Missoula Independent Media Kit

OPINION

IF A DOG POOPS IN THE WOODS, AND NO ONE PICKS IT UP, IS IT STILL A PAIN IN THE GRASS?

SUPPORTERS WANT TO KNOW: BARE BAIT DANCE PAIRS MUSIC HOW FANTASY SUITE TURNS O DEMOCRATS, WHERE ARE THOU? DANCE WITH MOVEMENT IN SURGE MUSIC REALITY TV INTO REAL FEELING NEWS QUIST

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News

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Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk Know your candidate ...................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs New leaves at old EKO, speaking up on Smurfit, and fishing a dry hole .............6 Etc. Can Greens get a foot in the door? ..........................................................................7 News Quist supporters wonder where the Dems are.....................................................8 News Arntzen’s investigation concludes Arntzen’s allegations unfounded ....................9 Opinion Suppressing the vote is not a campaign tactic. ..............................................10 Opinion When a dog poops—and poops, and poops—in the woods..........................11 Feature Do we get the politics we want when we vote insiders out and outsiders in? ........14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts How Fantasy Suite turns reality TV into real emotion...........................................18 Music Lisa Prank, Mandolin Orange, and Mount Eerie.................................................19 Dance Music meets movement in Bare Bait Dance’s Surge..........................................20 Film Olivier Assayas build sustained suspense in Personal Shopper ............................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 Resistance Kitchen Who got me this Wall Street Journal subscription ratatouille.....23 Happiest Hour Carnaval on Broadway? Use your Imagine Nation..............................25 8 Days a Week Now with less yoga, cos that’s better, right? ........................................26 Agenda Screening Good Burger for workers’ rights.....................................................33 Mountain High Xsports4vets fundraises for veterans ..................................................34

Exclusives

News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology.....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

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by Derek Brouwer and Alex Sakariassen

Asked Saturday afternoon at the Southside KettleHouse Who is Rob Quist?

Followup: What would he have to do to earn your vote for U.S. Congress in the upcoming special election?

J. Ryan Weingardt: Rob Quist was in the Mission Mountain Wood Band. He’s a politician now currently running as a Democrat candidate for the special election that is coming up shortly, right? He’s running against Gianforte, I believe, who is the scumbag motherf@*%er. Are you recording this? Scumbag motherf@*%er. I think Quist is a banjo player as well. Good ear: Very easily. Earn my vote by listening to your constituents. Listen to what the Democrats are saying and then go act upon it, and go fight for it.

Patrick Bujold: We just talked about this last night. Rob Quist is the, uh, the person running for the new House of Representative spot, because Zinke is a dick. Did you hear that, Trump? I’m not going to advocate for voter fraud, but he would have to pay for me to move back to Montana and pay for my graduate education.

Jordan Gilbert: The man set to take the seat that Zinke has left behind. I’m assuming if he’s taking Zinke’s seat that he must be somewhat of a douchebag.

Those are big shoes to fill, man. I know you are, but what am I? If he’s anywhere where Zinke was, I would want him to be the opposite of what he is.

Anna Gordon-Norby: He’s the Democratic nominee for the House of Representatives seat in Congress recently chosen by the Democratic Party of Montana. All hat, no Curtis: Be Amanda Curtis. I’ve heard some interviews with him on NPR. He’s been kind of bland.

I’m really not into the hat, but I’ll vote for him.

Tal Slaughter: He was the singer-songwriter for the Mission Mountain Wood Band, originally, right? And he’s currently running for, I think, Zinke’s seat.

In the bag: I think he’s got it already.

Just run, run.

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“May be”?

Dan Brooks may be handsome, and commitment averse for all I know, and I enjoy reading his columns, but I think he doesn’t realize how 20th century he reveals himself to be (“Renters asunder,” March 23). Doesn’t he get it that government is no longer meant to protect the people, but to ensure a profitable margin for government, and those involved in buying it, just like any other free market entity in our country? Government for the people is so yesterday.

Today, they have figured out how to privatize government and still be popular with the people whose life blood they sell out. Who knew?!

Anyway, thanks for the insightful, relevant, tongue-in-cheek remarks. Unfortunately, it takes more than a fourthgrade education to understand his meaning, so his audience may not be as large as is needed to take back our country, our state and our dignity. But please do keep up the entertaining commentary for the rest of us.

Carolyn Beecher Ronan

Plight of the landlords Perhaps the author should look into how utterly helpless a landlord is when having to deal with the “tenant from hell,” and how complicated it has become recently for a landlord to evict someone. It may take months, all while the landlord is not receiving income from his investment. If both tenant and landlord would do the right thing, there would be no need for legislation, but, alas, someone is always getting screwed.

So bring on the laws and penalties. After all, they have been earned.

Paul Middleton posted at missoulanews.com

That escalated slowly...

Recently it was discovered that Rob Quist had tax liens filed against him by the state of Montana and it was turned into political fodder. I am not going to condemn Mr. Quist. Like many working Montanans, not everything has gone as planned in his life. Sometimes, no matter how you plan, the world just doesn’t cooperate. Unexpected bills can happen at any time and expected payments usually are farther away than anticipated. Welcome to the real world, folks. This is where most working Montana families live all the time.

It also makes me think of all the people that lost everything in 2008. I spent last winter driving BNSF rail crews up

and down the Hi-Line. Most of them had worked a good job before BNSF, and many lost those jobs in the recession.

They had nice homes and all the things Montana families like to buy, and they lost it all in the housing collapse. These weren’t people that spent their money

“My entire mustard crop was wiped out in a hail storm, and calf prices were so low I wanted to wait until January to sell, hoping maybe the market would recover, but Joyce Fuel and Feed in Fort Benton had sold me a Wheatheart post pounder on credit in a handshake deal and I intended to make good on my word and pay them off.”

foolishly. They expected to go to work and then one day they didn’t have a job anymore, or a home soon after. These are the people that to this day have black marks on their credit scores because they didn’t know the economy was going to kick them in the teeth.

Rural families have different problems with the same result. Farm and

ranch families are often caught in the crosshairs of bills that they can’t pay.

They have such irregular income that sometimes bills have to be put on hold until a crop can be sold. Just this fall I was scrambling. My entire mustard crop was wiped out in a hail storm, and calf prices were so low I wanted to wait until January to sell, hoping maybe the market would recover, but Joyce Fuel and Feed in Fort Benton had sold me a Wheatheart post pounder on credit in a handshake deal and I intended to make good on my word and pay them off. I managed, but it was a lean Christmas for the kids.

They say most families are one paycheck away from disaster at any time. I believe that. So I’m not going to beat on Mr. Quist for something that could have happened to anyone of modest income.

But what I do think separates Mr. Quist and myself is our view of fiscal responsibility. I believe we need to balance the budget and not steal from the next generation. We have to get our financial house in order so we can pay for all the programs the government provides. We are already $20 trillion in the hole, but when I looked at Mr. Quist’s website, balancing the budget didn’t make the top 19 issues! We don’t need any more tax-and-spend politicians in Congress, and we don’t need politicians that can’t remember what it is like to struggle to pay a bill.

So remember, Montana, when it’s time to vote, it’s just like the three bears story—one bear is too far left and one bear is too far right, but one bear is just perfect for Montana. I’m that bear! Vote for Mark L. Wicks for Congress.

Mark L. Wicks Inverness

Pipeline placement I think we should go over rivers, instead of under rivers. Over rivers on bridges, with an inspector’s walkway on both sides of the pipe. It might cost more, but it will produce more jobs. It will be safer and less invasive to water and to riverbeds. It will be more healthy. An oil pipeline broke under the frozen Yellowstone river a few years ago.

It was hard to clean up under the ice.

Some of the oil went into farmers’ fields and ruined the grass and hay. It took a long time to clean it up. All the wildlife suffered. Oil in the ocean, oil in the creeks, oil in the rivers—we must be more careful.

Gary LeDeau Arlee

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, March 22 Big Sky Brewing and Knitting Factory Presents announce the two-day Travelers’ Rest festival Aug. 12-13, featuring The Decemberists. Aging Missoula hipsters express enthusiasm for a summer music act that does not play reggae or bluegrass.

Thursday, March 23 Missoula’s mysterious T-Rex costume guy joins a pro-Obamacare rally outside the office of Sen. Steve Daines. T-Rex’s sign states: “Rawr.”

Friday, March 24 The U.S. House pulls the American Health Care Act, which had been touted as a replacement for Obamacare. Sen. Jon Tester releases a statement calling the AHCA a “bad bill” that would have raised the cost of health insurance for seniors.

Saturday, March 25 About two dozen Trump supporters gather in a Helena park for a “Standing Up for America” rally. An Indy staffer who happens to be in town mistakes the rally for a group of elderly men having a picnic.

Environment

Speaking up on Smurfit-Stone Since the plant shut down in 2010, the former Smurfit-Stone container mill’s 3,200 acres have been mostly quiet, marked by rubble heaps and sludge ponds. Frenchtown resident Jeri Delys, chair of the West Valley Community Council, says she often drives or bikes past the mill and feels frustrated about the years of inactivity. When the mill closed, eliminating some 400 full-time jobs, she remembers government officials promising swift help.

“It started off so hopeful,” Delys says, recalling how then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer and county commissioners visited the shuttered site, “and it was high-fives and ‘wahoo, wahoo.’ And nothing ever materialized.”

But Delys is optimistic about a community advisory group that’s forming this spring to represent citizens while the Environmental Protection Agency considers listing Smurfit-Stone as a Superfund cleanup site. EPA test results released in 2012 and 2013 show that a number of toxic manufacturing byproducts, including dioxins and furans, remain in the soil and water surrounding the former plant. More EPA reports

results are expected by the end of 2017 and, depending on the results, the site may be eligible for Superfund status. (The site’s current owner, Green Investment Group, has promised to cooperate with the EPA’s testing and remediation recommendations.)

Nonprofit watershed advocacy group Clark Fork Coalition formed in the mid-1980s out of concern about contaminants produced by the Smurfit-Stone mill. An earthen levee is the only barrier between contaminated mill ponds and the Clark Fork.

CFC science director Chris Brick says community advisory groups—which are specifically provided for in the Superfund law—allow locals to weigh in on the testing process, site cleanup and redevelopment. As an example, she points to the environmental cleanup of the former Milltown Dam site in Bonner, which is in the process of transformation into a light industrial zone in one part of the valley and a state park in the other. “[Smurfit-Stone] is private property, so there are some limitations there, but certainly the community advisory group is a way for the community to voice its opinion from beginning to end,” Brick says.

Delys says she just wants to see something happen at the site.

“I think we’ve gone a long time now without commerce out there, a long time without a boost to Frenchtown’s economy, and we’ve survived and persevered,” Delys says. “That’s a testament to how resilient our community is.”

The Smurfit-Stone community advisory group will meet in mid-April. Call 406-457-5032 for details.

Kate Whittle

Fishing for influencers

Hooked on climate change The meeting room at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ regional headquarters on Spurgin Road was filled with flannel, Orvis caps and hands slick with Papa John’s pizza grease. Paul Roos, 75, stood before the assorted biologists, outfitters and guides like some sort of fishing industry paterfamilias, his jokes unanimously laughed at, his words reverently weighted. He talked about pebbles, about dropping them in rivers and the ripples that result. It’s a metaphor.

He says: “There’s a responsibility that goes with that power that applies to guiding, with respect to

Sunday, March 26 The Montana Highway Patrol reports that two people escape unharmed from their car after its engine caught fire on I-90 outside Missoula. The cause is under investigation.

“Members of the House, I apologize for using the word ‘Butt-Monkey.’”

Monday, March 27 A House committee kills HB 609, a proposal to bar transgender people from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Bill opponents had pointed out that a similar law passed in North Carolina will cost that state an estimated $3.76 billion in lost business over the next few years, according to the AP.

Tuesday, March 28 The state Human Rights Bureau dismisses a discrimination claim from former Missoula County Undersheriff Josh Clark, who sued the county last year, saying he was demoted without cause after losing an election to Sheriff T.J. McDermott.

—Rep. Derek Skees, R-Kalispell, March 24 on the House floor, after Democrats protested his use of the phrase to describe them. Skees went on to explain that the joke referenced a satirical segment on The Laura Ingraham Show titled “But… Monkey.”

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Roos’ declaration came after nearly an hour of sobering testimony about how climate change has already affected Montana’s fly-fishing industry. Diminished streamflows and increased water temperatures have led to some of the earliest Hoot Owl fishing restrictions on record in recent years. Bull trout continue to recede to cooler reaches in Bitterroot tributaries, while non-native browns move in to fill the void. Warm waters allowed the disease PKD to sweep through the Yellowstone River last year, killing thousands of whitefish and prompting state officials to close a 180-mile stretch of the waterway. Similar conditions have contributed to fungal outbreaks among trout in the Big Hole and Clark Fork. “I’m not a climate change expert,� FWP biologist Chris Clancy said before Roos’ address, “so I can’t really say these are climate change related. But they appear to be temperature related, and it isn’t too far a leap to relate that to what’s happening with the climate.�

Alec Underwood, climate change outreach coordinator for the Montana Wildlife Federation, convened the March 22 gathering to inspire the beneficiaries of western Montana’s fly fishing industry to join the climate change fight. Historically, outfitters and fishing guides haven’t been particularly active on the issue, Underwood says. The Missoula event was just the start of what Underwood hopes will become a statewide series of forums. He already has tentative plans to hold a similar discussion in Livingston in May. The end goal, he says, is to start a movement within an industry that in Missoula alone contributed $64 million to the economy in 2013. “Their clients are often some of their best friends, or their clients really look up to them as the experts on the resource. It’s passing on stewardship through the domino effect, really—getting the word out there that there are these threats to our resources.�

Roos is no stranger to threats. He tells the story of his first year guiding clients on the Blackfoot River in 1970, and his horror at learning of plans to reopen the Mike Horse mine. Climate change may be a more complex challenge, he says, but fishing guides are in a position to make a lot of ripples. “I rowed a lot of hours, a lot of days. ‌ If you’ve done it very much at all, you know it’s a seat where you have a fair amount of power.â€?

Alex Sakariassen

New leaves

Getting compost up to snuff Five days before the business formerly known as EKO Compost reopens on April 1 as a publicly run facility, city wastewater division superintendent Starr Sullivan isn’t even pretending to have all his compost in a row.

The transition, in process since the city purchased the 40-year-old business for $1.25 million last November, has already caused plenty of confusion among residents expecting to be able to dump loads of green waste earlier this spring, he says. It hasn’t helped that EKO’s old website—with obsolete contact information and operating hours—is still live. And forget the pomp of a grand reopening. Sullivan is just hoping to have a cash register installed so the rechristened Garden City Compost can collect its $7 tipping fees.

Each week has seemed to turn over new surprises for Sullivan ‘s team. “We knew it was going to be a lot of work. As we dug deeper and deeper and deeper, it was a lot more than we expected,� he says.

City officials knew the composting facility would need major upgrades. In fact, modernizing it to reduce the stench cloud that periodically engulfs portions of Missoula is one of the goals that drove the city’s purchase.

But it’s the little things that have complicated the initial takeover: trucks that turn out not to be road-ready, a long-broken entrance gate. “It’s just like they didn’t care anymore,� Sullivan says.

He offers a story about that gate that illustrates the gap between the operation EKO was running and the standards expected of a municipal service.

A few years ago, EKO was burglarized. Sullivan says EKO managers asked the city to review its security cameras outside the neighboring wastewater treatment plant. The footage revealed a stream of vehicles going in and out of EKO’s facility late at night.

BY THE NUMBERS

ETC.

Public comments submitted in response to the job advertisement drafted for the University of Montana presidential search, each of which took issue with the criteria allowing candidates without doctoral or terminal degrees to apply.

As the Montana Green Party prepared to convene in early March for its first convention in years, party coordinator Danielle Breck figured to be planning for the long term. She certainly didn’t expect to jump into the fray this spring for the election to fill Ryan Zinke’s vacant congressional seat. But then she got a call from a lawyer in Atlanta.

Breck says civil rights litigator Bryan Sells offered to represent third-party candidates in Montana in a lawsuit over the state’s handling of ballot access in the upcoming special election. The complaint? That Gov. Steve Bullock’s scheduling allowed just six days for minor political parties to gather the roughly 14,000 signatures that state law requires to put a candidate on the ballot. That hardly gave the Green Party, which counted 13 voting members at its March 4 convention, much time to get its candidate, Danielle Breck’s husband, Thomas Breck, on the ballot. “It’s not exactly fair,� Danielle Breck says.

The Brecks are now part of a lawsuit seeking to allow third parties the right to run in the May 25 election without meeting the signature requirement. (Danielle Breck says Sells is representing them pro bono.) Thomas Breck and Bozeman-based Independent Steve Kelly are named as plaintiffs.

The case is the latest wrench to be thrown into an already screwy election. The Montana Libertarian Party, which automatically qualifies for the ballot based on past election performance, has already scuffled with the secretary of state’s office over the deadline for nominating its candidate, Mark Wicks. Meanwhile, the Montana Legislature is still engaged in a partisan showdown over whether to allow voting by mail in the special election.

Now enter the Greens, fielding a candidate for statewide office for the first time since the 2004 gubernatorial election. The Green Party will present its case before a federal judge in Great Falls on April 4, and Breck says Montana’s 56 counties have until April 9 to print ballots. Most counties already have printed theirs. Reprinting them to include Breck and Kelly would cost those counties thousands of dollars.

That’s not Breck’s concern. She and her fellow Greens are busy waging a battle for equal access. That battle that may not be costing them anything, but it could rack up quite a tab for the rest of us.

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“It was party city,� Sullivan says.

Former plant manager Phil Oakenshield, who worked for EKO for more than 30 years, describes a laid-back approach in the facility’s latter years, when after-hours dumping was commonplace. “We usually didn’t lock [the gate] because we had customers who would come in when we weren’t charging them,� he says. “We didn’t really have that much of a problem with it.�

A locked gate and restricted hours (Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) are adjustments that users can expect under city ownership. Nor will the city sell bagged compost at area businesses or deliver material by truck—activities that Oakenshield says were crucial to EKO’s business model. But the former plant manager, who is not among the six EKO employees the city retained, says he thinks the city can be successful in time if its compost products are “up to snuff.�

Sullivan does too. The acquisition’s first phase is still on budget, and Sullivan is convinced the city’s takeover “is going to be a good thing once the confusion stops and everyone gets settled.�

For now, the compost facility is still adorned by giant, faded lettering identifying its former company. As Sullivan walks along the outer fence, he says he’s requested an estimate for the cost to paint over the old name.

Derek Brouwer

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Where are the Dems?

Quist running under national radar

by Alex Sakariassen

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The vibe in Caras Park last week bore little resemblance to the Woodstockian Aber Day Keggers that helped propel the Mission Mountain Wood Band to statewide renown back in the 1970s. No beer, for starters. And no music, either. But the odds are good that more than a few of the 100 or so locals gathered in the park knew Rob Quist’s name from one of those old concerts. For others, Quist’s appearance was their first exposure to the man looking to wrest Montana’s lone congressional seat from the Republican Party.

Quist spent the bulk of his 10-minute speech pledging to protect Montana’s public lands from the greedy machinations of the transfer movement. He spent the rest of his time taking shots at his Republican opponent, Greg Gianforte, as an out-of-touch millionaire with troubling associations. He resurrected the stream access scandal that plagued Gianforte’s 2016 gubernatorial bid and encouraged his audience to “tell [Gianforte] to take a hike.”

“He spent millions of dollars trying to buy this past election, and that didn’t work,” Quist said between cheers from supporters. “This House seat should not be his consolation prize.”

Quist’s presence—and his cowboy hat— loomed large at the event, as it has at similar rallies throughout the state. After the speech, people edged past one another to line up for a handshake and a quick chat. But turn on a television or trot over to YouTube and the race to replace Ryan Zinke seems tilted in the other direction. Within hours of Quist’s nomination on March 5, the conservative Congressional Leadership Fund blanketed Montana airwaves with the first anti-Quist attack ad. Gianforte’s second campaign spot went live on March 16, just three days after Quist’s official campaign kickoff party. While Quist presses the flesh, Republicans have already invaded living rooms, bars and online ad spaces in every corner of the state.

So far, the national Democratic Party has done little if anything to correct the apparent imbalance. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which contributed several thousand dollars to John Lewis’ 2014 House bid against Zinke, has yet to disclose a penny in expenditures in Montana. Federal

Communications Commission records show no ad contracts from Quist’s campaign or any Democratic allies. Meanwhile, the DCCC’s mailing list has been soliciting donations to help fight the repeal of Obamacare and elect a Democrat in Georgia’s special election.

Multiple messages left with the DCCC asking when their presence might be felt in the Montana race went unanswered.

“The fact that they, thus far anyway, haven’t really waded into the Montana race can’t be a good sign for the Quist campaign,”

photo by Alex Sakariassen

According to his campaign, Rob Quist has raised more than $750,000 since early March. However, his race has yet to attract the support of national Democratic outfits like the DCCC.

says Lee Banville, a media ethics and politics professor at the University of Montana.

“There’s no way to spin that that it’s good.”

Nathan Kosted isn’t particularly shocked that the national establishment hasn’t showered Quist in cash and ads yet.

Kosted worked as a campaigner for Sen. Jon Tester in 2006, and for President Obama in 2008, but his closest brushes with the DCCC came while managing Tyler Gernant’s 2010 congressional challenge against then-incumbent Denny Rehberg, and later while working on Lewis’ 2014 campaign. Based on past

experience, Kosted speculates that the DCCC and others are more focused right now on Georgia’s race to replace congressmanturned-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Hillary Clinton lost in that district by just one point last year, Kosted says, making it a logical seat for Democrats to target.

“They’ll probably do some polling and see if the money is worth spending,” he says of the DCCC’s approach to Montana. “Because they just don’t spend it on everything.”

National Dems may not be rushing to Quist’s aid, but Kosted notes another development that may work in the musician’s favor. On March 9, the progressive news blog Daily Kos endorsed Quist, proclaiming the race a “perfect test … of a populist outsider versus an out-of-touch one-percenter.” Along with the endorsement, Daily Kos began an online fundraising campaign for Quist through the contribution website ActBlue. So far the effort has raised almost $90,000. It’s the first time Daily Kos has gotten involved in a Montana race since 2006, when it and other leftist sites were credited with helping push Tester to victory over Conrad Burns.

The parallel isn’t lost on Kosted.

“I definitely think [Quist] gets the same sort of populist feel that you got from Jon Tester,” he says. “But when it comes to him as a person, it’s more like the outsider feel of Brian Schweitzer, where he was never involved in politics until he was suddenly in office. I mean, [Schweitzer] had run for the Senate, but he still hadn’t held any office. He was always running as the outsider.”

At the end of the March 22 event in Caras Park, Quist took a few minutes to field questions from the Indy. We asked whether he expected to see much DCCC presence in the race. Quist shut the binder he’d periodically read from during his speech and answered with the appearance of candor. Once national Dems see the contributions he’s been collecting and see the results of recent polls, he said, they’ll realize his candidacy isn’t such a long shot as it might initially seem.

“I would encourage them to get off the sidelines and get into the game,” he said. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Quiet correction Report refutes claim that Juneau falsified data

by Derek Brouwer

No one at the state’s Office of Public Instruction falsified high school juniors’ ACT scores or sought to misrepresent the scores to the federal government last year, contrary to what new Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen alleged at a January press conference where she lambasted her Democratic predecessor, an independent review has found.

Arntzen commissioned the review just weeks after taking the helm at the state’s K-12 education agency in response to a staff “whistleblower� who raised concerns about data recently reported to the U.S. Department of Education under former OPI chief Denise Juneau. Announcing the investigation, Arntzen, the first Republican elected to lead the OPI in 29 years, accused Juneau’s administration of misrepresenting student scores, alleging an “abuse of state and federal dollars� that could jeopardize school funding.

The investigation, conducted by Helena consultant Jim Kerins at a cost of $4,200, concluded March 20. There was no press conference to highlight its findings.

Arntzen had taken issue with how OPI employees, under the guidance of Juneau’s appointed staff, decided to code ACT scores in an annual federal report used to hold schools accountable for student performance. Federal law requires high school students in either their sophomore or junior year to take a standardized test that measures their proficiency in core subjects such as English and math.

Montana schools, at Juneau’s direction, began using the ACT college-entrance exam for this purpose last spring, but the OPI had yet to establish its definitions for proficiency by the time the federal report was due in December. Instead, the whistleblower said, staffers were instructed to report that all students had scored “proficient� on the test. Arntzen described that action as “reckless.�

What Arntzen called “reckless,�

Juneau described as an innocuous workaround. Because state officials didn’t think the reporting system would allow them to leave the data fields blank, she said at the time, OPI staffers

decided to record “proficient� as a temporary placeholder.

Kerins’ 36-page report, released publicly March 24, found that OPI employees under Juneau made a “good faith effort� to provide the appropriate data, and apprised federal officials of the issues before submitting. Moreover, as Kerins’ investigation was concluding, an OPI staffer discovered that the students were never actually coded as “proficient� in the first place, as the whistleblower had said. In fact, the data fields had been left blank.

photo courtesy Office of Public Instruction

In one of her first acts as state superintendent, Elsie Arntzen accused her predecessor of misrepresenting test data to the federal government.

Arntzen did not address this finding in her written statement released in conjunction with the report last Friday. Asked if she stands by her earlier statements, OPI media assistant Dylan Klapmeier tells the Indy the superintendent “stands by the report,� and that information available at the time of Arntzen’s earlier statement “indicated that false proficiency data had been submitted.�

Presented with a copy of the report, Juneau fired back, saying it “proves Elsie is more interested in political games than doing her job.�

Arntzen had zeroed in on questions about data submission as a flashpoint in a larger dispute over her predecessor’s decision to use the ACT as the state exam for high school juniors.

Juneau announced the switch in December 2015 on the heels of a botched rollout of the Smarter Balanced, or SBAC, exams, and just after she had announced her campaign for Congress. The move to replace Smarter Balanced with the ACT, already offered free through a federal grant, was popular with schools because the test was familiar to students and reduced testing time for most juniors. However, it had the potential to create federal compliance issues, because the ACT is designed to measure college readiness, rather than student achievement with respect to Common Core standards.

In a presentation to the Board of Public Education last week, members of Arntzen’s leadership team said that their predecessors had skipped the administrative legwork needed to win federal approval to use the ACT in this way—specifically, that OPI hadn’t undergone a “peer review� process that Interim Deputy Superintendent Tim Tharp said should have been conducted last year. Tharp was also uncertain whether the ACT could be viable as the state exam for juniors in the future. “We are very uncomfortable with ... OPI calling this our statewide assessment,� Tharp told the board. “And if we were strictly following the law and the direction from the federal government, we would be coming to you with a recommendation that we do something else.�

Members of Juneau’s leadership team, including Tharp’s predecessor Dennis Parman and former Chief of Staff Madalyn Quinlan, say that legwork was scheduled to take place this year, and that the OPI didn’t expect the delay would endanger the state’s standing in the eyes of the federal government— which, at least so far, it hasn’t. Quinlan says the feds have granted the state an extension to make its case for the ACT as an appropriate measure of student performance and related analyses in 2017. Similarly, a routine January letter to state assessment directors from the U.S. Department of Education notes that 12 states that introduced new exams last year will be expected to undergo the compliance review in either June or August of this year.

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[10] Missoula Independent • March 30–April 6, 2017

Jeff Essmann has a tough job. As chairman of the Montana Republican Party, he has to analyze every idea with one goal in mind: helping Republicans win elections. But not everything good for Montana is good for the GOP. Sometimes, circumstances force him to take up a position with little merit, solely because it might help his party. In the movie about teens trying to save their community center that is Montana politics, Essmann is the guy with the bulldozer. He looks like the villain, but from his perspective, he’s just trying to build a mall.

Essmann probably has the toughest job in the state, unless you count hanging drywall, waiting tables, retail, agriculture, manufacturing or any job that requires you to be there at specific times, even if you have something important to do elsewhere. All those jobs are harder than what Essmann does.

I mention this because Essmann has been campaigning hard against SB 305, a bill to allow voting by mail in the upcoming special election. County officials of both parties overwhelmingly support it, because elections are expensive. Counties have to hire poll workers and people to coordinate them, rent spaces, secure ballots—all the costs that counties budget for on a two- and four-year basis, but not for surprise elections right after they just spent a bunch of money on the big one.

Mail-in ballots save taxpayer dollars— something the Republican Party consistently supports. But as Essmann pointed out in an email last month, mail-in ballots can also benefit Democrats. Candidates on the Democratic ticket consistently outperform Republicans in early voting. The Montanans whom Essmann refers to as “low-propensity voters”—those who cast ballots in one out of every four elections or fewer—trend to the left of voters who show up in person every Election Day. It’s not hard to understand why. Inperson voting always happens on a Tuesday, during the hours when many people are at work. Even when polling places remain open after 6 p.m., the lines are often long. Low-propensity voters include a lot

of people with hourly jobs that don’t offer them the flexibility to leave in the middle of the day, and/or childcare responsibilities that keep them from spending two hours at the fairgrounds after work.

The low-propensity voters who don’t have jobs often lack reliable transportation, too. Senior citizens and college students are two groups of people who have a hard time getting to their polling places and are more likely to vote by mail. All of

“Great ghost of William Clark, what awful optics.

Essmann’s position is basically that Republicans do better when fewer people vote. That’s tough to square with the ideals of American democracy.” these groups—students, non-managerial workers and seniors on fixed incomes— are more likely to vote Democrat. It therefore makes sense that Essmann would fight SB 305 as a bad deal for Republicans.

But great ghost of William Clark, what awful optics. Essmann’s position is basically that Republicans do better when fewer people vote. That’s tough to square with the ideals of American democracy.

And even if you think that one-person, one-vote business is hooey, there’s still the problem of asking counties to spend

hundreds of thousands of dollars to make May’s election friendlier to Greg Gianforte. When the GOP can’t make its case on fiscal responsibility, what arguments does it have left?

The tenuousness of Essmann’s position went on display last Thursday when a House Judiciary Committee hearing on SB 305 descended into chaos. County commissioners and other interested parties from around the state traveled to Helena to testify in support of the bill, but time ran out before they could all be heard. When chairman Alan Doane, RBloomfield, gaveled down SB 305 supporter Carole Mackin of Helena—as the rules allowed him to do—she refused to yield and was escorted out by police. The room erupted in chanting and cheers.

Probably, the Judiciary Committee shouldn’t have been hearing SB 305 in the first place. The Rules of the Montana Legislature say that bills pertaining to elections and voting belong to the State Administration Committee. But House Speaker Austin Knudsen, R-Culbertson, assigned the bill to Judiciary over the objections of its sponsor, Republican Sen. Steve Fitzpatrick of Great Falls—probably because Judiciary was more likely to kill it.

What we have here is a lopsided controversy. County commissioners, a majority of the state Senate, Democrats and a surprising number of Republicans are on the side of voting by mail. On the other side are Essmann and Knudsen, plus various party hacks. Their only argument is that if everybody who wants to vote gets a chance to, the Republican might not win.

Upton Sinclair once observed that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Essmann earns his salary.

But this issue is so clear-cut that even he can afford to understand it. He should put politics aside, if only briefly, and let his candidate try to win on his own merits. The alternative is too ugly to watch.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the dangers of easy voting at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Canid conundrum Sometimes environmentalism starts with a baggie

by Lucia Hadella

When I’m 90, I’ll probably still be haunted by memories of bins overflowing with the remnants of hiking snacks and thinly wrapped dog turds, left to bake for a week in black plastic bags.

As a student employee at the McDonald Research Forest, seven miles from Corvallis and one of seven research forests run by Oregon State University, I was sometimes given the task of tugging such stinking bags from receptacles and heaving them into the bed of a pickup truck. This was not pleasant, but I took solace in knowing that people cared enough to stick their trash in a designated container. In 2015, however, when I was involved in a public awareness campaign about dog behavior, I found the whole issue of dogs unleashed a lot of anger—some of it mine.

The reason for the campaign: As the number of visits to the McDonald forest increased from an estimated 7,500 in 1980 to 105,000 when last surveyed in 2009, the number of dog-related incidents and complaints had also risen. About half of the visitors now bring dogs along on a typical visit, and this amounts to quite a few canines on the trails.

Dogs can scare horses and chase mountain bikes. They are allowed off leash in the forest, as long as they respond well to voice commands and don’t stray from the owner’s sight. This, however, is difficult to enforce. Sometimes dogs jump on strangers, and even when the dog isn’t covered in creek water, mud or poison oak, nobody wants someone else’s dog to jump on them. Dog fights with other dogs are another concern, and if the animals stray from the trails, which they often do, they occasionally traipse through a research plot and may distort someone’s data.

The real problem is that dogs poop, and sometimes humans refuse to pick it up. The poop becomes an unsightly addition to a well-loved trail, and it can make people and other dogs sick, as well as mess with what’s natural

in a forest. Dog feces is not a “natural fertilizer.” As cute as canines can be, they are not native to our forest environments, so nature lacks a seamless way of managing dog waste, especially when it’s deposited onto a trail in high quantities. Parvovirus, giardia and roundworms are just a few of the organisms you, your family and your pets

“Consider the number 98. That’s how many pounds of woof waste 25 volunteers and three staffers collected from the forest’s Oak Creek area in the course of just one Saturday.”

probably don’t want to encounter on a hike, yet dog feces can carry such parasites and pathogens.

To gain a better sense of how much poop I’m talking about, consider the number 98. That’s how many pounds of woof waste 25 volunteers and three staffers collected from the forest’s Oak Creek area in the course of just one Saturday. Altogether, they collected 231 pounds of poop from four locations on the forest in a single day.

News of this “Tails on Trails” cleanup campaign reached the Corvallis newspaper and then spread across the country through the Associated Press. The upshot? People from near and far wrote nasty notes to my boss. One Oregon State University alumnus said he would not be returning for a while because of our anti-dog attitude. I probably would have written back: “Woohoo! One less person leaving a mess on the trails!”— which is why I will never be able to do my boss’ job.

As a natural resources graduate, I can recite the pep talk professors of my discipline share with their classes at least once a term: “It will be your job to decide what to do about the big environmental issues of your lifetime: global climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, catastrophic fires…” Some professors admit, “My generation and the one before it screwed everything up.

Sorry. Our bad. But now Mother Nature is counting on you.” A few even go so far as to insert a joke warning us not to expect to get paid a lot for saving the planet. Few students laugh.

It makes me angry that many dog owners fail to clean up their basic environmental messes, and then lash out when nudged to do so. Granted, many people had nothing but praise for the “Tails on Trails” campaign, which included not only the poop purge and educational signage, but also a community dog celebration called “Poocha-Paw-Looza.”

Still, I found the negative outcry disheartening, especially when it came from Corvallis folk who pride themselves on being nature lovers. If they’re unwilling to bend down with a baggie and bundle up a few dog turds, what hope is there that big problems will get fixed in my lifetime—or ever?

Lucia Hadella is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ).

She is a first-year M.A. student in environmental arts and humanities at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

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CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE – An office in the New York City government, suspicious of a $5,000 payment to two men in the 2008 city council election of Staten Island’s Debi Rose, opened an investigation, which at $300 an hour for the “special prosecutor,” has now cost the city $520,000, with his final bill still to come. Despite scant “evidence” and multiple opportunities to back off, the prosecutor relentlessly conducted months-long grand jury proceedings, fought several court appeals, had one 23-count indictment almost immediately crushed by judges, and enticed state and federal investigators to (fruitlessly) take on the Staten Island case. In March, the city’s Office of Court Administration finally shrugged and closed the case.

MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INDICATORS – “Bentley” the cat went missing in Marina Del Rey, California, on Feb. 26 and as of press time had not been located—despite a posted reward of $20,000.

(A “wanted” photo is online, if you’re interested.)

British snack food manufacturer Walkers advertised in February for a part-time professional chip taster, at the equivalent of $10.55 an hour.

An Australian state administrative tribunal awarded a $90,000 settlement after a cold-calling telemarketer sold a farm couple 2,000 ink cartridges (for their one printer) by repeated pitches.

PERSPECTIVE – American chef Dan Barber staged a temporary “pop-up” restaurant in London in March at which he and other renowned chefs prepared the fanciest meals they could imagine using only food scraps donated from local eateries. A primary purpose was to chastise First World eaters (especially Americans) for wasting food, not only in the kitchen and on the plate, but to satisfy our craving for meat (for example, requiring diversion of 80 percent of the world’s corn and soy just to feed edible animals). Among Barber’s March “WastED” dishes were a char-grilled meatless beetburger and pork braised in leftover fruit solids.

UNDIGNIFIED DEATHS – Pornography Kills: A Mexico City man fell to his death recently in the city’s San Antonio neighborhood when he climbed up to turn off a highway video sign on the Periferico Sur highway that was showing a pornographic clip apparently placed by a hacker.

THE PASSING PARADE – In his third try of the year in January, Li Longlong of China surpassed his own Guinness Book record by climbing 36 stairs while headstanding (beating his previous 34). (Among the Guinness regulations: no touching walls and no pausing more than five seconds per step.)

The online live-stream of the extremely pregnant giraffe “April” (at New York’s Animal Adventure Park) has created such a frenzy, and exposed the tiny attention spans of viewers, that, as of March 3, they had spent a cumulative 1,036 years just watching. (Erin Dietrich of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 39 weeks pregnant herself, mocked the lunacy by livestreaming her own belly while wearing a giraffe mask.) (By press time, Erin had delivered; April, not.)

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hen Montanans vote in the May 25 special election to replace former Rep. Ryan Zinke, they will choose between two candidates who have never held public office. The Republican, former gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte, is a businessman who sold his Bozeman-based company RightNow Technologies to Oracle for a billion dollars. The Democrat is Rob Quist.

Quist served 11 years on the Montana Arts Council and was an ambassador to Montana’s sister state of Kumamoto,

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Japan. He has developed anti-bullying programs for Montana schools and advocated for the Montana Food Bank. But he is best known as a member of the Mission Mountain Wood Band, a roots-rock act that toured nationally during the 1970s.

As Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold put it when he addressed the UM School of Journalism last month, Quist is a “cowboy folk singer.”

It sounds like a Terry Southern plot: multimillionaire versus cowboy folk singer for control of Montana’s sole seat in the U.S. House. A reader arriving late to this story might be forgiven for thinking it reflects the general public’s dissatisfaction with career politicians. But a funny thing about Quist, as an outsider candidate from the world of popular en-

tertainment, is that he was not selected by the general public.

The voters of Montana did not get sick of politics as usual and nominate a cowboy folk singer in a groundswell of disgust with the status quo. He was chosen by delegates from the Democratic Party in a special nominating convention. In early March, just months after a reality television star who had never held public office or served in the military became the U.S. president, 160 party operatives—the insiders’ insiders, the ones so deep in the system that they vote to direct the party itself—got together at Helena’s Best Western Premier Great Northern Hotel and agreed that political experience is less a feature than a bug.

This decision does not necessarily reflect what most voters in Montana think. It

may not even tell us what the delegates think. All it tells us is what those delegates think voters think. The purpose of the Helena convention was to select the candidate with the best chance of winning May’s election, and the politicians of the Democratic Party determined that we like entertainers better than we like the politicians of the Democratic Party. They’re not wrong.

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he original entertainer-turned-politician was George Lloyd Murphy, a song and dance man who became the U.S. senator from California in 1964. Before joining the world’s greatest deliberative body, Murphy had worked as a nightclub dancer. During the Depression, he appeared in a series of Hollywood musicals,

including the descriptively titled Broadway Melody of 1938 and Broadway Melody of 1940. He went on to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, then won his Senate bid by defeating John F. Kennedy’s former press secretary. Murphy served only one term before he was unseated by Rep. John Tunney, son of heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney.

Readers may be familiar with another past president of the Screen Actors Guild who dabbled in politics. Before he became the leader of the free world, Ronald Reagan announced Chicago Cubs games for WHO radio in Des Moines, offering play-by-play accounts by embellishing short descriptions he got by wire. He also starred opposite a chimpanzee in the 1951 comedy Bedtime For Bonzo.

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[14] Missoula Independent • March 30–April 6, 2017

Shortly after Reagan left office to enter talk-radio sainthood, a number of his fellow entertainers followed his path to Washington. His presidency overlapped 12 days with the congressional tenure of Ben Jones, who played Cooter on The Dukes of Hazzard. Around the same time, Iowa’s 6th District was represented by Fred Grandy, who played Gopher on The Love Boat. Grandy left office on the same day that Sonny Bono was sworn in as Representative of California’s 44th District.

Bono, who never graduated high school, was a former songwriter and television personality best known for marrying Cher.

Fred Thompson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee between 1994 and 2003, was a rare instance of an entertainer who was in politics first. Thompson served as minority counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee before he went on to play himself in the 1985 film Marie, titled after his

client in a corruption trial against the governor of Tennessee. He played stern authority figures in Die Hard 2, The Hunt for Red October and a number of less-successful productions. In 1994, he won a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Al Gore, returning to the body he had first served 20 years earlier.

Former professional wrestler and Predator actor Jesse “The Body” Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota in 1999, becoming the first Reform Party candidate to win a significant office.

Then, in 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for governor of California during an appearance on The Tonight Show.

The media treated it as a joke. Headlines were generally split between “the governator” and “the running man,” a reference to the 1987 film in which Schwarzenegger played a contestant on a

murder-themed game show. The action hero and former bodybuilder had never campaigned for public office before. He was running in a recall election against Democratic Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Republican state Senator Tom McClintock, Green Party activist Peter Camejo, and 132 other candidates—including Arianna Huffington, former MLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth and Gary Coleman.

It was a circus, and Schwarzenegger looked like another circus candidate.

Then he won. In retrospect, it made sense that a crowded field would offer an advantage to one of the most famous people on Earth. It also seems logical that a recall election—which by nature attracted voters dissatisfied with the state of California politics—would swing toward a political outsider. But at the time Schwarzenegger announced, his candidacy seemed laughable.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for governor of California during a 2003 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The media treated it as a joke. He left office after two terms with a record-low 23 percent approval rating.

Twelve years later, another celebrity would enter a crowded field of more experienced candidates in a way that made everyone laugh. Donald Trump was like Schwarzenegger, only less likable on screen, arguably dumber and certainly more vulnerable to ridicule. As soon as he announced, I predicted in print that he would never be president of the United States. I repeated this prediction to anyone who would listen for the next year and a half, right up until approximately dinnertime on Tuesday, Nov. 8, when I started to look like a real asshole.

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Greg Gianforte sold his Bozeman-based company, RightNow Technologies, to Oracle for a billion dollars, mounted a failed bid for governor of Montana in 2016, and now wants to represent Montana in Congress.

ike Gov. Schwarzenegger, President Trump seems inevitable in retrospect.

During the nominating process, he was the most recognizable figure in a field of 17 otherwise interchangeable Republicans. The others blended into a miasma of managerial haircuts and pious talk about personal responsibility. Then Trump would appear, with his orange face and evidently deceitful hair, and say that Mexicans are rapists and we need to nuke ISIS. The press, agreeing that such remarks made him unelectable, covered them relentlessly.

In the general, of course, he was doomed. As the first major-party nominee for president with no experience in public service, he was up against the most qualified opponent in history. Hillary Clinton

had been a senator and secretary of state.

She had also been the favored candidate to win the Democratic nomination in 2008, before she was upset by a charismatic junior senator from Illinois. No one could believe it when she lost to Barack Obama back then, but now, in 2016, it was her turn.

Looking back, that was a big part of the problem. As qualified as Clinton was, her career in politics was founded on her marriage to a former president. She was the consummate insider—a perception reinforced by the leak, in July, of emails suggesting that Democratic National Committee leaders had influenced the nominating process to her benefit. Even her campaign slogan, “I’m with her,” implied an arbitrary but coordinated effort on her behalf.

And then there was the way she talked. Clinton was well-informed, articulate and careful in her public remarks, much like that talking plastic cylinder you can buy from Amazon. Trump, on the other hand, seemed never to think about what he said until after it left his mouth.

His speeches felt improvised, to the point that it made headlines the first time he used a teleprompter. Where Clinton calculated every sentence for safety, if not necessarily for effect, Trump spoke blithely and without regard for truth or consequences, as though he were saying whatever popped into his head.

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This is, of course, the primary talent of the reality television star. Trump’s ability to act naturally under artificial circumstances is not useful to a president, who makes most of his important decisions behind closed doors. But it is supremely useful to a candidate. The only area in which his experience as the host of an unscripted television show—on which he pretended to be a shrewd and dynamic leader instead of the heir to a family business that he nearly bankrupted more than once—could be more valuable than Clinton’s experience in government was during the campaign. He couldn’t possibly be better at running the country. He was just much better at convincing people to vote for him.

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month before the 2016 election, a Gallup poll put Americans’ approval of Congress at 18 percent. For point of comparison, Richard Nixon enjoyed an approval rating of 24 percent after the Watergate scandal, in the weeks before he resigned. Congress hasn’t cracked 25 percent since 2009. Such a dismal approval rating would have been regarded as a crisis in the 20th century, but in the 21st it has become accepted as a more-orless permanent feature. The question for strategists is not how to repair the public’s

“The premise of the American system is that people don’t need specialized training to run their government. This is a beautiful principle, and easy to support in theory.

In practice, it is probably a recipe for disaster.” hatred of the political class, but rather how to harness it.

Politicians know we don’t like them, and the consensus that American voters prefer outsiders has sometimes driven candidates and their surrogates to absurdity.

In September of 2015, Clinton described herself as a political outsider, citing her gender. From a narrowly feminist perspective, she had a point. But if the wife of a former president isn’t a political insider, who is?

Yet the premise of political outsiderdom is strange. If you were dissatisfied with how your mechanic tuned your engine, you wouldn’t go looking for someone who had never worked on cars before. A recent New Yorker cartoon summed up the contradictions in our present mania for candidates who have never worked in government: “These smug pilots have lost touch with ordinary passengers like us,” says a man standing in the aisle of a commercial jet. “Who thinks I should fly the plane?”

[16] Missoula Independent • March 30–April 6, 2017

Ben Jones, aka Cooter Davenport on The Dukes of Hazzard, represented Georgia’s 4th District in the House of Representatives for two terms from 1989 to 1993. In 2002 he ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress from Virginia.

This cartoon misses the point, though. The premise of the American system is that people don’t need specialized training to run their government. The heart of the democratic experiment is the citizen-legislator. That principle is reflected in the Montana Legislature, which meets for 90 days every two years, and in the U.S. House of Representatives, which requires no qualifications of its members except that they be at least 25 years old.

This is a beautiful principle, and easy to support in theory. In practice, it is probably a recipe for disaster. For one thing, the baseline rules of American democracy were laid out in 1789, when the U.S. government was far less powerful and complex than it is today. How much damage could an inexperienced president do in the days before the telegraph, the multi-state corporation and the nuclear missile? The difference between the governments of the late 18th century and the early 21st is the difference between a toddler with a plastic shovel and one with a backhoe.

Another difference is that the invention of the citizen-legislator predates the invention of political parties. Outsiders may come to Washington innocent of corruption and partisan recalcitrance, but they learn fast. When you vote for people who have never worked in government

before, you might get mavericks who go their own way. But you’re more likely to get party loyalists.

Consider Al Franken, the screenwriter and former Saturday Night Live cast member who became the junior senator from Minnesota in 2009. Since joining the Senate, Franken has voted with the majority of the Democratic Party 97 percent of the time. This record makes sense. What kind of person—even a famous person—would walk into the world’s greatest deliberative body with zero experience in government and decide he knew better than everyone else there?

Yet this is what we hope the outsider candidate will do. The engine of American government is out of tune. The plane is not taking us where we want to go. So we look for someone who has not been involved in the failure we want fixed. We want this person to enter the field of governance with no experience and do it better than anyone who has done it before, because those people by definition did it badly.

There’s no reason our clever outsider can’t be a farmer, or a forensic accountant, or a middle-school teacher, except those people aren’t famous. Entertainers are. They enter the political arena already in possession of politics’ most expensive commodity: name recog-

Al Franken performs as Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live. In 2009 Franken was elected to the U.S Senate from Minnesota. He’s voted in line with the Democratic majority 97 percent of the time.

nition. Particularly in a short race like this spring’s special election, the cost of teaching voters to remember who they are is a huge barrier to entry for outsider candidates who aren’t already famous. A candidate who is already publicly known enters politics with a chunk of capital comparable to the deep pockets of tycoons like Gianforte or Trump.

Plus, entertainers are the kind of public figures people like. Politicians are the kind people hate, even though the prereq-

uisite for their careers is to win a popularity contest. So we select entertainers to become our replacement politicians and, once they take office, begin the process of hating them, too.

Trump won election in November with 46 percent of the vote. As of this writing—two months after he took office, when he has done little other than appoint several of his fellow outsiders to cabinet positions and try to keep Muslims overseas—his approval rating has dropped

to 37 percent. The longer he is president, the less he is an outsider, and the more he becomes just another politician.

Meanwhile, his party reaps the reward. Although most prominent Republicans despised him before he started winning primaries, the GOP is happy to let Trump appoint a corporate-friendly justice to the Supreme Court. If they ever get the votes together, Republicans in Congress will send him bills to cut taxes on millionaires, privatize Social Security,

roll back net neutrality—all the unpopular projects he didn’t run on that have been in his party’s platform for years.

Perhaps the best thing about President Trump—the first chief executive who never wrangled votes in a state Legislature, traded horses in Congress or even managed the conflicting schemes of his subordinates in the army—is that he lacks the experience to stop them. Granted, this situation is less than optimal if you’re on Medicare or don’t expect to make a million dollars this year. But if you are a lifelong politico like Paul Ryan, this outsider president is just what you’ve been waiting for.

Maybe outsider Rob Quist will stop Ryan and Trump. Perhaps the mic skills he learned in his years as a touring musician or his natural sense of how to rally a crowd will give him an edge on the House Appropriations Committee. Maybe Greg Gianforte can dissolve bureaucratic deadlock with a wave of his entrepreneurial wand. Or maybe we have hoodwinked ourselves, and these inexperienced political outsiders won’t represent those of us who vote for an exception to political rule at all. Perhaps they will merely entertain us for a while before getting on with politics as usual. editor@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

photo by Amy Donovan

Fantasy Suite features, from left, Rachel Patrie, Lukas Phelan, Zoë Phelan and Foster Caffrey.

Guided by roses How Fantasy Suite turns reality TV into real emotion

by Erika Fredrickson

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antasy Suite’s song “Even More” begins with a soft bass line and loose guitar strumming that evokes the desperation and wistfulness of a Fleetwood Mac song. “What am I doing?” Zoë Phelan sings. “I’ve come so far from that first night. Can’t help the feelin.’ You made it fun—and so did he. When I’m with you, I think of him. When I’m with him, I was thinkin’ of you.”

The sentiment isn’t all that different from any other love song, even if it’s about being into two men at once. But the inspiration behind the song—and all the Missoula band’s songs—is more surprising.

“They are all very directly based on stuff that happens in The Bachelor and The Bachelorette,” says guitarist Lukas Phelan.

That’s right: the ABC reality TV shows where, each season, a bachelor and bachelorette spend several weeks going on dates and getting to know a batch of contestants, handing out roses at the end of each episode to pare down the herd of

potential mates. It’s awkward, theatrical and cheesy, and it all plays out on camera for millions of viewers to see.

Given that information, Zoë’s song about “that first night” and being in love with two men comes into focus. What makes Fantasy Suite so smart is that the members don’t ever overtly reference the show. Lyrics are plucked here and there from the show’s script, but the songs occupy an imagined emotional world. Taking absurd details and unnatural situations from the fairly shallow show, Fantasy Suite boils everything down to basic love and heartbreak.

“It’s not like we write our lyric content 100 percent from dialogue or confessions from the show,” says drummer Rachel Patrie. “We maybe get inspired from one line and then write a whole song about that one line. So we’re not necessarily drawing from personal experience, but we’re giving a two-dimensional experience more dimensions and making it personal. I think we can all imagine ourselves in the scenarios.”

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In a song called “Bad Danger Guy,” the band sings about Chad Johnson, a Season 12 villain on The Bachelorette, both from Johnson’s perspective, and from the perspective of viewers who dislike him—without ever mentioning him.

The song’s Chad Johnson character could be any complicated, misunderstood person who hurts other people.

“In reality television, people are really emotionally vulnerable and have the components that you need to make a really good pop song,” Zoë says. “In some ways, it’s easier to get inspiration from that than from your own personal life.”

Fantasy Suite started six months ago.

Lukas and Patrie are members of J. Sherri, a lo-fi, experimental party band known for its live shows. Zoë, who also plays guitar, and bassist Foster Caffrey have never played in a band before, and Patrie is new to drums. The band has played several live shows, in which the members have been coy about their re-

ality TV inspiration, if they say anything about it at all.

Nevertheless, if you’ve watched enough The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, you probably get the “Fantasy Suite” reference. Toward the end of each season, the bachelor/ bachelorette gets a chance to invite contestants to spend the night with them in the show’s fantasy suite, the idea being that there’s sex to be had therein. But if you take the time to read behind-the-scenes articles about the show, you know that the fantasy suite is also the one place contestants can go to interact off-camera and have real, unscripted conversations. And those authentic interactions, more than sexy time, are at the root of the Fantasy Suite reference.

The band’s debut album will be out within a month, and its title, First Impression, is also inspired by its TV namesake.

The first episode of each season usually begins with the bachelor or bachelorette handing out roses to the contestants who make the best first impression.

For a band so tied to a contemporary concept, the music is surprisingly retro. There are elements of 1970s pop, rock and country, including some similarities to Big Star and the aforementioned Fleetwood Mac. The band’s intensity of emotion, coupled with the fact that Lukas and Zoë are married, makes Fantasy Suite even more like that famously dramatic band.

“We picked lyrics and music that has that flavor,” Lukas says, “so that the average concert-goer would be like, ‘Oh, this is about their relationship!’ But really we picked something to write about that we could separate ourselves from.”

“I mean, we’re not Fleetwood Mac,” Zoë adds. “We’re not going to lay it all out there.”

Fantasy Suite plays the VFW along with White Mystery, Shahs and Accouster Sauce Thu., April 6, at 9 PM. $5. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Mixtape style Lisa Prank’s new and nostalgic Adult Teen It’s been almost exactly a year since Lisa Prank played in Missoula for the first time. This year, as she returns to play at the ZACC, she has released her second full-length album (yes, in punk rock we will allow 27 minutes to count as fulllength) and nestled more deeply into her niche: one-woman poppunk that’s nostalgic without being stale.

Prank, whose given name is Robin Edwards, is all about girl power (woman power?) in the best way.

She brings the noise and energy of a punk rock band to the stage all by herself. With the help of her guitar and a drum machine, she produces bouncing, shining and delightfully homemade songs.

Heavily reminiscent of lo-fi ’90s girl bands like

Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, Prank walks the fine line between wistful imitation and new musical ground, and she walks it well. Like the title of her 2016 album, Adult Teen, Prank’s music reflects, perhaps, a mature person writing mature songs, but playing them in the musical style she listened to as a teen. One moment she’s singing, “I’m making you a mixtape in my head,” and two songs later she’s singing, “[You’re] distracting me from WebMD and all the dumb things I read.” It’s a lovely mix of nostalgia and modern-day concerns, served with wit. (Sarah Aswell) Lisa Prank plays the ZACC Fri., March 31, at 7 PM along with Dogbreth, Melon Painting and Neutral Colors. $5.

Mandolin Orange, Blindfaller There are a lot of sloppy, boring Americana-folk bands out there, but Mandolin Orange is their opposite. On their latest album, Blindfaller, the Chapel Hill duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz showcase their warm, melancholy sound, which is punctuated by occasional anthemic phrasings and crafted with meticulous attention to detail: the flutter of mandolin, the flooding of pedal steel, the way their vocal harmonies rise up and snap together like magnets.

Some songs don’t sink in as quickly as others.

“Echo,” for instance, sounds like background noise to sipping your morning coffee. Others are more compelling, like “Wildfire,” which highlights Marlin’s golden, slightly gravelly vocals alongside Frantz’s

sweet and cool tone. There’s a kind of James Taylor-style folk storytelling going on here, a little reminiscent of “Fire and Rain,” but from a perspective more historical than personal. “Hard Travelin’,” which is about hustling shows on Nashville’s Music Row, is the only song that chugs along at a fast pace—a muchneeded change that features fantastically tight soloing. The rest of the album is slower but powerful, full of startling contrasts, like those late-summer afternoons when you suddenly notice how nicely the light is shining through the window. (Erika Fredrickson) Mandolin Orange plays the Top Hat Thu., April 6. Eli West opens. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $17/$15 advance at tophatlounge.com.

Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked at Me Phil Elverum’s wife, artist Geneviève Castrée, died of pancreatic cancer in July 2016, leaving Elverum with the couple’s 18-month-old daughter and an otherwise empty house. Two months later, the indie rock musician, who uses the moniker Mount Eerie and was once the man behind the band the Microphones, picked up his wife’s instruments and recorded an album in the room where she died.

Elverum’s work has always been brooding and experimental and difficult. A Crow Looked At Me is at once an insane magnification of his past work and a significant departure. You can hardly call it an album at all—it feels more like capital-A Art, or a sonic diary, or a grief workbook. It’s beautiful but hard to listen to, loving but at times completely hopeless, heartening and heartbreaking.

Elverum seems to be dealing with his wife’s death in real time, and the album is filled with emotionally wrenching moments: A package arriving from his wife, after her death, containing a backpack for their daughter. Elverum throwing away his wife’s underwear. The couple’s grief counselor dying just two months after Castrée, leaving Elverum peeking into the dark windows of her office.

This album is not about finding joy or acceptance or peace. It’s simply about losing a loved one. As he sings on the opening track, “Death is real/Someone’s there and then they’re not/It’s not for singing about/It’s not for making into art.” It’s a disclaimer, perhaps, for the raw, painful 41 minutes to come. But it’s also untrue: Elverum has made a striking piece of art, just by sharing his experience and his love for his wife and his daughter. (Sarah Aswell)

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Things that fly Bare Bait Dance pairs music with movement in Surge

by Melissa Mylchreest

photo courtesy Jen DeLong

“Some things that fly there be” features, from left, Freya Sargent, Jasmine Woods Nance, Katie McEwen and Kaitlin Kinsley. The piece was choreographed by Allison McKinney for Bare Bait Dance’s spring showcase.

In many ways, Bare Bait Dance’s spring showcase, Surge, lives up to its title. Over the course of the evening-length show, the dynamism of the performance and caliber of the choreography swells, crescendoing until peaking in the second half, which boasts three strong, polished, articulate pieces.

For several years, Bare Bait has presented a spring show featuring the choreography of its company members and others in the community, but this year it added an extra element: music. The results are striking. Each piece of music has been composed or arranged specifically for this show and, in some cases, is performed live onstage alongside the dancers. Musical highlights include Lindsey Stormo’s virtuosic, transcendent vocal performance alongside Amy Ragsdale’s movement; Steven Nance’s bluesy, sultry, pentatonic electric guitar playing paired with Katie McEwan’s graceful choreography; and Caroline Keys’ subtle, measured soundscape that blends well with Kaitlin Kinsley’s quartet.

It seems like the choreographers and their dancers have paid more attention to—or made greater use of—their own vocalizations and sounds than during other performances. That might be intentional, or perhaps it’s a subconscious response to working alongside musicians and sound artists. Nearly all of the seven pieces include some vocalization from the dancers. One of the best examples comes in Allison McKinney’s piece, “Some things that fly there be,” which ends with her quartet of dancers repeating a sequence of movements, each with an accompanying sound—a sigh, a buzz, breath forced between teeth.

When done well, this added auditory element lends a secondary layer to the performance, and subtly breaks the barrier between performer and audience. Because our attention has been drawn to their intentional sounds, our ears perk up and we become more at-

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tuned to their unintentional sounds as well—their breathing, the drumming of their feet on the floor.

The two strongest numbers are those choreographed by Heidi Jones Eggert (with music by Naomi Moon Siegel) and Joy French (with music by Roger Johnson and Ian Smith). Eggert’s piece is a solo, performed by the seven-months-pregnant French, that brings gesture, spoken word and props to a dance about the trials and travails of mothers-to-be. Dance theater often runs the risk of seeming cliched or hokey, but Eggert successfully harnesses humor and grace to create a piece that is both powerful and charming.

French’s work, “Fire, Ice, Bang and Whimper,” is a striking ensemble piece featuring nearly the entire Bare Bait company. The most notable element of the piece is its use of unison choreography. With dancers dressed all in black and moving around the space bunched in a relatively tight knot, they are reminiscent of a murmuration of starlings, effortlessly maintaining their spacing and relation to one another with that sixth sense that flocks of birds possess. It’s a piece that showcases not only the work of a choreographer who has clearly found her voice and style, but also that of a polished, rigorous and highly competent company.

Surge is not the strongest show Bare Bait Dance has ever presented, but it may be one of the most noteworthy and important. In a town that’s rife with creative people working in all art forms, the production’s cross-disciplinary collaboration seems like it can only be a good thing for the art community.

Surge continues at the Open Space Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building Fri., March 31 and Sat., April 1, at 8 PM, and Sun., April 2, at 6 PM. $16. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

On edge Personal Shopper builds sustained suspense

by Molly Laich

Kristen Stewart stars in Personal Shopper.

You can tell that director Olivier Assayas wrote Personal Shopper with Kristen Stewart in mind. The entire tone of the film matches Stewart’s voice and demeanor: sultry, introverted and mysterious. How you feel about the actress may temper your enjoyment of the film. She’s in nearly every scene, and much of Personal Shopper’s 105-minute running time shows her walking around empty houses, riding the train, watching YouTube videos and text messaging.

Still, these periods are punctuated with brief moments of tremendous excitement and, anyway, I’m riveted by the ordinary.

As the title suggests, Maureen Cartwright (Stewart) works as a personal shopper in Paris for a highprofile fashion model named Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten). The clothes she buys for her difficult boss are expensive and extravagant, particularly compared to Maureen’s subdued, somewhat tomboyish wardrobe, which consists of a lot of oversized sweaters and jeans. I mention the clothes because they’re integral to the fabric (pardon the pun) of the story. Often, the shop workers ask Maureen if she wants to try on the clothes, but she’s not allowed, and that only adds to the allure. Working for Kyra, Maureen is positioned right on the fringe of wealth and privilege. The film expends a good amount of energy on the idea of wanting to be someone else, and I can relate. I want to be every inch of Maureen, from her dingy basement apartment to her leather jacket and the moped she drives through the streets of Paris.

If Maureen feeds on Kyra’s scraps, then what does that make me, feasting on the scraps of scraps?

Personal Shopper is a ghost story, also. In her Skype conversations with her boyfriend, Gary, we learn that Maureen is waiting in Paris for a message from her deceased twin brother. Both twins were

born with the same rare heart condition, and both considered themselves mediums, although Maureen is a little more uncertain. They promised each other they would send signs from the afterlife, but it’s been three months, and maybe she’s gotten some signs, but she can’t be sure? Her skepticism feels like both a gift and a burden.

The tension ratchets up when Maureen starts receiving insistent, vaguely erotic texts from an anonymous sender. Do they come from a ghost? Probably not, but if not ghosts, then who? The plot thickens from there in ways better left unrevealed. All I will say is that what happens next is both shocking and, at the same time, the fulfillment of what we’ve been groomed to expect all along.

Again, I can’t get away from the voyeuristic feeling I got watching Personal Shopper. For much of the film I felt like an intruder hiding in the closet, watching an unsuspecting woman through a crack in the door.

And just to run this stalker-hiding-in-the-closet metaphor into the ground: The film feels at times about as boring as a stakeout. I mean, we’re literally watching her watch YouTube videos of séances from the 1960s.

But the boredom is tinged with a feeling of readiness, an anticipation that something exciting could happen at any moment. It’s a testament to Assayas’ filmmaking that he’s able to keep us in that state of suspended anticipation. If you’re anything like me, you’ll leave the theater feeling sad, invigorated, and, if the film’s really working on you, just a little bit ashamed of yourself.

Personal Shopper opens at the Roxy Fri., March 31. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK

Stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE BOSS BABY Older children sometimes feel jealousy toward new siblings. Of course most newborns aren’t high-powered executive spies. Are we sure this isn’t a 30 Rock joke? Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi and Lisa Kudrow. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex.

MAGNOLIA (1999) The lives of a dozen interconnected characters are upended when the host of a long-running game show gets a nasty diagnosis. Rated R. Stars Tom Cruise, William H. Macy and Julianne Moore. Playing Wed., April 5 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

MAMMA MIA (2008) SING-A-LONG Here I go again! The music of Abba helps tell the story of a single mother, her daughter’s wedding and the three men who could be her father. Rated PG-13. Stars Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth. Sing-along at the Roxy at 4 PM and 7 PM on Sat., April 1.

GHOST IN THE SHELL A one-of-a-kind human-cyborg does battle against criminals, hackers and terrorists in a cyberpunk future. Rated PG-13. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano and Michael Pitt. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004) While not practicing his sweet dance moves, this alienated teenager decides to help his new friend become class president. Rated PG. Stars Jon Heder, Efren Ramierez and Tina Majorino. Playing Sat., April 1 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

PERSONAL SHOPPER While buying designer clothes for an A-list celebrity in Paris, a young woman has to deal with weird messages from her brother. A brother that’s been dead for quite some time. Rated R. Stars Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger and Sigrid Bouaziz. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film)

NOW PLAYING

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.

1984 (1984) Winston Smith thought falling in love with a woman was pretty good, but as soon as the government finishes his re-education, he’ll learn how great it is to love his totalitarian overlords. Rated R. Stars John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton. Playing Tue., April 4, at 7 PM at the Roxy.

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 Pharaohplex.

Who you gonna call? Ghost in the Shell opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and Pharaohplex.

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.

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.

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 through Thu., March 30 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.

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LIFE The crew of the International Space Station discovers proof of alien life. That’s great! Then they discover proof the alien life really wants them all dead. That’s apocalyptic! Rate R. Stars Jake Gyllenhall, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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. Playing at the Roxy.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

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.

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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by Andrea Grimes

RESISTANCE KITCHEN

I have been in a pretty fabulous mood lately because I’ve been too busy working and volunteering to live on Twitter, my usual source for news of the coming end of days. On Twitter, someone is always online and ready to scare the living shit out of me/make me feel better about opening a bottle of wine. I don’t know what an AA meeting is like, but I think that Twitter is probably the opposite of it.

Instead of having a detailed minute-by-minute accounting of the many and various simultaneous iterations of the collapse of American democracy, I merely have been living with a general residual fear of That Man punctuated by the weird BuzzFeed updates I now get on my Apple watch even though I did not ask for them. It’s not actually safer over here, outside of the 24-hour news cycle, but there is slightly more sleep and slightly (slightly) less drinking at 3 p.m.

Someone has also decided I need a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, which is either the Ur Move of Passive Aggression on behalf of one of my family members or just a thing the previous tenants of my apartment forgot to cancel. Either way, I get briefed every morning by headlines screaming that things are great, or only sort of bad. Until the BuzzFeed notifications start rolling in and “GOP Hammering Out the Details to This Mildly Controversial Very Money-Saving Smart and Good Plan” turns into “Shitfire, Shitfire, Shitfire!” By Chris Geidner.

Like I said, only slightly less drinking at 3 p.m.

This layered ratatouille recipe is not unlike my days: We start off with a nice, orderly arrangement of things that seem OK, and then we put it in a fire. (Or, the oven.) This recipe is also more delicious than millions of people losing their health insurance and slowly dying of poverty and starvation while industry executives get massive tax breaks for fucking over the American people.

Ingredients half a yellow onion, sliced thinly a not-small eggplant, sliced thinly

a not-small red pepper, sliced thinly into rounds a couple of zucchini squashes, sliced thinly five roma tomatoes, chopped 1 tablespoon of herbs de Provence 1 tablespoon dried fennel seeds 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup marsala wine (sweet) 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar olive oil salt and pepper creme fraiche, for serving parmesan cheese to garnish

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Directions Preheat your oven to 375.

Sautée onions over medium heat in a tablespoon of oil for five minutes, then toss in your garlic until it’s fragrant, and then toss in your herbs and fennel and let ’em get kinda hot and toasty. Add in your chopped tomatoes and cook, covered, until they’re soft. Uncover your pan, turn up the heat, and add the marsala so it makes that good GOOSSHHHHEEERRR sound. Burn off the booze and splash in the balsamic. Cook for another couple of minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

Pour half your tomato goodness into the bottom of a round pie plate pan ceramic deal-thing. I think the one I used was probably 10-ish inches across.

Layer your eggplant, red pepper and zucchini around in a fun spiral-circle to fill the pan, then drizzle with olive oil and top with the rest of the tomato sauce.

Bake for about an hour. To serve: Grate parm over the dish, and top each dish with a dollop of creme fraiche.

(This is probably gonna be a little watery-ish depending on your veggies, so serving it over some pasta or couscous or rice or whatever is also a cool idea.)

Resistance Kitchen is a blog about food, rage 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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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. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

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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? $-$$$

Carnaval at Imagine Nation

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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. $-$$

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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Olá: Celebrate the warmth and energy of Brazilian culture with Imagine Nation’s inaugural rendition of the festival Carnaval. Imagine Nation co-founder Fernanda Krum got together with several other Brazilian-born Missoulians, and they decided to throw their own version of what Krum calls “perhaps the greatest celebration in the world.” Brazil’s Carnaval is a multi-day festival held before the season of Lent starts. Krum has been dancing at Carnaval parties ever since her youth in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. “When I was a little kid, I would get so excited to choose which costume I wanted for that year, and my grandma or mom would make it from scratch,” Krum recalls. “I wanted to be a ballerina, or a pirate, or a clown.” As kids get older, they get to join the Carnaval parades and street dances, which can last until sunrise.

Get ready to dance: Imagine Nation’s Carnaval might not attract huge throngs of people in the street, but Krum says they will be making space for a big dance floor. A DJ will blast Brazilian music and volunteers will give basic samba lessons. “It’s something

that people have to come and experience to really get the point,” Krum says. “It’s like music and fun and a group of people that are going to be up and motivated, and we’re not gonna stop.”

What you’re drinking: The usual lineup on tap at Imagine, which includes kombucha, soda and beer. Imagine’s alcohol license doesn’t allow the brewery to serve liquor, so, sadly, caipirinhas won’t be on the menu.

What you’re eating: Brazilian rice and bean dishes served up by the Ninja Mike’s food truck. Krum says her Brazilian friends are teaching Ninja Mike to make sure he’s following traditional recipes.

What you’re wearing: Any kind of joyful costume you like. Bright colors, feathers, masks and jewelry encouraged.

Where and when? Head to Imagine Nation Brewery, 1151 W. Broadway, on Friday, March 31, from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission is free.

—Kate Whittle

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SAT | 9 PM | MONK’S So This Is Suffering plays Monk’s Sat., April 1 at 9 PM. $7.

FRI | 10 PM | TOP HAT The Last Revel plays the Top Hat Fri., March 31.

Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

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THU | 4/6 | 9 PM | TOP HAT Mandolin Orange plays the Top Hat Thu., April 6. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $17/$15 advance.

THU | 3/30 | 8 PM | WILMA Tech N9ne plays the Wilma Thu., March 30. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$32 advance.

TUE | 7:30 PM | DENNISON THEATRE Author, storyteller and radio personality Garrison Keillor comes to the Dennison Theatre Tue., April 4, at 7:30 PM. $62.

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Thursday The Student Advocacy Resource Center hosts the Social Justice Fair at the University Center Ballroom. 10 AM–2 PM. Free.

The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406721-4918 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 Montana Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology celebrates our friend the bee with talks, refreshments, and a new documentary on the rustypatched bumblebee at the Roxy. Free and open to the public. 5:45 PM. Andrea Harsell plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 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. 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. Tech N9ne r3turns t0 t4e Wi1ma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$32 advance.

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.

Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can we take your donations? Free Cycles screens everyone’s second favorite Kel Mitchell movie in support of Missoula International Workers of the World. 7 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations.

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.

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The Madwoman of Chaillot, the classic play about the absurdities of rampant capitalism, opens at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center Wed., April 5, at 7:30 PM. $9.

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!

and partying of Brazilian Carnaval. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

local musicians at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 8 PM. $16/$14 advance.

Brian Smith plays the Highlander Taproom at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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.

Kevin Canty reads from his new novel The Underworld at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

Louie Misner and Wardo kick off the release of their new EP with a party at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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.

Trio Noir plays jazz at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

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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.

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.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small.

No, no, no. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s.

Bummed you can’t make it to Rio for Carnaval this year? Imagine Nation Brewing has you covered with the music, dancing

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Dogbreth and Lisa Prank play the Zootown Arts Community Center along with Melon Painting and Neutral Colors. 7 PM. $5.

Helena’s Musikanten Chorus is joined by a full period instrument orchestra for a complete performance of Bach’s “St. John Passion” at St. Francis Xavier Church. 7:30 PM. $30/$10 students.

The second round of the Missoula Homegrown Comedy competition pits the best in Montana comedy against each other in a stand up showcase showdown at the Public House. 8 PM. $10.

Bare Bait Dance’s Surge showcases new work by Missoula choreographers and

In another universe Ocelot Wizard, Miranda Crystal, Bronson and Bear Raptor enter the Temple of Elemental Evil to bring balance to the planar system. In our universe they unite for an night of music at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.

Denver’s Unlimited Aspect plays Monk’s with Charlie Apple, Enzymes and Equinox.

9 PM. $10.

Minneapolis’s trio of multi-instumentalists The Last Revel play front porch Americana at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

I remember when it was knee-high to a cover band. Full Grown Band plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Saturday 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. 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. 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. Gallery 709 inside Montana Art and Framing hosts a book launch party for Beth Judy’s Bold Women in Montana History. 4 PM–7 PM.

nightlife Xsports4vets’ annual fundraiser at Caras Park supports its work helping veterans through extreme sports. 6 PM. $25.

Caroline Keys and Jeff Turman bring harmony to the chaos of April Fool’s Day with a free show at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

The Frederico Brothers play Draught Works. My brother isn’t even returning my calls. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Letter B brings the best beats and bluesy ballads to Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM– 8:30 PM. Buckle up for Hellgate Hunters and Anglers’ 11th annual Wild Night for Wildlife at Karl Tyler Chevrolet. Featuring live music by the Bob Wire Trio, all proceeds

from this event will be redirected back to conserve Montana’s wildlife. 6 PM. $20/$35 couple.

CJ Boyd, Ratbath and Melon Painting play the Joe Below beneath Zootown Brew. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $6.

Blue Mountain Clinic celebrates its 40th birthday with the tenth annual Off the Rack Variety Show featuring singing, dancing, comedy and music. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 7 PM. $45/$35 advance.

Music Brings Us Together does exactly what it say it does when choruses from across the state are brought together to perform at Discovery Alliance Church. 7 PM. $12.

Bare Bait Dance’s Surge showcases new work by Missoula choreographers and local musicians at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 8 PM. $16/$14 advance.

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.

I mean, how bad can it be? So This Is Suffering and Signs of the Swarm play Monk’s. 9 PM. $7.

This bar ain’t big enough for the both of us. Shodown plays Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

I have a hundred head of cattle that need to be branded and the Idle Ranch Hands are too busy playing music at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

There’s no show at the Top Hat tonight.

Just kidding. The Josh Farmer Band celebrates April Fool’s Day with a special show at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. You should have seen your face!

Letter B brings the best beats and bluesy ballads to Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM.

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It turns out no one really knows where the condom first originated. An apocryphal story about a physician named Dr. Condom (unrelated to the frontman of '80s hair metal band Low-Ki) who invented the first prophylactic to protect King Charles II's royal jewels in the 17th century is the most popular origin story, but one that doesn't hold any water, or any-

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The 10th Annual Off the Rack Variety Show, Blue Mountain Clinic's annual fundraiser, celebrates 40 years of offering education, advocacy and access to Missoulians. The show includes comedy, music and dancing, as well as a fashion show featuring 10 original outfits made with con-

WHAT: Off the Rack Variety Show WHEN: Sat., April 1 at 7 PM. WHERE: MCT Center for the Performing Arts HOW MUCH: $45/$35 advance, $110 for VIP tickets MORE INFO: bluemountainclinic.org/events/off-the-rack/

thing else for that matter. In fact, cave paintings in France depicting condom use predate this alleged story by about 14,000 years. Regardless of their beginnings, condoms are an important and

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doms. These wearable pieces of art go back to the first Off the Rack show, and serve as the centerpiece for the clinic's show.

— Charley Macorn

Sunday Habitat for Humanity hosts an application information meeting for anyone interested in applying to help build a home for charity.

YWCA conference room. 2 PM.

nightlife Geoffrey Lake plays Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Every Sunday, Imagine Nation

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Tuesday hosts Jazzination. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Bare Bait Dance’s Surge showcases new work by Missoula choreographers and local musicians at the Open Space in the PARTV Center.

6 PM. $16/$14 advance.

Yabba Griffiths brings his reggae band to perform at Bitter Root

Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

Flaural, Bombshell Nightlight and Charcoal Squids play the Joe Below beneath Zootown Brew.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $6.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

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Monday Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Marshall Canyon. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

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. Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25.

The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues.

Meets at the Jeannette Rankin

Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing.

Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. The Thomas Meagher Bar donates a portion of all proceeds after 6 PM to the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation and its work combating the decline of the whitebark pine. Wait. The whitebark pine is in trouble? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

Wait a sec. What happened to the captain? Did the government take them? The Absent Wilson Conspiracy plays Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM. Free.

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. 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.

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 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.

The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1PM–2:30 PM.

nightlife 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.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.

Jim Taylor, Legal Director of ACLU Montana and Clem Work, retired UM journalism professor host a free public issues forum “Trading Individual Liberties for ‘Security’ in Times of War” at the

UC Theater. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7– 9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

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.

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.

Spend an evening with American author, storyteller, humorist and radio personality Garrison Keillor at the Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $62.

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 was the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

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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Joanna Reed Shelton, author of A Christian in the Lands of the Gods speaks about the Christian experience in 19th century Japan.

Mansfield Center. 12 PM.

trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Red Dawn.

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The Madwoman of Chaillot, the classic play about the absurdities of rampant capitalism, comes to the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9.

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.

Bob Wire performs live at Great Burn Brewing. Maximum honky tonk originals and some tasty covers in that inimitable Bob Wire style. Bonus: it’s the day after his colonoscopy, so he may or may not be using a stool. 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

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.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover

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Wednesday

Tom Catmull plays Draught Works. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Montana author Richard Fifield reads from his book The Flood Girls at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

UM Opera performs The Rivals, a new comic opera by distinguished American composer Kirke Mechem at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11.

It looks more like a burned umber to me. Mandolin Orange plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30

Spotlight As the former guitarist for ska bands Skankin' Pickle and the Blue Meanies, musician Jay Vance was no stranger to the process of assembling a musical group—this being 20 years ago, before the internet, when bands were still seeking members with xeroxed posters on bulletin boards and personal ads in the back of music magazines. But instead of seeking out new members, or holding open auditions, he decided to go about it a little differently. Despite having no prior background in engineering or robotics, Vance spent a full year constructing animatronic machines that could play their own musical instruments to back him up.

The finished result is Captured! by Robots, a heavy metal band literally

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For the last two decades, Vance— now rebranded as JBOT, the human slave of his new robot masters—has WHAT: Captured! by Robots WHERE: The Palace WHEN: Thu., April 6 at 9 PM HOW MUCH: $8

criss-crossed the country with his creations, building a name for himself with frenetic and hilarious shows.

CBR's sets cover a broad spectrum of musical genres and styles. Songs by Styx, Bad Company and Tony Bennett as well as originals about why Star Trek's Wesley Crusher sucks and

doing speed to lose weight are all fabricated with the hard rock intensity that only a band made up of animatronic musicians can create. Seeing is absolutely believing for Captured! by Robots, a band still made up of its original members, all of which are made with original parts.

Captured! by Robots' 20th Anniversary Tour takes place at the Palace. This comes as a surprise since the Palace announced that after KBGA’s Endofthon party earlier this month, it would no longer be hosting live music in the space. Turns out the venue’s transformation into a billiard hall and arcade was delayed. We’re told the CBR show will be the final live show there. We’ll see.

— Charley Macorn

Agenda Excited to start his summer vacation, high schooler Dexter Reed, played by now-SNL star Kenan Thompson, crashes his mother's car into his teacher’s car. As he has no driver license or insurance, he agrees to pay his teacher $1,900 for the damages under the table to keep law enforcement from getting involved. Being a broke teenager, he takes a job at local chain Good Burger to save up the cash.

Good Burger, based on a recurring sketch from Nickelodeon’s All That, takes place during the summer of 1997, when the film was released and when the federal minimum wage was $4.25. This means Dexter would have had to work for a nearly a dozen 40-hour weeks, putting every penny he earns into paying off his debt. During his time at Good Burger, Dexter is subjected to corporate espionage, lethal chemicals and poisoned food.

It isn’t often that a comedy based on a children’s sketch show exemplifies why unrestricted capitalism is bad for worker's rights. But if we work jobs to pay our debts and support ourselves, then we should agree that anything that

THURSDAY MARCH 30 The Student Advocacy Resource Center hosts the Social Justice Fair at the University Center Ballroom.

10 AM–2 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.

SUNDAY APRIL 2 Habitat for Humanity hosts an application information meeting for anyone interested in applying to help build a home for charity. YWCA conference room. 2 PM.

MONDAY APRIL 3 The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM– 4 PM. Free for veterans.

prevents us from doing that safely and timely is counterproductive. In the spirit of this idea, the Missoula Industrial Workers of the World hosts a free screening of Good Burger, raising funds to continue its mission of protecting workers’ rights.

– Charley Macorn The Missoula Industrial Workers of the World General Membership Branch hosts a screening of Good Burger at Free Cycles Thu., March 30, at 7 PM. Free, but bring cash for donations.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

The Thomas Meagher Bar donates a portion of all proceeds after 6 PM to the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation and its work combating the decline of the whitebark pine. Wait. The whitebark pine is in trouble? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

TUESDAY APRIL 4 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.

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.

Jim Taylor, Legal Director of ACLU Montana and Clem Work, retired UM journalism professor host a free public issues forum “Trading Individual Liberties for ‘Security’ in Times of War” at the UC Theater.

6:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 5 If you or your loved ones are looking for an Alzheimer’s support group, join Summit Independent, 700 Higgins Ave., every second Wednesday of the month for their meetings from noon–2 PM. Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. 406-443-3439 for more info.

Habitat for Humanity hosts an application information meeting for anyone interested in applying to help build a home for charity. YWCA conference room. 7 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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MOUNTAIN HIGH

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etting out and rafting a river, climbing a mountain or running a trail are all great ways to enjoy nature and stay in shape. But for veterans returning from ongoing conflicts overseas, these excursions into the wild can be a real lifeline.

Xsports4vets has spent the last seven years helping returning veterans from current conflicts redirect excess energy into into positive activities. The Missoula based non-profit organizes year-round ventures that use outdoor sports to help veterans channel reintegration stress and manage adrenaline deprivation.

Xsports4vets organizes river-boarding and rafting trips, trike flying, rock climbing and skydiving expeditions as well as hunting and fishing trips for returned armed service members. The organization

THURSDAY MARCH 30 The Montana Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology celebrates our friend the bee with talks, refreshments, and a new documentary on the rusty-patched bumblebee at the Roxy. Free and open to the public. 5:45 PM.

PLAN YOUR WHITEFISH WEEKEND AROUND ONE OF OUR FUN SPRING EVENTS!

FRIDAY MARCH 31

April 1 – Dummy Derby & Brewfest April 8 – Pond Skim April 9 – Closing Day

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 APRIL 1

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You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

also offers discussion sessions led by local veteran support professionals to teach skills to help deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, traumatic brain injuries and substance abuse.

To support its year-round work, Xsports4vets hosts its annual fundraiser at Caras Park. This year's festivities feature the live music of Jason DeShaw, dinner from Montana Q, a cash bar courtesy of the VFW and a silent auction.

—Charley Macorn Xsports4vets annual fundraiser kicks off at Caras Park on Sat., April 1 at 6 PM. $25. Get your tickets at xsports4vets.org.

Xsports4vets’ annual fundraiser at Caras Park supports its work helping veterans through extreme sports. 6 PM. $25.

Buckle up for Hellgate Hunters and Anglers’ 11th annual Wild Night for Wildlife at Karl Tyler Chevrolet. Featuring live music by the Bob Wire Trio, all proceeds from this event will be redirected back to conserve Montana’s wildlife. 6 PM. $20/$35 couple.

MONDAY APRIL 3 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Marshall Canyon. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

Acupuncture Clinic of Missoula 406-728-1600 acuclinic1@gmail.com 3031 S Russel St Ste 1 Missoula, MT 59801

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 PLEASER BURN My problem is that I’ll go on one or two dates with a girl and then get the whole “I just wanna be friends.” And they really mean that. They want me to do lunch and go shopping and talk on the phone about their guy problems. How can I nicely tell these girls, “I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but no, I’m not going to be your friend—and I especially don’t want to hear about your new guy”? I guess the problem boils down to the fact that I don’t want to make a woman mad.

—Frustrated Over and over, you hear the same thing—basically, “Sorry ... we have to turn down your application for CEO, but we’d love to have you as our parking attendant.”

By the way, your first problem is that you’re wrong about what your problem is. It isn’t how to TELL a woman you aren’t up for the role of pet eunuch. It’s how to BE the man holding her in his arms instead of the one holding her purse while she’s exploring her options in the tampon section.

Consider what the ladies tend to want—whether the ladies are hermit crabs or humans. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers’ theory of “parental investment” explains that in species that provide continuing care for their young after they’re born, females have evolved to go for “dominant” males. Dominance translates to being more able to “provide protection and material support” (through physical ability, as well as high social status).

However, the term “dominant” is a little ... uh ... unrefined. Women aren’t looking to be dragged off into the sunset by some thug. Social psychologist Jerry M. Burger and one of his students, Mica Cosby, took a nuanced look at dominance and found that women overwhelmingly want a man who is “confident” and “assertive” as their ideal date or romantic partner. And though most also want a man who’s “sensitive” and “easygoing,” none—NOT ONE— of the 118 women they surveyed wanted a man who is “submissive.”

Chances are, “submissive” is exactly how you’re coming off.Your pleaserboy bottom line—“I don’t want to make a woman mad”—suggests a hunger for women’s approval and probably leads you to wilt like a man-daisy to avoid even the slightest conflict. Unfortunately, that won’t get you out of the friend zone. What will is self-respect— and the assertiveness that comes out of it: showing that you have opinions, needs and preferences, and tough

tostadas if a woman doesn’t like them.

This, of course, doesn’t mean being rigidly uncompromising. However, when you do sacrifice your needs, it should be because you feel good about doing something nice—not because you’re dreaming of a day when your “Well, hellooo, gorgeous!” won’t be followed by “Thanks! And I seriously appreciate your watching Senor Fluffyface while I’m on my date.”

“HOW DO I LOVE THREE?” I’m a 40-something woman, living with my 50something male partner. Our relationship is slightly open, in that every Tuesday, we each go out separately and “do whatever with whomever.” I have lived up to my part of this, but I recently discovered that my partner has not. On Tuesdays, he stays home by himself. Beyond being irritated that he’s effectively been lying, I feel weird being the only one doing the open relationship thing. How do I get him to live up to our agreement?

—Poly-Annoyed There’s no fun like mandated fun.

What’s next, holding him at gunpoint and demanding that he enjoy miniature golf?

Chances are, his lying and your feeling “weird” that things aren’t all even-steven in the sexual snacking domain come out of the same place—the evolution of cooperation and the sense of fairness that fostered it. Fairness comes down to how benefits or resources get divided between people— whether in a balanced or imbalanced way.

We evolved to get all freaked out about imbalances—even when they’re in our favor—explain population biologist Sarah Brosnan and primatologist Frans de Waal.

In fact, we are driven to equalize things “to our own detriment.” But, don’t get too misty-eyed about human moral nobility.

They point out that it’s in our self-interest to take the long view—trying to avoid being perceived as unfair, which could kill the possibility of “continued cooperation” between ourselves and a partner.

Understanding the likely evolutionary psychology behind your feeling upset could help you focus on why your partner is saying (a silent) “nope!” to the sex buffet. My guess? He loves you and wants you to have what you need. And he doesn’t want you to feel uncomfortable about going out and getting it—even if the only taboo things he’s doing in bed are allowing the dog on it and clipping his fingernails and letting them ricochet around the room.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail

[C2] Missoula Independent • March 30–April 6, 2017

EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Administrative Assistant Missoula business is seeking a friendly and upbeat person for their office.

Must have great customer service, multitasking skills and will need to be comfortable in a fast paced office setting. Must also be proficient in Microsoft Office and type 40 WPM or better. Position has a lot of growth potential for someone interested in HR and recruiting! $11.00+/hour, DOE. FT, long term.

Schedule is Monday - Friday, 8am 5pm. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39313 Apartment Maintenance MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN to work 40 hours per week. Shift will depend upon building needs.

Duties will include performing minor repairs, some patching of holes, drywall, some plumbing, and other basic building maintenance.

Must have reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license. A background check will be conducted.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10276498 Experienced Groomer wantedMUST LOVE DOGS!! We are looking for an experienced groomer to add to our pack!

Please visit our website for more

information - www.2barkingsisters.com - To apply, send resume and references to 2barkingsisters@gmail.com. No calls please.

Good Food Store Meat & Seafood Staff. Please view schedule and job description on our website. Position open until filled.

EOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10276572 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 Production Leading company in pre-finishing building materials is looking to add an outgoing member to their safety conscious, friendly environment. Ideal candidate will ensure quality and on time delivery when preparing prefinished siding, including: loading of automated machines, painting of

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.

boards by hand, and bundling and packaging for shipment. PT and FT positions available, day or swing shift. Wage $11/hour. Differential pay for swing shift. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39192 Quality Assurance and Inventory Specialist Large manufacturer specializes in designing and producing commercial aquatics equipment is in need of a Quality Assurance and Inventory Supervisor. Requires experience in inventory management, quality control, and will be in charge of our safety program, OSHA and other compliance bodies. Company offers an excellent compensation and benefits package. Occasional evening, weekend, and holiday work required. Occasional travel may be required. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39207

PROFESSIONAL Harvey Police Department is hiring a Police Chief. ND Post Certified. Resume to 120 W 8th Street, Harvey ND 58341.

Job Description The Department of Sociology at The University of Montana is seeking applicants for a full time lectureship in Sociology beginning in Fall Semester of 2017.

The normal teaching load for this position will be seven courses per year.This is not a tenure-track position,but this position may be renewable annually based on satisfactory performance evaluations.The successful candidate will be expected to annually teach seven courses,including (but not limited to): SOCI 101 Introduction to Sociology; SOCI 202 Social Statistics; SOCI 318 Sociological Research Methods; and SOCI 455 Classical Sociological Theory,and occasionally an additional course to be determined in consultation with the department chair.The position would require availability for face-to-face instruction and possibly on-line courses. Course de-

scriptions and further information about the department can be found at www.umt.edu/sociology.

In addition,the successful candidate will be expected to do some extra advising and supervise students doing independent studies.

The minimum qualifications for this position include a master’s degree in Sociology from an accredited university. Preference will be given to candidates who have earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from an accredited university and who have more extensive college-level teaching experience in Sociology.

The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to work with diverse students and colleagues.Application deadline: Monday,April 17, 2017. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10274581 News Director Must be proficient at Photoshop. After Effects experience preferred. Applicants should be a multitasker that can take charge. Should be familiar with nonlinear editing and videography. Will be using a Ross Carbonite switcher, Ross Blackstorm, Ross Expression, Ross Inception and Harris Velocity editor.Work is full-time; must be able to work various days (including weekends) and shifts. Wage is depending on experience. EOE Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10276494 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

EMPLOYMENT 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 Auto transport company seeking professional Class A CDL drivers.

Experience preferred. Excellent wages, Benefits and Sign on Bonuses. On the road 2-3 weeks at a time. Call Gary 406-259-1528 or apply online www.jandstransport.com/drivers

products and the improvement of existing products. Must be proficient in product specifications and design; AS in Drafting or 4 years experience drafting in a manufacturing environment.

Strong proficiency in Solidworks and MS Office Suite. Excellent benefits, vibrant team environment. $17.00/hr/non-exempt. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39295

Carpenter’s Helper Established, local construction firm seeking carpenter helpers immediately!

Will be working on a variety of projects on residential remodels not limited to demolition, framing, siding and finish work. Looking for full time availability. Must have a current valid driver’s license with a clean driving record. Previous construction/carpentry experience a must! Own tool bag and hand tools a plus. $10-$12/hour DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39409

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

Drafter Premier Manufacturer specializing in design and production of commercial aquatics equipment is looking for you!

Full-time opportunity for a Solidworks Drafter with extensive knowledge of software using design properties and strong communication skills. This position will assist engineering with the design and development of new

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

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. Parttime up to full-time, approximately 24-40 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 #10273744Sales 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 Recruiter Independently owned and operated Staffing Service is seeking a full time, long term Recruiter to service existing and new accounts in the Missoula area. Successful candidates will have at least two years of sales and customer service background, have a friendly, professional demeanor and the ability to

work independently and as part of a team. HR knowledge is preferred. Base salary + commissions and benefits. Please email your resume to linda@lcstaffing.com.

Hamilton outside sales This is an outside sales position responsible for promoting the company’s products and services and for building relationships with new and existing accounts. The main focus is to help Sysco customers succeed while achieving sales and profit goals established by the company. This position often requires working non-traditional hours (evening,weekends and holidays) in order to successfully meet customers’ needs. An individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty listed below. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge,skill,and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. RESPONSIBILITIES: (essential functions are in bold) + Answer customers' questions about products,prices, availability, and product uses. Provide product information and practical training to customer personnel. + Drive personal vehicle to customer accounts,conventions,company meetings,etc. + Communicate and collect accounts receivable as necessary,working with the credit department and client; collect all balances due based on approved credit terms. + Manage deliveries to the routing schedule published

by the transportation department; troubleshoot any problems that occur during the order process (for example,out of stock items,special order items,low inventory,etc.). + Participate in company functions, promotions, customer visits ,and customer events. Attend and participate in general sales and district meetings. + Participate in ongoing training sessions. + Review and analyze daily and weekly reports such as special order requests,customer bid files,and sales/gross profit margin data. + Perform administrative duties,such as preparing sales budgets and reports,maintaining sales records,processing credits and pick-up requests,preparing sales quotes and menu suggestions,and filing reports. + Assist with the training of new employees as requested. + Lift/carry laptop and product weighing 1-40 lbs,occasionally up to 75 lbs,to and from car,warehouse,customer locations,etc. + Other duties may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS: To be successful in this position,the individual performing the duties must successfully demonstrate the following competencies: + Building Trust + Building Customer Loyalty + Follow-up + Sales Ability / Persuasiveness + Managing Work + Adaptability + Communication Basic Qualifications: + High school diploma or general education degree (GED),or 5 YRS Foodservice sales experience + 6 months of sales,and/or chef/restaurant management experience,and/or re-

lated (Business, Sales, Marketing, Hospitality; or Culinary Arts) degree + Basic pc skills and proficiency with MS Outlook + Reside or willing to relocate to the geographical vicinity of territory + Valid driver's license with a "clean" driving record (including: no single DUI in the last 3 years and no multiple DUIs within the last 7 years) Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10274514

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT INSTRUCTION

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The dragon that stole your treasure will return it. Tulips and snapdragons will blossom in a field you thought was a wasteland. Gargoyles from the abyss will crawl into view, but then meekly lick your hand and reveal secrets you can really use. The dour troll that guards the bridge to the Next Big Thing will let you pass even though you don’t have the password. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just described is only metaphorically true, not literally.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to legend, Buddha had to face daunting tests to achieve enlightenment. A diabolical adversary tempted him with sensual excesses and assailed him with vortexes of blistering mud, flaming ice and howling rocks. Happily, Buddha glided into a state of wise calm and triumphed over the mayhem. He converted his nemesis’s vortexes into bouquets of flowers and celestial ointments. What does this have to do with you? In accordance with current astrological omens, I hope you will emulate Buddha as you deal with your own initiatory tests. APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t completely honest. It’s true you’ll face initiatory tests that could prod you to a higher level of wisdom. But they’ll most likely come from allies and inner prompts rather than a diabolical adversary.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Since I expect you’ll soon be tempted to indulge in too much debauched fun and riotous release, I’ll offer you a good hangover remedy. Throw these ingredients into a blender, then drink up: a thousand-year-old quail egg from China, seaweed from Antarctica, milk from an Iraqi donkey, lemon juice imported from Kazakhstan, and a dab of Argentinian toothpaste on which the moon has shone for an hour. APRIL FOOL! I deceived you. You won’t have to get crazy drunk or stoned to enjoy extreme pleasure and cathartic abandon. It will come to you quite naturally—especially if you expand your mind through travel, big ideas or healthy experiments.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Hire a promoter to create gold plaques listing your accomplishments and hang them up in public places. Or pay someone to make a thousand bobble-head dolls in your likeness, each wearing a royal crown, and give them away to everyone you know. Or enlist a pilot to fly a small plane over a sporting event while trailing a banner that reads, “[Your name] is a gorgeous genius worthy of worshipful reverence.” APRIL FOOL! What I just advised was a distorted interpretation of the cosmic omens. Here’s the truth:The best way to celebrate your surging power is not by reveling in frivolous displays of pride, but rather by making a bold move that will render a fantastic dream ten percent more possible for you to accomplish.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Endangered species: black rhino, Bornean orangutan, hawksbill turtle, South China tiger, Sumatran elephant and the Leo messiah complex. You may not be able to do much to preserve the first five on that list, but PLEASE get to work on saving the last. It’s time for a massive eruption of your megalomania. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating for effect. There’s no need to go overboard in reclaiming your messiah complex. But please do take strong action to stoke your self-respect, self-esteem and confidence.

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FOOL! A little bit of self-contradiction would be cute, but not THAT much. And yet I do worry that you are close to expressing THAT much.The problem may be that you haven’t been giving your inner rebel any highquality mischief to attend to. As a result, it’s bogged down in trivial insurrections. So please give your inner rebel more important work to do.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Research shows that a typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day in meaningful conversations. I suggest you boost that output by at least ten percent.Try to engage your best companion in four minutes and 24 seconds of intimate talk per day. APRIL FOOL! I lied.

A ten-percent increase isn’t nearly enough. Given the current astrological indicators, you must seek out longer and deeper exchanges with the people you love. Can you manage 20 minutes per day?

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In a way, it’s too bad you’re about to lose your mind.The chaos that e SCORPIO ensues will be a big chore to clean up. But in another sense, losing your mind may be a lucky development. The process of reassembling it will be entertaining and informative. And as a result, your

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problems will become more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. You won’t really lose your mind. But this much is true: Your problems will be more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. That’s a good thing! It may even help you recover a rogue part of your mind that you lost a while back.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You say that some of the healthiest foods don’t taste good?

And that some of your pleasurable diversions seem to bother people you care about? You say it’s too much hassle to arrange for a certain adventure that you know would be exciting and meaningful?

Here’s what I have to say about all that: Stop whining. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, there will soon be far fewer reasons for you to whine. The discrepancies between what you have to do and what you want to do will at least partially dissolve. So will the gaps between what’s good for you and what feels good, and between what pleases others and what pleases you.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You should begin work on a book with one of the following titles,

you should finish writing it no later than April 28: “The Totally Intense Four Weeks of My Life When g and I Came All the Way Home” ... “The Wildly Productive Four Weeks of My Life when I Discovered the Ul-

timate Secrets of Domestic Bliss” ... “The Crazily Meaningful Four Weeks When I Permanently Anchored Myself in the Nourishing Depths.” APRIL FOOL! I lied.There’s no need to actually write a book like that. But I do hope you seek out and generate experiences that would enable you to write books with those titles.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you were a passenger on a plane full of your favorite celebrities, and the pilot had to make an emergency landing on a remote snowbound mountain, and you had to eat one of the celebrities in order to stay alive until rescuers found you, which celebrity would you want to eat first? APRIL FOOL! That was a really stupid and pointless question. I can’t believe I asked it. I hope you didn’t waste a nanosecond thinking about what your reply might be. Here’s the truth, Aquarius: You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when the single most important thing you can do is ask and answer really good questions.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF MISSOULA DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17-61 JUDGE: Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES BRUCE PATTEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate.All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Thomas William Patten, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Bruce O. Bekkedahl, Patten, Peterman, Bekkedahl & Green, P.L.L.C., 2817 2nd Ave. N. Suite 300, Billings, MT 59101, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED 3/6/2017 /s/ Thomas William Patten, Personal Representative 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 Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene Armstrong, PerRepresentative sonal 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 ArmApplicant strong, 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

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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 organization 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 § 72-3-804(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. § 723-801 (2014). Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative at the address named below, Certified mail requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-16-248 Hon. Leslie Halligan Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAMES LEE DAVIS, 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 Marcelle Marie Chase, 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 15 day of December, 2016. /s/ Marcelle Marie Chase, Personal Representative 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 15 day of December, 2016. /s/ Marcelle Marie Chase, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 15 day of December, 2016. /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, STATE OF MONTANA Cause No.: DP17-55 Department No.: 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES RONEY BAKER, Deceased.

NOTICE IF HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. If any

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.

person or organization has a valid claim against said estate, the claim must include the basis of claim, the amount claimed, the name and address of claimant. Mont. Code Ann. §72-3-804(1). 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. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative at the address named below, Certified mail requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 21st day of March,

2017. /s/ Charlotte A. Nelson, 2707 Queen Street, Missoula, MT 59801 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 en-

tire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee .com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.117848) 1002.290404-File 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 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 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 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason,

and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 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 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 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 the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation

up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 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) Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-12 Dept.

No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Kelcey Jeanne Crocker, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Kelcey Jeanne Crocker to Kelcey Jeanne Sgrenci.The hearing will be on 3/29/2017 at 1:30 p.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/22/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-156 Dept.

No. 1 Notice of Hearing on

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JONESIN’

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By Matt Jones

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33 "No you didn't!"

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44 ___-TASS (Russian press agency) 45 "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" author Mitch 47 Plumb of "The Brady Bunch" 48 Drops in on 51 Mr. Hoggett's wife, in "Babe" 52 ___ es Salaam, Tanzania 53 Italian writer Umberto 54 "Top ___ mornin' to you!"

56 "___ the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" 58 Historical medical book, or literally what's happening in this grid?

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PUBLIC NOTICES Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Niki Alis Johnson, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Niki Alis Johnson to Niki Alis Norway.

The hearing will be on 3/29/2017 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 2/22/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk of Court 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 Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled 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. DV-17-164 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE OF ADULT In the Matter of the Name Change of STEPHEN LAWRENCE PENROD, II, Petitioner.TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from STEPHEN LAWRENCE PENROD, II, to

OSCAR KRISTIAN GREY, and the petition will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 4th day of April, 2017 at 3:00 p.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse for the Fourth Judicial District. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Case No. DP17-22 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLAYTON E. DEVOE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within Four (4) months after of first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to George C. DeVoe, attorney for the Personal Representatives, of the estate of Clayton E. DeVoe, at 310 North Higgins, Missoula, Montana, 59802 or filed with the clerk of the above named Court. DATED this 1st day of March, 2017. /s/ George C. DeVoe, Attorney Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Case No. DP-17-34 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of GERALD M. ASHMORE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal

MONTANA STREET STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): E, F. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 4/17/2017 by appt only by calling 880-4677. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at Montana Street, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 4/20/2017 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.

Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must

either be mailed to Cheryl Diane Ashmore, c/o Tipp Coburn Schandelson, P.C., the Personal Representative, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 28th day of February, 2017. /s/ Cheryl

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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

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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 2205 ½ South Avenue West. 3 bed/1 ¾ bath, all utilities included. $1225.

Grizzly Property Management 5422060 3714 W. Central Ave. #1. Upper unit in Target Range, shared yard, storage, W/D hookups. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 4611 North Avenue West. Remod-

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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

722 ½ Bulwer St. Studio/1bath, just remodeled, shared yard, single garage, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

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1001 Medicine Man Cluster. Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $950,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group.

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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.

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3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Target Range home. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 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 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, River Road home. $267,500. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 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 Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

LAND FOR SALE 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 NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungstenholdings.com (406) 293-3714

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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.

IZZY•Izzy is a 3-year-old Pointer/Hound mix.

This sweet girl is deaf, so she needs a family that understands the needs and behaviors of hearing impaired dogs. Izzy is a sweet and playful girl who gets along well with people of all ages and other 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.

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BODIE• Bodie is a 2-year-old male Pit Bull.

He is a very loving and playful boy. Bodie loves to go for walks and play in the yard. His favorite toys are stuffed animals and tennis balls. Bodie would love a home with a fenced yard. Bodie just wants to be loved. He gets along well with small dogs and is terrified of cats. He will also defend his fence line from anyone on the other side with his big, scary bark.

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.

HAYDEN• Hayden is an approximately 12year-old female cat. This older lady is a lovely silver tabby. She is friendly and curious with a settled and relaxed personality. Hayden was found as a stray on someone's front porch in very rough shape. She has come a long way to recovering her health, and this dignified lady is searching for a forever home that can help her live out the remainder of her days in the lap of luxury.

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MARTHA• Martha is an approximately 7year-old female black Manx. Martha is a shy girl, preferring to spend her time tucked into a comfy little nook rather than socializing with other cats. The shelter life is a bit too exciting for an introvert like her. She does seem intersted in cat toys, and loves when you meet her at her level and offer your affection. Could you be the one to help coax her out of her shell?

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 GISELLA• Gisella, a 4-year-old tuxedoed girl, is the queen of the world and she knows it!

This beautiful black and white gal is flirty, fun, and enjoys being around cats (so she can boss them around!). Gisella is spayed, up to date on all her shots, litterbox-trained and raring to go home with you today! Call Humane Society of Western Montana for more information

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

BRAMBLE• Big, bold Bramble loves to loll

about the house. This black and white girl is super tolerant of children, a great lap warmer, and a beautiful addition to your household! Come meet this laid-back 6-year-old female today! Our Humane Society of Western Montana shelter hours are Wednesday-Friday, 1pm-6pm, and Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-5pm.

ZEUS• Zeus is our kind of mythology! This independent 1-year-old gentleman is tolerant of busyness and lots of activity, but he'd prefer to be in charge of a moderately quiet household.

You'll fall in love as soon as you meet this black and white cat! Zeus has lived with lots of cats, dogs, and kiddos! Come say hi today! 5930 Highway 93 S, just south of Missoula!

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COCOA PUFF• This 9-year-old Boxer cross is looking for a home where she can be the only fur baby in an adult family. She loves going on walks around the neighborhood before taking over the couch for a well-deserved nap. Cocoa Puff walks nicely on leash and is laid back! She loves the three s’s: snacks, snuggling, and sniffing around! Come meet her today! 406.549.3934

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BLAZE• Blaze is an utterly gorgeous Rottweiler cross who, at just 1-year-old, is so ready to learn and explore the world! This wonderful guy would love to attend Basic Manners courses and go on lots of adventures with his people! Come meet Blaze at Humane Society of Western Montana! Our hours are WednesdayFriday, 1pm-6pm, and Saturday-Sunday, 12pm5pm!

STEPH• One look into Steph’s golden German Shepherd eyes, and you’ll know just how smart this stunner is! Steph is young, active, and excited to find a forever family where she can gets lots of exercise and positive reinforcement training! Come play a chess game or two with Steph at Humane Society of Western Montana today! 406.549.3934 missoulanews.com • March 30–April 6, 2017 [C11]

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