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Voices/Letters Stacy Rye, robo calls and a duel..............................................................4 The Week in Review Missoula Maulers, Bernie Sanders and J.K. Simmons..................6 Briefs Harold’s Club, UM marketing and Judge Jenks....................................................6 Etc. Yellowstone tourists gone wild ................................................................................7 News Stacy Rye works to hold coveted county commission seat ...................................8 News Dave Strohmaier plays the role of surprising challenger ......................................9 Opinion Gianforte found one issue that unites voters, but it’s not enough................10 Opinion The end of an industry is bringing a wrenching transition............................11 Feature Can a legal victory make Indian Country whole again?...................................14

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Arts Combining arts and booze is Missoula’s latest craze.............................................18 Music Britchy, Snow Roller and Sturgill Simpson ........................................................19 Books Daredevils skillfully navigates religious zealotry...............................................20 Theater Wagner takes The Flick into the movie theater ...............................................21 Film Smarts and chemistry save Money Monster ..........................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................24 BrokeAss Gourmet Grilled flatbread with fire-roasted eggplant.................................25 Happiest Hour Buzzed Yoga at Missoula Brewing Company ......................................27 8 Days a Week Playing chess on a checkerboard .........................................................28 Agenda Camp Mak-A-Dream’s Lip-Synch Battle............................................................33 Mountain High Overnight to Freezeout Lake ..............................................................34

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

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STREET TALK

by Derek Brouwer

Asked Tuesday afternoon at Caras Park Two recent tourist issues in Yellowstone National Park—drivers “rescuing” a bison calf from the cold by putting it in their car and filmmakers walking on the off-limits Grand Prismatic Spring—have appalled locals. What’s your solution for improving behavior at our national parks? Followup: What’s a mistake you instantly regretted?

Lisbet Portman: My first thought was bison pelts by the side of the road that people can just dig their fingers into when they’re watching the herd. We feel so far away from what we’re looking at. I think people just feel left out of nature. No filter: I think anytime I’ve cat-called anyone, including my friends.

Carl Beebe: Let them know that when you hand feed or teach these animals, they’re dead animals. More public awareness, maybe commercial advertising. Cool head: I try and make the right decision when I can so I don’t instantly regret it after.

Renee Branum: When I was camping there, it became real for me because my friend and I had set up our campsite in the dark, and there was this huge tree in our campsite. We look up, and 10 feet up the tree are grizzly claw marks. You can’t put fake grizzly claw marks in every campsite, but I think it takes some level of understanding the risk and the danger to resist the urge to pet them. Too soon: It’s mainly saying things when you feel uninhibited, and then realizing you’ve affected someone negatively.

Stand by calls I am responding to recent allegations by my PSC primary opponent and her supporters that I did something wrong with recent automated phone calls that were left in voters’ answering machines (see “Going for Gail” in the May 12 letters page). The state statute they quote is not as clear-cut as they would like to think. In all likelihood it is unconstitutional. The same law in South Carolina was found to be a violation of free speech. I stand behind my decision to drop a 15-second prerecorded voice mail that was delivered to voters’ answering machines. If you don’t like it, delete it. There are nearly 100,000 voters that make the PSC District 4. I would have to send out nearly 1,000 pounds of postcard mailers to get my message out. Multiply that by the number of candidates whose mailers get looked at once. These only end up in our landfill. It is tons of waste. As a conservationist I am appalled by this. During Gail Gutsche’s tenure as a PSC commissioner, she voted to approve the sale of Mountain Water to the Carlyle Group (a vote that is estimated to have cost the city over $10 million in legal fees). In 2012 Gail was the only district and statewide democratic incumbent to lose in the seven counties that make up PSC 4. Jon Tester, Monica Lindeen, Linda McCulloch, Denise Juneau and Steve Bullock all won in these combined seven counties. This gave the entire five-person PSC commission to Republicans and Bob Lake, who has been the utility’s strongest supporter. It is time to elect a Democrat who is a strong leader who will be on the job daily watching out for ratepayer’s best interests. Mark Sweeney PSC District 4 Candidate Philipsburg

Drive how we vote

Patrick Marsolek: More community participation and volunteering with people visiting to make them more conscious of the different levels of needs and different environments, so it’s not just something you engage with from a distance. Bad move: I told this gal that we would share a house together one time, and that night I stayed up stressing about it because I realized it was much more complicated.

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“Very few people in the area are driving aggressively,” Dan Brooks writes in his May 12 column on the upcoming bicycle season. This statement is worth its own correction, but then he pedals over the edge of the world (which is just south of Darby, where dinosaurs live with humans) by stating “those who are (aggressive drivers) have had their license plates marked with a 13 for the safety of other drivers.” Okay, tongue-in-cheek is fun, and I’m not opposed to the discipline. In fact, I’ll challenge Dan to a duel—figuratively speaking, of course—over this longstanding urban myth that newcomers to Missoula seem to get inoculated once they trade their out-of-state plates for their No. 4 Montana ones. Let’s start with the obvious. Just because

someone cashed in her California ranch house for her new pastoral existence in the Bitterroot doesn’t mean she’s a more aggressive driver than the other gal who cashed in her California ranch house for the more-urbane (but still cow-influenced) existence in Missoula. In fact, the Californian or Ohioan or New Yorkian who lands a No. 4 plate on her all-terrain minivan is much more likely to survive the transition with her insanely sped up driving habits than the one who actually has to brake for a cow every now and then in Ravalli County. Speaking as a longtime No. 13er, this is demonstrably proven every time I drive down from the Bitterroot and get rudely cut off five or six times before I reach what used to be called “the Monster Light” and what is still the Black Hole of doomed space-wanderers at the scientifically inexplicable intersection of Russell and Brooks. This

“‘Oh, yeah, I’m in Missoula now,’ I remind myself as I wait for a stoplight which may or may not have been installed by Agenda 21 troops.”

is where I’m always obliged to stop for the exact length of time it takes me to reflect on my assumptions about Human Nature, which is traditionally about five minutes. “Oh, yeah, I’m in Missoula now,” I remind myself as I wait for a stoplight which may or may not have been installed by Agenda 21 troops from Belgium who’ve taken over the Missoula City Council and who want to suck my No. 13 brains with a traffic camera. I don’t say this because I think there’s anything congenitally different between you 4-plate drivers and us 13-plate drivers, any more than I would say that old people on Social Security are taking all the money that should go to X-genners with massive college debt and therefore should be blamed for all our financial woes with a dismissive “those people.” In the case of these more universally false and trivial divisions that we seem more

and more susceptible to in these interesting times, I get so tired of them. I think we need to work a little harder at working together rather than falling so easily in line with such us vs. them myths that don’t lend themselves to solutions to problems facing such communities under the gravitational influence of Black Holes, like Missoula, the Bitterroot or the whole U.S.A., which is where most No. 4 and No. 13 drivers really come from. I offer these thoughts with the best of intentions, fully acknowledging that I also suffer from the human condition of blaming others for my own problems. So I’ll close with a prejudice of my own, a simple fact (I think) about the majority of Montana drivers no matter what their number: too often too many of us drive like we vote— with recklessness and without thought of the consequences. As proof of one I offer the results of the other: the Montana Legislature. I rest my case. Bill LaCroix Victor

Rye is right on During my tenure on city council I had the opportunity to work closely with both Stacy Rye and Dave Strohmeier. While these are two hardworking public servants, who I continue to be friends with, I will be voting for Stacy Rye. Here is my insider’s perspective: Stacy’s focus is good functioning government and providing for those in need. Dave’s focus is producing legislation. While rules about cellphones, riding in trucks, wearing helmets and lighting fireworks are all somewhat important, I’m not sure a string of government-knows-best rules and regulations is what the county needs. I much prefer Rye’s efforts to end discrimination, protect the rights of women and children, and assure there is equity in the distribution of government resources. Rye also has an impressive ability to empathize with her constituents and is good at articulating her position even in the midst of a very heated and confrontational environment. Stacy also enjoyed a great relationship with the city staff and for the last year has been developing similar relationships with those at the county. Stacy has always had a love for the details of policy and the workings of government. There is a great deal of minutia involved in this work and few people have the desire or aptitude to embrace it. Stacy thrives on understanding the details of budgets and various funding and financing mechanisms. She is incredibly dedicated to her work as a county commissioner and I hope you join me in voting for Stacy this June and November. Bob Jaffe Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, May 11

Missoula City Council’s Committee of the Whole hears a presentation from architects on the proposed fairgrounds redesign. Councilwoman Emily Bentley recommends the plan cut back on parking lots and remove the fence that faces South Avenue.

Thursday, May 12 The University of Montana officially opens the Harold and Priscilla Gilkey Building, which will house the UM Foundation, Global Leadership Initiative and “executive education offerings.”

Friday, May 13 The Missoula Maulers junior hockey league team ceases operations after owner Michael Burks reportedly couldn’t come to an agreement with the Glacier Ice Rink. The Maulers Hockey Central store rebrands itself as “Hockeywolf” and begins selling discounted Maulers merchandise.

Saturday, May 14 Oscar winner J.K. Simmons speaks at his alma mater’s commencement, telling UM graduates he’s a “curmudgeon” and recommends they put away their smartphones and be more physically and mentally engaged with the world.

Sunday, May 15 Following the enthusiastic response from Bernie Sanders’ May 11 visit, the campaign opens an office in Missoula in advance of the June 7 primary.

Monday, May 16 Southgate Mall takes another step toward its major expansion plan when Missoula City Council approves a request to change its zoning. The mall recently announced its expansion will include a nine-screen dine-in theater, with beer and wine service, located next to Mustard Seed.

Tuesday, May 17 A $3.8 million project begins to overhaul Hillview Way with sidewalks, bike lanes and curbs, plus a pedestrian and wildlife crossing under the road at Moose Can Gully. City engineers expect construction to finish by November.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a 90-minute speech May 11 at Caras Park to an estimated crowd of 9,000. The U.S. senator from Vermont spoke about free tuition for public colleges and universities, equal pay for women and a push to “fundamentally change our relationship with Native American people.”

Campus

Marketing Montana “Customer” is one of academia’s dirty words. Mario Schulzke knows this—he calls the issue “complicated”—but as the University of Montana’s marketing guru, he doesn’t care. He’s here to shake things up. “There’s probably people who prefer I use the word ‘user’ or ‘stakeholder,’” he says, “but I’m the one marketing guy, and if I don’t use the word, who will?” Treating students as customers isn’t exactly in UM’s genes, he acknowledges, as evidenced by the university’s relatively small investment in marketing efforts. But there’s a reason for that. “We never needed to,” he says. “Now we do.” Schulzke, 35, works in Brantly Hall from an electric-powered standing desk, whose surface he fashioned from a recycled wooden door. There’s a quote typed on printer paper and pinned to his wall that

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reads, “True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments.” He has to look up its author’s name, but the message might as well be Schulzke’s creed. Schulzke’s disruption isn’t exactly new: He has been retooling the university’s marketing efforts since 2013. But with the May 10 announcement that President Royce Engstrom will again restructure the Office for Integrated Communications, Schulzke gets a bit of a promotion. Once outgoing Vice President Peggy Kuhr and Alumni Association Director Bill Johnston depart in July, Schulzke will become an associate vice president and chief marketing officer. The change gives his customer-focused mindset a seat in Engstrom’s cabinet. Public universities weren’t Schulzke’s specialty when Engstrom first tapped him in 2013. He spent a decade in corporate marketing up and down the West Coast, with a client list that included Alaska Airlines, Philips and Chase Bank.

It was Schulzke’s ties to Missoula and UM that attracted him to the role. A native-born German, he found himself on a cattle ranch in the Bitterroot as an exchange student and never returned to Europe. He graduated from UM with a business degree shortly after turning 21. Schulzke says UM has become “fairly innovative communicators” over the past few years, pointing to strides in social media outreach in particular, while emphasizing the need to constantly improve. Promotion in the strict sense is Schulzke’s lowest priority, in part because he says “consumer behavior really isn’t inspired by advertising anymore.” Instead, he says, the university needs to continue building a strong digital and social media presence. “Promotion is important, but I also think about what we offer our students,” he says. “I think it’s about listening to our customers.” This spring the department began working with a vendor to create a UM mobile app geared toward cur-

[news] rent students initially, which he hopes will launch this fall. Schulzke also notes plans to offer “livechat” assistance on the university’s website and describes an ongoing “customer service initiative” across campus to improve students’ experience. Schulzke uses a baseball analogy to describe what he sees as UM’s lean and forward-thinking approach. “This is an organization that is more interested in building its farm system than bringing on big, expensive free agents,” he says. “Has that hurt us? Absolutely,” Schulzke adds. “Will we benefit in the long-term? One-hundred percent.” Derek Brouwer

Jails

Jenks responds to master plan She’s been called “Jail ’em” Jenks, but Missoula’s municipal court judge doesn’t think her court is to blame for the city’s crowded jail. “If you took everyone municipal court is holding in jail today out, it would still be overcrowded,” Judge Kathleen Jenks says. Jenks takes issue with what she says is a disproportionate focus on her court in the draft city-county Jail Diversion Master Plan. Jenks, who served on the plan’s steering committee, has quibbles with some of the report’s specific recommendations, but says she’s on board with the countywide effort to reduce the number of mentally ill, addicted and nonviolent offenders who spend time behind bars. “The worst thing for a judge is when we have somebody in our court who has ended up with criminal charges, who wants the help, and we can’t get them there,” says Jenks, the city’s only elected municipal court judge. The master plan authors took a broad look at local criminal justice and health care systems, including the courts. Among the report’s findings was a near doubling of the average jail stay for inmates booked out of municipal court since 2011. Overall, it found more than onethird of nonviolent inmates were serving time because they couldn’t afford to post bond. Jenks worries that limitations in the report’s data may be overstating the number of individuals stuck in jail because they can’t afford to post the bonds she sets. She estimates more than half of municipal court offenders in jail are also locked up on more serious charges in other courts under much higher bond amounts.

More sentencing and supervision options, as the plan proposes, would help Jenks divert suspected or convicted offenders to less restrictive environments, but she adds that jail should always be one tool at her disposal. For instance, the report cites a “concerning number” of arrest warrants issued for individuals with misdemeanor or municipal offenses. But Jenks says such warrants are the only way to force some individuals to appear in court—something she calls a “gigantic problem.” Jenks says bigger investments such as hospital treatment beds and community wet housing will be most effective in addressing jail woes. She’s assembling her own budget proposal to take to city leaders that would implement new sentencing and supervision options, including programs where the city, rather than defendants, can pick up the tab. “It has a high price tag,” she cautions. As for her “jail ’em” moniker, Jenks laughs. “I don’t much like putting people in jail, honestly,” she says. “But don’t let that get around, because a little fear can be a good thing.” Derek Brouwer

Bars

Harold’s lives as Moose The legendary Harold’s Club bar in Milltown might not technically be open for business anymore, but on a recent weekday afternoon it doesn’t feel that way. Locals arrive in ones and twos, gathering to sit on the patio, drink and swap stories—the same way Harold’s patrons have since the mid-20th century. The interior doesn’t appear to have changed, either, with half-empty bottles of Black Velvet behind the bar, dollar bills stapled to the ceiling and the stuffed game trophies still mounted on the wall behind glass bubbles. “I’ve been drinking here for 40 years,” says Garold Crouch, who sits at a picnic table outside, sipping a can of Olympia and holding a cigarette. “I was heartbroken when I found out it was closing.” Harold’s Club owner Karen Keely, who ran the place for about 20 years, announced last summer that she was closing the bar after selling the liquor license to the Wilma. But even as Harold’s marked its final days in September, Crouch and other regulars were hatching

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Times, in the past four years, U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell has ruled that Montana’s campaign contribution limits are unconstitutional. Lovell’s May 17 ruling—similar to one he made in October 2012— means contributions from political parties are uncapped heading into the state’s June 7 primary.

The summer season has arrived in Yellowstone National Park, and in the past two weeks we’ve seen just how damaging disregard for park policy can be. On May 9, two Yellowstone visitors put a bison calf in their SUV, reportedly believing it to be cold and dying. Park officials acknowledged the incident this week, referring to the father-son duo’s actions as “misplaced concern.” Efforts to reunite the calf with its herd failed and it was euthanized. The visitors were ticketed and, according to officials, additional charges may be filed. Then, on May 16, news broke of a crew from a Canadian clothing company who had wandered off a boardwalk and across Yellowstone’s off-limits Grand Prismatic Spring. The park has since confirmed the four men, who photographed and videotaped the visit as part of a 75-day cross-country tour, did not have a commercial filming permit. The crew posted an apology on Facebook the next morning saying they intend to donate $5,000 to Yellowstone, but the crew’s past actions put the sincerity of that gesture in doubt. Before breaking rules at Yellowstone the men allegedly repelled in Arches National Park, operated drones in Badlands National Park and drove their conspicuous blue motorhome on the BLM-managed Bonneville Salt Flats. On Tuesday, Yellowstone officials issued arrest warrants for three of the four men. Not surprisingly, the crew’s Facebook page was quickly overtaken by commenters demanding they be barred from the states, thrown in jail or, in a mashup of the two separate Yellowstone incidents, “made to witness the death of a baby bison nightly in their dreams.” Reaction to the French-Canadian tourists who “rescued” the bison hasn’t been quite as four-letter-word dependent, but it’s still ugly. Given the foreign status of the tourists, it even devolved at times into something akin to a Trump statement on immigration. Here’s the thing: Two tourists have been cited. Several more face criminal charges. Justice will be done. But the mob mentality on social media only makes things worse. It’s a bad look for the region, even in the face of such deplorable actions. Perhaps we should take a deep breath and stick to the high road. Park visitors, both greenhorns and vets alike, know the views are better from up there anyway.

a plan to keep their beloved working-class joint alive. Their solution: to establish a new Moose Lodge chapter in Milltown, with Harold’s as its base. “Basically we wanted a place where we’d have a bar open here again,” Crouch explains. “A place to stop in, shoot the crap, tell lies. Now when we heard about the Moose thing, we thought, Oh, this might be workable.” Crouch’s friend Mark Wildung is leading the effort to start Milltown Moose 2714, since he’s already a member of the Missoula-based Moose chapter. “This one won’t be a bar, it’ll be a ‘social quarters,’ is what you call it,” Wildung says. Wildung estimates they’ll need to eventually raise about $50,000 to lease the building, but money is trickling in bit by bit from benefit dinners, horseshoe tournaments and informal meetings. The swear jar has raised $100 in a few weeks. Would-be Moose members voluntarily keep the fridge stocked with beer and pop, and people are welcome to donate. “Sometimes we buy our own beer back,” Crouch says. “People think that’s kind of stupid. But the object is to try to infuse a little money into it. Because money’s what’s gonna make this thing fly.” It will take a few months to cross all the hurdles set by the governing body, Moose International, but Wildung says 90 people have already expressed interest in joining as charter members. Once established, the Milltown Moose would operate as a nonprofit and host benefits for local children’s organizations. Harold’s will be turned into a private social club, available to Moose members and their guests. “We can keep this historic place alive, plus, we can offer community service,” Wildung says. Kate Whittle

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Heart and soul Stacy Rye works to hold coveted county commission seat by Kate Whittle

The race for Missoula County Commissioner is dividing prominent local Democrats. In one corner is former City Councilwoman and current Interim County Commissioner Stacy Rye, who’s running to keep the seat she was appointed to last summer. In the other is former Councilman Dave Strohmaier, who announced his candidacy in early March with the endorsement of Commissioner Jean Curtiss. Rye says she was “taken aback” to hear about her current colleague’s support of her former colleague’s campaign. “It would be nice to know what precipitated that,” Rye says. “I can only speculate.” Campaign finance reports also show Commissioner Nicole Rowley has donated $150 in support of Strohmaier’s campaign, though Rye was unaware if Rowley had taken a public stance on the race. The clash between Rye and Strohmaier is shaping up as the most anticipated local race in the June 7 primary. While Rye avoids talking about her opponent, her supporters, including former Councilman Bob Jaffe, are willing to draw distinctions between the two candidates. Jaffe worked alongside Rye for six years when they both served city council in the mid2000s, at the same time as Strohmaier. “Stacy’s take is more oriented toward people and wanting to make sure that government is serving folks who need to be served, like folks who need more help,” Jaffe says. “She has more orientation toward the social justice issues, equity and how we distribute our resources. ... And Dave’s take always seemed to be a little more oriented around creating more and more rules and regulations.” Jaffe also speculates Rye’s willingness to try new ideas—particularly her emphasis on pushing for more government transparency—might be challenging to the status quo. “What she brings to the county commission, I think, is an exciting and long overdue change,” Jaffe says. Rye’s campaign treasurer, state Sen. Tom Facey, says her track record demonstrates a willingness to carefully consider the implications of an issue. “I think she really tries to look at all aspects of an idea, ask appropriate ques-

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tions, and think a couple steps down the road in terms of unintended consequences,” Facey says. Rye acknowledges she took on a “calculated risk” by running for the interim seat last summer when controversial proposals were ahead. One of the most divisive issues was a rewrite of agriculture land regulations, which the commission unanimously shot down in January, citing concerns that it would harm farmers’ equity. Rye says she took note of how the proposed ag regulations had pitted local conservation groups against each other.

Rye says she’ll feel more confident with the backing of an electoral mandate. As a self-described “finance nerd,” she’s excited about creating predictive budget models and seeking additional sources of tax revenue. She sees needs for a host of services, from infrastructure funding to pre-K education. The county is also working through an overhaul of the historic Missoula County Fairgrounds, which Rye says could shape the grounds for the next 100 years to come. First and foremost, though, Rye says she’d like to foster a more transparent era in

“A one-size-fits-all agriculture policy is not going to work,” Rye says. “I think the most pressure lies among the urban fringe, and we should look at regulatory framework specifically to get on those concerns.” In Rye’s time as an interim commissioner, she’s most proud of pushing forward a paid parental leave policy, which was unanimously approved by the commission in March. County employees can now take advantage of six weeks paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child. “So people don’t have to make a choice between being home with a baby and trying to feed themselves,” she says. “And it’s for men and women. So men can also experience the joys of having six weeks with a newborn.” If she makes it through the Democratic primary and onto the general election ballot,

county government. She’s been pushing the county administration to upgrade the website to a more accessible and detailed listing of agendas and minutes. “So we’re not just telling people what we’ve done, but allowing people to know what we’re working on so they can help steer the direction of local government,” she says. The work would continue Rye’s long history in local government. After moving to Missoula in the early 1990s, Rye served Ward 3 on the Missoula City Council from 2004 to 2012. She began collecting campaign donations for a county commission bid in 2014. “I know that my heart and soul is in local government,” she says. “I have no desire to run for the legislature, I have no desire to run for Congress. It’s this community.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Something new Dave Strohmaier plays the role of challenger

by Alex Sakariassen

For most Missoula residents, the name “Sonata Park” likely faded from memory years ago. The 37-lot subdivision proposed for the North Hills got the green light from the Missoula City Council in a 10-2 vote back in December 2007, prompting a band of neighboring landowners to take their opposition to the courts. They argued city officials had blatantly disregarded density guidelines mapped out in the Rattlesnake Valley Comprehensive Plan, and in May 2011, the Montana Supreme Court ruled in their favor. The case was closed.

But for Dave Strohmaier, the Sonata Park controversy has regained some relevance in 2016. He cast one of the two dissenting council votes in 2007, a fact he feels is emblematic of both his commitment to protecting open space like that adjacent to the proposed subdivision site and to heeding the grassroots growth plans of constituents like those he represented in the Rattlesnake. Strohmaier believes the story illustrates just one of the contrasts between himself and Stacy Rye, his Democratic primary opponent for the Missoula Board of County Commissioners and one of the 10 former council members who approved Sonata Park. “I would want to support the community effort and time spent that’s gone into other neighborhood plans, whether it’s the Target Range Neighborhood Plan or the Seeley Lake Regional Plan,” Strohmaier says. “I

think it’s a way to validate the willingness of folks to create their own destiny, and when a governing body does not give very much weight to those things, it’s demoralizing for those that put a lot of effort into those plans.” Strohmaier has become a familiar name on Missoula ballots over the past 12 years. After two consecutive terms on city council, he made a primary run at the U.S. House of Representatives seat vacated by Denny Rehberg—a bid that, while unsuccessful, earned him a video endorsement from actor J.K. Simmons. In 2014 Strohmaier set his sights

on state House District 92 but lost to Republican Doc Moore. And though HD 92 is an open race this year, Strohmaier says he’s a firm believer in “not trying the same thing and expecting different results.” “The reality is I have experience in local government. I’ve gained a tremendous amount of experience running for these other offices and I think the county commission seat is just a logical extension of that,” he adds. “The reality is there is vacancy right now, as far as I’m concerned, and the voters of Missoula County deserve a choice.” In the two months since declaring his candidacy, Strohmaier has attracted financial support from a number of prominent Democrats, including Montana State Auditor Monica Lindeen, Missoula City Council member Bryan von Lossberg, state Sen. Diane Sands and Missoula County Commis-

sioners Nicole Rowley and Jean Curtiss. Curtiss was among the first to publicly endorse Strohmaier in early March. “Dave’s got a demonstrated inclusive leadership style I like,” Curtiss says. “He’s real approachable, he listens to people, he’s respectful and I think people feel valued when they engage with him. He also has that more rural background that we don’t necessarily have represented on the commission right now.” Background is something Strohmaier mentions a lot when discussing his intended approach to county government, particularly on issues of land stewardship. He spent 18 years working for the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, experience he says gives him insight on both the ecological and rural community impacts of forces like wildfire. In Strohmaier’s opinion, Missoula County has lacked a commissioner with a clear focus on land conservation “for a long time.” Curtiss agrees, adding it “will be good” to have such a perspective during future land use and zoning discussions. But Strohmaier’s motivations in running aren’t focused solely on the environment. Strohmaier has developed what he calls his “five-point plan” that includes bolstering public safety and human rights. He’s also interested in increasing the level of dialogue between the commission and other governing bodies like the city council and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council. Missoula County isn’t just a bunch of independent cities and towns, he says, but a collection of interconnected communities. And many of the concerns he’s heard while knocking on doors this spring echo what he learned campaigning statewide in 2012. He views the county as “a microcosm of the entire state”—urban center, ag land, wilderness, Indian Country. “I see my role in the county commission position as not just being myopic or inwardly looking,” Strohmaier continues, “but also to see how we are connected to the broader state and nation.”

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[10] Missoula Independent • May 19–May 26, 2016

by Dan Brooks

The good news in Montana politics is that Greg Gianforte has discovered an issue we can all agree on. The bad news is he discovered it the way one discovers a coffee table in the dark. Two weeks ago, the left-leaning Montana Cowgirl blog reported that Gianforte sued the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks to close an easement on his family’s Bozeman property back in 2009. The easement provided access to a public recreation area on the East Gallatin River. Although Gianforte lost the suit and the easement remains open, this 7-year-old scandal has proven remarkably sticky. The case of Gianforte v. Family Fishing Trip made it from the liberal political blogs to the mainstream press. The Billings Gazette and Montana Public Radio both ran stories on the lawsuit last week, including the odd detail that Gianforte retained state Rep. Art Wittich, R–Belgrade, as his lawyer. On Thursday, Gov. Steve Bullock called a press conference and declared his opponent’s suit a “thumb in the eye” to Montanans. Outrage runs high. It appears that getting to the river is a rare issue of bipartisan consensus. In a poll of voters in Western states conducted last year, 95 percent of respondents said it was important to protect access to public lands. That kind of agreement is valuable. An enterprising Gianforte might turn this crisis into an opportunity and make access to state parks a central feature of his campaign. But it seems like he’s keeping his head down instead. Perhaps he has decided a story that took place seven years ago will not survive many news cycles. He’s probably right. In the grand scheme of political scandals, an unpopular lawsuit from last decade isn’t exactly Watergate. The election is six months away, and by then, it seems unlikely that anyone without a blog will remember this narrative. Yet it has been the hottest story of the campaign to date, edging out Bullock’s use of the state plane as the stick-

iest smear of the 2016 governor’s race. That’s what we call damning with faint praise. Maybe it’s just too early for anyone to actually try to win, but I sure feel like Bullock vs. Gianforte has been a battle of tepid smears so far. Technically, the easement and airplane stories aren’t smears, because they’re true. Bullock really does seem to have used that plane for personal and/or campaign-related business, and Gianforte definitely sued to overturn

“Should I vote Bullock for more of the same, or Gianforte for even less of it?”

that easement. But these narratives resemble smears in that they have been driven by opposing campaigns, often at the expense of other messages. They are reasons to vote against the candidates that cover up an absence of reasons to vote for. What’s the hot idea out of Bullock for Governor right now, besides that Greg Gianforte tried to shut down a beach? What is the central narrative from

the Republican side of the race, except that Bullock misused our tax-funded plane? The problem here is that both candidates are running negative campaigns—not negative in the sense of mean or critical, but negative in that they are constructed in opposition to things. As the incumbent, Bullock is trying to fend off an inexperienced challenger. His play in this election is to avoid serious mistakes. Gianforte is a long-shot candidate with a fractured state party behind him and Donald Trump at the top of his ticket. In these respects, he is a sitting governor’s dream. He is also an upstart in a state that is willing to bet on them. But his policy platform is all against: against regulations, against taxes, for the economic utopia that will emerge from their repeal. He doesn’t have a plan for what he could do as governor so much as a promise for what he won’t. That appeals to ideological conservatives, but it’s a tough sell to the average voter. Should I vote Bullock for more of the same, or Gianforte for even less of it? If either of these affable voids wants to capture my attention, he should probably think up some positive idea I can concentrate on instead of the dumb stuff he did. I know we as Montanans maintain a polite disinterest in state politics. But we should probably use this election to answer some questions besides which candidate is the least dislikable. What we have seen so far are a couple triumphs of opposition research and one big failure of imagination. Maybe that’s all we can expect from the early going. But sooner or later, Bullock and Gianforte will need to call on Montanans to vote for something. If either takes office on a wave of people who voted against, he might find that his constituency washes out from under him as the tide of negative campaigning recedes. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and what’s happening on the shoreline at combatblog.net.

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Coal and a hard place The end of an industry is bringing a wrenching transition by Wendy Beye

When I was living in lush western Montana in the mid-1960s, fresh out of college, I jumped on the anti-coal bandwagon. A greasy black haze from coal-fired heating stoves hung in the Missoula Valley during winter air inversions, and my friends and I campaigned for countywide clean-air regulations that prohibited coal burning. We bemoaned the trains hauling 100 railcars piled high with coal that passed through Missoula on their way to Pacific Coast depots, bound for shipment overseas. We believed that our local electricity, supplied by the now-defunct Montana Power Company, was generated using “clean” hydroelectric facilities on the Columbia and Missouri rivers. Now, 45 years later, the world has turned against electricity generated by coalfired plants in hopes of slowing down the warming of our planet. Yet I’m feeling anything but gleeful. My feelings are very much mixed. I live in a small community in eastern Montana that has come to depend upon the Signal Peak coal mine for its economic health. The underground mine is our economic bedrock: It will pay about 30 percent of the total taxes collected in our county this year. Over the past eight years, its high-paying jobs have raised per capita wages in the community by about 13 percent, more than twice the state average. Closure of our coal mine would wreak havoc on our county and city. A similar situation exists in the town of Colstrip, which has depended on the operation of four huge, coal-fired generating plants since the mid-1970s. A nearby openpit coal mine supplies the coal for the generating plants. About 730 residents are employed in coal-related jobs, with pay averaging $66,000 a year, well above Montana’s median annual

wage of $46,230. The plants and mine also pay 77 percent of the property taxes collected in the county and 85 percent of the taxes collected in the city. Residents who love life in their small community of Colstrip have been fierce in their efforts to protect coal-fired electricity and their future. Meanwhile, several recent decisions— some made by the state legislatures in Washington and Oregon—have smacked the coal industry hard in Montana. Four electric com-

“I’m torn between good environmental intentions and the well-being of my neighbors.”

panies that own shares in the Colstrip generating plants push power into the Bonneville Power Administration that serves large coastal communities. But because of state regulations aimed at reducing dependence on electricity generated by coal, those companies are being encouraged through power rate incentives to close their Montana plants earlier than anticipated. Housing prices in Colstrip have already declined in anticipation of the community’s demise.

Closer to home, the Montana Board of Environmental Review refused to concur in the issuance of a permit to expand the Signal Peak mine. This occurred after the Montana Environmental Information Council filed an objection to the Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Assessment written by Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality. Because the permit is in limbo, mine owners are reluctant to do the preparatory work necessary to move longwall machinery, even though leases have been in place for several years. Another blow to coal came in midMarch when a district court judge declared the permit “void” for releasing wastewater from the Rosebud mine near Colstrip. The permit had been challenged by the Montana Environmental Information Council. If the permits for the two mines are not issued soon, work will stop and employees will be laid off. I’ve always considered myself to be an environmentalist. I’ve taken stands against timber clear-cutting, state-sponsored wolf kills, livestock fencing that kills ungulates and birds, air pollution caused by industrial operations and water pollution caused by mining Montana’s resources. Now, I’m torn between good environmental intentions and the well-being of my neighbors. Too often, the human costs of doing what’s right for our Earth are not considered as part of the equation. Is it too much to ask that the folks on both sides of the issue sit down together and work out a long-range plan to soften the human consequences of reducing our nation’s carbon footprint? Wendy Beye is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). She lives and writes in Roundup.

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missoulanews.com • May 19–May 26, 2016 [11]

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GOOGLE SEES THE FUTURE – Google filed a U.S. Patent Office application on April 28 for a vision-improvement device in liquid form that, once inserted (i.e., injected directly into the eyeball!), solidifies into not only a lens replacement for the eye but an instrument that carries its own storage, radio and wireless power supply. The idea, according to inventor Andrew Jason Conrad, is to better focus light onto the retina. (The patent process does not assure that the device will ever come to fruition, but it might indicate that Google’s parent, Alphabet, is concerned that other inventors might be doing similar work.) THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT! – Before new parents ruin their baby daughter’s chances of future success by giving her “weak” names (such as Polly), they should consult one of several services that recommend more powerful ones (such as Elizabeth). A New York City woman offers personalized naming research for fees starting at several hundred dollars, but a Swiss agency whose primary work is helping to name product brands now offers parents suggestions on their offspring’s “brand” (for corporate-like fees beginning at around $29,000). (Parents in South Korea and India traditionally seek baby-naming recommendations from priests, who review religious text, culture and astrology—in exchange for modest offerings.) Entrepreneur.com reported in April the surprising success of “Ship Your Enemies Glitter,” in which, for about $10, the startup sends an envelope full of glitter that, when opened, scatters, irritating (or enraging) the recipient. The concept was an overnight sensation, but quickly petered out and was seemingly worthless—until a prescient businessman offered $85,000 for its two assets: (1) a valuable list of customers who might buy similar pranks (such as a cupcake that’s really horse manure) and (2) an opportunity at additional waves of customers newly discovering the original glitter product. The $85,000 purchaser now reports sales “in the high six figures.” COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – Peter Jensen of Athol, Idaho, filed a lawsuit against the state transportation department in April after his driving privileges were revoked because his car had no license plate. For the inconvenience, he believes he deserves $5.6 million in damages (gold and silver only, please) because, for example, there is nothing about “license plates” in the Ten Commandments. Simple As That: (1) Bingham County (Idaho) Sheriff Craig Rowland told reporters in March that the state legislature had no reason to improve the statewide administration of “rape kit” evidence because the majority of local rape accusations are, he is certain, consensual sex. (2) Scout Hodge, 20, angry at his mother, was charged with arson in Austin, Texas, in January for setting fire to her rug. He told police he did it as a “political” statement (unexplained) and to prove he isn’t a “loser.” Modern Problems: (1) Sophia Sanchez, 27, was charged with intentionally crashing her car into her boyfriend’s vehicle in April in Riverside, Illinois. According to police, the couple had been arguing the night before, and Sanchez said she felt she had to disable his car so that he would talk to her. (2) William Timothy Thomas, 25, was arrested for vandalizing a home in Largo, Florida, in April. He told police he needed to go “destroy” stuff because he “listened to too much music and masturbated too much.” (Bonus: Three first names! Special police surveillance warranted!)

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LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – As China’s real-estate construction boom fades, tempers have flared, and according to a local government officer in Hebei province, two companies’ officials angling for a contract wildly dueled each other in their bulldozers in an incident captured on video. The losing driver was seen running from his toppled machine. Italy’s top appeals court ruled in April that a homeless man stealing cheese and sausage from a grocery story in Genoa, and who received a six-month jail term for it, was actually not guilty of criminal behavior at all. The court set him free using a traditional Italian legal principle that no one is required to do the impossible—which, the court surmised, would be to allow himself to starve. LEAST COMPETENT COPS – Motorist Rebecca Musarra was stopped for speeding in October 2015 by state troopers in New Jersey, and dutifully handed over her license, insurance and registration, but declined to answer the troopers’ “do you know why we stopped you” questions. Annoyed at her silence, troopers Matthew Stazzone and Demetric Gosa threatened several times, with increasing aggressiveness (according to dashboard video obtained by NJ Advance Media), to arrest Musarra for “obstruction.” Musarra pointed out that—as nearly every American knows— she has the right to remain silent. The troopers nonetheless arrested her (then recited, of course, her “right to remain silent”). After nearly two hours back at the station, a supervisor offered a weak apology and released her. Musarra, an attorney, unsurprisingly has filed a federal lawsuit. Thanks this week to Richard Zehr and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

[12] Missoula Independent • May 19–May 26, 2016

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owboy After Buffalo got his name in 1971. He was an infant, propped up in his mother’s lap in the backseat of a car, when a man who had been drinking approached to ask if he was a boy or a girl. “A boy,” his mother replied. “A cowboy,” the man said, and it stuck. The After Buffalos had a ranch west of Browning, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, where hayfields and aspen groves drape across the eastern front of Glacier National Park. On the 640 acres allotted to the family by the federal government in the early 1900s, and on surrounding allotments, they grazed 160 cow-calf pairs. Cowboy learned to break horses, round up cattle, brand them, castrate them and move them between pastures. The youngest of five siblings, he showed the greatest interest in the ranch. His parents, Barbara and Edward, hoped that someday he would take over its management. In the early 2000s, they put their hopes in writing. Edward had lost a foot to diabetes and did not know how long he would live. One evening, at the hospital, he asked his children to write three wishes on a scrap of paper. Cowboy was struggling with addiction at the time; he had intermittent work that paid poorly and he ran drugs to get by. Still, he wished for the ranch. Since the After Buffalos are members of the Blackfeet Tribe, with their land and mineral as-

sets managed by the federal government, Edward filed a will with the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Cowboy would receive the largest share of land; the rest would be split among Edward’s wife and other children. Cowboy got sober in his father’s final years and Edward gift-deeded him a small parcel, where he could live in a trailer with his wife and kids. Though the family sold the herd to pay bills, Cowboy fixed fences and found other ranchers to sublease the land. He hoped eventually to buy his own cattle. “I wanted to live an honest life,” he says. But when Edward died in October 2012 and the family gathered before a probate judge, the judge found no will in Edward’s file. “I think everybody was just stunned,” Cowboy recalls. “My mom—I know it hit her hard.” Barbara asked the judge if he could honor her husband’s wishes, but he explained that without a will, under federal Indian law, Edward’s interest in the land would pass to Barbara. This would be for her lifetime only; she could not write a will transferring the interest to Cowboy. Instead, when she died, the property would be shared equally among her husband’s heirs, in a process called “fractionation.” The family dreaded fractionation. It meant that Cowboy and his four siblings would each be assigned a percent interest in the land, much like shareholders in a company. Before Cowboy could develop the land in any way, he would need ap-

proval from enough shareholders to represent a 51 percent interest. Edward had held interest in two 320-acre allotments— one that had belonged to his grandfather, and another to his great uncle. He had owned roughly 39 percent of each of them, which was more than any of the other interest holders, but not enough to make autonomous decisions. The allotment Edward had hoped to will to Cowboy already had 131 interest holders. If fractionated again, it would be even more difficult for Cowboy to access than it had been for Edward himself. Cowboy was silent. “I think everybody was waiting for my mom to say something,” he says, “but she was so far missing the old man, I don’t think she could. And me being the youngest, it wasn’t my place. The judge said, ‘Anyone have anything to say?’ And nobody did.” On reservations nationwide, the U.S. government manages 156,596 allotments like the After Buffalos’, leasing the land and resources on the owners’ behalf and returning the income to them via trust accounts. In 2012, these allotments contained 4.7 million fractionated interests. Relatively speaking, Cowboy lucked out: It is not uncommon for hundreds—even thousands— of individuals to co-own a single allotment. Even so, he would have to maneuver through a tangled system that was, by all appearances, rigged against him.

Then, in 2013, a new option emerged: Cowboy could sell his interest altogether. Over the next decade, the U.S. Department of Interior planned to spend $1.9 billion purchasing fractionated interests from Indian landowners and consolidating them under tribal ownership. The Land Buy-Back Program, as it was called, was the most significant piece of a $3.4 billion settlement that closed a 14-year battle between Indian landowners and the U.S. government. The dispute had arisen from the government’s mismanagement of Indian property and accounts and its failure to pay owners billions of dollars of revenue. But its subtext was fractionation and a century of policy that trapped Indians in a system of false ownership, unable to use the land that belonged to them. Cowboy hated to consider giving up his land, even to his own tribe, but the possibility lingered with him. “You just live day to day,” he says. “Then, there’s a point where you got to say, ‘Do I sell? What do I do with my land? What good is it doing me?’”

he most influential architect of today’s system of Indian land ownership was Massachusetts Sen. Henry Dawes, who once defined “civilized” men as those who “cultivate the ground, live in houses, ride in Studebaker wagons, send children to school, drink whiskey (and) own property.” His 1887 General Allotment Act, also known

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[14] Missoula Independent • May 19–May 26, 2016

as the Dawes Act, divided reservations into sections and assigned them to Indian families, who were then instructed to farm. Intended to foster individualism and integrate Native Americans into Anglo-American society, the Dawes Act had the opposite effect: Where the land was dry and infertile, particularly on the Great Plains, many families struggled to feed themselves and came to rely heavily on government rations. Fractionation began with the Dawes Act, but it accelerated after 1934, when Congress stopped assigning allotments to Indian families. By then, there was little left to allot. The Dawes Act had allowed “surplus” reservation land to be auctioned and 60 million acres had been sold to white homesteaders. The 1906 Burke Act, meanwhile, authorized federal agents to declare certain landowners “competent,” thereby removing their land from federal trust and allowing it to be taxed. Many landowners were never informed and accrued debt unwittingly; others could not afford the taxes. As a result, another 30 million acres were lost to foreclosure. A common story in Indian Country tells of a family who sat down to dinner one night when a strange wagon pulled up to the house. The travelers had come a long way and the family invited them to eat. When the family asked why they had come, their guests looked surprised and said, “We bought your land.” Today, a great deal of reservation land—a third of some of the largest reservations—is owned by non-Indian people. Furthermore, on many reservations, the majority of Indian-owned land is leased to non-Indian farmers and ranchers. This is a consequence of fractionation: Because it can be so hard for Indian landowners to obtain approval to move projects forward, the land is left fallow or, more often, grouped with other parcels into a “range unit,” which the Bureau of Indian Affairs leases out on landowners’ behalf. When a lease is paid or royalties are earned on an allotment, the BIA sends the proceeds to the U.S. Treasury Department, which issues each interest holder a payment. When there are a lot of interest holders, the payments can be for amounts less than a dollar. This system—of owning land but having little control over it—is a major reason why Indian Country stays poor. It is, many say, why white people run more cows on Indian land than Indian ranchers, why white people earn more money from reservation land, why pastures are pounded dry by overuse, why houses are hard to come by, why they fall into disrepair, why there are few businesses or jobs. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, once dubbed “Poverty’s Poster Child” by The New York Times, is the second largest reservation in the nation and, by some metrics, the most fractionated. In 2002, when agriculture

there earned $30 million, Native Americans netted only a third. “Look at the abundance of the land,” an Oglala Lakota business owner told me. “If we were anywhere else, it would be wealth creation, but here it’s the opposite.” There have been various attempts to address fractionation since it began, most notably the 1983 Indian Land Consolidation Act, which enabled tribes to exchange and purchase interest from landowners at fair market value. But these efforts were poorly funded and many tribes, chronically in debt, could not buy land in large enough quantities to make much difference. The Dawes Act became ever more difficult to undo. As the number of fraction-

tem found that out of the 238,000 accounts reviewed, half were missing important documentation, and nearly a quarter had no address; the account holders’ money had been sitting in the Treasury. In 1996, Cobell sued the U.S. government on behalf of 450,000 plaintiffs from tribes across the country. She estimated that more than $170 billion had been lost or stolen from Indian accounts. When the case finally settled in 2009, it had gone to trial seven times. Since the settlement did not require a full accounting of missing or stolen monies, each plaintiff was awarded $1,000 to $2,000—a small acknowledgement of their losses. It also set up a scholarship fund for Native American college

tion in two fundamental ways. First, there has never been an attempt to transfer so much land to tribes all at once. Second, there has never been so much money available to do so. In 2011, Interior Department officials met with tribal leaders and, the next year, released a plan: The BIA would give each participating tribe a sum scaled to the size of its fractionation problem. The Blackfeet Indian Reservation—by some measures the third mostfractionated in the country—was slated to be among the first beneficiaries, but a brief collapse in tribal government put the program on hold. Instead, the first buy-back offers went to landowners on Pine Ridge, on Dec. 18, 2013.

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Sitting in his mother’s kitchen in Browning, Cowboy After Buffalo studies papers related to his family’s land on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

ated interests ballooned, so did the federal-Indian bureaucracy. The BIA had long been criticized for its shoddy management of Indian accounts, most famously in 1828, when federal agent Henry Schoolcraft wrote that it seemed the agency’s fiscal affairs “had been handled with a pitchfork.” Fractionation made more room for error. In the late 1980s, Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet rancher, tribal treasurer and founder of the first tribally owned bank, testified before Congress on flaws in the BIA’s accounting system. She had found many discrepancies in her work on the Blackfeet Reservation—leases never paid, documents lost—and suspected the problem was systemic. Indeed, in 1994, a banker appointed by then-President Bill Clinton to investigate the Indian trust sys-

students that would be bankrolled through the buy-back program. But the land program itself received the bulk of the settlement money—$1.9 billion—to undo damages wrought by the Dawes Act. The settlement was hailed as a historic victory, and Cobell, who would die of cancer two years later, its hero. President Barack Obama called it “an important step towards a sincere reconciliation.” Chuck Sams of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation wrote, “Though it is true we were dealt a poor hand by history, we can make a new start. ... We will begin to make ourselves whole again.”

he Land Buy-Back Program differs from past efforts to undo fractiona-

I visited Pine Ridge Agency the following August, as the Oglala Sioux Tribe was closing a third round of land purchases. The buy-back office was a doublewide trailer in the yard of the BIA building. A secretary motioned me into a back room, where a wiry, jocular man in pleated pants and tennis shoes sat with a stack of paperwork. Steve Her Many Horses was the fourth person appointed to direct the program in six months. He held up a reservation map: Tracts in which the tribe owned a majority interest prior to the buy-back program were colored dark blue; tracts in which the tribe had newly acquired a majority interest were light blue. The latter represented 200,000 acres, roughly a tenth of the reservation’s fractionated land, leveraged with $76 million of the tribe’s $105 million allocation.

“Our main goal is to see this full map blue,” he said. “Then our tribe will have control of our land.” The benefits were numerous, Her Many Horses told me. The tribe would earn more lease income and could use it to purchase reservation land from non-Indians. On land where it had acquired a majority interest, it could also build housing for tribal members. More importantly, the purchase had ensured that land returned to the tribe would never again be sold to non-Indians. He spoke in terse, excited phrases, like a salesman still honing his pitch. And so when I asked, finally, if he would sell his own land to the tribe, I was surprised by his reply. “Oh, no,” he said. “No?” “Well, it’d be something to think about.” I heard the same answer dozens of times in the weeks I spent on Pine Ridge. It was difficult to find anyone who had sold their own land or, at least, who would admit to having done so. When I mentioned this a few mornings later to Denise Mesteth, the director of the tribe’s land department, she took me on a tour of her office: “Hey, Burton, did you get an offer?” “No, I don’t have land. Try Grace.” “Grace, did you sell your allotment?” Grace averted her eyes. “Just checking. Bud? No? You know who did?” “Not me.” At last, we came to a cluttered, sweltering room, where a lean man named Carl Eagle Elk was studying a map. “I had no intention of selling,” he said. “My dad, my grandfather—they all told me, growing up, ‘Don’t sell your land.’” When the offer came in the mail, he left it in the backseat of his Chevy Impala. But as winter wore on, Eagle Elk, who lived with his brother, ran low on propane. “I slipped into debt,” he said. “You have your car, your insurance, your utilities. My son was in school, so you have school clothes. Then you drive a ways to get groceries.” Most reservation residents shop in Rapid City, 90 miles away. On July 21, 2014, just before his offer expired, Eagle Elk went to the buy-back office and sold half his interest—the equivalent of 20 acres, for $14,000. When the check came, he would pay off his debts and buy a trailer. I eventually met others like Eagle Elk who had sold their land, though reluctantly. There are good reasons to sell. Many landowners no longer live on the reservations where their interest is, or

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they have inherited interest in places where they lack tribal affiliation. Or their interest is so small that they’ll never have access to the land. A house or trailer may indeed be a better investment, as may a car, since reservation services are often few and far between. But I also sensed that people were ashamed of the transactions. “It comes from the fact that our people died for that land, so it’s not a commodity that you can just sell and get

efited the seller, the act of selling was weighted with painful memory. I was reminded of something an elder told me when I had asked why he refused to sell: “When you have land, you can always come home. Nobody can’t ever tell you, ‘You have to go. This don’t belong to you.’”

n September, I arranged to meet Cowboy After Buffalo on a grassy ridge

lived south of the reservation. Cowboy could not afford the $2,400 yearly payment, let alone his own cows, and, anyway, he liked Jones. Subleasing to him allowed Cowboy some control: He could still do the work of a rancher while he gathered the resources that would allow him, eventually, to acquire cattle. Around reservations like Blackfeet, where ranching is the dominant industry, this sort of mutualism is common between Indian and non-Indian communities. Many Indian landowners who hold leases for their fractionated allotments sublease them to other ranchers because they don’t have enough livestock to fill range units themselves. (Edward After Buffalo owned 45 of the 160 cows he ran on two units.) Many reservations have good pasture, which is expensive and hard to come by elsewhere. These arrangements are controversial, and some tribes have passed resolutions discouraging Indian landowners from “fronting” for outside ranchers. On the Blackfeet Reservation, anyone who leases a range unit must own a certain percentage of the livestock that graze it. Cowboy had 12 horses, enough to meet the requirement, but without cows his claim

who owned 1.357 percent. She lived in Harrah, Wash., but planned to return to the reservation in summertime. She could meet him then, she said. But just before her trip, she died. Cowboy gave up and the project fell through. He began to worry that his loan would be denied because the land was so fractionated and his access to it was limited. So on the day a loan officer arrived to inspect the property and fences, Cowboy assembled his brother, sisters and mother in his living room. “I wanted to show the officer that I was serious,” he says—and that his family supported his plans. The meeting later paid off. Cowboy learned that if a majority of landowners agreed, he could pull the 320-acre allotment in which he held interest out of the range unit. That way, he would reduce his risk of losing the land to another rancher and have more time to buy cattle. His mother agreed, and Cowboy began knocking on doors. In three days, he had acquired signatures from 53 percent of interest holders. It was a small victory, and it softened the news when his loan officer told him that he did not have enough cash flow to qualify for the loan.

been high for a long time. It’s no wonder so many still believe it is worth their struggle to hold onto it.

n June 2011, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held a fairness hearing on the Cobell settlement, the last opportunity for plaintiffs to object. Landowners from tribes across the country spoke, and opinions varied, but most agreed that they would not sell their land. “You don’t have enough money to buy my piece of sovereignty,” a Choctaw man challenged. “These lands are precious. They hold the bones of my people,” said a woman from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. In the end, just 92 plaintiffs filed formal objections, and 1,800 opted out of the $1,000 payment. But the hearing foreshadowed a wider discontent: As of November 2015, fewer than half of the landowners who received buy-back offers had accepted them. On some reservations, such as Pine Ridge, the number is even lower. At the end of 2016, the program will finally reach the Blackfeet Reservation, making it one of the last highly fraction-

“Offering poor people something that is more than they have ever had but is not really what the case is worth is an old ploy of lawyers and the government.”

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Elouise Cobell discovered major discrepancies in the BIA’s accounting system and sued the U.S. government on behalf of 450,000 plaintiffs from tribes across the country. Despite winning a settlement in 2009, Cobell, who died two years later, had doubts about whether her efforts would truly end fractionation.

money and be on your way,” Mario Gonzalez, an attorney and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, later tells me. Gonzalez is known for having advised the Sioux to refuse federal payment for the sacred Black Hills, taken from them in 1874. “I’m not selling my tracts, because they belonged to my great-grandmother,” he says. “They have value to me, just like an heirloom.” I had to understand that people were coming to their decision from a place of deep loss. Even though the land would return to the tribe, and even if the sale ben-

above his house. I drove a truck he had left for me at his corral, an old Ford with cracked mirrors and various CDs—Black Lodge Veteran Songs, The Rolling Stones, etc.—stuffed in its side compartments. He arrived after I did, on horseback, with his jeans tucked into his boots and a bandana tied around his forehead. Tall and heavyset, he seemed always to be grinning. He had been out looking for a neighbor’s escaped calf and found it grazing amid a herd that belonged to a white rancher named Ron Jones. Near the end of his father’s life, Cowboy had begun subleasing the After Buffalo pasture to Jones, who

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felt precarious. He worried the tribe’s allocation committee, which largely controls grazing assignments, might give his to a bigger Indian rancher. So in 2013, he applied to the Farm Service Agency for a $35,000 loan to buy his own small herd. While he waited, he decided to install a hydrant by the corral for watering livestock. He needed approval from others who shared in his allotment, but when he asked at the BIA office for a list of the 131 landowners, he was turned away. “As soon as I’d ask for maps, details, names, they’d question me like I was bringing a bomb in,” he says. When he finally obtained the document, he wrote the largest shares in neat rows and added them up. With his father’s gift, he owned a 2 percent interest. If he could get approval from his mother, who had 39 percent, as well as from several cousins, he would need less than 1 percent more. But most of the remaining landowners held less than a tenth of 1 percent interest. Some lived far away, in Florida or Oregon. Others, he noticed, were in prison. He contacted a woman

“He told me, ‘Keep trying,’” Cowboy recalls, “and I said, ‘I will keep trying.’” All these difficulties did not make selling his land interest through the Land Buy-Back Program seem more appealing, though he says the program might work in his favor in other ways. If the tribal government gains interest in his allotment, he explains, he might be able to acquire more for himself by trading the tribe smaller interests he holds elsewhere on the reservation. Later, I followed Cowboy down the ridge to his house, where his wife, Angie, was fixing hamburger and mashed potatoes for dinner. On the table sat a stack of folders and ledger books containing lease documents dating back to the ’60s. Among them were records from the 1990s, when another rancher outbid Cowboy’s father for the range unit containing the ranch. The After Buffalos had to go to court to regain access. The records seemed remarkable not only for how well they had been preserved, but also for what they implied: The odds against Native Americans keeping their land have

ated reservations to participate. It is fitting, perhaps, that the place where the Cobell case began could be the place where it ends, but it is also a reminder of the lawsuit’s disappointments—of the distance between the injustices brought to light by the case and the justice now being delivered. The buy-back program does little to close this gap. Despite an investment of $715 million and the transfer of an equivalent of 1.5 million acres from individual to tribal ownership, the number of fractionated interests on participating reservations has declined by just 20 percent. Since Indian land will continue to fractionate at an exponential rate, it is easy to see the buy-back program as little more than a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. The low participation rate also has a darker implication—that many of those who did sell had little other choice. Federal officials often emphasize that the program is “voluntary,” but since many tribal members depend on their governments for financial help with even day-to-day expenses, the concept seems slippery.

“They say they did this to ‘make the “Offering poor people something that said. “What has been accomplished here seemed to assume that what is best for is more than they have ever had but is not is historical. … It brings a measure of jus- tribal governments is best for individual community whole again,’ but that’s secreally what the case is worth is an old ploy tice to some of the most vulnerable peo- Indians—that their interests, after more ondary,” he says. “They wanted it beof lawyers and the government,” says Joe ple in this country. The settlement is not than a century of federal policy intended cause they spend millions of dollars a McKay, a Blackfeet tribal councilman and perfect. I do not think it compensates for to break apart tribal communities, were year sending lease checks for amounts all of the losses sustained, but I do think still one and the same. Many tribal mem- smaller than the cost of a stamp. Reduce vocal critic of the Cobell settlement. When I visited the Blackfeet Tribe’s of- it is fair. … I am convinced that it is the bers, in fact, have come to distrust their fractionation, and they reduce the administrative burden.” tribal governments. fices in September, signs reading “No best settlement possible.” The case did achieve some Hardship” were tacked throughout substantial victories. In 2009, for the corridors. And yet, every day, I example, then-Interior Secretary watched men, women and chilKen Salazar appointed five tribal dren wander in, looking for counleaders to a Committee on Incilmen to hear their pleas. dian Trust Administration and One afternoon, as I waited Reform, and in 2014, the comunder a nearby pavilion, a man mittee released an analysis of the named Phillip Many Hides sat down trust relationship. The report beside me. He wore coke-bottle does not go so far as to suggest glasses, taped at the corners, and transferring the management of jeans, clean but frayed. He was trust accounts to a third party, looking for McKay, whom he hoped such as a bank, as Cobell would could help him apply for tribal ashave wanted, but it does call for sistance—a monthly $250 payment. a seismic restructuring of the Many Hides had long worked as a trust system. Among its recomwildland firefighter and dispatcher, mendations is the establishment but his wife died in 2011, and he of an Indian Trust Administration started drinking. When I met him, Commission, which would conhe had been sober 15 days. Still, he solidate the Department of Intewas homeless, sleeping by the powrior’s trust functions under a wow grounds. A spider bite on his single entity and make it easier ring finger had swollen to the size for tribes and individuals to navof a quarter. igate the bureaucracy. I asked Many Hides if he Even the buy-back program planned to sell land when his buyhas had positive effects, in that it back offer finally came. He looked has encouraged Indian landowndisappointed; he had assumed the ers to learn more about their offer would come sooner. fractionated interests. Stain“A lot of us are counting on brook, through the Indian Land that buy-back so we can get our Tenure Foundation, has worked own homes,” he said. Some of his with federal officials, tribes and land he would never sell—it had other organizations to distribute spiritual significance—but he also educational materials about the owned interest in a hayfield north program, estate planning and the of Browning. “I hate to let it go,” alternatives to selling land, so that he said, “but that’s the situation I’m landowners can make informed in.” Already, the year before, he choices. Mark Magee, the director had sold some interest he inherited of the land office and a relative of on the Coeur d’Alene Indian ReserCobell’s, says he was glad the vation in Idaho. He spent the photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Blackfeet would be among the $1,600 he received on Christmas A 1911 Department of the Interior poster advertises so-called surplus reservation land program’s last recipients. gifts for his children. for sale, after the Dawes Act assigned tracts to Indian families. “We get to see everyone else’s “They were upset at first, but “We would have argued that it’s better mistakes,” he says. “We want to make sure Four months later, she died. then my daughter said, ‘At least it was for Cobell’s friends and colleagues have to help owners acquire bigger interests, we’re doing it right.” Christmas.’” Trust reforms are as uncertain as any The buy-back program was a blessing, since told me that even she had been not do a program that converted those inMany Hides told me, and he thanked Co- deeply ambivalent. Cobell was grateful the terests from individual to tribal owner- in the past, though, and most people bell. “I remember when she first started to case had ended, and she approved of the ship,” says Cris Stainbrook, president of see Cobell’s legacy as something more fight this fight. I thought, Could she do it? college scholarship fund. But behind the Indian Land Tenure Foundation and a intangible. “She used to tell me winning money And I remember the day she won. We closed doors, she opposed the buy-back descendent of the Oglala Lakota. Stainbrook worked closely with Co- wasn’t the thing,” says Angie Main, Cowere all giving each other hugs,” he said. program. She feared it would thicken the bell’s friend and colleague. “Indians winCobell did not attend the 2011 fair- bureaucracy that already mired Indian bell throughout the case. “The lawsuit was nothing about ning a case against the federal ness hearing. Bedridden with cancer, she land ownership. She worried, too, that called from Montana to make her final landowners in dire straits would sell their tribes,” he says. “It was about individuals. government—that’s the point.” Elouise’s sister-in-law, Eva Cobell, still only financial leverage, since many de- And the way the buy-back program was statement. “Few, if any, legal cases in modern pend on lease income and even take out structured, the tribes came away with a holds a box of papers she saved to make a scrapbook for Elouise’s son. It mostly times have embodied the pain of so many loans on it to buy everyday necessities like gift.” The program, Stainbrook adds, was contains condolence notes sent upon people in Indian Country, and also em- groceries and school clothes. Most of all, Elouise’s death, but at the bottom are letbodied the hopes of those people,” she she opposed the program because it the government’s piece of the deal.

ters addressed to Elouise from students at the local high school: My name is L. My mom is J. I don’t know who my dad is and really don’t care. What you’re doing means a lot to me and a lot of other people. What you’re doing means to me that there is hope. People from the reservation can be something.

n a cold October morning, Cowboy After Buffalo is in the corral with his sons and Ron Jones, who has come to gather the calves. The cows low mournfully as Cowboy flaps his arms like wings, driving the calves up a ramp and into a trailer. Jones seems pleased, and once the calves are loaded, he does not linger. The two men laugh and shake hands. The heifer calves already have a buyer and Jones will take the steer calves to auction. The next week, he’ll return for the cows and bring them to his own property to overwinter. Then, the pastures would be mostly empty until spring. In the meantime, Cowboy has enrolled in a course to receive a commercial driver’s license. Roads are being redone throughout the reservation, and he hopes to find work hauling gravel. This will increase his cash flow so he can reapply for a loan. Cowboy is good-natured about his ordeal. He isn’t angry with the BIA for losing his father’s will. “We can’t look at yesterday, because we’ll go backwards, and I’m trying to go forward,” he says. He faults himself for not trying sooner. If he hadn’t been drinking or running drugs, he might have his own herd by now. He shakes his head: “To think of all the money I took, of all the victims I made.” The wind blows so hard that aspen leaves cut wildly in the air. I follow Cowboy’s son, Andrew, to a creek that crosses the property. He shows me the bank where the family erects a tipi in summertime and the pools where they fish and swim. Above us is the ridge where I had met Cowboy weeks before. There, in a grove of pines, I had found a cemetery. The graves were sunken into the earth like deer had come to sleep. Some were marked by fence posts lashed into crosses with wire, and others were not marked at all. This was fractionation in visual form: A gathering of generations, the faint outlines where bodies once lay—a claim to the land, grounded in something spiritual.

This story originally appeared in High Country News (hcn.org ). Reporting was supported by a UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship and by contributors to the High Country News Enterprise Journalism Fund.

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[arts]

Creative sipping Combining art and booze is all the rage in Missoula, including at the Insectarium’s Drink and Draw by Erika Fredrickson

ayla Arietta’s “Zoe,” a watercolor of a young woman standing in front of the American flag holding a gun in one hand and drinking a beer in the other, got a lot of buzz—and bids—during the Missoula Art Museum’s recent silent auction. The piece represents one aspect of Arietta’s portfolio, a self-described “twisted Rockwell” world that explores youth struggling with meaning in a modern era. The other part of her portfolio seems to be concerned with people and animals in mystical, barren and starry landscapes. “Hell Roaring Mike Healy,” for instance, portrays a mustachioed captain on a ship at night.

The residency she created with staff from the Insectarium allows her special access to the containment lab, which hosts over 40 species of arthropods such as butterflies, tarantulas, hermit crabs and millipedes. She exhibited the results of her work at a May First Friday show and taught a class on drawing to 10-year-olds. On Thu., May 19, she’ll hold a Drink and Draw class, where people can hang out, draw insects and sip cocktails. “I think it’s fun because it’s incorporating art and entomology,” Arietta says of the special event. “Sometimes the staff let you hold the bugs, like the blue beetle and the giant African millipede. A great way to

gomery Distillery, Ten Spoon Winery and Brooks and Brown, as well as catering to fundraisers and private parties at people’s homes. It isn’t even as much an art class as it is a social event—hence the booze. Participants get to choose from a selection of Fortner’s pre-painted works that include simple landscapes and still lifes. Fortner leads the class step-by-step in recreating the painting—though if painters want to change up the color scheme or go completely off-map, that’s fine, too. The idea, Fortner says, is to break the ice. “As adults, many people have anxiety and reservations about creative ability,” she says. “People have

“Some people tell me the class has given them inspiration to try creating on their own,” Fortner says. Arietta’s Drink and Draw class is an even less guided affair. She’ll give a brief demonstration and show a few of her residency paintings so people can see what she did. With help from Arietta—and a few bug-inspired cocktails—everyone in the class will get a chance to come up with their own renditions of the insects. “I want them to draw the real animals, not my paintings,” Arietta says. “And the fun and challenging part of that is some of them do move. My draw-

Bayla Arietta’s insects are part of a residency she created at Missoula’s Butterfly House and Insectarium, which culminates in a Drink and Draw class.

“Cold Places #2” depicts a young girl posing in front of two animal hides draped against a wood shed. Recently, Arietta began inquiring into yet another subject matter, this time zeroing in on the delicate features of insects. She spent the spring at Missoula’s Butterfly House and Insectarium on Front Street, capturing the likeness of walking leaf insects, orb weavers and blue death feigning beetles who have made their homes inside the room’s 18 aquariums and terrariums. The exercise is part of a residency Arietta initiated. “The Natural History Center does a residency program like this,” Arietta says. “When I heard about it, I wanted to do it, but they only do it once a year— and I wanted to do it now. So I brought the idea to the Insectarium.”

learn how to draw something is to really understand what it looks like. And then there’s going to be a signature cocktail. They haven’t decided what it will be yet. I’m hoping it has a bug pun.” Art classes paired with drinking is an idea springing up all over Missoula. (And the Insectarium also does a monthly lecture series on insects where you can drink beer called Bugs and Brews.) The Zootown Art Community Center has offered adult art classes involving wine for a few years now, including Bob Ross Night and Paint N’ Pour. Art on Tap began offering painting events at wineries and bars around town in fall 2013. The local company, started by former art teacher Heather Fortner, gives people a chance to paint in low-pressure circumstances. Fortner runs a mobile operation, setting up at places like the Mont-

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this expectation that they either are or aren’t an artist. But it’s like anything. If you never practiced reading, you wouldn’t be able to read, either.” Painting with a Twist, a national chain, recently opened a Missoula franchise. Whereas Art on Tap is mobile, local owner Cathy Lower rents a studio in the Stephens Center where the company hosts regular classes as well as bring-your-own-alcohol events, including a “Painting with a Purpose” night for charity. Walking by the Painting with a Twist studio or Montgomery Distillery during an Art on Tap session reveals tables of easels and glasses of paint water and alcoholic beverages (participants are always told in half-jest not to mix up the two), music bumping on the stereo and a lot of laughter. For non-artists, it’s a way to pick up art skills but without overthinking the process.

ings of cockroaches are pretty detailed because they don’t move very much, but the rose-haired tarantula was doing laps around its tank, so my drawing had to keep changing. The constraints to the class are only that we are going to be drawing bugs and we’ll be in the insectarium, but after that there’s lots of freedom.” Bayla Arietta hosts Drink and Draw at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium Thu., May 19, from 6 PM to 8. All ages, 21-plus to drink. 218 E. Front Street. Register at missoulabutterflyhouse.org. Visit zootownarts.org, artontapmissoula.com and paintingwithatwist.com/Missoula for more art and drinking events. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Mason jar jams Britchy’s Two-Lane steers straight Britchy’s Two-Lane Highway is simple music for simple people—and that’s not an insult to either. Missoula’s acoustic Americana duo Britt Arnesen and Richie Reinholdt have produced 12 tracks of pleasing, polished folk music, highlighted by the classic country voice of Arnesen (think Emmylou Harris or Kasey Chambers) and guitar stylings of Reinholdt (think crackling old-timey radio playing on a peeling farmhouse porch). Mix in some fiddle, mandolin, pedal steel and a dash of dobro for a timeless, traditional folk/bluegrass sound. This is not music to listen to alone on headphones in the dark. This music isn’t difficult or emotionally complicated or groundbreaking. This is traditional folk: social music for good times. This is music for twirling

cotton print dresses and bare feet. It’s music that complements evening crickets. It’s no surprise that the liner notes reveal that a few of the tracks were recorded in Arnesen’s kitchen, for this is kitchen music–you can almost hear the cowboy boot keeping time on the linoleum floor. There are times on the album where it’s easy to wonder what would happen if Britchy took a step or two away from even one aspect of their strictly traditional approach. But there are mostly times when you float along with each melody, wondering where you might be able to locate a hammock and a mason jar of tea. (Sarah Aswell) Britchy plays at Shakespeare & Co. Mon., May 23, at 7 PM. Free.

Snow Roller, What’s the Score? Snow Roller has a breezy flavor that helps their latest album roll along like riding a bicycle on a warm summer day. There’s also a shoe-gaze angst—think Weezer—that helps build the tension and includes lulls and breakdowns that provide the emotional peaks and valleys. The songs are confessionals and accusatory and seem to poke at the same questions. Those questions aren’t entirely easy to figure out and that’s the charm. “Same Reasons” is a shiny earworm, but a lot of the songs on What’s the Score? are like scenery you pass on your bike—enjoyable, but not memorable. The album’s lyrics, however, stand out in how they are both concrete and obtuse with lines like, “Do you remember the sound

when the ball went out of bounds/ While you were up and away, we always play these games.” The stories blur the line between literal and figurative, which makes for pretty smart writing. Some of it, on page, seems rather silly: “These shoes are worn/ They stink of feet, so be forewarned / I can’t be blamed for all the bites that you have/ Or the fleas that won’t die in the rain.” But in the capable hands of guitarists and vocalists Collin Kritz and Tyler Bussey, none of it feels any weirder or sillier than “The Sweater Song.” (Erika Fredrickson) Snow Roller plays the VFW Thu., May 19, at 10 PM, for the Camp Daze residency, along with Deadbeats and Bombshell Nightlight. $3.

Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth He warned us. When Sturgill Simpson’s second album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, arrived hot on the heels of his bracing debut, High Top Mountain, fans of authentic country lost their collective shit. Country was saved. The Nashville Messiah was here. Simpson bristled at the portrayal, adamantly stating that he was in no way leading a movement or endorsing any particular musical trend. Clues abounded in Metamodern’s songs—don’t let the Waylonesque voice and the firm grasp of the idiom fool you, Simpson was his own man. Turns out those weird psychedelic digressions were promises of a shocking left turn yet to come. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth is the work of an artist in full flight, free of the constraints of expectations and label demands. Where Laur Joamets’ incendiary Telecaster

work lit up the galloping country of the first two records, stuttering organ and a Stax/Volt army of R&B horns blast these new songs into the soul stratosphere. Lyrically, Simpson is reflective, directing several songs at his young son, as on “Keep It Between the Lines,” singing, “Do as I say, not as I done/ It don’t have to be like father, like son.” His cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” is haunting, turning Kurt Cobain’s slashing indictment into a ballad that builds to an early-’70-style pop song. Strap yourself in with a good pair of headphones for some sonic adventure. I can’t wait to hear these performed live when he comes to the Wilma in November. (Ednor Therriault) Tickets for Sturgill Simpson’s Nov. 8 show at the Wilma go on sale Fri., May 20, at 10 AM. Visit thewilma.com.

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[books]

Stunt course Daredevils skillfully navigates religious zealotry by Chris La Tray

While growing up in rural western Montana in nerdy kid who loves reading Lord of the Rings and the ’70s and ’80s, I recall several kids from families listening to classic hard rock. He has one friend, who just seemed a little … weird. As an adult, reflect- Boyd, who rounds out our trio of primary characters, ing back on that time, it’s easier to find understand- though his story is in support of Jason and Loretta. ing and compassion, because I’ve learned to Half Native American, Boyd is not a Mormon, but he recognize things like poverty, domestic strife or reli- has his own list of reasons he too wants to get away. Dean moves his family next door to Jason to be gious faith. When young, though, we tend to be so caught up in our own travails, our own dreams of es- sure he gets his share of the estate. He claims Loretta is cape, that we don’t even consider others might be in Ruth’s niece, though it is a ruse the rest of the family and community sees through because they know of the same boat. Or worse. In his debut novel, Daredevils, Spokane author Dean’s commitment to more fundamental Mormon ideShawn Vestal captures this theme perfectly. He juggles a ology. Jason meets Loretta and, ultimately, they plan an escape which also involves Boyd. cast of characters, three of whom Things don’t go as planned. are teenagers whose lives interIn my youth, Mormons were sect in a small town in Idaho in everywhere—part of our comthe mid-’70s. The first teenager munity, and yet separate. It also we meet, and the star of the seemed like I never heard the story, is a 15-year-old girl named word “Mormons” without it Loretta. As the book opens she is being preceded by the words sneaking out of her strict Mor“those goddamn.” In the 40 years mon home by night to meet her since, not much has changed. boyfriend. Written from her Mormon jokes abound, blown to point of view, it’s clear she’s national attention when Mitt eager to escape the life she’s in Romney ran for president. For but isn’t so sure about her possimost us, their faith remains puzble means for doing so—namely zling, full of stories that tend to Bradshaw, her boyfriend. He describe them as being more presses her for sex and to run akin to oddball doomsday cults away with him, but she cautions than any “real” religion. him to wait. Soon, she tells him, Vestal, who grew up as a when there’s money and a plan. Mormon and chose to leave as an She also knows that, “If they Daredevils Shawn Vestal adult, does a fantastic job giving leave now, all she’ll have is him.” hardcover, Penguin Press the faith depth and dimension. Loretta doesn’t get the op320 pages, $27 He details the power structures portunity because she’s caught within families and the resentby her parents on her return from the clandestine outing. This leads directly to her ments they create. He shows the struggles of teens trying being married off as a “sister wife” into the polygamous to fit in with a wider world that, to them, seems so much household ruled by the inflexible hand of Brother Dean more interesting. He illustrates the schisms between the Harder. In a creepy scene on their wedding night, Dean, different variations of Mormonism, from the strict funtrembling with lust, sits beside Loretta on her bed and damentalists through those who have introduced a bit tells her how he’s promised her father that he will wait more modernity to their daily lives. His storytelling proto consummate their union for a year, once she turns vides fresh insights I hadn’t considered before. There are many characters and motivations to jugthe legal age of 16. “‘I have promised your father, little sister,’ he says, in a quiet voice. ‘But oh, you are a sore gle here, even outside of our three teens, but Vestal temptation.’” Never mind that their marriage—Dean al- pulls it off. He nails the setting, portrays the singleready has one wife, Ruth, and several children with minded self-interest of teenagers with heart and comher—isn’t legal anyway. But that becomes the life she passion and delivers a character in the form of Loretta the likes of which I haven’t pulled for in a long time, settles into, until the family moves to Idaho. Then there’s Jason, Dean’s 17-year-old nephew, despite her flaws. Daredevils is an at times hilarious, whose obsession for motorcycle daredevil Evel at times difficult read, and well worth the time. Shawn Vestal reads from Daredevils at Knievel is where the book gets its name. While also Mormon, Jason’s family is much less strict than his Shakespeare & Co. Thu., May 26, at 6 PM. uncle’s household. Still, Jason can’t wait to turn 18 and leave the family for good. He is something of a arts@missoulanews.com

[20] Missoula Independent • May 19–May 26, 2016

[theater]

Frame by frame Mason Wagner takes Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick inside the movie theater by Erika Fredrickson

The setting for Annie Baker’s The Flick is particularly familiar in a place like Missoula where everyone from high school students to those with master’s degrees work service jobs. The 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on three underpaid movie ushers from different backgrounds who spend time together mopping up soda in between screenings and discussing the theater’s recent switch from film to digital projection. Of course, it’s not so much about the projector but what the change means in a broader sense. How do you move forward and what’s at stake when you do? But these larger ideas aren’t particular to movie theater work; they’re the kind of life questions most young (and old) people ask themselves when they’re trying to figure out their lives—the kind of fodder slyly embedded in Richard Linklater’s comingof-age stories or the 2009 Adventureland. Mason Wagner, who directs a Missoula production of The Flick this week, is a familiar actor around town. He’s also been a waiter at The Catalyst, so working in the service industry is not alien to him. “I think anyone who’s worked in service jobs or in a menial job will get it,” he says, laughing. “And that’s almost everybody in Missoula.” Baker is a lot like Linklater in that natural dialogue is part of her signature. She’s precise in her writing, but she also captures how people really talk, letting awkward lulls hang in the air or undercutting sentences with “like.” Back in 2013, even before she won a Pulitzer, Baker told The New Yorker that her goal is to explore what’s left unsaid along the edges of conversation. The unscripted feel of her work is highly scripted. “She leaves a ton of space and a ton of silence, and in those silences you find a lot of terror,” Wagner says. “You don’t know what’s going to come next.” When I speak to Wagner on a Monday afternoon, he is wearing a wool Ivy cap and eating a muffin. He’s happy and appears confident, having just graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor’s degree in theater where he received an outstanding senior award. He’s had a high profile at the School of Theatre and Dance, showing up regularly in productions, including as the lovestruck Christian in Cyrano De Bergerac and being cast as narrator Nick Carraway in last year’s Montana Repertory production of The Great Gatsby. But like the characters in The Flick, Wagner spent some time of real uncertainty trying to find his path. He started his undergraduate studies as a creative writing major. “My grandfather was a poet and so it was a legacy thing I wrestled with,” Wagner says. “He was a really wild guy. He knew the Beats really well—my dad remembers Kerouac reading him bedtime stories—and so I felt obligated to try that.” Wagner always knew he wanted to try theater, but it was an acting class with UM’s Randy Bolton that

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Mason Wagner’s production of The Flick features, from left, Taylor Caprara, Sam Williamson and Brandon Taylor.

made him realize that’s what he wanted to pursue. For the class, he and local actor Cally Shine performed Robert Frost’s poem “Home Burial,” about a couple who have lost their child. “That was one of the first moments I knew,” he says. “I realized, ‘Wow. That’s what it’s all about.’” Wagner took a year off from classes between fall 2012 and fall 2013 so he could save money. That’s when he read The Flick for the first time. The characters came to life for him because he could identify with the wayward world they lived in. “I was not in school,” he says. “I wasn’t following my passion. And so it resonated in that regard. There’s just something about it when you read it. I knew I wanted to do it.” Most productions of Baker’s play take place on a stage constructed to look like a movie theater. Wag-

ner’s is set inside the Roxy Theater, a real movie theater in which the audience will sit on stage in front of the screen and the action will take place among the seats and in the projection booth. The cast includes Sam Williamson (a young but highly accomplished local actor), Taylor Caprara (known mostly for musical theater shows at MCT), Brandon Taylor (a second-year acting student) and Hudson Therriault (a first-year). “My overarching concept for the play is that each scene is like a complete frame in a film reel,” he says. “I really think that’s what Baker’s getting at with the title, that each moment flicks past. It’s an interesting study of time. And everyone involved in this project is at a different place in their life and we’ve all brought our personal ‘moving-on’ perspectives to the work.”

The Flick marks Wagner’s directing debut for a fulllength play and he’s excited about being on that side of the stage. He says his role as Nick Carraway in Gatsby was a challenge that prepared him for this moment. “Being cast in The Great Gatsby really ripped me wide open,” he says. “I’ve written and thought a lot about it because I was really scared. I was really scared of that role. I had built that book up so much in my mind. It took me a few weeks of performance to feel like I had reached that point. I had kind of insulated myself intellectually and that’s my biggest issue as an actor—but as a director, that’s really a good thing.” BetweentheLines Productions presents The Flick at the Roxy Fri., May 20–Sun., May 22, at 6:30 PM nightly. $18/$14 students and seniors. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • May 19–May 26, 2016 [21]

[film]

Signal booster Smarts and chemistry save Money Monster by Molly Laich

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In Money Monster, a fed up, blue-collar New Yorker hijacks a cable news show and holds its host hostage live on air, demanding to know what happened to the life savings he just lost in the stock market or else he will blow up the whole building. George Clooney stars as Lee Gates, who most resembles Jim Cramer from “Mad Money,” a real show on CNBC about investments and stock tips. Patty Fenn ( Julia Roberts) directs fake “Money Monster” from the booth, while Jodie Foster directs the actual film. It’s a provocative idea, that a TV network might be overtaken by a madman and allowed to run rampant on the air for several hours, and it led me down a rabbit hole of wondering, “Has anything like this ever actually happened before?” The short answer seems to be that it hasn’t, at least not to such a grandiose scale. Sneaking into a television studio armed with explosives and wandering onto the set during an apparently live telecast to take over the operation wholly without resistance is just not a thing that studios abide in post-9/11 America. Far more plausible is a phenomenon called “broadcast signal intrusion,” where a person hijacks local or national stations remotely in order to project some sort of insane agenda or religious ideology for a scant few minutes, until they too are promptly shut down. For example, who can forget the hero known as “Captain Midnight,” who in 1986 took over HBO for several minutes to protest the $12.95 a month subscription services. Imagine the passion it takes to pull off such a stunt, and for such an arbitrary cause! The few instances of genuine on-air antics are either harmless flashers (the streaker at the 1974 Oscars) or they are brief, violent moments (the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald and on-air suicides.) Never do

we have a handsome kid named Kyle with a fake Brooklyn accent (British actor Jack O’Connell of Unbroken) take over an entire network in a Carhartt jacket with a cartoon bomb on a Tuesday afternoon. But of course, Money Monster is just a movie, free to creative license, and the implausibility is not the problem—there’s actually a lot to admire in the picture. First of all, we have a reliable chemistry between Roberts and Clooney, in which Clooney plays the spoiled but charming TV star, and Roberts is literally his unsung voice of reason via a sound chip in his ear. Money Monster begins with a lot of speed and stays that way throughout. Before the hijacking, the cast and crew zip around the set with that frenetic energy characteristic of successful, money-driven people. It’s a different rhythm from Montana, and a fun place to visit. There are some surprisingly funny moments too, like when the hijacker’s wife shows up and behaves not at all the way you might expect. Finally, the film offers some intelligent observations about the psychology of greed and how those with power have designed a system that shelters them far away from ever having to answer to their victims. It makes a common enemy out of flashy television stars and Wall Street corruption while always managing to toe the line of controversy. Is Kyle for Trump or Bernie? He could go either way. In the end, Money Monster devolves into a silly third act and never does it fully engage with the real politics of the situation. Stacked up against recent, sharper films like The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street, the fluffiness is just a tad too much to forgive. Money Monster continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] each other. Also starring Jessica Chastain. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE What’s next, a movie inspired by a grocery store receipt? When an island of happy, flightless birds is invaded by green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely heroes to save the day. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

THE JUNGLE BOOK The 1967 original with Louis Prima and Phil Harris will never be surpassed, but as they say, YMMV. Disney’s reboot of the Rudyard Kipling story features Bill Murray as Baloo the Bear, ScarJo as Kaa the Snake and Christopher Walken as King Louie. It holds promise. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

DARK CITY This week’s Movie Cult wheel has landed on Dark City, a 1998 drama/fantasy about a man living in a world with no sun, much like Missoula in February. Stars Jennifer Connelly and Rufus Sewell. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., May 21, at 9 PM.

KEANU Key and Peele make their big screen debut in this story of a couple of dorky friends who pose as drug dealers in order to retrieve a stolen cat. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12.

MAC AND ME Movie Mockers features Missoula comedians tearing into a classically bad movie a la MST3K. This week they shred Mac and Me, the shameless ET ripoff about a captured alien trying to escape from NASA by befriending a wheelchair-bound boy. Rated PG. Showing at the Roxy Wed., May 25, at 8 PM. THE MEDDLER Local boy made good J.K. Simmons stars with Susan Sarandon in this comedy about a woman who follows her grown daughter when she moves to L.A. and can’t seem to mind her own %$&@# business. Rated PG13. Showing at the Roxy.

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY A man who grows up poor in India gains admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, and under the tutelage of his mentor, G. H. Hardy, becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy.

“Absolutely not! You cannot have this bag of James Franco’s underwear!” Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is rated R. Now showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex

MINIMALISM: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS Imagine a life with less stress, less debt, less discontent and less stuff. Now fill that space with more time, more meaning, more growth and more contentment. This film shows you how. Showing at the Roxy Tue., May 24, at 7 PM.

the apparent suicide of a porn star in the ‘70s. This really is how people dressed back then. I have the Angel’s Flight pants to prove it. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2013) In conjunction with Shakespeare’s First Folio exhibit, the Roxy presents Joss Whedon’s retelling of this classic Shakespeare comedy about romantic confusion. Starring Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof and Fran Kranz (and watch for the ever-adorable Nathan Fillion). Rated PG-13. Wilma.

BLUE VELVET The Essential Cinema series features David Lynch’s classic Blue Velvet. When Kyle MacLachlan discovers a severed ear in a field, things don’t just get real, they get surreal. Also stars Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., May 19.

NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING Seth Rogan and Zac Efron are back in this reprise of the original raunch-fest. This time it’s a party-hearty sorority moving in next door. Will they be able to withstand the onslaught of recycled gags from the first movie? Also starring Rose Byrne and Selena Gomez. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Captain America and Iron Man find themselves on opposite sides of the ideology fence in Marvel’s latest installment of the “Avengers” franchise. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

THE NICE GUYS Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are a comedy dream team as two fading L.A. detectives trying to unravel

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CHASING THE LIGHT Indigenous Cinema presents a film by Blackhorse Lowe, a black comedy about a struggling writer in Albuquerque who goes on a bad trip in every sense of the word. Blackhorse blends the styles of Linklater,

[24] Missoula Independent • May 19–May 26, 2016

Tarantino and Jarmusch in this ambitious feature. Showing at the Roxy Thu., May 19 at 7 PM. CRIMINAL A dead CIA spook’s memories and skills are implanted in a death row inmate’s brain in the hopes that the convict will complete the mission. Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman and Kevin Costner star. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. THE DARKNESS A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation, haunted by an ancient supernatural entity they accidentally awakened, probably when they jumped the turnstile on the Skywalk. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12. GREEN ROOM As anyone who saw Repo Man will attest, punk rock and crime are a great combo. This thriller features a punk band who witnesses a murder and gets involved with a fight for survival against a group of vicious skinheads. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12. THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth are back in this sequel that pits rival queens Ravenna and Freya against each other as Sara and Eric try to conceal their love for

MONEY MONSTER Julia Roberts and George Clooney are together again in this thriller directed by Jodie Foster. When a pissedoff investor takes over a financial TV show, the producer and host are put in an extreme situation. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. (See Film.) MOTHER’S DAY Garry Marshall directs this rambling rom-com about three generations coming together in the week leading up to Mother’s Day. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts and Jason Sudeikis. Rated PG13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. ZOOTOPIA In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive con artist fox and a rookie bunny cop must work together to uncover a conspiracy in Disney’s new animated feature. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12. Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 7289380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

[dish]

Grilled flatbread with eggplant by Gabi Moskowitz If you claim to hate eggplant, I double-dog dare you to try this pizza. Hell, I triple-dog dare you. Seriously. That slimy, spongy texture that so many people associate with this innocent vegetable disappears when the eggplant is roasted over an open flame. It’s replaced with a silky, smoky, rich result, substantial enough to act in place of tomato sauce on these grilled flatbread pizzas. This dish would work well with feta or goat cheese in place of the mozzarella and parsley or basil in place of the mint. Feel free to experiment. Ingredients For the pizza dough: 2 ½ cups flour 1 cup warm water 1 packet dry active yeast 2 tablespoon sugar 2 tablespoon olive oil plus more for the bowl 1 teaspoon salt For the pizza: 1 medium eggplant about 7 or 8 inches long 2 cloves garlic, minced finely 1 tablespoon olive oil plus more for grill salt and pepper to taste flour for rolling 4 oz. fresh mozzarella, sliced into thin medallionsized pieces 2 Roma tomatoes, sliced few pinches red chili flakes 1 small bunch mint leaves, chopped (Recipe serves 4) Directions To make the dough, combine water, yeast and sugar and set aside in a warm place until it begins to foam (about 4-5 minutes). Meanwhile, in a bowl, mixer with paddle or a food processor, combine salt and flour. Slowly stream in the yeast mixture and add the olive oil. If using a mixer or food processor, turn on and allow ingredients to combine until they form a ball of dough. If you’re using a mixer, now is the time to switch to the dough hook. Knead (either by turning on your machine or by hand)

BROKEASS GOURMET for 2-3 minutes. Set aside in an oiled bowl, covered with a damp dish towel in a warm place (like an oven that has been turned on and then turned off and allowed to cool a bit but is still warm) for 30 minutes. After dough has doubled in size, punch down and allow to rise for another 30 minutes. This recipe calls for using half of the dough you just made. Keep the other half in the fridge for your next flatbread, pizza, calzone, homemade tortillas—I could go on. Bring the flame of a burner on a gas stove or an outside grill up to high. Hold the eggplant with tongs over the flame for 2-3 minutes per side, rotating to make sure the entire eggplant gets roasted. The skin should be completely brown and blistered and the flesh should be very soft. Once eggplant has completely roasted, run it under cold water until cool enough to touch and carefully peel off the skin and discard. Place the soft skinless flesh in a small bowl and mash with the back of a fork until very soft. Stir in garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. Set aside. On a floured surface, divide half the pizza dough into 4 small balls. Use a rolling pin to roll each one into a 6-inch circle and set aside on a floured surface. Brush a grill or grill pan lightly with olive oil and bring to medium-high heat. Carefully lay dough rounds on the surface of the grill (working in batches if using a grill pan or a small grill). Allow to cook on one side until dark grill marks appear and crust becomes somewhat crisp. Flip using tongs and spread a thick layer of the eggplant mixture over each dough round. Top eggplant with a few slices each of mozzarella and tomato. Reduce heat to medium and cover grill or grill pan. (If your grill pan doesn’t have a cover, use a baking sheet or frying pan big enough to cover it.) Cook 2-3 minutes, until cheese begins to melt. Check the bottom of the crust periodically during cooking to avoid burning. Once flatbreads have finished cooking, sprinkle with red chili flakes and chopped mint. Cut into wedges and serve hot or room temperature.

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Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:305:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 44 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. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive

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[dish] service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily, local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegranate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies

topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$

Buzzed Yoga at Missoula Brewing Company

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Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins • 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ The Trough 721-3322 thetroughmissoula.com Hidden gem in Target Range neighborhood. Upscale deli offering a unique selection of breakfast items, coffee, cold sandwiches, grilled Panini's, soups, salads and more, created by professional chefs. Whether it be a catered event, a hosted party, breakfast, lunch or just tonight's dinner for a busy family, we are here for you. Open daily at 2106 Clements Rd, just down from the big cow.

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What it is: It should come as no surprise that two of Missoula’s favorite pastimes— drinking beer and doing yoga—would eventually combine into one activity. Missoula Brewing Company, home to Highlander beer, recently partnered with Hot House Yoga to make the inevitable happen, resulting in helping people get loose in more ways than one.

such a big space and a lot of people who work here like working out,” says Shannon Lukes, the brewery’s owner. “We wanted to know what we could do that combines health and beer.” What you’re drinking: Whether drinking and posing or posing then drinking, you can choose from any of the brewery’s four core beers—Lost Peak Montana Lager, Mount Jumbo Northwest IPA, Bighorn Peak American Bock and Devil’s Hump Red Ale—as well as seasonal specials like the Strawberry Wheat.

What you’re doing: Each Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon, instructors from Hot House Yoga lead a class in the brewery’s grassy yard near the creek. Show up rain or shine; if the weather is prohibitive the class will take place in the space next to the brewing tanks. Just as important, the $10 fee includes a beer, which participants can claim during or after the class.

Where to find it: Sundays at 11 a.m. at 200 International Drive, off Reserve. —Erika Fredrickson

When do you drink? It’s really up to you if you can sip your suds and get your Warrior pose on. Either way, the idea is the same. “We decided to do this because we have

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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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WED | 10PM | STAGE 112 The Cigarette Girls Burlesque celebrates the sexy side with special guest Bettina at Stage 112, Wed., May 25. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$5 advance. 18 and over.

THU | 5/26 | 8PM | WILMA TUE | 9PM | STAGE 112

Yeasayer fill the summer night with experimental rock and pop at the Wilma Thu., May 26. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18/$15 advance at ticketfly.com.

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La Luz play Stage 112 Tue., May 24 along with Sick Sad World and Ancient Forest. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $7/$5 advance at ticketfly.com. 18 and over.

SAT | 7PM | WILMA Piano legend George Winston plays a benefit show at the Wilma Sat., May 21. All proceeds go to the Missoula Food Bank. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30–$40 at ticketfly.com or Rockin Rudy's.

WED | 8PM | WILMA Jewel returns to the Wilma, with JD & the Straight Shot, Wed., May 25. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45–$50/$199 VIP. Tickets at thewilma.com.

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Thursday Need a lava lamp or a purple 5foot bong? You never know what you might find at the Campus Thrift Sale. UM’s Schreiber Gym, 9 AM–3 PM. For info email campusthrift@mso.umt.edu. Adults with mental illness can get friendly support at NAMI Connection, every Thursday at the NAMI office in St. Paul Church, 202 Brooks St., Room 210. 1:30-3 PM. Find the "NAMI" sign on the courtyard door. Email namimissoula@ gmail.com for info. Soon-to-be mommas can feel relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, Thursdays at 4 PM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave. $11/$10 with card. Drop-ins welcome. Call 360-1521.

Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4–5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks or $10 drop-in. Join award-winning author Char Miller and the Bolle Center for a presentation of Miller’s new book, America’s Great National Forests, Wilderness, and Grasslands: A Celebration. Miller speaks at Room 106 at UM’s Forestry Building at 4 PM. Free, open to the public. nightlife Find the best native plants for your space, learn how to build and install a rain barrel and discover how to care for all your plants and vegetables while conserving water. Montana Natural History Center, 5:30–7 PM. Free. And now for something completely different. Enjoy an evening of Ukrainian and Eastern European folk music at a party for the release of Raven & Rose’s new album. Starving Artist Cafe and Art Gallery, 3020 S Reserve St. 5:30–8 PM. Free. MudSlide Charley play the blues at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. Mark Wetherington, volunteer contributor to the Montana Wilderness Association’s Online Hiking Guide, and Deb Gale, wilderness and trails specialist, share some of their favorite hikes in the Bitterroots and adjacent

Friday areas. Learn about opportunities to get your hands dirty in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Bitterroot Public Library, 6–8 PM. Free. Learn to draw some of your favorite arthropods while enjoying a cocktail. Artist in residence Bayla Arietta leads Drink and Draw at the Missoula Insectarium. 6–8 PM. $10, 21 and over. (See Arts.) Multi-instrumentalist Megan Makeever performs her entertaining original songs at Lolo Peak Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. New South Fork play original material and traditional bluegrass. Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8:30 PM. Grab your favorite mug and head over to Tea and Tranquility for a little chill time. Join in the discussion, grab some colored pencils and express yourself, or just take the time to let the buzzing in your head quiet down. North Valley Public Library, Stevi. 6–7 PM. Free. Montana poets Mark Gibbons and David E. Thomas share old and new poems at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. The Trigger Gene premieres at the Crystal Theater. Missoula playwright Rita Kniess Barkey’s story follows a family as they confront life following events that could tear them apart. Features Nathan Adkins, Ann Peacock, Howard Kingston and more. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30. $15/$10 for students and seniors. (See Spotlight.) Alt-rock pioneers Violent Femmes bring their stripped-down, quirky rock to the Wilma with Phoebe Bridgers. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Sold out. Karaoke by Kaleidoscope Entertainment is the featured activity tonight at Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM– 1 AM. No cover. The Camp Daze residency at VFW continues with Portland’s Snow Roller, with locals Deadbeats and Bombshell Nightlight. Also enter the raffle to win a $50 gift certificate to Ear Candy. VFW, 9 PM. $3. (See Music.) San Francisco’s Brian Jonestown Massacre play neo-psychedelic rock at the Top Hat. 9. $18 at tophatlounge.com.

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Locksaw Cartel bring their high energy show to the Top Hat Friday, May 20. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5

Come honor the splendid athletes and coaches of the Special Olympics Summer Games at the Closing Ceremony. Dornblaser Field, 8–9 AM. Find some lightly used treasures at the Daly Mansion rummage sale. All proceeds benefit the Daly Mansion Preservation Trust. Under the big tent at (you guessed it) the Daly Mansion, 8:30 AM–3 PM. For info call 363-6004. The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins Bridge from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. I don't know about you, but wrapping up my work week by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is the perfect lead-in to happy hour. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. Free with $4 admission to MBHI.

nightlife Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday

at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover. Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free motion picture. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Meet the Sprouts at a special open house event. Mingle with the actors and get a sneak peek at Faylee Favara’s new play, Sprouts! Light refreshments will be served. Ravalli County Museum, Hamilton at 6 PM. Free. The young rockers of ZACC’s Boys Rock Camp play their original music at Family Friendly Friday. Top Hat Lounge, 6 PM. Free, all ages. Tom Catmull’s Radio Static bring their original folk-rock to Bitter Root Brewing for a special American Craft Beer Week show. 6–8 PM. Free.

The Flick is Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning slice of life set in a movie theater. Here’s the twist—the audience sits up on the stage and

watches the action take place in the seats. At the Roxy. Note early start time of 6:30 PM. $18/$14 for students. (See Theater.)

The Trigger Gene by Rita Kniess Barkey continues at the Crystal Theater. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 for students and seniors. John Doe continues at Polson’s Theatre on the Lake with the Port Polson Players. 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 PM. Phone 406-883-9212 for reservations. The Ruins play original rock, driving covers and a little country like the Pixies might do it. Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. ShoDown play country music you know by heart at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM, no cover. MudSlide Charley play the blues—Delta and otherwise—at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Locksaw Cartel comprises members from some of the funkiest, rockin’-est local bands of the last ten years. Check out their high energy show at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

Saturday

Sunday

Missoula’s Farmer’s Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave.

Eden Atwood and Friends create an idyllic musical atmosphere at Jazz in the Afternoon. The fundraiser for Missoula Public Radio features cheese and meats and local wines, as well as a silent auction. Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 2–6 PM. $25. Lip Sync Battle raises funds for Camp Mak-A-Dream, with contestants vying for the title of Lip Sync Battle Champion at the Top Hat. 4 PM. $12–$20 at tophatlounge.com. (See Agenda.)

Missoula’s Clark Fork Market features vendors offering local produce and meats as well as locally made products, hot coffee and prepared foods. Music starts at 10:30 under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October.

nightlife John Doe continues at Polson’s Theatre on the Lake with the Port Polson Players. 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 PM. Phone 406-883-9212 for reservations.

Don’t add those old electronics to the landfill, bring them to Opportunity Resources’ Electronic Recycling Collection Day. They can’t take the big stuff like refrigerators, but they will take most small electronics for free. Some items require a fee. Visit orimt.org/ home.html for a list of accepted items and fees. 2821 Russell St., 8 AM–3 PM. Find some lightly used treasures at the Daly Mansion rummage sale. All proceeds benefit the Daly Mansion Preservation Trust. Under the big tent at (you guessed it) the Daly Mansion, 8:30 AM–3 PM. For info call 363-6004. Join the Evaro Mountain Challenge 5K and 10K Run and Walk to benefit the historical schoolhouse and community center in Evaro. Look for the tents on the east side of Highway 93 N. at milepost 7. Race starts at 8:30 AM. Register on race montana.com or by calling Bob Hayes at 726-3695 or email evarocommcenter@blackfoot.net for entry form. Riverfront hosts a 5K fun run/walk to raise awareness and show appreciation for mental health services in the Bitterroot. Claudia Driscoll Park, 9 AM–1 PM. $20, picnic is free. Register at riverfrontrun.weebly.com. Here’s your chance to gather information to get ready for the coming wildfire season. A program on land management practices at the Grant Creek Inn, 9 AM–3 PM. Free, and catered lunch is included. To register call Steffany at 258-4211 or email steffany @missoulaeduplace.org.

nightlife David Boone plays original acoustic folk at Ten Spoon Vine-

Wrap up your weekend on a sweet note when Mike Murray plays at Draught Works Brewery. 5–7 PM. Free.

photo courtesy of Tom Robertson

You know him, you love him, you just want to give him a noogie. Tom Catmull and his Radio Static provide rhythmic fodder for your dancing needs Sat., May 21 at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

yard and Winery. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music at 6. Free. Good Old Fashioned play oldtimey tunes with new-timey energy at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. Bitterroot favorite Joan Zen brings her soulful singing to Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free.

The Flick is Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning slice of life set in a movie theater. Here’s the twist—the audience sits up on the stage and watches the action take place in the seats. At the Roxy. Note early start time of 6:30 PM. $18/$14 for students. (See Theater.) The League of Women Voters offers an educational public forum about the history and role of U.S. political parties on the race for the presidency. Experienced leaders from both major parties help to illuminate the role of party delegates and the party rules that govern the process. Third floor of the University Center, 7–9 PM. Free.

John Doe continues at Polson’s Theatre on the Lake with the Port Polson Players. 7:30 p.m., Sun-

Western Union play authentic Texas swing at the Missoula Winery. 5646 W. Harrier. 6–8 PM. $7.

Dig some great local brew and great local jazz at Imagine Nation Brewing Co.’s Sunday Night Jazz with Monk’s New Brew. Gary Kiggins hosts some of Missoula’s finest talent every Sunday, 5:30–8 PM. Free.

The Flick is Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning slice of life set in a movie theater. Here’s the twist—the audience sits up on the stage and watches the action take place in the seats. At the Roxy. Note early start time of 6:30 PM. $18/$14 for students. (See Arts.) Celebrate spring with the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival as they present Shorts for the Birds. Silver Theater, 2023 S. Higgins. 7 PM. Free. Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, enjoy the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour every fourth Sunday of the month at the VFW, at 8 PM sharpish and lasting just one hour. Includes half-off drink specials. $3 sugg. donation.

day matinees at 2 PM. Phone 406-883-9212 for reservations.

The Trigger Gene by Rita Kniess Barkey continues at the Crystal Theater. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 for students and seniors. Piano legend George Winston plays a benefit show at the Wilma. All proceeds go to the Missoula Food Bank. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30–$40 at ticketfly.com or Rockin Rudy’s. The Ruins play original rock, driving covers and a little country like the Pixies might do it. Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. Tom Catmull’s Radio Static play danceable folk-rock at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. 406 rock their country steady at the Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM. No cover. Get your ya-ya’s out when Super Dirt play it loud and fast at the Dark Horse Bar. 9:30 PM. It’s a big night of local flavor with everything from singer-songwriter to hip-hop. Sam Waldorf, Big Shade, Ian Velikoff and Chloe Gendrow share the stage at the Palace. 10 PM.

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Tuesday

Monday nightlife The Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free. Learn what you can do to help at the Suicide Prevention Training class. Missoula Public Library, 6–8 PM. For info emailmfrost@mso.umt.edu. Acoustic Americana duo Britchy celebrates the release of their new CD,

with a little help from Bob Wire. Shakespeare & Co., 7–9 PM. Free. Test your knowledge of the natural world at Naturalist Trivia Night. 7– 9 PM. $4/free for MNHC members. To quote the man himself, a “very subtle yet still dangerous version” of the John Floridis Trio plays top shelf jazz at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7– 10 PM. Free.

Wednesday

nightlife Perspectives on Islam is a Humanities Montana program offered by UM professor Samir Bitar. He uses literature, film and other resources to provide a view into Muslim societies. North Valley Public Library, 6:30 PM. Free. Glen Chamberlain reads from and signs his new book, All I Want Is What You’ve Got. trivia Fact & Fiction downtown, 7 PM. Free. Runners Mike Foote, Mike Wolfe and Steven Gnam give a multimedia presentation on their run from Missoula to Banff along the Crown of the Continent. MCT Center for the Performing

Arts. Doors at 6:30 PM, program at 7. $5. Sunshine Unlimited and Shakespeare Under the Influence finish out their season with Hamlet Interrupted. Grab an adult beverage and see if the moody prince can get a word in edgewise among the laughter and drinking. At the Union Club, 7 PM. Free. Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our question for this week: What’s the last name of Harold, the namesake of Harold’s Club? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

nightlife Shannon Tharp reads from her new book, Vertigo in Spring, and Whit Griffin reads poetry from his new collection, We Who Saw Everything. Shakespeare & Co., 6 PM. Free. Charity Pint Night at Great Burn Brewing means they donate 50 cents of each beverage sold to a local nonprofit. Tonight’s beneficiary is Climate Smart Missoula. 6–8 PM. Free. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. The Spartan Jazz and Symphony bands team up for a concert that features their graduating seniors. A potluck awards banquet precedes the concert. Sentinel High School,

banquet at 6 PM, concert at 7. Free. (Trivia answer: Harold Herndon.) Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Halfprice whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Odds are pretty good that she’ll play “The Missoula Song.” Jewel returns to the Wilma, with JD & the Straight Shot. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45–$50/$199 VIP. Tickets at thewilma.com. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. The Cigarette Girls Burlesque celebrates the sexy side, with special guest Bettina. Stage 112, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$5 advance. 18 and over.

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La Luz, Sick Sad World, Ancient Forest share the stage at Stage 112. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $7/$5 advance at ticketfly.com. 18 and over. Colorado rockers Scatter Gather join The Wrecks and local gals The Blaine Janes for a night of rock ‘n roll mayhem at the Real Lounge. Ask the Janes’ bassist if she’s using flats or rounds. 10 PM, $3. 18 and over.

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Spotlight

J.D. And the Straight Shot open up for Jewel Wed., May 25 at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Show is sold out.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of the Missoula Valley’s best musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM to 1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery @live.com.

Roj, the character played by Howard hearsal process. “She made changes, we adapted to those changes. It’s so interestKingston in The Trigger Gene, is kind of ing to have that,” says Kingston. “She’s a prick. He’s a gruff control freak with a love for the outdoors—quite different from been very open to our suggestions. It’s been a good, symbiotic relationship.” the actor’s real-life self, he says with typical understated British humor. “I consider the outdoors going from WHAT: The Trigger Gene my door to my car.” The affable actor with the stately mane of silver hair and WHO: Third Ear Productions dark-eyed countenance is a regu- WHEN: Thu., May 19–Sat., May 21, lar to Missoula stages, most reand May 27–28, 7:30 PM cently as the title character in Sunshine Unlimited’s production of WHERE: Crystal Theatre Richard III. He loves the challenge of playing unlikeable characters, HOW MUCH: $15/$10 for students he says. “Richard III was pretty and seniors evil,” he says. “But even then you sort of like the guy. He has no conThe play deals with a pair of suiscience but he has these few moments.” cides, one completed and one hovering One advantage The Trigger Gene has over the Shakespeare tragedy is that over Roj, who is in a wheelchair suffering the playwright, Missoula’s Rita Kniess the late stages of diabetes. When the time Barkey, was there throughout the recomes, he tells his daughter Sarah (Robin

Rose), he’ll pull the trigger himself. The gunmaker’s beloved Winchester 73, the very rifle that his son-in-law Terry used to end his own life, is never far from Roj’s grip, adding a layer of tension to the performance. At one point Roj obtains a tablet that contains Terry’s video suicide note, and it’s acted out at the edge of the Crystal stage in real time. Infidelities intertwined through the relationships are revealed, tightening the screws even further. But it’s not all gloom and doom. “There is some comedic relief in there,” says Kingston. “But it’s not a comedy, the way life is not a comedy.” The hot-button issues of gun control and suicide prevention make this an especially topical play, and Kingston is keeping his fingers crossed for a good turnout. “We’re hoping people will come out and support local actors and writers. There’s a lot of talent in this town.”

—Ednor Therriault

Thursday nightlife Samuel Ligon reads from his new novel Among the Dead and Dreaming and his short story collection Wonderland, and Shawn Vestal reads from his new novel Daredevils. Shakespeare & Co., 6 PM. Free. (See Books.) Russ Nasset was playing Americana before they invented Americana. Catch his folk and blues at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. Western Union play country swing at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. A Night at the Museum provides a new program inspired by parts of

their vast collection every fourth Thursday at the Miracle of America Museum in Polson. 6:30 PM, donations accepted.

Yeasayer fill the summer night with experimental rock and pop at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18/$15 advance at ticketfly.com.

Red Herring is a cabaret show that combines a murder mystery and a spy story with a love story. Try to keep up. O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish, 7:30. Runs through June 4. $20 at the box office or call 8625371.

Highway 93 (the band, not the road) take the stage at Sunrise Saloon, 8 PM. No cover.

New Yorker writer and UM Creative Writing MFA alum William Finnegan returns to Missoula for a reading from his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Shakespeare & Co., 8 PM. Free.

Come check out Caroline Keys and her band before they head off to Portland to record her new album. Sasha Bell Band joins them at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.

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Agenda Lip-syncing used to be a dirty word, thanks largely to Ashlee Simpson, a reality star/mini-celeb whose live debacle on SNL in 2004 tanked her nascent singing career, ultimately dragging her moresuccessful sister Jessica down with her. What happened? Lip-syncing wasn’t new. It’s been around since the early days of “American Bandstand,” when artists pantomimed to a prerecorded version of their hit songs. As Britney Spears and other performers took to singing in front of an army of backup dancers while doing choreographed numbers that would make a gymnast look like a slacker, lip-syncing became prevalent in live performances. Who can sing when you’re doing an aerobic workout? But Simpson, well, she had a live band on that fateful night. When she was introduced to sing her second song, a recording of the tune she’d already sung started playing, complete with vocals as she held the mic down at her side. Her band swapped confused looks and started playing along to the song. Simpson, exposed as a no-talent studio product, inexplicably began dancing a bizarre Irish jig. She stumbled around for a few seconds, clearly mortified, before drifting off the stage while her band

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At this month’s Food for Thought, Kelly Rosenleaf, executive director of Child Care Resources, discusses the financial impact of placing children in childcare settings. Missoula Public Library, 4 PM. Free.

Patrick Weasel Head is this year’s winner of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Peacemaker Award. Join the celebration as he receives the award and a special quilt made for him by the Missoula Peace Quilters. UM’s Payne Family Native American Center, 4–6 PM. Free, open to the public.

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“played” on. At the end of the show host Jude Law, his big-brotherly arm around Simpson, tried to explain it away with a shrug, saying, “That’s live TV.” Simpson proceeded to throw her band under the bus, claiming that they started playing the wrong song. Busted. Now, of course, lip-syncing has become an entertainment unto itself, with Jimmy Fallon’s famous celebrity lip-sync battles showcasing a talent of a different sort. At least now we’re all in on the joke. —Ednor Therriault Lip Sync Battle raises funds for Camp Mak-A-Dream as contestants compete for the title at the Top Hat Sun., May 22. All ages contest is at 4 PM, adult event is at 6:30. $12–$20 at tophatlounge.com.

Boot, Scoot & Boogie is an evening of music and good times to raise funds for Supports of Abuse Free Environments (SAFE). Joan Zen provides the tunes and UpNSmokin’ serves up the BBQ. Proceeds are used to support SAFE services to create a future free of violence. Ravalli County Fairgrounds, 6:30–11 PM. $15–$80. For info and tickets visit safeinthebitterroot.org.

SATURDAY MAY 21 Cars, Crafts & Concertos features a cars show, crafts fair, food trucks, raffles and live entertainment. All proceeds go directly to the CS Porter Music Department. CS Porter Middle School, 9 AM–4 PM. Free admission. Meet the artists who make up River’s Mist Artists’ Co-op and Artistic Tea. Handmade cups for sale, with proceeds going to Pantry Partners. 317 Main St., Stevensville. $10.

MONDAY MAY 23 As part of National Mental Health Awareness Month, Kristie Scheel presents a session entitled QPR Gatekeeper Training. Missoula Public Library, 6–8 PM. Free. Unity of Missoula presents The Truth About Cancer, a nine-part documentary film series by Ty Bollinger. One episode shows every Monday, 7–9 PM. 546 South Ave. W.

TUESDAY MAY 24 Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.

WEDNESDAY MAY 25 Every Wednesday is Community UNite, wherein 50 cents of each pint of tasty KettleHouse brew goes to a deserving

organization. Bob Wire provides the music tonight for a triple-dip fundraiser for Missoula Nordic Club, International Mountain Bicycling Association and Adventure Cycling Association. You choose which group you want to support through your beer purchase. KettleHouse Northside Taproom, 5–8 PM. The Give Local community celebration is a family-friendly event to say “thank you” to Missoula for a successful Give Local effort. Awards, music, kids activities, food and beverages and more. Caras Park, 5–8 PM. Free. Bowling for Animals raises funds for Animal Wonders, the animal ambassador program that provides exotic animals for educational adventures at schools, scout meetings and other events. The night of fun includes an auction and raffle, door prizes, billiards, arcade games and food and drink. Westside Lanes, 5:30–8:30 PM. $20/$10 for kids 3-12/Free for kids 3 and under.

THURSDAY MAY 26 Enjoy a nice lunch with other nature lovers at Montana Natural History Center’s 4th annual Women’s Lunch. Proceeds support the MNHC’s summer outdoor camp scholarship fund. 11:30 AM–1 PM. For location and details, call 327–0405.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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ny birder worth his pin feathers knows about Freezeout Lake. As many as 300,000 snow geese arrive at the 11,466-acre lake each spring after a 1,000-mile journey from California on the way to their nesting grounds in Alberta and central Saskatchewan. They also migrate from Texas and Florida—you can tell those geese by the grits on their breath. At the Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area, 40 miles west of Great Falls on Highway 89 between Fairfield and Choteau, you can get a front row seat to observe these magnificent birds, as well as thousands of Arctic swans and other waterfowl. Each spring hundreds of birders migrate to the area, filling up the motels and B&Bs in the two small towns, the overflow headquartering in Great Falls.

Snow geese are the stars of the show but you can also see upland game birds like mourning doves, ring neck pheasants and grouse, as well as raptors and other species. And let’s not forget the four-legged specimens. You’ll see deer, fox, muskrat, marmots, jackrabbits, badgers, weasels—pretty much any animal that had its own Warner Brothers cartoon 50 years ago. —Ednor Therriault Join Five Valleys Audubon for an overnight trek to Freezeout Lake and the Rocky Mountain Front. Depart at 7 AM. $10. Call Larry Weeks at 5495632 to reserve a spot.

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FRIDAY MAY 20 Come honor the splendid athletes and coaches of the Special Olympics Summer Games at the Closing Ceremony. Dornblaser Field, 8–9 AM. Join other peddlers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free.

SATURDAY MAY 21 Join the Evaro Mountain Challenge 5K and 10K Run and Walk to benefit the historical schoolhouse and community center in Evaro. Look for the tents on the east side of Highway 93 N. at milepost 7. Race starts at 8:30 AM. Register on racemontana.com or by calling Bob Hayes at 726-3695 or email evarocommcenter@ blackfoot.net for entry form. Riverfront hosts a 5K fun run/walk to raise awareness and show appreciation for mental health services in the Bitterroot. Claudia Driscoll Park, 9 AM–1 PM. $20, picnic is free. Register at riverfrontrun.weebly.com. Here’s your chance to gather information about management practices that can help protect your property during the coming wildfire season. The Healthy Acres Seminar offers a program on land management practices at the Grant Creek Inn, 9 AM–3 PM. Free, and catered lunch is included. To register call Steffany at 258-4211 or email steffany@missoulaeduplace.org. Enjoy a day of studying and learning about lichens at Montana Natural History Center’s Naturalist Field Day. Scientist Tim Wheeler leads the group through the forest in the Jocko Valley. 9 AM–5 PM. $80/$70 for MNHC members. For registration and info visit montananaturalist.org. Take in the birds at Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge while sharpening your bird identification on a beginning birder walk. Binoculars available

if needed, minimal walking is involved. Meet at the Metcalf refuge headquarters, 10 AM–noon. Free. Celebrate the accomplishments of Five Valley Land Trust at their 22nd annual banquet. University Center Ballroom, 5:30 PM. For tickets and info visit fvlt.org.

SUNDAY MAY 22 The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100. Celebrate spring with the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival as they present Shorts for the Birds, an evening of short docs about birds and birding. Silver Theater, 2023 S. Higgins. 7 PM. Free.

TUESDAY MAY 24 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at Pineview Park, 5 PM. Free. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/MontanaDir tGirls Various locations, 6 PM.

WEDNESDAY MAY 25 Spend a day at home, home on the range. The National Bison Range, that is, for Dalmatian Toadflax Biocontrol Workday. Learn about biocontrol while you assist Bison Range personnel in collecting stem weevils and moving them to an area where they’re needed. It’s your chance to explore parts of the Bison Range not normally accessible to the public. 9 AM–2 PM. Call Melissa at 2584223 or email mmaggio@missoulaeduplace.org.

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ALL IN A DAY’S JERK I’m a happily married 30year-old woman. A coworker pointed out a senior trainer at work constantly sneaking lustful glances at me. I was later assigned to his section. We quickly became close friends, and he began mentoring me. He’s married, too, with two children, so though we were extremely flirtatious, nothing inappropriate ever happened, and I told my husband about him. Recently, there were rumors that this man and I were hooking up. He freaked, saying he could lose everything, and cut off our mentorship and our friendship. This was a real slap in the face, as was learning that he’d never told his wife about me. Should I confront him about how bad it feels to be cut off by him? —Betrayed Workers’ comp covers many on-thejob accidents—but unfortunately not the kind where a married man slips into a hotel at lunch and has sex with his co-worker. Granted, that isn’t what happened here. But you don’t have to have the fun to have the fallout, which is why some execs now avoid having closed-door meetings with opposite-sex co-workers. Also consider that when somebody has a lot to lose, they have a lot to fear. We all hope for life-changing experiences, but it’s best if they aren’t getting fired, going through a bitter divorce, and having the ex-wife drop off the kids on alternating weekends: “Okay, boys, time to put down the Xbox and go visit your dad at the homeless shelter!” And no, he never announced to his wife, “Hey, honey, I’m mentoring this total hotbody. There’s a rumor that we’re hooking up. Believe me, I wish we were ...” Of course, he wouldn’t say that, but he probably senses what psychologist Paul Ekman has found—that we tend to “leak” what we’re really feeling through facial expressions and body language (especially if these include Gollum-like panting and slobbering: “Must. Have. The. Precious”). You probably understand this intellectually. But the sting from being socially amputated comes out of what psychologist Donna Hicks, an international conflict resolution specialist, deems a “dignity violation.” Hicks describes dignity as “an internal state of peace” we feel from being treated as if we have value and our feelings matter. Because we evolved as a cooperative species and reputation was essential to our remaining in our ancestral band, we react to threats to our dignity as we would threats to our survival. You patch up your dignity not by marching around all woundypants while waiting for him to repair it but by calmly tak-

ing the initiative. Tell him that you miss having him as a friend and mentor—but that you understand. Counterintuitively, you should find that being the bigger one makes you feel better. Acting like the antithesis of the scorned work wife should help him ease up, too. Though it’s unlikely that things will go back to how they were, he should at least stop treating you like poison ivy in career separates.

TRADING WHAT’S-HISFACES I’m a 34-year-old woman who’s been in a yearlong relationship with a wonderful man. I’ve caught myself several times almost calling him by my ex’s name. Surely, this means something, but what? I loathe my ex and regret spending seven long years with him. Still, could I have unresolved feelings for him? —Disturbed It’s like when you pour orange juice on your cereal instead of milk, which surely only happens because you’ve been having sex dreams about fruit salad. If your near name slips are a sign of anything, it’s probably that you need a snack and a nap. Your brain is an energy hog, so it likes to cut corners where it can, especially when you’re tired. Basically, like your web browser, it’s big on autofill. In researcher-speak, this means it makes “retrieval errors”—reaching into the right file drawer but just grabbing any old name and then going, “Yeah, whatever ... good enough.” Research by psychological anthropologist Alan Page Fiske finds that the biggest predictors for name swapping are the same “mode of relationship”—like here, where both names are from the boyfriend zone— and being “of the same gender.” Boringly reassuring, I hope. There’s also a boringly simple fix—from memory researcher David Balota: asking and answering the question “What is my current boyfriend’s name?” using “spaced retrieval.” This means setting a timer for, say, 15 seconds and then 45 seconds and then two minutes so you’re recalling the name on demand (as opposed to just reciting it over and over again). You might also try to see these near errors as a sign of the rich tapestry of our bustling modern lives, or some crap like that. At least that’s what I tried to tell myself last week when I got off the phone with “Love you!” and heard back, “Um, yes, ma’am. Thank you for choosing AT&T.”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): To prepare you for the coming weeks, I have gathered three quotes from the Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti. These gems, along with my commentary, will serve you well if you use them as seeds for your ongoing meditations. Seed #1: “He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?” Here’s my addendum: No later than your birthday, you’ll be ready to start from scratch. In the meantime, your task is to find out where scratch is, and clear a path to it. Seed #2: “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” My addendum: Monitor your dreams closely. They will offer clues about what you need to remember. Seed #3: “Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.” My addendum: Go in search of the miraculous.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise,” said Friedrich Schiller. The coming days may be one of those times for you. I therefore advise you to dodge any tendency you might have to be impressed with your sophisticated intelligence. Be suspicious of egotism masquerading as cleverness. You are most likely to make good decisions if you insist on honoring your raw instincts. Simple solutions and uncomplicated actions will give you access to beautiful truths and truthful beauty, especially if you anchor yourself in innocent compassion.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The short attention span is now enshrined as the default mode of awareness. “We skim rather than absorb,” says author James Lough. “We read Sappho or Shakespeare the same way we glance over a tweet or a text message, scanning for the gist, impatient to move on.” There’s a problem with that approach, however. “You can’t skim Shakespeare,” says Lough. I propose that we make that your epigram to live by in the coming weeks, Taurus: You can’t skim Shakespeare. According to my analysis, you’re going to be offered a rich array of Shakespeare-level information and insights. To get the most out of these blessings, you must penetrate and marinate and ruminate.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “An oar moves a boat by entering what lies outside it,” writes poet Jane Hirshfield. You can’t use the paddle inside the boat! It’s of no value to you unless you thrust it into the drink and move it around vigorously. And that’s an excellent metaphor for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, my friend. If you want to reach your next destination, you must have intimate and continual interaction with the mysterious depths that lie outside your known world.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, and now I’m passing it on to you just in time for a special phase of your long-term cycle. During this upcoming interlude, your main duty is to FEED YOUR SOUL in every way you can imagine. So please stuff it with unpredictable beauty and reverent emotions. Cram it with mysterious adventures and rambling treks in the frontier. Gorge it with intimate unpredictability and playful love and fierce devotions in behalf of your most crucial dreams. Warning: You will not be able to rely solely on the soul food that has sustained you in the past. Be eager to discover new forms of nourishment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Here’s how every love letter can be summarized,” says Russell Dillon in his poem “Past-Perfect-Impersonal”: “What is it you’re unable to surrender and please may I have that?” I bring this tease to your attention because it may serve as a helpful riddle in the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase when you will have an enhanced ability to tinker with and refine and even revolutionize your best intimate relationships. I’m hoping Dillon’s provocation will unleash a series of inquiries that will inspire you as you imagine how you could supercharge togetherness and reinvent the ways you collaborate.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-16-365 Karen S. Townsend Dept. No.: 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Janis Dalene Beaty, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Janis Dalene Beaty to Jade Dalena Beaty. The hearing will be on 06/14/2016 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: May 3, 2016 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-16-78 NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL, DETERMINATION OF TESTACY AND HEIRS, AND APPOINTMENT OF PERS O N A L REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD A. SCHMITZ, a/k/a Richard Schmitz, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner, JOSEPH H. SCHMITZ, has filed in

the above Court and cause a Petition for Formal Probate of Will, Determination of Testacy and Heirs, and Appointment of Personal Representative of the above-captioned Estate. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. The Court will hear the Petition of Petitioner for formal probate of Will, determination of testacy and heirs, and the appointment of personal representative in the Missoula County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 31st day of May, 2016, at the hour of 11 o’clock a.m., at which time all persons may appear and object. Dated this 2nd day of May, 2016. REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59801 Telephone (406) 541-9700 Telefax (406) 541-9707 Attorneys for Petitioner By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-16-74 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOUGLAS E. HOLCOMB, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James G. Knollmiller, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 14 day of April, 2016. /s/ James G.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-16-75 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BEVERLY A. GROTBO, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to ALAN L. GROTBO, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 21st day of April, 2016. /s/ Alan L. Grotbo, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ Steve Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 Leslie Halligan PROBATE NO. DP-16-79 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD ORT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Michael H. Ort c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 29th day of April, 2016. /s/ Michael H. Ort, Personal Representative 421 West Juniper Avenue, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV- 3 2 - 2 0 1 6 - 3 4 3 - N C Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Caden Alan James Burckhard Amanda McMillan, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Caden Alan James Burckhard to Caden Alan James McMillan. The hearing will be on 5/24/2016 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-16-85 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ADAM VOLNEY PFIFFNER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lynn C. Pfiffner, the Personal Representative, return receipt

requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 12th day of May, 2016. /s/ Lynn C. Pfiffner c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce St. Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-16-81 Department No. 3 Honorable Judge Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN M. SQUIRES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed, return receipt requested, to the Personal Representative, Paul Daniels, in care of Andrea J. Olsen, Attorney for the Personal Representative at 622 Rollins Street; Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 9th day of May, 2016. /s/ Paul Daniels, PR NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to § 71-1301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on Thursday, August 25, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana:Lot 14 in Block 87 of RAILROAD ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. EXCEPTING THEREFROM that tract

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PUBLIC NOTICES of land conveyed to the State of Montana by Deed recorded September 29, 1964 in Book 237 of Deeds at Page 69. Recording Reference: Book 675 of Micro Records at Page 596 Rodney M. Harsell and Toni L. Harsell, as joint tenants, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, Division of Glacier Bank, which was designated as beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated September 2, 2014, and recorded September 5, 2014 in Book 933 of Micro Records, at page 1222, records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Note secured by the Deed of Trust have not been made as required. As of April 19, 2016, the sum of $95,027.96 was past due. The principal bal-

ance as of that date was the sum of $87,950.00, with related late fees and interest accruing thereon at a rate of 7% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $16.82. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and note and elected to sell the interest of Rodney M. Harsell and Toni L. Harsell, Grantors, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed David J. Steele II of Geiszler Steele, PC, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Deed of Trust and

MNAXLP note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATE this 21st day of April, 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. /s/David J. Steele II, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA County of Missoula. This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 21st day of April, 2016, by Timothy D. Geiszler, on behalf of David J. Steele II, Successor Trustee. /s/ Katie M Neagle Notary Public for the State of Montana Commission expires: 07/28/2019

strument No. 200803250 bk-813 pg-345, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Tom M. Jorgensen and Amy E. Jorgensen as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargto Financial Montana, Inc. 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 16 of J & M Suburban Homesites No. 2, 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 10/16/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 8, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $146,466.86. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $139,428.27, 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

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(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.co m and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.co m or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.115721 Jorgensen, Tom M. and Amy E.) 1002.286080-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/31/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201114644 Book 882 Page 471, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Robert J. Suthers and Sarah A. Suthers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for First Security Bank of Missoula was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee.

PUBLIC NOTICES First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 1 of Scenic View Estates Addition No. 1, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201409153 B: 930 P: 676, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Branch Banking and Trust Company. 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 02/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 21, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $259,415.26. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $226,705.18, 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).

MNAXLP 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 August 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance

will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to 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.co m and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.co m or USA-Foreclosure .com. SUTHERS, ROBERT and SARAH (TS# 7883.20091) 1002.272475-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE F O L L O W I N G LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on September 12, 2016 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real

property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Larry E. Stolle and Sandra J. Stolle, husband and

wife, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Century Title Company, a Montana Corporation as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to The Lomas & Nettleton Company, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated July 22, 1977 and was recorded on September 27, 1977 as Instrument No. 408933 book 104 page 1245, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 2260 South 10th Street West, Missoula, MT 59801 and being more fully described as follows: LOTS TWENTY TWO (22) AND TWENTY THREE (23) IN BLOCK SEVENTY EIGHT (78), IN

missoulanews.com • May 19–May 26, 2016 [C7]

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s “Freemium”–another freestyle display of words.

by Matt Jones

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[C8] Missoula Independent • May 19–May

PUBLIC NOTICES DALY`S ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the Mortgage PassThrough Certificates 1997-HUD1. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $15,560.78 beginning March 1, 2012 through May 20, 2016; plus interest due of $4,054.72; plus escrow payment of $11,001.69;

less suspense balance of $57.08; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $18,616.89 with interest thereon at the rate of 8.50000 percent per annum beginning March 1, 2012; plus escrow advance of $12,553.50; plus property inspection fee of $42.00; plus title search of $204.40; plus foreclosure fees and expenses of $1,913.00; plus other costs of $3,655.96; less suspense credit of $57.08; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its

MNAXLP interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor

Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: April 29th, 2016 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 17 AND 18 AND THE WEST 10 FEET OF LOT 19 IN BLOCK 86 OF RAILROAD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF RECORDING REFEERENCE: BOOK 317 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 2148. BETTY L BENNETT, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to I.R.E. Processing,

as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on May 24, 2006, and recorded on May 31, 2006 as Book 775 Page 505 Document No. 200612542. The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 $729.17, beginning July 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 3, 2016 is $92,475.11 principal, interest at the rate of 7.74000% totaling $4,214.44, late charges in

PUBLIC NOTICES the amount of $1,078.98, escrow advances of $890.00, suspense balance of $-120.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $236.30, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under

the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 23, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 23 day of February, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Caliber vs BENNETT 100716-1 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Debra S. Herrod a/k/a Debra S. Kittrell, Route 1, Box 218, Carson, MS 39427 Debra S. Herrod a/k/a Debra S. Kittrill, 1326 Airport Road, Seeley Lake, MT 59868 Debra S. Herrod, a/k/a Debra S. Kittrell, PO Box 394, Seeley Lake, MT 59868-0394 Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 Michael

MNAXLP J. Moore/Bree S. Williamson of Collection Bureau Services, Inc., PO Box 7339, Missoula, MT 59807 Collection Bureau Services, Inc., 212 East Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802 Jeffrey Koch as Registered Agent of Collection Bureau Services, Inc., 212 East Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802 Reid J. Perkins & Jesse Kodadek of Worden Thane P.C. for CB1 Inc., DBA CBM Collections, 416 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 CB1 Inc., DBA CBM Collections, 416 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 598022 Corporation Service Company, as Registered Agent of CB1 Inc., DBA CBM Collections, 26 West Sixth Avenue, Helena, MT 59624 Corporation Service Company, as Registered Agent of CB1 Inc., DBA CBM Collections, PO Box 1691, Helena, MT 59624-1691 TAX ID #1229302 Pursuant to section 15-18212, Montana code annotated, Notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: S02, T16N, R15W, LOT 1 OF KITTRELL SUBDIVISION 2. The property taxes became delinquent on: 714-2013 3. The property tax lien was attached as a result of a tax sale on: 1125-2014 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on: 11-25-2014, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to M.I.P. Assets LLC, whose address is PO Box 16561, Missoula, MT 59808 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and cost is: Tax: $3,616.71 Penalty & Interest: $297.49 Costs: $75.00 Total: $3,986.20 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be re-

deemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to M.I.P. Assets, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is : Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 2584747 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this: MAY 12, 2016 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Erik Owen Hult aka Eric O. Hult, 1890 Copper Cliff Dr., Bonner, MT 59823 Erik Owen Hult aka Erik O. Hult, 1890 Copper Cliff Dr., Potomac, MT 59823 Erik Owen Hult aka Erik O. Hult, 1488 Camas Road, Bonner, MT 59823 Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 TAX ID #3412707 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana code annotated, Notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale

certificate as: Hult Addition, S29, T13N, R15W, LOT 1 2. The property taxes became delinquent on: 7-11-2013 3. The property tax lien was attached as a result of a tax sale on: 10-25-2013 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on: 10-25-2013, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to M.I.P. Assets LLC, whose address is PO Box 16561, Missoula, MT 59808 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and cost is: Tax: $3,732.25 Penalty & Interest: $209.47 Costs: $75.00 Total: $4,016.72 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Amount/Property Desc. 3366/Sage Knowles/$274/saw 6168/Bo Standish/$617/tools 6156/Alyssa Braband/$479/misc. SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Highway 93 S, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 @ 5:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.

issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to M.I.P. Assets, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is : Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 258-4747 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this: MAY 12, 2016 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DUANE JONES Sr, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Duane Jones Jr, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Duane Jones Jr, 7364

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 136, 166, 178, 274, 373 & 479. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday May 23rd, 2016. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday May 26th, 2016 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final

Meadow Dr., Missoula, MT 59808. I declare under penalty or perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Duane Jones Jr, Personal Representative Terrace Lake Storage located at �1104 Terrace Lake Road/ 46928 Mary Thomas Lane, Ronan MT has changed ownership. The property is now managed by Caras Property Management located at �215 Main Street Polson MT. If you have items in storage, you must contact Caras Property Management (CPM) on or �before June 1, 2016 to pay outstanding charges and enter into new storage contracts. CPM intends to dispose of all unclaimed items currently in storage at Terrace Lake storage �on June 1, 2016. Caras Property Management can be contacted by phone at �406872-2990 by email at polson.caraspm@gmail .comor come by the office located at �215 Main StreetPolson.

COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on Thursday, May 19th, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. A silent auction will be held Thursday, May 19th at 11:00 a.m. at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. 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.

missoulanews.com • May 19–May 26, 2016 [C9]

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[C10] Missoula Independent â&#x20AC;˘ May 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 26, 2016

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REAL ESTATE 2 Kasota. 4 bed, 2 bath with updated kitchen, finished basement & single attached garage. $244,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2 River Road homes on 2.24 acres. $400,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com 2523 Rattlesnake. 3 bed, 2 bath 1930’s bungalow with large country kitchen & wood floors. $425,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $295,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 339 East Beckwith. 3 bed, 2 bath updated University District home on corner lot. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 360 Stone Street. 5 bed, 4 bath ranch style on 3 acres. Additional 2.52 and 6.49 acre parcels also available. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com

442 Kensington. Very cute, updated 1 bed, 2 bath with single garage. $232.900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 7288270. glasgow@montana.com

course. Roomy 3 bed 2.5 bath with 2910 sq. ft. of living space and an over-sized garage. $309,500. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

bike trails and Good Food Store. Sweet, light, bright and ready to move into! $280,000 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

4611 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath on almost 1/2 acre near the river. $425,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

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4Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $469,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 532 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, arched doorways and single garage. $255,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 738 Michigan. Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath with fenced backyard & Mt. Jumbo views in East Missoula. $243,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Natural Housebuilders, Inc. Building comfortable energy efficient craftsman homes with radiant floor heat. 406369-0940 OR 406-6426863. Facebook/Natural House builders,inc. Solar Active House. www.faswall.com. www.naturalhousebuilder.net Trail Street 2144 Trail Street. 3 bed 2 bath, great location near

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park / Slant Streets Condo. $225,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $154,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com

Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor @gmail.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES

erties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ig-

natius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Roundup. Tract #5 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com

Look Spring Sale Modular homes starting at $79,000 Double Wides $69,000, Single Wides $ 52,300. Call J&J Homes 406259-4663

LAND FOR SALE 2003 Lil Diamond Cluster. Beautiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Prop-

Energy Efficient! 520 Luella Lane. Centrally located 2 story home near bike trails and the Good Food Store! Low maintenance, energy-efficient home with over 2000 square feet! $260,000 KD 406-2045227 porticorealestate.com Farviews Home 107 Ironwood Place. Beautiful home with delicious views galore on a quiet cul-de-sac located in the Farviews area bordering golf

82 Wildwood Lane, Stevensville, MT $175,000

Don't miss this opportunity to have a beautiful quiet location on 4.50+ park like acres with a pond, irrigation, and a huge shop! This 1977 double wide manufactured home on a permanent foundation, features 3 bdrms/ 2 baths, an open floor plan, updated windows, flooring, updated kitchen w/ newer counter tops, cabinets, range, and tiled master bath floor. The property is fenced and cross fenced for dogs and horses. There are outbuilding which have been used as barns, and chicken coops. There is a huge enclosed garden with a raspberry patch. The seasonal pond is used for irrigation and the sale includes the pump and hoses needed for watering. Don't miss the 36x40 shop w/ wood burning stove, on it’s own power w/ a separate bill. MLS #21604084 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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NHN Roundup. Tract #7 20 acres. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com Business For Sale Established bulk spices, herbs, teas and gifts. All products, furnishings and equipment must be moved. Turn-key. 406-8223333

5 Bdr, 3 Bath home on 20 acres on Petty Creek. $450,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 82 Wildwood Lane, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath manufactured home on over 4.5 acres near Bitterroot River. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com Hot Springs 205 E Street, Hot Springs. Super-efficient 1 bed, 1bath. $139,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens. $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Six Mile Huson 17430 Six Mile Road, Huson. Stunning property with beautiful land and views. 3 bed, 1.5 bath early 1900’s well maintained farmhouse. Yard features a massive raspberry patch and many fruit trees! $235,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

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11250 FRED LN, $215,000

738 Michigan • $243,500

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker

Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath on cul-de-sac in East Missoula. 9,600 sf lot, fenced backyard, pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653) landscaped and great Mt. Jumbo view! Properties2000.com Real Estate With Real Experience

This home sits on 5+ acres with lots of southern exposure, greenhouses & well for irrigation. 1700+ sq.ft. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, big formal dining room, spacious master bath with soak tub, detached double garage, additional metal building (big enough for an RV) and more.

Matt Rosbarsky 360-9023 512 E. Broadway