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OPINION

FOR A BOOK ABOUT RAPE, KRAKAUER’S MISSOULA CONTAINS VERY FEW VILLIANS

BIG FIGHT OVER FOOD THE DEFINING “HEALTHY”

PLAN NEWS HOMESTEAD COMES INTO FOCUS

MISSOULA NATIVE BOOKS AREVIEWS MISSOULA

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OPINION

FOR A BOOK ABOUT RAPE, KRAKAUER’S MISSOULA CONTAINS VERY FEW VILLIANS

BIG FIGHT OVER FOOD THE DEFINING “HEALTHY”

PLAN NEWS HOMESTEAD COMES INTO FOCUS

MISSOULA NATIVE BOOKS AREVIEWS MISSOULA

GFS Anniversary Celebration 2015

Stop by between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm this Saturday, May 2, and help us celebrate nearly 45 years serving Western Montana. ICE CREAM SUNDAES, CAKE, ICE CREAM & MORE It’s been a big year here at the Good Food Store. So we’re doing it up big for our annual spring anniversary celebration. We will be setting up a build - your - own sundae bar in our cooking school that will include Big Dipper ice cream, roasted rhubarb and strawberry compote, hot fudge and more. Plus we’ll also treat you to Bernice’s anniversary cake, coffee from Black Coffee and Montana Coffee Traders and introduce you to one of our local ranchers, Oxbow grass fed beef.

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Voices/Letters Jennifer Fielder, land grab and water compact.......................................4 The Week in Review Kirsten Pabst, Wilco and sine die .................................................6 Briefs Badger-Two Medicine, Moon-Randolph and low wages.......................................6 Etc. One-way streets get a second look ...........................................................................7 News UM professor examines alcohol’s role in early democracy ...................................8 Opinion For a book about rape, Missoula contains very few villians ..........................10 Opinion How an outrageous cannibal galvanized a history class ................................11 Feature The old way is still the best way ......................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts In hopes of the two-step leading to one big leap ..................................................18 Music Aran Buzzas, Don & The Quixotes and Hop Along............................................19 Arts Zio Ziegler makes art for the eye of the beholder .................................................20 Books Jon Krakauer gives us the book we needed.......................................................21 Film Avengers spectacle serves up a tale of humanity ..................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .......................................................23 Flash in the Pan The definition of health.....................................................................24 Happiest Hour Garden City BrewFest..........................................................................26 8 Days a Week Government mules ..............................................................................27 Mountain High Insane Inflatable 5K ............................................................................33 Agenda Give Local Missoula..........................................................................................34

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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Kate Whittle, Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Tracy Lopez, Will Peterson ADMIN, PROMO & EVENTS COORDINATOR Leif Christian CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Jule Banville, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Migizi Pensoneau, Brooks Johnson, Sarah Aswell

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, April 28, near the corner of Spruce and Higgins. Give us an example of when you used a traditional skill or tool to accomplish something instead of using modern technology or equipment? Follow-up: What’s a skill or trade passed down to you that you still use?

Matt Stevens: While camping I like to start fires with a magnifying glass instead of a lighter. No treble: I play bass and my father is a bass player. My band, Mikel Wright & the Wrongs, is in town now to play the Top Hat this weekend.

Nick Bedbury: We were camping and needed to pound some nails to fix a wooden tent platform. We didn’t have a hammer so we fashioned one out of a stick and lava rock, then wrapped it with twine and duct tape. Sowing the seed: Gardening. My grandmother taught me to garden pretty well. It’s awesome to have a plot of land to take care of.

Pari Kemmick: I’ve killed chickens before by doing it the traditional way. Hold on to the head and swing them in circles, then twisting and popping their head off. Pen pal: Writing. My dad’s a journalist and a writer so I’ve learned to write every day, whether it’s a letter to a friend or journaling.

Tim Carpenter: Blacksmithing. I used a forge, hammer and anvil to make metal art sculptures. Solid foundation: Carpentry work like framing and building things. My dad works in a lumber yard and taught me when I was a kid, and I picked it up from other people who wanted to teach me.

Scott Price: I’m a carpenter and assemblage artist and made a wire mesh object using pliers and tin snips. I wouldn’t use a power tool because it was so small. For 23 years I lived off the grid and did everything by hand or with hand tools. Darn tough: Probably sewing. That’s from watching my mother and grandmother sew. My dad was a doctor so he sewed people and if we cut ourselves he would stitch us up.

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Thanks for the info I just wanted to thank you for the article on state Sen. Jennifer Fielder and her push to move federal public lands to state control (see “Land grab,” April 9). Sen. Fielder recently sponsored SB 334, which was a backdoor attempt to try to enshrine trapping into the Montana Constitution. It was designed to address the “problem” that our constitution protects the right to harvest wild fish and wild game, not furbearers. Fielder wanted furbearers redefined as game. Sneaky! She is an avid trapper whose husband is a director of the Montana Trapper’s Association. Although the bill failed several times, she was able to mobilize her cronies to “resurrect” the bill and it subsequently passed. Her agenda with SJ15 (the draft concerning public lands) undoubtedly includes trapping protections, as well as oil and gas exploration rights. Additionally, her campaign contributors included oil and gas companies, who contributed the maximum—as usual, one can follow the money. As for trapping, there is a big overseas fur market fueling trappers to continue their archaic methods of causing animals (intended or not) to suffer and die horribly. Again, a money-driven agenda, at the expense of and involving the cruelty to wildlife that belongs to all of us. Trappers have a deep psychological problem, in my opinion. They “make no apologies” for what they do, as the association has stated. Many thanks to the legislators and public groups that opposed SB 334. I hope they will see through the agenda behind Sen. Fielder’s public lands effort. The public needs to be aware and to express their opposition to their representatives. Instead of furthering her own agenda, perhaps Fielder could heed the wishes of her constituents. Montana does not need more exploitation—it needs rational development of resources and heed of public input. Trapping endangers not only all animals, but also humans, and it affects tourism. Our environment is precious and at risk. To me, Senator Fielder seems oblivious to the greater good. Thank you again, Independent, for presenting the information. Peg Brownlee Florence

Favored pimps Your recent “Land grab” article has more to say about yourselves and American media in general than the public lands transfer scam. How has such an unpopular idea gained traction, you ask? Easy, the hapless desperate media in this country willing

to print anything to increase readership to generate more ad revenues so they can justify their existence. You just gave five pages of free political advertising to those working on the lands transfer scam. You’ve helped keep their names in the news. No politician has been more agile in doing this nationally than U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz(-sader), R-Hallelujah. His filibustering and shutting down the government were nothing more than cheap political publicity stunts to get free press. With state Sen. Fielder the local media has fallen for the same. I know this because in the second SNRC meeting in June 2012, there was candidate Fielder up on the stage next to her husband Paul, and county candidate Ron Olfert. They were presiding over the meeting with a storyline about the immediate and impending

“Instead of furthering her own agenda, perhaps Fielder could heed the wishes of her constituents.” doom about to descend upon our fair land because of a plan by the USFS to take over the land very soon! The SNRC responded with an immediate call to action! Hence the well-timed campaign season meetings being offered. To all present in Thompson Falls Junior High that night, SNRC was asking us to forget for the moment, or at least until the end of the campaign season, that their storyline used a forest plan that was published over 20 years ago for public consumption. To the purveyors of this immediate doomsday scenario lurked UN Resolution 21, to which they loosely connected said 20-yearold forest plan. Controlling the microphone for public comment was county commissioner candidate and then state Sen. Greg “Spearchucker” Hinkle. When I stepped up to ask if what was going on was nothing more than a cheap political publicity stunt, by the crowds reaction, you’d thought I’d just shot the pope. This was mild to what happened to the woman who spoke out at the May 2012 meeting your article mentioned. She was escorted out by Sanders County sheriff ’s deputies because the reaction to her challenges to SNRC’s storyline were as such that local law enforcement thought her well being was in danger. Fielder is using you for the free public-

ity she needs to run for statewide office. Jim Elliot’s observations that Fielder is a “demagogue” and “she’s good at it” are spot on. It’s easy in retrospect to see why the Fielders helped him in his campaign; being from out of state, they used him to learn how to campaign locally. That she would have her top staff member be a registered lobbyist for the out-of-state group promoting this scam shows her ruthlessness in achieving her goals. A ruthlessness that lies just beneath the just-here-for-the-common-folk facade. Ultimately what are the likes of Cruz-sader, Ivory and Fielder selling? Public lands transfer? Smaller government? No, themselves, and you and the rest of America’s media are their favored pimps. John Marshall Hot Springs

The process worked In many ways the passage of the CSKT Water Compact is proof of the effectiveness of our legislative process. After the failure of the 2013 compact, members of the legislature, along with tribal members, irrigators, farmers, ranchers and stakeholders from across the state joined forces to find a workable solution to define the water rights of the tribe, while ensuring that all Montanans continued to have access to the water resources they need. After years of additional negotiations—the 2015 CSKT Water Compact emerged. The agreement included provisions that provided for more local control, greater certainty for water right owners and an unprecedented degree of stability for on-project irrigators. It was the unparalleled work of all those involved in the compacting process that allowed SB 262 to successfully pass— including the work of those legislators who genuinely took the time to read and understand the content of the bill. It is these legislators—and their commitment to working for their constituents—that passed the compact. I would like to personally thank all those who cast their vote in favor of the compact—you have protected the future of Montana’s most valuable resource, and nothing could be more important. Ken Cornelius Ronan Correction: The Zeppo Blues band lineup in last week’s Garden City BrewFest Guide was incorrect due to outdated information provided by the event’s host. The correct lineup includes Peter Barberio, Ty Nuno, Gary Milner, Paul Philips, Jordan Demander, Adin Klotzel and Micki Singer. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, April 22 The day after Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town is released, Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst holds a press conference to counter author Jon Krakauer’s account of how the attorney’s office dealt with sexual assault claims.

Thursday, April 23 The Big Sky Conference announces Root Sports will air five University of Montana football games this season, including the 115th edition of the Brawl of the Wild from Bozeman on Nov. 21.

Friday, April 24 Kevin Lino, the transient accused of murdering Berry “Jack” Gilbert under the Reserve Street bridge last July and dumping his body in the Clark Fork, pleads no contest to deliberate homicide in Missoula County District Court.

Saturday, April 25 The University of Montana’s women’s tennis team concludes its season with a semifinals loss to the Idaho Vandals, 4-1, in the Big Sky Conference tournament.

Sunday, April 26 As part of its “Earth, Wind & Fire” concert, the Missoula Symphony Orchestra features Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai and brings its 60th season to a close at the Dennison Theater.

Monday, April 27 Big Sky Brewing announces Wilco as the latest addition to its summer concert series. The band will play the brewery’s amphitheater on Aug. 14. Tickets are $38 and go on sale May 1.

Tuesday, April 28 After failing a final time to pass a bill that would have allocated $150 million for infrastructure and building projects across the state, members of the Montana Legislature vote to end the regular 2015 legislative session three days early.

Bassist Kurt Binder and the band The Bent Bones traveled from Bozeman to perform April 25 in the rock category at the Palace during the third annual Zoo Music Awards.

Jobs

High employment, low wages A recent report from the Montana Department of Labor and Industry announced the state’s unemployment rate reached its lowest point since 2007, at 4.1 percent. An April 21 press release quotes Gov. Steve Bullock praising the economy’s “strong start” in 2015. But another report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which analyzed 2013 tax return data, paints a different picture, listing Montana’s wages as the 49th lowest in the nation, just above Idaho. Montanans are employed, but many of these new jobs might be low-paying, part-time positions, says Mark Anderlik, president of the Missoula Area Central Labor Council. “The unemployment factor isn’t decisive all by itself because not all jobs are good jobs,” Anderlik says. Missoula Economic Partnership President James

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Grunke attributes the high employment rate in part to North Dakota’s Bakken oilfields and higher demand for workers in the eastern part of the state. Many counties, including Missoula, can boast employment rates at or below 4 percent. With “essentially full employment,” Grunke says, the question becomes how to use that tight labor market to raise wages. At MEP, he says their goal is to develop workforce skills and entice businesses in higher-paying sectors to relocate. As a union organizer, Anderlik disagrees with the mindset that high-paying jobs need to come into the state from outside. Rather, he thinks workers should rally for better pay in the jobs that already exist here, particularly in the service industry. Anderlik brings up industries like logging, manufacturing and construction, which historically were low-wage, undesirable jobs until the labor movements of the early 20th century campaigned for better compensation.

“They became the good jobs of today by organizing, and by the labor movement and community organizations,” he says. “We want to do the same for these part-time, low-wage service jobs in retail, hospitality and health care.” To that end, the MACLC is one of the organizations leading the Good Jobs Missoula project, which was founded in 2013 to help encourage Missoula-area residents employed in service and hospitality industries to band together. One of their recent projects, the Work Through My Lens photography exhibit, displayed photos taken by workers exemplifying their everyday struggles and realities. Future projects include putting together an “Ethical Dining Guide to Missoula” with input from kitchen staffers. Anderlik has also taken note of the national movement advocating for a $15 minimum wage, which recently marked a major victory in Seattle and SeaTac. “That didn’t just fall out of the sky,” he says.

[news] “It took years of organizing work and smaller victories. So that’s where we see ourselves—starting that process.� Kate Whittle

Badger-Two Medicine

Support swells for Blackfeet The Blackfeet tribe has spent decades fighting for the retirement of oil and gas leases in the sacred Badger-Two Medicine, and support for the cause outside the reservation is snowballing. Last October, the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council signed a resolution backing the effort. Some 17 tribes and Canadian First Nations have also thrown their weight behind the Blackfeet, as have Sen. Jon Tester and Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament. That momentum culminated last month with the announcement of a national campaign by the Blackfeet Nation and the National Congress of American Indians to shed light on the cultural importance of the area and the sordid history behind the oil and gas leases. As the tribe pointed out in a letter to the secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior last year, many lease holders have already acknowledged the “unique and pristine nature� of the Badger-Two Medicine and voluntarily relinquished their claims. Yet 18 active leases remain, including one belonging to Louisiana-based Solenex LLC, which has been locked in a legal battle with the federal government and Blackfeet since 2013. “Before, it’s really just been kind of a local grassroots issue,� says Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Secretary Tyson Running Wolf. “So we looked to see if we could get more people involved.� Jacqueline Johnson Pata, executive director of the NCAI, says the Blackfeet approached her organization last year about drawing more national attention to the issue. “They felt like they needed to ramp up their efforts in order to be able to get some visibility and some support,� she says. One goal of the new campaign is to use broad public support to pressure federal officials into taking action. To that end, Pata says the NCAI is “a voice that Congress and the administration look to,� and has been a champion for tribal sovereignty and protection of cultural heritage since its founding in 1944. “Those are like the two core values that were foremost in why the NCAI was created,� Pata says. “I think

Badger-Two Medicine is an example of both of those, so it’s very much at the heart of why NCAI was created.� Running Wolf stresses there are viable solutions to the situation. The Blackfeet aren’t opposed to oil and gas development in general, he says, but abhor the idea in an area Chief Earl Old Person has described as “an altar to the members of the Blackfoot Confederacy.� “If the federal government came up with a plan for them to go drill elsewhere—other than traditional Blackfeet land and under our consultation—we would be 100 percent for that,� Running Wolf says. In exchange for relinquishing leases in the Badger-Two Medicine, he adds, “we would even encourage them to come on our eastern end of our reservation and start negotiations of any kind to look at potential oil and gas development.� Alex Sakariassen

Moon-Randolph

Making a plan Matthew LaRubbio stands in the collapsed remains of a wooden shed on the Moon-Randolph Homestead. In the center sits the winch that once pulled carts of coal from the mine shaft that is shut-

tered about 20 yards away, in the side of a hill. Boards that once made walls lie in a heap on the ground. “We’re going to rebuild this into a structure, into the same structure,� says LaRubbio, who serves as the homestead’s caretaker, along with his wife, Meredith Turner. “But we’re going to make it similar to what

BY THE NUMBERS Years since Big Sky Pride was the last held in Missoula. The event, dubbed the “Biggest, Gayest, Glitteriest, Happiest, Funnest, all-the-ests you can imagine� LGBT gathering of the year, returns June 19-21.

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some of our other structures are: usable structures. Not just this static building for people to look into. And then also to partly tell the story of coal mining at the turn of the 20th century on small-scale farms like this.� As LaRubbio gives a tour of the homestead on a recent Monday afternoon, he’s full of plans like this one, of ideas for rehabilitating and improving the homestead to make it more welcoming to the public, more accommodating to visitors and more functional as a working farm. In order to help these dreams become reality, LaRubbio has collaborated with Missoula Parks and Recreation, the North Missoula Community Development Corporation and Five Valleys Land Trust to draft the Moon-Randolph Strategic Plan Update, which charts the homestead’s course over the next decade. While much has been accomplished since the city bought the property in 1997, many basic needs remain. Some of those needs have to do with improving the homestead’s infrastructure. But much of the update focuses on objectives for improving historical curation and interpretation at the site, which was first homesteaded in 1899, and for expanding education and volunteer programs. Since becoming caretakers in 2013, LaRubbio and Turner increased offerings, such as hosting pruning workshops, adding summer camps for kids and getting an old well up and running. But with a small amount of consistent city funding—the update includes a request for $8,000—and a new strategic plan in place, LaRubbio and others believe much more could be accomplished. According to Conservation Lands Manager Morgan Valiant, the updated plan will allow the homestead to move into “a whole new realm.� “Now I think we’re at a point where we’re really engaging the public in the management and using that area more as an educational resource for the Missoula Valley, more as a living-working museum,� Valiant says. The Missoula City Council is slated to consider adopting the strategic plan update at its May 4 meeting. Ted McDermott

ETC. City officials and residents are looking both ways at Missoula’s one-way streets, wondering whether they still have a place in our city’s notoriously confusing grid. Back in 2009, the Greater Missoula Downtown Master Plan identified as a top priority the conversion of Front and Main streets from a one-way couplet into a pair of two-way streets. A feasibility study completed last month determined the conversion would provide a boost for businesses, improve traffic circulation and increase pedestrian and bicyclist safety. The only remaining speed bump is funding. As the city looks to scrounge up the needed $3.5 million for Front and Main, Missoula’s only other major one-way couplet is also being targeted for a change. In 2013, the Riverfront Neighborhood Council began surveying residents about a proposal to replace one motor-vehicle lane on Fifth and Sixth streets, between Russell and Higgins, with a bike lane and a buffer. The response found 225 residents in support of the idea and 124 against. That was enough for Councilman Alex Taft to take the proposal to council, where the plan died in committee. “So, since it failed at the Public Works Committee,� Taft says, “I talked to the neighborhood and said, ‘Look, we’ve got to go back to what the problem is, and not necessarily offer a solution. Let that come out of a professional analysis of what the problem is and what the solution might be.’� Taft is now hoping to set aside $20,000 in next year’s city budget for a formal study. The study strikes some as unnecessary. Tamara Smith, whose husband was hit by a car while biking on Fifth, thinks council should act immediately. “I think the study is a method of procrastination and a waste of money,� Smith says. “And there’s no good reason not to do this. I think we’re socially and morally responsible, because it’s simply dangerous out there on Fifth and Sixth streets right now.� Another survey respondent feels any change is a bad idea for a different reason: it would “follow Obama’s Agenda 21,� they wrote. “I beg you to reconsider these demonic plans.� While Missoula’s remaining one-way streets deserve their defenders, that argument perhaps jumps the curb.

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Boozy roots UM professor examines alcohol’s role in early democracy by Alex Sakariassen

This Saturday, thousands will gather in Caras Park to celebrate the 23rd annual Garden City BrewFest. But alcohol wasn’t always such a widely embraced social driver. Last year, University of Montana history professor Kyle Volk published Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, which examines the long history of America’s temperance movement and the birth of minority rights language among early anti-prohibitionists. Volk’s book netted the esteemed Merle Curti Award for intellectual history from the Organization of American Historians last April, and the Indy caught up with him to talk about the boozier side of our nation’s history. What drew you to study alcohol and its ties to minority rights issues in the 19th century? Kyle Volk: When I was in college in Boston, I worked at a restaurant/bar next to Fenway Park. I worked during Red Sox season, and on Sundays people would come in before games—games started at one o’clock—they’d get there at 10:30 or 11 eager to have a drink before the game. What they found is we couldn’t serve them until noon because Boston had one of these Sunday laws. They’re desperately trying to get their breakfast margarita, Sam Adams, Magic Hat, whatever, and they’re pissed because we can’t serve them.

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How did that experience translate into a full-blown book project? KV: What I found that was interesting was in the mid-19th century, there was a series of challenges—constitutional challenges, some about religious freedom and church and state—to Sunday laws in Massachusetts and California, Ohio, New York. Even more interesting was that the folks challenging the laws were Jews and Seventh-day Baptists, German immigrants, liquor dealers, brewers, people in the alcohol industry, and they were using the language of minority rights. That seemed very 20th century to me, and not what I expected to find in the mid-19th century … I started to wonder, when did ordinary, everyday people start to be concerned about the tyranny of the majority? When did they start to make claims about minority rights? When did they start to create grassroots popular movements to defend rights? The book is kind of the answer.

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University of Montana history professor Kyle Volk received accolades from the Organization of American Historians last month for his book tying the rise of minority rights language to anti-prohibitionists.

How did the use of minority rights language by anti-prohibitionists fit with the abolition narrative of the period? KV: They fit together in the sense that abolitionists and black activists are using the language of minority rights to rebuff racial segregation in the 1850s, at the same time that liquor dealers and German immigrants and others are using the language of minority rights to rebuff alcohol prohibition. What’s interesting, though, is they don’t agree. On the whole, abolitionists support alcohol prohibition. They’re reformers. They’re against slavery, they’re against racism, they’re against alcohol. They view all these things as sinful. On the other hand, German and Irish immigrants, some of them are nominally anti-slavery, but for the most part they’re not on board with abolition, they’re not on board with racial equality. Who was the most fascinating character you came across while researching the book? KV: This guy named Gustave Lindenmueller. He was a German immigrant, had been active in the German revolution of 1848 … He opposed alcohol prohibition because he was a German, he was a brewer, he owned a beer garden and a theater. I found that in the late 1850s, he was a big part of the movement to eradicate the Sunday laws in New York. Sunday laws especially targeted German immigrants, German beer gardens, German theaters. These were seen as places of vice … He gets all these other beer garden owners together, they raise money to hire an attorney, and they do that in part by taxing the sale of beer in their own establishments.

But Lindenmueller did something even more interesting. He renamed his theater the German Shaker Association. Shakers, as you know, were an upstart religious group in the early 19th century, kind of like the Mormons and new American-born religious groups. And he said, “We’re starting a new religious society, the German Shaker Association, and we worship on Sundays with theatrical performances and lager beer. Therefore the state shouldn’t be able to close us down with a Sunday law because they’re closing down what is, in our minds, a legitimate religious exercise.” You also teach a course at UM called “Intoxication Nation: Alcohol in American History.” What’s the benefit of having students study the role of alcohol in our nation’s history? KV: I want them to use alcohol as a window to see a number of different things in play historically. Think about slavery and sugar production in the Caribbean. It was very much tied to molasses and the distilling of rum, which was the second biggest industry that the American colonies had on the eve of the American Revolution. All of a sudden rum drinkers in Boston have a direct relationship to slaves and slaveholders in Barbados. Colonial traders were taking rum to more frontier areas and exchanging with Native Americans as part of the fur trade. All of a sudden alcohol, you see it as the central connective tissue between what’s going on in the Caribbean—slavery and sugar production—and what’s going on with the fur trade and westward expansion. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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I don’t know how closely you follow the publishing industry, but you may have heard that Jon Krakauer wrote a book about rape called Missoula. Obviously, that book is biased. You can’t write an accurate book about rape and call it Missoula, because rape is bad and Missoula is good. That was the prevailing opinion of Krakauer’s book before anyone read it. On Feb. 28, seven weeks before Missoula came out, Missoulian sports columnist Bill Speltz wrote a preview headlined “Good news not available in hardcover.” Referring to the author as “this investigative reporter named Jon Krakauer,” Speltz began by noting that unnamed people had complained about unspecified accuracies in his previous works: “Details of ‘Into the Wild’ have been put into question for alleged errors and ‘leaps to conclusions’ … Details of ‘Into Thin Air’ have also been put into question … Krakauer has the right to write whatever he wants—no matter how much he regrets it later. I’ll hold judgment on ‘Missoula’ until reading it because there may be lessons to be learned.” I’m still waiting for that review, but it seems unnecessary; Speltz clearly did not withhold judgment until he had read the book. Neither did Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst, who sent a 10-page letter to Doubleday arguing that Missoula constituted “actionable libel” a week before it was released. The publisher did not make any review copies of Missoula available before publication, so it appears that Pabst also concluded the book was unfair before she read it. In a related story, the Missoulian quoted a resident who expressed “anger and disgust” at the author’s “biased opinions” after reading a few passages at Hastings. Behold two fundamental truths of human nature: people fear the unknown, and we don’t like to read. Last week, I overcame the second problem and read Krakauer’s Missoula all the way through.

I wish everyone else would read it, too, because it is remarkably generous. I understand why Pabst feels that Krakauer has vilified her, but for a book about rape, Missoula contains very few villians. The city itself is not among them. In the very first chapter, Krakauer points out that Missoula experiences slightly fewer rapes than the average college town of its size. He says it several times. Contrary to Internet articles that described Missoula as the nation’s “rape capital,” the number of sexual assaults we experience and the way our university, police and prosecutors respond to them are typical.

“Krakauer meticulously shows how competent professionals trying to do right can accidentally create a bad system.” That’s Krakauer’s whole point: the rapes and subsequent investigations he describes all happened here, but they might have happened anywhere. Far from portraying Missoula as a town that loves football and hates crime victims, Krakauer meticulously shows how competent professionals trying to do right can accidentally create a bad system. For example, detectives in Missoula keep asking victims in rape complaints if they have boyfriends. To a cop, that question is equal parts due diligence and commiseration about how difficult police work can be. To the victim, of course, it sounds like an accusation. Time and again, Missoula shows how such missteps by good police and prosecutors—people

who have made it their business to punish rapists, and who despise the crime as much as Krakauer does—add up to a system that discourages women from reporting rape. It is not the story of a conspiracy. Krakauer does not suggest that some cabal protected the Griz from punishment at the expense of rape victims. But he does suggest that Missoula fell into the same mistakes that make rape an underreported, under-punished crime in college towns across the country. There is no doubt that Pabst comes in for a drubbing. Krakauer organizes his narrative around police and court transcripts, and he generally withholds his own opinions to let these agreed-upon facts speak for themselves. But the author appears more frequently in the last third of the book, most often to criticize Pabst. He undermines his own credibility in these moments, particularly when he indulges in highfalutin rhetoric to paint her as vindictive, rather than as another wellintentioned person making mistakes. These are ugly moments of bias in an otherwise even-handed book. But Krakauer also points out that as a deputy chief prosecutor in the Missoula County Attorney’s Office, Pabst enjoyed a conviction rate on sexual assault cases of 99 percent. That’s something to be proud of, but it also suggests she had the virtues of her faults. If 99 percent of her indictments ended in convictions or guilty pleas, maybe Krakauer has a point when he says she could have taken more cases to court. That’s not the story of a heartless prosecutor who doesn’t care about rape victims. It’s the story of a professional who is acutely conscious of how hard it is to win a rape trial in front of a jury. That’s a true fact, and everybody knows it. Maybe, if everybody read this book we hate so much, we might start to understand why. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the publishing industry at combatblog.net.

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Living history How an outrageous cannibal galvanized some seventh-graders by Crista Worthy

Recently I devoured a short book of nonfiction with a very odd title: The Committee for the Reburial of Liver-Eating Johnston: Memoirs of a Dyslexic Teacher, by Tri Robinson. It’s a memoir, and it revolves around a teacher, his highly motivated seventh-graders and the remains of a long-dead “Mountain Man.” That man is John “Liver-Eating” Johnson, sometimes spelled Johnston, who was portrayed by Robert Redford in the classic film Jeremiah Johnson. I couldn’t put the book down, and despite the brief time I spent with its 128 pages, the story has yet to release me from its grip. The audacious storyline is accompanied by a commentary on our educational system as it is today. Its message is this: Perceptive and imaginative teachers can turn lives around. Standardized tests have their place, but teachers, administrators and caring citizens need to take charge of our educational system. In 1973, Robinson tells us, he was a new teacher in a small California town. Nervously facing his seventh-graders, he told them he was going to try to run a different kind of class. Instead of relying completely on dry, standardized textbooks, he said he’d also try to deliver “living history” lessons. To do that, he began coming to class dressed up as various characters from U.S. history, occasionally bringing along three-dimensional illustrations, such as his Bowie knife and muzzle-loading rifle. Both made it into the classroom—try that nowadays! One of his lessons focused on the story of the man called John “Liver-Eating” Johnston, who roamed the wilderness alone until a local Flathead tribal chief, concerned about his loneliness, gave him an Indian wife. After Indians murdered his wife and unborn child, Johnston blamed the tragedy on the Crow Indian Nation,

launching a vendetta that lasted decades and gave him his moniker—he was said to eat the livers of the Crow Indians he killed for revenge. Finally, he buried the proverbial hatchet and made peace with the Crow. Robinson ended the lesson with the story of Johnston’s death and burial at a veteran’s cemetery, next to what is now a busy freeway in Los Angeles. When they heard this, Robinson’s 25 students became outraged. This was an injustice, they said; they felt he should have been buried in the Absaroka country of Wyoming that he loved.

“Standardized tests have their place, but teachers, administrators and caring citizens need to take charge of our educational system.” The class launched a drive to have Johnston’s remains exhumed and reburied, a mission that took the rest of the school year, reached the highest levels of the U.S. State Department, and was seized upon by newspapers and television nationwide. After Jeremiah Johnson became a huge hit in movie theaters,

a Montana town even resorted to subterfuge in an attempt to whisk away Johnston’s remains, rather than see him buried in Wyoming. When Johnson was at last reburied in Cody, Robert Redford flew in with his son to pay tribute. In 2000, by sheer accident, I found myself at Johnston’s gravesite during a visit to Cody, where I stumbled across the Trail Town Mountain Man Cemetery. I remembered the reburial ruckus but had forgotten where he’d ended up. A bronze statue of Johnston on horseback stood proudly above the resting places of all the mountain men buried there. Preserved 19th century buildings lined the dusty street of Trail Town, next to the cemetery. Yes, he ended up in the right place. And the students who fought to have him buried there were profoundly changed by their experience. The group remains connected today, 40-plus years after the events Robinson described took place. Now, as the world unfurls around me each day, I find myself measuring its progress, or lack thereof, against the events set in motion by a group of seventh-graders back in 1973. I think of the experience of many students in school nowadays. I see them walk through metal detectors into crowded classrooms where some spend much of the day staring into computers. I see their overworked and underpaid teachers focusing on test scores; they have no choice, if they want to keep their jobs. I visualize scenes of Western history coming vividly alive from the book I just read, and I think: There's a better way. Crista Worthy is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She is a writer and pilot who lives in Idaho.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Tyler Lankford, 21, entered a bakery with a loaded revolver, pointed it at the 58-year-old clerk and demanded money, according to police in McKeesport, Pa. The clerk emptied the register, but when the robber picked up the money, he put the gun on the counter. The clerk grabbed it and chased away the robber, whom police identified from surveillance video. (Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV) Casey Hueser, 30, pulled into a driveway, left the car running and entered the house, police in St. Joseph, Mo., said. When homeowner Marti Wilson returned, she saw the car, removed the ignition keys and slashed the tires. She confronted the burglar, who regained the keys during a struggle and drove off. Wilson called police. “His front left tire had a big hole it, and apparently, with my description of the vehicle, and the fact that he wasn’t moving really fast, and then they found a bunch of the rubber out in the road,” she said, “so he kind of left a trail.” (Kansas City’s WDAF-TV)

FIREBUGGERY – Verlin Sexton, 48, told authorities investigating a fire that destroyed his garage and damaged his house in Fremont, Ohio, that it started while he was using spray paint and a lighter as a torch to kill a mouse. He also said he went to the garage to smoke, noticed black smoke filling the garage and saw flames in the corner, so he ran to get a pan of water; when he returned, the fire was out of control. Then he said he saw flames in boxes and tried to kick the fire out, but it spread. He was charged with intentionally setting the fire. (Fremont’s The News-Gazette) Scott Kemery, 44, told authorities investigating a car fire in Eastport, N.Y., that he believed his rental car was filled with bedbugs, so he doused the interior with rubbing alcohol. Confident it worked, he got back in the car and lit a cigarette, igniting the alcohol. He fled the vehicle but suffered first- and second-degree burns. The rental car was destroyed, and intense heat from the fire badly damaged two other cars. (Newsday)

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TOURIST TRAPS – Now that affluent Chinese have become big-spending travelers, the China National Tourist Administration announced it would document “uncivilized” behavior by travelers abroad who have “tarnished” China’s image and need to “learn a lesson.” Inappropriate behavior includes violating customs, destroying public infrastructure and historic sites, causing disturbances on public transport and participating in gambling and prostitution. The agency said it would compile reports from local tourism bureaus, media reports and the general public and keep records for up to two years. It didn’t specify the nature of any punishment. In February, Thai authorities issued thousands of Chinese-language etiquette manuals after Chinese tourists were caught drying underwear at a temple, kicking a bell at a sacred shrine and washing their feet in a public restroom. (Reuters) PROBLEM SOLVED – Authorities concerned with large numbers of boarded-up homes in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area because of widespread foreclosures launched a pilot program to disguise the vacant houses by installing vinyl siding with painted doors and windows over the plywood. The program aims to upgrade the aesthetic condition of the buildings to reduce vandalism and improve nearby property values. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Officials in Lee County, Fla., proposed cutting down 40 palm trees along the narrow median of a Fort Myers boulevard, citing safety concerns. A vehicle could run off the road and hit a tree, resulting in damage, injury and a possible lawsuit against the county, according to some officials, including county commissioner Cecil Pendergrass. Some residents insist the trees add more safety than danger by defining curves in the road and preventing head-on collisions. Even if the trees are removed, the county has no plans to remove light poles that share the median with the trees. (Fort Myers’s WBBH-TV)

ORTHOGRAPHICAL FOLLIES – When the Minnesota Department of Transportation replaced signs marking the town of Lindström, it removed the umlaut, twin dots over the “o.” It subsequently rejected town officials’ request to restore the umlaut, citing a rule that names in road signs contain only standard letters. The town said the umlaut honors its Swedish roots and had been on the signs until 2012, when the state removed them for road construction. Gov. Mark Dayton intervened, calling the rule “nonsensical” and ordering the umlauts restored immediately, “even if I have to drive to Lindström and paint the umlauts on the city limit signs myself.” (The New York Times) PROFIT CENTER – The Transportation Security Administration last year collected almost $675,000 in

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loose change left behind by travelers at security checkpoints. According to TSA figures, that amount is up from $638,000 the year before. Travelers at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport left the most change, $43,000. Overall, the agency has collected $3.5 million in loose change since 2008. (Time)

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Cowboy Eli Indreland works a horse during a training session at the Ninemile ranch.

Stuck in Time C

The old way is still the best way at the Forest Service’s Ninemile Remount Depot and Ranger Station

asey Burns is a modern cowboy. A straw Stetson perches on his head as we rattle across the dirt roads dividing the pastures we pass. A beaded necklace floats high on his thick neck, moving in rhythm with his deep booming voice. Dark blue Wranglers and cowboy boots caked in spring mud contrast a freshly ironed button-up shirt. My colleague Hannah and I are on Casey’s home turf, a 40-minute drive from our offices in Missoula. Brown stubbled grass and leafless cottonwoods stretch out under a pale blue sky on this cool April morning as we bounce up to the “Donkey Pasture.” Hannah and I work for the nonprofit National Forest Foundation. We’d convinced the bosses to let us spend a day learning about the Ninemile Remount Depot and Ranger Station where Casey works for the U.S. Forest Service as the manager of the Wildlands Training Center and the Ninemile Pack Train.

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by Greg M. Peters • photos by Cathrine L. Walters The Ninemile’s historic collection of buildings is part typical Forest Service ranger district, part tourist destination, and part working ranch. A standard complement of Forest Service employees works at the station—a silviculturist, district ranger, trail crews and others—but Casey and the other cowboys we see milling about are different. Their roles exist only in this corner of western Montana. More than 200 government-owned mules and horses board here each winter. These mules, and the horses that help wrangle them, make up the Northern Region pack train—a collection of pack animals used to maintain the vast wilderness areas that stretch across Montana and north Idaho. Each summer, these mules are loaded with food, lumber, water, crosscut saws and myriad other tools and packed into the Bob Marshall, the Scapegoat, the Great Bear, the Selway Bitterroot and the other sprawling wilderness areas managed by Region One of the Forest Service.

“That’s Big Mike,” Casey says as he points to a huge brown mule. “Prozac, Hiram, Rudy, Bones, Preacher, Red, Ben,” he continues as we bounce across the pasture. Ranch hand Marc Pengali stands on the back of a flatbed pickup truck slicing orange twine from rectangular bales of hay and chunking off bits of the green-yellow alfalfa onto the ground. The line of animals stretches to the far end of the pasture. It’s feeding time and Marc and his young partner, Eli Indreland, are doling out rations in a tight choreography. The animals munch contentedly or nose up to our SUV to check out the strangers. Casey tells us it takes 400 tons of hay to feed the animals all winter. They raise about 320 tons on site during the summer, cutting, baling and storing it under an immense shed. The rest they buy.

following World War II ushered in the era of smokejumpers. Mules still played an important role in wildland firefighting, since they hauled out the gear smokejumpers used to extinguish fires, but on July 1, 1953, 23 years to the day after the Forest Service first leased the shabby ranch that became the Ninemile Remount Depot, Region One issued a press release that began: “Services formerly rendered by the Forest Service Remount Depot at Ninemile will be considerably reduced commencing in July…in line with a program of economy aimed at reducing government expenditures.”

While smokejumpers and aviation-based firefighting played a large The Mule Era role in the remount’s loss of purpose, In the 1910s and 1920s, the Forest Servthe post-war building boom helped ice relied on horses and mules for nearly all too: houses required timber and timaspects of managing its vast territory. Roads ber required roads. By the mid-1950s, were few and far between, and the Great areas that were accessible only by Burn of 1910 was still fresh in the agency’s mules and horses were now crissmind. Rangers rode horses across their huge crossed with miles and miles of roads. districts and mules packed in fire-fighting By the 1970s, pretty much the only tools, supplies and rations for the growing areas on National Forests that didn’t wildland fire-fighting efforts that had become have roads were Wilderness areas. a primary focus of the Forest Service. Today, land managers still need In those early years, the agency relied on access to wilderness for trail maintehiring the pack animals it needed from local nance, bridge building and fighting farmers and ranchers, but by the late 1920s, tractors and trucks did most of the farm’s Casey Burns wraps a canvas sheet or “manny” around a pack box small wildfires, so the horses and and secures it with a series of binding hitches. mules that spend their winters at hauling, plowing and haying, and quality aniNinemile are used almost exclusively mals were scarce. Recognizing a need for selfpiece. The “CCC boys” worked hard and fast. Bunk for maintaining these remote, roadless spaces. Were it provision, the Region One office of the Forest Service houses, ranger offices, tack sheds and a huge barn apnot for wilderness, these animals, and perhaps more leased a one-square-mile, run-down ranch in the Ninepeared almost overnight. Irrigation lines, fences and importantly, the skills needed to string a pack train and mile Valley, and the Ninemile Remount Depot was born. stock animals followed nearly as fast. march into some of the most remote and rugged terrain Its primary goal: supplying the agency with a reliable While mules and horses proved invaluable to the in the U.S., would have likely vanished decades ago. supply of sturdy, mountain-ready mules and horses for Forest Service during the 1920s and ’30s, by the midfighting fires. Three years later, the Forest Service purchased the 1940s, the agency was ready to fight fires with more Sharpening, Setting, Sawing ranch, and with help from the Civilian Conservation modern technology. A decade or so of successful experThe sound of hammer striking metal ripples Corps, the Remount Depot was transformed from a run- imentation and a sudden surplus of planes capable of through the room. The air smells like WD-40 and down work-in-progress into a shiny white-washed show- hauling men and gear into remote mountainous terrain metal shavings. A half-dozen folks stand upright be-

hind long wooden racks, intent on the shiny metal saws affixed firmly to the tops of the handmade racks. Hannah and I have discovered the crosscut saw sharpening class and are getting an introduction to another rare service that Ninemile offers. In addition to wintering more than 200 mules and horses, Ninemile runs the Wildlands Training Center. The center offers a series of traditional skills classes to agency professionals and hobbyists from across the country. The six students in this session— one of the weeklong crosscut saw sharpening classes throughout April—are a mix of Forest Service employees or contractors and everyday folks. They’re here to learn how to maintain crosscut saws so they can clear wilderness trails or cut firewood for their homes without the noise, stench and danger of a chainsaw. The group gets a quick lesson from Arden Corey, the class instructor. The saw’s large, jagged teeth cut across the wood’s grain, hence the “crosscut” name. Depending on the saw design, a group of sharp teeth alternate with the raker, a half-inch wide spout of metal notched in a “V” that chisels out the wood cut by the teeth. Each component needs to be skin-slicing sharp to operate as efficiently as possible. The tips of the raker are hammered and filed so that they’re five one-thousandths of an inch shorter than the teeth. The teeth, in turn, are “set” eight one-thousandths of inch outside of the plane of the saw. This keeps the saw from binding in the log but also maintain efficiency and ease of cutting. Too much set and the saw cuts too large a swath through the tree, wasting energy. Too little set and the saw binds in the log, disrupting the smooth rhythm of the sawyers. While it’s Arden’s first year teaching the class, he’s definitely not new to crosscut sharpening. Wearing a waxed canvas apron, he moves about the class, helping the students with their saws. He learned how to sharpen crosscut saws from Warren Miller, who literally wrote the book. Casey hands me a copy of the book as we mill about, chatting with the students. Miller passed away suddenly that winter, a sad reminder of how important these classes—and their instructors—are for the agencies that manage wilderness. There are a handful of old-timers like Arden who have this knowledge, and the Forest Service sends many of its saws to them to sharpen during winter’s

Students travel from all over the country to attend the Ninemile Wildlands Training Center’s crosscut class and learn “the old way” to cut firewood for their homes.

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homesteading called “Wrangler Star” and from whom many of the attendees learned about the class. With this final exchange, we’re off to watch Casey Burns “pack” a mule name Ruthie.

Mule Era Redux

The Forest Service uses about 400 tons of hay to feed the 200 horses and mules that make up the Northern Region pack train.

cold, dark months. But as they age and as recreational wilderness use increases, there is a real need to teach a new generation of sharpeners and sawyers the intricacies of maintaining and operating these simple but effective tools. “Without wilderness, we wouldn’t be here,” Casey tells me on the phone prior to our first meeting. “You can’t use a chainsaw in the wilderness, and you can’t drive there either, so the mules and the crosscut saws are integral to our ability to maintain these areas.” Hannah and I get a turn bucking a log when the class heads outside to see how their saws perform. Tim Fetterer, a friendly Midwesterner from Indiana, lends us his. “That was my grandfather’s saw,” he says. “He was a logger in Washington in the 1930s.” He grins. “It took me about 20 hours to clean the rust off of it, and it’s taken the better part of the week for me to sharpen it.” Other students nod in appreciation. There’s more than one grandfather’s saw in the class, shined and sharpened by a new generation of homesteaders who purposefully eschew more modern technologies. Tim’s grandfather’s saw works amazingly. With Hannah firmly gripping one side and me clamped on the other, the first pull slices through the reddish brown bark. Each subsequent pass sends small slivers of pale tan wood drifting through the air. In less than 30 seconds, a round disk of wood thunks to the ground. It’s a small tree—only about 10 inches in diameter—but the saw’s efficiency and cutting power is impressive. I smile at memories of spending an hour swearing at a sputtering chainsaw, cleaning spark plugs, spilling chain lubricant and dealing with last

year’s water-fouled gasoline. A big part of me sees the appeal of the old way. We accept the “nice job” and “there you go” accolades with a flush of mild embarrassment. We shake hands with the class members we’ve met—Sam Andrews, a quiet, steady Coloradan woman who works

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as a Forest Service contractor clearing trails; Bill Hardin, the Intel engineer from Oregon; Michael Raney, a gregarious Canadian from Saskatchewan; Jeremy Watkins, a young Forest Service trail boss based out of tiny Elk City, Idaho, and Corey Crone, who maintains a YouTube channel devoted to modern

It’s abundantly clear Casey has both packed a mule and taught scores of others how to do it countless times before. Before he lifts a piece of gear or touches a saddle, he loads some grain into a green mesh sack and places it over Ruthie’s head. In an instant, she’s contentedly munching away on the oats and corn. With Ruthie occupied, Casey begins. First he brushes her flanks and then a fleece blanket free of dirt, pine needles and other bits that could rub raw on a long pack into the wilderness. The fleece blanket goes on first and then, with a practiced expertise, he gently sets a 40-pound “Decker” saddle on Ruthie, explaining not only how it works, but who invented it, when it became the standard mule packing saddle and why. Half-hitch knots appear magically from the coils of rope he handles; leather straps pass through shining metal buckles, are cinched and cinched again. To the uninitiated, it might seem arbitrary and unpolished, but every movement and piece of equipment has a purpose—often more than one. Boxes full of gear are wrapped with a “manny,” a canvas sheet that Casey deftly folds into place creating a self-binding wrap that’s virtually waterproof. He ties it up in a series of binding hitches with 35 feet of rope, which can be used in camp to tie horses, set up an impromptu corral or hang food from a tree. The canvas sheet becomes a ground cloth, a rain tarp or a sun shade once the mule is unloaded for the night. In 60 seconds, he’s hoisted the bundle onto the saddle and with a couple more magical halfhitches, the load is secure and ready, perched vertically along Ruthie’s right side, waiting for its mirror image to appear a few minutes later on her left. Almost every knot is quick release in the event of a spill—these mules travel through some of the most unforgiving country in the U.S. Casey finishes the lesson with a short definitive declaration: “In horsemanship, the old way is the best way.” Based on what else Hannah and I have learned at Ninemile, it seems this is true in more than just horsemanship. From dutch oven cooking, to axemanship and crosscut saw maintenance, to packing mules deep into the backcountry, the old ways are not only the best, they’re becoming hip again. The Wildlands Training Center’s classes are becoming more and more popular every year as a new generation of wilderness rangers, rural and urban homesteaders, and niche Internet video producers connect the past to the present. As we pile back into my car to drive back to the future—Missoula, the office, emails, and phone messages—Hannah wonders if they need someone to spend the summer at Ninemile, posting to Facebook, sending daily tweets and starting a blog. I wonder if they need another wilderness ranger and how my wife will feel about my latest career fantasy. Greg M. Peters is the communications director for the National Forest Foundation. This article was originally written for Your National Forests magazine, the official magazine of the NFF.

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Best Local Food & Drink Appetizers Asian Food Bakery Barbecue Breakfast Brunch Budget Lunch Coffee Tea Delicatessen Burger French Fries Food Cart/Truck Fresh Produce Desserts Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt Milk Shake Mexican Food Pizza Restaurant New Restaurant (Opened in 2014 or 2015) Family-Friendly Restaurant Restaurant Service Restaurant Wine List Outdoor Dining Romantic Dining Salad Sandwich Shop Seafood Steak Supermarket Retail Beer Selection

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Psst. Hey you. Yes, you. We need your help. It’s time for the Indy’s annual Best of Missoula reader poll and, if the past is any indication, your vote could determine who wins and who loses. No, really. Not to put any pressure on you or anything, but every year we ask readers to fill out a ballot and every year at least a handful of categories come down to the wire. Are you really going to let your favorite pizza joint down? Or your favorite local news anchor? Or your hair stylist? (Lookin’ good, by the way. Like what you did with the ’do.) Don’t be that person. Now is your moment to make a difference. It’s cool, there’s something in it for you, too. If you fill this out, we’ll pass along an invitation to the Independent’s Best of Missoula Party at Caras Park on Thursday, July 9. There’ll be live music from local bands, food, drinks and special activities for the whole family. It’s pretty much the biggest thing happening this summer, or so we’ve heard. But first things first: Fill out your ballot and let your opinions be known. It just might be the most important thing you do in the next five minutes. (Vote online at missoulanews.com for even more categories.)

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Consider this the fine print: We require ballots to include your full name, email address and phone number in the spaces provided. Ballots missing any of this information, or ballots with fewer than 30 categories filled in, will be mocked, ridiculed and not counted. Same goes for photocopied ballots and ballots with unclear markings. Hard-copy ballots may be mailed or hand-delivered to the Indy office at 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or dropped at any of the ballot locations listed below.

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[arts]

Dancing queen Shaking off the past—and learning to two-step—at the Sunrise Saloon by Kate Whittle

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magine, if you will, a high school gymnasium in rural Montana where the non-athletic and gawky have been tormented since time immemorial. The era is somewhere around the second Bush administration. A teen girl, maybe 14 or 15, at the height of personal self-consciousness, stands wearing a baggy T-shirt and clunky tennis shoes, feeling like a whale. The gym teacher announces with a grin that it is time to learn how to dance, turns on a country radio station, and the other kids scramble to pair up with their least-gross opposite sex friends. Our friendless teen is assigned to pair with Rhys, the kid who’s always teased her about her smelly feet. He’s about 6 inches shorter than her, and his curled lip makes it very clear that he finds her entire existence odious. They have to hold hands. She sweats. That unhappy teen was me, of course, and that was the only partnered dancing lesson I had in my entire life. After high school, I ditched my rural upbringing and found a community among other awkward weirdos at dive bars and rock shows, and you couldn’t drag me kicking and screaming onto the dance floor at any bar with a cowboy-hat dress code— up until a recent evening when I trotted into the Sunrise Saloon, intent on learning to dance on purpose. And this time, I had friends in tow. This bright idea of mine started, believe it or not, with drinking a profuse amount of alcohol. One night, I hit the town with my buddy Elliot. (He is just a buddy, and always will be, so, spoiler alert, this story doesn’t end with us falling in love or winning a ballroom competition.) That evening, we wound up at a different bar than our usual nighttime circuit, and watched a band play country and swing tunes while cute couples twirled around the floor. Under the softly glowing lights, it actually looked fun. While huddling on the sidelines, Elliot and I conferred, learned that neither of us knew how to dance, and came to the stunningly original conclusion that it would be beneficial if we could go up to other single people and ask them to dance. Cue the light bulb. “Dude, they teach country dance classes at the Sunrise every week,” I said. “We could learn how, and then go out together and wingman for each other.” So yes, I took on this self-improvement project with the goal of enhancing my game. You know, the game that Taylor Swift sings about in “Shake it Off.” A few weeks later, Elliot and I headed to the Sunrise Saloon for the Thursday night country two-step class, accompanied by our friend Jen, who decided to sport giant hoop earrings and tight pants that I can only describe as “bootylicious.” I had tried to dress for the occasion by wearing the only pair of bootcut blue jeans I own, but there’s no hiding my oversized glasses or tattoos. Elliot, bless him, wore his usual

illustration by Kou Moua

suit jacket and Harry Potter-esque glasses. When our odd little trio walked in, the door flung open and we were backlit by streaming sunlight while a tinkly piano played ragtime tunes. Although that last part might have just been my imagination. We paid our five bucks for the class and drank draft beer at a table until it was time to line up on the floor along with the other students, a motley crew of young and old, singles and couples. I was delighted that one lady was rocking a Dolly Parton-esque sparkly white blazer outfit and Texas-sized hair. The teacher, a very no-nonsense sort of gal you’d trust with your life but never want to piss off, first explained the basic quick-quick-slow-slow pace of twostepping. This seemed reasonable enough. Then, she instructed us to switch off with different partners. Oh, dammit, I thought, this is where it turns into high school again. But my first two partners were younger

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guys who’d been coming to these classes for a while, and they weren’t embarrassed to hold my hands and twirl me around. I glanced around occasionally to exchange encouraging glances with Elliot and Jen as we tried to not bump into anybody. Over the course of the hour-ish class, I was too busy trying to follow the steps correctly to really think about anything else. My biggest problem was dealing with that old-fashioned rule of partnered dancing that men are supposed to be in charge—this works well when the dude knows the steps, but is painfully awkward when he doesn’t. The instructor called out, “I know it’s tough, but ladies, let him lead.” I decided to save discussions about dismantling the patriarchy for another day, while an elderly gentleman sort of shuffled around with me out of time. Afterward, we paid our tabs and headed out into the evening, and I realized that the excursion hadn’t

been that big of a deal. I’d like to brag about the personal growth and self confidence I’ve developed since my teen years, but really, I ought to chalk up the difference to a combination of friends, booze, dim barroom lighting and heavy duty antiperspirant. I’m not the best dancer now or anything, but I’m a little less nervous at the prospect of somebody asking me to join them at the Union Hall. As for whether it’s helped improve my or my friend’s pick-up game or not—uh, let’s just say that further studies are warranted. See y’all on the dance floor. Cathy Clark of Northwest Country Swing hosts two-step and swing dance classes at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5, payable in cash. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

[music]

In the pines Aran Buzzas’ MacDonald Pass shines with humor Aran Buzzas’ freshly released country album is firmly rooted in the land of the pines. Like the jigsaw-puzzle bark of ponderosas, the songs on MacDonald Pass drift and double back through Big Sky Country themes with great energy and good humor. Buzzas captures Montana life through the lens of common subject matter. There are two songs specifically centered on beer, “Pint of Porter” and “Have a Homebrew,” a high-lonesome song about dashed hopes called “Cold Love,” plus a cover of the traditional “The Wild Rover” that speaks to the wandering nature of the West (even if it is Irish.) Then there’s a much more specific ode to the country’s largest Superfund site on “Richest Hell on Earth,” where he sings, “But down underground you won’t find much mirth down in Butte, the richest hell on earth.”

Buzzas’ vintage-country guitar and vocal skills are deftly enhanced by a cadre of Missoula’s best acousticians, including Travis Yost on bass, Caroline Keys on backing vocals and banjo and Grace Decker on a fiddle. Save for the dizzying tune “Waltzing Solo,” Buzzas keeps the song tempos in check, letting the often tongue-in-cheek lyrics shine through. The tone and style of MacDonald Pass would be just as welcome around a campfire as inside a rowdy tavern. But this is definitely country music written for the country, not commercial radio, and that attention to authenticity is what keeps me wanting more. (Brooks Johnson) Aran Buzzas plays an album release show at Lolo Peak Brewing Thu., April 30, from 6 to 8 PM. Free.

Don & The Quixotes Before you color outside the lines, you have to learn to color inside the lines. Otherwise, you’re just making a boring, undisciplined scrawl. When garage bands incorporate surf into their sound, they frequently seem to think that thrashy is good. No. Thrashy is lazy. I want my surf music served up with precision and authority, like a monster 10-foot curl breaking at the end of a set at Zuma Beach. Portland’s Don and the Quixotes understand surf music so well that they can slingshot it right back with tons of humor and attitude, but without losing that twangy backbone and articulated delivery that define the genre. All the important guitar elements are there: gurgly Fender tones, woozy vibrato and oceans of reverb. Their authentic sound allows them to layer on

the quirky laughs, and these guys might be the best surf-rock jokesters since The Trashmen confounded a nation of radio listeners with “Surfin’ Bird” in 1963. Their last release, 2013’s Teflon Don, pushes the boundaries of surf, while still sounding like it could have emerged from some lost studio tapes found in Dick Dale’s attic. The James Bond-ish surf noir of “Strangers In the Night” and an inspired take on Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” (“Surfer Elise”) from 2012’s My Name Is Don are perfect examples of how a band can use every color in the box, bend the borderlines to their will, and then eat the crayons. (Bob Wire) Don & the Quixotes play the Palace Sat., May 2, at 9 PM with MASS FM and FUULS. Free.

Hop Along, Painted Shut I started listening to Hop Along’s “Powerful Man” a week ago, and I haven’t stopped for more than a few hours since. It keeps going places I don’t expect it to, even after I’ve heard it dozens of times. Like the rest of Hop Along’s forthcoming album Painted Shut, this pre-released track takes singer Frances Quinlan’s fractured vocal style right up to the edge of schtick and then redeems itself with satisfying left turns. “The Knock” is a fine example of this technique. It sounds like one of Sleater-Kinney’s introspective mid-tempo songs, if Carrie Brownstein were forced to sing Corin Tucker’s vocal parts. Time and again,

Quinlan strains to hit notes and span intervals that she wrote for herself. Done less skillfully, this technique might seem affected, a performance of damage. But her distinctive phrasing and suspicious ability to nail it when she really needs to suggests that she is capitalizing on her limitations rather than exploiting them. Hop Along has recorded an album about failure interspersed with triumph, and its form reflects its content. The sometimes meandering stories and counterintuitive melodies keep coming together in anthemic choruses. There’s a metaphor there, not just for a kind of music but for a kind of life. (Dan Brooks)

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[art]

Fine lines Zio Ziegler makes art for the eye of the beholder by Kellen Beck

photo courtesy of Zio Ziegler

Art transcends context. At least Zio Ziegler wants it to, especially for his own work. The San Francisco-based artist insists the point of artwork is not so that he can stand in front of his canvas in a white-walled gallery explaining the meaning of a piece to an art connoisseur. “You don’t need a heavy concept in order make something that speaks to people,” he says. “As a matter of fact, even Matisse said painters should begin by cutting their tongues out. It’s not about how you talk about your work, it’s about how much it impacts someone. It’s going to speak to you much differently than it’s going to speak to me.” That’s why Ziegler likes murals. He can leave them where they are and people can read whatever meaning they want into his work. And, man, does his art demand a reaction. From his gigantic monochromatic and incredibly detailed murals, to his explosions of color and movement on canvas, Ziegler’s work doesn’t just ask you for an opinion and a moment of reflection upon it—it insists. In a softer, smaller form, Missoula audiences will get the chance to see an original Ziegler on a skateboarding deck. Ziegler is one of many artists who have turned a plain deck into a piece of artwork for the Montana Skatepark Association’s 10th annual On Deck exhibit and art auction. Ziegler’s deck features a flowing and colorful botanical image over a more patterned and geometric sub-layer. He says he is often inspired by natural aesthetics and felt Montana would be the perfect setting for a nature-inspired piece. “If we are looking for the most perfect pattern of all, then we need look no further than what Missoula has to offer,” he says. It was the skateboarding world that really gave Ziegler the opportunity to deliver his work to a larger audience. He has designed shoes and T-shirts for Vann’s and a deck for a company called Krooked. Al-

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though he isn’t much of a skateboarder himself, he has an interest in the intersection between skateboarding culture and art. “It’s nonconformist, it’s totally innovative and it’s exactly how I see myself living my life, and it’s the perfect metaphor,” Ziegler says. “It’s adaptation. It’s improvisation. You’re encountering what some people look at as bumps in the road or, like, big walls. Other people see opportunity there.” Ziegler is good at seeing opportunity in those big walls. His murals are well-known in San Francisco, in neighborhoods like Hayes Valley, Mission, Mid-Market and Lower Haight. Not all of them were painted with permission, though. Rather than create a mural illegally at night on the down-low, Ziegler has been known to perform a more visible act of painting while posing as a member of the city’s beautification committee. “It’s been a while since I’ve done that, in my defense,” Ziegler says, laughing. “It challenges the societal perception of what is illegal versus what is accepted. You wear a collared shirt and you paint in the broad daylight and it’s legal, and you wear a hoodie and you paint at night and it’s totally illegal. And it’s only because the more we hide things the more we sort of solicit their illegality.” It seems Ziegler’s avant-garde attitude and work make him a rather appropriate artist to be included in this year’s On Deck 10, which raises money for either hooligans or creative and talented individuals, depending on your perception. The Brink Gallery hosts an opening reception and auction for On Deck 10 Fri., May 1, at 5 PM. Proceeds support maintaining MOBASH Skate Park. Visit montanaskatepark.org/ondeck for more information. arts@missoulanews.com

[books]

Our Missoula Jon Krakauer gives us the book we needed by Erika Fredrickson

Jon Krakauer begins his new book, Missoula: its approach to rape reports—with pressure from Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, with brave rape survivors and the intrepid reporting of the a quote from a peer-reviewed article: “Rape is unique. Missoulian’s Gwen Florio—stands out as some No other crime is so fraught with controversy, so en- progress. In particular, Detective Connie Brueckner meshed in dispute and in the politics of gender and becomes a sympathetic character, starting out as sexuality...” In the subsequent pages of the book, someone mired in a system that relies on misconcepKrakauer proves exactly why this quote is so undeni- tions about women who report rape, but who later, ably true. Using a combination of court transcripts, in court, stands up for victims in such a fierce way. It’s been reported that Krakauer rushed publicapolice interviews, sexual assault studies and conversations with rape victims, the best-selling author has tion on Missoula, and maybe that’s why it sometimes feels choppy like a jigsaw, rather patched together an alarming than a fully integrated story. But, snapshot showing the daunting honestly, that doesn’t matter. The barriers rape victims face—not ideas here are fully formed. just in a courtroom or police staKrakauer relies heavily on clinical tion, but within a town. The town psychologist David Lisak’s studies is Missoula, of course, but the resof the “undetected rapist” to proonating issues speak to every vide disturbing insight into those community in the country. who commit rape but don’t comNo one living in Missoula will prehend that they’re committing be surprised by the events of the a brutal crime. It’s all part of a culbook if they’ve paid attention to ture where saying “Get ‘er done” the news in recent years. What is seen as normal last words to a Krakauer offers is a puzzling-tobuddy going out on a date. gether of separate pieces, which Krakauer manages to both boldly provide a unifying picture of how drive home how devastating nonand why the events happened the Missoula: Rape and the Justice stranger rape is for a victim, and way they did. System in a College Town still explore the messy complicaThis book ultimately works beJon Krakauer tions of a perpetrator’s worldview. cause Krakauer’s straightforward hardcover, Doubleday I was born and raised in Miswriting resists sensationalism. Yes, 384 pages, $28.95 soula. Even when Missoula’s rape the rape scenes are horrendous and heartbreaking, but the way he unfolds them is more as problems became national news, it never bothered a person bearing witness rather than as a writer trying me that the town’s name might be dragged through to craft a fancy sentence. It’s a raw approach that pro- the mud. As a journalist, I like to think I’m not scared vokes empathy without a feeling of manipulation. In of the truth. What did get to me was simple: I’d grown addition, one of the major takeaways from the book is up with friends and family who talked openly about that the voice of the rape victim is silenced in a myriad rape issues, who went to Take Back the Night of ways in society, and Krakauer fights that paradigm. marches, who understood that even a spouse could By interviewing the victims (the ones who would talk) rape a spouse. But the problem with being in what I and relying mostly on court and police transcripts for thought was an enlightened group is it put me in a bubble; I couldn’t reconcile what I thought I knew everyone else, he subverts that power dynamic. Clearly, Krakauer has put many people in the with the Missoula I was seeing in the news. My Misspotlight who would rather not be there. Kirsten soula was my blind spot. What Krakauer has given Pabst, the current county attorney and former de- readers like me is a remedy to that: a clear and undefense lawyer for alleged rapist Jordan Johnson, is the niable picture of a broken system, which reflects the best example, being the book’s closest thing to a vil- broken systems in every town across the country. lain. Alternatively, Charles Couture, the former dean This is a book we all needed. If you’re not going to of students at the University of Montana, provides a read it because your feelings are hurt, you are defiheroic profile as someone with no patience for rape nitely part of the problem. Jon Krakauer will speak at a public forum at on campus. Krakauer lays bare the complications of a legal and collegiate system where mostly well-mean- the Doubletree Wed., May 6, at 7 PM. Books will ing people have ultimately failed to make victims a not be sold there, but they are available at local priority. But his depiction of more nuanced charac- bookstores. ters is what really gives the story depth. The Missoula Police Department’s eventual willingness to review efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Better or worth Avengers spectacle serves up a tale of humanity by Scott Renshaw

“Did that redneck just call you a hippie?”

Early in Avengers: Age of Ultron, there’s a scene that plays to some of the movie’s biggest laughs, built around one of the pillars of the Marvel Universe: the fact that the hammer of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) can only be wielded by one who is worthy. Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) and James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) throw on their respective Iron Man and War Machine gauntlets to get a little power behind their pull; Captain America (Chris Evans) seems to budge it, briefly freaking Thor out. Constructed on the kind of loosey-goosey character moments that made writer/director Joss Whedon seem like a great choice for the first Avengers, it’s a frisky bit of business—and it also happens to be the key to why Age of Ultron is more than just the latest pop-culture machine cranked off the Marvel Studios assembly line. As it turns out, Age of Ultron is fundamentally about what makes humanity worthy. When Stark, inspired by disturbing visions of a ruined earth, decides to create an artificial intelligence to help protect the world, the result is Ultron ( James Spader), an entity that doesn’t take long to conclude that humanity itself is the world’s greatest threat. And he’s got a pair of allies in super-powered twins Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)—the former a telepath/telekinetic, the latter with super speed— whose own experience with the Stark name was seeing a bomb created by his company kill their parents. Whedon is choreographing a metric ton of moving parts here, introducing new characters while dealing with subplots for our established Avengers, like the never-before-seen personal life of Clint Barton/Hawkeye ( Jeremy Renner) and a budding romance between Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Bruce Banner/Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). The movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are part of a great always-forward-looking system, setting up down-the-road stories—the African nation of Wakanda, home of Black Panther, makes an appearance—which on some level might always make them more cumbersome and less individually satisfying than they could otherwise be.

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But there’s also some potent subtext rolling around here, partly kicked off by Wanda getting inside our heroes’ heads to make them face some of their darker thoughts. The threat of Ultron is a threat created by the worst in us: Something our fear tells us we need in order to feel safe, when that good old Rooseveltian “fear itself ” is ultimately more damaging. That’s why some of the centerpiece battle sequences here pack more than just a CGI wallop. The donnybrook between Iron Man and Hulk on the streets of South Korea may be a whoop-it-up blast, but it also culminates in a skyscraper collapsing to the ground in a disturbingly familiar plume of smoke and debris. Then the grand finale showdown revolves around not just the obligatory destruction of Ultron’s robot army, but around the previously fragmented Avengers overseeing the evacuation of thousands of people from a threatened city. Hollywood movies have taken some heat at times for appropriating the visual language of real-world catastrophe, but in Age of Ultron the decision feels earned, because Whedon is making his grand summer entertainment into a story about the compassion that we can show when we set aside petty nonsense and pull together. Of course it’s possible to enjoy Age of Ultron without giving such a reading the slightest consideration, full as it is of geeky pleasures and action spectacle; it’s equally possible to see it as the latest exhausting pinnacle of the MCU’s bigger-faster-more aesthetic. But comic books have always been, in part, a modern mythology, and mythology has always been humanity’s way of understanding our place in the world. Sometimes the super-heroism is just brightly colored junk food. And sometimes, it’s a way of giving us a glimpse into how we flawed and occasionally monstrous humans can sometimes prove ourselves worthy. The Avengers: Age of Ultron opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., May 1. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK AND WE WERE YOUNG Andy Smetanka’s stop-motion silhouette animation feature portrays American experiences during WWI. Screening at the Crystal Fri., May 1-Sat., May 2, at 6 and 9 PM nightly. $12-$15. (See our review at missoulanews.com.) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Tony Stark’s peacekeeping program goes awry and it’s up to a bunch of beefcakes to stop a new villain from his dastardly deeds. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. (See Film.) IT FOLLOWS In this wonderfully ’80s-esque flick, a homicidal shapeshifting demon haunts a young woman after she bones a dude. I’m never uncrossing my legs again. Starring Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist and Olivia Luccardi. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy May 1–7 at 6 and 8 PM. THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO Discover the origins of Chinese food in America through a search for the backstory of who General Tso was and why a dish is named for him. Screening at the Roxy Fri., May 1–Sun., May 3 at 7 PM.

NOW PLAYING THE AGE OF ADALINE Blake Lively stars as a woman who stops aging after a supernatural accident; strangely, this isn’t a biography of Cher. Also starring Michiel Huisman and Harrison Ford. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT Shailene Woodley is back as the heroine who must get her group of rebels to band together to fight the Man, or something. Also starring Ansel Elgort and Theo James. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. EX MACHINA A brilliant young computer programmer must evaluate the, ahem, assets of a beautiful lady android; contemplation about the true meaning of humanity ensues. Starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac. Rated R. Carmike 12.

Tasty mysteries. The Search for General Tso opens Friday at the Roxy. FURIOUS 7 Let us all commemorate Paul Walker (RIP) in this, the seventh film about cars that are fast and men who are furious. Also starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. HOME A clumsy alien lands on earth and befriends a cheerful young girl. Be advised, the trailer features a Biggie reference that will make you feel delighted/old. Featuring the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna and Steve Martin. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE LONGEST RIDE In case your DVD of The Notebook is starting to get scratched, a bull rider and an artsy college girl fall in love in the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Starring Britt Robertson, Alan Alda and Scott Eastwood’s chiseled jaw. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA & PAGLIACCI Dramatic tragedy is afoot in a double-feature set in an Italian village, featuring tenor Marcelo Ál-

varez and heroines Eva-Maria Westbroek and Patricia Racette. Screening at the Roxy Tue., May 5, at 6:30 PM.

Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer and Courtney Halverson. Rated R. Carmike 12.

MONKEY KINGDOM Disney nature doc where a baby monkey and its mama have to survive in the jungles of South Asia. Rated G. Carmike 12.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Rejoice, all ye who have been deprived of jokes at a fat man’s expense, ‘cuz Kevin James is back as the hapless security guard, and he’s headed to Vegas, baby. Also starring Raini Rodriguez and Eduardo Verástegui. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

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.

THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO Discover the origins of Chinese food in America through a search for the backstory of who General Tso was and why a dish is named for him. Screening at the Roxy Fri., May 1–Sun., May 3 at 7 PM. UNFRIENDED A bullied teen’s angry ghost kills off mean kids via Skype. See, these lazy millennials won’t even leave the house to torment each other anymore. Starring

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[dish]

photo courtesy of Facebook

The definition of health by Ari LeVaux The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wrote a rather unkind letter to the makers of Kind Bar brand granola bars in March, accusing the company of mislabeling its product. When the letter was posted to the FDA website on April 13, it caused quite a stir. The agency took pointed issue with the use of the word “healthy” on the labels of four Kind Bar flavors, and a natural takeaway was that the nutty, grain-dense treats might not be as healthy as the company claims. “Healthy,” according to the FDA, is not a squishy, ambiguous word like “natural.” It has a specific legal meaning, including a requirement that a product have less than one gram of saturated fat per serving. Kind Bars have up to five grams. The definition of “healthy,” according to 2013 guidance, also specifies a maximum of three grams total fat and 90 milligrams cholesterol per serving, and requires a serving provide 10 percent of the daily requirement of at least one of the following: vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron, protein or fiber. Whether something is truly healthy depends greatly on the context. If one is dying of thirst, or about to collapse from low blood sugar, a big bottle of Coke might be a lifesaver. In fact, the FDA’s definition of “healthy” doesn’t make a single mention of sugar. Incredibly, that bottle of Coke would qualify as “healthy” if a juicy lime were squeezed into it. It would contain no fat, no cholesterol, and lots of vitamin C. I can sympathize with the agency’s need to regulate how the word is used, or it would be on everything from Twinkies to bubble gum. Unfortunately, the FDA’s definition of healthy is built, in part, on outdated science, and is on track to soon be contradicted by some very important policy being drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. These agencies update America’s dietary guidelines every five years, and a draft proposal for the latest guidelines was released in February— with comments being taken until May 8. If these proposed changes are adopted, many will be in stark contrast to the FDA’s definition of “healthy.” The new dietary guidelines would significantly soften or remove earlier cautions against dietary fat and cholesterol, and include much stronger warnings against sugar. These changes are a result of increasing evidence that sugar, rather than fat, is behind the na-

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FLASH IN THE PAN

tional rise in obesity and the associated cluster of disorders called metabolic syndrome. Fat, in moderation, is not the demon we once thought it was, according to new research. The FDA’s letter also took issue with Kind Bar’s claims of having no trans-fats, though the agency offered no evidence of trans-fat in Kind Bars, and acknowledged that hydrogenated vegetable oils, the primary source of dietary trans fat, are absent from the ingredient list. The FDA argues that claiming a product is low in trans-fat is misleading, even if true, because it gives the impression that the product is low in fat. “Scientific evidence suggests that trans-fat acts in a similar manner to saturated fat with respect to raising LDL cholesterol,” the letter states. “Higher total and LDL cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk of developing coronary heart disease.” The implication is that trans-fats are basically the same as saturated fats. Indeed, saturated and trans-fats do have a similar impact on blood LDL cholesterol levels—none. In other words, while LDL in the blood is a problem, LDL levels are not raised by dietary fat, as was once widely believed. There are, however, reasons to avoid trans-fats that have nothing to do with cholesterol levels, such as increased risk of diabetes. Meanwhile, the word “sugar,” which many health experts would agree is probably the product’s most dangerous ingredient, is not mentioned a single time in the letter. There are no limits on sugar in the FDA’s definition of “healthy.” Kind Bars are made primarily of nuts, grains and fruit dressed with coatings like chocolate and sugary syrups. A Kind Bar has nearly as many calories as a Snickers bar, and is, arguably, a glorified candy bar. But in many ways they are indeed healthier, if you’ll pardon the expression, than a typical candy bar. One of the reasons a Kind Bar is so much better than a Snickers bar is the fiber in the nuts and oats. But the FDA’s letter states that if Kind Bar wants to claim its product as a “Good Source of Fiber,” it must include “...the required statement disclosing that the food is not low in total fat in immediate proximity to the claim.” Like the Kind Bar itself, the FDA’s letter amounts to a cluster of sorts. If nothing else, it raises some important issues, and serves as an invitation to food fight over the word “healthy.” But the letter does little to improve the Kind Bar label’s relationship with the truth.

[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 On Monday, April 20th BERNICE'S WILL BEGIN SERVING ESPRESSO!! Yep, you heard us right. And, we have heard you. Bernice's espresso was created by the talented staff at Hunter Bay (and approved by the staff at Bernice's )to represent the full bodied flavor character of the infamous Bernice's Cup o' Joe. Our espresso is a rich Mocha Java blend of sweet berry African coffees united with Indonesian and Brazilian coffees for an espresso that compliments Bernice's palate of fresh baked treats. Serving 7 days a week 6am - 8pm. Now you can enjoy your morning croissant, muffin or scone with espresso! Wheee! Or, stop by after dinner and have a dessert with a demitasse. Bernice's: from scratch for your pleasure...always. 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 6:30-5:30, 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. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 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, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ 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, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 42 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. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jamba-

laya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. 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. $-$$ Eagles Lodge #32 Missoula 2420 South Avenue • 543-6346 Tailgate with us before each Griz home game, and get a FREE ride to the game on our shuttle. Soup, salad and burgers served for lunch Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 2:30pm. Don’t forget to stop in for our Thursday Night Matadors & Friday Night Burgers, 6:00 to 8:00pm both nights. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday night and admission is always FREE!

killer teas sake local brews

happy hour 3-6pm everyday

LUNCH & DINNER VEGETARIAN & GLUTEN-FREE NO PROBLEM

SAKE SATURDAYS

special sake cocktails • $1 off glass pours • bottle specials

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. $-$$

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm

(Breakfast ‘til Noon)

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $ 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 7am10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 97:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$

531 S. Higgins

541-4622

SATURDAYS 4PM-9PM

MONDAYS & THURSDAYS ALL DAY

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm

(Breakfast all day)

$1

SUSHI Not available for To-Go orders

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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Garden City BrewFest HAPPIEST HOUR Draught Works’ Little Richard Session IPA Ted McDermott: According to the brewer’s description, this IPA can “barely even be considered an IPA.” As someone who likes the taste of hops but finds most IPAs overwhelmed by their presence, that sounds like just the thing. And if this beer tastes half as g o o d a s “ Tu t t i Frutti” sounds, it’s bound to hit the spot. Grand Teton’s 5 O’Clock Shadow Black Lager Kate Whittle: The 5 O’Clock Shadow lager flips all of my beer-nerd switches: A clever name, a somewhat unusual style and a hefty ABV at 7.6 percent. Grand Teton’s website says their Munich-born brewmaster’s mother drank black lagers while breastfeeding him. I’ll settle for drinking this while nursing my beer belly. Carter’s Ghost Train Double IPA Alex Sakariassen: While IPAs have an undeniably large and loyal following, I’ve never counted myself much of a hop-head. But fellow craft beer fanatics can’t stop gushing about Carter’s Brewery, and with Billings a good five-hour drive away, it seems dumb to let a personal stylistic hangup stand in the way of verifying that reputation. Angry Orchard’s Hop N’ Mad Cider Courtney Anderson: This classic sweetand-tart cider might help clean the palate for

your next beer. Also, those with celiac disease can hang out with a safe cider while enjoying BrewFest. Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy Erika Fredrickson: When we were young and undiscerning, my friends and I made a version of the shandy by filling a large cooler full of Pabst and lemonade (and maybe some vodka) and drinking it all afternoon. Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy kind of gets a bad rap because artisan beer snobs see it as just another egregious way to water down beer. I, however, see it as a way to elevate the shandy and, on a personal note, recall those carefree summer days of yore. Laughing Dog’s Dogfather Imperial Stout Skylar Browning: This Sandpoint brewery had me at “aged in charred bourbon barrels.” Elysian’s Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale Cathrine L. Walters: As a girl who regularly mixes her vodka with San Pellegrino’s Aranciata Rossa I was intrigued to see that Seattle’s Elysian Brewing combined the delicious crimson citrus with their hops. I figure it can’t disappoint because if blood oranges are great mixed with vodka why wouldn’t they be good mixed with beer?

Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3? (Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:3012:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ Missoula Farmer's Market N. Higgins by the XXX's missoulafarmersmarket.com Find us on Facebook Seasonal, Homegrown and Homemade! Fresh local vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, eggs, honey, baked goods and coffee provided by over 100 vendors. "Music at the Market" performers on Saturdays 9am-noon. Market Hours: Saturday's 8am12:30pm May 2-Oct. 31, 2015 • Tuesday's 5:30-7pm. July 7-Sept. 22, 2015. EBT, credit or debt cards and MDA gift cards accepted. Happy Shopping Missoula! Thank you for supporting our local farmers. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 www.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? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com 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. $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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April 30–May 7, 2015 nightlife

Can I get a hell yeah? Dan Tedesco plays the Top Hat Thu., April 30, at 9:30 PM. No cover.

THURSDAYAPRIL30 Celebrate National Poetry Month and support women at the same time at the Planned Parenthood Poetry Night, with readings at the Badlander from 6-9 PM. No cover; 18-plus.

The new-ish gallery Repertoire Art & Design hosts the Mixed Media Salon, featuring several creative minds at 113 W. Broadway. Check it out anytime between 10 AM-6 PM. UM hosts Philanthropy Day, a celebration of its many donors, with music and ice cream on the Oval, 11 AM-1 PM, plus a ceremony bestowing the first

student-funded Student Foundation scholarship at noon. Local city planners and Our Missoula Project volunteers host a dropin open house about the city’s growth policy, where you can learn about the focus-group-created action plan for the Garden City. Doubletree Hotel, 47:30 PM.

The UM Senior BFA Thesis Exhibition collects a slew of creative ‘n clever artists under one roof, with opening reception at the Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences building from 5-7 PM. The Missoula Interfaith Collaborative gets together for the Faith in Action Summit, celebrating ongoing action with a dinner, presentation and reception at First Presbyterian, 235 S. Fifth St. W., 59 PM. $4/free for students and kids. Visit micmt.org. Prepare for a whole ‘nother kinda gallery talk at “10 Questions with Courtney Blazon,” illuminating her recent new author-inspired pieces at the Radius Gallery. 6 PM. Missoula singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas celebrates the release of his second album, MacDonald Pass, with a party at Lolo Peak Brewing from 6-8 PM. No cover. The Kimberlee Carlson Trio presents its jazzy stylings at Draught Works while you argue the difference between a porter and a stout, 6-8 PM. No cover. Minneapolis’ Mikel Wright and the Wrongs groove it and move it at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28–Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance.

Esteemed local thespians cavort about for a production of My Leg or Something or Another, an irreverent medieval farce with Alexsa Prince, Jeff Medley and Craig Domes. Roxy Theater, Thu., April 30-Sat., May 7, at 7:30 PM. $10-$15. (See Spotlight.) Sizzle all night at the Salsa Dance party in the University Center Ballroom, with the UM Spanish Club and Latin American Studies Department. Dance lesson at 8 PM. Free. Get your mean jeans on and go to KBGA’s final residency, with the madcap shenanigans of Idaho Green, FUULS and the Crooked Cops. VFW, 9 PM. $2/$5 for ages 18-20; includes chance to win PBR schwag and tallboys are two bucks. Troubadour Dan Tedesco takes the stage at the Top Hat to belt out some tunes, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

FRIDAYMAY01 Celebrate May Day and the legacy of the historic First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Street with its open house and activities. Staring at 6 PM, includes games on the lawn, fly-fishing demonstration, handbell performance, stained glass window display, with Celtic Dragon Pipe Band performance and Maypole dance at 7 PM, repeating until 8 PM. Free. Art aficionados and downtown revelers alike can enjoy First Friday in Missoula, wherein shops, cafes, bars and galleries host free art viewings for all to enjoy. Sometimes there’s totally excellent free wine and snax, too. Runs about

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[calendar] 5-8 PM every first Friday of the month. Check out missoulacultural.org/galleryguide and our special listings.

nightlife

Help for chronic and acute disease. Revealing what will get you well. Try the Sound Table!

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Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. No cover. The Historic Preservation Award Dinner and Gala celebrates this year’s winners with guest speaker Jim McDonald, chatting about rustic architecture. Governor’s Room of the Florence Building, 6-8 PM. RSVP requested; contact lschwab@ci.missoula.mt.us or 5526638. Keep on rockin’ into the night when The Ruins party down with originals and covers at Feruqi’s, 318 N. Higgins Ave., 6-9 PM. Free. Traveling spiritual counselor Brian Lottman leads a satsang, with energy healing, harmonium music and guided meditation at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St., Suite B. 7:15-9 PM. $15 suggested donation. The WordTasting Tour 2015 brings together the Minimalist dudes, friends like Colin Wright, Josh Wagner, Shawn Mihalik, and Bitterroots-to-Brooklyn songwriter Skye Steele for an evening of stories and tunes at Shakespeare & Co.,

103 S. Third St., 7-9 PM. Free. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28–Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. Esteemed local thespians cavort about for a production of My Leg or Something or Another, an irreverent medieval farce with Alexsa Prince, Jeff Medley and Craig Domes. Roxy Theater, Thu., April 30-Sat., May 7, at 7:30 PM. $10-$15. (See Spotlight.) You never know what bluesy fella Andre Floyd is gonna pull out of his hat, so check out the Walking Moustache for the tuneage, 7:30-10 PM. No cover. Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek: The Musical, a family friendly extravaganza at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 1-3, 6-10 and 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Call 728-7529 for the box office. Leap into the season with Bare Bait Dance Company’s annual Springboard, featuring original choreography by company members and visiting guests. Performances at the Open Space in the PARTV Center, Fri., May 1Sat., May 2 and Fri., May 8-Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM, plus a 2 PM matinee on May 9. $12/$10 in advance. Visit barebaitdance.org. Conservative political philosopher and Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield discusses “Science and the Humanities in America’s Universities” as part of the President’s Lecture Series at the Dennison Theatre. 8 PM. Free. Backflip into the VFW for the On Deck after-party, featuring skater bois like Buddy Jackson, Party Like Thieves, Poor Me, Sgnls, Holy Lands and J. Sherri. 8 PM. No cover, but donations for touring outfits mucho appresh. See Jane dance when Nashville 406 plays country-fried tunes for your boogying requirements at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave., Friday and Saturday at 8 PM. No cover. Old friends are gold, but making new ones on the dance floor is advisable while Paydirt twangs heartstrings at the Sunrise Saloon, corner of Strand and Regent. Tunes get going around 9 PM. No cover. When I dip, you dip, we dip to the western swingy sounds of Cash for Junkers, playing the Union Club starting at 9:30 PM. No cover. Bring your unusual tastes to Monk’s Bar for Fishbowl Friday: 50 Shades of Hey, with fancy dress encouraged and classy spinners such as M.R. Wizard, DJ Coma, Chaddabox and the

Milkcrate Mechanic. 9 PM. No cover; $5 fishbowl special. Get a li’l messy and nessy when Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails fire up the stringband fireworks at the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYMAY02 Whip it real good with the Hellgate Rollergirls and their season opener against the Back Alley Allstars from Billings. Missoula County Fairgrounds, starting at 7 PM. $10/$8 in advance. Free for kids under 12. Find tickets and info at hellgaterollergirls.org. See how much wood can get chucked at the Western Montana Wood Carvers Show at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, with displays, vendors and a celebration of the Ponykeepers who maintain A Carousel for Missoula. There will be miniature carousel ponies on display, which is just too cute. Sat., May 2 from 9 AM-5:30 PM and Sun., May 3 from 11:30 AM-4 PM. Mingle among the sweet abundance at the Missoula farmers markets and People’s Market, with produce, arts, crafts, baked goods, hot breakfasts and strong coffee at the XXXXs, Pine Street and riverside parking lot east of Caras Park. Things get running about 8 AM and last til 1 PM. Taste the rainbow (it might be kinda chalky) at the Color Me Rad 5K, which starts at 8 AM. Proceeds benefit the ZACC if you use the word “ZACC” when you register; check out zootownarts.org/color. Don’t miss your cue at the 8-Ball Pool Tournament, mixed scotch doubles-style, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. Sign up starts at 10 AM, competition at noon. $10 to play; top four winners get cash prizes. Juror Peter Held leads a panel discussion about Missoula Art Musem’s newest exhibit, Montana Triennial, along with exhibiting artists Jesse Albrecht, Jodi Lightner, Jon Lodge and Zemer Peled. 10 AM-noon. Free. As part of Free Comic Book Day, local comic writer Tim Daniel signs his recent series, Enormous, which may be adapted into a TV show. Muse Comics, 2100 Stephens Ave., No. 107. 11 AM-3 PM. The Hamilton Farmers Market kicks off with a children’s festival and parade at 11:30 AM at American Legion Park, followed by Maypole dances and tunes from the Singing Salamanders, all in tribute to this year’s theme, Here’s the Buzz! It’s All About Pollinators. Hark, beer nerds, ‘tis the Garden City Brewfest that beckons with 70 beers on tap, live music, food trucks and all the yell-talking you and your compatriots can handle. Caras Park, noon-8 PM. $12 includes taster glass and tokens, additional tasters $1.

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sink or swim In Craig Domes’ hilarious new play, a young King Arthur (Alexsa Prince) goes duck hunting with Merlin (Jeff Medley). They do shoot at some ducks (“Boom, motherfucker!” Arthur calls out several times) but mostly they philosophize on life and love. For instance, they wonder if ducks have wheat allergies and if they sneeze. Arthur, often juvenile when talking of his relationship problems with Guinevere, also has a penchant for deep thoughts regarding the physics of how a dead duck might sink or float. The duo picks up beautiful rocks and they constantly chew on candy. Eventually, they run into a knave (Domes), dressed in tattered clothes, who is on a mission to find his horse. WHAT: My Leg or Something or Another WHO: Lost Dog Productions WHEN: Thu., April 30–Sat., May 2, at 7:30 PM nightly WHERE: Roxy Theater HOW MUCH: $10

There are serious ideas embedded in the layers of this play, like the power-play between human beings

The Montana Museum of Art and Culture invites the whole fambly to celebrate its 120th birthday with a party and art treasure hunt in the UM PARTV Center, 1-3 PM. Call 243-2019 for more info. The Missoula Parents of Multiples meet-up brings families together for support and encouragement in Missoula Public Library’s meeting room, 1-3 PM. Email missoula.multiples@gmail.com to learn more. Larry Hirshberg provides wit, wisdom, tunes and an impeccable palate at Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4 PM, tunes from 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

nightlife Put that pep in your step for the Community Swing Dance intro lesson at Martha Jane’s Uptown Dance, 1008 Burlington Suite D. Lesson from 6:30-7:15 PM, and then bust out your moves from 7:15-9:15. $7 per person; singles and couples welcome. Socks or suede-sole dance shoes required. Call 640-3262 to learn more. Graphic novelist Josh Simmons screens one of his short films and reads from his latest publication, Black River, about a motley band trying to survive in a post apocalyptic word, at

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and the mystery of life after death. But the anachronistic language and odd, unexpected details keep us from thinking too seriously about these things. Domes has an ear for the kind of banter that made Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead so successful. His Waiting for Godot sensibility mixed with a Monty Python streak, provides mountains of good jokes, which in the hands of Prince and Medley, definitely float (whether the ducks do or not). This play feels a little like a metaphor for what we all do every day. At times, the serious questions hang over the characters like remnants from a dream, casting just enough light on their mortality to feel a little spooky. But before you know it, Merlin and Arthur are back to the hunt, and everyone is laughing again. —Erika Fredrickson

Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28–Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. Esteemed local thespians cavort about for a production of My Leg or Something or Another, an irreverent medieval farce with Alexsa Prince, Jeff Medley and Craig Domes. Roxy Theater, Thu., April 30-Sat., May 7, at 7:30 PM. $10-$15. (See Spotlight.) Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek: The Musical, a family friendly extravaganza at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 1-3, 6-10 and 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Call 728-7529 for the box office. Leap into the season with Bare Bait Dance Company’s annual Springboard, featuring original choreography by company members and visiting guests. Performances at the Open

Space in the PARTV Center, Fri., May 1Sat., May 2 and Fri., May 8-Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM, plus a 2 PM matinee on May 9. $12/$10 in advance. Visit barebaitdance.org. The Missoula Folklore Society Dance invites one and all to cut loose at the Union Hall, with tunes from Out of Wood. Roy Curet has the call. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for members and students/free for volunteers and kids. See Jane dance when Nashville 406 plays country-fried tunes for your boogying requirements at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave., Friday and Saturday at 8 PM. No cover. Werk it all nite long at the second annual Socotra Festival, which brings spinners Apashe and Must Die to the Wilma for a night of lasers and bass and flashy lights ‘n such, starting at 8 PM. $27 at Rockin Rudy’s and thewilma.com. Let the reverby shenanigans begin when Shahs, The Impossible Girls and Sasha Bell Band party at Stage 112. Doors at 8 PM, bands at 9. Cover TBA. Portland’s surf rock adventure Don and the Quixotes hang 10 at the Palace, along with Mass FM and FUULS. 9 PM. No cover. (See Music.)

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FIRST FRIDAY Held over for May is Atelier III, the Thursday Artists’ Working Group show, with a slew of artists presenting their takes on self-portraits, still lifes and landscapes. Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St., just a hop and skip up the bike path from downtown. Reception from 5-9 PM. Photographer Dennis Kern displays “abstractions of abandonment” for your consideration at Green Ribbon Book’s First Friday soiree. 829 S. Higgins Ave., 5-7 PM. Your Energy Fix hosts Kristen Previch and her vivid acrylics and watercolors at 415 Higgins Ave., suite. 19. Reception 5-8 PM. Filmmaker and graphic artist Rachel Stevens takes mundane parking meters and makes ‘em something special in You Can Be Here at FrontierSpace, in the alley between Pine and Spruce. Opening reception May 1, 5-9 PM, and closing reception May 15, 3-6 PM. The Radius Gallery swings open the doors for a First Friday soiree featuring its current exhibit, Everyone In Me is a Bird, and other artworks. 114 E. Main St. 5-8 PM. Check out the exhibitors of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s 2015 Search For Peace art show, with works by local students. Hosted by La Stella Blu, 612 Higgins Ave. 57 PM. Artists James Newstrom, Candace Rhea Herndon and Shandielle showcase their work as part of the inaugural First Friday and grand opening at the Hafa restaurant inside Stage 112. Reception from 57:30 PM, with desserts on hand. Kelly Loder’s Emotion in Motion celebrates the therapeutic powers of

art with a display at Atmosphere Smoke Shop, 115 W. Main St. Reception from 5-8 PM. Married artists Ke’vin West Bowers and Kelli DePue discuss similarities to horses and carriages and show off their artistic approaches in Duet, at the Repertoire Art Gallery, 113 W. Broadway. Opening reception from 5-8 PM.

their stuff to “Danza Kuduro” and Nick Jonas’ “Jealous.” 5-8 PM. Free. Experience some lucid visions with Flori Engbrecht’s In the Dream

featured exhibit, Intimate and Expansive: Montana Triennial: 2015, curated by Peter Held. Reception from 5-8 PM with bevvies available for purchase and gallery talk at 7 PM.

Laura Blaker says hello to the Garden City in Missoula Neighborhoods, a 30-piece series on display at A&E Architects, 222 Higgins Ave. Reception from 5-8 PM. Frolick at the Dana Gallery when it highlights R. David Wilson’s new works in Spring’s Arrival. Reception with tasty treats from 5-8 PM. Local gal Shelby Johnson combines paintings and collages to intriguingly unsettling effect in Clouds of Uncertainty, at Noteworthy Paper, 101 S. Higgins Ave. Reception 5-8 PM.

Roll on in to the Brink Gallery for On Deck 10, an extravaganza of skateboard art featuring 50 artists from around the country and world, with live auction starting at 5 PM. Proceeds benefit construction of a skatepark in Stevensville. Check out montanaskatepark.org/ondeck.

Joseph Kellogg transforms historic photos taken by his father with 19th century gum bichromate printing processes in Dad-Gum-It. Reception at E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St., from 5-9 PM, wiith live tunes from Gerygone & Twig.

If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes and then head to Monte Dolack Gallery for a celebration of springtime in Montana, with works by Monte and Mary Beth Percival. Refreshments ‘n tunes from 58 PM. B.MartiNez crafts treasures out of scrap with Bodies and Buildings, available for your perusing pleasure at American Made Tattoo, 234 W. Front St. Reception from 5-8 PM with finger-pickin’ tunes from Jeff Carroll.

Come on baby, light my fire at the Woodfire Invitational Exhibit at the Clay Studio, where you can check out an array of artists’ work in anticipation of the annual May wood firing party up in the Black Mountain. Reception at 1106 Hawthorne St., Unit A., from 5:30-9 PM.

Consider critters, mountains, the moon and other inspiring subjects with Anne Vanuga’s pen and watercolor pieces at Betty’s Divine. 5-8 PM.

Check out the rebellious retro attitude and daily dedication of painter Keith VanDePol at Frame of Mind, 1706 Brooks St. Reception from 5:30-9 PM.

Feast your eyes on Juan de Santa Anna’s A Really Good Burger, a series of photos capturing the magic of the thing they call rodeo. Reception at the Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins, from 5-8 PM. Pop in to the Downtown Dance Collective to catch performances from the Jazz Hotties class strutting

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Juan de Santa Anna’s A Really Good Burger photography show is featured at the First Friday reception at the Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins, 5–8 PM.

Time, a mixed-media series that combines photography, printing, painting and other methods. Reception at 4 Ravens Gallery, 248 N. Higgins Ave., from 5-8 PM. A farmer’s grip of good stuff is on tap for the Missoula Art Museum’s

The fine crew of Zombie Tools displays their handcrafted and very sharp wares at Northmann Knifeworks, 145 W. Main St., with a reception from 5-8 PM. Live music provided by Maiah Wynne.

If First Friday exhibits inspire you to take a paintbrush into your own hands, check out the Art on Tap classes, a guided, sociable painting class where you’ll sip bevvies and create your own masterpiece. ZooPop, 109 W. Main St., from 6:30-9:30 PM. $32. Visit artontapmissoula.com.

[calendar] Find a scruffy dance partner and get to it when Three-Eared Dog plays the Union Club, starting around 9:30 PM. No cover. Minnesota funk-lovers Mikel Wright and the Wrongs groove it at the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. No cover.

SUNDAYMAY03 The Unplug and Play kickoff celebrates outdoor activities, fresh air and reconnecting with nature, with family friendly activities at McCormick Park including a climbing wall, basketball, face painting, gymnastics, batting tunnel and more. 1-4 PM. Visit unplugmissoula.org to learn more and sign up kids for the noscreens-for-a-week pledge. See how much wood can get chucked at the Western Montana Wood Carvers Show at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, with displays, vendors and a celebration of the Ponykeepers who maintain A Carousel for Missoula. There will be miniature carousel ponies on display, which is just too cute. Sat., May 2 from 9 AM-5:30 PM and Sun., May 3 from 11:30 AM-4 PM.

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TUESDAYMAY05 I spy Lucy in the sky with diamonds when a farmer’s grip of local musicians play a Beatles tribute show at the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. No cover.

nightlife Buy your fave teacher a cold one (or a Shirley Temple) at the MIS Fundraiser celebrating the Missoula International School at the Top Hat, 5-8 PM. Dancing with Salsa Loca to follow. Soothe the midweek blues with John Floridis’ folky tunes at Lolo Peak Brewery, starting at 6 PM. No cover.

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MONDAYMAY04 It’s a heckuva grand slam when all three UM Choirs hit the stage for pop tunes and inspiring opera choruses. Dennison Theatre, 7:30 PM. $11/$6 for seniors/$5 students. The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 4-7 PM. 500 N.

WEDNESDAYMAY06 Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line swing into the Top Hat for an Americana-y evening, along with The Lowest Pair. 8 PM. $10 in advance, tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and online. 18plus.

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PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. C.U. this Tuesday 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 warm up the noggin, here’s a trivia question: Cinco de Mayo originally celebrated the Mexican army’s victory over what European country in 1862? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Rock outfit This Legend, featuring a former member of Yellowcard, whips up some magic at Stage 112, along with Stanley and the Search. 8 PM. $10. 18-plus.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28–Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30

Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek: The Musical, a family friendly extravaganza at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 1-3, 6-10 and 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Call 728-7529 for the box office. Trivia answer: France, in the Battle of Puebla. Author Jon Krakauer discusses his new book Missoula in a public interview and discussion at the Doubletree Hotel at 7 PM. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28–Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance.

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THURSDAYMAY07 The annual Lunafest brings nine short films by and about women in celebration of women’s diverse experiences with motherhood, body image, aging and culture. Wilma Theater. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $15/$10 in advance. Check out ywca.org. Proceeds benefit the YWCA’s GUTS! Girls Leadership program. The West African Drum and Dance Conference with Djebe Bara presents a weekend of classes led by master artists at the Barn Movement Studio and Downtown Dance Collective. $75 for everything, with individual class pricing $5-$15. Find “Djebe Bara” on Facebook to learn more and find a detailed schedule, or call 926-1606. As part of Children’s Book Week, authors Susan Adrian (of Tunnel Vision) and Janet Fox (of Faithful and Sirens) chat about their stories and sign at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 3:30 PM.

nightlife Take pleasure in some Treasure State hip-hop with a bumpin’ evening featuring Hectic, Beeznest, MT Souls, Graveyard Project, Wormwood and Mac Marler shakin’ it down at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

Uplifting. Bare Bait Dance Company presents Springboard at the Open Space in the PARTV Center Fri., May 1–Sat., May 2, and Fri., May 8–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on May 9. $12/$10 in advance. Joey Running Crane and the Dirty Birds take flight on the first week of their May residency at the VFW, with special guests Bird’s Mile Home and Ryan Bundy. 9 PM. $3 Let herbal concoctions of your choosing soothe what ails you as Sol Seed spreads the rock ‘n reggae sound around the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. No cover.

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Knock knock. Who’s there? Amos. Amos who? A mosquito. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online at missoulanews.com.

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This is the sort of run where any sense of restraint or self-consciousness would be best left at the door, and as a casual, un-timed event, you don’t need to worry about being a marathon winner or anything to participate. Some proceeds from every Insane Inflatable benefit a local charity, and Missoula’s Big Brothers Big Sisters chapter is this weekend’s recipient. —Kate Whittle The Insane Inflatable 5K goes down on the UM campus Sat., May 2. Waves start at 8:45 AM and go until 1 PM. $64-$75 to run; free to spectate. Visit insane inflatable5k.com to register.

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The 23rd annual Red Ripper Golf Tournament invites teams of four to dress up in a spiffy costume and play 18 holes at the Missoula Country Club, 3850 Old US Hwy 93. Registration at 9 AM, shotgun start at 10 AM. $400 per team. Check out missoulachamber.com or call 543-6623 for registration and info.

Short-ish distances and gnarly climbs are in store for MOBI’s Two Creek One Canyon Ride, a 45-mile round trip careening around the Upper Miller Valley, Trails End and Pattee Creek. Meet at McCormick Park at 11 AM. Email for more info at ggunter@bresnan.net.

Sapphire Animal Hospital’s seventh annual Mutt Strut invites Bitterroot area pups to grab their humans and hang out at the Stevensville Ranger Station, at the corner of Main Street and the Eastside Highway. 6-8 PM. Free to participate, and one pound of pet food will be donated to the Bitter Root Humane Society for every walker.

SATURDAY MAY 2 The Zootown Surfers head out to Lowell, Idaho this weekend to celebrate the kickoff of rafting season on the wild and scenic Lochsa, with dozens of class IV rapids. Visit zootownsurfers.com. Five Valleys Audubon heads out on a day trip to Brown’s Lake in the upper Blackfoot in search of raptors, sandhill cranes, Long-billed Curlews and other wonders. Meet in the northwest corner of the Adams Center for an 8 AM departure; bring a lunch and weather-appropriate wear. Work those glutes while dreaming of lunch at the Copper Queen Saloon on the 74-mile Bearmouth- Helmville ride with Missoulians on Bicycles. Meet at the Eastgate Center at 8 AM to carpool. Contact Laurie or Ed for info at lstalling@gmail.com or 214-4225.

MONDAY MAY 4 The North Hills-Evaro Elk Working Group gets together to chat about management of Missoula’s wintering elk herd. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation meeting room; 5705 Grant Creek Road; use the entrance on the west side of the building. 7-9 PM. That’s no moon, that’s a space station! JK, it’s totally a full moon tonight (or is it???) at the May the Fourth Be With You community group bike ride with Missoula Moonlight Mash, which meets at the XXXXs at 9 PM to cruise around town. Remember to be properly equipped with a front and rear bike light.

TUESDAY MAY 5 Keep your stick on the ice at the Basic Hockey Lessons at Glacier Ice Rink for kids ages 4 and up, with the basic skills like skating, passing and shooting. Meets every Tuesday at 5 PM through May 26. $65, includes equipment. Call 728-0316. The Montana Dirt Girls kick into gear with group cycling trips in the Missoula area, meeting up at 6 PM every Tuesday at various locations. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com to find out more. calendar@missoulanews.com

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A persistent rumor holds that Missoula boasts the highest proportion of nonprofits per capita of any American city, and wouldn’t you know that a 2005 report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy confirms that, indicating that we have one nonprofit for every 80 residents, or at least we did a decade ago. All of those nonprofits rely on local generosity to keep the gears running; and one of the grand-daddies of donation events is on May 5. Give Local Missoula, part of the nationwide Give Local America project, opens its website for 24 hours and you can log in and donate as little as $10 to the nonprofit of your choice. You can also donate to the “stretch pool,” which are funds that will be doled out afterward to everybody. Give Local Missoula’s inaugural event in 2014 raised a little over $135,000, distributed to 90 local groups. This year’s goal is to raise $200,000 in one day. This year’s participants are as varied as Blue Mountain Clinic, Garden City Harvest, the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Montana and Mount Sentinel Little League, plus dozens of other names that help make

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up the fabric of our passionate little community. After making your online donation, you can celebrate in real life at the party at Caras Park, which runs all day with activities, demos and more. —Kate Whittle Caras Park hosts the Give Local Missoula celebration Tue., May 5, from 8 AM–6 PM. Visit GiveLocalMissoula.org to learn more.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY APRIL 30 The Missoula Interfaith Collaborative gets together for the Faith in Action Summit, celebrating ongoing action with a dinner, presentation and reception at First Presbyterian, 235 S. Fifth St. W., 5-9 PM. $4/free for students and kids. Visit micmt.org.

SATURDAY MAY 2 The Creativity for Life drop-in Saturday art workshop includes expressive arts, writing and other therapeutic activities for those dealing with loss at the Living Art studio, 725 W. Alder St., Ste. 17, 10:30 AM12:30 PM on two Saturdays each month. Free. Visit livingartofmontana.org to learn more. The Teen Challenge Spring Banquet includes dinner and silent auction at the Hilton Garden Inn, with guest speaker Rev. Jaqui Stothoff. 5:30 PM. $50/tables of 10 for $475. Visit teenchallengepnw.com for more details and ticket info.

SUNDAY MAY 3 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note the group is now meeting on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

MONDAY MAY 4 Use your noggin and head over to the St. Patrick Trauma Services helmet sale, with cheap gear and bike lights at the Garden City Medical Building, 601 W. Spruce, Ste. K. Noon-3 PM. Cash or check only. Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519

S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more. Rocky Mountain Rising Tide gets together to work on grassroots solution to the climate crisis, every other Monday at The Hive, 5:30-7:30 PM.

WEDNESDAY MAY 6 The sixth annual New Leaders Council Fellows Fundraiser honors Lt. Gov. Angela McLean and young up-and-comers with a dinner at Burns St. Bistro at 6 PM. $25, includes dinner and two drink tickets. Visit montana.newleaderscouncil.org/ 2015_fellows_fundraiser. Find help with food issues at the Overeaters Anonymous meetings on the third floor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Brooks St., Wednesdays. Newbies can come at 6:30 PM, and the regular meeting begins at 7 PM. Free. Call 543-5509 for info. The Grassroots Economic Organizing group presents a screening of the short doc Own the Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time, about worker co-ops around the world. Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room, 7 PM. Free. Email josh@geo.coop to learn more.

THURSDAY MAY 7 Learn about the emotional and physical support offered by doulas at the Meet the Doulas reception at the Nursing Nook, 734 Kensington Ave., every first Thursday of the month from 5:30-7:30 PM through August. Refreshments provided. Find fresh ideas at the Clearing the Channels: Moving through the Five Elements workshop, which explores the Chinese five-element theory and other concepts through writing, storytelling and movement. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 6:30-8:30 PM. $125 for five-week course. Visit redwillowlearning.org.

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MALICE IN WONDERLAND My boyfriend has a crazy exwife who can't let go. She is the meanest, most vengeful and manipulative person, initially convincing the 15year-old son she has with my boyfriend that I'm the reason "Dad won't come back." (He actually divorced her after she, in a fit of rage, made a false police report about him.) She also slashed my tires and spread a rumor that my boyfriend is a child molester. I love him dearly, and we feel we're soul mates, but his ex-wife is making it so hard to be happy. What can I do? . —Besieged Where is the very small, highly targeted zombie apocalypse when you need it? Don't take this woman's behavior personally. And yes, I'm serious. Assuming what you say about her is true, she seems to be one of those born bar brawlers, ever on the lookout for a reason to break a bottle over someone's head and start the second Hundred Years' War. If she could, she'd not only slash your tires but take a sponge bath in the Fountain of Youth so she could live long enough to slash your great-great-grandchildren's, too. The problem is, because she isn't acting from anything resembling reason, there's no reasoning with her. As personal security expert Gavin de Becker says about the irrationally persistent in his terrific book "The Gift of Fear," "There is no straight talk for crooked people." So, practically speaking, short of finding a home security company that sends out zombie squads by radio call, all that you, personally, can do is decide whether you find love and soulmatery worth the trade-offs in terror and tire costs. As for what your boyfriend can do, the answer, unfortunately, is "not much more": Install video surveillance; document everything she does; and use the legal system to the extent he can (and the extent that seems prudent). The following advice—to use gratitude as a buffer against ugliness—might sound like it's from the Little Miss Sunshine Solutions Department, but there's actually solid science behind it. Research by social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and her colleagues finds that people are meaningfully happier when they take regular stock of the things they have to be grateful for. (A caveat: This happiness-increasing effect was found only for people who did this blessings counting once a week.) So consider getting gratitudinal once a week, maybe on Sunday night. You could even write five things down on slips of

paper and put them in a "Gratitude Jar" so you have a visual reminder of how good you actually have it when things go bad. This may also help you avoid getting snippy with the irritatingly well-meaning who chirp, "What goes around comes around!" Right. If there is such a thing as karma, it seems to go after the truly heinous offenders first, like all the people who ever dropped a straw wrapper or let out a puff of tail wind in the elevator.

TWO BROKEBACK GIRLS I'm a butch lesbian with a crush on a (supposedly) straight married lady who's very tomboyish. She has a number of lesbian friends, and I suspect her husband is in the closet. I keep telling her she's "culturally gay" (because she dresses "soft butch"—combat boots, cords, etc.—and because of some of her attitudes), but I actually think there's more to it than that. She insists she's straight but seems weirdly upset by my comments. . —Be Who You Are Why not just say it right out: "There's the closet. Could you please sit in there for a half-hour and come out ready to leave your husband?" I personally find it tragic when gay people feel they have to "ungay" themselves by living straight, but respecting another person's privacy means accepting that they get to choose which parts of their life they'll be taking commentary on. In other words, by picketing a baker who won't make a cake for a gay wedding, you're exercising your free speech rights, but it's way out of line for you to effectively picket somebody's relationship: "We're here! We're queer! And guess what: So are the two of you!" And no, this isn't justified by your creation of an updated Kinsey scale—one that measures female homosexual desire based on a woman's choice of footwear and whether she accessorizes with a welding mask. So, instead of trying to drag this woman (by her wallet chain) out of her marriage, turn your attention to a woman who's single and out. Respect that for your friend, Prince Charming may very well be that dude from the Disney movies, determined as you are to recast him as a soldier of fortune crossed with a lady gym teacher.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I was in the checkout line at Whole Foods. The shopper ahead of me had piled her groceries on the conveyor belt, and it was her turn to be rung up. "How are you doing?" she said cheerfully to the cashier, a crabby-looking hipster whom I happened to know is a Cancerian poet and lead singer in a local rock band. "Oh, I am living my dream," he replied. I guessed he was being sarcastic, although I didn't know for sure. In any case, I had a flash of intuition that his answer should be your mantra in the coming weeks. It's time to redouble your commitment to living your dream! Say it 20 times in a row right now: "I am living my dream."

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poetically speaking, it's time to purify your world of all insanities, profanities, and inanities. It's a perfect moment for that once-in-a-blue-moon Scour-a-Thon, when you have a mandate to purge all clunkiness, junkiness, and gunkiness from your midst. And as you flush away the unease of your hypocrisies and discrepancies, as you dispense with any tendency you might have to make way too much sense, remember that evil is allergic to laughter. Humor is one of the most effective psychospiritual cleansers ever.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): eBay is a multi-billion-dollar e-commerce business that has been around for almost 20 years. But it had an inauspicious beginning. The first item ever sold on the service was a broken laser pointer. Even though the laser pointer didn't work, and the seller informed the buyer it didn't work, it brought in $14.83. This story might be a useful metaphor for your imminent future, Taurus. While I have faith in the vigor of the long-term trends you are or will soon be setting in motion, your initial steps may be a bit iffy.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Chris Moneymaker was employed as an accountant in Tennessee. On a whim, he paid $39 to enter an online poker tournament. Although he knew a lot about the game, he had never competed professionally. Nevertheless, he won the tournament. As his award, he received no money, but rather an invitation to participate in the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Can you guess the storybook ending? The rookie triumphed over 838 pros, taking home $2.5 million. I don't foresee anything quite as spectacular for you, Aries, but there may be similar elements in your saga. For example, a modest investment on your part could make you eligible for a chance to earn much more. Here's another possible plot twist: You could generate luck for yourself by ramping up a skill that has until now been a hobby.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As I awoke this morning, I remembered the dream I'd just had. In the dream, I had written a horoscope for you. Here's what it said: "The Kentucky Derby is a famous horse race that takes place on the first Saturday of every May. It's called 'The Run for the Roses' because one of the prizes that goes to the winning horse and jockey is a garland of 554 roses. I suspect that your life may soon bring you an odd treasure like that, Leo. Will it be a good thing, or too much of a good thing? Will it be useful or just kind of weird? Beautiful or a bit ridiculous? The answers to those questions may depend in part on your willingness to adjust your expectations." VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don't calm down. Don't retreat into your sanctuary and relax into protective comfort. If you have faith and remain committed to the messy experiment you have stirred up, the stress and agitation you're dealing with will ripen into vitality and excitement. I'm not exaggerating, my dear explorer. You're on the verge of tapping into the catalytic beauty and rejuvenating truth that lurk beneath the frustration. You're close to unlocking the deeper ambitions that are trapped inside the surface-level wishes.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): American author Stephen Crane wrote his celebrated Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage in ten days. Composer George Frideric Handel polished off his famous oratorio Messiah in a mere 24 days, and Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky produced his novel The Gambler in 16 days. On the other hand, Junot Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, needed ten years to finish it. As for you, Libra, I think this is— and should be!—a phase more like Díaz's than the other three creators'. Go slowly. Be super extra thorough. What you're working on can't be rushed.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman describes a medieval knight who asked his lady for a strand of her pubic hair: a symbol of her life force. The lady agreed. He placed the talisman in a locket that he wore around his neck, confident that it would protect him and consecrate him in the course of the rough adventures ahead. I recommend that you consider a similar tack in the coming weeks, Scorpio. As you head toward your turning point, arm yourself with a personal blessing from someone you love. Success is most likely if you tincture your fierce determination with magical tenderness.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "An escalator can never break," mused comedian Mitch Hedberg. "It can only become stairs. You should never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order' sign, just 'Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.'" I think a similar principle applies to you, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we adopted a perspective like Hedberg's, we could rightly say that this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I've got a tough assignment for you. It won't be easy, but I think you're ready to do a good job. Here it is: Learn to be totally at home with your body. Figure out what you need to do to feel unconditional love for your physical form. To get started on this noble and sacred task, practice feeling compassion for your so-called imperfections. I also suggest you cast a love spell on yourself every night, using a red candle, a mirror, and your favorite creamy beverage. It may also help to go down to the playground and swing on the swings, make loud animal sounds, or engage in unusually uninhibited sex. Do you have any other ideas?

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, "Oprah" was not what she was called. Her birth certificate says she is "Orpah," a name her aunt borrowed from a character who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing "Orpah," and often turned it into "Oprah." The distorted form eventually stuck. But if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime soon, maybe even restoring "Orpah." For you Aquarians, it's a favorable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What I propose is that you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what you will supposedly never be capable of, or said you had a problem that was permanently beyond your ability to solve. Once you've compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-20151081 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION HOWARD HORTON, Plaintiff v. ROSE FIELD et. al., Defendant. TO: Rose Field, North Star Court, 740 Turner Street #31, Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, PO Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be takien against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. By: /s/ Karen A. Orzech Justice of the Peace IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-20151076 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION HOWARD HORTON, Plaintiff v. LEX NOTTI et. al., Defendant. TO: Lex Notti, North Star Court, 740 Turner Street #18, Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, PO Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be takien against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. By: /s/ Marie A. Anderson. Justice of the Peace MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-15-65 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES GOLDADE, 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

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CHRISTOPHER J. GOLDADE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 8th day of April, 2015. /s/ Christopher J. Goldade, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-73 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JACK EARL NICKERSON a/k/a Jack E. Nickerson and Jack Nickerson, 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 ROSS EARL NICKERSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 24th day of April, 2015. /s/ Ross Earl Nickerson, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. A-12993 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GILLE V. WOOTEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cassie R. Dellwo has filed an APPLICATION OR PETITION FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF LIMITED SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR of the Estate of Gille V. Wooten which may be examined in the office of the Clerk of this Court. Hearing has been set at the Courtroom of this Court in Missoula County, Missoula, Montana, on the 10th day of June, 2015, at 1:15 o’clock p.m., at which time and place all interested persons may appear and object. Applicant, Cassie R. Dellwo, will appear at said hearing via telephonic conference call. DATED this 9th day of April, 2015. /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, Attorney #11880, Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm, 38 2nd Ave. East, Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 MONTANA FOURTH JUDI-

CIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-14-205 DEPT. NO. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUCINDA W. HIGHTOWER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Terry L. Hightower 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 Personal Representative at the address of PO Box 8774, Missoula, Montana 59807-8774, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 59807-8774 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-68 Judge Ed McLean NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of LINDA JEANNE CRONK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as the Personal Representative of the Decedent’s Will and the Decedent’s estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent, Linda Jeanne Cronk, are required t present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. The Personal Representative is Cameron L. Cronk, c/o Moulton Belllingham PC, PO Box 2559, Billings, MT 59103. A written statement of a claim must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at the above address or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. /s/ Cameron L. Cronk NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/10/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201108149 Bk 877 Pg 964, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Camia L. Fiscus, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 54 of Southpointe - Phase III, a Platted Subdivision in 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 05/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 25, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $90,011.99. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $84,291.45, 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 7, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 23, 141, 204. 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 5/18/2015 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 5/21/2015 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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# 7023.113002) 1002.278593File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201323789 BK 923 P 355, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage-Backed PassThrough Certificates, Series 2006-6. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 11, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $189,036.91. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $144,175.72, plus accrued interest, accrued late

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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 21, 2015 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.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.13715) 1002.172506-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/30/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201114608 Bk: 882 Pg: 435, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Trevor St. Germain and Annika St. Germain, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 4 of Certificate of Survey No. 2719 located in the Northeast one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter of Section 12 and

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the Southeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 1, all in Township 14 North, Range 23 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. 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 08/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $133,344.72. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $127,501.41, 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 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Fore-

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 22, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 4-A of Certificate of Survey No. 1692, located in the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) of Section 21, Township 19 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Daniel J Martin, M Katherine Stillwell-Martin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 09, 2006 and recorded on March 10, 2006 in Book 770, Page 434 as Document No. 200605440. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank NA as trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-5. 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 $847.29, beginning June 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 December 30, 2014 is $165,427.80 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% totaling $3,589.98, late charges in the amount of $169.44, escrow advances of $2,130.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,270.77, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.71 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,

costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 11, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ss. County of Bingham ) On this 11th day February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Select Portfolio V Martin 42085.080 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 C14 of Canyon Creek Village, Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. APN #: 3714609 Philip McLendon and Kristen McLendon, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 14, 2011 and recorded November 18, 2011 in Book 885 Page 1107 under Document No. 201119480. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION. 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 $894.44, beginning October 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 27, 2015 is $176,251.67 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% totaling $11,164.18, late charges in the amount of $89.42, escrow advances of $4,432.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,083.04, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.52 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation

or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 19, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 19th day of February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Phh V. Mclendon 42067.090 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. 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 35 of Maloney Ranch, Phase VIII, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. George Tyler Hangas and Brien Hangas, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Surety Title, LLC- Mr. John Barker, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust

MNAXLP dated on May 26, 2005 and recorded on May 27, 2005 in Book 753, Page 641 as Document No. 200512697. The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Indenture Trustee of the Fieldstone Mortgage Investment Trust, Series 2005-2. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,692.83, beginning September 1, 2010, 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 September 18, 2014 is $302,706.69 principal, interest at the rate of 6.60% totaling $82,523.05, late charges in the amount of $4,202.16, escrow advances of $29,721.46, suspense balance of -$17.67 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,117.45, plus accruing interest at the rate of $55.50 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the

trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 18, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 18th day of February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Ocwen V Hangas/george 42046.345 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 30, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main door of the First American Title Company located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 16 and the West One-Half of Lot 17 in Block 3 of Residence Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Rebekah A. Dubois, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 12, 2012 recorded July 16, 2012 in Book: 896, Page: 1376 under Document no. 201213099. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the

monthly payments due in the amount of $1,041.63, beginning July 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 March 1, 2015 is $221,540.74 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% totaling $5,773.65, late charges in the amount of $624.36, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,368.71, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.24 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN AT-

TEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 20, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 20th day of February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Guild Vs. Dubois 41291.880 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee’s Sale No: MTBVS-15015960 Loan No.: 0000598162 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, the duly appointed Successor Trustee, will on July 27, 2015, at the hour of 11:00 AM, of said day, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, the following described real and personal property (hereafter referred to collectively as the “Property”), situated in the County of MISSOULA, State of Montana, towit LOT 1A OF ELMS ADDITION NO. 3, BLOCK 2, LOT 13, DIXON STREET ALSO ELMS ADDITION NO. 4 BLOCK 5, LOT 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The Trustee has no knowledge of a more particular description of the abovereferenced Property but, the Trustee has been informed that the address of 3301 PARK ST, MISSOULA, MT 59801, is sometimes associated with said real property. BRIAN D. PARKS, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER, as Beneficiary, dated 6/13/2005, recorded 6/20/2005in Volume 754, page 1248, of Deeds of Trust under Instrument No. 200514943, Mortgage records of MIS-

SOULA County, MONTANA. The beneficial interest is currently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERT I F I C AT E H O L D E R S CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-28CB MORTGAGE-PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-28CB. The default for which this sale is made is the failure to pay when due under the Deed of Trust Note dated 6/13/2005, THE MONTHLY PAYMENT WHICH BECAME DUE ON 2/1/2010 AND ALL SUBSEQUENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS, PLUS LATE CHARGES AND OTHER COSTS AND FEES AS SET FORTH. Amount due as of March 10, 2015 Delinquent Payments from February 01, 2010 31 payments at $1,194.18 each $37,019.58 15 payments at $1,410.21 each $21,153.15 9 payments at $1,289.00 each $11,601.00 7 payments at $1,242.23 each $8,695.61 (0201-10 through 03-10-15) Late Charges: $1,288.34 MTGR Rec Corp Adv: $3,776.50 TOTAL: $83,534.18 All delinquencies are now due, together with unpaid and accruing taxes, assessments, trustee’s fees, attorney’s fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. The principal balance is $154,336.52, together with interest thereon at 5.500% per annum from 1/1/2010 to 9/1/2012, 5.500% per annum from 9/1/2012 to 12/1/2013, 5.500% per annum from 12/1/2013 to 9/1/2014, 5.500% per annum from 9/1/2014, until paid. The Beneficiary elects to sell or cause the trust property to be sold to satisfy said obligation. 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 for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. SALE INFORMATION LINE: 714-730-2727 or h t t p : / / w w w. l p s a s a p . c o m DATED: March 13, 2015 FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE By: Dalia Martinez, Assistant Secretary c/o PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC. 5900 Canoga Avenue, Suite 220 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Phone: (877) 237-7878 A4516699 04/16/2015, 04/23/2015, 04/30/2015

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MIRANDA•Miranda is a 5-year-old female Pit Bull. Her spitfire attitude makes her fun to work with and would brighten anyone's day. She needs an experienced home because she never learned boundaries. She would do best in a home with older kids due to not knowing how to play gentle. Miranda seems to want to play with other dogs but she hasn't learned how to do this appropriately. SOPHIE & HALO•Sophie and Halo are a pair of 4-year-old long-haired Chihuahuas. They are brother and sister and came to the shelter when their owners moved and could not afford to take them with. These two are very sweet but also very scared as they don't quite understand what is going on. Sophie and Halo definitely depend on one another for support and we are hoping to find them a home together.

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OPRAH•Oprah is a 10-12 year-old longhaired Calico. She is a large lover and enjoys being brushed out, will lay on her back and let you rub her belly, and especially loves lap time. Oprah will need an owner that can help her keep up on her grooming maintenance as she is just too large to reach all of her extremities. She is a rather chatty cat and could make a great addition to a cat-only home.

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PISTACHIO•Pistachio is a 2-year-old black domestic short-haired cat. She is currently one of our longest-term residents at the shelter, having been here since mid-December. Pistachio comes across as a bit timid here at the shelter, but really has a wonderful personality that would come out in a less stressful environment. She loves to curl up under blankets, drink from a running faucet, and play with string toys.

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HANNAH• Hannah is a 4-6 year-old female dilute Tortie. She is a very sweet and shy girl who loves to be a lap cat, but doesn't enjoy being on the floor of the cat room with all the other shelter cats. Hannah came to the shelter as part of an abandonment case with several other cats. It will likely take her a little while to build the confidence in a home before coming out of her shell.

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MARLEY• Meet Marley! This purring character has it all! Marley is a very friendly, independent boy who loves to hunt and wander around outside and hang out on your lap! He loves treats of almost any kind (including catnip!) and loves attention and being brushed. This chill, social guy is looking for a home with some space for him to roam and enjoy the great outdoors as well as the great indoors.

ASPEN•Aspen is a brown and black shorthaired Chihuahua, who is typically shy at first blush. However, this fine little fellow soon shrugs off his unease to reveal his gooey sweet side once he gets to know you. He would prefer a quiet home with a mature family, where he'll be loved forever. Neutered and vaccinated, Aspen is ready to find his new home today!

FUZZY• Fuzzy is a sweet, affectionate kitty who loves sitting in windows and hunting when she can. Sleeping, occasionally being held and eating treats are also some of her favorite activities. Fuzzy is looking for her forever home where she Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store will be the only feline queen in the household. www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 Come meet this sweet princess today!

UGG•Ugg is an active, friendly dog who is looking for his forever home. Ugg is very smart, responsive and knows some clicker training. Going on car rides and daily walks and hikes are some of his favorite activities. If you love getting out in the great outdoors and need a partner, Ugg may be the dog for you! Ugg is looking for a home with no cats and a family who will give him daily exercise and affection.

KIRBY• Kirby is a large fellow who loves spending his days gazing at the world through his favorite window and snoozing with his stuffed bunny. He likes exploring cabinets and playing with toys. Kirby can be a little bashful at first, but once he warms up, he is very affectionate and likes to follow his person around the house. Looking for a larger-than-life companion? Come meet Kirby today!

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HOMES 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 11864 O’Keefe Creek. 5 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. Daylight walkout lower level, decks & double garage. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

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1734 West Kent. 3 bed, 2 bath with family room & 3 bonus rooms. Fenced yard, large garage & carport. $249,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2 4 0 - 7 6 5 3 . pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2101 South 14th West. Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath on corner lot. Lower level has separate en-

trance, kitchen & bath. $239,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 2227 West Kent. 2 bed, 1 bath ranch home with unfinished basement. Priced to sell! $129,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 2304 River Road. Fully remodeled 2 bed, 2 bath 1940’s bungalow with large fenced yard, patio & deck. $199,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3839 Duncan Drive. Beautiful 3 bed, 2.5 bath Prairie style in Rattlesnake Valley. $775,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

550 South Avenue East • $289,900 • U Area ranch style on 3 lots totaling 12,510 sq.ft. • 2 bed, 2 bath • Hardwood floors & fireplace • Full basement & single garage

3924 Chelsea Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath Pleasant View home. Central heating & A/C, covered front porch & 2 car garage. $235,500. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambroserarealestate.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University District home. $410,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Plex By The River 319/321 1st St. Dream location! 3-plex and alley house (2 efficiencies and 2 one bed units) behind Bernices ‘hood, River views and end of the street. Reduced $365,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 550 South Avenue East. 2 bed, 2 bath with full basement on 3 lots. $289,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 5312605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

House hunting downtown? Stop by the Missoula Farmer’s Market. N. Higgins by the XXX’s. Sat. 8am-12:30pm • missoulafarmersmarket.com. Find us on Facebook. If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

601 Montana Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath on 3 lots in East Missoula. Fenced yard, double garage & shop. $254,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal and solar PV. 3690940 or 642-6863

9250 Sharptail, East Missoula. 3 bed, 2 bath with walk-out basement. Huge yard & mountain views. $228,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.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 Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME

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Farviews Home 404 Westview. Three bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable Farviews neighborhood for $265,000! Solar panels, views, great home. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

5802 Longview Drive. South Hills Split Level. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, double car garage on 9,338 sf fenced lot. $215,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com

Affordable & Adorable Northside 217 N 2nd St. W. $189,500. Home with some upgrades including kitchen floor, some newer windows, roof in 2003, water heater in 2008. Private back yard with a wonderful shed, and lovely front yard with a picket fence KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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www.naturalhousebuilder.net Orange Street Triplex 201 S Orange Street Triplex. $275,000. Location is awesome, near the river and downtown and river trails and bike trails and all sorts of conveniences. Two main floor units, one upper. Some hardwood floors and some upgrades and tons of character! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com South Hills Ranch Style 2615 Arcadia - $250,000. 3 bed/1 bath. Open floor plan, gorgeous updates including kitchen abd bath, backs to open space, large backyard. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Sweet & Modern 949 Discovery. $225,000. 3 bed/2 bath energy-efficient home with a trail up Mt. Jumbo right out your door! No maintenance siding; low maintenance yard; super floor plan and kitchen and lots of light. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com “There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

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LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

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NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.co m

Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $159,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900. 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 546-581. annierealtor@gmail.com

Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

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OUT OF TOWN 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. 3 bed, 2 bath Victorian on over 7 fenced acres with barn & outbuildings. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

17430 Six Mile Road Wow. Stunning setting - picture perfect with a wooded hillside behind and open meadows in front. 12.5 acres with wonderful farm house $250,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com 17730 Wild Goose, Frenchtown. 4 bed, 2 bath on 1/2 acre by

King Ranch Golf Course. Fireplace, jetted tub & 2 car garage. $310,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $178,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or

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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 6850 Faithful Way, Lolo. New 3 bed, 2 bath on 1+ acre in Sapphire Acres. $349,900. Vickie

Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-3605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 6850 Old Faithful, Lolo. New 3 bed, 2 bath on 1+ acre on quiet cul-de-sac. $349,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

1329 BRIDGECOURT WAY 3 BED 2 BATH • $182,000

1520 S. 6th W. $186,000 Charming 2 bed, 1.5 bath with wood floors, open floor plan & fenced yard. Great for first-time buyer or rental property.

180 Burlington $180,000 Adorable low-maintenance 2 bed, 1 bath bungalow with large garage. Great potential for basement family room & additional 1/2 bath.

1527 S. 4th W. $159,900 Classic Missoula! 3 bed, 2.5 bath with wood floors. Separate studio, large yard, deck & greenhouse.

Homes 115 North Ave. E. U Area Classic Arts & Crafts Home .....................................................................................$338,500 2615 Arcadia Many upgrades including kitchen and bath. ..............................................................................$250,000 319/321 S 1st St W 4-plex Bernice's Neighborhood. River Views. ....................................................................$365,000 404 Westview So much house in a great 'hood! .............................................................................................$265,000 201 S Orange Triplex Great location, great rental ..........................................................................................$300,000 2311 Briggs Well-maintained 3 bed, 2 bath.....................................................................................................$229,900 1511 Van Buren Rattlesnake Charmer!...........................................................................................................$229,900 949 Discovery Gorgeous, Sweet, Tasteful 3 bed, 2 bath ..................................................................................$225,000 17730 Wild Goose Lane, Frenchtown One level living on golf course, lots of upgrades .................................$310,000

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17430 Six Mile Country Charmer w/12.5 Acres ......................................................$235,000 406 Aspen View Rd. Polaris Amazing Home and Area .................................... $345,000 2348 River Road 2.23 Acres in Town ...................$535,000

1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Corner Unit...................$159,000 1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Unit On One Level........$160,000 Uptown Flats #303 Modern Amenities ..............$159,710 Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views! ............$162,000 Uptown Flats #312 Efficient 1 Bed ..................$151,900

Commercial: 2309 Grant Commercial Building & Land...........$155,000 9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres.....$375,000

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Old Indian Trail 4.77 Acres. South Facing Slope of Hillside at Base of Grant Creek..........................$90,000 Old Indian Trail 15 Acres. Views of Lolo Peak & Missoula Valley ...............................................$148,000

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