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Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk What would you do with a cool $3 million?.................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Leaning on Zinke, housing misses the mark, and water is almost bought ..........6 Etc. UM hands off its Easter egg hunt to Garden of Readn.............................................7 News Spending an embarrassment of riches in Darby....................................................8 News A valve turner’s defense of last resort....................................................................9 Opinion There’s a reason they call them land “lords” .................................................10 Opinion Past is present at Standing Rock.....................................................................11 Feature Rubber meets road: Who’ll pay, and how much, for Montana’s budget cuts .........14
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Arts Relax. Caitlin Hofmeister thinks “You’re Doing Just Fine”....................................18 Music Mega Bog’s Erin Birgy talks sax appeal ..............................................................19 Music Scott Biram, Wormwood, Gag ............................................................................20 Film The uneven charm of Woody Harrelson’s Wilson .................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 Resistance Kitchen Overturn the patriarchy with tuna salad......................................23 Happiest Hour The River Run at Montana Distillery ...................................................25 8 Days a Week Now with yoga, cos that’s fun, right?...................................................26 Agenda Karl Tyler’s Lids for Kids...................................................................................33 Mountain High Kingdom of the Sword Coast’s Monster Madness..............................34
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[voices] by Kate Whittle and Erika Fredrickson
Asked Friday afternoon, March 17, at the Montana Distillery and the Silver Dollar Bar. This week the Indy reports on the Darby school district’s process for determining how to spend a $3 million donation. What do you think they should do with it? Follow-up: What would you do with $3 million? Emily Finnegan: I think they should look at what resources they’re lacking, whether that’s in computers or books, and then they should save the rest for when they need updates. Opa! Pay off student debt, and then I would go knock off all my bucket-list items for traveling, starting with the Greek islands.
Damon Cott: Teachers would be an obvious thing, but maybe efficiency improvements in the buildings. Up in the air: I’ve always wanted to have my own zeppelin. I don’t think $3 million would cover it, though.
Alecia Nickelson: I think more technology—bringing the rural area more into the 21st century. Is Grenada for sale? Go on vacation, probably Costa Rica. Or maybe, since I’d have $3 million, buy my own country.
Kevin Reinhardt: That money can go a long way to teaching a lot of kids for a long time. I think if you invest and work off the interest of that money, they can do a lot more things with it than just [spending it] right now. Play it safe: Put it in the bank or invest it.
Kyle Sample: Invest in technology and up-to-date books, but not like what Gianforte would want. I would invest in real books with real history and real science. Real sports: Buy a small portion of a sports franchise, because you are guaranteed to make money. I would buy part of the Sacramento Kings.
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Feels like the first time I was a 40-year-old first-time snowboarder, and the folks at Board of Missoula taught me the ropes (“Skate or die,” March 16). I am so happy that Bacon is living this dream and so happy Board of Missoula is back! Craig Sweet posted at missoulanews.com
You go, daddy-o! Chris Bacon and Edge of the World have always been a support for the young teenagers and young adults in this town, giving them a safe and secure place to hang out and skateboard. My son is the wonderful man he is today partly because of the influence of Chris Bacon. I hope and pray for your continued success, Chris. MaryPat Harr Hertz posted at missoulanews.com
The power of They Sometimes I think the “living-wage” is a number that really means “just enough to survive, without any form of leisure time or vacation from work.” No one making $14 an hour is taking too many vacations (“What’s a living wage, really?” March 9). They can’t afford it. People are forced to work through vacation time to pay bills. They have to pick and choose between food or other necessities. They can’ t take a few days off work or the power gets turned off. I believe it is set up this way to keep the middle class the middle class. They make up the grandest share of taxpayers, and the government loves getting money, so the best way to keep the dough rolling in is to keep people at work. Plus, any time wages get increased, the tax departments increase the taxes and prices on everything go up. A living wage is meant to keep you alive enough to pay the government tons of money before you are too old to work or pass away. They do not care whether your existence was fulfilling or pleasurable. They just want their pedestrian bridges and convention centers. A.J. LaBrosse posted at missoulanews.com
Target: missed Your support for the Second Amendment may be laudable, but this article is complete crap! (“Sure shot,” March 16) You have the nerve to say “Newman is a trained and responsible gun owner. As such, he did not shoot any bystanders while deploying deadly force”—which is apparently where you set the bar for considering a gun-waving lunatic a “trained and respon-
sible gun owner.” Shortly after that you refer to his “judgment” as “impeccable,” clearly demonstrating that you do not understand the meaning of one or both those words. His actions were legal (up until the last few shots), but his judgment was incredibly flawed, and regardless of the police giving him a free pass, the video of the event clearly shows that at least his last two shots were both irresponsible and illegal. It is pure luck that he didn’t “shoot any bystanders.” Random wild shots into a public area with no
“A living wage is meant to keep you alive enough to pay the government tons of money before you are too old to work or pass away. They do not care whether your existence was fulfilling or pleasurable. They just want their pedestrian bridges and convention centers.” concern for where his rounds were going is not the action of “a trained and responsible gun owner.” If the police had reviewed the video, he would probably have been arrested. Certainly once the video became available he should have been charged with multiple counts of wanton endangerment. If you consider this an example of “a trained and responsible gun owner” demonstrating “impeccable” judgment, then I have to seriously question your judgment, training, and responsibility. Tom Currie posted at missoulanews.com
Any more questions? After the Independent published “A teen and a prayer” on Feb. 9., a letter to the editor demanded, “What is it about religion that drives you leftists crazy?” Answer: Religion will cause humans to ruin the Earth. We are the most invasive of species, and we think that the laws of nature (such as no unlimited population growth) don’t apply to us. Darwin displaced humanity from the pinnacle of the organic world, but religion cannot allow that, or Heaven (and Hell) can’t be sustained. Thus, the Catholic Church insists that all human life and death is solely up to God. Pope Francis issues his encyclical to save “our ruined” planet, blaming humanity’s inappropriate consumption for the Earth’s woes. But the real cause is human population growth. Half the world’s human population still wants to consume its way into the middle class, yet it would take several Earths’ worth of resources to support all humans living as middle class. All Pope Francis can offer is a “moral imperative” that humanity do better. Yet if “moral imperative” worked, then no priest would ever have abused a child. People who study demographics say that to control human population, we must allow contraception and abortion. But the Church insists on viewing human failings as sin as opposed to evidence that we are animals. If we could view human sexual expression as our biological nature, then we can still teach all the reasons to be prudent about sex, while realizing that our “preaching” is going to regularly fail, and so we graciously allow people to have contraception and abortion. Or we can keep ruining the Earth. William H. Clarke Missoula
God’s worst creation Until I read your last edition, I did not know that God created Mountain Standard Time (“Playing God with time,” March 16). Guess you’re never too old to learn. I will ask HIM to forgive the creator of daylight savings time, because it irritates all of my friends who wait until dark to start bar hopping. Peter Daniels Polson Correction: “No good answers” (March 16) referenced the case of “a Glendive man convicted of raping his 12-yearold daughter” and receiving a suspended sentence. The case took place in Glasgow, not Glendive.
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, March 15 A House committee votes against SB 72, a bill that sought to provide healthcare benefits to firefighters who develop lung cancer and other diseases common to the profession. Rep. Mark Noland, R-Bigfork, who voted against the bill, says “... that is their profession, that is what they chose.”
Thursday, March 16 In a new email newsletter, “The Fair Share,” Emily Bentley says the first few months of her new job as director of the Missoula Fairgrounds have been like “drinking water from a firehose.” Upcoming events at the fairgrounds include a rodeo, bike swap and roller derby bout.
Friday, March 17 A few weeks after his colleague Sen. Steve Daines hosted a “tele-town hall,” Sen. Jon Tester visits Helena to host an IRL town hall meeting. (That’s “in real life” in Internet-speak, FYI.) Tester asserts support for public lands and concern about the cost of health care.
Loose ends
Water almost ours Missoula could take possession of its water utility within a few weeks, according to new estimates from city administrators. “We’re getting close,” says City Councilman Bryan Von Lossberg. So far this year, the city has knocked down several obstacles on the path to owning Mountain Water. Some highlights: In late February, District Judge Leslie Halligan effectively saved the city $22 million when she issued a ruling in a suit filed by several local developers in 2015 to ensure that someone—either the city or Mountain Water—will pay them back for the $22 million in investments they made to the water system. Halligan ruled that the $22 million is included in the $88.6 million valuation of the utility that the city has already agreed to pay. Shortly after Halligan’s ruling, Missoula City Council approved taking out up to $140 million in loans to buy Mountain Water. It’s possible the actual loan amount will be less. Von Lossberg says $114 million will be earmarked for the cost of the utility, legal fees,
post-valuation improvements, issuance costs and capital reserves. Council members also agreed to set aside $22 million in a savings account in case the city has to fight any future lawsuits regarding the utility. The loans are secured by future revenues from water system. Along with the financing package, the City Council discussed possible rate increases for water utility customers. If all goes well, customers shouldn’t expect a rate increase until 2021. Von Lossberg says the worstcase scenario calls for a 5 percent increase in 2018 followed by 3 percent annual increases for three years. In early March, District Court Judge Karen Townsend issued another ruling favorable to the city in a separate case regarding attorneys’ fees. Missoula is obligated to pay for the defendants’ legal costs, and Mountain Water and its parent companies racked up $8 million in such expenses. Townsend ruled that Mountain Water’s attorneys overcharged or duplicated many of their fees, and reduced the bill to about $4 million. What’s next? The defendants still have the opportunity to protest the judges’ rulings, which could drag things out. City Communications Director Ginny Mer-
riam says the city also awaits a judge’s decision on how much the post-valuation improvements to the utility are worth—that could add as much as $3 million, which is already provided for in the financing package. Once that’s wrapped up, Merriam says, the city expects a final order of condemnation from Judge Townsend. Kate Whittle
Lofty goals
More units, more money As downtown Missoula becomes more vibrant, housing complexes seem to be springing up all around it: Snowbird apartments on Hickory Street, complete with rooftop terrace. More than 150 student apartments on Front Street. Another 213 units in the Old Sawmill District. But in the bigger picture, all those housing starts are just that: a start. The city’s downtown master plan, completed in 2009, called for the addition of 2,800 housing units by 2035, spread across a series of dense residential districts that can accommodate dwellers of all incomes. The projects that have
Saturday, March 18 Wilderness experts discuss forest and wildlife trends in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex during a meeting in Seeley Lake. The Forest Service has reported an increase in black bear and grizzly activity, and a decrease in elk and mountain goat populations. Sounds like the bears are really getting someone’s goat.
Sunday, March 19 On the last official day of winter, four hanggliders take to the sky above Mount Sentinel while an Indy staffer hikes up the fire road. Observers also spot bluebirds, western meadowlarks and red-tailed hawks on the slopes.
Monday, March 20 The Missoula Art Museum releases a save-thedate notice for the April 21 dedication and artist reception at Missoula Art Park, the new outdoor sculpture exhibition space and plaza. The ceremony will include a tree planting.
Tuesday, March 21 The AP reports that in 2015 the state of Montana filed liens against current congressional candidate Rob Quist seeking $15,000 in back taxes. Quist says he eventually settled the debt, though he still owes $10,000 on a defaulted loan. He attributes his financial problems to medical bills.
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[news] grabbed headlines—and, in some cases, public subsidies—since the plan’s inception add up to just over 600 units. “We’re on pace to get there, but we’d like to see more work in this area,� master plan implementation committee co-chair Matt Ellis told city and county officials this month. The progress is attributed largely to planned developments in the Old Sawmill District and the Riverfront Triangle. With Sawmill District developers expecting to build hundreds more apartments, condos and single-family homes over time, new housing stock currently planned for the downtown area can be expected to surpass the halfway point of the 2,800-unit goal. After that, however, opportunities could be harder to come by. The master plan envisions a huge 1,300-unit residential district where the Montana Rail Link rail yard currently operates. Yet the company says it has had no discussions to date about selling or redeveloping the land, and recent master plan documents suggest that the area’s potential for redevelopment should be reevaluated. “In my mind, that’s the biggest question,� says Lori Davidson, a committee member and executive director of the Missoula Housing Authority. Davidson says that if the rail-yard project doesn’t materialize, the city probably can’t achieve its current downtown housing goal. There isn’t enough undeveloped land left to build on. Housing goals will likely be scrutinized as part of an upcoming update to the downtown master plan, which could cost $350,000 to conduct. As currently written, the master plan aspires to make one-fifth of all units in the planned residential districts “affordable.� Of the 625 new units highlighted in a March 15 presentation to Missoula City Council, less than 10 percent are purported to be affordable, by councilwoman Heidi West’s count. Bob Oaks, of the North Missoula Community Development Corporation, pointed out the deficiency in a February letter to the Council regarding the Riverfront Triangle development, calling it an “inescapable reality� that the city is “nowhere close� to the plan’s affordable housing goal. Lowincome housing wasn’t a priority in the Old Sawmill District, and it’s unclear how many low-income units may be included in the Triangle district. “If we are unable to capture any of that devel-
opment money for housing for our workforce,� Oaks says, “most people who end up working downtown will never be able to live anywhere close to where they work.� Derek Brouwer
Bison and oranges
Zinke pressed on refuge It’s been less than a month since Ryan Zinke rode a horse named Tonto to his new gig as Secretary of the Interior, and already one D.C.-based nonprofit has heaped quite a bit of pressure on him. Last week, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility announced that the fate of the National Bison Range near Moiese now rests in Zinke’s hands. The group was referring to the potential transfer of the popular refuge to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes—an effort that PEER is attempting to block in federal court. “Secretary Zinke has repeatedly pledged to oppose the transfer of any federal lands,� PEER Senior Counsel Paula Dinerstein said in a statement. “Now he has a prime opportunity to make good on that promise.� PEER’s declaration came mere days after it filed a motion for summary judgment against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is currently in the midst of reviewing public comment on a comprehensive conservation plan that could open the door for such a transfer. The decision to shift the bison refuge into trust ownership for CSKT will ultimately fall to Congress, and the tribes have already drafted legislation to that effect. However, as the overseer of both the National Wildlife Refuge system and the federal government’s relations with Indian Country, Zinke’s position on the issue is one that transfer proponents acknowledge will prove important. His office did not respond to a request for comment on the proposal by press time. That PEER would attempt to sway the new secretary by appealing to his stated opposition to federal land transfers doesn’t come as much of a
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$104,100 Federal funding awarded to Meals on Wheels in Missoula County last year, according to Missoula Aging Services, which served 101,329 meals to 800 clients. President Donald Trump is seeking to eliminate federal grants that support such programs. surprise to those advocating for CSKT control. National Wildlife Federation spokesman David Ditloff says the federal lands transfer debate has “blown up so much in so many state legislatures and at the national level,� but he describes PEER’s application of the issue to the bison refuge proposal as “apples and oranges.� “It’s a whole different set of circumstances. It still would be held in trust by one federal agency, just shifted from one to the other.� While PEER battles to quash a refuge transfer as quickly as the courts will allow, CSKT and its allies are playing a long game, reaching out to other stakeholders and building a case for Montana’s congressional delegation to back their National Bison Range Restoration Act. Federal wildlife officials have listed the transfer of the refuge as their preferred management option, but they are still weeks away from publishing a draft conservation plan. In a statement forwarded by tribal spokesman Rob McDonald, CSKT dismissed PEER’s maneuvering this month as merely an attempt to “put pressure on Interior Secretary Zinke to change course on Interior’s direction at the Bison Range.� Citing support from groups like the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society and Montana Conservation Voters, the tribes went on to say that “PEER’s Bison Range positions continue to be at odds with most of the conservation community.� Alex Sakariassen
ETC. The University of Montana’s annual Eggstravaganza Easter egg hunt has been a major production since it began in 2000. UM Relations staffer Andrea Lewis, who organized the hunt for five years, says planning and fundraising historically began each December. Then came hours upon hours of cracking open plastic eggs and placing candies and gift certificates inside. “Starting in January, we’d devote a couple hours every Friday afternoon to stuffing the eggs,� Lewis says. “Four to five people would sit around a table and stuff about 10,000 Easter eggs.� Lewis says the egg hunt occupied an estimated 140 hours of staff time and was a primary focus of her job for months at a time. Ten thousand Easter eggs eventually became 30,000 Easter eggs in an annual frenzy of kids and parents descending upon the UM Oval and picking it clean within minutes. But these days, UM is in a budget crisis, and assigning staff to plan a kids’ event began to seem a bit too, shall we say, egg-stravagant. The university, stricken with a mandate to prioritize, says it has no choice but to put all its eggs in one basket, and that basket is recruitment. A few months ago Lewis learned that UM would be handing Easter egg duties over to Christian bookstore Garden of Read’n, which has served as the Eggstravaganza’s primary sponsor since 2015. This year’s hunt will be located off campus for the first time. Garden of Read’n coowner Kiomi Burks says the hunt is slated for April 15 on Loyola Sacred Heart High School’s Rollins Field. She’s busy coordinating with city police, the fire department, food trucks, donors and special guests. “We’ve tried to beef it up and call in extra mascots,� Burks says. “The Easter Bunny will be here this year.� The change frees up Lewis’ time to focus on events like Family Week, a fall event where parents spend time on campus with students. The Easter egg hunt isn’t the only casualty of UM’s ongoing crisis: The administration also canceled this year’s International Culture and Food Festival, a beloved, decades-old tradition usually held in the University Center in spring, attributing the cancellation to budget cutbacks and staff turnover. (Administration say the festival could return in 2018.) We can’t help but wonder—how much more egg-streme can UM’s budget woes get?
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Spending a windfall Darby schools dream big with $3 million donation by Derek Brouwer
“We’re seeing a level of thought and Build a performing arts center. Pave nificant in a valley known for giving its the parking lot. Create a student-run retire- schools short shrift. One way of measuring openness that we didn’t see before,” ment village. The ideas discussed around how well school districts in Montana are Olson says. tables at the Darby Community Clubhouse funded is to compare their budgets to the Endowment funds have been used to on March 16 would be pie in the sky to legal maximum set by a state formula. Most help purchase the new online curriculum most small schools, especially this one in districts are funded at over 90 percent of platform, laptops for students and other the remote Bitterroot Valley, where only the limit, but only one district in Ravalli materials. Moreover, without the new 330 K-12 students are enrolled in the dis- County—Hamilton—is in that category. money, Rennaker says, he probably wouldtrict’s two schools, which share a campus. Add the endowment revenues to Darby’s n’t have considered adopting the new apBut since an unprecedented dona- budget and the district jumps to the same proach when he first encountered it at an tion fell into the Darby School District’s budgetary category as its bigger academic educators’ conference. lap, school officials and Darby residents brother in Ravalli County. To decide how to spend the endowhave been dreaming big. During commuThat boost is changing what the ment funds, officials have turned to the nity forums this month, they rallied be- school district imagines as possible. One community for ideas. Not only is such colhind their biggest dream of all: laboration “the right thing to turning a cash-strapped district do,” Rennaker says, but it has into a draw for families and, in helped district leaders think doing so, giving renewed purbroadly about how to optimize pose to a former logging town community benefit. The that’s been cast adrift. school’s internet network, for instance, can eventually be ex“Realtors tell prospective tended to Darby businesses buyers to avoid Darby,” superinand residents interested in tendent Loyd Rennaker told the purchasing high-speed inter20 or so people gathered for the net access. And a new outreach first of two Clubhouse forums. position funded by the endow“We’re trying to change that ment, held by 2008 Darby mentality.” graduate Shelby Rogala, is foThe gift came from 1949 photo by Derek Brouwer cused on strengthening comDarby graduate Archie Lorentzen, who left three-fourths of his estate At a March 16 forum, community members talk about munity ties with the school. to his alma mater when he died in how to spend a 2015 donation to benefit students—and “A lot of times what we Dec. 2014. The district has received the town at large. hear is, ‘All the school does is more than $2.8 million so far, with want, want, want.’” Rennaker one of Lorentzen’s properties still says. “We really have the abilto be sold. It’s an amount of money equal to of the first endowment-funded projects ity to give back to the community.” the district’s annual general fund budget, or was the installation on the campus of The potential for a high-achieving school nearly $8,500 per student. fiber-optic broadband internet, which to transform the town was a recurring theme Private money plays an increasing role went live this month. The money has also at the Clubhouse forum. “The kids in Darby in public schools nationwide, but rarely in helped the district become more ambi- get shafted a lot because the town used to the proportion seen in Darby. (The Mis- tious in its teaching. Last fall, the high have the worst reputation in western Monsoula Education Foundation, for instance, school began rolling out a personalized tana,” Judy Estler, an attendee, told the Indy raised $216,000 for Missoula schools be- learning curriculum, which trades tradi- afterwards. “A lot of people still feel that way, tween 2012 and 2015.) And fundraising, tional lecture-based classroom instruction and the kids bear the brunt of that.” whether through a district-wide foundation for a project-based approach that gives Estler moved to Darby 17 years ago or school-level raffle, tends to be most students more freedom to set their own and has no direct personal tie to the disschedules and work at their own pace. In trict, but she now volunteers to read with fruitful in wealthier communities. Lorentzen’s gift was especially notable Nate Olson’s science class, it’s yielded children and believes the school is making because it came with no strings attached. more one-on-one time with his students strides toward improvement. And as go Rather than expend the money all at once, and new projects that include studying Darby’s schools, she has reason to hope, school district trustees decided to create mule-deer habitat and analyzing how so goes Darby. an endowment that will yield close to much electricity the school could save by $150,000 annually. Even that amount is sig- installing LED lights. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Last defense Activists employ ‘necessity’ strategy in pipeline trials by Alex Sakariassen
Ken Ward has no interest in going to jail. This much he made clear in early March in a BuzzFeed News video viewed by nearly a million people on social media. But jail may be what the future holds for Ward and four other activists who simultaneously shut down five oil pipelines in four states on Oct. 11, 2016. As the Indy learned in December from Leonard Higgins, the Oregon man now facing up to 10 years in Deer Lodge for his role in the shutdown, the possibility of incarceration paled in comparison to the prospect of doing nothing in the face of climate change. “Bottom line: We’re facing a far greater threat than prison,” Higgins said the day after his Dec. 6 arraignment in Chouteau County. The months since Higgins, Ward and their cohorts broke into remote pipeline valve stations with bolt cutters have been packed with shifting trial dates, court hearings and, in Ward’s case, a hung jury. Higgins is currently scheduled for a pretrial hearing in Fort Benton in May, with a tentative trial date of July 18. According to 350 Montana chair Jeff Smith, whose nonprofit hosted an event with Higgins late last year, Higgins plans to return to Missoula May 13 and 14 for speaking appearances that will double as a pitch for support in his legal battle. He’s facing charges of misdemeanor criminal trespass and felony criminal mischief for breaking into a Spectra Express Pipeline station several miles south of Big Sandy and manually closing the shut-off valve. There’s no debating the facts of what Higgins did. All the valve turners’ actions were livestreamed on social media, and Higgins has talked openly about the months of planning and preparation that went into the shutdown. Higgins doesn’t plan to refute any of this in court. Instead, he plans to enter a so-called necessity defense, arguing that given the responsibility to protect innocent people from the ravages of climate change, he had no choice but to take illegal action. The strategy is not without precedent. Six Greenpeace activists used it in 2008 after they shut down a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England, by scaling its 200-meter smokestack. All six were cleared by a jury, prompting international news outlets to
speculate that the tactic would catch fire in the environmental community. In 2014, Ward and another climate activist employed a necessity defense to fight criminal charges over their use of a lobster boat to block delivery of a 40,000-ton coal shipment to a power station in Somerset, Mass. That case never made it to trial. Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter dropped the charges and took the opportunity to proclaim climate change “one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced.”
agit County, Wash., last month, Judge Michael E. Rickert denied Ward’s request to present a necessity defense, citing “tremendous controversy” over whether climate change even exists. Rickert’s denial of the necessity defense wasn’t especially surprising, O’Hara says, but his denial of climate science was troubling. The case—which ended with a hung jury— is set to be retried in early May, giving Ward’s team time to refine their approach. Rickert’s reception may offer the valve
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Law enforcement officers lead Oregon activist Leonard Higgins away from an oil pipeline valve station in central Montana on Oct. 11, 2016. Higgins intends to argue in court that he had no choice but to break the law in order to defend others from climate change.
“When activists take these actions, they mean it,” says Jay O’Hara, Ward’s partner in the coal blockade and a founding member of the nonprofit Civil Disobedience Center, which is now supporting the valve turners with legal and financial assistance. “So how do you say, ‘I meant it?’ [The necessity defense] is less about publicity and more about embodying the convictions of, ‘This is the right thing to do. I’m not going to evade responsibility.’” The necessity defense hasn’t worked for every environmentalist who’s tried it. The “Delta Five,” a group of activists who attempted to block a crude-oil train near Seattle, took a crack at it last year to no avail, though the judge did praise them for their creative approach to the climate change issue. Ward didn’t make it even that far this time around. During his trial in Sk-
turners and their supporters a glimpse of the challenges their defense may face elsewhere. Skagit County is hardly “the bleeding heart of the Pacific Northwest,” O’Hara says, and shares quite a few parallels to Chouteau County, where Higgins will go on trial this summer. And if a Montana judge proves more receptive, O’Hara can’t imagine a better place to host a legally charged, fact-based discourse on climate change than a Fort Benton courtroom. “Montana is as good a place as any to have that conversation,” he says, “and this is exactly where these conversations should be happening. It shouldn’t be a liberal elitist conversation. It’s a conversation we need to have in the heart of America with average, everyday citizens.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Longtime readers of this column know that my political views are utterly incoherent. What understanding of American history I possess has been cobbled together from Bazooka Joe comics. I know the Constitution only insofar as fellow patrons at Flippers have explained it. Until last year, I thought jurisprudence was a sex act. But I don’t need such highfalutin concepts, because I judge the workings of government by one simple rule: Would this law make life easier for people who are doing well already? Would it make life harder for people who aren’t? And in the last two months, state legislators have introduced a spate of bills that run afoul of my rule. In February, Sen. Roger Webb, RBillings, introduced a bill that would charge with theft tenants of rental properties who leave before their leases are up. If your lease runs through August and you move out in May, SB 239 would hold you liable for criminal theft of those last three months’ rent. On Valentine’s Day, Sen. Webb also introduced SB 255, which would make courts responsible for collecting judgments against tenants for nonpayment of rent. Under current law, landlords are responsible for collecting that money, as with other civil judgments. The month before, Rep. Peggy Webb—Sen. Roger Webb’s wife, also a Republican from Billings—introduced HB 231, which would charge with criminal trespass tenants who remain in a rental property after their landlords order them to leave. Under current law, eviction is a civil process, and tenants are legally entitled to remain in their homes until that process is resolved. Its wording is somewhat vague, but HB 231 seems to make eviction an act of the landlord’s sole discretion. If your lease is up and you haven’t signed a new one, the bill would let your landlord order you to move out that day, and send you to jail if you refused. Both HB 231 and SB 239 introduce the possibility of going to prison for not
paying rent. The latter would make it a felony to break a lease, and SB 255 would shift the burden of collecting back rent from landlords to the state. Together, these three proposals dramatically alter the balance of power in landlord-tenant relationships, giving landlords authority comparable to that of criminal courts. It may shock you to learn that the Webbs own rental property. They are not alone. In the Montana Legislature,
“People who have to pay several hundred dollars each month for the privilege of living indoors might be doing well, but they can hardly be said to be doing as well as the people to whom they are writing checks.� they are surrounded by fellow landlords. As Alex Sakariassen reported in the Indy last month, when members of the Montana House were asked during consideration of HB 231 whether they own rental property, at least a quarter of those present raised their hands. Despite the near-total equality of our democratic system, certain kinds of people tend to become state legislators. Those people do not generally rent
their homes. This observation brings us back to my iron rule of politics. People who own not just their own homes, but also additional homes that they charge other people to live in, are doing pretty well. I sure wish I got a few hundred dollars every month just for owning stuff. On the other hand, people who have to pay several hundred dollars each month for the privilege of living indoors might be doing well, but they can hardly be said to be doing as well as the people to whom they are writing checks. Why, then, should we change our laws to make life easier for landlords and harder for renters? This does not seem to be a balance of power we need to correct. By definition, people who own multiple homes and properties are getting along just fine. The college students, single moms, working families and handsome but commitment-averse columnists who don’t even own one home are not exactly cutting a fat hog. When a renter moves out before her lease is up, she does not often take the money she didn’t pay her landlord and use it to buy a house to live in and another one to rent out to somebody else. Can the existing system be frustrating to landlords? Certainly, although plenty of them manage to find new tenants for those broken leases while they collect from the old ones, sometimes getting double rent out of the deal. Still, it’s a hassle and a headache. But is it an injustice? Must we rewrite the law so that people who own so much enjoy a few more advantages over people who own so little? I don’t imagine that’s the legacy the Webbs hope to leave Montana, and I know it’s not what we need a legislature for. The government is there to protect people who would be in trouble without it. The landlords have a way of taking care of themselves. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture, and the kind of pinko reasoning your landlord warned you against at combatblog.net.
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Past is present Standing Rock and the lessons of Andrew Jackson by Gundars Rudzitis
Democracies don’t usually wage war on their own citizens, and, in particular, on peaceful demonstrators. Yet what images were evoked when you saw news photos of police attacking the “water protectors” at Standing Rock with dogs, tear gas, Mace, rubber bullets, water cannons? The beating, tear-gassing and fire-hosing of peaceful demonstrators during the civil-rights marches of the 1960s. During nearly a year of peaceful protests, Native Americans and their supporters were met continually by armed police and raw power. Protesters were under constant surveillance, subjected to floodlights at night and aircraft flying overhead. Open land became a militarized landscape, patrolled by police outfitted in full riot gear. And once again, the oppression was directed at the very poorest members of our society. The Standing Rock Reservation has an unemployment rate of about 60 percent. Forty percent of the people live in poverty, and the reservation has among the nation’s highest death and suicide rates. This is a place of despair by any statistical measure, and yet there’s still a sense of home and attachment for the people who live there. What was the dispute about? A pipeline that, given proper consultation with the tribe, could have been located elsewhere while respecting and honoring the wishes and concerns of the Standing Rock Sioux. The tensions increased to the extent that, before leaving office, the Obama administration pressured the Army Corps of Engineers to halt construction and require a full environmental impact statement on the pipeline. In ordering a full EIS, the Obama administration was belatedly rectifying what should have been done in the first place. A full EIS is required under the National Environmental Policy Act whenever the government undertakes a “major federal action.” Yet the new Donald Trump administration wasted no time in canceling the environmental impact statement and granting the easement that is required by law in order to finish the pipeline.
Represented by the nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota has asked the Washington, D.C., federal district court to set aside Trump's pipeline reversal, charging that the Army Corps of Engineers’ actions “are arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion” and
“Indian hopes for the future, whatever they were in the 1800s, were destroyed and foreclosed upon. We will never know in what ways the many individual tribal societies would have emerged and grown, had we let them do so.” otherwise not in accordance with the law. A decision is expected in April. What the Trump administration is doing is shameful, an act whose roots extend back to an American holocaust. Trump almost seems to be channeling President Andrew Jackson, whose portrait he has displayed in the Oval Office. Jackson orchestrated what we would now call an ethnic cleansing—
the removal of Indian tribes from their lands in the East to the newly established Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Jackson’s removal order meant that thousands of Indians were sent to their deaths on a forced march to Oklahoma, now known to history as the Trail of Tears. It is estimated that one-quarter of the 16,000 Indians who were uprooted died on the way. This past informs our present: Standing Rock was, in part, spawned by the various forms of genocide perpetrated on Indian tribes, a truth that Western historians have long recounted. Indian hopes for the future, whatever they were in the 1800s, were destroyed and foreclosed upon. We will never know in what ways the many individual tribal societies would have emerged and grown, had we let them do so. Will we once again, as in the past, destroy the ability of tribal people to live as they wish, to create their own future? Recently, a group of Indians arrived in Washington, D.C., and gathered on the mall to protest the pipeline. Meanwhile, at least one U.S. senator has asked the FBI why “anti-terrorism” specialists visited some of the Standing Rock activists. Are we now going to start classifying nonviolent water protectors as terrorists? We need to come to terms with our treatment of Indians. While we cannot erase what happened or wipe out the crimes already committed, we are responsible for the kind of society we now live in and create. We must finally begin to honor Indian treaties and to respect Indian lands and sacred sites, not arrest and imprison Indian people for fighting for their sovereign rights and freedom. Is this really too much to ask in the land of the “free”? Gundars Rudzitis is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes in Port Townsend, Washington, where he is a professor emeritus in the geography department of the University of Idaho.
missoulanews.com • March 23–March 30, 2017 [11]
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ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT – Perhaps there are parents who (according to the Cinepolis movie chain) long to watch movies in theaters while their children (aged 3 and up) frolic in front in a “jungle-gym” playground inside the same auditorium. If so, the company’s two “junior” movie houses (opening this very week in San Diego and Los Angeles) may bring a new dimension to “family entertainment.” Another view, though, is that the noise (often “screaming”), plus the overhead lighting required for parents to monitor their tykes’ equipment-usage, plus the planned $3per-ticket surcharge, will soon create (according to the Guardian critic) a moviegoing “apocalypse.” CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in January granted IBM’s 2010 application for a patent on “out-of-office” email message software (even though such messages have, of course, been ubiquitous for two decades) after the company finally convinced examiners that its patent had enough software tweaks on it to qualify. (Critics, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, laughed at the uselessness of the tweaks.) Also in January, the office granted Daniel Dopps a patent for “adhesive vaginal lipstick,” which his Mensez Technologies claims can cause the labia minora to tighten so strongly as to retain menstrual fluid until the woman can deal with buildup in privacy. NEWS OF THE PRETENTIOUS – Why live with a cat if one cannot take it out for some wine together? The Apollo Peak in Denver and the Pet Winery in Fort Myers, Florida, serve a variety of the real grape to humans and nonalcoholic proprietary drinks for the kitties to enjoy tableside (or underneath). “Pinot Meow” ($12) in Denver and “Meow and Chandon” ($15) in Fort Myers, are specialties—basically watered catnip, according to a February New York Times report (so the felines can also get buzzed). The wine outing is the human’s preference, of course, with a loftier cachet than the “happy hour” most cats might prefer (say, a “sardine bar”). “I tried the $5,000 hamburger, and it was absolutely worth it,” wrote the apparently straight-faced CNBC reviewer Robert Frank in February, describing his meal at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay restaurant Fleur. (The burger included Waygu beef, foie gras and truffles, and was served with a similarly inexplicably priced wine.) Other recent consumer challenges: an $18 cup of coffee at Brooklyn’s Extraction Lab; a $100 bottle of Norwegian iceberg water (Svalbardi.com); a $2,000 pizza at New York City’s Industry Kitchen (caviar, truffles, gold flakes); and a $25,000 taco at the Grand Velas Los Cabos resort in Mexico (caviar, brie, Kobe beef, langoustine lobster, rare tequila— and once again with the gold flakes). WAIT, WHAT? – Anglers fighting to preserve choice spots on the fishing pier on Sebastian Inlet, north of Vero Beach, Florida, have taken to tossing lead weights and other items at “competitors,” especially those who approach the pier to fish directly from their boats. Such territory marking by the “piersters” includes, according to a February report in Florida Today, perhaps a version of classic mammal behavior, like strategic urination and hurling their feces at the waterborne invaders. GOVERNMENT IN ACTION – Illinois has problems: a $130 billion unfunded pension crisis, 19 months without a budget, the lowest credit rating and highest property taxes in the country, and the murder rate in Chicago. However, at least the state House of Representatives is not standing by idly. In February, it moved to designate October 2017 as Zombie Preparedness Month (basically, adding “zombie invasion” to the list of mobilizations for any natural disaster and urging residents to stockpile food and supplies for up to 72 hours). Lawyers for former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., have convinced federal officials that his bipolar disorder was “caused” by the stress of being a congressman and thus that he is entitled to “total disability” worker compensation for an “on-the-job” injury—and thus to about $100,000 a year, tax-free, according to a February Chicago Tribune report. (Jackson, 51, also receives Social Security disability payments.) Lawyers said his disorder (often attributed to genetic factors) surfaced during an investigation into Jackson’s looting of his campaign treasury for luxury goods and vacations (charges eventually settled with a guilty plea). Jackson dated his onset to June 2012, meaning that his last 72 House votes came while “totally” disabled. BRIGHT IDEAS – A councilman in Overtornea, Sweden, introduced a bill (a “motion”) that workers be given paid “sex breaks” during the business day in order to improve well-being and, thus, job performance. The primary beneficiaries would be married, fertile couples, but all workers would receive the benefit. And employers, said Councillor Per-Erik Muskos, would have to “trust” their employees because some surely would “cheat” (by not having sex!). Thanks This Week to Jim Weber, Elaine Weiss, Bob Stewart, Neb Rodgers, Robin Daley, Mark Hazelrigg, Gerald Thomason, Paul Kaplan, Alex Boese, and Chuck Hamilton, among others, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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ack in late January, Gov. Steve Bullock used his State of the State address to send a message to the Republican majorities in the 2017 Montana Legislature: When tackling the painful and oft-controversial task of cutting the budget, be fair. You’ve no doubt heard the buzz, read the headlines, maybe even tuned in to a legislative committee hearing or two. Lawmakers in Helena are trimming much more than fat this time around. Stagnant wages left the state with less-than-stellar income tax revenues last year. Couple that with sizable drops in oil and gas production taxes and corporate income taxes, and Montana’s elected officials are clearly faced with some tough decisions. How tough? Well, that’s what we’re here to find out. The conversation started last fall when Bullock rolled out a budget proposal calling for $74 million in cuts to state agencies. His general-fund budget pitch came out just north of $4.7 billion, and he insisted on several tax increases so as to close out the biennium with $300 million still in the coffers. The Legislature then upped the ante, adding a further $50 million in reductions to Bullock’s requested cuts. The governor’s wish-list revenue enhancements—including a suggested 6-percent consumption tax for medical marijuana and a higher income tax rate for Montanans raking in $500,000 or more a year—haven’t gotten much traction either. Long story short: The past few months have been far from pleasant at the Capitol, and despite
impassioned overtures from numerous agencies—as well as the Montana residents they serve—-the Republican-crafted budget contained in House Bill 2 was passed to the state Senate last week. Of course, Montana’s not alone in its budget pain. The news cycle this month has been dominated by panic over the sweeping cuts proposed by President Donald Trump to federal departments like Agriculture ($4.7 billion), Health and Human Services ($15.1 billion) and the EPA ($2.5 billion). Trump has also proposed eliminating funding entirely for 19 agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporations for Public Broadcasting, the Chemical Safety Board and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Meanwhile, he wants to increase defense spending by $54 billion. While alarm bells are sounding at the national level, they’re sounding here, too, as the budget crafted in Helena is where the rubber really meets the road for Montanans—and where citizens can arguably exercise far greater influence. What follows is a glimpse into a few key areas of the state budget in which proposed cuts go particularly deep. It’s by no means a complete guide to the haggling between legislators and the executive branch over how to balance the state’s books, but it does provide insight into how the conversation has evolved since the first gavel fell in January. We offer it in the hope of inspiring readers to dig deeper, pay attention, and speak up. Because no one in Montana is escaping the process unscathed.
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among states in total funding per student, and Christian worries that any budget cuts could plunge it to “dead last.” The Legislature won’t set tuition rates, though. As House budget-master Nancy Ballance, R-Hamilton, reminded legislators at a recent committee hearing, that’s the Board of Regents’ job. And the regents are unlikely to plug the budget hole with tuition alone, in part because the hole is larger than it looks on paper. To maintain current operations, the university system would require a budget bump of around $14 million annually, according to Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Analysis Tyler Trevor. To account for that gap and the 2.5 percent
There’s one word in the Montana University System vocabulary that’s gone unspoken for most of the last decade: tuition. Tuition hasn’t budged at the state’s flagship campuses, including the University of Montana, for six of the last 10 years, thanks to a “tuition freeze” policy under which state lawmakers agreed to cover basic cost increases to keep the universities running. Now comes the thaw. Even under the budget proposed by Gov. Bullock last November, students likely would have been asked to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for school going forward. The Montana House of Representatives is after a
[14] Missoula Independent • March 23–March 30, 2017
bigger shakedown still. The budget bill passed by the House on March 16 cuts university system funding by $6.2 million each of the next two years, a roughly 2.5 percent drop. The Montana University System hasn’t taken a cut that large in more than a decade. In fact, state support for campuses has increased by $42 million since 2012 (see graph on pg. 15). But, as Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian argued to legislators, that hardly means Montana colleges are flush with taxpayer cash. Twenty-five years ago, the state funded more than 76 percent of university system campus budgets. This year it paid for 38 percent. Montana ranks 48th
cut, tuition rates would have to increase by roughly $850 per year for Montana students enrolled at the flagships. Currently, UM and Montana State University are something of a bargain, charging on average $2,000 less per year than their regional counterparts. Meanwhile, UM and several other campuses are already dealing with shrinking budgets due to declining student enrollment. “To compound cuts on top of those cuts would be pretty catastrophic for some of those institutions,” Christian told the House Appropriations Committee this month. He was followed by a train of supporters, including a group of students who
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Arntzen is resisting both changes, calling the elimination of the Natural Resource Development payment a tax shift to property taxpayers. OPI spokesperson Dylan Klapmeier says the superintendent is confident the Legislature will “continue putting Montana students first.” But Dennis Parman, executive director of the Rural
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The story is different for public schools this session—so far. Lawmakers swiftly approved inflationary funding increases in state aid to local K-12 districts, which makes up the bulk of the Office of Public Instruction’s nearly billion-dollar annual budget and is required by law. The OPI, under the direction of new state Superintendent Elsie Arntzen, volunteered to take a roughly 3 percent cut to its statelevel operations. (See graph at right.) More worrisome to education advocates is whether the Legislature will look for opportunities to whittle away at the inflationary increases it has already approved. Within the big pot of state aid to schools are a series of smaller payments, each of which is required by law. Bullock, in his executive budget, proposed statutory changes that would eliminate two of those smaller payments, totalling about $17 million over the biennium. One of those payments is called “Data for Achievement,” and gives school districts $20 per student to offset the costs of state and federal reporting requirements. The other is the Natural Resource Development payment.
Education Association, says he’s nervous. As it currently stands, K-12 funding is “close to what the budget will bear,” but Parman, a former OPI deputy superintendent, worries that school funding battles may lie ahead. “I’m not sure that the Legislature’s done with school funding,” he says.
Sheila Hogan, this year’s newly minted director of Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), didn’t mince words when addressing the House Appropriations Committee on March 8. She characterized the cuts proposed for her agency across the next biennium as “dangerously deep”— deep enough to potentially compromise the DPHHS mission to “improve and protect the health, well-being and self-reliance of all Montanans.” Hogan’s warning prompted a strong rebuke from Rep. Ballance, who took the opportunity to admonish, in advance, any other speakers who might fail to appreciate the distinction between budget cuts and appropriations below what agencies had requested. “We are not cutting the budget,” Ballance said. “We are giving you less of an increase than you asked for, in many, many cases. I think you have mischaracterized what this committee is doing, what we intend to do, and we will not have that from additional speakers.” Funding for DPHHS has become one of the most contentious issues in the 2019 biennium budget debate. Along with education, Hogan’s agency accounts for one of the largest chunks of the state’s budget, a fact that Rep. Rob Cook, R-Conrad, pointed out in an attempt to “disabuse” critics of the notion that health and education were “unfairly
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spoke of the importance of higher education in their lives. When they finished, Ballance assured them the proposed cuts aren’t personal. “Any cuts that we make in no way reflects our opinion of the value we believe the university system brings to you,” she said, “and that you bring to the state of Montana.”
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aging Montanans poised to crash down on the state in coming decades. Numerous state studies have predicted that by 2030, a quarter of Montana’s population will be over the age of 65. The aging of Montana has been one of the most talked-about statistics in the Leg-
islature’s debate over funding for DPHHS, specifically the agency’s Senior and Longterm Care Division. That division does a hell of a lot for the state’s elderly and disabled population, from facilitating in-home caregiver services to investigating elder abuse. These are the dollars that fund
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targeted” for reductions. Thanks to federal dollars, funding for DPHHS as outlined in HB 2 is actually about $124 million more than what the Legislature appropriated in 2015—and just below $4.4 billion, all told. However, certain agency divisions are facing major cuts under the current proposal (more on that in a bit), while others are facing more modest ones. For example: the Disability Employment and Transitions Division. It’s a small but critical cog in DPHHS’ machinery, tasked with such duties as determining which Montanans qualify for disability benefits through Social Security and helping youth and adults with disabilities find high-quality employment. The program that equips deaf Montanans with the technology to communicate by phone? That’s Disability Employment and Transitions (see graph above). After initially proposing a $2.1 million reduction, Republicans did plug $200,000 back into the Disability Employment and Transitions budget this month for independent-living contracts, which support services for people with disabilities. But the division is still being asked to swallow a $1.9 million reduction, bringing its projected biennium budget to just under $57 million. Ballance’s semantics aside, that’s a cut. And for DPHHS, it’s just one of many. That’s because a “silver tsunami” is coming. Rep. Bridget Smith, D-Wolf Point, offered this forecast on the House floor March 16, in reference to the tidal wave of
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$24,652,954
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Meals on Wheels, that help older folks get around, get dressed, even get up in the morning without giving up their independence completely. “If you can’t get out of bed, you can’t go to work and become a taxpayer, you can’t go visit friends, you can’t have a life,” says Travis Hoffman, advocacy coordinator for the Missoula-based nonprofit Summit Independent Living, which administers state and federally funded direct-care services. “Without these services, the only other option ... is nursing home services.” But the importance of the division’s services—and the reality that even more Montanans will rely on them in the future— hasn’t stopped Republican lawmakers from pushing for $53.1 million in cuts to the division’s budget over the next biennium (see graph below). Reps. Cook and Jon Knokey argue that the massive reductions are a reflection of the fact that, for several bienniums now, Senior and Long-term Care has spent tens of millions less than legislators have allocated. Cook and Knokey did insert more than $23 million in federal funds into the division’s budget in mid-March, bringing the cuts down to $29.8 million, at least on paper. However, the state can’t actually access those federal funds unless matching state money is plugged into the budget. So far, Republicans have failed to do that. Instead, they’ve demanded that Bullock return the $10 million that he pulled from Medicaid earlier this year to fund highway construction. As legislators bicker over politics, Hoffman says, “people’s lives, who depend on these services, basically hang in the balance.”
2015
2018
2019
$70,000,000 $65,000,000 $0 2011
lion from MDT’s construction budget. Larry Flynn, the chief financial officer at MDT, says the Legislature’s current proposal restores funding for construction projects—but it removes the budget for 79 administrative staffers and reduces the department’s tech-
2016
nology funds by 40 percent. The technology budget pays for things such as mountainpass cameras and road-condition-report systems. Flynn says he isn’t yet sure whether cuts to the technology budget will translate to a reduction of public services.
Other
TRANSPORTATION Federal Funds
35.86%
59.2%
Transportation Department funding sources in current budget.
Source: Montana Department of Transportation
4.94%
State Funds
As the Russell Street bridge continues to creak and sway, the Legislature is still trying to solve the Montana Department of Transportation’s budget problems. MDT mostly relies on federal matching funds to complete its work (see chart at right.) But without the state funding, the projects aren’t eligible for the federal match. That means big projects, including the Russell Street bridge, are in danger if the Legislature doesn’t appropriate the money. And money for transportation is tight. The state Highway Fund relies on gas tax revenues, which have been decreasing over the last few years as vehicles become more fuel efficient. Before the session started, Gov. Bullock proposed a budget that would cut $144 mil-
$80.3 million
2014
$80 million
2013
$86 million
2012
$84.1 million
$75,000,000
$81.7 million
$80,000,000
$79.4 million
$85,000,000
$78.4 million
*Annual legislative appropriations
2017
*red indicates projected budget levels currently proposed under House Bill 2 Source: Montana Department of Labor and Industry
Department of Labor and Industry $78 million
In Montana—a state that ranked thirdhighest in the nation for workplace deaths in 2015—the Department of Labor and Industry predicts that the budget’s proposed reduction of its health and safety staff will lead to more accidents (see graph at right). The state Health and Safety Bureau is tasked with ensuring safe work environments in public buildings, such as universities and schools. The department estimates that safety specialists mitigated 1,100 potential hazards in school buildings last year. The current draft of the Legislature’s proposal defunds five of the department’s six staffers. “We’re essentially going to have to shut down that section of our bureau,” says Employment Relations Division Administrator Eric Strauss. “So there’d be no safety compliance over public entities.” The Health and Safety bureau receives $500,000 from an annual tax that’s levied on employers, Strauss says. Legislators who made the cuts say their intention is to reduce taxes on businesses. “We didn’t feel it was responsible to put that cost on employers,” said Rep. Brad Tschida, R-Missoula, in a February legislative hearing regarding cuts to DLI. Strauss says employers may save some money on their taxes, but he expects that they’ll in turn have to pay higher workforce compensation insurance premiums as result of the reduced safety oversight. Across the board, DLI is facing a $5 million reduction in its 2018 operating funds and a similar reduction in 2019. DLI spokesman Jake Troyer says the cuts will impact department services including Job Service offices, Human Rights Bureau investigations, unemployment benefits, business licensing and permits, and tribal workforce development programs.
$72.7 million
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Flynn says his department is most concerned about the prospect of cutting staff and whether doing so would jeopardize the department’s ability to comply with federal requirements for management of transportation projects. “The Legislature’s perspective is that’s the best way to give us the money,” Flynn says. “But the challenge that we have is we lose the ability to oversee the federal program we’re trying to manage.” MDT’s budget outlook could change if the Legislature adopts a solution that’s been touted by the Montana Infrastructure Coalition. MIC Executive Director Darryl James says the coalition is pushing the Legislature to adopt an 8-cent increase to the state gas tax. HB 473, proposed by Frank Garner, R-Kalispell, seeks to do just that. It would raise an additional $60 million in revenue, which would go back toward construction projects. James says everyone agrees that the state could use the revenue—it’s just a matter of whether the coalition can convince anti-tax legislators. “There’s a general anti-tax sentiment, and generally concerns about a tax of this nature being regressive,” James says. “I think from a practical standpoint the coalition would argue that it’s not a matter of it being a regressive tax, it’s a direct user fee. If you use the roads more, you pay more.” On March 20, the House Transportation Committee voted 10-3 in favor of raising the state gas tax from 27 cents a gallon to 35 cents a gallon. The tax hike now awaits approval from the House. editor@missoulanews.com
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What, her worry? Caitlin Hofmeister keeps perspective on ‘You’re doing just fine’ by Erika Fredrickson
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aitlin Hofmeister is not a person you expect to be contemplating failure. She holds one of the most coveted jobs in Missoula—maybe anywhere—as a producer, writer and co-host for several highly successful YouTube-funded series, including SciShow, a science-education program with more than 4 million subscribers and advertisements plastered on billboards and bus stops nationwide. On one episode of SciShow, Hofmeister digs into the difference between astronauts and cosmonauts. On another, she regales viewers with the latest science surrounding black holes and a disappearing island on one of Saturn’s moons. But like a lot of people who spend a ton of time online, Hofmeister has found herself increasingly sucked into the internet’s own black holes of unrealistic pro tips and lifehacks, mean-spirited listicles and shaming articles about what a person should achieve before turning 30. The experience, she says, got her thinking about the pressure she feels to self-improve while hiding her worst mistakes from the world—and she wondered if other people felt that way, too. “I was going through a phase where I was reading a lot of stuff with titles like, ‘How to pay off your loans really fast’ or ‘I just stopped drinking lattes and now I have a six pack and own an empire,’” she says, laughing. “It’s self-help stuff that’s under the guise of being inspirational— the kind of thing that makes you feel productive just by reading it. But instead of feeling better, it was just starting to make me feel bad.” Hofmeister recently started “You’re Doing Just Fine,” a podcast she describes as “celebrat[ing] real people and the shortcomings and failures that make up real life.” The title is a kind of answer to the questions Hofmeister was asking herself: Am I doing it wrong? Am I a bad person? “I was working at my job and I didn’t really have time to read a bunch of stuff about starting a podcast,” she says. “But I took some time Googling ‘podcast,’ and then ‘you’re okay,’ and then ‘you’re doing just fine,’ which were things I wanted to be true. So that’s the phrase I came up
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Caitlin Hofmeister, a producer for popular YouTube series SciShow, recently created a podcast about human failure.
with, because I wanted it to be a thing. And it wasn’t a thing that I could find.” The first episode of “You’re Doing Just Fine” is an introduction to the concept, with Hofmeister talking about her fear of starting a new project, even as a person who has experience working on a major YouTube channel. On the second episode, she interviews local musician Caroline Keys about her new band, Caroline Keys and the Lane Splitters. It’s a casual conversation in which Keys talks about her love of music, but at the heart of the discussion are uncertainties: the risk of putting songs out into the world, “imposter syndrome,” and Keys’ unease at her transition from backup singer and musician to frontwoman. The problems are utterly ordinary, even as
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they’re dressed in the details of Keys’ life. And that’s kind of the point of talking about frustration and failure: It’s relatable. At the beginning of the project, Hofmeister made a list of 30 people, many of them artists, whose brains she wanted to pick about failure. The third episode focuses on Wartime Blues frontman and songwriter Nate Hegyi. “He was at the top of my list because he went through a quarter-life crisis after a couple big moves and a break-up—and then a break-up that didn’t fully break,” Hofmeister says. “I got to witness this period in his life where he would try a new thing and try a new thing and he was really running at everything head on, and he would crash and burn. And then he’d run at a new thing
head on. I know he must have been really frustrated working through that, but it was awesome to witness.” The title “You’re Doing Just Fine” is key to understanding the way Hofmeister views the world. In 2012, when she was in film school at the University of Montana, she made a short in which the main character goes through some major struggles. Despite the darkness, the final scene ends with the main character saying, “Goodbye, and thanks for coming.” Editors wanted to cut the line to tighten up the story, but for Hofmeister, that line gave the entire film the bright turn it needed. “I’ve always been that way,” she says. “You’re Doing Just Fine” comes out of Hofmeister’s interest in the things peo-
ple gloss over—the little sentences dropped in conversation that make you realize there’s more going on than you know. “There’s not necessarily a way to bring some things up,” she says. “You can’t really say, ‘Hey, I know you guys are struggling to have kids right now because you mentioned something. What’s that like?’ There’s just not really a normal time to say that. So I thought maybe if I have a microphone, I’d be allowed to ask these questions of people—because these are issues we can all sympathize with.” Visit Caitlin Hofmeister at justfinepodcast.com. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Horning in Mega Bog’s Erin Birgy talks sax appeal by Josh Vanek
Mega Bog is Brooklyn’s Erin Birgy accompanied by a rotating cast of Brooklyn- and Seattle-based musicians, including Will Murdoch from Iji and Meg Duffy of Hand Habits. In a lot of ways, the songs evoke Belle and Sebastian, Lush and Throwing Muses. It’s the saxophone, though, that transports me back almost 30 years to basement sleepovers spent watching Miami Vice. Having endured so much “You Belong to the City” in my youth now makes any saxophone some kind of trigger for a time when it seemed possible that two rogues with five-o’clock shadows and billowy, pastel pants could make south Florida a safer place. But Mega Bog’s photo by Adam Gundersheimer music has an airy, rainy, hardMega Bog is Erin Birgy, above, and a rotating cast of musicians to-pin-down quality that does- from Brooklyn to Seattle. n’t feel like a throwback. It’s just that it’s unusual for indie rock to prominently nity that you’ve chosen to make your family, and how feature an instrument (especially a tenor sax) with sometimes it goes well, and other times it doesn’t. so much potential baggage. I can’t help but love Do you find at all that the saxophone is polarizing? Mega Bog for embracing it unironically. EB: People decide if they hate it or they like it, On the band’s latest effort, Happy Together, the songs seem to be cut from some larger cloth, but it’s not really polarizing anymore. It’s just a really like samples of some grander production instead cool way to add an orchestral feeling to a piece of of independent products with beginnings, middles music without an orchestra. The new record [after and ends. This is music that feels like it was cre- Happy Together] is kind of taking a different route, ated effortlessly, all in one take, but in reality was with a lot of different horns and wind instruments— probably the result of hundreds of hours of jam- mostly clarinet and flute. It will come out at the end ming, refining and getting comfortable with a of 2017 or early next year. sound. Mega Bog has played Missoula a few times now, You live in New York now, but moved there from Seatand in advance of its upcoming show at Free Cycles, tle. How would you compare making music in those we asked Birgy a few questions about saxophones, two places? EB: They’re not truly comparable, really. In Happy Together and making music in New York. New York people fill their schedules and are kind of maniacal with time, whereas in Seattle you kind Where did you grow up? Erin Birgy: I grew up all over out west. I was of keep things open and flexible. So, instead of playborn in Lewiston, Idaho. I lived in the mountains ing in other people’s bands, I’ve focused more on with my mom and my horse Rose on a ranch in Mega Bog. It’s an experience. It’s not necessarily Kamiah, Idaho. We moved to Reno, then moved to more stressful, because I’m doing less playing in other people’s bands. I’m grateful for the New York Washington state. feeling, and I’m also learning to get some space from New York. What is Happy Together about? Mega Bog plays a potluck at Free Cycles Sat., EB: It’s about a lot of things, if I were to say it categorically. It’s about trying to understand friendships March 25, along with Ancient Forest and Shahs. and the good and the harm that can come from them. arts@missoulanews.com It’s about learning to communicate with the commu-
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[music]
No filter Scott H. Biram’s pretty train wreck The music of Scott H. Biram, aka The Dirty Old One-Man Band, serves as a convincing polemic against musical pigeonholing. The Austin musician is a mad chef set loose in the kitchen with nothing but a guitar and a blowtorch, but he’ll turn out tasty dishes all day long, including those on his latest album, The Bad Testament. The plaintive vocal on the second track, “Still Around,” floats on a river of reverb as he sings, “I am the weapon in your hand/I am the storm that drags you down.” It’s a raw but pretty slice of alt-country. After “Red Wine” electrifies things a bit, “Trainwrecker” hits like a firehose with furious fuzzed-out guitar played at a breakneck pace. Biram is all over the place on this album, sounding at one moment like your depressed
buddy singing in the backyard after eight cans of Busch, then like a raging punk band spitting invective from some shithole stage. Tempos speed up and slow down, the singing veers off-key and the playing is more about passion than precision. Consistency seems an afterthought—it sounds like each song was recorded in a different broom closet at the puzzle factory. But this maelstrom of a collection comes straight from the soul. No filter, no editor. Just a pure, unvarnished blast of honest, potent music from a guy who has a lot to say and doesn’t waste time wrapping it up in a pretty package. (Ednor Therriault) Scott H. Biram plays the Top Hat Thu., March 30, at 9 PM. $10/$8 advance.
Wormwood/WadeMade, Jouska The delight of listening to a Wormwood album is, first and foremost, the language. The local rapper Wormwood, aka Taylor McAnally, has a natural talent for hip-hop cadences and the good sense to collaborate with some solid Missoula beatmakers, but it’s his choice of words that always keeps me listening. He’s a comic-book enthusiast who went to school to write fiction, so imagery and semifancy vocabulary are part of his palette. On earlier albums, that reliance on his writerly strengths worked well for him, even if the songs weren’t exactly earworms. It was enough to hear him rap references to cult-classic and geek-friendly topics like Twin Peaks and Game of Thrones. His most recent album, Jouska, a collaboration with producer Wade Made, is more sophisticated than previous efforts, but it still resists the airbrushed feel a lot of hiphop artists reach for. On “Treatise of Equals,” Wormwood
begins with “All hands deckward, it’s monsoon season,” and then proceeds to give instructions on how to resist despair. “Mental gymnastics,” he raps, “I lost my cushion in this poison mist/but the music became my gas mask.” The best song is “Cenobite Status,” which features local rapper Acher and bassist Matt Olson, plus a sample from “You Got Me Going in Circles” by Friends of Distinction. It’s a brag tune, but it’s Wormwood bragging about his wordsmithery, so it’s funny. He compares himself to Sam Kinison and sneers about correcting people’s grammar from “Hamilton to Raleigh, Victor to Fort Laudy.” Wormwood’s lyrics here are as entertaining as always, but more elusive than ever. Jouska digs into dark ideas, but it also feels like a silver-lining playbook for the times, whether that’s the intention or not. (Erika Fredrickson)
Gag, America’s Greatest Hits Gag’s hardcore style features everything I love about this kind of music: squealy guitar feedback, fast and syncopated drum-guitar-bass parts, a bleak tone and palpable menace. America’s Greatest Hits was recorded by Dave “Captain Tripps” Harvey (of Nudity and Behead the Prophet) on Harvey’s analog four-track set-up in his Olympia, Wash., basement. Harvey has a reputation for recording some of the best underground albums of the last 15 years, and America’s Greatest Hits joins those ranks. The songs have all kinds of weird vocal echoes and spacey sounds with saxophone squall and sufficiently loud drums.
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It’s also worth noting the painting by Olympia artist Scott Young on the cover. It features a faceless guy in a leather jacket, mid-spinout on a motorcycle. It stands out as nonstandard hardcore LP jacket fare, and I think that kind of risk is important. It’s easy to just put some anarchy symbols and pictures of burned-out buildings on an album cover and call it good. The divergence marks the style of a band that doesn’t half-ass anything. The album rages for just 25 minutes, and then it’s done. Like all great hardcore, it doesn’t wear out its welcome. ( Josh Vanek)
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Mixed messages The uneven charm of Woody Harrelson’s Wilson
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Here’s the weird thing about Woody Harrelson’s title character in Wilson: He is at once cynical and uncomfortably affable, and that charms and repels the people around him in equal measure. As the film’s poster illustrates, Wilson stands too close to people at urinals and engages them in conversation. Can you imagine? Wilson is a lovable, anachronistic figure in a world where most people try to avoid conversation with strangers by arming themselves with headphones and avoiding eye contact. These things don’t deter the smartphone-lacking Wilson, who lives alone with a sweet terrier in a small house in Minnesota, overcrowded with paperbacks and VHS tapes. The plot kicks off as Wilson’s comfortable life of isolation begins to fall apart, first with the death of his father, and then when his only friends abruptly move to St. Louis. In one oddly hilarious scene, Wilson attempts to win a date with a fiery woman by slamming into the back of her car in the parking lot. That’s psychotic but touching, right? The dichotomies just keep coming. For lack of anything else to do, Wilson finds himself reconnecting with his ex-wife Pippi (Laura Dern), who had run off to Los Angeles 17 years earlier. It’s been a hard couple of decades for Pippi, but she’s back in Minnesota trying to get her life on track. The two arrive at a kind of truce, and from there they embark on an ill-fated and poorly conceived plan to reconnect with their long-lost daughter, who’s since been adopted by a rich, mean family. I had high hopes for this picture for a few reasons. First of all, Woody Harrelson is an underrated comedic mastermind. Even when he’s trapped in sub-
par films (think of his bit parts in romcoms like Friends with Benefits), his characters always deliver. Here, he’s moving away from his usual machismo and giving us instead an awkward vulnerability, and it mostly works. Second, I love a good R-rated comedy, and this one offers a lot of surprising and inappropriate outbursts that aren’t allowed in more family-friendly movies. Like the things that Pippi screams at her sister before hurling a coffee pot across the room at her face. It’s too scandalous to repeat here, even, and I dig that. Finally, the film is written and directed by Craig Johnson, whose 2014 film Skeleton Twins was both amusing and moving. It’s a much better film than Wilson, which feels more like a collection of disparate scenes and moments than the polished solidity of Skeleton Twins. This is a real mixed bag. It’s hard to recommend, and yet I hesitate to dismiss the picture entirely. Hardcore Harrelson fans will need to see this eventually, as it fits nicely into his oeuvre. And yet, I think he does best when he takes meatier supporting roles. (For example, did you see him as the deadpan teacher with heart in last year’s The Edge of Seventeen?) But I have to admit, I laughed a lot watching this film, despite its uneven structure, and even though its plotlines and characters utterly failed to move me. Should you see Wilson? I don’t know. How bored are you? Wilson opens at the Roxy Fri., March 24. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. . . tie in! Gotham’s caped crusader goes toe to toe with the Joker in the world of Lego. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.
OPENING THIS WEEK CHIPS The big screen adaptation of your weird uncle’s favorite TV show finally hits the big screen as an Rrated comedy. Just what everybody wanted! Stars Dax Shepard, Michael Peña and Kristen Bell. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.
LOGAN He’s the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice. In the near future, Marvel Comics’ resident berserker has to pull himself up by his bootstraps to protect a young girl with very familiar claws. Rated R. Stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
LIFE The crew of the International Space Station discovers proof of alien life. That’s great! Then they discover proof that the alien life really wants them all dead. That’s apocalyptic! Rated R. Stars. Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson. Playing at Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. POWER RANGERS A group of teenagers with attitude are summoned by a giant alien face to drum up nostalgia for another franchise from the ‘90s. Rated PG-13. Stars Becky G, RJ Cyler and Dacre Montgomery. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
OVER THE TOP (1987) Lincoln Hawk is a truck driver with a ridiculous name and mighty arms. Now he’s entered an arm wrestling tournament with the greatest prize of all at stake: custody of his son. Really. Rated PG. Stars Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia and Susan Blakely. Playing Wed., March 29 at 7 PM at the Roxy.
WILSON Based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Learning that he fathered a daughter seventeen years ago, a middle-aged misanthrope seeks out this child and brings his ex-wife along for the ride. Rated R. Stars Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern and Judy Greer. (See Film)
PATERSON I think that I shall never see a film as lovely as one about a bus driver with a secret journal full of poetry. Rated R. Stars Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani and Helen-Jean Arthur. Playing through Thu., March 23 at the Roxy. PERSONA (1966) After inexplicably going mute, a stage actor retreats to a remote island cottage to recover. Not Rated. Ingmar Bergman’s meditation on pain, art and truth plays Mon., March 27 at 7 PM at the Roxy.
NOW PLAYING ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) The President of the United States involved in a scandal that reaches to the highest levels of government? Hard to believe how much things have changed since Nixon. Rated PG. Stars Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Jason Robards. Playing Sun., March 26 at 5 PM at the Roxy. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST A tale as old as time, an intelligent woman falls in love with an angry, well-dressed French water buffalo in a haunted castle. Rated PG. Stars Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Emma Thompson. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex. GET OUT Chris is pretty worried about visiting his girlfriend’s parents due to his uncertainty about how they’ll react to their daughter’s interracial relationship.
“This is your final warning! This is what the costume designs for this movie actually look like!” Power Rangers opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. That and their neighborhood has a sinister history of young black men disappearing. Rated R. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams and Stephen Root star in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. HEATHERS (1988) Veronica’s teen angst develops a body count after she meets the unhinged boy of her dreams. Rated R. Stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. Playing Sat., March 25 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
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KEDI Hundreds of thousands of stray cats prowl the streets of Istanbul. This is the story of seven of them. Not Rated. Directed by Ceyda Torun. Playing at the Roxy. KONG: SKULL ISLAND Life for everybody’s favorite giant ape used to be simple until the U.S. Army started sending helicopters full of soldiers and documentarians to buzz his vacation home. Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Hiddleston, John Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
THE SHACK Spiraling into a deep depression following his daughter’s murder, a man sets off on a quest to find God. Literally, I mean. He’s going to find God in Octavia Spencer’s garage. Rated PG-13. Also stars Sam Worthington, Alice Braga and Aviv Alush. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area.
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Overturn the patriarchy with this tuna salad by Andrea Grimes
RESISTANCE KITCHEN
I may have fucked up International Women’s Day by making a tuna salad that I allowed my husband to eat half of, but don’t worry, I left the kitchen in an absolute state and I have big plans to do fuck-all about it. I have Giada De Laurentiis to thank for this tuna salad. She is one of those good, fun chefs that has been somewhat sidelined as Corny Television Cooking Lady but who in fact is as talented as anyone else, including that guy who wants us to buy his branded Crocs. That guy, of course, is Mario Batali, who wrote the foreword to De Laurentiis’ Everyday Italian cookbook, wherein he spends two pages trying to convince everyone that Giada De Laurentiis is A Real Chef, Take It From Me, The Actual Real Chef. Here’s Batali, in the front of her fucking cookbook, writing about the first time he saw de Laurentiis on the Food Network: “The first thing I noticed was that everything on the screen was beautiful—both the host and the food, which looked delicious and real and natural. Then I noticed that she really knew what she was talking about. And I realized that despite her movie-star looks, Giada isn’t on television because she’s merely attractive; she’s a real Italian girl who can cook.” Giada De Laurentiis appears not to have thrown Mario Batali into the sea upon reading this, because she is a real-life saint. Instead she put this backhanded dudery in the front of her book, probably because men like Mario Batali are still the gatekeepers to Real Chefdom,™ and if there’s not a dude with a goofy ponytail assuring everyone that the pretty girl can cook, well, it’s off to the bargain bin. This is how patriarchy works: It devalues femininity as being fundamentally opposed to professional success, the only kind of success that matters. By extension, beauty—which the patriarchy requires all women to perform—is a marker of incapability and frivolity. But this mandatory attractiveness must also be effortless—“delicious and real and natural”—or else it is fakery, which is worse than ugly, which is the only thing that’s worse than too pretty. While this web of unattainable double-triplequadruple standards is something all women must
navigate at their personal and professional peril, it is literally deadly for many: Trans women, and in particular trans women of color, are murdered for being too feminine, and for not being feminine enough. If you celebrated International Women’s Day with this tuna salad or anything else, celebrate trans women of color, too. Do it with your wallet, if you can. Womanhood is fraught and dangerous. It comes with unrealistic expectations and life-threatening risks. It comes with emotional, physical, economic and social aggressions. It comes with frustrations large and small. And sometimes it comes with having to have some guy talk about how hot you are before people will eat your food. This salad is a variation on De Laurentiis’ “fresh from the pantry” tuna salad, which is basically “combine canned tuna with other shit that it seems like canned tuna would go with.” Here, I have specified the things the tuna should go with. Ingredients 2 cans of tuna in olive oil (OLIVE OIL—YOU HEAR ME??? Tuna in vegetable oil will get you the kind of tuna salad that Mike Pence probably likes, and that is no tuna salad with which to fuck up the patriarchy.) 1 can of cannellini beans, drained and rinsed half a red onion, thinly sliced 1 pint of cherry tomatoes, halved 1 bunch of kale fistful of fresh dill, chopped hearty drizzle of olive oil hearty splash of red wine vinegar salt and pepper to taste Directions Combine everything and eat it, maybe with crackers. Resistance Kitchen is a blog about food, age and politics at resistancekitchen.tumblr.com. Andrea Grimes is a journalist for hire, Bloody Mary expert, and Texpat living in the Bay Area.
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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. $-$$
BERNICE'S IS GOING MODERATELY MAD IN MARCH!! Every day: Yes! Every day, Bernice's will feature a new item to try. "Boosting creativity is just part of the fun!" say owners Christine & Marco Littig. Savory Scone, Bees Knees, Lemon Pecan Bread, Moroccan Chicken Salad, Monkey Bread, Vegetarian Chili and more. Stop by and try something new. In addition, 2-4-1 espresso beverages! What? Yep! And Bernice's uses only Kalispell Kreamery Organic milk in their espresso. So, go MAD yourself! Buy a treat & 2-4-1 espresso, then share with a friend. xoxo bernice. $-$$
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 timehonored 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. $-$$
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Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
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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, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$
Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$
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 award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted 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. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ 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! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
The River Run at the Montana Distillery
HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: The River Run is one of the Montana Distillery’s most popular drinks. The distillery’s Soiled Dove gin is combined with muddled fresh mint and cucumber, lime and agave, and topped with soda and fresh mint. $6. The occasion: On the afternoon of St. Patrick’s Day, Montana Distillery’s mixologists wore green T-shirts, glitter and shamrock face paint while serving up Irish-themed drinks to a crowd already unwinding for the weekend. The River Run was in the lineup of holiday specials, but it’s a versatile cocktail. While Irish cream and dyed green mixers start to feel indulgent and gaudy fast, the mint and cucumber of the River Run is a drink for the entirety of spring. And it is finally spring, right? Why you’ll love it: It has great texture, for one thing. The cold muddled cucumber gives the River Run a thick, seedy consistency, and the mint sprigs add a healthy, side-salad element. In the end, though, it’s all about the gin. But I hate gin: You think you hate gin, but that’s because you’ve been drinking cheap, big-batch, juniper-heavy gin. Soiled Dove is part of the artisan gin revival, which means it has a nice balance of botanicals besides juniper: coriander, rosemary, lavender and lemon and lime peel. It’s also made with local ingredients, like sugar beets from Billings. In fact, we highly recommend you
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taste the gin on its own before trying it in a cocktail. And once you’ve tried the River Run, you’ll find a whole menu of Soiled Dove gin cocktails from which to choose, including the sweet Bee’s Knees and the spicy Wild Fire. Where to find it: At the Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St. —Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Welcome! 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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Come visit our
Sushi Chef, Allan and check out our full menu!
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
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FRI | 8 PM | WILMA Greensky Bluegrass plays the Wilma Fri., March 24. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$22 in advance.
TUE | 8 PM | WILMA Tanya Tucker plays a seated show at the Wilma Tue., March 28. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $49.50/$39.50 advance.
SUN | 9 PM | MISSOULA WINERY Foo Fighters’ lead guitarist Chris Shiflett plays a solo show at Missoula Winery and Event Center Sun., March 26. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18.
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SAT | 9:30 PM | TOP HAT The Werks play the Top Hat Sat. March 25. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30 PM. $15/$12 advance.
PLAN YOUR WHITEFISH WEEKEND AROUND ONE OF OUR FUN SPRING EVENTS! April 1 – Dummy Derby & Brewfest April 8 – Pond Skim April 9 – Closing Day Visit our events calendar online for full details.
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SAT | 8 PM | MONK’S Hip hop artist Sam Lachow plays Monk's Sat., March 25. 8 PM. $10.
SAT | 8 PM | WILMA The Infamous Stringdusters play the Wilma Sat., March 25. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$18 advance.
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Thursday Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org. Check out the new applications created by the students at Gecko Designs with a special presentation at 5 PM. Free. Bring your lunch for a free demonstration of loom weaving at the Heritage Craft Demo at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. 12 PM–1 PM. Free. Get fit and strengthen your pelvic floor and postnatal body while bonding with your baby at Kangatraining at The Women’s Club. $10. Bring your own baby. Chess in the Park starts up again with a round robin tournament at Bonner Park. Bring your own board and a $3 entrance fee. 11 AM. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
nightlife Bet it’s pretty hard to play a guitar with paws. Crazy Dog Band plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. 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. 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. Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free. Ghost Carrot Records’ residency at the VFW continues with Codependents, Milkyway and Rude Max. 9 PM. $5. Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free. Grant Farm plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades plays the Top Hat Fri., Match 24. Doors at 9 PM, Show at 10. $15/$12 advance. You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library in the board room from noon–2 PM Fridays. No registration required, just show up! The Women in Black and Veterans For Peace stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living from 2-4 PM. Call 728-1630. See crickets fed to big fuzzy spiders at the tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
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nightlife Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover. Andrea Harsell provides the tunes at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Greensky Bluegrass plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$22 in advance. General Mojo’s, Pender, Jesse the Ocelot and Father Deer play the Joe Below beneath Zootown Brew. 7 PM. $6. A spoonful of sugar isn’t required when Sophie Jester & the Medicine play the Eagles. 8 PM. Free.
The Joan Zen Band celebrates the release of its new album with a special show at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.(See Spotlight) Imagine how much crushing power it would have with a third leg! Two Foot Titan plays Monk’s. 9 PM. 18-20/$5 21-plus/$3. Are you close to going to this show? You know what they say about being close, right? Horseshoes and Hand Grenades plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, Show at 10. $15/$12 advance. Sam Waldorf bids a fond farewell to Missoula with one last show at the VFW with Lucas Biespiel, Big Shade and Class Three. 21-plus. Free.
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Saturday game at Pineview Park. Check-in at 12 PM. Free. Call Emmett at 406-3700095 for more info.
nightlife Buenos Aires musician Juan Soria plays Blacksmith Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Andre Floyd provides the blues soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. You don’t need a kayak to enjoy the music of Geoff Lake at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Hungry for some music? Or food, I guess? Free Cycles starts the night with a potluck at 6 PM and music by Mega Bog, Hand Habits, Shahs and Ancient Forest at 7 PM. $5.
Bare Bait Dance’s Surge showcases new work by Missoula’s best choreographers and local musicians at the Open Space in the PARTV Center Sat., March 25, 8 PM. You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Get your fresh produce and farm-direct goodies when Stage 112 hosts the Missoula Valley Winter Market from 9 AM–1 PM. Track snow geese migration with a two-day field trip to Freezeout Lake. Meet at 10 AM in the Kalispell K-Mart parking lot. Call 406270-0371 for more info. Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM. Get a free youth bicycle helmet at Karl Tyler’s Missoula Volkswagen. 11 AM–2 PM. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannelboard pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. So “mono” means one, and “print” means print. Create monoprints at a free family workshop at Missoula Art Museum every Saturday. 11 AM–12:30 PM. Mysterious portals have opened up all along the Kingdoms of the Sword Coast. Can you defend your country from the hordes of monsters spilling from them? Join the live action, full contact medieval fantasy war-
Minneapolis duo Collapsing Stars headline Saturday Night Live Music at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Pretty hard to find a fingerprint that way, I’d imagine. The Infamous Stringdusters play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$18 advance. Bare Bait Dance’s Surge showcases new work by Missoula’s best choreographers and local musicians at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 8 PM. $16/$14 advance. Tango Missoula hosts an introductory class and milonga social dance on the fourth Saturday of each month. The beginner lesson starts at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight. No experience or partner necessary! Potluck food and refreshments. $8/$6 for students. Hip hop artist Sam Lachow plays Monk’s. 8 PM. $10. A spoonful of sugar isn’t required when Sophie Jester & the Medicine play the Eagles. 8 PM. Free. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. $5. This is the same way I order my hoagie. The Werks play the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30 PM. $15/$12 advance. Bozeman’s Goners UK plays the VFW. 9 PM. Free. Letter B brings the best beats and bellow ballads beneath the big sky at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.
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Spotlight
zen zenith
Joan Zen has been singing her and danceable originals. For the release of their third entire life. She started her musical career singing in choirs, theaters studio album, This is the Fortunate and talent shows at a young age Life, Joan Zen and Hicks celebrate in her native Atlanta, Georgia, with a night of funk, soul and regand quickly moved on to getting gae at the Union Club, a venue frequent paid gigs performing that has been home to many of while still a teenager. Since her Zen's shows. This is the Fortunate start, Joan Zen has played music across the nation. Even after relocating to Mis- WHAT: Joan Zen Band release party soula, Joan Zen still keeps up a break- WHEN: Fri., March 24 at 9 PM neck schedule, play- WHERE: The Union Club ing an average of over 75 shows a HOW MUCH: Free year throughout Missoula, Montana and MORE INFO: joanzen.com the United States. Performing as either an acoustic duo with her husband Jason Hicks or with Life is packed full of music that her five-piece funk and reggae switches from rock to soul to band, Zen has established herself gospel and back again. The songs as one of the hardest working are all about love, compassion women in music. Zen's music and self-acceptance. Zen calls it ranges from soulful covers - includ- dharma pop. Music that endeaving a jaw-droppingly powerful ver- ors to move not just the soul, but sion of James Browns' It's a Man's your feet as well. Man's Man's World – to groovy — Charley Macorn
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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 the Humane Society of Western Montana. 12 PM–8 PM.
nightlife Is your kiddo the next Sam Kinison? BASE Missoula hosts an all ages comedy open mic with stand up and improv games. 725 W. Alder. 6 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.
Track snow geese migration with a two-day field trip to Freezeout Lake. Meet at 10 AM in the Kalispell KMart parking lot. Call 406-2700371 for more info. Looking for a place to waltz, polka or swing?The Five Valley Accordions Dance and Jam at the Rustic Hut has all that plus more. $5. 1 PM–4 PM.
nightlife Listen to the sounds of old Eire while you quench your thirst. Some of Missoula’s best Celtic folk musicians assemble to riff every 2nd and 4th Sunday at the Highlander taproom at Missoula Brewing Co. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.
Spotlight
Dan Henry plays Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. Every Sunday, Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.
I’ll take mine with no pickles, please. G. Love & Special Sauce play the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$29.50 advance.
Bare Bait Dance’s Surge showcases new work by Missoula’s best choreographers and local musicians at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 6 PM. $16/$14 advance.
Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up. No cover.
Foo Fighters’ lead guitarist Chris Shiflett plays a solo show inspired by his honky-tonk roots at Missoula Winery and Event Center. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18.
Now here’s a band with a name Missoulians know a lot about. The Growlers play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20.
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world! She took the midnight train to Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the Press Box. 9:30 PM.
live wire
In 1927, British cabinetmaker Ed the condemned can choose in Kilby well the dangers of electricity. Not Mason was serving a 60 year sen- as their method of execution, despite just because Yellow Mama is an intence in Alabama's Kilby Prison for the archaic machine botching sev- escapable part of life at Kilby, but burglary and grand larceny. In because electricity is the reaexchange for a month-long furson he’s imprisoned in the first lough, Mason was asked to use WHAT: Reading of Work Like Any Other place. Sentenced to 20 years his cabinetry skills to construct for manslaughter after a linethe prison's first electric chair. WHO: Author Virginia Reeves man died while investigating Built in less than a week and the illegal wires Martin inpainted with leftover supplies WHEN: Mon., March 27 at 7 PM stalled to siphon power from from a highway-line paint job, the state to his wife's failing the squat chair became known WHERE: Shakespeare & Co. farm, Martin finds himself at by inmates and prison staff alike MORE INFO: virginia-reeves.com rock bottom. Work Like Any as Yellow Mama. Mason took his Other, longlisted for the 2016 furlough and promptly disapMan Booker Award Prize and peared, never to be heard from eral deaths. one of Booklists’ Top 10 First Novels again. Yellow Mama was used to exRufus T. Martin, the protagonist of 2016, showcases the meticulous ecute over 135 people between of Montana author Virginia Reeves' research put into recreating the com1927 to 2002. While Alabama's critically acclaimed debut novel, is a plexities of 1920s Alabama and the Department of Corrections has pri- former electrician, former farmer and lengths one person will go when they marily switched over to lethal injec- Kilby inmate at the time of Yellow have nothing left to lose. tion, Yellow Mama is still an option Mama's birth. Rufus knows all too — Charley Macorn
Helena author Virginia Reeves reads from her novel Work Like Any Other at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. (See Spotlight)
Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 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. Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world! She took the midnight train to Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the Press Box. 9:30 PM. Sing your heart out with Karaoke with Cheree at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
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G. Love & Special Sauce play the Top Hat Sun., March 26. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$29.50 advance.
Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
Russ Nasset plays a solo show at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM. Free.
ARTS Missoula’s 18th Annual Arts & Culture Awards luncheon celebrates those talented people that make our community a diverse, artistic place. The Doubletree Hotel. 11:30 AM. $30. The Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Tuesday at the Learning Center at Red Willow from 12:10 PM–12:50 PM. $40 for four classes or $12 drop-in. Call 406-721-0033 for more info.
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Poet Valerie Hsiung reads from her latest collection EFG at Shakespeare and Co. 7 PM. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10/$35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.
The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.
Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7–9 PM.
Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.
Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What television program is at the center of the cheating scandal portrayed in the film Quiz Show? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander, 7 PM–10 PM. To sign up, email michael.avery @live.com. Tanya Tucker plays a seated show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $49.50/$39.50 advance.
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world! She took the midnight train to Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the Press Box. 9:30 PM.
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Wednesday nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, support Grant Creek Kiwanis Club. 5 PM–8 PM. Learn how to fix a flat tire and clean up your bike after that long stupid winter we just had with other bike-friendly women at Women Bike Missoula’s Bike Maintenance Workshop at Free Cycles. 5:30 PM–7 PM. Two Dan Henry shows in one week? Aren’t we lucky? Dan Henry plays Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Watch your language in front of the asteroids! Blue Moon plays Blacksmith Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. T’ai Chi Chuan with Michael Norvelle mixes moving and meditation every Wednesday at 6:30 PM at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four weeks or $12 drop-in. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Twenty One. Atlanta post-punks Omni play at the ZACC Below with the PCCs and Cairns. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5. All ages. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Show your Press Box buddies just how brainy you are at Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.
Scott H. Biram, also known as the Dirty Old One Man Band, plays the Top Hat Thu., March 30. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $10/$8 advance. Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
nightlife The UM Gallery of Visual Arts hosts an opening reception for the thesis exhibitions of Master of Fine Arts graduate students Evan Hauser, Sarah Justice and Amy Petit. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is you should really tell all of your friends because it is an open, supportive space for all women to talk about their experiences. Room 225 at the University Center. 6 PM–7:30 PM. Andrea Harsell plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop
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every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.
tating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
Tech N9ne r3turns t0 t4e Wi1ma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$32 advance.
Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.
Poetry Slam at E3 Convergence Gallery returns with the best word slingers in Missoula. 7 PM. Sign up to perform by emailing e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com.
Ghost Carrot Records close out its month-long residency at the VFW with San Francisco’s Couches and locals Magpies and Charcoal Squids. 9 PM. $5.
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.
Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.
Lolo Creek Band plays Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. Free.
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. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. In like a lion, still a lion in the middle, out like a lion.
Trio Noir plays jazz at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM– 11 PM. Free. Scott H. Biram, also known as the Dirty Old One Man Band, plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $10/$8 advance. Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a ro-
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THURSDAY MARCH 23 The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration. Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org. Check out the new applications created by the students at Gecko Designs with a special presentation at 5 PM. Free. Bring your lunch for a free demonstration of loom weaving at the Heritage Craft Demo at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. 12 PM–1 PM. Free. Get fit and strengthen your pelvic floor & postnatal body while bonding with your baby at Kangatraining at The Women’s Club. $10. Bring your own baby.
Lids for Kids runs from 11 AM–2 PM on Sat., March 25 at Karl Tyler's Missoula Volkswagen.
TUESDAY MARCH 28 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.
FRIDAY MARCH 24
WEDNESDAY MARCH 29
The Women in Black and Veterans For Peace stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.
Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.
SATURDAY MARCH 25 equally effective in preventing head and facial injuries in both car-related and non-car related accidents. Karl Tyler's Missoula Volkswagen is giving away free youth bicycle helmets Sat., March 25. No one, especially a child, should be without the protection they need to save their life, especially when that protection is free. —Charley Macorn
Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
Chess in the Park starts up again with a round robin tournament at Bonner Park. Bring your own board a $3 entrance fee. 11 AM.
Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living from 2-4 PM. Call 728-1630.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, more people were admitted to the emergency room in 2015 for head injuries stemming from cycling accidents than from football and baseball combined. This makes sense, as football and baseball players seldom have to worry about being run over by Subarus. And no matter how safe you are on your bike, this same report shows that most bicycle accidents are caused by motor vehicles. To compound the situation, we live in Missoula, a place that's never really been known for its courteous and aware drivers. This study from the Department of Transportation shows that wearing a helmet is
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM– 4 PM. Free for veterans.
Get a free youth bicycle helmet at Karl Tyler’s Missoula Volkswagen. 11 AM–2 PM.
MONDAY MARCH 27 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.
NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. Kallie Moore, Collections Manager for the University of Montana Paleontology Center, gives a presentation on climate change in geologic history at the Montana Natural History Center. 5 PM–7 PM. $30/Free for students. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, support Grant Creek Kiwanis Club. 5 PM–8 PM.
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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ou are the ultimate Missoula outdoors enthusiast. You've biked, hiked and fun-runned your way across and around the Garden City a dozen times. You eat your breakfast on top of Mount Sentinel every morning. You've mastered every style of yoga imaginable: inside, outside, with beer and in a furnace. You even played in an adult kickball league when that was the a thing everyone was still doing. Patagonia wears your brand. But what is the adept outdoors addict to do when there are no more outdoor rec worlds to conquer? Well, have you considered battling off a horde of invading monsters, looking to do their own bit of conquering? Kingdoms of the Sword Coast is a live action, full contact fantasy war game where your success
FRIDAY MARCH 24 See crickets fed to big fuzzy spiders at the tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
SATURDAY MARCH 25 You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Mysterious portals have opened up all along the Kingdoms of the Sword Coast. Can you defend your country from the hordes of monsters spilling from them? Join the live action, full contact medieval fantasy war-game at Pineview Park. Checkin at 12 PM. Free. Call Emmett at 406-370-0095 for more info.
SUNDAY MARCH 26 Track snow geese migration with a two-day field trip to Freezeout Lake. Meet at 10 AM in the
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doesn't rely on how well you roll a die, but on how well you can swing a sword. Participants engage in medieval style combat, decked out in full garb and armor, fighting with padded swords, axes, and hammers. This special event, dedicated to repelling an interdimensional intrusion of beasts and baddies, is free and open to the public. Newbies are welcome, and there’s even loaner gear on hand to make sure you’re fully prepared to defend the Sword Coast from destruction. —Charley Macorn Kingdoms of the Sword Coast’s Monster Madness starts Sat., March 25 at 12 PM in Pineview Park. Call Oswyn at 406-370-0095 for more info.
Kalispell K-Mart parking lot. Call 406-270-0371 for more info. Trick out your rig at the Off-Road Vechicle Swap Meet at J&K Customs. Call 406-544-7029 for more info. 11 AM–3 PM.
MONDAY MARCH 27 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Sunlight Trail. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 29 Learn how to fix a flat tire and clean up your bike after that long stupid winter we just had with other bike-friendly women at Women Bike Missoula’s Bike Maintenance Workshop at Free Cycles. 5:30 PM–7 PM. The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. This month’s run starts at Kettlehouse North. 6 PM. Free.
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Medical Marijuana Recommendations Alternative Wellness is helping qualified patients get access to the MT Medical Marijuana Program. Must have Montana ID and medical records. Please Call 406-249-1304 for a FREE consultation or alternativewellness.nwmt@gmail.com
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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon BORN JESTERDAY I feel that my boyfriend brings out my best self: loving, sweet, productive. In my failed marriage, my ex seemed to bring out my worst self: unstable, selfish, lazy. It’s almost as if I’m a different person with my boyfriend. But how different can I be? —Single Dude Using a pre-printed card to hit on the ladies makes a powerful statement: “I’m looking for a kind woman to nurse me back to masculinity.” Asking a woman out isn’t just a way to get a date; it’s a form of display. Consider that women look for men to show courage. (The courage to unwrap a pack of cards doesn’t count.) And mutely handing a woman some other guy’s humor on a card is actually worse than using no humor at all—save for extenuating circumstances, like if it were the Middle Ages and you’d had your tongue cut out for unseemly behavior with the earl’s livestock (again). Consider evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller’s “mating mind” hypothesis—the notion that “our minds evolved not just as survival machines, but as courtship machines.” Miller explains that the mind acts as a “fitness indicator”—a sort of advertising agency for a person’s genetic quality (among other things). Humor is a reliable (hardto-fake) sign of genetic quality—reflecting high intelligence, creative problem-solving ability and a lack of mutations that would handicap brain function. But it isn’t just any old humor that women find attractive. Any guy can memorize a joke. Accordingly, in a study of the pickup lines men use on women, psychologists Christopher Bale and Rory Morrison “distinguish wit (spontaneous jokes that fit the context exactly, are genuinely funny and require intelligence) from mere humor (the preplanned jokes and one-liners which ... do not demonstrate intelligence).” Anthropologist Gil Greengross, who studies humor and laughter from an evolutionary perspective, suggests that even a guy who’s lame at humor should at least take a run at being funny: “The risk of not even trying to make women laugh may result in losing a mating opportunity.” I disagree—though only in part. If you’re unfunny, trying to force the funny is like bragging, “Hey! I’m low in social intelligence!” However, you shouldn’t let being unfunny stop you from hitting on a woman. What you can do is be spontaneously and courageously genuine. Just put yourself out there and say hello to
her and acknowledge and even laugh at any awkwardness on your part.This isn’t to say you should give up entirely on using pre-printed notes. Save them for special occasions—those when your message to a woman is something like “Stay calm and put all the money in the bag.”
MEET JOE BLACKLIST My girlfriend’s father is a famous actor, and I’m on my way up. I worry that if things go wrong in our relationship, he could put a big kibosh on my career. I guess because of this, I find myself putting up with more stuff than I might normally. I wonder whether our relationship will suffer because of my secret worries about her dad. —Marked Man There’s doing the right thing, and then there’s doing the right thing for the right reasons. Ideally, you refrain from shoplifting because it’s wrong to steal, not because they show videos of shoplifters on the news sometimes and your nose always looks so big on security camera footage. It turns out that there are two fundamental motivations for all life-forms—from microbes to men. They are “approach” (going toward good, helpful, survival-promoting things) and “avoidance” (moving away from bad, dangerous, deadly things). Research by social psychologist Shelly Gable suggests that romantic relationships are happier when they’re driven by approach rather than avoidance motives. So, say your girlfriend asks that you put food-encrusted plates in the dishwasher instead of leaving them out for the archeologists to find. An approach motivation means doing as she asks because you’re striving for a positive outcome—like making her feel loved—instead of trying to avoid a negative one, like having your fate in showbiz patterned after that first guy in a horror movie who gets curious about the weird growling in the basement. The research suggests that you can happy-up your relationship by reframing why you do things—shifting to an “I just wanna make her happy” motivation. To do that, set aside your career fears and just try to be fair—to both of you.The relationship may fizzle out. Even so, if you don’t do anything horrible to Daddy’s little girl, there’ll be no reason for him to see to it that you look back on a lifetime of iconic roles—like “White Guy With Umbrella” and “Bystander No. 5.”
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Cabela’s Camping Sales Outfitter. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275232 Executive Assistant Our firm’s core values: Integrity, Accountability, Professionalism, Growth, Cooperation, Customer Service, Diligence, and Flexibility! Ideal candidate must possess strong communication skills. You will have proven skills being proactive, being highly self-motivated and have a desire to collaborate with our team. You will also have a track record of successfully multi-tasking. Apply online at www.lcstaffing.com. It’s simple and free! Send your resume with a cover letter to michele@lcstaffing.com. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39344 Greenhouse Help Knowledgeable plant lover needed for this GENERAL LABORER/SALES position at a local nursery. Prefer 6 months experience or proven selfgained knowledge. Must have valid driver’s license. Will answer customer questions about plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, assist with loading purchases, operate tractor for loading ground cover, stock, clean and organize displays. Will be working in all types of weather conditions. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275258 Kitchen Helper Lolo restaurant seeks part-time KITCHEN HELPER. Will start in dishwashing and then move into seafood and
appetizer prep and then on to expediting. Some kitchen experience is required; employer will train. Restaurant opens at 5 p.m. daily; work schedule is flexible and employer is lenient with time off. Applicants must be clean and neat and able to pass a drug test. Pay is $8.15/hr. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275365 Laundry Production In busy commercial laundry. Duties include sorting soiled and clean laundry, filling washers and dryers, folding, pressing and packaging. Attention to detail is a must! This a a fast paced and physically demanding job. Will be bending, stooping, kneeling and lifting continually throughout the day. Lifting requirements 50-60lb. $11/hour. Full time, long term. Monday-Friday. Pay raise and generous benefits after successful completion of probationary period! Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39108 MISSOULA Lot Attendant/Service Porter Lot Attendanta?? Service Porter Lithia Auto Stores embodies a unique blend of talent,leadership,and professionalism in a culture that embraces our Core Values of Earn Customers for Life, Take Personal Ownership,Improve Constantly,and Have Fun. Start your career with one of the largest and most successful retail automotive teams in the nation. Job Description: Responsibilities: As a Lot Attendant/Service Porter you will be responsible for taking care of vehicles in the service area and for ensuring all vehicles are clean and ready for delivery to customers. This individual also as-
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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sists with maintaining merchandise materials current on vehicles. Greet and assist customers dropping off vehicles for repairs. Moves and works with vehicles to maintain vehicle display and support vehicle sales activities. + Delivers vehicles to sites and locations as required. Thoroughly clean (wash,vacuum and polish) and maintain all vehicles. Install disposable covers and floor mats in vehicle interiors being serviced. Apply chemical protecting coating to front of vehicles and windshields. Monitor tire pressure of vehicles; add air and fuel as needed. Recognize general vehicle repairs and/or building maintenance and notify management. Prepare sold vehicles for delivery. Prioritize vehicles that need to be prepped for delivery or washed based on general appearance. Maintain internal and external appearance and cleanliness of the store,showroom and lot. Set up and remove displays and associated material for special events. + Assist the shuttle driver as needed. Run miscellaneous errands for the store. Perform other duties as assigned. Qualifications: Operate a wide variety of cars,light trucks,and vans,with ability to drive both manual and automatic transmissions A team player who is focused on providing exemplary customer service + Ability to multi-task in a fast paced work environment Professional
appearance and work ethic. Effective interpersonal communication skills. Possess an acceptable driving record and a valid drivera??s license in your state of residence Why Lithia? We are an exciting,dynamic,and highly successful team and (LAD) a member of NYSE.We continue to grow and expand our footprint through acquisitions of new dealerships in many US markets. We are big community supporters and provide a fun,exciting,and collaborative work place where growth and advancement opportunities abound.We offer a generous comprehensive compensation and benefits package and all the tools you will need to be successful. Our offerings include: + Medical,Dental and Vision Plans + Paid Holidays & PTO + Short and Long Term Disability + Paid Life Insurance + 401(k) Retirement Plan + Employee Stock Purchase Plan + Lithia Learning Center + Vehicle Purchase Discounts + Wellness Programs Lithia Auto Stores is an equal opportunity employer and a drug free work place. A criminal history background check and pre-employment drug screen will be conducted on the final candidate prior to beginning employment. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10274553 Night Shift Watchman Thompson Falls lumber company is look-
EMPLOYMENT ing for Night Shift Watchman. Primary job duties include: overseeing evening security at the front gate, routine walk-throughs, light maintenance, and other assigned weekly tasks. Must have the ability to lift 50lbs. Making rounds will require walking for 30-45 minutes at least 4-5 times a shift. Will work 7 -12 hour days and then have seven days off. 5pm-5am. Upon satisfactory completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, the Company offers a comprehensive benefit package. Pre-employment screening required. $11.00/hr DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39311 Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275258 Resettlement Director Under the direction of the IRC Salt Lake City/Missoula Executive Director,the Missoula Resettlement Director is responsible for the local oversight of staff, programming and services for IRC Missoula.The Director represents the IRC at the local level,building and maintaining relationships within the community and serving as a resource about the IRC and the US refugee program to the general community. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275120 Seeking Operations Manager: Organization: Blackfoot Challenge, Ovando, Montana Terms: 1.0 FTE (full-time), non-exempt, Salary DOE ($35-45K annually), Paid Time Off, Holidays, Medical stipend and Matching retirement. To Apply: Submit cover letter and resume to operations [at] blackfootchallenge.org Deadline: April 14, 2017 or until position is filled. Start Date: Immediately Position Description: This is a full-time position working to support core watershed programs, managing administrative, financial, fund development and Board development
functions.This is a core leadership position for the Blackfoot Challenge, and critical to supporting committees and partnerships. Please visit our website, www.blackfootchallenge.org, for full listing of job duties and qualifications.
SKILLED LABOR Excavation Will be shooting grades with laser; digging with shovels; raking and laying pipe for sewer, septic and water systems. Must be able to read tape measurer, be physically fit, and able to work in all weather conditions. Work is usually M-F, with some weekends depending on job deadlines. Must have transportation to get to Lower Miller Creek. Wage is depending on experience. MUST have clean driving record. A CDL is preferred. Must be able to pass background check, and consent to pre-hire and random drug and alcohol testing. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275366 HVAC Entry level HVAC Service Technician, Get paid to learn how to maintain and service residential and commercial HVAC equipment. The HVAC industry is going high tech and needs your abilities and talents. Willing to train the right candidate. Primary job duties include fabrication work, parts running to various job sites and general labor as required. Will be bending, stooping, kneeling and lifting. Carrying various items up flights of stairs. Valid Driver’s License and clean driving record required. Monday - Friday roughly 7AM-5PM. Experience in construction or HVAC preferred. $12/hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#28902 Seasonal Equipment Operator City of Missoula is seeking a
full-time SEASONAL EQUIPMENT OPERATOR. High School graduation or equivalent and two years of experience in operating street maintenance and construction equipment. Must have or be able to obtain a Montana Commercial Driver’s License within 30 calendar days of initial hire date. Will perform a wide variety of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled street construction and maintenance work. Duties may require occasional lifting or moving objects weighing 50 lbs. Work is seasonal (6 months), full-time and pay is $21.56/hr. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273404 Become a part of the World's Foremost Outfitter team! At Cabela's we passionately serve people who enjoy the outdoor lifestyle by delivering innovation,quality and value in our products and service. Live...Dream... Work the Adventure! Cabela’s has an opening for a Retail Pricing Specialist at our Missoula retail store. Position Overview: Drive efficient,accurate and thorough execution of price changes to ensure accuracy of pricing throughout the retail store,giving the customer the ability to clearly read and understand the price of any item in the retail store. Partner with the Retail Space Planner to ensure accurate price signs and proper placement of signs,partnering with the Corporate Retail Pricing Execution Manager to report sign and price discrepancies. Essential Job Functions: Assist with driving sales and profitability by efficiently,accurately and thoroughly executing price changes,and ensuring accuracy of pricing throughout the retail store. Timely and precise execution of Cabela's defined pricing practices for temporary markdowns,permanent markdowns, store ownership events, and marketing events (ads). Partner with the Retail Space Planner to ensure accurate price signs are posted in
appropriate locations to help drive customer awareness of promotional price events. In the absenteeism of the Retail Space Planner, ability to perform all Retail Space Planner signage responsibilities. Support ongoing pricing and promotional integrity of the store by partnering with the Corporate Retail Pricing Execution Manager to report all price and sign discrepancies. Provide customer service and assistance throughout the store on an as needed basis to be determined by management. Accountable for meeting store pricing compliance and audit requirements by assisting with and being present for all Store Walks related to pricing and signage. * Partner with senior store management to ensure that clearance merchandise is appropriately displayed in an organized manner and all price tags and signs are accurate. Ensure operational standards are met by reviewing the Price Override Report on a daily basis for any Tag/Sign Error reason codes. All errors found must be corrected immediately and,if needed,reported to the Corporate Retail Pricing Execution Manager. Efficiently monitor Falcon pricing tasks every day to ensure all tasks are completed by deadlines. Other Duties as Assigned by Management. Requirements High School Diploma or Equivalent * 0 to 2+ Years Experience Cabela’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and we seek to create an inclusive work place that embraces diverse backgrounds,life experiences and perspectives. Cabela’s shows commitment to the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces by providing meaningful, challenging career opportunities where military skills and experience may be applied. Cabela's offers a competitive benefits package to include: 401k,vacation,health and dental coverage for you and your family,andemployee discounts. Apply Online:www.cabelas.jobs
Responsible for coordinating and scheduling installations by reviewing and managing Installed Sales paperwork and contacting installers and customers throughout the process,ensuring merchandise is ready for installer pickup or delivery by pulling and staging items beforehand,and confirming customer satisfaction\. Also responsible for communicating and building relationships with installers,customers,and vendors and for assisting with the training and coaching of employees on the Installed Sales program and order management system\. Job Requirements Requires morning,afternoon and evening availability any day of the week\. Physical ability to move large,bulky and/or heavy merchandise\. Physical ability to perform tasks that may require prolonged standing,sitting,and other activities necessary to perform job duties\. Minimum Qualifications Ability to read,write,and perform basic arithmetic \(addition,subtraction\)\. Preferred Qualifications 6 months experience communicating with vendors or customers regarding returns,payments,or contract fulfillment\. 6 months experience in an administrative role processing and filing paperwork including invoices. Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #1157797
HEALTH CAREERS CNA Home health CNAs assist individuals with bathing, getting dressed, exercise, cooking, as well as provide companionship and transportation to medical appointments, shopping, etc., and many others tasks essential to maintaining a high quality of life for our members. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10272471
RN Case Manager Provide skilled home health nursing and case management for clients in their residences throughout the greater Missoula region. Plan and implement care, as well as instruct and evaluate patient and family. Responsible for coordinating services of other disciplines. Part-time up to full-time, approximately 2440 hours/week. Requirements include Montana RN license, valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, auto insurance, reliable internet access, general competence with computers, software. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10272781 Treatment Service Tech Performs routine duties for the protection, care and supervision of clients receiving services in A.W.A.R.E. Inc. The primary responsibility is the close supervision of clients who are emotionally challenged, implementing treatment plans/interventions and ensuring programmatic structure and residential supervision. Provides direct communication between shifts to ensure consistency of programming. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273744
SALES Internet/TV Eagle Satellite is looking for some highly motivated sales reps to sell high speed Internet & TV. We are looking for both full time and part time employees. Requires evening and weekend work - if you cannot work from 4-9 weekdays and you cannot work Saturday and Sunday please do not apply. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10266077 Marketing Manager Large national company is seeking a Marketing Manager to compliment and lead our existing creative team.Will have a BA/BS in Marketing or related field, 3+ years related work experience, knowledge of graphic design and office software, needs to be highly organized with excellent management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Company offers an excellent compensation and benefits package. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39258
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I were to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG AND OFTEN! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.
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the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the c about authenticity of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for what’s useful.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s a new word for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much NO becomes YES, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. I figure that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S.: The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect. But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent. in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had e dishes to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely. Luckily,
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1. “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2. “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” 3. “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: 1. “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)
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I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys and unconscious agendas. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest. You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months. And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-32 Dept. No. 3 Hon. John W. Larson Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DENISE FELT LUTES, 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 Michaelene Armstrong, the Personal Repre-
sentative, 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 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene Armstrong, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset 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 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene Armstrong, Applicant SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN
TO before me this 7th day of February, 2017. /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 Cause No. DP-17-49 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRED W. ADLER, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present
their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DAVID ADLER or MARK ADLER, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 3rd day of March, 2017. /s/ David Adler, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Mark Adler, Co-Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney
for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-54 Department No. 4 Hon. Karen S.Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM PETER ENDRES, 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 June A. Novark, the 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 7th day of March, 2017. /s/ June A. Novark, Applicant 15 Smith River Road, White Sulphur Springs, MT 59645 SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset 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 7th day of March, 2017. /s/ June A, Novark, Applicant
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 7th day of March, 2017. /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 Cause No.: DP-17-52 Department No. 1 Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY F. GLANTON HENDERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. If any person or organ-
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PUBLIC NOTICES ization has a valid claim against the said estate, the claim must include the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the name and address of claimant. Mont. Code § 72-3804(1)(2014). Creditors must make claim within four
months from the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred. Mont. Code Ann. § 72-3-801 (2014). Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative at the address named below, Certified mail re-
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quested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13 day of March, 2017. /s/ Terri L. Henderson, Personal Representative 205 North Travois, Missoula, MT 59808 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP-17-45 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: JUDITH A. DAVIS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Harold G. Davis, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Harold G. Davis, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, David J. Steele II, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of February, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ David J. Steele II,Attorneys for the Personal Representative. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/16/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201005413 B: 857 P:98 and Loan Modificiation Agreement dated 8/2/16 and recorded 10/5/16 under Instrument No. 201618329 B: 968 P: 1357, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kevin J Thomas and Danielle T Thomas, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more
particularly described as follows: Lot 68 of 44 Ranch, Phase 5, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 30, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $350,947.69.This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $338,361.67, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on June 22, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.
Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in
Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.117848) 1002.290404File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2017, 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 D of Certificate of Survey No. 3943, being located in the Northeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 17, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. TOGETHER WITH road and utility easement as delineated on the face of Certificate of
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PUBLIC NOTICES Survey No. 3943 Joseph J. Bechtold, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. dba America`s Wholesale Lender, it`s successors and /or assigns. , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 8, 2007, and recorded on June 25, 2007 as Book 800 Page 302 Document No. 200716097; Modification Agreement recorded November 7, 2011, Book 885 of Micro Records at Page 321. The beneficial interest is currently held by WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, doing business as CHRISTIANA TRUST, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee for BCAT 2014-9TT. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Sub-
stitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning September 1, 2015, 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 August 31, 2016 is $372,335.97 principal, interest totaling $11,052.33, suspense balance of $-134.45 and other fees and expenses advanced of $76,499.23, 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 every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 24, 2017 /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 24th day of February, 2017, 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
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 81, 255, 284, 333, 381, 513, & 568. 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 27, 2017. 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 30, 2017 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.
the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Shellpoint Mortgage Serving vs Joseph J. Bechtold 100918-2
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 2254/Nora Harris/$301/ladder 501/Belinda Ankney/$443/furniture SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT
www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, April 12, 2017 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”.
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By Matt Jones
"Ego Trips"--state your name. ACROSS
1 2009 film set in 2154 7 Backs of boats 11 A.D.A. member's degree 14 "Everybody Loves Raymond" star 15 Grade 16 Down Under hopper 17 "Mean ___" (recurring Jimmy Kimmel segment) 18 Frozen kids? 20 ID for a taxpayer 21 Aptly named card game 23 Witty criticism 24 "Entourage" actress Mazar 25 Like some weekend "sales events" 27 Leader of a Russian Doors tribute band? 32 "Look!" to Dora the Explorer 33 It's a question of time 34 Plucks unwanted plants 38 Took those plums from the icebox (that you were probably saving for breakfast) 39 Lindsay of "Mean Girls" 41 Bank acct. transaction 42 Go down without power 45 Actor Spall of "Life of Pi" 46 One's in a lifetime? 47 Mineral-fortified red wine? 50 Head shop patron, presumably 53 Fargo's st. 54 Cyrano's protrusion 55 Like Dick Clark's New Year's Eve specials 58 "Foucault's Pendulum" author 61 CEO painter? 63 Often-spiked drink 65 Frozen food bag bit 66 Met highlight 67 Christian who plays the titular "Mr. Robot" 68 Blow it 69 Atmospheric 1990s CD-ROM puzzle game 70 "Chappelle's Show" character who's always scratching
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1 Cultural interests 2 They're often exchanged for rituals 3 "Absolutely!" 4 ___ Bo (workout system that turns 25 in 2017) 5 Spain's has no official lyrics 6 Big game on January 1 7 "The Kite Runner" protagonist 8 The 100% truth (accept no imitations!) 9 Clandestine meetings 10 If it's blue, it doesn't mean you're pregnant 11 Priest of Stonehenge days 12 Disco diva Summer 13 How some people like their cereal 19 O3 22 Loud sound effect for rappers and morning radio shows 24 "It's in my ___" 26 "Where do I even begin ..." 27 Computer since 1998 28 Corleone patriarch in "The Godfather" 29 8, for a two-by-four? 30 It's supposed to be a sobering experience 31 Low 35 Hagman's "I Dream of Jeannie" costar 36 Beyond reinflation 37 Full of life 40 Most likely to squee over a Pi Day pie 43 Bone-to-muscle connection 44 Cool with Green Day 46 Sound of a belly laugh 48 Planetarium model 49 Clumsily tall 50 Long-billed marsh bird 51 Cartridge stuff 52 His first line was "Don't bang on my can!" 56 Milo's canine pal 57 Socialize in cyberspace 58 Prefix with parasite 59 Either "Barton Fink" director 60 Grimm guy 62 Sweet potato lookalike 64 Long-jawed freshwater fish
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 13, 2017, 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 A90 IN WINDSOR PARK, PHASE V, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BRYAN W WELZIEN and STORMEE C WELZIEN, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Interstate Bank, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 29, 2012, and recorded on February 29, 2012 as Book 890 Page 549 Document No. 201203872. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2016, 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, 2017 is $194,302.78 principal, interest totaling $3,036.00 late charges in the amount of $281.80, escrow advances of $1,061.71, and other fees and expenses advanced of $233.54, 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
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the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2017 /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, 2017, 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/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 J P Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. vs WELZIEN 100178 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 20, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 42A of Cook’s Addition, Block 1, Lots 40-45, a platted subdivision in City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Colin Gallagher and Dana Gallagher, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mark Sommer and Amanda Bielby, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture dated August 8, 2011, and recorded that same date in Book 881 of Micro Records, Page 348, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded January 31, 2017, in Book 974, Page 315, Document No. 201701857, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $144,545.33, plus interest at a rate of 5% totaling $7,801.49, late fees of $580.00, and escrow fees of $187.50, for a total amount due of $153,114.32, as of February 8, 2017, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the
Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED the 8th day of February, 2017. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA)) ss . County of Missoula) On this 8th day of February, 2017, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S.
Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp NOTARY PUBLIC for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires May 07, 2017 (SEAL)
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1315 E. Broadway #4. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coin-ops, storage, pets? $850. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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1324 S. 2nd Street West “B”. 3 bed/2 bath, central location, single garage, W/D. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611
1918 Scott St. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, Northside, coin-ops, off-street parking. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
acre near river. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 722 ½ Bulwer St. Studio/1bath, just remodeled, shared yard, single garage, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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2205 ½ South Avenue West. 3 bed/1 ¾ bath, all utilities included. $1225. Grizzly Property 542-2060
1706 Scott Street “B’ 1 bed/1 bath, Northside, all utilities paid, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
3714 W. Central Ave. #1. Upper unit in Target Range, shared yard, storage, W/D hookups. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
2423 55th St. “A”. 3 bed/1 bath, South Hills, single garage, W/D hookups $950.
4611 North Avenue West. Remodeled 3 bed, 2 bath on almost 1/2
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524 S. 5th Street E. “A”. 3 bed/2 bath, two blocks to U., W/D, yard $1300. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES 1024 Stephens Ave. #14. 1 bed/1 bath, upper unit, central location, DW, cat? $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1001 Medicine Man Cluster. Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $950,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in
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basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES
2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home. $270,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Pinnacle Townhomes. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage on Charlo Street. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@move montana.com
More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com
Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 KING•
King is a 2-year-old male American Bully. He has the adorably squat build and raucous bark of a Bulldog, without the health issues of the smooshed in face. Combine that with the sensitive demeanor and whine of a Pit Bull, and you've got the best of both bully breed worlds. King loves to destroy stuffy toys. Once you've found a sample of his handy work, he gives the best guilty look you've ever seen.
ABERDEEN•Aberdeen is a 2-year-old female Pit Bull mix. She is a very sweet and submissive gal. She has an easy smile and is eager to please. Aberdeen gets along with other dogs and cats. She has also never met a person she didn't love. She walks well on leash, learns commands easily with high value treats, and loves to destroy stuffy toys. Aberdeen is a rather athletic dog, and would do well in an active household.
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CHELSEA• Chelsea is a 4-year-old female Tabby/Tortie. She enjoys flying solo when it comes to dogs and cats. She can be affectionate and talkative when she's in the mood. When she's not, she'll find somewhere to perch herself and people watch. Chelsea would make the perfect companion for someone with a busy lifestyle that's looking for a less needy pet. DIXON• Dixon is a 7-month-old female brown Tabby. She came to our shelter from a feral rescue. This sweet but timid girl is far from feral. She just needs someone to give her the time and attention to teach her to come out of her shell a bit. Dixon has a funny little walk as one of her hind legs was broken when she was a kitten and healed crooked before she was rescued.
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DORA• Dora is an 8-year-old female brown Tabby/Tortie. Dora has a neurological condition called Cerebellar Hypoplasia that causes her to walk a bit wobbly. Other than that, she is healthy and happy. Dora, nicknamed DUI, will live a long, healthy life, however uncoordinated she may be. Because of this condition, she does need to be an indoor only cat. Dora is quick to purr when she's getting affection, and loves to play.
IZZY• Izzy is a 3-year-old Pointer/Collie mix. This sweet girl is deaf, so she needs a family that understands the needs and behaviors of hearing impaired dogs. She can startle easily if you sneak up on her or interrupt her while sleeping. She also has a knack for chasing small animals and wildlife. So, she needs an owner who can use alternative recall methods, like electronic collars, as she won't be able to hear you call her.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 SCRAMBLES• Scrambles, a 2-year-old spayed female, thinks visitors are the best and enjoys greeting each human in turn with a meow and a leg rub! Scrambles loves playing with toys and getting up high on her scratching post to observe his domain. Scrambles is picky about her cat friends, so she may prefer a home where she is the only cat!
To sponsor a pet call 543-6609
MAMA• Mama is a sweet 9-year-old gal who
has lived with cats and is good with children! She enjoys visitors and rubbing on your legs, but she would prefer a home without dogs, they scare her! This long-haired girl is part of our Senior for Senior program, so her adoption fee is reduced to help her find that home more easily! Visit myhswm.org for more information!
SIDNEY• Sidney is an opinionated, adorable 4-year-old tiger female who looks like her face is in a permanent pout. This funny girl loves to play on her terms, be pet on her terms, and love on her terms. Once you earn that love, though, Sidney is a permanent fixture on your couch and by your side. Visit Sidney at HSWM Wed-Fri, 1pm6pm or Sat-Sun, 12-5pm!
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ABBY• Abby is a 7.5-year-old Boxer who loves wandering in her yard, going for car rides, and fetching when she’s up for it. She knows 'sit' and 'lay down' and pork rinds are her favorite! Abby doesn't have much experience with other dogs, so she would prefer slow introductions to new friends. Abby needs a home without small animals or cats. Call 406.549.3934 for more info!
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VIOLET• This 3-year-old English Coonhound cross is athletic, independent, and has a nose that leads her on grand adventures! Violet enjoys people and dogs. She loves digging holes for her tennis balls and going on long hikes. Violet needs a home without cats, and a family who understands her hound desire to follow her nose, even if it means over a fence! Visit her at 5930 Hwy 93 South! SHELBY• Shelby's grin is so wide you can see it from across the Humane Society! This happy 7-year-old bulldog cross is up for anything, and then she’ll try to fit herself into your lap (even though she's 50 pounds!)! She's a peoplepleaser and quick to learn. Shelby loves visitors but can be picky about her dog friends. She needs a home without cats or chickens. Call 406.549.3934 to learn more! missoulanews.com • March 23–March 30, 2017 [C11]
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122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $300,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer
LAND FOR SALE NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping
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Call Anne or Tony Today About The Uptown Flats
#301 One bedroom plus bonus room. 814 sf $184,000 #308 One bedroom facing residential neighborhood. 612 sf $159,000
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121 Tahoe Drive • $254,000 Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath on large lot. Lots of natural light, fireplace, partially finished basement & single garage.
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