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OOOOH, THAT SMELL: CITY SAYS IT’S FIXED, RESIDENTS SAY IT STILL STINKS

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If you find yourself adding columns of figures in a windowless room, one eye on the clock, or providing customer service to over-empowered weekend shoppers in a big-box store, you have our sympathy—but please know that things could be even worse...........................................................14

News Letters It’s campaign season!.......................................................................................4 The Week in Review The Missoulian uncovers damning UM emails........................6 Briefs Scotch, swords and zombies .............................................................................6 Etc. How campaigns get your digits.............................................................................7 Up Front Has Missoula solved its stink?......................................................................9 Ochenski Shame on U...............................................................................................10 Range The fight against Citizens United picks up steam ..........................................11 Agenda Loon & Fish Festival......................................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Great scapes...................................................................................18 Happiest Hour Wednesday Community Unite Pint Night ........................................19 8 Days a Week Context for your melancholy ...........................................................21 Mountain High Wild Horse Rendezvous ..................................................................29 Scope A Q&A with George R.R. Martin .....................................................................30 Noise M. Ward, Leland Sundries, Black Bananas, Jamestown Revival ......................31 Books Craig Lancaster delivers bittersweet goodness...............................................32 Film Damsels makes you care beyond ascots ...........................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-11

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Asked the morning of Tuesday, May 22, near the Missoula County Courthouse This week the Indy looks at some of the more difficult jobs in western Montana. What’s the best job you’ve ever had?

Follow-up: What’s the worst?

Dan Palchak: The best was definitely fishing guide on the Swan River. I mean, I had to fish all day and make sure other guys had a great time doing the same, all while being on the river.

Food flight: My first job, dishwasher at the Sizzler. It was really hot and really messy. People left a lot of food uneaten, and with the pressure sprayer, well, you ended up stinking like everything they left on their plates. It was nasty.

Maria Vessey: Housewife! Because you never have to be anywhere any specific time, half the time. Of course, pay is not one of the benefits. Deal breaker: Back in about 1980, in Florida, I worked for a half day at a restaurant whose name I can’t remember. The owner was a bigamist, or whatever you call it, and he called the AfricanAmericans the n-word, and the f-word was used every other word. The customers could hear him, too!

Bryan Koop: I was the director of ticketing for AEG Live, a worldwide ticketing and promotion agency. It was amazing, because I love music and got to work in the music industry for 15 years. En pointe: I’d have to say working at the Arvada Center for the Arts in California. I booked shows for them too, but it was all about arts and ballet, and I’m not really an artsy guy.

Justin Shinn: Assistant manager at the Village 6—it was sweet! It was back before digital projectors, and you had to “build” the film. To build it, you had to watch it, so my buddies would come down while I’m getting paid to watch movies. Stackin’ bowls: Washing dishes at Hu Hot. Everybody there gets like three or four bowls, and they’d be stacked to the ceiling and coming in just as fast as I could wash them. I didn’t last very long.

Laurie Legard: Working in Dorney Park, an amusement park, back in high school. I was a kid, so I loved the water park, the wave and the slides. Wipeout: I want to say the one I have now, but really it would have to be working as a nursing assistant, being underpaid and understaffed, and yes, we had to wipe old people’s butts. I actually got a concussion from a combative Alzheimer’s patient—he knocked me cold out.

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Franke Wilmer for Congress The Democratic Party has fielded an impressive group of candidates vying for Montana’s lone seat in the House of Representatives. But the one who stands out as the exceptional candidate is Franke Wilmer.

While her legislative experience and life story are compelling, what sets Wilmer apart are her unwavering commitment to human rights and her expertise in international affairs. She has published books on both subjects.

Since most of us, by definition, are not part of the one percent who control the wealth and power of the nation, we would be well served to have a representative who truly cares about our human rights and not just our economic status. And as we are obviously part of a global economy and world order, it would certainly benefit us to have our member of Congress be someone who understands the issues.

Franke Wilmer is that person. She is prepared to go to Washington, D.C., and represent all the people of Montana. And she is prepared to help lead this nation. She has the heart and mind to be one of our great Montana leaders.

We encourage you to vote for Franke Wilmer. Google her and learn more about her life, her character and her accomplishments. She is a special Montana woman and someone we are privileged to call a friend.

We also want her to be our congressperson.

Robert and Linda Harris Whitefish

Annoyance with obtrusive negative ads will be the least of our problems if our elected officials are once again totally owned by corporations and wealthy individuals.

Republicans like to complain about “judicial activism” when a court decision doesn’t go their way, but they remain silent when the court overrules precedent and commits this most grievous case of judicial activism.

Consider that all five Supreme Court justices who voted for the Citizens United decision were appointed by Republican

“If a Republican president appoints another Supreme Court justice, it will ensure more decisions that transfer power from 'we the people' to the corporations.”

Don’t vote for Republicans If you disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which claimed that corporations are people, be aware of some facts concerning the case. The decision reversed over 100 years of constitutional law based on principles established by this nation’s founders. After all, we fought the Revolutionary War in part to achieve independence from English crown corporations that dominated colonial commerce and governed some of the original 13 colonies. It wasn’t until the Civil War that private corporations gained importance and began exerting increasing influence over government at all levels. After two Montana senators bought their way into office with the support of the Anaconda Copper Company, Congress passed the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1913, changing the rules so that U.S. senators were elected by popular vote rather than by state legislatures.

As a result of the Citizens United decision, unlimited and unaccountable corporate money is flooding the campaigns. The court’s decision overruled two precedents of the Supreme Court that upheld restrictions on corporate and union spending to support or oppose political candidates.

presidents and that the four who voted against it were appointed by Democratic presidents. If you don’t want our government in complete control of international corporate interests, support Jon Tester and other Democrats in their efforts to pass a constitutional amendment repealing the Citizens United decision. Electing a Republican president will perpetuate corporate dominance of our economy, society and politics. If a Republican president appoints another Supreme Court justice, it will ensure more decisions that transfer power from “we the people” to the corporations. Think about this when you vote in November.

Jerry Elwood Kalispell

Sign the petition What a wonderful country we live in.

There is no better time to revel in the positive attributes of our country than during an election cycle. Thanks to the actions of five members of the U.S. Supreme Court, we get to see the results of millions of dol-

lars being spent to influence our elections by spreading every sort of misleading, negative information you can imagine. The enjoyment of dispensing this barrage of trumped-up attack ads is not reserved for the anonymous purveyors of Super PACs, but has become the modus operandi of choice for most of the present day candidates. It is extremely rare to discover a candidate who simply extols positive aspects and offers solutions for the challenges which face constituents.

One of the wonderful things about our system is the freedom we have to be able to say most anything in a political race without providing any references whatsoever. The thing about this is, if something is repeated often enough, many people will accept it as fact.

One other great luxury we enjoy is the option to actually agree with a candidate’s views, but then go into the voting booth and vote for his opponent, who is a member of the political party our parents always supported, even though such a choice is not in our best interest.

All facetiousness aside, we really are fortunate to be able to join together with others who are being oppressed by the super rich and to work through the initiative process to bring about an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will effectively make it illegal once again for corporations to spend unlimited funds to influence elections. Enjoy this freedom, and find a Stand With Montanans Petition to sign. Let’s not let super-rich out-of-state entities tell us Montanans how to vote.

Edd Blackler Big fork

Vote for Bucy Many people respect Pam Bucy for her legal experience as a prosecutor and as chief deputy attorney general, but fewer know about Pam’s behind-the-scenes work representing low-income people. For 15 years—ever since she became a lawyer— Pam has had pro bono clients. She has represented these people (typically in divorce and child custody cases) without pay and without publicity. I became aware of this while working as information specialist at the State Bar of Montana, where Pam volunteered as co-chair of the Equal Justice Task Force. I was impressed with this capable yet modest woman who not only took on legal cases personally but also addressed accessto-justice issues statewide.

Pam is someone who is not too good, or too busy, for people in need. This is only one of many qualities that will make her a great attorney general for Montana. Please vote for Pam Bucy for attorney general.

Jill Sundby Van Alstyne Helena

What beer do we drink when we’re done making beer?

The one you’re about to enjoy in Shift. Canning this Nelson Sauvin hopped pale lager means everyone gets to reward their work. Or play. Or, if you’re like us, combine the two and surround yourself with drinking buddies. Clock out and crack one open.

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VIEWFINDER

by Chad Harder

A 19-year-old man jumps from the Madison Street Bridge into the rushing Clark Fork River, prompting the Missoula and Rural fire departments, Care Flight and the Missoula Police to search the waterway between the bridge and Reserve Street. He was not found. Law enforcement says the man jumped from the bridge with a female companion who made it to shore.

• Thursday, May 17 The U.S. Postal Service announces that it will close its Kalispell mail processing center and relocate operations to Missoula. The move comes as the USPS readies to close 48 other processing centers across the country in an effort to fend off financial disaster. Other locations in Butte, Wolf Point and Helena are slated to remain open.

• Friday, May 18 Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) ask the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Montana’s ban on corporate campaign expenditures.

Such spending, they say, creates “a strong potential for corruption and the perception thereof.” Existing rules “purporting to provide for ‘independence’ and ‘disclosure’ in fact provide neither.”

• Saturday, May 19 About 60 soldiers in a Montana Army National Guard aviation medical evacuation unit land at the Helena airport after about a year serving in Iraq. Their homecoming marks the end of Montana soldiers’ involvement in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A freshly degreed UM student demonstrates advanced keg-stand technique during a graduation party at Kiwanis Park May 19.

About town Scotch and swords

• Sunday, May 20 The Missoulian reports on a series of emails sent by UM officials, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, that show, among other things, that UM Vice President Jim Foley sought to punish an alleged rape victim for speaking publicly about UM’s handling of her case.

• Monday, May 21 Missoula Mayor John Engen sends an email to all city employees acknowledging that it was a mistake to ask a police officer to apologize for sending a personal email criticizing UM’s handling of sexual assault cases. The Missoulian reported Sunday on Engen’s admonishment of the officer’s “inappropriate message and its content.”

• Tuesday, May 22 Missoula County Public Schools Superintendent Alex Apostle interviews for a job with the Bellevue School District near Seattle. Apostle, the MCPS head since 2008, is one of three finalists for the post. It’s his second interview with a Washington school district in recent weeks.

Saturday night, May 19, inside the Zombie Tools warehouse on Wyoming Street, Tara Maus and Jennifer Hurley are dressed in skimpy red and black clothing—like “sexy zombie warriors,” Maus says— and they’re standing behind a table with several bottles of Scotch lined up in a row. When no one’s waiting for another pour, Maus pulls a 12-inch-long blade from the sheath hanging from her waist and admires its shape. “It will be mine,” she says. “It will be mine.”

On the other side of the table, the appreciation is for the Scotch that Maus and Hurley are serving. A couple dozen people sip some of the best they’ve ever had as they look around the warehouse, where Zombie Tools’ handmade blades are on display, as is a lot of twisted artwork involving baby dolls, severed fingers and the bottom half of a female mannequin with a plastic duck bill protruding from the crotch.

This is the merging of one of Missoula’s quirkiest institutions—Zombie Tools, which has made a legitimate, international business crafting “accessories for the apocalypse”—with the Serious

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Scotch Gals, a couple of connoisseurs who’ve made a hobby of spreading the gospel of singlemalt Scotch whisky. They’re calling this party “Swords & Scotch.” Maus and Hurley are pouring eight kinds, most of which are smokey and peaty.

One bottle, a Springbank aged 18 years, sells for more than $150.

Maus and Hurley acquired a fondness for Scotch a couple of years ago when the Rhino, a bar in downtown Missoula, hosted a tasting with distillers from Scotland. “We’ve always been whiskey girls,” Maus says, “and obviously, after tasting some of the greatest Scotches that are out there, we were hooked and felt that everyone should understand that not all Scotch tastes like Band-Aids and smoke.”

In February, the duo, both moms, began hosting monthly tastings at the Rhino. They also launched “50 Single Malts in 50 Days,” a series of video reviews on their website, seriousscotchgals.com. “Our goal,” Maus says, “was just to get people interested in single malt whisky—the idea that drinking shouldn’t just be about getting completely obliterated.”

As for their zombie warrior outfits, “It’s not what we normally wear to our tastings,” Maus says.

Matthew Frank

Justice Jail negligence?

Michayla Brilz, 27, hanged herself with a telephone cord while incarcerated at the Missoula County Detention Center last year. On May 9, attorneys representing her family asked a judge to compel the county to release information to help them determine if jailers were negligent in her death.

“We have collected information over the last six months or so that leads us to believe that there may be a strong basis for a lawsuit,” says the family’s attorney, Milt Datsopoulos.

Prior to Brilz’s April 26, 2011 death, she was treated for bipolar disorder, court documents say.

She also had a criminal history. In 2010, Brilz pleaded guilty of obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest. She was on misdemeanor probation for driving under the influence when, in the spring of 2011, prosecutors charged her with criminal distribution of dangerous drugs for allegedly paying a babysitter with prescription medication.

Brilz was taken into custody at the end of April 2011 for violating the terms of her release.

According to a coroner’s inquest conducted after Brilz’s death, she was intoxicated that night; her

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blood alcohol level was 0.20, two-and-a-half times the legal driving limit. A detention center staffer testified that Brilz seemed relaxed before she was placed in Holding Cell C. She talked about her two young children. She said nothing of suicide.

Roughly 40 minutes after Brilz was placed in the holding cell, a detention center staffer found her unresponsive and with a phone cord wrapped around her neck.

Last July, the six-member jury that convened for the coroner’s inquest unanimously found the county innocent of criminal negligence. Datsopoulos, however, points out that there’s a significantly lower threshold of proof required to show civil negligence. He wonders, in light of Brilz’s history of mental illness, why guards didn’t keep a closer eye on her. “It’s not clear why somebody wasn’t watching her,” he says.

Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen oversees the detention facility. He wouldn’t comment on the specifics of the Brilz case, but he says the detention facility has taken steady strides to protect safety since he took over as sherif in 2010. “We constantly have been and continue to look for modifications, improvements, to all aspects to the detention facility, safety-wise.”

Jessica Mayrer

Food Growing Milltown A retired mason just can’t stop laying foundations. Now, instead of bricks, he’s building his community with food. Billy Izzard, founder of the Milltown Garden Patch, found himself on a bridge surrounded by area residents Sunday, May 20. He’d created something from nothing again: the Milltown Bridge Market. “It’s about the town, our town, and trying to create a sustainable economy,” Izzard explained.

Dozens of neighbors showed up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the sun-soaked pedestrian bridge spanning the Blackfoot River, just east of Highway 200. Izzard’s idea was to create an extension of his volunteer-run Garden Patch while offering space for local farmers and crafters. He hesitated to bring competition to Missoula’s markets, but co-founder and market veteran Tom Robinson helped guide him from skeptic to believer. Robinson was slinging succulents, cacti and starters at the south end of the bridge, excited for the new venue as an addition to his 20-year Saturday spot at Missoula’s X’s.

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On the north end, the young Grogan family had the same idea. The Missoula Valley farmers are also Saturday market regulars, offering typical early season fare such as bok choy, spring greens, radishes and tomato starts. They say they’re thrilled to have a second weekly opportunity to sell and support other vendors. “It’s unfortunate to see the small towns

picking up last, but it’s good they’re catching on,” Michael Grogan said.

The Garden Patch had only an info booth its first week, after some tomatoes got frosty, but Izzard says he expects to pile up the produce soon. Across the highway and just down the road lies a beautiful fenced garden housing more vegetables and fruits than you can name in a breath. The stretch of land was home to knapweed and rocks just three years ago. Last year, the nonprofit donated over 1,500 pounds of produce to the Food Bank, locals in need, schools and churches.

Though just seven vendors set up the first week, Izzard is confident the weekly market will grow into the room it has. It’s the only food source in town beside the Town Pump, so there’s a good chance he’s right.

“It’s just doing something for the community,” Izzard said to a thankful customer. “Change the way people see Milltown.”

Brooks Johnson

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mountain lion management in the past.

Populations have dipped and spiked in response to hunting pressure, but, as Region 2 wildlife manager Mike Thompson puts it, the agency never knew if it was accomplishing its goals “in real time.”

If Thompson’s latest proposal to the FWP commission pans out, those days could be over.

“We have the tools for the first time to be able to predict, with quite a bit of confidence, how the lion population will actually react to our harvest,” Thompson says.

Those tools have come out of a string of recent studies in the West, particularly one conducted between 1997 and 2006 in the Garnet Mountains, east of Missoula.

FWP biologist Jay Kolbe, a key field participant, says the first six years of the study saw increased hunting quotas for female lions in the Blackfoot River drainage. The second six years “turned off the spigot,” Kolbe says, virtually eliminating the harvest. “We watched that population rebound back to near pre-treatment levels.

They were able to recover from heavy, heavy hunting pressure very quickly.”

Kolbe says the recent proposal, which aims to reduce lion populations by 30 percent, will create a “pulsing” harvest pressure on female lions, with significant, short-term increases in quotas. This should allow the agency to avoid “the big sweeping changes in lion populations that we’ve had in the past when we’ve had to manage less precisely,” Thompson says.

Local biologists have increasingly mentioned lions as possible contributors to population declines among other species. In the West Fork of the Bitterroot, where elk numbers have dropped dramatically in the past few years, initial data in FWP’s ongoing elk study has shown a higher percentage of lion predation than was expected. The agency is still a long way from drawing any conclusions about lion predation in the West Fork.

The change in Region 2’s strategy for lion management is really a “trial,” Thompson says. “The question is the social side of it. Will people tolerate or support a decrease in lion numbers? Because right now, the way we’ve been managing lions, the result has been high lion numbers. That, combined with wolf, black bear and other factors, is really putting the stress on our prey.”

Public comment on proposed lion harvest quotas for Region 2 ends May 25.

Alex Sakariassen

BY THE NUMBERS

$120 million

Estimated cost of 12 years of Superfund remediations at Silver Bow Creek, near Butte. Gov. Brian Schweitzer fly-fished the waterway May 20 to mark its comeback as a fishery. He didn’t catch anything.

etc.

We’re now two weeks out from the 2012 primary and about five months from the general election. As phones ring and flyers slip through mail slots with increasing frequency, a broader question comes to mind: How the hell do these campaigns get our info?

The average voter might not realize this, but the culprit is actually you. Remember all those boxes you filled in on your voter registration form: name, address, phone number, favorite breakfast cereal, yada yada yada? Yeah.

All that gets compiled by county elections offices and passed up the ladder. It’s known as a voter file, and it’s available to any campaign (read: all of them) willing to pay a fee to the Montana Secretary of State’s office.

SOS spokesperson Terri McCoy says Montana charges $5,000 for a one-year online subscription to the statewide voter file or $1,000 for a one-time download. The subscription includes an absentee ballot report as well, which lists all voters who cast their ballots by mail. McCoy explains that the absentee report can be particularly revealing: For campaigns, it indicates which voters should be targeted when ballots are mailed out in early May. It may seem fishy, the state selling voter names and addresses for so much dinero, but all that is public record and online access to the voter file was mandated by an act of Congress—the Help America Vote Act—back in 2002. Don’t worry. Certain sensitive information is protected, such as your driver’s license and Social Security numbers. The only way to get your physical address removed from the file, however, is by court order.

Montana isn’t the only one compiling this sort of information. State political parties typically reorganize the voter file into their own databases. Other organizations compile their own, such as Montana Conservation Voters, which earlier this month called members to endorse attorney general candidate Pam Bucy and gubernatorial hopeful Steve Bullock. For-profit companies like Media One LLC sell demographically targeted information, databases that break out voter intel based on party allegiance, ethnicity, even gun ownership.

The long and short of it is that your personal information is worth a lot. And in this day and age, campaigns have more than enough money to get it.

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The smell test Has Missoula solved its stink?

by Matthew Frank

“It’s milder than I remember it last cant number of odor complaints didn’t As temperatures have warmed in recent weeks, Ty Harding, owner of Bee summer,” one replied, “but we’ll see how it start coming in until the summer of 2006.

Hive Homes, an assisted living facility on is when the real heat kicks in. Just drive The Missoula City-County Health River Street in Missoula, has wanted to your behind across the Reserve Street Department issued a “notice of violation” open the homes’ windows to let in some bridge around 7 p.m., roll down the win- to both facilities. The incessant stench prompted the city, in 2009, to spend fresh air. But he can’t, he says, “because the dows and open [your] nose.”

“The problem has definitely lessened $76,000 on an Odor Characterization entire inside of the homes get just reeking in the past few years,” said another. “When Study, conducted by Maine-based engistinky—that’s how bad it is.”

At least he and his clients are used to it. it does happen, it isn’t as strong and doesn’t neering firm Bowker & Associates, Inc. Its president, Bob Bowker, is an internationalBee Hive is just downwind of Missoula’s last long.”

City staffers also claim a marked ly renowned odor-control expert. Missoula wastewater treatment plant and neighboralso spent $1,500 on a “field olfactometer,” ing EKO Compost, ground zero of a pun- improvement.

“We haven’t had any complaints— also called a “Nasal Ranger,” a white, gent odor that for years has wafted around blowhorn-looking gadget you the intersection of Mullan hold to your nose to detect Road and Reserve Street, and measure odors. And it spoiling an untold number of also had neighbors like backyard barbecues.

Harding help classify the stink But this spring, area resiby using color-coded odor dents had reason to hope the pinwheels with categories stink would subside. The city such as “Fishy/Ammonia,” spent about $9 million on “Putrid/Dead Animal,” odor-mitigation upgrades to “Rancid,” “Sulfur/Cabbage/ the treatment plant. The Garlic” and “Fecal/Sewery.” biggest item, completed in mid-December, was a state-ofIn December 2009, the the-art headworks, the entry Odor Characterization Study point of Missoula’s raw concluded that the treatsewage, which totals about 8 ment plant was responsible million gallons a day. And for 53 percent, and EKO EKO Compost, which comCompost 47 percent, of the posts all of the treatment odors. Both facilities plant’s dehydrated sewage received a list of corrective sludge, has implemented a actions, with the headworks new “bio-filter” design to treat and bio-filter at the top. Still, exhaust from its aerobic comit was acknowledged then, as post piles.

Schmidt says now, that Have the measures “there’s no way to make that worked? It depends whom kind of operation odor-free.” you ask.

EKO’s bio-filter is a layer “The short answer is, not of straw and other fibrous Photo by Chad Harder really,” Harding says. “It’s material topped with a layer more disappointment. [Last The conveyor belt delivering Missoula’s dried sewage to of charcoal and then a Wednesday] was a really bad EKO Compost near the corner of Mullan Road and North “blanket” of wood chips, says Reserve Street. day. And the bad days are realEKO Plant Manager Phil ly predictable: When the wind Oakenshield, who adds, “It’s blows this way, we have a bad day. … I’ve none, zero,” says Starr Sullivan, superin- working pretty good.” maybe seen a little bit of improvement, but tendent of the treatment plant. “I’ve actualNot that he thinks any improvements not much.” ly had a couple of compliments from peo- could ever be good enough.

Last week, an anonymous commenter ple who take the Reserve Street bridge “No matter what you do, you’re on an Independent story written about the every day. They say they can’t smell the always going to get complaints,” Oakenshield says. “I get people calling, problem in 2009 said they recently left a plant anymore. So it works.” window open overnight in their new apartBen Schmidt, a city air-quality spe- saying things like, ‘Why would you put a ment near Mullan and Reserve and woke up cialist, says he hasn’t fielded any com- composting or waste treatment plant in to a smell that the commenter described as plaints this year, either. “But we don’t the middle of town?’ And it’s kind of like, “puke boiling on a hot street,” an “old out- know if that’s because people are getting ‘Well, when these places were built 30 house” and “rotting corpses.” The com- fatigued calling in complaints.” Harding, years ago, there was no town here. We menter said they had to use “about half a for one, says he’s quit submitting com- were out in the middle of nowhere.’ So the question would be, ‘Why would you bottle of Febreze to get my apartment plaints. smelling normal again.”

While the treatment plant and EKO build your house next to a treatment The Indy recently asked its Facebook began working together in 1977, creating plant?’” followers to weigh in on whether the smell one of the first public-private bio-solid recycling partnerships in the country, a signifihas improved. mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Shame on U It’s not just about rape anymore It’s good news that 22 states and the District of Columbia have signed onto Montana’s challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that gave corporations and Super PACs the same rights as human beings in regard to campaign spending. It’s a long shot that the court will reverse itself, but it’s certainly worth the fight to try and preserve Montana’s century-old Anti-Corruption Act. Still, when it comes to corruption, we can look a lot closer to home than D.C., as Missoula officials and personnel in the highest echelons of the University of Montana are exposed for their attempts to downplay alleged rapes.

Three weeks ago, when writing on the issue of how certain politicians and public figures selectively “fight for Montanans,” this column addressed the announcement that both the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Education had launched investigations into numerous rapes that have plagued Missoula in the last few years. That column applauded UM President Royce Engstrom, Missoula Mayor John Engen and Missoula Chief of Police Mark Muir for their pledge to fully cooperate with the investigations.

But in details revealed in a great and shocking series of articles by Missoulian reporter Gwen Florio last weekend, it becomes clear that Engstrom and Engen as well as UM Vice President Jim Foley went out of their way to cover up rape charges and ignore or intimidate alleged rape victims while protecting UM’s football players and now-shattered reputation.

The emails Florio received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request tell the tale in no uncertain terms. Take, for instance, the email exchange between Foley and now-retired Dean of Students Charles Couture in March, concerning a student who said she’d been assaulted and wasn’t satisfied with the university’s response. In a classic case of blaming the victim, Foley inquires if it’s “not a violation of the student code of conduct for the woman to be publicly talking about the process and providing details about the conclusion?”

He also tries to stop use of the term “gang rape” and asks, “Can anybody tell me where UM has used the terms ‘gang rape’ and ‘football players’ in any public document that the Missoulian would be referencing?”

Couture responded to Foley, saying he used the term in reference to four UM

football players and an accomplice accused of gang-raping a woman “because that is what it was.” But for Foley and his willing gang of co-conspirators, including Engstrom, “date rape” was seen as a more acceptable term to use in the media.

For Jim Foley and his willing gang of co-conspirators, including Royce Engstrom, “date rape” was seen as a more acceptable term to use in the media.

The cover-up got so bad that an offduty Missoula police officer, Geoff Curtis, emailed UM’s administrators, saying, “I am writing to urge you all to stop this spiraling PR mess and take action instead of trying to defend your actions.”

And what did Officer Curtis get in return for his excellent advice to UM’s top dogs? He got pounced on by Foley and reprimanded by Engen, who sent an email to Foley, Engstrom and Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir saying, “You also have my apologies.” Apologies for what? Because a good cop told the truth? Engen went on to ensure UM’s cover-up cabal that “Officer Curtis will be requesting a moment of your time in the near future to offer an apology in person for the inappropriate message and its content.”

What we have at UM and in Missoula is now a full-blown scandal. No longer is it about trying to get justice for victims of rape. No longer is it about who was the

victim and who was the criminal. Now it’s about the serious ethical and character flaws of those at the top of the university and the city. Nor is it simply a Montana issue, since the Wall Street Journal joined in that Freedom of Information Act request. The ugly tale has now escaped local boundaries, despite the best efforts of those who should be seeking the truth to suppress, sanitize and camouflage it to save their own reputations.

Attorney General Steve Bullock, who is on the campaign trail attempting to become Montana’s next governor, should be commended for taking on the Citizens United decision. But corruption doesn’t just come from unfettered campaign spending. What’s happening in Missoula right now deserves Bullock’s attention, too–and a full investigation, starting with the incriminating evidence in those newly released emails. These highly placed, well-paid individuals are Montanans who have been given the trust of the public and are working for wages and benefits paid by the public, which expects, in return, at least a modicum of integrity in public office and service.

Montana already has ethics laws on the books, including MCA 2-2-103, which reads, “The holding of public office or employment is a public trust, created by the confidence that the electorate reposes in the integrity of public officers, legislators and public employees. A public officer, legislator or public employee shall carry out the individual’s duties for the benefit of the people of the state. …

A public officer, legislator or public employee whose conduct departs from the person’s public duty is liable to the people of the state and is subject to the penalties provided … for abuse of the public’s trust.”

It couldn’t be much clearer that the public’s trust–and the duty to the public—has been subsumed by public officials who were vastly more interested in hiding the truth about UM’s rapes than pursuing it. Despite the risks of alienating some powerful people during his campaign, Bullock would be well-served by turning his attention to Missoula and those who have impeded justice.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Moving to amend The fight against Citizens United picks up steam

by Ray Ring

ExxonMobil spits out a gob of chew- corrupt our democracy. We see the dan- environment. ing-tobacco juice and taps a baseball bat ger in this election season, as a new torSchweitzer said, “We want to make a against the cleats of its shoes, knocking rent of ads attack candidates who think point. This is our government, and we’re off the dirt clods. Then “Exx ’Em”—as the regulations are needed to achieve goals not going to allow any corporation to fans like to call their slugger—steps into such as acting on climate change, pro- steal it from us.” He urged voters to the batter’s box and slams the first pitch tecting civil rights and reining in Wall “send a signal to this entire world that over the center-field wall of Dodger Street scams. But corporate interests are Montana is not for sale.” launching more court battles, seeking to Stadium.

The same spirit drives a nationwide Meanwhile, Victoria’s Secret—who apply the full force of the Citizens United campaign called Move to Amend, which likes to be called Vikki—is elbow-deep in ruling in every state. The key case now claims to have more than 1.4 million stinky compost in a Denver garden, centers on Montana, which has limited members, all of whom want to amend preparing to plant zucchithe U.S. Constitution to nis, while Yahoo sits say that “corporations alone in a Seattle park, are not human beings.” getting high on marijuana The campaign is getting to avoid thinking about some traction in the how it lost so much marWest. Last November, votpanel discussion on Wed., May 30, in Missoula will ket share to Google. ers in Missoula overfocus on the impact of corporate influence on state and And Nike is pregwhelmingly approved a local elections, as well as Montana’s place at center nant, lying on its back, local ballot measure callstage of the national fight against corporate personhood. “By the getting a sonogram in a ing for the constitutional People: A Conversation About Corporate Influence On Our Portland clinic, trying not amendment. So did votDemocracy” will feature Attorney General Steve Bullock, who will to giggle at the tickly ers in Boulder, Colo. The defend Montana’s century-old ban on corporate contributions to feeling as the wand Los Angeles City Council political candidates before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bullock sucslides over its swollen passed a similar resolucessfully argued to uphold Montana’s 1912 Corrupt Practices Act tion in December, abdomen, listening to the in the Montana Supreme Court. A challenge to the law by doctor exclaim, “You’re becoming the first major American Tradition Partnership has elevated the case to the going to have a baby boy city to do so. Elsewhere nation’s high court, which will be the first challenge there to the and a baby girl—twins!” in Colorado, the Pueblo 2010 Citizens United decision and its impact on state elections.

If you think those County commissioners The panel discussion will focus on that case, as well as Montana’s scenes are absurd, you unanimously backed the unique history of corruption in politics. should get involved in campaign in January.

Noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at the Missoula Public what might be the most Advocates in Salt Lake Library, 301 East Main St. Free and open to the public. important political camCity are gathering signapaign right now: the nontures on petitions to put partisan campaign to it on the local ballot this declare that corporations are not people. corporate political spending since 1912. November.

A crazy and dangerous trend in fed- Twenty-two other states—including State legislatures in New Mexico and eral law—giving corporations increasing California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii have passed resolutions opposconstitutional rights under the “corpo- Utah and Washington—along with the ing the Citizens United decision, and in rate personhood” doctrine—has ignited District of Columbia have gone to court late April the Vermont legislature became this campaign. The most egregious backing Montana’s limits on corporate the first to support the constitutional example, of course, is the 2010 U.S. spending. amendment. The Sierra Club has also Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens To make the point clear, on May 3, endorsed the campaign.

United case. Five Supreme Court jus- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Corporations are not intrinsically tices, who often ideologically embrace Democrat, and Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger, good or bad, of course. They make and corporate interests, overturned many a Republican, both endorsed a ballot sell many useful products. But they’re previous court rulings and laws that lim- measure that would encourage the fundamentally selfish, greedy automaited political spending by corporations. state’s officials to take a stand that “cor- tons, doing whatever they can to maxiThey based their decision on the notion porations are not human beings with mize profits. Various laws even require that corporations have the right to free- constitutional rights.” They cited the them to act like that on behalf of their dom of speech and that spending unlim- spirit of the Montana voters who passed shareholders. They’re more like robots ited money on political ads and other the limits a hundred years ago as part of than people—and the law should treat propaganda for candidates is a form of their rebellion against the powerful them as such. speech.

Anaconda Copper Company. Back then, Four dissenting Supreme Court jus- Anaconda routinely bought Montana Ray Ring is a contributor to Writers tices in that case, including one appoint- politicians and used them to carry out on the Range, a service of High Country ed by a Republican president, warned its goals of maximizing profits with lit- News (hcn.org ). He is the magazine’s that removing the limits would further tle regard for worker safety and the senior editor, in Bozeman.

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really isn’t much to debate, particularly for us laymen who aren’t out in the field doing the research.

One thing we can agree on: Wolves are predators and they sometimes prey on the always delicious elk. Why wouldn’t they? That doesn’t mean they’re the only creatures seeking out wapiti and co. We have an increasing number of grizzly bears roaming an increasingly large range throughout western Montana, along with increasing mountain lion numbers. All that predator pressure has led to low elk calf counts in the Blackfoot River drainage, according to FWP biologist Jay Kolbe. Some of you already “know” where all the elk are going. You’ve seen things.

You’re out there as much as anybody. You used to get “your” elk every year. Kolbe’s talk might not do much for you people, the barstool experts, but for the rest of us, the ones interested in what’s really going on out there in the woods, science might be a good place to start.

—Jason McMackin

Montana FWP biologist Jay Kolbe speaks about elk and other critters during Photo by Chad Harder the Loon & Fish Festival at the Seeley Lake Elementary will be discussing those two critters, among others, School on Sun., May 26, at 2 PM. and you’re bound to hear groans and gripes from Free. For more festival info., visit alpineartiboth sides of the so-called “wolf debate.” There sans.org/loonfish/.

FRIDAY MAY 25 Help those in need at the Soap and Paper Drive for the North Valley Family Center’s Pay it Forward Free Store. Buy some toiletries, paper products or baby stuff at Gary and Leo’s in Florence and donate on the spot. 4–6 PM.

Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Intercultural Dialogue Group, a monthly meeting that aims to bring together people from various backgrounds for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking. Every last Fri. of the month at 4:30 PM in the library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info.

Best thing you can do after a weekend of hot dogs, chips and Schlitz? Donate blood. Go to the American Red Cross at 2401 N. Reserve. Ste. 6.

2–6 PM. Call 800 REDCROSS.

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Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2–4 PM. occupymissoula.org.

Hear the big dogs argue against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision at By the People: A Conversation about Corporate Influence on Our Democracy, with Montana AG Steve Bullock, moderated by UM law professor Anthony Johnstone. Missoula Public Library.

Noon–1:30 PM. Free.

TUESDAY MAY 29 Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

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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IRONY OF THE WEEK - A Scottish court fined truck driver David Loudon, 34, after he admitted to falling asleep at the wheel in Dumfries and Galloway and hitting a sign advising, “Tiredness can kill, take a break.” (BBC News) EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG - Wind farms could be contributing to climate change and affecting crops, according to new research based on satellite data of surface temperatures from Texas. The findings that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night could affect efforts to expand wind farms. “I feel that wind farms, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional meteorology,” said Liming Zhou of the State University of New York at Albany. John Dabiri, director of the California Institute of Technology’s Center for Bioinspired Wind Energy, said Zhou’s findings show “that we need to think carefully about the unintended consequences of any large-scale energy development, including green technologies.” (Discovery News) Earth has more than one moon, according to an international team of astronomers, although none is permanent or even observable. “At any time, there are one or two 1-meter-diameter asteroids in orbit around the Earth,” Robert Jedicke, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, said, adding that about once every 50 years, “there’s one the size of a garbage truck.” Jedicke explained these Earth-orbiting asteroids remain in orbit only until gravity from other planets in the solar system dislodges them, and they go back into orbit around the sun. (National Public Radio) BIG-BANG THEORY - After an Oklahoma state trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding in Okmulgee County, he questioned passenger Davis Lee Williams, 54, about a suspicious chemical odor. Williams ran away, but the trooper caught him. As Williams resisted, his pants exploded. Trooper Shiloh Hall said Williams had a portable meth lab, known as a one-pot lab, in his pants that burst during the struggle. He was uninjured but arrested. (Tulsa’s KOTV-TV) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Police responding to a domestic disturbance in Myrtle Beach, S.C., charged Alesha Sommer Babcock, 33, with hitting Wayne Emmanuel Malcol Beachem, 37, with an inflatable hammer. Beachem blocked the attack, grabbed the hammer and threw it into the bushes, where officers found it. Babcock told them she remembered attacking Beachem with the inflatable novelty tool because she was trying to kill him. (Myrtle Beach’s The Sun News) SHOW BUSINESS - Arizona resident Jesus Llovera, 43, is suing actor Steven Seagal and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for his arrest, which the civil lawsuit claims was staged for a reality television show that followed Seagal’s exploits as a “deputized officer.” Llovera said Seagal and deputies raided his home because they suspected he was raising fighting roosters, although he insisted the more than 100 roosters on his property were for show, not for fighting. He noted the Sheriff’s Office SWAT team showed up in full riot gear, handcuffed him and took him outside, where Seagal waited, wearing camouflage and sunglasses and hoisting a rifle, while four cameras filmed the event for the cable series “Steven Seagal: Lawman.” The program was slated to premiere on the A&E Network but never aired. Sheriff’s Deputy Chief Dave Trombi denied that the search warrant was based on the needs of the production company, and the Sheriff’s Office explained that deploying a tank, a bomb robot and 40 deputies was a normal response. (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic) QUANTIFYING INTANGIBLES - The Department of Health and Human Services is funding a panel to try to define and measure happiness. If successful in determining reliable measures of “subjective well-being,” they could become official statistics. The panel, organized by the nonprofit National Academies, includes experts in psychology and economics and has already met with two key figures in the U.S. statistical bureaucracy. “There has been a lot of momentum,” said Arthur Stone, a professor of psychiatry at Stony Book University who chairs the panel. Its budget is $370,000. (The Washington Post) DEAL OF A LIFETIME - After Antoinette Galluzzo admitted stealing $51,601.62 from a New Jersey youth program while employed by the city of Englewood and using the money to gamble, pay debts and cover rent, she was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $10 a month restitution. Galluzzo’s attorney, Robert Galantucci, said even $10 a month is a lot for someone who is unemployed to pay. When Bergen County prosecutors argued that Galluzzo cashed in her pension and should have made a lump-sum payment, Judge Eugene H. Austin upheld the restitution arrangement, explaining, “I’m certainly not going to require her to pay more to set her up for failure so she gets a jail sentence.” (Bergen County’s The Record) PROBLEM SOLVED - Britain is facing a culinary crisis, thanks to the government’s immigration crackdown, which has created a shortage of Asian chefs and forced the closing of some Indian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Thai restaurants. Britain has some 12,000 Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants, serving 2.5 million people a week, and thousands of Chinese and Thai ones. The government’s response has been to set up five “centers of excellence in Asian and Oriental cookery” to train jobless young Britons the art of making curry and other popular dishes. (The Washington Times) THERE GO THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA AGAIN - Declaring himself exasperated by the flood of “crazy” legislation introduced in the Republican-controlled Tennessee General Assembly, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam declined to criticize lawmakers. Instead, he blamed the news media for publicizing such measures as banning students from wearing revealing clothing to school instead of focusing on more substantive issues. (Associated Press)

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f you find yourself adding columns of figures in a windowless room, one eye on the clock, or providing customer service to over-empowered weekend shoppers in a big-box store, you have our sympathy, but please know that things could be even worse. You could be in the public eye with a fine pedigree, an exalted title and the creeping sensation that you might well be deservedly blamed for breaking something as big as the University of Montana; you could be trying to tell Ravalli County’s residents that childhood vaccinations aren’t evil; you could be trying to dispense medical marijuana, never knowing if or when the feds will haul you away; you could be seeing the lifeless eyes of doe after doe after doe until you no longer even notice them; or you could be a lifeguard indoors, keeping watch over hordes of children, wondering which one will be responsible for the inevitable AFR (see below), which you will then have to fish from the pool. The obscure, windowless room or the retail checkstand starts to sound like a haven.

Originally, we thought of these jobs as the five worst in Missoula, but we had to go just outside the county boundary to scoop up the task of a Ravalli County commissioner, and, ultimately, it wasn’t clear that these jobs were the worst so much as the most challenging. And that raises another issue: pity. Perhaps what you ought to take away from this is not so much that it sucks to be these jobholders but a little more compassion for the people who are called to do such risky and sometimes nasty things.

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POT PARANOIA

by Matthew Frank There’s no sign out front, no indication at all that behind this locked stripmall door near South Reserve Street, there’s a room full of marijuana plants

and a whiteboard listing the various strains that are sold. The discretion is understandable. Since the first wave of federal raids on Montana medical marijuana businesses in March 2011, 25 people have been indicted on federal drug charges, all facing years in prison. And a year ago, the Montana Legislature passed

strict medical marijuana reforms. The industry has been decimated. When it was booming, the state’s patient count topped 30,000. Today, it’s down to 10,000. The number of medical marijuana providers has dropped from close to 5,000 to about 400. The cops showed up and the crowd dispersed.

But Rob Kinzinger is still here, dispensing medical marijuana to more than 100 patients around Missoula, one of the last providers still in business. The soft-spoken, bald former timber-mill worker knows that this operation could end any day, with the DEA knocking down the door with drawn guns or merely by a state judge upholding

Last plant standing: Rob Kinzinger

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parts of the new medical marijuana law that were intended to put providers like Kinzinger out of business but were enjoined last year. Many left the business anyway. Virtually all the storefronts that popped up around Missoula are gone.

“I can’t think off the top of my head of anybody who’s still around,” Kinzinger says.

That troubles him, because he knows that a lot of marijuana patients— more than 4,000 statewide—don’t have providers. Under the new state law, it’s harder to obtain a medical marijuana card. Doctors have been hazed away from issuing them. And, as of last month, the fees are higher. “With so many places being shut down and so many people being scared to be in business, there are so many people out there who don’t have a provider, who don’t have a place to go,” Kinzinger says. “Where are they going? To the black market. All [the feds] have done is create a bigger black market, forcing everybody to go back underground. I just don’t see how it makes it better.”

Kinzinger says he’s lost at least 15 percent of his patients.

He’s been here awhile, since well before the raids. He thinks he’s survived because of his business model. He grows where he dispenses, meaning he’s not transporting marijuana around the state.

He’s the business’s only provider, so there’s no uncertainty surrounding which plants are associated with which provider and which patients. And, perhaps most importantly, he says, there isn’t a blinking neon pot leaf in the window. “I think that’s the thing that a lot of people were missing in this whole thing—you don’t need a big sign out front, ‘Hey, here I am,’” he says.

“It’s legal and all, but why throw that in anybody’s face? It’s not about that.”

Medical marijuana is still legal in Montana; federally, all marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance. But Kinzinger doesn’t talk much about that. He focuses on trying to carefully follow the state law, however murky, as the courts figure out how much of the new law is constitutional. The Montana Cannabis Industry Association challenged the new law last year, and it goes before the Montana Supreme Court May 30.

Meanwhile, marijuana advocates were successful in placing a referendum of the new state law on the November 2012 ballot.

Kinzinger doesn’t have a plan B. If he’s shut down, he says, he’ll be out looking for another job. “That’s why I got into doing this,” he continues. After working at the Stimson mill in Bonner for 15 years, “I couldn’t find a job to save my life. … I was running the whole shipping department out there, and it didn’t amount to a hill of beans.”

He left Stimson with debilitating back pain and prescriptions for narcotics, he says, which he blames for his ballooning to almost 400 pounds. He pulls out his ID, the photo taken a couple years ago: He was huge. But he quit the pills and turned to a plant, and the pounds were shed. His shirt now hangs on him.

“I’ve had patients come in whom I signed up in wheelchairs, and they walk

through the door now,” he says. “And it’s not because of something that modern medicine has done. It’s the marijuana. It reacts with certain diseases in that way.

And when you see that, oh man, it just makes what I do so worth it.”

SAVED FROM DROWNING

by Skylar Browning

Long before David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson donned siren-red bathing suits and ran across your television set, the lasting image of a lifeguard included a perfectly bronzed physique, a whistle around the neck or twirled around the fingers, shades and a smear of sunscreen on the beak. They watched over us and we ended up watching just as much of them; real-life neighborhood heroes.

Not much of that iconic imagery fits lifeguards at Currents, Missoula’s public indoor swimming pool. There’s a whistle and plenty of people to watch—my goodness, is there a lot of screaming, splashing humanity to watch—but that’s about

All lifeguards have to deal with a certain amount of chaos, chemicals and crap, but most at least get the perks bestowed upon the likes of The Hoff and Pam. It’s a little harder to find the rewards for the Currents crew.

“We do get to work outside at Splash for a few months during the summer,” offers Chelsea Beckwith, a 22-year-old University of Montana student who has worked as a lifeguard for a year and a half. “That’s how we put up with it all winter.”

Beckwith is half-joking. She loves her job. She says the chlorine isn’t as bad as it used to be. There’s even talk of soundproofing the walls to deal with the noise.

And those AFRs don’t happen nearly as often as people think—maybe once a month. Plus, Beckwith started at Currents four years ago, working at the front desk, and was eventually promoted to lifeguard. She’s one of many on staff who have worked their way up through a system that can groom a summer volunteer into a managerial position.

“It’s hard when you’re stuck in here and it’s 80 degrees outside and gor-

ty training because of a harrowing neardrowning incident with one of her daughters. She wanted to know how to perform a water rescue and, if necessary, resuscitate someone should anything like her daughter’s scare ever happen again.

Coty had no intention of becoming a fullfledged lifeguard until a part-time position later opened up at Currents, four years ago.

“It can get wild when you have 225 or so people in the pool, at the capacity, that you’re in charge of,” says Coty.

“That’s when you remember your training, you realize why we do in-service training every two weeks during the summer and you see exactly why you’re needed. I can tell you, we take our jobs very seriously.”

Beckwith says rookie guards start at $8.07 an hour. During the fall and winter, Missoula Parks and Rec employs about 17 lifeguards. When Splash! opens in the summer, that number nearly triples to between 40 and 45.

Even with the increased seasonal staff, some aspects of the job don’t change. Coty, who has been promoted

Not as bad as it sounds: lifeguard Brooke Coty

it. There’s no bronzed physique. No need for shades. Even less need for sunscreen. Instead, these thoroughly trained rescuers, capable of performing CPR on a child or lifting a distressed offensive lineman out of the deep end, are fending off much less glamorous elements than UV rays and hero worship.

There’s the chlorine, which smells so strongly that you can feel it turning your hair green from the parking lot. There’s the noise, which during busy weekends can ricochet off the pool’s walls, creating a sound more piercing than a bushel of fire alarms.

And don’t even mention the AFRs. (This would be the polite acronym for “Accidental Fecal Release,” or poop in the pool.)

geous,” says Beckwith, who’s also a certified scuba diver. “But at the same time, when it’s 20 degrees outside or 10 below, it’s great to wear shorts and a Tshirt and a bathing suit to work.”

Of course, there’s another aspect to this gig that rises above work conditions.

Lifeguards like Beckwith got into the business, especially at an indoor pool in Montana, because they’re up to the challenge of being responsible for the wellbeing of others. Above all, they’re there to save people.

Brooke Coty doesn’t fit the usual profile of a Currents lifeguard. She’s a 39year-old mother of three who went through all of the requisite aquatics safe-

to the position of Aquatic Program Specialist, still lifeguards during the busy summer months. That means she gets to work outside, swim laps in the 50-meter pool with the sun on her back, twirl her whistle and wear sunscreen.

For those few weeks, at least, she embodies that glossed perception of the perfect summer job. A real-life neighborhood hero, free from the confines of an indoor facility.

Except for the occasional “Code Brown.” Those are still part of the job.

“All lifeguards have to scrub toilets and handle the accidental releases,” she says. “Nobody is above it or beneath it, even the managers.”

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SHOVELING BAMBI

by Jessica Mayrer

The temperature warms on a recent fall morning, making the smell on the side of Highway 93 in Victor even more pungent. Flies swarm. The stench rises from what’s left of a pregnant doe and her two unborn fawns. They’re scattered in pieces along the southbound lanes.

“I think a semi might have got that one,” says Montana Department of Transportation crew leader Scott Reesman.

Big rigs, minivans and sedans whiz by as Reesman shovels the dead doe from the road. It’s barely 10 a.m. and he’s already picked up four animals between Victor and Darby, not including the two fawns.

MDT is charged with hauling road kill from highways. It’s a safety hazard, and someone’s got to deal with it. In the Bitterroot, that someone is often Reesman. He and his four-man crew pick up roughly eight such animals per week in the Bitterroot Valley. During the fall rut, when bucks prowl for mates, the workload increases.

Reesman isn’t phased by the stench.

The animals’ lifeless eyes don’t disturb him, nor does the blood and intestines, the maggots and flies. He’s a pragmatist.

There are a lot of deer out there. And he’s got more work to do.

“It doesn’t smell good, but you just kind of block it out,” he says. “It’s just, like, hurry up and go.”

Reesman is a 50-year-old Montana native and father of three. He’s worked for MDT for more than three decades.

Carcass removal is only one of the tasks he oversees. He’s also responsible for ensuring roads are cleared of snow in the winter, bridges are free from logjams in

the spring and roads are repaved during summer.

Reesman and his crew try to get to the animals as quickly as possible. But, as there are bridges to seal and waterways to clear, sometimes it takes a couple of days. By then, animals can get pretty ripe.

“Flies will be blowing, starting maggots before we even get there overnight,” he says. “I had a deer so fat and bloated that it popped and shot warm blood on the side of my face.”

Reesman says his favorite part of the job is composting the remains—“the funnest part of the roadkill for me.”

Reesman is, in fact, a carcass-composting pioneer. In 2005, he helped launch the state’s first animal composting facility in Victor. It’s a model for roughly a dozen others like it across the state.

The Victor “deer pit,” as Reesman calls it, is located just off Highway 93 at mile marker 62.7. Driving toward the pit, one first sees tall dark compost piles.

Inching closer, it becomes clear these aren’t ordinary compost piles: Stray limbs, hoofs, skulls and hunks of fur are scattered about the site.

In addition to helping launch the deer pit, Reesman also provided his expertise for MDT’s carcass composting manual. It’s a 12-page primer published in 2007 that spells out the ins and outs of breaking down road kill. The process is simple: Dead deer are placed in a bin with wood chips. Heat and moisture are applied to help grow bacteria, which break down organic materials over time. MDT’s composting manual explains, “The MDT process is much like building a sandwich with road kill in the middle that will cook themselves into compost.”

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humans, Reesman says. “I would put this on my garden.”

The compost is typically just left at the pit. However, two years ago, MDT launched a pilot project, using the deer compost as fertilizer on a handful of rocky areas along the sides of Bitterroot roads. (The Montana Department of Environmental Quality vetted that project to ensure it was safe.) “At least stuff grew,” Reesman says.

DEQ oversees animal composting sites. There’s an incentive to create them because they take a significant load off traditional landfills, and there’s a lot of roadkill to dispose of. MDT spokeswoman Lori Ryan says oftentimes collisions aren’t reported and MDT divisions across the state can use different methodology when tallying numbers, meaning it can be tough to get a handle on the total number of animals in Montana killed by vehicle collisions. According to the “MDT Carcass Database,” the department picked up 6,395 animals last year. Mule and whitetail deer accounted for 5,906 of those. Of the remainder, 161 were elk, 62 were antelope and there were six grizzly bears, 32 black bears, 30 moose, six mountain lions and 66 classified as “unknown.”

According to the Western Transportation Institute, a Montana State University-based research organization, there are about 1.5 million collisions between vehicles and large mammals nationally each year.

Reesman estimates that MDT retrieves about 650 animals annually on Highway 93 between Lost Trail Pass and Victor. Today, he gets back into his truck after loading a flattened carcass and asks this reporter, “So, do you still think it’s a dirty job?”

Government is one of those easily romanticized realms—“West Wing,” anyone? As it turns out, it can be a thankless job. In the West especially, where counties span large tracts of land, the elected position of county commissioner has historically entailed organizing services among sparse populations with an unreliable budget.

the population is an interesting combination of fiscal Republicans, Tea Partiers, libertarians, Democrats and far-left liberals. That means that no matter who’s in the county commissioners office, somebody’s mad about it.

In fact, most constituents are well to the right of center, and recently, since the rise of last year’s kooky state legislature (you know, the one that tried to instill a Code of the West and stamp out medical marijuana against voters’ wishes and that came up with all kinds of climate-change-

That’s one challenge for Ravalli County’s five commissioners, who work full-time for between $50,000 and $55,000 a year. There are many others.

Hamilton, the county seat and largest town, has only about 4,400 of the people who live in the county. The rest of the 40,300 residents are scattered among loosely linked pockets. The spread means higher costs for roads, power lines, water and other public services. Making that even more difficult is that 73 percent of the county is Forest Service land, which

denial and anti-women’s health legislation), there’s been even more extremism among Ravalli County residents.

What do you have to deal with as a Ravalli County commissioner? For one thing: Parents who refuse vaccinations for their children under all circumstances.

Last year, the Montana Department of Health and Human Services reported that only 53.8 percent of children in Ravalli County ages 24 to 35 months are up to date with their immunizations, which compares to the national average of 76

means it’s not taxable. Instead, the county gets a good chunk of its funds from state government. Last year, those funds were renewed with a bipartisan bill. But if you have to pass a bill to pay your bills, it’s not like getting a steady paycheck. Meanwhile, the county’s budget is still being eaten away each year, and it’s the county commissioners who have to decide, “Hmmm, who or what will get less money now?”

Let’s throw another ingredient into the mix. Ravalli is a politically polarized county. Rural Montana attracts all sorts— from anti-government recluses to backto-the land hippies and artists—and so

percent. A recent outbreak of whooping cough in Ravalli County might not be a coincidence. The outbreak is statewide, but the 48 cases in Ravalli County give it the highest tally of any county in the state.

Religion and fears of ties to autism are a part of the aversion to vaccines, but so is skepticism of government. That kind of skepticism seeps into several areas of policy, such as the wolf issue.

Anti-wolf sentiment is high in the valley, and Little Red Riding Hood reports of wolves’ eyes glowing from the darkness of the forest and of wolves killing livestock (and what if they were babies?)

FORGET “WEST WING”

by Erika Fredrickson

have gone from a kind of citizen science to anger and rumbling hysteria. The wolf, which was reintroduced to the West by the feds, of course, has been the scapegoat for low elk numbers, even though other factors—more hunting, an inflated elk population in previous years and development encroaching on elk habitat—contribute to their decline.

County commissioners aren’t tasked with these issues, but the anti-government, anti-taxes sentiment does seep into the commissioners’ realm.

Supporting an education system and health services when a vocal majority doesn’t feel they should have to fund it with tax dollars can’t be easy.

Here’s the rub. Currently, the five Ravalli County commissioners seem to share the anti-wolf and, ironically, antigovernment sentiment. They ’ve expressed recently that they’d like a “seat at the table” with Fish, Wildlife and Parks in the way the agency manages wolves, despite the fact that the commissioners aren’t trained to make policy decisions based on science. In March, the commission adopted a large predator control policy that calls for larger quotas and longer wolf hunting seasons. Last August, the commission added fuel to the fire by having an “emergency wolf meeting.” Also, earlier this year, the commissioners asked for a “seat at the table” with the Forest Service to make policy about forest management—another role that theoretically requires forest science and policy training.

So, is being a county commissioner such a tough role if you, your colleagues and many of your constituents are all of the same mindset?

Maybe not. But if you were a newbie commissioner who understood, say, that wildlife management shouldn’t be based on citizen anecdotes, it sure could be.

Dave Smith, a Democrat running for county commissioner this year, could have the difficulty of battling a commission that doesn’t have faith in FWP or any other government agency. Smith has already said that no matter what his views on forests and wolves, it’s not the role of the commission to decide such matters.

It might be a long road ahead.

NOT EASY BEING POTUM

by Alex Sakariassen

The past two years have been anything but kind to the University of Montana’s administration. If it isn’t homeowners renewing concerns about moving the College of Technology to the UM golf course, it’s environmentalists highlighting problems with the university’s biomass boiler proposal. The Grizzlies debated whether to stay in the Big Sky Conference (they did).

Officials discussed expelling Daniel Thew, last fall’s football streaker (they didn’t).

Then, of course, there’s the rape investigation thing. So that sucks.

All of this makes a compelling case for 2012 being pretty much the worst time to be the new guy on campus.

Mistakes have been made: University of Montana President Royce Engstrom

Royce Engstrom took the helm as UM president less than two years ago, on the heels of George Dennison’s 20-year reign.

Things looked downright peachy back then. Still, Engstrom, who had served as UM’s provost since 2007, didn’t seem to sugarcoat the path that lay ahead of him when he was a finalist for the presidency.

“It certainly is a challenging task,” he told the Indy in September 2010, about two weeks before he got the position.

“The University of Montana has the potential to be one of the finest institutions in the country,” Engstrom also said, “and I am pleased to be in a position to vie for the leadership.”

He wasn’t the only one pleased by the prospect. Everyone sang his praises, from faculty to the outgoing president. “I think highly of him,” Dennison said at the time. “People do think highly of him.

He’s done a lot of good work.”

Engstrom entered the position with an annual salary of $280,000. (The governor makes just over $108,000 a year.)

Now, public opinion is singing a different tune. Comment boards lit up with harsh criticism following Engstrom’s terse announcement March 29 that he’d fired Athletic Director Jim O’Day and football head coach Robin Pflugrad. “This

is insanity at its highest level!” a Facebook user wrote on O’Day’s Facebook wall the day of the firings.

“Engstrom is crazy, he could never have an athletic director who has worked harder or brought as much dignity and professionalism to UM. He screwed up big time on this one and has lost my support completely.” Others on local media comment boards weren’t quite as polite.

Engstrom still hasn’t explained why UM fired O’Day and Pflugrad. But that backlash wasn’t the beginning, nor was it the end. Last December, the university hired former Montana Supreme Court Justice Diane Barz to head an investigation into a disturbing rash of sexual assaults around the campus. Some incidents involved past or present Griz football players; others indicated the use of drugs by alleged rapists.

Throughout the winter, Engstrom supplied some updates on the administration’s progress and said changes were in the offing. Officials reviewed the way they handled rape reports. Education about sex assaults was stepped up on campus. Still, the incidents have left UM, and Engstrom, with a black eye that refuses to fade. Even in the midst of the Barz study, Dean of Students Charles Couture was told of a sexual assault perpetrated by an international student.

Before the case could be pursued further, the alleged assailant fled the country. And then, last week, UM emails obtained by the Missoulian showed an administration struggling to preserve its image while some were, understandably, demanding more accountability and transparency.

Engstrom was out of the country and unavailable to comment for this story. So we talked to George Dennison, back in Missoula this month after a year of work with the Colorado State University System. Dennison says he left town partly so Engstrom didn’t feel in his first years that he had a former president looking over his shoulder.

“When you go into the job, you go in recognizing that it’s virtually 24-7,” Dennison says. “People don’t mind calling any time of the day to raise an issue. You have to take a commitment that this is what I’m here for, and you can try very hard if you’d like to delegate things to other people, but delegation doesn’t mean you escape the responsibility, because ultimately it comes back to the president.”

Dennison says the biggest challenge of his presidency came in the spring of 2004, when news broke of a nearly $1 million deficit in UM’s athletic budget.

Part of the problem was due to an

accounting error, but, according to Dennison, the athletic department had overspent itself by $500,000. It was the “most embarrassing moment of my life,” Dennison says. “But the only way you deal with difficult situations is to be right out front and simply say, ‘Here’s what we’re doing and here’s why.’”

Dennison is somewhat familiar with the position Engstrom’s in now regarding sexual assaults. They happened on Dennison’s watch as well. “One athlete involved in that way is too many,” he says.

“Even one student involved in such episodes is too many. … We had a couple occasions of rape or alleged rape over the course of the years I was president. All you can do is deal with them straightaway.”

Engstrom announced the completion of Barz’s report on nine alleged sexual assaults on March 22. But the bad news hasn’t let up. One female student was attacked on the sidewalk near UM in March. Another student told authorities she was sexually assaulted in her dorm room, but later asked police to drop the case.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was scrutinizing Missoula law enforcement agencies and UM over their responses to rape allegations over the past three years.

The investigation has only worsened what was already a public relations nightmare for the university. Whispers of decreased enrollment are sweeping across campus.

Donors have pulled financial support, in part due to the O’Day and Pflugrad firings.

Despite all this, Engstrom has still recorded and released his weekly President’s Update videos, two-minute missives on the latest news from UM in which he usually wears a smile. He took to the dais March 12 for the 2012 commencement ceremony, offering a warm welcome to friends and family from all over the country and congratulating more than 3,500 graduates on their accomplishments.

“This has been a challenging year in many regards, but it’s also been a wonderfully productive year,” Engstrom said in his final video update of the semester, May 8. “We’ve completed quite a number of faculty searches … and Provost [Perry] Brown tells me that we were successful in recruiting almost all of our top candidates in those searches.”

To hear Dennison tell it, those are the real payoffs. He feels a strong sense of achievement looking back on the millions he raised from the private sector for scholarships, programs and new buildings. He takes a “great deal of pride” in his development of the athletic department. As president of the University of Montana—or POTUM—he says, you have to “take the heat when the heat has to be taken.” But Dennison says those 20 years were the highlight of his life.

“I look back on those years and feel very good about where we were when I came and where the institution was when I left. That’s personal satisfaction.”

Will Engstrom be able to say the same thing in two decades? editor@missoulanews.com

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The first time I ate garlic flowers was for breakfast on a train from Beijing to Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

The dining car didn’t have a menu. You sat down and they brought you food. I went there as soon as the train left the station and was happy to find it open. A server delivered a plate of stir-fried chopped green things with pork and oyster sauce and a bowl of rice.

It was years before that I realized that the pencilthick green things were pieces of garlic flowers and flower stalks, which are collectively known as scapes.

They were at once spice and vegetable, and a perfect companion to the pork and oyster sauce. If the servers hadn’t moved me along, I could have sat there for hours, watching workers doing Tai Chi in front of factory after factory while I ate pork and scapes until I exploded.

Garlic flowers are a byproduct of the crop’s cultivation, and some growers see them as more nuisance than bonus, because they have to be removed, which takes work. Picking garlic flowers is based on the same principle by which steers are castrated. Without the option of expending bodily resources on sexual reproduction, the organism grows larger. Some gardeners, citing “plant integrity” concerns, don’t pick off their garlic flowers. I want big bulbs, so I pick the flowers. And then I happily eat them.

Some farmers are savvy enough to realize that garlic flowers are not only delicious, but they’re an extra something that you can harvest and sell, when pickings are often slim. But these garlic growers are in the minority. Most commercially grown garlic, the kind you’re likely to buy at the store, is of the nonflowering type, called softneck, while the flowering types are called hardnecks. Your best bet for tracking down some hardneck flowers is at farmers markets from now until mid-June or at fancy grocery stores.

If you’re lucky enough to have a garlic patch of your own, and wise enough to have planted hardneck, then a stroll to your garden is all it takes.

When the flowers emerge depends on the variety of hardneck and the climate where it’s grown. Once they appear, the stalks grow quickly, curling around like cartoon pig tails until two full curls are completed. After a week or two, the stalks then uncurl and stand straight up. With the

stalk fully extended, the bud finally opens into a spectacular flower.

For both culinary and agricultural purposes, you want to pick the stalks no later than the curled state, so the bulbs grow big and because as the stalks straighten out they lose their tenderness and become woody. But for aesthetic purposes it’s nice to leave the flowers on a few of the plants. The bulbs on the non-castrated plants will be smaller, but you get to look at the flowers.

I harvest garlic flowers by grabbing the stalk as low as I can, right where it emerges, and pulling straight up with a smooth gentle tug, like pulling a blade of grass.

To cook them, cut off the flower’s dry tip, and the rest—stalk and flower—is edible. You can do

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Chinese train scapes Ingredients: Fatty pieces of pork, like bacon Oil Garlic flowers (about four per person) Basil leaves (1/4 cup per person) Red chile flakes, to taste Oyster sauce (choose the option with the fewest ingredients; 1/4 cup per person) Cut pork into domino-sized chunks, and fry on medium heat. Add oil if the pork is too lean. While the pork cooks, cut garlic flowers into inch-long seg-

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Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm SunWed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ 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. eMpanadas @ the Clark Fork River Market Under the Higgins St. Bridge www.empanadalady.com 728-2030 Hechas a mano con amor...¡Qué sabor! Made by hand with love…what flavor! Carne de búfalo, pollo, lamb, salchicha, humita, acelga & more. Since 2005, Missoula’s original Argentine-style empanadas are crafted from premium, homegrown ingredients and delivered by bicycle, straight from the oven to the market, every Saturday 8am – 1pm. Taste the difference.

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-9pm Tuesday-Sunday. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week.

Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 41-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Spring is here! It's the perfect time of year to enjoy our newly expanded patio! Happy Hour from 4-7pm every day! We now have a huge selection of bottled India Pale Ales. Tuesday Music Showcase from 7-10 pm. Thursday is Trivia Night. $6 Bud Light Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday 7-10pm. Win your bar tab! 1st place gets $50 tab, 2nd gets $30 tab, & 3rd gets $20 tab. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

What it is: Leave it to Missoula to combine charity and beer drinking. The Nor thside Kettlehouse tapped that idea years ago. Their weekly event supports a local organization, with 50 cents donated for every pint sold between 5 and 8 p.m.

That’s no small number, based on how many pints were poured between my first and second Cold Smoke.

Who you’re supporting: On a chalkboard behind the taps, the group of the week reads “Missoula Butterfly House,” which had a table set up near the patio door. The organization is building a tropical butterfly house and insectarium. Future featured locals include the Garden City Gondola, Missoula Aging Services and the Clay Studio.

Who you’re drinking with: Families, regulars, youngsters and oldsters gathered in the wood-laden warehouse to give where the giving’s good. It was busy but not quite packed.

Children were coloring on the patio, old friends met up at the bar and dozens checked out this week’s table full of beautiful butterflies.

Wednesdays can get crazy, Walker Scarborough

tells me between pouring refills of Eddy Out and Lake Missoula Amber.

Some come for a specific group, he says, but total volume can be chalked up to weather and timing just the same. In general, people know when to come out and support the community. “We always have a good time Wednesdays at the Northside,” he says.

Show me the money: It’s an easy, open application process to get your group on that chalkboard, but you’d better plan ahead. As of now, they’re booked through Christmas.

Scarborough couldn’t say exactly how much gets raised on average, but it can be substantial. When it was the Max Wave’s turn, the place was overflowing and their coffers were, too.

Where: Christmas comes early at the Northside Kettlehouse, 313 N. First St. W., Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m.

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

SATURDAYS $1 SUSHI 4pm-9pm Mondays & Thursdays - $1 SUSHI

(all day)

Tuesdays - LADIES' NIGHT 4pm-9pm Not available for To-Go orders

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Comfort Food At Really Comfortable Prices.

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm (Breakfast ‘til Noon)

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm (Breakfast all day) 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 510. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. 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. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few.

For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver!

Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from

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Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.

Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare.

Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly.

549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right!

Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9.

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. • 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook. Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! $

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Arts & Entertainment listings May 24– May 31, 2012

Ground out. Mix-master DJ Girl Talk brings his mash-ups to the Wilma Theatre on Tues., May 29, at 9 PM, with Spac3man. $21. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s.

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Continue the Western tradition of fearing outsiders at the Native Wildflower ID Crash Course at the Ft. Missoula Native Plant Gardens.

5:30– 7:30 PM. $5. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Get your fill of double-d’s when Dan Dubuque plays the Draught Works Brewery.

915 Toole. 5:30–8 PM. Free.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Get off your duff for a good cause at the 4th Annual Arlee Walk-a-Thon. All funds raised

support the Arlee Educational Community.

There is also a chili feed, bake sale and door prizes. Arlee High School track. 6–8 PM. For more info., contact Dori at 726-3216 ext. 2221.

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 25, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Cinemas, Live Music & Theater The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Nightly at 7 & 9:15 Damsels in Distress Nightly at 7 • NO show Sat (5/26) or Tue (5/29) Jeff Who Lives at Home Nightly at 9 • NO show Sat (5/26) or Tue (5/29)

www.thewilma.com

Beer & Wine AVAILABLE 131 S. Higgins Ave. Downtown Missoula 406-728-2521

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Peek-a-boo. The Voodoo Horseshoes get the party started at Kind Swine BBQ’s grand opening fete, Highway 200 E. at mile marker 11, on Fri., May 25, at 6 PM. Free.

Bluegrassy and sassy but not too gassy, the Acousticals bring it on home at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Particular poesy partaker? Then you’re obviously already going to the poetry reading at The Top Hat. 7 PM. Free.

John Floridis plays music for all the pretty horses at Pulse inside the Press Box. 7 PM. Free.

Whether your bringing them in for your dinner or theirs, Kathy Settvendemie of the Blackfoot Native Plant Nursery shows you how to dress up your yard during Gardening with Native Plants for Wildlife at the Alberton Senior Citizens Center in Alberton. 7 PM. Free. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

DalyJazz comes on strong with a trio a truly talented dudes in Dan Tepfer, Will Vinson and Ben Wendel. 7 PM. $40. RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your usually useless knowledge and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Take it to the next level and think outside of the box when reggae purveyors Synrgy get irie at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman. 9 PM. $3.

Brush your teeth, I made you some Grit. Good for digestion, better for rock fans. The Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Muh gawd, Gorilla, it’s getting downright rural at the Total

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Combined Weight VFW Residency Week Three, with The Magpies, Velcro Kicks, New Hijackers and Cat Heaven.

This event begins on time for all you oldsters. 245 W. Main.

9 PM. Free.

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It’s Memorial Day weekend, so you know it’s time for MisCon, Missoula. So all you lovers of sci-fi, fantasy and horror get down to Ruby’s Inn and check it. This year, author George R.R. Martin visits, as does one of six Iron Thrones from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Four-day passes are $40 per adult/$15 per child. For a full schedule of events, visit miscon.org. (See Scope.)

Help those in need at the Soap and Paper Drive for the North Valley Family Center’s Pay it Forward Free Store. Buy some toiletries, paper products or baby stuff at Gary and Leo’s in Florence and donate on the spot. 4–6 PM. Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Intercultural Dialogue Group, a monthly meeting that aims to bring together people from various backgrounds for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking. Every last Fri. of the month at 4:30 PM in the library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info.

nightlife Find out about the latest inside job when the jazz of The Captain Wilson Conspiracy brings you up

to speed. Ten Spoon Winery. 6 PM. Free.

Get your pork on, playa, when Voodoo Horseshoes perform at Kind Swine BBQ’s (that’s Kansas City style, dudes) grand opening party at 6 PM. Mile marker 11 on Hwy. 200 east of Missoula, right before the Johnsrud turn-off.

You are going to flip for Pinnacle: The Show, an aerialist and performer extravaganza with acrobats and artists from all over the country and world, as well as locals from Mismo Gymnastics, Unparalleled Movement and Summit Cheer.

MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams. 5 PM gala, 6 PM show. $25 VIP/$15 adults/$10 kids.

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming

SPOTLIGHT king crown The 20th annual Loon & Fish Lake Elementary School, with art Festival in Seeley Lake celebrates shows, loon viewings, leather workthe convergence of art and nature ing demos and screenings of films with, well, a convergence of artists, such as the PBS documentary Three artisans, musicians, biologists and Miles an Hour about legendary naturalists near the western base of packer Smoke Elser. Scientists have one of Montana’s most nature-iffic their say, too, with discussions about places, the Bob Marshall Wilderness the Clearwater lakes, loons (well, Area. This Alpine Artisans’ event yeah), the status of elk and wolves kicks off on Friday with tunes by in the Seeley-Swan Valleys and the ubiquitous troubadours Jack Colt Summit Fuel Reduction Project.

Gladstone, Rob Quist and David However, the highlight of the festival Griffith at Seeley Swan High School, has to be keynote speaker, all-round Photo courtesy Jack Gladstone but the nuts and bolts of the festival awesome outdoorsman and photake place on Saturday and Sunday, at the Seeley tographer-naturalist extraordinaire Ralph Waldt. He is best known for his book Crown of the Continent, which is a survey of 10 million acres of WHAT: 20th Annual Loon & Fish Festival land in Montana and parts of Alberta and British Columbia. The “Crown” is made up of wild, rarely WHO: Keynote speaker, naturalist and visited country in the Scapegoat Wilderness, Bob author of Crown of the Continent Ralph Marshall Wilderness and the Waterton-Glacier Waldt International Peace Park. Waldt has spent over 30 years studying the ecosystems there with the WHEN: Fri., May 25, through Sun., May 26 Nature Conservancy. Armed with photos and firstWHERE: Seeley Lake Elementary School, 200 hand knowledge of a place few have seen or will see, Waldt intends to tell some of the story of a School Lane. place so special and so unique that you may not HOW MUCH: Friday night concert $20 for believe the words you are hearing. families/$12 adults/$5 for those under —Jason McMackin 18. All Sat. and Sun events are free

activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Make time for some face time to talk about the environment and whatever else is on your mind at Green Drinks in Bigfork.

Swan River Inn, 360 Grand. 6–8 PM. Free.

Kids, I’ll pull this car over if you don’t come to Family Friendly Friday without a peep! Broken Valley Roadshow plays The Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free.

The 2012 Teen Challenge Annual Banquet features guest speaker Sara Weaver, daughter of Ruby Ridge victim Randy Weaver.

She discusses forgiveness and hope. Hilton Garden Inn. 6:30 PM. $60. Call 543-1912.

DalyJazz comes on strong with a trio a truly talented dudes in Dan Tepfer, Will Vinson and Ben Wendel. 7 PM. $40. RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety

stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info.

Leave the candy box at home and dust of your top hat for a night of tunes with the Soul City Cowboys at The Hideout south of Hamilton.

942 Hub Ln. 8 PM. Free.

Do the swim near, not in, the lake when Brent Jameson takes the stage at Lakeside’s The Docks Restaurant. 7135 Hwy 93. 8 PM. Free.

Richie Reinholdt fogs up the windows at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs from 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

Judge for yourself Band is rocking at the Eagles 2430 South 8 PM–1 AM. Free.

if The Justice into the night in Missoula.

Ave. West.

Douse yourself in maple syrup and leave your shame at home: The Crazy Naked Canadians take over the Badlander with Canadian DJs J Wiggles, Buffalo Child and Matty K, plus locals Tygerlily and the Milkcrate Mechanic and the lovable Fuzzy Animal Clan Dancers. 10 PM. Free.

Fermentation comes to town when Black Bananas bring their freaky rock ‘n’ roll sound with The Hussy, plus the local Shahs round out the bill. Palace. 9 PM. $8. (See Noise.)

Get a lesson in tanning when Beyond the Pale plays the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Don’t be a sad pony, go see Mad Anthony when they bring rock ‘n’ roll and rage to Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $3.

This could be confusing, but a band called Zoo City is playing the Dark Horse. 1805 Regent.

9:30 PM. Free.

County Line plays the tunes, now it’s up to you to decide if Heather from accounting is ready to two-

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it up at Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2. (See Noise.)

step the night away at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

Get stoked and soaked when the Voodoo Horsehsoes bring the party to Lolo Hot Springs, with Steady Changes. Mile marker 33 on Hwy. 12 West. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s.

Free. Call 728-8799.

Doctoral candidates of funk Cure for the Common bring hip-hopping good times to The Top Hat. 10 PM. $5

M. Ward makes you cry and love and laugh at the Wilma Theatre, with Gold Leaves. 9 PM. $21. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s. (See Noise.)

SATURDAY

County Line plays the tunes, now it’s up to you to decide if Heather from accounting is ready to twostep the night away at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

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It’s Memorial Day weekend, so you know it’s time for MisCon, Missoula. So all you lovers of sci-fi, fantasy and horror get down to Ruby’s Inn and check it. This year, author George R.R. Martin visits, as does one of six Iron Thrones from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Fourday passes are $40 per adult/$15 per child. For a full schedule of events, visit miscon.org. (See Scope.)

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799.

New York’s White Suns arrive at the VFW and seek to destroy, along with Monster With 21 Faces, Burke Jam and Abe Coley. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $3.

Be a looky loo and leave the driving to the lasses at the Montana Natural History Center during the Saturday Discovery Day: Loon Viewing up Seeley Lake way. Look for loons and check out the Loon and Fish Festival. $35/$30 members. RSVP at montananaturalist.org.

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It’s Memorial Day weekend, so you know it’s time for MisCon, Missoula. So all you lovers of sci-fi, fantasy and horror get down to Ruby’s Inn and check it. This year, author George R.R. Martin visits, as does one of six Iron Thrones from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Fourday passes are $40 per adult/$15 per child. For a full schedule of events, visit miscon.org. (See Scope.)

If you have birds on the brain, get onboard for the Audubon Trek to Bandy Ranch, near Upsata Lake in the Upper Blackfoot Valley. Meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 8 AM. Pack a lunch and call Larry at 549-5632 for more info. Free.

See if you’ve been interpreting all wrong all along when the Missoula Art Museum hosts a free artistled Point of View Tour with R. David Wilson. Noon.

Out of practice with your fire dancing? No worries, the Downtown Dance Collective hosts a four-week workshop to learn the Maori art of Poi. 1–2 PM. Check out ddcmontana.com for more.

Get a taste of what’s to come at the Missoula Winery from 2–7 PM, during their 2nd Anniversary Celebration, which boasts early sips of soon-to-be-released wines.

5646 Harrier.

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Joan of Arc style. The ladies of Baby & Bukowski have a CD release party on Mon., May 28, at Bonner Park, from 3 PM to 5 PM, with Comatose Smile. Free.

to the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Take your booty up the river and get some burnt ends at the Kind Swine BBQ’s (that’s Kansas City style, homies) grand opening party, with Cash for Junkers from 6–8:30 pm and Shodown from 9:30–Midnight. Mile marker 11 on Hwy. 200 east of Missoula, right before the Johnsrud turn-off. Free.

Double down, it’s Dan Dubuque at the Ten Spoon Winery. 7–9 PM. Free.

The Heart to Heart Duo plays the Missoula Senior Center’s Saturday Night Dance, so slide

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into them glad rags and show the youngsters how it’s done. 705 S. Higgins. 7–10 PM. $5.

So Robert Smith and a certain rapper/actor walk into a bar: Cure for the Common rocks the beach at Lakeside’s The Docks Restaurant, 7135 Hwy 93. 8 PM. Free.

Get a double-shot of folk with Kathy Colton & the Reluctants at the Symes Hotel. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo shoot rockets of booty grinders to the moon during Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Turn off the predator call and check out Wild Coyote at the Lumberjack Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

Get your seal of approval in “inspirational groove” when the local GreenStar plays the Palace with Polson’s Off in the Woods. 9 PM. $5 Don’t let those beatniks fool you, true enlightenment comes from following Joan Zen down to the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Check out these New Yorkers in your undies: Leland Sundries folk

Pack up the little squabs and strap on your robot walkers for the Missoula Children and Nature Birding Adventure With Five Valleys Audubon on the Kim Williams Trial. Spy scopes, games and bird-spotting galore.

Meet at the Jacob’s Island parking lot on the south side of the river near the Van Buren walking bridge, off of Campus Dr. 9–10:30 AM. Free. Visit missoulachildrenandnature.org.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

Join artist Olivia Lynn Olsen for her showcase I Never Promised You a Rose Garden at the Red Poppy Gallery’s 7th Anniversary Show, which also has music by Rachel and Josh Pettit as well as Elissa Taylor and Katherine Skinner.

Ronan at 1st St. SW. 1–4 PM. Free.

Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949.

Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2–4 PM. occupymissoula.org.

Have a chicken wing and some slaw at the Memorial Day BBQ with Gary Redman at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 4 PM.

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style, bro-hams) grand opening party and hear the tunes of the always working it County Line from 5:30–9 PM. Mile marker 11 on Hwy. 200 east of Missoula, right before the Johnsrud turn-off. Free.

Catch some country in the city when Louie Bond and Kimberly Carlson play The Top Hat. 7 PM. Free.

Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night.

Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

Vanna Inget delivers the pop with a hint of punk at the VFW, with locals Shahs and Needlecraft.

245 W. Main. 10 PM. $5.

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Drop your rebar and head to the bar, ‘cause Ron Dunbar plays Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM. Free.

May

Gobble up the good stuff at Kind Swine BBQ’s (that’s Kansas City

It’s Memorial Day weekend, so you know it’s time for MisCon,

Missoula. So all you lovers of sci-fi, fantasy and horror get down to Ruby’s Inn and check it. This year, author George R.R. Martin visits, as does one of six Iron Thrones from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Fourday passes are $40 per adult/$15 per child. For a full schedule of events, visit miscon.org. (See Scope.)

Hey, you’ve got the day off, try some Tai Chi at River Park in Hamilton. 9–10 AM. Free. Visit earthskytaichi.com.

Find out that, in fact, the kids they are all right when high school students/up-and-comers Baby & Bukowski of Missoula and Comatose Smile of Townsend/ Missoula perform at their dual album-release party at Bonner Park from 3–5 PM. Free.

nightlife At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

Easiest way to make rent since keno: Bingo at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $10 buy-in.

Don’t just express yourself, be expressive at the ZACC’s weekly, one-hour poetry workshop. 235 N. 1st St. 8 PM. Free.

Milkcrate Monday’s with the Milkcrate Mechanic presents another night of electric mayhem from all corners of the sub-genre world. Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR. Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

Call Skye on Sunday at 531–4312 to reserve your spot in the line-up, or I bet you could roll in and be all, “Dude, I do a perfect Sublime.” 10 PM. Free.

Bust out your pilgrim shoes and funny hats when Southern indiefolkers Jamestown Revival come to town.

The Lusitania, BellaMaine and locals The Hasslers open. Badlander. 9 PM. $5. (See Noise.)

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Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited.

Noon–1 PM. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Best thing you can do after a weekend of hot dogs, chips and Schlitz?

Donate blood. Go to the American Red Cross at 2401 N. Reserve. Ste. 6. 2–6 PM. Call 800 REDCROSS.

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Ashes to ashes. Author Benjamin Busch, formerly of “The Wire” and forever of the USMC, reads from his memoir Dust to Dust at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, on Wed., May 30, at 7 PM. Free.

nightlife Start making sense at the weekly Taking Pounds Off Sensibly Meeting (TOPS) at First Baptist Church in Whitefish. Weigh-in at 5 PM. Meeting at 5:30 PM. For more info., call 862-5214.

You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip-Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson.

1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com The VFW hosts my kind of threeway during a night of Singers,

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Songwriters and Spaghetti, with food provided by the Blue Bison Grill. 245 W. Main St. 6 PM. Free.

Perk your ears for the stories of Missoula at The Top Hat’s Tell Us Something storytelling event. 6–8 PM. Free. (See Spotlight.)

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available. Also offered at the YWCA is age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

The Montana Native Plant Society makes your state better looking during the Dyer’s Woad Pull at Mt. Sentinel. Meet at the trailhead with your sturdy shoes.

6:30 PM. For more info., call Marilyn at 544-7189.

Let me clear my throat and invite all you would-be singer gals to the Five Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines Audition at the First Baptist Church. 308 W. Pine.

7–8 PM. Visit fivevalleyssweet adelines.com.

Take a load off while you get a load of some of the area’s better musicians during the Musician

SPOTLIGHT gettin’ lucky I got lucky when he pulled the car over and drove us to our door. Never got a name, never saw him again; he must have been a leprechaun incarnate. He took no money and let us pick the music.

Even offered to get us stoned. Besides the dog getting the front seat and the three of us squeezing in the back of the coupe, it was a hitchhiker's dream.

Accidental hitchhiker, anyway.

It all started earlier that morning in a cabin in the Lubrecht Forest, up Highway 200 near Potomac. My buddy's girlfriend drove separate, needing to drive back for work early that morning.

So it was my girlfriend, me and him, looking for the keys to our car. Terror struck. We called Shannon, already at work, and she texted back quickly: “I have your keys. I don't get off until 5.” It wouldn't be so bad to wait seven hours, What: “Tell Us Something: I Got Lucky” live storytelling Who: Nine locals Where: The Top Hat When: Tue., May 29, 6 PM

would it? We were already a little stir crazy from the crowded cabin, so we walked out to the highway and stuck out our thumbs for the first time.

An hour passes. Two. No dice, but we're hopping along just fine, excited to be so proactive about our position. We stop at a restaurant in Potomac and watch the Griz game while eating what we joked could be our last meal.

Hence, I ordered extra bacon and extra avocado.

Sated, we set off again.

We hit the jackpot in about 20 minutes—a young guy in a late-1990s Ford Taurus hits the breaks and waves us up. Running with our water jugs and bleary eyes, we must've looked pretty silly. I was ready to walk the whole 30 miles (we really didn't want to wait for Shannon), but that bacon did the trick. He dropped us off at our apartment on South and Higgins, and kept on down 93.

More riveting tales—that is, tales more riveting than mine—take the stage at The Top Hat for the second time this year. Nine selected storytellers passionately present for 10 minutes apiece on the theme of the night, “I Got Lucky.” With the Irish presence in this town, there's bound to be some epic wins for your ears.

—Brooks Johnson

How Much: Free

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Showcase at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn Downtown. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200 S. Pattee St. Free.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. What TV sketch comedy program brought us the adventures of Bob and Doug Mackenzie? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5.

Todd and UM associate professor and researcher Dr. Creagh Breuner during the Montana Natural History Center’s Evening Lecture: Sparrow. 7 PM. $4/Free for members.

Maybe if you ask nicely, he’ll sign as Anthony Colicchio. Benjamin Busch of HBO’s “The Wire” and the USMC will be reading from and signing his new book Dust to Dust at Fact and Fiction downtown. 7 PM. Free.

Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander during Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

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Drop the controller and check out this month’s theme at the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program. This month’s theme is Osprey.

Pliny the Elder would approve. 120 Hickory St. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. montananaturalist.org.

You’ve watched cows poop for free, now watch with a chance to win a huge stinking pile of cash, a $10,000 pile that is. That’s

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

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The Northern Lights light up the stage (groan) at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand.

9 PM. Free.

Get your bowhunter certification at Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge or stay off my land.

Two classroom days are followed by a field course on Sat., June 2. 4567 Wildfowl Ln., Stevi. 6–9:30 PM. Free. Go to fwp.mt.gov to register.

Don’t fear these femme fatales, they only want to feed you beats. The Palace hosts Girl Trouble, with local DJs Dr. Kinetic, DJ Hauli, Astreas Frequency and Tygerlily at 9 PM. Free.

Hear the big dogs argue against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision at By the People: A Conversation about Corporate Influence on Our Democracy, with Montana AG Steve Bullock, moderated by UM law professor Anthony Johnstone. Missoula Public Library.

Noon–1:30 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

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Learn about perching birds with award-winning science and natural history writer Kim

No need to kill yourself when St. Paul’s Harakiri performs at Pulse inside the Press Box, with local Dan Dubuque. 835 E. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.

Attention old skool punkers, rawkers and dirtbags, the Total Combined Weight VFW Residency Week Four theme is a rawk and roll time machine of cover sets: TCW does Minor Threat’s “Complete Discography,” Bird’s Mile Home do the Minutemen, The Juveniles are all about The Descendents’ “Mile Goes to College” and Petunia unloads some downhome versions of Bad Religion classics. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.

Igor, something went horribly right. Human Lab and Monkey & A Roast Beef Sandwich rock The Top Hat. 10 PM. Price TBA.

Find yourself: The Rocky Mountaineers host a GPS Clinic at the Press Box. 6:30 PM. rockymountaineers.com for more info.

Austrian-American delight. Songstress and pianist Danielle Oliver plays the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

This week’s installment of the Badlander’s Live and Local Night goes unplugged with The Acousticals and Britchy Acoustic Duo. 9 PM. Free.

Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip-Hop (7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com

The opening reception for noted artist and rancher Edith Freeman’s exhibit Montana Seasons takes place at the Montana Museum, along with Cultural Homesteaders: Montana Institute of the Arts from the Permanent Collection. UM PARTV Center. 6–8 PM. Free.

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your usually useless knowledge and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Fight for your right to make a jerk of yourself and win money doing it at Karaoke with DJ LRock at the Press Box. First place wins a $25 bar tab. On the last Tues. of the month, the winners battle for supremacy. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

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Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Local DJs spin their choice while you choose cheap beer at the Palace’s Progressive. PBR drafts start at 25 cents and go up a quarter every half hour, starting at 9 PM. Free.

Girl Talk brings the party, you bring the disco biscuits for a night of ecstasy and head petting at the Wilma. 9 PM. $25. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s. Pub trivia answer: “SCTV,” you hoser.

You’re not in Kansas anymore, but that scarecrow looks awfully familiar. Dreamland Faces plays with Butter and Skin Flowers at The Top Hat. 10 PM. $3.

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right, Catholics and nons, Cow A Bunga is back. Where will Blessimy the cow deposit her gift? Buy a square and come down to Rollins Field on S. 1st St. W. to find out. 4 PM. Call 728-2367 Ext. 2 to find out where to buy a square.

nightlife Get your musical butt in gear, Rod Blackman is here at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM. Free.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the

This would’ve been the house that Jack built if he hadn’t been mauled by moose. Two Story Ranch and Josh Harty play rocking country at The Top Hat. 10 PM. Price TBA. It’s easy to get preachy on Memorial Day Weekend, but do these things for me: wear your seatbelts; don’t drink and drive; remember all the good dudes and ladies who’ve died in these wars of ours. Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 25 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online at missoulanews.com.

MOUNTAIN HIGH W ho amongst us hasn’t briefly fantasized about becoming a mountain man or woman? Forget “briefly.” During hunting season, it’s a constant thought for me. But my imagineering doesn’t involve too many fantasies of a carefree life in the out-of-doors; instead, it is full of skepticism and fear. You see, I am a poor hunter. I am out of shape. I am always hungry. I sweat. A lot.

I have not recently killed an elk, and I missed a deer from 10 yards distant this past season. I fear that if I had to feed and support myself, as well as earn money from pelts, I most likely would’ve frozen to death/ starved to death/eaten poisonous berries to death/fallen from my mule to death/been bitten by poisonous spiders to death/been eaten by a wolverine to death/kidnapped by a tribe of beautiful French maidens and made to be their slave, sexually, to death (Hey, it’s my imagineering.). That said, there are plenty of men and women out there who are hardier than me. Folks who probably could go back in time and make a go of it in the wilderness.

Some of these folks might be at the 31st annual Wild Horse Rendezvous sponsored by the Sapphire Mountain Men. Even if you’re not a hardy soul, you

and the family may still enjoy the goings on. There are pre-1840-style camps set-up all weekend, with rendezvousers in period dress (no rubber soles/all handmade) cooking up grub in tin pans and cast iron over an open flame. Why 1840? This was the era before revolvers, before technology took over, when muskets used flintlock ignition systems rather than the more reliable percussion caps. Other events include black powder shooting competitions, as well as tomahawk, knife throwing and primitive archery contests, not to mention kids’ activities galore. However, the highlight has to be Sunday’s 1 p.m. cannon shoot, with participants firing cannon balls at a 55- gallon drum (post-1840s) about a hundred yards away. Come one, come all you flatlanders, and learn how your great-great-great grandpappy “Frenchy” St. LaCroix lived.

The 31st annual Wild Horse Rendezvous takes place from Fri., May 25, to Mon., May 28. Take Exit 70 (the Cyr exit) from I-90 and follow the signs. For a complete list of events and times, go to sapphiremtmen.blogspot.com.

Photo by Chad Harder

FRIDAY MAY 25 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing.

935 Toole. Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

MONDAY MAY 28

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing.

935 Toole. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

SATURDAY MAY 26

The Montana Native Plant Society makes your state better looking during the Dyer’s Woad Pull at Mt. Sentinel. Meet at the trailhead with your sturdy shoes.

6:30 PM. For more info., call Marilyn at 544-7189.

Be a looky loo and leave the driving to the lasses at the Montana Natural History Center during the Saturday Discovery Day: Loon Viewing up Seeley Lake way. Look for loons and check out the Loon and Fish Festival. $35/$30 members. RSVP at montananaturalist.org.

If you have birds on the brain, get onboard for the Audubon Trek to Bandy Ranch, near Upsata Lake in the Upper Blackfoot Valley. Meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 8 AM. Pack a lunch and call Larry at 549-5632 for more info. Free.

SUNDAY MAY 27 Pack up the little squabs and strap on your robot walkers for the Missoula Children and Nature Birding Adventure With Five Valleys Audubon on the Kim Williams Trial. Spy scopes, games and bird-spotting galore.

Meet at the Jacob’s Island parking lot on the south side of the river near the Van Buren walking bridge, off of Campus Dr. 9–10:30 AM. Free. Visit missoulachildrenandnature.org.

Get back in shape and learn something new at

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WEDNESDAY MAY 30 Find yourself: The Rocky Mountaineers host a GPS Clinic at the Press Box. 6:30 PM. rockymountaineers.com for more info.

Learn about perching birds with award-winning science and natural history writer Kim Todd and UM associate professor and researcher Dr. Creagh Breuner during the Montana Natural History Center’s Evening Lecture: Sparrow. 7 PM. $4/Free for members.

THURSDAY MAY 31 Drop the controller and check out this month’s theme at the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program. This month’s theme is Osprey. Pliny the Elder would approve.

120 Hickory St. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. montananaturalist.org. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Fire, ice and HBO A Q&A with MisCon’s featured guest, author George R.R. Martin

by Alex Sakariassen

If you haven’t heard of George R.R. Martin’s fivebook-and-counting fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire, odds are you’ve been living with wildlings up beyond the Wall. That or you’re just more familiar with the acclaimed television adaptation “A Game of Thrones,” currently wrapping its second season on HBO. Either way, you can understand why the creator of Westeros is commonly referred to as America’s Tolkien. Dragons, swords, crowns, mystical dreams—what’s not to love?

When I heard Martin was going to be in Missoula for this weekend’s MisCon 26, I nearly lost my head.

His schedule these days is chaotic, his con appearances scarce. Martin is actively writing for and promoting the HBO series. He’s also hard at work on the sixth and supposedly second-to-last installment of his books, The Winds of Winter. Still, Martin agreed to take some time to chat about his fictional land of Westeros, the challenges of bringing it to television and why he chose Missoula as one of his few Con stops for 2012.

Indy: First off, I have to say, I’ve been a huge fan of the books for years. Where on earth did you come up with such an expansive and detailed world?

George R.R. Martin: It didn’t all come in a bolt of lightning. It’s sort of grown. There are some writers who create their worlds first. [J.R.R.] Tolkien was famous for that. He began work on the world we now call Middle Earth with the Silmarillion when he was in the trenches of World War I, and continued to deepen and enrich it and create more aspects of it throughout his lifetime. He didn’t actually write a story in the world—The Hobbit being the first—until he’d been

working on it for more than 20 years. That’s not how I do it. For me, the story comes first and the world’s grown with the story. When I first started writing this in 1991, I had the characters and a scene that had come to me very vividly, the first chapter where they find the direwolf pups. But I didn’t really know what the world was, who the people were, what were around them. …

I’m still adding things. I’m still hopefully making the world deeper and wider and richer on all levels.

Indy: I have a hard enough time myself keeping track of the characters and allegiances and such. How do you keep it all straight while plotting the course forward?

GM: With increasing difficulty. The books are large, and they’ve gotten very complex. There are times when I question my sanity and say, “Why did I ever get into this? Why did I toss all these balls in the air?” [Laughs] Having tossed them in the air, though, I feel compelled to keep on juggling as fast as I can. For the most part, I think it works. But I have files on my computer. I have genealogies, I have maps, I have timelines with major events in Westerosi history—all these things I’ve developed over the years. But I have less of all of that than you might actually imagine. Most of this stuff is still in my head.

Indy: What brings you to the Missoula Convention? Do you have a sizeable fan base here that was screaming out for you to come visit?

GM: I’ll find out. I’ve never been to Montana

before. I get a lot of these convention invitations. …

I’ve been going to science fiction/fantasy conventions since 1971, when I sold my first story. Of course, these days I get a lot more invitations than I ever had before, given the popularity of the show and the books. I can only do about six a year; any more than that and I wouldn’t get any work done at all. MisCon invited me about three years ago. I was glad to accept. I like to go to different parts of the country and give my readers a chance to meet me and me to meet them. The three years have gone by in the wink of an eye, and we’re about to fly in.

Indy: You’ve been participating as a writer on the show as well. In fact, you wrote this weekend’s battleheavy episode “Blackwater,” which airs while you’re here at MisCon. Is it tricky adapting your own material for the screen?

GM: It’s one of the hardest things to do. The process of adaptation inevitably means that you have to cut things, you have to change things. When you’re writing it in prose form, you can just let it all hang out and write something as big as the imagination. That’s certainly true for the Battle of Blackwater, which is gigantic. But when you’re doing a TV show, you have certain hard realities: the budget that you have to work with, the shooting schedule, the run time. You don’t get to have an hour and 15 minutes or an hour and a half because you want it. I can add extra pages to a book or a chapter. I can’t add extra pages to a script. …

I can’t say it’s a fun process, but I think it’s worthwhile when the final product turns out good, and I think “Blackwater” has turned out very well.

Indy: Is there any character on the show who you’ve felt closely resembles the original creation from the books?

GM: Certainly Peter Dinklage as Tyrion. He’s the perfect Tyrion. We didn’t even look at anyone else for that role. We did not do any auditions, we did not have any readings, we did not explore anyone else. We knew we wanted Peter Dinklage. He was really the only one who could play the role.

Indy: Has your involvement with the show helped you at all with the creative process on the books, or are you trying to keep those two things separate, the books and the show?

GM: Well, they are separate things. But it’s all taking place in the same world and it’s about largely the same characters, so as long as I sort of keep my head in Westeros, it all helps.

Author George R.R. Martin will be appearing this weekend at MisCon 26, at Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center, with book signings the mornings of Saturday, May 26, and Monday, May 28, and a reading at 1 p.m.

Sunday, May 27. Don’t miss the latter, as it could be a new excerpt from the next book, The Winds of Winter.

Go to miscon.org for more info.

asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise Books Film Movie Shorts Jamestown Revival It’s not hard to hear what Jamestown Revival is trying to revive: the upbeat lament of Southern soul. But the band is two young white guys from Austin, so it’s no surprise that the sound they’re searching for is filtered through the concave lens of contemporary indie pop. The result is spare but accessible songs driven by pretty harmonies and punchy guitar riffs. It’s a sound that has already garnered the band a shot at the cover of Rolling Stone and an appearance on “Last Call with Carson Daly,” despite having only released one four-song EP. It’s palatable and nostalgic pop for a generation—myself included—that can access all of the sounds and styles of the past from the effortless comfort of ye olde internet connection.

The edges of the great Stax sound have been softened,

Black Bananas Jennifer Herrema—frontwoman of Black Bananas, which may or may not be the new name of Royal Trux—describes herself as “a pioneer of comprehensive nonexclusive opposition rock.” We’ve all been to plenty of shows that started with the crowd chanting “comprehensive non-exclusive opposition rock—and roll!” but maybe she should just say

Leland Sundries The Foundry EP L’Echiquier Records

On “Monitor Arms,” Nick Loss-Eaton sings of shipbuilders swilling and spilling their beers and how a 9-volt battery is all that he needs to set off airraid sirens “just to pass the time.” It’s an expertly written song soaked in stark imagery, but I can’t tell if it’s aided or undermined by his oddly flat voice.

Loss-Eaton has a monotone delivery that can be like listening to Steven Wright front a folk band. Maybe it’s not that bad, but you get the idea. He makes Jeff Tweedy sound like an “American Idol” winner. Here’s the weirdest thing: as grating as he starts off, LossEaton has a way of growing on you over time.

I credit his writing. The breezy “Bywater Rag”

M. Ward Wasteland Companion Merge Records

Given M. Ward’s stint with supergroup Monsters of Folk, I was worried this album would be all sorts of whispery, the way he likes to sing. Fortunately, he proved me wrong, breaking through those trademark vocals on the second track, “Primitive Girl,” and maintaining some strength in his lungs through the next 10.

Occasionally meandering into fields of pop with psychedelic flourishes, he finds his way out like a farmer

making Jamestown Revival easy to swallow but hard to feel going down. “I was only seventeen,” they sing on “Ain’t It a Shame,” “Finding out that the world was mean.” The world is mean, but Jamestown Revival is too nice to really let the listener know. When they sing, “I sold out: / Go to school / Get a job / Pay the bills while my joy is robbed,” they sound sort of OK with it. (Ted McDermott) Jamestown Revival plays the Badlander Monday, May 28, at 10 PM, with The Lusitania, Bellamaine and The Hasslers. $5. “glam.” That’s the best way to describe the sneering vocals, heavy riffs and liberal use of artificial harmonics that make a Black Bananas performance like a metal show from the ’80s, only better. Because now we know what rock was going to do after 1992.

What rock did was make Motley Crüe sound ironic. Black Bananas sounds ironic, too, in that they are clearly a retro band. Yet they play with genuine feeling songs that genuinely rock, so that you start out enjoying how trashy they are and wind up just enjoying. It’s some next-level irony, like when Bizarro Superman has to protect the city. At a certain point—I’m going to say the saxophone solo in “Overpass”—the whole sincerity matrix collapses on itself and becomes simple, ear-ringing fun. (Dan Brooks) Black Bananas plays the Palace Friday, May 25, at 9 PM, with The Hussy and Shahs. $8. covers late-night laundromat lights, shootin’ dice and other scenes straight out of the sweltering South. “Giving Up Redheads,” a country ditty that departs from the EP’s otherwise dark Americana, has some laugh-outloud lines.

The full band is tight, but Leland Sundries lives and dies with Loss-Eaton. Don’t let his voice throw you off. Somehow it’s a perfect fit. (Skylar Browning ) Leland Sundries plays Monk’s Bar Saturday, May 26, at TK PM. $TK.

to his folksy tool shed. He slows down the jangly pop-folk halfway through until it's nearly ambient; the title track is as vast as the space between the eight studios where he recorded.

The non-Zooey half of She & Him worked with 18 different musicians around the country for Wasteland. Collaboration is good, but this tends to sound like an M. Ward sampler mix at times. It lacks cohesion, each track trying to do something different, without a common element tying them into a neat package normally called an album.

The beat picks up again but never blisters like the first half. Like a roller-coaster building excitement on the way up, there is no way back after you descend. Still, it’s a pretty great ride. (Brooks Johnson) M. Ward plays the Wilma Theater Sat., May 26, at 9 PM. $23/$21 advance.

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exhibits a scope equally as bleak as his novel The Summer Son and equally as saccharine as his novel 800 Hours of Edward. “Love isn’t enough,” Lancaster writes, and these bitter and sweet stories set out to demonstrate that shattering maxim.

The pieces collected in Quantum Physics go to flagrant extremes. “Sad Tomato: A Love Story” is quintessentially gritty Lancaster, a horrifying tale of sadomasochism and murder, whereas “Comfort and Joy” is a mawkish drama concerning a lonely former NASA engineer who unintentionally becomes the father-figure to a young boy. With similarly weird duality, “Alyssa Alights” reads as a graphic, point-by-point record of a runaway girl’s descent into homelessness and depravity, which contrasts with “Cruelty to

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Animals,” a yarn I can only describe as a felinethemed romantic satire. For much of Quantum Physics, there seems to be two Craig Lancasters at work: the Lancaster who narrates with the viciousness of Donald Ray Pollack, and a second Lancaster, the one who strives for the semi-liquid affectation of O. Henry.

Fortunately, much of Quantum Physics is populated by the sorts of drifters and desperate idealists whom Lancaster is best suited to portray. No amount of sappy twists can interfere with the intensity of his potent characterizations and assured style. Characters like Jim Quillen, from “She’s Gone” (and who also appeared in The Summer Son), are weak and strong-willed at the same time, consistently anguished and frustrated. But they are never artificial. Lancaster is an exceptional archivist of angst, and his latest book is filled with the downcast routines of extraordinary losers who construct their own suffering and then drown in it.

The title story is the finest of the bunch, a heartbreakingly precise study of a troubled married man living out an alternate love affair with a woman halfway across the world.

The first six paragraphs could be used as a mnemonic on how to write flash fiction. A sense of urban ennui is tangible here, drawing the reader into a terrible place of yearning and desperation in the form of Ross Newbry and his uneasy desire.

Restless hope pervades Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure, along with the rest of Lancaster's best work, wherein the possibility of redemption is curtailed by abrupt, shocking or unfinished-seeming climaxes.

As with his two novels, alienation, attraction and repulsion are predominant fixtures in Lancaster's world, where Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle applies as rigorously to the momentum of love and hate as it does to colliding particles. Billings, a frequent backdrop in these naturalistic fictions, is rendered as a crossroads of yearning and sudden violence—the closed system from which some form of equilibrium, however harsh, is occasionally attained.

Once again, Lancaster shows his mastery of writing about perfectly imperfect human beings and their need for contentment or self-destruction, and mostly for both, simultaneously. arts@missoulanews.com

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They tend to feature intellectuals who are all dressed up in self-awareness, but with nowhere to go. In Metropolitan (1989), the women wear taffeta with poofy shoulders. (The insistent billowing made me feel claustrophobic.) The women of Damsels in Distress are just as menacing in pastels, and unlike me, they know a lot of different ways to tie scarves around their necks. There’s a point to all of this, the

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Damsels in Distress There are the damsels. Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) speaks with a posh British accent and finds everything dreadfully tedious. Heather (Carrie MacLemore) is enthusiastic and dim. They’re led by Violet (Greta Gerwig), who walks ahead of the pack, explaining life to the rest of them as though she’s reading from a book replete with a lot of big words.

The trio picks up willowy transfer student Lily (Analeigh Lipton), and they’re off.

The girls are mostly named after flowers. This can’t possibly mean anything, but it’s consistent with the overall milieu of a film that makes a mockery of human tragedy while simultaneously fully engaging in it.

There’s a plot, sort of. The damsels run a suicide-prevention center on campus that reforms gloomy students with tap dancing. Is this a real life problem, coeds offing themselves in epidemic numbers? Add this to the growing list of things I don’t know.

When the girls aren’t busy having no effect on the number of people hurling themselves off two-story buildings (an uncomfortable but not fatal act), they are worrying about boys. My favorite is Frank (Ryan Metcalf ), who is about as dumb as a person can be without being made to wear a helmet. Where did they find this actor? The Academy should have a special award for such special performances.

Whit Stillman is a highly stylized director, in the tradition of Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson.

Damsels in Distress is his first film since The Last Days of Disco (1998). In their use of weird jazz and intertitles, Stillman’s movies owe a small debt to

way privileged women can wield a handbag like an axe, and it’s fun to imagine how dated the film will look in 20 years.

With more sophisticated audiences, movies are forced to adapt, and the fourth wall is crumbling, like, whoa. Much of the humor derives from the way it gleefully engages in movie logic shorthand. When the script needs to get rid of a jealous girlfriend, for example, it just has her abruptly turn around and walk in the other direction, never to return. The movie is filled with blunt movements like this, too satisfying to give away here. You’re either going to find these moments hilarious, or they will just look like lazy storytelling.

Damsels in Distress is wildly uneven, at times confusing and, above all, so, so strange. These are stellar comedic performances, especially when you consider the task: They’re made to make insanely affected language sound like words a human would say. For me, Greta Gerwig as Violet is the main event. She slayed me in last year’s Greenberg, and ever since, I can’t stop gawking at her face. I don’t think I’m supposed to like her or her friends, but in fact, I cared about these girls a lot. I wanted them to be happy.

Seriously, how does Gerwig manage to burrow into our hearts and minds clad in so many impossible ascots? Who are these people and why do I care?

Damsels in Distress continues at the Wilma Theatre. arts@missoulanews.com

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THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL British all-stars Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith play retirees who travel to India to stay in what they believe is a newly restored hotel.

Guess what? It isn’t what they thought, but they still learn a lot about life anyway. Rated PG-13.

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THE AVENGERS Dude, Loki shows up through a space portal and starts controlling people’s minds and doing his evil business. That’s when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is all, “Ah, hell, no,” and initiates the Avengers Initiative. It. Is. On. Also starring Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 12:30, 2, 3:30, 5:15, 6:30, 8:30 and 9:30 pm. 3D: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4:10 and 7:15 pm, with 10:15 pm shows Fri. and Sat., with 1 pm

CHERNOBYL DIARIES Oh man, some tourists get onboard the crazy train with an “extreme” tour guide (perhaps MTV’s Dan Cortese?) and take a trip to the abandoned city of

save other students from depression and grunge.

Why grunge? Aren’t the 1990s back? Rated PG13. Wilma: 7 pm. No shows Sat., May 26, and Tue., May 29.

to be quirky, lovable fellas just looking for meaning in the world. Starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms. Rated R. Wilma: 9 pm. No shows Sat., May 26, and Tue., May 29.

DARK SHADOWS In this Tim Burton-directed documentary, a vampire returns to his ancestral home only to find his fully dysfunctional family occupying the place. Man, that bites. Starring Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sun.

SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN A sheikh dreams of fly-fishing in that dry old Yemen, and British fisheries expert Ewan McGregor is brought in to help make it happen and most likely trawl for love with government aid Kristin Scott Thomas. Rated PG-13. Wilma: 9 pm nightly, with 7 pm shows on Sun., May 13, Wed., May 16 and Thu., May 17, and a matinee on Sat. at 3 pm.

“Mogwai, schmogwai, gimme back my Fresh Prince doll.” Men in Black III opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.

Pripyat, the former home of Chernobyl nuclear plant employees. Guess what? They are not alone.

Starring Jesse McCartney and, well, no one else, really. Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with 9:50 pm shows Fri. and Sat., with 1:30 pm matinees Sat and Sun. MEN IN BLACK III In what may end up being the best one of the bunch, according to some sources, Agent Will Smith has to go back to the ’60s to save Agent Tommy Lee Jones (now played by a younger, hepper Josh Brolin) from an alien murder plot.

Let the guffawing begin. Also starring David Rasche of TV’s “Sledgehammer.” Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10 pm. 3D: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and 9 pm. Big D: 1, 4, 7 and 9:30 pm. Special showing at midnight on Thu., May 24. Village 6: 2D and 3D: 4 and 7 pm, with 9:45 pm shows Fri. and Sat., with 1 pm matinees Sat and Sun. Pharaohplex: 9:10 pm, with Sat. and Sun, matinees at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sunday. 3D: 6:50 pm. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm, with a midnight screening on Thu., May 24.

matinees Sat and Sun. Pharaohplex: 9:20 pm, with Sat. and Sun, matinees at 3 pm, no 9:20 pm show on Sunday. 3D: 6:40 pm. Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 pm.

BATTLESHIP For some damned reason, an other-worldy armada decides to battle humans on the high seas. Lucky for them, David Farragut isn’t around to drop one-liners like “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Unfortunately, Liam Neeson, hot-ass Tim Riggins and Rihanna (seriously) are. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1, 2, 4, 5:15, 7, 8:30 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with 10 pm shows Fri. and Sat., and 1 pm matinees Sat and Sun. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun, matinees at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sun. Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9:20 pm.

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THE DICTATOR In 83 minutes, Sacha Baron Cohen subtly critiques our relationship with the Middle East and questions our own mores along the way as he plays the role of a mega-maniacal dictator. Also starring Anna Farris and someone called Ben Kingsley. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:30 pm. Village 6: 4:15 and 7 pm, with 9:30 pm shows Fri. and Sat., and 1:30 pm matinees Sat and Sun. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm, and no 9 pm show on Sun.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Hollywood explains to us the miracle of life and that men and women are different and that babies change us and that life doesn’t always “deliver.” Starring Cameron Diaz (childless) and Jennifer Lopez (has bore children). Rated PG13. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:45 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm.

THE HUNGER GAMES Oh lordy, in the future children are chosen by The Man to fight to the death on live TV. Wait, there’s TV in the future? Heinous. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Stanley Tucci. PG-13.

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By Amy Alkon MUSED AND ABUSED After my girlfriend and I split up, I wrote a creative nonfiction piece about our breakup (changing some identifying details).

I published it on a popular blog and linked to it on Facebook. We’re back together, and things are great; however, she saw the story and was humiliated. I explained that what I wrote was beautiful and vulnerable and true, and many people were moved by it. She really wasn’t down with that and told me to consider her off-limits in my writing. This seems unfair. I write nonfiction. What will I write about if I can’t write about my life?

—Expressive As lame as some creative writing exercises sound—“Write a haiku about what you had for lunch!”—a thinly veiled portrait of your chicken salad will cause way less relationship stress than “Turn your fight with your girlfriend into a blog post!” (And no, you can’t just change her name from Molly to Holly so nobody but your 546 Facebook friends will know it’s her.)

Yes, I’ve heard—privacy is reportedly dead. It was pronounced dead in 2006 at an internet security conference. This doesn’t mean that it is actually dead or should be— just that lots of people are finding their dirty laundry uploaded to Instagram and their private conversations turned into content.

Chances are, those nonchalantly ripping away others’ privacy online would be spraining their tongues tsk-tsking if somebody did it the non-virtual way, like by hijacking the mic at an outdoor concert series: “My girlfriend, Molly...second row, that blonde in the red...FORGOT to tell me she was weaponsgrade slutty in college. She’d have a tat of that McDonald’s “x million served” sign, except that there’s no room on her disturbingly small breasts.”

Like websites, relationships these days seem to require a privacy policy—one agreed upon in advance (before anybody becomes relationship-o-tainment) and maintained in the event of a breakup.

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—Regretsville You apparently learned your social skills from a park ranger. Playing dead is a successful strategy when you’re being chased by certain types of bears. When you’re hoping to be chased by a man, you need to go over and say hello. But, you whimper, you’re scared. Yeah, okay. But, why would that be reason to avoid doing it? By making yourself do something you’re afraid of, you shrink your fears and probably feel better afterward, unless it’s something like walking off the ledge of a tall building.

Don’t worry if you aren’t a genius conversationalist. Just ask questions: “Are you a friend of the author’s?” “Is that soup on your shirt?” If somebody likes you, he’ll talk to you.

If not, it’s a big world; go talk to somebody else. And don’t see every interaction as some statement about your worth. Some people will like you; some won’t. Unless you’re running for office, who cares? The more people you talk to, the bigger your life will be, and the less each interaction will matter in the grand scheme of you. Until then, remember, 90 percent of success is just showing up—and then not running back out to your car, powerlocking your doors, and speeding home

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing as his, Aries, and you may normally be able to get along fine with just a few cubic inches of new ideas per day. But I expect that in the next three to four weeks, you will both need and yearn to generate Prevost-type levels of heat and light. Please make sure you’re getting a steady supply of the necessary fuel.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a great question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind. Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” On some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by.

Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Sometimes I think and other times I am,” said French poet Paul Valery.

Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle—a time when it will be more important for you to exclaim “woohoo!” than to mutter “hmmm;” a time to tune in extra strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t pretend you can’t see the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it.

In other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it. Gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s OK with me if you want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, Leo. But I’d like to tell you why I’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with. And I think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger. During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people. Networking opportunities will be excellent. Your web of connections should expand. By the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular, and better fighters.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1977, the first Apple computers were built in a garage that Steve Jobs’ father provided for his son and Steve Wozniak to work in. (You can see a photo of the holy shrine here:tinyurl.com/AppleGarage.) I suggest you think about setting up your own version of that magic place sometime soon: a basement, kitchen, garage, warehouse, or corner of your bedroom that will be the spot where you fine-tune your master plan for the coming years—and maybe even where you begin working in earnest on a labor of love that will change everything for the better.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have a head’s up for you, Libra. Do your best to avoid getting enmeshed in any sort of “he said/she said” controversy. (Of course it could be a “he said/he said” or “she said/she said” or “trans said/intersex said” brouhaha, too—you get the idea.) Gossip is not your friend in the week ahead. Trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong suit. Becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your destiny. In my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter and clatter. It’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mountaintop, flying in your dreams, and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In some Australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret.

Even the child isn’t told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed.

I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: When you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers, or yourself.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Please raise your hand if you have ever sought out a romantic connection with someone mostly because of the way he or she looked. You shouldn’t feel bad if you have; it’s pretty common. But I hope you won’t indulge in this behavior any time soon. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial for you to base your decisions on deeper understandings—not just in regards to potential partners and lovers, but for everything. As you evaluate your options, don’t allow physical appearance and superficial attractiveness to be the dominant factors.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The 21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. But about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem. Northern Flicker Woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep. To allow for necessary repairs, launch was postponed for over a month. I’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn.

Regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. Take that almost-insignificant pest seriously.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s official: Dancing increases your intelligence. So says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling, and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. But one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. Lucky you: This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance. Take advantage! Get smarter. (More info: tinyurl.com/DanceSmart.)

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your animal totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a hero shrew. Of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. You will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces.

Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. I expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you—and do it with exceptional charisma.

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At the 3/19/12 Board meeting for DeSmet School District #20 Missoula County MT, the trustees determined that an amendment to the Transportation fund budget in the amount of $15,000 is necessary under the provision of Section 209-161 subsection six (6), MCA; for the purpose of funding unforeseen transportation expenditures occurring during the 2011-2012 school year. The Board of Trustees will meet at 7pm on 5/22/12 for the purpose of considering and adopting the budget amendment.

CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID The Missoula Police Department is seeking bids for a three year contract to Tow and Store Abandoned and Junk Vehicles within City Limits A contract will be awarded to the lowest, most responsible bidder.

Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, Missoula City Hall, 435 Ryman St, Missoula, Montana, 598024297, until 1:00 P.M. on June 6, 2012, and then will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Mayor’s Conference Room. Late bids will not be accepted.

Bids shall be submitted on forms provided by the Missoula Police Department in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside “Abandoned Vehicle Towing/Storage bid. The envelope shall also be marked with the bidder’s company and mailing address.

Copies of the specifications can be obtained from the Missoula Police Department,435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or on line at www.ci.missoula.mt.us.

Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements.

No Proposal may be withdrawn within a period of 60 days after the bid opening date. Before a contract will be awarded, the City will conduct investigations to determine the performance record and ability of the apparent low bidder to perform the size and type of work specified. Upon request, the bidder shall submit information as deemed necessary by the City to evaluate the bidder’s qualifications. The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to determine which bid is, in the City’s judgment, the lowest responsible bid. The City also reserves the right to waive any informalities, irregularities, or minor deviations in any bid and to delete certain items listed in the bid. Any objections to published specification must be filed in written form with the Missoula City Clerk prior to the bid opening at 1:00

P.M. on June 6, 2012. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that separate sealed BIDS for the construction of The Partnership Health Center, Lowell School Clinic will be received by Partnership Health Center, c/o MMW Architects at their office located at 125 West Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 4:00 PM on June 7, 2012, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud. All work is to be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by MMW Architects. Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of MMW Architects located at 125 West Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802 upon payment of $75.00 for each set and a mailing fee of $35. The documents will be available @ MMW on Thursday, May 17, 2012 after 1:00 PM. Any BIDDER, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS promptly and in good condition, will be refunded their payment, and any NON-BIDDER upon so returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will be refunded $75.00. Any mailing fee will not be refunded. Each Bid or Proposal must be accompanied by a cashiers check, certified check, or Bid Bond payable to Partnership Health Center in the amount of not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid and must be in the form specified in MCA 181-201 through 206. The bid bond or other security shall protect and indemnify Partnership Health Center against the failure or refusal of the bidder to enter into the contract within 30 days of bid acceptance. Bid security will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Late bids will not be accepted and will automatically be disqualified from further consideration. Bid must be signed by an authorized representative of the bidder.

Bid must include applicable Montana prevailing wage rates. Partnership Health Center reserves the right to waive informalities, to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid, which is in the best interest of the owner, to reject any and all proposals received, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award, as in the judgment of its officials, best meets the owner’s requirements.

The contractor is required to be an equal opportunity employer. Successful bidders shall furnish an approved performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount.

Insurance as required shall be provided by the successful bidder(s) and a certificate(s) of that insurance shall be provided. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is 4:00 PM, local time, June 7, 2012. Each BIDDER will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for Partnership Health Center, Lowell School Clinic, c/o MMW Architects” and addressed to: MMW Architects 125 W. Alder Missoula, MT 59802 MISSOULA COUNTY FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS The Office of Planning and Grants has received the following applications for Floodplain Development Permits: 1. County Floodplain Permit Application # 12-25. An application from Konstatin Tsuber to work within the former Grant Creek floodplain.

The project is located at 1955 Mullan Trail, in Section 14, Township 13N, Range 20W and includes the construction of a new single family residence. 2.

County Floodplain Permit Application # 12-26. An application from Lane Sorenson to work within the Butler Creek floodplain. The project is located at 6575 Hwy 10 West, in Section 34, Township 14N, Range 20W and includes the removal of unauthorized floodplain fill and floodplain restoration. The full applications are available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall.

Written comments from anyone interested in these applications may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., June 15, 2012.

Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

County will provide auxiliary aids and services. Dated this 21st day of May, 2012 BY ORDER OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF ELECTION EQUIPMENT TESTING A test of the ES&S M100 Precinct Counters that will be used to tabulate ballots on Election Day and the ES&S AutoMARK ballot-marking system will be starting at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at the Missoula County Record’s Center at 2147 Ernest Ave, Missoula, Montana. Following this, a test of the ES&S 650 Ballot Counters will be held at the Fairground’s Marsda Building, 1101 South Ave W, Missoula, Montana. All tests are open to the public. /s/ Vickie Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County By /s/ Debbe Merseal, Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to abandon a public utility easement specifically described as: A portion of the 40’ private road and utility easement for the use and benefit of Tracts E, F, & G; Located in: Section 1, T20N, R17W; Subdivision name: Remick’s Swan River Tracts No. 2, Block 2, Lots 1-6 Beginning at (from): easterly edge of cul de sac heading easterly 914 feet Ending at (to): the eastern boundary of Tract E & F and the western boundary of Tract G A map or diagram is attached that illustrates the proposed action, which is incorporated herein by reference. The County Commissioners are requested to Abandon the section of PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT described above. The abandonment of this easement is necessary and advantageous for the following reason: The Board of County Commissioners require this private access and utility easement to be abandoned as a condition of final plat approval for the Glacier Creek Meadows Subdivision. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on June 6, 2012 at 1:30 p.m., at the Missoula County Administration Building at 199 West Pine, Missoula, MT 59802, in the Admin B14 Public Meeting Room. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Missoula County Administration Building at 199 West Pine, Missoula, MT 59802, Missoula, MT prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 By /s/ Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk and Recorder/Elections (406) 2583241 Date: May 11, 2012

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION for the issuance of a MISSOULA AIR QUALITY PERMIT Source: Gravel Crushing Plant Applicant: Camas Gravel Co. The Missoula CityCounty Health Department has received a complete application for an Air Quality Permit for a gravel crushing plant to be operated at the following location: Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 22 West at 23300 Lolo Creek Road, Lolo, Missoula County. Upon review of the permit application and other information, the Department finds that Camas Gravel Co. has filed a complete application indicating the proposed facility is capable of meeting applicable requirements of the Air Pollution Control Program. Therefore, the Department hereby gives notice of the preliminary determination to issue an Air Quality Permit to Camas Gravel Co. to operate the gravel crushing plant.

The permit will be issued with several conditions attached. The Department will make a final determination concerning the application on June 11th, 2012.

Any interested person may review a copy of the application and proposed permit at the Environmental Health Division, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Written comments on the preliminary determination will be accepted until 5:00 PM June 8th, 2012. Comments should be sent to the attention of Benjamin Schmidt, Air Quality Specialist (email: bschmidt@co.missoula.mt.us ).

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FLOODPLAIN PERMIT VARIANCE REQUEST (GRASS VALLEYFRENCH DITCH, CARL SAUNDERS – CLARK FORK RIVER) Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on a Floodplain Permit variance request. The request is from Carl Saunders representing the Grass Valley French Ditch Irrigation Company requesting authorization to relocate excavated materials within the floodway in Section 24, T13N, R20W. The Irrigation Company is requesting authorization to reopen and excavate a blocked river channel in order to provide water to approximately 100 downstream users.

Floodplain regulations require the excavated materials be hauled out of the floodway. The variance request is to spread the excavated materials onto the adjacent gravel bar. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Administration Building, Room B14, 199 W. Pine St., Basement Level, Missoula, MT. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices at the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W. Pine St., Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us A copy of the full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants at City Hall. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Todd Klietz, Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802; or by calling (406) 258-4841. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED To: John Richards P.O. Box 316 Seeley Lake, MT 59868-0316, John Richards P.O. Box 870 Seeley Lake, MT 59868-0870, Current Occupant 43640 HWY 200 E Bonner, MT 59823, Deborah J. Turrel 677 Carya Sq Columbus, IN 47201-8674, Richard A. Reep of Reep, Bell & Laird, P.C. formerly known as Reep & Bell, P.C. P.O. Box 16960 Missoula, Mt. 59808-6960, Schulted Law Firm, P.C., Attn: John C. Schulte 2425 Mullan Rd Missoula, MT 59808, First Valley Bank P.O. Box 720 Seeley Lake, MT 59868, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., Attn: Molly K. Howard 201 West Main Street, Suite 201 Missoula, MT 59802, P. Mars Scott Law Offices Attn: Ronald A. Thuesen P.O. Box 5988 Missoula, MT 59806, John Richards Construction Co. 980 Pine Seeley Lake, MT 59868, Richard A. Reep of Reep, Bell & Laird, P.C. 2955 Stockyard Road Missoula, MT. 59808, Seeley Lake Ready Mix Company 980 Pine Seeley Lake, MT 59868, Terra Equipment Company 980 Pine Seeley Lake, MT 59868, Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 and to all persons owning, occupying, and claiming an interest whether legal or equitable in the property described in the notice; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: S05, T14 N, R14 W, C.O.S. 5720, PARCEL 2 LESS TRACT 2A COS 6049, Geo# 04-2331-05-1-01-02-0000, SUID# 4019903. Real Property also described as 43640 HWY 200 E, BONNER MT 59823. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 2nd, 2008. 3.

The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8th, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8th, 2009,

by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway Street Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to TIG LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 18148, Missoula MT 59808. 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest,

and costs, is: TAXES: $320.75 PENALTY: $6.42 INTEREST: $91.06 COSTS: $598.17 TOTAL: $1016.40 7.

For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph six must be paid before the redemption period expires. The date the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the Missoula County Treasurer prior to the expiration of the redemption period, or on or prior to the date on which the Missoula County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the Missoula County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. 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 Street, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-258-4847.

Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 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 party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 14th day of May 2012. TIG LLC MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED To: Mark Kersting 314 N 1st Street West Missoula, MT 59802, Occupants of Apartment Unit(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 of 827 & 837 Woody St. Missoula, MT 59802, Marcia E. Purdy 5562 Klements LN Florence, MT 59833-6609, Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Street Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula Finance Department 435 Ryman Street Missoula, MT 59802, First American Title Co. of Montana, Inc. 1006 West Sussex Missoula MT 59801 and to all persons owning, occupying, and claiming an interest whether legal or equitable in the property described in the notice; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: URLIN ADDITION, S15, T13 N, R19 W, BLOCK 96, Lot 1, Geo# 042200-15-3-04-08-0000, SUID# 940105.

Real Property also described as 827 & 837 Woody St. Missoula, MT 59802. 2.

The property taxes became delinquent on December 2nd, 2008. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8th, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8th, 2009, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway Street Missoula, MT 59802. 5.

The lien was subsequently assigned to John Tesdal, whose address is 7495 Peregrine CT, Missoula, MT 59808. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: TAXES: $5319.09 PENALTY: $106.37 INTEREST: $1526.13 COSTS: $628.06 TOTAL: $7579.65 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph six must be paid before the redemption period expires. The date the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the Missoula County Treasurer prior to the expiration of the redemption period, or on or prior to the date on which the Missoula County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the Missoula County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. 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 Street, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-258-4847.

Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 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 party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 14th day of May 2012. John Tesdal MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a

public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. The Board of County Commissioners is scheduled to hold a public hearing on this item on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at 1:30 p.m. in Admin B14 Public Meeting Room, Lower Level of the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W Pine, Missoula. Amendments to the Missoula County Subdivision Regulations The Missoula County Rural Initiatives Office proposes amendments to Section 4.6 of the Missoula County Subdivision Regulations that addresses Subdivisions Created for Lease or Rent that are Subject to Review. The purpose of this revision is to clarify when new structures or improvements on a property require subdivision review. It also provides the possibility to landowners of developing an agreement with the County for those situations that might otherwise require subdivision review. The proposed amendments to the Missoula County Subdivision Regulations are available for public and agency comment. The amendments can be viewed at www.co.missoula.mt.us./rural. They are also available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula), Missoula County Rural Initiatives (physical location: 317 Woody Street, Missoula), and the Missoula County Commissioners Office (physical location: second floor of the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W Pine, Missoula). Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. Comments may be directed to Missoula County Rural Initiatives at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802, or via email to ri@co.missoula.mt.us. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS for LEAD ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR PARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER Creamery Building MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA I. General Statement of Purpose Partnership Health Center, an entity of Missoula County (Owner), desires to acquire lead architectural services to assist in designing the remodel of one floor and the addition of a wing to the Partnership Health Center facility known as the Creamery Building located at 401 West Railroad Street in downtown Missoula, MT. The architect will work with the staff of Partnership Health Center and the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana to develop the designs. ii. Background: A. Partnership Health Center Partnership Health Center (PHC) has provided 20 years of uninterrupted healthcare services to the community as Missoula’s Federally Qualified Health Center and remains the region’s main provider of comprehensive primary care on a sliding fee scale. PHC provides medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy and a variety of other ancillary services to approximately 12,000 low-income, uninsured and under-insured residents in Missoula and surrounding rural areas. Due to the increasing demand for services and the need for additional space, an extensive planning process was initiated. The Creamery Building has been identified as the ideal location for an expansion. B. Partnership Health CenterCreamery Building Location Originally built sometime between 1912 and 1921, the Creamery Building is 2.5 times the size of the current Partnership Health Center facility and includes a vacant lot for future expansion. The facility remained a creamery through the early 1950’s. From then on a variety of businesses—from the manufacturing of golf apparel and equipment to retail sales of musical instruments—have operated out of the brick building. The upper floor of the building is currently in use; and Partnership Health Center operates a dental clinic, small medical clinic, and behavioral health services from this area. The basement of the building is currently under renovation and will house the Partnership Health Center Pharmacy and multiple offices. The building is located in an historic district, and preservation of the building exterior is desired. C. LEED Considerations In 2010, the Board of

County Commissioners adopted a Green Building Policy with the requirement to seek U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification for major renovations to County buildings. PHC plans to apply LEED criteria to the expansion and remodel of the Creamery Building and seek the highest LEED certification level that is cost effective and achievable given the limits of available funding. iii. Scope of Services: Working with the staff identified previously, this project will involve schematic design and design development.

Schematic Design Phase: concept floor plans, site elements, outline narrative of construction materials, building code analysis and implementation, and update construction costs estimates; and Design Development Phase: refine/revise selected floor plans, refine/revise site plan, develop interior elevations, provide detailed narrative of construction materials, develop specific construction details, finalize implementation of code issues, specify select products and materials, develop security and access narrative, develop room finishes schedule and update construction cost estimates. iv. Qualification Information required: A. Interested firms should include the following information in their response: 1. The respondent’s legal name, address, and telephone number; 2. The principal(s) of the firm and their experience and qualifications; 3. The experience and qualifications of the key personnel to be assigned to the project; 4.A description of the firm’s prior experience in design, development and management of similar project work, including project budgets and cost control, change order history, and contact names of project owners or local officials knowledgeable about the firm’s performance; 5.A description of the firm’s current work activities and how these would be coordinated with the project, as well as the firm’s anticipated availability during the term of the project; 6. A discussion of the firm’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) experience and how it will be applied to this project; 7. An organizational chart for this project, showing specific staff responsibilities, identifying key sub-consultants, and perceived work relationships; A proposed work plan and schedule for activities to be performed; 8. Three references with contact information from owners familiar with the firm’s work; and 9. Proof of general liability insurance of $1,500,000 and errors and omissions insurance of $1,000,000, or ability to obtain required levels of coverage. B. Responses to this RFQ shall be submitted to: Barbara Berens Missoula County Auditor 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Phone: (406) 258-3227 Fax: (406) 721-4043 e-mail: bberens@co.missoula.mt.us V. TIMELINE, SUBMISSION DEADLINE and submittal requirements A. Publication of RFQ: May 17, 2012 & May 24, 2012 B. Deadline for submission of responses: May 31, 5:00 p.m. C. Six (6) copies of the response are required. VI. SELECTION process: A Selection Committee consisting of Missoula County elected officials and senior staff will evaluate the statements of qualifications received. A. Evaluation of Responses: The following criteria will be used to evaluate the responses: 1. Professional qualifications of the professional person(s) to be assigned to the project; 2. Capability to meet time and project budget requirements; 3. Present and projected workloads; 4. Related experience in similar projects; 5. Firm’s experience with LEED® projects; 6. Location of firm; 7. Recent and current work for Missoula County; 8. Past performance on similar types of projects; 9.

Feedback from references; and 10. Suggested project approach (understanding of project). The Selection Committee reserves the right to request supplemental information and, if necessary, conduct telephone interviews prior to identification of the finalist firms. B. Interview Process: The Selection Committee will conduct interviews with the highest ranked two to four firms. Interview criteria will be: 1. Understanding of project requirements, firm’s analysis, preparation, interest; 2.

Design approach/methodology, technical alternatives, creativity, problem solving ability; 3. Project Management, proposed project schedule, cost controls; 4. Key project personnel, project manager qualifications and experience; 5. Project design team,

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PUBLIC NOTICES sub-consultant qualifications and experience; and 6. Local familiarity and availability to complete project. C. Selection, Negotiation, and Recommendation. The firm ranked first in the Interview Process will be contacted by the Owner’s Project Manager to begin negotiations. Missoula County reserves the right to require the firm to affiliate with specialty firm(s). If a satisfactory agreement cannot be obtained with the top-ranked firm, negotiations will cease and the second-ranked firm will be contacted for negotiations.

The Selection Committee will make a recommendation on both the preferred firm and the term of the contract to the Board of County Commissioners who will make the final selection and term decisions. Missoula County reserves the right to accept or reject any and all responses received as a result of this RFQ, if it is in the Owner’s best interests to do so. Missoula County reserves the right to waive any and all irregularities or informalities, and to determine what constitutes any and all irregularities and informalities. VII. NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF OWNER’S PROJECT MANAGER: Larry Farnes Missoula County Facility Management 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Phone: (406) 406-258-4756 email : lfarnes@co.missoula.mt.us MISSOULA COUNTY VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER HEREBY NOTIFIES TAXPAYERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY THAT PERSONAL PROPERTY OF 2012 TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON JULY 2, 2012. UNLESS TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT AND WILL DRAW INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID AND 2% WILL BE ADDED TO THE DELINQUENCY TAXES AS A PENALTY. IF YOU INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, PROPERTY DESCRIPTION, GROUNDS FOR PROTEST AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE PROTESTING PURSUANT TO MCA § 15-1-402. /s/ VICKIE M. ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No DN-12-28 Department No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING O.G., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: SHAMAN GODKIN Re: O.G., born March 28, 2010. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services, Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care, and Temporary Legal Custody or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 19th day of June, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the above-named youth should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the youth for six months; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Shaman Godkin is represented by Kelli Sather, Office of State Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Karen S. Townsend, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 8th day of May, 2012. /s/ KAREN S. TOWNSEND District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-11-28 Department No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean Related Cause No. DN-1130 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING J.B., A YOUTH

IN NEED OF CARE. TO: SHAUN PEPION Re: J.B., born August 21, 2008 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services and Temporary Investigative Authority and a Petition for Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care and Temporary Legal Custody to CFS or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 27th day of June, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the above-named youth should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the youth for six months; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Shaun Pepion is represented by Clare Anderson, 210 N. Higgins St., Suite 302, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 728-6226. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 16th day of May, 2012. /s/ EDWARD P. MCLEAN District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-11-30 Department No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean Related Cause No. DN-1128 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING S.B., JR., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: SHAD BEAR CHILD SR. Re: S.B. Jr., born June 26, 2011 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services and Temporary Investigative Authority and a Petition for Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care and Temporary Legal Custody to CFS or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 27th day of June, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the above-named youth should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the youth for six months; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Shad Bear Child Sr. is represented by Lisa Kauffman, 125 W. main St., Ste B, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 542-2726. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 9th day of May, 2012. /s/ EDWARD P. MCLEAN District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-12-14, DN-12-15 Department No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean Related Cause No. DN-11-19 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING J.F., AND J.F., YOUTHS IN NEED OF CARE. TO: JUSTIN BORCHERS Re: J.F., born January 5, 2012 and J.F., born January 5, 2012 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana, 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services, Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care and Temporary Legal Custody or for said youths to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 27th day of June, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the youths should not be adjudicated youths in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the youths for six months, or until further order of the Court; why the Petitions should not be granted or why said youths should not be otherwise cared for. Justin Borchers is represented by

Court-appointed attorney Kelli Sather, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 5235140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youths, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petitions.

A copy of the Petitions hereinbefore referred to are filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780.

WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 16th day of May, 2012. /s/ Edward P. McLean District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-12-16 Department No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend Related Cause Nos. DN05-10, DN-11-65 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING C.O., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: BRIANA KOEPPLIN-DEUTSCHMANN Re: C.O., born January 8, 2012. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services, Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care, and Temporary Legal Custody or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 5th day of June, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. and the 11th day of June, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the above-named youth should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the youth for six months; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Briana Koepplin-Deutschmann is represented by Kelli Sather, Office of State Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Karen S. Townsend, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 8th day of May, 2012. /s/ KAREN S. TOWNSEND District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-87 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM FRANK QUIMBY, Deceased.

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

Claims must either be mailed, return receipt requested, to Earline F. Avery, Personal Representative, c/o Cederberg Law Offices, P.C., PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 11th day of May, 2012. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 598078234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3Probate No. DP-12-85 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED S. HANGAR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Harold H. Hangar, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2012. /s/ Harold H. Hangar, Personal Representative.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S ATTORNEY: RONALD A. BENDER, ESQ., WORDEN THANE P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-12-83 Karen S. Townsend, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BEVERLY JEAN SCHMAUTZ, 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 Denise Hendrix, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o

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Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of May, 2012. /s/ Denise Hendrix, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Karen Townsend Probate No. DP12-81 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH N. JOHNSTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Kathy Hefferman return receipt requested, at PO Box 7731, Missoula, MT 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3rd day of May, 2012. /s/ Kathy J. Hefferman, Personal Representative, 3851 Duncan Drive, Missoula, MT 59802 Mullan Mini Storage will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for units 60, 130, 192, and 228. Units contain office furniture, household goods and furniture, clothes, tools and miscellaneous. These units may be viewed starting May 30, 2012 by appointment only by calling 721-8710. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 2855 Mullan Road, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to June 1, 2012, 2:00 p.m. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered for 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.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/24/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200928266 Bk 851 Pg 716, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David R. Goodin and Karen R. Goodin, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 9 and 10 in Block 89 of South Missoula, 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 06/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of March 20, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $199,304.13. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $186,162.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 1, 2012 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.96422) 1002.202947-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 14 OF DOUBLE ARROW RANCH PHASE IV, A PLATTED

SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF MARIE F MARCHKII, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, A MONTANA CORPORATION, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED NOVEMBER 17, 2003 AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 25, 2003 IN BOOK 722, PAGE 1535 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200344999. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, successor in interest by purchase from the FDIC as Receiver of Washington Mutual Bank. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,005.33, beginning July 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 13, 2012 is $178,724.86 principal, interest at the rate of 6.750% now totaling $32,600.24, late charges in the amount of $201.68, escrow advances of $13,908.58, suspense balance of $-476.87 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,317.64, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.05 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 13, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 13th day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Chase V Marchkii 41916.514 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: THE EAST ONE-HALF OF THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 1 IN BLOCK 74 OF SUPPLEMENTAL PLAT TO R.M. COBBAN ORCHARD HOMES, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AS FILED IN THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Denise M. Sherman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on February 15, 2006 and recorded on February 15, 2006 in Book 768, Page 1510 under Document No. 200603511. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in

the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,052.23, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 10, 2012 is $212,394.61 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% now totaling $3,761.15, late charges in the amount of $119.10, escrow advances of $1,733.02, suspense balance of $137.35 and other fees and expenses advanced of $47.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 9, 2012 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 9 day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Gmac V. Sherman 41965.453 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 23, BLOCK C OF FARVIEWS HOMESITES, PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PATH THEREOF LESS AND EXCEPTING THAT PORTION THERE OF CONVEYED BY WARRANTY DEED IN BOOK 59 OF MICRO AT PAGE 707, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOW: COMMENCING AT THE MOST EASTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 23, BLOCK C WHICH CORNER IS COMMON TO LOTS 23 AND 24 OF SAID BLOCK C AND SITUATED ON WESTVIEW DRIVE AS THE SAME APPEARS ON THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF SAID ADDITION; RUNNING THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG WESTVIEW DRIVE AND THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 23, 20 FEET; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 23, WHICH CORNER IS COMMON TO LOTS 23 AND 24 OF BLOCK C THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG THE LINE DIVIDING SAID LOTS 23 AND 24 TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; ALL ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF SAID FAR VIEWS HOMESITES AS FILE IN THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Michael J. Sullivan and Julianne M. Larson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on September 16, 2002 and recorded on September 20, 2002 in Book 688, Page 1798

under Document no. 200227139. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $420.94, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 23, 2012 is $56,634.67 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $3,734.06, late charges in the amount of $1,190.00, escrow advances of $3,083.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $878.10, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.47 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 9, 2012 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 9 day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Boa V. Larson 42019.868 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 36 OF STILLWATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Douglas H McCollum, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 22, 2005 and Recorded March 2, 2005 in Book 748, Page 1163 under Document No. 200504917.

The beneficial interest is currently held by EverBank. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,438.35, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 19, 2012 is $290,097.75 principal, interest at the rate of 3.000% now totaling $2,604.91, late charges in the amount of $215.76, escrow advances of $591.68 and other

PUBLIC NOTICES fees and expenses advanced of $92.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.84 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 23, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 23rd day of February, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Everhome v McCollum 41470.206 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE SOUTH 65 FEET OF LOT 11 AND THE SOUTH 65 FEET OF THE WEST 20 FEET OF LOT 12 IN BLOCK 132 OF WOODY ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 276 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1300 Gwen K Harlan, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2003 and recorded October 20, 2003 in Book 720, Page 638, under Document No. 200340174.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,058.88, beginning June 1, 2009, 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 12, 2012 is $125,726.37 principal, interest at the rate of 6.250% now totaling $21,191.05, late charges in the amount of$1,423.24, escrow advances of $6,524.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,802.26, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.53 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The

sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 1, 2012 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 1 day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage V Harlan 41533.889 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 28-B-1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4948, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Brad E Murrey, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 22, 2009 and recorded on July 27, 2009 on Book 844 and Page 760 as Document No. 200918517.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,323.73, beginning September 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 1, 2012 is $324,707.62 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% now totaling $9,183.94, late charges in the amount of $1,058.75, and other fees and expenses advanced of $537.38, plus accruing interest at the rate of $50.74 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s 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: March 5, 2012 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 3 day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Murrey V Guild 41291.710 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6090, located in the Northeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (NE1/4SE1/4SE1/4) of Section 23, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana Stuart Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2001 and recorded October 22, 2001 at 4:30 o’clock P.M., in Book 669, Page 1585, under Document No. 200126283.

The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $781.41, beginning October 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 1, 2012 is $71,532.65 principal, interest at the rate of 7.625% now totaling $3,181.71, late charges in the amount of $273.49, escrow advances of $783.91, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,044.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.94 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 7, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 7th day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 GMAC V Williams 41207.535 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 25, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA: LOT 1 OF PARK PLACE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 5813047 Michael L. Ryan and Gina M. Ryan, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to LSI, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 24, 2009 and Recorded on July 8, 2009 under Document No. 200916776, in Bk-843, Pg-418. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,168.34, beginning August 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 1, 2012 is $224,940.97 principal, interest at the rate of 4.62500% now totaling $6,935.68, late charges in the amount of $559.26, escrow advances of $2,861.86, suspense balance of $-124.45 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,943.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.50 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 16, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 16th day of February, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 GMAC v Ryan 41965.394 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/15/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest ac-

quired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MONTE JEWELL as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/02/2006 and recorded 06/02/2006, in document No. 200613001 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 775 at Page Number 964 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Unit 4 of NORTHVIEW CONDOMINIUMS as shown and defined in the Declaration of Condominium for Northview Condominiums, a Res-

"Special K"–it's good for you.

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Caras Property Managment for 220 S 5th East Storage will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: #5. Units contain misc. items.

These units may be viewed by appt. only by calling 543-9798. Please speak to Shannon. Final Showing will be held May 30, 2012 @ 3:00 p.m. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage offices at 401 SW Higgins, Missoula, MT 59803 prior to May 30, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. AUCTION SALES ARE FINAL AFTER THIS DATE. Buyer's bid will be for the entire contents of each unit offered in the sale.

CASH or MONEY ORDER will be accepted as form of payment.

CITY OF MISSOULA The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following applications: A request from Dave Sather for Special Signs; Signs as Part of Building for Missoula Alliance Church located at 100 E. Foss Ct. (SEE MAP K).

Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. E-mails can be sent to hkinnear@co.missoula.mt.us. Project files may be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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1 ___ nectar 6 Give the cold shoulder 10 Old El ___ (salsa brand) 14 Tennis champ Rafael 15 Petty of "Tank Girl" 16 "Like ___ not!"

17 Get a gold nose ring?

19 Firehouse fixture 20 ___-Bilt (power tool brand) 21 Feel sick 22 Electric guitar pioneer 24 Morales of "NYPD Blue" 26 She tells you to wear clean underwear 28 Talks big 29 River that starts in the Swiss Alps 31 Fable ending 33 Peg for Bubba Watson 34 Vending machine drinks 35 ___ Puffs 37 Report from the musical instrument store?

42 Li'l comic strip character 43 Joe amount 45 Had hash browns 48 Immigration island 50 Cornered 51 Scary Bela 53 A, in Austria 55 Sea birds 56 Get someone mad 58 Negative answers 60 Cleopatra's killer 61 Historical novelist ___ Seton 62 Finish up with Tom's wife?

65 Anorak, e.g.

66 Caustic substances 67 "___ Man" (1992 hit by Positive K) 68 Late actress Bancroft 69 Ivy League school with its own golf course 70 Mr. Jeter

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1 Crossword solutions 2 "Win Ben Stein's Money," e.g.

3 Capital of South Australia 4 Michael's "Batman" successor 5 Jazz legend Fitzgerald 6 Downhill event 7 Postal creed word 8 River through Russia 9 Attack the attacker 10 Maid of honor at William and Kate's 2011 wedding 11 Words said while raising glasses 12 It's dissolved into a solvent 13 Ultimatum ending 18 Khloe's sister 23 It's just him or her on stage 25 "Dancing With the Stars" judge Carrie Ann ___ 27 "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" regular Colin 30 Paul Anka hit subtitled "That Kiss!"

32 Go bad 36 Sky-blue 38 With really long odds 39 Toothpaste variety 40 Smooth player 41 Aptly-named precursor to Wikipedia 44 Jargon with lots of bold claims 45 Andean animal 46 Plus in the dating world 47 "The Sweet Hereafter" director Atom ___ 49 Gary who played Lieutenant Dan 52 Egg-shaped 54 Quebec rejection 57 Singer formerly of the group Clannad 59 Make tire marks 63 Tierra ___ Fuego 64 What some golfers use as a scoring goal

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PUBLIC NOTICES idential Condominium, together with its exhibits as recorded in Book 746 at Page 1315 Micro Records and Exhibit A recorded as Condo 000076, of the official records of Missoula County, Montana. Together with an undivided 12.5% interest in and to Lots C and D of JKW Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, together with all improvements thereon. Together with an undivided 12.5% ownership in the general common elements and right of use of the limited common elements appurtenant to said Unit 4 as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in the Declaration of Condominium and Exhibit A as referenced above. Property Address: 901 RODGERS STREET UNIT 4, Missoula, MT 59802-1763. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-9. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $105,846.95 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.20% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/05/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0029164 FEI NO. 1006.156844 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/29/2012 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TIM ANDREW GARDIPEE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/28/2005 and recorded 04/29/2005, in document No. 200509937 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 751 at Page Number 868 and rerecorded 05/03/2005, in document No. 200510182 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 751 at Page Number 1113 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 8, BLOCK 3, EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2365 WOODCOCK DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed

of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $154,760.51 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/19/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0031071 FEI NO. 1006.157892 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/29/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which AMANDA J SCHMIDT, DALE L SCHMIDT AND GLORIA K SCHMIDT as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/24/2009 and recorded 12/30/2009, in document No. 200930508 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 853 at Page Number 160 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 7 OF WILDROSE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2352 CLASSIC COURT, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $164,769.53 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.375% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/17/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0031074 FEI NO. 1006.157587 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT

TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/28/2012 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M CERASANI, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON a s Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/06/2006 and recorded 12/12/2006, in document No. 200631786 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 788 at Page Number 1055 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 12 OF BEYER MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 12676 CONESTOGA WAY, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $387,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 03/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/16/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0141266 FEI NO. 1006.148053 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/27/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MICHAEL L. GAUB as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/26/2005 and recorded 05/02/2005, in document No. 200510103 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 751 at Page Number 1034 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 3 IN BLOCK 1 OF DOUBLE “R” HOMESITES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4536 NORTH AVENUE WEST, Missoula, MT 59804. The

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beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-28CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-28CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $66,422.54 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.75% per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/12/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0030306 FEI NO. 1006.157590 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/07/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which NATHAN J. HAMPSON AND CHRISTINA J. HAMPSON, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/22/2009 and recorded 11/16/2009, in document No. 200926970 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 850 at Page Number 819 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TAX ID NUMBER(S): 3709507 LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA IN THE STATE OF MT LOT 54 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 2 PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 3101 SHEFFIELD DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59808 Property Address: 3101 SHEFFIELD DR, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $201,340.89 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Bene-

ficiary 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/25/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0035150 FEI NO. 1006.158259 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/07/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SHAWN J CHRISTENSEN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/18/2009 and recorded 06/23/2009, in document No. 200915158 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 842 at Page Number 199 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 3 OF STILL WATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH, PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN BOOK 24 OF PLATS AT PAGE 62. Property Address: 3534 RODEO ROAD, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $257,841.26 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.25% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/25/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0035151 FEI NO. 1006.158260 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/07/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County

Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JAN R WOOLSEY, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, AND BARBARA STARK, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to RECONTRUST COMPANY, NA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/25/2011 and recorded 06/29/2011, in document No. 201110655 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 879 at Page Number 670 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERENCED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 28 IN BLOCK 4 OF EL-MAR ESTATES PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. PARCEL ID: 26704 WHICH IS PERMANENTLY AFFIXED AND ATTACHED TO THE LAND AND IS PART OF THE REAL PROPERTY. MANUFACTURER: FLEETWOOD YEAR: 1991 SERIAL NO: 1DFLL13A12742SR MODEL: STONERIDGE HUD LABEL NO: IDA107079 AND 1DA107080 LENGHT X WIDTH: 60 X 26. Property Address: 8285 PHEASANT DR, Missoula, MT 59808-1114.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $133,430.72 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.375% per annum from 02/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/25/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0035152 FEI NO. 1006.158263 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/31/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TYLER C SMITH, AND MELANIE L SMITH, AS JOINT TENANTS AND NOT AS TENANTS IN COMMON WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to SERVICE LINK as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/07/2007 and recorded 08/17/2007, in document No. 200721481 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 803 at Page Number 1346 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 13 OF SWEET GRASS ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORD PLAT THEREOF. Property Ad-

dress: 5049 JORDAN CT, Missoula, MT 59803-9675. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $324,856.63 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.50% per annum from 06/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/23/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0044476 FEI NO. 1006.136785 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/10/2012 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JESSE T. BROCKMEYER AND PRISCILLA K. BROCKMEYER, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/11/2009 and recorded 02/17/2009, in document No. 200903306 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 833 at Page Number 938 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN AND BEING A PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., LOCATED IN BLOCK 3 OF HIGH PARK NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 607. Property Address: 605 PARKVIEW WAY, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $241,071.14 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees

PUBLIC NOTICES and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/27/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0036330 FEI NO. 1006.158568 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/05/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MARK MODERIE, AND STEPHANIE MODERIE as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 04/19/2006 and recorded 04/28/2006, in document No. 200609592 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 773 at Page Number 341 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana;

being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 9-A-1 OF SOUTH SIDE HOMES LOTS 36A & 37A, AN AMENDED PLAT OF COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION LOT 9-A-1, AN AMENDED SUBDIVISION PLAT IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2716 HIGHWOOD DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $169,834.31 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 06/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/23/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0034368 FEI NO. 1006.157984

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Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/31/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ERIN O DOHERTY, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, AND RODNEY W WASHATKO, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/26/2007 and recorded 10/01/2007, in document No. 200725854 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 806 at Page Number 1007 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 3 OF BITTERROOT HOMES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 417 KING ST, Missoula, MT 598018607. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA

COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $241,990.32 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 04/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/24/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0048321 FEI NO. 1006.138101 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/07/2012, 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 Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MICHAEL MUNOZ AND AMY E MUNOZ, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/21/2003 and recorded 07/22/2003, in document No. 200326454 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 712 at Page Number 550 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 OF PATTEE CANYON ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 5130 HUCKLEBERRY ROAD, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECUR-

RING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. 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: The unpaid principal balance of $223,998.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.50% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 04/24/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0035153 FEI NO. 1006.158114 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 19, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802 all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2 of Heyer Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Sandra D. Louke and Joanne P. Myers, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated January 10, 2008, and recorded January 15, 2008, in Book 811, Page 1209, Document No. 200800976, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Succes-

sor Trustee was recorded May 4, 2012, in Book 893, Page 729, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $140,508.79, plus interest at a rate of 5.25% totaling $2,499.78, and late charges of $622.27, for a total amount due of $143,630.84, as of May 2, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs.

The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 10th of May, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss.

County of Missoula). On this 10th day of May, 2012, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013

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RENTAL 2 bedroom 1 & bath condo, 2 years new! $850. Washer and dryer in unit, dishwasher, garbage paid, covered parking. CLEAN! No smoking. No pets. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom close to Good Food Store $695. H/W/S/G paid, dishwasher, coin-op laundry, off street parking, on a quiet cul-desac. CLEAN! No smoking, no pets.

GATEWEST 728-7333 2314 HILLVIEW: 2 BEDROOM, SOUTHHILLS, 2ND FLOOR, ON PRIVATE CUL-DE-SAC, STORAGE, SHARED YARD, WASHER & DRYER HOOK-UPS, ENTRY PORCHAREA, NO PETS OR SMOKING $650 * 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP * Garden City Property Management 549-6106 2339 Mary #4 2bed/1bath. HEAT PAID! New carpet & linoleum, shared yard, coin-ops, off-street parking, close to Reserve St. $600

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