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DID CITY COUNCIL ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING WITH ITS DOWNTOWN SIT BAN? MAYBE NOT SO MUCH.

PRIMARY FIGHT FOR GOP’S SOUL NATIONAL FOREST DRIVERS OPINION ARTS BLIND NEWS DOESN’T LET DEMS OFF HOOK FIGHTS FAT BIKES VISIT MONTANA

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News Voices/Letters Daines, trapping and a plow ..................................................................4 The Week in Review Lady Griz, Sally Jewell and a runaway Shriner ............................6 Briefs Lolo school bond, wolves and the Clark Fork .....................................................6 Etc. An ode to Kareem Jamar..........................................................................................7 News New winter biking trend hits a snag in national forest.........................................8 News Did council’s downtown bans change much? ......................................................9 Opinion Republican primaries provide Democrats an opening..................................10 Opinion One solution to saving trout has gotten a bad rap........................................11 Feature Montana tribes work to save their dying languages........................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Driving Blind through Montana ...........................................................................18 Music Cold Hard Cash Show, Iron Chic and Oliver Trolley.........................................19 Books April Wilder touches a nerve with Accident......................................................20 Theater Oscar Wilde classic strikes an important balance...........................................21 Film In defense of the well-worn heist flick .................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Mother of umami..............................................................................24 Happiest Hour Gravlax at The Silk Road.....................................................................26 8 Days a Week Searching for the right words..............................................................27 Mountain High The Griz Glow 5K...............................................................................33 Agenda Healthy Hour at the Badlander .......................................................................34

Exclusives

Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11

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Dap for Daines

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, March 18, on the University of Montana campus inside the UC. This week the Indy reports on Montana tribes trying to save their native languages. What’s your favorite word in the English language?

Follow-up: What’s one word that makes your skin crawl?

Carson Bryant: “Contemplation.” I like it because it feels powerful. It expresses more action than thinking itself. Dirty words: “Prejudice” or “discrimination.” I don’t like them because they’re really smooth. They make you sound like an intelligent person but nothing good has ever come from those words.

Wade Lindsey: “Cool.” Because it describes so many different things. It has a functional use. Strongly dislike: I don’t like the word “hate.” If you’re using the word “hate” you’re not taking the time to understand people in general.

Emily Misner: It’s two words, but “turtle shell” because it rolls off the tongue quite nicely. Not dry: “Moist.” For unspoken reasons.

Kelsie Crippen: “Beautiful.” In the Jim Carrey movie Liar Liar he says it “b-e-au-tiful”. That’s how I learned to spell it.

Binge: “Purge.” It’s so negative and it’s to throw up.

Megan Lubitz: “Authenticity.” I like that it can apply to people as well as organizations and it is a good way to know that I would be interested in certain things. Like a fish: I guess when people use the word “gutted” in any way. Especially in a news article that’s referring to an institution or strategy or person.

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Montana has been made a role model for the rest of the nation to follow thanks to the work Congressman Steve Daines has done with the North Fork Watershed Protection Act (see “One more step forward,” March 13). The legislation, which has passed through the House, was started by a Democrat (Sen. Baucus), and Daines’ opponent in the Senate who is in supports of this bill. Doing the legwork to get the legislation passed is a testament to Daines’ dedication to bipartisanship.

Daines has shown that he knows how to put Montana’s well-being ahead of party politics. This is imperative to the young voters of Montana like me to continue to put our trust and faith in our elected officials. It’s a rare scene when groups like ConocoPhillips and wilderness societies come together, but that’s the kind of leader Daines is and the kind of leadership we can continue to rely on. Thanks goes to Rep. Daines for his great work protecting the North Fork!

Heather Hoff Missoula

Unnecessary fear Montana has a proud history of sharing public lands, but in reality, trapping significantly shuts out other forms of land use. How many people simply don’t dare take their dog out on our public lands, fearful their beloved dog will be caught in a trap? Over 50 pets were trapped last year in Montana and FWP said that was not unusual. How many fear for their children?

Trapping isn’t part of science-based management—most trapped animals aren’t even counted or reported. The “incidental” catches are unknown and records are absent. How can this possibly be good for wild lands, or wildlife?

It’s also time to consider the animals.

Since the 19th century we have learned

that pain and fear and distress are not functions of our “higher” brain. The animals experience the suffering caused by traps and the sometimes gruesome methods of killing much as we would.

It is time to stop this kind of torture on our public lands. It is time to stop unnecessary fear and pain on the lands we all share.

Mary Sarumi Great Falls

“It is time to stop unnecessary fear and pain on the lands we all share.”

Don’t fix it Right now, Montana’s lawmakers are reviewing the Renewable Energy Standard, which requires utilities to increase the amount of renewable energy they buy. But they are trying to fix something that isn’t broken. Renewable energy is a great buy for Montana. Power from the wind farm at Judith Gap, for example, is cheaper than electricity from Colstrip. That’s a fact.

NorthWestern has reported it, and the Public Service Commission has recorded it.

And actually, solar is cheaper too. I know because I just bought solar photovoltaic panels for my house—which I am installing myself—and they are going to pay for themselves in 6 years. After that, I am going to have free electricity for at least 20 years.

The reason why some legislators want to mess with the Renewable Energy Stan-

dard, I suspect, is not because clean energy isn’t working, it’s because the coal lobby is running scared. Some rich people have a lot of money invested in coal, and things are not looking good for coal right now. PPL is trying to sell its share of Colstrip to NorthWestern, but when NorthWestern recently crunched the numbers, it turned out that Colstrip actually had a negative value. That’s right: The economics of coal are so bad, PPL would actually have to pay NorthWestern money before NorthWestern would “buy” Colstrip.

If it isn’t broken, the legislature shouldn’t try to fix it. The Renewable Energy Standard is good for the economy, good for the environment, and good for ratepayers.

Wade Sikorski Baker

A hero The Tribal Council of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes considers Suzie Green, a plow operator for the state Department of Transportation, a hero. I wanted to offer sincere thanks and appreciation for her rescue efforts early March 1 near Arlee.

Tribal Officers Don Bell and TJ Haynes relayed the story to Council. Suzie’s decisive action enabled the rescue of two middle aged men who became stranded in 7-foot-high snow drifts near Arlee. With the 5-degree temperatures and high winds, we have no doubt that a three-hour wait for a Search and Rescue team may have proved disastrous. We wanted you to know that we have shared our appreciation of your help with the state director of transportation and to the governor.

From our perspective, you took the best course of action that night.

Ronald Trahan Council Chairman Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Help wanted,” March 13

California hatin’ “The author is obviously a biased environmentalist that paints the worst of all possible pictures that may happen (emphasis added for “may”) without a positive comment upon what good could happen also … Additionally, Montana has got along well without any input from California-raised individuals who come to us from California’s land of entitlement,

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and/or graduates of it’s [sic] Institutions of “Lower” Learning.”

Posted March 13 at 12:25 p.m.

Different picture “Well that’s certainly a different picture than what’s painted by all those Bakken Shale ads on the radio.”

Posted March 13 at 4:18 a.m.

From the right “Where does the author get this information? This conservative reads the Independent all the time, every week, for many years now.

I really like to know what the other half is thinking, and several times, it has swayed my opinion. This is the first time I’ve felt compelled to comment. Very poor opinion piece.

Words without backup are just rants.”

Posted March 18 at 1:29 p.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, March 12 Law enforcement officials identify Missoula resident Peter Maxwell, 27, as the victim of a fatal March 10 avalanche outside of Philipsburg. Maxwell, who was on a ski trip at the time of the accident, was the owner of Garden City Recycling.

Thursday, March 13 The railroad business is booming thanks to the Bakken. The American Association of Railroads reports that U.S. rail companies delivered more than 400,000 carloads of crude oil last year, an 83-percent increase over the amount delivered in 2012.

Friday, March 14 The Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthworks file a lawsuit in district court challenging the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to grant an exploration license to Tintina Alaska Corp. The company wants to build a copper mine near the Smith River in central Montana.

Saturday, March 15 The revelry of the St. Patrick’s Day parade is temporarily interrupted when a tiny “Shriner” car careens into the crowd at the corner of Higgins and Fourth St. after its driver loses control due to a mechanical problem. A 5-year-old boy suffers minor injuries in the crash.

Sunday, March 16 During a multi-day tour of Montana, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell takes a trip to Glacier National Park. Jewell points out the park’s role as a major economic engine in the region.

Monday, March 17 The NCAA announces the women’s field for its postseason championship tournament. While the Lady Griz don’t make the cut, the team does receive a WNIT bid and a home game against Washington State to kick off the consolation competition.

Tuesday, March 18 Jordan Tripp headlines the University of Montana’s annual “pro day” as National Football League scouts watch Griz athletes complete tests like the 40-yard dash and bench press.

Tripp, a linebacker, is projected to go as early as the third round in May’s draft.

Nora Gibbons, right, and her sister Molly performed with the Missoula Irish Dancers at Draught Works Brewery on St. Patrick’s Day.

Wolves

Depredations down Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced this week that hunters and trappers harvested 230 wolves in a season that ended Feb. 28. Despite the lack of a statewide harvest quota, a bag limit of five wolves per person and the newly allowed use of electronic calls, the total topped last year’s take by only five wolves.

The news comes on the heels of another wolf-related announcement from the agency, one that has riled advocates for the animal. Last week, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted a new rule making it legal for landowners to kill wolves on private property without a license. The provision stems from a bill passed by the 2013 Montana Legislature, and has been a point of contention in the state’s ongoing debate over wolf management.

“We took something over 1,300 public comments,” FWP wildlife management section chief Quentin Kujala said during the March 13 meeting, “which has, like it always does, proven to be a great asset in the conversation.”

The prospect of an even more liberalized wolf policy has made some in the state uneasy, but FWP

spokesman Ron Aasheim says agency officials have been reassured by another set of numbers gleaned over the past year. In 2013, wolf depredations on livestock were at their lowest in seven years, and the number of problem wolves removed from the population fell to 75 from 108 the year before. Aasheim credits this not only to lethal measures like the hunting season but to nonlethal management like range riders and fladry—vertical strips of fabric on fences that frighten wolves and coyotes.

“We’re learning some things,” Aasheim says, adding that a new minimum population estimate for wolves in Montana should also be released in the coming weeks.

“In other words, it wasn’t just about killing wolves. It was about doing things to prevent them from making bad decisions or decisions that weren’t tolerated.”

Still, the radical change in wolf policy will continue to generate waves in the same manner as a standing proposal from the U.S. Department of the Interior to delist gray wolves nationwide. The latter has prompted opponents to host a string of simultaneous rallies in several cities including Missoula on March 24. The event is being promoted on social media by the Wolf and Wildlife Action Group.

FWP is fully aware that its actions annoy some.

“Any time you discuss any changes to wolf management or wolf numbers, it colors the debate,” Aasheim says. “On the other hand, it is a tool, and we’re counting on landowners to make good decisions.”

Alex Sakariassen

Education

Lolo flunks bond The Lolo School bond failed last week for the second time in five months, leaving the community divided and educators desperate for a new way to fix the outdated facility in the center of town.

Supporters of the bond sought to collect $10.5 million from residents to build a new K-4 school on a 20-acre plot in east Lolo. They say the current K-8 school is unsafe and over capacity, and hoped to separate the district’s 602 students on two different campuses. Opponents of the bond, led by businessman Frank Miller, disagreed with the school district’s plan and prevailed by a 29-vote margin when the mail-in ballots were counted on March 12.

Miller, who owns KT’s Hayloft Saloon and Deli, sent out fliers and manufactured big red signs telling

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[news] Lolo residents to vote no. He’s on a winning streak and he’s happy about it.

“I’m glad it got defeated,” he says. “It is a scam deal. There’s no competitive bids.”

Montana’s commissioner of political practices did put a damper on Miller’s victory when it ruled on March 18 that he violated state campaign laws by failing to properly provide attribution on his signs and fliers. The commissioner did not invalidate the outcome of the vote, however.

Mike Magone, the superintendent of the Lolo school district, says he is “kind of heartbroken” by the outcome of the vote. He pegs the loss to the Lolo community’s aversion to taxes as well as to “misinformation” published and promoted by Miller and other opponents.

“I think one of the consistent things along the way is that there are a fair number of people in the Lolo community that, regardless of the reason, do not want their taxes increased,” he says. “…There was also continued misinformation put out there that I think had an impact, and it increased from the last go around and that was definitely frustrating to us.”

Karen Balfour, the co-chair of Vote Yes For Lolo Kids, says Miller’s claims about competitive bidding are “simply not true.” The district planned to use a bidding process known as the design-build method for the proposed school. The method is regularly employed for public works projects.

“The process was competitive and it would have allowed for more local people to put bids in,” she says.

“The outcome is sad all the way around. The kids deserve a building that supports the learning that goes on.”

A similar school bond proposal lost by a 43-vote margin in October last year. Magone says the district has no plans to take another run at a school bond in the near future.

Jimmy Tobias

Clark Fork

A little cleaner Over the last two decades, ongoing remediation efforts throughout the Upper Clark Fork Basin have allowed the river to gradually rebound from its polluted past. The going has been slow and expensive— estimates put the cost of the next major phase at $100 million—but advocates for a cleaner Clark Fork have reason to believe it will pay off.

Last week, the U.S. Geological Survey released the results of a 15-year study of water quality from Silver Bow Creek all the way to Missoula. The findings show that arsenic and heavy metal pollution in the Clark Fork has dropped dramatically near Butte and Anaconda, where remediation efforts have primarily

focused thus far. At one testing location on Silver Bow Creek, levels of zinc fell from 1,100 micrograms per liter in 1996 to 42 micrograms per liter in 2010.

“The contaminate concentrations in the upper reaches have come down pretty substantially,” says USGS hydrologist Steve Sando, the chief author of the report.

The data itself is nothing new; the USGS releases results from its monitoring stations annually. But the 15-year breadth and scope of Sando’s report offer a more historic and detailed sense of what’s going on along the Clark Fork than has been available in the past.

“It reaffirmed and showed us in a very specific way how Silver Bow Creek is slowly but surely cleaning up

as they’ve removed the tailings,” says Clark Fork Coalition science director Chris Brick. “That project is almost done now, but the years of this study … That was a period during which cleanup was occurring.”

While the prevalence of copper and zinc has declined significantly, Sando notes that the reduction in arsenic hasn’t been “quite as dramatic”—only about 50 percent. Sando’s report also indicates that contaminants remain a major concern farther downstream from Silver Bow, namely between Galen and Deer Lodge. For Brick, that makes perfect sense—the next phase of remediation covers that stretch and was only started last year. The whole project covers 45 miles, Brick says, and will take about 15 years to complete.

“It’s good to see that where we’ve done Superfund cleanup, the river’s improving,” she says. “And where we haven’t started yet or are just starting, there’s a lot of room for improvement.”

Alex Sakariassen

Transportation

Maclay Bridge makes waves Peggie Morrison says the future of the Maclay Bridge is still up for grabs. The president of the Target Range Homeowners Association acknowledges that

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Montana Democrats who filed for legislative races in the 2014 midterm election.

Comparatively, 150 Republicans declared their candidacy by the March 10 filing deadline.

Late last Thursday evening, amid little fanfare in an Ogden, Utah, arena, University of Montana basketball player Kareem Jamar finished one of the best careers in the program’s storied history. Despite Jamar’s game-high 20 points, the Griz lost to Portland State in the first round of the Big Sky Conference tournament, ending the team’s bid for a third straight championship and berth in the NCAA tournament— and concluding a historic run by an understated superstar.

Jamar deserved a better send-off. The 6-5 swingman filled stat sheets more than highlight reels and complemented teammates more than he posterized opponents, all the while quietly filling UM’s record book. He led the team in points, rebounds and assists this year, and was named to the conference’s allleague first team for the third straight season.

Jamar finished his career with 1,673 points, fourth highest all-time at UM behind late1940s star Bob Cope and eventual NBA players Larry Krystkowiak and Michael Ray Richardson. Jamar also ended up with the fourth most assists in school history.

More importantly, the SoCal product stepped into a critical leadership position that’s been a hallmark of UM’s recent success. It was a somewhat different role for a player often referred to as a “glue guy” who spent three years mostly deferring to seniors. But like Anthony Johnson and Will Cherry before him, Jamar showed he could put the team on his shoulders, step up in big moments and, as was often the case during this season’s struggles, accept responsibility when UM failed to meet expectations.

Griz Nation has been spoiled by an unbelievable winning stretch. Since the 2009-2010 campaign, coach Wayne Tinkle had led the program to three conference titles and trips to the Big Dance. The one season UM fell short, it still reached the conference title game. Anyone who watched this year’s squad knew things were different. It’d take some sort of miracle—or sudden maturation of post players—for the Griz to duplicate past success. But with Jamar on the court, anything seemed possible because he could do just about everything.

Now that he’s done, there’s a huge void for someone else to fill next year. This happens regularly in college athletics and, in solid programs like UM’s, a new player usually emerges. But the reality is that Jamar was such a special talent that it may take two or three players to fill his sneakers.

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officials believe a new bridge is imminent, but she’s not willing to concede. “[Missoula County Commissioner] Jean Curtiss’ comments would make one believe this is a done deal … but I don’t think it is,” Morrison says.

At a March 17 meeting with the commissioners, Morrison and other representatives from the homeowners association made yet another attempt to save the 79year-old single-lane bridge. The group presented a self-financed survey of more than 240 residents to show that the majority doesn’t approve of the county’s plan.

“The key results of the survey show that 56 percent of respondents favor upgrading the existing Maclay Bridge” rather than replacing it, says Morrison. “ … We want the commissioners to know how the people of this area feel.”

Maclay Bridge has been a white-hot point of contention in the rural community on Missoula’s western flank. The bridge crosses the Bitterroot River at North Ave., but county and state officials are moving forward with plans to replace the old structure with a new two-lane bridge upstream of the current location. Officials are thrilled about a promised influx of federal funds to make the replacement happen, but some outspoken residents fear it will increase traffic and alter the character of their neighborhood.

Despite the continued opposition from residents, commissioners say they are not deviating from the plan they approved in April 2013.

“We took a look at the responses and people are of course entitled to their opinions,” says County Commissioner Bill Carey. “But we are moving forward with the steps we have outlined previously for building a bridge in a new location.”

Public Works Director Gregory Robertson, whose office is spearheading the bridge project, says the county must hire an engineering service and put the project through environmental review before construction can begin on the new bridge. He says the county has received roughly $500,000 from the Federal Highway Administration’s Off System Bridge Program to finance the planning process and will receive more money as the project moves forward.

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Fat fine New winter biking trend hits a snag in national forest

by Alex Sakariassen

What brings you to the Iron Horse today?

We're in town for the day from Kalispell doing some business. We saw the TV commercials and were intrigued. So here we are.

Can I ask what kind of business you're doing?

You can, but I can't tell you. It's top secret.

How 'bout the kind of beer you're enjoying?

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Back in late January, Bozeman cyclists Bill Martin and Mo Mislivets rolled up to the trailhead leading to the Gallatin National Forest’s Yellow Mule Cabin a few miles south of Big Sky. It was a “beautiful, bluebird day,” Mislivets recalls, and the duo had left their travel options open, stocking the car with both cross country skis and their fat bikes—a bulkier breed of mountain bike with thick tires catered specially for pedaling through snow. The area hadn’t seen fresh snow for several days, leaving the trail up Buck Creek Ridge toward the cabin well-packed by snowmobile traffic.

site, nor was there any signage indicating such a ban anywhere at the trailhead.

Martin says the incident left him confused. The rangers didn’t ticket him, and were both unclear on how widely the ban applied. With the day waning, Martin and Mislivets decided to continue on to the cabin.

“I just had this feeling like the rangers told us we were illegal but they weren’t going to issue a ticket,” Martin says. “I couldn’t wait to get back to research what he told me. I just didn’t have this strong feeling that we were indeed a criminal aspect up there.”

plains. “If you don’t need to limit folks in an area because there’s no problem, then you shouldn’t.”

Officials with the Bitterroot National Forest issued a similar statement regarding fat bike use.

One week after Martin was fined, the Gallatin issued a press release addressing fat bike use. The release emphasized that the forest’s current travel management plan—completed in 2006—prohibits all wheeled vehicles from traveling on marked or groomed winter trails. “This decision pre-dated the common occurrence of fat bikes and the growing trend,”

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Bill Martin was cited on the Gallatin National Forest earlier this year for violating a special order prohibiting fat bikes on snowmobile trails. The incident highlights a potential challenge for the relatively new sport.

Martin and Mislivets had been to plenty of U.S. Forest Service cabins, but both Yellow Mule and the Buck Ridge area were new to them. After a quick review of the signs highlighting permitted recreation, they opted to ride the fat bikes in.

“Unfortunately,” Martin says, “we chose the wrong weapon of choice.”

Halfway to the cabin, which they’d rented for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend, two Forest Service employees on snowmobiles pulled up to Martin. The first seemed genuinely excited to see a fat bike, Martin recalls, and wanted to check it out. But it was the second ranger’s response that sent Martin into shock.

“He was like, ‘You know, it’s illegal to be out here.’ I was pretty surprised,” Martin says.

The illegality the ranger referred to stems from a special order issued by Custer and Gallatin National Forest Supervisor Mary Erickson on Feb. 7, 2013. The order specifically prohibits using “a bicycle or other wheeled vehicle between December 1 and April 15” on all designated snowmobile and ski/snowshoe trails throughout the Gallatin. Martin had never heard of the rule; it wasn’t posted on the forest’s web-

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The next day, however, Martin and Mislivets decided to take a short fat bike jaunt farther along the Buck Ridge trail.

That’s when Martin was stopped by a Forest Service law enforcement officer who issued him a ticket for $175 for violating the special order. Martin was shocked again, “and a little mad now.”

The incident highlights a potential problem for those who have taken to the trend of fat biking. Any new activity on public lands comes with the possibility of user conflicts, and fat bikes are no exception. Boyd Hartwig of the Lolo National Forest says his office is well aware of the fatties’ popularity, and recreation specialist Al Hilshey from the forest’s Missoula Ranger District notes a definite increase in the sport in recent winters. So far, the two are only aware of one complaint posted on an online forum last year by a cross country skier upset over alleged fat bike use of a ski track in the Rattlesnake’s main stem.

Hartwig says the Lolo hasn’t reached a point where user conflict has necessitated any kind of special order. “We don’t want to preempt something or step in where we don’t need to step in,” he ex-

it states, adding that the forest “plans to review the potential for accommodating this growing popular activity in the future.” Gallatin spokesperson Marna Daley confirms the special order was intended to clarify existing restrictions in the forest travel plan.

Martin ultimately decided not to contest the citation after a Gallatin representative finally showed him a copy of the special order. “I felt confident that, yes, we did break a law,” Martin says. “We were up on a trail that wasn’t supposed to be ridden by a fat bike, and that was good enough for me.”

Martin hopes change will come to the Gallatin soon, but that such a change will include input from all winter trail user groups. In the meantime, he and Mislivets have changed the way they prepare for outings. While planning a recent fat bike tour in the Beaverhead National Forest, the duo called ahead to the ranger district they’d be traveling through to make sure they wouldn’t be violating any rules.

“It’s like you’ve got to do research,” says Martin, “before you can ride.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Have a seat Did the city accomplish much with its downtown bans?

by Jessica Mayrer

Downtown business owners have complained for years that an array of bad behavior like public urination, sleeping on sidewalks and aggressive panhandling spooked away customers and scared employees. After months of contentious debate about how to address the problem, the Missoula City Council on March 3 banned sleeping or lying on sidewalks between 6 a.m and 11 p.m. The council also prohibited sitting within 10 feet of a business entrance and expanded an existing no-solicitation buffer zone around business entrances from 6 feet to 10 feet.

After all of that wrangling, what do these bans actually accomplish?

We surveyed the main Higgins Avenue corridor to identify spots where it remains legal to sit and solicit. These “green zones” marked on the map aren’t exact measurements—we found additional wiggle room at the edge of the city’s 16-footwide sidewalks, for instance, and other small pockets between businesses—but they provide a guide for how much you can still do downtown. We also checked in with more than a dozen businesses, including those most critical that the city didn’t do enough, to see what they think about these changes. Overall, this graphic illustrates a situation that remains far from settled.

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[opinion]

Soul patrol Republican primaries provide Democrats an opening

by Dan Brooks

Last week, incumbent Montana Senate Majority Leader Art Wittich, R–Bozeman, surprised political wags like myself by filing his candidacy for House District 68 in Belgrade. Wittich said he wanted to be “where the action is,” but I cannot help but note that he also would have faced primary challengers had he run for either of Bozeman’s Senate seats.

No other candidate from his party filed for HD 68. By running as the sole Republican in Belgrade’s very red house district, Wittich has pretty much guaranteed himself a trip back to Helena.

Originally, back in June, he filed for SD 35—Scott Sales’s seat, which is not part of the 2014 election. Wittich says it was a mistake. He was able to correct it at the last minute, after almost all other candidates had filed. By mistakenly filing for an election that didn’t exist, the Senate majority leader got to choose a district where he could get through the Republican primary unopposed.

His lucky accident reflects a broader phenomenon in the Montana GOP this year. Republican primary nominations will be contested in 40 districts across the state in 2014, largely as a result of self-declared “responsible” Republicans’ effort to find moderate challengers to very conservative incumbents. Lauren Caldwell, director of the Montana Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, called it a “battle for the soul of the Republican Party.”

You can almost hear her smiling when you read it. In a state whose legislative branch has been dominated by one party for decades, Republican infighting is about the best news Democrats could hear. The only thing better might be some kind of coherent strategy from their own party.

Before we go any further, I should admit that I was once what midwesterners call a yellow dog Democrat—meaning I would vote for a yellow dog if it appeared on the ballot with a (D) next to its name.

I gave up my party affiliation for the champagne and albacore tuna lifestyle of the professional journalist, but at one time I held liberal views.

A lot of conservative ideas interest and even agree with me in theory, but in

practice I can’t get behind most Republican candidates. That’s especially true in Montana, where Tea Party conservatives wield undue influence over the party.

In the 2013 session, for example, Republicans voted unanimously to reject Medicaid expansion—a move that cost the state $6 billion in federal funding and kept 70,000 uninsured Montanans from getting health coverage. That same sum-

“Republican infighting is about the best news Democrats could hear. The only thing better might be some kind of coherent strategy from their own party.” mer, Republicans in Helena proposed bills to nullify a federal ban on assault weapons that didn’t exist, to require FBI agents to get permission from local sheriffs before serving federal warrants, and to pay state legislators in gold coins.

As much as they make easy work for a political columnist, such policies make for poor state government. They’re why self-identified “business” Republicans have worked so hard to get moderates into the 2014 races. They want voters in red districts to have a choice between candidates who will “help the purge along”— Wittich actually said that in a 2012 email about conflict with moderates—and more traditional Republicans.

Again, that’s great news for Montanans who would like to see a functional

state government in 2015. I am disappointed to see the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee crowing about it in the newspaper, though.

You know what would be better than two factions in the Montana Republican Party? Two parties in Montana politics. If Tea Party ideologues are hurting Montana—and they are—Democratic leaders should look to their own party for change.

Conventional wisdom says that’s impossible. There are districts in Montana where more than 70 percent of voters are registered Republicans, districts that haven’t sent a Democrat to Helena in generations.

But those traditionally Republican districts are exactly the places where the Tea Party has left traditional Republicans behind.

Voters in Belgrade may not like Obamacare, but approximately 17 percent of them don’t have health insurance. The Republican Party did not serve them in 2013, when it rejected free Medicaid on their behalf. Montana Democratic leaders would be wise to go after that 17 percent in 2014, rather than hoping another Republican comes along to split the vote.

Would that mean moving the platform further to the right? Almost certainly.

But if there are districts in Montana so conservative that no Democrat could hope to win there, maybe Montana Democrats should moderate their approach.

We call our system of government “representative” for a reason.

The yellow dog should learn some new tricks. This year’s primary season shows that there is an appetite for moderation in state politics, and both parties would be wise to feed it.

Last week, Wittich said that the 2014 election will give voters a chance to decide “if they want a two-party system or a modified one-party system.” His preference is obvious, but I don’t think he’s in the majority. Voters in Montana want a second political party, and Democrats should try being it.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and dogs at combatblog.net. His column appears every other week in the Independent.

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[opinion]

Pro poison One solution to saving trout has gotten a bad rap

by Ted Williams

One of the more spectacular success stories of the Endangered Species Act is playing out in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness of the Toiyabe-Humboldt National Forest, high in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Heroic and persevering managers of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service have prevailed in their 10-year legal battle to save America’s rarest trout: the federally threatened Paiute cutthroat. Its entire natural habitat consists of nine miles of Silver King Creek.

Cutthroat trout subspecies of the Interior West are being hybridized off the planet by rainbow trout from the Pacific Northwest, dumped into their habitat during the age of ecological illiteracy, which ended around 1970.

In most cases, the only hope for the natives is rotenone, a short-lived, easily neutralized, organic poison rendered from tropical plants.

But a war on rotenone has been declared by chemophobic environmentalists, who refuse to learn about it, and by anglers who don’t care what’s on the other end of the rod so long as their rod is bent. Although rotenone is essential to management as defined by the Wilderness Act, the group Wilderness Watch, for example, asserts that “poison has no place in wilderness.” And Peter Moyer, founder of the Orwellian-named Wild Trout Conservation Coalition, offers this mindless defense of cutthroat trout extinction: “I am a bit of a mongrel myself.”

State and federal fisheries managers are mandated by the Endangered Species Act to save the natives by poisoning the aliens. For years, however, this work has been impeded by individuals, publications and organizations that concoct and recycle horror stories about rotenone. Apparently, they haven’t figured out that fish are wildlife, too.

The worst offenders have been Outdoor Life magazine, Range magazine, Real Fishing magazine, Friends of the Wild Swan, Beyond Pesticides, Defenders of Wildlife, two Sierra Club chapters, Wild Trout Conservation Coalition, Wilderness Watch, Center for Biological Diversity, Pacific Rivers Council, Californians for Alternatives to Toxics, Friends of Silver King Creek, and the Western Environmental Law Center.

“Rotenone used in fish recovery has never affected an ecosystem except to restore it.”

The last six of these organizations managed to derail Paiute cutthroat recovery for a full decade. They accomplished this with endless appeals and lawsuits, all based on fiction. Typical of the absurd statements about rotenone was this proclamation by the pro bono counsel for the litigants, the Western Environmental Law Center: “Unfortunately, the chemical does not just kill the fish in the water but the entire ecosystem, including turtles, snakes, frogs, birds, terrestrials, insects and other animals that live in or drink from the poisoned water.”

Rotenone used in fish recovery has never affected an ecosystem except to restore it. And it has never killed a turtle, snake, frog, bird or any terrestrial organism. Aquatic insects usually survive treatment, and the few that don’t are swiftly replaced by natural recruitment. In fact, insects frequently do better after treat-

ment because they don’t have to contend with fish they didn’t evolve with.

Appellants and litigants claimed a “link” between rotenone and Parkinson’s disease, basing this untruth on an Emory University study in which concentrated rotenone was mainlined into rats’ jugular veins via implanted pumps. (Rotenone used in fisheries management is applied at less than 50 parts per billion.) At the end of a year and a half no rat had Parkinson’s disease. The researchers knew they couldn’t cause Parkinson’s and never intended to. They wanted to establish a “Parkinson’s-like condition”—such as tremors—in an animal model.

Appellants and litigants also claimed that rotenone threatened the rare mountain yellow-legged frog. But it was extirpated in the watershed sometime in the 20th century, probably by the very alien rainbow trout that had been extirpating Paiute cutthroats.

Rotenone doesn’t affect adult frogs but can kill tadpoles, though it usually doesn’t. If frogs are present, managers delay treatment until tadpoles transform. Ironically, rotenone is being used elsewhere in the Sierras to recover yellow-legged frogs by killing the alien trout that are eating them.

With each successful appeal and lawsuit, rotenone opponents boasted they had “saved” Silver King Creek. But last August they ran out of legal options, and the managers applied about two quarts of rotenone to the entire treatment area. In case a few hybrids survived, two more quarts will be applied next August. Then, pure Paiutes will be reintroduced.

This will be the first time humans have restored a threatened or endangered fish to 100 percent of its historic range.

Maybe it’s a turning point in the war.

Ted Williams is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes for Fly Rod & Reel magazine.

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[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN — Stephen Furr, 48, denied breaking into a Boston home and stealing copper pipe from a boiler, even after police found him hiding beneath the basement stairs with a pipe cutter (described as “a burglarious tool”) and copper pipe appearing to have been cut from the boiler. The homeowners called police after the thief’s loud banging on the pipes woke them. (Boston Globe) Sheriff’s investigators concluded that a burglar who broke into a fishing store in Rochester, Minn., was driven off by a motion-activated singing novelty fish near the door. Sgt. Tom Claymon said the would-be thief fled empty-handed after he knocked the Big Mouth Bill Bass onto the floor, and it began singing “Take Me to the River.” (Minneapolis’s Star-Tribune) LITTERBUGGERY — Hoping to reduce the estimated 50 tons of litter left by people climbing Mount Everest, Nepal ordered everyone descending to carry out 18 pounds of trash. The debris ranges from empty oxygen bottles, torn tents, discarded food containers and the bodies of climbers who died on the mountain. (The New York Times) PROBLEM SOLVED — Chinese officials are considering using giant vacuum cleaners to improve air quality in polluted cities. The device, which resembles a giant hula-hoop, uses an electrified wire to attract smog particles. “It’s not going to cure smog on a large scale,” Dutch inventor Daan Roosegaarde explained, “but at least we can remind people what clean air looks like.”

A separate report noted that in 1970, oil-rich Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett considered investing in a scheme to drill a tunnel through the San Bernadino Mountains, stick in a huge fan and suck all the smog out of Los Angeles. (The Washington Post) HOW INCONVENIENT — Dr. Daniel Ubani admitted killing an English patient by overprescribing drugs but moved to Germany, made a plea deal to pay a fine for “gross negligence” and continued practicing. While Ubani was delivering a presentation at a conference in Lindau, Germany, the victim’s two sons interrupted him and called him a “charlatan and killer.” Ubani sued the sons, demanding they pay him £2,800 ($4,690) because their disruption caused him to miss a post-conference dinner for which he had already paid. (Britain’s Express) DEAD-BEAT DINING — A child-nutrition manager dispatched to a Salt Lake City elementary school, to investigate reports of parents owing money to the school lunch program, ordered cafeteria workers to seize lunches from as many as 40 students. District official Jason Olsen said officials tried to alert parents with overdue balances that the child-nutrition manager was coming but couldn’t reach everyone in time. The students had already received their lunches before they were singled out, leaving workers no choice but to throw out the uneaten food because school rules forbid serving already served food to other students. (The Salt Lake Tribune) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION — Nadja Svenson, 22, was charged with stabbing her father in the chest outside their home in Londonderry, N.H., while the two were stargazing “and began arguing over where the Big Dipper and other constellations are in the sky,” police Detective Chris Olson said. “It escalated from there.” (New Hampshire Union Leader) SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLIES — Shawn Stillinger, 15, responded to a YouTube challenge to try a homemade blow dart experiment but wound up swallowing the dart. “I tilted it up to shoot it out at a tree, and it fell back out of the straw that I had it in, and it went into my throat,” Stillinger explained. After two hospitals were unable to remove the dart from Stillinger’s windpipe, otolaryngologist Dr. David Gudis of the Medical University of South Carolina was able to access his airway through his mouth and operate endoscopically instead of having to cut open his throat. (Charleston’s WCSC-TV) Patrick Snay received $80,000 to settle his age-discrimination suit against Miami’s Gulliver Preparatory School, but the agreement included a stipulation forbidding disclosure of settlement details. The Snays’ daughter promptly notified her 1,200 Facebook friends: “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.” A judge voided the settlement. (CNN) NOT-SO-GREAT ESCAPE — Australian authorities thwarted an escape by two female inmates from a minimum-security prison in New South Wales when they searched a cell and discovered a 60-foot rope made from tied-together sheets. Officials at Emu Plains Corrections Center wondered why the rope was so long because the complex has just one level, and the fences and walls aren’t particularly high. (Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED — Scottish authorities said Gary Rough, 28, tried to rob a Glasgow betting shop with a cucumber. He showed the clerk a “long cylindrical object covered in a black sock” and demanded money, but she refused. An off-duty detective heard the commotion and pinned Rough to the ground. Rough insisted the matter was “a joke,” adding, “It was a fucking cucumber. Am I getting the jail for this?” (Scotland’s STV) Ottawa police reported that a masked man entered a downtown store brandishing a hockey stick and demanded cash. The suspect fled empty-handed after the store’s owner grabbed the hockey stick out of his hands. (CBC News) Police arrested Cara Claffy, 35, after her mother, Sheryl Claffy, 60, reported that she was watching television in their Albuquerque, N.M., home when the two got into an argument. At one point, the daughter “grabbed an electric vibrator” and struck her on the head with it. (The Smoking Gun) Police arrested Christine O’Keefe, 53, after her daughter, Jessica Caldwell, 25, reported that the mother smacked her in the face with “a used diaper.” (The Smoking Gun) THINGS THAT GO BOOM — Two men attending the Western Pyrotechnics Association’s Western Winter Blast 25 were injured when their trunk filled with fireworks exploded in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. “There were 10-inch bundles of fireworks and sparklers,” fire Battalion Chief Mike Quijada said, explaining that when the driver stopped to check out the blast, “That’s when the back blew up. He walked into a fire bomb.” (Havasu’s Today’s News-Herald) Iraqi authorities reported that a terrorist commander training suicide bombers in a secluded camp north of Baghdad was demonstrating with a belt packed with live explosives, which he accidentally triggered, killing himself and 21 other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Fifteen others were wounded.

An Iraqi Army officer described the militant commander as a prolific recruiter who promised martyrdom as a sure ticket to heaven. (The New York Times)

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Salish elder Pat Pierre, 85, teaches at the Nkwusm immersion school.

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tephen Small Salmon’s voice echoes through the halls of the Nkwusm Salish Language Institute in Arlee, his words drifting forth in something between song and a rhythmic chant. A cluster of preschoolage kids sings in unison before moving on to recite the days of the week. The classroom looks indistinguishable from any other—right down to the carpet squares the children sit on—until you examine the letters and words on every piece of teaching material. Following Small Salmon’s morning lesson requires only the most basic understanding of the Salish language. Yet only a few dozen people on the Flathead Indian Reservation boast even that level of comprehension.

Small Salmon runs through the alphabet with the kids before wrapping up with what he calls the dance song. “That means we’re going home,” he explains, transitioning into English for the first time in about half an hour. He seems energetic and spry for 74, and he peppers his speech with a word or two of his people’s

tongue. As one of Nkwusm’s resident elders, Small Salmon grew up talking Salish. His uncle, Pete Beaver Head, once told him to “hold onto it,” and Small Salmon heeded the advice through years of government boarding school. There aren’t many others left these days who did.

“Our language was losing it, you know,” Small Salmon says. “Now we got to teach those little kids to talk Indian to save our language, our reservation.”

Down the hall from Small Salmon’s preschool class, 85-year-old Pat Pierre instructs the next age group in more advanced lessons like vocabulary and sentence structure. When Pierre first started teaching at Nkwusm 12 years ago, children on the reservation were unfamiliar with the language. They knew none of the greetings, Pierre says, none of the traditional prayers. “They didn’t even know their names,” he recalls.

For Pierre and the rest of the Nkwusm staff, the past 12 years have been a race against time. Despite the school’s efforts to foster a new generation of fluent

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speakers, progress hasn’t kept pace with the passing of Salish elders. When Nkwusm was founded in 2002, there were only an estimated 90 fluent Salish speakers in the Flathead. Estimates from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee place that population around 30 today.

Jesse Nenemay, 39, is one of the few younger tribal members to join the ranks of well-versed speakers in recent years. He first started picking up Salish when he was 18, studied for years under elders like Pierre, and has now been teaching at Nkwusm for two years. Four other adult students at the school have managed to attain a fairly good command of the language in only a year. As a group they spend several hours each day with Small Salmon just sitting back and conversing to the best of their abilities.

They’ve made great strides in a short time, Small Salmon says. He had his doubts at first, “but there they are, talking Indian. That’s a miracle for me.” Still, the clock is ticking, and some on the reservation have begun to look for new approaches to revitalizing the language.

In St. Ignatius, Nkwusm cofounder Chaney Bell, who left the school last year to take a new position as the culture committee’s language coordinator, is trying to create eight more speakers in fast order. Five have been funded by grant money from a $2 million pilot program created by the Montana Legislature last spring. Two more were drawn to the group through tribal grants. Bell’s wife, a teacher at Salish Kootenai College, is participating as a volunteer. Separate from Nkwusm’s efforts, they’ve met several days a week since late December in a roundtable setting to learn and exercise their language skills.

The program only has funding through September, but Bell’s hope is that these pupils will become fluent enough to serve as future teachers and take the language home with them, nurturing it in a family setting.

“The way it’s really going to come back is not through our immersion schools and not through our colleges,” Bell says. “It’s going to come back in our homes, through our children. Parents have to have it in their

heart and they have to pass it on to their kids and bring it back to life.”

Nenemay notes an increasing interest among Salish members in learning their ancestral language. It’s becoming a “cool thing to do,” he says. His wife is among Bell’s group in St. Ignatius, and they’ve raised their 4-year-old son to speak Salish as well. The revitalization effort isn’t just about pulling a language back from the brink, Nenemay says, but about understanding the identity and worldview that were traditionally passed down through those words.

“You’re always going to want that part of you,” he says. “That’s the driving force in most people, I think.

Just getting to the bottom of who they are.”

Lynette Chandler, cofounder and director of the White Clay Immersion School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, can’t stress enough how critical timing can be for Native language revitalization. In 2001, shortly after obtaining their master’s degrees from Montana State University, Chandler and her husband, Sean, took up the task of saving the A’ani language of the reservation’s Gros Ventre tribe. The language was on the cusp of becoming dormant, Chandler explains. She shies away from using the words dead or extinct, but “we were in the big-time danger zone.”

The two quickly assigned a small group of young tribal members to a master apprenticeship program, partnering them with the seven remaining elders still fluent in A’ani in the hopes of producing a new generation of potential teachers. Chandler felt the clock ticking, and looking back, she’s relieved she acted when she did. “As we predicted back in like 2000, 2001, all of our elders that we went to to learn our language have passed away,” she says. “Every single one of them.”

The same story has played out to varying degrees throughout Indian Country in recent decades. As populations of tribal elders continue to shrink, scores of languages are in danger of disappearing completely—if they haven’t already. Data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, lists nearly 200 known tribal languages native to the United States; 54 are already classified as “extinct.” UNESCO estimates 74 more stand to vanish from use in the next decade. According to the National Congress of American Indians, the number of spoken Native lan-

guages could dwindle to 20 by the year 2050 without immediate action.

“This crisis is the result of longstanding federal policies—enacted particularly through government boarding schools—that sought to break the chain of cultural transmission and destroy American Indian and Alaska Native cultures,” the NCAI stated in a 2012 release supporting reauthorization of federal legislation to preserve Native languages.

Congress has heeded the call for help over the years by committing federal funds to prevent loss of heritage and culture in Indian Country. Sen. Jon Tester positioned himself at the center of the latest push in January when he introduced the Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act, a bill aimed at bolstering the efforts of schools like Nkwusm and White Clay through a competitive grant program.

“Culture’s fluid today, and children need to know where they come from in order to know where they’re going.”

—Sen. Jon Tester

“It’s $5 million, which isn’t a lot of money,” Tester says. “But the truth is it’s a lot more than they’ve got now, and I don’t think schools should make a choice between teaching math and teaching Native languages. This will help give them some flexibility and, I think long-term and short-term, improved quality of life.”

The idea stemmed from Tester’s repeated visits to reservations in Montana, where he says he’s seen firsthand the benefits of “keeping that culture and that identity alive.” Native language instruction has helped accelerate learning and increase self-esteem among students in Indian Country, he adds. The bill itself references reports from the Bureau of Indian Affairs as well

as tribal, public and private schools indicating that students coming out of language immersion schools have demonstrated higher high school graduation and college attendance rates than their non-immersion peers.

That by-product of Native language revitalization strikes at the heart of one of Tester’s primary goals as the newly minted chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. He introduced the immersion school bill largely as a show of support for Native education, which he feels stretches “far, far, far beyond” the classroom.

“Some people will say, ‘Who cares?’ I’ll tell you who cares,” Tester says. “When you have the kind of poverty you’ve got out there and the fact that education will help rise you up in the economic strata, and these languages will not only help preserve identity and preserve culture but also help kids stay in school—this is a win-win deal.

Culture’s fluid today, and children need to know where they come from in order to know where they’re going.”

Tester isn’t alone in fighting to help save Montana’s endangered tribal languages. Last year, state Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, a former vice chairman of the Chippewa Cree Tribe on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, successfully sponsored legislation establishing the Montana Indian Language Preservation Pilot Program.

The one-time, $2 million allocation is geared toward backing existing language efforts and providing the financial foundation necessary for others to begin. Most of Montana’s tribes have for years hosted language immersion camps, worked to establish language classes in public schools and tribal colleges, and identified language preservation as a long-term priority. And yet UNESCO lists three languages in Montana as definitely endangered and three others—the languages of the Salish, Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes—as critically endangered.

“If we don’t preserve what little we have left, we won’t have anything to immerse,” Windy Boy said before the Montana Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee in February 2013.

Chandler is heartened by the political support demonstrated by elected officials like Tester and Windy Boy. She and her husband opened the White Clay Language Immersion School at the Aaniiih Nakoda College in October 2003, and they continue to instruct children grades K-8 entirely in A’ani. Building community support proved difficult at first, par-

ticularly the task of convincing tribal members of the value of learning the language. By 2006 the school had attracted 11 students; in 2012, the total was 26. Along with the current immersion school students, Chandler says White Clay’s graduates now constitute the biggest A’ani speaking population left on Fort Belknap.

“They’re a living legacy for our people,” Chandler says. “It’s not something that we’ve created and put on the shelf and may pull down and study. These are actually living, breathing human beings that embody our language and our culture.”

Even after 11 years, however, funding at White Clay is a constant struggle. The school’s graduates have gone on to excel academically in public high school, Chandler says. Three of them have even promised to return as teachers. Tester’s bill could help the effort, provided it passes Congress and White Clay qualifies for and receives one of the competitive grants. But the state’s pilot program funding—which is administered on each reservation by designated tribal advisory boards—hasn’t reached White Clay. “We haven’t seen any impact here at the White Clay Immersion School from any of that funding,” Chandler says. “None whatsoever, which surprised me.”

In fact, the first quarterly report issued for the pilot program by the Montana Department of Commerce in January stated that the pace of language preservation activity on most reservations is a “cause for concern.” Many of the projects are working on the most basic of tasks: Creating language dictionaries, developing websites and scheduling additional immersion camps. The funding for those efforts—roughly $250,000 for each of the state’s eight tribal organizations—is only good through September of this year. Folks like Chandler have struggled for over a decade to build momentum, and while they’ve claimed some victories in the fight for revitalization, time is still a potent enemy.

Nkwusm instructors Stephen Small Salmon, left, and Jesse Nenemay have devoted themselves to reviving the Salish language on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Yet in the 12 years since Nwusm opened its doors, the number of fluent speakers has continued to decline.

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Last fall, the immersion school community in Montana and beyond lost one of its pioneers. Harvard-educated author, teacher and Blackfeet member Darrell Kipp died in late November at the age of 69, leaving behind a legacy that comes up in nearly every conversation about Native language revitalization. His mark was most notably left in the form of the Piegan Institute in Browning, the state’s oldest immersion program, which he cofounded nearly three decades ago.

“The Piegan Institute was established in 1987 to research, promote and revitalize the Blackfoot language of the Blackfeet tribe of Montana,” says Kipp’s son Darren, a filmmaker who inherited his father’s passion for reviving Blackfeet culture. His father had many mottos, Darren adds, but one that continues to resonate was his desire to bring prestige to his language.

“Don’t house it in an old, rundown building,” Darren remembers his father saying. “Don’t put it in an old, forgotten space. Put it in a beautiful building in a beautiful space because it’s your language.”

Under Kipp’s direction, the institute took to collecting, archiving and preserving the Blackfoot language as well as running the private Cuts Wood School. It was largely Kipp who inspired parents like Joycelyn DesRosier to become more involved in educating young tribal members. DesRosier first enrolled her youngest son in Cuts Wood in the mid ’90s, when the school was still requiring parents to attend nightly classes to promote language use in a family setting. Every morning, staff would stop DesRosier at the school’s door, informing her that there was no English allowed inside the building. She promptly volunteered to help, working as a silent teacher for her first year before undertaking basic language instruction. She worked for seven years under a master teacher, building up the pronunciation skills and confidence needed to enter the classroom.

“Darrell Kipp always just told me and reminded me, ‘You don’t need permission to speak our language,’” she says. “‘It’s our language. We own it.’”

DesRosier is now the lead teacher at Cuts Wood. Two of her sons have graduated from the program and one of them, 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran Jesse DesRosier, is currently taking linguistics and teaching courses at the University of Montana with the goal of returning to Piegan as an instructor. He grew up hearing the language spoken by his adopted grandfather, and feels it would be selfish not to give back to the revitalization effort. That, he says, is the best way to honor Kipp’s legacy.

“He had a very laid-back mentality and a very no-worries attitude,” Jesse says. “It reminds me of a word in our language: ‘matkowakii.’ It’s kind of like the ‘hakuna matata’ of our language. There’s no worries. And I think if I had to describe him in one word, that would be him.”

Kipp’s influence stretches well beyond the borders of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Chandler first met him after obtaining her master’s degree from Montana State University. Devoted to the notion of opening White Clay, she followed Kipp and several other language practitioners to New Zealand to study how the Maori people had developed their own cultural immersion education system.

Kipp’s immersion blueprint was inevitably what Chandler turned to as a model for White Clay.

“Everything I do is kinda modeled after Darrell,” she says. “One of his mottos—he had about 10 of them—was ‘just do it.’ He said, ‘Lynette, you can sit around worrying about funding forever. You can sit around worrying about where your building will be, who will be teaching in it. Just do it. It’s not going to get done. You can plan for five years and then you have five years lost where you didn’t help your language live.’”

Like so many others, Kipp recognized the immediacy facing Native languages across the United States. Swift intervention is frequently cited as the key in making sure the NCAI’s worst-case prediction doesn’t come true over the

next few decades. Kipp’s death was a tremendous loss to the revitalization movement—“There will never, ever be another Darrell Kipp,” Chandler says—but ultimately the responsibility will fall to the next generation of fluent speakers. In some cases, it already has.

There’s a word in Blackfoot for Lower Saint Mary Lake just outside Glacier National Park. It’s “pahtoomoh ksikimii,” or “hole at the bottom of the lake,” and for Jesse DesRosier, it says something not only about the lake but about his tribe’s connection to the land. There’s a natural spring under the lake, he explains, and the Blackfoot language reflects that in the same way its rhythm and sounds reflect the country in which DesRosier grew up, and in which his ancestors lived for untold generations.

“This is the language of this part of the country,” DesRosier says. “This flow and this rhythm and this language is what’s been here for thousands of years. This is what’s in the wind, this is what’s in the environment, this is what’s been here longer than any other language. So in order for us to understand our surroundings, why not learn the language of the land?”

Since his parents enrolled him in the Piegan Institute’s immersion program at age 8, DesRosier hasn’t taken much of a break. His mother remembers DesRosier and his brother as young kids coming back from the school and requiring the household to speak nothing but Blackfoot for whole days. The longest he’s been away from fellow speakers was his four-year stint in the Marine Corps, he says. He felt a bit rusty when he returned, but after hearing a few sentences, the language came flooding back to him and “brought my spirit home.”

DesRosier has since dedicated his college education to building the foundation necessary to return to the Blackfeet reservation and pass that identity on to others of his tribe. Their elders are dying, he says, and they don’t have time to sit back and wait. “The urgency is upon us.”

As precarious as the situation was when Kipp first founded the Piegan Institute, the next wave of potential speakers has, for the most part, embraced the revitalization effort. DesRosier now sees Facebook posts and text messages from tribal members written in Blackfoot. The Blackfeet Community College promotes fluency through a language arts degree, and has begun integrating the language into new technologies. Last year, the college developed the first ever Native language app for smartphones, an easy-to-use Blackfoot reference guide geared specifically for a younger generation.

“It’s ironic how the Industrial Revolution was a key factor in breaking Indians down, but now it’s a vehicle to move the language forward,” DesRosier says. “It does ultimately have to be spoken, though, and passed down orally, mouth to ear.”

Up in St. Ignatius, Chaney Bell’s new group of Salish students are all under the age of 50—a critical strategy, Bell

“When Nkwusm was founded in 2002, there were only an estimated 90 fluent Salish speakers in the Flathead. Today, the number is closer to 30.”

photo courtesy of Piegan Institute

Blackfeet member and Piegan Institute founder Darrell Kipp was hailed by many as a pioneer in Native language preservation. He passed away late last year at age 69.

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says, in making sure fluency doesn’t die along with the tribe’s elders.

Several students, like Travis Arlee, have young families who have themselves expressed interest in learning the language. Arlee grew up with a fluent father, but remembers shying away from speaking it himself.

When his daughter turned 4, he enrolled her in Nkwusm.

“It really encouraged me to get back into it,” he says. “What we learn here I bring home, and I work with my three kids and my wife.”

The culture committee’s program may only be a few months old, but it’s already gaining ground. Elders like Pat Pierre, Stephen Small Salmon and Felicity McDonald have visited the class regularly to conduct full-on immersion sessions. Students have access to a wealth of educational material—dictionaries, CDs, online resources—that never existed when Bell first gravitated to the language in the ’90s. Compared to the struggles Nkwusm faced for years, Bell feels the adult immersion program has a leg up.

“We didn’t have nothing,” he says. “I remember listening to the same thing every night of a fluent speaker we recorded because I didn’t have anything. We look at it today, people have a lot more opportunity, there’s a lot more exposure, there’s a lot more talk about the importance.”

Most importantly, Bell’s students unanimously agree, they have 20-year-old Vance Home Gun in their fold. Home Gun grew up surrounded by Salish tradition, and already has enough command of the language to converse comfortably with elders. The group teases the soft-spoken young man, referring to him as an elder in his own right and explaining that at tribal events he’s often seen sitting at the center of a much older crowd. Yet they defer to him often, acknowledging that he is wise for his years.

“Vance brings a lot of hope to our fluent speakers,” Bell says. “Vance is already at a level where he can communicate really well with them.

It gives them hope that there are people who are learning this and can carry it on.”

Home Gun first developed his passion for preserving the language

at age 11, when his aunt took him to a Salish language camp. His efforts since then, teaching at high schools and working with tribal officials, won him recognition last year as the Center for Native American Youth’s Champion of Change. Home Gun says he maintains regular contact with various elders. Recently, he was speaking with Felicity McDonald, an elder now in her early 90s, about the fact that many potential Salish speakers seem to have given up too easily, taking for granted how complex the language truly is. Home Gun, like DesRosier, may offer promise. But he believes the urgency is still there.

“My teachers are pretty much gone,” Home Gun says. “The only one I’ve got left is probably my grandma.”

At Nkwusm, Small Salmon is unsure how many of the preschoolers from his morning lesson will make it through to the eighth grade. Many leave before graduating the program, he says, either to attend public school or to relocate to new towns with parents who get new jobs.

Pierre is hopeful that someday, Nkwusm will have the funding and ability to convert a room now used for storage into a high school classroom.

Retaining students for four more years could be the next step in building up the ranks of fluent speakers.

For now, Pierre’s vision of a revitalized Salish language rests on a few young shoulders like Nicole Perry, a recent Nkwusm graduate who still visits the school from time to time. She isn’t fluent, but she can hold a conversation with her former teachers in local stores or on the street. She plans to keep learning, to go to college and to study other languages that are in danger of disappearing. She also intends to pass on what she knows to nieces, nephews and any children she might have in the future.

“The language is the glue of a tribe,” Perry says. “If you lose the language, you lose just about everything else.”

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[arts]

Eyes wide open In Driving Blind, two brothers find beauty— and Rocky Mountain oysters—on a road trip of a lifetime

by Erika Fredrickson

D

riving Blind feels like it’s teetering on a precipice. The documentary chronicles two 30-something brothers diagnosed with choroideremia, a degenerative eye disease. They decide to take a road trip from coast to coast—including a stop in Montana—to see the United States before they can’t see anything at all. The unknown hasn’t happened yet, but it’s looming. Still, somehow, this is a light film, mostly because it’s heavy-handed about living in the moment and emphasizing the journey over the destination. It shows the brothers, Justin and Tod Purvis, jumping off cliffs together into fresh lakes, walking around old train cars in Anaconda and staring up through a massive grove of redwoods just outside of San Francisco. For a story that relies on the tension of people losing their sight, it spends very little time in metaphorical darkness.

“I saw it as all positive,” says director Brian Griffo.

“It was an opportunity to create a project that just makes everyone think about appreciating what they have while they have it, no matter what their problem is.”

Griffo uses time-lapse video and fast-motion, upclose shots and color editing effects to give the film a slick look. It’s not always clear what the brothers are feeling on the inside, but Griffo has created a visual feast to characterize the drama of seeing things for the last time.

“For me it was an awesome opportunity with cinematography,” Griffo says. “How do you show two brothers basically losing eyesight at the same time as gaining vision?”

The tone and glossiness of Driving Blind isn’t that

surprising when you know that Griffo’s past camera work isn’t in documentary but on television shows like “The Biggest Loser” and “The X-Factor.” There’s a lot more manufactured drama on those shows than in Driving Blind, but they share both the cinematic sheen and the ultimate hook for audiences: living vicariously through people who apparently get a chance to change their lives for the better.

Griffo, who lives in Los Angeles, heard about the brothers in the summer of 2010 through a mutual friend who regularly did improv in Washington, D.C., with Justin. “Justin had found out he was going to lose his eyesight,” Griffo says. “He wanted to do this road trip of a lifetime with his brother, Tod, to see everything they could before they went blind and he said maybe it would be good fodder for a film. It turned out that Tod lived in LA and we had a mutual friend, which was kind of weird, so we got together at a coffee shop and laid down the plans for the film rather hastily.”

Within five weeks they had fitted a van with equipment and brought on two of Griffo’s friends as a director of photography and an audio mixer. In late August, they began the 12,000-mile trek.

Oddly enough, Driving Blind gives very little background on the brothers’ lives before the road trip. We don’t know who they love and what they do for work. We don’t know what their childhood was like. The absence of these elements is a kind of blind spot for the documentary that manages to do two things, one positive and one negative: It promotes the idea of living in the moment and not thinking about the past. But it also keeps viewers from feeling fully invested in the brothers’ plight.

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Choroideremia is a rare, inherited disorder that affects only 6,000 people in the country—almost exclusively men. It begins with night blindness and expands over time from the outer edges of the eye.

“I had never heard of it before this,” Griffo says.

“It basically has this effect where they lose their eyesight from the outside in, kind of like donut vision. And so that was the idea—to travel around the country from the outside in.” Though the film is meant to boost awareness about choroideremia—they’ve raised about $70,000 for research so far—there isn’t much in the film about the disease. Griffo says he wanted to keep the documentary visceral rather than informational. We get bits and pieces about choroideremia as the brothers meet up with a few people on the road who are also affected, including a sweet older man who has the disease and whose grandkids have been diagnosed, too.

Action-wise, Montana plays a significant role in the film. At the Rock Creek Lodge the brothers sit with a young woman and get their first, and perhaps last, taste of Rocky Mountain oysters. They also go to West Glacier where they visit some family friends. It’s probably the funniest part of the documentary when Justin and Tod knock on the door of the cabin and an old man shows up groggy and without his pants on. Interspersed with those weirder aspects of Montana is the landscape, which Griffo captures magnificently.

“It was definitely one of the most beautiful parts of the road trip,” Griffo says.

Griffo calls the end of Driving Blind “the reveal.”

We see Justin and Tod return home after the road trip and take an eye test to find out how much sight they

have left. (Let’s just say it’s chilling that they didn’t take the eye test before the road trip.) Still, “the reveal” isn’t quite as interesting as other aspects of the film, like when they travel to Portland, Ore., and experience a sensory deprivation chamber, which digs up some heavy feelings. But the other aspect that gives this film emotion is how Griffo intersperses interviews he did along the way with random people, young and old. He asks them one question: If you knew you were going blind, what would be the last thing you would want to see before everything went dark? The question elicits some answers that seem cheesy and obvious at first, like “a sunset over the ocean.” One old man says “the smile of a child.” Another says “the face of my wife.”

But as you hear more answers and think about your own, it all becomes more moving. Of course these answers are obvious.

In some ways, Driving Blind can’t possibly match what must have been an incredible adventure for the brothers and the crew. We get to watch them drive across the country, but they are the ones who experience it. If nothing else, it makes you want to drive across the country, too.

“We were a tight bunch,” Griffo says. “We didn’t have a lot of money but we were sleeping under the stars, we were cooking breakfast in the van. It was pretty rough from a logistical standpoint, but we got into it. It was the time of my life.”

For more info visit drivingblindfilm.com or go to Vimeo to watch the film. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Postmodern tribute When Johnny Cash and Eddie Money collide “Troubadour” is a Johnny Cash song that might have Eddie Money’s drummer, Glenn Symmonds, was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year. I hope I’m not in- been. As usual, Merle Travis Peterson hits the vocals well, enunciating as if it were sulting you by assuming an unforgivable affectayou didn’t know that. tion to drop an “r.” The The good news is he beat guitar tone is as recognizit, partly by going vegan able as Luther Perkins’ and drinking a lot of boots, but the song itself juice, and partly by unis more deeply Cash than dergoing painful, expenits sonic veneer. It’s sive surgery. In an effort about a singer whose life to defray his bills, Symand art are congruent, monds has released the writing songs about questionably punctuated lonely determination Friends of Glenn’s, which and playing them for features various artists decades in half-full roadcovering his original houses. songs and includes a It is appropriate for track by Missoula’s The a drummer whom alCold Hard Cash Show. most all of us have heard The Cold Hard Cash and almost none of us Show is a tribute band for could name. Symmonds Johnny Cash. They play and a Johnny Cash tribJohnny Cash covers in a ute band have something Johnny Cash style, but in in common: they love this case they are covertheir work, and neither is ing Symmonds’ “Troubain it for the money. They dour,” also in the style of are the troubadours Johnny Cash. It is possi- The Cold Hard Cash Show about whom they sing, ble that a cover of a song

by Eddie Money’s drummer performed by a Johnny Cash grinding it out on the road and probably not retiring to tribute band is the most postmodern thing that has ever a mansion at the end. It sounds like a raw deal, until you happened in the history of sound as art, but such ques- hear that voice and that jittery, echoing guitar. (Dan tions are unanswerable. As Batman or McDonald’s will Brooks) tell you, the important thing is not the origin story but The Cold Hard Cash Show plays the Top Hat how it comes out in the end.

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Iron Chic, The Constant One It seems funny to use words like “epic” and “supergroup” in a punk rock context, but here we are. Iron Chic’s members, dudes from bands like Latterman, Small Arms Dealer and Get Bent, have been playing together since about 2008. Iron Chic’s songs have gotten more ambitious and inspiringly fist-pumpy along the way—all while the band has retained a sense of humor and DIY ethics.

The website description calls them “a decent band from Long Island, NY. They play songs that are acceptable.”

Iron Chic’s latest full-length, 2013’s The Constant One, is 40 or so minutes of anthemic, cathartic glory, with all the gang-vocal-singalong-joyousness of Latterman. There are great singles, like “(Castle) Numb-

skull” and “Spooky Action at a Distance,” but Constant One is still best enjoyed in its entirety.

I’m not the only one getting goosebumps; this band is making serious waves right now. A friend of mine got her nose broken at Iron Chic’s packed set at Fest in Gainesville, Fla., last November. YouTube videos from the band’s current nationwide tour have me stoked that I get to see them here on home turf.

I don’t want anybody’s nose broken, of course, but I do hope it will be epic. (Kate Whittle) Iron Chic plays the ZACC Thu., March 27 at 8 PM, for Martyfest 2014, along with Atlantic Thrills, Battlestations, Buddy Jackson, Mountain Shark, The Hounds and Jacob Osborne. $8/$6 advance at Ear Candy. All ages, alcohol-free.

Oliver Trolley, Back to the Start The title track of Oliver Trolley’s latest EP opens with the lines, “Come on, I’ll sing you a song that you like/ Drunk on the corner of making the most of the night…

The details don’t matter/ The facts just get in the way.”

The lyrics, which are about a relationship, also accurately describe the album itself: clean, fun and simple pop rock that isn’t interested in breaking new ground or conveying deep thoughts.

Back to the Start doesn’t challenge, inspire or make you think, but it also doesn’t disappoint, anger or make you dwell. Frontman Kevin Childs has a strong voice that,

along with the rest of the band, delivers upbeat, radiofriendly easy listening without apology. The songs are on-trend and in-season: one features a banjo, many have an uplifting chorus of “ohhhs” and “aaahhhs.”

This album won’t grow with every listen. It won’t be hailed as the start of something new in music. But if I heard one of the songs on the radio, I’d roll down the window and turn it up, even if I wouldn’t think about it after it was over. (Sarah Aswell) Oliver Trolley plays the Badlander Tue., March 25, at 9 PM. Free.

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In the first story, for instance, we meet Kat, who keeps missing her turn and compulsively driving 200 miles. “It was hard to say when she fully understood she was headed back to Iowa City,” writes Wilder.

“Maybe at the Wisconsin-Iowa border. Definitely by Verona she knew. Absolutely by Dodgeville.” In “Me Me Me,” a woman hangs out with her recovering alcoholic sister, who adopts a troublemaking daughter “with teenage pregnancy written all over her.”

In “You’re That Guy,” This Is Not An Accident’s novella, we meet Eckhart, who’s depressed after his father’s death and independently wealthy, and so has nothing better to do than get high while house-sitting for a deployed Marine. He’s rescued by his friends, Russ and Jackie, and taken to Salt Lake City (which also happens to be where Wilder lives in real life).

Russ and Jackie are poets but still manage to be relatively cheerful, well-adjusted people; we don’t learn a whole lot about their inner workings, perhaps because they’d be boring. Eckhart’s father, a brilliant mathematician, chose to spent the last 15 years of his

life wandering around San Francisco homeless. Eckhart seems destined for a similarly shiftless future.

Wilder tells stories about people you and I know, about people we might be ourselves. It’s true that there isn’t always a rainbow at the end or magic cureall; screw-ups often keep being screwed up. That’s just not very satisfying or helpful. Wilder’s messy people and their helplessness touches a nerve that I’d rather it not.

I kept getting annoyed and putting this book down, but picking it back up again for Wilder’s curious syntax choices and dreamlike descriptions. She uses some traditional storytelling devices but then gets unconventional: After describing a dog jumping out of a window, the next page and a half are almost all blank except for random exclamation points. It certainly conveys a sense of alarm.

Wilder often writes like people really talk, teasing out the funny ways we phrase things—“and curls like from a curling iron,” as she describes an Airedale dog. She likes to play with word repetition and multiple meanings, too—“in the wake (following the wake) of his father’s death...”

In “You’re That Guy,” the imagery is often surprising and minimalist. We don’t know what Eckhart looks like, or really anyone else except the brownhaired and radiant Jackie, whom Eckhart has a crush on.

The color red splashes worryingly throughout the narrative, from bloody mosquitoes spattering like “machine-gun fire” against a windshield to the “red velvet insides” of a dog decapitated in a traffic accident.

Lest this all seem too dark, there are moments of levity, too—a wry voice that notes seemingly incongruous moments. On the drive to Salt Lake, Russ and Eckhart turn up Christian metal, because it’s the only radio station coming in clearly. A bride sits alone outside the Mormon Temple eating McDonald’s. And after Eckhart’s father’s funeral, his sister and Russ “were doing shots with an honest-to-God dwarf named Kermit and anyone could see how that was going to end, so Eckhart took off before he saw anything that would complicate his ability to remember that week in a particular way.”

Wilder’s stories have a begrudging determination I can’t help but admire, too. Eckhart realizes at one point that, “...after hours sucking on the barrel of a gun you now know you will never shoot, the chair you will not kick out, the hose you won’t suck—you learn that you are not suicidal, that this switch is not in you, that instead apparently you’re going to stand there and take whatever comes.” Much as it drives me crazy, I can’t help but admit this is exactly how weird life really is. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

[theater]

Earnest times

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The last time I recall a Missoula production of The part, don’t let the absurdity of Wilde’s dialogue drown Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Se- them or push them toward overacting. It’s a key balrious People was in the mid-1990s when MCAT’s Joel ance. The same goes for the other characters, including Baird, salon owner Tracy Scott Pray and former Missoula Alysha Hutchinson, who plays Gwendolen Fairfax with resident and character-about-town Severt Philleo per- an infectious, devilish delight.

In most productions, Lady Bracknell—whether formed it for audiences at the old Missoula Children’s Theatre on Front Street. That production came just a she’s played by a man or by Maggie Smith—gets a lot of few years after NBC started airing a little television show “about nothing” called “Seinfeld,” with its morally questionable characters scheming about collecting unemployment and bantering about Pez dispensers. As an earnest and self-serious high school student at the time (and stage manager for the Earnest production), I generally had little interest in anything that didn’t have photo by Cathrine L. Walters some kind of deeper meaning.

Eventually, Christopher Greensweight, left, and Richard Davenpor t star in Monty Python sketches The Importance of Being Earnest. and “Seinfeld” did awaken my appreciation for the absurd and the trivial. But Oscar attention because she’s the most outrageous. Other Wilde’s 1895 masterpiece took that appreciation a step characters, like Algy’s love interest, Cecily Cardew, refurther: It made me realize, in all seriousness, what an quire a little more creative muster, and Stella Shannon hits that character out of the ballpark. The young actress art maniacal farce can be.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the story of two has a knack for comic timing whether she’s reading her friends, the carefree country-dwelling Jack Worthing diary aloud or acting put-out by the fact that her fiance and the arrogant city-dwelling Algernon Moncrieff. Both isn’t, as she’d once thought, named Ernest. “I hope you Jack and Algy are a bit morally slippery, dabbling in dou- have not been leading a double life, pretending to be ble lives. Jack has concocted an imaginary mischievous wicked and being really good all the time,” she says to brother named Ernest, whom he regularly uses as an Algy with just the right amount of sincerity. “That would excuse to visit the city, at which time he takes on the be hypocrisy.”

I have two main gripes. On the particular night I name Ernest. When Algy shows up to Jack’s country home pretending to be his younger brother Ernest in saw the production, almost every main actor—with order to woo Jack’s ward, Cecily, the two fake Ernests the exception of Shannon—stumbled over lines just find themselves in a madcap romantic comedy situa- enough to make it uncomfortable. Why? This is a strong cast with the chops to make this show shine, tion—with a great twist involving a handbag.

The production of The Importance of Being and it causes the audience pain seeing a good actor Earnest at the Crystal Theatre this week showcases a grasping for the next word. Second, a set change— loving, entertaining rendition directed by Carrie Ann wherein a stagehand ends up on stage moving furniMallino of Sunshine Unlimited Productions. (Can you ture around—happens in the middle of a scene and ever not have fun putting on this play? I doubt it.) If you almost ruins the atmosphere entirely.

Those aren’t minor things, but they’re fixable. saw the recent MCT production of Spamalot you’ll be happy to see the talented Eric Prim, who played Patsy, The actual work done onstage by the actors and doing a disaffected performance as Lane the Manservant under the direction of Mallino to bring this great and Merriman the Butler. Christopher Greensweight ar- comedy to life is commendable. If you’ve never exguably steals the show as Lady Bracknell in poofy hair, perienced the play, go see it. If you’re a veteran, you’ll huffy high heels and a stern black mole on her face. My love hearing the exquisite dialogue again. Earnest is reservations about men in drag for theater are high more than the “Seinfeld” of its day, it is a finely tuned when it’s used as a cheap way to get laughs (Monty and pun-perfect piece that entertained even while it Python overdoes it, for instance), but Greensweight em- made fun of high society. It took high society and sebodies the opinionated, ruthless and meddlesome rious people a while to figure that out, and that’s what made it so genius. woman instead of parodying her, and it’s just right.

Richard Davenport as Jack and Erik Montague as The Importance of Being Earnest continues at Algy take on the most difficult roles. Algy is such an ar- the Crystal Theatre Fri., March 21, and Sat., March rogant ass and Jack is a somewhat deceptive uppercrust 22, at 8 PM nightly, with a 2 PM matinee on Sun., character. They’re hardly pitiable underdogs—and the March 23. $12. pressure is on because they’re onstage for so much of the time. But Montague and Davenport, for the most arts@missoulanews.com

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Steal away In defense of the well-worn heist film

by Molly Laich

Not suspicious at all.

The Art of the Steal offers all the basic heist movie tropes, and I say that’s fine.

At the start of the picture we meet Crunch Calhoun (Kurt Russell), who is about to serve out a prison sentence in Warsaw, Poland, on account of a heist gone wrong. We see Crunch and his crew execute a job where they present a real painting to villainous potential buyers that gets swapped out for a fake painting with some tricky subterfuge. There are high-speed chases and alarms going off in museums, and it all goes off perfectly until it doesn’t. When Calhoun’s half-brother Nicky (Matt Dillon) gets nabbed, he does the unscrupulous thing and lets Crunch take the rap.

Now it’s more than five years later and Crunch is out early for good behavior. The brothers are estranged and Crunch’s new vocation involves motorcycle shows where he gets paid a paltry sum to take life-threatening falls. He gets offered an extra $800 to wind up in practically a full body cast. I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure the economics on that don’t pan out.

Since his stint in the pen, Crunch has picked up a loyal apprentice named Francie, played by Jay Baruchel, and an obscenely beautiful girlfriend named Lola (Katheryn Winnik). Early on, Crunch says that it isn’t money that holds the world together, but trust, so when younger brother Nicky comes back to propose the infamous “one last score,” it’s not really the financial gain that hangs in the balance, but the fate of the brothers’ relationship.

Nicky says he feels bad about sending his brother to prison, and surely this complicated plot involving the theft of a painting in holding at the Michigan/Canadian border will make them all rich and heal old wounds. It’s an insane, super high-risk scheme wherein one false move would send them all to prison for a very long time, but even so, I’m more comfortable with this than the whole falling off motorcycles for money career path. An Irishman they call Uncle Paddy (Kenneth Welsh) and a Frenchman in charge of forging the art, Guy (Chris Dia-

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mantopoulos), come back into the fold and the crew is back together once again.

Every fun crime story needs a buzzkill, and here that comes in the form of Interpol Agent Bick, played by Jason Jones (“The Daily Show”). He’s been partnered with Samuel Winters (Terence Stamp), an ex-criminal finishing up the last of his community service, so let’s just say his loyalties are fluid.

There you have it: all the elements are in place for a by-the-numbers heist picture. Just look at the names of the characters: Crunch, Francie, Agent Bick, a 50-yearold little brother named “Nicky.” Jonathan Sobol, whose past work includes films you’ve never heard of like Citizen Duane and A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, directed and wrote the screenplay. There’s a comforting predictability to the setup that other critics have called derivative, but I prefer to look at it more as what we refer to in literary circles as “conventions of the genre.”

The plot goes through a series of twists and turns before finally settling on what it hopes is a surprise ending. It surprised me a little, but I have a talent for willfully shutting off my brain to what’s obviously coming, so long as the movie has earned the suspension of my belief.

I’m recommending The Art of the Steal because even bad heist movies are often fun, and I found these characters delightful. Russell plays the part with his characteristic hapless charm that we’ve barely seen since 2007’s Death Proof. He’s not taking himself as seriously as certain other aging stars (cough, Robert Redford). And Baruchel and Jones add humor to the film, too. Lastly, in a world where subpar films seem to be getting longer and longer, this one runs a snappy 90 minutes, which is just the right amount of time to spend on art of this caliber.

The Art of the Steal screens at the Wilma Thu., March 20.

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OPENING THIS WEEK DIVERGENT A teen living in a weirdo dystopia discovers she’s “divergent” and must save her own kind.

Starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

GOD’S NOT DEAD A college student defends his faith to an atheist philosophy professor in this Christian film.

Quoth the IMDB message board, “For the Love of God, STOP Misappropriating Nietzsche.” Starring Willie Robertson, David A.R. White and Shane Harper. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

GLORIA A free-wheeling older gal in Santiago goes clubbing and meets a hot naval officer. Starring Paulina García, Sergio Hernández and Diego Fontecilla. Rated R. Wilma.

MUPPETS MOST WANTED Everyone’s favorite green frog gets confused for a smooth-talking con frog. Dude, everybody’s got a doppelgänger. Starring Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

TWILIGHT A teen girl in search of an actual personality falls in love with a sparkly bloodsucker. Rated PG-13.

S h o w i n g i n Te x t - O - R a m a , w h e r e i n y o u r smartass comments will appear on the screen, at the Roxy Theatre on Thu., March 20 at 7 PM. Special $5 admission supports the Montana Film Academy.

NOW PLAYING 20 FEET FROM STARDOM Meet the unsung heroes (geddit?) in the world of back-up vocalists. What’s it like to share a stage, but none of the glory, with David Bowie or the Rolling Stones? Interviewees include Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill. PG13. Winner of the 2014 Oscar for Best Documentary. Wilma.

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE Gen. Leonidas is no more, so now it’s up to Themistokles to lead the charge against the brutish Persian forces and that jerk Xerxes. Rated R. Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green and Lena Headey. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS A singer-songwriter dude in 1961 Greenwich Village wears neck scarves and tries to make it big. I think I saw this before on the Your Dad, the Original Hipster blog. Starring Oscar

You could cut the tension with a knife. Divergent opens Friday at Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman.

Rated R. Wilma.

JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN A French psychoanalyst becomes friends with a Native American veteran suffering from postwar trauma. This French film is shot in Montana and based on a true story. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric and Gina McKee. Not rated.

Screening at the Roxy Theater March 21 and 22 at 7:30 PM. THE LEGO MOVIE The toys you grew up stepping on now star in an action-packed animated adventure to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the world together.

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

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

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN The “Rocky and Bullwinkle” bit players get the 21st century highfalutin feature-length computer animated treatment; in some suspicious genetics, Mr. Peabody is Sherman’s dad. Starring the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles and Stephen Colbert. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

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

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

Rated PG-13. Also starring Michelle Dockery, Ju-

lianne Moore and Lupita Nyong’o. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

POMPEII John Snow/Kit Harington stars as a gladiator trying to save his beloved from marrying a dirtbag senator. Spoiler alert: the volcano blows up and covers the whole town. Also starring Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland. Rated PG-13.

Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Mother of umami

by Ari LeVaux For millennia it was thought that there were only four basic tastes perceptible to humans: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Plato and Aristotle were on board with this idea, as was their predecessor Democritus, who contributed bitter to the short list of what are now called “taste qualities.” It wasn’t until about a hundred years ago that another taste, umami, was proposed for inclusion in 1909 by Kikunae Ikeda, a professor at Imperial University of Tokyo. Ikeda wrote, “I believe that there is at least one other additional taste which is quite distinct from the four tastes. It is the peculiar taste which we feel as ‘UMAI [meaning brothy, meaty, or savory],’ arising from fish, meat and so forth. The taste is most characteristic of broth prepared from dried bonito and seaweed ... I propose to call this taste ‘UMAMI’ for convenience.”

The aforementioned broth is called dashi, and the ingredient bonito that he named, aka bonito flakes, are shavings of dried, fermented, smoked tuna. Although Japanese chefs may not have understood the hows and whys, they knew that preparing fish this way and adding it to kelp broth made for a very satisfying bowl of soup, as well as a base for many other dishes.

Ikeda’s landmark paper, “New Seasonings,” details the process by which he identified and extracted the essence of umami from the savory broth. He concludes, “This study has discovered two facts: one is that the broth of seaweed contains glutamate and the other that glutamate causes the taste sensation ‘UMAMI.’” The power of umami was already long understood by cooks the world over. But nonetheless, it wasn’t taken seriously as an official fifth taste quality until glutamate receptors were discovered on the human tongue in 2000. This proved that humans are engineered to appreciate umami.

“The sequencing and functional expression of a human taste receptor for glutamate determined by these studies provides a first molecular basis for Ikeda’s pioneering work,” noted the Journal of Chemical Senses, in 2002.

Several more of Ikeda’s observations on umami have withstood the tests of time as well. He noted, for example, that the taste of umami is enhanced with salt, but muted with sugar. John Prescott, in his book Taste Matters, wrote that this is precisely why tomatoes are rarely found in fruit salads and other sweet dishes. There is no tomato shortcake. Rather, the high levels of glutamate in tomatoes make them more suitable for savory applications.

Ikeda also noted the distinction between glutamate that is part of a protein molecule, aka bound glutamate, and glutamate that is floating around unattached, known as free glutamic acid. The bound form of glutamate, as is found in muscle protein, isn’t available to the receptors. Thus, raw meat has very low levels of umami.

Some foods have naturally occurring high levels of free glutamic acid, and hence more umami taste.

Parmesan cheese and anchovies have helped Italian food get its umami on. The French do it with veal

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stock, in which flesh and bones are simmered long enough to disassemble the tightest proteins, thereby freeing maximum glutamate. In Southeast Asia umami comes via fish sauce. In America look no further than a charbroiled bacon cheeseburger with ketchup.

In addition to being tasty, free glutamic acid is also a neurotransmitter. The cells of Huntington’s Disease sufferers can become overstimulated by glutamic acid, making these people potentially sensitive to it.

But in the general population, little scientific support has been found for the idea that MSG can cause headaches or other adverse reactions.

When glutamate receptors were found, it not only proved that umami is a basic taste, but was taken as evidence that a taste for glutamate offered some kind of evolutionary advantage—otherwise the receptor wouldn’t be there. Subsequent studies found a similar glutamate receptor in mice. The mouse receptor was part of a clump of receptors that target a variety of amino acids. Because amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, having a taste pathway dedicated to their detection, the authors of one study note, “... probably had significant evolutionary implications.”

The multi amino acid receptor in mice is thought to encourage them to consume a variety of amino acids whenever they’re available. The glutamate receptor in humans, by contrast, doesn’t bind to any other amino acids.

This is curious, because glutamate is a non-essential amino acid that our bodies can manufacture from scratch.

Why would humans have multiple receptors for it?

Many experts believe that, in humans, glutamate has become a signal for the general availability of amino acids. In Taste Matters, Prescott writes that because glutamic acid is an amino acid present in animal and vegetable protein, “... umami taste may act as a signal for the presence of protein, with its effects on palatability therefore promoting consumption.”

But paradoxically, the umami switch is not triggered by the most protein-dense food of all: meat. As the glutamate is bound up in muscle protein, it isn’t free to impart its umami deliciousness. Thus, a taste for umami would not have enticed our ancestors to gorge themselves on a fresh kill.

The most convenient and delicious way of releasing free glutamate from meat is to cook it. The processes of heating and browning meat make glutamate, and other amino acids, available to the body, including its glutamate receptors.

Cooking also makes the calories in food more accessible, which offered clear evolutionary advantages to our ancestors. Many scientists believe that cooking, and the extra calories it made available, is what led to a dramatic increase in the size and power of the human brain.

Perhaps a cultivated taste for glutamate helped seal the evolutionary deal between man and fire.

From browned meat to umami-rich broth, fire has allowed the creation of some of the most savory, delicious foods we know. And we can thank our umami receptors for encouraging us to keep cooking.

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

Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Have you checked out Bernice's website: bernicesbakerymt.com: Are you a fan of Bernice's on Facebook? Did you catch that silly Christmas video on YouTube? Viewed the Montana Home Shopping Showcase? Bernice's not only has awesome breakfast pastries, elegant cakes, signature wedding cakes, cookies & treats galore, lunch, and excellent coffee. Bernice's has great employees who rock the social media! 35 years of solid goodness! Check out our social media and then stop by to celebrate a job well done! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns...3/21 Blue Moon 6 pm-9 pm. Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 41 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or fam-

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ily or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area.

We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious!

Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

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COFFEE SPECIAL

Butterfly House Blend $10.95/lb.

BUTTERFLY 232 NORTH HIGGINS AVENUE DOWNTOWN

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 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close.

Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

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Gravlax at The Silk Road HANGRIEST HOUR What you’re eating: You can enjoy dishes from around the world at The Silk Road, including fare from obvious cuisine hubs like France and Italy.

As a Nordic dish, gravlax is a little more unusual, and might be overlooked. It shouldn’t be. It’s a light, delicious appetizer of sliced, house-cured Copper River salmon served with capers, red onion, cucumber and grapes over endive with lemon dill dressing that will cleanse your sinuses. $9.

A brief history: “Grav” means “grave” and “lax” means “salmon” in the Scandinavian region. In the Middle Ages, fishermen used to salt the salmon and bury it underground—like in a grave—and let it ferment. Gravlax isn’t fermented anymore, but it is buried in sugar, salt and dill for a few days to create a brine.

What you’re drinking with your fish: There’s no aquavit on the menu, but any light microbrew, especially a wheat beer, tastes great with cured fish. If you want to be a little fancier go for the restaurant’s gewurztraminer blend at $7.75 a glass.

When to eat it: The Silk Road is open every night at 5 p.m., but on weekends it’s best to make a reservation. Or, just show up and grab a seat at the bar where you can chat up staff

Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

photo by Erika Fredrickson

and random locals in the cozy space decorated in warm red colors, Persian-style wall hangings and strings of lights. It’s a good spot to pre-game before seeing a concert or play at the Crystal Theatre, located in the back of the restaurant, like this weekend’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, which begins at 8 p.m.

Fri. and Sat. nights.

How to find it: The Silk Road is at 515 S. Higgins Ave. on the Hip Strip.

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

Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6?

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

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails.

Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers!

Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers

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on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadwa • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an allencompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

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

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

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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there are now two levels: beginning two-step from 6:45 to 7:30, intermediate two-step from 7:45 to 8:30. Live band starting at 9.

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

March 20–March 27, 2014

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

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

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Watch our deputy copy editor tie a cherry with his tongue while Julie Bug and Northern Exposure play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand ave. 9 PM. Brush those bangs outta your eye, emo kid, and head to the VFW for the third Joey RC residency week, with King Elephant, Whoopass Girls and Olympia’s Handwritings.

9 PM. $4.

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

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

Everybody’s wigging out here. Missoula Community Theatre presents Lend Me A Tenor at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

Fri., March 21–Sun., March 23 and Wed., March 26–Sun., March 30. Wed.–Sat. shows are at 7:30, Sun. nights at 6:30, and Sat. and Sun. matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21.

THURSDAYMAR20 Seattle’s Helms Alee unleashes a tidal wave of rawk to save your soul at the ZACC, along with Abe Coley, Swamp Ritual and Chemical Lawns. 8 PM. $8/$6 in advance at Ear Candy.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:155 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

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

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

Caroline Keys busts a groove at Draught Works, and brings Jeff Turman along with her.

6-8 PM. No cover.

Andrea Harsell gets the joint jumpin’ when she plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

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

It ain’t the wallflower who gets to take home the cutie, so get out there on the floor for the Country Two-Step dance class with Cathy Clark of NW Country Swing. Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. Due to popularity,

FRIDAYMAR21 The Montana International Children’s Film Festival caters to the young at heart and short of attention span, with films at the Roxy Theater on Friday and Saturday and at the University Center Theater on March 23. $7 for adults/$5 for kids, or $20 for family groups of 4-6. Visit mticff.com for schedule and info.

It’ll be more whimsical than Bill Nye riding a unicycle when Big Sky High School hosts the annual Science Circus, wherein teens run booths demonstrating everything from edible bugs to a life-size blue whale and flaming gummy bears. Friday from 6-8 PM

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[calendar] and Saturday from 10 AM-2 PM. $3/free for ages 4 and under.

Sixth Annual Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture Confessions of a Dinosaur: All That Matters is The Story

By Bryan Gruley Bloomberg Businessweek

Monday, March 24, 2014, at 7 p.m.

University Center Theater, 3rd Floor Free Admission Bryan Gruley is a reporter-at-large for Bloomberg Businessweek in Chicago, writing about subjects ranging from medical marijuana to so-called pink slime in beef to hockey stick design. Previously, he spent nearly 16 years with The Wall Street Journal, where he shared in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The Annual Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture was established to recognize and remember Jeff Cole, aerospace editor at The Wall Street Journal and 1980 graduate of the UM School of Journalism who died in 2001 while on assignment.

Lumberjacks and ‘jills will be on their best behavior, I’m sure, for the 97th annual Forester’s Ball featuring the theme “Saw Fumes and Outlaw Tunes.” Adams Center. 7 PM to midnight. $20/$35 for couples. Tickets on sale at GrizTix outlets and such.

Hug a tree for good luck, would-be sciencey types, before the Careers in Natural Resources Fair, part of the annual Foresters’ Ball. Adams Center East Auxiliary Gym. Noon. Free.

nightlife Come for the booze, stay for the helpful info at the Healthy Hour: Pints, Pizza, and Problem Solving for All Your Healthcare Questions event, with special guest Monica Lindeen, state insurance commissioner. Badlander. 5 PM. (See Agenda.)

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 68 PM. No cover. March 21 features Andrea Harsell and friends.

Visiting Hugo writer and Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui reads at the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall. 7 PM. Crumley & Vaughn Private Investigations hosts “Adventures of Electra & Agamemnon,” a puppet show about the story-within-a-story of the ongoing art installation at the Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30. Free.

Gather ‘round for the Singles of Missoula social, where you’ll meet other 45-plus folks out on the town.

Pizza Hut, 3851 Brooks St. 7-8:30 PM. Food snacks provided.

WE Missoula hosts a benefit shindig with live art, music from ordan Lane, Ryan Belski, Red Onion Purple and Gerygone and Twig. E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. 7-10 PM. $5 suggested donation. Check wemissoula.com to learn more.

Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture.

Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Free.

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

The Sentinel High School Drama Department presents The Laramie Project, a play based on the 1998 hate-crime assault on Matthew Shepard. Margaret Johnson Theater. 7:30 PM. $6/$5 for students and seniors.

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Let the Student Ensemble Series strike awe into your heart when the UM Symphony Orchestra performs at the Dennison Theatre.

7:30 PM. $11/$6 for seniors/$5 for students.

Bearcubbin outta PDX. 10 PM. $6/$8 for ages 18-20.

Operatic shenanigans are on tap for Lend Me A Tenor, the classic screwball comedy presented by Missoula Community Theatre at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

March 21-23 and 26-30. Wed.-Sat. shows are at 7:30, Sun. nights at 6:30, and Sat. and Sun. matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Advance tickets at MCTinc.org or 728-7529.

Lolo Hot Springs Resort hosts the weekly TomBourine Show, plus you can get your soak on and rent a cabin. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Consider the limberness of youth when the Ballet Arts Academy presents Masquerade, a dance concert of contemporary, jazz and classic works from teen dancers. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 West Main St. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM, plus Saturday matinee at 2 PM. $10/$6 for seniors and kids under 12.

Mix it up this evening when jazz trio Triple Sec plays swing, bossa nova and ballads at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier St. 7:30-10 PM. $5.

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

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

Won’t you take me to funky town at the Disco Skate at Glacier Ice Rink. 8 PM. $2-$6, plus skate rental. $2 admission if you’re rocking retro threads.

Wild Coyote Band does the bootscoot-boogie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.

Crack some suds and dig the mellow kicks at Thunderground, a dance night with Kris Moon and guests on Fridays in the basement of Stage 112, on the corner of Front and Pattee (aka the old Jolly Corks.)

9 PM. No cover, 21-plus.

We gonna have a ball today, cause Zeppo MT is playing the Union Club, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

It’s been seven years since the Badlander/Palace complex opens its doors, which may bring a wistful tear to your eye if you, like the calendar editor, first wet your drinking teeth in this venerated establishment. Weird metaphors aside, the whole outfit parties down with tunes, prizes and beer at 9 PM. 21plus.

Kick Friday night into high gear with the Dancalicious show at the VFW, featuring Vancouver’s Jay Arney, Denver’s Shady Elders and

Host your own Whiskey Rebellion when Micah Swanson’s Wild Militia and John Adam Smith play Sean Kelly’s. 9 PM. No cover.

The Mighty Flick serves up a smoothie of tangy 80s dance and rock tunes at the Dark Horse. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Missoula’s own tasty packaged pork products, the Lil’ Smokies, play the Top Hat along with Swing 13. 10 PM. $5.

SATURDAYMAR22 Nobody gets put in a corner at the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s Dance In Concert, with new choreography from guest artists and students. Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students. Visit tickets.umtheatredance.org.

It’ll be more whimsical than Bill Nye riding a unicycle when Big Sky High School hosts the annual Science Circus, wherein teens run booths demonstrating everything from edible bugs to a life-size blue whale and flaming gummy bears.

Friday from 6-8 PM and Saturday from 10 AM-2 PM. $3/free for ages 4 and under.

The Montana International Children’s Film Festival caters to the young at heart and short of attention span, with films at the Roxy Theater on Friday and Saturday and at the University Center Theater on March 23. $7 for adults/$5 for kids, or $20 for family groups of 4-6. Visit mticff.com for schedule and info.

Here’s a holiday we can all get behind: it’s National Goof-off Day, and Singles of Missoula is celebrating with a get-together at Five Guys Restaurant, 820 E. Broadway.

Call Nancy at 251-3330 with questions.

Check out the coolest new boats, RVs, fishing gear and all sorts of other big-kid toys, demos and activities to delight your outdoorsy heart at the Great Rockies Sportshow at the Adams Center, from 10 AM-6 PM on Saturday and 10 AM-4 PM on Sunday. $6/free for kids 12 and under.

Lumberjacks and ‘jills will be on their best behavior, I’m sure, for the 97th annual Forester’s Ball featuring the theme “Saw Fumes and Outlaw Tunes.” Adams Center. 7 PM to midnight. $20/$35 for couples.

Tickets on sale at GrizTix outlets and such.

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Get out of my car and into my dreams. Texan singer-songwriter Granger Smith plays Stage 112 Wed., March 26.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $13/$10 in advance. Check out jadepresents.com.

Tap into the power of plants with the Herbal Foundation Root Program, a series of classes offering in-depth study of herbal medicine.

Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. Meets on the fourth Saturday of every month through August at 9 AM. $525. Call 274-2009 or email gp@herbsmt.com to learn more.

Kiddos and parents alike are invited to the Forester’s Ball Community Forestry Day, featuring demos and activities for learning about the natural world. Adams Center East Auxiliary Gym. 10 AM. Free.

Aspiring scribes ages 12-15 should check out “The Writer At Work,” a six-week series covering the process from creation, drafting, revision and final edits. Buttercup Market, 1221 Helen Ave., Saturdays March 8, 15 and 22 and April 12, 19 and 26. 10 AM-noon. Free. Visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

Ladies, dames and broads, it’s a fair just for you at The Women’s Fair, featuring booths covering everything from education, career, fitness, health and beauty.

Plus, you just know there’s gonna be free pens. University Center Ballroom. 11 AM. Free.

nightlife Mind what glass you’re dipping the brush into at Art on Tap, a social painting class with adult libations.

Flathead Brewing Company of Mis-

soula. 5:30 PM. $35. Email artontapmissoula@gmail.com to learn more.

Call Andy, Cameron and Jesse of The Lil’ Smokies anything you want, just don’t call ‘em late for dinner when they play the Top Hat at 6 PM. No cover.

Have yourself a time whilst the Frederico Brothers play tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

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

More events online: missoulanews.com Soothe that heartache with red, red wine while Britchy plays tunes at Ten Spoon Winery, open at 4.

Tunes from 6-9 PM. No cover.

Get classy with sassy dames when the Missoula Hellgate Rollergirls present Annual Sip It: A Black Eye Affair. This black-tie gala includes old-school jazz and swing and live auction, all to support local roller derby. Garden City Funeral Home, 1705 W. Broadway. 6:30 PM. $30/$50 for couples. Tickets available from any rollergirl or at hellgaterollergirls.com.

Get hot to trot with the Missoula Tango’s dance, on the fourth Saturday of every month at Red Bird. 7:30 to 10 PM. No cover, with impromptu lessons for beginners. Learn more at tangomissoula.com.

The Sentinel High School Drama Department presents The Laramie Project, a play based on the 1998 hate-crime assault on Matthew Shepard. Margaret Johnson Theater. 7:30 PM. $6/$5 for students and seniors.

Operatic shenanigans are on tap for Lend Me A Tenor, the classic screwball comedy presented by Missoula Community Theatre at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

March 21-23 and 26-30. Wed.-Sat. shows are at 7:30, Sun. nights at 6:30, and Sat. and Sun. matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Advance tickets at MCTinc.org or 728-7529.

Consider the limberness of youth when the Ballet Arts Academy presents Masquerade, a dance concert of contemporary, jazz and classic works from teen dancers. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 West Main St. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM, plus Saturday matinee at 2 PM. $10/$6 for seniors and kids under 12.

Watch soprano Heather Barnes and cellist Jennifer Bewerse convert sediment into rock when the Diagenesis Duo (look it up) performs at

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[calendar] the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $12/$8 for students and seniors.

Wild Coyote Band does the bootscoot-boogie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.

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

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

(See Theater.)

Moonrisers Productions presents a variety show and play, The Malarial Child, at the ZACC. 8 PM. Cover TBA. Find your pants and roll up into the scene, ‘cause Sister Soul and the Medicine is playing the Union Club.

Tunes start around 9 PM. No cover.

Party down with all your fav princesses and fabulous queens at ISCSM’s Disney Drag Show. Palace.

9 PM. $5. 18-plus.

Enter the party matrix when Downlink and Dieselboy play Stage 112, starting at 9 PM. $15. 18-plus.

Check Stage 112’s Facebook page for more info.

Tie your pony to the hitching post and tie one on when the Soul City Cowboys party down at the Alcan Bar and Grill, 16780 Beckwith St. in Frenchtown.

9 PM. No cover.

Come on and prove that we’re #notbozeman at the Missoula edition of the Montana HipHop Alliance, which features a dollop of Treasure State rhymers including Codependents, Traff the Wiz, David Dalla G, Rude Max, MicB and Tonsofun. VFW. 9 PM. $3.

The Mighty Flick serves up a smoothie of tangy 80s dance and rock tunes at the Dark Horse. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Give my love to Rose when the Cold Hard Cash Show plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

SUNDAYMAR23 Singer-songwriter Marian Call ventures out of Alaska to play an afternoon show at Zootown Brew. 5:30 PM. All ages. $10 suggested donation. Check out mariancall.com.

I hereby call dibs on all the Ethiopian injera bread at the 23rd annual International Culture and Food Festival, which kicks off with parade of flags at noon and follows with all manner of cultural displays and dishes like Indian tacos, Hmong eggrolls, Swedish meatballs and Mexican tortas. Noon-5 PM. $5/$3 for kids 12 and under.

It’ll be raining men when Missoula Mendelssohn Club celebrates the 69th annual Tuxes and Tees, with special guessts the Lewis and Clark Peace Choir. UM Music Recital Hall. 3 PM. $15/$6 students. Visit missoulamendelssohn.org.

Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest did the cute rom-com thing before it was cool. At the Crystal Theater March 21-23, at 8 PM on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. $12. Tickets at brown papertickets.com. (See Theater.)

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nightlife Bob Wills is still the king of Western swing, but our very own Western Union is looking to commit some regicide and make some fine old Western swing tunes for you all to dance by at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 6 PM. $5.

Knock back some ethanol alcohol for a scientific buzz with the The Missoula Area Secular Society’s viewing party of “Cosmos” with Neil deGrasse Tyson. 501 Lounge in the upstairs of the Iron Horse. Get there and order your dranks at 6 PM. Show starts at 8 PM but you should get there early.

(See Spotlight.)

Operatic shenanigans are on tap for Lend Me A Tenor, the classic screwball comedy presented by Missoula Community Theatre at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. March 21-23 and 26-30. Wed.Sat. shows are at 7:30, Sun. nights at 6:30, and Sat. and Sun. matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Advance tickets at MCTinc.org or 728-7529.

Rockin’ Seattle outfit The Adarna gets their Sunday Funday going on in the Palace, along with Confidence Man. 9 PM. No cover.

MONDAYMAR24 Astoria is more than just the place they shot The Goonies, yo, and you’ll discover this when adventure writer Peter Stark reads from Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Get a helping hand navigating Affordable Care Act paperwork with assistance at the Missoula Public Library, Mondays from 3-4 PM and Tuesdays from 5-7 PM. The Wolf Howl Protest convenes at Caras Park at 12:30 PM to demand protection of wolves as a species, and marches to the county courthouse with peaceful sit-in and civil disobedience to follow.

nightlife Better listen up to this brachiosaurus when Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Bryan Gruley presents “Confessions of a Dinosaur: All That Matters is the Story,” for the J-school’s annual Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture Series. University Center Theater. 7 PM. Toast the memory of Pete Seeger while the Acousticals play Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover.

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new nerd order Y’all, I think the nerds are winning. As evidence, I present the March 9 premiere of the series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” which broke TV broadcast records by appearing in 181 countries and 45 languages (comparable to Super Bowl levels of coverage). It’s surprising given that “Cosmos” is a science documentary where astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about stuff like evolution, climate change and the Big Bang. “I wake up every morning saying, ‘How did I get 1.7 million Twitter followers?’” Tyson said in a recent Mother Jones piece about “science’s newfound popularity.”

I’d argue that this is stuff people have always

WHAT: Viewing party for “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” WHEN: Sundays at 8 PM WHERE: Iron Horse’s 501 Lounge and VFW HOW MUCH: No cover

been interested in. Science is cool, it just needs the right packaging, sometimes. Who among us doesn’t have fond childhood memories of “Bill Nye” or the original “Cosmos” with Carl Sagan? Mary Roach is a

I bet Georgia-based indie rock outfit Spirits and the Melchizedek Children will just luuuurve your Hotlanta jokes. They play the Palace along with Catamount at 9 PM. No cover.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout.

Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

TUESDAYMAR25 Party down college-radiostyle when New Jersey hardcore band Old Wounds plays the VFW, along with Hollow Earth, for the KBGA staff turnover shindig.

Starts after trivia, so around 10 PM or so. $3. 18-plus.

Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toast-

Don’t mess with Texan singersongwriter Granger Smith, who plays Stage 112 at the Elk’s Lodge.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $13/$10 in advance. Check out jadepresents.com.

Pour me somethin’ strong and sweet when Hot Buttered Rum parties down at the Top Hat. 9 PM. $17/$14 in advance. Check out tophatlounge.com. (Trivia answer: Bill Murray owns three minorleague baseball teams, including South Carolina’s Riverdogs and the Brockton Rox of Massachusetts.)

THURSDAYMAR27 Neil deGrasse Tyson

New York Times bestselling author, and she writes about stuff like decaying corpses and digestion. Science memes on the internet have a lot to do with it, too; textbooks can be dense and obtuse, but a pithy Carl Sagan quote or the Facebook page “I fucking love science”? That’s easy enough to like and understand.

Here in Missoula, local “Cosmos” enthusiasts are hosting get-togethers to watch the show, including gatherings at the VFW. The Missoula Area Secular Society is hosting a regular party at the Iron Horse’s second-floor lounge while the show airs on Sunday nights through June. And by party, I mean quietly sitting around in awe—so get there before show time to order food and drinks and shush up.

Tear the roof off the sucker at the Cyril Neville Funk Fest, featuring Andrew Gromiller & the Organically Grown, at the Wilma. 8 PM. $22. Tickets at andrewgromiller.com.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:155 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Seattle’s own Barefoot Band (aka one-man-Americana-outfit

You don’t even need a fancy cable TV package to watch “Cosmos,” either—the hip, intellectual network showing it here in the U.S. is, um, FOX. Cheers to a better-informed world.

—Kate Whittle

masters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon– 1 PM. Free.

nightlife Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: Bill Murray owns three teams in what sport? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

tell you.) Top Hat. 9 PM. $15/$12 in advance. Check out tophatlounge.com.

Ask SoCal band Oliver Trolley if you may have another when they play the Badlander. 9 PM or so. No cover, plus $3 Montgomery gin or vodka drank special.

Beware of reef-er madness when South Dakota’s Stranger and Denver’s Coral Thief groove with some reggae at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

WEDNESDAYMAR26 I suspect the kids will be all over it when the Emancipator Live Band plays the Palace, along with Slow Magic and Nym. 9 PM. $25/$20 in advance. 18plus.

Solo acoustic country fella Eric Barrera plays down-home tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave, this and every Tuesday at at 9 PM. No cover.

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Unity, that’s why we stand together, unity, that’s what psychprog-jam outfit Papadosio digs.

(Though how they feel about Operation Ivy references, I couldn’t

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. March 26 features the Wilbur Rehmann Quintet.

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Contemplating distances. Visiting Hugo writer and Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui reads at the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall Fri., March 21. 7 PM.

Micah Wyatt) plays an in-store show at Ear Candy. 4 PM. Things might even move outside if’n it’s nice out.

nightlife Burns St. Events Center hosts a dinner benefit for Pattie Fialcowitz, a Clark Fork Market seller who’s recovering from a brain aneurism. Includes music, live and silent auction and num-nums provided by the Bistro chefs. Cash bar.

1500 Burns St. $15/$5 for kids.

The 45-plus Singles of Missoula party down with a birthday dinner at the New Hong Chef, 2009 Brooks St. 6 PM. Call Nancy at 2513330 with any questions.

Be high, fly and too wet to dry after an evening out with tunes from Kristi Neumann at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. No cover.

Bluesy singer-songwriters Jake Ilika and Mike Munson play tunes to drink by at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Nationally recognized sustainable business advocate Judy

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WIcks chats about “Beautiful Business: New Models for Local Living Economies” as part of the Sustainable Business Council’s annual lecture. Book signing to follow. UM Gallagher Business Building, room 106, 6:15-8 PM. Free.

Check out some very special dollies when Alan Scott Pate discusses and presents some of the 1927 Friendship Dolls sent to American children from the Japanese government. Masquer Theatre in the PARTV center. 7 PM. Let your food-nerd activism sprout after Janisse Ray reads from The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Nevada rockers The Kanes get elevated at the Palace, along with Boston Tea Party, Crooked Cops and Confidence Man. 9 PM. No cover.

Cut loose and fracture your toupee at the Chuckles and Knuckles evening featuring such classy, sassy folks as Micah Wyatt, P.D Lear, The Barefoot Band, Spencer Can O

Beans, Matt Kettlehake, and Kyle Kulseth. Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

Shut up and get rad at Martyfest 2014, featuring Long Island’s Iron Chic, along with Providence’s Atlantic Thrills, Bozeman’s Battlestations and a slew of local troublemakers. ZACC. 8 PM. $8/$6 in advance at Ear Candy. All ages.

(See Music.)

Marley-approved reggae outfit Steel Pulse spreads the love, along with Muzikata, at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $33/$30 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

March Madness strikes again. Ugh. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801.

You can also submit online at missoulanews.com.

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unning has always seemed like a morning person-type activity to me, judging by all the races and classes that meet at ungodly early times.

But here’s a competition that even night owls can get stoked for.

The Griz Glow Fun Run is a 5K that begins and ends on the University of Montana Golf Course, so you can spend your Saturday night waving glow sticks around in the dark and enjoying an endorphin high, like a rave, but without the dilated pupils or cops harshing your mellow. Griz Glow runners are encouraged to wear bright neon colors, and the course includes music and “glow zones,” plus there are post-race refreshments and prizes.

Proceeds benefit UM Campus Recreation Youth

Camps, which get Missoula kids in gear during the summer for stuff like basketball, swimming, frisbee and floor hockey. (The other big race fundraiser for the camps, the Color Run, is Sept. 20, if you need a little more, ahem, time to get into shape.) So after the Griz Glow run, you can go home and hit the hay, feeling assured that your Saturday night fun was all for a good cause.

—Kate Whittle The Griz Glow 5K Fun Run kicks off on Sat., March 22 at 8 PM on the University of Montana Golf Course. Registration and packet pick-up at 7 PM. $30. Proceeds benefit Campus Rec youth camps. Visit RaceMontana.com.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 26

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

Beer is better for you than Gatorade anyway, so kick back and enjoy a brewski at the monthly Beer Run, wherein you’ll go for a run and then hang out at the Top Hat Lounge’s happy hour. 6 PM. Free for Run Wild Missoula members. Email “Chancellor of Libations” Pat at fishnrun@bridgemail.com to learn more.

SATURDAY MARCH 22 You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Step right up for the 16-week Missoula Marathon & Half Marathon Walking Training Class, which starts today at 8 AM at a location to be determined.

Contact Run Wild Missoula for more info at runwild missoula.org. $70/$45 for members.

Break on through to the other side with the Boarder Cross competition for skiers, boarders and tele skiers at Red Lodge Mountain. Registration from 8:30-10 AM at the base area. $20. Visit redlodgemountain.com to learn more.

The Back of the Pack Social Run/Walk meets up at Wildwood Brewing, 4018 Hwy. 93, before departing for a brisk junket up a local trail, and then back for beer.

3:30 PM. Visit runwildmissoula.org to learn more.

SUNDAY MARCH 23 Check out snow geese and all the swans ‘a swimming you can handle on the Five Valleys Audubon field trip to Choteau’s Freezeout Lake. Meet at the Adams Center parking lot at 6 AM; group probably won’t return til after dark. Bring foodsnacks. For more info, call Terry at 214-1194.

Plot your spring shenanigans with a presentation on the trails of the Rocky Mountain Front, with a multimedia presentation by Dropstone Outfitting’s Yve Bardwell. Presentation will also talk about lands that will be protected by the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act. Trail Head, 221 E. Front St. 7 PM.

THURSDAY MARCH 27 Forest ecology experts chat about “The Future of Forests and Forest Management: Change, Uncertainty and Adaption” as part of the 2014 Plum Creek Lectures. University Center Theater. 9 AM. The Missoula Marathon Eat & Run Series features sports nutrition expert Carla Cox chatting about pre-workout nutrition. Run/walk at 5:45 PM, class at 6:30. Visit runwildmissoula.org for location and registration info.

What with the treacherous winter lately, avalanche expert Steve Karkanen presents a timely Avalanche Awareness and Safety discussion at Seeley Lake Elementary School. 7 PM. Refreshments provided. calendar@missoulanews.com

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I’ve been seeing a lot of pleas from confused friends on how the health insurance enrollment deadline for the Affordable Care Act on March 31 works.

Friends, ask not for whom the deadline tolls; the deadline tolls for thee. I am just another confused young person here, too. (Although it took me about two seconds to find healthcaremarketplace.com, which says you’ll be fined 1 percent of your income or $95, whichever’s higher, if you don’t sign up for insurance. You can plug in your personal info and get a quote emailed to you there, too. Or visit montanahealthanswers.com, which has a “Talk To A Human” button, bless it.)

So for goodness sake, if you’ve got questions, Google it or ask somebody qualified to answer questions about it. Get some answers straight from the horse’s mouth when Montana Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen stops by the Badlander for a “Healthy Hour” event hosted by MontPIRG, Planned Parenthood of Montana and the Montana Primary Care Association. Lindeen will answer

questions about insurance enrollment. Plus, there’s pizza and beer to take the edge off how stressful it can be to deal with health insurance.

—Kate Whittle Healthy Hour: Pints, Pizza and Problem Solving For All Your Health Care Questions is Fri., March 21 from 5-6:30 PM at the Badlander. Free.

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

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

FRIDAY MARCH 21 UM professor Mehrdad Kia presents “Islam and the West: Women, Democracy and Human Rights in the Islamic World” as part of the brown bag lecture series at YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Noon1 PM.

SATURDAY MARCH 22 Rep. Diane Sands presents her survey of history from suffragists to today with “Taking Action: A Political History of Women in Montana” at Traveler’s Rest State Park Visitor Center. 11 AM. $4/free for members and ages 18 and under. Complimentary tree, hot cocoa and baked treats available.

SUNDAY MARCH 23 The Har Shalom Temple hosts a soup and bread lunch to support families in Ukraine, including a talk from Boris Soukonnikov. 3035 S. Russell St. Noon.

Free-will donations.

MONDAY MARCH 24 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a different nonprofit or good cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. March 17 benefits KBGA College Radio.

Learn how to bridge divides when UM communication professor Phyllis Ngai presents Intercultural Communication for Social Change at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Noon. Tea and coffee provided, but bring your lunch.

As part of UM’s spring global health lecture series, Dr. John Miller presents “Improving Road Safety in Developing Countries.” Gallagher Business Building Room 106, 6:30-7:30 PM.

TUESDAY MARCH 25 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.

Um, maybe bring a Nalgene when Geosciences professor Marco Maneta presents “Are We Running Out of Water? Challenges and Opportunities for Water Management in Western Montana,” part of UM’s spring water lecture series. University Center Theater, 7-8:30 PM. $5, or $20 for complete lecture series, with student discounts available. Visit grizalum.com.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 Civil rights attorney Peter Neufeld speaks on local and national trends in wrongful convictions, as part of an event for the Montana Innocence Project. UM Law School. 6 PM. $10 suggested donation/$5 for students.

THURSDAY MARCH 27 You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations are at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. Enter through the alley door. 7 PM. RSVP required prior to the orientation by emailing info@missoulatimebank.org, and visit missoulatimebank.org.

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

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WHEN HARRY MET HAIRY My girlfriend of six months just stopped shaving her legs and armpits. I think she is so sexy—except for this. Recently, I asked her whether she'd shave again, and she snapped that shaving is time-consuming and the idea that women should remove their body hair comes from anti-feminist propaganda. I don't know about that. I just like seeing female legs and armpits without a bunch of dark furry hair cover. Do I get to ask again?

—In The Thick Of It It's great when your girlfriend reminds you of somebody exotic out of the movies—when that somebody is Mila Kunis or Eva Mendes, not Chewbacca.

As for your girlfriend's notion that the defurred look traces to "anti-feminist propaganda," way back before there was Cosmo, there was Ovid, the Roman poet, advising women looking for love: "Let no rude goat find his way beneath your arms" (don't let your underarms get stanky like a goat), "and let not your legs be rough with bristling hair." Archeological evidence (including hair-scraping stones and an impressive set of Bronze Age tweezers) suggests that women—and often men— have been shaving, depilating, and yanking out body hair since at least 7,000 B.C. In the early 1500s, Michelangelo sculpted David (who would have been a hairy Middle Eastern dude, looking more Borat than baby's bottom), making him look like he was too busy spending three weeks at the waxer to slay Goliath. And these days, male bodybuilders also remove their body hair, lest their admirers have to peer through the hair sweater to find the pecs and abs.

You, likewise, would just like to see your girlfriend's legs without having to send your eyeballs off on a search party through Furwood Forest. (You must look back fondly on the days when you could picture her naked without first giving her a mental bath in a vat of Nair.) Is there a double standard at play here? Sure there is—if you'd shave a Fidel Castro beard to be more attractive to her but she refuses to shave her Fidel Castro legs.

Let her know that you aren't looking to turn her into a razor slave of the patriarchy—you're just trying to keep your sex life (and, in turn, your relationship) alive— and ask whether there's anything you could do to be more manhunky for her.

This is just what you're supposed to do in a relationship—make that extra effort to please your partner, even if it takes, oh,

five minutes every few days to run a razor over your legs and pits. She can still rebel against the patriarchy in other ways, like by going around in snarky T-shirts and blogging about how leg shaving is an obvious plot to keep women in the shower and out of the House of Representatives.

The bottom line, for you and many other men, is that it's really sexy to run your hand through a woman's hair—just not the hair on her ankles.

DIAL ANOTHER DAY Is it really that inappropriate to give a girl your number instead of asking for hers? I met a cool girl at the gym. We really seemed to hit it off, and I asked whether we could get a drink sometime. She said yes, and I said, "Here, I'll give you my number." She said, "Um, don't you want my number?" Well, I just offered her mine because she had her phone with her and mine was in the locker room, but apparently she was offended.

Really? Who cares?

—Hung Up On An Issue Giving this woman your number and expecting her to call you is like the lion saying to the gazelle, "Would you mind coming over here and killing yourself, and then I'll eat you?" For millions of years, there's been a natural order of things and it involves men chasing women, and it hasn't heard of Gloria Steinem and doesn't care that your phone is in the locker room. Sure, women these days may sometimes pursue men, but when you want a woman, do you really want to walk away without her phone number and hope she'll call—which most women won't do? Also, chances are, expecting a woman to call you comes off a little insulting—telling her you're interested in her, just not interested enough to lift a finger and touch it to phone buttons 10 times. In other words, the thing to do was to toddle off and get a writing implement and a scrap of paper so you could take down this woman's number and call her, not try to rewrite male and female psychology and dating practices for your convenience: "Great meeting you! I'll just be sitting home painting my toenails and waiting for the phone to ring."

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EMPLOYMENT Barista/Cashier MORNING STAR CAFFEINE AND CUISINE seeking a part time experienced Barista/Cashier worker for a local business in Stevensville. Must be outgoing and personable. Must have excellent customer service skills, professional work ethics and be well groomed for public contact.

Must be able to multi task in a fast paced environment and be willing to work in all aspects of the business. you will be making specialty coffees, money handling, kitchen prep, customer service and any other duties as assigned. $7.90 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10035366

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Job# 10035429 Coordinator P/T Provide support and activities for high school exchange students. Volunteer hosts also needed. Apply online: www.aspectfoundation.org FAIR OCCASIONAL LABORER Missoula County is seeking Regular, On-Call FAIR OCCASIONAL LABORERS. Requires 6 months experience in manual labor or basic grounds keeping. Requires a valid driver’s license. *DUTIES: Will perform a variety of unskilled manual labor.

Requires bending, lifting, climbing ladders and heavy lifting (50-75 lbs). ***CLOSE DATE: 03/26/14. $9.33 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10035358 FAIR SENIOR SECRETARY MISSOULA COUNTY seeking a Regular, On-Call FAIR SENIOR SECRETARY. Requires two years secretarial or office clerical work and high school diploma or GED. Requires experience in word-processing and data entry. *DUTIES: Will perform a variety of secretarial and clerical work for the Missoula County Fairgrounds office, primarily to the Western Montana Fair. ***CLOSE DATE: 03/26/14. $11.77 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10035401 Landscape Laborers EARTH AND WOOD LANDSCAPE is seeking a 4-6 full-time seasonal Landscape Laborers to work for a local landscape company. Will work through November with possibility of being rehired for next season. Pay is depending upon experience.

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try is a definite plus. Must be well groomed for public contact. Must be able to work in a team setting.

Will work approximately 40 hours a week. Must have reliable transportation and a good driving record. Applicant must be able to lift over 75 pounds, sit, stand, walk and stoop for long periods of time, use muscles to lift, push, pull, carry of throw heavy objects, be physically active for long periods of time. $8.00 - $11.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10035320 PART TIME - Home Health Aid CAREGiver HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE s looking for the right people to make a difference in the life of a senior today. A PCA is not required, but is helpful. If you have any questions please call Tony at 406.523.9909 Monday - Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM or Stop by the office located at 400 Expressway Suite C, Missoula MT DAYS/HOURS: A variety or days, nights, weekends, and some Holiday shifts. Home Instead Senior Care prides itself on the meaningful matches and instant bonding relations that are formed with our elite matching method. WAGE: Starts at $9/hr.

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ERTY MGMT is seeking a Receptionist-Secretary to work full-time, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Must be trustworthy, able to work in a fast paced office environment, filing, know Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, multi-tasking, and excellent customer service skills.

Other job duties include, letter writing, answering phones, and greeting people as they come into the office. Pay is $8.50$9.00/HR DOE. Essential functions: Standing, sitting, reaching.

Hiring for summer help (April September). Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10035352 Rural Carrier Associate ARLEE MT. We are currently hiring a Rural Carrier Associate to work in the absence of the regular rural carrier during sick leave, annual leave or emergency situations. You may work any day of the week, MondaySaturday. You must furnish your own vehicle, which meets postal regulations. You must meet postal driving requirements. This is a non-career position and does not provide benefits. After serving in this position for one year, you are eligible to bid for career Rural Carrier positions with full benefits. Functional Purpose: Cases, delivers, and collects mail along a prescribed rural route using a vehicle; provides customers on the route with a variety of services. $16.26 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10035147 Teller Wells Fargo. A Teller position with our team offers an opportunity to be part of one of America s greatest companies.

You ll have exposure to a variety of responsibilities, people and experiences in a professional work environment - that s part of the fun! Our Expectation of our Tellers: Tellers introduce customers to new products and services, and generate leads for other members of the sales team to close. Every teller has her/his own scorecard with goals. Our best tellers constantly go the extra mile to greet customers, make them feel welcome and also engage customers to learn about their financial needs. An excellent teller processes between 20-25 customer transactions each hour with no mistakes through patience, attention to detail, and the ability to follow procedures.

Every teller is responsible for maintaining and balancing a cash drawer. Under direct supervision, processes customer transactions within established guidelines. Identifies and makes sales referrals, recommends alternate channels, crosssells bank services and products for Wells Fargo partners, provides excellent customer service.

Duties may include safe deposit, merchant/vault, ATM processing. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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PROFESSIONAL Business Manager/District Clerk Missoula area school district is seeking a Business Manager/District Clerk to direct and coordinate districtwide financial management activities. Applicant will serve as a primary resource in the area of school finance, revenue structures, business management systems, and human resource information maintenance. Bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting, economics, or finance relate field preferred as well as knowledge of finance and budgeting principles and experience with school finance and payroll.

A complete job description is available at the Missoula Job Service. $35,000.00 $40,000.00 Yearly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10035331 Child Protection Specialist This position provides family-centered services within a trauma-informed system to assure safety, permanency, and well-being for children who are at risk of or have been subjected to child maltreatment. $16.68 $20.85 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10035538 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED FOR LOCAL HAULS • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 Electrician Tired of bouncing around from one employer to another? We offer a tremendous career opportunity for a careerminded journeyman electrician to work for a growing petroleum equipment service company based in Montana. The ideal candidate would have at least 2 years experience working with

commercial electrical applications and has a mechanical aptitude. Responsible for wiring of petroleum/service station and carwash equipment. Also responsible for the installation, repair, and maintenance of petroleum equipment and carwashes such as fueling dispensers, POS systems, in-bay automatics and tunnels. Experience with electronics is preferred, but not required. Full training is provided. Clean driving record is mandatory and we perform drug screening as well as background checks. Travel expenses paid by employer. Many benefits including health insurance, 401k, dental, disability, vacation and holiday pay. Please be prepared to send a resume. One position available in either Missoula, Great Falls or Butte, Montana. Licensed journeyman electrician only. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10035549 Flatbed Drivers needed from the Missoula area. Home weekly to Bi-weekly • Top pay • Full benefits • New equipment • 2 years experience required • Clean driving record • Must be present to apply. 406-493-7876 Call 9am-5pm M-F only.

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

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ver’s license. Provide personal care such as bathing, diapering, transferring, spoon feeding and dressing. Clean bathroom, bedroom, vacuuming house, other light housekeeping tasks and some meal preparation. Shifts available: Monday - Friday, 3:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for 27.5 hours per week. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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HEALTH CAREERS PART TIME - PCA CAREGiver Missoula HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE is looking for the right people to make a difference in the life of a senior today. A PCA is not required, but is helpful. Competitive wages, training provided, Must be able to lift, push or pull 25 pounds, must be able to bend, sit, stand, walk and use stairs DAYS/HOURS: A variety or days, nights, weekends, and some Holiday shifts. Home Instead Senior Care prides itself on the meaningful matches and instant bonding relations that are formed with our elite matching method. WAGE: Starts at $9/hr.

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Job# 10035342 PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANT CLARA LAROQUE, inhome care giving for two adult women in East Missoula. Must be able to lift 75 lbs and transfer patients. Must be able to pass background check. Required to have own transportation and valid dri-

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By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I bet your support system will soon be abuzz with fizzy mojo and good mischief. Your web of contacts is about to get deeper and feistier and prettier. Pounce, Gemini, pounce! Summon extra clarity and zest as you communicate your vision of what you want. Drum up alluring tricks to attract new allies and inspire your existing allies to assist you better. If all goes as I expect it to, business and pleasure will synergize better than they have in a long time. You will boost your ambitions by socializing, and you will sweeten your social life by plying your ambitions.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): During her 98 years on the planet, Barbara Cartland wrote 723 romance novels that together sold a billion copies. What was the secret of her success? Born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, she knew how productive she could be if she was comfortable. Many of her work sessions took place while she reclined on her favorite couch covered with a white fur rug, her feet warmed with a hot water bottle. As her two dogs kept her company, she dictated her stories to her secretary. I hope her formula for success inspires you to expand and refine your own personal formula—and then apply it with zeal during the next eight weeks. What is the exact nature of the comforts that will best nourish your creativity?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that scans millions of books to map how frequently a particular word is used over the course of time. For instance, it reveals that "impossible" appears only half as often in books published in the 21st century as it did in books from the year 1900. What does this mean? That fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects are less impossible than they used to be? I don't know, but I can say this with confidence: If you begin fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects sometime soon, they will be far less impossible than they used to be.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tibetan mastiff is a large canine species with long golden hair.

If you had never seen a lion and were told that this dog was a lion, you might be fooled. And that's exactly what a zoo in Luohe, China did. It tried to pass off a hearty specimen of a Tibetan mastiff as an African lion. Alas, a few clever zoo-goers saw through the charade when the beast started barking. Now I'll ask you, Virgo: Is there anything comparable going on in your environment? Are you being asked to believe that a big dog is actually a lion, or the metaphorical equivalent?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the narrator seems tormented about the power of his longing. "Do I dare to eat a peach?" he asks. I wonder what he's thinking. Is the peach too sweet, too juicy, too pleasurable for him to handle? Is he in danger of losing his self-control and dignity if he succumbs to the temptation? What's behind his hesitation?

In any case, Libra, don't be like Prufrock in the coming weeks. Get your finicky doubts out of the way as you indulge your lust for life with extra vigor and vivacity. Hear what I'm saying? Refrain from agonizing about whether or not you should eat the peach. Just go ahead and eat it.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Born under the sign of Scorpio, Neil Young has been making music professionally for over 45 years. He has recorded 35 albums and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In early 1969, three of his most famous songs popped out of his fertile imagination on the same day. He was sick with the flu and running a 103-degree fever when he wrote "Cowgirl in the Sand," "Cinnamon Girl," and "Down by the River." I suspect you may soon experience a milder version of this mythic event, Scorpio. At a time when you're not feeling your best, you could create a thing of beauty that will last a long time, or initiate a breakthrough that will send ripples far into the future.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There should be nothing generic or normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius. If you drink beer, for example, you shouldn't stick to your usual brew. You should track down and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton's Clown Poison. And if you're a lipstick user, you shouldn't be content to use your old standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it wouldn't make sense to seek out romantic adventures you've had a thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Actor Gary Oldman was born and raised in London. In the course of his long career he has portrayed a wide range of characters who speak English with American, German, and Russian accents. He has also lived in Los Angeles for years. When he signed on to play a British intelligent agent in the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, he realized that over the years he had lost some of his native British accent. He had to take voice lessons to restore his original pronunciations. I suspect you have a metaphorically comparable project ahead of you, Capricorn. It may be time to get back to where you once belonged.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Thank you, disillusionment," says Alanis Morissette in her song "Thank U." "Thank you, frailty," she continues. "Thank you, nothingness. Thank you, silence." I'd love to hear you express that kind of gratitude in the coming days, Taurus. Please understand that I don't think you will be experiencing a lot of disillusionment, frailty, nothingness, and silence. Not at all.

What I do suspect is that you will be able to see, more clearly than ever before, how you have been helped and blessed by those states in the past. You will understand how creatively they motivated you to build strength, resourcefulness, willpower, and inner beauty.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet," says Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron. "You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time." That's sound advice for you, Aries. You are almost ready to plant the metaphorical seeds that you will be cultivating in the coming months. Having faith should be a key element in your plans for them. You've got to find a way to shut down any tendencies you might have to be an impatient control freak. Your job is simply to give your seeds a good start and provide them with the persistent follow-up care they will need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every now and then, you're blessed with a small miracle that inspires you to see everyday things with new vision. Common objects and prosaic experiences get stripped of their habitual expectations, allowing them to become almost as enchanting to you as they were before numb familiarity set in. The beloved people you take for granted suddenly remind you of why you came to love them in the first place. Boring acquaintances may reveal sides of themselves that are quite entertaining. So are you ready and eager for just such an outbreak of curiosity and a surge of fun surprises? If you are, they will come. If you're not, they won't.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Before she died, Piscean actress Elizabeth Taylor enjoyed more than 79 years of life on this gorgeous, maddening planet. But one aptitude she never acquired in all that time was the ability to cook a hard-boiled egg. Is there a pocket of ignorance in your own repertoire that rivals this lapse, Pisces? Are there any fundamental life skills that you probably should have learned by now? If so, now would be a good time to get to work on mastering them.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

[C4] Missoula Independent • March 20 – March 27, 2014

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Missoula Friends of Jung Shamanic Soul-Retrieval Lecture Dr. David Kowalewski Shamanic soul-retrieval is a healing method that addresses soul loss from personal trauma and illness.

To learn more call Ken Silvestro, 406-677-7282 March 28th, 2014 Red Willow Center 825 West Kent, Missoula 7-9 PM, Donation at door

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CLOTHING Kid Crossing offers exceptional value on nearly new children’s clothing and equipment.

Providing ecofriendly clothing exchange since 2001. Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Buy Local! 1940 Harve • 406-829-8808 • www.kidcrossingstores.com

MUSIC 1900 PUMP ORGAN FOR SALE. Would make great addition to a Bed and Breakfast parlor or to your home.

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We Do! Missoula’s Pro Guitar Shop specializing in stringed instruments. Open Monday 12pm-5pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am6pm. 724 Burlington Ave, 541-7533. Outlawmusicguitarshop.com Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA IRRIGATION DISTRICT ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2013 3/13/14 TO: Missoula County Clerk and Recorder The Board of Commissioners, Missoula Irrigation District, pursuant to Section 85-7-1914, submits: Beginning Balance, January 1, 2013: $22,635.48 Monies received 2013, all sources: $150,415.45 Expenses paid: $131,154.55 Balance December 31, 2013 (report by Missoula County): $41,896.38 Liabilities: $0.00. All monies received, from all sources, including assessments, trusts, grants are received by Missoula County Treasurer and banked by that entity and all payments made by check are processed through Missoula County Treasurer.

Records of all monies received and all expenses paid are recorded and monthly reports made to Missoula Irrigation District on an irregular basis. Such reports and records may be viewed and/or examined at the office of the Missoula County Treasurer’s office, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. Missoula Irrigation District /s/ Raymond P. Tipp, Secretary to Board SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me, a Notary Public, Montana, by Raymond P. Tipp, Sec. to Bd. of Missoula Irrigation District Commissioners. /s/ Jennifer J. Morgan, Notary Public State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, MT My Commission Expires September 27, 2016 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-28 Dept.

No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EVERETT EUGENE SCHULER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Sandra A. Marotta, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o J. Tiffin Hall, Attorney at Law, 124 Riverside Drive, Suite 101, Eureka, Montana 59917 and filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of February, 2014. /s/ Sandra A. Marotta, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-48 Dept.

No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN LEONARD, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives of the above-

named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Tana Sue Ostrowski and Scott Alen Leonard, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 17th day of February, 2014, in MIssoula, Montana. /s/ Tana Sue Ostrowski, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Scott Alen Leonard, Co-Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-13-1411 Dept. No. 4. Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Michael Andrew Risden, Petitioner. This is a notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Michael Andrew Risden to Michael Andrew Hall. The hearing will be on 4/8/2014 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/20/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehneny, Deputy Clerk of Court. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-14-46 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUSAN J. SMALLEY, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Karla J. Price, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2014. /s/ Karla J. Price, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 7th day of March, 2014. /s/ Karla J. Price, Personal Representative DATED this 7th day of March, 2014 ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MNAXLP

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP14-50 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DELMER JACOBSON, 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 Burl Jacobson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 11th day of March, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Burl Jacobson BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Burl Jacobson, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP14-45 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHERYL MARIE MACLAY, 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 (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 HARRY DAVID MACLAY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of March, 2014. /s/ Harry David Maclay, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representatives. /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP14-44 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: GUSTAF EDLUND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named es-

[C6] Missoula Independent • March 20 – March 27, 2014

tate. 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 Eric Edlund, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 6th day of March, 2014. /s/ Eric Edlund, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By: /s/ David H. Bjornson Attorneys for Eric Edlund, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP14-39 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID B. KOESLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHARLOTTE M. CLOSE the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 4th day of March, 2014. /s/ Charlotte M. Close, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representatives. /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-33 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JANET F. MONSOS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Michael T. Monsos, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o KAREN L. REIFF, Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, P.C., P.O. Box 1645, Great Falls, Montana 59403, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of March, 2014. /s/ Michael T. Monsos, Personal Representative MNAXLP

Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014, from 4 – 6 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public. For further information, contact Kellie Battaglia, Homeword Operations and Program Director, at 406-532-4663 x12. If you have comments, please mail them to: Homeword, 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 116A, Missoula, MT, 59808-2026.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/16/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201220620 BK 902 PG 497, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Frank L. Tetro, III, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A Tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 9, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M. , Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract 28B-1B of Certificate of Survey No. 2726.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 16, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $456,297.70. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $443,823.26, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid

price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.108605) 1002.263717-File No. MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/25/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200822419 Bk: 827 Page No. 204, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Leslie I. Connell was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 448 of PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO.4, Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201017040 B:865 P:533, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 13, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $316,200.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $223,424.51, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 27, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7021.16112) 1002.263264-File No. MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/25/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200625650 Book 784, Page 899, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Walter R. Muralt and Nicole A. Muralt was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson was

PUBLIC NOTICES Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of Caitlin’s Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 2012010651 B: 895 P: 328, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon fka the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS, Inc., CHL Mortgage PassThrough Trust 2006-18, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 200618. 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 05/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 27, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $1,063,858.56.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $926,710.89, 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 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, suc-

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

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

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 8193.20209) 1002.264415-File No. MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 28, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 of Glacier Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according the official recorded plat thereof. Darren Bayer and Tami Bayer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Chase Bank USA, N.A., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated August 10, 2005 and recorded August 15, 2005 in Book 758, Page 117 under Document No. 200520940. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-CH3. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,920.02, beginning September 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s on this obligation as of December 21, 2013 is $354,160.33 principal, interest at the rate of 8.875% now totaling $134,486.21, escrow advances of $22,931.57 and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,577.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $81.50 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO

COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 13, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 13th day of December, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Select Protfolio V Bayer 41477.993 MNAXLP NOTICE TO CREDITORS: MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Dept. No. 1, Probate No. DP-13-173 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH OGLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jan Ogle was appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Jan Ogle, return receipt requested, c/o Elison Law Firm, PO Box 5496, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. March 11, 2014. /s/ JAN OGLE, Personal Representative. /s/ Martin Elison, Tel: (406) 541-6665 Attorney for Personal Representative.

MNAXLP SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF WASHINGTON, SPOKANE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JO L. DEVOR, Deceased. No. 14-4-00276-1 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Administrator named below has been appointed as Administrator of this estate.

Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator or the Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) thirty (30) days after the Administrator served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); OR (2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim will be forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the probate assets and non-probate assets of the Decedent. Date of First Publication: March 20, 2014 DORETTA PUTMAN, Administrator c/o Brian P. Knopf, P.C. 221 N. Wall St., Suite 224 Spokane, WA 99201 BRIAN P. KNOPF, P.C. BRIAN KNOPF, WSBA No. 27798 Attorney for Administrator 221 N. Wall St., Suite 224 Spokane, WA 99201-0824 (509) 444-4445 Trustee Sale Number: 14-00066-5 Loan Number: 0340160217 APN: 5803735 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 30, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: The Land reffered to in this Guarantee is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and is described as follows: Tract 16 of Certificate of Survey No. 370, located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 11, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. More commonly known as: 1035 GRIZZLY MOUNTAIN ROAD, Missoula, MT MICHAEL K FITZPATRICK, A MARRIED PERSON, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP., as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to

Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of May 4, 2012, and recorded on May 7, 2012 in Film No. 893 at Page 747 under Document No. 201208270, and rerecorded on October 25, 2013 in Film No. 921at Page 375 under Document No. 201321009, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated January 30, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of February 11, 2017: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2013 and which payments total: $7,842.72: Late charges: $466.92 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $198,263.89 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 4.00000% per annum from August 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: February 18, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1084088 3/6, 3/13, 03/20/2014 MNAXLP

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 45, 176, 262. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 3/24-3/27, 2014 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 3/27, 2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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1 Casino features 5 Pacific Coast salmon 9 King novel about a rabid dog 13 Feeling regret 15 Group whose O doesn't stand for "oil" 16 Quite a distance away 17 Commend highly 18 Inbox item 19 Expensive Japanese beef 20 Amount of time before you stop reading inflammatory Web comments?

23 Laughingstock 24 Glitch 25 Cincinnati-to-Detroit dir.

26 $ fractions, for short 29 Did hayfield work 31 Wonder-ful count?

33 Force that I'm certain will pull you back to Earth?

37 "Let the Rabbit Eat ___" (mailin 1976 cereal contest) 38 Hosp. area for critical cases 39 Reese's "Legally Blonde" role 40 Food label units that don't mind waiting around?

45 Get retribution for 46 Sour, as a stomach 47 Icelandic band Sigur ___ 48 7, for 14 and 35: abbr.

50 Microbrewery product 51 Dr. with six Grammys 54 Burp after drinking too many colas?

57 Beloved honey lover 60 Change of address, to a realtor 61 Barracks barker, briefly 62 Neighbor of Hank Hill 63 Risk territory 64 Wrath 65 Several 66 Good, to Giuseppe 67 Word appearing before or after each word in the long theme entries

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14 Comprehensive 21 "To Sir With Love" singer 22 John of the WWE 26 Cook-off food 27 "Her," "She" or "It" 28 Eye nuisances 29 Confine 30 Record label named for an Asian capital 32 Each's partner 33 Face-valued, as stocks 34 "Top Chef" network 35 Focus of traffic reports?

36 Holy food?

41 Round toaster brand 42 Tension reliever 43 "I Shot Andy Warhol" star Taylor 44 "Battleship Potemkin" locale 49 Big name in farm equipment 51 Funeral lament 52 Rival of Rafael and Novak 53 January in Juarez 54 Use your jaw 55 Dash and splash 56 Horatio who played Aaron Neville on "SNL" 57 Kissing in public, e.g.

58 Lummox 59 "Nicely done!"

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David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com 2550 Pattee Canyon. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on 8 acres. Gourmet kitchen, deck, patio, 2 car garage. $480,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2611 Deer Canyon Court. 4 bed, 3 bath with daylight basement, patio, deck & 2 car garage. $447,500. Tory Dailey,

Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com 29203 Old Hwy 10 West. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 3.39 acres on the Clark Fork River. $539,900.

Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3000 Sandalwood. 4 bed, 3 bath with 3 garage on one acre near Clark Fork River. Vickie Hozel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on almost 5 Target Range acres bordering DNRC land. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com 3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard & garage. $225,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5454 Canyon River Drive. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on Canyon River Golf Course.

Ovando House on 1.14 acres Charming 3 bd, 1 ba house with large log shop in the Blackfoot Valley, only 50 miles from Missoula. Recently remodeled, wood floors, deck, lots of natural light. Productive gardens, aspen groves, outbuildings, even a tree fort! Irrigation off Hoyt Creek, which runs through the property. Beautiful views of the Bob Marshall and Mission Mountains. $195K OBO. 406793-0028.

Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $162,000.

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

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

MANUFACTURED HOMES 1790 Dukes. 3 bed, 2 bath in Katoonah Lodges, a 55+ community. $83,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2424 McIntosh Loop. Bright & airy 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community. Ramp, patio and single garage. $115,000.

Vickie Honzel, Lammbros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

LAND FOR SALE 160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 20 acres, Butler Creek. View of Snowbowl Ski Resort. Utilities in place, septic approved. $200,000. Call Pat Delaney 239-3995 53.5 acres overlooking Missoula. Utilities in place, septic ap-

proved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5402 Canyon River Road.

Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15,901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $154,500. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com

910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

PURCHASE/INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. 40 ACRES $175/MONTH $499 DOWN. Immediate financing. No qualifications. No penalties. NW Nevada near Reno.

See www.CheapRuralProperty.com or Call Earl 1-949-632-7066

Bear Gulch in Garnet Mountains.

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

Rock Creek Acreage. 20 acres adjacent to Forest Service land. #349,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

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

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

RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-5428644

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 324B North Grant. 3 bed, 2 bath condo with fenced yard & 2 car garage. $174,900. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail. No HOA fees. $289,000.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 5505 Creekstone. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Grant Creek. $130,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $156,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

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REAL ESTATE OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville.

Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 11901 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo.

2 bed, 2 bath with many upgrades including roof & windows. $197,500. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 1290 Thunder’s Trail, Potomac. 3 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. $795,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $480,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

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

dential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500.

Prudential Montana. For more

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

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres.

Great mountain views. $335,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

River Access 17430 SixMile, $285,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $249,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

Rochelle Glasgow

4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Clinton area home on 1.6 acres. $298,500. Pru-

Missoula Properties 728-8270

Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

3000 Sandalwood Ct. • $415,000 Modern 4 bed, 3 bath on 1 acre in Riverwood Meadows.

Wood floors, gas fireplace & 3 car garage. Borders boat launch & Park along river.

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

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

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1290 Thunders Trail, Potomac $795,000

3 bed/3 bath elegant 2-story home nearly 3500 sf on 20 park-like acres with room for horses. Remodeled gourmet kitchen.

1861 E. Broadway

$215,000

MLS # 20141169 • 3 bed, 2.5 bath Cobblestone Condo with deck and single garage. Close to UM, Rattlesnake & Clark Fork River trails.

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 ZEUS• Yes, Zeus is definitely a Pitbull, but he is also definitely one of the nicest dogs at the shelter. He has wonderful kennel manners, is very quiet and gentle, and you can see that he's really handsome. He needs to learn not to pull on the leash during walks, and he needs a home without cats, but we can't find anything else that's a problem.

MYSTIC•Mystic wishes that he were

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GALILEO•This is Black Cat Appreciation Month at Animal Control, because we know these cats are often overlooked by adopters, especially when there are a lot of them.

Since over half of our cats are black or blackand-white, all of them -- including handsome Galileo -- can be adopted for only $25.00 during the month of March.

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the only black cat at Animal Control because perhaps then he would stand out in our crowded cat room. Well, we can't make the other cats go away, but we can offer a reduced adoption rate of just $25.00 for black and black-and-white cats during the month of March.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

JENNIFER•Jennifer has some white markings in her black coat, but she still qualifies as a black cat for Black Cat Appreciation Month and its reduced $25.00 adoption fee.

We think black and black-and-white cats are very nice and quite attractive, but they just don't get adopted as often as cats of other colors. We hope this helps!

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SUNSHINE•Sunshine's shiny black coat

VLAD•Vlad has such presence that we think he looks much more like a tiny panther than a large house cat, but that doesn't keep him from qualifying for the reduced $25.00 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 adoption fee during the month of March. We Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) want people to notice our black cats -- includ- 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) ing Vlad -- and we're hoping that the $25.00 Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) fee will make that happen.

means she can be adopted for only $25.00 through the end of this month. We appreciate all the good qualities of black and black-andwhite cats, and we want to encourage people to take them home. Sunshine has also been declawed, so she'd be perfect for a family wanting a scratch-free pet.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 CODY• Cody, aka the Gentle Giant, is a big 8-year-old Lab mix looking for love.

He's quite the goofball and loves to say "Hi" to everyone he meets! He will be sure to worm his way into your heart.

Come meet him at the Humane Society today!

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CINDY•Although technically a senior dog, shelter volunteers describe Cindy as young at heart. She loves to play with a tennis ball or squeaky toy. She wants you to know that March 25th is Cup of Kindness day at all Loose Caboose locations.

Fifty cents of all coffee sold will benefit the Humane Society.

LITTLE GIRL• How can anyone resist that face? Little Girl’s engaging gaze and spunky demeanor have quickly earned her a spot as a volunteer favorite, but she would love to find her forever home. Visit the Humane Society to learn more about our volunteer program and to meet Little Girl.

KARINA•Karina is a lovely girl who

PILATES•Pilates is a bouncy and fun girl who was transferred to Montana from an overcrowded shelter in California. She is full of zest, personality, and love. This sweet girl can't wait to find her forever home in Montana!

SAMPSON• Sampson, aptly named for his luxurious fur, is patiently waiting for his forever home. This handsome boy is quiet, gentle and affectionate. Sampson enjoys the company of other cats and loves to be brushed. Come meet charming Sampson today!

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wants nothing more than to curl up in your lap and purr. This Personal Assistant will help you with (distract you from) your chores and snuggle with you when it is time to relax. Visit myhswm.org/adopt/meet-yourmatch to learn more about Karina and the Meet your Match® adoption program.

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www.gofetchDOG.com - 728-2275 East Broadway • South Russell • North Reserve

MONDAY, 3/24 • UM Combo • Missoula’s Youngest Divas • Joan Zen Band • Basement Boys featuring Jeff Stickney • UM Combo

TUESDAY, 3/25 • UM Combo • Jodi Marshall Dixieland Tribute feat. Bill Haffey • Rhanda Johnson & Easy Living • Airmail Special: Channeling Charlie Christian & Benny Goodman • The Captain Wilson Conspiracy feat.

Steve Kalling, Keaton Wilson, DR Halsell, & Ed Stalling

WEDNESDAY, 3/26 • UM Combo • Eden Atwood Quintet • UM Combo • Chuck Florence, Jim Driscoll, Pete Hand & Kenny Sage • Jazz for Fun feat. Stephane Gariepy, Micky Singer, Traemond McCabe, DR Halsell, Jim Rogers, & Jeff Stickney

THURSDAY, 3/27 • Kimberlee Carlson • Chuck Hurt and Friends • Buddy DeFranco Stars • Melody & Clipper Anderson • Canta Brasil feat. Beth Lo, David Horgan, Chuck Florence, Magda Chaney, & Pedro Marques

Great Music / Spectacular Jazz Education March 28-29 • University Theatre More info: umt.edu/music