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GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL INSIDE THE STATE’S FIRST DEL DUCA DREAMS FILM ARTS LEILA NEWS MAY BE ANDERSON’S BEST OPEN NEEDLE EXCHANGE BIG WITH NEW COMIC

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DON’T FRACK WITH US: MONTANA RESIDENTS DIG IN TO FIGHT THE BAKKENIZATION OF THE BEARTOOTHS

GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL INSIDE THE STATE’S FIRST DEL DUCA DREAMS FILM ARTS LEILA NEWS MAY BE ANDERSON’S BEST OPEN NEEDLE EXCHANGE BIG WITH NEW COMIC

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Best Local Food & Drink Appetizers Asian Food Bakery Barbecue Breakfast Brunch Budget Lunch Coffee Tea Delicatessen Doughnuts Burger French Fries Fresh Produce Desserts Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt Milk Shake Mexican Food Pizza Restaurant New Restaurant (Since Jan. 2013) Family-Friendly Restaurant Restaurant Service Restaurant Wine List Outdoor Dining Romantic Dining Salad

For the last 20 years, the Independent’s dedicated readers have taken a few minutes out of their day, put aside their Happy Hour beer or lunchtime burrito, and filled in a few answers to help us celebrate this place we call home.We’re talking about Best of Missoula, and while the times have certainly changed—no more Best Video Rental category, the addition of online-only categories at missoulanews.com—the spirit of our reader poll has remained the same. It’s about you, our community, and the people, places, events and businesses that get you excited about living, working and learning here.

Best of Missoula is our biggest issue of the year, and we can’t do it without you. In return for your vote, we’re inviting you to the summer’s biggest bash:The Independent’s annual Best of Missoula Party at Caras Park on Thursday, July 10.There’ll be live music from local bands, food, drinks, special activities for the whole family and, of course, plenty of toasts to this year’s winners.

But first things first: Fill out your ballot and do your part to make the 2014 Best of Missoula poll our best in two decades.

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Bike Shop Bowling Alley Fly-Fishing Shop Golf Course Health Club Place for Paddle Sports Gear Place to get a Snowboard Sporting Goods Store Store for Guns Store for Mountaineering Gear Store for Skis

Best Local Goods & Services Adult Store Auto Repair

Consider this the fine print: We require ballots to include your full name, email address and phone number in the spaces provided. Ballots missing any of this information, or ballots with fewer than 30 categories filled in, will be mocked, ridiculed and not counted. Same goes for photocopied ballots and ballots with unclear markings.

Hard-copy ballots may be mailed or hand-delivered to the Indy office at 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or dropped at any of the ballot locations listed below.

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cover photo by Cathrine L. Walters

News Voices/Letters Comix, politics and priests................................................................4 The Week in Review Landslide, rowdy concert and Monty retires ............................6 Briefs Dreams, beer and mergers...................................................................................6 Etc. We raise our popcorn to the Roxy ...........................................................................7 News Behind the scenes of the state’s first needle exchange ........................................8 News Locals resist a Bakkenization of the Beartooths ...................................................9 Opinion A daily paper’s curious case of omission about a state senator ....................10 Opinion Let a thousand pot plants bloom and end trespass grows............................11 Feature The 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act—and the next 50 years ...............14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Sludge band Swamp Ritual gets its day in the sun................................................18 Music Chuck Ragan, Charlie Parr, Beats Antique and Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks.......................................................................................19 Books Harun’s dark fables reinvigorate a genre ..........................................................20 Arts Leila del Duca dreams big with Shutter comic......................................................21 Film Budapest Hotel reveals an Anderson masterpiece...............................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Boxed and blended ..........................................................................24 Happiest Hour The Rhino’s Frost Rail.........................................................................26 8 Days a Week No child left inside ..............................................................................27 Mountain High Spring bicycling in Yellowstone .........................................................33 Agenda Coal Road to China.........................................................................................34

Exclusives

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

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Cheers for comix

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, April 1, near the corner of Broadway and Higgins.

This week the Indy writes about the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. How important is “Big W” wilderness to you?

Follow-up: What do you think would be a fun way to celebrate this anniversary?

Daniel Person: Very, very important. On top of the benefits to wildlife, it’s important to preserve places in the way they were. If we civilize everything then we forget where we came from and you shouldn’t disregard that. It’s important for humanity to have wilderness—once it is gone it’s not coming back. Bask in it: Hike into the Rattlesnake and stop for an hour. Sit and absorb it for a while.

Peter McDonough: It’s incredibly important. I don’t get out to see it as much as I’d like, but in terms of health of ecosystem and that nature is allowed to exist on its own is important. Cherish it: On a national level it would be fun to honor those who brought it about, like John Muir. Locally, to backpack into an area but to celebrate it for what it is and not the utility of it.

Lona Rodriguez: I would say it’s number one. It’s where we recreate and go to un-stress. It brings us back to ourselves and keeps us healthy. Nurture it: Do a whole town cleanup. Pick up garbage and plant some native grasses and bring back some of the naturalness that was here.

Kirsten Cherubini: Extremely important. We need open land for wildlife and for people to go out and enjoy. The environment is the most precious thing about Montana—for the economy and our well-being. Soak it in: Maybe float the North Fork of the Flathead River.

Michael Capozzoli: It’s no more important to me than the other folks we fraternize with in our age group. And the psychological and spiritual benefits are pretty well known. Beyond that, it’s a spiritual sanctuary for personal solace and ecological regeneration. Relax: People don’t read enough books.

Maybe we could put our extreme adventures aside for a moment, sit down and read a book in the wilderness.

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Just want to thank you for the wonderful Comix Issue edition. It captured Missoula so well, better somehow than words alone.

Kudos to you and all of the cartoonists.

Beth Judy Missoula

ation. You will have less choice, forcing you to either pick a candidate in whom you do not believe, or causing you to abstain from voting on a given race alto-

Hat in the ring There’s never been a time in our history where the statement “I don’t vote; my vote doesn’t matter” has been so wrong.

Today, your vote matters more than ever before, especially on state and local levels.

We face an onslaught of what I can only describe as perversions of governance that have sprung from adherence to a blind ideology coupled with an absolute inability to compromise on any issue.

I feel strongly enough about this that I’ve filed to run as a candidate for Montana House District 88. I’m running as a Democrat, but I’m no ideologue. Like so many citizens, I’m tired of inactivity and idiocy in the name of party. Following is an example: This year, Montanans will be presented on their ballots Legislative Referendums 126 and 127. LR 127 is meant to establish a “top two” primary election system. If you pass this, the result will limit the number of candidates to the top two vote-getters regardless of party affili-

“It captured Missoula so well, better somehow than words alone.”

gether. In short, you will be asked to take your own freedom away, and those who crafted this language are hoping for exactly that result.

The second, LR-126, would end voter registration in Montana on the Friday be-

fore Election Day. Proponents argue that this will control voter fraud, even though there is no evidence that any significant amount of voter fraud has occurred in Montana. The other argument is that this will address the problem of long lines of voters. This is ridiculous. Ending voter registration three days before the election is a blatant attempt at voter suppression.

Deep down, we all know that.

What these changes represent to the voters of Montana is a pushback against our hard-won freedoms for the sake of controlling election outcomes. That is the fraud that we need to fight. This amazing experiment of a representative republic with which we’ve been blessed is not neat and tidy. It takes compromise and hard work both to operate, and to a much greater extent, to protect. It is not something that is to be trifled with for personal or political gain, no matter which side of the aisle is making that attempt. Many lives have been spent creating and protecting our representative form of government. That presents a huge responsibility that falls on all of us as citizens to protect what we’ve been given.

In my view, the goals pursued in the previously mentioned legislative referendums disrespect all those who brought these freedoms to us. They are un-American.

Dan Metully Stevensville

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Forgive you, Father,” March 27

A reason to speak out “The survivors’ accounts of abuse are so truthful, so impactful. How can anyone not respect them for their courage in coming forward and telling what happened to them? At this point in time they have nothing to gain by retelling their stories; however if by coming forward and sharing, that if they have helped someone else to come to terms with their own childhood sexual abuse, this is why they participated in this interview.”

Posted March 27 at 4:51 p.m.

The ugly truth “Powerful article. Sickening, painful story. Courageous people, willing, and finally able, to speak the ugly truth, to sue,

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and to tear down the mission. Do tear it down. Save no icons within, no matter who tells you they have value. The mission and every object within have NO value.”

Posted March 27 at 4:22 p.m.

Yellow journalism “I couldn’t help but smell yellow journalism when one accuser actually claimed that she ‘spent her youth fending off priests in the school’s dark halls.’ Really?

What corroboration does she have for this? The article reads like a court filing for a Church-suing contingency lawyer than any objective journalism.”

Posted March 27 at 5:45 p.m.

Not yellow at all “Alleged is reserved for claims that are

unproven; these are. Further, the Helena Diocese filed for bankruptcy, which is an admission of guilt, and is an acceptance of liability for the claims against it. The Bishop even said that he is giving the survivors the benefit of the doubt and will not question their claims. Read the article.”

Posted March 28 at 2:35 p.m.

Tear it down “It’s so sad that something I thought was a testament to all the good qualities of Christianity is actually a monument to the horrors that seem to follow the church wherever it goes. It truly makes me feel sick, like I’ve betrayed every Native American friend or relative I’ve ever known just for having been in that god forsaken building.”

Posted March 30 at 7 a.m.

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

Letters to the editor must include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number for confirmation, though we’ll publish only your name and city. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, March 26 Sen. Jon Tester decries President Obama’s 2015 budget, saying it will not cover proposed tribal programs. The Montana Democrat and chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee notes that Obama’s 1.2 percent increase, or $2.6 billion for Indian Country, is “at the bottom” compared to other programs.

Thursday, March 27 Jordan Linn Graham is sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing her husband of eight days, Cody Lee Johnson. In July, Graham admitted to pushing Johnson off a Glacier National Park cliff.

Friday, March 28 Jason Marks announces he is suspending his candidacy for Missoula County Attorney.

Marks’ departure from the race leaves Kirsten Pabst and Josh Van de Wetering vying for the office that Fred Van Valkenburg vacates this year.

Saturday, March 29 Total Combined Weight and The Juveniles perform at the Bike Doctor for their 7-inch split release party, along with Buddy Jackson. After the performance, which features TCW’s crowd-pleasing cover of Minor Threat’s “Filler,” the cops show up to disperse the 60 or so people gathered around the outside bonfire.

Sunday, March 30 Montana Department of Transportation crews close westbound lanes of I-90 at Lookout Pass after a landslide blocks the roadway.

A month earlier officials closed the same area due to extreme avalanche danger.

Monday, March 31 Former University of Montana men’s basketball coach Mike Montgomery, 67, announces his retirement. The bladder cancer survivor won 677 Division I games at UM, Stanford and, most recently, Cal, and also led the NBA’s Golden State Warriors for two seasons.

Tuesday, April 1 The city of Missoula officially begins its street cleaning program, meaning all that grime built up during winter along area curbs will soon disappear. Now, if we could only handle those potholes …

McKenna Summers, 9, assembles a long circuit with LED lights during the inaugural Engineer That, Girl! workshop on March 29. The event, hosted by the Girl Scouts, featured local female engineers and scientists challenging elementary and middle school students to build catapults, play with electric circuits and, ultimately, spark an interest in engineering.

Research

Sweet dreams made here It sounds like something out of a science fiction film: Treating nightmares by consciously changing them. The process is called “rescription,” one of the final steps in a three-session treatment for post-trauma adults developed

by University of Tulsa psychology professor Joanne Davis.

As Davis wrote in a subsequent book, “What generally happens over the course of this session is that the clients learn they are able to confront one of the scariest things in their lives and remain okay.”

University of Montana assistant professor Cameo Borntrager now hopes this treatment—which also involves relaxation techniques and education in sleep science—can help young children the same way it has aided adults in clinical trials. Borntrager, who worked with Davis as a graduate student, is seeking local participants ages 8 to 13 for five-session trials aimed at adapting the treatment for younger trauma victims.

“Some of the adults that were involved in those initial projects had been suffering with nightmares and sleep disturbance for 20 years,” Borntrager says, noting that within just three sessions, researchers found improved

sleep quality, decreased anxiety and decreased depression symptoms among participants. “Those aren’t even, technically, the main target, so it’s been pretty profound.”

Borntrager is running the study in tandem with a separately funded project at UT. She’s worked with two children in the Missoula area, and has been contacted by five more prospective participants. So far, Borntrager says the “kiddos”—who are never asked to recount the traumatic events that triggered the nightmares—have found the rescription aspect particularly intriguing.

The first step in that process is talking through the most troubling nightmare and identifying specific themes, such as powerlessness or trust issues. The participant is then asked to alter the nightmare in some profound way, write out the new version and study it extensively. Sometimes the change can be as simple as having the police show up; in one case, Borntrager says a child introduced superheroes to the nightmare’s ending.

“So far, what we’ve seen is that people often dream the rescripted dream,” she says. “And then, so far again, what we’ve seen in the adult trials and the kid trials is that the nightmare frequency starts to go down.”

Davis’ initial research noted that, in some circumstances, participants were unable to recall much of the

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offending nightmare, which “constitutes a significant obstacle.” To collect enough data to determine whether the treatment is applicable to child trauma victims, Borntrager will need up to 60 participants, specifically kids who suffer from at least one nightmare a week.

“That’s where the stat power is,” she says.

Alex Sakariassen

Medical care

Community in transition Former St. Patrick Hospital CEO Larry White says he was “shocked” by Community Medical Center’s announcement last week that it aims to transition into a for-profit hospital as a result of its planned merger with the Billings Clinic and a Tennessee-based partner, Regional Care.

“I did not expect that the corporate culture of Community Medical Center would accept that decision,” says White, who also teaches at the University of Montana.

Community admits nearly 6,000 patients each year and employs more than 1,100 people with an annual payroll of over $38 million. Its medical staff includes 300 physicians.

[news] When Community announced in February that it was considering a merger, speculation swirled about which provider it would partner with and what the change would mean for consumers and the local economy.

During the March 28 press conference announcing the deal, local administrators explained the Community Medical Center board of directors selected Billings Clinic and Regional Care after weighing how best to lower cost and improve quality.

“We selected this group and the joint venture they offer because we think that they bring in combination all the unique competencies and capabilities that we seek,” Community CEO Steve Carlson said.

The merger will also bring capital to Community, which in October laid off 20 employees as part of an effort to cut $3 million in costs.

Billings Clinic CEO Nick Wolter explained during last week’s press conference that Community isn’t the only hospital looking for a for-profit partner. Declining admissions, lower reimbursement payments from the federal government and changes stemming from the Affordable Care Act are prompting nonprofit hospitals across the country to merge with comparably flush partners.

“This seems to be a trend in terms of how one can bring the capabilities of those two different approaches together at a time when health care is changing in such a dramatic way,” Wolter said.

White agrees that the merger will likely help preserve competitive prices and provide Community cash to grow.

He notes, however, that for-profit medicine operates very differently than nonprofit providers.

“If you look at the pattern of for-profit medicine in America, it’s just a business,” White says. “It doesn’t have as much connectivity to the grassroots of the community.

That’s the style of for-profit medicine. And the longer that that kind of an attitude is around the less you remember your roots and traditions.”

Jessica Mayrer

Beer

Not a lemonade stand Higherground Brewing cofounder Jasper Miller believes there’s a pretty simple starting point for folks looking to open a small craft brewery: kick back, drink a good microbrew and dream for a bit. What comes after that pint is an immense challenge, of course, and it’s not a cheap undertaking.

“It’s not a lemonade stand,” says Miller, who won the 2009 Big Sky Community Brew with his Strong Scotch Ale. “It’s a respected production facility, and that comes with a lot of overhead capital.”

However, three years after opening the Hamiltonbased Higherground, Miller feels there’s a misconception about just how much realizing that dream costs. So

last summer, he began compiling the best advice he could into a new ebook, How to Start a Small-scale Microbrewery, which became available last month. While it’s just a primer, Miller hopes the ebook helps others like him who have toyed with the idea but been intimidated by financial difficulty.

“What I heard a lot when I was starting was, ‘You can’t do it for under $500,000. You can’t do it for under $1 million. What are you thinking?’” Miller says. “I wanted to tell people, I did it for $170,000.”

Miller’s writing joins a small but growing body of literature on microbrewery culture. What separates it from, say, The Brewers Association’s Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery or Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione’s

Brewing Up a Business is length (Miller’s is a mere 80 pages) and cost ($7.99). The ebook isn’t the story of Higherground itself, Miller cautions. Rather, it’s a step-by-step guide covering everything from raising capital to completing federal permits.

“Different people are going to have their eyes opened in different ways,” Miller says. “A lot of people that want to open a brewery aren’t going to be the brewer like myself, and I wanted to allude to that also. It’s not a book that’s going to teach you how to brew.”

Miller’s ebook has sold 20 copies in the first month. He acknowledges there are limits to how well his advice will work. For example, it would be tough to open a brewery for under $200,000 in a town like Missoula or Billings with several well-established breweries. Still, Miller feels the risk doesn’t necessarily outweigh the reward.

“Jump in and take a chance,” he says. “Your feet are going to burn, but if you can keep walking, that’s the key.”

Alex Sakariassen

Justice

Innocence Project eyes win Incoming Montana Innocence Project Director Keegan Flaherty is preparing for the day when the 5-year-old

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nonprofit frees its first client.

“It hasn’t been a reality,” she says. “Now it’s a reality.”

On April 15, Flaherty will replace Jessie McQuillan as the organization’s executive director. Since founding the nonprofit in 2008, McQuillan has grown it into a powerhouse of advocacy for the wrongfully convicted, helping to establish the Innocence Clinic at the University of Montana School of Law and growing a statewide network of volunteers, many of whom provide free legal advice. She also forged ties with UM department heads, who send their most promising students to work as interns for the nonprofit.

“Jessie laid this foundation that is so strong,” Flaherty says. “Now we get to start building on it.”

Flaherty is optimistic that the Innocence Project will secure a victory in the coming year. The organization is actively litigating six cases, including one involving Richard Raugust, who was convicted in 1998 of murdering his best friend. As the Innocence Project notes, a jury convicted Raugust based largely on the testimony of one eyewitness, who later confessed to perpetrating the crime himself.

Two weeks ago, a Sanders County District Court judge heard Innocence Project attorneys argue that Raugust should receive a new trial.

Flaherty is equally excited about the newly secured support of political and legal heavyweights including former Gov. Brian Schweitzer, retired U.S. Rep. Pat Williams and former Supreme Court Justice Jim Regnier, all of whom have agreed to participate in an “Advocates for Innocence Advisory Council” on behalf of Innocence Project clients.

Flaherty joined the Innocence Project in August as director of operations, after working as a nonprofit consultant for ALPS Foundation Services in Missoula, where she focused largely on overseeing ALPS’ legal philanthropy efforts. This winter, when McQuillan began suffering health problems related to an autoimmune disorder, Flaherty was asked to take over. In the coming year, Flaherty aims to double the Innocence Project’s fundraising yield and hopefully celebrate at least one exoneration.

“It’s really slow and it’s costly,” Flaherty says. “But in the end, someone who’s been in prison for 17 years, like Richard, gets to walk free. And that’s amazing.”

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. Common sense holds that the best businesses identify an unmet need, and fill it. Turns out, before last August, Missoula had some unmet needs. We wanted to see more Montanamade indie movies and documentaries. We wanted screenings of “Twin Peaks” episodes, where fans could dress up like the Log Lady and eat pie. We wanted gorgeous French New Wave films broadcast in HD. We wanted to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail while clip-clopping along on coconuts. We were excited to experience classic silent films scored by a live band.

The nonprofit Roxy Theater has hosted all these eclectic cultural offerings and much more, just in a few short months. It’s already a place we’d recommend taking out-of-towners to sample the best of what keeps Missoula weird.

The Roxy has been around since 1937, though a devastating 1994 fire gutted the space.

In recent years, the theater had been mostly shuttered except for the annual International Wildlife Film Festival (which, incidentally, is coming up April 12-19). But last summer, volunteers led by Chris Sand and Mike Steinberg (former program director of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival) banded together and revamped the venue with a retro yet spiffy lobby and cushy, cupholder-ed seats.

Since relaunching in August, the space has become a cozy cross-section of the Missoula community, a place where film buffs, documentary nerds and casual moviegoers alike can find something to enjoy. Watching a movie at the Roxy feels a lot like hanging out at home with all your best buds; especially since a lot of your best buds are likely to turn up at screenings. After the shows, people actually stick around the lobby to talk about what they’ve just watched—and to share the last remnants of their “triple-organic popcorn.” It makes for a lot more engaging of an experience than sitting at home streaming Netflix.

Just take a look at the Roxy’s eclectic roster for this weekend: Thursday, it shows Prince’s 1984 cult-classic Purple Rain. Then Friday and Saturday, there’s popular demand screenings of Freeload, the Missoula-made doc about train-hoppers.

(Freeload’’s February premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival sold out the Wilma, so be advised to show up early.) It’s yet another lineup that piques our interests and prompts us to rearrange our schedule for some time at the theater. We can’t help but offer kudos to the Roxy for all it’s done so far—and we raise our popcorn in salute of much more to come.

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On a recent afternoon, a dark-haired woman picks out several syringes from a selection of injection drug paraphernalia setup in a downtown Missoula hallway. The state’s first aboveground needle exchange includes everything from tourniquets to antiseptic wipes to tins known as “cookers.”

At first glance, the woman doesn’t look like anyone portrayed in the Montana Meth

use discretion when distributing them.

When Shannon’s regular provider abruptly stopped selling her needles, she remembers thinking to herself, “So, I’ll go find one in the garbage?”

Once Shannon resorted to using old syringes, she says that she developed a painful vein abscess—one that was potentially life threatening. “I have vascular dam-

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Open Aid Alliance has distributed approximately 25,000 needles to area drug users since starting its needle exchange last May. “It’s crazy that this is the first visible syringe exchange in Montana,” says Christa Weathers, the nonprofit’s executive director.

Project’s jolting “Not Even Once” anti-drug ad campaign. She’s not emaciated. Her clothes aren’t dirty. She says she takes care of herself, eating and sleeping regularly.

“I’m hungry,” she says sarcastically.

Upon closer inspection, however, subtle details betray her drug habit. A small line of needle marks are exposed on her right hand. She agrees to talk to a reporter, but only if granted anonymity for fear that she could be criminally prosecuted for speaking candidly about her drug use. We’ll call her Shannon.

Shannon says she is a 43-year-old grandmother who first used IV drugs 26 years ago. While she’s had clean stretches, she admits that these days she can’t get out of bed without a fix. “It’s a necessity after a while,” she says. “I don’t think I’ll ever quit.”

Before learning about the Missoula needle exchange, hosted by the nonprofit Open Aid Alliance, Shannon had an increasingly difficult time scoring sterile syringes. Old syringes are susceptible to bacteria buildup and can lead to dangerous infections.

“It’s tougher and tougher,” she says.

“And the stigma just gets larger and larger.”

It’s legal to sell syringes without a prescription in Montana. Pharmacists, however,

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age now,” she says. “It is so devastating what can happen in a short amount of time.”

Facing mounting health problems, Shannon was relieved to find the Open Aid Alliance’s new Syringe Exchange Program. Since launching the program less than a year ago, staff say they have distributed approximately 25,000 needles to area drug users.

“We started very slowly, kind of just tipping our toes in the water,” says Open Aid Alliance Prevention and Harm Reduction Specialist Stephanie Cole. “And then it blew up.”

Clients include the young and old, affluent and poor. Though they’re not required to disclose names, exchange clients are asked to detail their drug histories, including which drugs they’ve used, whether they’ve ever overdosed and if they know their hepatitis and HIV status. The intake form also asks whether the client would like to be tested for the viruses.

Social workers call the principle behind needle exchanges “harm reduction.” The idea is to reduce the human and financial fallout associated with drug use, while linking clients to social services, if they desire help.

Bacterial infection like what Shannon

developed constitutes just one problem associated with IV drug use. In Montana, the Department of Public Health and Human Services estimates 12 percent of the 652 HIV cases reported statewide between 1985 and 2012 stemmed from injection drugs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention peg the lifetime cost of treating an HIV infection at $379,668. Nationally, the taxpayer-funded expenses associated with medicating and housing people infected with the virus, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, will top $19 billion this year.

Open Aid Alliance Executive Director Christa Weathers notes that it doesn’t take much number crunching to realize the economic benefits of needle exchanges. For $800 a month, the Open Aid Alliance can distribute 4,000 syringes and other paraphernalia to help stop the spread of disease.

“It’s crazy that this is the first visible syringe exchange in Montana,” Weathers says.

Despite her incredulity, Weathers knows from firsthand experience that state and federal policies make launching a needle exchange anything but easy. Among the biggest barriers is funding. The U.S. Congress has for decades banned using federal dollars for needle exchanges, based on the argument that providing paraphernalia encourages drug use and, in doing so, fuels crime and disease.

Science doesn’t reinforce that argument. The Office of the Surgeon General, CDC and National Academy of Sciences have found needle exchanges a cost-effective way of curbing infection, without increased drug use.

Locally, the Open Aid Alliance has overcome funding challenges with help from the Llewellyn and Wagon Mountain foundations and the United Way of Missoula County.

The second hurdle comes from state law. Montana statute criminalizes possession of syringes with even a trace amount of drug residue. That deters people from returning used needles, Weathers says.

“People just don’t want to bring them in,” she says.

In response to concerns about returning needles to the exchange, Missoula Police Department Public Information Officer Travis Welsh says though MPD doesn’t condone illegal drug use, city law enforcement has no intention of targeting the Open Aid Alliance. “It’s much better that people have a place to dispose of these needles safely,” Welsh says. “From the holistic community perspective, it makes a lot of sense.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

[news]

Beer Drinkers’ Profile Curbside and Kickin’ It

Pat and Claire

Don’t frack with us Locals resist a “Bakkenization of the Beartooths”

by Sarah Jane Keller

When Dave Lehnherr first heard there a booming transient population, and Pavil- we’ll have to foot the bill,” she says. was a possibility of oil and gas drilling starting lion, Wyo., where groundwater is tainted But even as concerned citizens are adup near his home in the foothills of south- with methane and hydrocarbons. As Lehn- vocating for baseline testing, ECA says it’s alcentral Montana’s postcard-perfect Beartooth herr says, “Obviously, we don’t want to be- ready planning to do some. Kyle Mork, ECA’s Mountains, he asked environmental groups come like Pavillion.” chief operating officer, said in an interview While no one in south-central Montana at the end of March that the company does for help in stopping it. That was in 2012. The radiologist and outdoors enthusiast got some is proposing a fracking moratorium, mem- in fact do baseline water testing at their nibbles of interest, but no solid commit- bers of the Northern Plains Resource Council wells, though he wasn’t able to give specifics ments. Then last October, an executive for a are discussing the idea. “People are becoming about its methods. That was new informaWest Virginia-based oil and gas company did aware, and should become aware, that there tion to Muth and Lehnherr, who say that no is a chance that we could lose the quality of one from the council had called the comLehnherr a favor.

At the opening of the Billings office of our water,” says Deb Muth, an organizer for pany directly to ask about water testing. This Energy Corporation of America, chief oper- one of the council’s local affiliates in Carbon disconnect may be a reflection of the adversarial relationship between the comating officer John Mork described the pany and some citizens who oppose promise ECA sees in the region, saythe wells in Carbon County, says ing, “We’d love to bring something Lehnherr. That may have discouraged like the Bakken, maybe something a people from going to ECA with spelittle more orderly than what is going cific questions. on in Williston right now, to the areas around the Bighorns and other In a November letter to the Carareas in Montana. It would fundabon County newspaper, ECA’s John mentally change these areas the way Mork said that the company is comit has changed other areas of the mitted to being a good environmental United States.” steward, and tried to calm fears: “We are just exploring the potential for deMork’s reference to the Bakken velopment at this point,” he said, excited some locals, evoking a picture “and in fact, the areas may never be of profits and prosperity. In Carbon developed.” Even if they are develand Stillwater counties, where 20,000 oped, south-central Montana’s oil deor so people are surviving on agriculposits are much smaller than those in ture, a bit of recreation and tourism, photo by Cathrine L. Walters the Bakken. and a precious-metals mine, an infuThe push for accountability in sion of cash and people would come Energy Corporation of America wants to drill for in handy. But for others, the mention oil and gas near the Beartooth Mountains, south-central Montana is the latest in a series of movements nationwide. of the oil-rich shale formation under- promting some area residents to fight back.

The federal government’s 2005 decineath western North Dakota and eastern Montana conjured images of air pollution, County. She’s referring to the pollution that sion to exempt fracking from the Clean Water scary truck traffic, crime and contaminated could result from a wastewater or fracking Act, Clean Air Act and Safe Drinking Water Act water. Now some citizens, determined to pro- fluid spill on the surface, as well as possible has created a patchwork of state regulations, tect their agricultural livelihood and quality of groundwater contamination caused by a but communities still doubt that those will life, are organizing to try to exert some control faulty well casing. Many people see fracking protect them. itself as a threat, though there’s still not deThere’s been no movement in the over future energy development.

Montana Legislature toward a baseline It’s not as if Carbon County, where ECA finitive evidence.

Yet rather than get into a protracted po- water testing law. Aside from a handful of is preparing to drill a new exploratory well, is a complete stranger to oil and gas. The litical fight over rules or restrictions, the state research programs, the burden falls on company already has several wells in the council has decided to focus on helping individuals to find affordable, scientifically county, east of the Beartooth Mountains, and landowners document exactly what’s in their credible ways to test their wells and springs. has been operating in Montana for 30 years. water now, so they have evidence in case ECA For the sampling to be legally defensible, it Yet its activities didn’t attract much attention later pollutes it. “Hopefully, (baseline testing) must be performed by a trained, independuntil Mork invoked the Bakken while describ- will let the oil and gas companies know that ent third party.

The NPRC would like to start a convering ECA’s hopes to sink about 50 more wells. people here aren’t ignorant,” says Lehnherr.

Five or 10 years ago, probably few peo- “If you aren’t operating with the best prac- sation with lawmakers and the public about ple would have reacted to such news. Since tices, you are going to be held accountable.” baseline testing rules in Montana, before Bonnie Martinell, an organic farmer the state’s next legislative session in 2015. then, though, the energy boom fueled by hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting flu- and orchardist who lives about a mile and a In the meantime, Lehnherr and others are ids at high pressure to coax oil and gas from half downhill from the exploration site, is still gearing up to have their own wells deep underground, has taken off and the one of at least a dozen landowners in the tested as soon as possible, while looking for public is increasingly aware of the tradeoffs area interested in baseline testing before de- ways to help more Montanans do the same. velopment. She notes that though most of “We’re not waiting for other people to look involved.

And the risks and rewards of rapid de- her neighbors aren’t against oil and gas de- out for us,” he says. velopment can be expressed by the mere velopment on principle, they don’t trust mention of two place names: the Bakken, ECA to look out for their best interests. “Our This story originally appeared in High where rural infrastructure is buckling under concern is that they’ll do the damage and Country News (hcn.org) on March 31.

What brings you to the Iron Horse?

The meanest sweet potato fries in Missoula, and I really like the burgers.

Any random thoughts on sunshine?

Just nice–first time in short sleeves for quite a while.

Think the sunshine will stick around?

Eventually.

Beer of choice?

Big Sky IPA.

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[opinion]

Unfit to print?

A daily paper’s curious case of omission about a state senator

by Dan Brooks

Last week, media blogger Jim Romenesko noted that the Billings Gazette did not include charging documents in its story about criminal proceedings against state Sen. Jason Priest, R–Red Lodge. Priest has pleaded not guilty to one felony and three misdemeanors connected to a February altercation with his estranged wife, in which police allege he threw his 4-yearold daughter and broke the rib of his wife’s boyfriend.

The print edition of the Gazette story said court filings were available at the paper’s website, but the charging documents were conspicuously absent from the online version. Although the Gazette typically posts such documents with all its crime stories, editor Darrell Ehrlick explained that in this case he had decided to pull them, since they painted a picture of Priest that was “deeply troubling.”

“First, the case involves children,” Ehrlick wrote. “More importantly, I believe the court documents could paint Priest in a harsh light. And, just as much as I am a fervent supporter of the First Amendment, I am also a big believer in the due process that says it’s up to the courts to decide Priest’s innocence or guilt.”

You’ll be relieved to know that none of the crime articles on the Gazette’s website include charging documents now, so readers will be spared the court-reported details of “Man charged with raping girl, 6, and possession of child pornography” and “Man charged in hatchet assault.” It took a family assault case against a Republican state senator to make editors realize that such cases should be tried in the courts, not the press.

The Gazette website is still running its monthly “Crime Watch” slideshows, though, which feature mugshots of everyone charged with a crime in the last month. The February gallery tells us that 62-year-old Edwin Cuch is facing DUI number 14, and that David Carlos Prien-Pinto was shot in a “drug heist gone awry.”

Readers can comment on these stories, so the article about Prien-Pinto comes with

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the opinion of one “Top Commenter” who wonders, “why do we even waste our time on a court hearing on this loser???” No charging documents anymore, though—the Gazette is committed to the First Amendment, but it doesn’t want to see anyone tried in the press.

“We followed some of the oldest and best journalism advice out there,” Ehrlick wrote. “Just because you can print something doesn’t mean you should.”

“If Ehrlick traded his journalistic ethics to protect Priest’s reputation, he didn’t get much out of the deal.”

That is old advice, and it’s probably pretty good. If we’re going to pick the best, though, I have to go with George Orwell, who said that “journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.”

I read the charging documents in State of Montana v. Jason Sheller Priest, so I happen to be in a position to do a little journalism. I am ever mindful of public relations, though, so I will euphemize those details that Ehrlick called “deeply troubling.”

The documents report that on the phone with his wife, Priest said, “you [fudging] [coconut], you and Jon come over here and get your daughter right now.” Priest’s daughter says Priest said “[fudge] you” to her before police arrived.

And the senator himself told officers that

“when the man who is [fudging] your wife and your wife is acting like white trash in front of your children, it’s not that easy to always maintain your composure.”

As anyone who routinely uses the phrase will tell you, white trash is the second-worst kind. Regardless, these are the details from which Ehrlick’s editorial discretion protected us. Everything else—the felony charge alleging he assaulted his daughter, the misdemeanors for breaking Trapp’s rib and resisting arrest—is in the Gazette article.

If Ehrlick traded his journalistic ethics to protect Priest’s reputation, he didn’t get much out of the deal. After I read that police had to pull Priest off Trapp while he lay on the ground in a fetal position, it did not substantially alter my opinion of the senator to learn that he called his wife a [coconut.]

Surely, Ehrlick has the talent and experience to do a better job of whitewashing than that.

It seems more likely that the publisher of the Gazette—Mike Gulledge, who has refused multiple requests for comment on this issue—tried to shield Priest without understanding how his paper’s crime reporting really works. Gulledge is vice president of marketing and sales for all Lee Enterprises newspapers, including the Missoulian, which ran the same story as the Gazette and also omitted Priest’s charging documents.

The daily newspapers of Montana are seeing to it that Priest is tried in the courts, not the press. The senator deserves due process. Still, readers might deserve to know that the man who told voters “we need policies that strengthen families, not undermine them” also allegedly told his daughter to fudge off.

What Priest said during a domestic disturbance was information as real as what he said on the campaign trail. It may be an act of journalism for the Lee papers to withhold it, but it’s also an act of public relations.

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

[opinion]

Nip it in the bud Let a thousand pot plants bloom and end trespass grows

by Christi Turner

If you care about protecting clean water, endangered species and public health, then you might want to consider legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

That’s because so much of the stuff is now being grown illegally on our public lands in places dubbed “trespass grows.”

These secretive and often well-guarded farms do enormous environmental damage and place a huge burden on federal agencies. In California in 2013, the Forest Service discovered about 1 million plants within public forests on nearly 400 sites. Thousands of trees had been logged to make way for marijuana plants.

Growers also divert millions of gallons of water from forest streams to pot plantations, drenching a single plant with as much as six gallons of water daily. Perhaps even more destructively, they dump untold amounts of pesticides into the watershed. In 2012, for example, at least 19,000 pounds of pesticides were confiscated from trespass grow sites in California, which probably has the most illegal pot farms in the nation. For rare forest species like the Pacific fisher, a candidate for the Endangered Species List, pot farms can be killing farms. The animals are dying at alarming rates, many poisoned by growers employing illegal rodenticides.

Wayne Spencer of the Conservation Biology Institute, who develops management plans to protect fishers, recently announced that he personally supports legalization of marijuana, both for the sake of the forest and the fragile species that depend on natural areas.

Policing trespass grows also takes up a huge amount of federal agencies’ time, energy and money. The California district of the U.S. Forest Service says the majority of its law enforcement workload is now trespass-grow investigations—“a major distraction for the mission of the Forest Service.”

Rick Fleming, director of the High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew, says his volunteers have worked hundreds of trespass grow cleanups, the only type of volunteer work

where they partner with law enforcement.

In a time when our culture is increasingly conscious of where our goods come from as well as of the impact of our consumer choices, marijuana is largely left out of the equation. We buy fair trade-certified, rainforest-safe coffee because it benefits both ecosystems and coffee farmers. We demand organic food because we want fewer pesticides on the land and in our bodies. We seek local produce to support local farmers.

Shouldn’t we have the same concerns about marijuana?

“For rare forest species like the Pacific fisher, a candidate for the Endangered Species List, pot farms can be killing farms.”

Unfortunately, the prevailing attitude still seems to be stuck in the 1970s: That any marijuana from California is clean, green and hippie-grown. But as Mother Jones magazine recently pointed out, the reality is that the industrial farming of pot is probably closer to the dirty days of the meatpacking industry, as described in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

As trail crew leader Fleming puts it, illegal pot growers “don’t give a damn about anything. They either eat it, kill it or poison it.”

Spencer describes a recent outreach event on trespass grows that ended with a well meaning person asking, “Can’t we just educate illegal growers?” Fleming’s response: “These are bad men. They will kill anything

that gets between them and their profits.”

Legalizing marijuana at the federal level could nip all this in the bud. A high-profit criminal industry would be washed away by a flood of small farmers willing to try their hand at cannabis and selling it on a regulated market. Of course, that requires delisting marijuana as a Schedule I substance, as 18 members of Congress recently petitioned President Obama to do.

It’s nonsensical that pot continues to be treated as if it’s more dangerous than meth or cocaine. Washington and Colorado are already regulating marijuana for recreational use at the state level. They allow companies to grow and sell marijuana at retail, effectively removing smokers’ motivation to source it illegally, and capturing state revenues from the market—roughly $2 million in tax revenue in the first month of sales in Colorado alone.

At least Attorney General Eric Holder has said he won’t prosecute Coloradans and Washingtonians who comply with their states’ marijuana regulations, even though they conflict with federal law. More recently he reassured banks that his office plans to make it safe for them to open accounts with state-approved marijuana suppliers. But Holder has given no more than his word that smokers, growers and bankers won’t be prosecuted; meanwhile, the GOP-controlled House passed a bill recently to pressure the attorney general into cracking down. This has happened before: In 2011, in Mendocino County, Calif., the federal Drug Enforcement Agency closed down a model program that monitored legal marijuana cultivation and used revenues to fight trespass grows.

This contradictory, irrational policy needs to end. Our public lands need a break from ruthless industrialization, and the West’s wild creatures need their home back.

Christi Turner is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ), where she is an editorial intern.

missoulanews.com • April 3–April 10, 2014 [11]

[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Carlos Ruiz, 42, stole a sound system and other values from a home in Haddon Township, N.J., according to police, who identified him as their suspect after he returned a halfhour later for the remote he forgot the first time. (NJ.com) Christopher Brent Fulton, 30, surrendered to authorities after seeing his photo as the suspect being sought for attempted bank robbery in Midwest City, Okla. He handed the teller a holdup note written on the back of a personal check but left it behind when he fled empty-handed, thinking he had tripped an alarm. The personal information on the check had been scratched out with a pen, but investigators were still able to read it and determine it belonged to Fulton’s mother. (Oklahoma City’s KOCO-TV)

LITIGATION NATION - After losing $500,000 at a Las Vegas casino, retired car dealer Mark Johnston is suing the Downtown Grand for comping him dozens of drinks and lending him money to continue playing while he “was blackout intoxicated,” according to his attorney, Sean Lyttle. Johnston, who lives in Ventura, Calif., has been a Las Vegas regular for three decades. (Associated Press) Six months after being rescued from his upside-down car during Colorado’s historic flooding, Roy Ortiz filed a notice of intent to sue his rescuers at North Metro Fire Department. He claims they didn’t rescue him quickly enough. (Denver’s KCNC-TV)

UP IN THE AIR - At least 150 commercial flights have landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time, according to government safety data and news reports since the early 1990s.

The biggest trouble spot is Moffett Field, a joint civilian-military airport in San Jose, Calif., where six flights heading for Mineta San Jose International Airport 10 miles to the southeast have tried to land. Most incidents occur at night, when pilots have disregarded their navigation equipment because the information didn’t match what they were seeing out their windows. “You’ve got these runway lights, and you are looking at them, and they’re saying, ‘Come to me, come to me. I will let you land.’ They’re like the sirens of the ocean,” said former Air Force pilot Michael Barr, who teaches aviation safety at the University of California. (Associated Press) After a jet aborted its takeoff at Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base because the crew thought it had hit a bird, possibly an osprey, wildlife manager Lindsey Garven searched the runway for a dead bird but found only a fish. DNA samples from the fish and the jet confirmed the accident was a fish strike. Garven said the 9inch sheepshead was probably dropped by a bird that had been eating it on the runway until the jet scared it off. The incident is only the second reported collision between an aircraft and a fish, the first having occurred in 1987 between a fish and a Boeing 737 taking off from Juneau, Alaska. (The Tampa Tribune and The New York Times) Investigators concluded that the pilot of a Mozambican Airlines flight bound for Angola deliberately crashed the plane while his co-pilot was using the toilet. All 33 people on board died when the plane plunged from 38,000 feet. Recordings from the recovered black box show a rapid descent and repeated banging on the cockpit door, either from the co-pilot or passengers. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Fred John Govern, 92, died from cardiac arrest after a fistfight at a nursing home in Orwigsburg, Pa., that started when another resident cut in line at dinner. “My father had to have said something to him about jumping the line, which I know he would do, knowing my father,” Fred Govern Jr. said. “The guy just turned around when my father checked him and started punching him.” (Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV) When a man refused to buy a woman with him a McFlurry at a McDonald’s restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla., witnesses said the woman headed for his car, poured alcohol and gasoline on it, lit it on fire and then ran off. After people helped the man put out the fire, he drove away. (Orlando’s WFTV-TV) Police reported that a 20-year-old man was eating with a friend at a Taco Bell restaurant in Tega Cay, S.C., when a man at another booth asked him if he had belched without saying “excuse me.” The man then walked over and attacked the 20-year-old with a chair, grabbed his throat and tried to head-butt him before a restaurant worker told the assailant to leave. (Associated Press)

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? - Hyenas communicate through their backsides, according to Michigan State University researcher Kevin Theis, who has devoted his career to studying the contents of pouches next to the hyenas’ anuses. The animals smear the pungent material, called hyena butter, on plants for other hyenas to sniff. Theis compared the hyena butter of four distinct species and concluded that the butter of more gregarious ones contained more complex information. Theis has yet to determine exactly what the messages contain or how the system of communication evolved, but his research is continuing.

(The Economist)

NIMBY NINCOMPOOP - As CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson promotes hydraulic fracturing and condemns its critics and “dysfunctional regulation” that he insists “is holding back the American economic recovery, growth and global competitiveness.” As a homeowner, however, Tillerson has joined a lawsuit to block construction of a 160-foot tower next to his $5 million Texas home that would supply water to a nearby fracking site. The suit argues that the project would cause too much noise and traffic. Tillerson’s lawyer said his client’s concern is about the devaluation of his property, not fracking, although fracking opponent Rep. Jared Police (D-Colo.) responded to Tillerson’s suit by announcing, “We are thrilled to have the CEO of a major international oil and gas corporation join our quickly multiplying ranks.” (The Wall Street Journal) CHILD’S PLAY - The driver of a car that got stuck in a ditch in Vestoppland, Norway, told a passing snowplow operator that he ran off the road while making a U-turn to return home to get his driver’s license.

When the plow operator eyed him suspiciously, the diminutive driver explained that he was a dwarf. He was actually a 10-year-old boy joyriding with his 18-month-old sister in their family car. “He asked for help to tow his vehicle so they could continue their journey,” police Officer Kai Lyshaugen said. Instead, the plow operator notified the authorities. (United Press International)

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Legendary outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elder and Jared White of the Wilderness Society talk about the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, and the challenges of the next half-century.

by Alex Sakariassen ifty years ago this September, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law one of the most profound pieces of conservation legislation in history: The Wilderness Act, authored by Howard Zahniser. That landmark bill established not only the National Wilderness Preservation System but gave citizens the ability to petition their lawmakers for future designations. Since that signing, 106 million acres of “Big W” have been set aside nationwide, forever protected from settlement, development and all but the most primitive modes of transportation.

Wilderness itself was defined as a place where “the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who

does not remain.” But in the decades since the act’s passage, wilderness has become a wedge issue in the United States. Partisan politics have all but stalled the latest efforts to add new wilderness to the system, including several pristine areas here in Montana. The gridlock hasn’t stopped scores of agencies and nonprofits from organizing a stillgrowing list of celebratory events to mark the Wilderness Act’s 50th birthday, from a summer hike in the Scapegoat Wilderness to volunteer trail cleanup in the Lee Metcalf ’s Bear Trap Canyon.

For more than half a century, Missoula outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser has frequented the Bob Marshall Wilderness with clients of all ages, backgrounds

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and income levels. He positioned himself on the front lines of backcountry advocacy years before Congress even passed the 1964 Wilderness Act, and he hasn’t wavered since. With the 50th anniversary of that keystone legislation approaching this fall, the Indy joined Smoke, 80, and Jared White, regional communications director for the Wilderness Society, inside the old stone barn off Rattlesnake Drive that serves as Smoke’s headquarters. The conversation meandered, as any good Montana-style palaver is prone to do, but offered a rich look back on 50 years of wilderness protection and a hint at what the next 50 years might bring.

Smoke, you’ve been a staunch advocate for wilderness pretty much since the dawn of the Wilderness Act itself. What have the 50 years since its passage meant to you personally?

Smoke: I think it has allowed me to take thousands of people into the backcountry from all walks of life—shoe salesmen, gas station attendants, bankers, heads of big corporations like Boeing and so forth—and be able to show them what it really looked like when the first man came west into this country.

Tom Edwards, owner of the Whitetail Ranch, he was my mentor. He and [outfitter] Howard Copenhaver. Those two guys were my mentors, and what

they did is they took lots of people into the hills. They taught me how to interpret the wilderness. That’s really the important part. To be able to interpret the wilderness as it sits and why it’s wilderness. A lot of people don’t understand why we want to set this aside as wilderness. I testified on the Wilderness Act in Great Falls in 1960 at a hearing run by [Sens. Lee] Metcalf and Mike Mansfield. I testified as a young packer just not knowing a whole lot about it. But Tom Edwards, he was really pushing us. He took us to all those meetings to make sure that the congressmen and Congress itself understood that young people, such as myself at that time, were looking forward to seeing and getting into the wilderness. That’s why I think it’s so important that we pass that baton on to younger generations.

How big a challenge has that become?

Smoke: The younger generations right now are absolutely glued to their cellphones, their computers and the TV set. And how we’re going to be able to pull them away, that’s the hard part. If you could just pull them away for two or three days to let them really experience a sunrise in the backcountry, a sunset in the backcountry, a breeze, a drink of water out of a stream, those kind of things—they’re hooked then.

But how do we get them away from that TV? That’s the hardest job I have right now is trying to get young people. I teach a packing class here, and I get people from all ages. I had a 65 year old all the way down to I think he was 10, learning how to pack.

It was tough for the grandfather to bring those kids.

Had a heck of a time dragging them away from the house in the evening to come up here and watch how to pack. But once they felt a mule and saw where it might get them in the future, they were hooked.

It’s daunting.

Smoke: And everybody’s got a cellphone now.

Geez, I don’t have one. Don’t carry one at all.

When you testified back in 1960, what was the atmosphere like in Montana around the Wilderness Act?

Arnold “Smoke” Elser

Smoke: It wasn’t near as much a battle here as it was in other states. The Wilderness Act itself actually started in Kalispell and Missoula. [Advocates like] Howard Zahniser came to Montana to talk to residents of Montana who already knew what wilderness looked like and already had felt the issues of wilderness. Those guys came out here, because here they had a good, substantial constituency to help them get such a bill passed.

They came many, many times after that to get our view.

Good way to get beaver fever these days.

Smoke: Ha, yes. In those days, no problem.

Jared White: Smoke, what you were saying about how Montana was an important place for wilderness—I wasn’t around in those days, but all my reading and research and work on wilderness has led me to that same leap, that Montana was sort of a cradle of wilderness. We had Congressman Lee Metcalf, and

“I’m an outfitter in Montana.

Yeah, but was there a particular moment that made these wild places special to you personally?

Smoke: The first time I went into the Danaher Valley. To know that in 1900, a man went in there and tried to homestead unsuccessfully … To know that somebody tried to make a living there and couldn’t because it was so wild, so absolutely untamed by man.

I don’t sell fish, and I don’t sell elk …

What I sell is the hush of the land.”

I was a young kid from Ohio, near Cleveland.

Highly industrial area, Youngstown country. When I got here to Montana, by golly, I couldn’t believe it.

And then Tom Edwards kind of took me under his wing, and Howard Copenhaver, and they showed me the backcountry. As they rode down the trails, they didn’t just sit on their horse and say, “Oh, look at that pretty valley, look at this pretty valley, look at that tree.” No, they interpreted that to me. They said, “Hey, look at this valley. I remember when we shot a big grizzly up that valley,” or “I remember when we shot elk up that valley, and I remember when we could lay on our bellies and drink water out of any stream in the Bob Marshall.” You don’t dare to do that anymore. Giardia is everywhere. I can still see Howard Copenhaver—there’s a red bugle hanging right there, that red hose—I can remember him sticking that hose in an elk track that was full of water and getting a good drink of water out of there.

those first trips that you still carry, that motivates your advocacy?

Smoke: Yeah, many of them. For instance, to have the head of a large corporation run around and smell ponderosa pine trees, right into the bark. You know, it smells like vanilla. Here I’ve got a guy who’s probably worth millions and he’s smelling the bark.

And to have a lady that was really well-to-do with the General Motors corporation walk in grass, first time ever, in her bare feet … I get letters yet from people saying, “Gee, that was the greatest experience I’ve ever had.”

he was one of the original sponsors of the Wilderness Act. Western lawmakers were pushing this thing …

When they set aside the 1964 Wilderness Act, they basically said, “Hey, this is citizen legislation that’s going to enable democratic process to take place where citizens can basically step forward and advocate for their backyard, as opposed to the Forest Service being able to decide what happens administratively.” This is the first place in America that happened, and that was the Scapegoat Wilderness.

Smoke: That’s right. In the ’40s, the Forest Service set it aside as just a primitive area, meaning anytime we want to change our minds about how we’re going to treat that land, they can do that. But when it became a law, that made a difference. That made a difference.

How about you, Jared? What pushed you toward wilderness advocacy?

JW: The first designated wilderness area I encountered was the Absaroka-Beartooth, that high, granitic plateau just full of clean, sparkling-blue lakes and cutthroat trout that are already jumping on your fly rod before you can even tie a fly on. A place that has that power, I knew it was worth dedicating my career towards trying to acquire a few other places through a citizen, democratic process. That was really, for me, a powerful place.

How critical do you think that citizen-driven process is for wilderness?

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JW: Smoke had a front-row seat to the first time that happened with the Scapegoat addition to the Bob Marshall. I think that was a turning point in the whole wilderness process … In a way, for these bills to move forward, you sort of need a Lorax, to quote Dr. Seuss. Someone who deeply cares about a certain place. And when you have that person on the ground who’s committed and passionate and is able to dedicate time and energy, you have a lot better chance of moving just a pipe dream to passing a law that will forever protect it for the next generation. You really need that boots-on-the-ground advocate. Even today, the bills that are out there in Congress right now— the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, Sen. Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act—they all have those pieces, so that tradition continues to move forward.

I’m glad you brought those bills up. Fifty years in, Montana has two bills with wilderness designations that can’t seem to garner the support necessary to get through Congress. It seems like any wilderness proposal faces this massively uphill battle now.

Where do you see us now, at the 50-year mark?

JW: I don’t think the fact that these pieces of leg-

islation haven’t passed through Congress is reflective of the work that’s gone into them, nor the relative support these bills have. It’s more a reflection of having the most dysfunctional Congress in the last 40 years. There’s a reason right now that people are fed

will happen. And I think the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act would be a great birthday present for the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. There are some landscapes in that bill that are just as deserving as the Bob Marshall was 50 years ago.

“Actually, the product that we may need in the future is the sanity of man. Because [wilderness] gives man a chance to look within his own body, to understand what he’s doing, what he’s about.” up with Congress’ inability to move things forward.

If these bills move through a Montana process here, then they should be able to move through a legislative process eventually. We’re still holding out hope that

Smoke: I see us struggling with Congress, there’s no doubt about that. And right now, it’s hard to pick out a real leader like Lee Metcalf and some of those guys. Tom Edwards went all the way back to Washing-

ton, D.C. Here’s a man that never traveled that much.

He was a school teacher and then went into outfitting, and he goes all the way back to Washington, D.C., and got up in front of the committee and said, “I’m an outfitter in Montana. I don’t sell fish, and I don’t sell elk … What I sell is the hush of the land. Guests come from all over the world just to experience the hush of the land.”

That’s what I try to sell when I go in the hills, and Tom taught me that. Many a night we’d sit around the campfire and we’d tell stories about the old days, and then there would be a time when everybody was pretty well storied out and they just looked into the coals of the campfire and watched the stars light up the sky and they knew they were there. Now it’s hard to get people to do that. That’s one of the problems we have right now.

Smoke, you seem to have hinted that there’s almost more of a need for wilderness now than before, what with losing ourselves in technology and the like. Do you think there’s more importance in wilderness these days?

Smoke: I feel there is. Whenever I testified on

Trekking the Untrammeled The confession might come as a slight surprise to some in Montana: A Missoula high school student, standing deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, looks straight into the camera and states, “I literally didn’t know this existed.” It’s been 50 years since Congress passed the Wilderness Act, enabling citizens nationwide to fight for permanent protections for their most cherished wild spaces. And yet there are those who remain oblivious to the pristine beauty of backcountry expanses like the Bob. “This anniversary year provides a wonderful opportunity for us to re-affirm our commitment to wilderness stewardship and to engage the public, particularly youth, in opportunities for a better understanding and appreciation of wilderness benefits,” U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said earlier this year.

That’s largely why the Forest Service opted to send three contingents of young adults—two separate pack-strings of Missoula area high schoolers and a group of University of Montana backpackers—into the Montana backcountry to experience wilderness for, in many cases, the very first time. The agency also commissioned a film, in conjunction with the Wilderness Society and a host of other groups, documenting those trips in the hopes of building interest and awareness in advance of the Wilderness Act’s Sept. 3 birthday. That 26-minute film, Untrammeled, is set to premiere at UM April 8 before embarking on a national tour.

“I think it’s important to remember that some of the target audience is kids in urban places,” says Julia Starrett, producer and coowner of the Florence-based Starrett Productions, which shot the film. “It’s one thing here in Montana where we are exposed to a lot of the wilderness areas and we have a lot of this natural landscape.

But if you’re a kid living in Chicago or Los Angeles, you don’t realize that you have this.”

Untrammeled depicts the sweeping and idyllic vision of the Bob one would expect in the midst of such a historic anniversary. Students lounge in alpine glades, weave together strands of wild grass, roast food over open flames; the entire undertaking was unscripted, says

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“Our food, it had to have 100 calories per ounce or it didn’t make it into the pack.”

Late-season wildfires added one more layer of difficulty, prompting the Forest Service to reroute the student trips five times.

Shanenon was originally looking forward to blue skies, breathtaking vistas and, particularly, capturing the reaction of students to their first view of the Chinese Wall. That iconic Bob Marshall site was dropped from the itinerary.

“It adds to the experience of being in a wild place, knowing that a huge swath of land is on fire now,” Shanenon says. “It added that sense of wilderness, for sure. You’re out there, anything can happen. Fire is one of those things.”

One of the Starretts’ primary mandates was to let wilderness be wilderness, an aspect most underscored in Untrammeled by freak injury. During the backpack trip, Shanenon happened to be following a pair of UM students hanging bear bags when one stumbled and fell, impaling a sandal-clad foot on a stick.

“It’s so amazing how one little thing can alter your whole experience being out there,” Shanenon says. “Even blisters.”

The screenings of Untrammeled come as just one of scores of events marking the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act by government agencies, organizations and nonprofits across the country. Here in Montana, those events include a June 21 canoe trip on the Upper Missouri River guided by Adventures Worldwide, an Aug. 30 wilderness run in Lincoln and a late-September picnic in McCormick Park hosted by the Forest Service. photo courtesy of StarrettArtists.com The Wilderness Act may have reached the half-century mark, but there are still many across independent, isolated film crew presented its own logistical the country who remain clueless as to the grandeur it protects. challenges. The backpacking portion alone entailed hauling “You go to an urban area or a big city and young people don’t camera gear 85 miles over 12 days, and Shanenon and the other even know it’s there,” Shanenon says. “It’s for them, it’s for us. It’s photographers had to rely solely on solar power to charge for all of us.” their equipment.

Untrammeled debuts at the University Center Theater April “We had a lot of weight in our packs, and we knew the amount 8 at 7 PM. For more 50th anniversary events, visit www.wilderof time that it would take to do the whole thing,” Shanenon says. ness50th.org.

Shanenon Starrett, Julia’s husband and the film’s director.

“I also think that, visually, seeing a wilderness area from the inside out and hearing how it affects people, young people— hopefully that’s inspiring to other folks,” Shanenon says. “We take it for granted. If you’re in Washington, D.C., or kind of removed from wilderness and you see it as stats and data on a piece of paper, you don’t really realize what it does to a person’s psyche when you’re there.”

The Starretts leapt at the chance to secure the contract last year, partly for the opportunity of being allowed to film inside a wilderness boundary. The government rarely grants commercial filming permits in areas like the Bob, Shanenon says. Of course, following separate crews of students into the backcountry as an

any of the committees—and I never went to Washington, D.C., but quite often they’d have hearings out here—a lot of people got up and said, “Oh, how can you destroy this beautiful country?” They would read poetry and talk about all that kind of thing. I testified a little differently. I asked the congressmen, “You know, wilderness may be more valuable than gold, silver, coal, timber. It may be more valuable to mankind than any of those products than we can take out of the wilderness now.” Actually, the product that we may need in the future is the sanity of man. Because [wilderness] gives man a chance to look within his own body, to understand what he’s doing, what he’s about. That’s the way I stood forever. That’s how I testified all the time. They were always talking about hauling all this stuff out of the backcountry. Maybe we ought to haul people in so they can get sanity.

That might be even more rare in another 50 years.

Smoke: Really, yeah, think about it. How many of you do you think push a computer button every day? I never do. I just don’t do that, and pretty near everybody does. “I want to know how to bake a chocolate cake.” [clicks his fingers like on a keyboard] There it is. “I want to know how to fix my car. The starter’s not working.” [clicks again] There it is. “I want to know what Paris looks like in the spring.” [more clicking] There it is.

This is what scares me the worst: “I want to know more about wilderness.” So what do they do? [more clicking] “Oh, I’m in the Absaroka Wilderness. Oh, I’m in the Bob Marshall. Oh, I’m in the Selway-Bitterroot. Now I’ve seen it. I don’t need to go there. I’ve already experienced the wilderness.” They haven’t begun to experience the wilderness.

Smoke, I just got a peek at the film the USDA commissioned for the 50th anniversary (see sidebar).

In it one of the high school students from Missoula says he never even realized the Bob Marshall Wilderness existed. How familiar do you think most Montanans are with wilderness?

Smoke: I don’t think they are. There are lots of people in Montana who have lived here all their lives—for instance, Bob Ward and Sons, you heard of that store? Well, Wayne Ward went the first time ever into the Bob Marshall with me, and he was 76 years old. Had never been in the wilderness, ever. And from that time until his death, he went every year … I know of ranchers that live right on the boundary of the Bob Marshall that have never been into the wilderness. Never, never. Same with [former Sen.] Max Baucus. Here his family owns that big ranch right over there, and he’d never been in the wilderness until we

don’t know how many years that’ll take. Maybe it’ll be this year, maybe it’ll be next year, where Montana’s congressional delegation is finally able to reward the hard work that Montanans are putting into these efforts. That’s part of it, getting through Congress.

Although there are two pieces of legislation before Congress, there are six, seven, eight grassroots campaigns around the state that are all looking at their piece of the pie or their backyard. There’s a lineup of these bills that will probably be ready after these other ones are through, so this is going to be a long voyage. There’s more where these came from, and they’ll continue to probably be picked up as long as they’re able to build local support and come up with reasonable recommendations and hit the middle ground. Common sense designations are out there.

The other thing that Smoke was talking about was that importance of the next generation. I think more and more will probably discover this resource that he’s been guiding through for the last 50 years.

The Big Sky state has been put on the map, and I think people are moving here because of big, open country, these beautiful lakes, these mountains. That means there’s going to be more of a constituency for wild country as people start linking it to their amenity-based recreation or the reason they’re moving their businesses to Montana. I see a good future, a bright future, once we’re able to finally break through this logjam.

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness

called him up … He said, “Well, I’ve got two days.

Can we do it in two days?” We said we could do it in three, and by golly we took him in on a three-day trip.

Max became aware that wilderness was really valuable. In my opinion, I think that’s what did it. When he got a chance to get his feet on the ground, he said, “I think it is valuable.”

How long ago was that?

Smoke: Oh, golly, that was about 1975, ’73, something like that. We took him on a saddle horse.

And another guy I took in the hills—well, I didn’t really take him in the hills, we actually took him on a ride in the valley here—to his dying day he didn’t understand wilderness at all. That was Ted Kennedy.

You’ve done a lot for wilderness over the years yourself, taking all these folks into the backcountry.

Smoke: Not as much as needed.

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Well, what do you hope for in the next 50 years for wilderness? More designations? Increased exposure?

Smoke: I hope people find its value. I think we need some additions to make it more valuable and easier to get at. When you have to drive in the Spotted Bear and go all the way the whole length of the lake before you can get to the wilderness, that’s a long drive, 40 miles. I’m just hoping that with this celebration, in the next five or six months, that we can touch as many individuals as we possibly can and try to get them to at least think about it. If they think about it, most of them will recognize its value. And those who don’t think about it, we’ll probably never get their support. They’ll live their computer life and their cellphone life and call it good.

JW: Eventually, we will get through this congressional dysfunction and bills will move again. I have no doubt of that. We don’t have a crystal ball, we

Smoke, you’ve stressed passing the baton a couple times.

Smoke: Yeah, we’ve gotta get it moved on, forward.

JW: We just need 25 more Smoke Elsers out there, taking folks into the wilderness.

Smoke: Ha, no we don’t. We need a lot more of everybody, that’s who we need. Because wilderness is, once it gets into your core, it’s a fundamental part of your being. There’s just no doubt about it. I go to bed at night in the winter, I don’t think about snow drifts and all that stuff. I think about, “Boy, this year I’m going to hit the northern end of the Bob Marshall.

I’m going to go down the Middle Fork, across that river, probably in July. I want to see what it looks like around Trilobite Peak.” I dream about all those things.

That’s what keeps me alive, keeps me going, even though someday I know I’m not going to be able to get on that horse anymore and ride into the backcountry. The wilderness, it’s always something that’s been there for me. And I hope the younger generations can understand that it’s something they need to experience.

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On the rise Sludge band Swamp Ritual gets its day in the sun

by Erika Fredrickson

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Swamp Ritual, featuring Dustin Fugere, foreground, and Sid La Tray, starts its residency at the VFW this week.

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here was much anticipation at the ZACC basement a few weeks ago for Seattle band Helms Alee. The stoner-rock trio has a reputation for blasting melodic, Viking-esque songs heavy as a maritime storm. But before Helms Alee ever took the stage, an opening band called Swamp Ritual temporarily stole the limelight. The Missoula two-piece featuring Dustin Fugere on bass and Sid La Tray on drums has been together for over a year, but the band’s brand of sludgy rock has seemed tighter in recent shows. The fact that Swamp Ritual didn’t bring its usual stage accoutrements to the Helms Alee show—Fugere and La Tray often haul in their own light rack and fog machine—didn’t detract from the performance. It already had the ingredients it needed.

For one, the duo is fun to watch. Fugere, 22, whips his long hair in the artful way a good headbanger does and both he and La Tray, 20, have a confidence on stage that isn’t put on. For another thing, they’re musically tight even while jamming out long, noodling songs. In other words, this isn’t a band that needs gimmicks, though the group does require double bass stacks—an accessory they did not forget to bring to the ZACC—in order to get its big, fuzzed-out sound.

After the basement set, the crowd erupted into enthusiastic applause. A couple of people around me agreed that Swamp Ritual sounds a little like a guitarless version of stoner rock staple Fu Manchu. But one of my friends took it a step further: “They’re proof that Fu

Manchu doesn’t need a guitarist.” (Ouch, Scott Hill.)

Hyperbole stemming from post-show glow? Definitely. Swamp Ritual has a ways to go before they’re on Fu Manchu’s level, but the reaction is still genuine.

Fugere and La Tray aren’t entirely new to that kind of praise. They also play in thrash metal band Judgment Hammer with guitarist Jared Kiess and that group, since its 2009 inception, has been extolled for being deft, fast and incredibly entertaining. When Kiess moved to the East Coast for law school a few years ago, Judgment Hammer only made appearances during summer and school breaks when Kiess could get back to town.

Fugere and La Tray started Swamp Ritual as a means to pass the time when their “real” band wasn’t playing.

For the duo’s first show, opening for another band at the VFW, Fugere and La Tray learned a bunch of Fu Manchu covers. They also got to showcase their original song “The Bearded Dragon,” aka “Ritual Rising.” It’s a long jam that Fugere says has mutated over time as they’ve continued to revise it. (At one show, they played the 10-minute song as their “last song” to the chagrin of the bartender who was trying to wrap things up for the night.)

Fugere and La Tray are young, but their musical knowledge runs deep. That’s especially true of La Tray, who grew up on classic hard rock, metal and punk thanks to his dad (and Indy contributor), Chris. He spent a lot of time digging through Chris’ music.

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going through it ever since I was a kid,” La Tray says.

“From day one, he got me into KISS. He showed me so much stuff at once I had to step back. I got into punk and then I slowly got into metal.”

Last Halloween, Swamp Ritual played a KISS set in full makeup with a special guest appearance by Chris.

Slowly but surely, Swamp Ritual has become less a side project and more a central focus. Originally, La Tray and Fugere kept it a two-piece to make it easy to schedule practice and get on last-minute show bills. But lately, being a duo has become more of an artistic choice.

“Yeah, at first we didn’t really want to commit to another guitar player when we have another band that we were committed to,” Fugere says. “And now we just haven’t felt the need to have someone else. We feel like it would kill it—that we’d become just another threepiece band. And there’s a lot of those.”

The musicians built on their live performance by adding the double bass stacks, lights and fog. And they also eventually moved La Tray to the front of the stage for better effect after seeing other heavy rock bands doing the same thing.

“We played with [North Carolina sludge band] Weedeater and we noticed that their drummer was right up in front of the stage and the amps were just cranked,” Fugere says. “It’s the same with Helms Alee.

We realized if you are standing in the front it is the perfect mix.”

They learned covers like Black Sabbath’s “Children

of the Grave” and Sleep’s “Dragonaught,” but they also have added more originals to their repertoire with classic-sounding fantasy titles like “Ditch Witch,” “Whiskey Photo by Chad Harder Wizard” and “The Outer Rim.” Most of their songs have some lyrics, but they’re sparse and esoteric. And, as heavy as the music is, its subject matter isn’t necessarily dark, it’s just expansive.

“What we play evolved from 1980s metal like Iron Maiden,” Fugere says. “I think these days musicians don’t necessarily tone it down, but it is a little less cheesy than it used to be. With some of the music [Sid and I] listen to, there’s a focus on space and exploration. I can listen to a love song or a bluegrass song, that’s fine. But I kind of know how my life works: I’d rather think about big concepts.”

Swamp Ritual hits the road soon for a short tour to play Billings and then Festibowl in Denver (on April 20, of course). This week also marks the band’s month-long residency at the VFW, for which it’ll play every Thursday in April with bands like Shramana, Boss Fight, Kadmin and, on April 24, Judgment Hammer. This time, Swamp Ritual will be the featured act. And it’s about time.

Swamp Ritual begins its residency at the VFW Thu., April 3, at 10 PM with Warning! Danger and No Fancy. $3. The residency continues every Thursday through April 24. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Manly side-effects Chuck Ragan doesn’t fight the feelings anymore Chuck Ragan, in case you weren’t aware, is “punk rock’s manliest man.” The beardy former frontman of Hot Water Music has earned a lot of hero worship, which he seems mildly amused by. There’s a ChuckRaganFacts handle on Twitter. Vice’s Noisey blog did a video where Andrew Seward (who used to play in Against Me!) goes fishing with Ragan and then they hang out by a campfire.

Hot Water Music was all about post-hardcore ferocity, but Ragan’s solo career, launched in the mid-2000s, has focused on gentler—but still passionate—Americana.

Ragan packs his latest album, Til Midnight, with threeminute, driving songs, led by Ragan’s gravelly voice and backed with a full band and plenty of pretty fingerpicking and steel guitar. (ChuckRaganFacts warns that side effects of this album include “beard growth, higher tolerance for whiskey and an increased interest in power tools.”)

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Springsteen influences are all over Til Midnight. Every song is just as earnest and sweet as it gets, like on “Wake With You.” “You’ve got all of me if you want it that way,” Ragan sings. Even the manliest of men can be in touch with their feelings. (Kate Whittle) Chuck Ragan plays the Top Hat Thu., April 10, along with White Buffalo. 8 PM. $18/$15 advance.

Charlie Parr, Hollandale Most Charlie Parr records are full of sinner’s songs told through a preacher reading from Lamentations over the moan of a resonator guitar. Hollandale is a different breed, most notably because the Minnesotan’s dusty blues/folk rasp is missing. It’s a ballsy omission, but it works. On this five-song EP Parr transcends conventional storytelling and song structure with mostly improvised, instrumental tunes, riding his 12-string all the way to hill-country heaven.

In some ways, removing Parr’s deliberate narrative from the equation opens up this record to even greater dramatic landscapes. The songs ebb and flow and swirl like the sea, and four stretch past the eight-

minute mark, finding unlikely similarities with postrock outfits like Sigur Ros. The two-parts of “I Dreamed I Saw Paul Bunyan Last Night” are highlights, equally spooky and seraphic. Collaborator Alan Sparhawk lends some minimalist electric guitar to the tracks but mostly it’s just Parr, his guitar and a slide, wordlessly communicating with sprawling beauty and emotional depth. This might not be the ideal starting point for Parr beginners, but it’s a mesmerizing journey nonetheless. (Jed Nussbaum) Charlie Parr plays the Top Hat with Betse Ellis of The Wilders Fri., April 4, at 10 PM. $12/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

Beats Antique, A Thousand Faces, Act 1 Beats Antique has a vision. The three-piece San Francisco electronic outfit has never been content to rest in the land of wub and glitch, instead incorporating cross-cultural sounds and live instrumentation and touring with a bombastic roadshow highlighted by member Zoe Jakes’ seductive belly dancing. With A Thousand Faces the band has pushed the vision further, creating a concept album to go along with author Joseph Campbell’s 1949 exploration of the monomyth The Hero with A Thousand Faces.

“Overture” is a sultry call to the dance floor that shakes things up immediately, though much of what follows is a more downtempo affair. Surprises abound,

like Les Claypool lending his signature dementia-infused bass to the oily track “Beelzebub.” “Doors of Destiny” is the only real weak, link as a campy gameshow dialogue briefly gives way to standard dubstep.

But it’s mostly high-brow stuff here, and while not weighing in as the group’s most energetic release, the album’s dynamic enough to warrant repeated listens.

A Thousand Faces is only one way to experience the band. By the looks of their tour teaser on YouTube, their Missoula show will be a circus. (Jed Nussbaum) Beats Antique plays the Wilma Wed., April 9.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$20 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and eventbrite.com.

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When I hear the affected warble in Malkmus’ voice, I expect to hear Pavement’s laconic and urgent take on classic rock. But when it’s a Jicks album, like Wig Out at the Jagbags, I get something else—something impossible to anticipate. “Lariat”, a three-minute pop song with dumb-fun lyrics such as “We lived on Tennyson/ and venison/ and the Grateful Dead,” would probably sound best in your beat-up sedan, with the windows rolled down.

Then, in a completely different vein, there’s “J Smoov,” a sleepy R&B track with a catchy horn part and swelling electronic-sounding strings.

I won’t pretend to have listened to every Jicks album, front to back, but Wig Out at Jagbags is the best I’ve heard. There are a few misses like “Rumble at the Rainbo,” a preening and often irritating rock song featuring some majorly out-of-place ska riffs. But mostly it’s hits, right where Malkmus has always aimed: at your teenage brain, where being clever and having fun are the same thing. (Ted McDermott) Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks play the Top Hat Sat., April 5, at 9 PM along with Speedy Ortiz. $18/$16 at Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

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Lush nightmare Harun’s dark fables reinvigorate a genre

by Michael Peck

I recently watched “Top of the Lake,” Jane Cam- arrived to meet us—the bunch of us—in person.” It appion’s dark Australian miniseries starring Elisabeth pears to be a fable about disappearances, but it is more Moss, the person I know only as “Peggy” from “Mad about people suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

Men.” It’s a haunting crime drama about a backwater Insofar as cohesiveness is concerned, A Man Came town overripe with secrets. All of it converges around Out of a Door in the Mountain doesn’t have it. Instead, a young girl’s disappearance—the catalyst that sends Harun gives us a lyrical series of ominous folktales Moss’ character, a detective, back to her hometown to wrapped in small-town desperation and ennui, told uncover layers of upsetting info about herself. If you through the lens of teenagers caught in mystical turmoil. were to transpose a lonely British Columbian town for An atmosphere of strangeness pervades every one of the the Outback, a teenaged boy for the detective and add author’s scenes: The sudden arrival of Hana Swann, many disappearances Kevin Seven and his instead of one, you magical cards and Leo’s would have A Man dying prophet Uncle Came Out of a Door in Lud, telling tall-tales that the Mountain. just might be coming Adrianne Harun’s true before Leo’s eyes. debut novel, the followEach of Harun’s people up to her acclaimed is fleshed out with maxstory collection, The imum sureness and poKing of Limbo, touts itetry, basking in the self as a horror mystery, well-placed details of and in fact contains all everyday life. A Man the trappings of the Came Out of a Door in genre: the Mountain’s narrative 1) A cursed highuntidiness is exactly way, dubbed the Highwhat makes it so unway of Tears, from nerving. Often intense, which Native women now and then cryptically are vanishing without a maddening, this is magtrace ical realism filled with a 2) A rogue’s gallery whole new breed of of colorful characters ready-made archetypes. seemingly yanked from It’s rural noir meets an unaired season of Carl Jung, with a dash of “Twin Peaks” physics thrown in for 3) An intricate good measure. scheme to murder a Evil is the theme of meth dealer and his A Man Came Out of a cohorts Door in the Mountain, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain 4) Possible incarnabut it’s a modern, Adrianne Harun tions of the devil, in the oblique kind—an evil paperback, Penguin 272 pages, $16 guise of the unlikely that drinks too much and named Hana Swann drives around in pickup with her “bone-white trucks in the middle of skin” and Kevin Seven, who performs fantastical leg- nowhere. While many situations and people evolve erdemain with playing cards; an apparition dubbed the and fade rather randomly—the man who came out of Snow Woman a door in the mountain appears in one of Leo’s uncle’s 5) One dive motel, a seedy diner and spooky tales, and then again toward the end, but has little to woods, among other locales do with the central plot—the ones who linger are as Yet A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain bizarre as they are memorable. Interweaving the thrust is anything but your standard someone-goes-missing of the story with brief, almost snarky interludes detailtale. Even to call it a mystery is misleading. Harun’s ing the devil’s doings, Harun’s work is less cinema and protagonist is a 17-year-old half-German, half-Kitselas more mural. The disappearances on Highway 16 are boy named Leo Kreutzer, although the book gives barely touched upon, but, as Leo Kreutzer says and as about as much time to his four friends, each on the Harun explores throughout, “People go missing. That’s path to some kind of epiphany and/or self-destruction. not news, it turns out. It’s how they get lost that’s of There’s Bryan, who decides to kill the local meth king- interest.” A dense and mythic coming-of-age allegory, pin; Bryan’s sister Ursie, who works at the P & P Motel, equal parts fanciful and horrifying, it’s a bad dream where men take out their rage on the rooms; Jackie, worth having. “stinking of sour milk and old gravy” from her shifts at Adrianne Harun reads from A Man Came Out the logging camp; and, finally, Tessa, Leo’s supersti- of a Door in the Mountain at Shakespeare & Co. tious love interest. Opening with the five of them Tue., April 8, at 7 PM. Free. shooting rats at a refuse station, the novel soon spirals into a surreal fairytale whirlwind when “the devil first arts@missoulanews.com

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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY Public Review Period for the Draft Missoula Bridges Planning Study

Next con Leila del Duca dreams big with Shutter comic

The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is initiating a public review period for the draft Missoula Bridges Planning Study report. The review period will extend from March 18, 2014, to April 18, 2014.

The Missoula Bridges Planning Study is a pre-environmental study that allows early planning-level coordination with community members, stakeholders, resource agencies, and other interested parties.

The study will assist in facilitating a smooth and efficient transition from transportation planning to future project development/environmental review, if any, based on need and funding availability.

This is a planning-level study and will not include design or construction.

by Josh Wagner

An electronic version of the draft report will be posted to MDT's website on March 18, 2014: http://www.mdt.mt.gov/pubinvolve/missoulabridges/documents.shtml

Print copies of the draft report may be viewed, beginning March 18, at: • MDT Rail, Transit, and Planning Division Office (2960 Prospect Avenue; Helena, MT); • Missoula Public Library (301 East Main; Missoula, MT); • MDT Missoula Districtd Office (2100 W. Broadway; Missoula, MT); and • City of Missoula Development Services Office (127 West Spruce; Missoula, MT).

Community participation is a very important part of the process, and the public is encouraged to provide comments. Written comments may be submitted by mail to Sarah Nicolai, DOWL HKM, P.O. Box 1009, Helena, MT 59624; by email to snicolai@dowlhkm.com; or online at http://www.mdt.mt.gov/pubinvolve/missoulabridges/comments.shtml

An excerpt from Leila del Duca’s Shutter

A few years ago, Leila del Duca was ready to give up on comics. As a comic artist based in Missoula, del Duca had been traveling to comic conventions around the country for four years trying to catch a break. During that time she’d picked up a few odd jobs drawing independent comics, but nothing she considered satisfying or noteworthy. And so, in 2012, she decided to make one final attempt at getting into the game. She flew to New York City, home of DC and Marvel (aka “The Big Two”), to attend New York City Comic Convention, the mother-of-all annual meetings for comics creators and fans.“New York was going to be my last con,” she says.

Then she met writer Joe Keatinge.

Keatinge has worked with both Marvel and DC in the past, having penned a few Batman and Spiderman comics. He had also been making his own way as an independent creator since his 2010 Eisner Award-winning anthology Popgun. He was impressed with del Duca’s work.

“He was the only professional who actually liked my portfolio and genuinely wanted to work with me,” del Duca says.

A few months after they met at the convention, he called her up and asked if she wanted to work on a project he was writing called Shutter. It’s the story of Kate Christopher, a 27-year-old woman whose father was once a world explorer. When Kate was little, her dad would take her with him on adventures to places as far off as the moon. After he died, she stopped adventuring and tried to find a normal life in an unusual future reality full of mythical creatures.

In other words, it was right up del Duca’s alley. Her answer? “Yes, please.”

Image Comics (Spawn, The Walking Dead) recently released Shutter Issue No. 1. To give you some idea of the fantastical landscape del Duca works with, it features a talking cat, lizard people having coffee on the veranda, a minotaur on the subway and alligator bellboys.

“It’s my dream project,” del Duca says.

She traces her passion for drawing strange creatures back to her childhood.

“I’m drawing people with wings right now,” she says. “Back when I was a kid I would draw mash-ups

like that all the time. Lots of dogs and cats with wings.” It’s also the kind of thing you see in her favorite comic to read these days: Hellboy.

Del Duca’s interest in comics started when she was a teenager at Billings Senior High. She mostly read Webcomics back then, strips like Demonology 101 and Sluggy Freelance. She didn’t get into graphic novels until college. That’s when she fell in love with Craig Thompson’s 2003 award-winning autobiographical graphic novel Blankets, along with more fantastical books like Scott Pilgrim and the Flight Anthology. Now on the other side of the shelves, she’s found the comics industry warm and inviting. “Especially being a female,” she says. “People want more female voices and more diversity in comics. It’s been rare that I meet a jerk at all, and I’ve never been hit on or sexually harassed.”

Poised with someone like Keating, del Duca’s career has a solid chance of taking off, but she’s not the type to forget her roots. She credits Montana with giving her a professional outlook and strong work ethic, as well as aesthetic inspiration. “I prefer drawing organic shapes,” she says. “I’d rather draw a forest than a city.”

In fact, one of her current projects is about as local as it gets. She’s working on a book with artist Anthony Gregori for Ice Bridge, a new downtown Missoula brewery. The story is about a beer god’s daughter who teams up with a mortal chef to create the best burger in the land. Their adventures lead them to Montana. ( You can check out some of the early art at icebridgebrewing.com.)

On April 9, del Duca will be sketching and signing issues of Shutter No. 1 at Muse Comics along with two other local comics creators, Gregori (Throwback) and Tim Daniel (Enormous, Cursed). All three of them just got back from rubbing elbows with other pros at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. As it turns out, that 2012 New York convention wasn’t del Duca’s last con; it was just the beginning.

Leila del Duca signs issues of Shutter at Muse Comics Wed., April 9, from 4 to 7 PM with Tim Daniel and Anthony Gregori, who present their own comic projects. Visit leiladelduca.com.

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Murder magic Budapest reveals an Anderson masterpiece

by Molly Laich

Red room! Red room!

Since 1996, Wes Anderson has been creatively fit enough to give us a new feature film every few years, and every one of them has been excellent. With his latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, the writer/director has made a story with equal parts weight and levity. It’s a brutally hilarious script, plus the body count has never been higher. I have a particular fondness for severed heads, and (spoiler) this film has at least one.

The movie opens in what appears to be the 1980s, with a Margot Tenenbaum-like teenager worshipping the eponymously named fictional book. (Now would be a good time to dust off your Wes Anderson movie tropes bingo card.) Next we see the book’s author in old age, played by Tom Wilkinson, who tells a documentary camera the story of himself as a young writer ( Jude Law). The younger writer visits the still grand but somewhat decaying hotel in the 1960s. He meets the hotel’s owner (F. Murray Abraham), who we learn was once the lobby boy. Now, over a decadent meal of duck and rabbit, the eccentric old man tells the story to the young author of the fake book that’s been adapted into the movie we’re watching. Does it really need to be a movie of a made-up novel inside an anecdote inside a documentary? Probably not, but it’s easier to follow than it sounds.

Finally I get to tell you about the concierge M. Gustave, played by Ralph Fiennes, and I’m delighted to do so because he might be one of Anderson’s warmest and most likable characters to date. An exceedingly proper man, he takes care of the hotel with the touch of a meticulous mother. He micromanages everything, from the training of his staff to a bouquet of flowers buzzing past. “These are unacceptable,” he says. In this fastidiousness, I think we’re getting a glimpse of Anderson’s personal aesthetic. He longs for a world filled with symmetrical framing, where everything and everyone is beautiful and interesting. Finding that lacking in real life, he consoles himself and us with highly stylized motion pictures.

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Gustave has a penchant in particular for rich, blonde, elderly guests. He might seem like a gold digger until he says to one in particular, “I love you,” and you know he’s speaking an uncomplicated truth. Later he explains, “I go to bed with all my friends.” Tilda Swinton plays the old woman who will wind up the dead subject of the novel’s central murder/mystery. I didn’t recognize her. It might be the best makeup work I’ve seen, although I can’t help but quibble that it’s a little unnecessary, what with real-life 84-year-olds existing all around us. I read that Angela Lansbury had the part at one point, which I would have preferred, but never mind.

A lobby boy named Zero has just been hired, played by a fine young actor named Tony Revolori.

More than anything else, The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the tender friendship that forms between Gustave and his tutelage. It’s the early 1930s and Zero is so named because he’s lost his entire family in the war, and there again is a bit of the serious undercurrent in what is mostly a fast-paced, jovial story.

I haven’t even begun to tell you about M. Gustave’s eventual incarceration. He’s innocent of course, but try telling that to his money-hungry family, headed up by Dmitri (Adrien Brody) and his thuggish henchman ( Willem Dafoe). Watch with rapt attention how Gustave manages to win over the tough guys in the prison cell. He gets in a fight with one as an initiation, and then calls his opponent “a dear friend.”

There’s a prison break, high speed chases down ski slopes, immigration fights on trains and tons of cameos from faces both familiar and new to the Anderson universe that I will leave you to discover yourself.

In a career of nothing but good movies, The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of Anderson’s very best.

The Grand Budapest Hotel opens at the Wilma Fri., April 4.

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OPENING THIS WEEK BREADCRUMB TRAIL Follow the Louisville indie band Slint and the making of the seminal 1991 Spiderland, known as one of the best albums of the ‘90s. Interviewees include Steve Albini, Todd Brashear and Ian MacKaye. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Theater April 4-6 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Steve Rogers and his jawline are just trying to keep on the down-low in modern-day Washington, D.C., but must team up with the Black Widow to fight off assorted villainous mischief.

Starring Chris Evans, Frank Grillo and Sebastian Stan. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

DAKOTA 38 A Native spiritual leader and a group of riders travel 330 miles on horseback to heal and mark the anniversary of the mass execution of Dakota Indians in Minnesota. Screening at the Roxy Theater Wed., April 9 at 7 PM, with Q&A and discussion to follow as part of the Indigenous Cinema Series.

FREELOAD Missoula-based filmmaker Daniel T. Skaggs took the hands-on route in documenting the ups, downs and super gnarly sides of the modern young train-hopping life. Missing teeth and foot infections included. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Theater April 4-6 at 7 and 9 PM. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Quirk-lovers rejoice, Wes Anderson brings us the lighthearted adventures of a mid-1930s concierge and a lobby boy. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham and Mathieu Amalric.

Rated R. Wilma. (See Film.)

PURPLE RAIN The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince stars as a headstrong young musician trying to make it big. Time has not served this film well, trust me, but The Purple One is fabulous enough to make up for it. Also starring Apollonia Kotero and Morris Day. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Theater Thu., April 3 at 7 PM.

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Take me with U. Purple Rain screens Thu., April 3 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

compete as an adult. Starring Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn and Allison Janney. Rated R. Carmike 12.

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

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

ENEMY A professor sees his doppelgänger in a film and goes searching for him. Described as “artsy garbage” by IMDB reviewers, so sign me up.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon. Rated R. Wilma.

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

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

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

BAD WORDS A man scarred from a childhood of losing spelling bees finds a loophole and decides to

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS A singer-songwriter dude in 1961 Greenwich Village wears neck scarves and tries to make it

big. I think I saw this before on the Your Dad, the Original Hipster blog. Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. Rated R. Wilma.

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington and Terrence Howard. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

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

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

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

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

NOAH God proves how much he loves earth by wiping a ton of life off it. Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Hopkins. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

SABOTAGE Listen all of y’all, it’s a sabotage when members of a DEA task force are targeted by a drug cartel.

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Boxed and blended

by Ari LeVaux I know a good wine when I taste it, but I’ll drink mediocre wine if it’s in front of me, next to some lusty, fatty, protein-rich meal. Food is where I spend my money and do my fussing.

And while decent wine is preferable, I don’t allocate much brain space to keeping track of wine labels, and I am pretty worthless at giving specific recommendations. That said, put me in a wine store and I can find the best cheap wine.

Here are my three top tips for getting the most wine for your buck.

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1: The blend is your friend The word “varietal” means the wine comes from a particular variety of grape, such as cabernet or merlot.

Varietals are a recent development in the wine world, and exist primarily in the Western Hemisphere. Back in the Old World, wines were always categorized by the region they come from, such as Bordeaux in France.

Making wines from just one grape variety is a bit nerdy, in a good way. I can see how a wine enthusiast could get off on comparing different wines made from the same variety of grape, and become an expert on, say, pinot noir. You’d get to know that grape intimately, and learn how it does in different regions, in different years.

Still, I resonate with the European model, in which a village would come together around the wine press and stomp all of their grapes together. Throwing all the grapes together produced wines with more rounded, if generic flavor, thanks to the diversity of constituents. I can live with generic, as long as it’s not too oaky or vinegary or musty. If the wine is smooth and low profile, I’m set.

Wine makers who blend their grapes have more tools at their disposal than when working with varietals.

Freedom to blend allows a skilled vintner to tweak the flavor in any direction allowed by the grapes at his disposal, to the point where it almost seems like cheating.

Blended wines, often labeled “table wine,” are some of the best wine values around, as you’re not paying for the prestige or hassle of varietals.

Unless you’re some fancy expert who knows exactly what you want in a varietal, you’re playing a game most likely to end with you paying more for a bottle that is less satisfying than a cheaper blend would be.

2: Think outside the bottle Boxed wines have a bad reputation that started when some truly awful wines were first packaged this way. But boxes are no longer where bad wines go to die.

Boxed wine uses a Bladder in Box, or BiB, system, in which the wine occupies a plastic bladder within the cardboard box. Despite boxed wine’s rap,

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there is nothing inherent in BiB technology that conflicts with wine quality. In fact, thanks to the one-way valve and collapsible bladder, no oxygen is allowed to touch the wine. As the volume of wine shrinks, the bladder inside the box shrinks with it, snuggly containing the dwindling volume of wine inside. Most BiBs are guaranteed a six-week lifespan once opened, while an opened bottle’s lifespan is a matter of days.

Savvy campers have known for years that boxed wine is a no-brainer for backcountry boozing. There’s no risk of broken glass or wine spills in your backpack, and no big heavy bottle to pack out. You don’t even need to bring the box part, or you can use it to start a fire.

The one clear advantage that bottles have over boxes is with long-term storage, aka cellaring. BiB packaging is not conducive to this stockpiling, and accordingly, the wines that are packaged in boxes aren’t designed to be aged. If you’re in the 1 percent of oenophiles who can afford to keep wine as a hobby, you should probably stick to bottles.

But according to betterwinesbetterworld.com, a full 99 percent of wine consumption is intended for use within six months of purchase. If this 99 percent all drank boxed wine, according to the website, that would be the equivalent in carbon savings of taking 250,000 cars off the road, while eliminating 941 million tons of glass.

The packaging in a three-liter box runs cheaper than packaging for four, 0.75-liter bottles, and one box is much lighter, more compact and of a shape more amenable to shipping than four bottles. Environmental savings like this translate into financial savings, some of which are passed along to consumers, which makes it possible to find some very drinkable wines in three liter boxes at $20 or less, which works out to $5 or less for a bottle.

And not surprisingly, some of best boxed deals are blends.

3: My (patent pending) Ice Cube Blend Here’s a fun party trick: Set up taste tests between red and white wines, and see how many people can tell the difference, blindfolded, between the two colors. Many can’t.

I could, but it was harder than I expected. This led me along a trail of questioning various assumptions I’ve long held about wine. I’ll spare you every twist and turn along this path, and just say that it led me to what I call my ice cube blend.

Put an ice cube in a small cup (not a wine glass).

Add equal parts (cheap, blended) red and white wines. And that’s all. Before you howl in protest, just try my ice cube blend. Then feel free to whine or wine, whichever feels appropriate.

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El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

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

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Organic French Roast Fair Trade $10.95/lb.

BUTTERFLY 232 NORTH HIGGINS AVENUE DOWNTOWN

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close.

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

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The Frost Rail HAPPIEST HOUR Where you’re drinking: Last year, the Rhino opted to replace the scuffed, dented, initial-encrusted bartop that’s been there seemingly forever. Always looking to push the envelope and try something new, owners Brad Martens and Kevin Head decided to add a little flair that’s caught on at some bars in bigger cities like Las Vegas. It’s called a frost rail—or cold rail, or frost strip, depending on who you talk to—and it’s pretty freaking ingenious.

Where to put your beer: Drinkers may have already noted the 5-inch-wide, 40-footlong strip of frosted metal running the length of the Rhino’s new bartop. The frost rail is designed to keep your beer ice cold even when the temperature is sweltering. “It’s going to be great in the summertime,” Head says, “especially if someone steps out for a smoke.” The frost rail was installed this January and is set into the bar with cement. Head says the early response has been entirely positive.

What’s keeping it cold: The frost rail works on a cooling system similar to what keeps beer at the same temperature between the keg cooler and the tap. A refrigerant called glycol cycles through the strip maintaining a constant 15 degrees. The cold metal reacts with humidity in the air to create a thin layer of frost. So far the

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

photo by Alex Sakariassen

Rhino is the only bar in Missoula to install a frost rail, Head says, though he hopes other establishments in town will catch on. The next closest frost rail is at the Philipsburg Brewing Company.

“It’s something new and fun,” Head adds. “And it’s great for our customers.”

How to find it: Set your beer, cocktail or martini on ice at 158 Ryman St., and enjoy.

It’s also a great way to scrawl your initials on the bar without defacing it.

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

Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open MonSun 7am-2am. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6?

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

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

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

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

Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

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Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

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

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

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

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

We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. Now serving omelettes and mimosas on Sunday, 11-4. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

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

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Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.

519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door.

7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

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

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Prepare for daring DJs when Boy Burns Bridge, Brass Tacks and Cryptochrome party down at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

THURSDAYAPRIL03 Party like it’s spring break at the Paradiso Journey: NW College Tour, featuring #selfie fans The Chainsmokers and Brillz with Darrius, Just One, Christian Jackson and Como Se Va. Wilma. Doors at 7 PM. $30/$25 in advance at wantickets.com/events/ShowEvent.aspx?eventId=153562.

The Adjudicated Concerts I-IV, part of the Northwest Regional Conference festivities of the American College Dance Festival Association, run April 3 and 4 at 12:30 and 8:30 PM daily. Montana Theatre. Free. (See Spotlight.)

The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon-1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.

Stretch carefully before the Better Joint Health: Making it Happen informational meeting with the Arthritis Foundation and Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. Noon. Free, but register by calling Carrie at 406-203-3020 or cstrike@arthritis.org.

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

nightlife Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free. photo courtesy of Sarah Cass

Playing house. The Lowest Pair plays Monk’s Bar Tue., April 8, along with Dead Pigeons. 8:30 PM. Donations at the door.

A river of pale ale shall run through it while Ten Skip Stone plays folk and bluegrass at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Get the 411 on kickin’ back when Nashville 406 plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free.

It’s going down, I’m yelling timber when the Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

Pogo with caution when Seattle comedy punk band Warning: Danger! plays the VFW, 245 W. Main St, along with No Fancy and Swamp Ritual. 10 PM. $3. (See Arts.)

Boogie to the deep cuts when The B-Side Players bust out with Latin-global-funk at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

FRIDAYAPRIL04 DalyJazz is back in action with another installment of the dinner, drinks and tunefilled evening. Saxophone player Donny McCaslin performs on April 4 and 5. 240 Daly Ave. Suggested donation $40. RSVP to dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Art aficionados and downtown revelers alike can enjoy First Friday, wherein shops, cafes, bars and galleries host free art viewings for all to enjoy. Sometimes there’s totally excellent free wine and snax, too. Runs about 5-8 PM every first Friday of the month. Check out firstfridaysmissoula.blogspot.com and our special listings.

The Adjudicated Concerts I-IV, part of the Northwest Regional Conference festivities of the American College Dance Festival Association, run April 3 and 4 at 12:30 and 8:30 PM daily. Montana Theatre. Free. (See Spotlight.)

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[calendar] Tie up your pony to the hitching post before the Back Country Horsemen convention at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St., which celebrates the 40th year of the organization and the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Runs April 4-6, with speakers, presentations and vendors. Visit bchmt.org.

The CoMotion Dance Project presents a traditional Native American perspective on fire and forest ecology via the Fire Speaks The Land performance. Masquer Theatre. 10:40 AM. Free.

Take the little ones on a trip around the world without leaving city limits at the Children’s Museum of Missoula’s crafty, activity-based Cultural Friday. 225 W. Front St. 11:30 AM-noon.

nightlife Loyola Sacred Heart High School presents the highlights of our next generation of talent at Prudential Montana Real Estate, 314 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM. The Sandpiper Art Gallery in Polson presents Cameras and Color, with paintings and photos from invited artists. Reception from 5-7 PM. It’s spring, so get sprung with Missoula ZooGrass. Friday kicks off

with Blackberry Bushes playing a First Friday reception from 6-8 PM, then free beer (!) and brisket at 8 PM before Without Annette and Blackberry Bushes play at 9 PM. Monk’s Bar. $5/$15 for festival pass.

Get the young’uns thinking local when authors Laura Timblo and Linda Giammona-Eggers read from Goodnight Missoula, a children’s book, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 5:30-7 PM. All the cool kiddos should check out Mismo Gymnastics’s Friday Night Children’s Party, where ages 5-plus play games and explore obstacle courses with guidance. 1900 W. Broadway St. 5:309:30 PM. $25/$20 for members, plus $10 for additional siblings. Limited to 80 kids, so zoom over to mismogym.com or call 728-0908 to sign up ahead of time.

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

Show ‘em your best smize for the annual Project Selvedge fashion design contest at Selvedge Studio.

Fridays on April 4, 11 and 18, with finale on May 2. 6:30 PM. $1.

Aran Buzzas plays his downhome tunes at at Higherground Brewing in Hamilton, 6-8 PM. Free.

Wet your beak with the BassFace Krew’s Fishbowl Friday, featuring DJs Kapture, Layln Tang, Hev-E and Brandon Kahill, all partying in honor of Mark Myriad’s birthday. Badlander. 7 PM. No cover, plus $5 fishbowl drink special.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 7:30-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

It’s hip to be rectangular at the Old Time Square Dance, where you and your buddies are invited to the Downtown Dance Collective’s First Friday shindig. Old-time stringband tunes provided by the Parallellograms. 8 PM. $5.

Andrew Gromiller Band brings its rhythm and blues revue to the Crystal Theatre on April 4 and 5 from 7-10 PM. $15. Advance tickets at andrewgromiller.com.

Try not to imagine Tom Catmull lying on a bearskin rug while he plays tunes at the Symes Hotel. 810 PM. Pass-the-hat donation.

Comedian Adam Ray, who you may remember from Comedy Central shows and “Arrested Development,” performs at the Broadway Bar, 1609 W. Broadway St., along with John Howard. 8 PM. $15/$12 in advance at standupmt.com.

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[calendar] Get the 411 on kickin’ back when Nashville 406 plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Charlie Parr plays the Top Hat, along with fierce, fiddlin’ gal Betse Ellis. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$10 in advance. Check out tophatlounge.com. (See Music.)

Fearsome Seattle psych-posthardcore outfit Gladiators Eat Fire plays the Palace, along with Shramana, Boss Fight and Tsaritsa. 9 PM. $5.

Have a lil fun when the Lil’ Trio plays Sean Kelly’s, along with Cara Schulz. 9 PM. No cover.

This Friday night, do it all again when Joan Zen Band plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours when The Tomcats play the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 9:30 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYAPRIL05 Andrew Gromiller Band brings its rhythm and blues revue to the Crystal Theatre on April 4 and 5 from 7-10 PM. $15. Advance tickets at andrewgromiller.com.

DalyJazz is back in action with another installment of the dinner, drinks and tune-filled evening. Saxophone player Donny McCaslin performs on April 4 and 5. 240 Daly Ave. Suggested donation $40.

RSVP to dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Day two of Missoula ZooGrass features a picking circle from 3:306 PM and evening performances with Josh Clinger and Jed Nussbaum, Ten Skip Stone, Tony Furtado and Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails.

Stage 112. $14/included in $15 festival pass.

Consider that “nonprofit” also means “Girl Scout cookies” when Southgate Mall hosts the Community Nonprofit Day with several local organizations offering information.

10 AM-6 PM. You only got one shot (or, well, two) to see the 1NO: One Night Only Senior Project of Popular Culture and Musical Theatre, a cabaretstyle showcase of dance. Downtown Dance Collective. 3 and 7:30 PM. $5.

The second semi-annual Mission Trash ‘n Treasure Community Sale collects all sorts of neato stuff for your perusal at the St. Ignatius Community Center from 9 AM-3 PM. Proceeds benefit the Mission Valley Ambulance.

If Spontaneous Music By Children doesn’t sound like a punishment to you, then check out University Village Community Center’s 14th season of monthly sessions for parents and kids to dance and see professional performances.

Instruments and snack provided.

10:30 AM, with dancing at 11 and

guest musician around 11:20. $3.50 per child, $2 for additional kiddos. Free for parents. Call Jen at 370-0300 to reserve a spot.

Seven original pieces are on tap for the Dance For Camera screening, part of the American College Dance Festival Association conference, at the University Center Theater. 10:30 AM. Free. (See Spotlight.)

The guild that sews together, stays together, so join Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., at Craft Vigilantes, its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike.

12–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free).

The Missoula Writing Collaborative hosts the one-day ekphrastic (vocab moment: that means “art-inspired”) workshop for children and adults at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture in the PARTV Center.

1-3 PM. Free. Visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

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wins $300, second gets $125 and third is $75. Call 362-4481 for info.

A Dips boogie at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. $5.

John Kelley soothes your brainwaves with the blues at Symes Hotel.

8-10 PM. Pass-the-hat donation.

You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours when The Tomcats play the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 9:30 PM. No cover.

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight.

Now free.

Tell Tom Catmull and Radio Static this song is your jam, now where is my peanut butter when they play the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Squeaky clean Chicago outfit Soap performs a groovy Pink Floyd tribute, with openers Baby Tyger.

Palace. 9 PM. $5.

Find out who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong when the Bop

Have a fling with spring at the Latin Dance Night, featuring beginner lesson at 8:30 PM and party at 9:30. Monk’s Bar. $7/$5 for students. 18-plus.

SUNDAYAPRIL06 The Carla Green Trio gets into the jazzy swing of things at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

And on the third day, the Missoula ZooGrass festival continued to boogie, starting at 8 PM with groups

White Earth Objibwe Nation member Karen Goulet, the director of the Art Department at Salish Kootenai College and an enrolled member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, presents a neato series of paper weaving and quilts at the Missoula Art Museum. Reception from 5-9, artist’s talk at 7 PM.

Don’t raise no needless dust and let The Hasslers cause all the trouble at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Get fancy with Nancy Seiler and her colorful acrylic paintings at A & E Architects, 222 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM.

A bunch of ragtag musicians with who-knows-what kind of instruments get together from 7 to 9:30 PM on the first Sat. of every month for the Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree at the Grange Hall, 1436 South First St. in Hamilton. This month there’s cowboy poetry, jazz and western swing. $3 donations are encouraged. Call Clem at 961-4949.

The Missoula Folklore Society presents a contra dance with tunes by Tra le Gael, upstairs at the Union Hall. Roy CUret has the call.

Beginner workshop from 7:30-8, dancing from 8-11 PM. $9/$6 for members.

The Northwest Regional Conference of ACDFA presents the closing Gala Concert, featuring works chosen from the adjudicated concerts. Two will be picked to perform at the Kennedy Center in June.

Cool beans, eh? Montana Theatre.

7:30 PM. $8. (See Spotlight.)

Pipe up and show off your pipes with the Lambkins Lounge and Casino’s annual Karaoke Contest, Saturdays through April 19. Highway 200 in Lincoln. 8 PM. First place

This is the kind of mass I can really get behind. The Missoula Area Secular Society presents its Sunday M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for lunch at 11:30 AM at the Walking Moustache, corner of Main and Ryman.

Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

It’ll be just like that chill art class you took senior year with Mrs. C.Dubs, except you don’t have to hide your drink in a Mountain Dew bottle during Art on Tap at Montgomery Distillery. Go from blank canvas to frame-able work of art. 2

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Artist Karen Goulet puts on the Saturday Family Art Workshop in colorful paper weaving. Missoula Art Museum, 11 AM-12:30 PM. Free, but register in advance. Call 728.0447 or email reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

Wet your whistle at the Down the Hatch Fishing Festival at the Wilma, featuring fish films from around the world. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $10.

like Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails and the Evergreen Grass Band. Donations at the door/included in $15 festival pass.

Have a memorable time when painter and poet Eveline Maria Smith presents the Remembering Memory collection at the e3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. Ron Dunbar plays tunes at the reception, 5-8 PM. Jewell Case presents Guardians of the Desert, artworks inspired by junkets in national parks across the country, like Glacier and Saguaro, at Butterfly Herbs. 5 PM. The The Dana Gallery hosts Montana Impressions, featuring Bob Whiskey Hooves will be jamming in the alley. Phinney. Reception from on Fri,. April 4 from 5-8 PM. Artist and soil scientist Adelheid West presents Botany of Adornment, a series of wood and ceramic-based pieces using botanical imagery.

Tides Gallery in Bathing Beauties Beads, 501 S. Higgins Ave. Reception from 5-8 PM. Consider Open Space in a new way when Yaak Valley-based oil painter Alan McNiel presents works at the Artist’s Shop, 127 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM.

Check out the expressions when the Dana Gallery hosts Montana Impressions, featuring Bob Phinney. Reception from 5-8 PM. Take the easy way out when mixed media artist David Miles shows The Path of Least Resistance, works inspired by how water shapes our world, at the 4 Ravens Gallery, 248 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM.

I wonder hoo will attend when Blaque Owl Tattoo celebrates its three-year anniversary with works by its in-house artists. 307 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM.

Celebrate the beauty of the Smith River and learn about potential copper mining on its headwaters with a poster release at the Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St. 5 PM.

The 2014 Search for Peace Art Show presents works by all ages of the Missoula community at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., from 5-7 PM.

Photographer Lee Silliman will quite seriously present Bannack Before the Floods at the Dark Room, 135 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM.

Sculptor Abigail McNamara presents place (first draft), works based on muslin fabric, at the Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. Reception from 5-8 PM.

Come for the history, stay for the ales (or the other way ‘round) when the Historical Museum of Missoula displays old-school photos of the Garden City at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 5-8 PM.

It’s an arty “CSI” when Amelia Akerhielm presents Dead Girls, a series of mixed-media works, at Betty’s Divine. 5-8 PM.

Maria Witham showcases oils and mixed media works combining sci-fi and religious iconography at MCAT Studios, 500 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM.

Henna artist Lori Ostertag, of Dea di Luna Custom Arts, presents her work at Your Energy Fix, with tunes from singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne. 415 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM.

Eye will be watching when Kayla Martin presents her solo exhibit, I Only Have Eyes For You, at FrontierSpace, in the alley between Pine and Higgins near Sean Kelly’s. 6 PM.

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[calendar] PM. $32. Email artontapmissoula@gmail.com or call 241-2208 to learn more.

PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.

Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their acoustic instrument, or just sit a spell and listen. Call John at 381-2483. Free.

Bottoms up when WhiskeyDick and Saint Christopher play a hoedown at the VFW, along with Aran Buzzas and the Whiskey Hooves. 9 PM. Cover TBA.

nightlife Knock back some ethanol alcohol for a scientific buzz with the The Missoula Area Secular Society’s viewing party of “Cosmos” with Neil deGrasse Tyson. 501 Lounge in the upstairs of the Iron Horse. Get there and order your dranks at 6 PM and hush up at 7 PM showtime.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30

MONDAYAPRIL07 Sneaky Scots are at the heart of The Great Hip Hop Hoax, about students posing as American rappers. Screening at the Top Hat at 7:30 PM. Free.

The Kathy Kallick Band kicks off the Ruby Jewel Jamboree Series, with a concert of “hot bluegrass and cool originals” at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $20/$86 for season pass. Visit rubyjeweljamboree.com.

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, from noon–8 PM. Rasa O’Neill presents Therapeutic Yoga for Wellness and Healing, with gentle stretches, breath work and guided meditation.

Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent St. Mondays from noon to 1 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 dropin. Ongoing class. Call 721-0033 to learn more.

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25.

Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Liv-

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If all you know of dance is the Macarena, this week in Missoula is definitely the time and place to get a crash course in modern choreography. The Northwest Regional Conference of the American College Dance Festival Association (try saying that three times fast) convenes on the University of Montana campus, with the theme “Converging Communities.” More than 400 dancers from around the country will participate in research presentations, classes and workshops, all hosted by the UM School of Theatre and Dance. (Disclaimer: conference organizer Nicole Bradley Browning is the better half of Indy editor Skylar Browning.)

The conference means members of the public have the chance to watch performances for bargain WHAT: ACDFA Closing Gala Concert WHEN: Sat., April 5 WHERE: Montana Theatre HOW MUCH: $8 MORE INFO: umt.edu/theatredance

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prices all week. The Adjudicated Concerts I-IV take place April 3 and 4 at 12:30 and 8:30 PM each day in the spacious Montana Theatre, and feature new work from 26 different schools.

On Saturday morning, starting at 10:30, the University Center Theater hosts a screening of seven original dance films by students from around the West, including one from UM. (You can get a sneak peak at one of these if you look up “ACDFA Dance for Camera” on YouTube.) Dance experts will give constructive criticism after the screening, which is kind of like watching The Lego Movie and then listening to Peter Travers explain what you just watched.

The conference culminates in the Closing Gala Concert, which features the best pieces from the adjudicated concerts. Check that concert out if you really want to be able to hold your own in a conversation about dance, since two pieces will be chosen for a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in June. (Fun fact to drop: UM dancers won in both 2010 and 2012.) Just remember: You don’t have to know all the right moves to appreciate the stories that people tell through dance.

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[calendar] ing Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2– 3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.

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

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. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

R.N. Michele Sare presents “15 in this Minute: Addressing Childhood Mortality, Aid Equity and the Social Determinants of Health,” as part of UM’s spring global health lecture series. Gallagher Business Building Room 106, 6:30-7:30 PM. Mind your benjamins better with the Money Smart Week: Money Management workshop with Justin Weimer of Waddell and Reed. Missoula Public Library. 6:30 PM. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.

with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-229-0488 to get yourself a spot.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

TUESDAYAPRIL08 Austin’s Americana five-piece Wheeler Brothers play the Missoula Winery, along with North Carolina’s Mandolin Orange. 5646 W. Harrier St. Doors at 7 PM, tunes at 8. $12/$10 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Adrianne Harun reads from her novel, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain, inspired by the real-life disappearances of aboriginal women in British Columbia, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. (See Books.)

Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:158:15 AM Tuesdays.

Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7-9 PM.

Shawn Wathen chats about Marci Shore’s The Taste of Ashes for the latest Marjorie A. Crawford Literature Seminar at Bitterroot Public Library. 9:30-11:30 AM. Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon– 1 PM. Free.

As part of Montana Archaeology Month, UM anthropology professor Doug MacDonald presents Archaeology of the Snake and Lewis Wild and Scenic Rivers. University Center, room 332. 7 PM.

The Board of Crime Control marks National Crime Victims’ RIghts’ Week with a ceremony in Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 1-2:30 PM.

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially

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

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

Get crafty with the MakerSpace Makers’ Ball Session: The Fascinator, where an instructor will help any fashionista make a neat accessory for the upcoming May 10 Maker’s Ball. Missoula Public Library, 6:30-8 PM. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org to learn more.

David Horgan and Beth Lo get jazzy while you get snazzy at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., inside the Florence Building. 710 PM. No cover.

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Veterans and their families and caregivers are invited to the Yoga Warriors class, sponsored by the Learning Center at Red Willow and hosted at The Peak Health and Wellness Center, 150 E. Spruce Street. Free, but limited to 20 participants, so sign up at 721-0033.

The kids these days convene for “Keeping it Wild in the 21st Century: Wilderness for a New Generation,” a discussion with UM students, mentors and program coordinators as part of the spring wilderness lecture series. Gallagher Business Building, room 122.

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endary folk singer remembers getting fan mail from a teenage Prince? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials.

Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. The Lowest Pair, a bluegrass duo with the effervescent Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, plays Monk’s Bar, along with Minneapolis bluegrass outfit Dead Pigeons. 8:30 PM. Donations at the door.

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

Have a top-shelf evening when The Bottom Dollars rock out on the Badlander stage. 9 PM. No cover, plus $3 Montgomery Distillery drink special.

WEDNESDAYAPRIL09 Montana author Craig Lancaster reads from Edward Adrift, his sequel to 600 Hours of Edward, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Ken Silvestro presents Narcissism, Sexuality, and Trauma, a class explaining these traits and how they influence our lives. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Wednesdays through April 9 from noon-1 PM. $100 for the five-week series. Call 721-0033 for registration and info.

Shaima Khinjani, with the Mansfield Center Defense Critical Language and Culture Program, presents “Afghan Women and Children: Silent Victims of Human Trafficking” in University Center oom 326. 12:10-1 PM.

nightlife The UM Gerontology Society hosts a Careers In Aging Student Mentoring Session, where professionals will chat about careers in

Modern dance company Taylor 2 will perform just 4 u at the Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $31/$10 for students. Check out griztix.com.

Discover the secret ingredient when G. Love and Special Sauce plays the Top Hat, along with Ethan Tucker. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:30. $25/$22.50 in advance.

Check out tophatlounge.com. 18plus.

Celebrate Piano Series VII features pianist Robert Satterlee tickling the ivories at the Music Recital Hall.

7:30 PM. $20/$15 seniors/$10 for students.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: Which leg-

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tors folks in leadership and public speaking.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. April 2 features the Trio Noir.

I suspect some spring grass will be sprouting when reggae man Yabba Griffiths plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Perhaps you’ll win big when the Singles of Missoula (ages 45-plus) gather for bingo and drinks at the Lucky Strike. 6-8:30 PM. $6 covers bingo cards and a drink. Call Nancy at 251-3330.

Dolce Canto presents “Summits and Shores”, with guest pianist Nicholas Phillips and soprano Gina Lapka. Music Recital Hall.

7:30 PM. $18/$15 students. Check out dolcecanto.info.

Learn how to prepare everything from infused oils to lozenges to salves at the Beginning Herbal Medicine Making class with clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn. Lifelong Learning Center, 310 S. Curtis St. Meets Wednesdays April 9-30 from 6-9 PM. $55.

Register at 406-549-8765 or visit thelifelonglearningcenter.com.

The 10-Minute Play Festival brings six student-made pieces to the UM PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. Free.

Electro-belly-dance fusion outfit Beats Antique brings the “A Thousand Faces” rockopera tour to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM. $25/$20 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and eventbrite.com. (See Music.)

The Missoula-made documentary Coal Road to China, which explores coal’s effects from Otter Creek to Asia, screens at the Crystal Theatre at 7 and 8:30 PM. Q&A with filmmakers to follow. Donations requested. (See Agenda.)

The Montana Gerontology Society and UM Montana Geriatric Education Center present Louis Tenenbaum, chatting about “Aging in Place: Rethinking Solutions to Staying Home as We Age.” Hilton Garden Inn. 7 PM. Free. Call 552-7329 to learn more.

Harvard lecturer Rowena Xiaoqing He presents “1989 as Watershed: China Since Tiananmen” as part of the University of Montana President’s Lecture Series. Dennison Theatre. 8 PM. If you think your Prince falsetto is good, that’s what matters, dear. Now go forth and rule the school at the Badlander’s Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

All Hail Santa’s little helper when Undun, Blessiddoom and Hemlock play the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 8 PM. No cover.

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

Casting a long shadow. Ethan Tucker plays the Top Hat Tue., April 8, along with G. Love and Special Sauce. 7:30 PM. $25/$22.50 in advance. 18-plus.

THURSDAYAPRIL10 The Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing conference brings together several writers and scholars to talk about the links between literary theory and racialized thinking and history. Events are in the University Center, Holiday Inn Downtown and Shakespeare and Co., Thu., April 10-Sat., April 12. 9 AM-10 PM. Free for UM staff and students. $50 for non-UM affiliates. Visit cas.umt.edu/tip/raceandcreativewriting.

The Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Ronald McDonald House, 3003 Fort Missoula Road. 1 PM. Call Cindy Cone at 728-8283 or Ann Houston at 5438939 for more info. Free.

The MarchFourth Marching Band delivers all of the funky party and none of the Sousa at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $16/$14 in advance. Visit tophatlounge.com.

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

Missoula rock outfit New Old Future plays Stage 112, along with Confidence Man. 9:30 PM. Free. (Trivia answer: Joni Mitchell.)

UM professor Michelle Bryan Mudd presents “How Water Law Can Adapt to Protect the Fishery” as part of the spring seminar on

conservation social science. Forestry Building, room 301. 4:10-5 PM.

nightlife UM art students Claire Melli, Scott Miller and Ellen Walden present their thesis exhibitions in paintings and photographs at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences building. Reception from 5-7 PM. Party down with the UM PhD candidate who helped discover a new species of fish when Mike LeMoine chats about the Cedar Sculpin. Forestry Building, room 305. 6 PM. Free.

Sample the leeks when Porter Creek plays the Top Hat dinner show, starting at 6 PM. Free, all ages.

The four-week Introduction to Herbal Medicine course with clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn presents a whole-body approach to preventing illness and self-care with western herbal medicine. 210 N. Higgins, Ste 318.

Meets at 6 PM on Thursdays until May 1. $145. Call 406-830-0949 or email britta.bloedorn@gmail.com to learn more.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters men-

Get your beards ready to rumble (ladies too) when singer-songwriter White Buffalo and the one and only Chuck Ragan, the Manliest Man in Punk Rock, play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$15 in advance. Check out tophatlounge.com. (See Music.)

Cross-sections of Missoula tuneage collide when Cash For Junkers, Skin Flowers and Ryan Bundy play the Palace. 9 PM. $3.

Wild Coyote Band plays tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9 PM to close.

Band in Motion gets the ball rolling with tunes at Tamarack Brewing Company, 231 W. Front St. 9 PM. It’s going down, I’m yelling timber when the Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

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ike it or not, tourist season will be upon us soon enough, which means lines of idling RVs and SUVs stretching from the entrances of Glacier and Yellowstone National Park. If you want to check out the grandeur of the parks while avoiding the throngs of people, perhaps spring cycling is the way to go. Yellowstone opens 49 miles of park roads from the West Entrance to Mammoth Hot Springs for a brief period every spring; plus, you can always cycle the road from the North Entrance in Gardiner to Cooke City. (Biking season in Glacier won’t start for a few more weeks, and lasts til mid-June when they open the roads for cars.)

The National Park Service warns that cycling in the park is “not to be undertaken lightly,” mind

you. No services are available and cell service is spotty. The roads might still be icy and lined with snowbanks. Critters like bears, elk, wolves and bison are wandering around. You’ll want to pack warm, bring emergency gear, carry bear spray and plenty of food. Park service vehicles and construction rigs will be on the road, too. The benefit, of course, is having one of our national treasures (mostly) to yourself.

—Kate Whittle Spring bicycling in Yellowstone National Park from the West Entrance to Mammoth Hot Springs lasts until motorized vehicle access starts on Fri., April 18. Visit nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/springbike.htm.

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FRIDAY APRIL 4 Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY APRIL 5 The competition will be stiff at the Mannequin Jump at Showdown Mountain. Decorate a dummy to hurl down the slope, or just watch others get in on the fun. Call 800-433-0022 to learn more, or visit showdownmontana.com.

Several organizations are teaming up to host a Reserve Street Bridge cleanup on the riverside.

Volunteers can sign up for an 8 AM-noon or noon4 PM shift. Lunch provided. Call 406-542-0539 ext.

212 to learn more.

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

Five Valleys Audubon goes on an excursion to see waterfowl and early spring migrants returning to the Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge near Stevi.

Meet at the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot at 8 AM for carpooling. Bring a lunch and binoculars; trip returns at 4 PM. Call Terry Toppins to learn more at 214-1194.

Make like a basilisk—commonly known as a Jesus lizard—at the Whitefish Mountain Pond Skim, wherein skiers and boarders get to dress up in a snazzy costume and skim across an 80-foot pond.

Limited to 60 participants, must be 21 and older.

2:30 PM. $40/$30 if you register by March 25. Visit skiwhitefish.com.

SUNDAY APRIL 6 The pattie-loving Missoulians on Bicycles ride out to Stevensville for the 39th Annual Cheeseburger Boogie, a 55-miler departing from Montana Lil’s and Brooks and Reserve at 9 AM, or the Lolo Conoco at 9:30. Call Ray at 239-1448.

TUESDAY APRIL 8 Skier Don Gisselbeck chats about how he’s skied every month since 2005 at the Rocky Mountaineers meeting. Trail Head, 221 E. Front St. 7 PM.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 Bundle up for the breezy Waterworks Hill Wildflower Loop trip with the Montana Native Plant Society, a guided hike to see early spring flora like Dodecatheon and Clarkia pulchellum. Meet at the Waterworks trailhead off Greenough Drive at 6:30 PM. Visit facebook.com/MNPSClarkForkChapter for more info.

Show ‘em your chops at the Naturalist Trivia Night hosted by the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7-8 PM. $4/free for MNHC members.

Tea and cocoa provided; bring your own snacks.

Enjoy a post-race carboload at the Wheat Montana 5K, a flat loop that starts at the Wheat Montana parking lot, 2520 S. Third St. W. at 9 AM. $18/$16 advance. Proceeds benefit the Wild Rockies Field Institute’s scholarships. Registration available at Wheat Montana or Runner’s Edge.

THURSDAY APRIL 10

Missoulians on Bicycles host the NinemileFrank Winkler Memorial outing, a 55-mile trip departing from Mullan Station at 11 AM. Bring lunch ‘n snacks. Call Lech at 207-1225.

The Montana Native Plant Society is out to get you amped for spring flowers with a photography slide of Wildflowers from East of the Great Divide.

Gallagher Business Building, room L09. 7:30 PM.

Party down with the UM PhD candidate who helped discover a new species of fish when Mike LeMoine chats about the Cedar Sculpin. Forestry Building, room 305. 6 PM. Free.

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Driving around southeastern Montana can feel spooky. The rolling landscape around Otter Creek is stark, beautiful and painted in monochromatic tan and brown colors for much of the year. The people there, mostly ranchers and Northern Cheyenne Indians, live in small clusters of settlements. Unless you’re looking for it, you’re not likely to drive by the biggest marker of industrial development in the area: the isolated, enormous coal-fired power plant in Colstrip.

It’s funny to think of how this stark, windy land is a focal point of heated political discussion, and its fate is tied to factories in China and the very health of our planet. The documentary Coal Road to China explores the facets of the coal export industry, from Otter Creek to Asia. The film, personally financed by members of Montana Elders for a Livable Tomorrow, interviews Powder River Basin ranchers, doctors, Native Americans and even a former coal mine manager. The filmmakers present two screenings at the Crystal on April 9, where some of the folks interviewed will be around to provide updates. They’ll

be taking donations, too, to help show Coal Road around the state. What happens in a remote corner of Montana has big implications for the world; it’s worth keeping our eye on it.

—Kate Whittle The Montana-made documentary Coal Road to China screens at the Crystal Theatre Wed., April 9, at 7 and 8:30 PM. Q&A with filmmakers to follow. Donations requested.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY APRIL 3 The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.

Stretch carefully before the Better Joint Health: Making it Happen informational meeting with the Arthritis Foundation and Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. Noon. Free, but register by calling Carrie at 406-203-3020 or cstrike@arthritis.org.

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

SATURDAY APRIL 5 Several organizations are teaming up to host a Reserve Street Bridge cleanup on the riverside. Volunteers can sign up for an 8 AM-noon or noon-4 PM shift. Lunch provided. Call 406-5420539 ext. 212 to learn more.

Consider that “nonprofit” also means “Girl Scout cookies” when Southgate Mall hosts the Community Nonprofit Day with several local organizations offering information. 10 AM-6 PM. Help out a whittle at the second annual Prune the Moon, where volunteers are asked to help prune the apple trees at the Moon-Randolph Homestead, 1515 Spurlock Road. 9 AM-5 PM. Bring whatever climbing and pruning gear you’ve got, but you can borrow some, too. Lunch provided. Contact Matthew LaRubbio at moonrandolph@gmail.com or 406-728-0451.

Yar, matey, the Community Crab Feed supports the Hamilton Downtown Association and activities like parades and Daly Days. Cocktail hour at 5:30 PM, dinner at 6:30. $30. Attendees encouraged to wear pirate outfits for the costume contest.

SUNDAY APRIL 6 This is the kind of mass I can really get behind. The Missoula Area Secular Society presents

its Sunday M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for lunch at 11:30 AM at the Walking Moustache, corner of Main and Ryman. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

MONDAY APRIL 7 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, from noon–8 PM. Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

Mind your benjamins better with the Money Smart Week: Money Management workshop with Justin Weimer of Waddell and Reed. Missoula Public Library. 6:30 PM. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.

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

The Board of Crime Control marks National Crime Victims’ Rights’ Week with a ceremony in Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 1-2:30 PM.

THURSDAY APRIL 10 Community Medical Center hosts a livestream of Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss, part of the 21st annual Hospice Foundation Teleconference. Gallagher Board Room, 2827 Fort Missoula Road. Noon-2:30 PM. Call Aylett at 7288848 for more information.

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SAVE THE WAILS Are guys scared of politically active women? My boyfriend of two months just broke up with me over my support for animal rights, and I've generally had difficulty keeping boyfriends because of this.

This boyfriend was bothered by two incidents. In the first, I got into an argument about zoos with one of his friends at a party. Another time, we were driving alongside a car with a pro-hunting bumper sticker, and I rolled down my window and shouted something to the driver. I'm trying to do good—protect creatures without a voice. Does that mean I don't deserve a boyfriend?

—Yes, I Stand For Something Men tend to like it when a woman screams passionately, but it's less sexy if what she's screaming is "McDonald's is murder!"

But, wait—you're trying to do some good; don't you "deserve" a boyfriend?

You, like the rest of us, deserve not to be run over by a truck. The Declaration of Independence also spells out that "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" stuff we're all supposed to get. That's right; you have a right to chase happiness. It doesn't get delivered to your door. ("Sign here, please.") And the reality is, every requirement you have for a boyfriend and every, well, nonstandard practice you have (like Wicca, being a serious Civil War re-enactor, or a hobby of throwing fake blood on people in fur) narrows your options. The size of a person's dating pool is determined by their level of hotitude factored with how hard they are to be around. (An annoying 9 might still have many romantic opportunities, though with limited staying power.)

And just a guess, but for at least some of these guys who dumped you, maybe the problem wasn't so much your support of animal rights as it was your lack of boundaries in expressing it. Even a guy who's with you in principle on sticking up for Bambi and the lab rats might not be comfortable with your transforming every social gathering into an animal rights protest rally. Also, consider that there's a difference between speaking your mind and yelling it out the window at someone who has announced in writing on their vehicle that they are likely armed.

In other words, you can refuse to ever bend your principles, or you can have a man in your life. This isn't to say you have to start wearing snow leopard legwarmers and eating baby seal McNuggets; you

probably just need to divide the world into political and social forums. Social forums would be reserved for pleasant cocktail party conversation—even if a guy is gnawing meat off a skewer and you long more than anything to stick him in the eye with it and say, "See how you like it!"

When you start dating somebody new, ask him what his comfort zone is regarding your activism, and either respect the boundaries he needs or be honest if you can't or won't. If you come to see a relationship as a party of two, each of whose needs matter, there's a good chance you'll find a guy who'll at least be there to bail you out of jail—maybe for years to come—until you two finally retire to the country to run a lentil rescue.

(Some say they scream when you drop 'em in boiling water.)

SNOT TO TROT I'm dating a guy who's in the neighborhood of perfect.

The problem is his nose. He picks it. Semi-frequently. He isn't doing major digging, just more inner nostril scraping than I'm comfortable with.

I don't want to tell him he's grossing me out, but I also can't deal with witnessing regular daily nose-picking.

—Yuck If you're inspired to buy something for your new boyfriend to wear, it should be a sweater that shows off his broad shoulders, not a nose guard to keep his finger from scampering up to Booger Hollow. If his excavations aren't largely absentminded, chances are he has some rationalization, like that it doesn't count as nose-picking unless it involves more than a half-inch of finger. Well, it counts for you, and you need to let him know. To send the message with a minimum of humiliation, wait till you catch him in action, and use a light touch: "Checking that nobody's made off with your sinuses?" or "Do you store passwords up there?" This should be one of those cases in which a guy is quick to take the hint—lest you be too grossed out to have sex with him. Sure, when you're dating somebody, you want to know what's going on in their head, but you really don't want to see them up there rooting around for it.

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COLLECTION SUPPORT CLERK 1 CBM COLLECTIONS, INC is seeking a COLLECTION SUPPORT CLERK. Position requires a high school diploma or equivalent. Application REQUIRES a 3minute Job Service Typing test with a minimum typing speed of 50 WPM (net). Must be computer literate, experience with Microsoft Word and Excel is considered helpful. Must be a go-getter, multi-tasker and have the ability to take direction easily. Requires organizational and communication skills. Position includes retrieving demographic and asset information, logging mail into database, filing, answering phones, and other clerical duties as needed. Will retrieve and copy documents from storage and legal files. $9.00 - $9.25 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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EMPLOYMENT October. Qualifications: Must be able to work weekends, work any shift from 7 00am to 9 30pm. days and shifts will vary. Must have excellent customer service skills. Duties: Make tee times, handle cash, restock merchandise, clean club house and bathrooms and other duties as assigned. $8.00 Hourly.

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Route Driver SS STAFFING, INC. Septic company is looking to hire a route driver. This position requires a clean drivers record and candidate must be able to pass a drug screening. Must be able to work various hours including working over time and be on call. Primary duties will be delivering and maintaining/cleaning porta potties.

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Loan Officer - Financial Service Rep HORIZON CREDIT UNION. Serve as liaison between the member and the credit union. Provide account information in person or by phone as well as information on the full range of credit union products and services.Please review our website for more specific details. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10038726

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PROFESSIONAL CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED FOR LOCAL HAULS • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406493-7876 COMBINATION INSPECTOR PLANS EXAMINER COUNTY OF MISSOULA Seeking a regular, full-time COMBINATION INSPECTOR PLANS EXAMINER. Requires a Bachelor’s Degree. Degrees best suited for this position are engineering or architecture. Requires certification by the International Code Council (ICC), as a Plans Examiner: and certification as Commercial Combination Inspector.

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GROCERY STOCKER ROSAUERS. EXPERIENCED GROCERY STOCKER needed! MUST HAVE 6+ MONTHS STOCKING EXPERIENCE; preferably grocery stocking experience. Will primarily be stocking shelves and assisting with unloading trucks. **MUST PASS BACKGROUND CHECK AND DRUG TEST!** WAGE: $9.00 per hour OR more DOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10038689 Legal Assistant/Paralegal ATTORNEYS INC PC. Small, fast-paced law firm seeks a legal assistant/paralegal for long-term employment. This position requires high proficiency in word processing, internet usage, and basic office

Optometric Assistant MONTANA FAMILY VISION CARE PC. Assist the lead Optician in selling, fitting, and dispensing sun wear, sports wear, and eye glasses including single vision, bifocal, and progressive lenses. Part-time position, approximately 32 hours a week with full time potential. Salary dependent on education, experience and level of certification if any apply. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10038885 REGIONAL PROGRAM OFFICER DEPARTMENT PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES. Bachelor’s degree in behavioral science, human services, social work, nursing, family science, human development and counseling, education, public health or closely related field. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10038666 Summit Preparatory School on 500 acres in Kalispell is a private, non-profit co-ed therapeutic boarding school for

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VOLUNTEER MANAGER POVERELLO CENTER INC is seeking a full-time VOLUNTEER MANAGER. Prior experience in customer service or civic engagement. Experience in database, spreadsheet, desktop publishing and word processing programs preferred. High School diploma or GED. Valid driver’s license with acceptable driving record and successful completion of a thorough background investigation. Coordinates with Program Directors to identify volunteer opportunities based on programmatic needs. Respectfully facilitates an open, inviting and rewarding environment for volunteers, community members and groups. ***OPEN UNTIL FILLED*** Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Dear Gemini: I don't demand your total attention and I don't need your unconditional approval. I will never restrict your freedom or push you to explain yourself. All I truly want to do is to warm myself in the glow of your intelligence. Can you accept that? I have this theory that your sparkle is contagious—that I'll get smarter about how to live my own life if I can simply be in your presence. What do you say? In return, I promise to deepen your appreciation for yourself and show you secrets about how best to wield your influence. -Your Secret Admirer."

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Cancerian artist Rembrandt became one of the world's greatest painters. It was a struggle. "I can't paint the way they want me to paint," he said about those who questioned his innovative approach. "I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it!" We should be glad the master failed to meet his critics' expectations. His work's unique beauty didn't get watered down. But there was a price to pay. "That is why I am just a little crazy," Rembrandt concluded. Here's the moral of the story: To be true to your vision and faithful to your purpose, you may have to deal with being a little crazy. Are you willing to make that trade-off?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Indian spiritual teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj offered a three-stage fable to symbolize one's progression toward enlightenment. In the first stage, you are inside a cage located in a forest where a tiger prowls. You're protected by the cage, so the tiger can't hurt you. On the other hand, you're trapped. In the second stage, the tiger is inside the cage and you roam freely through the forest. The beautiful animal is trapped. In the third stage, the tiger is out of the cage and you have tamed it. It's your ally and you are riding around on its back. I believe this sequence has resemblances to the story you'll be living in the coming months. Right now you're inside the cage and the tiger is outside. By mid-May the tiger will be in the cage and you'll be outside. By your birthday, I expect you to be riding the tiger.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What is "soul work," anyway? It's like when you make an unpredictable gift for someone you love. Or when you bravely identify one of your unripe qualities and resolve to use all your willpower and ingenuity to ripen it. Soul work is when you wade into a party full of rowdy drunks and put your meditation skills to the acid test. It's like when you teach yourself not merely to tolerate smoldering ambiguity, but to be amused by it and even thrive on it. Can you think of other examples? It's Soul Work Week for you.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you close to anyone who is a catalytic listener? Is there a person who tunes in to what you say with such fervent receptivity that you get inspired to reveal truths you didn't realize you knew? If so, invite this superstar out to a free lunch or two in the coming days. If not, see if you can find one. Of course, it is always a blessing to have a heart-to-heart talk with a soul friend, but it is even more crucial than usual for you to treat yourself to this luxury now. Hints of lost magic are near the surface of your awareness. They're still unconscious, but could emerge into full view during provocative conversations with an empathetic ally.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): On my blog, I quoted author Ray Bradbury: "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." I asked my readers what word they would use in place of "writing" to describe how they avoided being destroyed by reality. Popular responses were love, music, whiskey, prayer, dreams, gratitude, and yoga. One woman testified that she stayed drunk on sexting, while another said "collecting gargoyles from medieval cathedrals," and a third claimed her secret was "jumping over hurdles while riding a horse." There was even a rebel who declared she stayed drunk on writing so she could destroy reality. My question is important for you to meditate on, Scorpio. Right now you must do whatever's necessary to keep from being messed with by reality.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Does your mother know what you are up to these days? Let's hope not. I doubt if she would fully approve, and that might inhibit your enthusiasm for the experiments you are exploring. It's probably best to keep your father out of the loop as well, along with other honchos, cynics, or loved ones who might be upset if you wander outside of your usual boundaries. And as for those clucking voices in your head: Give them milk and cookies, but don't pay attention to their cautious advice. You need to be free of the past, free of fearful influences, and free of the self you're in the process of outgrowing.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the foreseeable future, I urge you not to spend much time wrangling with bureaucrats and know-it-alls. Avoid frustrating projects that would require meticulous discipline. Don't even think about catching up on paperwork or organizing your junk drawer or planning the next five years of your career. Instead, focus on taking long meandering walks to nowhere in particular. Daydream about an epic movie based on your life story. Flirt with being a lazy bum. Play noncompetitive games with unambitious people. Here's why: Good ideas and wise decisions are most likely to percolate as you are lounging around doing nothing—and feeling no guilt for doing nothing.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Our ancestors could see the Milky Way Galaxy spread out across the heavens on every clear night. Galileo said it was so bright, it cast a shadow of his body on the ground. But today that glorious spectacle is invisible to us city-dwellers. The sky after sundown is polluted with artificial light that hides 90 percent of the 2,000 stars we might otherwise see. If you want to bask in the natural illumination, you've got to travel to a remote area where the darkness is deeper. Let's make that your metaphor, Taurus. Proceed on the hypothesis that a luminous source of beauty is concealed from you. To become aware of it, you must seek out a more profound darkness.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera says that the brain has "a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful." In the coming days, it will be especially important for you to tap into this power spot in your own grey matter, Aries. You need to activate and stir up the feelings of enchantment that are stored there. Doing so will make you fully alert and available for the new delights that will be swirling in your vicinity. The operative principle is like attracts like.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you waiting? Are you wondering and hoping? Are you calculating whether you are needed, and if so, how much? Do you wish the signs were clearer about how deeply you should commit yourself? Are you on edge as you try to gauge what your exact role is in the grand scheme of things? I'm here to deliver a message from the universe about how you should proceed. It's a poem by Emily Dickinson: "They might not need me but – they might – / I'll let my Heart be just in sight – / A smile so small as mine might be / Precisely their necessity -"

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will soon get a second chance. An opportunity you failed to capitalize on in the past will re-emerge in an even more welcoming guise, and you will snag it this time. You weren't ready for it the first time it came around, but you are ready now! It's probably a good thing the connection didn't happen earlier, because at that time the magic wasn't fully ripe. But the magic is ripe now!

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PUBLIC NOTICES Christopher W. Froines, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, Terrace West, Suite K, 619 Southwest Higgins, Missoula, Montana 59803 froines@lawmissoula.com 406-541-4940 Attorneys for Plaintiffs MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-14-326 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION CHRIS WARDEN AND LORELEI WARDEN, Plaintiffs, vs. JIM F. AMMEN AND ALICE A. AMMEN, S.F. ERICKSON AND CHRISTINE ERICKSON, QUICKEN LOANS, INC., MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., and all persons claiming any interest in or lien upon the real property herein described or any part thereof, Defendants. TO: The above stated Defendants: This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title in land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: The South 1/2 of The West 15 feet of the East 165 feet of the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 39 of HAMMOND ADDITION NO. 3., a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, which includes the land on which their garage is partially located, and more particularly described as: Commencing at the southeast corner of Block 39, Hammond Addition No. 3, thence N 86º52’22”W, 150.04 feet, to the true point on beginning; thence N 86º52’22”W, 15.00 feet; thence N 03º08’34” E, 36.71 feet; thence S 86º40’42” E, 15.00 feet, thence 03º08’34”W, 36.67 feet to the point of beginning and containing 550 square feet. A lawsuit has been filed against you. Within 21 days after the service of this Summons on you (or 42 days if you are the state of Montana, a state agency, or a state officer or employee), you must serve on the Plaintiff an Answer to the attached Complaint of Motion under Rule 12 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure. Do not include the day you were served in your calculation of time. The Answer or Motion must be served on the Plaintiff or Plaintiff ’s attorney, if Plaintiff is represented by an attorney, whose name and address are listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. You may also file your Answer or Motion with the Court. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said court, this 25th day of March, 2014. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-48 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN LEONARD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Tana Sue Ostrowski and Scott Alen Leonard, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 17th day of February, 2014, in MIssoula, Montana. /s/ Tana Sue Ostrowski, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Scott Alen Leonard, Co-Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-49 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF HAROLD G. KNAPP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karleen Gail Hickock f/k/a Karleen Gail Knapp 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 Karleen Gail Hickock f/k/a Karleen Gail Knapp, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of March, 2014. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-53 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORMAN F. KURTZ, 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Gretchen Murray, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 10th day of

March, 2014, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Gretchen Murray, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-14-46 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUSAN J. SMALLEY, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Karla J. Price, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2014. /s/ Karla J. Price, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 7th day of March, 2014. /s/ Karla J. Price, Personal Representative DATED this 7th day of March, 2014 ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-14-50 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DELMER JACOBSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the 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 Burl Jacobson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 11th day of March, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Burl Jacobson BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Burl Jacobson, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-14-45 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHERYL MARIE MACLAY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the 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 HARRY DAVID MACLAY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of March, 2014. /s/ Harry David Maclay, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representatives. /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-14-44 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: GUSTAF EDLUND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named 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 Eric Edlund, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 6th day of March, 2014. /s/ Eric Edlund, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By: /s/ David H. Bjornson Attorneys for Eric Edlund, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY D. BARMEYER, 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 mailed to BARBARA BARMEYER, return receipt requested, c/o Maser Law Office, PO Box 8688, Missoula, Montana 59807-8688 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of March, 2014. /s/ Barbara Barmeyer, c/o Masar Law Office, PO Box 8688, Missoula, Montana 59807-8688 MASAR LAW OFFICE, By: /s/ James J. Masar

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-59 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOLORES RAPP, 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 mailed to William E. McCarthy, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26th day of March, 2014. WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ William E. McCarthy, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA, MONTANA Cause No. DP-14-35 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHARLES PATRICK GRAHAM, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Bonnie Edith Graham or Alta Marina Graham, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of February, 2014. /s/ Bonnie Edith Graham /s/ Alta Marina Graham STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) I, Bonnie Edith Graham, being duly sworn, upon oath, depose and state that I have read the foregoing and that the facts and matters contained therein are true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. /s/ Bonnie Edith Graham STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) Signed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me this 25th day of February, 2014, by Bonnie Edith Graham /s/ Michelle M. Fontaine, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Bonner, Montana My Commission Expires February 04, 2017 STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) I, Alta Marina Graham, being duly sworn, upon oath, depose and state that I have read the foregoing and that the facts and matters contained therein are true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. Signed this 25th day of February, 2014. /s/ Alta Marina Graham Signed and sworn to (or affirmed) before this this 25th day of February, 2014, by Alta Marina Graham /s/ Michelle M. Fontaine, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Bonner, Montana My Commission Expires February 04, 2017 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/25/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200625650 Book 784, Page 899, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Walter R. Muralt and Nicole A. Muralt was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of Caitlin’s Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 2012010651 B: 895 P: 328, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon fka the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS, Inc., CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust 2006-18, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-18. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 27, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $1,063,858.56. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $926,710.89, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or

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cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 8193.20209) 1002.264415File No. MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/03/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201102369 B: 873 P: 784, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Nancy K. Coleman, A Married Woman was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Sterling Savings Bank, a Washington Corporation, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6227, located in the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 26, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201118745 B:885 P:372, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 14, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $341,775.24.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $293,547.41, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7021.18019) 1002.264905-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 13, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 1 AND THE NORTH ONE- HALF OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK 14 OF BUTTE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 705 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 789. Joe Long, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic

Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 11, 2006 and recorded on October 16, 2006 in Book 785, Page 371 under Document No. 200626757. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. 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 $469.23, beginning June 1, 2011, 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 10, 2014 is $153,441.43 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $8,259.37, late charges in the amount of $182.10, escrow advances of $3,399.88, and expenses advanced of $2,877.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.41 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 3, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )ss. County of Bingham) On this 3rd day of January, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Boa Vs. Long 42019.517 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 19, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel 1 of COS No. 4880. A tract located in the NE1/4 of Section 4, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana George L Stevens and Gertrude L Stevens, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronice Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 25, 2006 and recorded September 29, 2006 in Book 784, Page 168 as Document No. 200624919.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee for Residential Accredit Loans, Inc., Mortgage Asset-Backed Pass- Through Certificates, Series 2007-QS3. 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 $6,847.34, beginning February 1, 2013, 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 23, 2014 is $689,447.70 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $49,381.65, late charges in the amount of $1,816.01, escrow advances of $12,286.63, and other fees and expenses advanced of $292.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $129.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, 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 9, 2014 /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 9th day of January, 2014, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Ocwen V Stevens 42048.218 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 19, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The following described property: In the County of Missoula, State of Montana, The E1/2 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 36, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Assessor’s Parcel No: 0794308 Larry Stolle and Dawn Stolle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 1, 2009 and recorded July 13, 2009 in Book 843, Page 798 under Document No. 200917156. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP. 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 $1,041.67, beginning June 1, 2013, 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 19, 2013 is $177,929.98 principal, interest at the rate of 5.500% now totaling $6191.17, late charges in the amount of $156.24, escrow advances of $1,470.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,502.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.81 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and

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

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 2, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 2nd day of January, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Bac V Stolle 42048.741 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 9, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 117 of Mansion Heights, Phase III, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Andrea L. Moore, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust Dated September 16, 2008 recorded September 22, 2008 in Book 826 Page 973 under Document No 200821789. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $2,530.90, beginning May 1, 2013, 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 28, 2013 is $312,072.93 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $12,051.25, late charges in the amount of $3,700.90, escrow advances of $3,803.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $667.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $50.23 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 18, 2013 /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 18th day of December, 2013, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Citimortgage V Moore 42090.038 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on May 9, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 67 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 2, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA, COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Charles Brian Taylor and Janna M. Taylor, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated December 26, 2007 and recorded December 31, 2007, Book 811, Page 140, as document number 200733268. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ocwen Loan Servicing, 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 $1,333.51, beginning August 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 1, 2014 is $206,242.70 principal, interest at the rate of 6.12500% now totaling $20,001.30, late charges in the amount of $134.14, escrow advances of $6,301.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,295.13, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.61 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 16, 2013 /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 16th day of December, 2013, 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 Mon-

tana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 MAC Vs. Taylor 41965.761 MNAXLP NOTICE TO CREDITORS: MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Dept. No. 1, Probate No. DP-13-173 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH OGLE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jan Ogle was appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jan Ogle, return receipt requested, c/o Elison Law Firm, PO Box 5496, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. March 11, 2014. /s/ JAN OGLE, Personal Representative. /s/ Martin Elison, Tel: (406) 541-6665 Attorney for Personal Representative. MNAXLP SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF WASHINGTON, SPOKANE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JO L. DEVOR, Deceased. No. 14-4-00276-1 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Administrator named below has been appointed as Administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator or the Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) thirty (30) days after the Administrator served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); OR (2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim will be forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the probate assets and non-probate assets of the Decedent. Date of First Publication: March 20, 2014 DORETTA PUTMAN, Administrator c/o Brian P. Knopf, P.C. 221 N. Wall St., Suite 224 Spokane, WA 99201 BRIAN P. KNOPF, P.C. BRIAN KNOPF, WSBA No. 27798 Attorney for Administrator 221 N. Wall St., Suite 224 Spokane, WA 99201-0824 (509) 444-4445 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-00811-5 Loan Number: 40536708 APN: 2061651 Notice of Trustee’s Sale TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 15, 2014 at the hour of 11 :00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 2 in Block 5 of REHDER HOMESITES, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as:2239 42ND ST, MISSOULA,MT NORMA W. PARMITER AND BARBARA E. PARMITER AS JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to ARTHUR F. LAMEY, JR, ESQ, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FINANCE AMERICA, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of July 26, 2004, and recorded on July 29, 2004 in Film No. 736 at Page 1994 under Document No. 200421416, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: U.S. Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation, Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-9 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 14, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 6, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from May 1, 2012 and which payments total: $29,765.25: Late charges: $773.55 Advances: $2,779.21 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $137,744.08 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.13000% per annum from April 1, 2012, plus late charges.

Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale pur-

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s chaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714573-1965 DATED: March 6, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1087072 3/27, 4/3, 04/10/2014 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-00814-5 Loan Number: 70882980 APN: 3568205 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on 7/15/2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 55 OF SWEET GRASS ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 3700 JACK DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT JOHN E SKOUSEN AND SAESHA M SKOUSEN, AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY., as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to NATIONAL LAND TITLE INSURANCE, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR DECISION ONE MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of March 12, 2007, and recorded on March 14, 2007 in Film No. 793 at Page 754 under Document No. 200705939, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee for the registered holders of MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007HE6 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 12, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 6, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from April 1, 2011 and which payments total: $91,054.79: Late charges: $731.71 Advances: $2,733.09 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $308,986.26 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.59000% per annum from March 1, 2011, plus late charges.

Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and 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 theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priority posting.com”www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 Dated March 6, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1087073 3/27, 4/3, 04/10/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 13-00819-5 Loan Number: 7090970059 APN: 1227702 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 30, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, Missoula, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 8 of Hidden Hills, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula

County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as: 24600 FRENCHTOWN FRONTAGE RD, HUSON, MT RICHARD SALES AND RENE SALES, as grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES OF MISSOULA, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR POPULAR FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated March 24, 2004, and recorded on March 29, 2004 in Film No. 728 at Page 1369 under Document No. 200408179, in the records of Missoula County, Montana. (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage PassThrough Certificates Series 2004-3 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the“Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 25, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 20, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from November 1, 2012 and which payments total: $24,604.07: Late charges: $1,404.97 Advances: $7,997.89 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $144,119.67 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.25000% per annum from October 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and 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 theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALESINFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 Dated March 20, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1088664 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 13-01001-5 Loan Number: 7110043929 APN: 5804299 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 29, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: TRACT 5A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3493, LOCATED IN THE EAST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. More commonly known as: 15190 ERSKINE FISHING ACCESS, FRENCHTOWN, MT CHERI LYN DEPHILIPPIS, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E. NOENNIG, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR WMC MORTGAGE CORP., as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of October 4, 2004, and recorded on October 12, 2004 in Film No. 741 at Page 479 under Document No. 200428891, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2004-WMC1 Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-WMC1 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the“Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 24, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 19, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from July 1, 2013 and which payments total: $8,946.81: Late charges: $189.75 Advances: $566.00 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $110,029.39 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.87500% per annum from June 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include

the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED:March 19, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1088668 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 13-01038-5 Loan Number: 705622199 APN: 3996306 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 28, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 25 IN BLOCK 62 OF DALY’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 1632 SOUTH 14TH STREET WEST, MISSOULA, MT DEVEN O’BLENESS AND KEARA O’BLENESS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E. NOENNIG, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR WMC MORTGAGE CORP. , as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated July 19, 2005, and recorded on July 20, 2005 in Film No. 756 at Page 781 under Document No. 200518260, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”) The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for the Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of November 1, 2005 Securitized Asset Backed Receivables LLC 2005-HE1 (the“Beneficiary”).

FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 6, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana.

There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 18, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2013 and which payments total: $5,726.07: Late charges: $162.90 Advances: $2,040.33 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $141,519.22 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 3.00000% per annum from August 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash.

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALESINFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714573-1965 Dated:March 18, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONALTITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1088672 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2014

"I Know It Forward and Backward"–letters in alphabetical order, that is.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 Big ___ (David Ortiz's nickname) 5 One in a million, e.g.

9 Desert Storm missile 13 Robin Thicke's dad 14 Coffee ice cream flavor 15 Mr. Peanut accessory 16 Bubbly popper 17 Stick with Mario (and not that dreadful hedgehog instead)?

19 First name in talks 20 Dandling place 21 Wilder's "Silver Streak" costar 22 Carries out orders 24 Without exception 26 Ford or Rollins 28 Put forth 29 Draw upon 30 Still able to stay awake for a few more minutes?

34 Disposition 35 Kolkata currency 36 Boy in "Toy Story" 40 Why there's now only a huge pile of banana peels left?

43 Tree gunk 46 "Dear" advice giver 47 Some winds 48 Not quite in the majors 50 "Do me a ___" 52 Tank buildup 53 Be slack-jawed 54 Column's counterpart 57 Robot dance caller's instruction to folk dance?

60 Cake laced with rum 61 Lewd look 62 Despotic 63 Roswell sightings 64 Bread heels 65 Meets a bet 66 Recipe part

Last week’s solution

DOWN

1 Accord 2 Sunblock ingredient 3 "Sorry about that" 4 Ballpoint fluid 5 Bench wear 6 Feel sore 7 P, on a frat house 8 Musical knack 9 Contempt 10 Favor asker's opening 11 Labor forces 12 Order from above 14 Loads 18 Bender 20 Janitor's pocketful 23 Bucking beast 24 Dice 25 Lopsided 26 It may be cured 27 Bulldog, schoolwise 28 Opium origin 31 A ___ Called Quest 32 Fitness program based on Latin dancing 33 ___ Lama 37 Annual non-athletic sports event 38 Billy ___ Williams 39 QB gains 41 Van trailer?

42 Eye up 43 Not wobbly 44 Sorkin who voiced Harley Quinn in the Batman animated series 45 Overate, with "out" 49 Figure skating event 50 "___ alive!"

51 National gemstone of Australia 53 School supplies list item 55 Double reed instrument 56 Nesting insect 58 Some notebooks 59 Miner's quarry 60 Student driver?

©2014 Jonesin’ Crosswords editor@jonesincrosswords.com

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REAL ESTATE 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath on corner lot in Canyon Creek Village with 2 car garage. $172,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 5454 Canyon River Drive. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on Canyon River Golf Course. $550,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 5619 Prospect. 5 bed, 4 bath wellmaintained Grant Creek home with 3 car garage. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 716 South 6th West. Classic 3 bed, 2 bath with fireplace, deck, fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 756 Angler’s Bend. 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car gargage on East Missoula golf course. $472,600. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 5329229 tory@montana.com

REAL ESTATE HOMES 1308 Jackson. 3 bed, 1 bath in Lower Rattlesnake. One block from Greeenough Park & Rattlesnake Creek. $289,900.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 102 E Kent $265,000. University 4 bedroom home with character and a 1 bedroom cottage house.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath splitlevel in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-law apartment. $339,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2225 Missoula. 4 bed, 3 bath on Rattlesnake creek with fireplace, outdoor hot tub & Mt. Jumbo Views. $499,000.

David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range.

Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $238,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2609 Old Quarry Road. 4 bed, 3 bath Grant Creek home next to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation & walk trail. $319,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 53-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 2611 Deer Canyon Court. 4 bed, 3 bath with daylight basement, patio,

deck & 2 car garage. $447,500.

Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate.

532-9229 tory@montana.com 29203 Old Hwy 10 West. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 3.39 acres on the Clark Fork River. $539,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3000 Sandalwood. 4 bed, 3 bath with 3 garage on one acre near Clark Fork River. Vickie Hozel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on almost 5 Target Range acres bordering DNRC land. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com 3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard & garage. $225,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4571 Heaven’s Gate. 4 bed, 4 bath Farviews home on 2 acres. $995,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek.

4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $865,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355, milyardhomes@yahoo.com

LambrosERA Real Estate 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail. No HOA fees. $289,000.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 5505 Creekstone. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Grant Creek. $130,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $156,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $158,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 5465816 annierealtor@gmail.com

Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro & Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

Ramp, patio and single garage. $115,000. Vickie Honzel, Lammbros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

LAND FOR SALE

on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana.

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

NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $154,500. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com

53.5 acres overlooking Missoula.

Utilities in place, septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana.

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

Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com

5402 Canyon River Road. Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15,901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Cooley Street Condo 1545 Cooley St. #C. This upper level 2 bedroom condo provides for easy, sweet living close to downtown and has great North Hills views. $128,500 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

COMMERCIAL 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home.

Zoned commercial. $190,000. Prudential Montana.

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

NHN Frontage Road, Alberton. 2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

160 acres in Grant Creek bordered

I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com. Visit my website at www.on93.com Lot 42 Jeff Drive. To be built 2 bed, 2 bath Hoyt home in Linda Vista with 3 car garage. $369,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229. tory@montana.com Ovando House on 1.14 acres Charming 3 bd, 1 ba house with large log shop in the Blackfoot Valley, only 50 miles from Missoula.

Recently remodeled, wood floors, deck, lots of natural light. Productive gardens, aspen groves, outbuildings, even a tree fort! Irrigation off Hoyt Creek, which runs through the property. Beautiful views of the Bob Marshall and Mission Mountains. $195K OBO. 406-793-0028.

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Call 406-542-8644 Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe. $226,500 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard. A home with character! KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 324B North Grant. 3 bed, 2 bath condo with fenced yard & 2 car garage. $174,900. Rita Gray,

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REAL ESTATE Philipsburg Storefront. Remodeled historic building in heart of downtown. $185,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 11901 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo. 2 bed, 2 bath with many upgrades including roof & windows. $197,500. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 1290 Thunder’s Trail, Potomac. 3 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. $795,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered

by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $480,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $249,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. Prudential

Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres. Great mountain views. $335,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com River Access 17430 Six-Mile, $285,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5

Real Estate is not always Black & White Call Rita Gray 406-544-4226

994 Pathfinder $599,000. 330 acres with knock-your-sock-off views East Side Stevi/Florence area with a small house. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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

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

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

REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-2587522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

14905 Ducharme St. Frenchtown $145,000

Tons of potential - residential or commercial use. Current setup 4+ bed/ offices, 1.5 bath. Owner is ready to sell!

2609 Old Quarry Road • $319,000 4 bed, 3 bath in Prospect Meadows next to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation & Grant Creek walking trail.

2200+ sqft. of living area & double garage.

MLS# 20134348

$309,900 1807 Missoula Ave 3 bed, 2 bath, charming cottage like home near Rattlesnake Creek and park. Majestic views of MT Jumbo from the large deck. Newer energy efficient furnace, water heater, vinyl windows and a newer roof.

There's lots of trees and landscaping creating a country retreat in the heart of the Rattlesnake.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MAX• Max

is just a youngster, although he always has such a serious expression on his face that he appears to be much older! He's a bit shy and isn't at all sure that he enjoys living in our kennel, but he's getting friendlier every day, and he certainly likes to be taken for walks.

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just wants to make friends, play as much as possible, and then be cuddled when he finally gets tired out. That might take a while; he has an abundance of energy!

He also has a brand new haircut and is feeling quite handsome.

low! He was already neutered when he came to the shelter, and his coat is in wonderful condition, so we really don't understand why he wasn't reclaimed.

He obviously knows all about being a family pet -- he just needs a new family.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

JADE•She was named Jade because of her stunning green eyes, but they're just one part of her attractive appearance.

She's an older lady, but she's such a beauty that you'd never guess that.

She's also been declawed, so she's looking for an indoor home filled with loving people.

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FLAVIA•A eight months old, Flavia is

BOGART•Bogart is quite a big dog who also has quite a lot to say. That's what we expect from a Hound, of course, but South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Bogart really seems to be trying to tell 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) us something. His coat is just beautiful Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 - very glossy and a deep red that is al- 3708 North Reserve Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) most auburn.

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one of our younger shelter residents.

She's a real fluff ball, with a coat that looks a bit punk at times. She's petite and shy, but she can have her feisty moments too. She'd be an entertaining addition to your family.

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

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

Come meet him at the Humane Society today!

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CINDY•Although technically a senior

PILATES•Pilates is a bouncy and fun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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