and will graduate dents reported harassment at school in the these issues.” this spring. He’s already been accepted to Bitterrooters Steve and Terri Jarvis, the Davidson Honors College at the U.S. Nearly two-thirds of the more than 7,000 students polled said they felt unsafe meanwhile, worried that creating protec- University of Montana and Willamette because of their sexual orientation. Nearly tions for LGBT kids could leave the dis- University and is waiting to hear back a third of LGBT students skipped school trict vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits. They from other colleges. That means he won’t also cautioned that anti-discrimination personally be affected by any school polibecause of safety concerns. The nation, meanwhile, has watched mandates could open the door to a “pro- cy changes in Hamilton. But he says he’s in recent years as a spate of persecuted gay agenda.” pleased to have the chance to engage his “I’m wondering where this would community in this conversation. teenagers have killed themselves in highly publicized incidents. Gay teens are up to end,” Terri Jarvis said. “To talk about it is big, because there’s Others in the crowd, like Gene a stigma in this community about talking four times more likely than their heterosexWilliams, an African-American, said sin- about homosexuality,” he says. “Some peoual peers to commit suicide. PFLAG’s Saundra Amsden said statistics gling out one group of kids for “special ple don’t want their kids talking about it. like that illustrate the need for stronger protections” simply isn’t fair. “My people They just want to push it aside and say that never did need extra treatment under the it doesn’t exist. But it clearly does.” protections for LGBT youth. “We’re just interested in making things law,” Williams said. “What we needed was better,” she said. “We would love not to equal protection.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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The Bakken bust It could be coming soon to a town near you Since Montana is home to the largest Superfund site in the nation, you’d think its politicians and state agencies would have learned something about the transience of resource extraction booms and the long-lasting effects of the environmental, social and economic busts that follow them. But as oil and gas development along the now-booming Bakken Formation shows, the lure of fast money overtakes prudent public policy and— surprise, surprise—there appears to be no partisan divide among the development cheerleaders that our top politicians have become. For most Montanans, in our populated urban centers, the raging development pressures now being experienced in the tiny towns of eastern Montana seem far, far away. We don’t see the blazing torches of gas flares, breathe the petroleum fumes, watch endless lines of trucks bringing pipes, drilling rigs and supplies or see the man camps and scattered trailers, RVs and ramshackle abodes that characterize “the oil patch.” Nor, as the citizens of Sidney recently experienced, are we pierced by the loss of a local teacher who was presumably murdered, and buried in an as-yet unfound grave, by two men who followed the smell of money to the oil fields. For most Montanans, the massive changes being caused by the thousands of people now seeking to strike it rich from petroleum extraction mean little more than the stories we read and hear in the media, the low and falling prices for natural gas and the endless fodder that petro-tax dollars give our governor to brag about the illusory budget “surplus” for which he takes so much credit without a mention of the environmental disasters that fracking could leave behind. One thing our politicians like to hide behind as they sweep the oil-boom dirt under the rug is the efficacy of state regulation, which we are supposed to believe has somehow transmogrified from its latent, reactive past to a proactive, protective present. But, as a recent performance audit by the Legislative Auditor’s Office reveals, we would be mistaken to think that things have changed in the resource extraction business. The report, which can be found in its entirety online, took a hard look at how well the Montana Board of Oil and

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Gas Conservation (BOGC), a regulatory entity attached to the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation in the Oil and Gas Conservation Division, is doing its job. The BOGC’s job is to “regulate oil and natural gas exploration, and development operations that occur in Montana. Regulation occurs by requiring drilling permits, classifying

Astoundingly, although “locating, drilling, operating and production cannot cause unnecessary loss” by law, an estimated 25 percent of the natural gas is being flared off into the atmosphere.

wells, disseminating board orders that establish well spacing and other drilling requirements, conducting field inspections, and requiring performance bonds to ensure site restoration.” The results are not encouraging. The opening sentence of the report is perhaps the most telling: “The Board of Oil and Gas Conservation must improve its inspections and enforcement processes to more effectively regulate the state’s 17,600 active oil and gas wells.” The key

word here is “effectively”; when you read the details, it becomes apparent that the state’s regulation of the oil and gas boom is anything but effective. A whopping 58 percent of wells have not been inspected (or have no documentation showing they’ve been inspected) within the last five years. When a well is inspected and found to be in violation of the law or administrative rules, the non-compliance rate for identified violations was 35 percent in 2010. Astoundingly, although “locating, drilling, operating and production cannot cause unnecessary loss” by law, an estimated 25 percent of the natural gas is being flared off into the atmosphere, not only wasting the resource but also spewing pollution into the air and costing tax revenue because the gas is not being captured. For an idea of just how much gas is being flared off, check out the satellite pictures online. You’ll be amazed, because the light coming off the flaring and drilling rigs far outshines Bismarck, which is North Dakota’s capital, and covers more area than Minneapolis. As reported recently in a publication by the Montana Environmental Information Center, “this carbon spill into Montana’s atmosphere amounts to enough energy to power tens of thousands of homes annually.” When I told a friend who was born and raised in Glendive that I was going to write about this topic, tears came to his eyes. He’s seen the destruction visited on his family. Yet such socioeconomic impacts could pale beside the environmental disaster that will likely follow due to Montana’s lax regulation. The drill rigs, man camps and unsavory camp followers will one day vanish, but fracking chemicals could stay behind forever in the groundwater. The Bakken oil and gas boom—and bust—could be heading farther west, right up to the Rocky Mountain Front. We could and should act now to protect ourselves, yet it seems the only act we’re likely to see is more politicians tap dancing in the winds of political expediency while they pour our future down the drain. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Oink, oink, ouch A moral issue confronts industrial farmers by Pete Letheby

Did you know that Nebraska is being invaded by “terrorists” and “conspiracists”? Perhaps the kindest descriptive noun some unnerved Nebraskans are using these days is “extremists.” Brace yourself: The terrorists and extremists in question are various organizations and people that care about the welfare of farm animals, led by the Humane Society of the United States. And the “conspiracy” they’re engaged in is an attempt to improve conditions for those animals, especially on factory farms. Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman inaugurated hostilities about a year ago, and he hasn’t let up. “I’m an Army Ranger,” Heineman told a receptive audience recently. “This guy [Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle] wants to engage in guerrilla warfare. I’ll teach him a thing or two.” Production and industrial agriculture leaders in the state, led, not surprisingly, by the Nebraska Farm Bureau, echo similar sentiments. Said one dairy producer: “The most frightening issue is consumers’ growing concern over animal welfare.” An official of the Nebraska Corn Growers agreed that the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals “are destroying agriculture and rural America. We can’t let this happen. Stand up and fight for America.” Since when was concern for farm animals frightening or un-American? Perhaps the current fuss is due to all the attention that’s suddenly being paid to what happens down on the farm. In just the last three months, the United Egg Producers and the Humane Society announced a compromise that would improve farm conditions for egg-laying hens, doubling the size of their cages and offering them perches and nest boxes; McDonald’s, the biggest restaurant chain on the planet, vowed that it will no longer purchase pork that’s produced by tightly confining pregnant sows in “gestation crates” on factory farms; and Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, has pledged to phase out the use of those gestation crates by 2017. Perhaps the biggest blow for change was struck by Nebraska’s Farmers Union, which entered into a partnership with the Humane Society to explore options

for “constructive compromise” on farm animal-welfare issues. The Nebraska Farm Bureau and its allies have responded to these developments by hunkering down in the trenches. They have attacked their critics and

Farm groups and their political backers say they’re fighting outsiders in order to save American agriculture. A more accurate description of what they’re doing is fighting the conscience of America. done their best to create fear among Nebraskans by rehashing tired and nonsensical statements, saying that the Humane Society “wants to take away your freedom of food choices.” They are trying hard to rally their troops, whose numbers continue to dwindle as gigantic industrial farms become increasingly difficult to defend. Production agriculture’s old mantra of “feeding the world” is starting to lose out to people’s sense of morality. Countless surveys and polls show this, including one right here in Nebraska just last year. It found that “95 percent of rural Nebraskans agree that animal welfare means providing adequate food, water and shelter to livestock animals. More significantly, though, 69 percent agree it also includes providing adequate exercise, space and social activities for the animals.” Ultimately, this is an issue that the

public will decide with its principles and pocketbooks. If consumers in New York and California want ethically raised meats and poultry, that’s what they’ll buy. A Kansas State University study last year found that 62 percent of grocery shoppers favored mandatory labeling of pork produced on farms using gestation crates or stalls. The Farm Bureau and other self-proclaimed “mainstream” farm groups and their political backers say they’re fighting outsiders in order to save American agriculture. A more accurate description of what they’re doing is fighting the conscience of America. As John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, puts it, “This is a fight Nebraska agriculture would lose, and do permanent damage to our public perception and our relationship with food consumers in the process.” It always takes us a while, but the history of this country reveals that sooner or later, we do our best to walk our righteous talk. It took centuries until we finally acknowledged that slavery was morally repulsive, that women are on par with (and sometimes exceed) men in smarts and resolve and that every human being, regardless of color, deserves equal civil rights. And even though there is still some resistance to the idea, most Americans now believe that gay and lesbian people pose no threat to family life in America and, in some instances, may enhance it. “We manage to stumble along and get things done the right way,” says Bernard Rollin, the renowned Colorado State University animal ethicist. Animal welfare is the country’s next big moral movement. The majority of Americans, urban and rural, have come to feel that animals, including the animals we eat, merit freedom from the abominable conditions found in America’s 16,000 concentrated animal feeding operations. This raises an important question, not just for Nebraska but for other farming states as well: Who’s really in the mainstream on this issue? Pete Letheby is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a writer in Grand Island, Nebraska.

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Being a landlord isn’t always a hoot. It can mean sucking up sewage with a Shop-Vac from a basement carpet, buying refrigerators and cashing bad checks. Landlords, aka property owners, are not always rich, either. In Missoula, it’s not unusual for people to buy multi-family units because that’s all they can afford. The rental income keeps a roof over the owner’s head and provides said owner with late-night calls describing the scent of the goo oozing from the basement drain. But that doesn’t mean that landlords should get a pass on being decent. I was once charged $1,000 for curtains that never existed. The bill came on an attorney’s letterhead. It turned out the letterhead had been stolen off the internet and falsified. I never paid the bill, and I may have more than got my money’s worth as I watched the trailer (yes, trailer) burn to the ground one summer evening. (Seriously, $1,000 worth of curtains in a trailer?) Not all renters are fortunate enough to learn that they’re being duped or reamed.

THURSDAY MARCH 15 Get your paper together and learn how to do it right at the Sustainable Business Council’s two part Strive Towards Sustainability workshop. Office Solutions and Services, 1020 North. 11 AM–12:30 PM. Call 7213000 ext. 1119. Learn how two unlikely friends made the Americans with Disability Act a reality at the Peace and Justice Film Series movie Music Within, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Disability and Students at UM. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. Learn what’s up with that pothole in front of your house at the State of the Community event. The mayor, county commissioners and the University of Montana’s president are on hand to talk about Missoula and the surrounding area. Plus there’s bound to be a few crazies, too. UM PARTV Center. 7 PM. Free.

FRIDAY MARCH 16 The YWCA Brown Bag Lunch topic is Consumption, Class and Motherhood-Child Endangerment at the Gallatin Valley Mall. Discuss “how dominant definitions of motherhood function to punish women” with professor Sara Hayden. Pack a lunch for this one. YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway. Noon–1 PM. Free. All-around stud, former Pittsburgh Steeler and winner of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart Rocky Bleier is in town to raise money for Special Olympics Montana. DoubleTree Hotel. 6 PM. $100 for dinner and auction/$50 additional for VIP reception. somt.org.

Now there’s help: The Zootown Solidarity Network seeks to aid and organize renters, and workers, too, so that they may act against miserly landlords and tipstealing bosses. The aim is to educate renters about what are essentially their rights as human beings. On Friday, they are hosting an outreach and benefit concert to raise printing funds. It will feature speakers and video presentations, as well as live music. Check out ZSN before you get caught up in a dispute or end up finding your record collection sitting in the sun next to a heap of your clothes. —Jason McMackin The Zootown Solidarity Network Outreach and Benefit Concert takes place Fri., Mar. 16, at 8 PM at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St. Music by King Elephant, Modality and Zebulon Kosted. There is also a potluck. For more information, go to zootownsolnet.wordpress.com.

on a regular basis. Learn how the privileged and powerful do it at the Tunnel of Oppression in the UC Ballroom. 10–6:30 PM. Free.

TUESDAY MARCH 20 If you’re grieving the loss of a pet, take comfort at the Pet Bereavement Group, which meets the third Tue. of each month at 21st Century Homeopathy, 813 1st St. in Hamilton at 6:30 PM. Call 370-0699. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955. The March meeting of the Arlee Community Development Corporation takes place in the Arlee High School Business Lab. 6 PM. For more info. contact Kelley at 762-5550. The UM Wilderness Institute brings scholars, writers, scientists and explorers together to share stories of how water shapes our lives, landscapes and politics in the Wild Waters in the West Lecture Series. This week, Jon Turk, writer and scientist, gives a lecture titled Ice and Water in the Clockworks: Kayak and Circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. This week’s UM Alumni Association lecture is given by Neva Hassanein and is titled Food as a Driver for Democracy and Justice. Hassanein focuses on sustainable and local food systems. UC Theater. 7–8:30 PM. $5.

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Hear some tuneage and help out the fine folks at Free Cycles during the Greencycles Fundraiser, with music by Shallow Tide, Three-Eared Dog and The Trees. Refreshments, bike tune-ups and then some. 732 S. 1st W. All ages. 7 PM. $5.

The Ravalli County Planning Board Meeting agenda includes UN Agenda 21 and sustainable development. 215 S. 4th W., Hamilton. 7 PM.

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

Canadian polar bear biologist Dr. Ian Stirling talks about life up north during his lecture The Ecology of Polar Bears, Climate Warming and the Effects on Polar Bear-Human Interactions. Urey Lecture Hall. 7 PM. Free.

The Ignition Party gives you the chance to sign the CI110 petition to legalize grass and to have some fun with like-minded folks, too. Performers include the Voodoo Horseshoes, Dave Knolin, Nick Gilbert and plenty more DJs and emcees. American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan. 8 PM–4 AM. Free.

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I have a bad felling that this installment of the Peace and Justice Film Series, Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands, does not have much in the way of good news. Gallagher Business Building, Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. Learn how it is in Iran at the screening of Education Under Fire, a film about the Iranian government’s denial of educational services to those who voice disagreement with the man. Liberal Arts Bldg., Rm. 305. 7 PM. Free.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police were pursuing hit-and-run suspect Keith W. Brown, 54, in Waynesboro, Va., when Brown’s SUV got stuck in a large pile of mulch and soft clay. Brown exited the vehicle and tried to flee on foot—using a walker. He was quickly arrested. (Staunton’s The News Leader) A man entered the Grant Street Barber Shop in Akron, Ohio, pulled a gun and demanded money. The barber told police he refused to hand over the money and dared the robber to shoot him. The gunman aimed at the barber and pulled the trigger, but the weapon jammed. The suspect fled empty-handed. (Akron Beacon Journal) BIG-BANG THEORY - Intending to quit smoking, Tom Holloway, 57, of Niceville, Fla., switched to electronic cigarettes. He was puffing on one when it exploded in his mouth, severely burning his face, knocking out his front teeth and blowing off a chunk of his tongue. “The best analogy is like it was trying to hold a bottle rocket in your mouth when it went off,” North Bay Fire Department Division Chief Joseph Parker said. (Associated Press) CULINARY CAPERS - Up to a third of customers at a Chinese restaurant at North Carolina’s Duke University welcomed half-sized portions of rice and noodles, even when they cost the same as full-sized portions, according to researchers led by Tulane University psychologist Janet Schwartz. Citing the study and his own research into smaller portions, Cornell University’s Brian Wansink predicted, “We’re seeing some very creative ways of downsizing in the next couple of years.” (Associated Press) A man in his 40s was dining at the Heart Attack Grill in downtown Las Vegas when he suffered an apparent heart attack. While eating a “Triple Bypass Burger,” he began sweating and shaking and could barely talk, according to owner “Doctor” Jon Basso, who insisted the episode was not a publicity stunt. There have been a “variety of incidents” in the past, he said, but this was the first full-scale coronary. An amateur video shows paramedics wheeling the man from the restaurant to an ambulance. He was hospitalized but survived. The restaurant, whose “Quadruple Bypass Burger” boasts 8,000 calories and “Flatliner Fries” are cooked in lard, advises patrons, “Caution! This establishment is bad for your health.” Customers weighing more than 350 pounds eat free. (Las Vegas’s KVVU-TV) WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME - When police officers stopped a 1991 Honda Accord in Hermiston, Ore., after recognizing wanted felony suspect Ramel Rodriguez, 31, as a passenger, the driver jumped out and fled. Rodriguez slid into the driver’s seat and sped off. He went three blocks before crashing into a 1999 Volkswagen Jetta. Officers arrested Rodriguez, who faces multiple charges. While attending to the driver of the Jetta, they learned he was Steven Broyles, 31, who had outstanding felony warrants for probation violation and was driving with a suspended license. (The Hermiston Herald) WHEN BARNEY FIFE TURNS TO CRIME - Authorities charged Verlin Alsept, 59, with trying to rob a Family Dollar Store in Dayton, Ohio, by threatening the store clerk with a single .38 caliber bullet that he pulled from his jacket pocket. The clerk told him she couldn’t open the cash register without the manager, so the thwarted robber left—only to be tackled by a private security guard. (Dayton Daily News) COSTLY OOPS - Responding to a complaint of high weeds in Newport News, Va., the city sent a crew to mow the property. It learned afterward that the land was protected wetlands. Facing an expense of at least $7,000 a year for wetlands monitoring and other costs, the city decided to buy the 37-acre property for $950,000. (Associated Press) TASERMANIA - The latest extreme sport is Ultimate Tak Ball. Originally called “Ultimate Tazer Ball,” the full-contact sport involves teams with four players, each equipped with a stun gun and whose only protective gear is goggles and a mouthpiece (and presumably a groin cup). Players score by putting a 24-inch ball through goals at each end of the 200-by-85-foot rectangular field. Inside an eight-foot semicircular “shock zone” around each goal, defending players may use their stun guns against the ball carrier. The UTB Tasers produce a 300,000-volt stun, which is significantly less than what would be required to kill, and do not fire probes like law-enforcement models. “It’s not technically a police-grade Taser,” Eric Prum, one of UTB’s founders, noted. “That being said, the first thing the [players] will tell you is that they hate getting tased. Those things really do hurt.” The league consists of four teams: the L.A. Nightlight, the Philadelphia Killawatts, the San Diego Spartans and the Toronto Terror. Since Canada bans the sport, the Terror doesn’t play home games. (Guns & Ammo) OVERSTAYED HIS WELCOME - After Martin Batieni Kombate, 44, was released from the Coconino County, Ariz., jail, he refused to leave. Officers asked him to leave four other times, and each time he refused. When he finally declared he had no intention of departing, he was arrested and charged with trespassing. (Flagstaff’s Arizona Daily Sun) HOMELAND INSECURITY - As part of a stunt for the television show “Mythbusters,” a cannonball was supposed to go through some water-filled barrels and a concrete wall at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range in Dublin, Calif. Instead, it overshot the barrels and then, according to sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson, took a “very unfortunate bounce...skyward.” It landed about 700 feet away, bounced through the front door of a home and out through a back wall, then bounced across the road and smashed the window and dashboard of a minivan. “We had some tremendous bad luck,” Nelson said, “and some tremendous good luck,” in that no one was hurt. (Contra Costa Times) More than three years after a steel 155 mm artillery round from the Army’s Picatinny Arsenal misfired and crashed through the roof of a home more than a mile away in Jefferson, N.J., the Army offered homeowner Frederick Angle, 56, $7,386.57 to cover the cost of repairing the roof, replacing bedroom furniture and euthanizing the family cat. Citing the emotional distress caused to his family, Angle said he was “disgusted, disillusioned” by the Army’s offer. When his lawyer urged him to accept it because of the difficulty of getting more money from the federal government, Angle began looking for a new lawyer to pursue his case, pointing out, “It would be un-American to give up the fight.” (Newark’s The Star-Ledger)

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he CineStar 6 looks more like an enormous flying spider than a helicopter. Six plastic rotors on spindly arms spin wildly, the whir echoing across Missoula’s Dornblaser Field. The machine hovers for a few seconds at eye level, teetering back and forth in the late afternoon breeze, and then, in a flash, it shoots straight to the top of a grove of pines. If the Sony NEX camera fixed to its belly were recording, the footage would be a wild roller-coaster ride. Jesse Spaulding plays his thumbs over a pair of joysticks on a hulking remote controller. The CineStar zips south, then east, cutting across blue sky and a pale moon. If he wanted, Spaulding says, he could send the thing two miles away—over the South Hills, maybe farther—before it would drop out of range. The Federal Aviation

Administration limits the height he can fly it, to about 400 feet. Still, he’s been able to get aerial footage of climbers on jumbled boulder fields, slack-liners on the University of Montana campus, a mountain biker on Mount Jumbo, even his girlfriend strolling across open fields in full hunting camo. A decade ago, technology such as this was largely out of reach for filmmakers in western Montana. Now it seems the sky’s the limit. Cameras boast increasingly higher quality at lower cost and come in smaller sizes that can shoot both still photos and video. Anyone can get their hands on the basic equipment needed to make a film. Succeeding as a filmmaker, however, is a different story. “It’s a field which requires innovation at every turn,” says Doug HawesDavis, a documentary filmmaker in

Missoula. “Montana-based producers, independent filmmakers, perhaps have to rely on innovation as much or more than everybody else, because funding is limited.” Spaulding, 24, is trying to innovate by investing in new filmmaking technology that will set him apart. He owns two of the CineStar helicopters, each valued at around $5,000. The other has eight rotors, but it’s not quite as stable and doesn’t break down for easy travel like the one at Dornblaser Field. He’s been at this for just over a year, honing his technique through practice and personal projects. The CineStar is ecofriendly, he boasts on his website, and far cheaper than hiring a manned aircraft. So far, though, he hasn’t been able to market his aerial cinematography skills very widely. “I wanted to get into more of the commercial world,

just ’cause I thought there was a lot of money there and a lot of potential,” he says. “But that’s super hard in Missoula because nobody wants to pay for that kind of thing.” Spaulding’s work regularly takes him across the country, from deer hunts in Sitka, Alaska, to squirrel hunts near Apalachicola, Florida. When we met up to take the CineStar for a spin, he’d just returned from filming a python hunt in the Florida Everglades. He’s managed to find a niche in western Montana’s budding filmmaking community as a freelance videographer for Barrett Productions, a film production company specializing in adventure travel and outdoor programming for networks such as ESPN and the Outdoor Life Channel, but it wasn’t easy. Spaulding, a 2010 media arts grad from UM, only heard of Barrett Productions last year when he eaves-

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Jesse Spaulding, a Missoula freelance videographer, with his CineStar 6

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Doug Hawes-Davis shot his first documentary in 1992—12 years before co-founding the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

dropped on a Barrett videographer talking about a shoot in Africa. “Finally I went up and talked to him, asked him, ‘What do you do? How do you get to travel to these places and film?’” he recalls. “He told me about his job at Barrett Productions and said, ‘Yeah, we’re actually hiring another film guy.’ I went in the next day, brought them my resume and film reel...I had no clue Barrett Productions existed.” Despite the travel and excitement, Spaulding is still trying to realize his filmmaking dreams in Montana. He doesn’t use the CineStars for Barrett. The job only occasionally calls for his other specialized cinematic flair: painstaking time-lapse reels involving motors, a homemade dolly system and infinite patience. He has his hopes set on making documentaries about climbing and skiing. His first real venture into filmmaking came during a lengthy break from his initial chemistry studies at UM. He and a crew of climber friends traveled to Thailand, where he filmed their trip using a DSLR camera purchased with money from summer firefighting work. He later compiled the footage for a class project in editing and screened it on campus. The experience motivated him to stick with filmmaking; he gets excited simply retelling the story. The only time his mood drops is when he mentions a trip he was supposed to take to Italy for Barrett Productions. They finally wanted to tap his aerial expertise, he says—but the trip fell through, leaving him “bummed.” The CineStar will have to wait.

Hawes-Davis says, nodding at my Droid Incredible. We’re at a coffee shop on North Higgins and the place is packed. Cell phones litter nearly every tabletop. “Everybody in this room right here has the technology to make some kind of media right now, in their pocket,” he says. Hawes-Davis, 43, is part of Missoula’s old guard of documentary

filmmakers. He got his start in 1992, filming a project based on his graduate thesis from UM. Cameras were scarce in Missoula then, he says. The quality was “not that great.” He financed the project out of pocket, estimating it would take about $1,000. He had “no idea how to shoot, no idea how to edit, none of it really,” and when the woman he was working with disappeared, he found

himself “sitting there with this box of tapes, 20 hours of VHS footage.” Left with no real alternative in a town with no filmmaking infrastructure, he headed to Missoula Community Access Television and learned how to edit the hard way. He walked away with his first short film, The Element of Doom. Two years and a string of odd jobs later, Hawes-Davis was back at it. His second project brought him together with Dru Carr, a friend from UM. The two founded High Plains Films in 1992. Twelve years later, they went a step further, founding the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Many Missoula-based filmmakers these days consider the festival key to western Montana’s growing film community. “When the festival started nine years ago, I don’t think there were many local films or filmmaker-types,” says Damon Ristau, who debuted a version of his nearly finished documentary The Bus at the festival last month. “Every year it’s getting more rich and there’s more people doing this type of work. It’s this everexpanding group of people that are really talented and able to bounce ideas off each other.” Missoula’s filmmaking community has grown exponentially in the past 10 years. Part of that is due to increased exposure through high-profile events such as Big Sky or the International Wildlife Film Festival. But Hawes-Davis says the technology—now cheaper and better—has made the industry far less restrictive. Independent filmmakers are

LEVELING THE FIELD “The camera on your cell phone is probably better than the camera I made my first documentary on,” Doug

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Damon Ristau shoots additional footage for The Bus, which debuted in Missoula last month.

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no longer the “rare breed” they were in Hawes-Davis’s early years. The flashy advancements are the most obvious: the CineStar choppers, GoPro’s mini high-definition cameras, fish-eye and zoom lenses that magnetically attach to camera phones. Ristau used several GoPro shots for The Bus, mounting the camera to the undersides of cars or driving over it. The big revolutions for independent filmmakers are a tad more subtle, though. DSLRs such as Jesse Spaulding’s Canon 5D Mark II go for a few thousand dollars—a fraction of what the equipment necessary for quality productions cost a decade ago. Throw in a laptop with good editing software, and the minimum budget for a full-length film is still far more affordable. “It’s leveled the playing field,” Ristau says. “A guy like me, scraping by with a tiny film and production company, now that I have this technology and these tools, I can make a film that can be projected on the big screen at the Wilma Theatre and you can’t tell it wasn’t shot on a $40,000 camera or a $200,000 camera.” Ristau, 32, wound up in Missoula a decade ago, around the time when independent filmmakers began to congregate here. With the industry’s embrace of digital media, it’s become possible to eke out a living far from post-production hubs such as New York and Los Angeles. After Ristau did several shoots for The Bus at Burning Man last year, he was recruited by the Burning Man Project to do some volunteer video editing. Then it hired him to do all their internal video work. In today’s industry, that job doesn’t require Ristau to travel to San Francisco, where the organization is based; he can largely collaborate from Missoula. Gita Saedi Kiely came to Missoula nine years ago from Chicago, where she’d already established herself as a documentarian through her own work and her collaboration with a local film collective. Her move here came in the midst of a project for PBS, a series called “The New Americans” that told the stories of five immigrants in the U.S. She traveled repeatedly between Missoula and Chicago for work, always finding that the connectivity of the filmmaking community was notably stronger in the latter. “Fifteen years ago, if you loved Missoula and filmmaking, you just knew you had to love Missoula later,” she says. “You had to move and get your career going before you could come back here.” Now Saedi Kiely, 42, is finding more of the collective vibe she missed from Chicago, “and 10 years from now, it’s going to be here even more,” she says. Meanwhile, she teaches at UM, collaborates on projects with local filmmaking friends such as Katy Garton and works with past and present students. “If we could all rely on each other to watch each other’s rough cuts and make sure we finish our films, and get advice

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Documentarian Katy Garton on assignment in the Bitterroot Mountains

from each other and shoot with each other and edit with each other, it’ll just make our community stronger and bigger,” Saedi Kiely says. “I don’t see any reason why we can’t make great films here that are absolutely comparable to the films in New York or Berkley or Chicago. I don’t think we’re there yet, but I think we’re on our way.”

PAYING THE BILLS As readily available as the technology is, filmmakers still need to make money. Filmmaker Katy Garton sees that as probably the biggest hurdle now for those new to the industry. Garton, 32, got her start in the documentary world about 10 years ago, at Montana State University. The accessibility of new technologies allowed her to buy the equipment she needed. But making a living here, she says, requires a degree of “recognizing what you’re worth... “You get paid less in Montana, and there’s no way around that. There’s my Montana rate and my not-Montana rate. It’s a sticker-shock to people, because a lot of people have no idea what it takes to make a production…People don’t understand the time and, therefore, the cost.” Garton, who’s currently two years into a personal project on indigenous

music in Azerbaijan, considers herself lucky on the commercial front. Much of what she’s done has been more in the documentary style, allowing her to hone her artistic skills while making the money she needs to invest in equipment. Getting jobs in Montana depends greatly on who you know and who knows you, she says. “One thing leads to another. I’ve never sought out or advertised. It’s just a matter of forming relationships and building them and being passionate about the work. Before you know it, it links in a chain. Paths just connect and lead you to the next project.” Damon Ristau has managed to strike a balance between personal projects and the commercial work that comes with a somewhat steady paycheck, though he notes it’s not always easy. Making an independent film calls for a level of obsession; otherwise, Ristau says, he’d have a harder time finishing a project. Yet obsession can be a slippery slope, as Ristau’s learned the hard way. “I found myself in a lot of trouble,” he says of his personal work just prior to The Bus. “I made a film called The Best Bar in America a few years back, and it turned into this absolutely insane…We just fell down the rabbit hole with it and became all-consumed. I

forewent all this commercial work that was coming in the door, and it ended up biting me in the ass. We barely finished the movie, it’s still not released. It just spun my life out of control...Even if it may take a bit longer, you have to have a foot in both worlds.” There, too, technology has stepped up to help. The internet is rife with fundraising and networking opportunities for independent artists. Filmmakers don’t necessarily have to sink lots of capital into projects. Folks like Ristau are increasingly turning to Kickstarter, an online fundraising platform designed to free artists from financial restrictions. Ristau raised $25,000 on Kickstarter for The Bus, about 95 percent of it from “perfect strangers.” Even independent feature films are realizing the promise of grassroots support. Andrew and Alex Smith, brothers and renowned local filmmakers, launched a Kickstarter effort last summer to raise $60,000 for their film adaptation of James Welch’s novel Winter in the Blood. They received $67,223 in total pledges, from as far away as the U.K. and Italy. “It becomes a team effort then, and that’s something that’s changed the playing field too,” Ristau says. “Your supporters take some ownership...I get some emails from my Kickstarter supporters calling it ‘our film.’ That’s great. It’s like a big family. And at the same time, when people are giving you money and support, you don’t want to let them down.” The breakthroughs even extend to the distribution side of media, HawesDavis points out. The collapse of the DVD market was a hit to documentary filmmakers, he says, but the internet has opened untold doors for exposure. Given the limited out-of-pocket expense on The Bus, Ristau is contemplating an online pay-what-you-want model for the release of his film—akin to what bands such as Radiohead have done in the music industry. For many, the internet has changed the way independent filmmakers gain exposure. The emphasis is no longer on historic broadcast outlets. A filmmaker can create a website, throw up a film reel and show off his or her work to potential clients and audiences alike. “I just think back even to when I was first getting into documentary filmmaking,” Garton says. “The topics of conversation having to do with funding, everything was about broadcast. That’s how a documentary filmmaker got work shown...on TV. It’s still an incredible outlet, but now there’s a lot of outlets. Now, people are self-distributing their work.” However, the internet lacks a reliable filter. The amount of available media may be increasing radically. That doesn’t mean it’s all quality production. As the volume of media increases, “the more it’s necessary to have things like the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, where there’s somebody who’s curating, trying to make sense of it all and provide really compelling, artistic

stuff for the public to consume,” Hawes-Davis says. “The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival isn’t YouTube. There’s great stuff on YouTube, but you have to go try to find it. Nobody’s curating it for you, except for how many hits something got.”

RAMPANT GROWTH A few years back, Marc Pierce and his partner Chris Richardson found themselves on the far side of the Mexican border getting shaken down by the Mexican Federal Police, better known as

Pierce, 50, and Richardson, 41, have over 30 years of filmmaking experience between them. Their company, launched in 2008, has supplied outdoor programming for networks ranging from the Golf Channel to ESPN to Discovery. They film hunting, fishing, skiing, kayaking and pretty much anything else that makes Missoula seem a logical home base. Warm Springs, housed in a modest brick building on Missoula’s Northside, produced 82 episodes for television in 2011. It claimed a score of awards for that work this January, including best combo hunting and fishing series at the Sportsman

we’re in Montana...We have a different perspective, we have a different flavor to our storytelling. People love the whole imagery of Montana.” The only downside? “The plane tickets are expensive.” Still, Warm Springs is growing by leaps and bounds for a very good reason. Pierce says the company has been quick to adopt the latest in digital technology. They were one of the first companies in the outdoor space to start using DSLRs consistently, he says. Pierce even has a crew constructing a specialized camera rig, with 15 GoPro mini-

copter, Pierce explains, retrofitted with a top-of-the-line CineFlex camera. “The footage is as good as Hollywood gets,” he says. Warm Springs now collaborates with its Florida counterpart on film schedules, “piggybacking” on their trips to minimize expenditure. “It’s just breathtaking stuff,” Pierce says. It makes the footage look “network.” Not every technological advancement is something independent film companies can immediately embrace. Warms Springs would love to get its hands on a Phantom HD slow-motion camera that’s relatively new on the mar-

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Videographers with Warm Springs Productions shoot footage for the series “Making Monsters.”

“Federales.” They were filming a hunting show for the Outdoor Life Network, now called NBC Sports. The two have trekked far and wide for their Missoula-based filmmaking company, Warm Springs Productions. They’ve slept in a lot of airports, Pierce says. But Mexico was something else entirely. Neither of them even speaks Spanish. “That’s probably the scariest thing that either of us has dealt with, being accosted at gunpoint by 16-year-old Mexicans with machine guns,” Pierce says. “They just wanted to know what the hell we were doing laying out in a field with guns. We were goose hunting, but between the cameras and the guns they were very confused or suspicious and they weren’t very friendly. It scared the heck out of us.”

Choice Awards and best overall series at the Golden Moose Awards. “We just hired our 40th employee,” Pierce says. “We’re busting out at the seams, buying equipment, hiring more people. We’re having a blast.” Montana has proven a major asset for Warm Springs for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the unlikelihood of Pierce and Richardson running afoul of any Federales here. Pierce says UM provides a growing pool of qualified, competent graduates. Many of their employees started as part-timers while studying at the university in journalism or media arts. And being a production company from Montana has “brought us sort of a cachet” in bigger markets, Pierce says. “I was in Los Angeles with TNT, a major network, and they just love that

cams fixed to a single board. They got the idea from some filmmakers in the surf world. “You get this cool slow-mo effect as all these thing go off,” Pierce says. They plan to test it at Moonlight Basin this month, while Warm Springs shoots a pilot for a program on ski patrollers. “My partner, Chris, is a camera geek,” Pierce says. “Every week it seems like, he tells me about something new we have to have. But all kidding aside, it’s what’s really helped keep our product fresh and high quality. He’s relentless in his pursuit of the next cool technology that’s going to make beautiful TV.” To that end, Warm Springs has teamed up with a group of filmmakers in Florida to make use—jointly—of a pricey CineFlex helicopter. It’s a full-sized heli-

ket. “But it’s $100,000,” Pierce says. “It’s not something you rush out and get.” Warm Springs isn’t alone in western Montana’s outdoor television world. Barrett Productions, where both Pierce and Richardson got their starts in film, has also taken networks such as ESPN2 and Outdoor Life by storm. So has the Kalispell-based Tahoe Films, which won esteem last year from NBC Sports for its popular daytime program “Eye of the Hunter.” Bozeman’s Grizzly Creek Films has produced award-winning content for National Geographic, and specializes in commercial work for clients across the globe. The increased popularity of outdoor filmmaking does have some drawbacks. As the technology gets cheaper, it floods the market with productions of

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marginal quality, Pierce says—not that hunting shows are known for high production value, he clarifies. Warm Springs started up with the intent of making higher quality outdoor programming, but Pierce finds his business somewhat at odds with folks operating with less overhead and asking for less pay. “They’re cobbling it together with some inexpensive cameras and sweat equity and coming up with an okay product,” he says. “They’re willing to accept a lot less money for their work, so the supplydemand formula changes and prices for things go down. What someone is willing to pay for an outdoor television show now is a lot less, frankly, than it was five years ago, because there are so many people out there with cameras shooting stuff and not asking much for their work.”

It’s those small components, such as lighting and framing, that Spaulding feels will separate quality productions from typical YouTube fare. Gita Saedi Kiely says she sees a lot of good documentary ideas through her work screening entries for the Big Sky Film Fest. Most have the feel of rough cuts or unfinished films. Making a film is “so much harder than people realize,” she says. “So, now that all these inspired people with great ideas have their own cameras and all this guerilla filmmaking is happening, these wonderful ideas just end up being these rough cuts because they don’t have the infrastructure of yesteryear. “That said, this guerilla filmmaking creates an opportunity for the uber-talented 22-year-old who just hits the nail on the head in their first film and ends up being nominated for an Oscar.” For now, at least, innovation and ingenuity in filmmaking seems to be working in Montanans’

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Gita Saedi Kiely hopes to one day see a strong filmmaking collective in Missoula.

ROUGH CUTS Jesse Spaulding grew up in Papua New Guinea. He hopes eventually to return there and film an episode in a series of his own on hunting practices across the globe. But it’s going to take more than the CineStars and a time-lapse dolly to get there. He knows that. “It’s still a lot of work,” Spaulding says. “You can have some good-looking footage, but it helps to know people in [the industry] for sure. You have to be constantly bugging people, constantly filming and trying to get your work out there. Even though the equipment’s out there, it’s still not that easy to tap into.” That’s the downside. With more people holding the means to make a good-looking film in their hands, having a major network take notice of your work becomes that much harder. But unlike some, Spaulding knows not to take the technology for granted. He’s been to classes, he’s shot 16mm film, he’s processed his work the hard way. “If you mess up one little setting on your camera, those days that you put into it, you’re just going to have a blank roll of film,” he says. “That really makes you focus a lot more attention on your set up, your lighting, your camera settings. It made me gain a lot more appreciation for the technology now. With my camera, I can shoot something and then hit play and view it right away. If I don’t like it, I delete it, change a setting and shoot it again.”

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favor. Ristau, for example, is creating a short film entirely on his iPhone. He mentions Missoula Spaces, a festival founded last year to showcase one-minute films shot entirely on mobile devices. Spaulding is considering launching a Kickstarter campaign so he can film a pilot episode of his own series to send to several networks. And his aerial work could be taking off. He’s had some interest from a documentary project that wants him to capture footage of an island in the Pacific. In the meantime, he’s traveling around the country filming for Barrett Productions’ series “Deadmeat.” The show combines exotic hunting with regional cooking. After stowing the CineStar 6 in the back of his car, Spaulding shows me another outlandish filmmaking gadget, a pair of plastic black goggles with green trim, an antennae and a SIC Visuals sticker (SIC stands for Spaulding International Cinema, his freelance filmmaking company). The goggles have a distinct sci-fi feel; I can’t help thinking of the mask Princess Leia wears at the beginning of Return of the Jedi. When Spaulding plugs them into the CineStar’s remote, he can view a live feed from a smaller camera mounted next to his Sony on the helicopter’s belly. If he tilts his head left, right or down, the entire camera housing follows remotely. It’s pretty freaking cool—which leads to one question: What’s next? asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Braising isn’t confusing FLASHINTHEPAN Coffee and red wine are two of my favorite beverages to drink with meat. Given how much I like braising, it was only a matter of time before I tried braising meat in a mixture of coffee and wine. The results were exceptional: a browned, flavorful exterior and a spoon-tender, succulent interior. Braising means cooking in the oven, half submerged in fluid, and it’s one of the most powerful and under-appreciated cooking techniques there is. The process requires only basic implements and can transform meat from tough enough to stop bullets to a soft puddle of flavor. Acquiring braising skills could change your shopping habits. No longer will you feel compelled to pay big bucks for tender slices of fancy steak. Instead you’ll find yourself leering at chuck steak and other cheap cuts, braising them with your eyes. The very best cuts for braising are difficult to find over the counter, because most meat cutters grind those parts into hamburger, the great cop-out of American meat cookery. But the burger-bound scraps, crisscrossed with connective tissue, have more flavor than a soft steak from the same animal, provided you know how to coax it out. Any butcher, including the guy at your local market, can set aside some of the better braising cuts for you, like shoulder, neck and cheeks. Osso bucco, the famous bone-in braised roast, uses the shank muscles, analogous to your forearm or calf. Shanks are the toughest muscles in the body, layered with Kevlar-like sheets of intramuscular membrane. As osso bucco cooks, the membranes tighten and bunch the muscles into a lumpy ball at one end of the bone. When the membranes finally cook, they melt like fat. Melted tendon, cartilage and other connective tissues add texture as well as flavor to the meat, telling a story about the animal. A tender steak will never have this much character.

Cast-iron skillets and Dutch ovens are ideal for braising, because they have heavy lids that allow pressure to build in the pan. Many braising recipes call for searing the meat prior to braising, to seal in the juices. But given that the meat will spend hours submerged in pressurized hot liquid, I’m not worried about moisture loss. As long as the braising liquid stays more than halfway up the meat, it will be plenty moist. While searing is pointless, browning is non-negotiable. Braising meat without browning it would be like brewing coffee without roasting it first. Indeed,

the essence of a good braise is achieving simultaneously a browned exterior and creamy innards. Browning meat owes its charms to the Maillard reaction, a chemical combination of amino acids and sugars at high temperatures that produces hundreds of aromatic compounds that deserve much of the credit for making meat taste good. Following the lead of James Beard, who was hardly one to shy away from added fats, I shun the commonly used greasy pan for browning, and go oilfree under the broiler instead. The broiler method gives you superior control over the exact shade of brown you want, with less splatter and decreased fire danger. Broil the meat about four inches from the heat, turning often for even browning. I go for crispy and golden, but not

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crunchy and burnt. If burning does happen, your best bet is to slice off the burned part and move on. Add your braising liquid to a pan full of browned meat. I highly recommend equal parts wine and coffee, but the liquid could also be stock, plain wine, dark beer or just water. I like to add a few bay leaves and some garlic powder, but hold off on salt and other seasonings until later—like the next day, when I’m making stew or shepherd’s pie or refrying cut pieces of braised meat for tacos. Cook at 300, turning the meat periodically. Whenever the fluid level drops to about half full, replenish the fluid with water (or more wine and coffee) until the meat is nearly covered again. Braise until the meat falls apart in total surrender to the slightest provocation, roughly two to five hours, depending on the cut of meat and how tight your lid fits. Let the braise cool to room temperature and put it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, the liquid will be solid gelatin, a poor man’s demi-glace, and will melt like butter in a hot pan. You could have boiled the same piece of meat instead of braising it, but it would have Photo by Ari LeVaux turned out stringy and slimy—and only after hours of boiling. Browning and then boiling the meat would be acceptable, but won’t be nearly the animal that browned and braised meat is. With a pan of braised meat in the fridge, you have many options at your disposal. I like to make tacos, starting with a stack of corn tortillas in the oven while chopped bacon cooks in a pan. When the bacon starts to brown, add minced garlic and pieces of pulled-apart braised meat. Stir it all together and add some of the gelatinized braising liquid, which will melt into the mix. Season with chile, salt and pepper, and eat it on tortillas with chopped onion, cilantro and the creamy stuff of your choice. And serve with red wine or coffee, depending on the time of day.

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HAPPIESTHOUR Bayern’s Bakken Bock brewed it, local designer Eileen Chontos created the oil derrick label and the first cases were shipped out in January. The beer was featured at the first annual Bakken Brew Fest last weekend in Sidney.

Fueling the boom: Every month, some 16 million barrels of oil are extracted from the Bakken formation in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, the largest known oil deposit in the country. Just thinking about all that light, sweet crude can make a man thirsty. Enter Bayern Brewing’s newest offering: Bakken Bock, a dark dopplebock lager. “We have always been experts when it comes to brewing bock beers and German lager beers,” says Bayern owner Jürgen Knöller. “A lot of high-alcohol beers, well, being a German, they have for me a taste like paint thinner… A lager is just a lot smoother and easier and goes down a lot like oil.” That occurred to Knöller a while ago, while sipping lagers with a few pals from eastern Montana, and Bakken Bock was born. Bayern

How it tastes: It’s very similar to the dopplebock Bayern’s been brewing in Missoula since 1987, which is to say dark, sweet, smooth—and strong, with an alcohol content of 8.4 percent. Where to find it: Unfortunately, only on the eastern side of the Divide. Look for a six-pack the next time you’re in Billings, Miles City, Glendive, Sidney or Glasgow. —Matthew Frank Photo by Chad Harder

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Burger Shack 1900 Brooks • 549-2194 (Holiday Village) LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED! Come take a bite out of our ½ lb big & beefy burgers! We're the the only burger joint in Missoula serving 100% Certified Angus beef, handpattied, charbroiled and made to order. We have over 18 mouthwatering specialty burgers to choose from and there’s always a Burger Deal of the Day. Check out our selection of Far Out Phillies made with Certified Angus top sirloin-tossed with our own housemade sauces. Even the burps taste good! Open Monday thru Saturday 11am to 8pm. Call ahead or order to-go 549-2194.

Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder • 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken, 75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless. Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$

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. MTH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 41-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Brooks and Browns Trivia Night is back. $7 Bayern Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday from 7-10pm. $50 Bar Tab to winning team. Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloafstuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with

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cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Everyone loves our SUNDAY BINGO NIGHT! Sundays 6-9 pm at Brooks and Browns. Same happy Hour specials ($5 pulled pork sliders, ? order wings, ? nachos; $6 Bud Lite pitchers) Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. • 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try

our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm. Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$

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Arts & Entertainment listings March 15 – March 22, 2012

Alley cats. Dervish performs traditional Irish tunes on Fri., Mar. 16, at 8 PM in the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Rd. Tickets are $28.50 and $24.50. Call 363-7946 for ticket information.

THURSDAY March

Get your paper together and learn how to do it right at the Sustainable Business Council’s two part Strive Towards Sustainability workshop. Office Solutions and Services, 1020 North. 11 AM–12:30 PM. Call 721-3000 ext. 1119.

nightlife UM Visiting Artist Anne Appleby gives a lecture on her work, which includes paintings that use light and color. Social Sciences Bldg. Rm. 356. 5:10–6 PM. Free.

Show your native pride by Starting Your Plants from Seeds with the Montana Natural History Center at the Ft. Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Under the big silver water tower at Ft. Missoula. $5/MNHC members free. Hey foodies, get on the trolly for the Missoula Winery’s 2nd Annual Raclette Dinner, a taste of Switzerland that is made up of cheese melted over boiled potatoes and a charcuterie platter. Um, yeah. 5646 Harrier. $80 couple/$45 per person. For reservations, call 830-3296. Go ahead and get Barnaby Wilde tonight at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free. Fact & Fiction hosts author Laurie Johnson, who reads from her book about her life with

bi-polar disorder, I Am Laurie. 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free. Bicycles rule, we all know that. See how they can change the world at the screening of With My Own Two Wheels by Jacob Seigel-Boettner. Charles H. Clapp Building, Rm. 131. 7 PM. Free. SW Montana poet Jed Berry reads from his collection Awake Before Dawn at Shakespeare & Co. 103 S. 3rd W. 7 PM. Free.

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 16, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Three Way Street does naughty things to their instruments at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 7–9 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. 7–10 PM. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free. Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM. Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. The Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight. Grab your gal pals and motor over to the Silver Slipper’s Ladies Night for Karaoke by Figmo. Do that one about the shack where love is. Be sure you have a Fred lined up. 4055 Brooks. 9 PM. Free. The battle continues as some of MSO’s finest musical talents battle it out each Thursday in the Top o’ the Mic Trilogy competition to crown the champion of

music at Sean Kelly’s. 130 W. Pine. 9 PM. Free. The Lil’ Smokies aren’t having a foam party but that don’t mean it won’t be cooking when the band hits the stage at Pulse inside the Press Box. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Three-Eared Dog plays that blues for you to shuffle your feet to down at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Hop a train and catch the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank for a night of roots tunes, with locals Aran Buzzas and P.D. Lear. Palace. 9 PM. $5. The Mixx provides the hits for you to grind up on that special grindee at Monk’s Bar. Be sure to leave the buttonfly 501s at home, though. Trust me. 225 Ryman. 9 PM. Free. Bust out your best cookie duster for the Mustache Bash with music outfit Adventure Club. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $15/$12 adv./$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

FRIDAY March

Attention word nerds, the UM President’s Writer-in-Residence Martha Ronk hosts a lecture called Ekphrasis: The Verbal and Visual in Relation. I learned about this from Fred McGlynn.

No big deal. McGill Hall. 12:10–1 PM. Free.

nightlife The Man is not going to like this, but I do! And I’m a landlord. The Zootown Solidarity Network Outreach and Benefit Concert takes place at Zoo City Apparel and intends to raise funds to aid renters who get jobbed by unscrupulous landlords. Potluck, presentations and tunes by King Elephant, Modality and Zebulon. 139 E. Main. 8 PM. Donations accepted at the door. (See Agenda in this issue.) Enjoy one of Alex Jones’ favorites, the jazzy Captain Wilson Conspiracy, at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free. All-around stud, former Pittsburgh Steeler and winner of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart Rocky Bleier is in town to raise money for Special Olympics Montana. DoubleTree Hotel. 6 PM. $100 for dinner and auction/$50 additional for VIP reception. somt.org. See what the spiffy kids up in the Flathead can do at the 3rd Annual FVCC’s Got Talent competition. Somebody blow a bubble with smoke in it for crying out loud in the night. 6 PM. $5. Prep your belly for St. Patty’s day with FVCC’s Chef’s Table dinner Taste of Ireland Brewmaster Evening. Culinary Arts Kitchen. 6 PM. Reservations required, call 756-3963.

Get up and get, get down. Roots music bros. Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank perform at the Palace, 147 W. Broadway Ave., on Thu., Mar. 15 at 9 PM, with Aran Buzzas and P.D. Lear. $5.

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If you love the night life and love your kids, too, check out The Broken Valley Roadshow during The Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday from 6–8 PM. Free. More than baking soda volcanos, the Big Sky Science Circus showcases the kids’ nifty science projects. Big Sky High School Gym, 3100 South Ave. 6–8 PM. $3. Attention amateur fashion designers, there’s another round of Project Selvedge about to set the MSO fashion scene agog. Fashion show at 6:30 PM. The UM President’s Writer-in-Residence Martha Ronk reads her work to you and that girl you’ve been flirting with at the bike shop. Turner Hall, Dell Brown Rm. 7 PM. Free. Hear some tuneage and help out the fine folks at Free Cycles during the Greencycles Fundraiser, with music by Shallow Tide, Three-Eared Dog and The Trees. Refreshments, bike tune-ups and then some. 732 S. 1st W. All ages. 7 PM. $5. Step back, man: it’s Rod Blackman at the Missoula Winery, performing acoustic pop rock with hip-hop influences. 5646 Harrier Way. 7 PM. Donation at the door. The Blue Bison Grill hosts an evening of blues with the house band and light dancing with dinner and drinks. 123 E. Front. 7–10 PM. Free. The U M Symphonic Wind Ensemble has left the Band-Aids and triumphantly returns for a Home from Tour Concert. University Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. Come to the dancin’ party that is the Soul City Cowboys at Cowboy Troy’s down Victor way. 8 PM. Free. Traditional Irish music is a-whirling when Dervish brings over 20 years of the good stuff to the Hamilton Center for the Performing Arts. Part of the Bitterroot Performing Arts Council’s Performance Series. 327 Fairgrounds Rd. 8 PM. $28.50 and $24.50. 363-7946. Get limber and get them robot walkers dusted off for the electronic dance party The Beginning, with music by DJs Keoni Mira, Kris Moon, M-AD, The Green Raver and Nick Danner at the Orchard Homes Center, 2537 S 3rd St W. 8 PM until when the party is over. 18 plus. $10/$8 adv. at Mellow Mood. No need for a predator call, the Wild Coyote Band has been found playing tunes to dance by at the Missoula Eagles. 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free. Day by day you’ll be humming the tunes of Godspell if the Missoula Community Theatre has anything to say about it. 200 N. Adams. 8 PM. $21. mctinc.org. While away your evening with the Zylaway Bros. at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat. symeshotsprings.com The Ignition Party gives you the chance to sign the CI-110 petition to legalize grass and to have some fun with like-minded folks, too. Performers include the Voodoo Horseshoes,

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Dave Knolin, Nick Gilbert and plenty more DJs and emcees. American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan. 8 PM–4 AM. Free. Enough with all this Lord of the Dance business, it’s time to get your swerve on at the Salsa and Latin Dance held at the Kalipsell Eagles Lodge. 37 1st. 8:30 PM. 21 plus. $10 couple/$7 pp. Whack that bad weenie with a cloth napkin and get downright rural with The Lil’ Smokies at the Badlander. 208 Ryman. 9 PM. $5. Bozeman’s Cure for the Common feeds the funk dragon smoke pellets flavored with chunks of jazz and hiphop and are joined by “inspirational groove” guys GreenStar. Palace. 9 PM. $5. Cross the line and see Beyond the Pale at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. You deserve to pleasure your earholes at Monk’s Bar when Aran Buzzas and Snaxxx Brannigan hit the stage with Bozeman’s The Mustache Bandits. 225 Ryman. 9 PM. $4. Tell Roscoe to go back to Hazzard cuz you’re not over the County Line, who performs country music to dance to at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. This is not a threat: I’ll House You with DJs Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Hotpantz does happen at The Jolly Cork’s. 112 N. Pattee St. (Front St. entrance). 10 PM. Free. Well lookey here, it seems that the Magpies are having a CD release party. I hear that shizznit is the jam. They are joined by Vera, The New Hijackers and Bozeman’s The Salamanders. What a night. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

SATURDAY March

Day by day you’ll be humming the tunes of Godspell if the Missoula Community Theatre has anything to say about it. 200 N. Adams. 2 pm, $17. 8 PM, $21. mctinc.org. It’s not a toss, it’s a launch: The Leprechaun Launch Slopestyle at Lost Trail is open to skiers and boarders. Register at the lodge before noon. $10. ltpark.com. More than baking soda volcanos, the Big Sky Science Circus showcases the kids’ nifty science projects. Big Sky High School Gym, 3100 South Ave. 10–2 PM. $3. Color me bad and sex up your understanding of color schemes in Peter Keefer’s three-day course Primary Color Relief Printmaking at the MAM. 335 N. Pattee. 10:30–3 PM on consecutive Saturdays. $121.50. Shocker! (Don’t be gross.) The Sean Kelly’s St. Patty’s Party is going down and features the all-day Irish buf-

fet, beer and tunes out-of-doors. 130 W. Pine. 10:30 AM–2:30 PM buffet is $10, after 2:30 pm $15. Cover for beer garden after 4 PM is $3. Kae Cheatham of Humanities MT explains the Northern Plains Lifestyle at the Travelers’ Rest State Park Storytelling Series. 1/2 mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. 11 AM. $4/18 and under free. Get the kids a-jiggin’ at the Kids Vibration and Rhythm Program, when everyone rows over to Ireland and Scotland for a dancing good time. 121 W. Main. 11–11:45 AM. $5–$20 donation. Bring that special pal to the ZACC for BOGO Pottery Saturday, where you can paint mugs and the like and get a discount on that second one and maybe a smooch from that special barista. 235 N. 1st St. Noon–6 PM. Prices vary. John Floridis helps ease you into the grog fog that is St. Patty’s Day with some acoustic numbers at Draught Works Brewery. 925 Toole. 12:30–3:30 PM. Free. If you eat supper at 4 PM every day, then the Starlighter Swing Band Dance at the Missoula Senior Center is the St. Patty’s Day event for you. 705 S. Higgins. 1–3 PM. Free.

nightlife The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill hosts a new St. Patrick’s Day tradition: a costume contest. One category for sexiest lady and one for best overall. My Sinead O’Connor circa ‘90 is a shoo-in. Corned beef and cabbage, too. 1609 W. Broadway. All evening. Free. Take a break from the madness in the city with the music of Stephen Jackman at the Tenspoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free. The Montana A Capella Society is gonna go straight Dingle on all you all during the St. Patrick’s Gala and fundraiser. Plenty of bag pipes and dancing to go along with all that singing, too. St. Francis of Assisi Parish Hall, 411 S. 5th, Hamilton. 6 PM. $30. Tix available at the Chapter One Bookstore. Take off them snake-chasing galoshes and get your dancers on for the St. Patty’s Day Dinner Dance Party with the Celtic Knots at the Corvallis Grange. Corned beef and cabbage is on the menu, plus all the trimmings. BYOB and the like. Dutch Hill Rd. $25 couple/$15 pp. 6 PM. Call 240-0216. Flathead Celtic ensemble Tra La Gael sends out the sounds of Cork and Killarney this St. Patty’s day with two shows. First, at the Great Northern Bar in Whitefish from 6–8:30 PM; second, across the street at Crush Wine Bar from 9:30–11:30 PM. Free. Bark at the moon on this, the most glorious of holidaze, when the Wild Coyote Band makes tunes for your dancing and imbibing pleasure. American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan. 7 PM. Free.

SPOTLIGHT st. patty’s delights Corned beef might be the best food idea aside from bacon. Its deliciousness and, plus, its utility make me wonder why we mostly just eat it once a year. No matter. It’s time again for wearing green, dancing jigs and indulging in the goodness of beef preserved by brine, plus potatoes and cabbage. If you’re in Missoula on Saturday night, we recommend diving headfirst into the Irish buffet at Sean Kelly’s, starting at 10:30 a.m. Not literally diving—we're just saying you should get there early, before everyone else who has a salt tooth for workman’s fare blows in the door. By the time you’ve slurped up the meaty juices, chances are you’ll be stuffed and ready to take in the St. Patty’s Day Parade downtown, which likely starts at noon and where kelly green felt and shiny displays of lucky clovers will blind you into a daze. Afterward, it's either nap time or beer o’clock. You choose, but by now I shouldn’t have to tell you not to drink and drive. Here’s a sober-yet-fun event for a cause: The All-City, All-Ages Sober St. Patrick's Day Dance takes place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Downtown Dance Collective, where The Funky Armadillos play a mix of classic rock, blues and funk and your $15 door fee goes to Partnership Health Clinic for breast and cervical cancer screenings. If you are a connoisseur of the frothy Guinness or maybe a little Baileys, there is a plethora of places to go sip and listen to music. Live rock and roll kicks off at the VFW at 9 p.m. There, you’ll hear punk, western, dirty blues and man-noise, and you can get MORE

Straight No Chaser delivers the allmale a capella juh-juh jamz you’ve been craving this winter at the Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $33.50/$31.50 adv. available at Worden’s and griztix.com. The Blue Bison Grill hosts an evening of blues with the house band and light dancing with dinner and drinks. 123 E. Front. 7–10 PM. Free. The just about says it all: All-City, AllAges Sober St. Patrick’s Day Dance takes place at the Downtown Dance Collective. Wait, there’s more. The Funky Armadillos play a mix of classic rock, blues and funk. Half the funds raised go to Partnership Health Clinic for breast and cervical cancer screenings. 121 W. Main. 7–10 PM. $15/$10 for seniors, students and military. Skippin’ A Groove plays the tunes for you to dance to at the Heritage Dance. Union Hall. Lessons at 7:30

corned beef and cabbage! For a little blue-collar, bluegrass flavor, you can trod down to Monk’s to hear The Workers. Because you’ve seen Leprechaun in the Hood, you know it’s Irish to get funky , so it wouldn’t be weird to head over to The Top Hat for Reverend Slanky and the Josh Farmer Band. Equally party-friendly: The Central Bar, where you can quench your hip-hop thirst with Traff the Wiz, DJ Mike Sev, Ruthless Data, Enkrypted and Tonsofun. Actually, I have a confession to make: I secretly love Jell-O shots. Back in the olden days, a group of us threw a Jell-O shot party where we had several kinds to choose from. Naming them is the best part: Grandma’s Goiter, anyone? Scabies Tra le Gael Babies? The Jolly Cork’s gets what I’m talking about. DJ Serendipity plays while you dance and drink Leprechaun Jell-O shots and Irish Trash Can Test Tubes. Gross or good? You decide. Not in Missoula? There’s plenty to do in the Bitterroot and Flathead regions, including Montana Celtic band Tra le Gael in Whitefish—check our calendar listings for all the details. Our favorite? If you’re close to Lolo Hot Springs, you shouldn’t miss stopping in to see Voodoo Horseshoes for a soak and St. Patty’s day party at 9 p.m. Why? Because Voodoo Horseshoes are magical and psychedelic and they play a song about a platypus. Plus, there will be a bonfire. I don’t know what that has to do with Ireland, but it’s the spirit of it that counts.

PM. Dancing from 8–11 PM. $8/$6 students. You know it, baby, the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Concert Mahler Madness is directed by Darko Butorac and features guest soloist Hana Park. University Theatre. 7:30 PM. Tix $40 to $10. missoulasymphony.org. Fly captain, fly at the Glacier Chorale Spring Concert Echoes of Heaven and Earth, an intergalactic musical voyage featuring tripped-out visuals and American classics. Whitefish Baptist Church, 6232 Hwy. 93 S. 7:30 PM. $28 to $10. gscmusic.org. Boom sha-lock-lock boom, Shenanigans perform folks, gospel and bluegrass for your St. Patty’s Day pleasure at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat. symeshotsprings.com.

—Erika Fredrickson

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo back the truck up and unload bangin’ beats and boxes of Thom Mcan’s at Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. The Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free. Join DJ Serendipity for an evening of shamrocks and shenanigans at The Jolly Corks, where there will be drink specials and likely leprechaun sitings. Elks Lodge, Front St. entrance. 9 PM. Free. The St. Patty’s Day Party at the VFW is about to get downright rural with a fresh mix of cool kids and hot licks, including P.D. Lear, The Juveniles, Total Combined Weight and The Best Westerns. And corned beef and cabbage. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free. The Central hosts a live hip-hop evening for your St. Patty’s Day pleas-

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ure with Traff the Wiz, DJ Mike Sev, Ruthless Data, Enkrypted and Tonsofun. What are the chances weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jump Aroundâ&#x20AC;? cover? Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mon, do it. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Be careful or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be green after a night of dyed Bud Lights at the Dark Horse. Hopefully, Blue and the Vagus Nerve keeps you dancing and sweating out that Green No. 5. 1805 Regent. 9 PM. Free. The Workers bust out the bluegrassage tuneage for St. Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day at Monkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar. 225 Ryman. 9 PM. $4. Soak in St. Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day with Voodoo Horseshoes and Steady Changes at the Lolo Hot Springs. Bonfire!!! 38500 Hwy. 12. 9 PM. Free. Drop it like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only but a molten blend of big bad bass and the thunderous cry Odin when Slugabed busts out the heavy hip-hop along with NastyNasty at the Palace. With locals MetaTron and Feldman. 9 PM. $15/$10 advance at Ear Candy, with a $5 surcharge for those kids aged 1820. (See Noise in this issue.) Holla, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blue Collar jamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tuneage at the Lumberjack Saloon up Hwy. 12. Get a cabin. Stay put. Have fun. 9 PM. Free. Cash for Junkers is back! Wait. My sources say they never left. Cash for Junkers plays music for your holiday delight at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Tell Roscoe to go back to Hazzard cuz youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not over the County Line, who

performs country music to dance to at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free. Change your drawers for Reverend Slanky and The Josh Farmer Band when they get their St. Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Party on at The Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

SUNDAY March

Join photogs Kathy Eyster and/or Lee Silliman for the Ansel Adams Drop-In Tour at the MAM and get insider info on the best-known photog of all-time. 335 N. Pattee St. Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gymâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Intro. to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 PM. $40. Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others from 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949. Reminiscinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just for Imperial and Smokestack. For those interested in life in a company town, check out Stories of the Bonner Houses. Bring photos and/ your listening ears. Saviorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church in Bonner. 2 PM. Free. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever wanted to win a trip to Mazatlan, dust off them balls and roll your way to Mexico during the Teen Challenge Bowl-A-Thon at Westside Lanes. Get $25 worth of sponsors, bowl for free and do work. 1615 Wyoming. 2 PM. Day by day youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be humming the tunes of Godspell if the Missoula Community Theatre has anything to say about it. 200 N. Adams. 2 PM, $17. 6:30 PM, $19/$15 for children. mctinc.org. You know it, baby, the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Concert Mahler Madness is directed by Darko Butorac and features guest soloist Hana Park. University Theatre. 3 PM. Tix $40 to $10. missoulasymphony.org. Fly captain, fly at the Glacier Chorale Spring Concert Echoes of Heaven and Earth, an intergalactic musical voyage featuring tripped-out visuals and American classics. Glacier High School Performance Hall. $20 to $10/12 and under free. gscmusic.org. Fred Boner performs for your pleasure at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM. Free.

nightlife Listen to some real live writers during the Second Wind Reading Series, where MFA students and teachers share their stories with the world. This week itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kevin Kalinowski and Eduardo Chirinos. The Top Hat. 5 PM. Free.

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Have a platter of fusion when Tapas performs world jazz at The Top Hat. 7 PM. Free. Missoula Bar Fights brings us more Tekken, Street Fighter, SF IV and King of Fighters XIII battles. Podium finishers receive cash prizes. Feruqiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. 318 N. Higgins. 7 PM. $5 entry fee per game. Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with the Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

MONDAY March

You may not know it, but people experience oppression on a regular basis. Learn how the privileged and powerful do it at the Tunnel of Oppression in the UC Ballroom. 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 PM. Free. Blue Mountain Clinic, along with the Missoula AIDS Council, offers free, anonymous and blood-free HIV testing. 610 N. California. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 PM. Free. Call 721-1646. I hate to say it, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about that time to break out the bike. May as well head to REIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basic Bike Maintenance class, too. Seriously, you should know how to fix a flat tire. 3275 N. Reserve. 6:30 PM. Free. Easiest way to make rent since keno: Bingo at the VFW. 245 W. Main. $10 buy-in.

nightlife Cosy Sheridan shares her experiences dealing with eating disorders and body image issues via humor and music in her one-act show The Pomegranate Seed. UC Theatre. 7 PM. Free. Man that weekend was cray, cray. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chill with David Horgan and Beth Lo at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 111 N. Higgins. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 PM. Free. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just express yourself, be expressive at the ZACCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly, one-hour poetry workshop. 235 N. 1st St. 8 PM. Free. Ride the catnip rails to the corner of Scarface and kitty cat Vegas at Milkcrate Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Random Music for Random Kitties, with DJs Mora Cass, Dr. Kinetic, Atom and the Milkcrate Mechanic. The Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR. Open Mic at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. Call Skye on Sunday at 531â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4312 to reserve your spot in the line-up or I bet you could roll in and be all, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dude, I do a perfect Sublime.â&#x20AC;? Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mon metal dudes, you gotta come out for this. Doom metal monsters Aseethe are joined by Throne of Lies and Swamp Ritual. The Badlander, 208 Ryman. Free as heckdarn. (See Noise in this issue.)

TUESDAY March

You may not know it, but people experience oppression on a regular basis. Learn how the privileged and powerful do it at the Tunnel of Oppression in the UC Ballroom. 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 PM. Free. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free. Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsoleck during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 PM. Free. Donate blood. Do it. Do it and brag about it. But do it. American Red Cross, 2401 N. Reserve. Ste. 7. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM. 800 Red-Cross.

nightlife You saw House Party, but you still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the Kid â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beg./Int. Hip Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM. ddcmontana.com The VFW hosts my kind of three-way during a night of Singers, Songwriters and Spaghetti, with food provided by the Blue Bison Grill. 245 W. Main St. 6 PM. Free. The March meeting of the Arlee Community Development Corporation takes place in the Arlee High School Business Lab. 6 PM. For more info. contact Kelley at 762-5550. The UM Wilderness Institute brings scholars, writers, scientists and explorers together to share stories of how water shapes our lives, landscapes and politics in the Wild Waters in the West Lecture Series. This week, Jon Turk, writer and scientist, gives a lecture titled Ice and Water in the Clockworks: Kayak and Circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. Enjoy the poetic works of Zan Bockes, Ann Marie Savage and Jack Shifflet at Shakespeare & Co., when they read it and mean it for your pleasure. 103 S. 3rd W. 7 PM. Free. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Citywide Poetry Slam (dut dud-duh) sponsored by Big Sky Highâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lit mag. Aerie and UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oval. The slam is open to all ages and all comers. Music by The New Jive Youngsters. Prizes for first through fifth place. Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee. 7 PM. $5. Join Colin Ruggiero at the Rocky Mtn. School of Photography for his lecture Discovering Time Lapse Photography. Do the one where bread gets moldy. 216 N. Higgins. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM. Free. Take a load off while you get a load of some of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better musicians

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Missoula Community Theatre presents Godspell Fri. Mar. 16 to Sun. Mar. 18 and Wed. Mar. 21 to Sat. Mar. 25 at the MCT Center for Performing Arts. Evening performances take place at 8 PM, except on Sundays when they begin at 6:30 PM. On Sat. and Sun, there are matinees at 2 PM. Tickets are $15 to $21. Go to mctinc.org or call 721-PLAY for more info.

during the Musician Showcase at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday InnDowntown. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Nibble on the sounds of Nawrlins when the Hot 8 Brass Band performs a mix of big band, jazz, R & B and more at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 7:30 pm. $30/$20 students. Special free show for seniors at 3 PM. Call 862-5371. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Name three places (countries, states or provinces) where St. Patrick’s Day is an official holiday. (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5. The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing, with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678. Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free. Ask Mr. T for a new shirt and take the van down to the Badlander’s Live and Local Night with The Slow Falls, which plays Americana and the like. Dig. 9 PM. Free. Fight for your right to make a jerk of yourself and win money doing it at Karoke with DJ LRock at the Press Box. First place wins a $25 bar tab. On the last Tues. of the month, the winners battle for supremacy. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY March

Art heals at Living Art of Montana’s third Wednesday of every month’s workshop Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors. 12–1:30 PM at the Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder, #17. Free. Call 549-5329.

nightlife Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip Hop (7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com Artists of all levels are invited to the MAM’s non-instructed Open Figure Drawing Class. This class gives artists the opportunity to draw from a for-real person. Ages 18 plus (you and the model). 335 N. Pattee St. 6–8 PM. $7/$5 members. Via the pictures of a former park ranger and naturalist-guide, you can get to know Yellowstone in Photographs at REI. I hear it’s pretty down there. 3275 N. Reserve. 6:30 PM. Free. Matt Pavelich reads and signs his book The Other Shoe at Fact & Fiction. 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free. If you’re thinking of evading the invaders next winter, check out UM biology professor Jeffrey Good’s lecture Maintaining Camouflage in a Snowy Winter at the Montana Natural History Center. 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4/free for members. Galactic brings the noise and the funk to the Wilma Theatre. The current incarnation of the group includes

vocalist Corey “Body Glove Suit” Glover, formerly of Living Colour. With Orgone. Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $26. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com Ted Hughes hosts a lecture at the MAM titled Ansel Adams and his Contemporaries, which focuses on the modernists forces at work in Adams’ time. 335 N. Pattee. 7 PM. Free. Ahh, the clarinet. Hear it in all its glory during the Faculty and Guest Artist Series with Wesley Ferreira at the Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $12/$8 seniors and students. Don’t get stressed about desserts or the tattarrattat at the door of Zoo City Apparel, it’s probably just Seattle’s Tacocat, which spits tips and plays live not evil with MSO’s Vera, Needlecraft and Magpies. 139 E. Main. 8 PM. $5. (See Soundcheck in this issue.) Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander during Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. Girls “she-bop” too at Girl Trouble, a night of lady DJs getting down on it, with DJ duo Astreas Frequency, plus DJs Hauli, Tygerlily and Incognita. Palace. 9 PM. Free. Pub trivia answer: Ireland, Newfoundland and the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

THURSDAY March nightlife

See the works of up-and-comers Michael Flynn and Sarahjess Hurt

Music that stays with you.

The program, featuring Hana Park, soprano soloist Cantata 140‚ “Wachet Auf”– Bach Symphony No. 4 – Mahler

SAT., MARCH 17, 7:30 P.M. SUN., MARCH 18, 3:00 P.M. The University Theatre Tickets: $10 to $40 Online at missoulasymphony.org Call 721-3194 or visit 320 E. Main St. Sponsored by

Guest Artist Sponsor JANET BOYER

Darko’s Pre-Concert Talk: One hour before showtime in the Gallagher Building next door.

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Chin up. UM Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Writer-in-Residence, poet Martha Ronk, gives a craft lecture on the UM campus at McGill Hall, Rm. 210 on Fri., Mar. 16, from 12:10 PM to 1 PM. She reads that evening at 7 PM in the Dell Brown Room at Turner Hall. Free.

at their MFA Thesis Exhibition Reception. Social Sciences Bldg., Gallery of Visual Arts. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM. Free. Tom Catmull unloads the wagon and dusts off his playing guitar and pleases your ears with tunes-a-plenty at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 PM. Free. Hear the voice of soprano Kristin Allford at the Student Recital Series in the Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. Free. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free. Show â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 PM. Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party,

where love and funk is in the air. The Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;midnight. The battle continues as some of MSOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest musical talents battle it out each Thursday in the Top oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Mic Trilogy competition to crown the champion of music at Sean Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. 130 W. Pine. 9 PM. Free. Shane Clouse is going country on that backside when he performs at Pulse inside the Press Box. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free. Get your freak on, nature boy, with the boys of Birds Mile Home during the fourth week of their VFW Residency, with Kevin Koutnik and the Protectors and Hello Ghost. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free. Smell what a legend sounds like when lifers and PDXers Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons bring buckets of thunder and loads of lightning to the Palace. 9 PM. $8. Get a good mix of all them musical fla-

vors, just like a pan bagnat, when House of Quist plays jams at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Taste the fresh tunes of the Mountain Breathers when they perform indie/folk jammage at The Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. Be good. Love what you love and make a big deal out of it. Most importantly, quit sending me incomplete information or Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll quit sending you air kisses. Hook me up with the goods by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Mar. 16 to calendar@missoula news.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit stuff online at missoulanews.com

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MOUNTAIN HIGH Y ou might still be in winter recreation mode, but whisperings of spring mean we’re in an outdoor limbo as far as major events are concerned. (Just saying the word “spring” will inevitably bring a snowstorm, of course.) In that spirit, we entice you indoors for the time being to hear an exciting lecture about the outdoors. Jon Turk, writer and Arctic explorer, has lived to tell the kind of adventure stories you thought died with The Endurance. As part of UM’s Wilderness Lecture Series titled Wild Waters in the West, he gives a talk called Ice and Water in the Clockworks about kayak circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The 1,485-mile trip around the world’s 10th largest island—via ski and kayak and on foot—had not been attempted before this sum-

mer when Turk and his friend Erik Boomer made it happen, according to a National Geographic story. The big-time adventurers have done their fair share of expeditions by land and sea. Their Ellesmere Island quest includes a very hair-raising run-in with polar bears and a journey walking on thin ice, literally. If this is truly one of the last Arctic paths to be pioneered, it should be a historically profound talk, especially since Turk is as in-tune with the romantic dreaming tied up with nature as he is with survival. —Erika Fredrickson Jon Turk gives the lecture Ice and Water in the Clockworks on Tuesday, March 20, at 7 PM in the Gallagher Business Building, Room 122. Free.

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THURSDAY MARCH 15 Road trip! Silver Mountain offers up 2-for-1 lift tickets on Mondays, Powder Thursdays, oh, and Fridays through Fri., Mar. 16. silvermt.com.

FRIDAY MARCH 16 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free. Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro. to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

SATURDAY MARCH 17 Hey, free agents, today is the last day you can sign-up for the Missoula Ultimate Frisbee Spring League, which takes place at Ft. Missoula Park from Apr. 2 to May 21. $40. must.usetopscore.com. The 7th Annual Corn Cup at Whitefish Mtn. Resort Skier and Border Cross is a ripping good time and has categories for those 8 and up and $1000 in cash prizes. Registration 8:30–9:30 AM. $25 pros/$20 amateurs. skiwhitefish.com It’s not a toss, it’s a launch: The Leprechaun Launch Slopestyle at Lost Trail is open to skiers and boarders. Register at the lodge before noon. $10. ltpark.com.

SUNDAY MARCH 18 Hey, Meyer, you ready to dominate the K-12? If so

check out the Montana Snowbowl’s Best of the Bowl Race, which takes place on the Grizzly Chute and includes Alpine, Tele and Snowboard divisions. mtsnowbowl.com. Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro. to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole. 12–1:30 PM. $40.

MONDAY MARCH 19 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com. I hate to say it, but it’s about that time to break out the bike. May as well head to REI’s Basic Bike Maintenance class, too. Seriously, you should know how to fix a flat tire. 3275 N. Reserve. 6:30 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 21 Via the pictures of a former park ranger and naturalistguide, you can get to know Yellowstone in Photographs at REI. I hear it’s pretty down there. 3275 N. Reserve. 6:30 PM. Free. If you’re thinking of evading the invaders next winter, check out UM biology professor Jeffrey Good’s lecture Maintaining Camouflage in a Snowy Winter at the Montana Natural History Center. 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4/free for members. calendar@missoulanews.com

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In geek love Grandfatherglen on folk, tea and Godspell by Michael Peck

I am seated on the floor of a small house in the Rattlesnake with the six energetic musicians from Grandfatherglen clustered around. Beside me, a drowsy dog is luxuriating on a plush circular bed. Moments earlier, the animal howled in tune with the band’s rendition of Sufjan Stevens’s “Sister Winter.” The ensemble was formed out of a nexus of Missoula’s top-tier music community: keyboardist/vocalist Josh Farmer, cellist Bethany Joyce, bassist John Sporman and three members of the Cook family—guitarist/vocalist Patrick Cook and his sisters Elizabeth and Katherine, whose interplay has the powerful sweetness of a medieval chorus that has just mastered the blues. Half of the group’s repertoire is made up of originals, while their standards include Tom Waits’s ambivalently optimistic “Come on Up to the House” and a heartrending cover of Regina Spektor’s “Us.” “I started playing with the Cooks at a variety show in Victor with this tap dancer who brought us all together,” Farmer says. “It was ridiculous.” Joyce tells me, “We didn’t start out wanting to be a band. We just wanted to create an intimate musical theater.” And that is precisely what their extemporaneous events feel like. Rather than seeking out a salon atmos-

phere, they are a salon atmosphere. Intimacy and spontaneity are their collective traits. Whatever they do, Grandfatherglen is primarily interested in never sounding the same way twice, using a miscellany of instruments to achieve that freshness. The band started out playing at Missoula’s Big Dipper, where they were paid with ice cream. Since then they’ve worked their way into gigs at The Top Hat and the Crystal Theatre. Now they’re contemplating the release of an album in the fall, along with a European tour. “Our music is more mellow than any of the groups I play with,” says Farmer. “We want people who are willing to listen—and not just willing to get drunk—but to actually listen to the music.” It’s obvious how some of the members ended up playing music together. Joyce points at the Cooks. “You guys all know each each other pretty well,” she says. “We all came from a similar womb,” Patrick says. “Katherine and Elizabeth and I have been playing together forever. I really wanted to surround ourselves with the best musicians that we could find. We were all in geek love with each other. We just sat there when Bethany played the cello, pee-in-our-pants excited.”

“I knew the Cooks played music,” Bethany says, “but I never expected this magical sibling harmony thing.” And that’s pretty much how Patrick instigated Grandfatherglen, through word of mouth, wish fulfillment and finding improvisers and classically trained musicians who have the ability to go from polished Sinatra to gritty jazz to mournful saw extravaganzas in a blink. “It was very random,” Josh says. “It was serendipitous,” Patrick elaborates. Lately, Grandfatherglen has been rehearsing for MCT’s production of Godspell—the popular musical of parable-meets-pop music. The band, joined by Stellarondo regulars Travis Yost and Gibson Hartwell, will score the production. Combining music with visual art isn’t new to the band: The musicians recently live scored a silent film at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, illustrating their versatility. Godspell’s director, Michael McGill, took the musicians’ talents one step further. The production showcases each musician as an active part of the cast as well; Patrick has been cast in the role of Jesus Christ, while his sisters are playing angels. Between takes back at the house, everyone ambles around chatting on the phone, preparing tea (they drink prodigious amounts of tea), discussing Kurt Weill. But when someone starts playing they are all back at their places instantly, rehearsing as though they hadn’t stopped. “But what makes us cool?” Farmer muses, and then brightens. “We do have a group high five.” Patrick says, “Most bands go out and have a drink and a cigarette… We just go into the band room and high five.” “And drink a lot of tea,” Farmer says. “High fives and tea is what we’re all about,” Sporman concludes. “The thing about us is that we never want to be in a comfortable place,” Patrick tells me. “When something isn’t fun anymore, we’ll stop doing it.” That’s a credo that could easily be screen-printed on T-shirts, and knowing them, that’s exactly what will happen. When I ask what color would best represent the band’s serene, folksy sound, they count in unison and all blurt out a different hue. Then, in true Grandfatherglen-ish fashion, they agree with one another’s choice and eventually decide on celadon. Catch Grandfatherglen in Godspell at the MCT Center for Performing Arts Fri., March 16–Sun., March 18, and Wed., March 21–Sun., March 25 at 8 PM, except Sun. when it shows at 6:30 PM, with 2 PM matinees on Sat. and Sun. Tickets vary $19–$15. Go to mctinc.org. arts@missoulanews.com

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Grandfatherglen consists of musicians, clockwise from left, John Sporman, Katherine Cook, Joshua Farmer, Bethany Joyce, Elizabeth Cook and Patrick Cook.

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The newest album from one of the best bands in Missoula right now is diverse and addictive. Strutting riffs and built-up choruses make it perfect for swilling beer or wildly jumping around. Other songs, such as “Burning Cellophane,” fit with daydreaming alone on stormy nights, in a fog of loss. The songs are shimmery, badass, sweet and sinister. It’s music for music geeks. It carries with it the flavor of CBGB greats without feeling derivative. That said, I can’t resist a few comparisons to other bands I love. The title track evokes Silkworm’s Libertine— that bright, fuzzy wall of minor-key chordage that defined the best of 1990s underground. “Gasoline Semen” has the rowdy fierceness of The Gits. One big difference: The Gits’s Mia Zapata sang with a volatile grit. Equally good, Magpies’ bassist/vocalist Samantha Pollington’s vocals are

Slugabed

The track “Moon-beam Rider” by Slugabed brings to mind two alien pimps driving around in a hydraulically bouncing car while they search for some space dust to snort. It’s a mighty fine piece of galactic space funk that oozes awesomeness. The Brighton, England-based electronic artist (aka Greg Feldwick) makes music that’s been called “wonky,” which

Aseethe The sludgy doom metal Aseethe spews feels like the worst-case scenario for the end of the world—and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. The Iowa City band’s most recent album, Reverent Burden, offers what appears to be only two songs at a combined 12 minutes long, but, man, do they make use of every second. Growling vocals rage like a fire that’s been burning since ancient times, combined with brutal chords and cymbal. This is the music you listen to as you forge weapons for one final battle. If you love this album, then you’ll love Aseethe’s others just as much. “Black Heart,” from their split with brethren metal band Shores of the Tundra, is a churning, lonely tune. Its hammering chords and funereal

The Men Open Your Heart Sacred Bones

The guitar is an instrument of politics. As it continues to cede its position as the fundamental sound of popular music, building an album around crashing chords and fervid drumming sounds less like a recipe for success and more like an artistic statement. Rock is on its way to becoming jazz. It was a synonym for pop music for decades, but now it is a form.

sweet and weird, Kathleen Hanna-style. Other times, Pollington purrs like a cat who’s about to whip out her claws. “Impact Crash” is spooky and danceable, gathering speed and then slowing down into anthemic intermissions. “Highway to Helena” could be a rallying cry for a midnight highway drive in a Quentin Tarantino film; Pollington and guitarist Tolan Harber sing, “It’s sundown. / Shit is goin’ down.” Their hypnotic confidence together recalls bees buzzing in a hive: happy but hinting of danger. (Erika Fredrickson) Mag pies play two shows this week: at The Top Hat Fri., March 16, at 10 PM with Vera, New Hijackers and Salamanders. $5. And at Zoo City Apparel Wed., March 21, at 8 PM with Vera and TacocaT. $5. means he mixes up jagged hip-hop beats (inspired by the late hip-hop producer J Dilla) with gurgling bass and rubbery synths that sound like bleeps and bloops from an old-school Nintendo game. At times, listening to Slugabed’s music is akin to watching a pinball darting around inside a machine. Tunes like “Sun Too Bright Turn It Off,” off his latest EP of the same name, features lush melodies that move up and down octaves within a few seconds while a slinky beat sways to and fro like a sailor drunk on whiskey and high on ether. “Whirlpool” utilizes a raygun-sounding synth to devastating effect. This cat is definitely one of the most visionary producers in the genre. (Ira Sather-Olson) Slugabed plays the Palace with Oakland’s NastyNasty and locals MetaTron and Feldman. $15/$10 advance at Ear Candy Music, with a $5 surcharge for ages 18-20. lumbering depict a dusky landscape in transition. When it slows, a hint of sparkling keyboards evokes a hopeful ray of light before the gloomy riffs return to dash it all away. “Ill Omen” (a song off their 7” split with Mauul) confirms the story this band is spinning. The smoldering pace and electronic static evoke the ocean, while wistful keyboard feels like the death of one world and the birth of some unknown other. (Erika Fredrickson) Aseethe plays the Badlander Monday, March 19, at 9 PM with Throne of Lies and Swamp Ritual. Free. The Men know the form. “Turn it Around,” the first track on Open Your Heart, is a tumbling assault of overdubs and turnarounds that evoke the best of Stoogesera power pop. Maybe it’s actually pop-punk, or possibly garage. The point is that it’s rock music as envisioned by 14-year-olds: big loud drums and even louder guitars, as fast and as butch as possible. Three tracks later, though, on “Oscillation,” The Men sound like Galaxie 500. “Candy” sounds like a combination of the Velvet Underground and Exile-era Stones, if such a collaboration would not immediately end in a cocaine overdose. These stylistic transitions suggest that The Men are up to something besides big, dumb and loud. They’re after sounds from rock’s drying palette, and they’ve found more than one. (Dan Brooks)

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On fire Rockers TacocaT deliver the hot sauce by Jason McMackin

As the Republican presidential primary continues to gurgle forth in an ever long ooze of grandstanding, empty rhetoric and “cheesy grits for breakfast, y’all,” some of music’s most respected sources have come forward to endorse their favorite candidate. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth briefly gave his promise ring to Rick Santorum. Kelly Clarkson feels that fellow Texan Ron Paul is the stronger candidate. Ted Nugent, well,

ding-dong, real good.” The three ladies of TacocaT were clad mostly in white, each with a different blonde hair style and each with a different instrument that reflected the various types of crushes I’ve had on various types of cool rock-and-roll chicks since my first Babes in Toyland concert, circa 1990. We can’t forget guitarist and bearded dude Eric Randall (also of The Trashies), who stood out as

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he kind of sucks (this from the “jus’ sayin’” files). So for those of us who haven’t been able to pin down a choice, Seattle kitty rockers TacocaT would like to officially endorse, wait for it, television icon and nut grower Roseanne. The choice is no surprise once one gets to know the foursome’s tunes, which are often immersed in pop culture references. The sleeve inside their latest Minor Bird Records 7-inch, titled Woman’s Day, contains black-and-white cut-outs of Hasselhoff in his legendary “drunken hamburger” pose; Oscar, the nursing-home cat that predicted dozens of octogenarian deaths; and one of the most derided athletes of the late 20th century, the gorgeous Oregonian and Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding. Not to get all AP English on you, but darkness gathers in the corners of this music that on first listen sounds as sunny and upbeat as a swimming pool full of baby ducks. The band’s own description, “Go-Gos meets The Monkees. Kurt meets Courtney,” keeps the cultural references flying and is also an apt characterization of their sound. One part ’60s manufactured garage throwback; one part cocaine-fueled California poppunk; one part a marriage of beauty and the beast, or beast and the beast, or beauty and the beauty, depending on the circumstances or whom you ask. I thought about none of those things, though, the first time I saw TacocaT at the Dark Horse Bar in Missoula. I only thought, “This is kicking me in the

much for his height as his nifty guitar pickin’. Like a lot of dudes at this show, I jammed to hooky, energetic tracks like “UTI,” which features lead vocalist and Butte, America, native Emily Nokes singing the lines “Super fucking horny but I can’t have sex / My vagina is defective.” No big d, right? If generations of dudes can rock out to David Lee Roth “reach[ing] down between [his] legs to ease the seat back” during the breakdown in Van Halen’s “Panama,” then why can’t dudes rock out to the tale of a horny lady possessed by a uterus of fire? Turns out they can and do. This proves one of two things: Lyrics don’t matter all that much when you’re playing loud music to a bunch of PBR-drunk man-children. Or, men are more sensitive and empathetic than Nancy Grace gives them credit for. Currently, the band is touring with two fresh EPs—the second, Take Me to Your Dealer, is available on Hardly Art Records—and are hitting all the places bands hit on their way up the rock fame train, including Austin’s SXSW Festival. Nokes sums up their drive as they tour across dusty old Texas and perhaps her band’s current status as well: “We’re not quite in ‘offensive billboard’ territory yet, but we will be soon.” TacocaT plays Zoo City Apparel Wed., March 21, at 8 PM with the Magpies and Vera. $5. arts@missoulanews.com

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Early on in the film, 21 Jump Street lets its audience know what it’s up to. A police chief (Nick Offerman) informs rookie cops Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) that they’re reviving an old undercover-in-high-school program from the 1980s, because the only ideas anyone can come up with now are to “recycle shit from the past.” That’s all well and good, but what do we really expect at this point from movies that cash in on nostalgia for old TV

Cube as a superior officer to Jenko and Schmidt who loudly embraces his stereotypical role as the “angry black captain.” The showpiece chase sequence finds motorcycles repeatedly sliding under trucks full of dangerous explosives—only to have them inexplicably never explode. While Hot Fuzz might have gotten to a lot of the material first, Bacall does plenty with his affectionate skewering of everything from training montages to the inevitable tension between the partners.

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But the real brilliance in 21 Jump Street comes from how Bacall and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) exploit the high school setting. It’s amusing enough, if somewhat expected, that Jenko and Schmidt wind up adopting roles completely opposite from those they had as teens—Schmidt becoming the popular kid, Jenko being forced to hang out with the science geeks whose password for entering the chem lab is “Kneel before Zod.” 21 Jump Street has a blast showing how the generation gap no longer waits for a generation. The cops’ inability to blend in is turned into a commentary on the ridiculous rate of change that happens in a generation, making it feel like their seven-years-gone high school experience might as well have been in the 1950s. Schmidt would rather call than text, and modern social consciousness makes the nerd-mocking Jenko seem like a dinosaur. It’s true that the filmmakers push farther into overthe-top crude than seems necessary, including a final shootout with particularly painful results, and that they have a propensity for using the f-bomb like a 12-yearold who’s just discovered it. But 21 Jump Street finds its humor in so many places—from the twisted hallucinogenic effects of the new drug, to a performance by Tatum that finds depths of charm previously unimaginable, to the way it introduces the inevitable nods to its source material—that the only really appropriate word is “inspired.” That’s a word you generally don’t expect to associate with something that just recycles. But as Jenko and Schmidt’s environmentally aware classmates would be quick to point out, recycling can be cool. 21 Jump Street continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise Soundcheck Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK 21 JUMP STREET Let’s jump into the story of a couple of dopey cops who go back to high school to foil an undercover drug ring. Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Peter Deluise (jokes). Rated R. Carmike 12: Big D: 1:30, 4:45, 7:30 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm Stadium 14: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05 and 9:35 pm, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 6:50 and 9 pm. BOLSHOI BALLET’S LE CORSAIRE The Bolshoi Ballet recreates this ballet classic that follows a pirate, a greek girl and culminates in an epic shipwreck. Thu., Mar. 20, at the Carmike 12 at 7 pm.

CHRONICLE Three high school boys gain superpowers and have a surprising lack of control when it comes to their urges. Starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Kelly. PG-13. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with matinees at 9:30 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm.

3:45, 4:45, 6:45 and 9:45 pm, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 pm Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:20 pm.

A DANGEROUS METHOD Jung versus Freud, toss in a romantic entanglement and you’ve got yourself a movie. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. Rated R. Wilma: 7:00 and 9:00 pm nightly, with a 9 pm show only on Sat. and Wed.

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND A kid and his mom’s boyfriend search for grandpa on a topsy-turvy island where big things are small and vice versa. Opposites, people love ‘em. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Michael Caine. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 4:45 and 9:45 pm. 3D: 1:45 and 7:15 pm. Stadium 14: 12:05 and 5:05 pm, Fri.-Sun. and 4:20 pm, Mon.-Thu. 3D: 2:25, 7:25, 9:45, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:20, 7:20 and 9:40 pm, Mon.-Thu.

THE DESCENDANTS George Clooney takes his daughters on a trip to confront the man his wife has been cheating on

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fugitive in a safe house. Denzel shows up and stuff gets real. Starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 7:05 and 9:45 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. SILENT HOUSE A young lady is trapped in her parent’s lakeside vacation home and things get really weird fast as she finds that she can’t communicate with the outside world. Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Adam Trese. Rated R. Village 6: 4:15 and 7:15 pm, with shows at 9:45 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1:15 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25 and 9:40 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:30, 4, 7 and 9:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. THIS MEANS WAR Two CIA agents battle for Reese Witherspoon’s affections with gadgets galore. Will either try writing her a poem? Starring Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:30 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 2, 4, 7 and 9 pm. Stadium 14: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:30 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:25 pm, Mon.-Thu. A THOUSAND WORDS A solipsistic literary agent learns the real meaning of words when a spiritual guru places a Bodhi Tree in the nogood agent’s backyard. As the leaves fall so shall the man, hmm? Starring Eddie Murphy. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10 pm. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:20 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and 9:35 pm, Mon.-Thu.

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him with. Did I mention his wife is on life support? Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm of Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 2:30 and 7:20 pm, Fri.-Sun. and 1:20 and 6:50 pm, Mon.-Thu.

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GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Fire in the hole! Johnny Blaze sets his head on fire and does battle with the devil. Starring Nicolas Cage. Rated PG-13. Stadium 14:9:55 pm, Fri.-Sun, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. and 9:40 pm, Mon.-Thu. 3D: 12:10 and 5:10 pm, Fri.-Sun. and 4:25 pm, Mon.-Thu.

ACT OF VALOR The world’s finest navy, the United States Navy, unleashes Navy SEALs on kidnappers and terrorists. You done messed up again, terrorists. Starring Alex Veadov and dozens of uncredited SEALs. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 6:45 and 9:20 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Mountain: 2:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 pm Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9:15 pm. THE ARTIST Will talking pictures end silent film star George Valentin’s career? Will he find love with a young dancer? It seems black-and-white to me. Starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Rated PG-13. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with 7 pm shows only Sat. and Wed. Stadium 14: 12:20, 2:35 and 4:50 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1:05 and 4:05 pm, Mon.-Thu.

JOHN CARTER Holy Christ-figure, Batman! Vietnam vet John Carter must defend a lady and battle creatures twice his size, all while on Mars. Cue the “Hero’s Journey.” Starring Taylor Kitsch and Willem Dafoe. PG-13. Carmike 12: 3D: 1, 1:20,4, 4:20, 7, 7:20, 9:50 and 10:05 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with matinees at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 3D: 6:45 and 9:15 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12 and 6 pm, Fri.-Sun. 2 and 7:45 pm, Mon.-Thu. 3D: 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1, 2,

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grumpy fella that protects the environment. Starring the voices of Taylor Swift and Danny Devito. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 6:45 and 9 pm. 3D: 1, 4, 6:30 and 8:45 pm. Village 6: 7 pm, with 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. 3D: 4 pm, with 9:10 pm shows on Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex: 3D: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 12, 4:30 and 9:15 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1 and 6:30 pm, Mon.Thu. 3D: 12:30, 2:15, 2:40, 5, 6:45, 7:15 and 9:30 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:30, 3:30, 4, 7, 9 and 9:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2, 4, 7 and 9 pm. PROJECT X What happens when the YouTube generation throws a rager? Same thing that happened before camera phones. Starring Thomas Mann and Oliver Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:50 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30 and 9:50 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and 9:35 pm shows, Mon.-Thu. SAFE HOUSE A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a

THE VOW Hello V-Day! Rachel McAdams wakes up from a coma with severe memory loss and finds her hunky husband romancing her once again. Starring Channing Tatum. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 pm. Stadium 14: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 and 9:50 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. WANDERLUST A couple of busy Manhattan professionals find themselves out of work and living on a rural commune and having sexy, topless good times. Starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston. Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm of Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Mar. 16. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 4 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130. in Whitefish–862-3130.

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Loki is a happy, active older fellow who would love to have a real home again. He can be a bit uncertain with new people, but gentle handling and kind words have proven quite effective at the shelter.

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Suzie was just a pup when she was adopted, but her family was away from home a lot, so she didn't get all the companionship and training she needed. She's a sweet young dog who will be a great pet for the right loving family.

Dallas has a contagious grin! She also LOVES to learn new tricks and work for her snacks. She is available for adoption today. But if she is still here on March 31st and April 1st she hopes to go home during the Mega Match-a-thon!

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Guthrie is a small young cat with a huge personality. He was quite shy when he first came to the shelter, but now he has found his purr, loves to be petted, and runs and plays just as much a possible.

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ADELE

Yes, this Adele was named for the pop singer, and we can only hope she will be as successful in her quest for a loving home as the other Adele has been in her career! We'd like to see that sad face look happy again. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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BLAZER

Blazer was a treasured pet for eight years, but then his owner died. He doesn't understand why he's now living in a cage in our cat room. He's sad and lonely, but more than willing to start over with a new family.

BERT

Big-boy Bert is a 2-3 year old American Bulldog mix. He's a mellow fellow who gets along well with other dogs. Bert is looking for someone to snuggle with! He has a heart of gold! His energy needs don't match his size and he is very well-mannered indoors.

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ROSE

Rose has been at the shelter longer than any other animal, and she'll be glad to tell you that eight months is way too long to live in a cage! She's a calm, quiet cat who loves children; she really wants a family that includes some.

J O H N WAY N E

Gregarious John Wayne is a snuggle bug! He loves to crawl on your lap and cuddle. He'll keep you company as you go about your chores and will be right there with you when you're ready for a break! He is 8 months old and tons of fun.

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Sweet-natured Elle is a "Leader of the Band." Her Meet-Your-Match color is green and she is confident and gregarious. Elle has lived with cats, dogs and kids. Fill out a MeetYour-Match adopter survey to find out your color!

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Bend your knees when you pick up this big boy! This guy's a snuggler! Visit the Humane Society's website at www.myhswm.org to view all available animals and find out more about the MEGA Match-a-thon at the end of the month!

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

BOULDER

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

NESSA

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

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SERENA

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

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PET OF THE WEEK Shadow Snuggly Shadow is an elegent 3 year old who gets along well with other cats. He loves to lounge in a sunny window or even on your lap! Shadow is a bit of a chatty fellow and wont let you forget his meals! Head to the Humane Society on March 31st and April 1st for the Mega Match-a-thon! Help us reach our adoption goal during this 2 day only event! Adoption specials will be released on Wednesday March 29th at 1:00 pm online at www.myHSWM.org. Fill out your MYM Adopter survey today!

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HAVE A PEASANT DAY Your answer to “Roseless,” the woman bemoaning her boyfriend’s lack of “romantic ambition,” hit a nerve with me. My wife of 19 years and I shared equally in raising our three children. She only sort of “works” now, but I do the home chores and all the cooking while running a very stressful business that keeps her shopping habit afloat. She can buy all the expensive shoes she wants; however, like Roseless, she complains that I don’t buy her flowers...enough. I don’t write cute Post-it notes. When I have grudgingly bought flowers or left a note that I’m at the gym and drawn a heart on it, I’ve been amazed at how appreciative she’s been. Well, I resent this. I’ll cook a gourmet meal or be under the sink changing the garbage disposal, and I make enough money to put us in the 1 percent, but all that comes up short. –Workhorse You get no thanks for the 60-hour workweek, the cooking, the handymanning, but scrawl a heart on a sticky note and...you da man. When the disposal’s on the fritz, it’s got to be tempting to just write “xoxox” on scratch paper and stick it in the drain. Toilet overflowing? Shut the lid and slap a rose on top. Your wife’s longing for romantic trinketry can be explained by a quote from evolutionary psychologist Dr. David Barash: “Sperm are cheap. Eggs are expensive.” This is shorthand for the physiological differences between men and women and the differing male and female psychologies that evolved out of them. A man could have sex with a woman and walk away, but a single sex act could leave a woman with mouths to feed. So, as I wrote to “Roseless,” women evolved to seek commitment cues from men signs they’re emotionally attached. Bringing home the bacon (and gourmet cooking it, too) is important, but what’s essential to many women are all those sweetiepookiewookie shows of affection. In fact, you could say Hallmark is in the multibillion-dollar business of catering to female evolutionary adaptations. So, do keep drawing her those hearts and bunnies. “Want shoes with that?” you growl to yourself. And yes, it seems she does. You’d like to point out that your chore wheel is not a Ferris wheel. Or is it? You mention that you’re in “the 1 percent.” If I were even in the 5 percent, I’d hire people to do just about everything for me except get out of bed. But, maybe you’re secretly into

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MEEK HER WANT YOU I know you tell men they must risk rejection to get dates. I’m pathetically shy, so I’m thinking of asking out this girl at the gym by giving her my card and telling her to call me if she wants to do something sometime. Win-win for the shy guy? – Lightweight Your card will come in handy if she needs to fix her car’s CD player or pick something out of her teeth. Women go out with men who ask them out, and handing one a piece of card stock with your phone number on it doesn’t count as asking her out. But, your shyness doesn’t have to be a drawback. (Own it, baby! “I am mouse, hear me squeak!”) On my radio show, therapist Dr. Robert Glover suggested approaching a woman with something like “I’m actually kind of shy, but I had to come talk with you...” Women are impressed by authenticity. Chances are, a woman will be especially impressed if you not only are open about your shortcomings but flip the bird at your fears to ask her out. Keep doing that and you’ll soon become one of those smoothboys who scores with women even while carrying on conversations with their breasts. Well, okay, maybe that’s overpromising a little. But, you can at least graduate from handing women litter to asking their shoes to the movies.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week you may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare, why two of the three blind mice weren’t really blind, and the shocking truth about the relationship between Cinderella’s fairy godmother and the handsome prince. Myths will be mutating, Aries. Nursery rhymes will scramble and fairy tales will fracture. Thor, the god of thunder, may make a tempting offer to Snow White. The cow’s jump over the moon could turn out to have been faked by the CIA. An ugly duckling will lay an egg that Chicken Little claims is irrefutable proof the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse is imminent. Sounds like a rowdy good time for all!

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Roots and wings. But let the wings grow roots and the roots fly.” That was written by Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, and now I’m passing it on to you. It will serve as a keynote for the turning point you’re about to navigate. In the coming weeks, you’ll generate good fortune by exposing your dark mysterious depths to the big bright sky; you’ll be wise to bring your soaring dreams down to earth for a pit stop. The highs need the influence of the lows, Taurus; the underneath will benefit from feeling the love of what’s up above. There’s one further nuance to be aware of, too: I think you will find it extra interesting to interweave your past with your future. Give your rich traditions a taste of the stories that are as-yet unwritten.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Recent scientific studies have confirmed what Native American folklore reports: Badgers and coyotes sometimes cooperate with each other as they search for food. The coyotes are better at stalking prey above ground, and the badgers take over if the hunted animal slips underground. They share the spoils. I suggest you draw inspiration from their example, Virgo. Is there a person you know who’s skilled at a task you have trouble with and who could benefit from something you’re good at? It’s prime time to consider forming symbiotic relationships or seeking out unusual partnerships that play to both parties’ strengths.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How did the Vikings navigate their ships through rough northern seas on cloudy and foggy days? Medieval texts speak of the mysterious “sunstone,” a “Viking compass” used to detect the hidden sun. Modern theories suggest that this technology may have been Iceland spar, a mineral that polarizes light, making it useful in plotting a course under overcast skies. Do you have anything like that, Libra? A navigational aid that guides your decisions when the sun’s not out, metaphorically speaking? Now would be an excellent time to enhance your connection with whatever it is that can provide such power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you set up two mirrors in just the right way, you can get a clear look at the back of your head. You’re able to see what your body looks like from behind. I suggest you try that exercise sometime soon. It will encourage your subconscious mind to help you discover what has been missing from your self-knowledge. As a result, you may be drawn to experiences that reveal things about yourself you’ve been resistant to seeing. You could be shown secrets about buried feelings and wishes that you’ve been hiding from yourself. Best of all, you may get intuitions about your soul’s code that you haven’t been ready to understand until now.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to my Sagittarius friend Jonathan Zap, the Greek playwright Aristophanes had an ambivalent attitude about divine blessings. He said that no great gift enters the human sphere without a curse attached to it. I’m sure you know this lesson well. One of last year’s big gifts has revealed its downside in ways that may have been confusing or deflating. But now here comes an unexpected plot twist, allowing you to add a corollary to Aristophanes’ formulation. Soon you will find a second blessing that was hidden within the curse in embryonic form. You’ll be able to tease it out, ripen it, and add it to the bounty of the original gift.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writing in the science magazine Discover, Corey S. Powell says, “There’s an old joke: If you tell someone the universe is expanding, he’ll believe you. If you tell him there’s wet paint on the park bench, he’ll want to touch it to make sure.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Capricorn, I invite you to rebel against this theory. I think it’s quite important for you to demand as much proof for big, faraway claims as for those that are close at hand. Don’t trust anyone’s assertions just because they sound lofty or elegant. Put them to the test.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s an excellent time to better appreciate your #@%(!)* vexations and botherations. In fact, let’s go ahead and make this Honor Your #@%(!)* Irritations and Annoyances Week. To properly observe this holiday, study the people and things that irk you so you can extract from them all the blessings and teachings they may provide. Are you too tolerant of an annoying situation that you need to pay closer attention to? Is it time to reclaim the power you’ve been losing because of an exasperating energy-drain? Does some jerk remind you of a quality you don’t like in yourself? Is there a valuable clue or two to be gleaned from a passive-aggressive provocateur?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Seahorses have an unusual approach to reproduction. It’s the male of the species that cares for the eggs as they gestate. He carries them in a “brood pouch” on his front side. Of course it’s the female who creates the eggs in the first place. After analyzing the astrological factors coming to bear on your destiny, Pisces, I suspect you will benefit from having a seahorselike quality in the coming weeks. Whatever gender you are, your archetypal masculine qualities should play an especially strong role as you nurture a project that’s in its early developmental phases.

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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 City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 2:00 p.m., on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Milwaukee Trail Lighting PR 12-04 ML This project consists of the installation of new trail lighting system along the Milwaukee Trail from Orange Street to California Street. Project includes new LED luminaires, poles, pole bases, and associated electrical. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are strongly encouraged to attend a pre-bid conference at 1:30 p.m., March 29, 2012 at the Currents Aquatic Center Conference Room, 600 Cregg Lane, Missoula, MT. A walk-through of the project site after completion of the meeting will be conducted. Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for City of Missoula PR 12-04 ML Milwaukee Trail Lighting” 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 City of Missoula against liability. 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. A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished to the Contractors making application from CTA Architects Engineers, 306 West Railroad Street, Missoula MT 59802, (406) 7289522, upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash cannot be accepted). Full amount of payment will be refunded upon request within ten (10) City business days following bid opening provided that complete plans and bid proposal package are returned in good condition. A Project Manual submitted for bid is retained for legal purposes and is therefore not refundable. After 10 City business days, the remaining checks will be deposited; no reminder calls will be made. 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) 543-5101 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 1406-444-7734. 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. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are re-

jected, 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 bid opening at 2:00 p.m. on April 10, 2012. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at http://ww.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA Marshall Canyon Ecosystem Management and Fuels Treatment Project Request for Proposals The City of Missoula, Parks & Recreation Department is requesting proposal statements for a forest thinning and fuels treatment services on city-owned open space in the Marshall Canyon area of Mt. Jumbo. Proposals are requested from interested, experienced professional foresters. Contractors interested in submitting proposals are required to attend a pre-proposal tour of the project area on Tuesday, March 20th at 11am, Marshall Canyon Trailhead, off Marshall Canyon Dr., Missoula, MT. Following the on-site meeting, qualified professional contractors will have six days to submit final proposals with costs. Mt. Jumbo is a public conservation area located within the Missoula City limits and managed primarily for native habitat. In the absence of fire, a dense understory of young trees exists throughout forests on Mt. Jumbo. Additionally, juvenile ponderosa pines and Douglas fir are encroaching into areas which have historically been native grasslands. Management goals for this project include selectively thinning across roughly 40 acres (see attached map). The density of trees per acre is quite variable across the site depending on slope, age of stand and available moisture. The project area borders the Missoula city limits. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Consultant performing work under the proposed contract will be subject to the Governmental Code of Fair Practices, Title 49, Chapter 3, Montana Codes Annotated (Non-Discrimination in Hiring) and Missoula Municipal Code, Chapter 9.64 (Illegal Discrimination.) Three paper copies and one electronic copy of vendor proposals are due Monday, March 26th, 2012, at 4:30 pm to: Missoula Parks and Recreation Operations Division c/o Morgan Valliant, Conservation Lands Manager 100 Hickory St. Missoula, MT. 59801. Late proposals will not be accepted. Detailed requests for qualifications must be obtained from Morgan Valliant, City Conservation Lands Manager or on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Questions about the project should be directed to Morgan Valliant at mvalliant@ci.missoula.mt.us (406) 5526263. CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on March 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a Resolution to adopt amendments to the City of Missoula Subdivision Regulations, Article 4 Review and Approval Procedures, Section 4-040 Review Procedure for Condominiums and Section 4-070 Preliminary and Final Plats. A copy of the resolution is available in the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact Lewis Yellowrobe, Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4651. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR CURB AND SIDEWALK DESIGN AND STAKING City of Missoula, Montana City Project No. 10-025 Van Buren – Vine to Elm NOTICE TO ENGINEERING CONSULTING

FIRMS: Notice is hereby given by the City of Missoula, Montana, and Equal Opportunity government, that it will receive written statements of qualifications and professional proposals for curb and sidewalk design and staking on Van Buren Street between Vine and Elm. Request for proposal and submission requirements may be obtained by visiting www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids, from the City Engineer, City of Missoula, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana 59802-4297, or by calling (406) 5526345. Four (4) copies of written statements, qualifications and professional proposals shall be submitted to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana 598024297 before 5:00 p.m., local time the 29th day of March, 2012. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with State statutes governing procurement of professional services. Accordingly, the City of Missoula reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. INVITATION TO BID NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT (MUD), a 501 c3 non-profit corporation, AT THE OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT, ROCKING M DESIGN, PC, LOCATED ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF 101 WEST BROADWAY, SUITE 612, MISSOULA, MT 59802 UNTIL 1:30 PM LOCAL TIME ON MONDAY, APRIL 2ND, 2012. BIDS WILL BE OPENED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT AND PUBLICLY READ ALOUD FOR THE FURNISHING OF ALL LABOR, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING: MUD TOOL LIBRARY & TRUCK SHARE RELOCATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT Missoula Urban Demonstration Project MISSOULA, MT GENERAL SITE WORK general site construction work to include: subgrade, utility connections, asphalt removal and placement, concrete curbs and sidewalk, concrete foundation slab and piers, subdrainage, topsoil and mulch, and incidental work. SEALED BIDS SHALL BE ADDRESSED TO ‘MUD Tool Library & Truck Share RELOCATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT: GENERAL SITE WORK, Rocking M Design, PC, 101 East Broadway, Suite #612, Missoula, MT 59802’ AND ENCLOSED IN SEALED ENVELOPES PLAINLY MARKED ON THE OUTSIDE “PROPOSAL FOR MUD TOOL LIBRARY & TRUCK SHARE RELOCATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT: GENERAL SITE WORK” THE ENVELOPES SHALL ALSO BE MARKED WITH THE BIDDER’S NAME AND MONTANA CONTRACTOR’S IDENTIFICATION NUMBER. NO BID MAY BE WITHDRAWN AFTER THE SCHEDULED TIME FOR THE PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS, WHICH IS 1:30 PM., LOCAL TIME APRIL 2ND, 2012. BIDDER QUESTIONS WILL BE TAKEN BY THE ARCHITECT THROUGH MARCH 21, 2012. ADDENDA, IF REQUIRED, WILL BE ISSUED MARCH 26, 2012. A COMPLETE SET OF THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS CONSISTING OF DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, BIDDING DOCUMENTS AND PROJECT MANUAL MAY BE EXAMINED OR OBTAINED AT THE MISSOULA PLANS EXCHANGE, 201 N. RUSSELL, MISSOULA, MT (406) 549-5002. ELECTRONIC COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH EMAIL DISTRIBUTION AT NO COST TO THE BIDDER FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT, CONTACT: JENNIE@ROCKINGMDESIGN.COM.; REFERENCE

MUD TL&TS GENERAL SITE CONSTRUCTION ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT REQUEST. 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). FORMS AND INFORMATION ON REGISTRATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, P.O. BOX 8011, 1805 PROSPECT, HELENA MONTANA 59604-8011 OR BY CALLING 1406-444-7734. CONTRACTOR IS NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE DLI PRIOR TO BIDDING ON THIS PROJECT, BUT MUST HAVE REGISTERED PRIOR TO EXECUTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT. ALL LABORERS AND MECHANICS EMPLOYED BY CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTORS IN PERFORMANCE OF THE 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. THE WORK OF THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED with federal funds and is subject to community development block grant (CDBG) Program Supplemental General Conditions and Federal Labor Standards Provisions. Minority and women-owned businesses are encouraged to bid. EACH BID OR PROPOSAL MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A CASHIER’S CHECK, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR BID BOND PAYABLE TO THE ‘MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT’ IN THE AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN TEN PERCENT (10%) OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE BID. SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS SHALL FURNISH AN APPROVED PERFORMANCE BOND AND A LABOR AND MATERIALS PAYMENT BOND, EACH IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) OF THE CONTRACT AMOUNT. INSURANCE AS REQUIRED SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER(S) AND A CERTIFICATE(S) OF THAT INSURANCE SHALL BE PROVIDED. MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO WAIVE INFORMALITIES, TO POSTPONE THE AWARD OF THE CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED THIRTY (30) DAYS, TO ACCEPT THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE BID WHICH IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE OWNER, TO REJECT ANY AND ALL PROPOSALS RECEIVED, AND, IF ALL BIDS ARE REJECTED, TO BE ADVERTISED UNDER THE SAME OR NEW SPECIFICATIONS, OR TO MAKE SUCH AN AWARD AS IN THE JUDGMENT OF ITS OFFICIALS BEST MEETS THE OWNER’S REQUIREMENTS. ANY OBJECTIONS TO PUBLISHED SPECIFICATIONS SHALL BE FILED IN WRITTEN FORM WITH THE ARCHITECT PRIOR TO BID OPENING AT THE OFFICE OF Rocking M Design, PC, 101 East Broadway, Suite #612, Missoula, MT 59802’. THE CONTRACTOR IS REQUIRED TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF ELECTION EQUIPMENT TESTING A test of the ES&S 650 Ballot Counters that will be used to tabulate ballots on Election Day will be starting at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2012, at the Fairground’s Marsda Building, 1101 South Ave W, Missoula, Montana. Following this, a test of the ES&S AutoMARK ballotmarking system and the ES&S M100 Precinct Counters will be held at the Missoula County Record’s Center at

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PUBLIC NOTICES 2147 Ernest Ave, Missoula, Montana. All tests are open to the public. /s/ Vickie Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County By /s/ Debbe Merseal, Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. Monday, March 19 2012 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of Ten Thousand (10,000) Tons of 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 181-203, for example: Cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Asphaltic Plant Mix – 2012” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works 2011 Asphaltic Plant Mix Bid 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808. MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Travelers’ Rest State Park Land Acquisition: A hearing on a proposal to use up to $300,000 of Open Space bond funding towards the acquisition of land by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks in the Lolo area. Two parcels totaling 23.69 acres would be added to the adjacent Travelers’ Rest State Park (TRSP). The acquisition would be temporarily held by Five Valleys Land Trust until MFWP completed the purchase. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 7214043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. MISSOULA COUNTY Section 3 Public Notice The City of Missoula, on behalf of the Missoula Housing Authority, has received notice of the award of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Missoula Urban Demonstration Project (MUD) will soon commence the implementation of the MUD Tool Library and Truck Share relocation and expan-

sion project. CDBG regulations governing the grant require that to the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment arising in connection with this CDBG-assisted project will be extended to local lowerincome residents. Further, to the greatest extent feasible, business concerns located in or substantially owned by residents of the project area and minority or women owned businesses are encouraged to be utilized. For more information, please contact Melissa Gordon, Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802 or call (406) 2584980. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DR-12-133 Department No. 1 Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: Brian Barnes, Petitioner, and Kathryn Barnes, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty 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 for the relief demanded in the Petition. The action is brought to obtain a dissolution. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: Dated this 9th day of March, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Michelle Vipperman, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-10-46 Dept. No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING H. B., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: DAWN DRAWDY Re: H.B., born July 12, 1996 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Mother’s and Father’s Parental Rights and Grant of Permanent Legal Custody to CFS with the Right to Consent to Adoption or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 11th day of April, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Mother’s rights should not be terminated; why CFS should not be awarded permanent legal custody of the Youth with the right to consent to the Youth’s adoption; and why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. Dawn Drawdy is represented by Kelli Sather, Office of State Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 8th day of March, 2012. /s/ Edward P. McLean, District Judge EDWARD P. MCLEAN District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-29 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM R. BLAIR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary O. Blair, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of her attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 17th day of February, 2012 CROWLEY FLECK PLLP. /s/ Dirk A. Williams, Attorneys for Personal Representative. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-33 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: KERRY MCMENUS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John Boyle, the Personal Represen-

tative, 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 26th day of January, 2012. /s/ John Boyle, Personal Representative Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-12-178 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Sarah Ann Zbinden, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Sarah Ann Zbinden to Sarah Ann WinterNight. The hearing will be on April 4, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be a the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/17/2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-207 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Susan Johnson Cole Rose, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Susan Johnson Cole Rose to Susan Elaine Rose. The hearing will be on April 3, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: February 28, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-12-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOIS JAMES WAGNER, 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 John Paul Wagner, 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 29th day of February, 2012. /s/ John Paul Wagner, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Probate Case No. DP-12-24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of LOUISE R. RAFF, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal B. Thrailkill, return receipt requested, at 1221 Lincoln Court, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2012. /s/ Deborah B. Thrailkill, Personal Representative 1221 Lincoln Court, Missoula, MT 59802 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Gayle Johnston Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate Case No. DP-12-34 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of FLORENCE WESTON YOUNG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Mark Weston, return receipt requested, at 2240 Cales Ct. Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of February, 2012. /s/ Mark Weston, Personal Representative, 2240 Cales Ct. Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-12-37 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GORDON H. SIMMONS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Sarah S. Lester, 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 29th day of February, 2012. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY In the Matter of the Name Change of Christo-

pher John Thompson, Dept. No. 2 Cause Number DV-12-86. Notice is herebygiven that a hearing on Christopher John Thompson’s Petition to change his name to Christopher John Kerney will be held on April 17, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, before the Honorable Robert L. Deschamps NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to §71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 31st day of May, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock a.m, on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL 1: TRACT 2A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5342, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 14 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. AND PARCEL 2: TRACT 39 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1925, LOCATED IN THE WEST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Sharon E. Schneider and Robert J. Schneider, as Grantors, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bitterroot Valley Bank d/b/a Clark Fork Valley Bank, organized and existing under the laws of the State of Montana, who was designated as Beneficiary in a Real Estate Trust Indenture dated August 15, 2008 and recorded on August 15, 2008 as Document No. 200819254 in Book 824 at Page 1236 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Trust Indenture”). Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 15, 2011, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Grantors have defaulted in the performance of the said Trust Indenture and associated Universal Note by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,202.21 for the month of April, 2011, and of $1,229.18 for the month of May, 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. As of December 28, 2011, the sum of $11,135.65 is past due. As of December 28, 2011, the principal balance due was the sum of $143,396.91 principal, plus $8,000.61 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the variable rate set out in the Universal Note, which is currently 7.70% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Trust Indenture. In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture and Universal Note , the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and Universal and has elected to sell the interest of Sharon E. Schneider and Robert J. Schneider, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants 2403 Highway 83 N. Seeley Lake MT 59868 Occupants 10460 Sweet Pea Way Missoula MT 59808 Robert J. and Sharon E. Schneider 10460 Sweet Pea Way Missoula MT 59808 Department of the Treasury I.R.S. 2681 Palmer Street, 2nd Floor Missoula MT 59808 Internal Revenue Service Stop 8420-G PO Box 145595 Cincinnati OH 45250-5595 Internal Revenue Service District Director Rocky Mountain District Attn: S.P.E. 5020 600 17th Street Denver CO 80202 - 2490 Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 20th day of January, 2012. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) : ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 20th day of January, 2012, by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee. (Notarial Seal) /s/ Susan Marshall Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My commission expires: 17 March 2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/12/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201101220, B: 872, P: 1035, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kristina L. Edsall and Tanner S. Dempsey, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Chicago Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Chicago Title Insurance Company as

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Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 86 of Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, 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 03/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 16, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $144,205.95. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $134,297.00, 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 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.79418) 1002.207567-File NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3. 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 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 19, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $880,319.70. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, 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 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly

on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-File NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 23, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 OF SUNDOWN RANCH ESTATES SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Michael W Goggin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 24, 2003 and recorded on June 30, 2003 at 4:11 o’clock P.M., in Book 710, Page 650, under Document No 200323422. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2003-HE3, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-HE3. 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 $2,328.58, 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 December 18, 2011 is $153,979.03 principal, interest at the rate of 7.5% now totaling $34,252.46, escrow advances of $1,859.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,338.64, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.64 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 14, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 14th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forego-

ing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Chase/goggin 47024.967 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 30, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 OF WHITE WATER PARK SUBDIVISION, TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED 1/9TH INTEREST IN THE COMMON AREA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF AS ESTABLISHED BY CASE NO. 49481, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Janet Delzer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 27, 2006 and recorded on January 27, 2006 in Book 768, Page 41 as Document No. 200602042. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula 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 $814.09, beginning July 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 January 16, 2012 is $170,128.41 principal, interest at the rate of 3.00000% now totaling $3,186.99, late charges in the amount of $449.91, escrow advances of $2,924.70, suspense balance of $-622.13 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,435.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $13.98 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, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 21st day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 GMAC V Delzer 41965.618 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 14, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MON-

PUBLIC NOTICES TANA: LOT 20 AND THE WEST 11.8 FEET OF LOT 21 IN BLOCK 5 OF GLENWOOD PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Patrick R. Ferrell, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 12, 2007 and recorded April 12, 2007 in Book 795, Page 293 under Document No. 200708598. The beneficial interest is currently held by 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 $1,329.98, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 27, 2011 is $227,996.09 principal, interest at the rate of 7.000% now totaling $21,086.56, late charges in the amount of $1,502.09, escrow advances of $3,742.75, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,977.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the 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: January 6, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of December, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5-262015 BacVFerrell 42019.175 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SCOTT KNIGHT, AND BILLIE

ANNE KNIGHT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 07/12/2005, in document No. 200517167 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 1215 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ALSO SHOWN OF RECORD AS LOT 5 IN 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 109 WAPIKIYA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 598031230. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $153,245.73 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.75% per annum from 03/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 01/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0006202 FEI NO. 1006.152741 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/08/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS D. ERVING AND MIKELL K POTTER, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/14/2007 and recorded 11/20/2007, in document No. 200730276 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 809 at Page Number 177 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request for a public forum by the Missoula School District and Partnership Health for a proposed medical clinic at Lowell School located at 1200 Sherwood in the RMI-45 zoning district. SEE MAP Z. 2. A request by Glen Faechner, represented by Loken Builders, for a variance to allow a detached garage to encroach into a side yard setback for a property located at 150 Kensington in the R5.4 zoning district. SEE MAP C. 3. A request by Discovery Alliance Church for a front and side yard setback variance, a variance to exceed the maximum lot coverage, and a variance to extend the life of a variance for a property legally described as Lots 5 & 6A of Hellgate Meadows, Phase 1 & 2 in the Hellgate Special District. SEE MAP Y. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at 258-3869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us

COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 11A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1872. Property Address: 16600 TOUCHETTE LANE, Frenchtown, MT 59834. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $397,581.09 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.375% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson,

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 120, 211, and 237. 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 March 19th, 2012 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 March 22nd, 2012, 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.

Central Mini Storage will action to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 11, 17, 24. Units contain misc items. These units may be viewed by appt only by calling 543-9798. Please speak to Shannon. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage offices at 401 SW Higgins Missoula, MT 59803 prior to March 30, 2012 at 3:00pm. Auction sales will be final after this date. Buyers bid will be for the entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. ONLY cash or money order will be accepted as form of payment.

TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0026415 FEI NO. 1006.131552 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/11/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROGER W OLSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/25/2008 and recorded 10/03/2008, in document No. 200822659 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 444 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF LOT 11, THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF LOT 12 AND THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF THE WEST 24 FEET OF LOT 13 IN BLOCK 94 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, RECORDING REFERENCE IN BOOK 265 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1439. Property Address: 1828 HOWELL ST, Missoula, MT 59802-2136. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $128,519.12 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.25% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 44, 226, 239, 440, 517, 540, 568, 577, and 629. 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 26, 2012. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, March 29, 2012, 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 anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0005244 FEI NO. 1006.152563 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/13/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRADLEY K WATKINS AND ALISA J WATKINS, JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/15/2008 and recorded 02/21/2008, in document No. 200803740 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 813 at Page Number 835 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 7 OF SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO FOOTHILLS ESTATES NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2517 HIGHWOOD DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $215,141.87 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 1/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0006816 FEI NO. 1006.152743 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution

by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TODD PRESSLER AND TRACY PRESSLER, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to PINNACLE TITLE AND ESCROW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/08/2008 and recorded 02/15/2008, in document No. 200803360 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 813 at Page Number 455 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 8 OF LINDA VISTA SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTPHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6894 LINDA VISTA BOULEVARD, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $262,927.03 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/07/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0062353 FEI NO. 1006.140199 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/18/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEONARD T SMITH, AND CONNIE L THOMPSON, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN# 100025500001136777, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/24/2009 and recorded 08/28/2009, in document No. 200921349 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 846 at Page Number 794 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 30-A OF DINSMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES ADDITION NO. 4, LOTS 29 AND 30, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MIS-

SOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3070 SOUTH 7TH STREET WEST, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $395,546.15 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 10/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/02/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0008290 FEI NO. 1006.152876 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/22/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LESLIE I. CONNELL 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 Trust Indenture Dated 09/25/2008 and recorded 09/30/2008, in document No. 200822419 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 204 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 448 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3841 Lexington Avenue, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance

of $223,424.51 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 10/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/08/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0108987 FEI NO. 1006.110520 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/25/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLINTON J ADCOCK AND AMBER K ADCOCK, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantors, conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/16/2009 and recorded 01/22/2009, in document No. 200901326 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 832 at Page Number 357 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 9A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4379, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 6003 AIRWAY BLVD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $313,492.39 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/09/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0139822 FEI NO. 1006.117071 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH

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AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/25/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M GORDON, AND RENEEA J GORDON, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY LICENSED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/03/2008 and recorded 10/08/2008, in document No. 200823029 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 814 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 9A OF LOW’S ADDITION NO. 10, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE SEWER AND WATER EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF SAID SUBDIVISION. Property Address: 620 S GARFIELD ST, Missoula, MT 598012262. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $168,118.79 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 09/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/09/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0110374 FEI NO. 1006.110532 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/29/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DAVID O LARSON, AND THERESA J LARSON, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE

ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/11/2007 and recorded 01/18/2007, in document No. 200701444 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 790 at Page Number 982 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 1, 2, AND 3 IN BLOCK 80 OF SOUTH MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 900 MARSHALL STREET, Missoula, MT 598013612. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $197,074.67 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/14/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0011452 FEI NO. 1006.153611 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/29/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which GIBBY CARLASCIO, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN: 100133700027548919, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/21/2007 and recorded 11/23/2007, in document No. 200730481 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 809 at Page Number 382 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT A14 OF WINDSOR PARK, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4288 HERMIONE LANE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default

of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $215,587.75 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.50% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 02/14/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0011479 FEI NO. 1006.153612 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on July 17, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 35 and 36 in Block 55 of Carline Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. J. Clair Rasmussen and Barbara Rasmussen, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded September 8, 2006, in Book 782 of Micro at Page 958, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The Beneficiary’s interest in the Trust Indenture was assigned to Jack Meyer, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Earl M. Pruyn, by assignment recorded February 7, 2012, in Book 889 of Micro at Page 496, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded February 28, 2012, in Book 890, Page 436, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the final payment as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, his option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $25,152.65, plus interest at a rate of 8.5% totaling $199.15 and back-due taxes paid totaling $6,082.39, for a total amount due of $31,434.19, as of February 29, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 29th day of February, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 29th day of February, 2012, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013

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home offers a fantastic floorplan, 2 family rooms, large deck and nice backyard for entertaining. 300 Central, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $399,000. Call Anne for details. 546-5816 www.movemontana.com

Looking for homebuyer education? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

Handsome, Spacious Home on Prime Upper Miller Creek Acreage, 5+ bedrooms, with out of town living on quiet cul-de-sac, 10 acres. Rodeo Rd. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home, middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 2405227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Immaculate Rose Park Area Home, This light filled

Looking for a place to call home? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

Open & Light & Green & Clean: Efficiency abounds in this 3 BR, 2.5 ba stand alone super insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm. 2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $280,000. MLS #20120012. 9869 Lee’s Lane, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com

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3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage 32499 Bible Lane, Alberton Seller motivated, price reduced Close to Clark Fork river $159,900 • MLS# 20121030

NHN Peregrine Court Almost 1/2 acre building site Close to Ranch Club Golf Course Great views, fishing access City sewer stubbed to property line PRICE REDUCED $62,900 MLS# 10007449

101 Boardwalk 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage Beautifully landscaped, fenced yard Zoned commercial, separate office 101 Boardwalk, Stevensville $320,000 • MLS# 20116174

102 Boardwalk 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage Beautifully landscaped yard Zoned commercial, 48'x30' shop 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville $298,500 • MLS# 20114242

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Vacation Rental 4 Sale Charming vacation rental half a mile from Georgetown Lake and 6 miles from Discovery. This cabin has

been a vacation rental for 7 years with many return clients, is being sold turn-key, and produces $20,000 per year income. It is in great shape and is being sold fully furnished including the hot tub. The site is 2.0 acres at the end of a private couldesc with easy year-round access and great views. Priced at $209,000, visit www.cabinmt.com for photos or call 406-546-4797.

Desirable 4-plex in a great neighborhood.

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landscaped gardens & lawn. UG sprinkler, “secret garden” & fenced yard. $425,000. MLS#20114396. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.2404rattlesnake.com.

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

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REAL ESTATE Wonderful 5 bed, 3 bath home @ top of Fairviews with 2 car garage. Level lot! Borders open space. All new carpet & interior paint. Trex deck off dining room. Great views! Back yard is fenced. $275,000. MLS# 20116161. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.110artemos.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 2 Bdr, 1.5 Downtown Missoula condo. Zoned for Residential or Commercial use. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com For a limited time a purchase of a condo at the Uptown Flats will include a large flat screen TV and assistance with up to $5000 Buyers closing costs!The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units at $149,900. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks. Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university. Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $275,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 5465816 for details. www.movemontana.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES 663 Ridge Road. PRICE REDUCED! Manufactured 3 bed 2 bath home, permanent foundation, low maintenance vinyl siding, 3 acres, partially fenced, double garage. Large deck with

awning over looking the Bitterroot Valley. Large master bedroom with nice master bath. 663 Ridge Road, Stevensville. $179,000. MLS#20117486. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

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

COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com East Missoula building lot with great trees and a sweet â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hood. $65,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

OUT OF TOWN 18737 Sorrel Springs Lane, Frenchtown, $379,000 MLS # 20113420, 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath, Beautiful home on 4 acres with spectacular views. Call Betsy Milyard for a showing today at 880-4749. 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres with Bitterroot River frontage. Horse Barn, cross-fenced. $449,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13.9 acres with panoramic Bitterroot Mountain views. $629,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 860 Haley, Florence $550,000 - MLS# 20115636 5 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 car garage home available. Over 5000 finished square ft. Tons of space, game room and its own movie theater - perfect for living and entertaining! Your own private movie theater comes with 55â&#x20AC;? LED 3D TV, seven theater chairs, and an awesome sound system. Call Betsy Milyard for more info 8804749. Lolo end of Cul-de-sac Beauty: Open, light, private, quiet and in immaculate condition. Huge yard, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with hardwood, tile and beautiful warm colors. 5697 Explorer Court. $225,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Megan Lane, Frenchtown, $199,900 MLS: 10007166 BRAND NEW 3 BED, 2 BATH HOME ON 1 ACRE. HOME TO BE BUILT SO YOU CAN PICK YOUR COLORS AND SOME FINISHING TOUCHES. GENEROUS $2000 APPLIANCE ALLOWANCE AND $1300 LANDSCAPING ALLOWANCE. Call Betsy for more info 8804749.

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Friday, March 16, 8 PM Bitterroot Performing Arts Council Presents

DERVISH, legendary and soulful Irish traditional folk band. Their colorful career has taken them to every corner of the globe and has found them sharing center stage with such names as James Brown, The Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, Beck and many more. More info: bitterrootperformingarts.org or

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Friday, March 23, 7 PM North Underground Lecture Hall, UM Campus More info: 406-243-5267; www.cas.umt.edu/ english/creative_writing