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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Movin’ on up edition ...............................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Greens get got, ACLU eyes DAPL, and anti-traffickers go after Backpage.com..............6 Etc. Keep it civil, you say? ............................................................................................................7 News The Lucky strike goes the distance in Idaho....................................................................8 News No news is bad news for baby bison ................................................................................9 Dan Brooks: Kids aren’t stupid. They can tell when we’re prioritizing guns........................10 Writers on the Range: Why beavers matter............................................................................11 Feature With evictions imminent, Skyview residents look for a way out...............................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Rapper and actor Diego Kjelland comes from a long line of performers............18 Books Brady Harrison’s The Dying Athabaskan gives truth a twist ...........................19 Music Hothouse Flowers’ Liam Ó Maonlaí talks Irish music and influences..............20 Film Revisiting the cult classic Italian horror film The Beyond ...................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 What’s Good Here Back to the ’80s at the Breakfast Club..............................................................23 Happiest Hour Montana Mint’s Beer Madness...........................................................25 8 Days a Week So much sunshine! ..............................................................................26 Agenda The Second Annual Walk to Honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women...33 Mountain High Sipping beer to the sounds of insects...............................................34

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News of the Weird ......................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42 GENERAL MANAGER Andy Sutcliffe EDITOR Brad Tyer PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer STAFF REPORTER & MANAGING EDITOR FOR SPECIAL SECTIONS Susan Elizabeth Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERN Micah Drew ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer SALES MANAGER Toni Leblanc ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Declan Lawson MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Declan Lawson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Hunter Pauli, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson Melissa Stephenson

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STREET TALK

by Derek Brouwer

This week’s cover story profiles four people who are looking for housing after being evicted from Skyview Trailer Park.

What’s the most difficult time you’d had finding housing in Missoula?

What would you do if you found out you were being evicted?

Autumn Thompson: I have never struggled, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to afford housing. I’m an attorney, and a lot of my clients struggle to find housing. It’s a hurdle that a lot of them can’t overcome. Counting lucky stars: I’m really fortunate. I have a safety net of friends and family I could go to to find a new place. A lot of people don’t.

Emily Martinek: I was looking in late August 2016, and I waited too long and everything was gone. My friends split up and we all found our own studio apartments since we couldn’t find a place together.

Move quickly: I would probably just move in with a friend and start looking immediately, because I feel like it takes so long to go through the application process and actually get an apartment.

Rachel Ackerman: I’m actually new to town.

I didn’t have too much trouble finding housing. I live on an urban farm, and I know that’s not realistic for everybody. Embrace community: I’d be so sad. I might consult the North Missoula Community Development Corporation. I know they work a lot with affordable housing. Also, as a student, I may be able to swing a communal housing situation that is usually more affordable.

Alex Alviar: I’ve always been lucky. As soon as I landed in Missoula, people were giving me places to stay, complete strangers, even. That’s what made me decide to stay here — Missoula’s culture is so welcoming. Try another country: Move to Vancouver. I’ve never been, but it sounds cool as well.

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On board with Curtiss

When we first envisioned what is now the KettleHouse Amphitheater on the banks of the Blackfoot River, few believed that it could go from a big idea to a reality in six months. As you can imagine, the project had a lot of moving parts and required extensive analysis, planning and approval from the county, the state and federal agencies.

Throughout the entire process, Missoula County Commissioner Jean Curtiss always answered my calls and was extremely responsive in helping us navigate a very complex situation. She saw the vision of bringing people together to enjoy an incredible music experience in a beautiful outdoor setting, while also revitalizing economic activity in Bonner.

We need leaders who have vision, experience and are willing to listen and pursue sensible solutions to complicated challenges. Now as we head into what is looking like a record-breaking year for our music venues and launching a new conservation effort to restore the Blackfoot River, I look back and am grateful to have had Jean’s willingness to see the dream and help us work through any snags along the way. I respect Commissioner Jean Curtiss’ work ethic and leadership. She has my full support.

Nick Checota Logjam Presents, the Wilma, the Top Hat, KettleHouse Amphitheater Missoula

Go Keogh

I am writing to endorse Connie Keogh for House District 91, which generally includes the Rattlesnake area through downtown and over to University Avenue. She brings years of personal and professional experience to this race, including leadership skills, teaching experience and the “can do” attitude honed from years of hard work on the south-central Montana ranch where she grew up. She believes that public lands are critical to our quality of life. She understands that public lands are crucial for the clean air and water that make our communities livable, and they are what makes the outdoor recreation economy thrive in Montana. Connie supports keeping public lands in public hands,

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protecting Montana’s constitutional guarantee of a clean and healthful environment, continuing full funding to Habitat Montana, and empowering the Office of Outdoor Recreation to provide resources to rural communities to help them grow from the recreation boom. Please take the time to learn about her and get out and vote for Connie Keogh.

Rita Wolfe Missoula

Talking blues

I’d like to thank Ednor Therriault and the Independent for reviewing the recent CD of MudSlide Charley’s, Words & Bones, and for reflecting on our his-

blues. We have heaps of gratitude for each and every bar owner or individual who has come to appreciate what our journey has been, is, and is growing into being. Thank you for sharing in the fun!

I was stunned that the article may have inferred a negative interpretation of our many years in Missoula bars. Enjoy our new CD, and we look forward to seeing each one of you at a variety of venues anytime in the near future.

Marco Littig Missoula

Land gobble

The Homestead Act allowed the carving up of America into tiny bitesized pieces for the wealthy to gobble up as the poor farmers were wiped out by manipulated prices and nature’s cruel effects (“A lesson on taking public lands for granted,” March 13). Now we see Congress enabling the further attempt to bite off a few more tempting morsels of federal land, as they condemn wilderness areas. The process seems to repeat itself as we watch.

Dan Hutchinson facebook.com/missoulanews.com

“We have heaps of gratitude for each and every bar owner or individual who has come to appreciate what Home sweet home Beautifully written and captures our journey has Missoula in all its wonderful contradictions (“Embracing home in Missoula’s been, is and is in-between,” March 1).

John Squillante growing into being.” facebook.com/missoulaindependent tory of performing in Missoula for the past 14 years (“MudSlide Charley’s latest album showcases a band with resilience,” March 1). While it seems like 14 years is a long time, quite honestly it has passed in heartbeat. I would like to speak directly to one specific area of the article. During the interview with Ednor, I referenced the honor we feel being able to perform on a regular basis to the fabric of our community, and have never understood the perspective that some bands have about “shitty little bar gigs.”

I indeed used that very quotable idea, but not as a representation of our truth.

Our truth is the opposite. MudSlide Charley has always embraced the joy of playing all night long in the hearth of our community, wherever and whenever. Our goal? Connectivity around the

Quick draw

One of the best Indy pieces in a long, long time! Josh Quick’s artwork is spot-on.

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You weren’t alone

I found your story fascinating, enthralling and delightful!

Suzanne Burwick facebook.com/missoulaindependent Correction: A headline in the March 15 print edition misspelled Har Shalom and inaccurately identified student Rabbi Laurie Franklin as currently ordained. In fact Franklin’s ordainment will occur later this year. The Independent regrets the errors.

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence.

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, March 14 At 10 a.m., hundreds of Missoula high school students join in a nationwide walkout that lasts for 17 minutes — one for each victim of the school shooting in Florida last month. A gathering is also held on the UM oval.

Thursday, March 15 Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupts for the first time in more than three years. Steamboat is the tallest active geyser in the world, erupting hot water more than 300 feet in the air. No one witnessed the eruption.

Friday, March 16 A Big Sky High School student flees a police officer, allegedly tries to run him over, and crashes his car after a short chase.

Shots are fired by the school resource officer. No injuries are reported.

Saturday, March 17 A Gardiner School eighth-grader repeats as the Treasure State Spelling Bee champion.

Aidan Veress correctly spells “Talmud” for the win, and will represent Montana at the National Spelling Bee in May.

Interstate sex

Trafficking awareness

As the state’s only certified sex trafficking investigations instructor, Missoula Police Detective Guy Baker says he has trained more than 2,000 investigators in the western U.S. since 2014. On March 29, he will present a sex trafficking community awareness conference to the public at the University Center Theater, featuring presentations from himself and Gary Seder of the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and members of several area nonprofits.

The number of charged sex trafficking cases in Missoula County is low. The County Attorney’s office told the Independent that it has prosecuted six cases under promotion of prostitution statutes in the last five years, using those statutes, rather than the state’s newer trafficking laws, because they’re more likely to generate convictions in the event that a trafficking victim does not testify. Baker also investigates cases that result in federal charges, and confirms the difficulty of securing testimony from victims, saying that’s one reason he can charge fewer than half the cases he sees.

“They’re very commonly noncooperative, they don’t see themselves as victims, [and] they don’t identify as victims or wanting help.”

But there’s more than one way to put someone in federal prison, even when there’s no assistance from victims. “I don’t necessarily have to have some-

one traveling from state to state to make an interstate nexus, because, for example, condoms are not made in Montana, so they have to come from out of state to be used in commercial sex,” Baker says.

Baker demonstrates with a quick scroll through Backpage.com how he would determine the likelihood of an advertisement pointing to a trafficking victim. The site is also a large part of the work of DeliverFund, one of the nonprofits that will have a presenter at the event. DeliverFund was founded by a pair of former military intelligence operatives from Montana, and does private surveillance of websites where sex workers advertise, seeking what they deem is evidence of trafficking and passing along that information to law enforcement.

Backpage is also the focus of the evening’s culmination, a screening and panel discussion of I Am Jane Doe, a documentary about civil suits against Backpage that seek damages from the classifieds site, claiming that it is a party to trafficking. Its producers are supporters of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), a bill that at press time was awaiting a Senate vote. If passed, the bill would hold websites responsible for third-party content, which has garnered opposition from the ACLU and the Electronic Freedom Foundation. It would also potentially do away with the tool that seems so central to investigations like Baker’s and DeliverFund’s.

Alex Andrews is a Florida-based founding contrib-

utor to Rate That Rescue, a site that allows trafficking survivors to communicate with each other about the services provided to them by nonprofit organizations around the country. She says that doing away with Backpage will likely result in harm to trafficking victims and anyone else using the site to trade sex. “It’s only going to affect really poor people, it’s going to make everybody’s life more dangerous, and it’s going to make it harder for law enforcement to catch the real bad guys.”

Andrews would like to see the focus of trafficking initiatives shift to providing help to victims. “They’ve raised so much awareness that there’s no money left for services,” she says.

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Grassroots in disguise

Did Greens get duped?

In 2016, Danielle Breck had two ambitions for the Montana Green Party. First, the former Missoula County Democratic Central Committee member could channel anger over Bernie Sanders’ defeat into ballot access for then-Green Party candidate Jill Stein. She succeeded.

But build a third party that could pressure Democrats from the left in statewide races in 2018? Good luck.

But Breck pulled that off too, collecting enough signatures by March 12 to qualify the party for the ballot for the first time since 2004. It was the last day for candidates to file, and, to Breck’s delight, six people

Sunday, March 18 Local athlete Mike Foote breaks the world record for most vertical feet skied in 24 hours. Foote skied 60 laps at Whitefish Mountain Resort for a grand total of 61,200 feet climbed over roughly 77 miles.

Monday, March 19 UM president Seth Bodnar announces via email that he will reorganize the university’s administrative structure. Admissions, financial aid and communications will be combined to “allow for a more integrated focus on student success.”

Tuesday, March 20 An Indy staffer spots a patch of crocus flowers on the UM campus, corroborating reports that spring officially begins today.

I came into court today with only my driver’s license, my health insurance card and money to put in the jail commissary account.”—Leonard Higgins, who was sentenced March 20 for shutting off an oil pipeline valve near Big Sandy, to the Associated Press. Higgins avoided jail time and was ordered to pay the pipeline company $3,755 in restitution.

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There was one problem: Some of the candidates didn’t look very Green.

In House District 85, Hamilton resident John Gibney filed to challenge Republican Theresa Manzella. Gibney once held a “They Rape, Kill, Destroy” sign at a Missoula anti-refugee rally in 2016, where he told the Indy he believed Barack Obama is Muslim. Media outlets scrutinized Tim Adams, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, for his history on the state GOP payroll as recently as 2015. Adams previously ran for office as a Libertarian, and he currently chairs an anti-tax political committee.

The attention put the Green party on the defensive at the very moment it was making its statewide debut. Breck had never heard of Gibney or Adams before filing day. Breck quickly disavowed Gibney as a “fraud,” and is already trying to recruit a write-in challenger. But she’s embracing Adams, since he agreed to publish an “issue commitment statement” affirming Green party values. Breck sees him, like her, as someone with “pure” intentions who has struggled to find a home in Montana party politics.

“I suppose someone could pull the wool over our eyes,” Breck says. “If we want to talk about parties having the wool pulled over their eyes, don’t even get me started on the Democratic National Committee.”

In an interview with the Indy, Adams acknowledged that his ideology is “conservative,” but compares himself to President Donald Trump, who he says isn’t a “good Republican.” Adams has been active in LGBTQ organizations, for instance, and has pushed to legalize medical marijuana.

“To allege that I’m loyal to the Republican party at all costs is not only to misunderstand my involvement in the issues, it’s how the Democrats want to paint it,” he says.

Adams offers anti-establishment, working-class rhetoric, and identifies education, cost of living and health care as his three top issues. His positions on key Green-supported policies are less clear. For example, he declines to endorse Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal, while saying he generally supports universal access to health care.

Then there are Adams’ statements on sexual assault. In 2016, Adams published an opinion column in the Montana State University student newspaper, the Exponent, titled “Challenging the Rape Culture Myth,” in which he argued that sexist rhetoric does not enable

sexual abusers. Today, on the web page for Montanans Against Higher Taxes, a group Adams chairs that opposes the six-mill levy funding state universities, the first argument accuses the university system of perpetuating “rape culture” on its campuses.

Adams says he just defines the term differently than others do.

Derek Brouwer

Watchdogging Big Brother

ACLU eyes DAPL

April will mark two years since Standing Rock Sioux elder LaDonna Brave Bull Allard founded the first protest camp erected to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. The thousands of activists who flocked to join her in 2016 succeeded in propelling the modern environmental movement to international attention. But now, some fear that the DAPL protest — and other direct actions targeting oil pipelines — has prompted an Orwellian response from government officials.

In late February, the ACLU of Montana filed right-to-know requests with five state agencies and eight county governments seeking information on government surveillance of pipeline protesters. Legal Director Alex Rate explains that, in the wake of 2016 pipeline protest activity, the organization became concerned about the potential for governments to “chill the free speech rights of individuals” in the future. That concern took greater shape when President Donald Trump approved the Keystone XL pipeline last year, setting the stage for construction in eastern Montana.

“We know that there have been preparations underway on the part of local law enforcement and federal agents at the Department of Homeland Security to prepare for potential protesters,” Rate says. “We issued the FOIA requests in order to determine exactly what preparations have been undertaken.”

The Montana Department of Justice did not respond to an email seeking comment on the ACLU’s request and confirmation that the agency monitors pipeline protests and related social media activity.

In announcing the requests, the ACLU cited a

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$3.29 billion Amount spent in the state of Montana by non-resident visitors (read: tourists) in 2017, according to preliminary data released by the Missoula-based Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research on March 15.

Homeland Security field analysis report drafted in May 2017 with the aid of numerous state-based agencies, including the Montana Analysis and Technical Information Center, a branch of the DOJ. That report documented 2016 protest activities not just at Standing Rock but at other locations in North Dakota, Minnesota, Washington and Montana where activists shut down five different oil pipelines. Leonard Higgins, who turned the shutoff valve on an Enbridge pipeline in central Montana, was ordered to pay $3,755 in restitution by a Chouteau County judge on March 20. He received no jail time.

Homeland’s report concluded by identifying several “intelligence gaps,” including what coordinating resources or funding are available to “environmental rights extremists.” An appendix listing “potential behaviors or indicators of planned criminal or violent activities targeting pipelines” includes any reports of “individuals wearing all dark or black clothing and masks or bandanas without a reasonable explanation” and “drivers not obeying law enforcement directions at traffic control checkpoints.”

Rate says the ACLU’s primary interest in Montana’s intelligence-gathering activities is to gain insight into how state, federal and local law enforcement — as well as private industry — are preparing for the next goround, and whether the “militarized tactics” employed at Standing Rock might be repeated.

“The nub of our request,” he says, “is just getting an understanding of how governments are coordinating with private industry to prepare and eventually chill the rights of individuals to peacefully protest something that’s important to them.”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Montana Public Radio and the Mansfield Center brought Krista Tippett’s public radio show On Being to the Dennison Theater on Tuesday night to tape part of her Civil Conversations series, “Repairing Public Discourse.”

Her guests were, from the left, author, podcaster and Bernie supporter Sally Kohn, and from the right, Never Trump pundit and publisher of The Resurgent Erick Erickson.

Mansfield Center Director Abraham Kim introduced the evening with an anecdote about Mike Mansfield intended to illustrate the importance of civil discourse: When Joe Biden was a young senator, he walked into Mansfield’s office upset about Jesse Helms’ opposition to an early version of the Americans With Disabilities Act, and told Mansfield that Helms didn’t care about the disabled. Mansfield responded by telling Biden that Helms and his wife had adopted a boy with a disability. The moral of the story? Don’t impugn other people’s motives. Assume they have good intentions.

(Biden later voted with Helms to eviscerate funding for school integration measures in an attack on provisions of the Civil Rights Act, a perfect example of how the liberal impulse to govern by compromise has aided and abetted conservative efforts to dismantle the federal government over the last half-century. But at least they were civil!)

When public discourse is so uncivil that it is weaponized by Russia against our electoral system, it behooves us to examine what our problem is. Allow us to suggest that the problem is not tone, but the systems that make tone an exploitable weakness. It wasn’t tone that allowed the creators of our easily gamed social networks to abdicate responsibility for the businesses that made them wealthy. It wasn’t tone that gave us an electoral college that, instead of electing a president the majority voted for, acts as a relic bulwark of this country’s landowning interests.

Kohn made the accurate point that when people spewing hate on the internet are met with love and genuine engagement from their targets, they do sometimes come around. She acknowledged the burden that puts on the targets. And she said that we should assume good intentions.

But there’s a saying about good intentions: Hell is full of them. On Tuesday night, so was the Dennison.

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Lucky strike Idaho miners commemorate a year on the picket line

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Dave Roose, unit chairman for United Steelworkers Local 5114, was standing in the bed of a blue Dodge pickup parked in a lot next to the union hall in Mullan, Idaho. It had been 370 days and counting since USW 5114 voted to strike at the Lucky Friday silver mine after Hecla Mining presented workers with a new contract that removed the ability of miners to control with whom they worked. Just over a week earlier, union members had voted to reject arbitration, ensuring that the strike would pass the one-year mark. On Saturday, the one-year anniversary rally drew union locals and supporters from around the northwest, including a Democratic Socialists of America delegation from Spokane and the Tacoma ILWU Local 23 Young Workers Committee.

“First, they said we wouldn’t do it.

Then, they said we wouldn’t last a month.

Well, here we are a year later, we’re still standing, we’re still strong, we’re still united in our belief for a fair contract,” Roose said, amplified by a PA in the truck bed. “By God, by the grace of God, if it’s the last thing I’ve got in me, we will get a fair contract with Hecla!”

Luke Russell, Hecla’s VP of external affairs, says the Lucky Friday contract was unlike any other in the country in allowing workers to pick their teams. “For the future of the Lucky Friday mine, we need to go to what’s being used at other mines around the country.”

Hecla owns the proposed Rock Creek and Montanore mines in western Montana, and touted Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s friendliness toward the company in its Dec. 2017 corporate report (see “Etc.: Hecla Mining’s pipeline to Zinke,” March 15, 2018). On Tuesday, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality found that Hecla CEO and President Phillips Baker Jr. is in violation of the “Bad Actor” provision of the Metal Mine Reclamation Act, which prohibits companies and executives who owe the state for previous cleanups from beginning new projects. Baker previously served as the chief financial officer of Pegasus Gold, which went bankrupt and left the state responsible for millions in cleanup

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costs at its Montana mines. The DEQ says that Hecla has 30 days to choose whether to pay back more than $30 million or prove that Baker won’t be involved in the Rock Creek and Montanore mines.

Retired miner Ron Pearce encouraged the efforts of the Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthjustice to get Montana to enforce that cleanup provision.

“I don’t want Phil Baker to be opening other mines,” Pearce said. “I have been mining here 35 years. I’m not against it if it’s done right.”

one who’s involved,” Gunderson said. “I didn’t anticipate problems. I want to protect everyone’s rights.”

According to Gunderson, there hadn’t been much conflict during the last year, but Roose said he’s recently observed a change in the behavior of salaried management workers. “Obviously, they’ve had restraints lifted on them since the arbitration vote didn’t go the way Hecla was hoping. They’ll drive by and flip us off,” Roose said. “They’ll try to goad us into violence.”

Roose was there for the Sunshine

photo by Jason Cohen

Lucky Friday mine union members and supporters line up to march in downtown Mullan, Idaho.

The marchers headed west along Earle for the mile-long walk to the Lucky Friday mine entrance. On approaching a Hecla building, one worker said, “Everyone wave hi to the camera!” while raising a middle finger to a security camera.

The march stopped in front of a flatbed trailer set up across from the wall tent and burn barrel that have provided shelter and warmth for picketers at the mine’s entrance for the last year.

After the speeches and songs, the rally proceeded to a barbecue dinner. Shoshone County Sheriff Mike Gunderson drove back and forth, ferrying at least three truckloads of marchers to the union hall. Gunderson said he had two uncles who were miners, one of whom died at the Bunker Hill mine.

“We’re a small area. We know most every-

Mine strike that had previously held the northern Idaho record at a year and a day, and he remembers striking miners overturning a bus full of scabs. And that was pretty mild as far as Silver Valley mining history goes. Cries of “Remember the Frisco!” rang out during the afternoon, referring to the 1892 dynamiting of the Frisco mine by striking miners that set off the Couer d’Alene labor wars.

James Hogan, a mill worker at the mine, hopes to be elected as the next financial secretary for USW Local 5114. “I’m a legacy. My old man had 25 years here,” Hogan said. “This mine means more to us than just wages. We’re not going to let it go.” sshepard@missoulanews.com

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No babies for bison

SAVING THE WORLD ONE TOILET AT A TIME.

Advocates press for info on Yellowstone experiment

by Alex Sakariassen

Over the past six years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has conducted an experiment on Yellowstone National Park bison to test the effectiveness of a reproduction-disrupting vaccine. Now, the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign is endeavoring to discover the fate of the bison involved, an answer that may lie within hundreds of pages of records released by the USDA on March 9. The disclosure comes at an odd time: nearly five months after the bison advocates’ initial request, and a month after those same advocates filed suit against the agency alleging violations of the Freedom of Information Act. “We need to make an assessment if this satisfies our complaint or not,” BFC habitat coordinator Darrell Geist says of the documents. “If it doesn’t, we’re going to court.

But obviously we’re going to take a close look at the wellbeing and welfare of these bison that were subject to this experiment.”

The vaccine at the core of BFC’s questions — a substance trademarked as GonaCon — was developed in the 2000s by the USDA’s National Wildlife Research Center as an immunocontraceptive that inhibits the production of sex hormones in wildlife. The EPA first granted regulatory approval for the use of GonaCon in female white-tailed deer in September 2009, with the NWRC touting its potential for managing overabundant deer populations nationwide. At the time, researchers also expressed interest in expanding GonaCon use to other species, in part as a method of preventing the transmission of wildlife diseases.

In 2016, the EPA officially expanded the vaccine’s application in wild horses and burros, and the USDA has conducted additional experiments on elk, feral pigs, captive rats and free-ranging California ground squirrels. The vaccine is currently registered as a “restricted-use pesticide” and available only to the USDA or state wildlife agencies working under its authority.

GonaCon’s use in Yellowstone bison dates to the mid-2000s, when the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service conducted a pilot study by injecting six cap-

tured female bison with the vaccine. None became pregnant after the first year of the study. APHIS broadened the scope of that research in 2012, embarking on a multiyear experiment involving 120 adult bison captured and housed outside of Yellowstone park. According to APHIS, 35 of the bison were injected with GonaCon during the span of the study, which ended Jan. 9, 2018. The stated goal in the agency’s environmental assessment was not to reduce overpopulation, but to “manage reproduction in bison known to be infected with

in the incinerator or a landfill, because EPA told APHIS that GonaCon is not fit for human consumption,” Geist says. “But there’s also the test control [group], the bison that were not administered GonaCon. We don’t know what happened to them or what’s happening to them.”

Beyond the fate of those bison, BFC has larger questions about the GonaCon study. The largest is simply: Why? “The whole idea of population control was rejected” by state and federal agencies, Geist says. “And if you’re administering bison a

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Federal researchers recently concluded a study on Yellowstone bison involving a reproduction-disrupting vaccine.

brucellosis by inducing temporary infertility.” Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can cause spontaneous abortions in elk, bison and cattle.

The Buffalo Field Campaign has a pretty good idea what happened to at least some of those bison. The assessment prepared in 2012 stipulated that any bison treated with GonaCon were to be disposed of to reduce the risk of exposure to other wildlife and humans. Though the EPA noted that there was no danger in humans eating meat from deer vaccinated with GonaCon, its approval of the Yellowstone experiment hinged on preventing human consumption of the vaccinated bison.

“We know that the bison that were administered GonaCon are going to end up

chemical that makes them unfit for consumption, you’ll never be able to implement that on a wild population.”

In a letter accompanying the USDA’s March 9 records release, Legislative and Public Affairs Director Tonya Woods noted that the disclosure was a “partial response,” and that the agency intends to continue producing documents pertinent to BFC’s request “on a rolling basis.” The first release totaled 692 pages, 110 of which contained at least some redacted material. Geist says he and other BFC staff will be going over the records in the coming weeks to determine what’s there — and maybe more important, what isn’t. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Kids vs. guns Students hear us. They see what we prioritize.

by Dan Brooks

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Before we get any further into this column, I me that students were planning a walkout to want to assure readers that everything is fine. Yes, protest school shootings a few weeks after everygunshots were fired at Big Sky High School on Fri- one got freaked out by ominous bathroom graffiti, day afternoon, the same week that students walked and that these conditions led a 17-year-old boy to out to protest school shootings. And yes, Big Sky conclude that taking a gun to school would be toadministrators reported verbal and graffiti threats tally hilarious and cool, I would believe that story. last month, so everyone was on edge. But don’t I’m no profiler, but this behavior would fit with apworry: The person who shot a gun at Big Sky on proximately 100 percent of the adolescent boys I have known.

Friday was the school police officer.

Kids are stupid. They can’t even hit a manAccording to the Missoulian, school staff and the officer were “conducting an investigation” sized, stationary target with their cars. They do when one of the students involved ran. The officer have a keen sense of what behavior we will and will pursued him to the parking lot, where the student not accept, though. Despite all the active-shooter drills, lockdowns, walkouts, got into a car. According to the thoughts and even prayers, one Montana Department of Jus“We say that thing kids know we accept is tice’s Division of Criminal Inshooting guns at schools. We vestigation — which took over claim not to, but our actions tell the case because the officer inevery child kids otherwise. volved is a member of the MisWhen a 19-year-old shot to soula Police Department — the should feel safe death 17 people at Marjory student then attempted to run Douglas High School over the officer, which is when at school, but Stoneman last month, we did, as of this he fired. Then the student publication, nothing. That’s the drove away with police in purit’s the kind of same approach we took to the suit, until he crashed his car Sandy Hook Elementary School into the Denny Menholt Honda ‘should’ you shooting in Newtown, Connectidealership. cut in 2012 — and to the 115 No one was hurt. That school shootings that happened mention spares every parent’s worst in the intervening six years. nightmare: that their child will We say these shootings are be killed in a school shooting. without doing unthinkable, but in fact we think Every parent’s second-worst about them pretty regularly. We nightmare — that their child anything.” say that every child should feel will crash the car into a Honda safe at school, but it’s the kind dealership — is still on the table. Fortunately, though, we have avoided the of “should” you mention without doing anything.

If that boy brought a gun to Big Sky, he shouldscenario in which a 17-year-old boy runs away from school, hops in his car and gets shot to death by a n’t have. But can anyone in this community say they police officer investigating whether the children are did anything meaningful to stop him? Can anyone in this country? in danger at school.

I would like it if the police didn’t shoot at cars.

We should just admit that we love guns better Perhaps the police could let the driver get away at than children or schools. It would be nice if everyfirst, and then apprehend him using some new, one could buy a gun and no schoolchildren got non-lethal technology, such as radio. murdered, but when it came down to it, we chose That is speculation, though. Also speculation, guns. We keep choosing guns. Adults have sent thanks to police and school administrators’ refusal the children of this country a message, and the to release any details about the incident, is just message is that we reserve the right to kill people what chain of events led to this deathmatch in the using our own equipment we bought for that purparking lot. A handgun was found along the route pose. We therefore uphold other people’s right to that the student drove after he was shot at but be- kill kids. fore he crashed into the Honda dealership. Perhaps that gun had something to do with it. If you told Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks

[opinion]

Keystone kits Why the ESA counts when it comes to beaver

by Ben Goldfarb

For 30 years, Susan Sherosick has lived in uneasy erally protected fish. According to the Center for Bioproximity to beavers. The tireless rodents routinely fell logical Diversity and its allies, the agency has a responthe cottonwoods that line her 32 acres in southwest sibility under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act Oregon and dam her creeks into wetlands. Twice she to consult with the Fisheries Service to ensure that its has asked the county to send a trapper. But when new beaver-killing isn’t harming listed salmon.

On Dec. 27, the unique legal gambit cleared its dams flooded her house this winter, she again drew first hurdle. Wildlife Services notified the center that it the line.

“Pretty soon I couldn’t flush the toilet,” she told had agreed to consult — and that it would let beavers live while the review progressed. me. “It was like living in a marsh.”

When Sherosick called for a trapper this time, Around the West, a burgeoning coalition of though, she never heard back. She isn’t sure why her “Beaver Believers” is relocating, conserving or imitatpleas went unanswered. But it’s likely Sherosick had ing beavers to improve sage grouse habitat, build wetbecome caught in the middle of an lands for swans, store unusual legal battle, one that groundwater, boost cattle forage could upend how the West’s and repair eroded streams. Alwildlife agencies manage the reWildlife Services has often “By eliminating though gion’s most influential rodent. been a powerful headwind in the The case revolves around face of that momentum, its willbeavers ...

Wildlife Services, the branch of the ingness to consult in Oregon hints U.S. Department of Agriculture that it’s capable of viewing beavers tasked with managing problematic conservationists as boons as well as pests. animals. The agency killed more For one beaver colony, the than 21,000 beavers nationwide argue, Wildlife case has already made a differlast year, including 319 in Oregon. ence. After Susan Sherosick’s trapThat irks groups like the Center Services risks ping requests went unanswered, for Biological Diversity, which in she contacted a wildlife biologist November notified Wildlife Servnamed Jakob Shockey, the jeopardizing ices that it planned to sue the founder of a company called agency in Oregon — where, it Beaver State Wildlife Solutions. federally claimed, the federal government’s Shockey visited Sherosick’s land to beaver killing violates the Endaninstall a flow device, a pipe-andprotected fish.” fence contraption designed to gered Species Act. At first blush, this seemed perlower beaver ponds, sparing both plexing. The Endangered Species property and the animals’ lives.

Act is designed to conserve rare Shockey’s services have been soflora and fauna, and beavers are found from Alaska’s licited elsewhere in Oregon by agencies from the Natundra line to northern Mexico. But beavers are a “key- tional Marine Fisheries Service to the Department of stone species,” an organism whose pond-creating pow- Fish and Wildlife. “There are lots of people interested ers support entire biological communities. in seeing beavers persist on the landscape,” he said.

In Oregon, beavers’ beneficiaries include threatSherosick, who appreciates her beavers despite ened and endangered fish, including chinook, chum, the headaches, is among them. When I spoke with sockeye and coho salmon. By creating ponds, storing her last month, she seemed cautiously optimistic water and converting straight streams into multi- about her ability to cohabitate with her buck-toothed threaded ones, beavers expand shelter for young fish neighbors. “The water’s down far enough now that and keep creeks well hydrated. One 1992 study found it’s not hurting anything,” she said. “I’m waiting to that two-thirds of Oregon’s coastal coho wintered in see how it works out.” beaver ponds and slackwaters. In its coho recovery plan, the National Marine Fisheries Service recomBen Goldfarb is a contributor to Writers on the mends “encouraging the formation of beaver dams.”

Range, the opinion service of High Country News By eliminating beavers without accounting for the (hcn.org). He is the author of the forthcoming book, destruction of beaver-built critical habitat, conserva- Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why tionists argue, Wildlife Services risks jeopardizing fed- They Matter.

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THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY – A co-ed dormitory at Hunter College in New York City has become the site of a dispute between the college and 32-year-old Lisa S. Palmer, who won’t vacate her dorm room despite having discontinued her classes in 2016. Palmer, who works for an architecture firm, has “racked up a staggering $94,000 in unpaid residence hall charges,” a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court noted. The New York Post reported on Feb. 28 that in June 2016 and fall 2017, she received eviction notices, but she won’t budge. Palmer admitted that dorm life is “really lonely. I feel very isolated.” Palmer was moved into a wing of the dorm that’s occupied only by a middle-aged nurse, whom the college is also trying to evict. In fact, Hunter is working on removing nine nurses, who were given rooms in the building when it was owned by Bellevue Hospital.

ONLY IN TEXAS – Ana Lisa Garza, a Starr County district judge in south Texas, is running for a state House seat in District 31. Garza has received almost $90,000 in contributions to her campaign, but more than $50,000 of that has been in a most unusual currency: deer semen. Deer breeder Fred Gonzalez, treasurer of the Texas Deer Association, said breeders often donate semen “straws” instead of money: “Semen is a very common way for us to donate. One collection on a buck could lead to 60 straws sometimes. If you have a desirable animal, it’s a way to bring value without breaking the bank.” A campaign finance report valued each straw donated at $1,000. Gonzalez told the Dallas Morning News that the semen donated for Garza’s campaign went into a tank sold in one lot, the proceeds of which will go to the campaign.

OOPS – Kenny Bachman, 21, had a rude awakening when he racked up a $1,636 Uber fare on Feb. 23 following a night of partying with high school friends in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Charlotte Observer reported that Bachman and the friend he planned on staying with stopped at a convenience store during the evening. The friend told Bachman to wait outside as he went into the store, but Bachman was gone when the friend emerged. He had summoned an Uber to take him home — to Gloucester County, New Jersey. Bachman was passed out for most of the nearly 300-mile trip, which was subject to surge pricing, doubling the fare. Bachman challenged the charge but ended up paying the full fare; “I feel like there’s very little I could have done to reverse it,” he said.

– Miami resident Luce Rameau didn’t know what hit her on Feb. 28 as she lay in bed, talking on the phone. She thought a bomb had gone off as wood and debris fell on her bed. “I kept screaming, ‘What happened? What happened?’” Rameau told the Miami Herald. It wasn’t a bomb; an 80-pound inflatable raft had crashed through her roof after becoming untethered from a Royal Canadian Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter that had been conducting an offshore training exercise nearby.

David Lavallee, a spokesman for the RCAF, said the accident is being investigated and the air force intends to help “the resident with accommodations and other support.” Rameau suffered only minor injuries.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Caught red-handed: Leahman G.R. Potter, 48, neglected to conceal the evidence after he stole a pot of meatballs from a neighbor’s garage in Hazle Township in Pennsylvania. The meatball owner returned home Feb. 26 to find Potter outside his garage, covered in red sauce, and his meatball pot missing, according to United Press International. When Pennsylvania State Police arrived shortly afterward, they found the pot in the street and Potter at his home, where he was charged with burglary, trespass and theft.

– KTAR News in Phoenix reported that Peoria Police Department officers were called to a gas station Feb. 23 in response to a shoplifting. When they arrived, suspects Marwan Al Ebadi, 28, and Salma Hourieh, 29, set off on foot before hopping over a fence – directly into a secured parking lot of the Peoria Police Department. Hourieh tried to hide beneath a bench outside the station, while Al Ebadi jumped back over the fence and was stopped in the street. Both were arrested and charged with shoplifting. “You should never run from the police,” said police spokesman Brandon Sheffert, “and if you do, do not run into a secure parking lot of a police station.”

AWESOME! – Name recognition won’t be a problem for the Libertarian Party challenger for eastern Arkansas’ 1st Congressional District seat: Elvis D. Presley. The Associated Press reported that the King impersonator from Star City, Arkansas, who legally changed his name to match the rock ‘n’ roll icon’s (although the “real” Elvis’ middle initial was A), filed campaign paperwork on Feb. 26. Presley works as an auto refinish technician at Camp’s Custom Paint in Star City, but his political ambitions aren’t new: He’s also run for governor, land commissioner and state legislature.

IF IT AIN’T BROKE ... – Republican state Sen. John Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis is the proud sponsor of a new measure in Indiana that bans eyeball tattooing. According to the proposed law, passed by both the Senate and the House, tattooists would be prohibited from coloring the whites of a customer’s eyes, with a fine of up to $10,000 per violation. The Associated Press reported that Sen. Ruckelshaus admitted he’s not aware of any problems with eyeball-tattooing in Indiana. The legislation was on Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk for his signature on March 1.

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n overflow crowd at the downtown Holiday Inn ballroom, filled with a who’s who of Missoula officials, building industry leaders and real estate agents, watched eagerly Jan. 30 as the Missoula Organization of Realtors explained what its consultant believes the city must do to build more affordable housing.

When the speaker finished, someone in a back row yelled out a question: What about preserving the affordable housing we already have?

Before tiny homes and before federally subsidized, privately managed, brightly painted apartment buildings, the term “affordable housing” was more likely to evoke trailer parks. Mobile homes continue to offer a taste of the American Dream: They’re cheap to buy, and they offer privacy and the possibility of a yard. The trade-off is that mobilehome dwellers typically own their home, but not the land it sits on. So they still owe monthly rent, and

there’s no guarantee that one day their lot won’t be swept out from under them.

Missoula is losing its trailer parks. In 1998, the county had 191 licensed courts, according to the city-county health department. Twenty years later, the number is 171. Those figures don’t provide the whole picture. On April 30, the tally will tick down to 170, when Skyview Trailer Park on the Westside will close. Owner Jim Loran sent out legally required six-month eviction notices in October, leaving the occupants of Skyview’s 34 lots looking for new homes in a housing market where matching Skyview’s $290 monthly lot rent is near impossible.

To passersby, Skyview, at 1600 Cooley St., looks like the negative stereotype that tends to follow trailer-park residents. The court, along with the larger Hollywood trailer park across the street (under different ownership), is rundown, dirty and overgrown. It’s been that way for years. Health department inspectors have turned up health and

safety violations routinely since 1991. In 1994, for instance, the department threatened legal action, writing of the court’s unsanitary condition, in all capital letters and underlined for emphasis: “IT HAS GONE ON FAR TOO LONG.” In 2002, an inspector wrote to Loran that she was “appalled” at the conditions.

By 2013, Loran also was sounding fed up, accusing the department of elder abuse in a letter. “If you think I am a bad citizen, by refusing to keep the rules, then you can have the sheriff or his deputy handcuff me, take me to jail and throw the key away.” That letter to the health department was dated a day after Loran sent a letter to park residents explaining that their rents would increase 15 percent, and that he was going to finally turn the park over to a management company because he was having a “very difficult time” collecting rent.

Missing rent and poor management can go hand in hand, and by last October, Loran, 75, ex-

plained his decision to redevelop the property to the Missoulian by saying he was owed $50,000 in back rent. “We’re dealing with people at the lowest economic level, and I understand that,” he told the paper. “I understand some of these people may be out on the streets. I feel for them, but at the same time I have to protect my own interests.

I can’t go to the poorhouse. I have to do what’s best for me, too.”

The North Missoula Community Development Corporation stepped in to help connect displaced residents with housing resources. Last month, the organization distributed $2,720 in cash relocation assistance that it raised through a GoFundMe drive.

With just over a month before Skyview shuts down, some residents are still figuring out what to do. Others have moved on — for better or worse.

They include retired people on fixed incomes, young families and single parents. Some have criminal records. Each has a story. Here are four of them.

FACES OF SKYVIEW

With evictions imminent, trailer court residents look for a way out

by Derek Brouwer • photos by Celia Talbot Tobin

Mechailiah Hickman, 25 Mechailiah Hickman and her husband, Kenny, share the same Facebook profile picture, a goldenhour photo of them sitting in a field, holding hands. She, pregnant with their son, who is almost two years old now, is leaning back, and he, with a long ponytail and a collared shirt, is sitting up, smiling like any man with his arm around his high school sweetheart.

Mechailiah’s version has the words “Family is Everything” displayed across it. The bio box beneath describes her has a devoted wife and mother who is “trying every day to be a better woman!”

The image of Mechailiah that appeared on Facebook feeds in October was different. As Skyview eviction notices were handed out, Mechailiah became a public face for the affected residents. Photographed by the Missoulian outside her old, brown trailer No. 10, she stood with her arms crossed and tinted lenses covering her eyes. “This is literally the only

place in Missoula where we can live,” she told the paper, explaining that medical bills and debts put other housing options out of reach.

There was more to Mechailiah’s story, as Facebook commenters were quick to point out. They posted links to news articles from the Hickmans’ past, which implicated them in the high-profile 2014 murder of a transient man. “Are you sure that’s the only reason they can’t move?” one person wrote.

Mechailiah doesn’t wait to be asked about those news articles as she sits down to eat a McDonald’s cheeseburger during her lunch break in March. There’s no point, she says. “It always gets brought back up.”

Especially as they’ve searched for a new place to live. Mechailiah says she used to wait until the end of her conversation with potential landlords to mention that her husband is on the state’s violent offender registry. She’s since learned to lead with the information, however misleading she believes

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it to be, to spare everyone the wasted time. The word “violent” barely comes out of her mouth, she says, before she’s invariably turned away.

The crime made national headlines because the details were so brutal. The body of Berry Gilbert turned up in the Clark Fork River in July 2014 with a gunshot wound in his head and gang symbols carved into his skin. Police determined that he had been beaten, then tortured, then shot by fellow transients under the Reserve Street bridge. Kevin Lino was charged with the man’s murder, while the Hickmans faced charges as lesser participants. Mechailiah says her and her husband’s roles in the incident were mischaracterized in the press. While Lino received a 40-year sentence, the county attorney’s office eventually dropped the charges against Mechailiah. Kenny went on to plead guilty to felony aggravated assault (he’d admitted to hitting Gilbert, but said he wasn’t present for the shooting). Kenny’s plea deal — 15 years, 10 suspended with the rest under Department of Correc-

tions supervision — didn’t send him to prison, but he did receive the violent offender label.

The pair were camping in the woods at the time of Gilbert’s murder, Mechailiah says, part of a vagabond lifestyle they pursued together in their early 20s. They hiked the Appalachian and Continental Divide trails, addicted to the freedom that came from being untethered to any one place.

After Kenny was sentenced and released from county jail, Mechailiah says, they decided to settle down. They both managed to find work, and within months, they found their first home together — a 1960s trailer in Skyview, which they rented-to-own from its owner for $600 a month.

A month after moving in, Mechailiah got pregnant.

She has mixed feelings about the trailer park where she started her family. It’s cramped and dirty and, for a while, seemed to her to be overtaken by drugs. Would-be drug buyers have mistakenly knocked on their door; one woman just walked inside, only to be chased out by the Hickmans’ bulldog

Wendy Branthoover, 45 The fifth-wheel didn’t have running water, so Wendy Branthoover had to walk to the abandoned trailer next door, where her daughter had previously been living, to brew her morning coffee.

It was a minor inconvenience, and a necessary one, as Branthoover tried to get her feet under her last summer. She was living on her own again for the first time in several years, raising her granddaughter, a toddler.

Branthoover owned the trailer and the fifthwheel, but the trailer was uninhabitable after her daughter left in 2016. Branthoover and her steady boyfriend moved the fifth-wheel onto the lot while he started repairing the trailer. They replaced the plumbing, the floors, most of the windows and a couple of walls. They installed a new front door.

But their living quarters were cramped. It strained their relationship, and Branthoover’s boyfriend left.

Still, Branthoover says she was doing all right.

She had a full-time job as a tax preparer, and Branthoover’s other daughter lived across the court with her young family. Wendy could take care of her granddaughter, who, at the time, was showing signs of developmental delay. She didn’t need a man in her life. She just wished she could spend more time with her granddaughter.

So, in September, she started taking college classes online to pursue a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

“I don’t want any food stamps to take care of her. I want to afford my own medical insurance,” Branthoover says. “It’s not even about my pride — it’s about taking care of a child, and not needing a two-person household to do it.”

The eviction letters came less than two months later. Branthoover found out from her younger daughter, who was distraught at the news. “I come home from work and my daughter’s flipping out.

She says, ‘What are we gonna do?’”

puppy, Prophet. The Hickmans landed in Skyview because it seemed like the only place to go, given Kenny’s conviction.

“It’s like the whole city of Missoula has spent the last years kind of herding everyone into our trailer park,” she says. (The state’s online registry lists eight sexual or violent offenders with Skyview addresses.)

At the same time, they invested in their home, repairing the trailer’s plumbing and roof. Mechailiah works full-time at an auto detailing shop, pulling in $10/hour, while Kenny makes $14.50/hour at a manufacturing facility. They were building a new life when the eviction notice put everything on hold.

The Hickmans have the cash to move, but in addition to the black mark of Kenny’s violent offender status, they have been “competing” against their neighbors for the sort of housing that’s

Branthoover, who has bright red hair and a spirited, caustic manner, manages a short laugh when she recalls the moment. While her daughter was scared, Branthoover says she took the news in stride. “It’s just one more thing to deal with,” she replied. “So what?”

She explains her attitude by pulling out her cell phone, on which she’s made her granddaughter’s face the background image. “She’s my world. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for this baby.”

Branthoover has spent the last 15 or so years in Missoula. She’s worked in restaurants and hotels. She danced with the Hypsy Gypsies, a local tribal fusion belly dance troupe, for years, while working flexible shifts at McDonald’s to make ends meet.

Most of that time, Branthoover lived in Skyview. She never felt totally comfortable there, in the middle of a what she describes as a haven for drugs and parties. She’s come home to police shootouts, and to neighbors’ trailers engulfed in flames. But she owned her trailer there, a 1965 model that is too old to move. It was bigger than an apartment, and the $290 monthly lot rent was the cheapest in town.

Relocating would prove to be harder than she’d realized. Between her job and classes and caring for her granddaughter, Branthoover put in an application for an apartment complex. They wouldn’t rent to her because she still owed back rent at Skyview. (Her ex, she says, hadn’t been paying, and she was still catching up.) She considered renting a house with her daughter’s family, but Branthoover says she was worried living together would strain the relationship.

be waived. She applied for a loan through the credit union and was approved.

A few weeks later, Branthoover got a call. She had an interview for a spot at the Wildflower Apartments. She arrived, nervous, but the official quickly put her at ease: She was going to be approved for a two-bedroom apartment.

“I ran home. I was screeching the whole way driving. It was awesome,” she says. “Everything fell into place.”

Branthoover used a portion of the $230 or so she received through the NMCDC’s relocation fund to rent the U-Haul she used to move in mid-February.

She couldn’t believe she was about to move into a place with new carpet, fresh paint and a dishwasher. Her days are longer now — Wildflower is on the other side of town, so she wakes up at 5:45 a.m. each weekday morning in order to get her granddaughter to daycare and still get to work on time. She misses living across the trailer court from her daughter’s family, and will miss them more soon. Their solution to the eviction, she says, is to move to Texas.

But the ordeal has landed Branthoover and her granddaughter in a better place, she says. Her toddler finally has room to play.

“For the first time in the three years in her little life, she’s got all her toys out of storage. She’s happy and she’s playing and she’s busy. She runs in circles all around the house,” Branthoover says.

In the fifth-wheel, her granddaughter was never out of Branthoover’s sight. The toddler is adjusting to all the extra space.

Branthoover was in the bathroom on a recent early morning when her granddaughter began calling out for her. “She was like, ‘Grandma!

Grandma! Grandma!’”

The toddler had gone looking for her, but walked through the wrong doorway, into one of the bedrooms. For the first time, Branthoover says, her granddaughter felt what it’s like to be lost.

in extremely short supply in Missoula: Pet friendly, three bedrooms, two baths, $1,000 or less for the month ($1,200 if utilities are included).

The Hickmans have the spare cash in part because they stopped paying lot rent at Skyview. Initially, it was unintentional.

Mechailiah says the man they were renting-to-buy the trailer from wasn’t paying Loran, the park owner. But later, since Mechailiah says Loran never drew up a lease agreement for the Hickmans, they stopped paying entirely. She justifies the decision not to pay by noting the park’s poor condition and lack of management.

In January, Loran sued the Hickmans in Missoula County Jus-

tice Court for $10,100 in unpaid rent, writing in a complaint that “Kenny & Mechailiah show no interest in paying the back lot rent or current lot rent.” Last month, they signed an agreement to pay $4,200 in installments.

Even with that, Mechailiah says, she’s less worried about having the money to move than with finding someone who will “give you a chance.”

In March, the Hickmans decided to take their own chance after finding a fixer-upper doublewide for rent in Seeley Lake. It’s been sitting vacant since the fall, so the perimeter is buried in feet of snow, and the interior is gutted. They’ll have to drive an hour each workday to their jobs in Missoula. But Mechailiah says the distance just might provide the fresh start they’ve been longing for.

“We also think it would be good for us, in the long run, to get away from Missoula for a little while,” she says, “to get away from the community that knows us as our past, and doesn’t know us as what we are trying to become.”

She was at wit’s end when a neighbor handed her a flier for a community meeting at Burns St. Bistro. She went, reluctantly, and met with representatives from the Missoula Housing Authority and Missoula Federal Credit Union. The housing authority told her she could fill out one application for all its properties, and the application fee would

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The place looks like a bachelor pad.

A couple of posters of bikini-clad women are tacked to the walls. There’s a bundle of fishing rods on the floor. A large tube TV has been repurposed as an end table, replaced by a smaller flat screen that’s playing “Let’s Make a Deal” on a Tuesday morning.

Mike Green’s Nintendo Wii sits on a table. He grins when asked about it. Wii Golf is his favorite game, Green says. “Do you play?” His neighbors — his “best

Green moved to Missoula from Great Falls in the summer of 2013. He was living in his van at the time. He found work on his first day in town, and a week later he bought this trailer.

Green liked Skyview. He still does.

The neighborhood is quiet, he says, other than all the dogs. “You’re thinking you got your spot for the rest of your life,” he remembers thinking when he moved in.

But by the time a woman came by last fall with certified eviction letters, Green wasn’t all that surprised.

It’s a fifth-wheel — Wendy Branthoover’s fifth-wheel, the one his next-door neighbor and friend lived in with her granddaughter last year.

Green bought it from her after Branthoover secured her new apartment.

He’s just spent the last four days cleaning it out and installing new carpet and curtains. This morning, he’s relaxing on the couch and drinking coffee with his friend Joe Levi Cowell, who lived in Skyview until this month. In the afternoon, they’ll move some of Joe’s stuff into his new place at the Poverello.

friend” Bubba and Jim and Joe — like to come over, drink a beer and swing virtual clubs in the living room. Green tracks his best scores: four double-eagles, four holes in one. He says Bubba is even better. “I still get some bad shots now and then.”

Green wears a Nike baseball hat, jeans and a southwestern patterned vest that could fetch good money on a secondhand store’s vintage rack. He’s an easygoing guy whose body is worn out from a career installing drywall and painting. Green, 55, says he retired last year and now receives federal disability checks each month.

“I was sitting outside. It was a sunny day,” he says. “The next day, I started driving around [looking for a place to move]. I just thought, ‘Well, I knew this would probably come one day.’”

Green knows the landlord, Loran, and says he sometimes does work for him. Green knew Loran was getting frustrated with the park. “He’s old and nobody pays him. I would be disgusted, too,” he says.

Unlike most of the tenants still living at Skyview, Green has his next house lined up. You can see it through the kitchen window, parked next to Burns Street.

“I’m really happy about it,” Green says of his new fifth-wheel. “It’s super nice.”

Green isn’t one to complain, especially on a sunny spring day. Thinking positive, he says, is how he’s gotten everything he has. Plus some help from God and Mother Nature: “The lord and the sunshine — that keeps me going,” he says.

His neighbors have a harder time understanding. Since he bought Branthoover’s trailer, Green keeps fielding the same question. “Where are you going to put it,” he says they ask, imitating a nebby tone.

The question is particularly annoy-

Mike Green, 55

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ing because Green doesn’t yet have an answer. Even with his bad credit, the credit union offered Green a loan that will enable him to relocate once he finds a lot to park his fifth-wheel. He says he worked out a deal with Loran whereby he won’t pay rent for the months following the eviction notice until after he finds a new place. And he has a friend with a truck who’s willing to tow the trailer whenever he needs to.

The only problem left is finding a lot.

Green found one in the first week of his search last November, back when he was thinking he’d move his current trailer somewhere else. He says he was approved, but the court managers wanted a $2,500 deposit as a way to ensure he’d repaint the outside of the trailer to comply with court rules. He didn’t have that kind of money at the time and had to turn the place down. Someone with a motorhome rented the spot instead.

Open trailer lots are scarce in Missoula, which is where Green says he wants to stay. He’s looked beyond the valley, but likes the urban lifestyle, where he can walk downtown or along the riverbank to fish. He prefers the privacy of a trailer over apartment living, too — not that there are many apartments he can afford on his fixed income.

Green says he’s considered moving across the street to Hollywood Trailer Court, which has had its own well-publicized problems. He’s not sure that park management would accept his trailer.

Nor is he sure that Hollywood will be around much longer. (The property’s owners have suggested that if they’re unable to keep the court profitable, they’ll sell or redevelop the site.)

The “worst case scenario,” Green says, is that he starts asking friends if he can park his fifth-wheel outside their house.

The other option is parking it in the street. In December, however, Missoula City Council strengthened the city ordinance that bans camping in the public right of way, citing a few problem campers who were causing sanitation hazards or refusing to comply with police orders to move along.

But Green doesn’t want to waste his time thinking about what could go wrong. There’s still a month and a half to find something, and he’s confident that the last piece of his housing puzzle will fit into place.

“Things seem to be going my way,” he says. “I just need a spot now.”

Joseph Levi Cowell, 67 On a hot summer day, Joseph Levi Cowell saw a man fall down near the Toole Avenue roundabout. The man appeared to be drunk. Cowell stopped his car, got out and helped the man up.

“When’s the last time you had a drink of water?” Cowell says he asked. Then he helped the man into his car and drove him to a supermarket, where Cowell left him in the care of a store manager.

Cowell relates the story while drinking coffee on Mike Green’s couch.

Cowell is here to gather some personal belongings he hasn’t yet removed from the trailer court. The day before, he had moved into a room at the Poverello Center’s wing for homeless veterans, the Housing Montana Heroes program, which provides transitional housing and support for up to 20 veterans, with prepared meals and semi-private rooms.

Cowell is relieved to have received a room, but he’s worried about where the rest of his former Skyview neighbors will go.

“Everybody isn’t a Vietnam vet,” he says. “It helped me. What about these other people in the park? Where are they going to go?”

Like them, he says, he’s struggled to make ends meet. Like them, he has a lot working against him in his search for stable housing. Cowell is on the state sex offender registry for a 1993 conviction in Washington. He’s a level-one offender, meaning his likelihood of reoffending is considered low, but most landlords don’t want to rent to people on the registry.

Cowell, 67, is also on a fixed income, relying on monthly disability checks and food stamps that total about $900.

“There’s a lot of people like me here.

And I feel I should speak up,” he says.

That’s where Cowell’s story about the drunken man comes in. Asked how Missoula is letting his neighbors down, Cowell talks over his friend Green, who says the problem is high rents. Cowell insists it’s friendship that’s in short supply.

“I’m a believer. As the book says, if your brother needs a coat, take yours off and give it to him,” Cowell says — like he did that day for a stranger, and like the Pov is doing for him now.

Cowell looks pallid in yellow-tinted glasses. He wears a leather jacket fitted with a paperclip as a zipper pull. Cowell says he ended up in Skyview a year ago — March 15, 2017 — thinking he’d stay there for the rest of his life. His expenses

illustrate why. Cowell had previously lived alone in the Colonial Motel, where his $475 rent (cable, heat and water included), consumed more than half his income. A friend who’d purchased a trailer in Skyview offered Cowell a room if he would split the lot rent, which, at $290, was already one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest, in Missoula. Cowell was suddenly saving one-third of his monthly assistance.

Every one of those dollars counted.

Cowell still wishes he had enough money to afford a Costco membership

months, Cowell says, his roommate pocketed Cowell’s share of the rent instead of paying the landlord. Then came word that the park was shutting down.

The combined stress nearly caused Cowell to have a nervous breakdown. He called an ambulance, and while he was at the hospital, another friend in the court called to ask what had happened.

Cowell told him he couldn’t go back to the trailer he had been living in.

In December, Cowell moved into the friend’s spare bedroom a couple of trailers over, while he searched Craigslist for a more

court residents could have set up their own “neighborhood watch” system, referencing the citizen crimestopper groups that tend to spring up in wealthier neighborhoods. Self-policing could have kept “squatting” and “doping” in check, he says, and relieved the landlord of the frustration that led to the residents’ collective displacement.

The feeling of displacement, no matter its cause, is hard for Cowell to stomach at his age. He’s found another roof to sleep under, but he talks like someone still searching for a place he can call home.

($60 annually) so he could buy his groceries in bulk instead of shopping at Walmart, where the heart-healthy turkey burgers he buys are more expensive.

While it was cheaper, living with a roommate was also a challenge. Cowell says he’s bipolar and schizoaffective, conditions that he says can be triggered by high-pressure situations. Cowell’s new roommate was younger and liked to stay up late partying, Cowell says. For six

permanent place. He overstayed his welcome before finding anything. He checked into the Poverello this month and, shortly after, Cowell’s case manager helped secure a spot in the Pov’s floor for homeless vets.

Cowell lists off the names of fellow Skyview residents he met during his year in the trailer court. He feels sorry for them, but says the court might not be shutting down if they’d been more neighborly themselves. Cowell suggests that

“We need something to make us feel … that we don’t have to worry no more,” he says. “Would you do that to your grandma? Would you do that to your grandfather, or your mother or your father? Take their home away from them?”

Cowell’s voice starts to crack.

“That hurts. It hurts,” he says. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Family ties Diego Kjelland takes the stage with a strong lineage to support him

by Ednor Therriault

photo by Amy Donovan

Diego Kjelland grew up in Missoula’s music scene and, this spring, will star in the University of Montana’s production of the punk rock musical American Idiot.

On his new single, “We Could Make a Change,” Diego Kjelland lets a bit of his Montana roots show: “Everyone’s a cow, but you could be the bison. Mmm … isn’t that enticin’?” The 18-year-old, who’s been rapping since his “Harry Potter Rap” brought down the house at his middle school talent show, is now a freshman in the University of Montana’s School of Theatre & Dance, where he’s found a fertile place to incubate his creativity. In an environment bubbling with flamboyant young theater people, it takes some special qualities to stand out from the crowd.

In Kjelland’s case, his secret weapon might be his lineage. His father, Tahj Kjelland, plays bass with MudSlide Charley and raps as a solo artist. When Diego was a pre-teen, the single father would bring Diego with him to shows. They traded freestyle raps in the car, and before long,

father and son were sharing the stage.

Diego’s earliest recollection of a public performance was an impromptu set at Missoula’s Boys and Girls Club.

“I just jumped on stage and started lip-synching,” he says.

He was only 12, but Diego already knew that he wanted a life in music.

In the six short years that have elapsed since that first hijacked stage, Diego has accomplished more than many musicians twice his age.

In his junior year he won the role of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors at Hellgate and it opened his eyes to musical theater. It was his first role as an actor, and he was offstage the whole time. “It’s hard when you can’t see the audience,” he says.

“But you can see all the other actors backstage and that was cool.” He threw himself into the part and, as with so many

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high school drama kids, the acting bug chomped down hard. After graduation things kicked into high gear.

“I saw that Hamilton was opening in L.A.,” he says. “I used my own money to go down there.” His family chipped in a few bucks, and a relative let him use his Uber account to get around. By the time he returned to Missoula, he was focused on studying acting and writing musicals.

“I’ve always seen it,” Tahj says. “I’ve always seen him pushing in the direction of his exploration and artistry. I feel that the family gave him this musical foundation to work from, but he was always creatively pushing in his [own] direction.”

Diego is also getting help from another family member, his uncle Max Allyn (Tahj’s brother), who runs a recording studio in Los Angeles. His production work on Diego’s new pair of singles pro-

vides an up-to-the-minute beat for his nephew’s uplifting, quirky rhymes.

So where did Max and Tahj get their musical inclinations? Shimmy one branch up the family tree and you’ll find their mother, and Diego’s grandmother, Mary Place, a long-time Missoula bassist and singer with such stalwart bands as the Moonlighters and Blue Moon. Like Tahj, Place was a single parent who nurtured both her musical career and her children with the help of Missoula’s collegial music community. She recalls with a laugh how one guy was teaching a young Tahj how to play bass. “[He] would tell him, ‘Don’t pay attention to your mom, she’s a country player!’”

After graduation, Diego had already decided to enroll at UM when he heard that the School of Theatre & Dance would be mounting a production in the spring

of 2018 of American Idiot, a rock musical based on the songs of punk rock band Green Day. When he returned to Missoula from his Hamilton adventure, he immediately bought a $5 yard sale guitar and started teaching himself chords, convinced that he’d land a role in the musical.

He did. He plays Johnny, the lead. “I’m not too good at writing research essays and stuff like that,” Diego says. “I think what I shine in is writing dialogue and music.” To that end, inspired by Hamilton, he wrote his first “hip-hopera,” working with Tristan Redearth, a music student at UM. Although he and Redearth are only 18, Diego describes a work process that sounds not unlike that of such seasoned musical theater veterans as Tim Rice and Elton John.

“The first song is about Niko working in an Italian restaurant so I wanted half of the song to be in Italian,” Diego says. “So I was like, ‘Hey, go down to the drawing board and you write something that sounds Italian and fun. Bring it back and I’ll write the lyrics.’ And I was kind of physically tweaking him, like, I want it to sound more… rustic. Just using these random words that don’t really apply to music.”

Just as he absorbed so much musical information from his dad and grandma, Diego says he’s constantly picking up things from watching Redearth. “He expands my knowledge of music so much because he’s able to do all these wacky things on the piano,” Diego says. “And I can add my voice because the one musical instrument I feel really accomplished in is my voice. Then I can go on the guitar and try to follow along with him.”

With his hip-hopera on the back burner while he’s immersed in American Idiot, Diego looks ahead to his future.

“Film and TV would be cool, but I kind of want to act for a little bit and then branch off into writing,” he says. “That’s my goal.

I want to write musicals. That sounds like a good life to me. The other thing I love about musicals is that you can say whatever you want without lying. It’s all made up.”

Diego Kjelland opens for Tahj and the Sweatshop Sneakers at the Top Hat Fri., March 23, at 10 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

[books]

In brief Brady Harrison’s novella gives truth a twist

by Sarah Aswell

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Winters Press’ semi-annual Long Story The Dying Athabaskan The Dying Athabaskan serves almost as Prize, which earns it publication online a delightful Rubik’s cube of characters Brady Harrison and in print. and their stories. paperback, Twelve The book centers on a freelance It’s not a perfect beast: A few small Winters Press writer, Ritu Agarwal, and a famous sections are a bit unclear and confusing 81 pages, $6.99 artist, Niall O’Keevan. The latter is rich — and not on purpose — while the freeand enigmatic, not to mention notorious for lying in lance writer character feels flat at times, and specifically interviews. The former is charged by her editor with flatly female. These small issues are easy to pass over uncovering the true story of O’Keevan’s most famous in favor of the book’s strong writing and creativity. piece, the sculpture of a deformed and dying man. As There’s a moment in The Dying Athabaskan the story of The Dying Athabaskan statue unfolds with where one character is fabricating the ending of aneach page, so do themes of memory and truth, story- other character’s fabricated story — and retelling the telling and myth and, ultimately, the ownership of art. yarn to a third character. In turn, the third character Harrison, an English professor at the University adds his own edits and embellishments (represented of Montana, studies, among other things, the art with italics) mid-telling, affecting in real-time how the and history of the novel and of the novella. The original character chooses to finish her tale. All three text could perhaps be described as classically ex- characters are working from their own personal perperimental, using some of the most common tricks spectives and experiences. The story starts, we’re pretty and tools of Melville, Flaubert, Faulkner and Joyce. sure, with a tiny kernel of truth and ends, we know, The dialogue and some pieces of the prose, for with a very strange sculpture. Does it matter what’s starters, look Joycean, while the rapidly changing true and what’s not? Does it affect the meaning of the styles of the chapters — and some of the humor — statue? You’ll just need the night in a nice comfy chair echoes Melville. At the same time, some chapters or an afternoon sitting by the river or a ride to Hot capture the gothic stream-of-consciousness feel of Springs to find out.

Brady Harrison reads from The Dying Faulkner. What begins as a very straightforward narration (first person) by a reliable source (a jour- Athabaskan at Fact & Fiction Fri., March 23, at nalist) quickly fractures into increasingly odd and 5:30 PM. Free. less believable tales, paired with increasingly modern writing styles. arts@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Good feelings Hothouse Flowers’ Liam Ó Maonlaí talks Irish influences

by Melissa Mylchreest

Liam Ó Maonlaí is best known as a founding member of the long-standing band Hothouse Flowers. Blending influences from around the world, including Irish, rock, gospel and soul, the group has found itself topping charts around the UK since their inception in the late 1980s. Impossible to pigeonhole, the band has collaborated with everyone from Def Leppard to the Indigo Girls.

But Ó Maonlaí has a taste for traditional Irish music, too. As a master of the whistle, bodhrán and sean-nós singing, he’s toured the world performing and collaborating as a solo performer. He spent time in India, Mali and the Middle East, and those places have influenced his original songs in subtle ways. We spoke with Ó Maonlaí, who plays the final concert for the University of Montana’s Irish Music Series on Saturday, about how he maintains one foot in traditional Irish music and another in the contemporary world.

down to West Kerry, which I guess you might liken to Indian Country, where the native culture is still intact. The atmosphere between the land, the language, the people, the music is palpable — you can touch it. Something huge awoke in me when we went there. I realized this language was being spoken everywhere, and that somehow it seemed to resonate with the rocks and the fields and the land.

star-lit desert, or horses at night. It’s a feeling that touches a nerve beneath my thinking brain.

What can Missoula audiences expect from your show?

LOM: As a solo musician, I don’t try to plan what I do. I have an experience of 30 years of song, I like a certain amount of improvisation. I love the work of Keith Jarrett as a piano artist. He

putting me against the wall, but also inviting me to look deeper into myself. And also to count even more on the music that I make, and to somehow trust my own life. It’s been a very elemental year, and the beauty of being a performer is that everything that happens to me is something that happens to everybody. Music allows me to reflect on that without trying to seek answers.

Did you grow up with music in your house?

Liam Ó Maonlaí: There was music everywhere. My dad was an engineer by profession, but he loved to sing. My mother trained as a piano player back in Galway, and that allowed me to engage in the bridge between cultures. The piano is such a great instrument as a bridge, because it’s a beautiful improvisational instrument. I could sing a very ancient Irish song, and then I could tune into the notes in that song, and take it to the piano and allow it to resonate in a more contemporary place for the modern ear.

How does it feel to be a keeper or carrier of traditional Irish music?

LOM: It just feels good! It’s more of a passion than a responsibility. If I was to be analytical about it, I guess I could say there’s a responsibility there, but ultimately I just follow a good feeling with music. Being solo really allows me to go there freely, but I also try to go there with [Hothouse Flowers] without pushing it.

How has your traditional Irish heritage shaped your music and your worldview?

LOM: I’m Irish-born, and both my parents were very aware of the indigenous culture of our island — the language and the music. And they introduced me to that very naturally, more like osmosis than anything else. It started with songs.

My dad taught me songs in the Irish language when I was just learning to speak. I learned those first songs in this ancient language that is my birthright. For me, it was just something that happened at home, as natural as eating. We would go

Liam Ó Maonlaí co-founded the rock band Hothouse Flowers, but his solo career is inspired by music traditions from around the world.

You’ve traveled the world, and played with musicians with a wide variety of backgrounds. How have these global influences shaped your music?

LOM: Anywhere I go, I have a hunger to relate to the music and culture of a certain place, and how it resonates with the nature of that place.

I feel that anyone who is willing to look into their own roots is naturally entitled to touch upon the roots of others. Because ultimately we share the same roots the world over. It’s just a ball of fire, earth, water, air, and we all plug into that. I just am so excited about what it is that makes people relate to creation around them. Cultural folk music represents what the soul of a people aspire to. Without limiting it to words, you get a sense of what’s attainable by a people. I just love it.

When I hear the Oud from the Middle East or North Africa, it straight away transports me to a

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managed to use the piano as a facilitator of the imagination, and I like that mood. I’ll do that, some old songs, some Hothouse Flowers songs.

I also respond if somebody shouts — if I think I know the song, I’ll give it a go.

Who have you been listening to recently?

LOM: I’m not really a music seeker. If it comes into my horizon, I jump on it. There’s a song by Bon Iver, called “Re Stacks,” that I’ve been playing almost every day. It’s the most beautiful piece of expression. And also Villagers, an Irish band, there’s one song that I’m obsessing about called “Courage.” I’m going through a tough year at the moment. My mom passed in October — Dolores O’Riordan, who I was very close to, two other great performers, a cousin, her dad. These huge challenges have really been

You’ve had some ups and downs, especially with the Hothouse Flowers. Has it all been worth it?

LOM: I’m living the dream! It’s a dream come true to be traveling the world through music. At the moment I’m in Maine, the sun is shining on the snow, I’m in a cabin with a really good stove and good people around wanting to keep me fed and happy and nourished. There are opportunities to sing and play, and a family at home. Sometimes it’s hard to up and go, but it is what it is. I am who I am. So far so good. Mostly I count my blessings.

The Friends of Irish Studies presents Liam Ó Maonlaí at UM’s Recital Hall Sat., March 24, at 7:30 PM. $15/$13 for seniors and members of Friends of Irish Studies/$5 for students. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Classic gore Revisit The Beyond for imperfect old-school horror

by Molly Laich

The 1981 cult classic The Beyond is an Italian horror film for fans of practical effects.

Fans of schlock horror and relentless gore are in for it this Friday night, when the Roxy Theater presents the 1981 cult classic, The Beyond, as part of its Deep Cuts film series. Lucio Fulci directs the picture, the second in his Gates of Hell trilogy (see also: City of the Living Dead and House by the Cemetery).

We begin in New Orleans, 1927, with an angry mob of villagers as they ascend on an unfortunate hotel. Complete with lit torches, the mob approaches by way of car and boat to confront the people inside about what they’ve got lurking in the cellar, namely one of the seven doors to Hell. “You ungodly warlock!” the mob cries, and then douses the gentleman in lye. This will become a repeated theme throughout the picture: characters dutifully standing still in order to be bested by face-melting chemicals. The opening sequence appears to us in unsettling sepia tones, and naysayers be damned, it’s good filmmaking. I felt assured that if nothing else, Fulci isn’t trying to bore me.

Jump to the early ’80s present, where we meet Liza (Catriona MacColl), the young woman who’s just inherited the cursed hotel. Before long, a spooky blind woman named Emily (Cinzia Monreale) with milky white spheres where her pupils should be shows up to cryptically portend a future doom. Later, Liza will tell her doctor friend (David Warbeck) about the woman who lives down the lane, and he’ll give her the whole, “but that house has been abandoned for 15 years,” bit. The ghostly timeline gets a little confusing; in fact, the blind woman is the same who perished in the 1927 prologue, I’m pretty sure.

My confusion doesn’t end there: I’m aware that different actresses play Liza and Emily, but to

me they look and sound like the same person. And there’s a pigtailed child lurking around with the same milky eyes whose connection to the overall plot escapes me entirely. Scenes in The Beyond unfold one on top of the other with little narrative sense. And yet collectively, they add up to a genuine sense of dread, beyond what we usually experience in the typical, hastily made movies of the same time and genre.

I think The Beyond is a good film, but it’s not for everyone. Roger Ebert gave its 1998 re-release a paltry ½ star, for example. Great as he was, it’s worth remembering that Ebert could be kind of a stick in the mud about horror in general and was particularly against “gratuitous” violence (a word you will never catch me using: I think violence is what movies are for).

Friday night filmgoers should prepare themselves for Italian horror in ill-fitting American clothing, with unreal layers of not-great English dialogue. Get ready as well for revolting practical effects in which very obviously fake spiders eat away at human flesh. In perhaps my favorite scene, we see a German Shepherd suddenly turn on his owner, become a stuffed animal and rip a woman’s face apart. If you look closely, you can see the rubber valve poking out of the prosthetics over her ear as it spews out more and more blood. I for one like a bit of exposed wire now and then, and on the subject of old-school horror, I measure value in the number of times I want to throw up. As such, The Beyond earns a solid four out of five pukes.

The Beyond screens at the Roxy Fri., March 23, at 9 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK

Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter's beloved bunny makes the hop to the big screen as a fast-talking, twerking jerk who throws all-night ragers in Mr. McGregor's house. Rated PG. Featuring James Corden, Sam Neill and the realization no one at Sony knows how to read. Playing at the AMC 12.

Sherlock Gnomes It took them seven years to make a sequel to Gnomeo and Juliet, a movie the internet assures us is 100 percent real. It looks like Johnny Depp has reached the “voicing a CGI garden gnome detective” portion of his career. Rated PG. Also stars the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Maggie Smith. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12.

Red Sparrow She's trained for years to be a deadly and sexy assassin. But will she give it all up for hunky Joel Edgerton? It's kind of embarrassing that 20th Century Fox made a Black Widow movie before Marvel did. Rated R. Also stars Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremy Irons.

Playing at the the Southgate 9.

Pacific Rim: Uprising Monstrous kaiju battle human-piloted robots in this sequel without Guillermo del Toro, without Idris Elba and without Charlie Hunnam. At least Charlie Day is back. Rated PG-13. Also stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood and Jing Tian. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

Midnight Sun A girl with a severe allergy to sunlight becomes obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger's son. Surprisingly, this isn't a horror film, but a tear-jerking romance. Rated PG-13. Stars Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Rob Riggle. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

Unsane When her estranged ex-boyfriend starts stalking her, a troubled businesswoman signs up for a support group to help her take back her life. Too bad the “support group” ends up being an involuntarily commitment to a mental institution. These are the dangers of gaslighting. Rated R. Stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard and Juno Temple. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

Paul, Apostle of Christ The biblical tale of Saint Paul hits the big screen with none other than Jesus Christ himself, Jim Caviezel, playing Saint Luke. Little bit of a demotion there. Rated PG-13. Also stars James Faulkner and Olivier Martinez. Playing at the AMC 12.

Ready Player One If we've learned one thing from Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, it's that jamming a movie full of pop culture references and character cameos is a surefire way to be remembered forever. Steven Spielberg adapts Ernest Cline's novel about cyberpunk rebellion with a screenplay from the guy who wrote X-Men: The Last Stand. Rated PG-13. Stars Nostalgia, Gratuitous CGI and The Iron Giant with a gun for some stupid reason. Opening Wed., March 28 at the AMC 12.

NOW PLAYING 7 Days in Entebbe When all diplomatic efforts fail, the Israeli government sends a team of counter-terrorist operatives to take back a hijacked airplane in this, the fourth adaptation of the famous raid. This one was directed by the guy who did the Robocop remake, though. Rated PG-13. Stars Rosamund Pike, Angel Bonanni and Lior Ashkenazi. Playing at the Southgate 9.

The 15:17 to Paris Clint Eastwood's new film recounts the true story of the 2015 Thalys train attack, and the three Americans who put themselves in danger to save the lives of strangers. Rated PG-13. Stars several people playing themselves, plus Tony Hale and Jaleel White. That's right. Urkel is in the new Eastwood movie. Playing at the Southgate 9 Annihilation It's already killed soldiers and explorers, now a team

Fidget spinners are getting out of control. Pacific Rim: Uprising opens at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. of biologists, anthropologists and zoologists trek into a death zone to find out what’s behind all the carnage. Rated R. Stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Oscar Isaac. Playing at the Roxy.

The Beyond (1981) Horror master Lucio Fulci directed this horror classic about a cursed hotel, flesh-eating tarantulas and throat-shredding zombies. God bless the Italian horror movie industry. Not Rated, but not for kids. Playing Fri., March 23 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

Black Panther After making 10 movies starring white guys named Chris, Marvel Studios finally gives the king of Wakanda his own feature film. Black Panther must prevent a Shakespearean-style coup from kicking off a new world war. Rated. PG-13. Stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong'o.

Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex.

Boy (2010) Before Taika Waititi saved the god of thunder's cinematic career in Thor: Ragnarok, the New Zealand director charmed audiences with this tale of a young boy's coming-of-age journey to be just like Michael Jackson. Not Rated. Playing Thu., March 29 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) Stop me if you've heard this one before: An aging Elvis, embittered after faking his own death, teams up with a man claiming to be JFK to battle a soulsucking mummy in their Texas nursing home. Rated R. Stars B-movie king Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis and Reggie Bannister. Playing Sat., March 24 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

The Crying Game (1992) An Irish Republican Army member forms an unlikely bond with a kidnapped British solider in this classic film about war, love and identifying which of your friends are horrible bigots. Rated R. Stars Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker and Jaye Davidson. Playing Wed., March 28 at 7:15 PM at the Roxy.

Death Wish Time to spin the wheel of pointless remakes! Professional creep Eli Roth teams up with Bruce Willis to update the 1974 rape-revenge flick that spawned four dreadful sequels. Just what everyone has been waiting for! Also stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Elizabeth Shue. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool In her prime, Gloria Grahame was an Oscar-winning actress. Now she's just another aging Hollywood star living out her final years. Seems like a great time to have a passionate love affair with a man 29 years her junior. Rated R. Stars Annette Bening, Jamie Bell and Vanessa Redgrave. Playing at the Roxy.

Game Night A competitive couple's weekly board game night becomes the scene of a real-life murder mystery. Was it Professor Plum? I never trusted that guy. Rated R. Stars Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams and Billy Magnussen. Playing at the Southgate 9.

The Greatest Showman P.T. Barnum might be best known for coining the phrase “there's a sucker born every minute,” but the life of the famed circus founder still has a few surprises up its musical sleeve. Rated PG. Stars Huge Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya. Showing at the Southgate 9.

Hoop Dreams (1994) Two ordinary inner-city Chicago kids dare to reach for the impossible dream of professional basketball glory in this masterpiece of American documentary.

Rated PG-13. Directed by Steve James. Playing Mon., March 26 at 7:15 at the Roxy.

The Road Movie We've all seen footage from Russian dashcams veer across our Facebook feed. Now a feature-length compilation of the wildest, dangerous and most anxiety-inducing road videos hits the big screen to terrify motorists around the world. Not Missoula, though.

We know awful driving here. Not Rated. Directed by Dmitrii Kalashnikov. Playing Sun., March 25 at 7:30 PM at the Roxy.

Synecdoche, New York (2008) Life is looking bleak for a middle-aged theater director. His wife and daughter have left him, his therapist is busy trying to plug her new book and a strange disease is shutting down his body. Seems like the perfect time to do some truly experimental theater.

Rated R. Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Tom Noonan. Playing Sun., March 25 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

Thoroughbreds The best part of reconnecting with your emotionally deranged childhood friend is having someone to watch your back while you murder your stepfather.

Not Rated. Stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke and Anton Yelchin in his final performance. Playing at the Roxy.

Tomb Raider Hollywood tries again to adapt the long-running video game series after trying their damnedest with Angelina Jolie a decade and a half ago. As reboots go, this one will probably have 100-percent less U2 on the soundtrack. Rated PG-13. Stars Alicia Vikander, Dominic West and Daniel Wu. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

I Can Only Imagine Based on the most-played contemporary Christian song of all time, this film follows a young musician who deals with the death of his father by writing the most-played contemporary Christian song of all time. We've got a real Ouroboros situation here.

Rated PG. Stars J. Michael Finley, Dennis Quaid and Cloris Leachman. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

Trolls (2016) Those hairy little dolls that your brother melted in the microwave hit the big screen in this musical adventure. Can someone confirm/deny that the Battle Trolls have a cameo? Rated PG. Stars the voices of noted Montana enthusiast Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick and Zooey Deschanel. Playing at the Roxy Sat., March 24, at 2 PM.

Love, Simon The creator of Riverdale tells the story of a closeted gay teenager balancing friends, family and the blackmailer threatening to out him to the entire school.

Rated PG-13. Stars Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford and Jennifer Garner. Playing at the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.

A Wrinkle in Time Based on the classic book of the same name, a trio of children band together with astral travelers to save Chris Pine from a universe-spanning evil. Rated PG. Also stars Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex.

Monster (2003) Before she became a household name for helming last year's Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins directed Charlize Theron to Oscar gold in this true-life tale of America's most prolific female serial killer. Rated R. Also stars Christina Ricci and Bruce Dern. Playing Thu., March 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn Planning your trip to the local cinema? Get up-to-date listings and film times at theroxytheater.org, amctheatres.com and pharaohplex.com to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

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MENU COLD SIDES

Assorted Breakfast Breads & Danishes Fresh Fruit Display Mixed Green Salad Assorted Dressings

BREAKFAST Omelettes To Order Bacon and Sausage Eggs Benedict

Canadian Bacon, English Muffin, Hollandaise

Shrimp Cocktail

Huckleberry French Toast

Deviled Eggs Truffle, Prosciutto Chip Asparagus Salad

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Maple-Glazed Ham Roasted Leg Of Lamb

Cocktail Sauce, Lemon Wedges

Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette, Goat Cheese, Grape Tomato, Toasted Walnuts

Parmesan & Rosemary Roasted Potatoes Seasonal Vegetables Rice Pilaf Roasted Sockeye Salmon

Spinach Pesto, Roasted Tomato, Artichoke Heart

Au Jus, Creamy Horseradish

Mint Sauce

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Ginger-Sake Marinade, Soy-Chili Butter

Farfalle Pasta

Slow-Roasted RR Ranch Prime Rib

Huckleberry Cheesecake Carrot Cupcakes Chocolate Peanut Brittle Lemon-Berry Macaroons

photo by Michah Drew

Back to the ’80s at the Breakfast Club

by Micah Drew

WHAT’S GOOD HERE

Let’s say you’re looking for a great breakfast, but not a long wait for a table. That takes most of downtown Missoula off the menu. Instead, head to the other end of town, to the Russell Square plaza at the bottom of the South Hills off Higgins.

Figuring out that a restaurant called the Breakfast Club caters to a mostly morning crowd shouldn’t be tough, nor should the origin of the name, at least if you had a pulse in the ’80s.

The sign over the door sets the theme with the iconic roll-credits silhouette of Judd Nelson, a.k.a.

John Bender, a.k.a. the criminal of John Hughes’ most classic of classics, fist raised, greeting you.

Inside, the menu on the wall keeps the specialties of the house — breakfast burritos — on theme.

The Brain, the Princess, the Criminal, the Athlete and the Basket Case are all there.

“My favorite is the chorizo,” says owner Justin Crippen. He’s referring to the Janitor, a.k.a. The Carl). “He’s the best part of the movie for sure,” according to Crippen, and it’s been his personal goto since he opened up shop in mid-April last year.

“I take chorizo, green chile sauce, chipotle sour

cream and over-easy eggs and put it together… my God that shit is so good.”

It’s not an empty brag. The pint-sized burrito also contains black beans and hash browns. The two runny yolks prompt the need for a “bite and suck” maneuver to keep it off your shirt.

The others — there are 14 options, plus daily specials — are equally daunting in size, cost less than $9 and are ready in minutes.

“We realize who we are. We’re fast-casual,” Crippen said. “We’re making it right in front of you.

That’s what we want you to know: When you get in line, when you order, you’re watching us make your food.”

The model works. There’s hardly ever a line — but not because there’s a lot of downtime here. The Breakfast Club is rarely empty. Crippen estimates it serves roughly 115 burritos a day during its 6 a.m.2 p.m. day (the Breakfast Club opens at 7 a.m. on weekends).

They may not be as fancy as the sushi tray Molly Ringwald brought to detention in 1985, but they do scratch an itch much bigger than nostalgia.

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“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com

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Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 A Missoula gem since 1978, serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm.

Daily menu includes scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice’s is also known for scrumptuous desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, specialty cakes and the best coffe in town. Treat yourself to a bag of Bernice’s signature blend . . . locally roasted with love. Open 6am - 8pm daily. Find us out on FaceBook, Instagram or visit our website at www.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. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com 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, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 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. $

Chameleon Mobile Kitchen 1616 S 3rd St W (through May) 8340 Hwy 200 E (June-Sept) 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, bowls and pasta. We also offer daily specials, seasonal drinks, and housebaked goods. We are fully equipped and selfcontained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pickup. Online menu available on Google Maps.

Mon-Thurs 11:30 am - 9 pm. Fri-Sat 11:30 am 11 pm. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients.

Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area.

We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an awardwinning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 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. $$$$ 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.

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas.

Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:303pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ 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. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended.

Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few.

For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$

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HAPPIEST HOUR

Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. 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-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically

by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

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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photo by Alex Sakariassen

What you’re drinking: It’s Monday night and you’re at that familiar old haunt, the Union Club, and you notice, not for the first time, the list of nightly drink specials. Tonight is $3 microbrews night, so you check the taps and settle on a nice Shadow Caster Amber from Draught Works. Why? Well, for starters, all this sunshine and the buzz about skwalas starting to show up on riverbanks has you thinking about fly fishing. But there’s another reason.

The competition: Hoops fans are currently in the throes of March Madness. And in honor of that annual collegiate craze, the statewide content-sharing website Montana Mint launched a bracket-style brewery contest on March 12. The first round consisted of 60 Montana breweries from 44 towns, and according to a Montana Mint spokesperson, more than 1,600 ballots were cast through the website alone. Now it’s down to the Sweet 16, and Missoula is dominating the court with Bayern, Big Sky, KettleHouse and Draught Works still in the running.

The backstory: Montana Mint ran similar contests in 2015 and 2016 focused on pizza joints. With so many communities across the state boasting at least one brewery these days, the site opted to switch things up and go with beer this year. Voting on the Sweet 16 runs through March 25, followed by a vote on the Final Four through April 1. The champion will be announced on April 2. While Montana Mint is keeping the first-place prize a secret until then, past winners of the pizza wars have received trophies.

How to get in on the action: There’s still time to cast a ballot for the Final Four. To do so, head over to montana-mint.com or vote via Twitter @montana_mint. Then go get a pint and brag like you picked Michigan.

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

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FRI | 8 PM Québécois trio De Temps Antan play the Hamilton Performing Arts Center Fri., March 23 at 8 PM. $39. photo courtesy Guillaume Morin

SAT | 6 PM Tara Lynn Walrus plays Great Burn Brewing Sat., March 24 at 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

SAT | 7:30 PM Irish crooner Liam Ó Maonlaí plays the UM Recital Hall Sat., March 24 at 7:30 PM. $15. photo courtesy Emmanuelle Geis

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THU | 9 PM Portland's Honeybender plays the VFW Thu., March 29 at 9 PM. $5.

FRI | 9 PM Foreshadow performs at the Badlander, Fri., March 23 at 9 PM. Free.

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Thursday Arts Missoula’s annual Arts & Culture Awards honor those who have changed Missoula with their work in the arts. I still haven’t been nominated, but that’s fine. I don’t care. Doubletree Hotel. 11:30 AM. $30.

Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

UM Women’s Resource Center hosts Dr. Elizabeth Hubble for a talk on how Christine de Pizan dealt with 15th-century trolls, bullies and mansplainers. 5 PM. Free and open to the public.

nightlife My favorite cocktail! Good Old Fashioned plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Missoula music heavyweights John Floridis and Travis Yost team up for an evening of music at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Standing Alongside America’s Muslims hosts author Jamal Rahman for a three-week series about the enlightened heart of Islam.

Congregation Har Shalom. 6:30 PM. Free Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Showcase/Open Mic brings seasoned stand-up

WRINKLES plays Monk's Thu., March 22 at 8 PM. $7/$5 advance. comedians and bright-eyed newbies to the Roxy Theater. This month’s headliner is Aaron Juhl. He might try to sell you insurance. 7:30 PM. Concessions purchase for admission.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30– 10 PM. Tango Alpha Tango and WRINKLES bring the Dust Up Tour to Monk’s. 8 PM. $7/$5 advance.

Well that’s a fine how-do-you-do! The Oh Hellos play the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $20/$17 advance.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

The Matt Stivers Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM.

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Spotlight It's frustrating when a movie with so much potential gets creamed at the box office.

Based on the best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation was given a wide release last month in the United States where it floundered financially while simultaneously receiving glowing critical reviews. Part of this, no doubt, came from it opening up against Marvel’s excellent and game-changing Black Panther. And while some movies that flop in the US make up for it WHAT: Annihilation WHERE: The Roxy WHEN: Opens Fri., March 23 HOW MUCH: $8 MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org

in foreign markets, Annihilation was dropped straight to Netflix in all other countries. Americans missed it while the rest of the world had a brainy sci-fi film starring a majority female cast that they could watch for the price of a Netflix account.

If you’re one of the many people that missed it in its initial run, no worries. The Roxy

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Annihilation Theater opens Annihilation this week, giving you a change to see the movie Richard Roeper calls a “masterpiece.” The movie is adapted and directed by Alex Garland, the thought-provoking visionary filmmaker responsible for such stone-cold science fiction classics as Ex Machina, Dredd and 28 Days Later. It stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh

and Gina Rodriguez as a team of scientists sent into a mysterious quarantine zone where an unknown force is mutating landscapes and creatures. It's not a remake, a reboot, a preboot or part of some monolithic cinematic universe. It's damn good sci-fi that requires a trip to the cinema.

—Charley Macorn

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Friday Gallery 709 in Montana Art and Framing host an opening reception for Eggstravaganza, featuring wax and decorated eggs.

5 PM–8:30 PM.

Waiting plays the Wilma. I’m still waiting to not be bummed about Tom Petty not being with us anymore. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $10.

Author Brady Harrison reads from his new book, The Dying Athabaskan, at Fact & Fiction. 5:30 PM–7:30 PM. Free. (See Books.)

The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Eagles Club for your dancing pleasure. 8 PM. Free.

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Québécois trio De Temps Antan play the Hamilton Performing Arts Center. How’s that for joie de vivre? 8 PM. $39.

They don’t seem particularly pants-like to me. Britchy plays Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 6 PM. Free.

Lose yourself in the musical movement of Flow, a night of hip hop at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Stand-up comedian Zack Jarvis takes you on a historical and hilarious tour of Highlander Beer Taproom. 6 PM. Free.

This city ain’t big enough for the both of us.

ShoDown plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free.

I think dogs should vote! Crazy Dog plays a mix originals and covers at the Montana Distillery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Tango Practica at Downtown Dance Collective lets you bust a move in a friendly, welcoming environment. 6 PM–7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation.

ACROtainment takes you through the sifting sands of time for an acrobatic theater experience through the past, present and future.

MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 4 PM and 7 PM. $16.75

Russ Nasset & the Revelators open up the seventh seal of rockabilly at the Union Club.

9:30 PM. Free.

Tahj and Sweatshop Sneakers play the Top Hat Fri., March 23 at 10:15 PM. Free.

The failing New York Times isn’t going to cover this. President Donald Trump is the target of local comedians at the 2nd Annual

Trump Roast. The Roxy. 7 PM. $7. All proceeds go to local charities.

Bozeman-based Tom Petty tribute band The

Singer-songwriter Leigh Guest plays the VFW with Zepeda. 10 PM. Free.

Let’s think globally while acting locally. Tahj and Sweatshop Sneakers play the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Diego Kjelland opens. Free.

(See Arts.)

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Spotlight The most frustrating thing, I think, for anyone who dreams of having their name in lights is the knowledge that the opportunities to perform are out there, you just have to go out and get them.

The country is full of bars, VFWs, theaters and coffee shops with empty stages that need to be filled and, in some cases, drunks in need of entertainment. Sure, these spaces are no guarantee of audiences, money or fame, but these experiences are the callouses that create an artist.

In the last eight years, Americana rebel Kory Quinn and his band have played more than 1,600 self-booked dates throughout the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland and WHO: Kory Quinn WHERE: Bitter Root Brewing WHEN: Thu., March 29 from 6 PM–8:30 PM HOW MUCH: Free

Canada. His distinct brand of Americana has impressed music legends like Leon Russell and Alejandro Escovedo, while laying down driving tracks that hit on the big issues of the day. Songs about corrupt political leaders, the greater implications of our reliance on fossil fuels and fear. Those countless miles have forged Quinn in the fire of the road.

And he's come out the other side ready to change the world.

—Charley Macorn

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Saturday Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend?

Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

Dance lessons at 8 PM, show at 9. $10.

ACROtainment’s tour de force of acrobatic theater continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 3 PM and 6:30 PM. $16.75.

The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Eagles Club for your dancing pleasure. 8 PM. Free.

nightlife Lochwood unlocks a night of bluegrass at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Goo goo g’joob. Tara Lynn Walrus plays Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Enjoy the Big Top in the Big Sky. A Night with the Circus at MASC Studio features aerial acrobatics, dance, fire and more. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $5/free for kiddos under 12.

John Roberts y Pan Blanco bring live salsa, cumbia and funk to the Downtown Dance Collective.

Irish crooner Liam Ómaonlaí Maonla plays the UM Recital Hall at 7:30 PM. $15.

Tom Catmull, Jamie Rogers, Travis Yost and Aaron Jennings unite for a night of music at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

Band in Motion keeps on rolling at the Sunrise Saloon. They better do a John Parr cover. 9:30 PM. Free.

Wake up! Trego, formerly known as Folkinception, plays the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

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Sunday nightlife This is your first of two chances to catch the Lucky Valentines this week. First up, catch the Americana duo at Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft

beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

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Monday Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM– 8 PM.

nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there.

Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Is that supposed to be a heart or a horseshoe? The Lucky Valen-

tines play the Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Motown on Mondays puts the so-u-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.

Trego, formerly known as Folkinception, plays the Top Hat Sat., March 24 at 10:15 PM. Free.

Worden Thane P.C. welcomes Joel Henry to the team.

In the spirit of creating opportunities and advancement for the Missoula community and surrounding areas while looking toward a positive future, we are excited to welcome Joel Henry, Ph.D. to the Worden Thane team.

With both a doctorate in Computer Science and a law degree, Joel advises start-up and growing companies with his extensive understanding of technology, business, and intellectual property law.

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Wednesday

nightlife The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia Night at Thomas Meagher Bar lets you show off that superior intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What 1986 movie features Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and some lost boys? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

This next song is about drinking a LaCroix in your Subaru with your dog. Missoula Music Showcase features local singers and songwriters each week at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

The Montana Beardies competition comes to an end with a celebration of the melding of facial hair and altruism at Highlander Beer. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Milltown Dam removal with a fundraiser for Montana State Parks Foundation at Imagine Nation. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

nightlife Lane Norberg provides the soundtrack at Draught Works while Grebron Enal continues to evade the Justice League. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

Traveling troubadour Kory Quinn plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

Boise-based Americana singer-songwriter Elien Jewell plays the Top Hat Wed., March 28 at 8 PM. Free.

nightlife Travis Yost provides the tunes at Great Burn Brewing from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

My favorite Comedy Olympics event is Men’s Team Exclusion of Women. The Women’s Comedy Happy Hour at the Badlander lets you learn the skills for stand-up in a open and supportive setting. 6 PM. Free.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the

Who is buried there? Grant Farm plays the Top Hat at 8:30 PM. Free.

Portland’s Honeybender play the VFW with local support from EMZEE and YAWNS. 9 PM. $5.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party ac-

Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Stand By Me.

Elien Jewell plays the Top Hat at 8 PM. Free.

Author Dale Burk reads from his new memoir, A Brush with a Wild Thing or Two, in Montana at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free.

Can I get an amen? See established and newbie comedians at Revival Stand-up Comedy Open Mic at the Badlander. This month’s headliner is Twin Cities transplant Crystal Koosman. Sign up at 7, show at 7:30 PM. The Badlander. Free.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander.

9:30 PM. No cover.

Boise-based Americana singer-songwriter

tion featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Standing Alongside America’s Muslims hosts author Jamal Rahman for a threeweek series about the enlightened heart of Islam. Congregation Har Shalom.

6:30 PM. Free Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM Five Valleys Audubon’s Advanced Birding Workshop continues with a talk with Mike Krzywicki on the flycatcher, a bird that doesn’t look as scary as it sounds. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. 7 PM. $15.

Suspense superstar Owen Laukkanen reads from his new book, Gale Force, at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

Grant Farm plays the Top Hat Thu., March 29 at 8:30 PM. Free.

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My DJ name is Orthodox Triceratops. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost.

No more snow this year, please.

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photo courtesy Save Our Sisters: MMIW Awareness

In 2016, a report from the Center for Disease Control showed that the No. 3 cause of death for Native American women under the age of 24 is murder. Further data is even more alarming. Four out of 5 Native women are expected to encounter violence in their life. Half of them will be victimized by domestic or sexual violence, and the murder rate against Native women is 10 times the national average.

This issue received national attention during January's Women's March, including here in Missoula.

The Save Our Sisters Project fights to keep these statistics in mind, while battling back

against the systemic forces that exploit Indigenous Women at the Second Annual Walk to Honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The four-day walk starts at the northern tip of the Flathead Reservation in Rollins before making its way to the southern border, a total distance of almost 80 miles.

—Charley Macorn The Second Annual Walk to Honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women starts Sun., March 25 at 8 AM in Rollins. Visit Save Our Sisters Facebook page for more information.

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Learn about upcoming opportunities with Eat Smart Missoula during a talk at the Missoula Food Bank about the Harvest of the Month and the Farm to School Summit. 9:30 AM.

Raise a grateful glass at Western Cider. One dollar from every glass sold will go to benefit the Zootown Arts Community Center. 12 PM– 9 PM.

The Week Against Mass Incarceration at Blewett Law School concludes with a talk about government surveillance with civil rights attorney Larry Hildes. 5:30 PM. Free.

Fifteen percent of all proceeds at Caffe Dolce will go to purchase solar panels for Missoula Urban Demonstration Project. 5 PM–8 PM.

SUNDAY, MARCH 25

The Missoula Human Trafficking Task Force, Missoula Police Department, The Mansfield Center and the Department of Justice host a daylong conference on Human Trafficing at the University Center Theater. 8 AM–8:30 PM. Free and open to the public.

The Second Annual Walk to Honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women raises awareness for an ongoing crisis in this country. Flathead Indian Reservation. 8:30 AM.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

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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Mountain High hen it comes to bugs, I consider myself ambivalent at best. I’m not a huge fan of spiders, I despise mosquitoes with a passion and I thoroughly enjoy chasing fireflies when I visit the Midwest. One thing I do love, is the hallmark summer sound of crickets chirping in the evening. I find the sound relaxing, but that’s about where I draw the line on enjoying hearing insects make noise, mainly because my only other experience with audible insects involves the hissing cockroaches at the zoo where I grew up. But I may just be woefully ignorant of the acoustical bugs that crawl among us.

If there is one person in Missoula who can cure that ignorance, it’s entomologist Allison Dehnel. She will be sharing her love of all things

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THURSDAY, MARCH 22 The Montana Fishing Film Fest returns to the Dennison Theatre with the best trout anglers from the Rocky Mountains. 6 PM–8 PM. $12 Montana Wildlife Federation hosts a discussion on the importance of land management and conservation at an open house at the University Center. 6 PM–7 PM. Free and open to the public.

Five Valleys Audubon's Advanced Birding Workshop continues with a talk with Alex Hughes on gulls, the squirrels of the skies.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. 7 PM. $15.

SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula's

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bug-related, specifically focusing on the many clicks, hisses, songs and other sounds produced by your friendly neighborhood arthropod at the Bugs & Brews event next week.

Like most animals, many types of bugs use noise to send warnings, woo potential mates or just to chat. Dehnel will cover the full range of bizarre noises with videos, sound bytes and other examples. Come learn what makes crickets chirp, cicadas buzz and katydids sing. And pray you don’t learn about tarantulas that can scream.

— Micah Drew Bugs & Brews is held at Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, 21 E. Front St. Tue., March 27. Doors at 6:30 PM. $8/$5 for members.

Saturday morning runs at the Runner's Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

MONDAY, MARCH 26 Get your week started with a brisk morning hike to the “L.” The group meets at the trail head at the end of Cherry Street at 9:15 AM. Free.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 Sportman's Warehouse hosts a free spring turkey seminar and gives demos on how to use calls and decoys this hunting season. 4 PM–5 PM. Free.

Five Valleys Audubon's Advanced Birding Workshop continues with a talk with Mike Krzywicki on the flycatcher, a bird that doesn't look as scary as it sounds . Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. 7 PM. $15.

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EMPLOYMENT Delivery Driver LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a glass company to hire a long-term Delivery Driver for local routes.

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orders and load truck to deliver around the Missoula area. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31337.

Designer Assistant LC Staffing Missoula is working with lumber and design company to hire a long-term Designer Assistant. The Designer Assistant will

support the designers to provide excellent customer and sales service. This position starts at $13-$14/hr. For a full job description, please visit our website

The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a fulltime graphic artist to join our award-winning team.

Experience in Adobe Creative Suite and a keen eye for design required. The position’s duties change hourly from editorial layout to building ads to web work. We offer competitive pay and benefit package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment.

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WHIM CHILL FACTOR

A guy I know through mutual friends finally asked for my number, claiming he’d like to see more of me. I was elated, but he never called. After a month, I gave up hope, feeling puzzled and, honestly, kind of hurt. Why do men get your number if they’re never going to call or text?

—Uncontacted Men can experience a sort of temporary amnesia in the moment, leading them to ask you for your number. Shortly afterward, their memory returns: “Oh, wait — I have a girlfriend.” Or “My herpes is raging.” Or “The mob is still after me. The Canadian mob.” (They gag you and duct-tape you to a chair and say “please” and “thank you” repeatedly until you pass out.)

Of course, it isn’t just men who are prone to ride the “seemed like a good idea at the time” seesaw. It’s anyone with a human brain.This asking for your number and then never actually dialing it thing appears to be an example of our brain’s two systems at work — our quick-toreact emotional system and our slower-tocome-around reasoning system, which I wrote about in a recent column, per the research of psychologist Daniel Kahneman.

Again, the fast emotional system responds immediately — and automatically: “Yeah, baby!

There’s a woman whose clothes I’d like to see in a pile on my bedroom rug.” Or, if the lust is for a little head-busting: “BARRRR FIGHT!” The rational system comes around later, often for a little rethink about whatever the emotional system got the person into — like when the bar brawler dude is cooling his heels in the slammer, seeing as how the collections bail bondsmen will accept as collateral do not include all the toenail clippings one has saved since 1999.

In other words, it helps to view any request for your number as a moment of flattery — nothing more. Don’t expect a guy to call. In fact, expect most not to call. If they don’t call, you’ll be right. If they do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised, like getting that winning lottery scratcher that allows you to buy that Lamborghini you’ve been eyeing — the whole car, not just the logoadorned leather key ring to attach to the keys for your 3,000-year-old Honda.

FULL MEDDLE JACKIE

I have a very good friend — a friend who shows up for me in big ways when the chips are down. However, she is very judgmental and offers her opinion on everything from how I should groom my cat to why I

shouldn’t get Botox. I wouldn’t presume to tell her how to cut her hair or treat her dogs — unless she asked. Her comments often hurt my feelings. How do I gently get her to stop acting like my vet, my beautician, etc.?

—Annoyed It must be tempting to ask her: “Hey, wanna come over on Thursday night? I’ll do a stir-fry, and we can watch Netflix ... or you can do an hour on why my new haircut was a tragic mistake and how (for the fourth time!) the couch should be against the other wall.”

Friendly advice is not always as, uh, otherserving as it’s made out to be. Communications researcher Matthew M. Martin emphasizes that “people communicate to satisfy personal needs.” He notes that previous research identified six basic “interaction motives (why people have conversations with others)”: pleasure, affection, inclusion, relaxation, control and escape (like ditching your own problems to fixate on what a hot mess your friend is).

Research by social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, among others, suggests it’s in our self-interest to be helpful. Helping feels good in the moment (the “pleasure” motive). Also, the sort of happiness with staying power — the feeling that our life has meaning — comes from extending ourselves for others rather than, say, shoving ’em out of the way and chasing happiness for ourselves (like by amassing more shoes or buying a new set of boobs).

Of course, if it is the pleasure motive driving your friend, it may come from a darker place — like a desire to show off and act superior — which may dovetail with “the control motive,” which, Martin explains, “involves the need to influence others and to be viewed by others as competent.”

Regardless, you don’t owe anyone your attention — not even a compulsively helpful “very good friend.” Wait until a moment when you aren’t ducking flying tips. Tell her that you love that she’s trying to look out for you but that her values aren’t necessarily your values.

Accordingly, you have a new policy: No more unsolicited advice, except in emergencies.

Qualifying situations call for brief, life-preserving warnings — such as “watch out” or “duck!”

— not the longer-winded constructive tips offered in so-called “fashion emergencies”: “Have you seen yourself from behind? You’d best rethink those pants, doll.”

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Looking for someone to help clean office buildings on Thursday evenings, 3 to 5 hours. Pays $10 an hr. Must pass a national background check. Call Melody 240-4501.

Planer Worker LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with lumber company in Thompson Falls to hire a long-term Planer Worker. The Planer Worker is an entry-level position with on-the-job paid training. The Planer Worker will be responsible for the dry-chain tasks in the planer mil. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #7045

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This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) within the definition of the CSKT Drug Testing policy. The successful applicant, if not already employed by CSKT must pass a pre-hire drug test and serve a mandatory six

(6) month probationary period. This position is am exempt contract position. Salary is negotiable. To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. 1043. Tribal applications are also available on-line at csktribes.org. This position will be open until filled. CSKT IS A TRIBAL MEMBER PREFERENCE EMPLOYER

The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our advertising sales team.

Customer service experience and strong organizational skills are required. Sales experience preferred, but we’re happy to train someone who brings a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm. We offer a competitive comp and benefit package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment.

Send resume to: tleblanc@misssoulanews.com or Toni LeBlanc, P.O. Box 8275 Missoula, MT 59807

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EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP Katherine C. Holliday (MT Bar #9965, Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC, PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 tel.

406.830.3327 katie@carmodyhollidaylaw.com Counsel for Plaintiff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. 1 CAUSE NO. DV-17-737 (ADDITIONAL) SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION PLUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, MANAGER ON BEHALF OF 1421 EATON STREET, INC. PLAINTIFF, V. NICOLE STEVENSON F/K/A NICOLE PASTIAN, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: NICOLE STEVENSON F/K/A NICOLE PASTIAN 1421 Eaton St., Unit #33 Missoula, MT 59801 The above-captioned action is a Cause of Action against you is to in part foreclose a lien upon the real property located at 1421 Eaton St., Unit #33, Missoula, MT 59801.A lawsuit has been filed against you. Within 21 days after the service of this summons on you or (42 days if you are the State of Montana, a state agency, or a state officer or employee), you must serve on the plaintiff an answer to the attached complaint or a motion under Rule 12 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure. Do not include the day you were served in your calculation of time. The answer or motion

must be served on the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney, if plaintiff is represented by an attorney, whose name and address are listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.You also must file your answer or motion with the court. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 1 day of March, 2018. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT BY: /s/ Emily Hensen, DEPUTY CLERK Montana Fourth Judicial Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-18-186 Dept.

No. 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of David Jimenez, Petitioner This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from David Camilo Jimenez to David Camilo LeMasters. The hearing will be on 04/04/2018 at 11:00 a.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: March 2, 2018. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-18-132 Dept. No.: 3 Notice of Hearing on

Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of James David Beresgvoy Brown, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from James David Beresgvoy Brown to James David Beresovoy. The hearing will be on 04/19/2018 at 10:00.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 3-6-18 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-2018-70 The Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of DONNY JOHN BARLOW, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the estate of the above-named Decedent.

All persons having claims against the said Decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Personal Representative, Jacqueline Barlow, c/o Carey B. Schmidt, Schmidt Law Firm PLLC, 1917 S. Higgins

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DATED this 12 day of March, 2018 /s/ Jacqueline Barlow, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP-18-56 Dept. No.: 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: STANLEY B. CLINE, 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 TAMMY J. MOCABEE, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris,Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 20th day of February, 2018. /s/ Tammy J. Mocabee, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DR-09-213 Department No. 2 Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE/PARENTING OF Michael J. Drake, Petitioner, and Tamar S. Winn, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this ac-

tion, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition.This action is brought to obtain a divorce.Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: N/A DATED this 9th day of March, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-18-61 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WINIFRED L. BROWN, 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 Sally Sharbono, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22 day of February, 2018. /s/ Sally Sharbono, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA

):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 22 day of February, 2018. /s/ Sally Sharbono, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 22 day of February, 2018. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-18-86 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK B. BESSAC, 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 Joan Steelquist, 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.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “School of Hard Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s tough experiences.The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program. I mention this, Aries, because in accordance with astrological omens, I want to confer upon you a diploma for your new advanced degree from the School of Hard Knocks. (P.S.: When PhD students get their degrees from Finland’s University of Helsinki, they are given top hats and swords as well as diplomas. I suggest you reward yourself with exotic props, too.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Europeans used to think that all swans were white. It was a reasonable certainty given the fact that all swans in Europe were that color. But in 1697, Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his sailors made a pioneering foray to the southwestern coast of the land we now call Australia. As they sailed up a river the indigenous tribe called “Derbarl Yerrigan,” they spied black swans.They were shocked.The anomalous creatures invalidated an assumption based on centuries of observations. Today, a “black swan” is a metaphor referring to an unexpected event that contravenes prevailing theories about the way the world works. I suspect you’ll soon experience such an incongruity yourself. It might be a good thing! Especially if you welcome it instead of resisting it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Crayola is one of the world’s foremost crayon manufacturers. The geniuses in charge of naming its crayon colors are playful and imaginative. Among the company’s standard offerings, for example, are Pink Sherbet, Carnation Pink,Tickle Me Pink, Piggy Pink, Pink Flamingo and Shocking Pink. Oddly, however, there is no color that’s simply called “Pink.” I find that a bit disturbing. As much as I love extravagant creativity and poetic whimsy, I think it’s also important to cherish and nurture the basics. In accordance with the astrological omens, that’s my advice for you in the coming weeks. Experiment with fanciful fun, but not at the expense of the fundamentals.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to Vice magazine, Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov is pleased with the experiment he tried. He injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria that his colleagues had dug out of the permafrost in Siberia.The infusion of this ancient life form, he says, enhanced his energy and strengthened his immune system. I can’t vouch for the veracity of his claim, but I do know this: It’s an apt metaphor for possibilities you could take advantage of in the near future: drawing on an old resource to boost your power, for example, or calling on a well-preserved part of the past to supercharge the present.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Booze has played a crucial role in the development of civilization, says biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern. The process of creating this mind-altering staple was independently discovered by many different cultures, usually before they invented writing. The buzz it provides has “fired our creativity and fostered the development of language, the arts, and religion.” On the downside, excessive consumption of alcohol has led to millions of bad decisions and has wrecked countless lives. Everything I just said is a preface to my main message, Leo: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform your habitual perspective, but only if you do so safely and constructively. Whether you choose to try intoxicants, wild adventures, exhilarating travel or edgy experiments, know your limits.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be favorable for making agreements, pondering mergers and strengthening bonds. You’ll be wise to deepen at least one of your commitments. You’ll stir up interesting challenges if you consider the possibility of entering into more disciplined and dynamic unions with worthy partners. Do you trust your own perceptions and insights to guide you toward ever-healthier alliances? Do what you must to muster that trust.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you want people to know who you really are and savor you for your unique beauty, you must be honest with those people. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. There’s a similar principle at work if you want to know who you really are and savor yourself for your unique beauty: You must be honest with yourself. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to practice these high arts.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your journey in the coming weeks may be as weird as an R-rated telenovela, but with more class. Outlandish, unpredictable and even surreal events could occur, but in such a way as to uplift and educate your soul. Labyrinthine plot twists will be medicinal as well as entertaining. As the drama gets curioser and curioser, my dear Scorpio, I expect you will learn how to capitalize on the odd opportunities it brings. In the end, you will be grateful for this ennobling respite from mundane reality!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence,” wrote philosopher Erich Fromm. I would add a corollary for your rigorous use during the last nine months of 2018: “Love is the only effective and practical way to graduate from your ragged, long-running dilemmas and start gathering a new crop of fresh, rousing challenges.” By the way, Fromm said love is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling in our hearts. It’s a creative force that fuels our willpower and unlocks hidden resources.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My goal here is to convince you to embark on an orgy of self-care — to be as sweet and tender and nurturing to yourself as you dare to be. If that influences you to go too far in providing yourself with luxurious necessities, I’m OK with it. And if your solicitous efforts to focus on your own health and well-being make you appear a bit self-indulgent or narcissistic, I think it’s an acceptable price to pay. Here are more key themes for you in the coming weeks: basking in the glow of self-love; exulting in the perks of your sanctuary; honoring the vulnerabilities that make you interesting.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One day, Beatles guitarist George Harrison decided to compose his next song’s lyrics “based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book.” He viewed this as a divinatory experiment, as a quest to incorporate the flow of coincidence into his creative process.The words he found in the first book were “gently weeps.”They became the seed for his tune “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Rolling Stone magazine ultimately named it one of “The Greatest Songs of All Time” and the tenth best Beatle song. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you try some divinatory experiments of your own in the coming weeks. Use life’s fun little synchronicities to generate playful clues and unexpected guidance.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of you Pisceans live in a fairy tale world. But I suspect that very few of you will be able to read this horoscope and remain completely ensconced in your fairy tale world. That’s because I have embedded subliminal codes in these words that will at least temporarily transform even the dreamiest among you into passionate pragmatists in service to your feistiest ideals. If you’ve read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you’ll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-18-83 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: LOIS VERA RUZANSKI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cynthia M. R. Randall has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jones & Associates, PLLC,Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2625 Dearborn Avenue, Ste. 102A, Missoula, MT 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 12th day of March, 2018. /s/ Cynthia M. R. Randall, Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-18-79 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN HOWARD SCHULTZ, 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 Robert D. Schultz, 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 8th day of March, 2018 at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Robert D. Schultz, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie Sirrs, Esq. PO Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Robert D. Schultz, Personal Representative Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, March 27th, 2018, from 3 – 5 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public. For further information, contact Erin Ojala, Homeword Administrative Specialist, at 406-532-4663 x10. If you have comments NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on May 31, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: Missoula County Courthouse, on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which John H Frick II and Kelly M. Frick, as joint tenants, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed

to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated January 22, 2009 and was recorded on January 27, 2009 as Instrument No. 200901585, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 2340 55th St Apt 17, Missoula, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: UNIT NO. 17 OF THE CEDARS, A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM SITUATED ON TRACT D, HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NUMBER ONE (1), CITY OF MISSOULA, COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA,ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AND ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF UNIT OWNERSHIP AND FLOOR PLANS ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, RECORDED JUNE 26, 1978 IN VOLUME 121 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 107, FILED AND RECORDED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE MONTANA UNIT OWNERSHIP ACT, SECTION 67-2301, ET SEQ, R.C.M. 1947, AS AMENDED, TOGETHER WITH A 4.3358 PERCENT INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT TO SAID CONDOMINIUM, ALL AS IDENTIFIED, ESTABLISHED AND DEFINED IN THE AFORESAID DECLARATION AND AMENDMENTS THERETO. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC.The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments beginning March 1, 2017 through January 1, 2018 in the total amount of $9,687.81; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable.

By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $135,804.45 with interest thereon at the rate of 3.87500 percent per annum beginning February 1, 2017; plus escrow advances of $2,814.52; plus other fees and costs in the amount of $461.18; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the

obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: January 17, 2018 John A.“Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1269, LOCATED IN LOT 1, BLOCK 1, WILLOWS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Phillip K Schrumpf, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title Group, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Nationstar Mortgage LLC, DBA Greenlight Loans, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 29, 2013, and recorded on November 5, 2013 as Document No. 201321575. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is currently the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of February 15, 2018 is $95,455.98 principal, interest totaling $2,062.16 late charges in the amount of $300.78, escrow advances of $592.36, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,411.97, plus accruing interest, 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP 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: February 28, 2018 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch 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 28th day of February, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person

whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 09/06/2022 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs Philip K Schrumpf 102925-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land in the N½ of Section 19, Township 14 North, Range 19 West and SE¼SW¼ of Section 18, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the NW corner of Section 19,Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., thence N.85°49`04”E., 2436.23 feet to a point in Butler Creek Road and on the northerly limit of that Deed in Book 212 at page 468 and the true point of beginning; thence S.35°16`43”E., 442.74 feet; thence S.38°23`38”E., 1081.77 feet;

thence south 384.92 feet; thence N.40°21`56”W., 1770.67 feet to a point on the Butler Creek Road and on the northerly list of that Deed in Book 212 at page 68;thence N.40°58`12”E., 329.98 feet along said road and limit to the point of beginning. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 306 of Micro Records at page 970 Cameron Z Griggs and Kathleen M Griggs, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Old Republic National Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 7, 2005, and recorded on August 4, 2005 as Book 757 Page 859 Document No. 200519979.

The beneficial interest is currently held

by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-13, MORTGAGE LOAN PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-13. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee.

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the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning August 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 31, 2018 is $298,586.45 principal, interest totaling $60,266.42 late charges in the amount of $538.54, escrow advances of $34,056.34, and other fees and expenses advanced of $15,848.86, plus accruing interest, 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation se-

cured 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: February 28, 2018 /s/ Rae Albert 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 28th day of February, 2018 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2024 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs Cameron Z Griggs Kathleen M Griggs 100191-4 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 10 in Block 4 of EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Darlene R Guerdette, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American General Financial Services, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 14, 2008, and recorded on May 19, 2008 as Book 819 Page 117 Document No. 200811140; Modification Agreement recorded 10/4/2012 in Book 901, Page 630. The

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beneficial interest is currently held by Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as trustee for Carlsbad Funding Mortgage Trust. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning January 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 28, 2018 is $230,181.08 principal, interest totaling $5,465.86 late charges in the amount of $396.00, escrow advances of $2,556.17 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,251.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 5, 10, 15, 63, 106, 155, 159, 169, 205, 291, 442, & 652.

Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday March 26, 2018. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2018 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Service PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 28 day of February, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9/6/2022 Rushmore Loan Management Services vs Darlene R Guerdette 104055-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 6, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 9C OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1747, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NW¼ OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Allen Dreiling and Kasey A Dreiling, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson , as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for PHH Mortgage Corporation d/b/a ERA Mortgage, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated on July 24, 2009, and recorded on July 29, 2009 as Book 844 Page 937 Document No. 200918694 Modification Agreement recorded May 25, 2016, Book 961 of Micro Records at Page 1000.The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper.

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.The total amount due on this obligation as of March 16, 2018 is $243,225.33 principal, interest totaling $5,852.56 late charges in the amount of $337.89, escrow advances of $1,208.98, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,529.68, plus accruing interest, 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 di-

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 9, 2018, at 11:00 AM, at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the NE1/4 of Section 21,Township 12 North, Range 17 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana.

More particularly described as Tract 2A of Certificate of Survey No. 5639. Jack L. Bogar and Laura M. Bogar, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to World Alliance Financial Corp., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 5, 2008, and recorded on June 10, 2008 in Book 820, Page 519, as Document No. 200812941. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company. First American Title

Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee.The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to death.The total amount due on this obligation as of February 21, 2018 is $146,812.87 principal, interest totaling $25,316.99, mortgage insurance premiums of $11,765.43, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,590.00, plus accruing interest, 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to

possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2018. /s/ Rae Albert 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 28th day of February, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. (SEAL) /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2024

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rected 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 8, 2018 /s/ Rae Albert 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 8th day of March, 2018 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs Allen Dreiling Kasey A. Dreiling 100464-2

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Princess' adoption fee is waived through our Seniors for Seniors program for people 60 and up and pets 7 and up!

BLUE MOON• Blue Moon is a handsome man with lots of energy! He loves to go go go and would like to go to an active household. He is friendly with new visitors and some dogs. If you are looking for an adventure pup to be by your side, come visit Blue Moon!

LUCY• Lucy is a very sweet girl that is becoming more and more brave every day! She loves other dogs and spending time with people that are calm and willing to give her a few minutes to warm up. She is looking for a family with another dog who is very social with people. This sweetheart is already spayed and vaccinated and ready to go to her forever home today.

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

Garry Kerr Dept. of Anthropology University of Montana

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

SEDWICK• Sedwick is a very handsome man that loves to nuzzle up with people. His long hair and piercing gold eyes along with his loud purrs will steal your heart. He has been a wonderful office cat here at the shelter and enjoys lounging on a desk. Just as long as you’re taking breaks to give him some belly rubs!

TIBBS• Tibbs LOVES to play! He has been so active and goofy here at the shelter. Once you start playing with him, you won’t be able to stop— he won’t let you! Tibbs is very social and enjoys greeting new people with head nuzzles and loud purrs.

Missoula 406-626-1500 william@rideglaw.com

1450 W. Broadway St. • 406-728-0022

RAPUNZEL• Rapunzel has been patiently waiting atop her tower for the perfect person to come adopt her. This long haired princess takes a little bit of time to open up to people, but with a bit of love and patience, she is a sweetheart!

She spends her time in the HSWM office staring out the window waiting for her true love and watching the birds. missoulanews.com • March 22–March 29, 2018 [43]