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Voices/Letters The Merc, wet housing and Lesley Robinson .........................................4 The Week in Review Jim Harrison, ZACC’s Mini Benefit and paid family leave ...........6 Briefs Hackathon, mountain bikes and Sentinel suspensions........................................6 Etc. Zinke hands out hunting tags … for ISIS? ...............................................................7 News Open space bond marks decade of success with future in question ....................8 News Federal courts tussle over Montana militiaman’s fate ...........................................9 Opinion Anti-refugee outrage created a different sort of urgency ...............................10 Feature Libby’s uncertain but promising future...........................................................14

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Arts Lee Stuurmans looks to industrial objects for the perfect solution ......................18 Music Chris Sand, No Fancy and Tacocat......................................................................19 Art Michael Workman explores notions of violence......................................................20 Film Mike Steinberg leaps in with Lester ......................................................................21 Film Chomsky’s Requiem rehashes political injustice ..................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 BrokeAss Gourmet Guacamole deviled eggs ..............................................................24 Happiest Hour Masala ..................................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Fly like (the city of ) eagles...................................................................27 Agenda Bowl for Brain Strong ......................................................................................33 Mountain High Free Cycles Friday Ride .......................................................................34

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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday afternoon on the Riverfront Trail Missoula’s open space bond is celebrating a decade of success. What’s your favorite outdoor spot in the area?

Followup: After 10 years, the bond is also running out of funding and there’s been discussion of putting a new measure on the ballot. Would you support such an effort?

Seth Barnes-Smith: Greenough Park. I love that you can go off trail and there are trails through the more wooded areas.

And you can play in the water. It’s shallow enough. Everyone wins: I’m not a property owner, but even if I owned land I still think that it would be worth supporting.

We all enjoy it.

Danielle Barnes-Smith: Greenough. You can pick chokecherries there. We actually made syrup with them. Out-of-home improvement: Yes. It’s important we all enjoy the outdoors. Even if you’re thinking about property taxes, it would raise your property value.

Jim Grutkowski: We like going up the M, the river walk, Waterworks Hill. I love the ballpark and that whole area over there. Plan ahead: If I lived here, I’d support it. I live in California now ... You need to plan for open space, get it before development takes over.

Erin Jones: I have so many, it’s so hard.

I would say downtown with Caras Park, and I love the Council Grove [State Park] and Fort Missoula. More is better: It would depend on how much it would raise property taxes, but I would definitely be in favor, as a local, of more open space.

Leland Zuber: I was just going to check out Brennan’s Wave here and hike the M after that. But everywhere, really. Cure for the doldrums: Absolutely. [Open space] is super fun and healthy. Just the medicine I need right now. It’s been a long winter.

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Break the chain I don’t own the Merc and don’t plan on buying it (see “Building trust,” March 24). Moreover, I believe that an owner should be able to do as they choose with their property, subject to zoning and regulations. However, it appears that permission from the city of Missoula is needed before the Mercantile building can be destroyed to put up a Residence Inn. The city shouldn’t grant that permission.

I’ve probably stayed in a Residence Inn by Marriott at some time, but frankly cannot recall when or where. I remember staying at the Grand Union Hotel in Fort Benton, at the Nagle Warren Mansion in Cheyenne, Wy., at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock, Ark. These are unique properties. They are part of the character and definition of the towns which house them. Doesn’t Missoula deserve as much, rather than an anywhere chain hotel?

Before moving to Missoula in 2014 I lived in Franklin, Tenn., which housed a factory that was originally constructed in 1929 for Dortch Stove Works. By the mid-1990s the factory had closed.

When it was purchased in 1996 by Calvin LeHew, the property was derelict—full of broken windows, pigeons and asbestos. He converted it into a thriving shopping, dining and events venue that is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It provides character to Franklin. It distinguishes Franklin. Let’s not raze the Merc for a chain hotel. Let’s hold out for a more inspired project.

Marcia Williams Missoula

Reaching Home The possibility of death for an unhoused individual is incredibly high, as homelessness directly adversely affects physical and mental health. Homelessness can cause a multitude of illnesses that may build on each other, eventually causing death if gone unchecked. When individuals find themselves in a period of heightened risk while unsheltered, it is clear that they live in unsafe areas, exposing themselves to

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potential of harm. Additionally, chemical dependency, such as a drug or alcohol dependency, is significantly more prevalent in the unhoused population compared to the rest of the local population.

Sleeping on the streets has a large impact on a person’s health. With an average low temperature in December of 17 degrees, exposure to cold weather in Montana can progress from shivering and goosebumps to complete unconsciousness in just a few short hours. Hypothermia and frostbite are medical emergencies and require immediate care in an emergency room. The

“Creating a wet shelter project in Missoula is essential to the health of the unsheltered population.” homeless population, however, is less inclined to seek out medical attention due to lack of money and increased stigma. Both of these conditions, hypothermia and frostbite, are exacerbated if the person cannot get out of the cold, a constant issue for the homeless population.

Oftentimes these individuals are under the influence of alcohol or drugs, making it impossible for them to access shelters in Missoula. With the addition of a wet shelter to Missoula, the homeless people would have a place to stay out of the cold, even in an inebriated state. Creating a wet shelter project in Missoula is essential to the health of the unsheltered population.

For more information about the wet shelter project, find us on Facebook at “Support Reaching Home.”

Marissa Ginnett Missoula

Robinson right choice When I heard that Greg Gianforte had selected Lesley Robinson as his running mate for the Montana gubernatorial race, I said to myself, “You could not have picked any better!”

As a Prairie County commissioner for over 20 years, I have watched Lesley Robinson develop into an outstanding spokesperson for Montana. She is known on a first name basis with our U.S. congressional staff. Lesley has testified at least twice in front of the U.S. Congress and countless times in front of our legislature.

As a commissioner, she was appointed by Montana Association of Counties to the board of directors of the Western Interstate Region of the National Association of Counties and became president of WIR. I might add that Lesley Robinson was appointed over me to the WIR board of directors—an appointment that I humbly look back on today and have to admit was a very wise selection by MACo leadership. Lesley ran for the executive board of NACo, winning as the western representative. She represents counties from the size of Petroleum County, with a population of 500, to Los Angeles County, Calif., with a population of over 10 million, always asking, “Does it work for everyone or do we need to adjust for different communities?”

Lesley Robinson’s strength is “care.”

She cares for our way of life and heritage. Her mannerism is one of respect toward all. She cares for the people in every community in Montana. Lesley is a firm believer in local input and wishes.

She knows that only with local support does government work.

Todd Devlin Terry Correction: Last week’s “Etc.” column on the death of former state legislator Carolyn Squires didn’t include her full tenure in Helena. Squires served in the House from 1987 to 2001 and again from 2011 to 2015, and in the Senate from 2003 to 2011. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Charles Wybierala

Wednesday, March 23 The Board of Missoula County Commissioners decides to offer all county employees six weeks of paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child.

Thursday, March 24 Virginia-based Octagon Partners, owners of the Missoula Mercantile, release a statement in support of HomeBase’s proposal to purchase the building and demolish it in favor of erecting a five-story hotel.

Friday, March 25 The governor’s office announces that Mary Lynne Billy-Old Coyote, a Chippewa Cree tribal member, will lead the state’s new Office of American Indian Health.

Saturday, March 26 The ZACC’s 4th Annual Mini Benefit sells out the Wilma. The 1920s/Chapel of the Dovethemed gala features a raucous live art and dessert auction, as well as a silent auction with 60 different items.

Sunday, March 27 The National Weather Service reports abruptly changing conditions and snowy weather on roads throughout western Montana, including Lolo Pass and I-90 near Drummond. It kicks off a week of forecasted wintery weather throughout many higher-elevation regions in the state.

Monday, March 28 U.S. Capitol Police place the Capitol and White House on lockdown after a man is stopped at the metal detectors with what appears to be a weapon. Montana delegates all report their staff are safe and unharmed after the incident.

Tuesday, March 29 The University of Montana announces that professor Mark Hebblewhite’s 15-year study of migratory elk in Canada can continue, thanks to a $435,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Hebblewhite says the study offers insights on elk populations, climate change and predator habits.

Volunteers from Free Cycles create a sphere made entirely of bicycle wheels and zip ties to help draw attention to a “pop-up” bike shop at Caras Park on March 23. The shop is part of the nonprofit’s Cycles of Change crowdsourcing campaign, which aims to raise $1.1 million to help Free Cycles stay in its current South First Street property.

Education

Sentinel reduces suspensions In most public schools, when students misbehave badly enough, they’re suspended from class and sent out of school. Ted Fuller says that was the tactic he used during his nine years serving as the dean of students at Hellgate High School.

“And in all those years I never saw it really work,” he says, “especially with kids who really struggle all the time with behaving appropriately.”

Fuller was appointed principal of Sentinel High School at the end of 2014. At the beginning of the 2015-16 academic calendar, his first full year at the school, he launched Refocus, an alternative program to suspension. The program offers students the option to avoid suspension and spend up to five days at a time with an instructor who asks them what’s going on in their life, leads them in a community service activity, assigns their regular classwork and

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coaches them on appropriate responses to stress.

“And that’s empowering for kids,” Fuller says. “A lot of it helps kids understand who they are.”

The new program is already showing results. Fuller says days of school missed to suspensions are down 36 percent in the first semester of 2015, compared to the first semester of 2014. He’s hoping in the long term, students will emerge from Refocus with better self-esteem, self-awareness and commitment to graduation.

He acknowledges Refocus students don’t always get as much classwork completed as teachers would like, but points out that if the student was kicked out of school, it’s unlikely they’d get very much work done, either.

Refocus coordinator Susan Velikoff calls her job a “dream come true.” She says she encounters teens who come from challenging circumstances, including drug abuse and homelessness, and they often benefit just from sitting down with a genuinely caring adult.

“It’s completely in line with my philosophy of how to nurture kids and how to move them forward,

to take them where they are and encourage them,” Velikoff says.

At the Missoula Forum for Children and Youth, Anna Semple says she’s taken note of Sentinel’s “more therapeutic” approach to handling troubled kids. She adds that more and more educators are informed by the theory that adverse childhood experiences lead to maladaptive behavior later in life. It’s rooted in a landmark study released by the Centers for Disease Control in 1998.

“I feel like the whole movement behind the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and trauma-informed approaches is starting to peak right now,” says Semple, who works as network coordinator for the Forum’s Healthy Start & Youth Development programs.

“At this moment there’s just a lot of organizations and community leaders who are becoming more interested and more informed and are starting to make changes.

I think it’s just a cool moment in this whole process.”

Kate Whittle

[news] Wilderness

Pedal problems Late March brought yet another salvo in the contentious debate over mountain bike access in federally designated wilderness areas as 116 conservation organizations nationwide banded together to take aim at the efforts of the pro-bike Sustainable Trails Coalition. The enviro consortium, which included 13 Montana groups, distributed a five-page letter urging Congress to reject any legislative attempts by the STC to amend the Wilderness Act to accommodate cycling. Kevin Proescholdt, conservation director for the Missoula-based Wilderness Watch, summed up the sentiment behind the letter in a statement March 23. “Mountain bikes have their place, but that place is not inside Wilderness areas,� he wrote, citing language from the Wilderness Act banning motorized equipment and “mechanical transport.�

Lance Pysher, president of Bitterroot Backcountry Cyclists, says he wasn’t surprised by some of the Montana groups who chose to sign. Others were a cause for some disappointment among his group’s membership due to good working relationships in the past, he adds, without naming names. Overall he felt the letter was “disingenuous� and the argument presented for the illegality of bikes in wilderness “incorrect.� “It all comes down to the interpretation of what mechanized transport means,� Pysher says.

Some cycling groups like the Montana Mountain Bike Alliance have opted to remain neutral on the issue, pushing for alternative solutions such as congressionally sanctioned companion designations that provide both protection and access. But over the past year STC has begun a push to undo what they claim is a blanket ban on bikes in wilderness areas dating back to 1984. According to its website, the nonprofit has already hired a pair of lobbyists from the Washington, D.C., firm Fabiani and Company to help drum up support for its efforts in Congress.

Pysher says he’s followed news of STC’s work since last spring or summer and knows a few STC board members personally. However, he feels its an “ancillary issue� for backcountry cyclists in the Bitterroot. The Bitterroot National Forest is expected to issue a decision on its much-debated travel plan update any day now, and that plan includes the closing of 178 miles of trails to bikes in the Sapphire and Blue Joint wilderness study areas.

Pysher estimates Montana mountain bikers are at risk of losing or have already lost access to roughly 800 miles of

trails due to management changes in recommended wilderness and wilderness study areas. He understands STC’s concerns and says if their effort is successful it would render the problems in the Bitterroot “moot.� But for now, his group at least has its own battle to fight. “We are still investigating all our options,� Pysher says, adding that Bitterroot Backcountry Cyclists has retained legal counsel. “We’ve not ruled out the possibility of trying to regain access to these trails after the decision is released.�

Alex Sakariassen

Hackathon

A civic source code In Missoula, unpicked apple trees aren’t just a waste of fruit. They’re a black bear’s treat, attracting the animals into city neighborhoods. A local nonprofit runs a program to glean the fruit from backyards so bears won’t, but connecting homeowners with volunteer pickers is a yearly struggle, Ed Weymouth told the half-dozen people who had scooted on rolling chairs over to him.

Weymouth thought he had a solution: an app that could facilitate a local apple-gleaning network.

His pitch was one of many percolating in every corner of the Phyllis J. Washington Education Center lobby as part of Missoula’s first civic hackathon. The event, held over Easter weekend on the University of Montana campus, brought together 40 or so people from diverse backgrounds in search of ways to use Missoula’s computer programming prowess for the public good.

While hackathons around the country are often limited to the tech savvy and geared toward commercial projects, the Missoula event prioritized community collaboration. In fact, most laptop screens were shut Saturday morning as participants chatted about everything from sustainable food systems to the future of public libraries, hoping to identify projects they could collectively solve. “It’s great to have people with knowledge, but if you take that knowledge and you put it in a little box somewhere and you bury it under the ground, then it doesn’t do anything,� Weymouth says. “You have to

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take that knowledge out and share it with other people who have different sets of knowledge, and those little edges are where most of the change occurs.�

Weymouth completed the Montana Code School last fall but says the city’s tech community has felt “tentative� and somewhat disconnected from other sectors in town. He says he considered moving to Bozeman, where the scene is more active.

The hackathon, however, attracted several Bozeman residents in addition to giving local programmers a chance to meet one another. But with just a day’s time for participants to code, the “ecosystem of relationships� is as valuable as any widget a team might produce, says Harold Shinsato, an instructor at the Montana Code School.

By Sunday afternoon only a few hackers remained to present each team’s work. That didn’t bother co-organizer Will Halliburton, of Blue Sky Stewardship, who describes the event itself as a kind of demonstration project. “For me, the best hack I can think of is actually to make a thing generating civic hackathons,� he says.

Halliburton spent his time writing code to automate the event organization process so his hackathon model can be “infinitely replicable.â€? His words started to race as he explained his vision for synchronized events across multiple cities timed according to lunar cycles. He pointed to the flatscreen TVs mounted throughout the lobby, imagining programmers from Tokyo, London and Bozeman beamed into Missoula. “That’s all it is, it’s a hackathon source code that I’m in control of right now that’s running the show here, and it was controlling ‌ â€?

Before Halliburton could finish the sentence, someone handed him an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. He pulled the headset over his eyes and said, “Ah, beautiful.� He’d already entered another world.

Derek Brouwer

ETC. The elected official who in February raised money by raffling off an AR-15 is now taking aim at enemies of liberty by issuing fake ISIS hunting permits—“no bagging limit�—to supporters who chip in $15.

That official is Montana’s lone congressman, Ryan Zinke, who is gearing up for his first reelection campaign in November.

The March 21 fundraising email doesn’t say how Zinke would exterminate ISIS, but it does remind supporters eight times that their congressman was once a Navy SEAL. The email was sent out a day before the Brussels bombings, which probably boosted donations.

Similar ISIS hunting tags have been circulating online for a couple years. (In fact, Zinke’s version looks almost identical to one sold on the website tacticalshit.com, which also sells a line of “I ♼ guns & tittiesâ€? merchandise.) The whole joke is an old bumper sticker trope, along with “permitsâ€? to hunt unicorns, UFOs, zombies and the like.

Of course, ISIS is not fictional, and Zinke seems to want Montana voters to know he takes killing terrorists more seriously than other American leaders, especially President Barack Obama. “I hunted terrorists and war criminals for decades,� Zinke wrote. “I will never stop fighting for America and against radical Islamic terrorists. Once a SEAL always a SEAL. But now that I’m in Congress I need your help.�

And yet the hunting permits don’t offer enough red meat for some in Zinke’s political base. When the campaign posted the fundraiser to Facebook, the first commenter (who described herself as a Zinke supporter) asked why anyone should even need a permit to hunt down America’s enemies. “We’re at war with them, even if you boys in Congress haven’t the balls to declare it, they have declared against us,� the commenter wrote. “So, they’re legit targets anytime any American comes across one. That’s a reality of war, Sir.�

The Zinke campaign’s Facebook post shows one of the tags affixed to the front of a gun safe, which evokes another set of frightening scenarios.

While campaign spokesperson Heather Swift points out the donation page carries a disclaimer clarifying the sticker is not a “government issued hunting tag,� it doesn’t exactly assuage concerns. What happens if one of the congressman’s supporters slaps a sticker on a Muslim neighbor’s mailbox? Who, then, gets charged with hate speech?

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Room to explore Open space bond marks decade of success while future is in question

by Kate Whittle

A short trip up Pattee Canyon Drive, a across Pattee Canyon and Mount Sentinel. forward a proposal for a larger conversation “private property” warning sign marks a “The dream would be to have a trail net- and discussion,” Moisey says.

One of the biggest local proponents of plot of forested mountainside that will work that connected all those main peaks soon become public land. In coming throughout Missoula,” Erickson says, “and to voluntary conservation easements is Five weeks, 128 acres of the Barmeyer family es- have a system where every neighborhood in Valleys Land Trust. Five Valleys collaborated tate will be signed into conservation ease- Missoula has access to that system through on the Barmeyer easement, as well as several other major projects in the region. ment and a new public hiking trail will be their neighborhood.” created out of an old logging road winding Erickson says about $2.8 million rePelah Hoyt, lands director at Five Valthrough the trees. mains of the bond money, as of December leys, says she’s also heard some rumors Barbara Barmeyer says after inheriting 2015, and that doesn’t take into account about a potential new open space bond, the land, her family chose to donate it to the city and place it under easement to keep it as wild and undeveloped as when she was a child. She and her siblings grew up on the property in the post-WWII era, when Pattee Canyon was so sparsely populated, neighborhood children were picked up for school by a taxicab, rather than a school bus.

“My sisters and I feel that there’s sort of a metaphysical value to it, a spiritual value, and it’s worth photo by Kate Whittle more than just selling it on the open market, what the money would be,” Barmeyer Funds from Missoula’s 10-year-old open space bond are helping place 128 acres of property on Pattee Canyon into conservation easement, protecting the wildlife corridor says of the acreage. “And the and Pattee Creek from development. three of us have such a deep connection to the land and the animals and the handful of land acquisition projects un- but wouldn’t confirm or deny whether Five the property because we grew up here.” derway this year.

Valleys might be involved.

“That’s a question we get a lot,” Hoyt The Barmeyer conservation easement “Everybody knows that the open space was purchased with funds from the Mis- bond’s fund is a limited pot of money,” Er- acknowledges. “We’re definitely seeing soula County open space bond, which was ickson says. “If we want to continue this how low the bond funds are, and there’s approved by voters in 2006. This year, Mis- work, and this partnership, we’ll need to so much work that needs to be done. We really hope that that work can continue.” soula’s open space managers are celebrat- have more money to support this work.” ing 10 years of successfully placing valuable County Parks and Trails program manUp Pattee Canyon, Barmeyer says if it habitats into protected status—and they’re ager Lisa Moisey says she’s been hearing ru- weren’t for the open space fund, her family also mindful of the dwindling pot of mors lately about a future open space bond couldn’t have afforded to place the land money available in the future. initiative, including a phone survey polling under protection. Without the easement, she Elizabeth Erickson, who serves as the citizens about the idea. thinks the woods she grew up in would see city’s acquisition attorney, says the open “We’ve had a few calls from residents the same fate as neighboring parcels that space funds have helped preserve at least asking about the survey,” Moisey says. “It’s have been sold and subdivided.

3,000 acres in the city alone over the past not a county survey, it’s not a city survey.”

“It would get developed,” she says. decade, with the intent of creating a Moisey points out that if a new open space “Little ranchettes, that’s what would hapnetwork of vital wildlife habitat and trail bond were proposed, it would likely be initi- pen. And we are just too attached to it to corridors. The Barmeyer property, for in- ated by a local nonprofit coalition. have that happen.” stance, is contributing to what planners “It’s often a very grassroots kind of inihope will eventually be a network of trails tiative where folks work together and bring kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Judicial jostling Federal courts tussle over Montana militiaman’s fate

by Alex Sakariassen

In the weeks since his Jan. 26 arrest on Operation Mutual Aid, played in drumming Payne of having distributed an email in Nothe side of a highway in Oregon, Anaconda up militia support. He recounted meetings vember 2015 encouraging others to support resident and self-styled militia organizer with Bundy to discuss objectives for the anti- the action. Beyond that and another email, Ryan Payne has become the subject of a tug- BLM effort and described how he drew on the government’s claims against Payne of-war between two federal district courts. his experience in the U.S. Army to carry out hinge mostly on his presence at the refuge.

Nevada sought to arraign him on criminal those objectives.

In fact, compared to the 16 charges charges related to his participation in the “I’m an advisor and coordinator for leveled in the Bundy standoff, Payne faces April 2014 armed standoff at the ranch of OMA,” Payne said at the time, “and I was Mr. only three criminal counts related to the Cliven Bundy. But the request met with re- Bundy’s militia liaison. He would tell me Malheur occupation led by Cliven Bundy’s sistance in Oregon, where Payne is currently what he had planned, and then I would ad- sons Ammon and Ryan, including conspirin federal custody following acy to impede officers the 41-day occupation of of the U.S. Payne’s the Malheur National public defender in Las Wildlife Refuge earlier this Vegas has made it clear year. Lisa Hay, Payne’s fedthat in light of the eral public defender in the severity of the Nevada Malheur case, claimed charges, the intent is Nevada’s request would vito keep him there olate his constitutional right once he arrives. to a speedy and public trial.

According to an “Mr. Payne’s rights to a order signed by Judge speedy trial have been trigAnna Brown in Portgered in Oregon, where he land, Payne will be photo by Cathrine L. Walters was arrested, indicted, and escorted to Las Vegas arraigned,” Hay wrote in a

by U.S. Marshals for Ryan Payne, pictured here at his Anaconda home in summer 2014, March 16 motion to block is currently facing trial in two separate federal cases in two states. a 12-day trip starting her client’s removal. “BeApril 13. cause Mr. Payne has not appeared in Ne- vise him as to what the militia could accom“Once he appears here, we are going to vada, the speedy trial clock has not been plish in support of that.” ask that he remain here,” Oregon Public triggered in that district. Were he to be transMuch of what Payne told the Indy Broadcasting quoted Kaufman as saying ported there, the speedy trial clock would about the militia members’ objectives at during a March 22 hearing. “This case in Nestart in that district as well.” the Bundy ranch is mirrored in the crimi- vada carries a life sentence ... We cannot get Hay did not respond to a request for nal indictment filed by U.S. attorneys in ready for a case via telephone.”

Payne isn’t the only Montanan facing comment, nor did Assistant Federal Public Nevada in mid-February. And his media Defender Shari Kaufman, who is repre- interviews regarding the 2014 standoff charges over Malheur. Jake Ryan of Plains, senting Payne in the Bundy ranch pro- have also become prominent in the gov- whose name was initially redacted from ceedings. Payne has already pleaded not ernment’s case against him in Oregon. court documents, is accused of damaging U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams cited a num- an archaeological site “considered sacred to guilty in Oregon.

Court documents filed in both pro- ber of Payne’s past statements to the press the Burns Paiute Tribe.” On March 23, ceedings shed considerable light on the fed- when arguing Payne should remain in cus- Sanders County Sheriff Tom Rummel stated via Facebook he was keeping an “open line eral government’s case against the Montana tody until he can be tried.

“Payne poses a substantial danger to of communication” with Ryan’s family and resident. Payne could be facing a life sentence in Nevada, where he is charged with the community,” Williams alleged in his actively discouraged any “outside citizen in16 criminal counts, including threatening a Jan. 29 motion. “By his own admission, volvement.” Ryan was not in custody as of federal law enforcement officer, use/carry of he has been involved in armed efforts to press time.

The U.S. Marshal has been ordered to a firearm in relation to a crime of violence oppose the federal government’s authorreturn Payne to Oregon no later than April and conspiracy to commit offense against ity for several years.” the United States.

The role Payne allegedly played in 25. Payne will be joined at the Nevada arNot long after returning from the Bundy Burns, Ore., bears some resemblance to the raignment by five other Malheur occupiers, ranch in 2014, Payne offered the Independ- one he described himself serving in Nevada including Ammon and Ryan Bundy. ent a full account of his time and actions two years ago. An affidavit submitted by FBI asakariassen@missoulanews.com there, starting with the role his organization, Special Agent Katherine Armstrong accuses

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[opinion]

Backfire Anti-refugee outrage created a different sort of urgency

by Dan Brooks

Over the last two months, various citizens’ groups and neighboring county governments have condemned a Missoula effort to let Syrian refugees settle in western Montana. It started as a protest, with few facts and no actual refugees. But the controversy has led to the International Rescue Committee reopening its Missoula office. It’s as if those strong opinions on imaginary refugees called real ones to us.

The outcry against refugees began as a combination of fear and ignorance.

In February, Ravalli County commissioners drafted a letter to the U.S. Department of State expressing their opposition to letting Syrians settle in and around Hamilton. In a public hearing, local residents expressed near-universal suspicion of Islam.

It was an exciting display of opinionhaving marred by only two details. First, the State Department doesn’t control where refugees live. Second, no refugees—from Syria or any other place—had plans to come to Ravalli County.

But public-minded citizens remained committed to stopping them. In March, Flathead County joined Ravalli in formally opposing the influx of refugees, if it started. Meanwhile, protesters held two “American Security Rallies” outside the Missoula County Courthouse. At the second—reported in the Missoulian under the headline “Rallying cry against refugees holds strong in Missoula”—organizer Jim Buterbaugh remarked that his main concern was security. If there were a process in place to vet potential refugees, “I would have no problem with it,” he said.

In fact, there are several. The FBI and the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center each has its own vetting procedure, as does the UN High Commission for Refugees, along with other organizations. Buterbaugh did not know what he was talking about. But he and his fellow ignoramuses found a sounding board in the local press.

By “local press,” I mostly mean the Missoulian’s letters page. On March 2,

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the paper ran a letter to the editor from Hamilton resident Donna Gibney, in which she reminded readers that the Bible prohibited Christians from associating with members of other religions.

“I’m not prejudiced,” she wrote. “I just don’t want the Muslims here who will rape our women, bring violence, cost our towns large amounts of money and destroy our beautiful Ravalli County.”

Thank goodness she’s not prejudiced. A few weeks later, the Missoulian published a letter from her husband,

“Inexorably, and kind of wonderfully, the outcry against nonexistent refugees seems to have helped bring real ones to Montana.”

John Gibney, in which he complained that he tried to attend the “Perspectives on Islam” lecture at the Darby Library but was turned away because he didn’t have a ticket. “Strange how only certain people seemed to have these tickets and the general public was not informed that they needed any to get in,” he noted. But the great ticket conspiracy was of secondary concern to his main issue, educating readers about the world’s second-largest religion: “I’ve read it referred to as ‘Islam culture,’ which is an untrue statement,” he wrote. “Their culture includes all the practices which have developed around

Islamic religion in which many want to kill all infidels if they don’t convert.”

That’s the kind of reasoned discourse you can only get from reading the Missoulian’s letters page or a Klan pamphlet.

The last eight weeks of this debate have proven that no claim is too dumb for someone else to repeat it. But inexorably, and kind of wonderfully, the outcry against nonexistent refugees seems to have helped bring real ones to Montana.

The IRC office is reopening. The nonprofit group hopes to resettle about 100 refugees a year in and around town—they won’t necessarily be Syrian— and, unlike the commissions of Ravalli and Flathead counties, Missoula’s elected officials largely support their plan. Maybe this outpouring of welcome would have happened without the outpouring of bigotry, but I wonder.

Perhaps launching a fierce public debate over an issue they didn’t fully understand was a bad way to nip it in the bud.

Perhaps it was unwise for those who opposed the arrival of hypothetical Muslims in Missoula to wade into the fray armed with what everybody knows. At the risk of espousing elitism, maybe what everybody knows is pretty much useless.

In this case, common sense and a healthy certainty about other people’s religion seem to have backfired. Ordinary people stood up and expressed their opinions with so much ignorance and bigotry that the opposite position started to look like a moral imperative.

It’s a pleasing irony. Bringing refugees to western Montana would probably seem less urgent if the Gibneys and Buterbaughs had kept their deeply held beliefs to themselves. There’s a lesson here.

When you can’t believe how stupid everyone else is—when you hear about a problem and immediately know what to do, and can’t imagine how any sensible person would disagree—that is a fine opportunity to shut up.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and politely ignoring his own advice at combatblog.net.

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[offbeat]

HARDLY A “DO-NOTHING” CONGRESS – In March, U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, chairman of the House Rules Committee, introduced a resolution to recognize “magic” as one of America’s “national treasure(s),” backed by a 711-word paean urging all to “support and protect” the storied craft—which needs to be “understood and promulgated,” especially given that, according to Sessions, it “requires only the capacity to dream.” Sessions made no link of magic to resolving other congressional business (such as, for instance, ending the string of 64 consecutive failed votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act).

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – People With Too Much Money: Residents on London’s swankiest street (Kensington Palace Gardens), stymied in efforts to build upward on their relatively small lots, instead plan elaborate “basements”—extending as far as five stories down, with elevators, swimming pools, gyms, climbing walls, and one even with a “Ferris wheel” for dialing up the resident’s daily choice among his several cars. However, embassies are located on the street and have challenged the construction chaos as offending their sovereignty under international law. Recent restrictions limit the basements to one story down, but billionaire entrepreneur Jon Hunt’s five stories are grandfathered in (though his “Ferris wheel” appears to have been shelved).

NEW WORLD ORDER – Mystery fiction has always been a popular genre, but now, readers who prefer that their crimes be solved by cats have several series of brilliant felines to choose from. As The Wall Street Journal reported in February, the major controversy swirling at “cat fiction” conventions is whether the clever kitties should advance the plot by speaking.

“We all talk to our pets,” noted one best-selling author, “and most of us imagine the other side of the dialogue.” (Among the sets boasting more than a million copies are the “Joe Greys,” the “Klepto Cats,” the “Cat Shout for Joy” suite, and the recently concluded, 29-volume run of “Cat Who” books, e.g., “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards.”)

The Glasgow, Scotland, company Osdin Shield announced recently that it had designed for potential sale (for those relaxing, yet secure evenings) a fashionable yet bullet-proof sofa and upholstered chairs sturdy enough to protect against 9mm handguns, shotguns and AK47s—with special marketing to hotels, embassies and government buildings.

A Perfect Storm of Vacuousness: In February, British marketing company Havas Helia tapped the “millennial” generation’s obsessions with craft beer and data-driven knowledge, announcing the development of 0101—a brew created, it said, by social media messages. The company, “finding” that the generation appeared “optimistic,” analyzed “thousands” of the generation’s messages against 24 human emotions, which it translated to 38 particular emotional states, which were fed into the IBM Watson computer, which selected 10 existing beers, whose recipes were then cribbed to create 0101 (a “cream ale” with honey and two specific kinds of hops, tasting of “optimism, love, imagination, and gentle overtones of excitement”).

LEAST COMPETENT GOVERNMENT – Following a simplistic hack at the Internal Revenue Service that permitted several thousand tax returns to be illegally accessed and refunds commandeered, the agency created an equally porous “fix” merely copied from failed security elsewhere on the IRS website. According to a March Washington Post report, the fix admirably added one level of security (a personal PIN), but nonetheless allowed anyone to change another’s PIN using publicly available information. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the Post that “only a handful” of taxpayers were victimized by the faulty fix (but later defined “handful” as “fewer than 200”).

THINGS PEOPLE BELIEVE – Murders are being committed over hair weaves, reported WMC-TV (Memphis, Tennessee) in March, with one likely explanation being a belief that a person who acquires tufts of human hair surely acquires the fortunes—good or bad—of the person who grew the hair. That is especially true of “virgin” hair from India, shorn for religious sacrifices (”tonsuring”) before falling into the hands of agents who sell to Western women. Said a Memphis pastor, “A generation back or so,” people were being killed over tennis shoes. “Now (it’s) hair.”

WAIT, WHAT? – Infrastructure Blues: (1) A 5-year-old, slow-moving underground fire (beneath a Superfund cleanup site) is within 1,200 feet of a waste site for nuclear weapons near St. Louis, according to a December Associated Press report.

The Environmental Protection Agency, of course, said not to worry, that the heat from the fire was not enough to ignite chemicals or trigger an explosion. (2) While America was outraged about the water in Flint, Michigan, the tap water in Crystal City, Texas, (100 miles southwest of San Antonio) was suddenly as black and thick “as oil” and “stank,” according to a resident. The city’s water superintendent said the town had decided to clean residue from the system for the first time in “20 to 30 years.”

PEOPLE WITH ISSUES – Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., disclosed in March that in 2015 it received 8,670 noise complaints—but that 6,500 came from the same person (thus averaging 18 per day, every day).

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Needed Training Wheels: Timothy Broad, 30, was convicted in February of a November Clacton, England, convenience store robbery and jailed for more than three years. The balaclava-wearing Broad had pedaled away from the store with the money but managed to fall off his bicycle three separate times, in short order, in the process losing both the balaclava (from which his DNA was recovered) and all the cash.

Thanks this week to the News of the Weird Board Editorial Advisors.

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he idea first struck on a book club night in 2013. Kristin Smith called her friend Sarah Sorenson, curious whether she wanted a ride. Sorenson proceeded to recount her recent trip through western Montana that included a stop at the brewery in Philipsburg. Sorenson told Smith she was amazed by the vibrant atmosphere the craft beer joint seemed to generate in the town. If it worked in Philipsburg, why not take a whack at it in the Kootenai Valley?

“We knew there was great potential,” recalls Smith, who was coming off a stint as planning director for Lincoln County at the time. “Obviously we saw a growing market across the state and could see what this type of business could do, particularly for small communities.”

The duo made quick work of their plan, and 13 months later they opened the doors of downtown Libby’s Cabinet Mountain Brewing Company. People

began flocking to the taps almost immediately. Not to be punny, Smith says, but it was as if locals were “thirsty for this new experience.” Nearly two years later Cabinet has gained the nickname “Libby’s living room,” a bustling gathering place housed in one of the town’s oldest buildings. That last fact resonates particularly strongly with people around here, Smith adds. “People come in and talk about what used to be in this place a long time ago.”

For many small communities, the past serves as a powerful tether in changing times, even a past as checkered as Libby’s. This town has weathered a relentless series of booms and busts, from logging to mining to the construction of Libby Dam, and come out the other end with its sense of pride and heritage intact. However, the latest challenge in the City of Eagles has many feeling fatigued and ready to move on from a bust that brought with it a reputation not easily overcome.

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To much of the outside world, the name Libby is still synonymous with asbestos. Decades of vermiculite mining left the people here to deal with piles of the stuff, as well as the perpetual presence of the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s a legacy of contamination and sickness that has fueled international headlines, lawsuits and health emergency declarations. Hundreds have died from asbestos-related disease. More are diagnosed each year. Over the past 15 years, the EPA has hauled away more than a million cubic yards of tainted soil and building material, a massive cleanup effort that has exceeded $540 million and left locals wondering if the agency will ever be done.

Now residents have an answer. On Feb. 8, the EPA officially released its long-awaited record of decision for the Libby Superfund site, revealing the feds will finally be pulling up stakes in just four more years. There’s still plenty of work to be done

in that time—about $64 million worth, by the EPA’s estimation–but Smith feels the record of decision is a “milestone” for the community, one that was worth celebrating with a meeting at Cabinet Mountain Brewing shortly after the document’s release.

As Libby celebrates, it’s also looking forward.

While the town prepares for the effects of the EPA’s departure, it’s also employing the help of Missoulabased marketing firm Partners Creative to craft a new civic image and message.

“It’s our turn to carry the torch now,” Smith says, “and get back into the vibrant little town we should be.”

How Libby achieves that won’t be based on some grand federal plan but rather on the strength and tenacity of the roughly 2,600 people living here. The real question is, are they ready to take the helm?

What’s been done Drive west into Libby on U.S. Highway 2 and one of the first buildings you’ll see in the town proper is a drab-gray two-level house with a small stoop and a fenced-in backyard. Gayla Benefield grew up there.

But cruising past, she points it out merely as an aside.

She spends far more time talking about the former lumber mill site across the street, an area she describes as blighted and abandoned save for a gas station and a few corrugated buildings left behind by past companies. It’s one of the many things Benefield says sticks in her craw. In her opinion, there should be a park there, some sort of lush green greeting that tells outsiders they’re about to enter a town worth stopping in for a while.

Benefield has waged her fair share of battles in Libby over the years. Throughout the 1990s she conducted an exhaustive investigation of W.R. Grace, convinced the mining company’s activities were the source of the high rates of asbestos-related disease among locals. Her father, Perley Vatland, a worker at the vermiculite mine, died of asbestosis in 1974. Her mother, Margaret, came down with it, too, and spent years in and out of the hospital before her death in 1996. In 2001, Benefield discovered she also had scar tissue in her lungs. These tragedies, along with the gut-wrenching suspicion that her own children and grandchildren might one day succumb to similar illnesses, prompted her to file a lawsuit against W.R. Grace. Benefield’s story has often invited comparisons to Erin Brockovich. Odds are Benefield, now in her early 70s, would dismiss such seeming flattery with an eye roll and a scratchy laugh.

“If I never do anything else in my life, I feel that I accomplished my goal,” she says. “And the big goal was to provide the [infrastructure and cleanup] in Libby and make the people accountable for what they had done to my parents. That’s the whole absolute bottom line right there.”

Libby today is a different place than the Libby where Benefield grew up. The soda shop and ice skating rink that once flanked the downtown Dome Theater are gone. The building where she went to school now houses administrative offices. The big lumber companies left years ago and the mine is closed. Libby is still a working-class town and still suffers the same local political squabbles Benefield remembers from her younger years. But she doesn’t measure change in what’s disappeared.

Rather, she focuses on what her fight has helped bring to the community. The nonprofit Center for Asbestos Related Diseases, or CARD Clinic, was housed in a doublewide trailer when Benefield first joined its

board. It now sits in a stately building just a few blocks off the main drag amid a cluster of equally impressive health care facilities—all new, all state-of-theart, all working to diagnose and treat the conditions that decades ago went undiagnosed and untreated.

“That’s going to be the lifesaver right there,” she says, pointing to the CARD Clinic. “It isn’t going to be the cleanup, it isn’t going to be the trying to keep people from being contaminated. It’s going to be the medical care people receive.”

school; before the cleanup, the track at Plummers School was made up partly of mine tailings from W.R. Grace. In fact, her 26-year-old granddaughter was recently complaining she didn’t have the breath she used to. She was a “super, super athlete,” Benefield says.

“She’s 26,” Benefield continues. “So where’s it going to end? I don’t know. I have no idea. And just because the EPA pulls out does not mean that it’s going to end. It’s going to go on for 40 or 50 more years or it may never end.”

“People call me, they’ve been diagnosed or they don’t know what to do, they’re confused,” Benefield says. “The newbies, you might say.”

Over the last seven years, however, Benefield has dialed back her level of involvement, withdrawing from all of the positions she once occupied. After the 2015 Montana Legislature, she briefly wound up on a new asbestos advisory group operating under the state Department of Environmental Quality. She stepped down, she says, when it became clear the

photo by Alex Sakariassen

Libby native Gayla Benefield, above, has spent more than 20 years working to improve the situation in her hometown. She now says she’s done, making room for others to take charge of Libby’s future. Nick Raines, left, became enamored with Libby when he first visited in 2004. Now he runs the city-county Asbestos Resource Program, a tool he hopes the community will continue to use after the EPA finally leaves.

photo by Alex Sakariassen

Benefield pauses, relighting her Sante Fe filtered cigar before addressing the current toll of what she calls simply “the disease.” She made sure all her grandkids were screened back in the 2000s, when they were in their teens. But some Libby residents in their 30s and 40s are now noticing shortness of breath, an early indicator of illnesses like mesothelioma. Benefield guesses many of them were exposed to the fibers while in

As with her hometown, asbestos has been a defining word in Benefield’s life the past 20-plus years.

She’s served on nonprofit boards and advisory groups, traveled the country to deliver presentations on health impacts and cleanup. The problem isn’t exclusive to Libby, she says. Thousands of men moved here with their families in the ’70s to work on the construction of Libby Dam on Lake Koocanusa. Not all of them stayed when the work was done. And at its peak, the mine was producing 80 percent of the world’s vermiculite, shipping it for use at hundreds of processing plants around the country. Whether people were exposed in Libby or to the zonolite contained in numerous commercial products like insulation, the concern extends far beyond the town’s borders.

group’s work would not be focused on Libby. After several decades, Benefield says, “I’m done.”

“Actually, I was called the other week and asked if I wanted to file for the [state] House seat,” she adds.

“I said, ‘No’ ... With my luck, I’d win.”

What remains By the time Nick Raines came to Libby, the mine had been closed nearly 10 years and the story of the town’s dire situation had already run in the pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He arrived from Ohio in late 2004 to visit a friend, but something about the town and its picturesque surroundings spoke to him.

Three months later he returned to take up an

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engineering job with CDM Smith, one of the companies on the front line of the EPA’s cleanup initiative.

Asbestos quickly became a driving force in his life, too, and with the release of the record of decision this year, he doesn’t see that fact changing anytime soon.

“EPA is never going to remove every fiber of asbestos from Libby,” Raines says, “but there are tools in place to help deal with what’s left behind.”

One of those tools, he hopes, is the initiative he’s been spearheading for the city-county board of health since 2011. Dubbed the Asbestos Resource Program, Raines’ crew has become something of a middleman between the community and the EPA, helping to guide ed-

“It’s not the federal government. For the most part it’s local people, people they know,” he says. “I can’t say necessarily that I’m local. I’ve been here 12 years now and I don’t know that I’ll ever be considered a local. But I’m viewed as a little more a part of the community than an outside contractor or EPA.” According to the record of decision, the EPA has already investigated 7,100 properties across southern Lincoln County and completed cleanup on 2,275 of them. However, the owners of roughly 700 additional properties have not yet provided the agency access to conduct its investigations. Not all the properties would necessarily require any work, says Mike Cirian,

document has finally set the standard for cleanup work, he says, removing any uncertainty as to how extensive the EPA’s actions would be and how often the agency might return. Cirian sees light at the end of the tunnel and believes the community is at a point where it needs closure. Over the years, he says, he’s noted that as people’s properties were cleaned, they quit showing up for public meetings. Raines, too, claims Libby is suffering from “a little bit of burnout.”

And yet as the EPA’s presence begins to wind down, Cirian is starting to notice the community’s interest building around another movement, one that could finally help Libby move past the booms and busts.

“It’s a turning point between the past and the future.”

Keohane’s firm is now part of a public-private partnership dedicated to helping Libby establish a new identity. Working alongside Libby, Lincoln County, the University of Montana’s Small Business Institute and local groups like the Kootenai River Development Council, Partners Creative has spent the last six months conducting in-depth interviews, street-side intercepts, surveys and listening sessions in an attempt to uncover what Keohane calls “the DNA of Libby.” Much of what they’ve found revolves around natural assets like Turner Mountain Ski Area and the nearby Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, but there’s also promise in the business sec-

photo by Patrick Klemz

Libby’s history has been hard to escape, from the Zonolite Company’s early mining of vermiculite for commercial use across the globe to the EPA’s 15-year effort to rid the town of contaminants. Rather than bury their past, locals are realizing the importance of sharing the full story with outsiders.

ucation on the issues of asbestos while providing resources for those still dealing with potential contaminants. On a recent Friday, for example, a man strolls into Raines’ office in the Lincoln Courthouse Annex on Mineral Avenue to inquire about the status of a piece of property. Raines supplies him with records documenting every aspect of the EPA’s work there. With each removal there is always some material left behind, Raines says, from vermiculite insulation in sealed wall cavities to contaminated material buried under the topsoil. The five-year grant his program currently operates on expires in December, leaving a few question marks as to its ultimate fate. But the need to leave some long-term institutionalized control in place after the EPA departs is huge, Raines says, and there’s no denying a city-county program engenders a “different level of trust.”

the EPA’s on-site remedial project manager. But getting a final answer from these holdouts remains one of the key hurdles to overcome before Libby and the agency can move on. In a perfect world, Cirian would have firm responses from all 700 by the end of July.

Even then, he says, the process of drafting work plans and conducting remedial actions would take “a couple of years.”

“We’ve got 46 property owners to change their minds so far,” Cirian says. “We’ve called folks, we’ve sent letters to folks, we’ve knocked on doors. There’s some people that have said, ‘Please don’t ever contact us again,’ and sometimes not in that nice a term. But we’re going to keep reaching out.”

Cirian is hopeful the release of the record of decision will help convince people to cooperate. The

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What comes next On March 9, roughly 125 people gathered in downtown Libby’s Dome Theater for a glimpse of what their town’s future might hold. An array of words and phrases plastered on a signboard highlighted the area’s strengths—“undiscovered,” “self-reliant,” “the real Montana,” “the right kind of remote.” Cirian says it was “the largest crowd I’ve seen the community have in a long time.” Kevin Keohane of the Missoula-based marketing firm Partners Creative, who was there to help present the findings of a months-long brand research project, says he felt an energy in the room, a sense that those in attendance realized it was time to stop looking in the rearview mirror.

“The issuing of the record of decision by the EPA is a really great landmark or milestone,” Keohane says.

tor. Kristin Smith, who was elected president of the development council last fall, points to the massive business park at the Lincoln County Port Authority as rife with industrial opportunity, complete with highway and railroad access, an on-site boiler and a truck scale.

Cabinet Mountain Brewing and the year-old Find Your Light Yoga studio have brought a new vibe to Mineral Avenue, and annual events like the Hot August Nights car rally or the STOKR Bike Tour are drawing an increasing number of visitors undeterred by misconceptions about exposure and disease.

“I think we’re just right on the cusp of busting out,” Smith says.

Sharing the story of Libby’s growth and potential will be a pivotal part of the rebranding effort. Partners Creative can help ensure the story that is told is

consistent, Keohane says, and that the community starts to view its remoteness not as a liability but “probably actually their greatest strength.” Libby needs to be presented not as a single town, he adds, but as part of a greater whole that includes Troy, Eureka and all of Lincoln County. While it may be tempting for Libby to bury the darker parts of its past, Keohane is convinced that asbestos and the cleanup have to be part of this new message.

“There is a kind of bittersweetness that because of what’s happened, it’s actually created some really positive things there,” Keohane says. “The health care system is one, the EPA cleanup is another. The tragedy that happened there, there might be a silver lining to it at the end of the day.”

Keohane cautions that rebranding won’t be like flipping a switch. Success or failure will depend on how well those in Libby are able to sustain the initiative, which will likely last for five to 10 years. However, attracting new business is important in light of another issue looming on Libby’s horizon.

The long-running cleanup has brought with it hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions in spending. Cirian says the EPA—and, by extension, the private contractors hired to the project—became the third largest employer in town just a few years back, putting close to 200 people to work. But when the agency leaves, Libby will once again be left with a sizable vacuum.

“When you take 100-plus jobs out of the system,” Cirian says, “that’s going to hurt.”

Joe Miller isn’t exactly sure what brought his family to Libby. He was born and raised in the town, had a mother employed by the U.S. Forest Service and a grandfather with a cobbling shop across the street from where Cabinet Mountain Brewing now stands. After high school he moved to the Flathead, then to the East Coast for a while.

Life took him right back to his roots and it’ll be two years this June since he purchased the Libby

Kwik Lube. But for a lot of his high school buddies and former coworkers from the lumber mill, the EPA has been a much-needed source of employment. Even over the past few years, he says, there’s been a noticeable slowdown in the call for cleanup work, forcing some to seek jobs elsewhere. “[The cleanup] seemed to come right when the mill closed or soon after, so a lot of the people that were displaced as far as working goes went to work for the different companies that were here for the EPA cleanup,” Miller says. “It’s kind of been a major help as photo by Chad Harder

“I’ve heard it as close as Noxon,” he says.

“Less than an hour away I’ve walked into a store and someone brought it up, said, ‘Oh, you’re from Libby. Glad I don’t live there’ ... It’s incredibly frustrating. But it’s also a good opportunity because that opens the door to not just talk about what the real situation is in Libby but it’s also the opportunity to talk about, ‘Well, have you ever been to Libby? Why not? Here’s why you need to come up here. Here’s what it has to offer.’”

Libby doesn’t come off as a town licking its wounds. During a recent St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Cabinet Mountain Brewing, the crowd is upbeat, smiling, friendly. Smith is little more than a green-shirted blur as she slings corned beef paninis and pints of Yaak Attack IPA to the masses. Two accordions and a penny whistle—a photo by Alex Sakariassen trio called Euphonium Spaceship—work to keep things lively, though from the looks of it, Cabifar as economy around Libby and Lin- net Mountain would be hopping even without the coln County. But when they’re gone, music. A chalkboard on the wall stands as evidence that’s just more jobs that are going to of the brewery’s wide following, with scribbles from be lost.” visitors as nearby as the Flathead and as far away as There’s a sense among locals that Florida, Alaska and New Zealand.

Libby’s ability to turn the page on the Ask the fellow at the bar named Mark why he cleanup and truly move on will ulti- chose to settle in Libby and he’ll talk for a long stretch mately hinge on how effectively the about snowy peaks and trout streams and “wide-open community can change the narrative spaces.” No mention of the word asbestos, nor any in the minds of outsiders. The stigma other discouragement for making the Kootenai Valley of asbestos remains strong even in home. There’s a good deal of uncertainty ahead, sonearby communities. A couple cially and economically. Miller doesn’t know if Libby months back, Raines was dining at a will ever boom again like it did even 15 years ago. But Missoula restaurant with one of the in his eyes, one thing about his hometown remains Lincoln County commissioners. When unchanged. the waitress discovered they were “The community coming together when it matphoto by Joe Weston from Libby, he recalls, she told them ters,” he says, “is one thing I find that’s great about Research recently conducted by the Missoula-based firm Partners Creative is helping to highlight many of she’d heard things were pretty bad up Libby still.”

Libby’s strengths. Events like the town’s annual Nordic Fest, top, new businesses like Cabinet Mountain there. Raines has had similar exBrewing, center, and natural assets like Kootenai Falls, bottom, could prove pivotal in drawing visitors and changes in Helena and northern Idaho. asakariassen@missoulanews.com spurring economic opportunity.

missoulanews.com • March 31–April 7, 2016 [17]

[arts]

Puzzle pieces Ceramicist Lee Stuurmans looks to industrial objects for the perfect solution

by Erika Fredrickson

Lee Stuurmans uses the process of slip casting to make mugs and tea sets out of objects like light bulbs and conduit couplers.

L

ee Stuurmans’ Westside art studio, inside the Ceretana building, boasts a large skate ramp made of spray-painted particle board propped against the walls. The place has an untamed air. He says it’s perfect for solitary late night creative bursts as well as social mayhem. Ceramicist Jazmine Raymond, Stuurmans’ girlfriend, once hosted a wrestling party there, for instance.

Stuurmans works just down the street from the Ceretana, as the studio manager at the Clay Studio of Missoula. On First Fridays you can see him there, wild long hair and big smile, drinking beers with the other ceramicists, who are all talking shop and recounting allnighters at the studio’s wood-fire kiln on the outskirts of town. The atmosphere at the Clay Studio lends itself to artistic experimentation and the kind of “wabi-sabi” ceramics approach in which happy accidents and imperfections are welcome. Given all this, one might expect Stuurmans’ work to be just as loose as the environment he inhabits. Instead, his pieces seem compulsively tidy.

“That asymmetrical, organic aesthetic is something a lot of people really enjoy,” Stuurmans says. “But for me, I want it to look like a robot made it. I like that precision. That’s important to me.”

Stuurmans says fellow artists have always described his work as tight and precise. Recently, however, he switched from wheel-throwing ceramics and started doing slip casting, which allows him to be even more of a perfectionist when it comes to detail and lines.

In a small room to the side of the skate ramp, Stu-

urmans has started experimenting. This little room feels like the place where order reigns. A shelf against the wall holds rows of mugs and tea sets, plus a few sculptures.

One piece is a wall tile he’ll have in the Clay Studio’s upcoming auction gala, Potsketch (at the UC Ballroom Sat., April 23), an event that challenges ceramicists to work in 5x5 dimensions and, often, in 2D. Even in their unfired and unglazed form, Stuurmans’ works are impeccable, almost factory-like, though too creative to feel like something from a box store.

Stuurmans learned slip casting two years ago from the Clay Studio’s director, Shalene Valenzuela, whose distinct works include life-size vacuum cleaners and other domestic objects made entirely of ceramics and glazed to evoke 1950s imagery. Stuurmans took the same process, which consists of pouring liquid clay into plaster molds, and has applied it to his own vision. He regularly visits Home ReSource where he finds industrial objects that can be turned into ceramic pieces.

For one tea set, he’s created a teapot using the cast of a light bulb for the body, a chemistry lab torch for the spout and a nut and bolt for the lid. He made the cups from a rubber ball he found in the aftermath of the wrestling party. He cast it and cut it in half to make the cups. The base of the cups are made from bolts, too, and so are the tiny cup handles. The saucers are molded from the floor mat of a SAAB. Stuurmans’ motivation to make tea sets like this is about making the parts look like they naturally belong there.

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“I go to Home ReSource and I try to find random objects that will fulfill a design problem,” Stuurmans says.

“The work can become really tedious—but I like that.”

Stuurmans is the go-to guy when it comes to fixing things around the Clay Studio. He was drawn to ceramics partly because of that mechanical aspect, including the wheel and the kilns. He found other mediums daunting, but he liked the way he could start working at the wheel with a lump of clay, not knowing what he was going to do, and just ease into it.

Stuurmans grew up wanting to be an artist, but didn’t know if he had the talent for it.

“In grade school, I was always interested in art and jealous of my friends who could do it,” he says. “It took an embarrassingly long time for me to realize that the things that other people do that I think are special are skills that they learned. It was very helpful to figure that out.”

When he was out of high school, Stuurmans studied at Pike’s Peak Community College in Colorado Springs.

He volunteered at the town’s clay studio and then got hired at their production pottery house making dog urns and mugs with biblical inscription for the Catholic store in the mall. It taught him manufacturing skills, but it wasn’t fulfilling. After his job was outsourced to Mexico, he started volunteering at the Colorado Fine Arts Center where the scene was much more creative. He eventually got hired to teach, and he did that for five years.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

When he was ready for something new, his boss at the fine arts center suggested he move to Montana. Stuurmans was puzzled, but intrigued.

“I think many people may not be aware that Montana has a widely admired ceramics culture, especially for ceramicists in other parts of the country,” he says. “I didn’t know that either, but I learned about the Archie Bray Foundation and Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio and how [the movement] of ceramics made through a modern art lens almost started in Montana—and that was amazing to me.”

Stuurmans, who moved to Missoula in 2011, says he found the community he’s been looking for, one where he can push himself. For instance, he continues to challenge himself by looking for unlikely objects that he can slip cast. At first, he was making mugs out of tin cans, but that was too obvious. He now has a new set of mugs rendered from conduit couplers and solar light fixtures. Glaze-wise, he’s trying to soften the look of the pieces so they don’t mimic the industrial aspects of their original components—artistic, but also as well-made and sturdy as something from a factory.

“The more I do this,” he says, “the better I am in seeing the solution I need in an object.”

The Clay Studio of Missoula presents the Potsketch 2016 preview show Fri., April 1, from 5:30 PM to 9. 1106 Hawthorn A. Visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org for more info on the gala. arts@missoulanews.com

[music]

Riding shotgun Road trippin’ with the Sandman It took me some time to get into Chris Sand’s American Road Trip, and I think I know why. Despite being familiar with the Missoula musician’s quirky rapping cowboy style, I was still expecting a road trip album in the traditional sense—something anthemic or hooky. But American Road Trip is a story particular to Sand’s experience as a wandering troubadour, not some cliché collection of background tunes. It begins with the a cappella gospel “Road Kill” and jumps to “Down at Habashi,” a laid back, early 1990s-style rap—featuring Sand’s friend, Karel Hastings—about eating Middle Eastern food. “Two white guys writin’ rhymes about lunch/ nothin’ to do/ no political punch,” they sing with Snoop Dog ease.

American Road Trip does have countrified road songs, though they feel more cattle drive ballad than “Six Days on the Road,” and they’re marked by Sand’s

tongue-in-cheek humor. But it’s really the ambitious combination of genres—rap, spoken word, yodeling and even doo-wop— that ultimately make this album work. Accompanying each title is a note, which helps guide the listener. For “Road Kill,” Sand has written, “4 a.m. A curious dream in a cabin on Killdeer Mountain,” and for “A Cowboy’s Prayer” he writes “8 a.m. Fog and ice on Highway 22.” These songs are a diary of sorts that seem to span almost 24 hours. I love the more contemplative intro and “Mr. Kent.” The tracks in between straddle goofy and political, sweet and psychedelic. It’s an album that takes a little more brain power than your average highway jams. (Erika Fredrickson) Chris Sand, aka Sandman the Rappin’ Cowboy, plays a release show Fri., April 1, at the Roxy after the 8 PM screening of Lester Leaps In.

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Put away your pretentiousness and dust off your favorite flannel shirt. Missoula’s No Fancy would like you to visit their basement to listen to some tunes.

No, I didn’t say your nicest flannel shirt, I said your favorite flannel shirt. The one from 1998 with the holes marching along the seams and the pen doodles on the cuffs. This event calls for comfort and nostalgia and a little rocking out.

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On Basement Life, No Fancy might not be breaking fabulous new musical ground, but what they are doing is having fun—and you can hear them having fun, even underground. As Morey sings, “You don’t approve of the basement life, and we sing melodies to the absent light.” (Sarah Aswell) No Fancy play a record release show at the Palace Fri., April 1, at 10 PM, along with Catamount, Wrinkles and Farch. $5/$10 for those 18 to 20.

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Tacocat, Lost Time Girls Who Rock, or GWR, are inevitably compared to a smaller pool of influences than their male counterparts, which is unfair. But sometimes a singer comes along whose voice is reminiscent of a whole album collection as she takes on a slightly different flavor from song to song. Seattle’s Tacocat has such a GWR in Emily Nokes, their Butte-born singer. Nokes’ clear, powerful voice is at times a ringer for Blondie’s Debbie Harry, then cutes it up a notch to suggest Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s. Even Patty Donahue of the Waitresses comes to mind.

The band’s sound is bouncy, triple-time pop-punk, a direct descendent of the Riot Grrrl bands of the early ‘90s. “Horse Grrrls” rips along with tons of energy, fea-

turing a possible double-entendre chorus: “No time for girls or boys/ Horses (Horse is?) their only joy.” Then it drops into a spare, bass-and-handclaps rhythmic march. It’s this grasp of dynamics and their melodic pop sensibility that set Tacocat apart from other punk and garage bands, encouraging repeat listenings. Stomping along to their poppy breakneck thrash, I’m reminded of some of the bands we used to see just before the grunge scene steamrolled Seattle, like 7 Year Bitch or the Gits, a fierce Seattle band with their own GWR, Mia Zapata. (Ednor Therriault) Tacocat play the VFW Sun., April 3, at 9 PM, along with Lisa Prank, Shahs and Mag pies. $15/$10 advance at Ear Candy. Surcharge for those 18-20.

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[art]

Knife’s edge Artist Michael Workman explores notions of violence

by Sarah Aswell

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Michael Workman’s First Friday exhibit uses two videos to explore two ways to view weapons of violence.

As Missoula artist Michael Workman was researching his latest installation project at local gun and knife stores, he found himself drawn to the weaponry, especially pieces he recognized from the video games he grew up playing. “I am very much against war and violence, but I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t feel seduced by them,� he says. “I realize it has a lot to do with social conditioning, and I try to deny the feelings, but weapons really are beautiful and powerful and phallic.�

For his First Friday installation at FrontierSpace, There are many like it, but this one is mine, Workman wanted to explore this pull between men and violence through the life of one man. The dual video exhibition offers two different approaches to illustrating how gun culture can affect us, from romanticizing violence to making us less lonely.

One video is narrative and sequential. It follows a man through a single day alone at home as he navigates problems with his boss, receives a new order of knives in the mail, participates in knife collector forums online and finally watches Full Metal Jacket on his laptop in bed before falling asleep. The footage presents a lonely man who feels more alive through his knife collecting hobby, who dabbles in the culture of violence to counteract how emasculated he feels in his career, his health and his love life.

The other video, which is much shorter and looped, is an abstraction of the first. It shows the same man stabbing a silicon canteen with a silicon knife. Finally, the canteen bursts, gelatin exploding to the floor as the silicon knife flaccidly jiggles in the man’s hands. “I wanted to explore the obsession with military culture and violent objects,� Workman says. “There are millions of people like this—the culture is massive. For a lot of men, that heroic idea of a soldier is seductive. You are conditioned to think that that is the highest honor. Sol-

diers are fetishized. Look at violent movies or Civil War reenactments. They romanticize killing and death.�

But Workman isn’t judging the fictional man in his videos and the installation is not about a value assessment. In fact, Workman identifies with his character. “What’s the difference between me making art and someone collecting military knives?� he asks. “Artists are searching for a purpose, too, and this piece is in some ways autobiographical. He’s collecting and creating and sharing. And he’s getting feedback. He’s creating a community and getting some sense of satisfaction. That’s super similar to creating art.�

In the end, while the piece does ask its audience to think about the culture of violence, it goes deeper by showing us how similar the general human struggle is— of finding comfort and meaning in our daily lives. “The main goal is humanizing people,� Workman says. “These people aren’t psychopaths. We may disagree, but they aren’t wrong. The primary takeaway would be someone thinking that there was a little bit of them in the man. I wanted it to be human and relatable.�

The piece serves as sort of a departure for Workman, whose past work has involved complicated, abstract multimedia productions. “My other stuff is colder and more conceptual,� he says. “I wanted this to have tone and depth and an emotional element. It’s more accessible to someone who doesn’t have an art degree or someone who hasn’t studied criticism. And that is important to me. It feels true to me.�

Michael Workman presents There are many like it, but this one is mine at FrontierSpace (in the alley behind the Old Post Pub) Fri., April 1, from 5 PM to 10. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

these are the good old days.

Death song Chomsky’s Requiem rehashes political injustice

by Molly Laich

Watching this documentary about the great intellectual Noam Chomsky and his theories on the consolidation of wealth and power is like reading a 73-minute long pamphlet with moving pictures alone in the dark.

For those unfamiliar with Chomsky’s work, Requiem for the American Dream offers a palatable introduction to how his research in the fields of linguistics and economics shed light on the gross inequalities we have today. If you’re already a fan of Chomsky, it’s more of a Sermon on the Mount, a chance to renew your fervor at an unfair world.

Co-directors Peter D. Hutchison and Kelly Nyks piece the film together with a series of interviews filmed over four years.

(Their previous work includes a 2008 documentary on the campaign trail called Split: A Divided America.) These conversations are strung together as one long monologue, structured around “the 10 principles of consolidation of wealth and power.”

Chomsky takes us through the formation of banks, how they started off as a level-headed service industry and then became the speculative gambling houses they are today, for example. He delivers ter- “You blink, you lose” rifically bad news like this with the stony assurance of a lullaby as the images on screen shuffle between archival footage, graphs and hypnotic abstractions, such as old-fashioned televisions stacked on top of each other with fuzzy images of Chomsky as a young man. “Requiem,” simply put, means “death song,” which is what Chomsky thinks of our withered hopes of getting rich, and the film has a chilling score to match that mood. As a visual representation of ideas, Requiem for the American Dream works well, and Chomsky’s somewhat dry delivery moves along at an entertaining enough clip.

One can’t help but think of Errol Morris’ films of a similar ilk, most notably his Oscar winning The Fog of War (2003), composed entirely of interviews with Robert McNamara. Both Morris’ films and Requiem use frequent close-ups on the subject’s face. In the case of The Fog of War, it works like an interrogation of a complicated man and the dubious decisions he’s made, but I wonder what’s the point of so many close-ups on Chomsky, our benevolent, elderly teacher. He’s not on

trial here, and so the urgency feels a bit misplaced.

In high school, I devoured writers like Chomsky and Howard Zinn who so eloquently confirmed my suspicion that the world was a crooked and unfair place for marginalized people. Back then, it felt good to get mad. Then I started living in the real world, and that abstract injustice became a depressing reality of perpetual wars, crushing student loans and low paying jobs. If my Facebook feed is any indication, I think plenty of my peers continue to be invigorated by our bonkers political process. They are the ideal audience for this film.

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For me, rehashing these ideas tends to fill me with resignation and dull dread, and on that note, I can’t with any degree of honesty say that I enjoyed watching the movie.

If you’re wondering if Requiem for the American Dream speaks at all to our current political climate, it does, but only indirectly. Chomsky doesn’t mention the ongoing presidential election or any of the divisive candidates milling about this cycle. But the film says a thing or two about how a dissatisfied electorate might find their allegiances swayed toward a bellicose, racist leader—so, make of that what you will.

If you’re looking for intellectual entertainment combined with political outrage, Requiem for the American Dream fulfills the contract.

Requiem for the American Dream opens at the Roxy Fri., April 1. arts@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • March 31–April 7, 2016 [21]

[film]

Making sense Mike Steinberg leaps in with Lester

by Erika Fredrickson

Jeff Medley stars as the title character in Lester Leaps In.

Lester Leaps In is eye candy with an almost Wes Anderson flair. The 30-minute local film, written and directed

by Mike Steinberg, includes props and set pieces that evoke another time, but also a magical parallel universe.

In the first scene we see Lester, played by Jeff Medley, wearing a powder blue suit and sitting in front of a typewriter while staring at a blank sheet of paper. Eventually, he journeys outside, through a lumber mill full of stacked planks and into the office of the mill’s owner, a woman played by Steinberg’s wife, Lulu Delphine. The room’s adorned with colorful fake flowers that appear to be sprouting en masse from the wall like 3D wallpaper. Lester, a middle manager, explains to the owner that he’s making the lumber company’s safety video. She’s not impressed. But to Lester, it’s a film of the highest art and import.

“Imagine a snow globe, but instead of snow, those little flakes of snow are replaced by construction equipment … And those little construction men can pick up the pieces and build a structure before it gets shaken up again,” says Lester to the woman.

“I don’t understand what any of this means,” she says.

And neither do we, as the viewers. But it doesn’t matter because Lester knows what he means. He has a vision and he’s going to make it happen. Our hero’s journey takes him through dreams, encounters with rival filmmakers, played with precise comedy by Aaron Roos and Angelo Rizzo, and culminates in a Bollywood number.

The film includes cinematographers Kier Atherton and Tessla Hastings, producer Skye Grace Bennett, choreographer Joy French, musicians Travis Yost and Ryan “Shmed” Maynes, among other Missoula notables. The crew transformed The Hive on Third Street for interior scenes and took advantage of location shots at the Western Montana Fair, Orange Street Food Farm and Pyramid Lumber.

Lester Leaps In (the title is a nod to the jazz stan-

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dard) is an apt story for Steinberg, a longtime filmmaker and executive director at Missoula’s Roxy Theater. The first movie he ever made was called Joe Gets Stretched, about a guy kidnapped by his neighbor and stretched into an artist’s canvas.

“The films I’ve made have always been about where creativity sits in people’s lives and how impossible it can sometimes be,” Steinberg says.

Lester Leaps In is also a little bit autobiographical.

In the past, Steinberg worked as part of a film crew hired to shoot industrial footage, including at a plastics manufacturing plant in St. Louis and at a drill bit company in Polson. Lester was inspired from a novel Steinberg started but abandoned, which was about an industrial film crew that comes to shoot a video at a plastics plant.

But Lester himself, who is played by Medley in a combination of maniacal and sweet, delusional and driven, also shares some characteristics with Steinberg.

“Lulu thinks the whole film is allegorical for me,” Steinberg says. “I think it’s a very personal film, for sure.

There’s a lot of the fetishistic analog elements and the fact that Lester gets inspired, finally, at the movie theater—those things are my weaknesses.”

Like Lester, Steinberg had to make his own leap. He’s shot several documentaries, mostly shorts, but it’s been 20 years since he’s worked on a fictional film that required creating characters and sets. He felt uncertain at first, he says, but he didn’t want to let the chance slip away.

“I think [making films] is about trying to make sense of the world,” he says. “Why would you spend a week with people putting on funny costumes if you weren’t trying to make sense of something?”

Lester Leaps In screens at the Roxy Fri., April 1, at 8 PM, followed by a Q&A with the director and cast. $8/$7 seniors and students. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK GOD’S NOT DEAD 2 When a high school teacher is asked about Jesus in class, her response causes the Red Sea to part. Not really. But she does stir up trouble for the faithful. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Sally Field is getting raves for her portrayal of an older woman trying to squeeze into the life of a younger man. Sparks fly, comedy ensues. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy.

LESTER LEAPS IN The Roxy’s Mike Steinberg shows his film about a ‘70s lumber mill manager, played by Jeff Medley, who struggles to produce an industrial safety film. Pre-show music by Lizzi Juda and Laura.

Q&A follows the movie, then it’s a concert by Missoula’s Chris Sand the Rappin’ Cowboy. At the Roxy Fri., April 1, 8 PM. (See Film.)

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MADAMA BUTTERFLY Kristine Opolais stars in Anthony Minghella’s production of the classic opera with the naval officer, Roberto Alagna, who breaks Butterfly’s heart. Showing at the Roxy Sat., April 2, 11 AM. REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Noam Chomsky expounds on one of the defining characteristic of our time—the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few, and how it’s causing the death of the middle class. Showing at the Roxy. (See Film.)

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Movie Cult returns with The Silence of the Lambs, one of the creepiest serial killer movies ever made. Jody Foster is the FBI agent ensnared in the psychological web of killer Anthony Hopkins. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., April 2, 9 PM.

NOW PLAYING 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE A woman discovers the horrifying truth about the outside world while living in an underground shelter with two men. Stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

“Are you telling me you never did mescaline at an office party before?” Hello, My Name is Doris opens Fri., April 1 at the Roxy. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes.

Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

ANOMALISA Full-length stop-motion animated feature about a man who has trouble connecting with other people. Written and directed Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich). Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., March 31.

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Forget the inferior 2014 Lego version. This movie should solve once and for all the argument that’s been going on between 9-year-old nerds forever. Starring Ben Affleck, Amy Adams and Jesse Eisenberg as a hirsute Lex Luthor.

Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

THE BOY AND THE WORLD (O MENINO E O MUNDO) This Oscar-nominated feature is a stylishly animated story about a boy who journeys to the city to find his absent father and reunite his family.

Rated PG. Showing at the Roxy Thu., March 31.

DEADPOOL Ryan Reynolds stars as possibly the most smartassed superhero in the history of Marvel Comics. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT After the revelations of Insurgent, Tris and Four must find out what’s beyond the wall that encircles Chicago. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (ENCORE) Kristine Opolais stars in Anthony Minghella’s production in the classic opera with the naval officer, Roberto Alagna, who breaks Butterfly’s heart. Showing at the Roxy Tue., April 5, 6:30 PM. MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN A young girl suffering from a rare disorder finds herself miraculously cured after surviving a horrible accident. Starring Jennifer Garner.

Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2 The Portokalos family is back, with writer/star Nia Vardalos in an even bigger and Greeker wedding. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

ZOOTOPIA In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive con artist fox and a rookie bunny cop must work together to uncover a conspiracy in Disney’s new animated feature. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike.

Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Guacamole deviled eggs

by Gabi Moskowitz

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BROKEASS GOURMET ¼ jalapeño (seeds intact if you like spicy—discard them if not), finely chopped juice of ¼ lime salt to taste red pepper flakes

Deviled eggs are kind of having a moment, and for good reason: Not only are eggs inexpensive and highly nutritious, but deviled eggs are gluten-free, paleo and generally vegetarian (sorry, vegans). Even better, deviled eggs are super-customizable. Here I swap out traditional mayonnaise for creamy avocado (which I prefer over mayo on sandwiches anyway), mash it together with my egg yolks and add in classic guacamole flavorings.

Since these are a riff on guacamole, I mash the filling by hand with a fork, rather than pureeing in a food processor. This keeps some of those delicious lumps that guacamole is so famous for. If, however, you prefer silky-smooth yolks, feel free to use a blender or food processor.

I love these on their own, as part of an array of appetizers, or atop lightly dressed greens for a highprotein, low-carbohydrate lunch. Whatever you do, be sure to eat these soon after you make them, since the avocado will start to brown slightly if you wait too long. I don’t think it’ll be a problem though—I barely got through taking photos of these without devouring them.

Directions Let the eggs cool completely after hardboiling them.

Slice each egg lengthwise and gently pop out the yolks. Place the yolks in a bowl and arrange the eggs on a serving platter.

In a mixing bowl, combine the egg yolks, avocado, green onions, cilantro, jalapeño, lime juice and salt. Use the back of a fork to smash well. (It’s okay to leave a few lumps—you want the mixture to be creamy, but not perfectly smooth).

Use a spoon to heap the guacamole mixture into the egg whites.

Top with a thin slices of lime, jalapeño and/or red pepper flakes, if desired.

Ingredients 6 eggs, hardboiled ½ ripe avocado 2 green onions, minced 1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro leaves (a very small handful)

BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.

(Recipe serves 2-3)

[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 WE ARE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF HAND CRAFTED ESPRESSO! How? A Happy Hour special is upon us. Come into Bernice’s from 6pm - 8pm.

When you purchase a slice of cake for your dessert pleasure you receive an 8oz espresso beverage FREE. Enjoy Spring evenings by our large sunny windows or sit outside at a Bernice’s picnic table and watch the sun go down over the Clark Fork. Take yourself out to dinner and then pop over to Bernice's for dessert with your espresso on us.

And what's even better? HAPPY HOUR WILL RUN ALL OF APRIL! Thank you Missoula for keepin' Bernice's sweet. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:305:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am -

2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

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Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials.

We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ 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. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating.

Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

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Masala HAPPIEST HOUR

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. $$-$$$ 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 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$

photo by Kate Whittle

What you’re eating: Bar snacks with global twists.

which is a suggested pairing for the Tibetan momos.

The backstory: After operating as a food cart for the last few years, Masala opened its brick-and-mortar restaurant space in February, offering an array of Indian, Middle Eastern and African-influenced dishes for lunch, dinner and a late-night takeout window. Now that Masala has obtained a beer and wine license, owner Theo Smith says it made sense to add a special happy hour menu.

Don’t forget the popcorn: A purchase of beer or wine during happy hour comes with a free bowl of buttery popcorn, topped with a sweet-and-spicy mixture of berbere, a seasoning commonly used in Ethiopian cooking. “There’s lots of chilies, lots of cardamom,” Smith says. “It’s something I love in just about any meat, but it works really well with popcorn as well.”

The menu: For bigger appetites, try the momos, which Smith says he often ate while traveling around Tibet. Momos are spicy dumplings garnished with onion. They’re also somewhat labor-intensive, so don’t expect to see them very often on Masala’s regular steam-tray menu. Tibetan and Nepalese cooks usually stuff momos with yak meat, but Masala opted to go with Montana-raised grass-fed beef. “Beautiful comfort food,” Smith says.

For smaller appetites, try the aloo chops, which are fried potato balls garnished with raita yogurt dressing.

The beer and wine menu includes a variety of local craft brews, including Cold Smoke,

More to come: Smith says Masala will add a late-night happy hour this summer and start showing Bollywood films. “We’ll be turning down the lights and getting weird with food and booze,” he says.

Where to find it: Masala is located at 206 W. Main St., and is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Friday and 5-11 p.m. on Saturdays. Happy hour runs Monday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. Small plates run $3-$11.

–Kate Whittle Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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ate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ 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! $-$$

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 weekday 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 Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $

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. $$-$$$

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. $$-$$$

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. $$-$$$

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. $-$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegran-

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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March 31–April 7, 2016

THURSDAYMARCH31 Singer-songwriter Chuck Ragan plays songs from his latest release, Till Midnight. At the Top Hat, doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance at tophatlounge.com.

nightlife Geoffrey Lake plays it pretty for you at Draught Works Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free.

Bob Wire provides the music and the ha ha, Bitter Root Brewing pours the brew. That makes for a musical brouhaha. 6–8 PM. Free.

Remember how Ed used to pronounce “Northern Exposure” on the TV show? No? Just me? See how Julie Bug and Northern Exposure say it at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. No cover.

Cavalcade is the monthly residency at the Palace, hosted by hip-hop artist Wormwood.

April’s line-up features Lowborn Forces, rock duo Curbside Couch and more. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. No cover.

FRIDAYAPRIL01 Iowa gypsy songbird Sara Routh makes a stop at Stage 112, joined by Rae Davis. 9 PM. $5 at ticketfly.com.

“I am totally losing my security deposit.” Brooklyn’s San Fermin bring their eight-piece band to the Top Hat, with opener Esmé. Fri., April 1. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $14/$12 advance at tophatlounge.com.

Spend some time “Where Montana Began,” in Stevensville. The First Friday of each month is celebrated with music, food and art.

For more info visit mainstreetstevensville.com.

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[calendar] April is National Poetry Writing Month/ Good luck finding something that rhymes with month. Missoula Public Library’s Poetry to the People series welcomes your best work. Email to crystalk@missoula.lib.mt.us.

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers host their 5th annual Rendezvous.

Enjoy a weekend full of vendors, seminars and events with the Sportsmen’s Voice for Our Wild Public Lands, Waters and Wildlife. Holiday Inn Downtown, 9 AM–10 PM. For info visit rendezvous2016.com.

turing Catamount, Wrinkles and Farch. The Palace, show at 10. $10 for 18-20/$5 for 21 and over. (See Music.)

SATURDAYAPRIL02 Denver’s Flaural join locals Holy Totem and Wojtek for a night of rock at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, music at 10. $5. 18 and over.

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers host their 5th annual Rendezvous.

nightlife

cludes a long sleeve t-shirt with art done by a local artist. Arlee High School, 10 AM–1 PM. For info visit buttercuprun.org.

Whether it’s something for your home or something for your garden, you’ll find it at the aptly named Missoula Home and Garden Show. Adams Center, 10 AM–4 PM. Admission is free with a nonperishable food item.

Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot

The Killdeer Artisans’ Guild presents a selection of works featuring area artists, including Karl Stein’s work Arlee Spring, which is being raffled off to help support the gallery. Opening reception noon–2 PM. Hangin’ Art Gallery and Cafe, Arlee.

Give discarded books a second chance at life by turning them into a piece of art. Altered Book Workshop is in the Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room, 2:30–4:30 PM. Books and materials provided. Free.

The Trans Parent Support Group is not invisible. In fact, you can see them when they meet the first Sat. every month at 127 N. Higgins, #202. 5:30–7:30 PM. For more info contact Shelley at sullivan0905@gmail.com.

Loose String Band tighten up their act at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free.

Troubadour Nathan Fox plays his original tunes (you might have heard one in a movie) at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free.

What’s a rendezvous without a brewfest? Backcountry Hunters and Anglers bring in outdoor vendors and beer from all over Montana. The brewfest is at Bess Reed Park near the Holiday Inn Downtown. 5–9 PM. $12.

Get your Gaelic on at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.

Pianist Arthur Kostuk performs his spring piano concert at North Valley Public Library in Stevensville. 6 PM. Free.

The Bitterroot’s annual Ragin’ Cajun Crab Feed and Low Country Boil features live music by SmokeStack and the Foothill Fury, beer from Bitter Root Brewery, wine from The Wine Cave, a silent auction and a raffle.

Bedford Building in Hamilton, 6–9 PM. $30. For tickets email hamilton downtownassociation@gmail.com.

Venture up the Rattlesnake to enjoy original acoustic music by Larry Hirshberg at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music starts at 6. Free.

Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie to some live music while parental units kick back at the Top Hat. 6 PM. No cover.

Dark Horse Band provide the dancing fuel at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.

Charlie Parr brings his resonator-fueled folk songs from Minnesota to the Badlander with locals Ticket Sauce and Carson Neagle. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $14/$12 advance at ticketfly.com.

Paydirt play music designed to get you on the dance floor at Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Band in Motion play a wide variety of danceable music at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Brooklyn indie-rock eight-piece band San Fermin are joined by dream-rocker Esmé. Top Hat Lounge, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $14/$12 advance at tophatlounge.com.

It’s a wild mix of styles when No Fancy host an album release party fea-

“And this part here is where you strain the pasta.” Country iconoclast Charlie Parr comes to the Badlander Fri., April 1, with locals Ticket Sauce and Carson Neagle getting things started. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $14/$12 advance at ticketfly.com.

Enjoy a weekend full of vendors, seminars and events with the Sportsmen’s Voice for Our Wild Public Lands, Waters and Wildlife. Holiday Inn Downtown, 9 AM–10 PM. For info visit rendezvous2016.com.

Limber up for the Buttercup Run, a fundraiser for scholarships for Arlee High School graduates and mini grants for teachers. Compete in a 1mile fun run, a 5K run/walk, a 10K run or a half marathon. Entry fee in-

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cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too.

10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W. Strike out brain injury at Bowl for Brain Strong, a bowling fundraiser for the Brain Injury Alliance of Montana.

Buy a lane and bowl three games, enjoy some lunch and bid on silent auction items. Five Valleys Bowling, 11 AM–3 PM. $250 per lane for team of six, includes lunch and shoes. Visit www.biamt.org. (See Agenda.)

nightlife Try your luck while you chow down on some Indian tacos at a bingo fundraiser. Prizes and a raffle available. Money raised will support the Missoula Community Powwow. Missoula Senior Center, 5–9 PM. Beargrass Bluegrass play live to accompany a pulled pork bar catered by Burns Street Bistro. Northside Kettlehouse, 5–8 PM.

Rotgut Whines play some vineyardappropriate music at Ten Spoon Winery, up the Rattlesnake. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music starts at 6. Free.

GoGoMotion, a new trio featuring Hammond organ, play soul and funk at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.

Enjoy a Rip Roaring 20’s evening to raise funds for the Daly Mansion Preservation Trust. No host bar, silent

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FIRST FRIDAY Fawns Have Spots and Other Observations by Jenah Mead features paintings of wildlife and how they navigate their environment.

Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Opening reception 4:30– 6:30 PM. Katie S. Machain’s colorful, multilayered wood block prints highlight the intriguing tones and patterns of animals, landscapes and other natural manifestations. Gecko Designs, 523 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. PRH celebrate their grand opening with a First Friday event featuring local art, wine and beer. Learn about acupuncture treatment and check out local art by Karen Rice and Ben Mickelson. 206/210 S. 3rd St. W. 5– 8 PM.

Year of the Woodland Creature. Vote for your favorite throughout April.

501 S. Higgins. Opening reception 5–8 PM. Dana Gallery celebrates the (eventual) arrival of spring with new works

by Anna Moore, Caleb Meyer, Red Star and many more. Also, silent auction begins for Collector’s Resale.

246 N. Higgins, 5–8 PM. You have sixty days to dig the Brink Gallery before it is lost to the mists of time. group de brink: bye celebrates the popular gallery with a

Ivette Kjeslrud’s exhibit My Inner World opens at the E3 Convergence G a l l e r y. H e r p a i n t i n g s r e v e a l her humor as well as her taste in music. 229 W. Main St., 5–9 PM. Free.

Georgia Mann’s exhibit, Personal Mythology: Symbols, Myths and Affirmations, features vessels, small figurines and pendants that use color to explore uplifting affirmations. 4 Ravens Gallery, 248 N. Higgins. Opening reception 5–8 PM. Free.

MUD celebrates the opening of their tool library with a First Friday exhibit of Adelaide Gale Every’s work, featuring found and salvaged objects. 1527 Wyoming St., 5–8 PM. Curb Appeal is a selection of “Tree Puzzle” by Jennifer Ogden. Looking Up, Looking Down has an opening models created for the ongoing traf- reception at The Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins, 5–8 PM. fic signal box public art project. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices collection of works from a couple Head over to the Bike Doctor— Montana Properties, 314 N. Higgins. dozen Brink favorites. 111 W. Front stat—to enjoy Of Bikes and Men, Opening reception 5–8 PM. St. 5–8 PM. Free. the multimedia scrap art of B. MarEnjoy the humanistic paintings Check out the artwork of the tal- tiNez. Also music by Jeff Carroll. of Hannah Higgins at Clyde Coffee, ented students from the Flagship 1101 Toole St., on the roundabout.

610 S. Higgins. Opening reception after-school program and enjoy 5–8 PM. Free.

5–8 PM. Free. music by Sophia Therriault. Le Petit Western Introspective by MisBitterroot collage artist Jennifer Outre bakery, 129 S. 4th St. W. 5–8 soula artist Teresa Garland Warner Ogden presents Looking Up, Look- PM. Free. features oil paintings inspired by her ing Down, a collection of her colorJoin Abbie Miller for a walk experiences living and traveling in ful, imaginative work. The Artists’ through her exhibition Exit the west. The Trough, 2106 Shop, 127 N. Higgins. Opening reStrategies. Miller talks about the Clements Rd. Opening reception 5– ception 5–8 PM. process of making her large-scale in- 8 PM. Free.

Bathing Beauties Beads hosts stallations. Missoula Art Museum, Witness Michael T. Workman’s their 5th annual Bead Challenge: 5–8 PM. video piece, There are many like it,

Dark Horse Band provide the dancing fuel at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.

Eric Rich Ensemble are joined by Mendelssohn, Philip Glasshole and Pale People for an electronica-

Check out the world from an aerial view with the helicopter-aided photos of W. J. Boone. Bernice’s Bakery, 5–8 PM. Free.

Interdimensionalism by Rashid Abdel Ghafur features intricate representations of spatial confluence anchored by a tetraptych portal on which the center may not hold. So, you know, wear a helmet. Betty’s Divine, 5–8 PM. Free.

Jennifer Driscoll’s photo show depicts the osprey family in the nest at Ogren Baseball park from Spring to Fall 2015, with an intro by Dr. Erick Greene of The Montana Osprey Project. The Framing Studio, three blocks east of the XXXXs on Higgins. 5–8 PM.

Surrealism: Here and Now, featuring the work of Stephanie J. Frostad and others, promises to sweep away your winter blues. Radius Gallery, 114 E. Main St. Reception 5–8 PM.

auction, Pot ‘O Gold raffle (includes a 1 /2 oz. gold coin) and more. Live music by the Ed Norton Stomperz. $35 includes a drink ticket and hors d’oeurves. Call 363-6004 for reservations. Daly Mansion, 7–11 PM.

but this one is mine, which explores the seductive beauty of weaponry.

FrontierSpace, in the alley between Pine St. and Spruce St., 5–9 PM. Free. (See Art.)

flavored rock show at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.

original folk-rock at the Union Club.

9:30 PM. No cover(s).

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.

Casey Donahew Band play country, Texas-style, at the Top Hat Lounge.

Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $18/$16 advance at tophatlounge.com.

Paydirt play music designed to get you on the dance floor at Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Tom Catmull’s Radio Static are loath to play cover tunes among their

Local indie rock and hip-hop share the stage when Sam Waldorf, Big Shade, Louie Meisner and Max Williams play the Palace. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5 for 18-20/Free for 21 and over.

POTSKETCH 2016 features drawings and ceramic artworks from local, national and international artists. All artwork is part of a silent, online and live auction to raise funds for the Clay Studio of Missoula’s facilities and programs.

1106A Hawthorne. Reception 5:30– 9 PM. Into the 21st Century continues at the Hive with sculpture by Paris Summer, children’s book illustrations

by Nicole Ichtertz, paintings from Ireland by Thom Joyce and more, including the Classic Casual Cosmic Cornhole Tournament. 800 S. 3rd St. W. 6 PM–10 PM. Clayton McDougall claims the ability to create artwork using “thoughtography,” wherein he imprints images using only his mind.

Live demonstrations throughout the evening. (What’s today’s date again?) Real Good, 1205 Defoe St. #1. 8–10 PM.

SUNDAYAPRIL03 What goes together better than beer and laughter? Check out Sunday Funnies Comedy Showcase, starring 2014 Homegrown Comedy winner Duane Raider. First Sunday of every month at Great Burn Brewing, 6:30 PM. Whether it’s something for your home or something for your garden,

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dank details Marijuana is going to be legalized in Montana. Eventually. Somehow. As with gay marriage and public nudity (two issues that are not necessarily mutually exclusive), the hot-button topic of legal weed is gaining acceptance across the country. Since 2012 five states and D.C. have green-lighted recreational use of the sweet leaf. Can Montana be far behind? Maybe not, but it’s going to take some citizen action to help steer the proper legislation.

Legal pot sales in Missoula alone could generate enough public

government? You may have seen the headline "Congress Quietly Ends Federal Ban on Medical Mari-

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Will 2016 be the year marijuana is finally legalized by the federal

you’ll find it at the aptly named Missoula Home and Garden Show. Adams Center, 10 AM–4 PM. Admission is free with a nonperishable food item.

juana," which has been floating around on social media lately.

That’s an overly optimistic simplification of the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, a rider to an omnibus spending bill that aims to prevent

Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session on Sunday mornings.

Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you

the Justice Dept. from overriding states’ marijuana laws. Before you spark up on a street corner, though, understand that this isn’t the blanket legalization we’ve been waiting for. In fact, federal raids are still happening at dispensaries in California and other states where state law and federal law duke it out in the courts.

This weekend you’ll have a chance to add your voice to the chorus of marijuana advocates.

Cannabis Culture, A Petition Signing Event for Marijuana Legislation in Montana, is a night of music, education and voter registration. Although the petitions, CI-115 and I-78, will not prevent the federal government from imposing its marijuana laws, they would clear the way for recreational use to become legal in Montana, which would pour an estimated $37 million into the general fund in the first five years from a 20 percent excise tax. That’s a lot of cheddar for something people are going to do anyway.

—Ednor Therriault

move like nobody is watching at the Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM– noon, $5.

The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities interested in exploring movement improvisation. At the Downtown Dance Collective every other Sunday, 4:30–6 PM. $5.

nightlife Dan Dubuque drags the bar on the steel guitar at Draught Works Brewery.

6–8 PM. Free.

Tacocat are back, heading up a night of guitar rock with locals Lisa Plank, Shahs and Magpies. VFW, 9 PM. $15/$10 advance at Ear Candy. Surcharge for those 18-20. (See Music.)

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Help local hip-hop kingpin Traff the Wiz celebrate the big three-oh by raising funds for his tour to L.A. With Kyle “Mite Aswell” McAfee, Milkcrate Mechanic and a star-studded list of accomplices. The Palace, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.

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[calendar] Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon–8 PM.

nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free, all ages.

John Rosett and Company serve up some tasty gypsy jazz and other auditory delights at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–10 PM. Free.

did Lake Koocanusa get its name? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

WEDNESDAYAPRIL06 Every Wednesday is Community UNite, wherein 50 cents of each pint of tasty KettleHouse brew goes to a deserving organization.

Tonight you’re supporting the Women’s Foundation of Montana. KettleHouse Northside Taproom, 5–8 PM.

This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets— share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.

Celebrate your favorite Big Sky writers at the Montana Book Award Reception. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins. 6:30–8:30 PM. (Trivia answer: Kootenai + Canada + USA = Koocanusa.)

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer

THURSDAYAPRIL07 Homegrown power trio Baby Tyger show a broad range of rock and funk influences at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

nightlife County Line play original country and tasty covers at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free.

Top of the Mic, Missoula’s own battle of the bands, continues. Solo acts, duos and bands compete for $1,000 cash. Prelims every Monday, semi-finals every other Friday. The Badlander, 9 PM. No cover.

TUESDAYAPRIL05 New Orleans artist Anders Osborne brings his visionary songs and emotional performance style to the Top Hat. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds open. Top Hat, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $22/$18 advance at top hatlounge.com.

From the Too Weird To Be Made Up file: The Library Peeps Show Contest lets you create a diorama using everyone’s (no one’s) favorite Easter confection to create a literary-themed diorama. Deadline to drop off your shoeboxsized creation is today.

Attention, maple syrup freaks. The tree tapping season has wrapped up at Daly Mansion, which means the liquid gold you so crave is now available for sale. Gift shop open Tue. and Thu., 10 AM–3 PM.

nightlife Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit.

Every Tuesday the Northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.

Extemporaneous hilarity will be examined when Improv Anonymous meets the first Tuesday of every month in the Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room at 5:30 PM. Free.

The Craicers and Friends shake their musical shillelagh with traditional Irish tunes in the taproom at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM. Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–8:30 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

Joey’s Free For All Open Mic Night welcomes all genres at Stage 112. Sign-ups at 8 PM, music at 8:30. 18 and over.

You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: How

And the couch’s packing crate becomes a window covering! Clever, no? The Casey Donahew Band bring their Texas-style country to the Top Hat, with country rocker Kasey Tyndall. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $18/$16 advance at tophatlounge.com.

nightlife A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in.

Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.

Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” when “Poncho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays from 6–9:30 PM. Call 741-2361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free.

Cribbage enthusiasts finally have a place to share their affliction at Cribbage Night. Enjoy a few cocktails as you look for nibs and nobs.

Boards and cards provided. Rattlesnake Creek Distillers, 128 W. Alder St., Suite B. 6–8 PM.

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trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. Ben Weiss, Missoula’s Bike/Ped program manager, gives a presentation on getting around Missoula on a bike and on foot. Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine, 7 PM. Free.

West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop?

Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, Dad, when the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quintet takes the stage for Jazz Night at the Top Hat. 7 PM, no cover, all ages.

Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

UM professor Sally Thompson describes the artistic work and mission of Nicolas Point, a Jesuit priest working among the Salish and Coeur d’ Alene tribes in the 1800s. Lolo Community Center, 7–8 PM. Free.

Wisenheimers will be cracking wise at John Howard’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform; things usually start around 10. Free.

Mr. Calendar Guy wants to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event.

Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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[AGENDA LISTINGS] When I was a kid we didn’t wear helmets to bike or skateboard or rollerblade. But then, neither did Ben Carson or Donald Trump. And look how that turned out. Due to the increasing awareness of the effects of brain injury, my own kids and most kids since the ‘80s have worn a helmet for pretty much any sport that might result in an accidental blow to the coconut. But injuries still happen. The Brain Injury Alliance of Montana’s mission is to minimize the number of preventable brain injuries and to help those who’ve suffered a brain injury lead the most productive lives they can. Memory loss, seizures, pain, depression—these problems and more can arise from a traumatic or acquired brain injury. With football-related concussions and their long-term effects in the news lately, we’re becoming more aware how susceptible we are when engaging in impact sports or risky endeavors. Speaking as

a snowboarder who didn’t see the need for a helmet until I caught an edge and wound up with a concussion (on my first day on the hill), the importance of the work being done by BIAM can’t be overstated.

Bowl for Brain photo by Joe Weston Strong is a fundraising event that helps raise money to fuel their efforts. Teams of six bowlers can purchase a lane for $250 and that includes three games, lunch and the chance to bid on a silent auction. And if you’re really throwing rocks that day, you can snag a cool $1,000 by rolling a perfect game.

—Ednor Therriault Bowl for Brain Strong is Sat., April 2, 11 AM–3 PM at Five Valleys Bowling. Six-member teams can purchase a lane for $250. Visit biamt.org for details and registration.

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MONDAY APRIL 4

Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W.

Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon– 8 PM.

Try your luck while you chow down on some Indian tacos at a bingo fundraiser. Prizes and a raffle available. Money raised will support the Missoula Community Powwow. Missoula Senior Center, 5–9 PM.

TUESDAY APRIL 5

The Trans Parent Support Group is not invisible.

In fact, you can see them when they meet the first Sat. every month at 127 N. Higgins, #202. 5:30–7:30 PM. For more info contact Shelley at sullivan0905@gmail.com.

Enjoy a Rip Roaring 20’s evening to raise funds for the Daly Mansion Preservation Trust. No host bar, silent auction, Pot ‘O Gold raffle (includes a 1/2 oz. gold coin) and more. Live music by the Ed Norton Stomperz. $35 includes a drink ticket and hors d’oeurves. Call 363-6004 for reservations. Daly Mansion, 7–11 PM.

Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 6 Every Wednesday is Community UNite, wherein 50 cents of each pint of tasty KettleHouse brew goes to a deserving organization. Tonight you’re supporting the Women’s Foundation of Montana. KettleHouse Northside Taproom, 5–8 PM. Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 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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he closest I’ve come to biking this winter was when I nearly gouged out my eye on the protruding handlebar of my bike, which I’d hung from the garage ceiling after the first frost in October. For this casual cyclist, a great way to ease back into the saddle is the weekly ride from the University of Montana to Free Cycles just south of McCormick Park.

The sun made a welcome reappearance last Friday, so I pumped up the tires, strapped on my lid and pedaled to the grizzly sculpture. Sandra Broadus of Free Cycles was there, easy to spot in her watermelonprint helmet. I stayed on her tail as she rode through campus. I’d expected to take the surface streets, and

had my pepper spray ready to do battle with those drivers who become enraged when they encounter a cyclist using a public thoroughfare, but Sandra was smarter than that. We rolled down to the riverfront trail, slipped through the Orange Street bike/ped tunnel, and took a little jog directly to River Street and Cottonwood, a couple blocks from the shop. Ten minutes. “That trail can take you so many places,” she told me.

—Ednor Therriault Free Cycles Friday Ride runs every week, 12:30 PM–2 PM. Meet at 12:15 at the grizzly sculpture near the UM Oval.

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Want to maximize your grubstake in the great outdoors? Check out Camp Cooking Basics at REI Missoula. 7 PM. Free. Register at rei.com.

The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

FRIDAY APRIL 1 What’s a rendezvous without a brewfest?

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers bring in outdoor vendors and beer from all over Montana. The brewfest is at Bess Reed Park near the Holiday Inn Downtown. 5–9 PM. $12.

SATURDAY APRIL 2 Walkers, get ready for the Missoula Marathon at a walking training class. Coaching, training plans and encouragement from veteran marathon walkers. Meet at Run Wild Missoula every Sat., 8 AM.

Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/ MontanaDirtGirls. Various locations, 6 PM. Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.

Limber up for the Buttercup Run, a fundraiser for scholarships for Arlee High School graduates and mini grants for teachers. Compete in a one-mile fun run, a 5K run/walk, a 10K run or a half marathon.

Entry fee includes a long sleeve t-shirt with art done by a local artist. Arlee High School, 10 AM–1 PM. For info visit buttercuprun.org.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 6

Totally Awesome Trees explores how trees grow, what they’re used for, and how to keep them flourishing. All donations support the Trekker Kids’ program. Travelers’ Rest State Park, 11 AM.

The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners.

Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

It’s all the rage in Missoula. Discover why. SUP Strong is a stand-up paddleboard class available at the Women’s Club Health and Fitness Center, 215 Bow St. Class is every Saturday through April 9, noon–1:30 PM. $125/$100 for members.

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TUESDAY APRIL 5

Walkers, get ready for the Missoula Marathon at a walking training class. Coaching, training plans and encouragement from veteran marathon walkers. Meet at Run Wild Missoula every Wed., 5:30 PM.

Ben Weiss, Missoula’s Bike/Ped program manager, gives a presentation on getting around Missoula on a bike and on foot. Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine, 7 PM. Free.

Best of Missoula balloting starts soon!

Check the April 14 edition of The Indy to vote for all your faves.

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My boyfriend is going to a dinner out of town to get an award for a film he made, and he didn’t invite me. When I told him I felt excluded, he said that he was embarrassed because his parents are paying for his flight and he has to stay with a friend. I get it; he does wonderful work, but he’s still struggling financially. Still, if the tables were turned—if I were getting an award—I would at least tell him I wish he could come.

—Upset There are a lot of things Martin Scorsese has been known to say, but one of them is not, “I want you by my side at this festival, and I only have to dig through the trash for 8,234 more cans to make that happen.”

It isn’t surprising that your boyfriend— as a man—is more sensitive about being ... as they say ... brokeahontas than you would be if the (awards dinner) tables were turned. As I frequently explain, men and women aren’t just physically different; they evolved to have corresponding psychological differences. A biggie comes out of how there was a far greater potential cost to an ancestral woman from any sex act (pregnancy and a kid to feed) compared with the cost to a man: “Gee, that was a whole teaspoonful of sperm!”

So female psychology evolved to push women to look for “providers”—men with access to resources and a willingness to share them. That’s why women go for guys who show signs of wealth, like a temperature-controlled nursery for their sports cars. Wealth is a cue to the all-important ability to bring home the bison.

But in ancestral times, we couldn’t hang on to stuff—including food—because we didn’t have refrigerators, let alone houses to keep them in. There was just the meat you could eat before it went bad and your man’s ability to hunt it down. So what does it for a lot of women is potential— signs that a man could soon be, uh, dragging home tasty dead animals (probably shrink-wrapped, unless their guy is good with a crossbow).

You seem to be one of those women. (You get that they don’t give out film awards to just any doof who shoots a cat video on their iPhone.) If you do believe in your boyfriend, tell him—regularly, in detail. If he gets that you’re proud of him and that you’d be happier eating hot dogs on a bench with him than dining with some corporate drone at Le Whatever, he’s less likely to feel he’s failing you by being undercap-

italized. This should help him be more inclusive in the future—at least emotionally—when that “historic location” where he’ll be staying is the sagging love seat where his buddy lost his virginity in 1992.

CHEEK MAGNET I’m 25, and my boyfriend is 29. He is super-sweet, is a good person, and treats me really well. However, recently, he told my roommate that she has “nice cheekbones.” I didn’t say anything, but I think this was inappropriate. It’s not like “I like your shirt” or whatever. It’s about another woman’s beauty. Can I tell him I don’t want him complimenting other women in the future?

—Hurt It says something when a man notices a nice view—like that it’s only a matter of time before he and that pretty orange sunset are sneaking out to his car to have sex.

Okay, it’s possible that “nice cheekbones” is man-speak for “Those are some hypno-hooters you got there, honey.” But maybe he was just trying to say something nice. Or maybe he was mesmerized in a bad way—like “Whoa ... are those forceps marks?”—and he noticed her noticing and ducked for verbal cover.

As for why you find this upsetting, consider that our emotions aren’t just feelings; they tell us what to do. The disturbing emotion of jealousy, for example, is what evolutionary psychologist David Buss calls a “coping device” for “mate retention”—an alarm system that helps us guard against being cheated on. However, sometimes this alarm system can be a little oversensitive and in need of recalibration—like the one at my parents’ house that used to go off whenever my uncle cut one in the den.

In deciding whether you should say something, context matters. You describe your boyfriend as attentive, “super-sweet,” and “a good person.” If he isn’t regularly jawing on about other women’s looks, maybe it’s a little premature to turn your relationship into a repressive regime.

Model your free speech policy on that of Iran or North Korea and it’s only a matter of time before you’re in a date-night rut: “So ... same old, same old ... dinner and a cavity search?”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re due to make a pilgrimage, aren’t you? It might be time to shave your head, sell your possessions, and head out on a long trek to a holy place where you can get back in touch with what the hell you’re doing here on this planet. APRIL FOOL! I was kidding about the head-shaving and possessions-dumping. On the other hand, there might be value in embarking on a less melodramatic pilgrimage. I think you’re ready to seek radical bliss of a higher order—and get back in touch with what the hell you’re doing here on this planet.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting,” warns Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. If that’s true, why bother? Why expend all your precious yearning if the net result won’t even satisfy your yearning?! That’s why I advise you to ABANDON YOUR BELOVED PLANS! Save your energy for trivial wishes. That way you won’t be disappointed when they are fulfilled in unanticipated ways. APRIL FOOL! I was messing with you. It’s true that what you want won’t arrive in the form you’re expecting. But I bet the result will be even better than what you expected.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I had to decide what natural phenomenon you most closely resemble right now, I’d consider comparing you to a warm, restless breeze or a busily playful dolphin. But my first choice would be the mushrooms known as Schizophyllum commune.

They’re highly adaptable: able to go dormant when the weather’s dry and spring to life when rain comes.

They really get around, too, making their homes on every continent except Antarctica. But the main reason I’d link you with them is that they come in over 28,000 different sexes. Their versatility is unprecedented.

APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. It’s true that these days you’re polymorphous and multifaceted and wellrounded. But you’re probably not capable of expressing 28,000 varieties of anything.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages,” says philosopher Alain de Botton. If that’s true, Taurus, you must be on the verge of becoming very interesting. Metaphorically speaking, you’re not just rattling the bars of your cage. You’re also smacking your tin cup against the bars and trying to saw through them with your plastic knife. APRIL FOOL! I lied. You’re not literally in a prison cell. And I got a bit carried away with the metaphor. But there is a grain of truth to what I said. You are getting close to breaking free of at least some of your mind-forged manacles. And it’s making you more attractive and intriguing.

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Luckily, there’s an organization, MiGFlug (migflug.com), that can provide you with this healing thrill. (I just hope you can afford the $18,000 price tag.) APRIL FOOL! I do in fact think you should treat yourself to unprecedented thrills and transcendent adventures. But I bet you can accomplish that without being quite so extravagant.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you ready to fight the monster? Do you have the courage and strength and stamina and guile to overcome the ugly beast that’s blocking the path to the treasure? If not, turn around and head back to your comfort zone until you’re better prepared.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. There is a monster, but it’s not the literal embodiment of a beastly adversary. Rather, it’s inside you. It’s an unripe part of yourself that needs to be taught and tamed and cared for. Until you develop a better relationship with it, it will just keep testing you. (P.S. Now would be a good time to develop a better relationship with it.)

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1841, a British medical journal prescribed the following remedy for the common cold: “Nail a hat on the wall near the foot of your bed, then retire to that bed, and drink spirits until you see two hats.” My expert astrological analysis reveals that this treatment is likely to cure not just the sniffles, but also any other discomforts you’re suffering from, whether physical or emotional or spiritual. So I hope you own a hat, hammer, and nails. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The method I suggested probably won’t help alleviate what ails you. But here’s a strategy that might: Get rid of anything that’s superfluous, rotten, outdated, or burdensome.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To begin your oracle, I’ll borrow the words of author Ray Bradbury: “May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days, and out of that love, remake a world.” I have reason to believe that this optimistic projection has a good chance of coming true for you. Imagine it, Sagittarius: daily swoons of delight and rapture from now until the year 2071.

APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. It would be foolish to predict that you’ll be giddy with amorous feelings nonstop for the next 54 years and 10 months. On the other hand, I don’t think it’s unrealistic for you to expect a lot of that sweet stuff over the course of the next three weeks.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I am tired of being brave,” groaned Anne Sexton in one of her poems. “I’m sick of following my dreams,” moaned comedian Mitch Hedberg, adding, “I’m just going to ask my dreams where they’re going and hook up with them later.” In my opinion, Capricorn, you have every right to unleash grumbles similar to Hedberg’s and Sexton’s. APRIL FOOL! The advice I just gave you is only half-correct. It’s true that you need and deserve a respite from your earnest struggles. Now is indeed a good time to take a break so you can recharge your spiritual batteries. But don’t you dare feel sorry for yourself.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, hikers in the Italian Alps discovered the well-preserved corpse of a Bronze Age hunter. Buried in the frigid terrain, the man who came to be known as Otzi the Iceman had been there for 5,000 years. Soon the museum that claimed his body began receiving inquiries from women who wanted to be impregnated with Otzi’s sperm. I think this is an apt metaphor for you, Aquarius. Consider the possibility that you might benefit from being fertilized by an influence from long ago. APRIL FOOL! I was just messing with you. It’s true you can generate good mojo by engaging with inspirational influences from the past. But I’d never urge you to be guided by a vulgar metaphor related to Otzi’s sperm.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Caligula was an eccentric Roman emperor who had a physical resemblance to a goat. He was sensitive about it. That’s why he made it illegal for anyone to refer to goats in his company. I mention this, Pisces, because I’d like to propose a list of words you should forbid to be used in your presence during the coming weeks: “money,” “cash,” “finances,” “loot,” “savings,” or “investments.” Why? Because I’m afraid it would be distracting, even confusing or embarrassing, for you to think about these sore subjects right now. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is a perfect time for you to be focused on getting richer quicker.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your advice for the near future comes from poet Stephen Dunn.

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APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, I think you should avoid contact with all devils, no matter how enticing they might be. Now is a key time to surround yourself with positive influences.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-16-52 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHERINE KAY KOVATCH, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to KARALEE A. SLAGHT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.C., 523 South Orange Street, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of March, 2016. /s/ Karalee A. Slaght, Personal Representative THOMAS C. ORR LAW OFFICE, P.C. 523 South Orange Street Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Thomas C. Orr, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNT Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No. DV-16-137 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Alexander Phillip Clause: Petitioner.

This is Notice that the Petitioner has asked the District Court for name change from Alexander Phillip Clause to Alexander Phillip Truzzolino.

The hearing will be on Tuesday, the 5th day of April, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT By: Kersten Seilstad, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DV-16165 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Savannah Becker, Petitioner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Savannah Becker, has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Savannah Monique Becker to Savannah Monique Dorvall, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 6th day of April, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, in courtroom number 1. 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 1st day of March, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DV-16217 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Tanya Leigh Vidrine, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Tanya Leigh Vidrine, has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Tanya Leigh Vidrine to Tani Saoirse Ni’ Conaill and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 19th day of April, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, in courtroom number 5. 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 14th day of March, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Ruth Windrum, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP16-8 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GARY PETER ANTON, 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 claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to SHYANNE ANTON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o REEP, BELL, LAIRD, SIMPSON & JASPER, P.C., P.O. Box 16960, Missoula, Montana 59808-6960, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 24th day of February, 2016.

REEP, BELL, LAIRD, SIMPSON & JASPER, P.C.. By: /s/ Richard A. Reep, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV15-309 Dept. No.: 2 AMENDED SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION CAROLE L. McDONALD,

MNAXLP Plaintiff, and GERALD EUGENE STEVENS, ESTATE OF GERALD E. STEVENS, HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF GERALD E. STEVENS, TAMI LYNN STEVENS, LORI JEAN STEVENS, and ALL OTHER PERSONS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE, WHETHER THE CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM IS PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the abovenamed Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff ’s attorney within twentyone (21) days after service of this Summons, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 in Block 1 of Linda Vista, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the county Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. WITNESS MY HAND AND THE SEAL of this Court, the 25th day of March, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Plaintiff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV16-141 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Austin Brady Gould, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Austin Brady Gould to Austin Bradley Relic. The hearing will be on 04/05/2016 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: February 23, 2016 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By:

/s/ Kersten Seilstad, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV16-200 Dept. No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Payden James Trueax, Jamie Nicole King, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Payden James Trueax to Payden Scott King. The hearing will be on 04/27/2016 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 3/14/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV16-201 Dept. No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Brenden Andrew Trueax, Jamie Nicole King, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Brendan Andrew Trueax to Brenden Andrew King. The hearing will be on 04/27/2016 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 3/14/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-16-57 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN L. BLEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, P.C., Attention: Robert B. Pfennigs, 300 Central Avenue, Suite 700, P.O. Box 2269, Great Falls, Montana 59403, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. DATED this 16 day of March, 2016. /s/ James A. Zygmond, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-16-54 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE

THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR BUTLER LOWDER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed return receipt requested to Thomas J. Lowder, the Personal Representative, c/o Darla J. Keck, at 201 W. Main, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 14th day of March, 2016. /s/ Thomas J. Lowder, Personal Representative DATSOPOULOS, MacDONALD & LIND, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Darla J. Keck MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DR-15-747 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF JENAE M. FLOYD, Petitioner, and KINGSLEY A. ONUOGU, a/k/a JOHN A. IBE, Respondent. SUMMONS THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served on you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Petitioner’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of the Summons, exclusive of the day of service and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. This action is brought to dissolve the parties marriage. TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER TO PETITIONER AND RESPONDENT: Pursuant to Mont. Code Ann § 40-4-121(3), Petitioner and Respondent are hereby restrained from transferring, encumbering, hypothecating (pledging property as security or collateral for a debt), concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether jointly or separately held, without either the consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. Each party must notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days before incurring the expenditures and shall account

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PUBLIC NOTICES to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after the service of this summons.

This restraining order does not preclude either party from using any property to pay reasonable attorneys’ fees in order to retain counsel in the proceeding. Petitioner and Respondent are further restrained from cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, disability coverage held for the benefit of a party or a child of a party for whom support may be ordered. This Temporary Restraining Order shall continue until another order of the court is issued amending or vacating this Temporary Restraining Order. Either party or both parties may request the court vacate or amend this Temporary Restraining Order by filing a motion to amend or vacate the Temporary Restraining Order. VIOLATION OF THE ORDER IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER SECTION 45-5626 OF THE MONTANA CODE. WITNESS my hand this 15th day of March, 2016, at the hour of 11:00 a.m. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 3 John W. Larson PROBATE NO. DP-16-53 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE

OF LARRY C. LARSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Doug MacDonald c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2016. /s/ Doug MacDonald, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-16-45 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BRUCE NEWELL WHEELER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Dann G. Wheeler,

MNAXLP c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2016. /s/ Dann G. Wheeler, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Ross P. Keogh for Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 4 PROBATE NO. DP-16-43 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA MARIE PLASTER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claim 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 RAYMOND C. HAGEN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 29th day of February, 2016. /s/ Raymond C Hagen c/o Worden Thane P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 598064747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JU-

DICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Case No.: DP-16-46 AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CAROLYN L. DEMIN, 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 decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at P.O. Box 2762, Missoula, Montana 59806-2762, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated: March 8, 2016. /s/ Michelle Surratt, Personal Representative /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-16-41 Department 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of AMANDA SCHWINN BAILEY CORETTE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Deborah S. Bailey 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 Deborah S. Bailey, Personal Representative to the estate of Amanda Schwinn Bailey Corette, return receipt requested, at c/o Katherine Holliday, Esq., Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC, PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED March 18th 2016. /s/ Katherine C. Holliday, Counsel to Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP15-226 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF AVA LEE COOK, 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 be mailed to Jonathan L. Kinzle, Personal Representative, c/o SOL & WOLFE LAW FIRM, PLLP at 101 East Broadway, Ste. 300, Missoula, Montana 59802, return receipt requested or filed with the clerk of the above Court at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED

this 11th day of March, 2016. /s/ Jonathan L. Kinzle, Personal Representative /s/ Michael Sol, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP16-40 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: EDGAR IGARIK, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigneds have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to NAOMOI L. CONNELL and/or AMANDA L. COSTNER, Co- Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 22nd day of March, 2016. /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Naomoi L. Connell /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Amanda L. Costner, CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP16-44 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CRED-

ITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK ZAVARELLI, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigneds have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LINDA DIANE BESEL and/or JULIE ANN ROUILLIER, Co- Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 16th day of March, 2016. /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Linda Diane Besel /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Julie Ann Rouillier COPERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP16-47 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS J. JOHNSON, 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Gregg M. Johnson, Personal Representative, c/o SOL & WOLFE LAW FIRM, PLLP at 101 East Broadway, Ste. 300, Missoula, Montana 59802, return receipt requested or filed with the clerk of the above Court at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED this 11th day of March, 2016. /s/ Gregg M. Johnson, Personal Representative /s/ Michael Sol, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP14-177 Dept. No.: 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROBERT WESLEY WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jack Lewis White has been appointed Personal 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 Jack Lewis White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Molly K. Howard, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C. 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 24th day of March, 2016. /s/ Molly K. Howard, Attorney for Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to §71-1-301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on the 24th day of June 2016 at 11:00 a.m., at the west entrance to the Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, MT, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel 1: A tract of land located in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 4 of Certificate of Survey No. 1927. Parcel 2: Together with a private access easement over and across Tracts 5 and 6 of Certificate of Survey No. 1927, located in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Tyler J. Ames, Grantor, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to

secure an obligation owed to Country Cross Ranch, LLC, who was designated as beneficiary in an Assignment of Montana Trust Indenture dated November 19, 2012 and recorded under in Book No. 904 at Page No. 1036 of Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Note and modifications thereto, and secured by the Trust Indenture have not been made as required. As of February 23, 2016, the sum of $95,767.39 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $88,442.54, with related late fees and interest accruing thereon at a rate of 2% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $4.85. In addition, Grantor is in default for failing to pay taxes before becoming delinquent which are in the amount of up to $2,242.98, together with accrued penalties. In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and note and elected to sell the interest of Tyler J. Ames, the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Timothy D. Geiszler, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Trust Indenture and note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. Trustee is unaware of any party in possession of claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 23 day of February, 2016. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA County of MIssoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 23rd day of February, 2016,

by Timothy D. Geiszler. /s/ Cheryl A. Spinks, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires February 28, 2020 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/22/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200926051 B: 849 P:1299 and Modified by Agreement recorded on 07/28/2014

MNAXLP under Auditor’s File No. 201411063 B: 931, P: 1186, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Stephan P. Ward, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 24,25 and 26 in Block 17 of car line addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 4, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $116,229.26. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $112,492.92, 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 16, 2016 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 Benefici-

ary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Ward, Stephan P. (TS# 7023.115270) 1002.285511-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on July 22, 2016 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: Missoula County Courthouse, on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which William J. Janacaro, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDEHOME LOANS, INC, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated August 26, 2005 and was recorded on August 31, 2005 as Instrument No. 200522860, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 12300 Flora Dr, Missoula, MT 59804 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 4 OF SOL ACREAGE TRACTS, SECOND FILING, A PLAT-

TED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments totaling $79,443.02 beginning August 1, 2011; plus recoverable corporate advances in the amount of $3,527.34; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $267,052.89 with interest thereon at the rate of 3.75000 percent per annum beginning July 1, 2011; plus escrow advances of $19,282.87; plus a recoverable balance in the amount of $3,527.34; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing

the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: March 2, 2016 /s/ John A “Joe Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on July 20, 2016 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Julius D. Beccari and Kathleen M. Beccari, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to MARK E. NOENNIG as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR WMC MORTGAGE CORP., its successor and assigns, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated October 12, 2004 and was recorded on October 13, 2004 as Instrument No. 200429155 (book) 788 (page) 1143, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 4306 Rainbow Drive, Missoula, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: THE SOUTH 20 FEET OF LOT 26 AND THE NORTH 50 FEET OF LOT 27 IN BLOCK A OF RAINBOW RANCH HOMES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED

PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2004-WMC1 Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-WMC1. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $15,802.55 beginning February 1, 2014 through March 4, 2016; plus interest due of $7,621.20; plus escrow payment of $8,964.82; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $190,438.21 with interest thereon at the rate of 2.0000 percent per annum beginning February 1, 2014; plus uncollected late charges of $281.10; plus escrow advances of $7,787.60; plus property inspection fee of $377.03; plus title search for $643.00; plus other foreclosure fees and expenses of $1,912.00; plus other costs of $21,485.03; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being

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by Matt Jones

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1 Progressive spokesperson 4 Stanley of "Julie & Julia" 9 Grows light 14 "Hamilton" creator/star ___Manuel Miranda 15 Take ___ for the worse 16 Novel on an iPad, e.g.

17 Actress Poehler 18 Sleepover of sorts 20 Louis or Lewis, e.g.

22 Former Boston Symphony director Seiji 23 Actor Penn of the "Harold & Kumar" films 24 Gear sprocket 26 Deprive of strength 28 Newsroom honchos 32 "Talk ___" (Pedro Almodovar film) 33 Fashion designer and daughter of a noted painter 37 ___Pen (injector for allergic reactions) 38 1978 Peace Nobelist Anwar 39 Ted ___ and the Pharmacists 42 Study involving charged particles and fluids 47 "Check," in poker 49 Stick at a table 50 Like much of the analysis on "Marketplace" 54 Nestle's ___-Caps 55 Letters on Windy City trains 56 Hawaiian actor Jason who's set to play Aquaman 58 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken 62 Radiohead title followed by the lyric "Arrest this man" 65 ___-de-France 66 ___ a high note (finish well) 67 Eugene of travel guide fame 68 100% 69 Stopwatch button 70 Banjo ridges 71 Item hidden in the four theme entries

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12 Make marginal markings 13 Walter's wife on "Breaking Bad" 19 Leave astonished 21 Delta follower, in the NATO alphabet 25 Blades cut by blades 27 Parade columnist Marilyn ___ Savant 28 Dr. Zaius, e.g.

29 It's no deep slumber 30 Props for driving instructors 31 "V.1.A.G.R.a 4 FR33!", perhaps 34 Film noir actress Lupino 35 "Li'l Abner" creator Al 36 Companion of Aramis and Porthos 40 Coin portraying Louis XIV 41 Suffix for sugars, in chemistry 43 Deighton who wrote the "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogy 44 Cartoon hero with antennae 45 Place to get lost, per Neil Simon 46 Gin-flavoring fruit 47 One of a making-out couple 48 Number at the pump 51 Unruly hairdo 52 "See ya!"

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PUBLIC NOTICES cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

Dated: March 10th, 2016 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on July 18, 2016 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Don S. Blank and Kristene K. Blank, husband and wife, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Option One Mortgage Corporation, a California Corporation, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated February 6, 2007 and was recorded on February 7, 2007 as Instrument No. 200703202, book 791 page 1223, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 3341 Eldora Ln, Missoula, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 3 OF BLOCK 2 OF LINDA VISTA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 4 OF PLATS AT PAGE 29. The

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beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-5, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-5. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $5,270.71 beginning July 1, 2015 through March 8, 2016; plus interest due of $2,812.55; plus escrow payment of $4,467.96; less suspense balance of $1,296.00; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $189,838.39 with interest thereon at the rate of 2.00000 percent per annum beginning June 1, 2015; plus late charges of $538.90; plus escrow advance of $2,988.34; plus property inspection fee of $228.75; plus title search of $642.25; plus other foreclosure fees and costs of $1,919.00; plus other costs of $96.58; less suspense credit of $1,296.00; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or

MNAXLP to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: March 2, 2016 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 10, 2016, 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 3 OF 44 RANCH, PHASES 1 AND 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ALYSON M FORNEY, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California corporation, its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 23, 2011, and recorded on February 24, 2011 as Book 874 Page 524 Document No. 201103509.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,012.69, beginning August 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 December 9, 2015 is $243,987.12 principal, interest at the rate of 4.75000% totaling $5,794.68, escrow advances of $3,029.32, and other fees and expenses advanced of $199.01, 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 Ben-

eficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 23, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana corporation Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 23 day of December, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana corporation, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/

Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 6-92021 Carrington VS FORNEY 100741-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 17, 2016, 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: Land Situated in the City of Lolo in the County of Missoula in the State of MT LOT 21 IN BLOCK 6 OF WEST VIEW ADDITION NO.3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS AT PAGE 68, RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Kimberlee J. Houghton and Scott R. Houghton, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on November 21, 2013, and recorded on December 2, 2013 as Book 922 Page 1180 Document No. 201323214.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Quicken Loans Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,098.62, beginning January 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 204, 224.Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 4/18/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 4/21/2016 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.

PUBLIC NOTICES charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 1, 2016 is $219,556.96 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25000% totaling $10,108.80, late charges in the amount of $351.52, escrow advances of $4,353.33, and expenses advanced of $1,797.90, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 7, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez 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 7 day of January, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Quicken vs.

Houghton 100557-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 2, 2016, 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 6H OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1863, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPLE MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Verlene Dolly Stewart, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mountain West Bank, N.A., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust on December 18, 2007, and recorded on December 24, 2007 as Book 810 Page 1112 Document No. 200732784. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,966.53, beginning August 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 November 30, 2015 is $291,000.57 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00000% totaling $7,207.24, late charges in the amount of $393.32, escrow advances of $1,068.45, and other fees and expenses advanced of $149.34, 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

MNAXLP preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION O B TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 18, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez 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 18 day of December, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

/s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Nationstar vs Verlene Dolly STEWART 100682-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 20, 2016, 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: ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 3 OF NIGHTINGALE ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. MICHAEL A KANE and Amy M Kane , as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, Attorney, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on August 26, 2009, and recorded on September 14, 2009 as Book 847 Page 413 Document No. 200922367.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,500.94, 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 December 8, 2015 is $242,767.08 principal, interest at the rate of 5.37500% totaling $5,437.00, late charges in the amount of $360.24, escrow advances of $1,282.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $291.01, 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. Benefi-

ciary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 7, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez 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 7 day of January, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Nationstar vs KANE 100735-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 23, 2016, 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 31 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Diane Keegan and Kirk Keegan, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc. , as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on December 15, 2005, and recorded on December 15, 2005 as Book 765, Page 1550, Document No. 200533148.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $667.84, beginning March 1, 2014, 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 1, 2016 is $155,061.89 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00000% totaling $6,719.38, late charges in the amount of $438.59, escrow advances of $11,142.41, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,148.02, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 12, 2016 /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 12 day of January 12 2016, 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/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Seterus vs Keegan 100625-2 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Amount/Property Desc.

4444/Sheila Dotson/$427/washer/dryer 6128/Jamie Martin/$505/furniture 6178/Alice Savage/$505/furniture 322/911 Restoration/$466/cleaners SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Highway 93 S, Missoula, MT ww.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 @ 5:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”.

Cash or certified funds.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 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

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321 W. Spruce St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, recently remodeled upper unit, near downtown with deck overlooking the back yard. $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3907 Buckley Place. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, shared yard, W/D hookups, single garage. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

HOUSES 1 bedroom, 1 bath House, $675, near Higgins & South, private yard area/parking in alley. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

6415 Mormon Creek Rd. Studio/1 bath, Lolo, all utilities paid. $500. Grizzly Property Management 542-206z

2 bedroom, 2 bath, $825, Broadway & Russell area, D/W, A/C, coin op laundry, balcony, off street parking, W/S/G paid.

NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com

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12 Contour. Contemporary Rattlesnake home with mother-inlaw suite, 2 car garage and fantastic views of the Missoula Valley. $740,000. Shannon

2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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251-4707 Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $760/month

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REAL ESTATE 2 Kasota. 4 bed, 2 bath with updated kitchen, finished basement & single attached garage. $244,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2 River Road homes on 2.24 acres. $400,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com 2523 Rattlesnake. 3 bed, 2 bath 1930’s bungalow with large country kitchen & wood floors. $425,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $295,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

garage. $232.900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 7288270. glasgow@montana.com

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4Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $469,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek, Beautiful Lewis and Clark home close to the University, bike trails and Downtown. Over 3300 sq ft of living space-so much house for the price! $299,500 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Fairviews Home 107 Ironwood Place. Beautiful home with delicious views on a quiet cul-desac located in the Fairviews area.

Roomy 3 bed 2.5 bath with 2910 sq. ft. of living space and a over-sized garage. $309,500.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707.

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Natural Housebuilders, Inc. Building comfortable energy efficient craftsman homes with radiant floor heat. 406369-0940 OR 406-6426863. Facebook/Natural House builders,inc. Solar Active House. www.faswall.com. www.naturalhousebuilder.net We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

TOWNHOMES 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park / Slant Streets Condo. $225,000.

BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $154,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate

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LAND FOR SALE 2003 Lil Diamond Cluster. Beautiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

tain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com

4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy.

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Moun-

339 East Beckwith. 3 bed, 2 bath updated University District home on corner lot. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group.

239-8350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 360 Stone Street. 5 bed, 4 bath ranch style on 3 acres. Additional 2.52 and 6.49 acre parcels also available. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com 442 Kensington. Very cute, updated 1 bed, 2 bath with single

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

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OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

to trails, the University and Downtown. $185,000. KD 406240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL

Six Mile Huson 17430 Six Mile Road, Huson. Stunning property with beautiful land and views. 3 bed, 1.5 bath early 1900’s well maintained farmhouse.

Yard features a massive raspberry patch and many fruit trees! $235,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

178 Huckleberry, Florence.

High-end 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres near Bitterroot River. $419,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath home on 20 acres on Petty Creek. $450,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com East Missoula 970 Discovery- East Missoula. Bright welldesigned 3 bed home located on the East side of Mt Jumbo close

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312 RIDGEWAY, LOLO $210,000 Just Listed! 4 bedroom, 2 bath home.

Features include huge yard, spectacular views, lots of updates, master suite with jetted tub, remodeled kitchen, walk-out lower level, and more!

FOR SALE • $810,000 Building & Land Only 6568 sf Building / 20,000 sf land Offices and Warehouse

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