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News

Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk Pick your new Trump ...................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Free rent at UM, the Merc’s pharmacy fail, and culling cutthroat........................6 Etc. You’ll never guess how Ryan Zinke has been spending your time ..........................7 News Hey Missoula—can we talk about ‘Extreme Midget Wrestling’? ............................8 News From coffee to Wi-Fi, medical marijuana branches out.........................................9 Opinion An endless election cycle finally comes to a finish.........................................10 Opinion When the recreational turns unthinkable ......................................................11 Feature Veterans seek solace on the River of No Return ..............................................14

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Arts Maggy Hiltner reconstitutes the symbols of American quilting.............................20 Music VTO, Charcoal Squids, The Shins .......................................................................21 Books Raven Digitalis talks science, magick and Esoteric Empathy.............................22 Film The Lost City of Z offers an entirely adequate adventure .....................................23 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................24 Starters It’s kolbasa central at Babak’s Bakery and Deli Mart ......................................25 Happiest Hour Flogging the Mule menu at the Thomas Meagher Bar........................27 8 Days a Week The calendar that ate Lee Enterprises..................................................28 Agenda We Band Together for soundman Michael Avery .............................................37 Mountain High Celebrating biking with Life is a Cycle ...............................................38

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Saturday morning at the Rob Quist/Bernie Sanders rally at the University of Montana’s Adams Center The investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia has grown more intense in recent weeks. Do you think Trump is going to get impeached? Follow-up: If he did, who would you like to see replace him?

Kyle Strid: Not if the House doesn’t agree to impeach him. I think you could have all the crimes in the world, have him shredded on TV, even have aides arrested, and he’ll still be the president.

Fantasy vs. reality: Of course it’d be Bernie. But in the line of succession, I think it would be [Secretary of Defense James] Mattis. Everyone else is tied up in the investigation.

Caitlin Freeman: I don’t think Trump will let it get that far. His ego’s too big.

He’ll resign before he’s impeached.

Combat tested: I would prefer to see a true progressive, an outsider, someone like [U.S. Rep.] Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned from the DNC during the primary last year. She’s incredible, and she’s a combat vet.

Daren Clos: No. Not until at least 2018.

He wouldn’t be impeached with a Republican majority in office. Another Berner: I’d take Bernie, but I know it’d be Pence.

Welcome words I’m one of your longtime admiring readers and am very, very happy that you intend to continue the top-flight publishing of your top-flight newspaper.

I think the May 11 issue is especially praiseworthy, from the genius of the “Muddy the Waters” cover to the everfaithful Rockin Rudy’s ad on the back.

I’m many years beyond the average age of your readers, so I know something: The Missoula Independent stands out as a model of intelligent, straightforward, clear-thinking journalism, and of precise usage of our mother tongue (which, I have to say, is crumbling in published material everywhere, leaving us readers to guess what might have happened and who might have done it). I hope your younger readers are learning from the Independent to expect high standards of reporting and opinion writing and to value what I think of as the Independent’s good will and best wishes for Missoula. You have my gratitude and admiration for keeping on in spite of the upset that has fallen upon you.

Marylor Wilson Missoula

Thanks for watching Your rationale and conclusion is far more understandable than that offered by the Missoulian (“The Missoulian’s Gianforte endorsement? We beg to differ,” May 18). You know all of us are worried about your future, and so we will all be watching for signs of coercion and disregard for the stances and positions you have worked so hard to maintain.

Mike Jakupcak missoulanews.com

readers are made up of folks often wondering why America is wasting so much money in a war on drugs. I’m speculating past editorials supporting the same subject, ending the war on drugs, now come out against the president who may, might, is rumored to cut funding on the war on drugs. Very smelly fish wrap.

Chuck Haynes facebook.com/missoulaindependent

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whole life. Some of the things I struggle with are minor. I have some small social anxiety and I talk fast sometimes when I’m nervous. I have been fortunate, though, with the education I have received, as well as being a part of my community through political activism, theater and music. However, I was appalled when I heard that current U.S. Congress candidate Greg Gianforte was “thankful” for “Trump Care” getting passed in the House of Representatives because it gives millionaires like him another tax break, while kicking Montanans with pre-existing conditions off Medicaid. I stand with Rob Quist because he, too, has a pre-existing condition due to a botched gallbladder surgery that put him deep into debt with medical bills.

He’s just like us, and would fight for us in Washington, D.C. The whole country will be looking at Montana this week, and we shouldn’t disappoint. Vote Rob Quist on May 25.

Sam Orr Missoula

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#notallgrannies Take it from this old UM Missoula hippie: This article is fear-mongering (“Gunning up,” May 18). Who are the fascist thugs shutting down freedom of speech? Not conservative Americans. You

“We’re your grannies who

feed you dinner afterwards and read you bedtime stories. We’re the only glue holding this state and nation together.”

Party animals Patrick Warner: Yeah, if the Republicans in Congress have a backbone. So maybe, maybe not. Make that three: At this point I would take Clinton, but Bernie was my guy, so Bernie. I like his progressive direction, and I think we’re going the wrong direction with what Trump wants.

Bearnie Sanders: The opinion of the bears is that impeachment itself doesn’t get us any closer to our goals of universal health care, labor rights, the anti-war cause and free tuition. Milking that pun, eh? The dictatorship of the prole-bear-iat.

You’re spot-on about party platforms. Nobody agrees with everything on either platform, but voting for someone from a party that you mostly agree with is infinitely preferable to voting for someone from a party you mostly disagree with and that consistently does things you disagree with.

Not voting because a candidate doesn’t appeal to you? Hardly any elected person gets things done as an individual. Party candidates who take office generally vote with the party, and generally based on the party's platform.

Rob Quist will vote with Democrats.

I voted for him.

Ed Childers missoulanews.com

Busted. Or something.

The Missoula Independent is the banner-waving liberal think tank of the area (“Task force fears cuts,” May 18). Its

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haven’t done your research if you’re going to lump conservative Americans and Montanans with the ridiculous and minuscule Klan goons. We’re your grannies who show up at the T-ball field and feed you dinner afterward and read you bedtime stories. We’re the only glue holding this state and nation together. I expect better reporting from the Independent.

Virginia Leinart facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Quist ‘r’ us My name is Sam Orr, I’m from Missoula and I, like a lot of Montanans, have a pre-existing condition. It’s not that noticeable, but I am on the autistic spectrum and have struggled with highfunctioning Asperger syndrome my

Some people will do, say, exploit or kill anything for the next fix of petrodollars (“Right of the dial,” May 18). It gets easier when the message is tightly controlled by fomenters/profiteers of America’s biggest monkey on the back of the world.

Jay Toups facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Pod people Let me see if I understand this correctly. Montana is the fourth-largest state (146,000-plus square miles) with a population of slightly more than 1 million people represented by three members in Congress.

Now we are asked to consider one candidate who was previously the employer of one of the current members representing us in Congress. Not only did the two of them retire as multimillionaires from their firm when it was sold, but they live in the same town and they share skepticism regarding established science regarding the Earth’s age.

It comes as no surprise they are both climate change doubters.

The point is, given Montana’s vast size, population scarcity, and the diversity of its people, is it really in our best interest to have two peas from the same pod casting two of our three votes in Congress on issues of great significance to all our people? It is my suggestion that separate and independent views are preferable to an echo.

Bob Hendricks Polson

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, May 17 A grizzly and her two cubs are trapped outside of Bigfork and relocated after a homeowner reports that the bears have broken into outdoor freezers two nights in a row.

Thursday, May 18 Officials at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge report nine cases of the flu and close the prison to visitors to avoid further spread of the disease.

Friday, May 19 Lloyd Barrus is charged with 16 felony counts of attempted deliberate homicide for his involvement in the shooting death of a Broadwater County Sheriff’s deputy on May 16.

Saturday, May 20 Bernie Sanders campaigns at the Adams Center for congressional candidate Rob Quist in front of a crowd of 4,000 people.

Neither politician mentions a key issue: the utter lack of parking on the UM campus.

Still standing

Pharmacy threatens to tumble Earlier this month, downtown workers watched from the Florence Building rooftop as the only surviving remnant of the Missoula Mercantile, the pharmacy building, threatened to go the way of Humpty Dumpty all over Higgins Avenue. A portion of the former pharmacy’s east wall crumbled May 15 during deconstruction, causing the roof and floor joints to buckle. Traffic was diverted for the morning and power to surrounding businesses was cut.

Crews shored up an alley-facing side wall with a giant steel brace and, for now, the building stands.

The old nursery rhyme, of course, ends with the warning that even all the king’s horses and men “couldn’t put Humpty together again.” But if the pharmacy does have a great fall, the city’s only recourse may be to attempt just that.

Preserving the pharmacy portion of the Merc was at the center of the bargain struck last year between city council members and Bozeman developer HomeBase to allow demolition of the privately owned but publicly treasured building. The Missoulian has repeatedly re-

ported that the development agreement (i.e., contract) requires HomeBase to forfeit a $3 million surety bond to the city if the pharmacy is not preserved.

That depends who you ask.

Both HomeBase attorney Alan McCormick and Missoula Redevelopment Agency Director Ellen Buchanan, a city employee who helped draft the contract, say the $3 million assurance has nothing to do with the pharmacy, but instead was required to make sure the developer actually builds something at the site after demolishing one of the city’s historic landmarks. Protections for the pharmacy, they say, are contained in a separate provision that simply required HomeBase to obtain builder’s risk insurance to cover the cost of damages. Should the pharmacy, especially its street-facing facade, collapse, Buchanan says, the insurance money would be used to “put it back.”

“I don’t know how you rebuild the pharmacy,” McCormick says. “I’m not entirely sure what it [the provision] is intended to do, but there’s not a penalty attached.”

Councilwoman Emily Bentley, who spearheaded the issue for City Council, disagrees. She

says the contract requires the Marriott hotel be constructed as it was presented to council, else the surety bond is forfeit. Unless the pharmacy is preserved or somehow “rebuilt as designed,” Bentley says, “it seems likely that council would direct staff to go after the $3 million.”

Should the pharmacy collapse, confusion over the agreement could portend yet another bitter chapter in the Merc demolition saga, but HomeBase’s Andy Holloran says he’s confident the building can still be saved. Plans call for the space to host retail on the first floor and a “presidential suite” above.

“They will do triple backflips to keep that building there, because it’s going to be really challenging should it come down,” Buchanan says.

Any backflips may be accompanied by taxpayer assistance. The project is eligible for tax-increment financing, which could offset the costs of deconstruction, utility relocation and sidewalk improvements.

Buchanan says developers could also request a TIF subsidy for their efforts to preserve the pharmacy, as other preservation projects in Missoula have secured.

Derek Brouwer

Sunday, May 21 A red Corvette catches fire in Lolo when a gas line leaks after the owner starts the car for the first time after a season in storage. The owner pushes the burning car out of the garage onto the street, and no one is injured.

Monday, May 22 Gov. Steve Bullock signs 32 bills into law, including one that prohibits the feeding of wild turkeys. Bullock also vetoes a bill intended to make health care costs more transparent, saying it might actually “drive costs up.”

Tuesday, May 23 Anaconda’s Vicki Smith, 64, is stabbed to death in her home. Police later arrest a suspect: her 21-year-old grandson, Tyler Smith.

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Here in Montana, I want to express my admiration and respect for the Native American people. These are a people who have been lied to, who have been cheated since the inception of this country, and it is time we did them right.”

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FWP pitches cutthroat cull Chris Clancy isn’t sure when the idea first came up. It probably grew gradually out of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ collection of genetic data from fish up the West Fork of the Bitterroot River. He says agency biologists have increasingly noticed that the area’s tributaries boast a predominantly pure westslope cutthroat population. There was just one outlier: a four-mile stretch of Overwhich Creek. “It’s not like all the fish up there are pure, but our samples show a significantly large geographic area up there of pure westslope cutthroat,� says Clancy, an FWP fisheries biologist in Missoula. “And here’s this sore thumb sticking out. Overwhich, above the falls.�

Earlier this month, FWP rolled out a proposal to remove non-native and hybridized cutthroat from this portion of stream. The concern is about the genetic mingling of the iconic westslope cutthroat with a related subspecies, the Yellowstone cutthroat.

To the eyes of a fly fisherman, the differences between the two might appear minor—just the size and spacing of their spots. At a genetic level, however, the subspecies are notably different. Missoula’s Fred Allendorf, a longtime fish biologist, has noted in past research that westslope cutthroats bear as much genetic similarity, if not more, to rainbow trout than to Yellowstone cutthroat.

Allendorf ’s studies also indicate that hybridization among fish can alter growth rates and negatively impact developmental stability.

Pat Byorth, the Bozeman-based director of Montana Trout Unlimited’s Montana Water Project, says that centuries of adaptation to local waterways have given westslope cutthroat a biological edge in adjusting to crisis situations like wildfire or drought. The introduction of Yellowstone cutthroat genes into such a population can potentially reduce that resilience. “The attitude of most biologists who are committed to preserving their species is that rather than take a chance of contaminating it ... we should try and preserve local populations and local adaptations the best we can,�

Byorth says. “And if we can remove a threat now, it’s better than waiting until later.�

Montana Trout Unlimited came out in favor of FWP’s proposal this week, with executive director David Brooks writing that it would “help prevent genetic contamination� throughout the West Fork basin. The project calls for use of the fish toxin rotenone to remove Yellowstone cutthroat from the stretch above Overwhich Falls, with

work commencing as early as July. Clancy says the most contentious point so far has been the agency’s plan not to restock the segment with pure westslope, which will likely render it fishless when the project is completed.

Clancy acknowledges the impact to sportfishing, but adds that this stretch of Overwhich was likely barren of fish before human stocking efforts anyway, and that it could wind up being an important refuge option for other coldwater-dependent species, like bull trout, down the road. “Keeping our options open for the future makes sense,� he says. “The fact we’re not stocking now doesn’t mean it’ll never be stocked.�

Alex Sakariassen

Free rent

UM baits summer students Summertime at UM seems made for marketing— at least that’s the view of Tom Crady, the University of Montana’s vice president for enrollment and student affairs. Missoula is packed with events, the mountains beckon and campus is soaked in sunshine. Why shouldn’t students come from all over the country to take a few credits? “It’s a good, cheap way to take some classes,� Crady says. “And you get to be in Missoula.�

All that’s missing is the students. As idyllic as campus may appear (if you don’t mind a little construction), it’s also nearly empty. In summer of 2016, 1,433 undergraduate students took summer classes at UM, a 15.3 percent drop from 2015. Only 3.4 percent of those students were new to the university.

According to UM’s Interim Provost Beverly Edmond, that’s particularly concerning because summer semester budgets at UM are bundled with the fall and spring semester budgets. That means the fall budget is dependent on a certain amount of summer tuition revenue. “Right now we’re very nervous about summer school and its enrollment,� Edmond says.

Changing that structure to budget the summer semester separately, as most universities do, is just one of the recommendations made by a task force this May. The task force included Edmond and Crady

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$3.2 million Expected annual revenue from the new Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Pass, which all anglers in Montana are now required to purchase. The passes cost $2 for Montana residents and $15 for nonresidents, and Fish, Wildlife and Parks will use the money to help contain the spread of aquatic invasive species. and was aimed at restructuring the academic calendar and making summer semester more appealing to students, and more financially beneficial to UM. Another task force recommendation is to offer free summer housing on campus, which UM is giving a trial run this summer semester, to attract students from other schools to take classes at UM. The university has to front the housing costs, but it stands to gain out-of-state tuition from students eager for a chance to live for free in a new city.

Crady also sees summer semester as a powerful marketing tool to help UM recruit full-time students who enjoy their summer and decide to stay.

But the vast majority of last summer’s students were already enrolled the previous semester. That’s James Norman’s situation this summer. Norman is taking two classes to finish the prerequisites for UM’s nursing program.

He says that completing a chemistry course in just five weeks is a little daunting, but he needs to get it done if he wants to start nursing classes in the fall.

Edmond says the ultimate goal is to help students finish their degrees in four years, and that further analysis is needed to make sure the university is meeting student needs.

Crady and other administrators, meanwhile, are focused on selling Missoula’s summer, and hoping it brings a much-needed boost to the cashstrapped university.

Margaret Grayson

ETC. Over the past two months, Ryan Zinke has ridden horses, shoveled snow off the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and tweeted photo after photo of the knick-knacks in his office. But his day-to-day working life as the new Secretary of the Interior has remained a riddle.

Last week Politico released the first two months of Zinke’s official calendar, and the glimpse they offer into his early days in Trump’s cabinet isn’t exactly inspiring.

We now know that Zinke’s supporting cast includes communications director Megan Bloomgren, a former Energy Department spokesperson, and Scott Hommel, the one-time treasurer of Zinke’s super PAC who became his chief of staff in 2015.

And we know Zinke has spent a fair amount of time chatting with Fox News and Breitbart News. He had a half-hour call with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in late March between numerous meetings with energy industry leaders (think Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil).

But the item that really jumps off the calendar is an April 12 video call with two men Gizmodo artfully referred to as “America’s own shitlords�: Palmer Luckey and Charles C. Johnson.

The topic? “Border wall building plans,� according to Zinke’s schedule.

If their names don’t ring a bell, Johnson is a notorious internet troll who was banned from Twitter for calling on his followers to “take out� a Black Lives Matter activist. He runs the Trump-obsessed Gotnews.com and Wesearchr.com, a crowdfunded dirt-digging website where users are currently trying to raise $150,000 to defend neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin in a lawsuit stemming from his Whitefish “troll storm.�

Luckey, meanwhile, is a 24-year-old entrepreneur/Reddit user who invented the Oculus Rift virtual reality technology. He also contributed to a political action committee that produced anti-Clinton memes during the campaign and gave $100,000 to Trump’s inauguration.

Zinke’s spokesperson distanced the secretary from the two men this week, explaining to Gizmodo that the meeting was arranged by author Scott McEwen, who co-wrote Zinke’s memoir, American Commander. Zinke’s spokeswoman said he wasn’t aware of Johnson’s track record, and explained that Zinke directed the men to the Department of Homeland Security, where their interest in border wall technology would be more appropriately heard.

So was the call with Zinke an amateurish misstep by the secretary, or something sinister?

Asked about that, Johnson wrote to the Indy just this: “It’s fake news.�

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Low blow ‘Midget wrestling’ is still a thing, apparently

by Michael Siebert

Sunlight is still streaming through the windows of the Sunrise Saloon Tuesday night when the opening round of Extreme Midget Wrestling begins. As the first two performers—aka King Midget and Little Outlaw— enter the ring, harsh overhead lights illuminate the 12-foot-square ring in the middle of the dancefloor.

A crowd of roughly 150 people surrounds the stage, at first seeming nonplussed by the off-kilter kickoff. Performer-cum-announcer Lil Nasty Boy is difficult to hear over the nü-metal and pop country blaring from the P.A., and no one seems to care that he’s talking. But after a few minutes, the room starts howling with laughter and Snapchatting every choreographed smack of the head with an aluminium baking tray.

The guffaws are a result not of Lil Nasty Boy’s cavalcade of dick jokes, or even of the stunts, but rather of the stature of the performers.

“They’re midgets,” said audience member Kellen Havranek, 31. “Midgets are funny.

Not to be offensive.”

Despite Havranek’s disclaimer, Extreme Midget Wrestling has generated the ire of little person advocacy groups for years. In March, the troupe’s show in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was accused of exploitation and objectification of people with dwarfism by the regional chapter of Little People of America, a national group.

Ernie Lee, a little person who founded Montana’s LPA chapter with his wife, Kelly, in 2002, says the show recalls the days of exploitative circus freak shows, in which people of short stature were regularly put on display for audiences to gawk at. He says performances like Extreme Midget Wrestling undermine hard-earned awareness brought about by the recently increased representation of little people in television and film.

Lee also takes offense at the use of the term “midget,” which he calls an “18th century, backwards” slur on par with words like “retarded.” LPA says the word has never been an approved term for people with dwarfism, which is the medical term for the condition, usually genetic, that causes short stature.

Nonetheless, dwarf wrestling has long been part of professional wrestling culture.

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The National Wrestling Alliance held the World Midget’s Championship from 1949 until 2009, featuring wrestlers including Sky Low Low and Lord Littlebrook. Wrestlers with dwarfism also occasionally competed in regular divisions, including World Wrestling Entertainment alumnus Hornswoggle.

Other groups, like Micro Championship Wrestling, have popped up since, even as the mainstream popularity of the subgenre has declined. Extreme Midget Wrestling was founded roughly eight years ago, according to Lil Nasty Boy. It’s the brainchild of Skyler Ward, owner of Dallas-based Center Stage Entertainment. Ward and Center Stage started out some 20 years ago managing a touring

show is largely the same regardless of the space, but adds that it takes on a decidedly kid-friendly bent in arenas. Such all-ages shows are typically the most successful, he says, mostly because kids are some of Extreme Midget Wrestling’s biggest fans.

“These guys, they’re living their dream,” Penoyer says of his wrestlers.

“They travel all around the U.S. They stay in nice hotels. People want to take pictures with them, get autographs. They love it.”

Penoyer says his wrestlers, none of whom holds a stake in Center Stage Entertainment, prefer to be called “midgets” rather than terms preferred by disability advocates, like “little person” or “dwarf.” Lil

photo by Amy Donovan

King Midget leaps onto Little Outlaw at the Sunrise Saloon.

revue of male strippers. The decision to start Extreme Midget Wrestling came after he booked a show for a similar wrestling troupe.

Vice President Chris Penoyer, who also goes by the name “Maddollarbill,” said Ward, who was unavailable for comment, felt he could do the same idea better. Neither Ward nor Penoyer is a little person.

The show operates like a traditional wrestling event, full of weaponized chairs, backflips and elbow drops. But Penoyer says his wrestlers tackle more daring stunts than the “bigger guys,” and are more inclined to “go all the way with it,” often attacking each other with staple guns and frying pans.

The troupe performs in venues from arenas to nightclubs. Penoyer says the

Nasty Boy says he is more offended by “little person.”

“I see more of a problem when you push ‘little person,’ because then now it’s a pity party,” said Nasty Boy, whose real name is Phillip Campbell.

Lee, though, thinks Extreme Midget Wrestling undermines the positive progress toward acceptance of little people.

“We’ve gone from being just that Barnum & Bailey sideshow freak to being active, living, breathing members of society that have our own families, and have our own wants and needs,” Lee says. “To see us step back and become that shock-value freak show is disappointing at best.” msiebert@missoulanews.com

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Budding business

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From coffee to Wi-Fi, medical marijuana branches out

by Derek Brouwer

Heirloom Remedies doesn’t look like a ture, in which marijuana is consumed so- tion, on Brooks Street, for instance, features pot shop. The dispensary, south of Victor cially. That, at least, is what Clark calls the a drive-through window and an interior cafe along Highway 93, looks like a place where “big yearning,” should the laws eventually that sells bagels, pastries and a variety of parents and tourists shop for gifts. And it is. loosen into the recreational realm. Practi- espresso drinks made with hemp milk. BudMontana-made bath minerals, potted cally speaking, the espresso drinks that tenders assist patients in the back.

Then there’s Green Alternative, which plants, straw hats and boxes of hobbyist Clark plans to serve (the equipment is dorbeekeeping equipment are displayed taste- mant until the shop’s well water is tested) Mat Spurlock and his family just refully on reclaimed fixtures that lend the out- are there to get would-be patients in the opened on Missoula’s Northside. The dislet a steampunk aesthetic. There’s even a door. Many medical marijuana patients are pensary is housed in the Keim Building, case full of tea sets. Only a careful shopper older, and reluctant to enter an obvious pot with the word “DRUGS” emblazoned, fitwill notice that the Time magazine cover shop. Coffee offers an excuse to check tingly, on the historic pharmacy’s facade.

The space, fully restored by the building’s laid out next to a Victorian loveseat just hap- things out. owner, has high ceilings, numerous pens to feature marijuana, or that one leather couches and coffee tables, and of the antique display cases contains a a drum kit. Spurlock serves drip coffee row of pipes. Or that the green stuff in and French press brew in the back, those jars isn’t tea. where a glass case shows off medicinal The design is intentional, but it’s joints, not scones. He also offers free not a trick, co-owner Tayln Lang says.

Wi-Fi in hopes that the dispensary will “I want your very conservative, come to double as a study area and Trump-voting grandmother to walk in public meeting place—something the here and feel comfortable,” he says.

Northside, where Spurlock lives, lacks.

Ravalli County is home to plenty “I don’t want people walking in and of that sort of a clientele. In opening feeling like they’re walking into a pot the Bitterroot’s only storefront disshop, but to think this is a cool, historic pensary earlier this month, Lang and place that has a medicinal dispensary inpartners Andi and David Evans are side,” he says. seeking to give their neighbors a secProviders like Lang, in Victor, hope ond first impression of medical marinew regulations approved by the Monjuana as the business enters a new era tana Legislature this spring, fueled by a of legality and regulation. They’ve “provider tax,” will also contribute to fashioned Heirloom Remedies as a broader acceptance of their business. “holistic health destination” that inAmong the regulations is a “seed-to-sale” cludes an upstairs yoga studio and photo by Derek Brouwer massage therapy office, in addition to Tayln Lang envisions Heirloom Remedies, tracking requirement that will eventually the dispensary and gift shop. his medical marijuana dispensary in Victor, monitor every cannabis plant from the Lang, who managed two popular as a place even opponents of last year’s time it’s rooted to the moment it’s sold—in Lang’s case, from the indoor dispensaries in Missoula before the ballot initiative will patronize. grow facility out back to the cash register state’s earlier medical marijuana pro“Helping old people learn to smoke inside his shop. gram was severely curtailed, says he hopes Likewise, Flower’s Bobby Long welHeirloom Remedies’ professional and invit- weed is my favorite thing in the world,” ing atmosphere will improve public percep- Clark says, adding that he recommends that comed the scheme in a newsletter about the tion of the industry. Professional and most clients start with “low dosages and sci- new law, in which he described the regulatory hurdles he encountered when opening inviting wasn’t always the case the last time fi movies.”

As he talks, a middle-aged woman a coffee shop. “Although it would be easy to around, which he says contributed to “animosity” toward providers and patients. “It walks in looking for this week’s supply. dismiss ‘big government’ and rant to my was important for me to set the bar high,” They walk to the far end of the store, friends about how pointless it is, the truth through an electric sliding door, to make a is that, for the most part, it was pretty imhe says. portant stuff,” he wrote. “It was in that moIn Missoula, three dispensaries are selection in the private patient room.

Electric door aside, the Coffee Joint ment that I realized how utterly easy selling using coffee to make themselves accessible to the public. Pat Clark, manager of the Cof- looks more or less like a small head shop. cannabis has been up to this point.” fee Joint on North Russell, says the idea Other Missoula dispensaries are stretching takes its spirit from Dutch coffeeshop cul- the concept further. Flower’s second locadbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Bang or thud?

A seemingly endless election cycle finally comes to a finish

by Dan Brooks

By the time you read this, Montana’s special election will be over (unless you read this on Thursday, in which case the results won’t be in until later in the day). From my perspective here on Monday, the outcome remains shrouded in doubt. I have three days left to learn that Rob Quist still owes $17,000.01 to Columbia House for a bunch of CDs, and Greg Gianforte still has time to shoot a bear at the zoo. But you happy readers of the future already know what happened.

Thus concludes the longest election cycle in recent memory. We all know that the 2017 special election was a rehash of the 2016 presidential election, with Gianforte as Donald Trump and Quist as the Democratic candidate no one particularly likes but we all have to get behind anyway. That original contest—the Empire Strikes Back to our present Attack of the Clones, if you will—stretched all the way back to May 2015, when Sen. Ted Cruz became the first Republican to announce.

We’ve been in campaign season for two years, but all that’s over now.

Over, too, is the 2017 session of the Montana Legislature. This one was not so lively as recent installments, since the schism between conservative and moderate Republicans has died down.

The power of the far right has waned, and Art Wittich has returned to Bozeman to slumber and feed. All across the land a heavy silence lies, broken only by the chittering of my teeth.

I am in politics withdrawal. If you include the 2015 session, I’ve been writing about campaigns and legislation for 28 months straight, and now I cannot understand the world without it. Frantic, my brain assigns political meaning to apolitical events. A gigantic pickup truck tailgates me down South Avenue. Is this some sign of an emboldened base of Trump supporters? Both our automobiles fall into a gigantic pothole, killing us and releasing a swarm of angry mole people. Democrats?

Strawberries are in season at the grocery store, but that’s just what Mike

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Pence would eat. I cannot live on kale and quinoa, though; that’s the kind of effete snobbery that cost liberals the election. I am forced to content myself with what’s in my refrigerator. But cilantro and Bolivian cocaine don’t even taste right anymore, now that Wall Street is back on top.

From Toby Keith to Kobe beef, all that was once innocent has become

“From Toby Keith to Kobe beef, all that once was innocent has become freighted with political meaning.”

freighted with political meaning. Part of it is our present cultural-historical moment. To paraphrase the Chinese curse, we live in interesting times. As politics becomes simultaneously more cutthroat and less willing to address substantive problems, it annexes other parts of our identities. Camouflage, Subarus, yoga and the Griz—they all seem to be part of some master system of symbols now, each one occupying its designated position on the left or right. The politicization of everyday life has become, in the words of George Washington’s first inaugural, completely nanners.

But even madness has its limits. As I struggle to determine which is going

crazy faster—society or myself—I take comfort in knowing that there are two things politics can never touch. The first is the satirical cop-on-the-edge sitcom Sledge Hammer!, which ran for two seasons before being canceled in 1988. And the second is universal health care. Both of these exist in the shrinking realm of topics that neither Republicans nor Democrats care to investigate.

In April, an Economist/YouGov poll found that 60 percent of registered voters favored federally funded health insurance for every American. That number increased to 85 percent among respondents who voted for Clinton. Yet universal health care remains a nonstarter for both national parties, even as they search for new swing issues— transgender bathroom rights, Russian influence on the last election, the very reality of the news—with which to carve up the electorate.

You would think a proposal that enjoyed the support of 85 percent of Democratic voters in the last election might appeal to the Democratic National Committee. But last weekend in Sacramento, newly minted DNC chair Tom Perez ignored a crowd of nurses and other health care professionals who had rallied to draw attention to the issue, saying only, “We make sure that health care is a right for everyone, and not a privilege for a few.”

No, you don’t. Right now, in the richest country in the world, Americans are dying because they can’t afford medical treatment. The Democratic Party is willing to do anything it can to regain control of a sharply divided electorate, except seriously pursue a policy that almost two thirds of that electorate wants. Even in a world gone seemingly mad, there are some things we can rely on. Your haircut may tell me who you voted for. But whoever that is will never offer us what we really want.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the complete lack of any distinction between the two at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

High alert As river flows increase, so too must caution

by Andrew Gulliford

As spring returns to the Rockies, I think about a day last summer when we packed for a rafting trip, never thinking to pack for death. We took clothes, cameras, river gear, sleeping bags and tents.

We never dreamed there might be a tragedy, a whitewater death by drowning. And yet that accident happened, and our lives were forever changed the instant the raft flipped.

It took hours for a helicopter to come by, low and slow, searching for the kind of shadow that reveals where a body might be hidden underwater, pinned by boulders.

Four other rafts were well ahead of us when our raft slammed into a submerged tree and the commercial river guide yelled, “High side! High side!”

That meant we had to move fast to the upside of our raft to prevent water from getting into the low side and flipping us. But in a tight canyon with the river roaring at 9,000 cubic feet per second, everything happened simultaneously. The raft tossed all six of us into 45-degree water. I blew out the back end and swam to a log near an island. I looked around for my companions. I saw no one.

It was the first day and the first rapid on a four-day trip. In those seconds after the accident, as I tried to understand what had happened, I heard only the rushing water. Then I saw the upside-down raft bobbing furiously in the river, caught in the kind of submerged tree that river-runners call a strainer.

I stayed on the log, debating whether to try to get to the island, when our guide appeared out of the thick willows. He saw me and patted his head. I patted mine in turn to signal that I was OK. We couldn’t hear each other over the sound of the river. He turned around and melted back into the brush, and I stayed a few more minutes on the log, my impromptu sanctuary.

In 20 years of river running, I’ve experienced plenty of flips, but this one felt different. I reached the island, re-

moved my lifejacket and helmet and tried to dry off as the sun climbed the cliff. Then one of the couples who had been in the front of our raft appeared, both of them barefoot because the river had ripped their sandals off. We hugged.

We explored the island. On both channels the river roared by too swiftly for us to make a safe exit. Then we saw two guides signaling to each other

“The Bureau of Reclamation, I had learned, would not slow a scheduled release from one of its big dams—not even to retrieve a body.”

across the river about how many of us had been rescued. And that is when we knew: One of us was lost.

River running, both in private boats and commercially, has become firmly established in the Rocky Mountain West. Families want a taste of adventure, cold water splashed on hot skin, yells and shouts of excitement, a reason to hang on to the “chicken line” as the rafts tumble through rapids. We crave excitement.

Our group had planned this trip months in advance without knowing that a record snowpack would force the dam above us to release huge amounts of cold water, not only to save the dam but also for downstream irrigation.

These pulse floods are healthy for the environment, re-establishing habitat for endangered fish and bird species. But with high flows, there is little margin for human error. Now, as the bright sunshine ebbed toward late afternoon shade, we survivors were grateful simply to be alive.

The next hours blend together. I recall deep wails and sobs of grief from the man whose partner was missing. He kept saying, “Why her, God? Why not me? Take me, I’m older.” The inevitable questions arose about the random nature of death, who dies, and why.

Weeks later, I thought about the hidden complexities of the situation.

Here we were, trapped in a canyon, and yet also caught between some of the West’s other competing activities, things like farming and irrigation, activities far removed from river running. The Bureau of Reclamation, I had learned, would not slow a scheduled release from one of its big dams—not even to retrieve a body.

There were 28 passengers on the trip, and among them were grandparents who’d brought their grandchildren.

I hoped those children did not blame the river. We had chosen to be in the wilderness, and that choice had irrevocable consequences.

Snow is melting now in the backcountry. Rivers will rise in June from snowmelt, and rafters will launch with a sense of nervous expectation. To every river runner and every excited passenger: I wish you safe passage.

Andrew Gulliford is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a professor of history and environmental studies at Fort Lewis College, gulliford_a@fortlewis.edu.

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[offbeat]

PEDESTRIAN CALMING – Officials in charge of a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal heritage site recently installed “speed bumps,” similar to those familiar to Americans driving residential streets—but on a pedestrian walkway, with row upon row of risers to resemble a washboard. A Western travel writer, along with editors of People’s Daily China, suggested that officials were irked that “disorderly” tourists had been walking past the ancient grounds too rapidly to appreciate its beauty or context.

THE JOB OF THE RESEARCHER – “Marine mammologist” Dara Orbach’s specialty is figuring out how bottlenose dolphins actually fit their sex organs together to copulate. When dolphins die of natural causes, Orbach, a post-doctoral fellow at Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University, is sent their genitals (and also those of whales, porpoises and sea lions) and fills each one with silicone to work from molds in understanding the sex act’s mechanics. Dolphins’ vaginas are “surprising” in their “complexity,” she told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News in April, for example, with the ability to twist inner folds to divert the progress of any sperm deposited by undesirable mates.

BRIGHT IDEAS – Compared to busy coastal metropolises, Indiana may evoke repose, and entrepreneur Tom Battista is suggesting the state’s largest city capitalize on the sentiment by reserving a destination site on a low-lying hill overlooking the chaotic merge lanes of two interstate highways—affording visitors leisurely moments watching the frantic motorists scrambling below. He plans three rows of seats and a sunshade for the relaxed gawkers to take in the “ocean”-like roar and imagine overwrought drivers’ rising blood pressure (while their own remains soothingly calm).

Several treatments are available to combat the heart arrhythmia “atrial fibrillation,” but all require medical supervision, which John Griffin, 69, said he tried to acquire at the emergency room at New Zealand’s Waikato Hospital in April, only to be met with delay and frustration. Griffin went home that day, took notice of his neighbor’s 8,000-volt electric security fence and, with boots off, in a fit of do-it-yourself desperation, nudged it with his arm. He got quite a jolt, he said, but he walked away, and his heart returned to natural rhythm. The medical director of the Heart Foundation of New Zealand said that Griffin was lucky and sternly warned against the “procedure.”

WEIRD SCIENCE – Medical researchers have been frustrated for years at failures in getting certain cancer-fighting drugs to reach targeted areas in women’s reproductive tracts, but doctors in Germany announced in April a bold technique that appeared to work: sending the drugs via sperm cells, which seem to roam without obstruction as they search for an egg. The process involves coating active sperm cells with an iron adhesive and magnetically steering them to their internal targets.

NEWS THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE – Sean Clemens, now awaiting trial in Liberty, Ohio, in the death of an 84-year-old woman, allegedly confessed his guilt to a co-worker after telling the man that something was bothering him that he needed to tell someone about—but only if the co-worker would “pinkie-swear” not to tell anyone else. (The co-worker broke the code.)

In the course of pursuing claims against Alaskan dentist Seth Lookhart for Medicaid fraud, government investigators found a video on his phone of him extracting a sedated patient’s tooth—while riding on a hoverboard. (He had apparently sent the video to his office manager under the title “New Standard of Care.”)

Lookhart had been indicted in 2016 for billing Medicaid $1.8 million for patient sedations unnecessary for the procedures they received.

PERSPECTIVE – In April, Tennessee state Rep. Mike Stewart, aiming to make a point about the state’s lax gun-sales laws and piggybacking onto the cuddly feeling people have about children’s curbside lemonade stands, set up a combination stand on Nashville’s Capitol Hill, offering for sale lemonade, cookies—and an AK-47 assault rifle (with a sign reading “No Background Check,” to distinguish the private-sale AK-47 from one purchased from a federally licensed dealer). (In fact, some states still regulate lemonade stands more than gun sales—by nettlesome “health department” and anti-competitive rules and licensing, though Tennessee allows the stands in most neighborhoods as long as they are small and operated infrequently.)

IRONIES – The Wall Street Journal reported in February that among the most popular diversions when Syrian households gather to escape the country’s bombs and bullets is playing the Hasbro war board game Risk (even though the game’s default version contains only five armies—not nearly enough to simulate the many Syrian factions now fighting).

The parliament of Australia’s New South Wales, entertaining a February citizen petition to cut societal “waste,” admitted that the petition’s required 107,000 signatures (already on a USB stick) would, by rule, have to be submitted in hard copy (4,000 pages), even though the pages would immediately be electronically scanned into a format for data storage.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US – In March, an electrician on a service call at a public restroom in Usuki, Japan, discovered a crawlspace above the urinal area, which had apparently been a man’s home (with a space heater, gas stove and clothing). Investigators learned that Takashi Yamanouchi, 54, a homeless wanderer, had been living there continuously for three years—and had arranged everything very tidily, including the 300-plus plastic two-liter bottles of his urine. (It was unclear why he was storing his urine when he resided above a public restroom.)

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he first American veteran on Idaho’s main stem of the Salmon River was Capt.

William Clark. He and Meriwether Lewis had split up to search for a route to the Pacific, but this one was not panning out. The rapids were too rough for the expedition’s 1,000-pound dugout canoes, and the canyons proved too steep to portage around the whitewater. After exploring the upper reaches in moccasins, Clark complained, “I Sliped & bruised my leg very much on a rock.” With that, he etched his name in a pine tree and got the heck out of there. That was in 1805.

Eventually, other explorers, fortuneseekers and recluses followed, braving the rough terrain to stake mining claims downstream. True to its cognomen as the River of No Return, it accommodated oneway traffic only. The miners built huge wooden boats laden with supplies and ventured down the rapids. If man and boat survived the passage, the boat would get cannibalized for a cabin and the miner would lay in for a long, long while.

The steep country that hemmed in the river was never ideal for human habi-

and if so, would they show up in the brains that needed them most?

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ou have to be brave to venture down the Salmon, and a little bit addled. This group of women, sponsored by an Idahobased nonprofit called Higher Ground, was both. Participants had to be former or current members of the military who suffer from PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.

When I learned the organization was willing to invite a journalist, I signed on.

This was Higher Ground’s first allwomen’s river trip. The plan was to float 81 miles of the river, try our skills at kayaking, rowing and paddle-boarding (nonmandatory), participate in “processing” groups and team-building activities (mandatory), eat together, collapse into tents, and then do it all over again the next day. On the sixth day, we’d leave the river, flying home off a dirt strip in small planes.

Unlike the miners, we’d be returning to civilization, hopefully a little bit changed.

The night before launching our boats at the end of a dirt road, I met up with the women, gathered on a restaurant patio for

RA, which stood for Higher Ground, July 14, Rafting. (Other Higher Ground units, typically coed or all-male, might spend a week fly-fishing or skiing or doing lake sports.)

Partridge smiled and asked us to introduce ourselves and talk about why we wanted to be on the trip. Marsha Anderson (some names, including hers, have been changed) described being medevaced out of Afghanistan on a stretcher, convinced for a while that she was already dead. It took her 13 months to relearn to walk. Now she felt angry, misunderstood by her family and cheated of the sports she loved like surfing and cycling. She was hoping to find some new ones, along with new friends who had been through what she’d been through.

Carla Garcia, 35, described how she’d volunteered for the first Iraq invasion in 2003 and then returned as a vehicle commander running fuel convoys across the war zone from Al Taqaddum. In 2005, her truck hit a roadside bomb and she was blasted from it, landing on her head. Her driver died. During her third tour, in Mosul, another bomb exploded, crashing her head against the vehicle roof and pelt-

pressed she didn’t want to keep living. Another said her anger and misery had alienated her whole family. Another, sitting expressionless, said in a flat voice that she wanted some time to “be in the moment and not zone out.” A skinny blonde wearing a sparkly blue sundress and pink sunglasses, whom I’ll call Pam Hana, showed the opposite affect: maniacally chatty, never still. She woke up scared and crying because she hated airplanes and had successfully avoided them for years until this trip.

Tania Herrera, wearing a Gilliganesque fishing hat over her dark, cropped hair, talked about being limited by her body. First struck by shrapnel near Fallujah, then catapulted by a car bomb along her convoy route and finally struck by pieces of a collapsing mosque hit by a grenade, the former Army gunner now had one working arm, a bad leg and a brain that didn’t work too fast. Thirty-four years old, she rarely left her house near Fort Bragg. “It sucks to think that’s the way life is going to be, stuck in a rut,” she said. “It seems like a life sentence.”

Petite with smooth skin and a friendly, wide mouth, Herrera also told us that she

CAN VETERANS FIND SOLACE ON THE RIVER OF NO RETURN?

by Florence Williams illustrations by Graham Smith tation. In 1980, Congress made the isolation official, designating the river and its surrounding mountains the largest chunk of the wilderness system in the Lower 48.

The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, sometimes just called “the Frank,” stretches across 2.3 million acres in the part of Idaho that starts to get skinny. The river running through it carves a long, forested gorge deeper than the Grand Canyon.

It was through that gorge that another group of American veterans—all women, all scarred emotionally and physically by their service—descended in the summer of 2014. Like Clark, they were also on a voyage of discovery in the American wilds.

I wanted to witness it. If one minute of gazing up at a eucalyptus tree makes people more generous, and three days makes them more socially connected, calm and inspired, what could a week unleash?

Were the inverse-PTSD effects of awe real,

pizza in the no-traffic-light town of Stanley, rimmed by the vaulting, aptly named Sawtooth Mountains. This clearly was not your usual river-rat crowd. These women were on the whole younger, more ethnically diverse and less able-bodied. The nine former service members carried an assortment of cigarettes, butch hairstyles, tattoos, piercings and physical supports that included a cane, orthopedic tape and an arm splint. Collectively, they brought a small pharmacy’s worth of anti-anxiety drugs, antidepressants, antiseizure meds, painkillers, digestive aids and sleeping pills. One service dog, Major, a yellow lab mix, wore a bib that read “Do Not Pet.” The warning could have applied to anyone. Heavy-lidded and surly after a long day of travel, they were not about to smile for a bunch of cowtown selfies.

The recreation therapists, Brenna Partridge and Kirstin Webster, handed out matching black fleece jackets emblazoned with the unique crest of this “unit”—HG-714-

ing her with shrapnel. Garcia pulled her ailing driver from the smoking wreckage and fought off insurgents with her M-16 until she passed out. (She received both a combat action badge and a Purple Heart, I found out later.) Doctors induced a weeklong coma to relieve pressure in her brain.

Afterward, she had to learn how to talk. In addition to chronic pain, she suffers seizures, headaches, mood swings and nightmares. She can’t walk far, won’t drive and can barely stand being in any kind of vehicle. “I don’t like crowds and I don’t like people,” she said. “This will be hard.”

After dinner, we grouped for the processing talk, our first one, to articulate goals for the trip. That’s when Kate Day, a Navy vet in her 50s from Las Vegas, mentioned her three-year stint of homelessness, a stay in a mental institution and her near-inability to leave her house. Two other women chimed in that they, too, had been institutionalized. One said she was still so de-

now had trouble making friends, and on top of that, she had some serious hair issues. “I used to have long hair but can’t figure out how to do it with one arm,” she said. “I used to sit on my hair like Medea. I’m not that girly, but to have it stripped away from you is hard. I don’t want to go to family weddings because I can’t look pretty.”

Partridge, the group leader, gave Herrera her marching orders: “Find someone to bond with. This is your unit now.”

In the days following, more details of their battered lives would come out during processing, in one-on-one talks or in small groups. As a general rule, the younger women had seen combat, even though technically they weren’t supposed to be in combat roles at the time. That was a central irony of serving in recent wars, and yet, because they were women, it was often harder for them than for men to get diagnosed as having combat-related PTSD. Many of the older women were here because they suffered military sexual

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You have to be brave to venture down the Salmon, and a little bit addled. This group of women, sponsored by an Idaho-based nonprofit called Higher Ground, was both. trauma (MST). One was gang-raped by eight men, including her commanding officers, while stationed in Okinawa; another was attacked in the Navy by her master-at-arms.

Another was assaulted by a civilian while on leave in Europe. In only one instance did the perpetrators meet justice, and that was the civilian.

In both types of PTSD, the consequences are similar: life-altering social, professional and psychological impairments.

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very big war has its signature wounds. If the Civil War didn’t kill you, you were likely to end up with amputations. Surgeons in World War I advanced the art of facial plastic surgery. (Noses were destroyed by mustard gas.) Gulf War veterans barely saw

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combat, but many suffer from mysterious symptoms believed to be linked to nerve agents. PTSD was common after most of these wars—even Homer wrote about it—but it went by different names: shell shock, soldier’s heart, combat fatigue. Frederick Law Olmsted, who, in addition to being a badass nature guru, was witness to just about every significant beat of the 19th century, from plantation slavery to the gold rush to the invention of suburbia, described the Union soldiers after the Battle of Manassas as a “disintegrated herd. … They start and turn pale at the breaking of a stick or the crack of a percussion cap. … It is a terrific disease.”

PTSD wasn’t officially named and recognized by the Veterans Administration until 1980.

In the general population, about 8 percent of us will experience PTSD.

Among veterans, that figure is about 18 percent, but a recent examination of the data for over a million veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq found a 27 percent rate (with more than 70 percent of that coexisting with depression.) The fingerprints of the recent wars are so far clear: PTSD, traumatic brain injury from heavy use of explosives and sexual assault.

Some studies suggest that women experience PTSD at slightly higher rates than men, or they may just more readily admit to having it. According to the latest iteration of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, symptoms of PTSD cluster around four subgroups: reexperiencing (flashbacks, nightmares); avoidance and withdrawal; bad moods and depression; and hyperarousal, such as jumpiness, vigilance, aggression and sleep problems. Women, who now make up about 15 percent of the military, express some symptoms differently, experiencing higher rates of anxiety and eating disorders. They are two to four times more likely than other women to be homeless; men have more problems with violent aggression and substance abuse, but plenty of women experience these also.

By all indications, the women on our trip were like Tania Herrera, who’d been an eager, straight-A high school student from

North Philly: highly competent, enthusiastic recruits when they started out. Their intelligence and toughness were still in evidence. But pieces of them had crumpled. They no longer felt whole, or secure or capable. Now they were grieving their lost selves. As Herrera put it during one group session, “I never thought I’d be 34 and unable to take care of myself. When I went to war, I thought either you die or you make it out. I didn’t factor in what if you came out different than when you went in.”

The women described daily lives involving constant physical pain. They couldn’t concentrate well. They were sometimes jumpy, depressed. They didn’t like being with people, but they didn’t like being alone all the time. The wars had taken away their ability to sleep well.

It was time for the women to get out of their lives and into the river. The first named rapid, called Killum, came up fast. I was paddling one of the four inflatable kayaks, and I saw the kayak in front of me meet a short wall of water and flip. I hit the same cold sideways wave, my paddle dove, and I flipped, too. Happily, the Class II and III rapids in this stretch are more wave than rock, and they are short, interspersed with deep, calm stretches. I managed to claw back into my boat. The six women paddling the raft cheered me and the other kayakers on.

Many rapids followed before camp, and I was alternately exhilarated, nervous, cold and determined in that I’m-committed-now kind of way. Entering a rapid, your vision narrows and so does your focus. Your heart rate picks up, your breath quickens, and your skin temperature rises. Your gut begins to tighten. In small doses like this, the adrenaline rush is fun. You feel present; the B-roll of your mind falls away, and there’s a heady release of endorphins when you’re safely through. Kayakers sometimes call paddling big water “combat boating,” and when hard-shell boaters roll their overturned kayaks back upright while still strapped in, it’s called a combat roll.

I saw the basic inanity of this metaphor while surrounded by these very real veterans. In war combat, the stress response isn’t small or ephemeral. It’s big. And it lasts for days, sometimes weeks or months. It lasts so long that the brain changes—more in some people than in others. Blame evolution. Our nervous systems are naturally hardwired for fear, telling us what to avoid and how to stay safe. Some psychologists argue that fear is our oldest emotion, existing in the earliest planetary life forms and predating even the drive to reproduce. It starts deep in our brainstem, in the Milk Dud-sized amygdala.

When fear alone rules us, we lack the smarts to do much of anything creative, or interpersonal, or spatially demanding. Part of what makes us human is that our brains evolved a neocortex, the place where we plan and puzzle and tell ourselves we’re being drama queens. A fright causes a neurological tug of war between the old and new brains. In the deep clutch of fear, our primitive brainstem overrides our problem-solving neocortex, and we become stupid. With PTSD, the brain stays locked into amygdala hyperdrive. Failing to bounce back to baseline, it loses the ability to distinguish between a real and a perceived threat.

That’s why soldiers with PTSD often cannot tolerate driving or shopping or loud noises, even in safe places, when they return home.

But there’s a reason we feel fear. It may have given us the gift of memory. The very reason we remember anything may be that we must remember near-misses, narrowly avoided dangers and attacks from predators and enemies. Thanks to fear, we enjoy the smell of madeleines and the writers who write about them.

At its root, PTSD is a memory disorder.

Brain scans of people suffering PTSD show cellular and volume changes in the hippocampus, a region that helps process memories and sits very close to the amygdala. In frightened lab animals, the fear hormones—glucocorticoids like cortisol, norepinephrine or adrenaline—flood recep-

tors on the hippocampus and impair memory. It appears that persistent trauma memories shrink the hippocampus, and it’s well-established that PTSD leads to emotional as well as cognitive problems, such as poor focus and short-term memory deficits.

Physiologically, chronic, heightened stress looks like this: higher blood pressure, cellular inflammation and a higher risk for cardiac disease. Longitudinal studies show that veterans with PTSD are sicker, in more pain and die younger than their non-PTSD peers. They are also 4.5 times more likely to have substance abuse issues. Veterans are

who’d been a ski racer in her youth in Wyoming. Now she had nerve damage in an arm and a leg from an explosion in Afghanistan in 2009, and she hurt all the time. After her injury, she couldn’t walk for a year. She seemed fragile. When a rapid spat Anderson out of her inflatable boat in midafternoon, I held her boat next to mine and helped haul her back in. Then Herrera, riding in a double kayak, her right arm bearing her high-tech brace with a GoPro camera attached to it, went over. I wondered how she would get back in the high, slippery boat with one working arm; but her partner,

twice as likely to be divorced, and female veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women.

Groups like Higher Ground—and there are many, from those offering surfing and fly-fishing programs for vets to a hospital in Los Angeles that promotes bonding between humans and abused parrots with symptoms resembling PTSD—believe that engaging with nature or wildlife can reduce trauma symptoms. Adventure sports like kayaking provide a laser focus for an unfocused mind, as well as a welcome distraction from unwelcome thoughts. The physical exertion often leads to better sleep, and the sensory elements of nature can calm the nervous system.

Even knowing all this, I couldn’t help but worry a bit about these women in such an uncontrolled environment. What if they got pinned on a rock or had a bad swim?

One of the kayakers was Marsha Anderson,

a Higher Ground staffer, stayed in the river and heaved her over the gunnels.

If these women came expecting a relaxing repose on the beach-lined river, this wasn’t it. We weren’t even allowed cocktails. Could they handle this sort of extreme adventure? These women lived in a constant playback of memories and anxieties. Maybe they should be home snuggling with their service dogs and using a rowing machine?

Or maybe not. Anderson, a Korean American in her early 30s with short hair, sat smiling while she ate an eggroll that evening. “I never thought I’d go by myself down a river,” she said. “I’m exhausted from the adrenaline.” She recalled the words of a yoga instructor: “Anxiety is just excitement without breath.” The river was teaching her to breathe. “I wasn’t sure I was going to go back in and keep kayaking,” she continued, “but I did, and I was trying to

breathe in every rapid.” She clearly liked being a badass. As for Herrera, who was still relearning how to take basic care of herself, paddling a kayak was a revelation. She didn’t seem to mind the unplanned swim at all. She found that she could tape her bad hand around the paddle shaft and use the other arm for most of the power. Seeing her in the boat, I was reminded of another one-armed veteran who made a similar river voyage 145 years ago, Maj. John Wesley Powell. Wounded during the Civil War and commissioned to survey the frothy Colorado, he seemed to relish every minute of it: “We have an unknown distance yet to run; an unknown river yet to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls rise over the river, we know not.”

When Herrera flipped, she even had the presence of mind to salvage her combat-medal-bedecked Gilligan hat. “I was really happy that I was able to contribute and not have everyone do work for me,” she said. “It was neat to do something physical. At home, I can barely get my own mail.”

The rafters, too, had a good day. Anjah Mason, the expressionless Army vet who had told us she wanted to stop zoning out, described almost having a panic attack on the boat, but then talking herself through it. She’d learned how to adapt to a wholly new situation, and she was pleased.

Everyone was hungry. No one stayed up late. Manic Pam Hana finished a cigarette and then fell asleep in front of her tent under the still-bright Northern Rockies sky at 8 p.m.

I began the next day with my signature outdoor ailment, a bee sting.

Catalina Lopez administered rubbing alcohol and Benadryl and told me to keep tabs on the swelling. A former Army nurse, she had served for 15 years in the Balkans, Somalia and Iraq, and was haunted by recurring dreams of blood and severed body parts. Once, while I was eating lunch, she had described watching an unconscious guard’s brain swell and swell in the hospital. She told me normal intracranial pressure was 10, but this guy’s meter was reading 20, then 30 and then 85—“and then I could see his cranium start to move.”

I looked at my sandwich.

“You see where I’m going with this.”

I nodded.

“Do you want me to stop?”

“Yes, please.”

That second day, I joined the increasingly sociable paddle raft. At some point, Tania Herrera, sitting on the raft tube across from me in the bow, started singing, “I kissed a bug and I liked it.” She

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“I never thought I’d be 34 and unable to take care of myself.

When I went to war, I thought either you die or you make it out.

I didn’t factor in what if you came out different than when you went in.” told stories about being in Iraq. She was part of an all-woman transport truck they nicknamed the Maxi Pad. Then someone asked me why I wanted to write about breasts, the topic of my first book. That inspired Herrera to come up with a name for our rubber boat: the Boob Tube.

It was a long day on the river, a hot, 20-mile paddle punctuated by swimming and a beachside lunch. The canyon in this

section is steep and dotted with large ponderosa pines that emerge from shiny black gneiss outcrops. We were passing through the middle of the ancient Idaho batholith.

Angela Day, a blond, plump Navy veteran, bobbed along in her kayak like a mellow duck, not working too hard and giggling through the waves. Anderson, the nervedamaged former ski racer, rode the standup paddleboard; in the rapids it became

more of a kneeling board, and sometimes an upside-down board. In the afternoon, nurse Lopez spilled out of her kayak in a tricky rapid. From the Boob Tube, I could see the panic in her face, the desperate gulps of air and water. She got back in the kayak, but she wasn’t happy about it.

At processing that evening, she looked defeated. Facilitator Partridge had asked the group what their passions were. “I used to

be passionate about everything,” said Lopez, whose PTSD and a chronic back injury got her medical retirement from the Army. “Life, work, nature. Even today I was passionate about kayaking until, what the fuck, and now I expect to be disappointed by everything.” She shrugged. “Maybe I’ll get back in, I don’t know.”

Anjah Mason said she didn’t know what she was passionate about. “I used to be passionate about my family.”

Connie Smith, a former Navy captain from Texas, said she was passionate about her work training service dogs.

Angela Day said she was passionate about her relationship with the Lord. “Today, in the kayak, I was like, ‘Come on, Lord, bring it on! You can do better than that!’ ” Linda Brown, soft-spoken, in her 50s, said she was passionate about outdoor sports. “I can’t say I’m passionate for any length of time, but I do believe I’m passionate about the outdoors, trees especially.”

Pam Hana, still manic, bouncing on her chair, said, “I’m passionate about staying single and frickin’ free! I’m loving it!

Seriously!”

Herrera said she used to be passionate about her job in the Army. “I was a lead gunner in Iraq, in a turret, with a headset. My kid dream came true, of a car that talked to me. I wanted to be Knight Rider with the biggest gun and the coolest clothes. I remember thanking God for allowing my dream to come true.” She looked at the sand. “It’s so hard to create a dream again and go forward. That’s where I get stuck.

How do I do that now with all these barriers, these health issues, the medicines, the bad relationships, no money, the disability?”

Angela Day said, “I don’t want to leave my safety zone.”

“You left it today on the river,” Partridge said.

“Yes. But it’s become normal for me to leave the house only once a month, to buy groceries. I do have a deep personal dream not to be that way.”

“Like when you’re on the river, sometimes you have to ask for help,” said Partridge. “People have your back.”

“It was the funnest day ever today!” said Hana.

“For you.” Lopez glowered.

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e fell into a pattern of running the rapids, processing the day, making and breaking camp, telling stories, coming together sometimes and other times dropping off into pockets of introspection or quiet or just plain tiredness, not unlike riffles and eddies, the rhythm of the river.

Before breakfast, we practiced group yoga. Several people grabbed a quick cigarette before they arranged themselves into lotus position, which never failed to

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crack me up. Day’s dog, Major, lay at her feet at all times and seemed perplexed by the strange body positions. Even impassive Mason, who moved as little as possible, swiveled her torso for gentle twists.

Skinny Hana was usually cold, but always smiled. I noticed she was babbling less.

Each day, there was more laughter.

Lopez made nicknames for our guides, who rowed the gear boats, cooked the food, set up our tents and then left us alone. They were all young, strong and mostly male. She dubbed the clean-cut trip leader, Reid, Captain America. Another, burlier guy with long hair became Fabio. Like an Army unit but with better hair, they had their jobs, routines and ways of contributing to the group. Some were funny, some wise, some watchful.

“This is not unlike war,” Herrera told me.

“There’s something that can kill you. There’s a tight group that depends on you for survival, and everyone is a part of it. Bonds develop that have meaning. Life is better when it’s simple. Here, like in the Army, you don’t have 40 different options for toothpaste. You have your place. We all have it.”

It’s no wonder there is a storied American legacy of damaged soldiers heading for the wilderness. The backwoods of Idaho, Montana and Alaska are notoriously peopled by veterans. After Vietnam, men went there who felt misunderstood by civilization and found the greatest peace away from it. But despite its strong anecdotal legacy, the wilderness is not recognized by the Veterans Administration, or even by most psychologists, as a legitimate healing tool. It’s largely been the veterans themselves, privately funded and socially inclined, who are driving the current renaissance of programs aimed at helping service members.

David Scheinfeld, who has led Outward Bound backpacking courses for veterans for 11 years, uses the term “therapeutic adventure,” but doesn’t necessarily share that with the participants. He has seen so many lives transformed by sixday trips in the wild that he decided to study them for his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas, Austin. He wanted to know what was making the approach successful while the other standard interventions—cognitive behavior therapy and medication—were falling short.

When Scheinfeld assessed 159 veterans, he found that Outward Bound participants experienced 9 to 19 percent improvement in mental health; vets in the control group showed no such gains. The Outward Bound groups still showed the boost a month after the trips ended.

Why did the trips work? Scheinfeld noted that the participants, mostly male, tended to encourage each other to give counseling another try and stick with it. “There

were always a couple in each group who were helped by counseling, and they became de facto mentors,” he said. Because of this, the participants showed a greater openness seeking treatment after the trips, and they were less likely to drop out of treatment. Another reason for success: The trip itself, being in the wilderness and part of a supportive group, counted as extended therapy, and for many hours a day, not the usual one hour per week offered by the VA. “It’s hard for these guys to sit in a room with four walls and talk about their feelings,” said Scheinfeld. “It just happens best when they’re in a natural setting. It draws them out.”

To collect more data on its programs, Outward Bound is partnering with the Sierra Club and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to run a large pilot study out of the Seattle Veterans Administration.

Between them, Outward Bound and the Sierra Club reach hundreds of veterans per year. Stacy Bare is helping to coordinate the study for Outward Bound. A veteran who credits his time in the wilderness with saving his life, Bare understands the need for better metrics.

“It’s amazing to me that we don’t know more,” said Bare. “I think we all believe in the power and mystery of the great outdoors, but

Other studies have shown similar results. Neil Lundberg of Brigham Young University looked at 22 participants from two Higher Ground trips in 2010. Compared to a similar group of veterans on a waiting list, they showed significant decreases—of up to 40 percent—in flashbacks, emotional numbing and hyperarousal after the trips. But not everyone is convinced. Craig Bryan, a psychologist and Air Force veteran who directs the University of Utah’s National Center for Veterans Studies, remains skeptical of nature-based treatment. Most of the studies out there, he said, are small, lack a meaningful control group and don’t follow participants for very long. “It’s possible these treatments are better than existing treatments, but we just don’t know,” he said.

“We don’t have the data to back it up. I want to see randomized control studies, bigger studies.”

these are difficult things to quantify by science. Is it difficult to do a double-blind control study in nature? Very. I don’t think we have to hit that standard, but we have to have a more systematic approach to how we evaluate the effects of the outdoors.”

D

uring the last days on the river, we floated through a landscape that had been ravaged by wildfire in 2000 and again in 2012. At the site of the older blaze, new teenaged evergreens were rising. Around the charred stalks of the more recent fire lay a carpet of brilliant green grass. It was a powerful reminder that life cycles onward. One morning, I sat on a big gear raft next to Linda Brown, the older vet who had been institutionalized for depression.

She sat with her arms wrapped around her life jacket, her sandaled feet propped on the front tube of the boat. “The trees can’t

control their lives,” she’d said, speaking so softly she practically whispered. “We can’t always control what happens to us. The trees can teach us acceptance. And metamorphosis.”

M

onths later, most of the women of Unit HG-714-RA would look back and say rafting in Idaho helped them on their long journeys to recovery. At least one of them, Catalina Lopez, nurse of exploding heads, would say it didn’t. Statistically, this seems about right. In other mental health studies, for example in Finland, about 15 percent of subjects remain wholly unmoved by their time in nature.

Sometimes it’s because they just hate it there. They hate the bugs, the breeze, the big sky. Their nervous systems will never calm down outdoors.

That wasn’t Lopez’s problem. She said the trip just wasn’t nearly long enough. Not long enough for her to turn off her nightmares. Not long enough to stop her from sleep-driving through corn stubble at midnight on Ambien. Not long enough for her to start believing again in other people. Certainly not long enough to gain confidence swimming through swift currents. Many wilderness therapy programs for troubled adolescents run weeks and weeks, even months.

Although Higher Ground gives each participant a “recreation fund” to keep pursuing an outdoor sport at home, Lopez told me she still hadn’t decided whether she would use it. But Marsha Anderson and Carla Garcia would go surfing, sometimes together, in Southern California. Formerly passive Anjah Mason had joined a gym, determined to lose 20 pounds. I was amazed at her transformation. She now routinely hikes near her home, and she wanted camping gear. Pam Hana had been cycling and wanted to use her rec funds to buy a mountain bike.

As for Herrera, she told me she was signing up for another river trip, this time with Outward Bound. “I liked the river. I liked to be successful,” she said. And she was scoping out other programs as well, a shooting trip in the countryside in Alabama, maybe skydiving or rock-climbing if she could find a place that adapts to disabilities. “I want to find something to do every summer,” she said.

And, she told me with pride, she was growing her hair out.

Excerpted from The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams. Copyright © 2017 by Florence Williams. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

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[arts]

Stitch in time Maggy Rozycki Hiltner reconstitutes the symbols of American quilting

by Erika Fredrickson

T

he story behind Maggy Rozycki Hiltner’s “Requiem” begins with a quilt that was locked away for almost 100 years. At the time it was made, the quilt’s swastika pattern had an entirely auspicious meaning. Based on a symbol that’s as old as early cave paintings and indigenous architecture, the American frontier-era “catch me if you can” design signified friendship or fertility in marriage. But after 1920, when the hooked cross was co-opted by Adolf Hitler as a symbol of Aryan identity and German nationalist pride, quilt owners everywhere retired the design, folded up the evidence and tucked them away for good.

“The swastika has been around for thousands of years across all cultures,” Hiltner says. “But nobody wants to put that on their bed anymore.”

“Requiem” is one of 13 pieces in Hiltner’s new exhibit, What Lies Beneath, which opens Friday, May 26, at the Missoula Art Museum. It’s both an enactment of the swastika’s death and a tribute to its former self. Hiltner got the quilt from a friend whose grandmother had made it pre-1920. Its subsequent exile left the quilt in pristine condition. Hiltner cut out the swastikas and re-sewed them into a pile at the bottom of the quilt—making them look something like a funeral pyre—and filled the space above it with a plume of flowers and birds.

“It’s totally understandable why nobody wants these,” Hiltner says, “but such a shame, too, because the beautiful meaning it used to have is lost. I don’t think we’re ever going to be able to reclaim the swastika as a peaceful symbol, so I wanted to make a memorial to it.”

For the past 25 years, the Red Lodge artist has scoured thrift stores for found quilts, the unfinished or “damaged, Velveteen Rabbit kind,” she says.

“I’m taking it and changing the content and, by putting them in a museum, the context,” she says. “I’m looking at the traditional American patterns and working with the semantics of those and given them different meanings.”

What Lies Beneath explores symbols and subtext through the medium of textiles, and that provides an inherent tension. Quilting and embroidery have a safe connotation in American culture, an association with grandmothers and tradition and saccharine, banal quotes hung on kitchen walls. Hiltner’s work, by contrast, is filled with skeletons and eyes and snakes—imagery that often seems sinister, but is also used to indicate transformation. One piece, an installation in the museum’s front lobby, uses mythological Greek imagery that’s associated with surveillance, observation and gossip based on Argus Panoptes, Hera’s many-eyed guard. The pieces aren’t in-yourface political statements, but they do upend centuries-old patterns in ways that even a quilting novice can see.

Hiltner’s interest in embroidery and quilts isn’t just about disrupting the traditions of the craft, though. She loves the history behind the patterns and the medium, the way the stitches provide a window into the hard work that goes into making these objects.

“When someone sees something stitched, they can imagine someone doing that, and the time it takes to do it,” she says. “It’s all laid out there.”

The layers of stitching she adds to the already stitched work gives it an obsessive feel.

It’s an exercise in rebuilding and renegotiating the past in ways that seem a little uncomfortable. For Hiltner, such discomfort is a fair price for the conversations that result.

“Swastikas were definitely part of American quilt history,” she says. “Now what do we do? Lock them away and not talk about them? Or put them out there and have a conversation? I think that’s more honest, because at one point it had a peaceful meaning, and I want to ask the question: What can we do about it? Because I hate it when the bad guys win.”

Maggy Hiltner’s What Lies Beneath opens at MAM Fri., May 26, and runs through Sept. 16. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

“Requiem” is made from a found cotton quilt and found and hand-stitched embroidery featuring the “catch me if you can” or “whirling log” symbol.

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[music]

Happy returns VTO asks the right questions on Is It Ok? VTO might be the oldest surviving Missoula punk band from the Jay’s Upstairs era (and before), though the lineup has changed and the members took some breaks to start families and local businesses. The band just released a new EP, Is It Ok?, but it’s worth rehashing its past for entertainment’s sake. Charlie Beaton, founder of Big Dipper Ice Cream, started VTO in 1992, and for a while the band was known as Vi Thompson Overdrive, after local television personality Vi Thomson (with no “p”). According to Beaton, Thomson was always cordial to the band members, but her lawyers didn’t like the association, and eventually the band was sent a cease and desist notice and asked to recall all copies of its 1994 cassette, Hamburger Time, after which the band shortened its name to just plain VTO. Listening to the new EP, it’s clear VTO’s music hasn’t changed much. On the title track Beaton asks the kind of questions people apparently type into Google, including, “Is it ok to drink before noon” and “Is it ok

to shave your cat” and, in true VTO style, questions about peeing and farting. That’s how VTO has always rolled—lighthearted, immature and fun—and the Beach Boys-flavored punk of “Nuts about Hi-Fi” and the surfy garage instrumental “New Wave Inferno” help fulfill that promise.

The band’s upcoming 25th anniversary show promises cameos from former band members and a slate of songs from the early years. I’m hoping to hear “How to Get to My House from East Missoula,” which is composed entirely of directions to former drummer Yale Kaul’s now-former house, and “Stairway to Frenchtown” in which Beaton sings, “We rode our ten-speeds to Frenchtown Pond/Hugged and kissed until dawn/You said you had a hysterectomy/I thought that was a kind of camera.” That’s some true romance right there. (Erika Fredrickson) VTO plays the Top Hat Fri., May 26, at 10 PM, along with Protest Kids and Magpies. Free.

Charcoal Squids, Charcoal Squids Missoula is one of those lucky places where, often enough, talented musicians move in from somewhere else as an essentially ready-to-go band, put down roots and blow everybody’s minds. It’s a satisfying phenomenon in that you don’t have to endure earlier, looser versions of the band to get to the payoff. It happened with Honky Sausage in the early 1990s, Volumen in the late ’90s, Shahs in the middle 2000s, and I’ll be damned if Charcoal Squids isn’t part of a new wave of transplanted talent.

Charcoal Squids has been a band for about three years and recently moved to Missoula from Moscow, Idaho. The band plays heavy, mid-tempo, psychedelic

rock with big builds and crashing, spacey jams. Certain elements evoke an updated 13th Floor Elevators or Chocolate Watchband. Even a couple of yips in the style of Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer give the sense that the Charcoal Squids aren’t looking just to oldies for inspiration.

The Charcoal Squids’ eponymous new record stands out on the strength of the singing, which is confident without being cocky. I really like the fuzzy lead guitar that snakes through these tunes, and the weight of the track “Tiger Tooth,” which has a nice menacing riff and a good swing to it. It’s a record that will stand up for years to come. ( Josh Vanek)

The Shins, Heartworms For many listeners, the opening notes of Oh, Inverted World bring back 2001 in vivid detail: the heyday of indie pop and a time of carefree and unpretentious, if not simple, rock tunes. But most people didn’t keep listening to the Shins past their second album, leaving the band to a tough 14 years of personnel changes and creative fits and starts.

Now, the only original Shins member left, frontman James Mercer, is back with Heartworms. It’s the band’s first self-produced album since World, and it reads like a comeback album or a restart.

The album sounds very much the same as the Shins’ earlier work, which is good and bad. Mercer’s quiet, whimsical sound is back, with fun and interesting arrangements that separate the Shins from

their hordes of indie-pop contemporaries.

On the other hand, the music doesn’t exactly thrill the way it once did. It’s not clear if that’s because Mercer hasn’t grown with the indie movement, or because everyone involved has grown in different directions. Or maybe Oh, Inverted World was just a truly special album that appeared in exactly the right time and space, and it’s hard to let go of that.

Heartworms has a few standouts, especially the wonderfully written “Mildenhall,” but with each song, I felt more nostalgia for the band’s past than excitement for its future. (Sarah Aswell) The Shins play the Wilma Thu., May 25, at 8 PM. $35-$40 advance.

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[books]

Emotional rescue Raven Digitalis talks science, magick and Esoteric Empathy

by Erika Fredrickson

I choose songs that mirror my emotions. Those emotions are then refracted out through the community for listeners to process and, hopefully, help somebody who is feeling the same way, whether positive or negative or somewhere in between. It becomes a cathartic act of magick. If I’m feeling chipper, I’ll play more upbeat songs, and if I’m feeling morose, I’ll play sad stuff—but not too sad. I used to play some really hopeless suicidal sad music, but I don’t do that much anymore.

Raven Digitalis’s new book, Esoteric Empathy, begins with a quote from Albert Einstein pulled from a 1950 letter that the scientist wrote to Robert S. Marcus of the World Jewish Congress. “A human being is a part of the whole,” writes Einstein, “called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.”

On the surface, Esoteric Empathy looks like a rabbit hole into the metaphysical realm, especially since Digitalis, a local neopagan priest and cofounder of the Opus Aima Obscurae temple, has written other books for audiences interested in magick and the occult. But the Einstein quote foreshadows a more accurate accounting of the book as an exploration of empathy through the lenses of science and spirituality. Fresh off a West Coast book tour, the spiritual leader and longtime KBGA DJ spoke with the Indy about empathy as strength.

First of all, explain to me what an empath is.

Empaths are individuals who have a higher amount of empathy than is considered average. And empathy is the experience of absorbing and mirroring emotions from outside sources. People who self-identify as empaths often have trouble understanding where their emotions end and another’s begin.

Albert Einstein seems like a good launchpad for people who might be more skeptical of the mystical aspect of empathy. Was that your intention?

I think that quote does appeal to those of a more scientific mind—and science is not something I dismiss in my book. I embrace it as a complement to metaphysics and spirituality. I don’t like to get too deep into the realms of superstition. I like to back things up with evidence as much as possible, even if it’s just experiential.

Western schools of medicine don’t recognize the term “empath,” but they do use the clinical term “highly sensitive person.” Do you see a relationship between those things?

Most of the studies I looked at purposefully address empathy in psychotherapy, but they wouldn’t use the term empath, because that term has more of a mystical connotation. An early portrayal of an empath was in Star Trek, and that’s what jump-started the awareness of that term. But empathy itself is massively studied in science in many different fields. The term “highly sensitive person” is both scientific and metaphysical, but I think a lot of people have adopted the term empath at this point.

photo courtesy of Forrest Hardin

Raven Digitalis, neopagan priest and cofounder of the Opus Aima Obscurae temple, spent 7 years researching empathy for his new book.

In what way did an empath appear in Star Trek?

With a character called Gem, and I talk about her in one of the chapters. It was really the first public exposure to an empath, and it happened in the original Star Trek series in an episode called “The Empath.” That was one of the best kinds of research: sitting in the bathtub with a bottle of wine watching “The Empath” on Netflix, being like, “Oh yeah, this is all research.”

You consider yourself an empath. How did you come to that conclusion?

When I was 16 years old at Sentinel High School, I was just getting involved in magick and mysticism and witchcraft and alternative spirituality. I had a series of emotional breakdowns, and I didn’t know what was going on with me. When I consulted with spiritual elders, they informed me that I was an empath, which is like an emotional psychic, and ever since that moment, I’ve been researching empathy. I really dove in whole hog for this book, looking at every angle possible.

In the book you talk about how you often have worn more alternative clothing that’s made you stand out, and yet being an empath means you’re more sensi-

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tive to judgment from others. Can you explain how that has created conflict for you?

In my younger days—and I’m only 33 now—I would wear a lot more makeup and spiky hair and artistic clothing. These days I’ve kind of toned it down, not because I want to blend in more, but because I’m feeling a little more mellow in my older age. But when I was dressing extremely differently I’d get a lot of emotion in my sphere, because people would look at me and judge me and I’d pick up on that energy. I did an experiment at one point about 10 years ago, while I was at the University of Montana, where I would wear totally normal clothing, covered my tattoos, took out my piercings, wore baseball caps and blazers. And I didn’t absorb as much emotion. I blended right in.

Did that make you want to dress like that more to avoid being overwhelmed by other people’s attention?

No, because it wasn’t me. I wasn’t being true to myself. That’s the dilemma. But it was a great learning experience.

How does empathy play into the music you spin on KBGA?

When most people think of magic, they think of tricks and spells, like with Harry Potter. But magick, with a “ck,” has a different connotation. Can you explain it?

For me, all of reality is spiritual and magical. We all co-create reality with our minds and our intentions, so the act of magick is more of a lifestyle of attempting to live in tune with nature and with each other, socially. When people sit down to perform magick in the form of a ritual or a spell or a prayer, they take their mental and emotional and physical energy and focus their entire selves toward a goal or toward a mystical union with divinity in one of its innumerable forms. It really is something that permeates everything in human existence. It’s a kind of focus.

Do you think political division in our country right now can be attributed partly to a lack of empathy?

I think politically we see so much division between the self and other—we’re good, they’re bad.

And people buy into this drama and fabrication because they don’t know any better, or don’t care to look beneath the surface. Greed and the lust for power are what has always controlled politics, and the more we can encourage empathy there, the better.

One of your chapters is called “Approaching the Mundane World,” which speaks to the idea that being creative—practicing magick—isn’t often appreciated in a capitalistic society. Why do you think that is?

I think there’s a sense of safety in compartmentalizing things. There’s also a sense of safety in identifying the self as being different from the other, but empathy is what breaks down those boundaries. By evoking empathy we can identify, or at least attempt to identify, with anybody and everybody, and work from there. That’s what psychologists are doing in their work, and so are spiritualists. And empathy is a force necessary for evolution. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[film]

Cup of Z Meanwhile, back in the jungle…

by Molly Laich

Charlie Hunnam stars in The Lost City of Z.

In The Lost City of Z, director James Gray competently adapts author David Grann’s nonfiction account of Percy Fawcett’s famed exploration of the Amazonian jungle at the turn of the 20th century.

This is a gorgeous picture with methodical pacing and a vaguely powerful message that didn’t exactly overwhelm me, but I’m not underwhelmed either.

It’s like a line drive straight down the middle—I am sufficiently whelmed.

The film stars British actor Charlie Hunnam as Percy, a man who begins his quest with one ambition and ends with different ideas entirely, having been forever changed by a life filled with adventures in the jungle and other mysterious and sobering experiences. Hunnam is an actor previously unknown to me, but he’s been getting around. (He’s also currently starring in the so-far colossal box office failure King Arthur: Legends of the Sword, for example.)

Hunnam really sank his teeth into this role, apparently, losing more than 20 pounds and spending four months sequestered in the jungle to feel the feelings associated with inhospitable jaunts. He really went the extra mile, which makes me feel kind of bad when I flippantly write that I found his performance a tad stiff. (I dismiss this man’s monumental efforts while comfortably sipping coffee in an air-conditioned coffee shop—we’re both method in our own ways.)

The story begins by establishing Fawcett as a brave, competent servant of Britain, whom the aristocracy describes as having “an unfortunate choice of ancestors.” On the heels of Fawcett’s successful elk slaying, the powers that be task him with the perilous task of mapping the previously uncharted corners of Bolivia. The journey will take several years and might claim his life, but success will afford him the opportunity to restore his family name once and for all. A man named Henry Costin (Robert Pattin-

son) will accompany him on the journey, while his independent and unflappable wife, Nina (Sienna Miller), stays home to raise their son and unborn child. (Nina is given about as much agency as a woman at the turn of the century could hope for. Is the part where Fawcett asserts that he and his wife are intellectually equal in the book, or was that added for film audiences?)

Scenes of the British aristocracy reminded me of Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, in which the stifling formalities of society life are at the forefront. In The Lost City of Z, the social stratification exists unobtrusively in the background. Once the expedition moves to the jungle, I’m reminded even more of Werner Herzog’s masterpiece, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, about Spanish conquistadors’ doomed expeditions through similarly unforgiving landscapes hundreds of years earlier. In both films, native people unpredictably shoot arrows at rafts.

But where Aguirre’s journey feels existentially illfated, Fawcett’s quest is plump with destiny and purpose. Somewhere along the line, our hero abandons his practical ambitions in lieu of a search for the ethereal “Lost City of Z.” Proof of an ancient lost civilization (scandalously older than those of Europe) exists somewhere deep in the Amazonian forest, and darned if Fawcett isn’t going to one day find it.

If the film feels a bit anti-climactic, blame reality.

Nonfiction stories don’t always fit tidily in a three-act structure. For lack of a triumphant resolution, Gray gives us instead a spiritual crescendo. And while it didn’t exactly make me feel anything, I’m confident that for others, the elements are there to be felt.

The Lost City of Z opens at the Roxy Fri., May 26. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK BAYWATCH You guys remember Baywatch? It’s back as a raunchy comedy. Who asked for this? Rated R. Stars Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron and Hannibal Buress. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

THE LOST CITY OF Z Based on the true story of Percy Fawcett, a British explorer heads to the Amazon in search of a previously unknown, advanced civilization.

Rated PG-13. Stars Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller. Playing at the Roxy.

(See Film) THE LOVERS On the brink of divorce, and embroiled in their own extramarital affairs, a dispassionate couple discovers the scariest thing about their rocky relationship is falling back in love. Rated R. Stars Debra Winger, Tracy Letts and Jessica Sula. Playing at the Roxy.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Captain Jack Sparrow returns to do battle with another supernatural pirate and make audiences forget this whole franchise is based on an amusement park ride. Rated PG-13. Stars Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem and Orlando Bloom. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING AKIRA (1988) Tetsuo! A teenage biker gang battles a government conspiracy and psychic Jesus in the far off futuristic world of 2019. Rated R. Stars the voice talents of Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Mitsuo Iwata. Playing Sat., May 27 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

ALIEN: COVENANT In space no one can hear you scream, but when you’re part of a team of colonists on an unknown planet, screaming is going to be the least of your problems. Rated R. Stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson and Danny

“How am I supposed to drink this?” Johnny Depp stars in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, opening at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

McBride. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

BUSTER’S MAL HEART How did a milquetoast concierge end up as a crazed mountain man surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes? Well therein lies the mystery. Not Rated. Rami Malek, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lily Gladstone star in this surreal thriller filmed in Kalispell, Montana. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., May 25.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL Sure he told his parents he wanted to take a family road trip, but only because they would have said no if they knew they were going to a video game convention. Hope you weren’t married to the cast of the first three movies in this series, because this reboot of Jeff Kinney’s popular book series features a brand new cast. Rated PG. Stars Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone and Chris Coppola. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING Good news: the new boy next door is super cute. Bad news: you have a rare disease that forces you to stay inside 24/7. Good news: he

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wants to take you to the beach. Bad news: it will probably kill you. Rated PG-13. Stars Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson and Ariana Grande.

Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Marvel Comics’ rag-tag group of space heroes are back for more action, more adventure and more hit songs from the ‘70s. Rated PG-13.

Stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Kurt Russell.

Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

INEQUALITY FOR ALL (2013) As the country’s income gap grows ever wider, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich dissects why that is and what we can do about it.

Rated PG. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth. Playing at the Roxy Sun., May 28 at 5 PM followed by a discussion with Robert Reich.

KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD Before he ruled England from Camelot, Arthur was apparently a down-on-his-luck enforcer for ye olde mafia. Wonder how he turns this around? Rated PG-13. Stars Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law and David Beckham and directed by

Guy Ritchie. Wait, really? Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

ROAD HOUSE (1989) He might not look like much, but this bouncer with a Ph.D is ready to kick faces and rip the throats outta anyone who steps over the line.

Rated R. Stars Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch and Sam Elliott. Playing at the Roxy Wed., May 31 at 7 PM. SNATCHED When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, where the two are promptly kidnapped.

She is never going to hear the end of this one.

Rated R. Stars Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn and Joan Cusack. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.

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photo by Rebecca Keith

Olga Babak and her brother Sergey hold a tray of their mom’s homemade pastries.

Kolbasa on Broadway

by Rebecca Keith Olga Babak was grabbing a cup of coffee in Zootown Brew, in January, when she noticed a forsale sign in the window across Broadway in the former Chop’s Teriyaki space. Babak and her family had been selling vegetables and pastries at the Missoula Farmers market for 10 years, and had been considering opening a storefront for years. Olga, 20, and her mother decided to check the place out and on May 5, Babak’s Bakery and Deli Mart opened next door to Bob’s Sew and Vac and Einstein Bros Bagels.

Though she was born in Spokane, Babak’s first language is Russian. For her, the kolbasa sausage and homemade Russian black bread for sale in the deli is a standard Tuesday night dinner.

“For me, this is just the culture I grew up in,” said Babak, whose mother moved to the United States almost 30 years ago to escape religious persecution in Belarus.

The shop also sells homemade pastries including butter cookies, cannolis and neapolitan cake—all made in-house from ingredients purchased at the Good Food Store or Orange Street Food Farm—which

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make for a quality complement to the Big Sky Coffee Roasters coffee and espresso served in the back. She hopes customers will take a break in the window seats and enjoy a mini caramel-blackberry tart while they order a cake for an event or pick up authentic ingredients for their next Russian meal.

Babak said the family decided to add a deli to the bakery when they realized just how big the new space was. Most of the area’s Slavik families—a community of some 500 people centered around the Slavic Pentecostal Church of Missoula—usually end up driving to Kalispell or Spokane to stock up on the Eastern European preserves, spices and meats that Babak now sells at her store.

“We wanted to offer a little bit of everything,” she said. “It’s a very Eastern European mindset.”

Babak’s Bakery and Deli Mart is open daily from 7 a.m to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.

Starters is a periodic column profiling new food businesses, trends and restaurants in and around Missoula. Send tips to editor@missoulanews.com.

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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$

“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 It’s a done deal! No foolin’. Bernice’s Bakery will be introducing a new owner June 1st!

Christine and Marco have spent the last 15 years stewarding the development and sustainability of one of Missoula’s iconic businesses. Congratulations to Marco and Christine! And, congratulations to the new owner Missy Kelleher. Come in and say hello or good-bye. Follow that up by a “hello” to Missy in June as you snag your favorite treat or a cup o’joe.

Bernice’s Bakery Keepin’ Missoula Sweet. $-$$

Order Online Lunch & Dinner 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining in or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

GIFTS FOR GRADS

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Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a timehonored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$

ICE CREAMS

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

IN OUR COFFEE BAR

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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery.

Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces!

Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

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

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$

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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

photo by Derek Brouwer

What it is: I thought I’d start the column off with the origin story of the beloved Moscow mule, but the story isn’t all that interesting, really. In 1941, a ginger beer maker, a vodka distillery owner and a Russian immigrant carrying three copper mugs walked into a Manhattan pub and… you can guess the rest. Or just make it up while you explore the Meagher Bar’s “Mule Madness” menu.

What’s on the menu: Nine strong, sugary or strong-and-sugary cocktails that make use of muddled lime and ginger beer. That’s what makes it a “mule,” after all. The “Classic” is a Moscow mule made with Tito’s vodka.

The other eight cocktails are each made with different liquors and/or brands.

So what are they? Well, the “Dragon’s Breath” uses Bacardi Dragon Berry rum, while the “Classy Laydie” uses Whyte Laydie gin.

Jim Beam Apple, Kraken Black spiced rum, and ABSOLUT mandarin vodka all make appearances on the menu.

What they’re served in: No copper mugs here. These exotic mules are served in Jameson-branded Mason jars with thick straws. It’s a letdown at first, but the presentation works. Mules are great summer drinks, and few things say summer better than sipping from a jar with a straw.

How they taste: The Irish Buck, made with Jameson, is definitely on the stronger side. The berry rum-infused Dragon’s Breath falls into the category of mixed drinks that are so sweet they’re chuggable.

Pace yourself.

The details: Find them at Meagher Bar, 130 W. Pine St. Each mule costs $7.25. On Wednesdays they’re $5.

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

BOBA TEA TIME LOCAL PAN-ASIAN: Meaty, Vegetarian Gluten-Free & Vegan NO PROBLEM

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THU | 6/1 | 10 PM | TOP HAT Caroline Keys celebrates the release of her new album at the Top Hat Thu., June 1. 10 PM. $5.

FRI | 10 PM | TOP HAT VTO celebrates its 25th anniversary with a show at the Top Hat Fri., May 26. 10 PM. Free.

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THU | 5/25 | 10 PM | TOP HAT Ticket Sauce hits Top Hat Thu., May 25. 10 PM. Free.

SAT | 10 PM | TOP HAT Scott Pemberton plays the Top Hat Sat., May 27. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5

THU | 6/1 | 5:30 PM | CARAS PARK Andrea Harsell & Luna Roja kick off Downtown ToNight at Caras Park Thu., June 1. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

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Thursday nightlife The Loose String Band performs a tight set at Draught Works. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

Learn how to craft your own handlebar roll for your bike, and get the skills you need to make camp hammocks and can stoves with a free workshop at Free Cycles. 6 PM. Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park.

Bring an exercise mat and make your way to Greenough Park. 6 PM. $3 suggested donation.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Looking for some of that new slang? The Shins play the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40/$35 advance.

Rachel Mindell and Jenny Montgomery read from their collections of poetry at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Trio Noir, made up of Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo, meet pinot noir at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

Can I get that on the side? Funk powerhouse Ticket Sauce plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Zepeda and Contingency play the VFW. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $3.

Dyado plays the ZACC Below Fri., May 26. 7 PM. $5.

Already feeling that summer heat? Head to Monk’s for Summer Meltdown with K Dub, Ill Murray, Bass Chasers and R00ster. 21-plus. 9 PM. $3.

The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival marathons films all about workers and those who exploit them. The five days of films start with screenings of 9 to 5, Made in Dagenham and Bread and Roses. 11 AM. The Union Club.

Free. (See Spotlight) Montana’s premier science fiction and fantasy convention kicks off its 31st year at the Holiday Inn Downtown with panels, Hollywood actors and more gaming than you can shake a Spock at.

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Visit miscon.org for a full schedule of events and registration. $50.

nightlife Missoula Art Museum opens a new exhibit of textile work by Red Lodge-based artist Maggy Rozycki Hiltner. What Lies Beneath mixes the whimsical with sociopolitical issues. 5 PM–8 PM with a gallery talk at 7. Free.

Radius Gallery explores contemporary figurative artwork with an opening reception for ObjectManner-Means, a new exhibit featuring 10 artists rendering people and animals in a variety of styles and mediums. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Travis Yost plays some original tunes, as well as tributes to Prince and Bob Seger at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM. Free.

Six bands unite for a community fundraiser to help cover local musician Michael Avery’s medical costs. Fine Lightning Thunder Scotch, Time to Kill, The Conversion, Two Foot Titan, Shot Stereo and Megetongypsies perform. The Badlander. 7 PM. $5 donation.

Ten Spoon Vineyard hosts the live, local music of David Boone.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Revelators frontman Russ Nasset performs a solo show at the Keep. 8 PM. Free.

Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.

TGIGF! Gladys Friday plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

Basses Covered provides the soundtrack at Brooks and Brown Bar. 6 PM. Free.

Dyado pours a stiff glass of alt country at the ZACC Below. 7 PM. $5.

In 1992 three local ice cream makers banded together to play psychobilly punk music. Now, 25 years later, VTO gets the band back together for a show at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

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Saturday voice and catchy tunes to provide the soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

You’ll be bright-eyed and bushytailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

They said it was a weather balloon! A weather balloon!

The Captain Wilson Conspiracy infiltrates Ten Spoon Vineyard for a night of jazz.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

The Clark Fork Market features farm-fresh produce, live music and delicious food every Saturday in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM.

Tango Missoula hosts an introductory class and milonga social dance. The beginner lesson starts at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight. No experience or partner necessary! Potluck food and refreshments. $8/$6 for students.

MisCon continues at the Holiday Inn Downtown. Beam over to miscon.org for more info and a full schedule. $25/day or $50 for the full weekend.

The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses, and culturally diverse delicacies. Join the fun every Saturday through October. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM–12:30 PM.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander. 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

Life is a Cycle, a nation-wide biking event, teaches about the benefits of bike commuting while taking you around the River Bowl.

Visit lifeisacycle.bike for more info and registration.

9 AM. $5/$1.50 advance.

Authors Collen Clancy Hansen and Lorna Milne sign their new books Stella and the Bubble Man and Evelyn Cameron: Photographer on the Western Prairie at a special sidewalk signing at Fact & Fiction. 10:30 AM. Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. For $8

Cannon mixes metal with stoner rock at Monk’s Bar. Are we sure this is canonical? Drift and Caveman/ Spaceman open. 9 PM. $3.

Money Penny plays a night of double-0 music at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

John Floridis plays Bitter Root Brewing on Sat., May 27, at 6 PM. you get a class and a beer of your choice. 10:45 AM. The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club.

Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

Brassknot, Merrywood and the Montana Trombone Chorale perform a selection of music ranging from medieval sounds to modern favorites at a special performance at First Presbyterian Church. 3 PM. $5 suggested donation.

nightlife Andrea Harsell uses her powerful

I can’t tell where the man ends and the guitar begins.

Portland’s Scott Pemberton shreds through the blues at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

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Sunday MisCon continues at the Holiday Inn Downtown.

Beam over to miscon.org for more info and a full schedule. $25/day or $50 for the full weekend.

The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club. Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

nightlife The Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays Draught Works Brewery. Look out for unmarked helicopters.

5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Learn how to make fresh and vibrant Italian dishes at Taste Buds Kitchen.

Visit tastebudskitchen.com for registration. 7 PM. $40.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday.

9 PM.

The Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays Draught Works Brewery. Look out for unmarked helicopters. Sun., May 28, 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Spotlight It’s time once again for Missoula’s science fiction and fantasy convention, which means that you have a free pass to dye your hair purple, put on a fox tail and play board games all day long. Not that you ever needed anyone’s permission. The four-day event includes panels with authors, workshops, lectures, open gaming, virtual reality, live-action role-playing and costume design. If I were you, I’d probably start on Friday with a noon demo on how to create Orc makeup, followed by a 2 p.m. discussion on whether Dumbledore was really a hero or villain. At 4 p.m., I’d check out the stage combat workshop (who doesn’t want to play with

lord of the frodo swords?) and at 5 p.m. I’d either attend the discussion titled “Women in Star Wars” or “How to appear human.” Over the

Con is a good place for cosplay but it’s also an event where fantasy and sci-fi writers can do some networking and take some craft and publishing workshops, such as Friday’s “Do you need an editor?” (Answer: always.)

WHAT: MisCon For the night owl, the conferWHERE: Holiday Inn Downtown ence has plenty of activities: evening film screenings, tableWHEN: Fri., May 26 through Mon., May 29 top roleplaying, lip sync battles and video game tournaments.

HOW MUCH: Adults: $50/$25 day pass. Youth 7-15: $25/ $10 day pass. Children under 7: Free with accompanying adult. Bring your chainmail. Brush up on your Elvish. Prepare your MORE INFO: miscon.org answer for when you’re asked: Which alien spacecraft is the best of all time? Then, you know, have a good time. course of the next few days I throzoology. But that’s just if I would plan to learn about cor- were you.

–Erika Fredrickson By the way, I’ve heard Misdials, liqueurs and potions, listen

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to a talk on the difference between “retro” and “future noir,” attend a lecture on The Secret of Nimh and find out more about an-

photo by Chad Harder

Since its release in 1988, no other anime film has had as big an impact on the world than Kats u h i r o O t o m o ’s A k i r a . T h e dystopian tale of delinquent, pillpopping teenagers getting caught up in a government conspiracy in the far-off year of 2019 not only

WHAT: Akira screening WHERE: The Roxy Theater WHEN: Sat., May 27 at 8 PM HOW MUCH: $8 MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org

struck a chord on its release, but continues to be discovered by fans around the world. Prior to the film, animation from Japan was notorious for cutting corners. Watch any episode of Speed Racer and you'll

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know exactly what I mean. Static, unmoving heads with animated mouths spouting tone-deaf dialogue and the constant and repeated recycling of action scenes were what people associated with the art form.

But with a budget of over 1 million yen (approximately 18 million dollars in 2017 U.S. dollars), the filmmakers created a fully realized futuristic world unlike anything else seen in film regardless of genre. The animation still holds up 30 years later as sharp, daring and gritty. From the early scenes of rival motorcycle gangs rocketing through Neo-Tokyo to the apocalyptic finale featuring satellite weapons, laser rifles and a giant techno-organic mutant, Akira broke new ground, and helped define a genre that continues to thrive to this day.

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Spotlight

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MisCon continues at the Holiday Inn Downtown. Visit miscon.org for more info and registration.

A procession honoring those who gave their lives in service of our country marches from Caras Park to the Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial at the University of Montana for a wreath laying ceremony. 9:30 AM. Call 719-661-4037 for more info.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. This week support the Blackfoot Challenge. 12 PM–8 PM. Montana’s premier science fiction convention wraps up another year at the Holiday Inn Downtown. Roll

over to miscon.org for a full schedule of events. $25/day or $50 for the full weekend.

Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity.

Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing.

Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close.

Just ask a server for the SIN menu.

No cover.

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Tuesday The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club.

Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthe bull.info for details.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.

nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.

Donations accepted.

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

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10/$35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander. 8 PM. Free.

Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7– 9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free.

Our trivia question for this week: Which baseball legend played his final game on today’s date in 1935? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club.

Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. 202 Brooks.

Celebrated Montana painter and sculptor Theodore Waddell signs copies of Theodore Waddell: My Montana—Paintings and Sculpture, 1959-2016 by Rick Newby at the Missoula Art Museum. 4 PM.

nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, videos and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.

Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes.

This week, support the Selway-

Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation. 5 PM–8 PM. Bitterroot Trail Preservation Alliance members are on hand at Bayern Brewing to discuss opportunities for trail improvements. $5 suggested donation.

The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. This month’s run starts at Lolo Peak Brewery. 6 PM. Free.

I’m talking about a very, very, very fine house. Tophouse plays Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.

Got two left feet? Well, throw them away and head down to Sunrise Saloon for beginners’ dance lessons. 7 PM. $5.

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Tommy Boy, the 1995 Chris Farley comedy about an idiot factory heir trying to save his family business from greedy industrialists, is both uproariously funny and fabulously quotable (“Brothers don't shake hands. Brother's gotta hug!”). But outside of the humor, is

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Babe Ruth.

Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. 8 PM. Free.

Show your Press Box buddies just how brainy you are at Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon.

9 PM. Free.

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movie marathon at the Union Club.

The five days of film are separated by genre, kicking off at 11 AM on Fri., May 26 with 9 to 5, the classic film about Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton taking on their sexist boss. Days devoted to films based on true stories, comedies, and a potpourri of cultural WHAT: The 12th Annual Labor studies (including a Film Festival screening of “Bar Association,” one of my perWHO: The Missoula Area Central sonal favorite episodes Labor Council of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) follow WHERE: The Union Club, with one throughout the week. special screening at the Roxy Special presentations WHEN: Fri., May 26 through Wed., and discussions punctuMay 31 ate the various screenings. The festival is HOW MUCH: Free at the Union Club, highlighted by a screen$7 for Inequality for All at the Roxy ing of the documentary Inequality for All at the MORE INFO: facebook.com/MACLC Roxy Theater on Sun., May 28 at 5 PM. A disthere anything we can learn from cussion with documentary star and the film? The Missoula Area Cen- former Secretary of Labor Robert tral Labor Council certainly thinks Reich about the economic and so. Tommy Boy, along with nearly social consequences of the widentwo dozen other films and televi- ing income gap will follow the sion episodes, screen as part of screening. the Labor Film Festival, a weeklong –Charley Macorn

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Thursday Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints can interfere with everyday tasks, but those living with arthritis can find support at Summit Independent Living. The Arthritis Support Group meets every first Thursday of the month, from noon-1 PM.

nightlife Bring and share your ideas, connect and partner with others and learn about current climate efforts in Missoula at Climate Smart’s monthly meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–7 PM. Missoula’s favorite weekly music and food festival kicks off with Andrea Harsell & Luna Roja playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park every Thursday night this summer between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free.

Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Bring an exercise mat and make your way to McLeod Park. 6 PM. $3 suggested donation.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Missoula-based author, educator and adventurer John Kratz reads from his new guide, Hiking Waterfalls in Montana at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Western Front redeploys to the Sunrise Saloon for a night of music.

8:30 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Honeycomb Dance Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

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Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

Missoula music staple Caroline Keys celebrates the release of her album Mean to Stay with a party at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

Knock knock? Who’s there? Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. I don’t get it. Sign up at 9:30 PM. Show at 10 PM. Free.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Don't forget to vote on the 25th.

Stevensville’s Annalisa Rose plays Bitter Root Brewing Thu., June 1, at 6 PM. Free.

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

RHETT• Rhett is a 4-6-year-old male orange Tabby. He would love a home in the counrty with the freedom to come and go as he pleases. Rhett loves human affection and attention, jumping up on the desk and sprawling across the keyboard when he feels ignored. At the same time, he does not like being confined, and would prefer to have the entire house and yard to explore, unencumbered by obstructions.

Ella is a 5-year-old female American Bully. She is a sweet, lazy, couch potato of a dog.

Ella gets along well with most dogs, but doesn't enjoy those that are high-energy or pushy. She'd love to find a home with another dog that shares her enjoyment of the finer points in sprawling across the furniture and napping. This low energy dog doesn't even mind if you skimp on the daily walks.

MAGGIE•Maggie is a 11-month-old female

chocolate Lab/Heeler mix. She would do best in a kid free home, as she doesn't care much for pint sized humans. She loves adults though. Maggie is an energetic young girl who would love a job where her energy reserves can be depleted regularly. She likes playing with dogs and cats, but some dogs make her rather uncomfortable.

CHESTER• Chester is a 4-year-old male Chihuahua. Chester is a bit fearful of new people, and he doesn't like most men. He definitely picks his people, so you can count yourself lucky if he deems you worthy of his love. Once he has gotten to know you, Chester is a very sweet, snuggly little boy. He is rather timid; rolling over and showing you his belly when you go to pick him up.

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BECK• Beck is a 7-year-old male brown Tabby. He is a very shy, timid boy that has not yet adjusted to the hussle and bussle of shelter life. He hunkers down low in his cat bed and lays perfectly still, hoping to blend into the background. When you pull him out and set him in your lap, he will slowly pick his head up, start kneading your leg, and quietly purring while he soaks in your affection.

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SUGAR PLUM• Sugar Plum is a 10month-old female gray Tabby. She will go out of her way to recieve you attention and adoration, and she doesn't seem to care in the slightest when being carted around in rather precarious positions. Sugar Plum was born with a neurological condition called Cerebellar Hyperplasia. This means she has a tendancy to loose her balance and stumble around a bit.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 BO• Handsome, Husky Bo loves to go on adventures! He is crate-trained, has been around children, and loves playing with dogs his size! Bo has lived with a cat and enjoys dog company while you're away. This 7-year-old gentleman loves to use his beautiful singing voice. Bo is part of our Senior for Senior program, so his adoption fee is reduced! Visit myhswm.org for more information.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

GINGER SNAP• Orange you glad you met Ginger Snap? We sure are! This super orange, wildly colored calico gal has delectable fur and loves to say hi to new friends! Come meet this beautiful 6-year-old girl today! Ginger Snap and other adoptable cats are living at the Humane Society: 5930 Highway 93 S, just south of Missoula!

ANGELINA• Angelina is just fine without Brad, thankyouverymuch, and is ready for her forever home! This friendly 8-year-old enjoys meeting new dog friends and playing with brave cat buddies. She would prefer a home without chickens, but loves spending time sniffing around and going on hikes! Angelina is looking for a mature home, and her adoption fee is reduced to help her find her family!!

TYLEE• Smiley Tylee is a beautiful, 2-yearold dilute torti who has been around kids, cats, and dogs. She would love a quieter home or a little hiding place of her own for when she gets overwhelmed. Tylee loves people and will curl up next to you on the couch. She gets along with cats and is friends with laid back dogs! Come visit this darling Wed-Fri 1pm-6pm and Sat-Sun 12pm-5pm!

MALU• This gem of a Labrador cross loves her people, enjoys playing with dogs of all sizes, and is happy to be a couch potato at the end of the day. She is 6 years old, LOVES fetch, and is very sweet! Responsive and kind, Malu ignores livestock and enjoys children! She already knows 'sit' 'come' 'ball' and 'treat'! Visit Malu at the Humane Society Wed-Fri, 1pm-6pm, or Sat-Sun, 12pm-5pm!

PENNY• Are you speechless? So are we.

Penny is an absolute stunner. This white and orange 5-year-old recently lost her best cat friend and is looking for a loving family. She would probably enjoy having a relaxed resident cat to take her in, too! She enjoys children and visitors, and will make you smile as soon as you see her. Call 406.549.3934 for more information on Penny!

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Agenda If you've attended a show in Missoula, there's a good chance you've seen Michael Avery working the soundboard. Avery, a fixture of the Garden City's music scene and member of two different bands inducted into the Las Vegas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, started playing music in the late '60s while still attending high school in Nevada. From there he has performed across the country, attracting a dedicated following of music lovers and musicians alike. After relocating to Missoula in 1995, Avery began working as a groundskeeper at the University of Montana by day, and playing his guitar by night.

When Avery was recently diagnosed with cancer, Missoula's music scene, always ready to help a fellow musician and friend in need, decided to do something to help. All proceeds from We Band Together, a special show featuring local bands at the Badlander, will go to Avery to help cover medical costs. Fine Lightning Thunder Scotch, Time to Kill, The Conversion, Two Foot Titan, Shot Stereo and Megetongypsies all perform.

Musicians aren't the only ones dedicating their time and efforts to raise funds for Avery. Raffle prizes–including tickets to Modest Mouse's up-

FRIDAY MAY 26 The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival marathons films all about workers and those who exploit them. The five days of films start with screenings of 9 to 5, Made in Dagenham and Bread and Roses. 11 AM. The Union Club. Free. (See Spotlight)

SATURDAY MAY 27 The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club. Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

SUNDAY MAY 28 The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club. Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

MONDAY MAY 29 A procession honoring those who gave their lives in service of our country marches from Caras Park to the Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial at the University of Montana for a wreath laying ceremony. 9:30 AM. Call 719-661-4037 for more info.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. This week support the Blackfoot Challenge. 12 PM–8 PM.

TUESDAY MAY 30 The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club. Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve

photo by Chad Harder

coming show at Big Sky Brewing Company– have been donated by both business and individuals from across the city.

–Charley Macorn We Band Together takes place at the Badlander Fri., May 26 at 7 PM. $5 suggested donation.

your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY MAY 31 The 12th Annual Labor Film Festival continues at the Union Club. Check Facebook for a full lineup of films and schedule. 12 PM. Free.

NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. 202 Brooks.

Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, support the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation. 5 PM–8 PM.

THURSDAY JUNE 1 Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints can interfere with everyday tasks, but those living with arthritis can find support at Summit Independent Living. The Arthritis Support Group meets every first Thursday of the month, from noon–1 PM. Bring and share your ideas, connect and partner with others and learn about current climate efforts in Missoula at Climate Smart’s monthly meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–7 PM.

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

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hat have you done to celebrate National Bike Month? May is coming to a close, and despite some of the unseasonably bananas weather we've been having, there's no better time to get out and enjoy Missoula in the most Missoula way possible. Bicycling, after all, is in this town’s DNA. Take a look back at any time in the Garden City's history and you'll definitely find someone on a bike. From the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps stationed at Fort Missoula to the miles of crisscrossing bike paths used every day in this city, bicycling is something we take very seriously.

To celebrate National Bike Month, the City of Missoula and My City Bikes host Life is a Cycle, a

six-mile ride through Missoula to increase commuter comfort biking through the city while showcasing our bike lanes. Life is a Cycle is part of a nationwide outdoor group fitness event with rides in cities across the United States. Registration is just $1.50 in advance or $5 on the day of the event. All proceeds from the ride will be donated to the American Heart Association.

–Charley Macorn Life is a Cycle starts Sat., May 27, at the Bark Park parking lot on the University side of the Van Buren Bridge at 9:30 AM. Register at lifeisacycle.bike.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

THURSDAY MAY 25

WEDNESDAY MAY 31

Learn how to craft your own handlebar roll for your bike, and get the skills you need to make camp hammocks and can stoves with a free workshop at Free Cycles. 6 PM.

The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park.

The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water. 8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere. space/coffeeclub for more info.

Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Bring an exercise mat and make your way to Greenough Park. 6 PM. $3 suggested donation.

SATURDAY MAY 27 You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Life is a Cycle, a nation-wide biking event, teaches about the benefits of bike commuting while taking you around the River Bowl. Visit lifeisacycle.bike for more info and registration. 9 AM. $5/$1.50 advance.

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Bitterroot Trail Preservation Alliance members are on hand at Bayern Brewing to discuss opportunities for trail improvements. $5 suggested donation.

The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. This month’s run starts at Lolo Peak Brewery. 6 PM. Free.

THURSDAY JUNE 1 Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Bring an exercise mat and make your way to McLeod Park. 6 PM. $3 suggested donation.

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Monday through Friday with occasional weekends. Pay is $11 per hour. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10284604

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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS

By Amy Alkon DON YAWN I’m a 40-year-old man who can’t seem to keep a relationship going for more than a year.There’s never bitter fighting or betrayal. I just gradually lose interest. I can’t blame my girlfriends—most of whom are pretty exciting people. I’m the problem, but why? And can I change?

—Frustrated Ever gotten new carpeting? The first month, it’s “No shoes and no drinks whatsoever in the living room!” A few months after that: “Oh, we don’t use glasses anymore. Just splash red wine around and drink right off the rug.”

In the happiness research world, the psychological shift behind this is called “hedonic adaptation”—“hedonic” from the Greek word for pleasure and “adaptation” to describe how we acclimate to new stuff or situations in our lives. They rather quickly stop giving us the buzz (or bite) they did at first, and we get pitched right back to our baseline feeling of well-being (Yeahwhatevsville). Bummer, huh? But there’s an upside. Psychologists Timothy Wilson and Dan Gilbert explain that hedonic adaptation is part of our “psychological immune system,” helping us recover from all the kicks in the teeth and boys’ bathroom swirlies of life.

There’s another possible bummer at work here, per your longing for less wilty love.You may be more “sensation-seeking” than most people. Research by psychologist Marvin Zuckerman, who coined the term, finds that this is a personality trait with origins in genes, as well as experience, reflected in strong cravings for novel, varied and intense sensations and experiences.

If this is driving you, basically, you want it new, you want it now, and all the better if it’s a little life-threatening. In other words, some benefits of a committed relationship, like deeply knowing another person, may end up being deeply boring to you. Still, part of your problem may be a hopeful approach—hoping your relationships don’t die instead of taking steps to prevent that.

Research by psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky finds that three “intentional activities” help keep hedonic adaptation from overtaking a relationship—appreciating, injecting variety and incorporating surprise. Appreciating simply means regularly reviewing and “savoring” what’s great about your partner and what you have together. (Even better if you also express it to them). Bringing in variety and surprise means filling the relationship with “unexpected moments” and “unpredictable pleasures,” big and small.

Be honest with women about your befizzlement problem.When you find one

who’s up for the challenge, get cracking with her on keeping the excitement alive.

Be sure to do this both in romantic dayto-day ways and, say, with the perfect romantic weekend.

BACKUP TO THE FUTURE Two years ago, I met this beautiful, intriguing girl. I gave her my number, but she never called. Last week, she texted out of the blue. Weird! My friend said she probably had a boyfriend until now. Do women really hoard men’s info in case their relationship tanks?

—Wondering Consider the male BFF. A woman may not consciously think of hers as her backup man. But should her relationship go kaput, there he is—perfectly situated to dry her tears. Um, with his lap.

There seems to be an evolutionary adaptation for people in relationships— especially women—to line up backup mates. It’s basically a form of doomsday prepping—except instead of a bunker with 700 cans of beans and three slightly dented Hellfire missiles, there are two eligible men on the shelves of a woman’s mind and the phone number of another on a crumpled ATM receipt in the back of her wallet.

Evolutionary psychologists Joshua Duntley and David Buss explain that in ancestral times, even people “experiencing high relationship satisfaction would have benefited from cultivating potential replacement mates” in case their partner cheated, ditched them, died or dropped a few rungs in mate value. A woman whose partner left or died “would have suffered a lapse in protection, mate investment and resources for her children, much like people who transition between jobs in the modern environment sometimes suffer a lapse in insurance coverage.”

Duntley and Buss note that female psychology today still has women prepping for romantic disaster. For example, in research on opposite-sex friendships, “women, but not men, prioritize economic resources and physical prowess in their opposite-sex friends, a discrepancy that mirrors sex-differences in mate preferences.”

Getting back to this woman who texted you, she probably saw something in you from the start but was otherwise encumbered. So, yes, she’s likely been carrying a torch for you, but for two years, it’s been in airplane mode.

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[C2] Missoula Independent • May 25–June 1, 2017

EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONAL HSS Specialist Seeking HSS SPECIALIST to provide specialized skill focused mental health services in home, school and community setting for youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Assist in the development and implementation of the individual treatment plan.Work as a team member with case managers, outpatient family therapist, school and other community agency personnel providing support, guidance, advocacy and socialization to youth outside of normal clinical program settings. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10286903 IT Help Desk Provides support for users of personal computers, printers, peripheral devices, and software applications. Must have an Associate’s degree in Information Technology or closely related field including coursework in personal computer applications and uses, plus two years of professional computer experience, OR any combination of training and experience equivalent to a high school education and four years professional computer experience. Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation. Must have current Montana driver’s license or ability to obtain one within 30 days of employment. Microsoft and/or Cisco certifications preferred. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employ missoula.com Job #10287261 Tax Preparer wanted. Part time, experience preferred. Telecommuting available. Please send resume to robert@march andcpa.com

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The Account Manager is a lead point of contact for any and all matters specific to their assigned accounts and will be in charge of maintaining strong and long-lasting relationships with their clients, colleagues, and carriers. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10285993

SKILLED LABOR Asphalt Roller Seeking to hire a full-time, seasonal ASPHALT ROLLER OPERATOR. Must have a current driver’s license and clean driving record. Asphalt Roller Operator experience preferred. Class A CDL helpful. Will perform labor duties as well as operate an Asphalt Roller. Work is Monday - Friday; daytime hours to be discussed. Wage is $15.00 per hour depending on experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10286221 Heat and Frost Insulators Apprenticeship Opportunity. Earn while you learn to become a Journeyman Mechanical Insulator.

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EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.

Wash Station, Air-Ops Trailer, and Mobile Fill Station—for Wild land Fires. Applicants MUST have current training certificates. Need reliable transportation to pick up point. Pay will vary depending on qualifications and position. Must be ready to go to work at short notice. Hiring as soon as possible so specific training can be completed. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10284933

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. DP-17-121 Dept.

No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE ESTATE OF MICHAEL JOHN DEME, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rosalinda Deme Drago 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, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Sandefur Law Offices PC PO Box 788, Missoula MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED May 12, 2017. /s/ Patrick G. Sandefur, Attorney for the Estate.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-120 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DARRELL W. THOMPSON, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representatives of the above named Estate. All persons having

claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LEIA MASTERS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 15 day of May, 2017 /s/ Leia Masters, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Cause No. DP-17-125 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BRUCE W. TRIMBLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representatives of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be

forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JAN TRIMBLE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22 day of May, 2017 /s/ Jan Trimble, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Cause No. DP-17-122 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILL D. BRUNER, Deceased.

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missoulanews.com • May 25–June 1, 2017 [C3]

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Sin” is a puerile concept in my eyes, so I don’t normally use it to discuss grown-up concerns. But if you give me permission to invoke it in a jokey, ironic way, I’ll recommend that you cultivate more surprising, interesting and original sins. In other words, Aries, it’s high time to get bored with your predictable ways of stirring up a ruckus. Ask God or Life to bring you some really evocative mischief that will show you what you’ve been missing and lead you to your next robust learning experience.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Attention, smart shoppers! Here’s a special spring fling offer! For a limited time only, you can get five cutesy oracles for the price of one! And you don’t have to pay a penny unless they all come true! Check ‘em out! Oracle #1: Should you wait patiently until all the conditions are absolutely perfect? No! Success comes from loving the mess. Oracle #2: Don’t try to stop a sideshow you’re opposed to. Stage a bigger, better show that overwhelms it. Oracle #3: Please, master, don’t be a slave to the things you control. Oracle #4: Unto your own self be true? Yes! Unto your own hype be true? No! Oracle #5:The tortoise will beat the hare as long as the tortoise doesn’t envy or try to emulate the hare.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Generation Kill is an HBO miniseries based on the experiences of a reporter embedded with American Marines fighting in Iraq. Early on, before the troops have been exposed to any serious combat, they’re overflowing with trash talk. A commanding officer scolds them: “Gentlemen, from now on we’re going to have to earn our stories.” Although you are in a much less volatile situation right now, Gemini, my advice to you is the same: In the coming weeks, you’ll have to earn your stories. You can’t afford to talk big unless you’re geared up to act big, too. You shouldn’t make promises and entertain dares and issue challenges unless you’re fully prepared to be a hero. Now here’s my prophecy: I think you will be a hero.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In your mind’s eye, drift back in time to a turning point in your past that didn’t go the way you’d hoped. But don’t dwell on the disappointment. Instead, change the memory.

Visualize yourself then and there, but imagine you’re in possession of all the wisdom you have gathered since then. Next, picture an alternative ending to the old story—a finale in which you manage to pull off a much better result. Bask in this transformed state of mind for five minutes. Repeat the whole exercise at least once a day for the next two weeks. It will generate good medicine that will produce a creative breakthrough no later than mid-June.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re being invited to boost your commitment to life and become a more vivid version of yourself. If you refuse the invitation, it will later return as a challenge. If you avoid that challenge, it will eventually circle back around to you as a demand. So I encourage you to respond now, while it’s still an invitation. To gather the information you’ll need, ask yourself these questions: What types of self-development are you “saving for later”? Are you harboring any mediocre goals or desires that dampen your lust for life? Do you tone down or hold back your ambitions for fear they would hurt or offend people you care about?

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Dear Dream Doctor: I dreamed that a crowd of people had decided to break through a locked door using a long, thick wooden plank as a battering ram.The only problem c VIRGO was, I was lying on top of the plank, half-asleep. By the time I realized what was up, the agitated crowd was already at work smashing at the door. Luckily for me, it went well. The door got bashed in and I wasn’t hurt. What does my dream mean? —Nervous Virgo.” Dear Virgo: Here’s my interpretation: It’s time to knock down a barrier, but you’re not convinced you’re ready or can do it all by yourself. Luckily, there are forces in your life that are conspiring to help make sure you do it.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As long as you keep Syria, South Sudan, and North Korea off your itinerary, traveling would be food for your soul during the next 28 days. It would also be balm for your primal worries and medicine for your outworn dogmas and an antidote for your comfortable illusions. Do you have the time and money necessary to make a pilgrimage to a place you regard as holy? How about a jaunt to a rousing sanctuary? Or an excursion to an exotic refuge that will shock you in friendly, healing ways? I hope that you will at least read a book about the territory that you may one day call your home away from home.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By now I’m sure you have tuned in to the rumblings in your deep self. e Should you be concerned? Maybe a little, but I think the more reasonable attitude is curiosity. Even though

the shaking is getting stronger and louder, it’s also becoming more melodic.The power that’s being unleashed will almost certainly turn out to be far more curative than destructive.The light it emits may at first look murky but will eventually bloom like a thousand moons. Maintain your sweet poise. Keep the graceful faith.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Life is inviting you to decode riddles about togetherness that could boost your emotional intelligence and earn you the right to enjoy lyrical new expressions of intimacy. Will you accept the invitation? Are you willing to transcend your habitual responses for the sake of your growth-inducing relationships? Are you interested in developing a greater capacity for collaboration and synergy? Would you be open to making a vulnerable fool of yourself if it helped your important alliances to fulfill their dormant potential? Be brave and empathetic, Sagittarius. Be creative and humble and affectionate.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “In youth we feel richer for every new illusion,” wrote author Anne Sophie Swetchine. “In maturer years, for every one we lose.”While that may be generally true, I think that even twenty-something Capricorns are likely to fall into the latter category in the coming weeks.Whatever your age, I foresee you shouting something akin to “Hallelujah!” or “Thank God!” or “Boomshakalaka flashbang!” as you purge disempowering fantasies that have kept you in bondage and naive beliefs that have led you astray.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There are no green thumbs or black thumbs,” wrote horticulturalist Henry Mitchell in a message you were destined to hear at this exact moment. “There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a ‘natural way.’You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.” Happy Defiance Time to you, Aquarius! In the coming weeks, I hope you will express the most determined and disciplined fertility ever!

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it may be the right time to tinker with or repair a foundation; to dig down to the bottom of an old resource and consider transforming it at its roots. Why? After all this time, that foundation or resource needs your fresh attention. It could be lacking a nutrient that has gradually disappeared. Maybe it would flourish better if it got the benefit of the wisdom you have gained since it first became useful for you. Only you have the power to discern the real reasons, Pisces— and they may not be immediately apparent. Be tender and patient and candid as you explore.

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[C4] Missoula Independent • May 25–June 1, 2017

MNAXLP

PUBLIC NOTICES

Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16 day of May, 2017 /s/ Mira L. Bruner, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-95 Dept. No. 1 Hon. Leslie Halligan Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAMES T. SCALISE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to VICKI SCALISE, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 16 day of April, 2017. /s/ Vicki Scalise, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss.

County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. SIGNED this 16 day of April, 2017. /s/ Vicki Scalise, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 16 day of April, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires September 24, 2019 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-17-78 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RANDY J. HOLDSAMBECK, 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 Rex Holdsambeck, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 2 day of May, 2017, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Rex Holdsambeck BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Rex Holdsambeck, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-113 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF TODD A. BRANDOFF, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kerry L. Brandoff has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 9th day of May, 2017. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Kerry L. Brandoff, Personal Representative for the Estate of Todd A. Brandoff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-17-105 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MARY BETH PERCIVAL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Evonne Wells, attorney for the Per-

sonal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 15 day of May, 2017. /s/ Monte Dolack, Personal Representative DATED this 15th day of May, 2017.

WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Evonne Wells,Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-17-57 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ELTON WILLIAM BETHKE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Evonne Smith Wells, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: March 28th, 2017. /s/ Jacqueline Bethke Larson, Personal Representative DATED this 28th day, March, 2017. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Evonne Wells, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-17-118 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JOYCE M. KENISTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DONNA L. CARAS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.C., 523 South Orange Street, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of May, 2017. /s/ Donna L. Caras, Personal Representative Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.C. By: /s/ Thomas

C. Orr Attorneys for DONNA L. CARAS, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP-17-111 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: ROBERT A. LARSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Richard B. Larson, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Richard B. Larson, Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 4 day of May, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 4 day of May 2017. /s/ Richard B. Larson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-104 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL H. LEE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TERESA LEE KERBY, 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 TERESA LEE KERBY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, Ste. 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Teresa Lee Kerby, Personal Representative

PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/17/16, recorded as Instrument No. 201604181 Book 958 Page 1209, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas A. Strand and Denise Strand, as joint tenants (and not as tenants in common) and to the Survivor of said named joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as designated nominee for Low VA Rates, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Liberty Title Company, LLC. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Liberty Title Company, LLC. as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 18 in Block 6 of West View Addition, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201702488 Book 974 Page 946, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to 360 Mortgage Group, LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.As of March 27, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $221,754.90. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $216,422.85, 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 to the County

Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 3, 2017 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.Nor thwest trustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Strand, Thomas A. and Denise (TS# 8794.20084) 1002.291060-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/15/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200706553 BK 793 Pg 1368 and Modified on dated 5/20/16 recorded on 8/9/16 Under AF# 201614019 BK 965 P 1247, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David E Jones was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 18 in Block 9 of West View, a

platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201402879 B: 926 P: 2, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2007-7, AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2007-7. 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 11/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 5, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $199,646.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $195,234.07, 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 9, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the

Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Nor thwest trustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Jones, David E. (TS# 7023.118287) 1002.291126File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/22/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200901828 B: 832 P:859 and modified 9/25/13 and recorded 11/12/13 under Instrument No. 201321878 B: 921 P: 1244, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which William F. Everett and Judy C. Everett, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc., successors and assigns was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows:The North half of Lots 17, 18, and 19, all in Block No. 55 of Daly Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official Plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 607 of Micro Records at Page 509 By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201203046 B: 889 P: 1123, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 11/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 1, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $221,570.90. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $214,844.66, 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 September 8, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwest trustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Everett, William F.

and Judy C. (TS# 7023.118304) 1002.291422File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 11, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 8 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jon E Stannard and Lisa Stannard, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FNTIC, of Flathead Valley, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), as designated nominee for Banc of California, National Association, dba Banc Home Loans, beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 8, 2015, and recorded on October 16, 2015 as Book 952 Page 757 under Document No. 201519674. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANC OF CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION dba BANC HOME LOANS. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Succes-

sor 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 beginning April 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 11, 2016 is $184,917.81 principal, interest totaling $6,109.59 late charges in the amount of $454.76, escrow advances of $5,181.29, and other fees and expenses advanced of $188.82, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the

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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 pur-

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chaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the 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: May 2, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 2nd day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, 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/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 DMI vs Stannard 102654-1 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: OCCUPANT - 2224 W. SUSSEX AVE., MISSOULA, MT 59801

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KAREN L. NEUMILLER, 2362 VILLAGE SQUARE, MISSOULA, MT 59801-2100 KAREN L. NEUMILLER, 2224 W. SUSSEX AVE., MISSOULA, MT 59801-6528 COLLECTION BUREAU SERVICES, INC., 212 EAST SPRUCE ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 JEFFERY KOCH, COLLECTION BUREAU SERVICES, 212 EAST SPRUCE ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 M. MOORE & B. WILLIAMSON & J. NOWAKOWSKI - PO BOX 7339, MISSOULA, MT 59807 U.S.TREASURY, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION, MS5021 DEN, 1999 BROADWAY, DENVER, CO 80202-2490 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, c/o OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER, 44 W. PARK, BUTTE, MT 59701 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, COLLECTIONS UNIT, PO BOX 201350, HELENA, MT 59620 STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, PO BOX 5805, HELENA, MT 59604-5805 STATE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, PO BOX 7149, HELENA, MT 59604-7149 STATE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, PO BOX 1712, HELENA, MT 59624-1712 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL, JUSTICE BUILDING, THIRD FLOOR, 215 NORTH SANDERS; PO BOX 201401, HELENA, MT 596201401 MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 TAX ID # - 1617605 Pursuant to section 15-18212, Montana code annotated, Notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: CARLINE ADDITION, S29, T13N, R19W, BLOCK 24, LOT 3132. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on: 6/1/2014.

3. The property tax lien was attached as a result of a tax sale on: 7/10/2014. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on: 7/10/2014, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to M.I.P. Assets LLC, whose address is PO Box 16561, Missoula, MT 59808 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and cost is: Tax: $7,010.88 Penalty & Interest: $281.11 Costs: $580.00 Total: $7,871.99 7.The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to M.I.P. Assets, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is : Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 258-4747 Further notice for those persons listed below 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 parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated this: MAY 12, 2017 M.I.P. ASSETS LLC /s/ JMP NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: OCCUPANT - 22380 WAPITI RD., HUSON, MT 59846-9701 LUNDIN, DAVID & LAURA, 22380 WAPITI RD., HUSON, MT 59846 LUNDIN, DAVID & LAURA, 22340 WAPITI RD., HUSON, MT 59846 LUNDIN, DAVID & LAURA, PO BOX 629, FRENCHTOWN, MT 59834-0629 ELK MEADOWS RANCHETTES HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION, PO BOX 903, FRENCHTOWN, MT 59834 MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, 200 WEST BROADWAY ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 TAX ID # 1728301 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana code annotated, Notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest.The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: S13, T15N, R22W, ACRES 10.82, TRACT 8 IN NE 1/4 NW 1/4. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on: 6/1/2014. 3. The property tax lien was attached as a result of a tax sale on: 7/24/2014. 4.The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on: 7/24/2014, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to M.I.P. Assets LLC, whose address is PO Box 16561, Missoula, MT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds.

Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 4150/Joseph Grady/$554/furniture 239/Richard Stevenson/$447/furniture SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT

www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, June 14, 2017 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”.

Cash or certified funds.

59808 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and cost is: Tax: $6,623.14 Penalty & Interest: $266.24 Costs: $669.00 Total: $7,558.38 7.The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to M.I.P. Assets, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is : Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 258-4747 Further notice for those persons listed below 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 parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated this: MAY 12, 2017 M.I.P. ASSETS LLC /s/ JMP

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 146, 157, 177, 373, 442, 454, 538 & 587. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed Tuesday May 30th, 2017 at 3 P.M. only and will conclude at 4:PM. Written sealed bids must be submitted to the storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 by 4:00 PM on the day of the auction. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3701 Brandon. 4 bed, 3 bath with cook’s kitchen, 2 gas fireplaces and great views. $424,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 6869 Deadman Gulch. Private 4 bed, 3 bath on 2.71 acres with deck & 3 car

garage. $890,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

TOWNHOMES 927 Charlo. New 3 bed, 2.5 bath with double garage on Northside. $294,900.

"Snappy Comebacks"--get your return on investment.

ACROSS 1 Horseshoe-shaped fastener 6 Center of attraction, so to speak 11 Like some answers 14 Judge's place 15 Kazakhstan range 16 Marriage starter 17 Gloss over, vocally 18 Grab a belief?

20 Pizza ___ (2015 meme) 21 Disturbance 23 Low tattoo spot 24 Bar tests?

26 Holes in Swiss cheese 27 "M*A*S*H" character's cutesy Disney Channel series?

31 Four-award initialism 32 Charmed 36 The whole thing 37 Airwaves regulatory gp.

40 Planetarium depiction 41 Call for Lionel Messi 42 Northern California draw 45 One of four on a diamond 46 Brothel owner on a pogo stick?

50 Word in multiple "Star Wars" titles 53 Neighbor of Morocco

54 Acid in proteins, informally 56 ___ District (Lima, Peru beach resort area) 57 Maggie Simpson's grandpa 60 Queen of paddled boats?

62 Injured by a bull 64 Ginormous 65 The first U.S. "Millionaire" host, to fans 66 Bring together 67 Part of IPA 68 Having lots of land 69 Ford Fusion variety

DOWN 1 Lyft competitor, in most places 2 Bauhaus song "___ Lugosi's Dead" 3 "Don't bet ___!"

4 ___ Soundsystem 5 Stanley Cup org.

6 Sailors' uprising 7 "A Little Respect" synthpop band 8 They get greased up before a birthday 9 A.L. Central team, on scoreboards 10 Schnauzer in Dashiell Hammett books 11 Swear word?

12 "Hello" singer 13 Completely, in slang (and feel free to chastise me if I ever use this word) 19 Calendario starter 22 Slick stuff

24 Frequent chaser of its own tail 25 Mt. Rushmore loc.

27 Make a mad dash 28 Give creepy looks to 29 Tattled 30 "Snatched" star Schumer 33 Word before kill or rage 34 "Let It Go" singer 35 Consider 37 "Learn to Fly" band ___ Fighters 38 Barry Manilow's club 39 Increasingly infrequent dashboard option 43 Full of complaints 44 Political placards in your yard, e.g.

45 Sheep's sound 47 Made out 48 Miracle-___ (garden brand) 49 "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" bassist Charles 50 Brand name in the smoothie world 51 Server piece 52 Morose song 55 Gumbo veggie 57 Uninspired 58 B in Greek Philosophy?

59 Genesis setting 61 DOE's predecessor 63 It comes after twelve

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REAL ESTATE

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Uptown Flats #101. 1 bed, 1 bonus room, 1 bath close to community room. $193,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. anne@movemontana.com

plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #303. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710.Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@move montana.com

MANUFACTURED

HOMES

Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom

645 East Kent $430,000 OPEN HOUSE 5/28 1:00-4:00 Lovingly maintained & completely remodeled University bungalow, close to trails.

This 4 bed, 2.5 bath home has new floors, paint, plumbing, electric, roof, furnace & on-demand hot water heater. Master bath has deep soaking tub & heated floors. Newly painted deck off kitchen to fenced yard. Double detached garage. Don't miss the classic arched doorways. You will love this home! MLS #21705821

9745 Glacier Lily

$272,000

For Sale 2- 2013 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $43,900 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406259-4663

LAND FOR SALE

For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

www.rochelleglasgow.com

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

Call Vickie Amundson at 544-0799 for more information.

18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Big Flat. 7.1 recreational acres along Clark Fork River $50,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private.Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungstenholdings.com (406) 293-3714

COMMERCIAL 3 bed, 2 bath, wonderful home only 10 min from town with a country feel. Awesome views, lg fenced lot on .69 acres. Master suite with a huge walk in closet and roomy bathroom. The family rm has access to the large fenced back yd, hot tub on the back patio.

2405 42ND ST. Just Listed! South Hills 3 bedroom home with main floor utilities, cathedral ceilings, double garage, central air, underground sprinklers and much more! $350,000

Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $385,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lolo home on a 0.25 acre lot. $270,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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[C8] Missoula Independent • May 25–June 1, 2017

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker

104 North 2nd East • $165,000

Real Estate With Real Experience

Cute 2 bed, 1 bath, 925 sq.ft fixer-upper.

Zoned C1-4 for multiple investment options.

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

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