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Voices/Letters Mountain biking, wilderness and nonprofits .........................................4 The Week in Review Missoulian editor, Rob O’Neill and public art .............................6 Briefs Rock Creek, rock climbing and Missoula Mercantile ...........................................6 Etc. Four-wheelers are no match for trains .....................................................................7 News Missoula International School set to take over Third Street space .......................8 News Orzech hangs up robe after nearly two decades on the bench.............................9 Opinion Revisiting the gas tax leads to a political black hole ......................................10 Opinion Federal wildlife refuges are not up for grabs .................................................11 Feature Montana’s Little Shell tribe continue to wait for federal recognition .............14
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STREET TALK
by Kate Whittle
Asked Tuesday morning at the Good Food Store. The Missoula City Council and the Missoula Board of County Commissioners are discussing a possible 2-cent-per-gallon gas tax to help pay for road improvements. Would you support a local gas tax? Followup: Where’s the biggest pothole in Missoula? Cindy Marshall: Yes, definitely. I think the wear and tear on our vehicles is costing a lot more than a gas tax would, from running through so many potholes all year long. This year wasn’t so bad, but there’s some years where it’s basically a labyrinth of potholes. Rock bottom: I think they fixed it, but that street that turns around the University, is that Beckwith? It’s crazy. There’s a pothole that drops like 2 or 3 feet, which I guess does encourage you to go slower around the corner.
Clay Nybo: No. I think our taxes are high enough in Missoula as it is. They should be finding different ways to get the money. In the ’hood: Right out in front of my house is pretty bad. I live by Ninth and Johnson.
Julia Goar: To go to our roads? I’d consider it. I’d have to think about it more. Shocking conclusion: Fifth and Sixth are really bad. And I have a brand new car so I have pretty good shocks.
Kurt Black: I don’t think I’ll support the gas tax because they’re trying to say, from what I’ve read, that it’s basically for tourists that are going to come from out of town, but the majority of people that are going to gas up their vehicles are going to be from here. Cycles of change: It’s dependent on how roads hold up to the cold and frost cycles. Seems like there were some big potholes here off Russell, coming into the turn into Good Food Store.
Liz Colantuono: Yeah, I think we have the responsibility to support the infrastructure we use. Best of times, worst of times: It’s relative. But when you’re used to potholes, there’s worse pothole situations and less worse pothole situations.
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Rewriting history I read Ted Stroll’s latest attempt to rewrite history and congressional intent (see “Power to the pedal,” April 7) with great interest. His fables have improved over the many years since he first tried to spin the idea that “mechanical transport” is the same as “motor vehicles.” This one, though, contains a glaring contradiction: if the Wilderness Act cannot be cited to ban bicycles (as Ted claims), under what authority could the local manager decide to ban them (as Ted proposes)? Managers don’t get to pick and choose what parts of a law to ignore. Ted quotes Church and Udall on “too strict” management and warning against “stringent ‛purity’ criteria” as if the senators were talking about bicycles. They were not. “Too strict” management referred to grazing, which Congress clarified in 1980 with the so-called Congressional Grazing Guidelines. The “‘purity’ criteria” was a criticism over too readily disqualifying areas during inventories for possible future designations because of past uses of the land. The more appropriate criteria were the basis for the Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978 and many subsequent laws. Since the Wilderness Act of 1964, Congress has passed over 130 wilderness laws—many cosponsored by Church and Udall—with full knowledge that the four wilderness-managing agencies prohibit public use of all forms of mechanical transport. And never has Congress taken one of those opportunities to say, “Oh, by the way, we meant to allow bicycles.” Chris Barns Lolo
Watch out nonprofits New rules related to overtime pay being proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor are cause for concern in Montana’s nonprofit community. The changes will cause significant increases in payroll costs, inevitably leading to a reduction of services to nonprofit clients and patrons. Under current DOL rules, employers, including nonprofit organizations, may designate employees who are in administrative and professional roles as salaried, “exempting” them from hourly wages and mandatory overtime. To qualify, those employees must make at least $23,660 annually and meet specific conditions for their job, as set by DOL. The proposed changes more than double the salary threshold for exempt employees, raising the minimum salary to $50,440. For most organizations the current rules make sense. Employees in man-
agement or administrative roles often need to have more flexible hours in order to fulfill their duties. Nonprofit staff may have to work longer hours preparing for a board of directors meeting, or a development director may need extra hours working on a grant application deadline, or a direct care clinician may have a client in crisis who needs assistance past 5:00 p.m., or an arts organization may work longer hours hanging an exhibition or rehearsing for a performance. The examples are endless but all are tied to the need for common sense flexibility in the nonprofit workforce. The proposed change by the DOL means employees earning more than
“His fables have improved over the many years since he first tried to spin the idea that ‘mechanical transport’ is the same as ‘motor vehicles.’”
$50,440 would be eligible to be salaried— but all other employees under that threshold would have to be hourly workers. Put in context, Helena Industries, one of the largest nonprofits in Helena, and where I work, would only have two positions meeting the DOL threshold out of 65 fulltime staff. There are precious few nonprofits in Montana that can afford to pay supervisors and managers overtime every time they have to work beyond 40 hours a week. One response to the increase in payroll costs would be to reduce staff to fit within budget constraints leading to program cuts and elimination of services to nonprofits’ clients. For any employer, making this change from salaried to hourly pay structures for management and administrative employees will mean higher payroll costs. But this is especially troublesome for Montanan’s nonprofits that typically cannot
pass along increased personnel costs to clients. If I have a manager making $40,000 per year, I cannot raise that person’s wage to $50,440 because I don’t have the budget to do so. Case managers in my organization are paid based on reimbursement rates administered by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. I have no control over what the Montana Legislature appropriates for DPHHS. Furthermore, for years watchdog groups have taught donors to evaluate how much nonprofit organizations spend on overhead costs versus program costs. Since the DOL rule will dramatically and suddenly increase administrative and payroll costs relative to program expenditures, fundraising will become even more challenging for nonprofits. For Montana, the proposed DOL rules hit employers unfairly in that they are based on a national one-size-fits-all approach. Low wage states like Montana will have more serious consequences because we have higher proportions of employees whose wages fall well under the newly proposed threshold. With more than 80 percent of Montana’s nonprofit organizations having annual budgets of less than $100,000, under the proposed rule the majority of nonprofit executive directors and CEOs in Montana would no longer qualify to be salaried. Although DOL’s proposed policy is intended to promote the well-being of America’s workforce and protect employees in particular industries from being exploited, the policy as written is rife with negative unintended consequences. Montana’s nonprofit employers champion human rights issues every day and see the wisdom of ensuring employees are not exploited. However, the proposed bill must be modified to take into account the economics of individual states so that communities are strengthened rather than harmed by the proposed regulation. This is an issue where Congress needs to intervene in order to make sure these types of unintended consequences are avoided. I’m urging Sens. Tester and Daines to join the efforts already moving in Congress to block DOL’s new overtime rules and force them to go back to the drawing board. Russell A. Cargo Helena Industries Helena Correction: Last week’s column by Dan Brooks, “Daily grind,” included the incorrect name of The Western News in Libby. The Indy regrets the error.
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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Wednesday, April 6
The Missoula Public Art Committee puts out a call for submissions for the traffic signal boxes art project. Five signal boxes on Reserve and Brooks streets are slated to be decorated this year.
Thursday, April 7 Sen. Jon Tester and Gov. Steve Bullock announce that Montana’s Home Visiting Program will receive $4.3 million in federal and state funding. The program offers in-home prenatal care and parental education to young families.
Friday, April 8 Around 2:30 a.m., Butte-Silver Bow police arrest Rob O’Neill, the former SEAL Team Six member credited with killing Osama Bin Laden. He’s charged with intoxicated driving after being found asleep at the wheel of a running car parked at a gas station. O’Neill’s PR rep later releases a statement claiming O’Neill had incorrectly used a prescription sleep aid.
Saturday, April 9 The 75th annual Shrine Circus is held in the Adams Center. Organizers say it’s unclear if the circus will return to Missoula next year due to the city’s new ban on exotic animal displays.
Sunday, April 10 Lewis and Clark National Forest authorities close several trails in the Bob Marshall Wilderness due to the Elk Hill wildfire, which is active near the North Fork Sun River. Officials believe the fire was started by human activity.
Monday, April 11 Missoulian editor Matthew Bunk resigns. The former editor and publisher of The Western News had been suspended “until further notice” after bringing an antique handgun into the newsroom, violating company policy.
Tuesday, April 12 State Rep. Kimberly Dudik, Sen. Tom Facey and Rep. Nate McConnell volunteer for a dunk tank on the University of Montana Oval. The game is part of a MontPIRG event protesting a proposed mine at the headwaters of the Smith River.
Employee Madeleine Hull feeds a cricket to Rosie the Chilean rose hair tarantula at the Missoula Butterfly House & Insectarium on April 8. The Insectarium opened last June and has six different tarantulas that are fed only once each week for the public to watch.
Missoula Merc
More debate over demolition The Historic Preservation Commission is slated to consider on April 14 a contentious request to demolish the Missoula Mercantile building in favor of a five-story Marriott hotel. Groups on either side of the discussion say the decision will come down to whether HomeBase has made a strong enough case that demolition is the only workable solution for its project. One local developer, for instance, has suggested a Merc renovation could be profitable if tax credits were applied to the project. Nick Kujawa, of Kujawa Development, LLC, says he’s curious as to why tax credits weren’t included in HomeBase’s renovation cost estimates. As an example, he points to the renovation his firm did of the century-old, five-story Sears building in Butte, which was dilapidated after 30 years of vacancy. In 2007, Kujawa’s firm used historic tax credits to help foot the bill for a substantial renovation of
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the Sears building into loft apartments and ground-floor retail space. Kujawa gave a presentation to the HPC on April 7 laying out a reworked version of HomeBase’s application that includes tax credits in the cost breakdown. Where HomeBase shows that a renovation would lead to a $6 million loss, Kujawa’s version shows the potential for a $1 million profit. “With the numbers that were presented, here’s one way that it is economically feasible,” Kujawa says. Kujawa’s presentation was warmly welcomed by Preserve Historic Missoula, the nonprofit group that’s joined in the Save the Merc campaign. President Page Goode says they’ve even gone so far as to hire their own lawyer to review the demolition application, though Preserve Historic Missoula doesn’t currently have formal plans to initiate legal action. She also hints that other proposals for the Merc are already in the works. “There may be some alternate solutions coming out,
starting at the public hearing on the 14th,” Goode says. The HPC is required to vote on HomeBase’s demolition application by June 7. If appealed, the demolition permit would go before Missoula City Council for consideration. Missoula attorney Alan McCormick, who is representing HomeBase, says Kujawa’s numbers aren’t an accurate picture of what kind of tax credits are currently available, which is why HomeBase didn’t include them in its analysis. McCormick emphasizes the demolition application should be considered fairly and objectively. He adds that he hopes the process doesn’t end in legal action, but that is an option. “It can’t be an emotional choice based on whether you like the building or don’t like the building,” McCormick says. “It has to be based on whether the application meets the criteria. So hopefully there’s no lawsuit that comes out of that, but I guess we take that if it comes.” Kate Whittle
[news] Mill Creek
Closures, caution continue Late last month, the Bitterroot National Forest once again announced the temporary closure of a popular rock climbing wall in the Mill Creek canyon due to the presence of a raptor nest. The area, known as Pie for Strength, will be monitored by a U.S. Forest Service biologist and, if the nest is confirmed to be unoccupied, could be reopened later this season. According to the Bitterroot’s public affairs officer, Tod McKay, the only real difference between this year’s raptor closure and the one issued in spring 2015 is the inclusion of a large swath of Mill Creek’s southern canyon wall. Several new nests have been discovered there, McKay says, though it’s not yet known if they’re occupied. Claudine Tobalske, chair of the nonprofit Western Montana Climbers Coalition, says the expanded closure likely won’t impact climbers since there are no established routes on that side of the canyon. The announcement was pretty much par for the course in Mill Creek, right down to the continuation of a 2015 moratorium on new bolt placement. However, forest officials literally underscored a passage urging climbers to exercise caution due to reports of vandalism. The issue of deliberately damaged bolts has plagued Mill Creek for some time, adding an unpleasant element to the already tenuous relationship between the climbing community and nearby residents displeased with the level of activity in the canyon. The March 31 release was the first time McKay can recall the Bitterroot publicly warning climbers of the vandalism, adding officials only heard about it “recently.” “These are not areas that the Bitterroot National Forest has created,” McKay says. “We didn’t put the bolts in and we’re not responsible to go up and maintain them or anything like that. So we’re just trying to get the word out.” Tobalske says her organization hasn’t received any reports of vandalism in Mill Creek since last year, and those damaged bolts “have been replaced.” Even so, she realizes the importance of alerting people to past vandalism in the interests of safety. And she’s hopeful that 2016 will bring some resolution to the broader debate over climbing in the canyon. “The ball is in their camp,” Tobalske says of the Forest Service, “and we’re kind of waiting to see what they’ve got to say.” McKay confirms that a crew of Forest Service specialists are scheduled to visit Mill Creek sometime in the next
few weeks to gather information for Forest Supervisor Julie King. Stevensville District Ranger Tami Sabol is already in regular contact with multiple groups, McKay says, and opportunities for public input will only increase. “People are passionate on both sides about Mill Creek,” McKay says. “This will not be something the Forest Service decides on its own.” Alex Sakariassen
Wild and Scenic
Rock Creek meets opposition People are beginning to love Rock Creek to death, but at least one area couple doesn’t want the federal protection of a Wild and Scenic Rivers designation. Since his 2012 retirement from a Houston oil company, Spencer Huffman and his wife, Deborah “Sue,” have lived and offered cabin rentals on a remote section of Rock Creek. But last year, after attending a public meeting on designating part of Rock Creek as Wild and Scenic, they grew concerned about losing their oasis, Sue says. After fretting all winter, she wrote a letter opposing the designation that she recently turned into an online petition. “It’s the principle of the thing,” she says. “They’re trying to set down mandates in addition to what we’ve already got.” Western Montana’s rapidly growing population is putting more pressure on wild streams. Wild and Scenic designations would ensure those streams are “preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected.” Montanans for Healthy Rivers, a coalition of several groups, identified streams that are still wild enough for designation. Last year, MHR spokeswoman Kascie Herron spoke to people living near those streams about Wild and Scenic protection, because the long process of designation must be community-driven. Some Rock Creek landowners, especially those farther downstream, favor designation and are forming “Wild and Scenic Rock Creek” to rally support. Meanwhile, those who are opposed have asked Sue to be their champion, Sue says. But some take umbrage with parts of her lengthy petition that aren’t accurate about the Wild and Scenic designation.
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“It’s not surprising that there’s a lot of misinformation or unclear understanding of the act,” Herron says, “because there hasn’t been a Wild and Scenic designation in Montana in 40 years.” Sue contends the designation will turn the narrow stream corridor into a national park and that it will be advertised as such. She read a 1970 Cornell Law Review article that says an advantage of the designation “is the greater publicity attaching to any recreation area of ‘national’ significance.” Sue says she loves the creek as it is and doesn’t want more people. Sue also wrote Sen. Jennifer Fielder, R-Thompson Falls, asking about the act. Fielder told her the act was “part of a bigger scheme to get more federal land,” Sue says. Fielder recently became the CEO of the American Lands Council, a Utah-based group that wants federal land transferred to the states. While the National Park Service oversees some designated rivers, the U.S. Forest Service manages most. The USFS would manage Rock Creek because the proposed section is already bounded by USFS land. Herron says there’s no correlation between the designation and increased use on other rivers. Often, rivers were already gaining popularity when they were designated. “I think the Blue Ribbon trout designation [Rock Creek] received years ago might have done more to draw people here,” Herron says. “In the end, it’s how the local businesses decide to market it.” Sue has more concerns, but Herron encourages her and others to help develop the plan so it says what they want. “We’re still very much in discussion,” Herron says. “This is just the first step.” Laura Lundquist
ETC. The April 4 death of Montana Rail Link employee Richard Schmitz acted as a reminder of the hazards rail yard workers face. The 57-year-old Missoula man was killed after the utility vehicle he was driving collided with a train in the shadow of the Scott Street Bridge. The Missoula County coroner’s office ruled his death an accident, but additional details won’t emerge until federal officials complete their investigation of the incident, which is standard procedure for railroad fatalities. Railroad companies are required to record workplace injuries and those records are published online. A review of those safety reports indicates Schmitz wasn’t the first MRL employee in Missoula to get hurt in an accident involving allterrain/utility vehicles. Just six months ago, a road freight conductor was knocked off the side of a moving freight car due to “close clearance with a Kubota,” Federal Railroad Administration records show. The 32-year-old missed a week of work for a cut to the chin. Just a couple weeks before Schmitz’s accident, an MRL carman named Brian Cromwell filed suit in Missoula County District Court over a 2013 incident in which he was assaulted by an unidentified trespasser while driving an ATV. The associated accident report states that upon inspecting a train, Cromwell was struck in the head while driving along the tracks. He fell from the vehicle, suffered head injuries and “broke some ribs.” The report says the employee was off work for 180 days, but Cromwell’s suit alleges that MRL’s doctor “inexplicably” released him to unrestricted work less than two months after the assault. He was subsequently written up for a series of performance-related issues which Cromwell alleges were related to his cognitive impairment. He was then suspended from work and eventually placed on probation with medical and physical restrictions. Many of the injuries noted in Missoula County are mundane—pain from lifting copier paper, for instance—and MRL spokesman Jim Lewis says ATVs have become a regular part of rail yards across the country. In fact, MRL employees have used the fourwheelers, with training and testing, for 20 years. But it’s not just employees who meet misfortune in Missoula County. In 2014, an ATV driver broke a leg after colliding with a train at a local road crossing. The driver had accidentally hit the throttle while waiting for a train to pass.
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Breaking up The Hive Missoula International School set to take over Third Street space by Kate Whittle
“So when MIS came forward and said, ‘We have a 20-year history as a school, 120 families with us, we have resources that we can use to create a learning environment,’ it was tempting,” Juda says. Head of School Julie Lennox says many details haven’t been finalized, but MIS is under contract to take over the site and is working with an architect to determine how much of the property will be remodeled. “It’s so early in the phase I don’t have
recouped her investment in the project, without even having to buy advertising. “The demand is so great,” she says, “so organic, I couldn’t have asked for anything better.” Neal is trying to establish 501(c)(3) status for the club and hopes to find a space with a minimum of 10,000 square footage of smooth flooring. Skate Club is in the same boat as the Missoula Winter Public Market, since the market is seeking a space of a similar size, says manager Franco Salazar. The Winter Public Market has operated in The Hive for the past two years, and garnered enough support to switch from a twice-monthly schedule to weekly, with more than 30 vendors operating around the holidays. The market’s final day is April 23, and Salazar says they plan to open again in November. “We know we will be open next year, we just don’t know exactly where at this point,” Salazar says. “So we’re definitely keeping our feelers out.” Meanwhile, Juda says she plans to lease part of photo by Cathrine L. Walters the former Hive space from MIS so she can host Lizzi Juda, shown here in 2014, says she had high hopes for the space known as The Hive, programs aimed at Misbut couldn’t find financial partners to sustain the community center. It’s now under contract to be taken over and redeveloped as a new campus for the Missoula International School. soula teens. She’s also the founder and codirecsite plans to show you, but it’s coming to- tor of Turning the Wheel Missoula, an maintain the 4-acre property. “What I have found is a lot of the gether,” Lennox told the Riverfront Neigh- arts and dance educational nonprofit. dreamers of our world don’t necessarily borhood Council meeting on April 11. MIS “It’s been great in a lot of ways,” have a lot of money,” Juda says, “and so hopes to start construction and be moved Juda says when asked to reflect on the how do we bring those dreams when you into the Third Street space by fall 2018. last two years at The Hive. “There’s been have big bills to pay?” The Hive’s closure means that two of many beautiful gatherings and commuLast year, the Missoula International its biggest tenants, Missoula Skate Club and nity experiences. There are so many peoSchool approached Juda about the space. the Missoula Winter Public Market, are left ple I’ve talked to in these two years The nonprofit, private, Spanish-language without a venue. Missoula Skate Club about a shared vision and a shared immersion institution teaches pre-K opened in November, offering a DIY, low- dream of how we can have healthy through eighth grade at its current location key atmosphere for kids and adults to roller spaces for people together.” in the Rattlesnake and was interested in the skate. Founder Kari Neal says the response larger Third Street space. was even better than she expected, and she kwhittle@missoulanews.com In June 2014, Lizzi Juda bought the former ProBuild warehouse at 800 S. Third St. with intentions of making it into a community center. Since then, the space has been dubbed The Hive, and it’s hosted everything from skate nights to art installations to farmers markets. When Juda first took over the space, she met with several groups with a variety of ideas about the property’s potential. Despite the enthusiasm, Juda says she couldn’t find the financial partners to help
[8] Missoula Independent • April 14–April 21, 2016
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The people’s judge Orzech hangs up robe after nearly two decades on the bench by Derek Brouwer
She sets high bails, but Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech doesn’t come across as itching to throw the book at anyone. Not last week anyway, when she sat in her chambers chatting like someone who had just finished her second cup of coffee. More quirky than imposing, Orzech wore a lime green blouse and a Band-Aid between her eyes rigged to keep her glasses off her nose, which she recently broke while snorkeling. Orzech was feeling buoyant, though. She started one breathe crying and ended it with a sly grin. She rattled off jokes amid talk of compassion for criminals. She pried open a banana peel with a paper clip. Her pep stemmed in part from her recent decision to retire from the bench. “It’s time,” she said. “You can tell just by looking at me. I’m glowing. I match my banana.” Orzech has been an eccentric judge since Missoula County voters first elected her in 1998. A biologist by trade, she passed up a professorship at the University of Montana to become a crime victim advocate. Two years later, she won a seat as one of two county JPs, bringing forward her distinct philosophy of restorative justice to a courtroom accustomed to being a revolving door. Some colleagues have found Orzech’s approach frustrating and her strong will grating, but county residents have consistently affirmed her judgeship by wide margins. “People have two visions of me,” Orzech says. “Either I’m the big bad judge who sets the high bail on the heinous crimes or I’m the flaming liberal woman judge from Missoula County. It’s kind of weird, because I’m right smack in the middle.” In the parade of misdemeanor DUIs, assaults and traffic violations, Orzech sees the toll taken by trauma, addiction and poverty—and a chance to intervene before offenders’ lives sink to more dangerous depths. It’s a view she developed after coping with her own childhood trauma growing up with a father whose alcoholism led to unpredictable bouts of violence. As a judge, Orzech says she tries to use
that empathy to help offenders “face their demons,” namely through treatment. She runs a shoestring DUI court once a month where offenders keep Orzech updated on their progress in exchange for small incentives donated by community members. She keeps the bag of rewards—$10 gift cards, screwdriver sets, children’s books—in her chambers. The mix of harsh and lenient sentences Orzech hands down are tailored to what she perceives the offender needs to be successful. “You find out what moves people,
“I did not like her one iota,” he says. “She had her own way of doing things and most of the time it was the wrong way of doing it, and you couldn’t convince her otherwise.” Orzech acknowledges “rampant rumors” of continued strife in Justice Court but declines to discuss them, saying the issues have “little to do” with her retirement. She also waves off the line of challengers she defeated in her numerous reelection bids. “I’m here by the grace of the people,
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Missoula County Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech, who is retiring in July, has for years run a monthly DUI court where first-, second- and third-time offenders update her on their progress in treatment. She says the “nickel and dime” program “feeds my soul.”
what makes a difference in peoples’ lives to get a positive change in behavior, because that’s all you’re looking for,” she says. Her style irked former Judge John Odlin, who served as Orzech’s counterpart for more than 15 years before retiring in 2014. In particular, Odlin says Orzech’s willingness to hand out deferred sentences, which can keep a charge off suspects’ records if they meet certain conditions, put him in a tough spot as a judge who preferred to “make people accountable for what they have done.”
not by anybody else,” she says. Orzech says she timed her resignation so voters could elect a replacement this November, rather than have the Missoula Board of County Commissioners appoint someone to serve until the 2018 elections, when her term expires. “I think that whoever sits in this bench for any length of time needs to be elected by the people of Missoula County,” she says, “and I feel extraordinarily strongly about that.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
Bumpy road Revisiting the gas tax leads to a political black hole by Dan Brooks
It’s spring in Missoula, and that means our streets once again resemble a level of Moon Patrol. Thanks to the natural action of freezing and thawing, enormous potholes have opened up across the city—deep ones, their bottoms shrouded in darkness, from which one faintly hears the strains of Chinese music. And thanks to the natural action of representative government, nobody can do anything about it. The Public Works Committee is trying. At a meeting two weeks ago, members again raised the possibility of a 2-cents-per-gallon local sales tax on gasoline. And from deep inside his pothole, Satan laughed. He knows we need the money. According to Jessica Morriss, Missoula’s transportation manager, the city needs to perform more transportation improvements than it has money to pay for. We should probably take steps to increase revenue before mole people come pouring out of South Fifth Street to enslave us. But no city in Montana has ever successfully passed a local-option gas tax. On a related note, the federal Highway Trust Fund—from which Missoula gets most of its funding for transportation improvements—has been insolvent since 2008. It gets its money from federal gas taxes, and the federal rate has sat at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1994. Montana’s 27.75-cents-pergallon tax has been the same since that year, too. Needless to say, I’m against raising it. The government takes too much of my money already. Why can’t we have nice roads and lower taxes? Why won’t somebody fix the potholes and leave my wallet alone? Maybe if I correctly answer the riddle that troll asked me when my truck fell into his hole on Cowper Street, I can wish for it. In the meantime, we have a problem. Every year, inflation makes transportation improvements more expensive and the gas tax operatively lower. The 28 cents per gallon we pay
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today is worth 19 cents in 1994 dollars, which means we’ve effectively cut gas taxes by a third over the last two decades. It’s no wonder we can’t afford to fix the roads. But raising gas taxes— even by 2 cents, much less by the 14 cents it would take to adjust for inflation—is a political nonstarter. In order to propose a local-option gas tax, the Missoula City Council needs to ask the board of county commissioners to put it on the ballot. The last time that happened was in 1994,
“The undercarriage of our city seems to have slammed into the chuckhole of representative government.”
when voters rejected a 2-cent tax 55 percent to 45 percent. The council asked the commission to put another initiative on the ballot four years ago, but commissioners refused. Council members Emily Bentley and Jon Wilkins told the Missoulian they didn’t expect a gas tax to fare better in 2016. Bentley said she was open to considering it, but she didn’t think voters would approve unless it were offset by reduced property taxes. That wouldn’t help. Changing where we get our transportation funding won’t solve the problem that we don’t have enough. If we pass a gas tax and then offset the revenue with re-
duced property taxes, all we’ll do is shift some of the burden of paying for our roads to people who don’t own houses. At a moment when home prices in Missoula are at an all-time high—and wages remain frustratingly low—that seems not just ineffective but unethical. But who has the political capital to convince voters to tax themselves? The undercarriage of our city seems to have slammed into the chuckhole of representative government, spilling the hot coffee of unintended consequences onto the toddler of complaining about stuff. Every year, inflation means that 28 cents buys less road. But the realities of electoral politics make it borderline suicidal to suggest raising the gas tax. As a result, we’re effectively lowering taxes every year, even when we don’t want to, even after they’ve fallen below a sustainable level. What this town needs is some kind of very popular political figure— one who consistently defeats challengers to his office by such large margins that he can afford to get behind a tax increase for our own good. He’d have to be charismatic and influential and so secure in his position that he could confidently back an unpopular measure. That’s why I’m calling on Gargleblax, King of the Mole People, to propose a 2-cent gas tax. If he won’t do it, Mayor Engen should. He’s almost as popular as Gargleblax, and recent changes to the makeup of the county commission have given him influence there. The city council would follow his lead. Voters might remain intractable, but maybe public opinion will change as the roads get worse. They’re sure not getting any better. I dislike taxes as much as the next guy, especially this time of year. But 2 cents per gallon is better than death by a thousand bumps. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the roiling underdark at combatblog.net.
[opinion]
Milk and honey Federal wildlife refuges are not up for grabs by Ted Williams
Among the many talents of Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are statesmanship and restraint. It’s hard to tell when he’s angry. But when we talked in March, he was seething. The source of his ire: Wildlife managers in some states are seeking to oust federal management and take control themselves. Inciting the rebellion is Alaska. Alaska kills off wolves, grizzlies and black bears in a vain attempt to convert the state to an ever-expanding Stop & Shop for moose and caribou hunters. It has directed managers to gun down wolves and all bears from helicopters and to gas wolf pups in dens. It has authorized private citizens to shoot wolves from airplanes, to hunt and trap wolves when pelts are worthless and pups helpless, and to bait, trap and snare grizzlies. It has allowed hunters to fly into grizzly and black bear habitat and shoot them the same day and to sell the body parts of black bears. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service usually allows states to regulate hunting on national wildlife refuges, though it doesn’t have to. The agency tried to work things out with the Alaska Board of Game. But when the grizzly slaughter on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge threatened the survival of the population, the refuge closed grizzly hunting. Alaska’s game board responded by escalating, where possible, its war on predators. So the Wildlife Service proposed a rule restricting the state’s more destructive predator-control measures on national wildlife refuges. In response, Alaska’s predator controllers have taken their case to the Association of (state) Fish and Wildlife Agencies, whipping members into a froth of paranoia about imagined federal overreach. The state association’s mission is to advance scientific wildlife management in partnership with federal agencies. Instead, it and organizations supposedly representing sportsmen have been sounding like the Bundy militia. In a Feb. 19 letter to Wildlife Service’s, Ashe, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, National Rifle Association, Con-
gressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, National Wild Turkey Federation and Wildlife Management Institute, wrote, “A national application of this rule would universally derogate state fish and wildlife agency authority to manage fish and wildlife on national wildlife refuges.” As if Ashe were considering a national application, and as if states ever had such authority. Gary Taylor, legislative director emeritus of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, has warned members that the
“Organizations supposedly representing sportsmen have been sounding like the Bundy militia.”
rule “would promulgate into regulation the Fish and Wildlife Service policy on biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health.” As if this were somehow contrary to sportsmen’s interests. And the association’s current director, Ron Regan, complained to the U.S. Senate that “the rule would usurp Alaska’s authority to manage fish and wildlife for sustained yield” on national wildlife refuges. As if there were anything to “usurp,” and as if Alaska manages predators sustainably. The courts are clear on who tends national wildlife refuges. When Wyoming wanted to vaccinate elk for brucellosis on the National Elk Refuge, the Wildlife Serv-
ice said no. Wyoming sued and lost. When Alaska wanted to fly into wilderness to kill the wolves of Unimak Island National Wildlife Refuge, the Wildlife Service said no. Alaska sued and lost. Ashe told me this: “In considering our proposed Alaska rule, I’m asking calmer minds to consider a few hypothetical questions. “Is it not at least conceivable that the [Fish and Wildlife] Service and the National Park Service [which has proposed a similar Alaska rule] are acting in response to provocation by the Alaska Board of Game? Is it not possible that it was politically motivated and unilateral action by the Alaska Board of Game that disrupted a decades-long and highly successful partnership in cooperative management in Alaska? “Perhaps,” he continues, “… one might want to hear other opinions, like those of Dr. Vic Van Ballenberge, a wildlife biologist and former Alaska Board of Game member, who says, ‘State efforts to apply the extreme predator reduction measures to national wildlife refuge lands might well be called state overreach.’ Or maybe the views of former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, who calls the new predator management practices ‘unscientific and unethical.’” Why the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and some of its allies feel constrained to defend Alaska’s 1920s-style jihad against predators on federal lands is puzzling and distressing. In the words of ecologist-philosopher Aldo Leopold, “Abraham knew exactly what the land was for: It was to drip milk and honey into Abraham’s mouth.” The Alaska Board of Game shares this biblical land ethic. What it hasn’t figured out is that killing off predators in a reckless and bloody war will never create a hunters’ paradise. Ted Williams is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a freelance writer and former employee of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.
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THE POWER OF PRECEDENT – Department of Veterans Affairs employee Elizabeth Rivera, 39, was fired after her arrest (followed by a February guilty plea) for armed robbery, but when she was sentenced only to probation, an arbitrator ordered the VA to rehire her—and give her back pay she “earned” while sitting in jail awaiting trial. (She had been the driver for a man arrested for a street robbery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.) Rivera’s union had demanded the reinstatement without salary penalty—for “fairness”—because the same Puerto Rico VA office had earlier hired a convicted sex offender, and the office’s hospital director, recently charged with DUI and drug possession, avoided VA discipline because of technicalities about the traffic stop. EVOLUTION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE – Turmoil in Selma, Alabama, March 1965: The historic “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge ultimately became a turning point in the battle for voting rights. Turmoil in Selma, Alabama, March 2016: The town is riven by demands for stricter enforcement of the ordinance requiring horses on the street to be wearing diapers—a campaign led by Ward 8’s Councilman Michael Johnson (an African-American): “I’m tired of it because there’s other things I could be doing than dealing with horses.” COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – Urges: (1) Ms. Ashton Barton, 33, charged with shoplifting a vibrating sex toy from a CVS pharmacy in Largo, Florida, in February, tried for police sympathy by explaining that she was in a troubled marriage. “My husband doesn’t want to touch me anymore,” and “I would rather do this than be unfaithful.” (2) Neighbors of a loudly frisky couple in a Stockholm, Sweden, apartment building were so frustrated by the noise that they reached out to the country’s health minister, Gabriel Wikstrom— who took the side of the randy couple (according to a translation by Stockholm’s The Local): “Sounds nice for them, I think. Good for their wellbeing and thus public health as well.”
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Nice Tries: (1) Benjamin Grafius, 39, charged with several instances of indecent exposure to Amish people near New Holland, Pennsylvania, told police that he targeted them because he knew they would not use phones to call police (March). (2) Valerie Godbout, 33, visiting Orlando from Montreal and charged with drug possession after alerting police with erratic driving, told the officer that she was on the wrong side of the road because that’s the way traffic works in Canada. (It’s not.) (March). (3) Emily Davis, 21, caught by police displaying her recently deceased grandmother’s handicap-parking badge, explained that she was merely “using it in her honor.” (Portsmouth, England, February). BREAKTHROUGHS IN SCIENCE – German researchers, publishing in March, revealed that female burying beetles uniquely discourage their mates from pestering them for sex after birth -- thus explaining how the male of this species is observed actually helping with child care. The females apparently release a chemical “anti-aphrodisiac” to the fathers’ antennae. Said the lead researcher (a woman), “They are a very modern family.” Said another biology professor (also female), “Burying beetles are supercool.” Science magazine called the “butthole” “one of the finest innovations in the past 540 million years of animal evolution”—in that, until it developed, animals’ only channel of waste removal was through the same opening used for food intake. However, the recent discovery, announced at a March conference by a University of Miami biologist, that gelatinous sea creatures called comb jellies can excrete via other pores, was labeled by the magazine as “stunn(ing).” The Emerging American “Right” of Rejecting Science: In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States, but by 2014 Americans had resurrected it (677 reported cases), and researchers from Emory University and Johns Hopkins set out to learn how— and recently found the dominant reason to be the purposeful decision by some Americans to refuse or delay widely available vaccinations (especially for their children). (The researchers found similar, but lessstrong, conclusions about whooping cough.) UNDIGNIFIED DEATHS – An 86-year-old woman died in February in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, when she tripped and got her medical alert necklace caught on her walker, strangling herself. A 25-year-old off-duty New York City police officer was killed on a highway near Elizabeth, New Jersey, in March. According to the police report, the officer had rear-ended another car and had gotten out to “discuss” the matter, then suddenly pulled his service revolver and threatened the driver using road rage-type language. As the officer backed up while pointing the gun, a passing driver accidentally fatally struck him. FINE POINTS OF THE LAW – Joe Vandusen said he has had no contact whatsoever with his estranged wife for “16 or 17 years” and that both moved long ago to other relationships (Joe currently living with a woman, raising both his two children and her two, as well). Nonetheless, Vandusen’s “real” wife recently gave birth, from another father, and, without claiming Vandusen as the father, filed in February for child support from him. In the Vandusens’ home state of Iowa (like the law in many states), he must pay, irrespective of any DNA test (unless he gets an expensive court order to “de-establish paternity.” IRONIES – Ervin Brinker, 68, pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud as CEO of the Summit Pointe health care provider in Michigan and was sentenced in January to 32 months in prison. He had embezzled $510,000 in “mental health” payments and apparently spent it all on a Florida fortune-teller. Thanks this time to John DePaoli, Gerald Thomason, Stan Kaplan, James Seabolt, Russell Bell and Jan Wolitzky and to the News of the Weird Senior Advisors and Board of Editorial Advisors.
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ackie Trotchie, a member of Montana’s landless Little Shell tribe of Chippewa Indians, answers a knock on her apartment door. It opens to a kitchenette, originally installed for overnight guests at the Family Inn, a small motel at the mouth of Hellgate Canyon. The building was re-branded Grizzly Apartments a few years ago, and rooms are now rented out to long-term residents. Outdated plastic blinds are pulled across the front windows, and thin bars of sunshine struggle to brighten the apartment. Books, folders, DVDs, dishes and clothing are ordered in stacks around the edges of the small room. A cardboard box stands in as a coffee table near an old, tube-fed television. Trotchie (from the French trottier, meaning to walk fast), however, appears as though she’s recently returned from a Sunday outing. We sit at her kitchen table, which nearly blocks the front door. The petite, 69-year-old woman opens a small photo album. A grainy, gray panorama is taped across two pages at the front of the album: Mt. Helena looms in the distance. A tar-papered, single-story building rests in the foreground, of the sort found crippled with age on the back 40 of ranches across Montana. This was Trotchie’s grand-
mother’s residence, built near her parents’ home in a Helena neighborhood called Moccasin Flat, around 1954. “Life was miserable in Helena,” Trotchie begins, shaking her head. “Anybody who lived on Moccasin Flat was a ‘dirty rotten Indian.’” Located roughly where K-Mart now stands, the isolated neighborhood was home to many American Indians, including several Little Shell families. Accommodations ranged from conventional single-family houses to improvised shacks built of scavenged materials. Such neighborhoods— sometimes called the “buckskin fringe”— were common in urban areas where landless Indians struggled to earn a living. Her parents had worked hard to create a permanent home on the Flat, where their children felt safe and had a sense of belonging. “There was a whole bunch of Natives living there and I was so glad,” Trotchie recalls. But life in the larger community was different. “I remember when I was in high school, I was told by kids that every Indian girl should be raped at least once. That’s how bad it was.” During her sophomore year, in 1963, harassment from her classmates became “unmerciful” and Trotchie dropped out of school. She took a job as a stocker at Bonanza, a downtown restaurant, and
moved into the YWCA. A couple years later, her parents had to move as well. The state highway department had devised plans for a new interchange on Interstate 15 with an off-ramp through Moccasin Flat. Properties in the neighborhood were condemned under eminent domain. “We had a nice, big house with a beautiful yard and my mother grew Kentucky Blue Grass on it,” Trotchie says. “When we lost it, some guy came and bought the lawn from my mother and rolled it all up to take to his house. “The highway knocked out the whole of Moccasin Flat,” she continues. “They wiped out the whole place.” Many American Indians can relate to Trotchie’s story of racism and dislocation, but it’s perhaps especially poignant to members of the landless Little Shell band. The Little Shell people have never been acknowledged under the federal tribal recognition rule, which outlines the criteria tribes must meet in order to establish a formal government-to-government relationship with the United States. The state of Montana recognized the tribe in 2000, but the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs remains undecided, 36 years after the tribe first submitted its petition for recognition under the rule. For members of the Little Shell, however, there may finally be hope on the
horizon. Last April, the Obama administration released a set of changes to the Federal Acknowledgement Process and these changes became law on Aug. 1, 2015. Now, the Little Shell and other unrecognized tribes can pursue their cases for recognition under a revised set of criteria, which were significantly influenced by the unique circumstances of the Little Shell’s struggle for federal acknowledgment. These developments are welcome news for Trotchie, who, as she approaches 70, is determined to focus more on the future than the past. “I keep thinking about my grandkids,” she says, referring to her grandson, Sage, 26, and granddaughter Cela, 24, who has a 7-year-old son. “It’d be great if they had ways to improve their quality of life.”
“IT WAS CONCEALED HISTORY” Many American Indian tribes have actively pursued federal recognition for more than a century—campaigning, lobbying, petitioning and even suing for legal acknowledgement as members of sovereign nations. Over the last 35 years, the struggle for most of these tribes has been defined by a notoriously slow Federal Acknowledgement Process administered by the BIA. The process can drag on for decades without decision,
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
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leaving the lives of tens of thousands of American Indians in limbo. Since 1978, when it was first established, 87 tribes have petitioned for recognition, yet only 51 have received a final determination—and nearly a third of these decisions were negative. For many, the wait is excruciating because recognition can have life-changing consequences. Members of the 567 federally acknowledged tribes have access to benefits such as education, housing and health services, which the federal government is obligated to provide indigenous people in exchange for the loss of their lands. Recognized tribes are also consid-
2010. He argues the struggle for recognition has been particularly difficult for the tribe because the 1978 recognition rule did not allow for “the complexity of Little Shell history to come forward” he says. Under the old rule, unrecognized tribes were required to meet seven different criteria, including proof of continuous existence as a distinct community with a verifiable political hierarchy from “historical times to the present.” Moreover, evidence of this existence had to be provided by third parties external to the tribe. Vrooman’s research has helped to explain why these requirements were difficult for the Little Shell to meet and
Riel was captured, tried for treason and hung in November of that year. The story established roots in Vrooman’s mind. Eight years later, he moved to Montana and found employment on the Speiker ranch near Helmville. The foreman of the spread was a dark-skinned man named Bill “Snowball” Doney (from the French Delauney). He had been raised along the Milk River in north central Montana and identified as a Metis with indigenous and French bloodlines. Doney’s voice nourished the story that Vrooman read in the pages of Strange Empire. The foreman was living proof that the
photo courtesy of Nicholas Vrooman photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Jackie Trotchie at her home in Missoula. A member of Montana’s landless Little Shell tribe, she hopes her grandchildren will someday benefit from the tribe’s federal recognition. “It’d be great if they had ways to improve their quality of life,” she says.
ered citizens of sovereign nations with the power to form their own governments and create laws within their jurisdictions. These legal rights dramatically increase the economic and civic opportunities available to individuals and families. But there are also less tangible benefits being sought through this arduous process, outcomes that are more spiritual than material. According to Little Shell tribal historian Nicholas Vrooman, “Recognition is about truth and reconciliation.” “We’re not like Guatemala or South Africa,” he says. “We don’t have truth and reconciliation commissions, but it’s not as if we don’t have a need for truth and reconciliation.” Vrooman sits in a booth at the back of the General Mercantile coffee shop in downtown Helena. He wears round glasses and a weathered leather hat that looks like a Western fedora. At 67 years old, gray sideburns show beneath the brim of his hat in disorganized tufts. Vrooman, a white scholar, has worked as tribal historian for the Little Shell since
has bolstered the tribe’s arguments for a new rule with criterion that are more responsive to historical realities. “The people who work for the BIA’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement are making life and death decisions about who is in and who is out,” Vrooman says. And he’s eager to ensure that these decisions take into account an accurate view of Little Shell history. A native of Schenectady, NY, Vrooman received a copy of Strange Empire, by Montana journalist Joseph Kinsey Howard, in 1967—a gift from his father. This classic history of the Metis people (a polyethnic people primarily of Chippewa, Cree, Assiniboine and European descent) focuses on the Northwest Resistance and the life of Louis Riel. In 1885, Riel organized landless Indians on both sides of the border, including Jackie Trotchie’s great-grandfather Charles Trottier. Together, they took up arms against the Canadian government with the goal of establishing an enduring indigenous land base in Canada. Hundreds of Metis and Canadian soldiers were killed.
indigenous people, who had fought for and failed to win recognition alongside Riel, were the forebears of a landless nation of Indians who were now raising their families on the edges of cities and towns across Montana. Moreover, Vrooman learned these Nehiyaw Pwat people (from the Cree language, which translates to Cree-Assiniboine in English) belonged to a cohesive community. They lived within an “urban archipelago” that was bound by a shared history, maintained by a modern leadership structure and motivated by clearly defined political demands. “I had learned of this people that were totally below the level of historic scrutiny,” Vrooman explains. “It was concealed history.” Vrooman began “pursuing the tracks of the story” in various roles, including as state folklorist in North Dakota and Montana, before pursuing a doctorate in history at the University of Montana. He defended his dissertation on Metis history in 2007, which led to an invitation from tribal Chairman John Sinclair to author the first comprehensive history of the Lit-
photo courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
TOP: Nicholas Vrooman, shown here in Helmville in 1977, has worked as tribal historian for the Little Shell since 2010. He was inspired to help the tribe after reading Strange Empire and later meeting a Metis man on the Helmville ranch. ABOVE: Chief Little Shell III, pictured in 1874.
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tle Shell. The 400-page volume was published in 2012 with funding from the Division of Indian Education at the Montana Office of Public Instruction. In the preface, Vrooman writes, “Those in authority have demonstrated a devastating failure to understand and justly amend critical mistakes made as the American government imposed economic, political, military, and social hegemony over the northern Great Plains in the Nineteenth century.” He argues that an informed decision on the Little Shell’s case for recognition is impossible without a solid understanding of these “critical mistakes” and an appreciation for how the Little Shell have responded to them. His research has drawn many of these details, from some of the darkest chapters in Montana history, more fully into the light.
“AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN OF ELIMINATION” photo courtesy of the Montana Historical Society Research Center
Reconfiguration of the land in the late 19th century had a devastating affect on the Little Shell. Here, Col. Wilbur Fisk Sanders talks with two Metis women on Butte’s Main Street in the 1890s.
“The people who work for the BIA’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement are making life and death decisions about who is in and who is out.”
photo courtesy of the James Anthony Wells Family
Little Shell tribal members in Lewistown in 1940.
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“Since the Indian Wars of the nineteenth century,” Vrooman writes, “the Little Shell have been subject to an active campaign of elimination from the culturescape of Montana.” Among the most important details in this violent history, according to Vrooman, explain what happened to Chief Little Shell’s people after 1892, when he and other tribal leaders refused to accept an offer of 10 cents per acre for 10 million acres of land, to which they had claim, in north central Montana. The treaty, known as the McCumber Agreement, was supported by a governmentappointed committee of 32 native representatives and eventually ratified by Congress without the consent of Chief Little Shell. He rejected the treaty not only because of the inadequate compensation offered his people but also because of a decision by U.S. negotiators to purge 525 “half-breeds” from proposed lists of people who would, according to the treaty, be recognized, compensated and permitted to settle at the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, where many had family members. Chief Little Shell’s followers had little choice but to eke out a living on the outskirts of cities and towns in central and western Montana. The largest encampment was located near Butte, where more than 200 people subsisted on refuse from the municipal dump and offal from slaughterhouses. Motivated to end the plight of his people, Little Shell, alongside band Chiefs Little Bear and Rocky Boy, continued to petition federal leaders for recognition and a land reserve for all members of their tribe. But then-Montana Gov. John Rickards thought landless Indians were an “intolerable nuisance” and lobbied the federal government aggressively for their removal from the state.
In 1896, Congress chose sides by passing a bill that aimed to clear landless indigenous people from predominantly white civic spaces. The Cree Deportation Act appropriated $5,000 to deport remaining “Cree refugees” from Montana by military force. The term “Cree” was used for political purposes, because it was believed that Cree tribal members were exclusively a Canadian people. In June of that year, Lt. John J. Pershing, who later achieved the U.S. Army’s highest rank and led American troops to victory over Germany in 1917, departed Fort Assiniboine, near Havre, with hundreds of Buffalo Soldiers. They traveled to Great Falls, Lewistown, Butte, Missoula and along Montana’s Front Range. “It was a human roundup” Vrooman says. “They put them on cattle cars and shipped them to Lethbridge, and when they ran out of money to ship them, they force marched them.” In total, more than 500 landless Indians were forcibly removed across the Canadian border, where they dispersed throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan. “That’s called ethnic cleansing,” Vrooman says. “And we did that. It’s as important a story as Wounded Knee or the Little Bighorn.” Many of these people returned within a few years after finding little in the way of refuge north of the border. Chief Little Shell died in 1901 at Turtle Mountain, but his relatives would continue to fight and win incremental gains over the next four decades. These victories, however, were never complete. Following Chief Rocky Boy’s death in 1916, his successor, Chief Little Bear, submitted 658 names for enrollment on a new reservation. The reservation would be named after Rocky Boy and located at the recently decommissioned Fort Assiniboine, where Pershing had launched his expedition of forced expulsion. The list was cut to 425 by government-appointed Indian Agent James McLaughlin, the second purge of people who were perceived to be illegitimate “half-breeds” by the U.S. As the ensuing years unfolded, the historic arguments of Chief Little Shell would provide an enduring framework for debate over the future of his people. “I submit that it is the chief and his councilmen who are competent to judge and say who is a member of his tribe, and not the Government’s agent,” wrote Little Shell lawyer John Bottineau in 1892 in his defense against ratification of the McCumber Agreement. A century has passed, and the Little Shell people have never abandoned this position. “The determination of who belongs,” says Vrooman, “really resides in the hands
of the Little Shell people and not the interpretation of an outsider.” The Obama administration’s new recognition rule might be a sign that the argument is increasingly persuasive, at least among “decision makers” at the BIA.
“THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES” When I first asked Kevin Washburn last October about his motivation for revising the Federal Acknowledgement Process, he was still serving as the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs and was considering whether to make an administrative decision over the Little Shell’s case
“Indian people, who faced prejudice and violence sometimes amounting to theft of their children or outright murder, were justifiably going ‘underground’ and hiding and it is unfair to force them to show external evidence from that time.” When one considers the impacts of the Cree Deportation Act of 1896 and subsequent enrollment purges by U.S. officials, it’s apparent how this revision might influence a future decision on recognition of the Little Shell. An acknowledgement process that recognizes the causes of historical gaps in tribal histories could produce different decisions. Washburn, however, was cautious not to raise expectations too high. The likely
On the other hand, he is cautiously optimistic about the possibility for recognition under the revised criteria. “I’m hopeful,” he says. “I feel that they met the criteria under the old rule, so I certainly feel they meet them under the new rule, and I’m hopeful that, at long last, justice will be done.” In a follow-up conversation over the phone in late February, and months after he had resigned his position as assistant secretary, I asked Washburn whether the Little Shell indeed had reason to hope. He sighed deeply and took a long time to answer. “You can’t interact with the leadership of the Little Shell without somewhere in
swapping a tortoise for a snail. Neither approach is likely to result in a swift conclusion, leaving the Little Shell in continued limbo. “At least another couple years of work in front of us now, and I feel sad,” Vrooman says, his voice strained. “Here we are again,” he adds, “waiting for the day that never comes, and another group of elders are going to pass before their inherent rights are recognized.”
“THESE ARE MY PEOPLE” The south-facing windows of Jackie Trotchie’s small apartment heat up her cozy kitchen quickly, even in cool
He recognizes this type of conflict isn’t healthy, but he’s also resolute that racist attitudes deserve an aggressive response. “It’s not legit,” he says. I ask them both what it would feel like to be recognized as members of a sovereign tribe with unique legal rights and benefits in the eyes of the United States and its citizens. Jackie is quick to answer. “I think what would make me happiest is that something would take care of my grandkids after I die,” she says, looking across the table at Sage. Then, she invites him to tell the story of how he dealt with the cost of repairing complicated breaks in his hand and wrist following a fight a few years ago.
photo courtesy of the Trotchie Family Collection and Nicholas Vrooman photo courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Archives
A Metis dancing group poses at a Quebec festival in 1930. The Metis are a polyethnic people primarily of Chippewa, Cree, Assiniboine and European descent.
or to request the tribe submit a supplemental petition under the new process. While he hedged about his pending decision on the Little Shell’s case, he was candid about the necessity for revision of the recognition rule and the fact that the Little Shell people had shaped the new criteria. In an email, he admitted that, “Numerous educated people complained, for years, that the process is broken.” “We needed to rebuild public trust in the process,” he wrote and offered the following example of how the process had been changed: “The old version of [the rule] said that a petitioning group must prove its Indian identity continuously from 1900 to the present using evidence from sources external to the tribe [emphasis added by Washburn], such as city newspapers or state government records. Petitioning groups complained that this was unfair.
result of the new rule, he wrote, “is that we will continue to have a rigorous process that remains lengthy and timeconsuming, but is more fair and more transparent.” This prediction represents mixed news for those who’ve worked on the Little Shell’s case. Kim Gottschalk, a staff lawyer at the Native American Rights Fund, has provided legal services to the Little Shell since 1993 and played a significant role in developing, supplementing and revising the tribe’s petition—a petition that has been substantially amended several times since 1978 in response to questions and suggestions from the BIA. On one hand, Gottschalk’s frustrated by the prospect of supplementing their petition yet again for submission under the new rule. “Our petition includes over 60,000 pages of historical documentation and reports which interpret historical evidence,” he says. “What more will it take?”
The Trotchie family in 1956. Jackie lived in a Helena neighborhood called Moccasin Flat at the time, part of what was known as the “buckskin fringe.” The neighborhood was torn down years later to make way for Interstate 15.
your heart rooting for them,” he said. “So, from that standpoint, I would be as delighted as anybody to see them succeed in their quest for acknowledgement.” But he remained circumspect about whether they would achieve recognition through a still “imperfect” process. “Some of these cases seem to cry out for a political solution and the Little Shell have broad support within the state of Montana,” he continued, referring to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act. “That’s the kind of case where you would want Congress to engage.” The act, which was first introduced by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in 2007, now has bipartisan support from Republican Sen. Steve Daines and Montana’s lone representative, Republican Ryan Zinke. The legislation would recognize the Little Shell through congressional action, essentially bypassing the administrative process. But trading the BIA’s process for congressional action is a bit like
weather. Together, we sit across from her grandson, Sage, sipping glasses of water filtered from a small pitcher. At 6 feet 2 inches tall, Sage Reall Trotchie (his middle name is a phonetic spelling of Riel) is an imposing figure with an impressive scar above his right eyebrow and long black hair that falls between his broad shoulders. He’s been able to put a few years between himself and a misdemeanor, which resulted in 18 months probation in his early 20s, but continues to identify as someone who is quick to fight “just like my people always done.” His stories about defending himself against bullies—usually with success— during his middle and high school years in Missoula sound eerily similar to his grandmother’s telling of harassment in Helena a half century ago. “I just lose it when people are racist,” he explains. “I’ll just lose it all and go after ‘em.”
“It cost $14,000 and I knew it was just gonna go to collections,” he says, “but I had to do it.” He tells another story of how he was unable to get a decayed tooth repaired because of a lack of health coverage. He tried to get Mission Clinic in St. Ignatius to refer him to the Indian Health Service but was denied because he’s not an enrolled member of a recognized tribe. So, he had the tooth pulled. When I ask how else recognition might make a difference for him, beyond health benefits, he explains it might change the way he introduces himself to others. “That would be pretty cool,” he says, “actually being recognized as the Native I am instead of like ‘just some brown kid.’ I could at least be like, ‘Yeah, I’m enrolled, these are my people.’” editor@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
Life, death and giraffes The 39th annual International Wildlife Film Festival stretches beyond traditional animal docs by Erika Fredrickson
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he 39th annual International Wildlife Film Festival features work from some of the most cutting edge animal documentarians on the planet. The longstanding Missoula festival runs from Sat., April 16, through Sat., April 23, and includes some of the usual popular events like Sunday’s Wild Walk, along with eight days of films. This year’s lineup focuses heavily on climate change and its effects on wildlife and humans alike, and some of those films have an unusual take. Most notably, Josh Fox’s How to Let Go of the World— and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change sees the award-winning director of Gasland traveling the world
Giraffe: Up High and Personal
to meet with climate change “warriors” trying to alter the course of the global threat. In advance of the onslaught of wild creatures and exotic environments, we look at three anticipated films that defy traditional formats of wildlife filmmaking.
Giraffe: Up High and Personal Giraffes are some of the oddest looking creatures found on the planet, yet so many wildlife documentaries seem to overlook them. Perhaps it’s because lions are naturally more exciting when it comes to action shots and elephants and monkeys tend to be beloved social animals, but it’s curious that giraffes often only serve as a backdrop to life on the African savanna. Giraffe: Up High and Personal, directed by Herbert Ostwald, offers these long-necked giants the spotlight they deserve. The 50-minute documentary succeeds on several levels, including the way it takes a comic approach to filming the animal; split screens
and horizontal shots are used to deal with the giraffes’ strange dimensions. There’s great stuff to learn here about the mammal, as well. Giraffes amble (moving both legs on one side at the same time) and they can run up to 60 kilometers (or about 37 miles) per hour. How they eat spiny plants, including with their precise tongues, is practically a biological miracle. Goofy animations, Gary Larson-style, are woven into live footage to help illustrate exactly how giraffes eat and digest food. But if you’re more of a serious wildlife documentary type, don’t worry. You’ll be pleased with the scene where
Seed: The Untold Story
a giraffe outsmarts a pride of lions by kicking one of them in the head. It’s as action-packed as wildlife footage gets. Screens Sun., April 17, at 3 PM.
Seed: The Untold Story Seed has lots of fantastic aspects to it, most notably its beautiful cinematography. Even the introduction pops with vibrant colors—seeds in every color of the rainbow and in shapes beyond what most people imagine seeds to look like. The “untold” story consists of interviews with seed savers from all corners of the earth who are trying to preserve plant diversity. The documentary explores seed banks and how they’ve fared throughout history; one was destroyed in America’s war on Iraq and another, Russia’s Vavilov Seed Institute, was targeted by Hitler during WWII. This film takes what might seem like mundane subject matter and turns it into a political and social
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issue chock-full of characters who could be pulled from a Robinson Crusoe adventure book. There is plenty of evidence in this film to show that saving seeds is a noble and necessary act, especially in the face of climate change. What’s helpful to its thesis is how the characters are so down-to-earth—and not just in the literal sense. “When I first came here we were a hippie, back-to-nature, self-sufficient thing,” says Will Bonsall, of the Scatterseed Project, in one of the interviews. “We were watching too many Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone movies and reading too much Thoreau. We were trying to seek a different vision.”
be a patient field scientist or naturalist. Still, at a time when short YouTube vids and listicles seem to dominate our attention, slow-moving movies don’t always hit the mark. What I appreciate about Ali Alvarez’s Muerte es Vida is that it throws wildlife tropes out the window. It starts out as if it’s not a wildlife documentary at all. A little Mexican boy holding a sugar skull tells his friend a folktale about the origin of the Day of the Dead: A man named Pepe dies and comes back as a skeleton and then is eventually punished by being brought back as a human with no memories. What does this story have to do with nature? The documentary builds its
Muerte es Vida (Death is Life)
Where Seed and director Taggart Siegel (The Real Dirt on Farmer John) fall flat is in the discussion of genetically modified organisms. The anti-GMO viewpoint has become such a propaganda machine, as immune as industrial agriculture to nuance. Seed could have taken a new, untold story approach—acknowledging the science community, exploring some of the grayer areas of GMO politics—and still come up with the same conclusion. That it didn’t dig deeper is disappointing for a film that offers exquisite surprises on every other level. Screens Thu., April 21, at 7 PM.
Muerte es Vida (Death is Life) The best wildlife filmmakers avoid what has become a mocked form of documentary: the droning British narrator paired with long shots of animals in their natural habitat. But you’d be missing out if you dismissed all classic films of this kind. The meditative quality to that approach emulates what it feels like to
premise with an air of mystery as we learn how millions of butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico each year. They arrive in Mexico right around the country’s Day of the Dead celebration, and many Mexicans believe the butterflies are their loved ones returning in a new form. Muerte es Vida doesn’t linger in Mexico for long. The documentary looks at seven people from around the world who have lost a loved one and who also have had a mystical encounter with a monarch butterfly. It’s a smidgen sentimental and sometimes overwhelmingly mystical, but a refreshing device nonetheless—one in which human grief is shown through the lens of wildlife. Screens Sun., April 17, at 7 PM. The International Wildlife Film Festival runs Sat., April 16 through Sat., April 23. Visit wildlifefilms.org for full schedule and ticket info. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Torchbearers Mef and Red keep hip-hop evolving Whether you’re interested in getting your hands dirty or your creative juices flowing, you’re bound to find a workshop that's right for you!
by Bryan Ramirez
COMPOSTING: Composting Techniques: Tips and Tricks for Everyone. Presented by Missoula Urban Demonstation Project (MUD). FOREST GARDENS: Learn what to plant in your back yard as a sustainable food source for years to come. Participants will create a seed ball to take home. Presented by Stefon Smith and Luke Robinson, Blue Sky Stewardship. THE MANY USES AND APPLICATIONS OF ESSENTIAL OILS: Learn how to make your own oils and use them for home care, healthcare and beauty. Participants will leave with a small jar of oil ready to utilize at home. Presented by Katrina Farnum, Garden Mother Herbs. Method Man and Redman started collaborating in the late 1990s and have continued to make hip-hop more than just a fad.
I remember the exact moment I was first introduced to hip-hop. It was late summer of 1984 and I had been watching USA Network’s “Night Flight” religiously. The three-hour visual arts magazine and variety television show—featuring band interviews, music videos, stand-up and cartoons—left no genre untouched, including the kind of rap music beginning to flourish in New York City at the time. I was blindsided when a video for Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message” showed on the screen. The song emphasized inner-city hardship and had a deep, vicious bass beat with a lyrical flow delivered like nothing I’d ever heard. I had grown up in a suburban housing project north of Detroit that was rife with tension and constant warnings to avoid certain units. The song spoke to me. I set out to discover more rap and ended up disappointed with what seemed like a lack of musical diversity and rhymes focused on ego and material goods. Nothing was coming close to the humanity of “The Message.” A lot of that changed when Beastie Boys, Ice-T, NWA and Public Enemy made major innovations in the genre, infiltrating the mainstream but retaining an underground spirit. Still, this was the time when rap also went fullblown gangster, began heated rivalries, focused too much on violence and indulged in sexism. And, for those reasons, the genre ended up taking a backseat in my musical upbringing—that is, until the 1993 release of the Wu-Tang Clan’s 36 Chambers and the 1994 release of Redman’s bent and ganja-fueled Dare Iz a Darkside. The funk and soul I’d fallen for in “The Message” was in those albums, too, and it didn’t just affect me–it led to a seismic shift all around the country. Rap was resurrected as a diverse artistic form with crafty lyrics and tight beats. It diminished the East Coast-West Coast rivalry and strengthened cultural identity. Collaborations and guest appearances became the norm on albums, including the collaboration of Redman and Wu Tang’s Method Man.
Together, they were incredibly prolific and, for me, the most unusual and coolest hip-hop duo created. Besides numerous appearances on records with the likes of 2Pac, Missy Elliot and D’Angelo, Redman and Method Man released the killer 1999 LP Blackout and starred in the seriously funny 2001 comedy How High. But more than that, they’ve continued to stay relevant over the years, evolving—with solo projects and as a duo—all the way up to the recent releases of Redman’s Mudface and Method Man’s Meth Lab. Mef and Red, who perform in Missoula this week, get some of the biggest credit for keeping me in this hiphop game, inspiring me to investigate more underground acts and keep my ear to the speaker. Earlier this year, when it was announced that NWA would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, KISS’s Gene Simmons retorted that he looked forward to the death of hip-hop. I think he’s out of luck. Hip-hop is a true born-and-bred American genre with room for all walks of life. It’s here to stay. After 30 years of a love-hate relationship with rap, it’s good to be fully experiencing its current renaissance. That renaissance includes the hopeful and existential gangster rap of Kendrick Lamar, as well as rhymes from skateboarding geniuses Earl Sweatshirt and Vince Staples, the deep-ghetto beats of Jay Rock and Freddie Gibbs, and the genre-breaking work of Shabazz Palaces and Run The Jewels. And, like Redman and Method Man, hip-hop veterans—Aceyalone, Myka 9 and Abstract Rude, to name a few—are still carrying the torch, producing monumental works. If you don’t believe me, I’ll hook you up with a mixtape, gratis. Method Man and Redman perform at the Wilma Sun., April 17. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $42 advance.
URBAN FORAGING FOR MEDICINAL SALVES: Learn how to make medicinal salves with local herbs. Participants will create a salve to take home. Presented by Elaine Sheff, Author & Co-Director of Green Path Herb School. RECYCLING, REUSING, REPURPOSING: Participants will create their own hanging rack using repurposed materials. Presented by Donovan Peterson, Upcycled. BIKE BASICS: Learn to properly patch your tires and oil your gears. Participants will leave with a tire-patch kit. Presented by Bob Giordano, Free Cycles. WEATHERIZING YOUR HOME: Hands-on learning of how to properly weatherize doors, windows and water heaters. Presented by Kaleena Millar, Energy Corp MT; Chris Essmann, City of Missoula; and Steve Luther, University of Montana GARDENERS’ HELPERS - THE BIRDS AND THE BEES: Get some ideas for attracting the birds and the bees to your garden to assist with pollination and pest control. Participants will build a precut bird box and/or bee box to place in their gardens to attract these essential garden workers. Presented by SuzAnne Miller, Dunrovin Ranch, and Jacob Wustner, Sapphire Aviary. UM SUSTAINABILITY TOUR: Join the UM Sustainability Coordinator and campus advocates for a walking tour of UM sustainability projects. UM has invested considerably in on-site renewables, waste reduction and diversion, on-site food production, more sustainable grounds maintenance, energy conservation, and building design, all in support of our institutional sustainability goals. Questions about the tour should be directed to Eva Rocke at eva.rocke@umontana.edu. Each workshop last for an hour and will be offered twice - once at 10:15am and again at 2:00pm. COST: $3.00/workshop; $5.00 for two. (Sustainability tour is FREE!)
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[art]
Dreamy vertigo David Tarullo’s Tide consumes the viewer by Melissa Mylchreest
photo courtesy of Dave Tarullo
David Tarullo’s installation Tide to Cycles uses shifting light to explore the space between comfort and fear.
When I first walk into Dave Tarullo’s installation, Tide to Cycles, I’m struck not necessarily by the shifting light or the subtle soundscape or even the dozens upon dozens of translucent prismatic shapes hanging from the ceiling. I’m struck by how I feel in the space surrounded by these elements: a kind of dreamy vertigo, a suspension of reality. This isn’t just a visual or auditory experience, this is full-body, immersion-style art appreciation. And it’s a success because this is exactly what Tarullo is going for. Although he entered the University of Montana’s MFA graduate program as a ceramicist, he has since shifted focus. “I started doing installation work because it engages the viewer in a different way,” he says. “It’s not immediately intellectual, like a painting where you can step back, think about it, think about the history of the medium or the artist, have some space.” Instead, he says, he appreciates the way installations upend that traditional approach. “It flips that around, and the viewer is literally inside of the work,” he says. “It doesn’t allow that space. You’re a part of the art, which can create a stronger emotional impact.” Walking through a room full of plastic-wrapped steel frames doesn’t necessarily sound like a recipe for an otherworldly experience, but oddly enough it is. Suspended in the rough shape of a cresting wave, the transparent boxes fill the gallery space entirely, giving the viewer the sense that they have walked into a moment of suspended animation. As the light shifts and deep resonant tones of the sound score fill the space, you might arrive at a place between peace and precariousness, as though you’re nestled into the inner curve of a stalled wave, which may at any moment break loose and consume you. Tarullo is no stranger to that razor’s edge of comfort and fear. Growing up in southern California, he spent countless hours in the water. “I was so captivated as a kid by lying on my back in the water with my ears submerged and my eyes closed, just floating on the sur-
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face,” he says. “That state of suspension is fascinating. It’s so comforting and so close to being so frightening.” It’s that exploration of belonging versus not belonging that drives much of Tarullo’s work, whether in the realm of the physical or the realm of the emotional. While water and its imagery run deep through the installation, there’s an element of social commentary as well. “This piece in particular is really about a cycle of emotions and how we all have our own patterns of highs and lows,” he says. “They really affect how we see the world, how we interact with the world and how the world interacts with us.” As the light shifts from subtle greens and whites through purples to red, the sound score (a collaboration with local musician Dannon Rampton) grows more complex and frenetic. Over the span of a 10-minute cycle, a viewer’s emotions may range from calm to nervous, from feeling completely at home in the space to feeling like an unwelcome—and imperiled—intruder. Tarullo says he hopes people will ultimately consider these more intellectual aspects of the work. But initially, he just wants people to engage on an emotional, visceral level. “It’s just so fun,” he says, to watch how the lights and objects interact, to notice how sound alters visual perceptions, to observe how people react kinesthetically to the installation. “I want the work to have a strong impact on individuals. I want people to walk in and be touched.” David Tarullo presents his exhibit Tide to Cycles at the University of Montana Gallery of Visual Arts, along with Beth Huhtala’s exhibit, My Favorite Collection, with an opening reception Thu., April 14, from 5 PM to 7. Exhibits run through Thu., April 21. arts@missoulanews.com
[books]
Fighting Irish Timothy Egan’s story of social justice resonates by Chris La Tray
Timothy Egan’s latest work of nonfiction makes of race, class and immigration—topics he tackled as a me reflect on what has changed in the world, partic- contributor to The New York Times’ 2001 Pulitzer ularly since the 1840s—and changed for the better. Prize-winning series on race in America. I wasn’t 10 percent into The Immortal Irishman To get anything from one land to another—whether it be letters, goods or people—used to require a ship before I was aghast at how the Irish have fared under and took weeks, if not months, to accomplish. Now English rule. I knew they were oppressed, but I didn’t we can do the same in a matter of hours. Illnesses know know. Egan’s reporting is extensive and moving that killed millions have been essentially wiped from in its details: the rights they didn’t have in their own the planet. It is no exaggeration to suggest science country, their treatment as kind of subhumans, the fact that as millions were starving and technology have remade the during their potato famine they world a couple times over, all inside were being forced under English of 200 years. But Egan’s book guard to export record amounts of makes me realize that for all this food. Of course, that oppression technological progress, socially led to the Irish becoming less poor speaking, we have hardly budged. immigrants and more embattled The subject of The Immortal refugees. The English blamed the Irishman is a high-born Irishman Irish’s poverty on their own lack of named Thomas F. Meagher (procharacter, unwillingness to work nounced “Mar”) who could have and sense of entitlement. lived a life of wealth and leisure. He This is the stuff that outraged chose not to because, unlike his faMeagher and made him choose ther, he wasn’t willing to submit to exile over submission. When he arEnglish authority. Instead, he berived in New York, he found a city— came the leader of an Irish revoluand a nation—deeply racist and tionary group called the Young loudly and vigorously opposed to Irelanders, who staged an unsucThe Immortal Irishman: cessful rebellion against England in The Irish Revolutionary Who immigration. His Irish brothers and 1848. He dodged a death sentence Became an American Hero sisters were packed into the most squalid part of the city. A public figfor sedition but was exiled—or, in Timothy Egan ure embraced as a savior by the the euphemism of the day, “transhardcover, ported”—to live on Van Dieman’s Houghton Mifflin Harcourt large Irish American community, Meagher’s arch enemies became Land, what is now called Tasmania. 384 pages, $28 the Know-Nothing Party, a political He later escaped by ship and made his way to New York City, where he began a new, group whose virulent positions echo in the voices of high-profile existence. He packed a lot of life into his today’s Tea Party extremists. When it comes to right short 43 years before disappearing off the deck of a wing media in 21st century America, there is little difsteamboat on the Missouri River in 1867. ference between the rhetoric toward the poor and Montanans may know some of this story, de- immigrants now from what it was in the 1850s. pending on how long it’s been since their last MonThe common thread that binds The Immortal tana history class. During the American Civil War, Irishman’s three sections is Meagher’s lifelong battle Meagher ended up out West and, for his efforts lead- against that hatred he found everywhere he went. It ing the Irish Brigade as a brigadier general on behalf was in Ireland and England, and even among the lowof the North, he was appointed the acting governor est of the castoffs in Australia, where they shot Aboof the Montana Territory. (He is the subject of a statue rigines for sport. He found it in America, where then, in Helena.) As acting governor, Egan suggests, as do as is the case now, pursuit of individual wealth other theorists, Meagher’s efforts against vigilantes reigned supreme. And he found it on the Western opposed to immigration led to his demise—a murder frontier, where he ultimately died. In telling rather than a mere disappearance. Meagher’s story, Egan is also delivering a cautionary I’ve been a fan of Egan’s brand of in-depth narra- tale for today’s America—one that should help us retive nonfiction since his 1990 debut, The Good Rain. flect on what kind of people we really want to be. His book about the American Dust Bowl, The Worst Timothy Egan reads from The Immortal Hard Time, won a National Book Award. His two sub- Irishman at Imagine Nation Brewing Wed., April sequent books, The Big Burn and Short Nights of the 20, at 6:30 PM. Shadow Catcher, have been bestsellers. His new book holds its own as a page-turner and deals with issues arts@missoulanews.com
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Gutsy vision Hardcore Henry offers more than gimmickry Join us for these four enlightening and lively panels, presented in the UC Theater by local and regional industry experts. Be sure to bring your questions!
by Molly Laich
9:00am-10:00am Community Climate Resiliency: Let’s Use Less, Grow More, Talk Openly, and Smile Often Panelists: Bonnie Buckingham, Executive Director, Community Food and Agriculture Coalition (CFAC); Kevin Dohr, PhD Psychologist; Chris Carlson, City of Missoula Parks and Recreation; Nicky Phear, PhD, Climate Change Studies Program Director; Becca Boslough, Climate Smart Missoula and Home ReSource Moderator: Caroline Lauer, Climate Smart Missoula
12:15pm-1:15pm The Social Venture: Using Business to Save the World Panelists: Katie Deuel, Executive Director, Home ReSource; Dawn McGee, Good Works Ventures; Josh Slotnick, Clark Fork Organics; Fernanda Menna Barreto Krum & Robert Rivers, Co-founders of Imagine Nation Brewing Moderator: Janet Finn, Ph D, UM Social Work Professor
2:45pm-3:45pm Exploring Montana’s Water Resources Panelists: Jeff Laszlo,The O'Dell Project; Deb Fassnacht, Watershed Education Network (WEN); Travis Ross, Missoula Quality Water District; Thomas Boos, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Moderator: Dr. Mark Wilson, W Chiropractic
4:00pm-5:00pm What IS Zero Waste and What Does it Have to Do with You? Introduction: Mayor John Engen Panelists: Beth Schenk, PhdD, MHI, RN, Providence-WSU Nurse Scientist; Chase Jones, Energy Conservation Coordinator, City of Missoula; Graham Roy, Owner, Romaines Restaurant; Kreigh Hampel, Recycling Coordinator, City of Burbank, CA; Martin NoRunner, Founder, i.e. Recycling in Missoula Moderator: Bryony Schwan, Founder and CEO, Kindkudos, Inc.
5:00pm-6:15pm The Clean Bin Project Movie– described as An Inconvenient Truth meets Super Size Me – follows the Zero Waste Panel. The Clean Bin Project features laugh-out-loud moments, stop-motion animations, and unforgettable imagery. This film is a fun and inspiring call to individual action that speaks to crowds of all ages.
All panels are free and open to the public!
[22] Missoula Independent • April 14–April 21, 2016
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Take a shot every time someone witlessly compares this week’s raucous action picture to a pointof-view video game as if this is some terrible, unforgivable thing, and you’ll be drunk by noon. “Why would anyone want to see a movie that in any way resembles a similarly beloved medium?” the critics seemed to say. I don’t play video games, and I don’t even particularly like action pictures, but this one thrills and invigorates like nothing else I’ve seen this year. Hardcore Henry is the first-ever POV featurelength action picture, which simply means that we see the world of the film entirely from Henry’s perspective. (Henceforth, we are Henry, and Henry is us.) After a brief, puzzling scene from our childhood, we wake up on a sci-fi operating table. We look down at our body and see that someone’s opened up our torso and a couple of our limbs are missing. There’s a beautiful blonde woman in a lab coat hovering over us. “Do you remember how you got here?” she asks us, and we shake our head no. Hardcore Henry comes from first-time director Ilya Naishuller, inspired by a series of music videos he made for his friends in Russia. He and his collaborators shot the film on GoPro cameras entirely outside the studio system, and even crowdsourced to round out the budget. When a reporter asked the filmmakers why they thought no one had ever attempted to make a film like this before, they answered, “Probably because it’s really hard.” Consider, for example, what happens after the operating table. Estelle (Haley Bennett) tells us she’s our wife and hands us a wedding ring that we put on the weird robot hand she’s just welded onto us. We’ve had some sort of accident and now we’re half machine and the fate of humanity is dependent on our victory against unknown enemies. Before Estelle
and her science friends have time to upload our voice, one such villain bursts into the room and we abscond with our new wife in an escape pod that crashes onto a busy intersection in Russia, where still more villains in armed black vans are waiting to fight us. For 97 minutes, the film keeps up this unrelenting pace of action punctuated by brief moments of just enough story to see us through. Henry’s adventures take us through dilapidated buildings and Russian brothels with a delicious, unsentimental violence that cares not about collateral damage. In one particularly awesome sequence, we knock down a lady on an escalator with a startling thud. It’s such a jarring, organic moment that I was not surprised to learn that the extra had missed her mark, and the stunt was the result of a happy accident. I can’t help but marvel at a film that so expertly and thoroughly immerses us in its plot. As viewers, we know exactly as much as Henry does, and Henry’s an amnesiac robot dropped into a foreign country. He doesn’t know a goddamn thing. We have superhuman strength, seemingly endless endurance and all sorts of combat skills and training. It’s a leg up, for sure, but we’re still pretty unclear about the objective, our battery is dying and we don’t know who we can trust. Among these dubious allies is Jimmy (Sharlto Copley), who seems to be able to change bodies at will, and anyway, he helps us recharge our battery in a clinch moment. Hardcore Henry is a movie of great vision and guts, with sophisticated action sequences and a kickass soundtrack. To dismiss the movie out of hand as a cheap gimmick is, quite frankly, disrespectful to cinema. Hardcore Henry continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT After the revelations of Insurgent, Tris and Four must find out what’s beyond the wall that encircles Chicago. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT The crew at Calvin’s Barbershop pull together to create some much-needed change in the ‘hood. Starring Ice Cube and Regina Hall. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12.
HARDCORE HENRY If “Call of Duty” enthusiasts can tear themselves away from their Xboxes for two hours, they’ll enjoy this story of a man brought back from death with no memory but must save his wife from peril. It’s presented literally from Henry’s point of view. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. (See Film.)
CRIMINAL A dead CIA spook’s memories and skills are implanted in a death row inmate’s brain in the hopes that the convict will complete the mission. Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman and Kevin Costner star. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Sally Field is getting raves for her portrayal of an older woman trying to squeeze into the life of a younger man. Sparks fly, comedy ensues. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., April 14.
THE JUNGLE BOOK The 1967 original with Louis Prima and Phil Harris will never be surpassed, but as they say, YMMV. Disney’s reboot of the Rudyard Kipling story features Bill Murray as Baloo the Bear, ScarJo as Kaa the Snake and Christopher Walken as King Louie. It holds promise. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. KRAMER VS. KRAMER The UM School of Law and Film Society hosts a screening of Kramer vs. Kramer. Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep star as a couple who engage in an epic court battle over the custody of their young son. Rated PG. Showing at the Roxy Wed., April 20, 5 PM. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: ROBERTO DEVEREUX Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky stars as Queen Elizabeth I, who is forced to sign the death warrant of the nobleman she loves. At the Roxy Sat., April 16, 11 AM. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: ROBERTO DEVEREUX ENCORE Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky stars as Queen Elizabeth I, who is forced to sign the death warrant of the nobleman she loves. At the Roxy Tue., April 19, 6:30 PM. MOVIE CULT: THE FIFTH ELEMENT It’s been called “the poor man’s Blade Runner.” By me. Just now. This week’s Movie Cult selection is The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis as a cab driver who gets mixed up in some film noir action, dystopian future-style. With Milla Jovovich and Gary Oldman. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Sat., April 16, 9 PM.
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2 The Portokalos family is back, with writer/star Nia Vardalos in an even bigger and Greeker wedding. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
Guess who wins the patriotism award? Barbershop: The Next Cut opens Fri., April 15 at the Carmike. OF FLESH AND BONE Of Flesh and Bone, Jason Eggleston’s new horror short, gets a free screening at the Roxy. Eggleston and several cast members will be on hand afterwards for a Q&A. Fri., April 15, 7 PM. Donations accepted. SONGS MY BROTHER TAUGHT ME A brother and sister’s lives on the rez develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father suddenly dies. Johnny wants to head for L.A., but is not crazy about leaving his sister behind. Showing at the Roxy.
and John Goodman. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE This movie should solve once and for all the argument that’s been going on between 9-year-old nerds forever. Starring Ben Affleck, Amy Adams and Jesse Eisenberg. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
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THE BOSS Melissa McCarthy cranks up the raunch as a woman jailed for insider trading who gets out of the joint and tries to rebrand herself as America’s sweetheart. Also stars Kristen Schaal, Peter Dinklage and Kathy Bates. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE A woman discovers the horrifying truth about the outside world while living in an underground shelter with two men. Stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead
DEADPOOL Ryan Reynolds stars as possibly the most smartassed superhero in the history of Marvel Comics. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.
REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Noam Chomskey expounds on one of the defining characteristics of our time—the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few, and how it’s causing the death of the middle class. Showing at the Roxy Thu., April 14. ZOOTOPIA In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive con artist fox and a rookie bunny cop must work together to uncover a conspiracy in Disney’s new animated feature. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike.
Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Chicken satay with peanut sauce by Gabi Moskowitz The recent warm weather makes it officially grill season. Anyone can grill chicken, but you’ll wow your friends and impress their mothers if you whip up this uber-easy variation on grilled chicken. Yogurt works overtime to leave the chicken tenders unbelievably tender, while the other ingredients in the marinade give the chicken unforgettable flavor. The peanut sauce, meanwhile, is one of those crazy good, lick-the-bowl creations. Everyone will beg you for the recipe. You, like me, will be the queen (or king) of the potluck when you serve it alongside the chicken satay as either an appetizer or an entree. Ingredients For chicken satay: 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into tenders 1 cup plain yogurt (any fat percentage is fine but I prefer whole milk yogurt for this recipe) 1 clove garlic, minced 1 small piece ginger, minced 1 small bunch cilantro, chopped finely 2 tablespoon soy sauce oil for brushing grill or grill pan 8-10 bamboo skewers
BROKEASS GOURMET 1 small piece ginger, peeled and chopped roughly 2 tablespoon soy sauce juice of 1 lime 1 tablespoon rice vinegar 1-2 teaspoon(s) Asian chili sauce 1 ½ tablespoons honey or brown sugar (Recipe makes about ¾ cup peanut sauce) Directions To make the sauce, combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Adjust spiciness to taste by adding more or less chili sauce. If the sauce is too thick and needs to be thinned out, add a little hot water. For the chicken satay, place skewers in a bowl or pan filled with water. Soak for 10-15 minutes. Remove from water and pat dry. Combine yogurt, garlic, ginger, cilantro and soy sauce in a large bowl. Stir to incorporate. Add chicken tenders, cover, and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Remove chicken tenders from marinade and gently push one chicken tender onto each skewer. Heat grill or grill pan over high heat. Brush lightly with oil. Grill skewers, working in batches for 3-4 minutes on each side or until fully cooked. Serve with peanut sauce.
(Recipe makes 8-10 skewers) For peanut sauce: ¼ cup peanut butter 6 oz. coconut milk 1 small bunch cilantro, cleaned, stems intact 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
[24] Missoula Independent • April 14–April 21, 2016
BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.
[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 WE ARE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF HAND CRAFTED ESPRESSO! How? A Happy Hour special is upon us. Come into Bernice’s from 6pm - 8pm. When you purchase a slice of cake for your dessert pleasure you receive an 8oz espresso beverage FREE. Enjoy Spring evenings by our large sunny windows or sit outside at a Bernice’s picnic table and watch the sun go down over the Clark Fork. Take yourself out to dinner and then pop over to Bernice's for dessert with your espresso on us. And what's even better? HAPPY HOUR WILL RUN ALL OF APRIL! Thank you Missoula for keepin' Bernice's sweet. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:305:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am -
2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
GRAND REOPENING APRIL 14TH, 2016 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$
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Dinner and Music Series at the Kettlehouse
HAPPIEST HOUR what’s going in the whiskey What it is: All the best ginger yet,” he says. things in life—beer, food and live music—together for the What you’re eating: first time at the Northside This week the BSB will serve Kettlehouse. Starting at 4 walkin’ tacos, which is a renp.m. each Saturday, the brewdition of Frito Pie, wherein ery offers a specialty beer the tacos ingredients are crafted specifically for the evening while Burns Street photo by Erika Fredrickson mixed with a bag of chips and eaten from the bag. Bistro sells food truck fare to sop up the suds. Music starts at 6 p.m. The Who you’re listening to: Emzee & Silas event, which was started earlier this month by ale slinger Justin Landon, is a casual affair per- will play blues rock originals and twists on fect for solo ventures, date nights, group gath- classics with the help of guitars, keys and ukuleles. There will be new musicians each erings and everything in between. Saturday, with Hardwood Heart closing out What you’re drinking: Whiskey Ginger the month. IPA. With the help of fellow K-hole brewers, What’s on tap in the future: The meals Jed Luther has created a Double Haul IPA that was aged for eight months in 10-year-old Eli- and bands are still being firmed up, but as for jah Craig barrels. Last week, he used it to beer, the remainder of April Saturdays will see make an Old Fashioned Bourbon IPA by a Reinheitsgebot Amber (in honor of the adding sugar, Angostura bitters and orange 500th anniversary of Germany’s beer purity peel and garnishing the beer with a law) and a whiskey sour IPA. —Erika Fredrickson maraschino cherry. “I’m not entirely sure
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegranate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reser-
vations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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Thursday ix5 continues at UM. Four conferences over four days bring together innovative thinkers who discuss innovation, imagination, inspiration, interdisciplinar y and international. For schedules and information please visit events.umt.edu. Pick up some hidden treasures at the AAUW-PDK annual used book sale. Thousands of gently used books available at Orchard Home Country Life Club, 2537 S. 3rd St. W. 10 AM–8 PM. Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4–5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks or $10 drop-in.
Friday The Gaia Effect: The Remarkable System of Collaboration between Gaia and Humanity, by Monika Muranyi. Community Room, 6– 7:30 PM. Free. Enjoy some hot jazz with an Eastern European flair with Night Blooming Jasmine. Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway. 6–8 PM. Free. Yabba Griffith brings his smile-inducing reggae to Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Celebrate National Poetry Month by reading some of your work at Poetry with Planned Parenthood. Badlander, 6:30–8:30 PM. Free.
Release some stress during t'ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.
Presentation of the Ray Cross and NALSA Teaching Awards wraps up Indian Law Week. A reception and silent auction take place at Garlington, Lohn & Robinson sixth floor plaza, 350 Ryman St. 6:30–9:30 PM. $10/$5 for students.
Artists Crista Ann Ames and Karl Schwiesow’s collaborative exhibition Mutually Exclusive features a synthesis of Ames’ and Schwiesow’s themes and styles. Exhibit runs through April 22. Opening reception 4–6 PM. Free.
Slut: The Play is directed by UM graduates and is cast entirely with local female teen actors. After the event the audience is invited to stay for a talk-back with event coordinators. UM’s Main Hall, 7:30–9 PM. Free.
nightlife MFA grad students Beth Huhtala and David Tarullo present their thesis exhibitions through Thu., April 21 in UM’s Gallery of Visual Arts. Reception tonight 5–7 PM. Free and open to the public. Refreshments available. (See Arts.) The Soroptimist of Missoula Spirit Awards Banquet and Benefit features live music and a silent auction. Bar and plated dinner provided by Café Firenze. Proceeds from the event will benefit both the Susan Talbot Home for Girls and Girl Scouts of Missoula. Ruby’s Inn, 5–9 PM. $35/$300 per table. Email SImissoula @ gmail.com. Local Yokel are back, playing their footstomping tunes at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. The Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month. This month the discussion focuses on
The veteran twangers of Country Boogie Boys play some bootscootin’ tunes at Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM–12:30 AM. No cover. Congo Sanchez of Thievery Corporation and Equinox Sound share the stage at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$7 advance at ticketfly.com. 18 and over. Multi-instrumentalist Zach Deputy plays his upbeat, loop-based music at the Top Hat, with Hawthorne Roots. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $10. The Residency Series hosted by KBGA features Portland’s Divers with locals Wojtek, Sunraiser and VTO. VFW, 9 PM. $7 at Ear Candy. Open mic with Cheree is back at the Eagles Lodge. Singer-songwriters can try out their stuff onstage. Every Thu., starts at 8:30 PM. For a time slot text 406396-5934.
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The Residency Series hosted by KBGA features Portland's Divers with locals Wojtek, Sunraiser and VTO Thu., April 14, VFW. 9 PM. $7 at Ear Candy.
ix5 continues at UM. Four conferences over four days bring together innovative thinkers who discuss innovation, imagination, inspiration, interdisciplinary and international. For schedules and info visit events.umt.edu. Pick up some hidden treasures at the AAUW-PDK annual used book sale. Thousands of gently used books available at Orchard Home Country Life Club, 2537 S. 3rd St. W. 10 AM–8 PM.
nightlife Theo Ellsworth and Daniel Scott Morris entertain with their handcrafted puppets as part of the closing reception for Last Best Dream: Surrealism, Here & Now. Radius Gallery, 114 E. Main St. 5 PM. Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie to some live music while parental units kick back at the Top Hat. 6 PM. No cover.
Meissner, Pete Hand and Micki Singer. Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music at 6. Free.
Head for the Hills and Pert Near Sandstone visit Stage 112 for a night of rock. 9 PM, $12/$10 advance.
Sarah Gridley and Joshua Corey, alumni of UM’s creative writing program, share their poetry at the Payne Family Native American Center, room 105. 7 PM. Free and open to the public.
Wrinkles, Modern Sons, Hell City Kitty and The Sleepless Elite join forces for a rock show at The Real Lounge. Doors at 9 PM, music at 10. $5 at ticketfly.com. 18 and over.
UM Symphony Orchestra’s Movie Night brings you live music from the silent film era. Music Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. $10 per family/$5 individual/$3 students. Tickets at the door.
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. The audience is invited to stay for a talk-back with event coordinators. UM’s Main Hall clock tower, 7:30 PM. Free.
Get your Gaelic on at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.
Tribes, directed by Rebecca Shaffer, is the story of a young deaf man who gains the confidence and belonging he’s never known after meeting a girl from a deaf family. At the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish through Sat., April 23. 7:30 PM. $18/$16 for seniors/$8 for students. Tickets available at the box office or by calling 862-5371.
Kimberlee Carlson croons with her jazz trio, comprising Ron
Paydirt hits the stage at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
Enjoy a potluck dinner and learn more about the Cycles of Change Campaign. Free Cycles Missoula, 732 S. 1st St. W., 6–8 PM. Free, but bring a dish if you like. That’s how potluck works.
Shakewell raise the roof off the mother sucker with some tight funk at the Top Hat Lounge. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. Witness Missoula’s only all-woman feminist rock band when the shiny new Blaine Janes take the stage with Easter Island, Deadbeats and Helena’s Star Cocoon at the VFW. 9 PM. Free. Top of the Mic begins the semifinal rounds at the Badlander. Six acts vie for the $1,000 top prize. 9 PM, no cover. Cash for Junkers know what day it is. That’s why they’ll be laying on the swingin’ honky tonk—no charge—at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover. Nashville 406 sounds like a phone number from an old detective movie, but it’s a band that plays cool country music. Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM. No cover.
Saturday Round up some pledges and saddle up for the Bikathon Challenge. Choose a ride of 75, 20 or 1/4-mile kid loop. BBQ at 5:30 to wrap things up at Free Cycles Missoula. To sign up or pledge, visit crowdrise.come/ bikathon-challenge.
Malarkey provide some no-nonsense music at Missoula’s Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music starts at 6. Free.
soula Winery, 7 PM and 9 PM. $10/$5 students and seniors. Tribes continues at the Oshaughnessy Center in Whitefish, 7:30 PM. $18/$16 for seniors/$8 for stu-
Charley Macorn. Press Box, 8–10 PM. $5 at the door, proceeds go to benefit the UM Psychology Dept.’s participation in Relay for Life.
The Montana Super Skippers host this year’s USA Jump Rope Region 12 Championship. Competitors are vying for a spot at Nationals in Disney World in July. Competition at Sentinel High School begins at 8 AM, final awards announced mid-afternoon. Free, open to the public.
YMCA Healthy Kids Day is designed to promote healthy activity for kids and their families. Mismo Gymnastics, Free Cycles Missoula and Unparalleled Movement team up for an afternoon of fitness. Summer camp registration also available. YMCA Missoula, noon–3 PM. Visit ymcamissoula.org. What will your kids be doing all summer? You’ll have a lot of answers after the Kids Camp Expo. More than 20 summer camp and activity providers offer summer opportunities. Kids play in the gym while parents peruse the booths at Mismo Gymnastics, 1900 W. Broadway. 1–4 PM. Free. A Farmer’s Expo features Blue Eyed Dog Farm, Harlequin Produce and C Lazy B Buffalo Ranch at booths offering information about their locally grown products. Imagine Nation Brewing, 1–5 PM. Free. Amy Dennis reads from and signs copies of Now What?, her new book about surviving the storms of life. Fact & Fiction downtown, 1–3 PM.
County Line celebrate the release of their new CD, with help from Tom Catmull’s Radio Static. Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM. $5. Russ Nasset and the Revelators lay down some serious honky tonk and rockabilly at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover. Boat Race Weekend from Spokane play indie rock at Stage 112, with local bands TBA. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5 for 1820/$3 for 21 and over.
The buffest of the buff oil and flex for the National Physique Committee Big Sky Championship. Events include bodybuilding, figure, physique and bikini competitions. Dennison Theatre. Prejudging at 9 PM, main show at 5 PM. $20– $35 at griztix.com. Learn to build a rocket mass heater, a very efficient device for greenhouses and workspaces. MUD, 1527 Wyoming St., 10 AM–4 PM. $10 donation.
me from the dugout. It’s also a metal band. They’re playing with Undun, Arctodus and ENDever at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. $5.
The Marshall McLean Band was voted Best Original Band in Spokane by the Inlander Reader’s Choice Poll for 2016. Come check out their original folk-rock sound with Mama Doll and Bart Budwig at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
The Marshall McLean Band play original folk-rock with Mama Doll and Bart Budwig at the Top Hat Sat., April 16. 10 PM. Free.
nightlife The International Wildlife Film Festival opens tonight, with Yellowstone and Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater at the Roxy, 5 PM. Visit wild lifefilms.org for events and schedules. Tedd Ness and the Rusty Nails provide the music for Imagine Nation Brewing Co.’s one-year anniversary, as well as the launch of their Beyond Beer educational campaign. 5–8 PM. Free.
dents. Tickets available at the box office or by calling 862-5371.
Paydirt hits the stage at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
Laugh your caboose off at Comedy Outliers, a stand-up comedy showcase. Peformances by local heavy hitters Jake Iverson, Nick Dowdy, Ethan Sky and more. Hosted by
Band in Motion at the Jack Saloon. 8:30 PM. No cover. Universal Choke Sign is what my little league coach used to give
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KettleHouse and Burns Street Bistro team up for dinner and music nights every Saturday in April. This week it’s Emzee and Silas with Frito Pie. KettleHouse Northside, 6–8 PM. Free. (See Happiest Hour.) Tony Holiday and the Velvetones mix blues and dirty rock at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Zootown Cabaret presents The Seven Deadly Sins, a musical theatre review the explores our vices, transgressions and evil deeds. Best enjoyed with a glass of grape. Two shows at the Mis-
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Spotlight all that jazz
Sunday concessions. Put on your best critter outfit and line up at the XXXXs at 11:30 AM, parade starts at noon. WildFest goes ‘til 3 PM. Free. People Who Stutter is an aptlynamed, casual group of folks who get together the third Sunday of each month to just hang out and exchange stories and info. With Tricia Opstad, MS, CCC-SLP & Trevor Monsos. Liquid Planet Grille, 1025 Arthur St., 1:30–3:30 PM. Free. Tribes continues at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish with a matinee peformance at 4 PM. $18/$16 for seniors/$8 for students. Tickets available at the box office or by calling 862-5371. The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities interested in exploring movement improvisation. At the Downtown Dance Collective every other Sunday, 4:30–6 PM. $5.
nightlife Def Jam hip-hop duo Method Man and Redman rap through the haze at the Wilma Sun., April 17. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $42 at ticketfly.com.
Learn or improve your rifle marksmanship and hear about the role citizen marksmanship played in the birth of our country. Fri. and Sat. at Deer Creek Shooting Center, 8:30 AM–4 PM. $60 for both days, $40 Saturday only, $20 youth. .22 ammo available. For more info visit appleseedinfo.org.
Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session on Sunday mornings. Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you move like nobody is watching at the Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM–noon, $5.
Pick up some hidden treasures at the AAUW-PDK annual used book sale. Gently used books available at Orchard Home Country Life Club,
IWFF’s WildWalk leads to Caras Park, where the WildFest carries into the afternoon with live entertainment, face painting and
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Join Community Harmony, a monthly gathering for the yoga community, every third Sunday. Brian leads a discussion on the history of a sequence of uplifting postures. Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main. 5:30–7 PM. Def Jam hip-hop duo Method Man and Redman rap through the haze at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $42 at ticketfly.com.(See Music.) Here’s your one-way ticket out of Squaresville. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.
Perhaps more than any other style of music, jazz allows musicians to communicate on a level that mere mortals will never know. That really doesn’t happen with music that’s played by rote. “The word ‘jazz’ is such a big word,” says Ed Stalling, a drummer who carries a hefty portion of the Missoula jazz scene on his shoulders. “I think of it more as improvisational music. You’re creating onstage within the moment. You’re saying something, talking cussion studies at UM. Jazzoula to each other. It’s all about taking takes place over five days, bringrisks—knowing that we might fall ing together Missoula’s finest jazz players for a chance to coldown onstage.” If Stalling falls, he’ll take a lot laborate. “It’s a great chance for of people with him. Currently WHAT: Jazzoula he’s involved in seven bands, all WHO: Ed Stalling, Eden Atwood, Kimberlee Carlson and more ver y different f r o m e a c h WHEN: Mon., April 18–Fri., April 22. Doors at other. And he 6 PM, music at 6:30 thrives on the WHERE: St. Anthony’s Parish, 217 Tremont St. variety. “I get to back a female HOW MUCH: $12/$10 seniors and students, full pass is $25/$20 vocalist with brushes, then MORE INFO: facebook.com/jazzoula the next night I’m driving an 18-piece big band.” The a lot of us to come together and evening before we had this con- play back-to-back sets,” says versation he opened for the Stalling, who is slated to play Robert Cray Band for a sold-out with the Captain Wilson ConWilma crowd, manning the kit spiracy, Basement Boys and the for the John Floridis Trio. “That Jim Driscoll Trio. While other local music genwas very cool.” Stalling has been around res seem to wax and wane in Missoula for only 10 years or so, popularity, jazz seems to be on but he’s become such an integral a steady growth curve. Stalling part of the music community that feels that’s due partly to the his peers are honoring him with depth of the local talent pool. the Missoula Blues and Jazz So- “When I hike to the top of Mount ciety Hall of Fame Award Thurs- Sentinel, I look out over Missoula day night at the Jazzoula fest. and think, ‘Wow, who would He’s quick to point out that he’s have ever guessed that this many sharing the award with Dr. musicians of this variety are right Robert LedBetter, director of per- here in this valley?’” —Ednor Therriault
Monday nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free, all ages. Jazzoula kicks off a five-day
explosion of local jazz. The UM Jazz Combo starts the festivities at 6:30 PM, followed by some of Missoula’s finest jazz talent. Full bar and food available. St. Anthony’s Parish Center, 217 Tremont St. $12/$10 students and seniors, five-night passes $25/$20 students and seniors.
For schedule and lineup visit Jazzoula’s Facebook event page. (See Spotlight.) Unity of Missoula presents The Truth About Cancer, a nine-part documentary film series by Ty Bollinger. One episode shows every Monday, 7–9 PM. 546 South Ave. W.
Tuesday Jazzoula continues with a showcase of local jazz talent. Full bar and food available. St. Anthony’s Parish Center, 217 Tremont St. 6:30 PM. $12/$10 students and seniors, five-night passes $25/$20 students and seniors. Schedule and lineup at Jazzoula’s Facebook event page. Learn some fascinating facts about exotic insects while quaffing a cold oat soda at Bugs and Brews. Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium hosts the event monthly. $5 includes admission and two drink tickets. 6:30– 8:30 PM. For more info visit missoulabutterflyhouse.org.
The Symphony Cabaret Series features cutting edge chamber music in a cabaret setting with pianist Katherine Chi and Your Symphony Stars Tue., April 19. Dinner seating at 5:30 PM, concert at 7:30 PM. $10– $60 at tophatlounge.com
Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 728-7682 for more information. Learn the basics of home buying at homeWORD’s HomeOwnership Class. Learn how to select a lender, distinguish between different types of loans, and all that comes with the biggest purchase of your life. 127 N. Higgins. $25 per person/$40 per household. Sat., Mar. 12, 9 AM–6 PM.
nightlife The Symphony Cabaret Series features cutting edge chamber music in a cabaret setting with pianist Katherine Chi and Your
Symphony Stars. Dinner seating starts at 5:30 PM, concert at 7:30 PM. $10–$60 at top hatlounge.com. Missoula Art Museum members can mingle and enjoy a drink and some tasty nibbles from the James Bar before the talk by artist Ted Hughes. 6 PM, talk starts at 7. Join Patrick Marsolek in an exploration of hypnosis and self-hypnosis. Patrick answers questions, dispels common myths and shares self-hypnosis tools. Missoula Public Library, 6–7 PM. Free. The Craicers and Friends shake their musical shillelagh with traditional Irish tunes in the taproom at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM.
Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–8:30 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. UM Opera Theater’s Spring One-Act Festival kicks off with Program I: The 4-Note Opera by Tom Johnson and The Proposal by Milton Granger. UM Music Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What business originally inhabited the hive? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s best talent at the Badlander, from 9 PM to 1 AM. To sign up, email michael. avery@live.com.
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Wednesday The Art Associates of Missoula meets the third Wed. of the month in the Education Center of the Missoula Art Museum at 10 AM. This month experimental artist Pam Caughey shares her art and process. Free and open to the public. For more info call Susie at 5440891.
West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop? Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, Dad, when the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quintet takes the stage for Jazz Night at the Top Hat. 7 PM, no cover, all ages. UM Opera Theater’s Spring One-Act Festival continues with Program II: The Beautiful Galatea by Franz von Suppé and The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian-Carlo Menotti. UM Music Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.
nightlife A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.
It’s a pop country extravaganza when chart-topper Luke Bryan brings his Kill the Lights Tour to the Adams Center for two shows with Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch. 7:30 PM. $39.75–$74.75 at griztix.com.
Cribbage enthusiasts finally have a place to share their affliction at Cribbage Night. Enjoy a few cocktails as you look for nibs and nobs. Boards and cards provided. Rattlesnake Creek Distillers, 128 W. Alder St., Suite B. 6–8 PM.
Inflict your musical beauty on the willing at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Halfprice whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.
Joan Zen brings her sultry R&B tunesmithing to Great Burn Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” when “Poncho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays from 6–9:30 PM. Call 741-2361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free.
Old-timey singer-songwriter Martha Scanlan returns to the Top Hat with Jon Neufield Wed., April 20. Dinner seating at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $18/$16 advance at tophatlounge.com.
Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free. Jazzoula continues with a showcase of local jazz talent. Full bar and food available. St. Anthony’s Parish Center, 217 Tremont St. 6:30 PM. $12/$10 students and seniors, five-night passes $25/$20
students and seniors. Schedule and lineup at Jazzoula’s Facebook event page. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.
What better way to celebrate 4-20 than a free screening of Cheech & Chong’s cinematic classic Up In Smoke? Start with a block party from 3–6 PM at Mellow Moods on the corner of Fifth and Higgins with live music and a glass blowing demo. Movie at the Wilma, doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. It’s all free, man. (Trivia answer: UBC.)
O l d - t i m e y s i n g e r- s o n g w r i t e r Martha Scanlan returns to the Top Hat with Jon Neufield. Dinner seating at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $18/$16 advance at tophatlounge.com. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Rock wildmen Peelander-Z are back, from the Z area of Planet Peelande, with Rooster Sauce and Eat Strike. Stage 112, 9 PM. $7/$5 advance at ticketfly.com.
Thursday nightlife Bitterroot homeschoolers don their period togs to represent historical characters at the third annual Homeschool History Fair. Ravalli County Museum, 5–7 PM. Free. Join the Clark Fork Coalition for an introduction to opportunities for fishing, floating, and exploring little used waters of the upper Clark Fork. Learn how to access the river and tributaries for great fishing,
scenery, and solitude. Free drinks and snacks. Clark Fork Coalition, 140 S. 4th St. W., 5:15–6:15 PM. Free. Jazzoula continues with a showcase of local jazz talent. Full bar and food available. St. Anthony’s Parish Center, 217 Tremont St. 6:30 PM. $12/$10 students and seniors, five-night passes $25/$20 students and seniors. Schedule and lineup at Jazzoula’s Facebook event page.
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NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg delivers this year’s Dean Stone Lecture, sponsored by UM’s School of Journalism. University Center ballroom, 7 PM. Free and open to the public. UM Opera Theater’s Spring OneAct Festival kicks off with Program I: The 4 Note Opera by Tom Johnson and The Proposal by Milton Granger. UM Music Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.
It’s a pop country extravaganza when chart-topper and two-time CMA entertainer of the year Luke Bryan brings his Kill the Lights Tour to the Adams Center for two shows with Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch. 7:30 PM. $39.75–$74.75 at griztix.com. The Country Boogie Boys get you all warmed up for the Luke Bryan concert. They’re even running a shuttle. Sunrise Saloon, 8:30 PM. No cover.
He’s been called “the Bruce Lee of rock and roll.” Color me intrigued. Scott Pemberton Trio bring their Portland energy to the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
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THURSDAY APRIL 14 Sussex School’s 30 annual Ecothon puts kids to work throughout Missoula pulling weeds, prepping gardens, picking up trash and basically cleaning up the joint. Sponsors pledge money to fund educational spring field trips. For more info email joellen@sussexschool.org. th
Paper Tigers, a documentary that explores the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) on struggling teens, gets a free screening at the Dennison Theatre. Free, but space is limited. Visit missoulaforum.org to reserve a seat.
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Way out west there’s this fella. Fella I want to tell you about. Fella named Mark Mullandore. He runs an outfit called 4Missoula and he’s been busting his friggin’ agates to raise money to supply skateboards to kids in need. In case you have no frame of reference, like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie, 4Missoula’s goal is to help the urban skaters, inner city children of promise without necessary means for a skateboard. If none of this makes sense to you, obviously you’re not a golfer. Bowling for Boards is 4Missoula’s latest event designed to raise skateboard funds. The upstart nonprofit tends toward easygoing, fun activities that help build community. Last summer, for instance, 4Missoula’s horseshoe tournament raised enough bones or clams or whatever you call them to outfit 15 urban achievers with skateboard packages Now we’re going to see if you’ve got what it
takes to roll your way into the semis. The royal “we.” The editorial. But this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. Teams register for $20, and each bowler gets a shirt that really ties the room together. And this what-have-you is one of the last events at Five Valley Bowling Center before that facility dies face down in the muck. Bowling for Boards—it’s a great plan, if I understand it correctly. It’s a Swiss watch. Just don’t go over the line, Smokey, or they will mark it zero even though it’s not a league game. So instead of sitting at home with pee stains on your rug, you can be throwing rocks tonight. Come on, Donnie, let’s go get us a lane. —Ednor Therriault Bowling for Boards starts at 11 AM Sat., April 16 at Five Valleys. For info visit their Facebook event page or email info@4Missoula.com.
Teacher’s Recognition Day features a special presentation for educators from Democratic candidate for state superintendent Melissa Romano. Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 4 PM. Free.
SATURDAY APRIL 16 National Health Care Decisions Day features oneon-one consultations with health care experts to discuss advance planning and palliative care details. Mayor John Engen is a featured guest. St. Patrick Hospital, 8:30 AM–noon. Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W. Bowling for Boards raises funds to buy skateboards for local kids who want to shred but don’t have the
scratch. $20 per team includes bowling, contests, raffles and more. Five Valley Bowling, 11 AM. Check 4Missoula.com for more info. (See Agenda.) Celebrate National Diversity Day with a diverse array of talent. The Youth Advisory Council hosts a showcase of music, arts, dance and spoken word around the theme “Diverse City.” Missoula Senior Center, 6–10 PM. Free. Visit ncbimissoula.org.
MONDAY APRIL 18 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 the Montana Natural History Center. Family friendly, noon–8 PM.
TUESDAY APRIL 19 Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 In this month’s Food for Thought discussion, Missoula Food Bank Programs Operation Director Kelli Hess and Program Services Coordinator Jessy Lee present information on childhood hunger in Missoula County. Missoula Public Library, 4–5 PM. Free. Every Wednesday is Community UNite, wherein 50 cents of each pint of tasty KettleHouse brew goes to a deserving organization. Tonight you’re supporting the Women’s Foundation of Montana. KettleHouse Northside Taproom, 5–8 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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issoula is starting to look its best right now, for the same reason the valley also hits a visual peak in the fall. It’s the trees. Take away our amazing urban forest and we might as well be living in Butte. Don’t get me wrong, I love Butte and I’ll punch anyone who says otherwise. But when spring takes hold in Missoula and the valley is suffused in that soft green that holds the promise of another fabulous summer, there’s nowhere better on earth. Missoula, of course, didn’t always look like this. A variety of non-native trees have been added to the valley floor since the early days, and the efforts of the Urban Forestry Division have kept them healthy.
Run Wild Missoula has teamed up with Missoula Parks and Rec for Run for the Trees, a fundraiser that has participants walking or running along the Riverfront Trail from Silver Park, shaded by the cottonwoods, spruce, ash and other leafy specimens along the path. Everyone who registers gets a tree sprout to plant on their own and will have the option of making a tax-deductible donation to Trees for Missoula. —Ednor Therriault
Run for the Trees features a 1-mile fun run, 5K or 10K. 10 AM at Silver Park. $25 at runwildmissoula.org.
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FRIDAY APRIL 15 Join other peddlers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free.
available. YMCA Missoula, noon–3 PM. Visit ymcamissoula.org.
SUNDAY APRIL 17
Get a gander at the stars at the Public Planetarium Show. Payne Family Native American Center Star Gazing Room. 6:30 and 8 PM. $6/$4 children, more info at hs.umt.edu/physics.
The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
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Round up some pledges and saddle up for the Bikathon Challenge. Choose a ride of 75, 20 or 1 /4-mile kid loop. BBQ at 5:30 to wrap things up at Free Cycles Missoula. To sign up or pledge, visit crowdrise.come/bikathon-challenge.
Take those bike-fixing skills up a notch at Bike Maintenance Basics, Level 2 at REI Missoula. 6:30 PM. Free.
Walkers, get ready for the Missoula Marathon at a walking training class. Coaching, training plans and encouragement from veteran marathon walkers. Meet at Run Wild Missoula every Sat., 8 AM.
Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/MontanaDir tGirls. Various locations, 6 PM.
Learn or improve your rifle marksmanship and hear about the role citizen marksmanship played in the birth of our country. Fri. and Sat. at Deer Creek Shooting Center, 8:30 AM–4 PM. $60 for both days, $40 Saturday only, $20 youth. .22 ammo available. For more info visit appleseedinfo.org.
TUESDAY APRIL 19
Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gea. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 20
Brush up on your bird identification skills at a beginning birding field trip at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Meet at HQ at 10 AM, event goes ‘til noon. Binoculars available. Free, all ages.
Walkers, get ready for the Missoula Marathon at a walking training class. Coaching, training plans and encouragement from veteran marathon walkers. Meet at Run Wild Missoula every Wed., 5:30 PM.
YMCA Healthy Kids Day is designed to promote healthy activity for kids and their families. Mismo Gymnastics, Free Cycles Missoula and Unparalleled Movement team up for an afternoon of futness and fun. Summer camp registration also
The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
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WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARASITE When I got remarried, I inherited a stepdaughter. At the time, I was happy about this. Though she and my husband had been estranged for many years, I was instrumental in getting them to reconcile. I’ve come to regret this. She is a rageaholic, spendaholic party girl. She has three DUIs and an extravagant lifestyle that’s financially draining her dad and me. Though I have no problem cutting her off, my husband can’t say no to his little girl—which has us on opposing ends of a bitter battle. —Stressed-Out Stepmother If you had the traditional kind of parasite, you could just put a lit match to its butt. Welcome to the bottomless hole of wrongheaded empathy—the daddy guilt version of that “bottomless cup of coffee” that (if you ask politely) the Denny’s waitress will keep refilling until you finally die in the booth. Obviously, your husband means well. Unfortunately, he’s engaging in what’s called “pathological altruism.” The primary researcher on this, Dr. Barbara Oakley, explains it as an intention to help that actually ends up doing harm (sometimes to both the do-gooder and the dogoodee). Enabling can feel so right in the moment, Oakley explains—in part because we get something out of it: activation of the same regions of the brain that “light up” from drugs and gambling. (Say hello to the “helper’s high.”) Refusing to “help,” on the other hand, is uncomfortable and tends to lead to ugly interactions, like screaming matches if Daddy says no to putting his retirement money into retiring last season’s Versace for this season’s Vuitton. Being judiciously helpful takes asking the feel-bad questions, like “What’s the likely result of consistently attaching a garden hose to our bank account and washing away any consequences from Princess Partyhardy’s actions?” That’s a question that should get answered before she gets her fourth DUI—possibly leading to a need for somebody to pick up not only the cost of the fancy DUI lawyer but the pieces of some cute 5-year-old from along the side of the road. You can keep telling your husband this until your teeth fall out, but because of his emotional ensnarement—along with the fear and anger that you’ll try to stop him— he’ll probably just fight harder to go along with her little-girl-voiced shakedowns. And though, with your emotional distance, you have a clearer eye on how your stepsponge is playing her dad, there are surely
a few rationality-eating emotions bubbling up in you. There’s got to be anger (because your money’s getting tossed down the drunken-spendy princesshole) and some fear (that you’ll end up on a street corner, begging people to drop change into your “World’s Greatest Stepmom” mug). Fear and anger make for the worst argument partners. They trigger the amygdala, a central player in the brain’s threat-detection circuit. It, in turn, sounds the alarm, triggering the release of fight-orflight hormones and shutting down functions not needed to battle or bolt, like—whoops—higher reasoning. And more bad news: When you keep repeating a behavior, your brain cells go, “Wait—we do this all the time; let’s put that on auto.” And this is what has happened here—which is to say, you two could be doing permanent damage to your relationship. Advice columnists tend to squawk like parrots, “Therapy! Therapy!” (Like that option wouldn’t otherwise occur to anybody.) However, in your situation—because you two can’t seem to dial down the “bitter battle”—there is an intermediary you should consider engaging: a mediator. (Look for a marital one at Mediate.com) Mediation is dispute resolution. It’s issuefocused, so it’s worlds faster than therapy. (The mediator won’t take a month to figure out how you really felt when you were 6 and you didn’t get that cookie.) The mediator’s job is to dial down the emotional temperature and get you two listening to each other—to the point where you understand each other’s feelings. (This is how you come to empathize with somebody—which motivates you to act in their interest and not just in your own.) The mediator then guides you to come to a decision as a couple and can help you set up a framework for discussing emotionally charged issues so date night doesn’t devolve into hate night. Still, it’s important to recognize that every problem isn’t perfectly solvable. What’s essential, however, is the “Cword”—compromise: understanding that you ultimately win by being willing to lose a little. This means accepting that you won’t always get the exact outcome you want—which, in this case, would probably involve picking up a time machine at Best Buy so you could go persuade your stepdaughter’s mother to have a purse dog instead of a child.
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL American Red Cross We are looking for a full time account manager to work with community businesses, churches, schools and other sponsor organizations to host blood drives at their locations and recruit volunteer blood donors from their networks of people. Plans, develops and provides effective marketing and project planning strategies to recruit, cultivate, retain and manage blood drive sponsors and events. Successful performance of responsibilities is necessary for the Red Cross Biomedical business operation to reach blood collection goals. Develops potential Sponsor leads and influences their commitment of resources in sponsoring blood donation events. Plans and advances blood donation events as well as coordinates ongoing support to Sponsors. Prepares and delivers educational presentations to Sponsor chairpersons and recruitment committees regarding blood donation drive requirements and goals. Develops and presents appropriate special donor recruitment and recognition programs. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10192192 Customer Service Supervisor A growing Missoula manufacturing company is seeking a team-oriented person to manage a team of customer service representatives as well as performing all the functions in the department when necessary. The Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring and maintaining an exceptional level of customer service and be instrumental in promoting a healthy working environment that is in synch with our Company standards. Competitive benefits package to include: Health, life, vision, dental, short-term disability, 401K, paid sick leave and accrued paid time off. $13.00-$16.00/hour DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27529 Finn & Porter PT Server If you appreciate the little things and enjoy creating exceptional experiences, you may be just the person we are looking for to work as a Team Member with DoubleTree by Hilton. What will I be doing? As a Food Server, you would be responsible for serving food and/or beverages to guests in the hotel’s continuing effort to deliver outstanding guest service and financial profitability. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10192292
Fire Watch/General Laborer Fire watch and general labor clean up positions available in busy, local mill. Full time week day position 6am until 2 or 4pm. Will be manning a fire hose, fire extinguisher and assisting in general clean-up of the mill. Training to be provided. Other duties as assigned. Wage $10.00/hour Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #27552 FULL-TIME WITH BENEFITS UPON ROLLOVER. NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill a SHIRT PRESSER position in Missoula. $11/hr. Call Us at 5436033 Grounds Worker A wellestablished tree business is looking for a full time grounds worker. Will clean up from tree trimming and removals. Will be frequently lifting heavy and awkward loads into commercial chipper and trucks/trailers, and other duties as needed. Must be a hard worker in good physical condition who is able to work steadily all day. Requires ability to take direction and use considerable common sense. Successful employee will be energetic, agile, trustworthy, not be afraid of hard work and able to lift up to 75 lbs. Will work day shift, Monday-Friday, full time. This is a seasonal position that could last until December. Pay is $13.00 per hour. Full job de-
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Landscape Laborers Will landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Previous use of landscaping equipment a plus but not required. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, planting trees & shrubs, raking, and sprinkler installation. Requires reliable transportation and driver’s license. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10192134 MUST LOVE DOGS Small, fun, dog grooming shop is looking for a part-time receptionist. Candidate must also be willing to assist groomers when necessary with all sizes and all types of dogs. Please email 2barkingsisters@gmail.com for more information or to submit your resume. No phone calls, please. NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033
NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill a PRODUCTION SUPPORT position for a manufacturing company. $10.50/hr. Full-Time. Call Us at 543-6033 Production Support Level 1 Contribute to running the business by ensuring quality and on time delivery when preparing prefinished siding, including: loading of automated machines, painting of boards by hand, and bundling and packaging of units for shipment. Contribute to improving the business by continually contributing and implementing ideas to improve the worksite or processes at all times. This includes creating a positive culture of continuous improvement by learning and applying lean principles, exhibiting honesty at all times, and respecting other people at all times. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27159 Service & Delivery Local business seeking Spa Service/Deliver/Retail sales person. If you are self-motivated with a positive attitude looking for a long term career then we
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EMPLOYMENT want you. Must be reliable, willing to work, able to lift #75. Experience with plumbing, electrical and carpentry preferred. Experience with retail a plus. Must have clean driving record. Starting wage $13 DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 27011 WORK OUTSIDE! NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill a Maintenance position for a property management company. $10/hr. Full-time. Call Us at 543-6033
PROFESSIONAL Administrative Manager Come work at a young, thriving non-profit. The Society for Wilderness Stewardship works with land management agencies to set the tone for the professional management of wilderness areas. We need an Admin Manager to work closely with the ED to develop administrative systems, processes, and manuals; and to manage all administrative tasks. This job is part-time (with opportunity to grow to more), $20/hour, with a health care stipend and generous paid personal time off. For more information, see the full job listing at: www.wildernessstewardship.org/aboutus/employment, or e-mail Heather at: h.macslarrow@wildernessstewardship.org. Adventure Cycling Sales Manager Adventure Cycling Association seeks a creative, well-organized, and detail-oriented person to fill the role of Sales Manager in our product Sales Department. This is a unique opportunity for a selfstarter with initiative to join a fast-growing Sales program. The ideal candidate will be a team player who works well in a fastpaced environment, meets deadlines and works well under pressure. The candidate will ideally have some experience in sales as well as an enthusiasm for cycling and bicycle travel. The position is based at Adventure Cycling’s headquarters in beautiful and bike-friendly Missoula, Montana. Please submit application materials to Adventure Cyclist – Sales Manager (Link: https://adventurecyclist.submit-
table.com). Application deadline: The position is open until filled. We will begin reviewing resumes and requesting interviews April 18 Associate Director of Finance UM has an increasingly diverse population and rich culture. A new office within Research and Creative Scholarship, the Broader Impacts Group (BIG) will inspire and educate the public about research and creative scholarship at UM. Collaborating with UM faculty and administrators as well as community, state and national partners, the office will promote UM research and creative scholarship, increase the competiveness of related grant proposals, leverage resources and collectively work to remedy knowledge, opportunity, and achievement gaps in Montana and beyond. It is also the intention for this office to become a leader and avid contributor to the newly emerging national effort to create a community of practice in the field of broader impacts. Under the Umbrella of BIG, falls the spectrUM Discovery Area, We are Montana in the Classroom, and the Office of Autonomous Aerial Systems. The spectrUM Discovery Area is a hands-on science center. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10192299 Broadcast Media Director The Broadcast Media Center houses KUFM Radio (Montana Public Radio) and KUFM-TV. Both are 24-hour-a-day, professionally staffed, Corporation for Public Broadcasting-qualified stations and a public service of the University of Montana. Both stations extend educational and culturally enriching programming: in radio to western and north-central Montana, and statewide in television through MontanaPBS, a collaborative service of UM and Montana State University in Bozeman. Both Montana Public Radio and MontanaPBS are licensed to the Montana University System. Montana Public Radio is an NPR affiliate, with news teams in Missoula, the Flathead Valley and the state capital, Helena. The cooperative public television operation KUFM-TV in Missoula and
KUSM-TV in Bozeman comprise MontanaPBS, the statewide television network that serves nearly every Montana household in 400 communities. The director is a dynamic leader who values public media and has overall responsibility for the leadership, administration, development and operation of the Broadcast Media Center at UM in Missoula. Responsible for developing and implementing the necessary vision and strategic plans to ensure the long-term strength and growth of Montana Public Radio and KUFM-TV. The director also represents public radio and television to various individuals, organizations and agencies. (Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10192870 Director Of Development Whitefish Legacy Partners seeks a Director of Development to spearhead development and marketing efforts to pursue community conservation & recreation and provide leadership and vision for a local non-profit in Whitefish, MT. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT CENTER (FADC) DIRECTOR – Havre. Duties of this position include managing regional FADC and developing value-added agriculture/alternative energy projects. BA/BS in agriculture, business or related field. Experience in lieu of education considered. Project management, grant writing/administration, public relations, and food safety knowledge preferred. Job description available upon request. Submit letter of application, resume, three references (two work-related). $32,000 - $35,000 salary. Excellent benefits – 100% employer-paid health insurance, employer-paid retirement program, more. Bear Paw Development Corporation, PO Box 170, Havre, MT 59501. 406-2659226 IT Change Coordinator Missoula area financial services company is seeking a processdriven team-player to fill the role
of Change Management Coordinator. This person will assist the Manager with categorizing and approvals of RFC s, communicate any change-related material to the business and IT, configure the Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) software tools, and other duties as assigned. Wage is $14 to $17 per hour to start with full benefits package. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27434
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be a perfect moment to give yourself a new nickname like “Sugar Pepper” or “Honey Chili” or “Itchy Sweet.” It’s also a favorable time to explore the joys of running in slow motion or getting a tattoo of a fierce howling bunny or having gentle sex standing up. This phase of your cycle is most likely to unfold with maximum effectiveness if you play along with its complicated, sometimes paradoxical twists and turns. The more willing you are to celebrate life’s riddles as blessings in disguise, the more likely you’ll be to use the riddles to your advantage.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Right about now you might be feeling a bit extreme, maybe even zealous or melodramatic. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were tempted to make outlandish expostulations similar to those that the poet Arthur Rimbaud articulated in one of his histrionic poems: “What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lies am I supposed to believe?” I encourage you to articulate salty sentiments like these in the coming days—with the understanding that by venting your intensity you won’t need to actually act it all out in real life. In other words, allow your fantasy life and creative artistry to be boisterous outlets for emotions that shouldn’t necessarily get translated into literal behavior.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are close to tapping into hidden powers, dormant talents, and future knowledge. Truths that have been off-limits are on the verge of catching your attention and revealing themselves. Secrets you have been concealing from yourself are ready to be plucked and transformed. And now I will tell you a trick you can use that will enable you to fully cash in on these pregnant possibilities: Don’t adopt a passive wait-and-see attitude. Don’t expect everything to happen on its own. Instead, be a willful magician who aggressively collects and activates the potential gifts.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Adyashanti is my favorite mind-scrambling philosopher. One of his doses of crazy wisdom is just what you need to hear right now. “Whatever you resist you become,” he says. “If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.” Can you wrap your imagination around Adyashanti’s counsel, Libra? I hope so, because the key to dissipating at least some of the dicey stuff that has been tweaking you lately is to STOP RESISTING IT!
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During every election season, media pundits exult in criticizing candidates who have altered their opinions about important issues. This puzzles me. In my understanding, an intelligent human is always learning new information about how the world works, and is therefore constantly evolving his or her beliefs and ideas. I don’t trust people who stubbornly cling to all of their musty dogmas. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an especially ripe time for you to change your mind about a few things, some of them rather important. Be alert for the cues and clues that will activate dormant aspects of your wisdom. Be eager to see further and deeper.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Friedrich Nietzsche published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, in 1872, when he was 28 years old. In 1886, he put out a revised edition that included a preface entitled “An Attempt at Self-Criticism.” In this unprecedented essay, he said that he now found his text “clumsy and embarrassing, its images frenzied and confused, sentimental, uneven in pace, so sure of its convictions that it is above any need for proof.” And yet he also glorified The Birth of Tragedy, praising it for its powerful impact on the world, for its “strange knack of seeking out its fellow-revelers and enticing them on to new secret paths and dancing-places.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to engage in an equally brave and celebratory re-evaluation of some of your earlier life and work.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.” So advised Thaddeus Golas in his book The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment. I think that’s exactly what you should do right now, Capricorn. To undertake such a quest would reap longlasting benefits. Here’s what I propose: First, identify three dreams that are important for your future. Next, brainstorm about how you could return to the roots of your relationships with them. Finally, reinvigorate your love for those dreams. Supercharge your excitement about them.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What am I doing here in mid-air?” asks Ted Hughes in his poem “Wodwo.” Right about now you might have an urge to wonder that yourself. The challenging part of your situation is that you’re unanchored, unable to find a firm footing. The fun part is that you have an unusual amount of leeway to improvise and experiment. Here’s a suggestion: Why not focus on the fun part for now? You just may find that doing so will minimize the unsettled feelings. I suspect that as a result you will also be able to accomplish some interesting and unexpected work.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How many fireflies would you have to gather together in order to create a light as bright as the sun? Entomologist Cole Gilbert estimates the number to be 14,286,000,000. That’s probably beyond your ability to accomplish, Pisces, so I don’t recommend you attempt it. But I bet you could pull off a more modest feat with a similar theme: accumulating a lot of small influences that add up to a big effect. Now is an excellent time to capitalize on the power of gradual, incremental progress. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV16-277 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Mai’stoinaa Michael Heavy Runner, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Mai’stoinaa Michael Heavy Runner to Mai’stoinaa Michael Broncho. The hearing will be on May 10, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 3/29/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
COUNTY Case No. DV16-217 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Tanya Leigh Vidrine, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Tanya Leigh Vidrine, has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Tanya Leigh Vidrine to Tani Saoirse Ni’ Conaill and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 19th day of April, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, in courtroom number 5. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against
PUBLIC NOTICES the change of name. DATED this 14th day of March, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Ruth Windrum, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP16-65 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DAVID M. MACINNES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Fredric L. MacInnes 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 Fredric L. MacInnes, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 598078234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of March 2016. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV15-309 Dept. No.: 2 AMENDED SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION CAROLE L. McDONALD, Plaintiff, v.s. GERALD EUGENE STEVENS, ESTATE OF GERALD E. STEVENS, HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF GERALD E. STEVENS, TAMI LYNN STEVENS, LORI JEAN STEVENS, and ALL OTHER PERSONS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE, WHETHER THE CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM IS PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS
GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff ’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this Summons, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 in Block 1 of Linda Vista, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the county Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. WITNESS MY HAND AND THE SEAL of this Court, the 25th day of March, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Plaintiff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-16-57 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN L. BLEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, P.C., Attention: Robert B. Pfennigs, 300 Central Avenue, Suite 700, P.O. Box 2269, Great Falls, Montana 59403, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. DATED this 16 day of March, 2016. /s/ James A. Zygmond, Personal Representative
MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DANTE J. MARTIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JAMIE McKITTRICK, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: March 14th, 2016. /s/ Michael Martin, Personal Representative. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Jamie McKittrick, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-63 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN M. BOWMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joan B. Siegel, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, 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 31st day of March, 2016, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Joan B. Siegel, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sims, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Joan B. Siegel, Personal Representative
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Cause No.: DP-16-62 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: WILLIAMSON, BEVERLY ANN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that David Carl Williamson has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail to, return receipt requested, to David Carl Williamson, Personal Representative, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24th day of March, 2016. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney for the Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 24th day of March, 2016. /s/ David Carl Williamson, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP-16-58 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF AUDREY MAUD ARMERDING, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ruth Harris 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 certified mail to, return receipt requested, to Ruth Harris, Personal Representative, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 23rd day of March, 2016. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney for the Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 23rd day of Marcg, 2016. /s/ Ruth A. Harris, Personal Representative
MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-16-23 DEPT. NO. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONNA MAE SCHWANDT SHAFFER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Curtis Eugene Shaffer 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 the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Howard Toole, the attorney for Curtis Eugene Shaffer, return receipt requested, at the address of PO Box 8774, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 24th day of March, 2016. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 59807 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative
IGARIK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigneds have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to NAOMOI L. CONNELL and/or AMANDA L. COSTNER, Co- Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 22nd day of March, 2016. /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Naomoi L. Connell /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Amanda L. Costner, CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP16-40 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: EDGAR
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-14-177 Dept. No.: 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROBERT WESLEY WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jack Lewis White has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-
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of amended plat of Country Club Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 19, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $185,059.17. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $177,515.39, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the
Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on June 30, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, 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.northwest trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Weaver, Levi B. (TS# 7 0 2 3 . 1 1 5 5 7 2 ) 1002.285713-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/03/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200602639 Bk-768, Pg 638, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Jay Zaltzman, a single person and Kurt Cyr, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land sit-
PUBLIC NOTICES uated in Section 17, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as commencing at the Southeast corner of said section 17 and running North on the Section line between said Section 17 and Section 16, 207.5 feet, thence running West 310 feet, thence running South to the Section line of said Section 17, 207.5 feet, thence running East along the Section line between said Sections 17 and Section 20, 310 feet, to the place of beginning. Recording reference in Book 78 of Micro Records at Page 157. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201117292 B: 884 P: 319, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006AR10. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to
the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 22, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $318,503.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $302,403.41, 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 July 5, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will
MNAXLP be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.115365 Zaltzman, Jay and Cyr, Kurt) 1002.285747-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County
Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY SITUATE IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO WIT: A TRACT OF LAND IN N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 49`04”E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S.35 16`43”E., 442.74 FEET; THENCE S.38 23`38”E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N.40 21`56”W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF
THAT DEED ON BOOK 212 AT PAGE 68; THENCE N.40 58`12”E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENTANTS BY DEED FROM CAMERON Z.GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS RECORDED 08/13/2004 IN DEED BOOK 737 PAGE 1511, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA, COUNTY MONTANA. More Accurately described as: A tract of land in the N½ of Section 19, Township 14 North, Range 19 West and SE¼SW¼ of Section 18, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the NW corner of Section 19, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., thence N.85°49`04”E., 2436.23 feet to a point in Butler Creek Road and on the northerly limit of that Deed in Book 212 at page 468 and the true point of beginning; thence S.35°16`43”E., 447.74 feet; thence S.38°23`38”E., 1081.77
feet; thence south 384.92 feet; thence N.40°21`56”W., 1770.67 feet to a point on the Butler Creek Road and on the northerly list of that Deed in Book 212 at page 468; thence N.40°58`12”E., 329.98 feet along said road and limit to the point of beginning. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 306 of Micro Records at page 970. CAMERON Z GRIGGS and KATHLEEN M GRIGGS, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Old Republic National Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 7, 2005, and recorded on August 4, 2005 as Book 757, Page 859, on Document No. 200519979. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-13, MORTGAGE LOAN PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-13. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is 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 $1,067.51, beginning August 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 30, 2015 is $298,586.45 principal, interest at the rate of 4.12500% totaling $44,330.76, late charges in the amount of $112.80, escrow advances of $26,967.03, and other fees and, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above
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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 25, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 25 day of January, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowl-
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edged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs GRIGGS 100191-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 23, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 31 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Diane Keegan and Kirk Keegan, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc. , as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on December 15, 2005, and recorded on December 15, 2005 as Book 765, Page 1550, Document No. 200533148. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $667.84, beginning March 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January
MNAXLP 1, 2016 is $155,061.89 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00000% totaling $6,719.38, late charges in the amount of $438.59, escrow advances of $11,142.41, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,148.02, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an 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 12, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 12 day of January 12 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Seterus vs Keegan 100625-2
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 31, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The East 5 feet of Lot 34, all of Lots 35 and 36 in Block 50 of Car Line Addition, and the West 5 feet of Lot 37 in Block 50 of Car Line Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH the South 8 feet of the vacated alley lying adjacent and North of the herein described lots. AND TOGETHER WITH an easement for common driveway as described in Book 340 of Micro Records at Page 1320. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 606 of Micro Records at Page 1775.
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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units:21, 52, 161, 258, 375, 378, 417, 506 & 613. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, April 25th, 2016. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3:00 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, April 28th, 2016 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
MONTANA STREET STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 25,G, H, M. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 4/18/16 by appt only by calling (406)880-4677. Written sealed bids may be submitted to manager at 1522 Montana Street, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 4/21/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 204, 224.Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 4/18/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 4/21/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 SARA & SANDY•
Sara & Sandy are a pair of sweet, small, older girls. Sara is a 6year-old Jack Russell mix, and Sandy is an 8year-old Chihuahua. Sandy loves to give gentle kisses. Sara loves to get belly rubs. She'll roll over and close her eyes, almost falling asleep in your arms. They seem to love everyone and everything and could make a great addition to any family.
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MAISEY•Maisey
is a 3-year-old female Lab/Bull Terrier mix. She is a young, energetic girl that is eager to please and ready to play. She would love an active family that will give her lots of play time in the yard. She is always so excited to see people and spins in circles when she thinks she's going to get attention. She'd make a great family dog in a home with older kids.
DUTCH•Dutch is a 2-year-old male Lab/Pointer mix. He is a goofy big boy that is pretty laid back and walks great on leash. Dutch is great with kids and doesn't mind small dogs. He loves playing in the water and would make a great camping/hiking buddy. Dutch's favorite toys are tennis balls, but he's not the most motivated dog. Outside of the shelter, Dutch has a very docile yet ready-to-please personality.
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MORK & MINDY•Mork & Mindy are a pair of 13-year old litter mates. Mork is a male Orange Tabby, and Mindy is a female Calico. These two long-haired loves have been together their entire lives and are hoping to find a retirement home that will allow them to stay together. They are both very affectionate and purr the moment your hand touches them. LULA BELLE•Lula Belle is a 5-year-old female brown tabby harlequin short-haired cat. Lula is a very sweet cat who loves to find tight spaces to snuggle into. However, when you call her name, she response with the sweetest meow and slowly inches her way out to get affection. She loves attention, but is a little unsure of being picked up or carried. Lula Belle is afraid of dogs and some cats. LOREDO• Loredo is a 2-year-old male Orange Tabby. Loredo had been a neighborhood stray that everyone sort of looked after. He was brought into the shelter when an injury had abscessed and put him in a rather foul mood. He is a very precocious cat and loves to investigate everything. Loredo is alway curious about what you're doing and why you aren't giving him your undivided attention.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 PERCY• Percy is a young dog who is curious,
but cautious about the world. He has lived with other dogs before and likes to play fetch. Percy is looking for a quiet, patient, adult home that will encourage him to be brave toward new people and situations. Percy would also love to continue his training. If you are looking for a large snuggle bug, come meet Percy today!
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HOLLY•Holly may be 8 years old, technically making her a senior gal, but she certainly doesn't act old! Holly is a very active girl, who loves going on walks, hiking, and playing lots and lots of fetch. Come meet this friendly lady today and watch as she jumps her way into your heart! Holly would love to enter into our Basic Manners training class with her adopters, so that she can challenge that smart brain of hers!
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SIMON• Simon is one cool dude. He is looking for his forever home where he can receive plenty of attention and toys. If you are looking for an active, friendly cat companion with a whole lot of personality, then Simon is your boy. Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store Come down to The Humane Society of Western www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 Montana and see for yourself! South Russell • North Reserve
DISCO•Straight out of the golden state,
here’s Disco! This California Little is looking for a permanent Montana home, hopefully with you! If this sweet little fella sounds like the right fit for you, please visit Disco from 1-6 p.m., Tuesday – Friday or noon to 5p.m. on Saturday.
BUBBLES• Meet Bubbles! This friendly cat enjoys lounging on her scratching post, and playing with wand toys. Bubbles can be a little bashful when first meeting new people but once she gets to know you she loves to snuggle up and share her purr with you. If you would like to spend some time with Bubbles and get to know her stop by and visit her at the Humane Society of Western Montana.
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FOSTER• Meet Foster! This playful boy loves to play with toy mice and wand toys. When Foster is not busy chasing his toys around, he likes to snuggle up and show off his loud purr. If you are looking for a feline friend with the perfect balance of play time and snuggle time, stop by and visit Foster today! missoulanews.com • April 14–April 21, 2016 [C9]
PUBLIC NOTICES PATRICK HAYS and BEVERLY HAYS, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Heritage Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 11, 2004, and recorded on March 12, 2004 as Book 727 Page 1509 Document No. 200406534. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $613.30, beginning December 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 October 9, 2015 is $58,533.34 principal, interest at the rate of 5.87500% totaling $10,105.32, escrow advances of $5,891.31 and other fees and expenses advanced of $375.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The con-
veyance 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 INF O R M A T I O N OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 19, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 19 day of January, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/09/2021 US Bank vs HAYS 100072-1
RENTALS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $695 2 WEEKS FREE WITH 6 MONTH LEASE. Southside, newer 4-Plex, wood laminate flooring, W/D hookups W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $635$750, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333 1024 Stephens Ave. #5. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 5422060
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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611
[C10] Missoula Independent • April 14–April 21, 2016
108 W. Broadway #1. Studio/1 bath, completely remodeled, DW, W/D, urban chic design in downtown Missoula. $950. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1213 Cleveland St. “E”. 1 bed/1 bath, central location, heat paid, shared W/D $650. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 2 bed, 1 bath, $650-$850, S. Russell area, D/W, A/C, coin op laundry, balcony, off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333 2 bed, 1 bath, $650, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage and offstreet parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, $825, off W. Railroad, DW, W/D in unit, storage & carport parking. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 2306 Hillview Ct. #3. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, storage. $650. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 509 S. 5th Street East #1. 1 bed/1 bath, 3 blocks from University, coin-ops, off-street parking, all utilities included $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
Lolo, nice park. Lot for single wide 16x80. Water, sewer and garbage paid. No dogs. $280/mo. 406-273-6034
DUPLEXES 1914 S. 14th St. West “C”. Studio/1 bath, newer unit, double garage, W/D, A/C $575. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 1920 S. 14th St. West “C”. Studio/1 bath, central location, double garage, W/D, A/C $675. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bed, 1 bath, $650, near Southgate Mall, DW, W/D hookups, storage and off-street parking, W/S/G paid. PET UPON APPROVAL, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 321 W. Spruce St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, recently remodeled upper unit, near downtown with deck overlooking the back yard. $995. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3907 Buckley Place. 2 bed/ 1 bath, central location, shared yard, W/D hookups, single garage. $725. Grizzly Property Management 5422060
6415 Mormon Creek Rd. Studio/1 bath, Lolo, all utilities paid. $500. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
COMMERCIAL Looking to sublease the “Box Office” in downtown Missoula. It’s a homey & cute, small (10 x 12) space in the Warehouse Mall (725 W. Alder). Only $150/month + $20 if Internet is desired. All other utilities paid. Eclectic, friendly building where (friendly) dogs are welcome. Currently has large wraparound desk, small couch, and microwave/fridge – all of which can go if desired. Call Christie at 406-207-1782.
FIDELITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7
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RENTALS OUT OF TOWN
Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $760/month
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HOUSES
817 Hawthorne: Studio, Near St. Pat’s & downtown, Bonus room, Cat OK! $495. Garden City Property Management 5496106
1 bedroom, 1 bath House, $675, near Higgins & South, private yard area/parking in alley. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
MOBILE
2 bedroom, 2 bath, $825, Broadway & Russell area, D/W, A/C, coin op laundry, balcony, off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $460/month. 406-273-6034
Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com
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All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.
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WEEKLY BUSINESS PROFILE
REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $295,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 339 East Beckwith. 3 bed, 2 bath updated University District home on corner lot. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 360 Stone Street. 5 bed, 4 bath ranch style on 3 acres. Additional 2.52 and 6.49 acre parcels also available. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com 442 Kensington. Very cute, updated 1 bed, 2 bath with single garage. $232.900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 7288270. glasgow@montana.com
4Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $469,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
TOWNHOMES 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park / Slant Streets Condo. $225,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Condo for Sale-901 Rodgers St 2BR/1.5 bath, 2 level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Carpet throughout, laminate flooring in LR. Close to downtown, bike to UM, bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op),carport pkg & storage unit. Great investment opportunity, must see. $89,900 view at forsalebyowner.com Listing ID: 24027866 or 406.214.7519
Our team of real estate and property management professionals are here to help you with all of your rental needs. Whether you are looking for your first place to rent, or you are an experienced real estate investor, we have the resources and expertise you need to accomplish your goals. We represent a wide variety of rental properties, homes, studios, loft style apartments, and beautiful historic renovations. We serve clients throughout Missoula, Frenchtown, Lolo and Stevensville. We have great front office staff, property managers licensed in the state of Montana and field representatives that understand the industry and can provide the answers that owners and tenants need. Our staff includes real estate professionals, so if your needs as an owner or tenant change, we have the expertise to help you buy and sell property as well. Since 1982, we have been providing property owners, tenants and real estate clients with stellar service. Our company has a reputation for professionalism and reliability, something we are certainly proud of. We are working hard to meet and exceed the expectations of all of our clients, both clients that have been with us for years, and new clients. Professional Property Management, Inc. is also deeply invested in our local community. We are involved in many community organizations because we are proud of the area we call home. Rochelle Glasgow
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REAL ESTATE
Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $154,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.co
OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock
Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 205 E Street, Hot Springs. Superefficient 1 bed, 1bath. $139,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.comt 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,000. BHHSMT
Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com East Missoula 970 Discovery- East Missoula. Bright welldesigned 3 bed home located on the East side of Mt Jumbo close to trails, the University and Downtown. $185,000. KD 406240-5227 porticorealestate.com
NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com NHN Roundup. Tract #5 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor @gmail.com NHN Roundup. Tract #7 20 acres. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor @gmail.com
Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com
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Six Mile Huson 17430 Six Mile Road, Huson. Stunning property with beautiful land and views. 3 bed, 1.5 bath early 1900’s well maintained farmhouse. Yard features a massive raspberry patch and many fruit trees! $235,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
COMMERCIAL 3106 W. Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties 2000.com
LAND 2003 Lil Diamond Cluster. Beautiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
[C12] Missoula Independent • April 14–April 21, 2016
Nearly brand new house with old world charm and craftsmanship! 2 story, 1350 sq ft home. 3 bed 2 bath. Restored antique wood doors, wood trim, new hardwood floor, new maple cabinets. Entirely new: high efficiency heating system, electrical system, plumbing, and roof. Irrigated and landscaped yard. Hardi siding. Spacious 5200 sq ft lot with new cedar fence. Come see for yourself! $258,000
MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL
FOR SALE • $810,000 Building & Land Only 6568 sf Building / 20,000 sf land Offices and Warehouse
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience
pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)
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$305,000 Classic bungalow with many updates. Master suite with loads of windows, wood floors, tongue & groove ceilings & lots of storage. Master bath has a beautiful soak tub, heated tile floors, and glass walled steam shower. 3 Bedroom, 2 bath. New roof, new exterior paint, updated wiring, and more.
Matt Rosbarsky 360-9023 512 E. Broadway