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nside Cover Story Grizzlies are “a success story in the making right now,” says Jonathan Proctor, Rocky Mountain Region representative for the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife. “The population is expanding, protections are working, more and more people…are taking great steps to coexist with grizzlies…Everyone wants the grizzlies to recover to the point where delisting can occur. Obviously we do. The question is, is it at that point or not?”..............................................................................................14

News Letters Bad logging bill, good pot law—and think of all those lost seeds............... 4 The Week in Review Tuition rises, bear goes down, boats get checked..................6 Briefs Glacier chalet gets walloped, roller girls start, man shoots wolf....................6 Etc. We’re still here! ....................................................................................................7 Up Front New Missoula brewery inches Montana closer to a record.......................8 Up Front Alex Sakariassen tries to figure out this hitchhiking thing ........................9 Ochenski Obama and Congress are stealing your dreams......................................10 Writers on the Range Mississippi flood damage was avoidable.............................11 Agenda Divas to the Dance Floor benefits diversity and fabulousness...................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan How to make tough meat say “uncle” .........................................18 Happiest Hour Deano’s Casino...............................................................................19 8 Days a Week And all the ducks rejoiced: more habitat!. .....................................21 Mountain High The annual Loon and Fish Festival................................................29 Scope Missoula Winery clears one-year hurdle with élan .......................................30 Souncheck Lb.! takes metal to complex excess ......................................................31 Noise Red Fang, Moondoggies, S. Carey, TV On The Radio....................................32 Film Missoula documentary highlights kids in a broken system.............................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................34

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

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STREET TALK

by Elizabeth Costigan

Asked on the corner of Higgins Ave. and Main St.

Q:

The Rapture has come and gone.

You’re still here. Why? Follow-up: Who or what is your deity?

Dave Hadley: Because I was busy—busy isolating and identifying the amino acids responsible for chloroplast initiation in auxotrophic albino barley mutations without the use of thin-layer chromatography or electrophorus. High praise: The mountains are my deity.

Jaffery Abbas Masir: I’m a very good Christian. I converted myself a few years ago without the help of any preacher. I’m still here because I don’t believe in heaven, it’s an imaginary thing. The eye in the sky: God is my deity. God is up in the sky, no one knows what he looks like. He watches over the people all over the world. Part of my god is kindness, humbleness, simplicity, truth, faith, and a good path.

Zak Oliver: Someone has to stay behind to make sure the sinners eat veggies, recycle, wash behind their ears, and tip servers. Praise be to moms: My mom. She gave me life, has watched over me the whole way. And I worship the ground she walks on. Praise mommy!

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Here we go again Here comes Sen. Jon Tester’s logging bill again!

This bad bill has been skirting opposition from legitimate conservation interests, promising the moon to logging companies that are actually beleaguered by a housing market devoid of capital and still bleeding from the sub-prime mortgage catastrophe.

This bad bill was tabled in committee, never saw a vote, was pronounced dead, and then was smuggled into the annual budget and rooted out again last session.

The gentleman from Montana has failed to heed calls from the constituency that delivered the western part of the state, imagining instead that a good tall tale can get the housing and construction industry to turn that frown upside down, saving maybe a couple dozen timber-related jobs but doing zip for his alleged constituency in the tourism business.

Redrawing and redefining existing wilderness needs to be done with far more scientific investigation, public input, and sensitivity to existing and pre-existing conditions. At a very minimum the bill must acknowledge existing laws that already pertain to activities it will address, not unilaterally abandon statutes in place for decades, and abandon mandatory harvest language, the absolute folly of which is currently being demonstrated in the marketplace.

I’m hoping Montana is not Stalinist enough to accept the role of a state-managed economy, blindly cutting trees and stacking tax-subsidized two-by-fours that no one will buy, at the directive of a law that chooses to ignore the realities of the very market it seeks to manipulate. You can’t pump up this dead hulk of legislative jargon and expect it to walk the halls of Washington like some zombie of a wilderness bill. Even in Montana we’ve heard about zombies. We are against them.

Larry Evans Missoula

Grow your own There has been much media coverage lately of the legal challenge to Senate Bill 423, the new Montana Marijuana Act

recently enacted with strong bipartisan support of 113 of 150 Montana legislators. A legal action was filed by the highly paid hired gun of the millionaire marijuana growers to prevent them from losing their

“You can’t pump up this dead hulk of legislative jargon and expect it to walk the halls of Washington like some zombie of a wilderness bill.”

very profitable business model on July 1. A variety of claims have been circulated by those wishing to retain the “Wild West” situation developed under the ambiguous language found in the original act, which set up a system for people to access a product that is still illegal under federal law. It is time to debunk those claims.

First, the proponents for retaining the current mess argue that eliminating the storefront model, which allowed a “caregiver” to provide marijuana to hundreds of registered cardholders, will effectively eliminate all access to the product, as the cardholders will be forced to grow their own, which they are alleged to be incapable of, or be aided by a provider that is limited to a maximum of three cardholders, the “small provider” model.

Of the 14 states that have approved the

use of marijuana by chronically sick or terminally ill people, five states, including Alaska, Nevada, New Jersey, Vermont, and Washington, currently use the small provider model. I am not aware of any evidence that shows that the model used in these other states has denied access to the truly ill.

SB 423 does not prohibit a cardholder who grows their own from paying for assistance so long as the advisor is not a registered marijuana provider, and the advice does not include the act of “cultivation” prohibited by other criminal laws. The point of prohibiting compensation to registered providers was to divorce the cash from the privilege of transporting marijuana around the community, for obvious reasons. Reasonable access and assistance is still permitted.

There is no constitutional right to access marijuana, although the plaintiffs’ pleadings can be read to make that reach. If the court finds that unregulated access to marijuana is required by the Montana Constitution under the “pursuit of life’s necessities” provision it contains, we may soon see similar claims for other controlled substances such as methamphetamine, cocaine, and improperly used prescription drugs. After all, the argument will go, whose job is it to decide what is medicine and for whom?

As of May 1, a group of 33 doctors in Montana have certified 28,959 patients, or an average of 877 each. Therefore, SB 423 prohibits financial relationships between doctors and marijuana growers and requires the Board of Medical Examiners to review whether doctors certifying more than 25 patients a year are following the board’s adopted protocols. There can be no interference in a doctor patient relationship if a valid relationship does not exist.

SB 423 dismantles the “Montana Cannabis Industry” but preserves reasonable access for legitimate cardholders to a substance that, I must remind everyone, remains illegal to possess and distribute under federal law.

Jeff Essman Senate Majority Leader Billings

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No green thumb Mandi Summers: Maybe because I forgot to write my friends thankyou notes for all the wonderful birthday gifts they got me, but it’s probably because I am an atheist.

Little monster: Let’s say “role model” instead. In that case, I’d have to say Lady Gaga because she loves all us little monsters. And my mom and dad because they love me even though I am, and always have been, a little monster.

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It is so unfortunate that legislators did not educate themselves about marijuana cultivation (see “Green genes,” May 19, 2011). There is an art and a science to growing. Trust me, as I have had failed crops and now have a mildew powder on my current crop. I am a cardholder and am trying to grow my own but have had no success thus far, and if it wasn’t for my caregiver I would not have useable medicine for my glaucoma and chronic pain due to lifelong diabetes. SB 423 kills access to

useable medicine for those of us who cannot grow our own. It is absolutely ridiculous for our government to expect caregivers to now grow it for free. Do any of them realize the cost to cultivate marijuana? My power bill from adding 2,600-watt high power lights and an exhaust system has increased about $120 per month, not to mention the cost of the lights, fans, soils, nutrients, and multiple hours of time spent tending to my crop. Perhaps the government should force the drug manufacturers to give me my insulin

and eye drops for free. SB423 has to be stopped!

May 19, 2011 at 9:55 a.m.

Thumbing my nose What’s unfortunate is that we did educate them, or at least tried to (see “Green genes,” May 19, 2011). For the last two years we’ve handed them enough information to earn a Ph.D. in cannabis science, and they gave us prohibition. There’s no cure for stupid.

May 19, 2011 at 12:11 p.m.

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by Chad Harder

The U.S. Marshals Service begins a 16-day auction o f i t e m s b e l o n g i n g t o Te d K a c z y n s k i — t h e “Unabomber”—that were seized from his Lincolnarea cabin in 1996. Six days later, the bid for a handwritten copy of Kaczynski’s manifesto was up to $17,525.

• Thursday, May 19 At Muralt’s Travel Plaza, two 21-year-old women steal a purse from an Anaconda High School band member. They flee in a car and head north on Highway 93, only to be caught when a head-on crash near Evaro slows traffic to a crawl. Autumn Raylene Tenas and Victoria Ann Hammer are charged with robbery.

• Friday, May 20 The Montana Board of Regents votes to increase tuition at four-year campuses by 10 percent over the next two years. The increases will bring in about $9.5 million, less than half of the $22.5 million shortfall the Montana University System faces following the 2011 Montana Legislature’s higher-education cuts.

• Saturday, May 21 The Indy tags along with state wildlife biologists as they release an 80-pound black bear near the Blackfoot River. The biologists trapped the bear in the Rattlesnake area Friday after it wandered into a backyard. One biologist jokes that after releasing problem bears, “Sometimes it’s a race to see who gets back to town first, you or the bear.”

• Sunday, May 22 Glacier National Park implements a program intended to halt the rapid westward migration of aquatic invasive species on recreational watercraft. A free permit, with an accompanying inspection, is now required to launch any motorized or trailered boat in the park. Hand propelled watercraft and tubes are exempt.

• Monday, May 23 The Missoula City Council and the Board of County Commissioners unanimously approve using $9,810 in Open Space Bond money to purchase a conservation easement that will ensure that more than 20 acres on Mount Jumbo’s west side remains free from development.

• Tuesday, May 24 The feud at Montana’s Public Service Commission continues as Republican Brad Molnar demands the personal cell phone records of new Republican chairman, Travis Kavulla, and Democrat Gail Gutsche.

Kavulla and Gutsche took over as chair and vice chair last month after accusing Molnar of engaging in improprieties.

Spring showers have brought the flowers to Missoula, with arrowleaf balsamroot blooming en masse this week, blanketing hillsides, like Waterworks Hill, with bright yellow. A member of the sunflower family, balsamroot was traditionally used as food by Native Americans.

Biomass Hot air rises The Montana Board of Regents unanimously approved the University of Montana’s plans for a $16 million biomass boiler last Friday, but dissension lingers among UM staffers.

Mike Burke, chief engineer at the campus’s heating plant, wrote a letter to the Board of Regents alleging that the proposal’s financial particulars were “rosy” because skewed fuel costs were used to make it pencil out. Ian Lange, a geology professor, argues that the plant would degrade Missoula’s air quality. “This thing is going to increase the emissions over what burning natural gas does—and cost us money,” Lange says. “That to me doesn’t make sense. How could a rational person want to pay more money and pollute the air at the same time?”

Ben Schmidt, air quality specialist with the Missoula City-County Health Department, says the biomass plant would indeed increase emissions, but, based on current projections, not to the point of exceeding air quality standards. “Anytime you’re using wood as a fuel—which is far more complex

chemically than just using natural gas—you’re going to have more emissions,” Schmidt says. His office calculates that the biomass boiler would equate to 560 pellet stoves, a “shaky” comparison, he says, given the many variables at play.

The WildWest Institute’s Matthew Koehler says investing $16 million is a dubious economic move.

“We have no [new] College of Technology, and we’re increasing tuition by 10 percent, and we’re not [giving raises to] our teachers and staff, and we’re not insulating the buildings,” he laments.

More than that, Koehler says, UM administrators have been less than transparent. He and Lange conducted an open record search that yielded an email from Bob Duringer, UM’s vice president for administration and finance, who, in response to a question about financial assumptions, wrote, “I don’t think we owe them any more than what we’ve posted.” The search also turned up an internal document that questions the biomass plant’s economic feasibility, but it doesn’t show its author.

Duringer stands by the project. “People who are running around with their hands in the air just need to calm down a little bit and read the litera-

ture,” he says. The plant will pay for itself, he contends. “It’s between emotion and logic here.”

The Missoula City-County Health Department expects to make a preliminary determination on UM’s application for a permit for the biomass plant next week. The deadline for comments on UM’s draft environmental assessment is June 20.

Matthew Frank

Roller derby “Chaos” launches league Heading into Hellgate High School last Thursday morning, Casey “Chaos” Hammond was nervous.

The senior toted white note cards, a turquoise helmet, roller skates, and an array of protective gear as she hustled toward the upper gym. She was running through all of the points that she needed to cover while presenting her senior project, a graduation requirement.

“My name is Casey, I started Missoula’s first junior roller derby league,” she told dozens of classmates, a panel of five judges, her mother, and a

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Standing on the toe stops of her roller skates, the tall, dark-haired girl fidgeted a bit while itemizing aspects of her senior project. First, and most importantly, she had to learn how to play roller derby, a high-impact sport. “I got ring rash,” she said, showing off a red wound on her upper leg. “You just get your skin peeled off.”

Next she solicited donations to get the league rolling. After knocking on doors in a button-down shirt—not her typical attire—a local dentist finally provided the needed $250.

Hammond also researched the sport’s history.

She found it sprung from endurance races at the turn of the 20th century. When skaters began using elbows and tripping competitors, modern-day roller derby was born.

The Hellgate Rollergirl League is sponsoring Hammond’s effort. League members, including Hot Mess, PO’d Box, and M. Kneesya, assisted with the visual element of Hammond’s presentation. The women wore red shirts, black shorts, and an array of colorful accessories, including a pink tutu, while speeding around the gym’s polished wooden floor.

Gabby Rosier watched. The 16-year-old Hellgate High student joined the league about four weeks ago. At 4’ 10” and 100 pounds, she’s one of roughly 10 members of the fledgling junior league. She’s excited to demonstrate just how tough she is. “Football is a man’s sport,” she says. “Roller derby is definitely based on women.

We’re doing the rough and tough stuff.”

The Hellgate Junior League, composed of girls ages 12-17, held its first practice May 3. They now meet every Tuesday and Thursday.

Jessica Mayrer

Glacier Park Slide hits Sperry Chalet Glacier National Park staffers last week discovered that an avalanche slammed into the historic Sperry Chalet.

The park suspects the two-story hotel was damaged during one of February’s major avalanches.

Visitors spotted the slide, prompting staffers to head into the backcountry last week to survey the damage. Because the chalet is still snowed in, it was difficult to gauge how much work needs to be done to repair the structure.

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Glacier spokesperson Ellen Blickhan says it’s clear the avalanche broke a door and ripped shutters off windows, damaging one interior wall. “It did put debris in four different rooms,” she says. “Our plans are to go in there and get it out as soon as we can.”

The building appears otherwise intact, she adds. “It looks like, structurally, it’s still in great shape.”

Made of native rock, the iconic chalet, nestled between Gunsite Peak and Mount Edwards, is listed on the Register of Historic Places. At 6,500 feet, it’s only accessible via a 6.5-mile trail, by foot or horse-

back. It has no electricity, heat, or running water.

Railroad tycoon and developer James J. Hill erected the chalet in 1913 to accommodate the wave of travelers making their way across the west via his newly constructed Great Northern Railway. The building survived another avalanche in the 1950s, but, other than a modernized kitchen and the new composting restroom, it looks much as it did nearly 90 years ago.

Chalet Coordinator Kevin Warrington says Sperry’s concessionaire, Belton Chalets, plans to open on schedule July 8. The hotel is booked all summer. “The chalets are beloved places here in Glacier National Park,” Warrington says.

Jessica Mayrer

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Wolves Done playing nice Politics didn’t play much into last Saturday’s fundraiser for Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. About 450 members celebrated the nonprofit’s first birthday at the Missoula Fairgrounds, with a pig roast, a silent auction, and a bouncy house for the kids. Director Bill Merrill says they intentionally took a break from discussing gray wolves.

That might come as a surprise to anyone familiar with SFW’s anti-wolf lobbying over the past year. Their campaign relies on graphic images of wolves downing a moose, bloody elk carcasses, and mutilated deer.

Merrill makes no excuses for the lurid depictions. The truth is the truth, he says.

“That’s what we want it to be, because it’s going to wake the public up that this is a major issue.”

While SFW enjoyed a night off from the wolf wars, a Hamilton family suddenly found itself in the thick of them. Jason Ekin awoke early Saturday morning to the sound of dogs barking, and when he checked on his three hunting dogs, he found a wolf standing in his backyard. “He said that this wolf had attacked his dog, and he shot and killed it,” says Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden Lou Royce. “He said that he was sleeping and he heard his dogs fighting with something, going crazy.”

Royce says one of the dogs had clear bite marks on its hindquarters. Even if Congress hadn’t delisted wolves earlier this month, Ekin would have been legally justified in killing one to defend his pets.

Ekin lives less than a mile outside Hamilton’s city limits. Merrill points to the incident as clear evidence that, while wolves deserve a place on the landscape, such predator populations can’t go unchecked. Merrill says he doubts public hunts will actually happen this year. In light of recent legal challenges to the delisting, he says, “we’re done playing nice...They’re coming right into town, and people don’t understand the type of problems that we’re heading for. It could have been a little kid playing out in the backyard.”

Royce said he knew of no incident in modern times when a wolf attacked a human in Montana.

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We’d forgotten the end of the world was nigh, and then, at the farmers’ market on Saturday morning, we saw a dozen pairs of empty shoes placed around the X’s. We were a little disappointed they didn’t contain dry ice, fog emanating from them, as a Facebook group had suggested, hoping to scare Rapture believers into thinking they’d been left behind. There’s nothing like the apocalypse to get our creative juices flowing.

This end-of-the-world mumbo-jumbo is actually nothing new for Missoulians. Some of us remember Leland Jensen, founder of a Baha’i sect called Baha’is Under the Provisions of the Covenant. Jensen predicted a nuclear holocaust would destroy the world on April 29, 1980. As the Indy reported, he turned his Stephens Avenue home into a bomb shelter, using sand and thousands of pounds of rock. Other Baha’i members made a makeshift shelter in a warehouse on the Northside. Several downtown businesses held end-of-the-world sales.

Now we have the internet to disseminate—and ridicule—harebrained theories like Harold Camping’s. It was Camping who calculated that the end of the world was coming May 21. On May 22, he told The San Francisco Chronicle he was “flabbergasted.” It’s perhaps unfortunate that his doomsday prediction garnered so much media coverage, but with it came hilarity. On Facebook, hundreds of thousands of people RSVP’d for post-Rapture looting, and others for a pre-Rapture orgy.

Our favorite Rapture spin-off is a business called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, a group of animal-loving atheists “committed to step in when you step up to Jesus.” For $135—paid in advance, of course—the company guarantees that should the Rapture occur, clients’ pets will be cared for. It’s active in 26 states, employing more than 40 people. Founder Bart Centre, a New Hampshire retiree, tells the Indy it has five clients in Montana and five in Idaho, all covered by three “rescuers.”

For some reason we thought there’d be more than five Montanans who’d sign up for this racket. Then again, even some of Montana’s favorite fundamentalists didn’t buy into Camping’s prediction, including Kalispell trucker Kathleen Folden, who last fall drove to a Colorado gallery and took a crowbar to a controversial sexual depiction of Jesus. “This theory is based upon the alignment of planets,” Folden wrote on her website. “That is getting into dangerous territory. Planet alignment, astrology, signs in the heavens are getting into Satan’s realm…Judgment day does not occur until after the 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth.”

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Pouring over Draught Works boosts Missoula’s beer boom

by Matthew Frank

Some Montana bars, though, might consider breweries competition. The Montana Tavern Association, for example, has staunchly opposed legislative attempts to extend breweries’ required closing times from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., fearing that doing so would eat into bars’ business.

Herbert sees it another way: “I think [bars] are being affected in a positive manner. Montana taverns, many are not the taverns they are without Montana-made beer. I think if you go into these businesses today, if all you had were American lagers on tap, a lot of people are going to say, ‘Whoa.

That’s not really what we’re looking for.’”

Marshall and Grant, both graduates of Chicago’s Siebel Institute of Technology and World Brewing Academy, take a break from their work to check in with Keith Ledford of Blue Dog Log Furniture, right next door. He’s making Draught Works’ 30-footlong and three-feet-wide bar. The casing is made of planks pulled from the warehouse’s original floor.

“We’re in this model of recycling the recycling center,” says Marshall, who was born and raised in Missoula. The bar top, he says, was fashioned from a massive log submerged in Flathead Lake for 60 or 70 years. Ledford, Marshall, and Grant spend 10 minPhoto by Chad Harder utes talking about the bar’s The new Draught Works brewery takes shape in a Westside warehouse. design and how best to work around two holes acquired from Boston. “The whole brewing recently opened downtown taprooms that where straps once passed through as it process will kind of be in the customer’s serve Montana-made beer, Flathead Lake floated down the Flathead River.

When the bar’s in place and Draught Brewing Company and Tamarack Brewing lap,” Grant says.

Works opens its doors, Grant says it will When Draught Works opens in July, it Company.

Marshall and Grant are betting that offer five kinds of beer. “At any given point, will be Montana’s 28th craft brewery, which ranks the state second in the country in Missoula is far from reaching its beer satu- once we get up and running and six number of breweries per capita, behind only ration point. They look to comparably sized months in, you’ll be able to walk in here Vermont, according to the national Brewers Asheville, N.C., home to 10 craft breweries, and get eight or ten.”

For Grant, who holds a business Association. “If we hit 33 or so breweries in and Portland, Ore., which supports about Montana, we might find ourselves being No. 30. “If a place like Wibaux, Montana can degree from the University of Montana, 1,” says Tony Herbert, director of the support a brewery very successfully, and Draught Works carries on a family tradition.

Montana Brewers Association. The state’s on Stevensville, and Belt, I don’t think it’s a His father owned Milestown Brewing its way: 406 Brewing Company, in Bozeman, stretch to say that Missoula can support Company, in Miles City. When Grant was a freshman in college, his father’s business opened in late April; Fat Jack’s Tap Room, in five, six, seven breweries,” Marshall says.

However many breweries Missoula partner decided he wanted out, and the Laurel, started pouring late last year; and, Herbert says, the 29th brewery will soon supports, Marshall believes they don’t com- brewery closed. “It was about the pete against each other, but rather against time…that I decided I wanted to be a open its doors in Great Falls.

“Montana’s really followed national the national labels. “It’s taking market share brewer for a living,” Grant says, “always trends in terms of creating these businesses from Bud,” he says. “There’s still a lot of with the mindset of owning my own here in the past 20 years,” Herbert says. market share to be had there before we turn place—I guess following my dad.”

“This whole phenomenon started back in on each other.” Adds Grant: “It doesn’t feel the mid-1990s with a couple of our existing competitive at all. It’s very much a family.” mfrank@missoulanews.com In an old Westside warehouse, Paul Marshall has just sunk his hands into wet concrete, imprinting himself as its new occupant. He rubs the residue off on his pants before shaking my hand. He’s sweaty and smiling, and greets me loudly to overcome the din of power trowels behind him.

Marshall and his business partner, Jeff Grant, and a crew of workers are building Missoula’s newest brewery, Draught Works.

Today, the 5,000-sqaure-foot former Missoula Recycling Center is all exposed beams, brick, and wet concrete. Marshall and Grant envision a 1,700-square-foot taproom; a large patio overlooking Toole Avenue, near where it meets Spruce and Scott streets; and, in the center of it all, the steam-heated brewing system they recently

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and great breweries right there [in Missoula], and off we go.”

In 2010, overall beer sales in the U.S. dropped an estimated 1 percent by volume, according to the Colorado-based Brewers Association, while the craft brewing industry grew 11 percent by volume and 12 percent by revenue. Microbreweries in Montana collectively generate about $20 million in revenue and employ more than 200 people, according to the Montana Brewers Association.

Draught Works (which they originally were going to call Hellgate Brewing Company) could cement Missoula as Montana’s craft-beer capital. It joins the city’s three staple breweries—Big Sky, Kettlehouse, and Bayern—and two other

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Hitchin’ a ride Frenchtown is farther than you might think

by Alex Sakariassen

raincoat, and a small daypack. As drivers roared past, he smiled wide and made eye contact. Eye contact is essential.

“People will pick you up because they want to talk,” Gayer said. “A lot of times people are just bored. They see you and decide they want some company.”

Clearly nobody eastbound or westbound was particularly lonely this afternoon. While Gayer usually gets picked up within half an hour, both of us were striking out. Then Gayer hit me with a revelation: “Missoula’s the hardest town in Montana to hitch in. That’s because you’re stuck on the interstate ramps pretty much. Once you get away from 90, hitchhiking’s a breeze.”

Gayer ’s experience thumbing in the Gallatin Valley or the Flathead may differ, but I later uncovered evidence that knocked his “breeze” theory down a peg. In 2006, two hitchhikers named Scott and Fiddy embarked on what they called the Hitch50 Project, an attempt to hitchhike to Photo by Elizabeth Costigan all 50 state capitols in 50 The author tries–and fails–to thumb his way west. consecutive days. Their online chronicle includes a An hour later, on I-90’s westbound on- young folks still tramp in the footsteps of post on the difficulties of catching a lift ramp, where Orange Street dead-ends at Jack Kerouac, and of Chris McCandless of from Helena to Shelby. The roadside wait the Waterworks trailhead, I was getting Into the Wild fame. But hitching is a dimin- lasted five hours before they finally gave up ishing mode of transportation nowadays, and crashed at a nearby motel. nowhere.

Despite his successes, Gayer seems At the Beartooth Pass two summers ago, more commonly associated with horror a thumb landed me a ride in less than five than romance. Just last year, Frank Dryman quite familiar with failure. He’s been minutes. I didn’t even have a sign that time. was apprehended in Arizona for the stranded in Butte before, and said he once You’d think the lack of ski gear might make decades-old murder of Montanan Clarence had to take a cab from Missoula to Bonner Pellet. Pellet had picked up a hitchhiking when police kicked him off the Van Buren my bid for Frenchtown more successful.

Cars zipped past, many of them with Dryman outside Shelby in 1951. Dryman Street on-ramp. The disapproving looks he lone drivers. All I got was the occasional repaid the favor by shooting Pellet to death, reports from passing drivers also suggest that the culture of hitchhiking culture is in stealing his car, and fleeing to Canada. wave.

Missoula hasn’t dealt with any problem serious decline.

Across the interstate, on the eastbound “I’m actually disappointed in Montana on-ramp, Kris Gayer’s luck wasn’t much hitchhikers in recent years, says Missoula better. A graduate history student at County Sheriff Carl Ibsen. But that doesn’t youth,” says Gayer, who is 25. “Most young Montana State University and veteran hitch- mean law enforcement advocates drivers people drive right by me. The majority of hiker, Gayer was heading back to Bozeman pulling over for an extended thumb. my rides come from other people, people after camping at Weir Hot Springs. The trip “Typically, we encourage people not to pick who were my age back when hitchhiking up to Missoula days earlier took him about up hitchhikers. Our line of work is one was common.”

Satisfied that Gayer had given me some seven hours, he said, with changeovers in where we deal in the possibility of Three Forks and Butte. It’s a stretch he s o m e t h i n g r e a l l y , r e a l l y b a d useful tips, I ventured back to the westthumbs frequently, he said, about 12 times happening…Consequently, we tend to bound ramp. I smiled. I made eye contact. and counting. He’ll be doing it in mid-June think, ‘Why put yourself in the position of I held my cardboard sign. And…nothing for a raft trip on the Lochsa River, then possibly having a problem when it’s so easy but friendly waves.

I decided to pack it in at the two-hour again for Missoula Hempfest this to avoid?’”

Gayer has learned to tune into passing mark. When I glanced back at Gayer’s hitchSeptember.

Had Gayer and I been caught with our cars and drivers. He knows what to look for ing spot, he was gone. thumbs up in states where hitchhiking is and how to present himself. On Sunday, he o u t l a w e d — i n c l u d i n g N e w J e r s e y , was traveling light in beige shorts, a blue asakariassen@missoulanews.com My plans last Sunday were simple: head to Frenchtown, knock out a Happiest Hour column at one of the bars, and make it home in time to enjoy some sun. But with my gas tank hovering just above empty and the need for an oil change mounting with every mile, I decided to try what I’d seen so many in Missoula doing over the years— hitchhike. Frenchtown’s a short 17-mile hop, I thought. Hitchhiking used to be a standard way of getting around. Someone’s bound to pick me up.

Pennsylvania, and Idaho—we might have faced small fines. But most states have the same uniform code on the books as Montana: “No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.” Gayer was on the shoulder. I was in a parking lot. Neither counts as a violation.

Still, hitchhiking isn’t nearly as popular or publicly acceptable as it was back when Clark Gable thumbed a ride in the 1934 classic It Happened One Night. Some

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Double trouble Patriot Act and defense bills are bad news Remember when folks used to think there was some foundational truth in the Constitution that our government was “of, by and for the people”?

The people seem relegated to the sidelines these days as Congressional leaders cut backroom deals without even bothering to allow us the time to analyze their proposals, let alone provide input, before the votes are taken. This week, our out-oftouch and very paranoid Congress sends double trouble to anyone who values civil liberties and peace in the form of the onerous Patriot Act Extension and the dangerous Defense Reauthorization Act of 2012.

On Monday, the Senate voted for cloture by a whopping 74-8 on a measure to extend provisions of the Patriot Act for another four years. What that means in layman’s terms is simple—the Senate, formerly called “the greatest deliberative body on Earth,” didn’t deem it necessary or worthwhile to deliberate one of the most intrusive laws in U.S. history. The deal was done when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, reached an agreement last week with Republican House Speaker John Boehner to move the measure through Congress before members left Washington for their Memorial Day break at the end of this week.

The three worst sections of the law, which would have expired June 1 without Congressional action, include the socalled “lone wolf,” roving wiretaps, and the “tangible things” provisions.

The “lone wolf ” provision, as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allowed the government extremely broad latitude in spying on those believed to be attached to or acting on behalf of foreign governments. Now, the authority to do what would otherwise be unconstitutional surveillance can be applied to American citizens with no known foreign connections.

The roving wiretaps provision, which many say violates the Fourth Amendment, allows the government to ignore specificity when seeking warrants and receive what civil libertarians are calling “John Doe warrants” to target locations, online accounts, and user names without explaining to a judge why these people are under suspicion for terrorist activities.

And then there’s the “tangible things” provision that not only gives the government the authority to confiscate business records, but also “any tangible things” that federal agents feel might be relevant to their investigation—and those things don’t even have to belong to the person under investigation.

To their credit, both of Montana’s

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Senators voted against the Patriot Act extensions along with three Republicans, two other Democrats, and Independent Bernie Sanders. Senator Tester was one of the most vocal in his opposition, calling the measure “a law that tramples on our Constitutional rights” and “invades the privacy of law-abiding Montanans and law-

President Obama seems to have conveniently forgotten his 2007 campaign speech in which he declared unequivocally that, if elected, there would be “no more National Security Letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.” abiding Americans.” To her shame, Democrat Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, in parroting the fear-mongering used by President Bush to initially stuff the Patriot Act through Congress in the days following the 9-11 attacks, claimed those who wouldn’t vote for the measure would be responsible for “not having provisions in place which are necessary to protect the United States at this time.”

To his shame, President Obama seems to have conveniently forgotten his 2007 campaign speech in which he declared unequivocally that, if elected, there would be “no more National Security Letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime,” adding: “That is not who we are, and it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists.” This week, however, his attorney general, Eric Holder, told Congress: “Now more than

ever, we need access to the crucial authorities in the Patriot Act.” Not to be outdone in perfidy by the Democrat-controlled Senate, the Republican-controlled House threw its own despicable legislation into the game this week in the Defense Authorization bill. Not only did the House ignore the wishes of the American people (and the promise of the President) to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and reduce military spending, the bill actually increases the military budget by 4.1 percent over last year, with $553 billion for the Pentagon’s so-called “base budget” and another $118 billion for the ongoing wars.

Budgetary excesses aside, the measure also includes provisions that threaten the checks and balances of our government by empowering the president to unilaterally decide when and against whom to extend Bush’s misbegotten global war on terror.

The actual language of the bill declares that our nation is in “an armed conflict” with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and “associated forces” and “nations, organizations and persons” who support them.

What that means in plain language is that any president can now decide to bomb or invade virtually anywhere he or she decides there is support for the Taliban or Al Qaeda—including within the U.S.—without constitutionally-required Congressional approval. How anyone could possibly think this is a good idea after Bush’s baseless invasion of Iraq is beyond reason.

But there’s more. The bill not only doesn’t get rid of Guantanamo as President Obama promised to do, it actually continues funding for the facility, prohibits funding to house detainees transferred from it, and prohibits any transfers or releases of detainees within the U.S. Furthermore, the measure defines “terrorist offense” to mean any offense for which one could be tried by a military commission, making it possible for U.S. citizens to be denied their constitutional rights to a trial by an impartial jury of their peers, and potentially, even if found innocent, be denied the ability to return to the U.S. if they were held in Guantanamo.

The announced deadline for passing both of these ugly measures is this week.

While it sure looks like Congress has no interest in hearing from the American public on the terrible laws it’s passing, it might not hurt to let them know we’re here and we’re not one bit happy with the double trouble they’re dishing out.

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

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Anatomy of a disaster Madmen built dams above Sioux City, Iowa

by Paul VanDevelder

The hydrologic havoc playing out in the Mississippi Delta is not a freak of nature. This slow-motion, manmade disaster is our inheritance from a previous generation of politicians, farmers and ranchers who made bad decisions to correct short-term problems even as the best available science warned of longterm consequences. And now, like it or not, we’ll pay their bill in full.

The small ocean of water released from the Morganza spillway to relieve pressure on Baton Rouge and New Orleans will destroy the livelihoods and communities of many thousands of people over the coming weeks and months.

Last week, as the Mississippi inched its way toward this dénouement, John Barry, the author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, was correctly telling anyone who would listen that the destruction caused by the current floods is a direct consequence of building five huge dams on the upper Missouri River 60 years ago.

When lawmakers approved the construction of those dams under a plan known as Pick-Sloan—with a projected cost of $20 billion—the ambitious scheme was the most expensive public works project ever funded by Congress.

In the closing days of World War II, PickSloan merged two competing proposals for managing the federally owned water that flowed out of the million-squaremile Missouri River Basin.

The Pick Plan, advanced by Colonel Lewis Pick of the Army Corps of Engineers, was sold to skeptical members of Congress with the promise that Indian lands only—no white lands, towns, or cities—would disappear beneath the 200-mile-long lakes formed behind the dams.

The other plan, drafted by Glenn Sloan, an engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation, called for building 100 small dams that would be scattered across the region on the river’s tributaries. The Sloan Plan was championed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, whose views on the Corps were well known: “No more lawless or irresponsible group than the Army Corps of Engineers has ever attempted to operate in the United States either outside of, or within, the law. It is truly beyond imagination.”

In a move that confounded skeptics, the two plans were merged into a single project at a one-day meeting in Omaha,

in 1944. When President Roosevelt signed the bill into law, the powerful National Farmers Union president, James Patton, called a press conference and declared that the government had performed “a shameless, loveless, shotgun wedding.” Like all such marriages, he warned, it would end in disaster.

The Pick Plan was sold to skeptical members of Congress with the promise that Indian lands only—no white lands, towns, or cities—would disappear beneath the 200mile-long lakes formed behind the dams.

A few blocks away, the interim director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, William Brophy, wrote a letter to Martin Cross, chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nations. Cross’s people would be the first of 23 bands and tribes of Indians scheduled to lose treaty-protected homelands to Pick-Sloan. “As you well know,” lamented Brophy, “there is nothing in Washington, D.C., that is easier to swallow, or harder to kill, than a bad idea.”

Brophy was no stranger to the illtempered Missouri, or to the arid basin and range that carries its name. Farmers and ranchers had been badgering Interior for irrigation projects on the High Plains since the turn of the century.

Brophy was probably one of the only

people in D.C., who had actually read the Army Corps’ 1,245 page report on the Missouri, which was presented to Congress in 1934 by its chief of engineers, Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown.

Brown hoped that their five-year investigation would shut the door on fanciful dreams of water projects on the Upper Missouri once and for all. The nation’s chief water engineer warned lawmakers that due to the geology of the country, and the notorious siltation issues associated with the river, only madmen would build dams above Sioux City, Iowa.

But in the spring of 1943, devastating floods on the Lower Missouri carried away towns, livestock, farmhouses, and any attempt at sound reasoning.

Politicians promised dry-land farmers and ranchers a million acres of irrigation if they would support Pick-Sloan. They did, en masse.

The result? Their grandchildren have yet to see the first drop of that water. And two-dozen treaty tribes were dispersed and relocated with crippling consequences that remain to this day.

Garrison Dam, 70 miles upstream from Bismarck, N.D., is large enough to capture the annual flow of six Colorado rivers. But it is so troubled by the siltation problems Brown warned about in 1934 that the dam could be completely useless within two generations.

Where would we be today if we had taken Maj. Gen. Brown’s advice? If we had refrained from building our homes and cities on flood plains, periodic floods would have replenished the river bottoms with alluvial silts (producing bumper crops) and flowed on to the gulf to annually replenish the barrier islands that once protected New Orleans from major storms. In the 50 years since PickSloan, those islands have disappeared. A major American city and millions of people now lie completely exposed to violent storms, and this week, 65 million acre-feet of stored water on the Missouri have only one place to go: the Gulf.

Will we never learn that the flotsam of our ignorance and arrogance will always come back on a rising tide?

Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire Through Indian Territory.

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Nothing says, “I celebrate diversity” like a good old-fashi o n e d d r a g s h o w.

That’s just what you’ll get at the Divas to the Dance Floor benefit/insanely wicked party at the Elk’s L o d g e t h i s F r i d a y.

The DE LA LUNA Foundation is all about giving a voice in the fight for human rights, or if not that, a flashy microphone to lip-sync songs of freedom into. The benefit will showcase some big names on the Diva circuit, including the foundation’s long-time gay-rights advocate and executive director, Rosalinda de la Luna. The legendary Miss Jade will host the party, with performances by Miss

Juicy and what’s rumored to be the last weekend to catch Amanda Michaels B o u v i e r. Yo u b e s t come out and play for a night of lipstick, glitter, the continued struggle towards attaining basic human rights for all, and every other fabulous thing you can think of.

–Molly Laich Divas to the Dance Floor Benefit is Fri. May 27th at the Elks Lodge, to benefit the DE LA LUNA Foundation, 112 N. Pattee St. at 9 P M . $ 5 f o r 21+ / $ 7 f o r u n d e r 21 .

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“Creating Our Positive Future Today” Saturday May 28, 10:30 a.m. at Seeley Lake Elementary School

Art & Wildlife Festival: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND Saturday, 10- 5 & Sunday, 10- 3 Full schedule at www.alpineartisans.org &

THURSDAY MAY 26 The Missoula Nonprofit Network is out for blood at their Major Donor Panel, a workshop that will give an overview of major donor fundamentals, 11:30 AM–1 PM at Mountain West Bank Conference Room, 3301 Great Northern Way. $10/free for members. Visit missoulanonprofit.org.

The Bitteroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents its Brown Bag It! Discussion Group with a talk on Homer and Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow at noon in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.

Join Nine Mile Wildlife for a lecture given by Rob Roberts, Settled, Mined and Left Behind: TU’s efforts to improve fisheries and water quality in Ninemile Creek at Alberton Community Center at 7 PM, 701 Railroad St. Free. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

FRIDAY MAY 27 Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Intercultural Dialogue Group, a monthly meeting that aims to bring together people from various backgrounds for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking, every last Fri. of the month at 4:30 PM in the library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info.

Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Missoula Park Board are seeking volunteers to serve on the newly forming Conservation Lands Advisory Committee.

Applications for this volunteer position can be obtained through the Mayor’s office, City Hall, 2nd floor, 435 Ryman, due by 5 PM. Call 721-PARK. Calling all Divas to the Dance Floor for a special performance at the Elks Lodge to benefit the DE LA LUNA Foundation, 112 N. Pattee St. at 9 PM. $5 for 21+/$7 for under 21. Delalunafoundation.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

SATURDAY MAY 28 The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula would like to announce their summer hours. Beginning this weekend through Labor Day, the museum will run Mon.–Sat. 10 AM–5 PM and Sun. Noon to 5 PM. Current exhibits include: The Road to Today: 250 Years of Missoula

County History; Where the Mountains Roared: The Fire of 1910, and more. Call 728–3476.

Sumio Harada’s photo presentation Focus on Mountain Lions features pictures of those things I just said, 11 AM–1 PM at Montana House, 198 Apgar Loop Rd., W. Glacier. Free.

TUESDAY MAY 31 Discuss and communicate campuswide issues and University initiatives at the University Council Meeting at 2 PM, on campus in the University Center, rooms 332-333. Open to the public. Call the UM Office of the President at 243-2311.

Experiencing the heartbreaking prose of high schoolers at the Aerie International Reading, plus the unveiling of the new issue at Break Espresso at 6 PM, 432 N. Higgins. Free.

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

Call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 1 Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week.

This week’s beneficiary is Spirit at Play. Free. Visit kettlehouse.com.

THURSDAY JUNE 2 Women rule at the WORD open house (as in Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development, inc.) to celebrate 25 years and their new director, Stacy Rye, 4:30 to 6 PM, 2525 Palmer St., Ste 1. Free.

Eat crunchy food and talk sustainable urban living at the MUD Mingles Potluck from 6–9 PM at the MUD site, 629 Philips St. Free. Visit mudproject.org for details.

Create your own delicious frozen treats when Stumptown Art Studio hosts its Annual Spring Show & Ice Cream Social, featuring a year of work by student artists from 6–9 PM at 141 Central Ave. Free.

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 e-mail 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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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Matthew Dale Hudleston, 33, handed a bank teller in Foley, Ala. a note announcing, “I have a gun,” and detailing his demands. He left with $9,945 but returned awhile later for his hold-up note, which he’d left behind. A Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy spotted Hudleston in a stolen vehicle, chased it until it overturned, and recovered the stolen money, the hold-up note and Hudleston. (Mobile’s Press-Register) A convenience store clerk in Minneola, Fla., identified the masked gunman who robbed him of $500 and several packs of cigarettes because the man returned the next day to buy cigarettes. The clerk told Lake County sheriff’s investigators he caught a glimpse of the robber when he lowered his mask during the hold-up and the next day recognized him as the same man, a regular customer named Brandon Tyler Walker, 18, who pleaded guilty. (Orlando Sentinel) CHICK MAGNET - After being charged with possessing a dangerous animal at his home in Ford Heights, Ill., Dewayne Yarbrough, 43, told Cook County sheriff’s investigators he bought the four-foot alligator to impress women. He explained he kept the alligator in a small tank and fed it only 10 live mice a month so it wouldn’t grow too large. (Associated Press) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Authorities arrested Carey Newman, 34, in West Frankfort, Ill., after she reportedly threw a lawn mower at another woman. (Carbondale’s The Southern) DOWNWARDLY MOBILE - Albuquerque authorities arrested Charles Mader for failing to notify them that he’d moved out of the Dumpster he’d given as his address. Mader, a convicted sex offender, is required to provide the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department with a current physical address. Deputies who noticed Mader was no longer residing at the Dumpster tracked him to a homeless shelter. He told them he moved to an abandoned building. (Albuquerque’s KOB-TV) BUTTER FINGERS - As soccer fans cheered, Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos carried Spain’s treasured King’s Cup above his head on an open-top bus to celebrate his team’s victory over Barcelona.

Suddenly, he dropped the 33-pound silver trophy, which fell under the team bus and was crushed.

Emergency services workers picked up at least 10 pieces of the trophy. (Agence France-Presse) After cruise ship passenger Janet Richardson, 73, took ill off the coast of Norway, the captain ordered her to shore for treatment. While she was being transferred to a Norwegian Sea Rescue lifeboat, the six men holding the stretcher dropped it into the 26-degree water. Paramedics took eight minutes to rescue her.

She was taken to a British hospital but died. (MSNBC and Associated Press) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Sharon Edwards Newling, 58, told authorities in Rowan County, N.C., that she fired a .22 caliber rifle at her stepson to make him stop working on his truck. (Salisbury Post) A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA - Los Angeles authorities accused Yupeng Deng, 51, of creating a fake U.S. Army unit and charging more than 100 fellow Chinese nationals between $300 and $450 each to join. Prosecutors said Deng told the recruits that belonging to the squad was a path to U.S. citizenship.

He gave them fake documents and military uniforms, had them parade in a Los Angeles suburb and took them to the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Midway, which is now a museum. (Reuters) THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT - A new iPhone application calculates the calories in food by matching a photo of the meal with its database of some 500,000 food items. “The database can quickly help identify the food, how many calories there are, proteins, fat, carbs, vitamins, whatever you may want to know,” said Andy Smith, CEO of DailyBurn, a fitness social network that developed the MealSnap app. “Users can then choose to share what they’ve eaten on Twitter or FourSquare, leading to social accountability.” (Reuters)

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The University of Southern California marching band disputed Kent’s claim, declaring the true composer to be Tommy Walker, who wrote a song called “Trojan Warriors Charge” in the 1950s when he was simultaneously USC’s drum major and field goal kicker. Kent’s attorney acknowledged the USC song “does contain five notes that are close to the last five notes of the crescendo of Mr. Kent’s song,” but insisted the notes are played at different tempos. (Miami Herald) DRIVE-INS WELCOME - Andrew Michael McKinnon was driving along Main Street in North Easton Village, Mass., when he clipped the rear bumper of a parked vehicle, swerved and crashed into a building occupied by the Champion Driving School. (Brockton’s The Enterprise) RIDE OF A LIFETIME - A boy and girl were injured in Tucson, Ariz., after a strong wind lifted a bounce house the children were playing in, carried it across three lanes of traffic and dropped it on a median. (Tucson’s KNXV-TV)

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Grizzlies in Glacier National Park suffered a huge public relations blow in 1967 after two women were killed by park bears in a single night.

It seems like everybody loves grizzly bears these days. They’re one of the most recognizable emblems of Montana’s rugged western culture. Just look at the shops in Missoula: Grizzly Grocery, Grizzly Hackle, Grizzly Liquor. The bear has been the University of Montana’s mascot for over a century. UM even toted grizzly cubs to sports games up until the 1960s; now a person in a grizzly costume, the crowd-pleasing, back-flipping Monte, has replaced them.

Yet perceptions of the bears as ferocious, carnivorous beasts persist in parts of rural Montana, even though the idea of the grizzly as a maneater is a gross exaggeration. It was western settlers who embraced that notion, followed by ranchers, hunters, and poachers, who used it to justify destroying the species. Some estimate that there were as many as 100,000 grizzlies in the lower 48 states in the early 19th century. Now,

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according to the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, fewer than 1,500 remain.

That grizzlies are not already extinct is due in part to the change in conservation values that came about in the 1970s. In 1975, under the Endangered Species Act, the federal government listed the bear as threatened. Since 1983, a coalition of federal and state agencies, the

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Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, has overseen recovery efforts. The bears are now identified by five recovery zones—the Yellowstone, the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirks, the Selway-Bitterroot, and the North Cascades. One of them, the Northern Continental Divide, may be approaching the day when Endangered Species Act protections are no longer needed. And that has

biologists drafting future management plans for the big bears even as some conservation groups and others fret about delisting them.

Grizzlies are “a success story in the making right now,” says Jonathan Proctor, Rocky Mountain Region representative for the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife. “The population is expanding, protections are working, more and more people who live around the NCDE area are taking great steps to coexist with grizzlies…Everyone wants the grizzlies to recover to the point where delisting can occur. Obviously we do.

The question is, is it at that point or not?”

Their numbers in the NCDE have grown by an estimated 3 percent a year for the last 10 years.

There are now more than 900 grizzlies roaming Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and adjoining lands. Just over half appear to be females, biologists say.

That success has come about primarily because rural Montanans no longer fear the bears as they once did, says Chuck Jonkel, one of the state’s most recognized bear experts and the co-founder of the Great Bear Foundation. Jonkel, white-haired and grizzled, has spent decades researching grizzlies along the Rocky Mountain Front. He still remembers when residents in small towns like Choteau would host anti-grizzly parades. Ranchers shot bears on sight. People spread stories about man-eaters. A grizzly anywhere near town was rare and unwelcome.

Jonkel recalls the widely publicized Night of the Grizzlies, an incident from August 1967 in which

two young women were killed by grizzlies on the same night in Glacier National Park, leaving Montanans baying for grizzly blood. “Two young, pretty girls in the same night couldn’t possibly happen,” he says. “Well, it did. Million-to-one that it would, but that really hurt the bear.” Their numbers were already alarmingly low, he says. “Then that happened, and there was a lot of people just shooting grizzlies when they were hunting, thinking ‘Night of the Grizzlies,’ ‘Night of the Grizzlies,’ ‘Night of the Grizzlies.’”

Decades passed before many visitors felt safe in Glacier Park. Gradually, discussions about safe cohabitation and the importance of conservation began to stick and fear dissipated, replaced by a recognition that bears have an important role in the landscape. Now, “people say, ‘Hey, we saw a grizzly bear walk through our yard,’ and they’re amazed and pleased,” Jonkel says. “It used to be, ‘Come and kill that goddamn bear. It’s going to eat my kid.’”

And now the bears are moving out of the mountains.

When the first grizzlies were spotted returning to the plains near Choteau, Browning, and Augusta, Chris Servheen, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s grizzly bear recovery coordinator, figured it would take them 10 years to reach the Missouri River breaks, near Great Falls. Just a few years later, in 2009, a grizzly wandered 177 miles from the mountains, winding up north of Great Falls near Loma.

There were more grizzly sightings on the plains in

2010, which Jonkel sees as proof that not only are people learning to live with big bears but also that grizzlies are learning to live with humans. “It’s kind of like Montana ranchers,” he says. “They see a shiny car two miles away and the dust cloud’s a little too big. Well, ‘I don’t like that guy. The car’s too shiny, the car’s moving too fast.’ Bears are the same way.

They’re as touchy as Montana ranchers.”

In the Blackfoot Valley, which is also in the NCDE, the bears might still be feeling touchy. On Sunday, May 15, state Fish, Wildlife and Parks opened a game range in the Blackfoot Clearwater Wildlife Management Area to hundreds of people hoping to find shed antlers. Within an hour, a Missoula man scared up a grizzly sow with two cubs.

According to the man’s story, corroborated by eyewitnesses, the bear charged to within eight yards of him before he fired at it with his sidearm and then fled. The sow pursued him another five yards.

The man fired a second shot and downed the bear, then called FWP, which determined the grizzly was fatally injured and euthanized her. The cubs were taken to the state’s wildlife rehab facility, in Helena, and will probably be sent to a zoo. “It’s always a shame to lose a breeding-age female,” says FWP biologist Jay Kolbe. “That’s the most critical population segment and it’s one we monitor for recovery…But she’s one of many in the central Blackfoot.”

Kolbe notes the man was not carrying bear spray.

As the grizzly population in the NCDE grows, expanding into historic grizzly habitat like the Blackfoot Valley, the upper Flathead Valley, and the Rocky Mountain Front, many are wondering when the bears will lose the protections of the Endangered Species Act. The big bruins seem ready, biologists say.

But are people? And if the recent wolf wars are any guide, would that really be what’s best for the bears?

The wolf precedent In 1973, two years before grizzlies were declared threatened, the federal government listed gray wolves in the West as an endangered species.

Despised by ranchers, feared as predators, the wolves had been persecuted alongside grizzlies for a century. They were trapped, hunted, and poisoned to the verge of extinction.

The ESA allocated millions of dollars toward preservation of the wolves, but that didn’t stop poachers from slaughtering hundreds over subsequent decades. Restoration efforts ramped up in the 1990s, when 66 gray wolves from Canada were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park as an experimental population. Others were reintroduced in central Idaho, and more wolves drifted south from Canada. Today it’s estimated there are about 1,500 gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, making this the fastest recovery in the history of the ESA, some experts say.

The wolves were delisted in Montana and Idaho in 2008. Responsibility for managing them fell to the Wildlife biologists with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes conduct a health check on a male grizzly caught by accident while they were targeting females with cubs.

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states, at a time when the wolves’ numbers were growing by about 20 percent a year. And then the situation fell apart. In 2009, Idaho and Montana approved wolf hunts. That same year, 14 conservation groups sued to reinstate the wolves’ endangered status, questioning the number of wolves necessary to declare the population recovered and the federal government’s ability to delist wolves in some states and not others.

Last fall Federal District Court Judge Donald Molloy, in Missoula, ruled in favor of the environmentalists. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers parts of the Endangered Species Act, appealed Molloy’s decision. The ensuing controversy and its outcome were ugly in many ways and ultimately could damage the wolves—leaving advocates for grizzlies unsure what the next steps for the bears ought to be.

The opposition to delisting gray wolves fractured earlier this year, in the midst of the appeal. Ten of the 14 groups tried to reach a settlement with the government. Molloy shot them down. Then, last month, Sen. Jon Tester attached a rider delisting wolves in Montana and Idaho to the congressional budget compromise.

Biologists winced at a species being delisted by political maneuvering. Montana, meanwhile, has proposed a hunting quota of 220 wolves for this fall, while several environmental groups are already challenging the constitutionality of Tester’s wolf rider.

Chuck Jonkel’s son, Jamie Jonkel, is carrying on the family business: He’s an FWP bear biologist. The younger Jonkel says he doesn’t have to look any farther than the Blackfoot Valley to see how the wolf debate is shaping discussions about the future of grizzlies. He’s spent years building close relationships with landowners there in the hopes of reducing conflicts with bears. Ranchers were skeptical at first, he says, but they gradually became more open to measures such as bear-proof garbage cans and electric fences. They’ve shown that they’re willing to help the bears coexist with people, but the controversy around wolves now gives them pause. “A lot of them were saying, ‘Well Jamie, here we’re doing all this good stuff to recover the grizzlies on the south end. I don’t like living with them, but I’m willing to let them use some of my ranchland. I’m doing this because I’m hoping to see them get delisted someday.’ They have this dream of someday being able to draw a grizzly bear tag so they can go hunting for a big male.”

Jonkel’s fears of eroding support for grizzlies on the Blackfoot have already been realized elsewhere.

Down in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, bear reintroduction took a turn for the worse. Repeated court involvement in wolf recovery left some folks doubting the viability of the Endangered Species Act, says Servheen, from U.S. Fish and Wildlife. It’s one thing for state, tribal, and federal agencies to differentiate between wolves and bears and their respective challenges, he says, but their partners, landowners, don’t necessarily make those distinctions; lately, many don’t believe that the goal of a delisted population of big predators can ever be met. “The wolf issue has really contaminated our ability to put bears into the Selway-Bitterroot,” Servheen says.

“The idea that wolves were put in there and now are recovered and doing fine, but the courts and the environmental groups continue to interfere with delisting those wolves, that just made people say, ‘You know, we’re not going to deal with bears.

We’re not going to even think about bears, because look what happened with wolves.’”

Servheen’s fear that the wolf debate has even eroded public support for the ESA seems justified.

The ESA has become a political flashpoint.

Republicans in the Montana Legislature this year tried to nullify the act. Additional actions in Congress over the past four months—including a bill

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proposed by Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg to delist all wolf species nationwide—have threatened to politically weaken the ESA. Meanwhile, others decry its politicization. “The ESA would be meaningless if we can just conveniently delist species based on politics instead of science,” says Proctor, of Defenders of Wildlife. “We do need success stories—and we have success stories. The fact that most species that are on the endangered species list are still on earth is a success story.

Species have been delisted. But if we start politically delisting species and then they go down the tubes or become extinct as a result of using politics instead of science, that’s not a success story. That closes the door on potential success stories in the future.”

icated, and we continue to work with them as much as possible.”

The Blackfoot Challenge has augmented Jamie Jonkel’s efforts in FWP’s Region 2. They spearhead a carcass pick-up program for Blackfoot Valley ranchers each spring to eliminate bear attractants. They organize phone trees to spread word of grizzly activity. The group’s wildlife committee has led workshops, field demonstrations, and public meetings to ensure that bears and humans can coexist.

Defenders also has turned its attention to the Mission Valley, where grizzlies weren’t seen much a decade ago. Residents once recognized grizzlies more as an animal that kept to the mountains, well away from crops, garbage cans, and livestock.

Photo courtesy Shannon Clairmont

A grizzly on the Flathead Reservation. In 1975, the federal government listed the bears in the lower 48 states as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Grizzlies have made an impressive recovery in subsequent decades.

‘They wander just about anywhere’ The antagonists in the wolf wars are still working together on grizzlies. In Missoula, Defenders of Wildlife has circulated hundreds of leaflets about safe co-habitation with bears. They’ve installed bearproof food storage lockers at state campsites such as Salmon Lake and the Blackfoot Valley’s Russell Gates. And they’ve funded successful electric fence initiatives for livestock pastures and chicken coops throughout western Montana. Proctor estimates his organization has spent $435,000 on such bear projects since 1999.

“Defenders works incredibly well with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on grizzly bear conservation,” Proctor says. “Not as well on the wolf issue. It has hurt our relationship, but the on-the-ground state and tribal bear managers around the NCDE are incredible. They do such a great job, they’re so ded-

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Conflicts were few. Coexisting with the hulking omnivores was hardly a pressing concern. Now, environmentalists and government researchers are having trouble keeping up.

Stacy Courville, a tribal wildlife biologist with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, says he didn’t need much equipment to track bear activity before 2005, when the tribe first started radio-collaring bears. Now grizzlies wander county roads by night, feast on fruit trees and chickens, and bed down on the valley floor. Courville’s work requires on-site DNA collection and digital weight measurements. “Everything we needed to work bears used to fit in those two packs,” he says, pointing into the back of his equipment-choked, government-issue rig. “Now it fits in the back of the truck.”

His colleague Shannon Clairmont finishes the thought: “And in the front of the truck, and in the truck.”

Courville is a heavyset man with a goatee who bears some resemblance to the animals he works with. On a recent spring day, he and Clairmont set up a remote wildlife camera to capture images of a nearby grizzly sow and her cubs. They hike along an irrigation canal, the Mission Range looming in the background.

“She’s over in that brush,” Clairmont says. “They bed down during the day, but at night, they wander just about anywhere.”

Courville discovers a bear trail little more than a stone’s throw from a dairy farm. It looks like a heavy truck drove through the damp grass on one wheel.

Bear tracks litter the mud. From where Courville sets up the camera, you can see houses, barns and pastures. So can the bears.

“We’ve got more bears than Yellowstone,” Courville says of the NCDE. ( Yellowstone has just around 600 bears; the NCDE has more than 900.)

“Granted, a third of them are in Glacier, but we’ve got a lot of bears.”

Courville points west across the valley to what he calls the Moiese Hills. Last year, he says, a sow and her two cubs killed more than 20 dairy cows on a single farm there. CSKT tried everything, but never managed to catch her. Even culvert traps failed: The sow would simply keep her back leg out, grab the bait, and lift the trap door. “Free food,” Clairmont says.

Courville says the sow eventually left the area when the tribe’s traps became a nuisance.

On May 14, a farmer near Ronan said a two-yearold grizzly raided his chicken coop early in the morning, then returned to his property later that day. So he killed it. Wildlife officials with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes said they’re looking into what happened.

“Up on the Flathead and all around western Montana, more and more people are raising chickens,” says Proctor, from Defenders of Wildlife. “And they’re becoming a major issue for grizzly bear security because grizzlies are learning that chickens are an easy meal. They’re killing hundreds of chickens, particularly on the Flathead. Unfortunately, grizzlies are being killed because of chickens.”

Delisting probably won’t change the reactions to such conflicts. While the ESA requires the involvement of the Fish and Wildlife Service in all grizzly deaths, those operations are typically left to the state and tribes if they don’t involve a clear case of illegal activity, so local managers are already dealing with the brunt of them.

As long as the bears aren’t conflicting with humans, “we leave them there and start working with the folks on the landscape,” Jamie Jonkel says.

“Already I’m working with people in the Avon area, the Elliston area, the Deer Lodge area, the Georgetown Lake area, the Rock Creek area—and it’s because the grizzlies are already showing up there…as long as we can keep ahead of the eight ball and build the social acceptance of these bears, everything will work out fine.”

All or none Grizzlies have already felt the heat of courtroom battles and debated scientific findings. The Fish and Wildlife Service removed the bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from the endangered species list in 2007, after it neared 600 bears. As with wolves, the decision quickly wound up in federal district court in Missoula. Environmental groups including the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Alliance for the Wild Rockies argued several points. For starters, they said, a conservation strategy 25 years in the making had failed to account for the impacts of climate change on white bark pine in Yellowstone National

Photo by Chad Harder

Shannon Clairmont, left, and Stacy Courville track a GPS-collared grizzly bear in the Mission Valley.

Park—a staple food source for those bears.

More importantly for grizzlies throughout the West, environmentalists contend that delisting a distinct population segment violates the conditions of the ESA. To them, it’s delist all or delist none.

“Our position has always been, they were listed as one population,” says Alliance for the Wild Rockies Executive Director Michael Garrity. “They weren’t listed as a Yellowstone population, a Northern Continental population, a Kootenai population. And we don’t think they should delist it until that entire population is recovered.”

Judge Molloy ruled in favor of the environmental groups. The case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Chuck Jonkel, the bear expert, also says that removal of ESA protections would be a terrible mistake, in Yellowstone or for any other population that might appear to have recovered. Until he sees a guarantee that the state will maintain adequate funding for bear management, he says, he won’t be changing his mind. The population of the U.S., he contends, doesn’t really care about “a million here and a million there for bears and wolves. It’s no hurt to them. It would be a huge amount of hurt to Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming…We can’t afford the wolf and the grizzly bear…Where’s the money going to come from at the state level?”

The state has yet to discuss a public hunt for grizzlies in the NCDE, with the revenue that could bring. The pieces of the delisting puzzle are still falling into place, with agencies looking to the Yellowstone conservation

strategy as a model for post-delisting management in the NCDE. But Jonkel doubts the money the state could get from grizzly hunting license sales could float adequate management funding for the species. And he’s far from alone in questioning how close Montana is to seeing a fully recovered, delisted grizzly population.

“It’s premature,” says conservationist and author Rick Bass. “I am concerned that we’re not even asking the right questions. One political interest is in such haste to delist that every piece of information, every piece of data, looks to them like part of the answer they already know they want rather than being used the way good science can be used, which is to lead scientists to ask 20 more questions.” Simply counting bears “is so 20th century,” Bass says.

“I have a really bad feeling that we’re relying on ancient, outdated, simplistic, socalled science in this day and age, and with a species of such utter importance as the grizzly.”

Servheen, of Fish and Wildlife, finds the skepticism about delisting in Yellowstone and elsewhere frustrating. Many environmental groups have helped out with numerous on-the-ground initiatives, he says, including The Nature Conservancy, the National Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife. Although Defenders opposed wolf delisting, they supported the removal of Yellowstone grizzlies from the ESA. But other groups simply want to cast stones, Servheen says. It’s the old adage that it’s easier to kick down a barn than it is to build one. “I don’t even know who those people are,” he contin-

ues. “I never see them. They never come to meetings, they’re never involved in our recovery activities. But they can take a lawsuit to a judge in Missoula and stop 25 years of conservation efforts in the Yellowstone ecosystem.”

State and federal agencies, landowners, and environmentalists have built what Servheen calls a “gold-plated” post-delisting management plan for Yellowstone grizzlies.

Implementation would cost roughly $3.4 million per year. Ten percent of the bear population would be monitored with radio collars. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee secured restrictions on site development, livestock allotments, and road density for 85 percent of the grizzly habitat in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. “We can’t make everyone in the Yellowstone ecosystem move out, and we can’t treat everywhere that grizzly bears are like it’s Yellowstone National Park,” he says. “That’s what some of these people want. There’s got to be a graded level of management…that’s what we put in place. That’s what the public will accept.”

Yet the legal wrangling over delisting the Yellowstone population has strained the relationships that made the conservation strategy possible. Servheen is struggling to hold the show together in the park. Other agencies seem primed to walk away from the effort, having invested much and gained nothing. If the federal government fails in the appeals process, Servheen says, “the cooperative efforts to recovery grizzly bears will fall apart.”

Photo courtesy Jesse Lee Varnado

On May 15, a Missoula man shot and killed a grizzly sow in the Blackfoot Valley. Her two cubs, born this year, will have to be handled closely by humans at the state’s wildlife rehab facility. That puts their likelihood of reintroduction to the wild at zero.

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Photo courtesy Chuck Bartlebaugh

A grizzly sow with a cub in Yellowstone N.P. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 2007, but environmental groups succeeded in returning the population to the Endangered Species list.

Just one bear The Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho contains one of the smallest and most vulnerable grizzly populations in the Northern Rockies. Estimates in the last decade place the total number of bears around 35. Unlike Yellowstone and the NCDE, the grizzly recovery zone here doesn’t have a national park at its core.

The mountains are rich in silver and copper deposits. Several mining companies, including Revett Minerals and Montanore, have been struggling for years to get permits to drill under the wilderness. Resource extraction would bring road expansion, developments, and people to the area.

That means more garbage, more chickens, more conflicts, and, inevitably, more bear deaths.

Bass, the author, has lived in northwestern Montana for more than two decades and serves as a board member with the Yaak Valley Forest Council.

Many of his books and articles have drawn national attention to the Cabinet-Yaak region. Bears here, he says, are the weakest link in the recovery chain. “I’m not seeing as many grizzlies in the Yaak,” he adds.

“I’m not seeing as much sign of grizzlies in the Yaak.

And most troubling, I’m not seeing grizzlies in the Yaak where I used to see them.”

The Cabinet-Yaak and the nearby Selkirk ecosystem are fragile enough that they merit full-time Fish and Wildlife staff. In any given year, Servheen estimates, the grizzlies have only three females with cubs. If just one of those sows is hit by a car or killed by a poacher, the population could be devastated.

And if area landowners don’t see grizzly recovery working elsewhere in the West, that too could be the end of the bears.

Recovery hasn’t always run smoothly here, but it’s

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Government biologists in the last decade have turned to inventive hair snares and tree rubs to collect grizzly DNA samples without disturbing bears.

gotten better thanks to the same kinds of efforts that paved the way for the NCDE grizzlies. “I can remember 15 or 20 years ago having public meetings up there

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and having people really mad that bears were around and that we were even talking about bears,” Servheen says. “Now I think we’ve gone way beyond that. I mean, the county commissioners are in favor of grizzly bear recovery, of augmentation, of putting more bears in there.”

This is also where Kate Kendall, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in West Glacier, has turned her attention this year.

She spearheaded the grizzly population study in the NCDE in 2004, using elaborate hair snags to collect DNA samples and gather data on individual bears. Now she hopes to apply her experience with NCDE grizzlies to obtain more detailed data on grizzlies in the Cabinet-Yaak.

Kendall says Lincoln County Commissioners invited her to give a presentation on her NCDE study last winter and liked what they heard.

The county found public support and funding for the project, then asked Kendall to lead it. That level of interest and cooperation usually takes years to nurture.

Servheen fears those public investors in bear recovery will walk away if initiatives to delist grizzlies in Yellowstone—and, eventually, the NCDE—fail. The populations there were never as small as that in the Cabinet-Yaak, he says. Failing with a larger segment could make success with a

smaller segment appear impossible. “They’re watching Yellowstone right now,” he says.

There is also a third perspective out there when it comes to grizzly recovery and delisting, one that takes a wild curve away from what environmentalists and government biologists are working on now.

Montana naturalist Doug Peacock, who has lived up close with grizzlies for months at a time over the past four decades, believes the entire question of threatened or endangered species recovery has become irrelevant.

Peacock credits the agencies and their recovery efforts in Yellowstone. They really brought the population back from the brink, he says. But the bears still don’t have much of a chance.

Peacock has written three popular books on grizzlies. In Grizzly Years, he chronicles the way the bears helped him heal after he served as a medic in the Vietnam War. Now he fears the animals that gave him back “elements of my own humanity” will disappear as climate change alters the Montana landscape. And for him, the first step in that direction is assuming grizzlies can survive without the Endangered Species Act. “Nobody could see global warming coming on in 1975, when they started to draw up all the management plans,” he says. “Under such radically changing habitat conditions, the bear should technically never be delisted. This is not fair to anybody, but they’re never going to be recovered. The habitat is going to change so fast in the next 20 years that the grizzlies are going to need three times as much habitat as we’ve already chosen to give them, just to maintain their current numbers. I don’t think our culture is up to that level of tolerance and generosity.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Large chunks of meat, once they’re browned on all surfaces, should be cut as soon as they thaw enough to allow it; careful, though—while raw in the middle, they can be hot on the surface. How small you cut the meat and what you plan to do with your buck au Franz is a matter of preference.

Will you serve it simply, perhaps with toast or potatoes or some other starchy accompaniment to sop up the jus? If so, large chunks can provide a more tactile thrill, a mighty roast caving like yogurt at the touch of your spoon.

If you plan to put your tamed meat chunks in tacos, then inch-or-smaller chunks will do. And don’t be afraid to fry the little chunks before putting them in the tacos, to refresh their crisp.

If Coq au vin is your model, leave the meat in large chunks and add vegetables—carrots, onions, garlic—to the braise. In boeuf bourguignon, which is often thickened with flour, chunks an inch or two to a side are typical.

Another thing to keep in mind when cutting the meat to size is that larger pieces will cook more slowly than smaller pieces. Of course, if you’re in a rush you shouldn’t be braising in the first place. If you start with meat that isn’t frozen, you can cut it to your preferred size before putting it in the oven. Either way, once the meat is browned on all sides, turn the heat down to 300 and add equal parts water and wine to the pan, along with five or so bay leaves, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Stock or reconstituted bullion can also be used in place of water. And some chopped fresh garlic won’t hurt either. The liquid should cover at least half of the meat, but can fully submerge it as well.

Cover the pan with a tight-fitting lid and cook for at least three hours (bump the heat to 350 for faster braising). Check periodicalPhoto by Ari LeVaux ly, turning the meat and adding wine and water as needed. Keep cooking until the meat is spoon tender.

Whatever the final destination of your buck au Franz, be it crepes, posole, or breakfast hash, you should make more than you think you’ll need. As the flavors come together and the meat softens, a braising buck becomes highly susceptible to sampling.

Sampling quickly turns to nibbling, which leads to snacking, and then—at least in my case—experimenting, as I explore new uses for buck au Franz. On toast with mayo and pickled pepper? Check. With cheese? Check.

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Beneath the broiler, no oil, is the best way to brown meat. It eliminates the splatter of grease and the possibility of fire, and gives you more control over the process than browning in a pan on the stovetop. It’s the first step in buck au Franz, my recipe for turning the most stubborn cuts of meat into butter.

Buck au Franz is named in homage to coq au vin, a recipe that arose in response to the problem, “how do you eat a tough old rooster?” The French answer is to cook it slowly in red wine, usually burgundy, a method that’s also used in boeuf bourguignon.

I call my recipe “buck au Franz” because I often make it with a tough piece of deer, like from an old buck, and with wine from a box of Franzia cabernet, a vintage that’s usually close at hand. But any meat and any red wine—bottled or boxed, burgundy or non—will do. While buck au Franz employs the French-discovered power of the red wine braise, it’s a much simpler recipe than its antecedents.

Every animal—cow, pig, elk, or giraffe—has its tough parts, where the meat is inextricably bound up in connective tissue that would require a lifetime to chew.

These are the pieces that most butchers put in the burger or sausage piles. But I like those stubborn chunks whole, because they have the best flavor.

With enough time in hot wine, all that Kevlar-like cartilage and cables of tendon melt into a greasy goodness that tastes and feels like fat, but isn’t.

These tough cuts might be shank meat, analogous to your forearm or calf muscles. Or flank meat, the animal’s abdominal muscles. Or neck meat, perhaps the tastiest of all. More tender cuts can be used in buck au Franz, and the results will be just fine, but you will have wasted an opportunity to turn rock into silk.

When using frozen meat, I rarely bother to thaw it. I just drop the frozen packet in hot water until it

melts enough to let me unwrap it, and then put the naked meat in a baking pan three inches under the broiler.

As the meat browns, stay on top of it. Make sure that crunchy brown doesn’t turn to crispy burn. If it’s a hunk of multiple chunks frozen together, like stew meat, then a few minutes under the broiler will cause the pieces to go their separate ways. Separate

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www.thinkfft.com Mon-Fri 7am - 3pm • Sat & Sun 8am - 3pm 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

LISTINGS Break Time Deli Northgate Plaza 2230 N. Reserve St. Phone: 541-6498 Fax: 541-6499 Break Time Deli proudly offers dine-in; take-out; delivery; catering; business lunches; daily specials that satisfy; breakfast and lunch served all day featuring breakfast burritos made to order.

Cheese, meat, dessert and veggie trays put together to your specifications (trays are great for parties, business meetings and all forms of get-togethers!) And did we mention we have great prices? We do! Phone or Fax us your orders. Mon-Fri 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Closed Sunday.

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza,

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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 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 39 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. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve

by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ 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 service within a 3 mile radius.

sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. WE DELIVER On Campus & to the area between Beckwith, Higgins & 5th Street. Delivery hours: M-F 11-2.

Monday-Friday 7am-3pm. Saturday & Sunday 8am-3pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 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. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center 101 East Front St hunterbay.com 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees and espressos plus made-from-scratch , healthy sandwiches and soups. Enjoy the sunshine from our patio! Free WiFi and Free Parking in the upper deck lot. Open Monday through Saturday.

Family Dental Group Southgate Mall 541-2886 Stress is tough on your teeth. People with a lot stress are more likely to grind their teeth. This can cause jaw pain and loss of tooth structure. Your dentist can help by making night guards to reduce the affects of grinding. Of course, managing the source of your stress is much better than just treating the symptoms.

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Spring weather brings patio seating! Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold

Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and

Open 7 Days a Week 11:30 am - 9:00 pm 3075 N. Reserve Street Missoula • 327-0731

HAPPIESTHOUR Deano’s Casino A t m o s p h e r e : T h e c o z y, dimly lit casino is nestled in a gas station travel plaza off Airway Boulevard. It has soft, highbacked chairs. With its carpeted seating area and pool table nook, it feels like a cross between a basement rec room and a 1980s hotel lounge.

What you’re drinking: The specials change from night to night, but often include $5 domestic pitchers. About once a month, on Saturdays, there’s a drag show and, according to Johnny Spritzer, the current drag show prince and Deano’s bartender, vodka is the choice drink: “After a drag show there are usually four or five empty bottles.”

Why you go: Besides the occasional Saturday night drag show, Wednesday nights offer entertainment from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Aaron Broxterman plays music (including Irish drinking songs), Davol White exhibits his oil paintings, there’s sometimes free pizza, and Evan Disney puts on a magic show—all for $5.

Disney calls it Hump Night Theatre, and he uses coins, cards, stuffed bunnies, and other everyday objects to do impressive tricks. Our

ONE BLOCK EAST OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA BETWEEN MCLEOD & UNIVERSITY AVENUE

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How to find it: 5336 W. Harrier, off the I90 exit to Airway Blvd.

— Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

COFFEE

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ICE CREAMS

Guatemala Antigua Italian Roast

$10.75/lb.

Daily TEMPURA Special - $1.25 for 2 pieces - 11:30am-2:30pm

1221 HELEN AVENUE

Who you’re drinking with: Regulars.

Patrons include karaoke singers (Hump Night Theater is followed by combat karaoke), LGBTQ community supporters, and magic lovers.

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•Eat-in or take-out •Espresso and pastries •Groceries •Fresh, local, and friendly •Variety of local meats •To-go picnic fare •Located in the heart of the University District

favorite: Queens in the Kitchen, which involves peanut butter and jelly.

COOL

Mondays & Thursdays - $1 SUSHI (all day)

Tuesdays - LADIES’ NIGHT, $5 Sake Bombs & Special Menu

Photo by Elizabeth Costigan

IN OUR COFFEE BAR

Missoula’s Best Coffee

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232 NORTH HIGGINS AVENUE DOWNTOWN

Coffee, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5 - close. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Oil & Vinegar Southgate Mall 549-7800 Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM-9:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM6:00 PM. With a visit to Oil & Vinegar, you will discover an international selection of over 40 estate-produced oils & vinegars suspended in glass amphora-shaped containers on a dramatic backlit wall. Guests can sample the varieties and select from various shapes & sizes of bottles to have filled with an “on-tap” product of choice.

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50.

Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75.

Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers.

Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 North Higgins Avenue 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you.

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

Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 46 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$

$…Under $5

SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Share a meal within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues-Sun 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ The Sunrise Saloon & Casino 1100 block of Strand 728-1559 Every day is a great day at the Sunrise Saloon!

Enjoy two happy hours daily, plus daily drink specials. Wednesday is Ladies night. Missoula's only dedicated country bar with live country music Thursday Saturday. Play our liberal machines while enjoying great entertainment and friendly service. 21+ only. Open daily 8 a.m. 2:00 a.m.

NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 5497979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right. Home of the Famous Fish Taco. Crowned Missoulas best lunch for under $6. Mon-Sat. 11-10 Sun. 12-9.

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$

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Sushi Bar & Japanese Bistro Join us this spring and summer for always delicious and healthy SUSHI!

NOT JUST SUSHI NIGHT $1 MONDAY $1 SUSHI NIGHT WEDNESDAY $3 SAKE BOMBS MON/WED

When we say Not just Sushi! we mean it.

403 North Higgins Ave • 406.549.7979 www.sushihanamissoula.com

Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun Wed 8-3pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

BITTERROOT Spice of Life 163 S. 2nd St., Hamilton 363-4433 Spice of Life welcomes you to the Bitterroot’s best locavore dining experience. Serving up fresh and fun food in a conscientious manner. For lunch try one of our hand made burgers from Lolo Locker or one of our fabulous fresh salads. Dinner selections include natural beef which contains no growth hormones or antibiotics ever, sustainable seafood selections and pasta dishes made from Montana wheat from Pasta Montana. Quench your thirst with beer from right here in Hamilton or try one of our reasonably priced yet fantastic wine selections.

Children’s menu available. No reservations. So come as you are to Spice of Life! 163 S 2nd St. Hamilton, MT. Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:00 to 2:00 Dinner: Wed - Sat 5:00 to 9:00.

363-4433.

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The dull sound of sharp math. Modest Mouse plays alt rock at Big Sky Brewing on Thu., May 26, at 7 PM with Talk Demonic. Show is sold out.

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26

The Missoula Nonprofit Network is out for blood at their Major Donor Panel, a workshop that will give an overview of major donor fundamen-

tals, 11:30 AM–1 PM at Mountain West Bank Conference Room, 3301 Great Northern Way. $10/free for members. Visit missoulanonprofit.org.

by E.L. Doctorow at noon in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.

The Bitteroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents its Brown Bag It! Discussion Group with a talk on Homer and Langley: A Novel

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 27, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

As well as compost, we carry Topdress, Clay Buster, our Outdoor Mix, and our Potting Mix. Please call for more info.

406-721-1423 1125 Clark Fork Lane (right behind the Super Wal-Mart) Dropping Off / Tipping Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (seven days a week, excluding holidays) Picking Up / Purchasing Hours are 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Wednesday & Saturday only)

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nightlife Find out what delicious berries you can plant in your garden—whether for you or the birds, at the Native Plant Garden Community Event: Native Berries at Fort Missoula under the big silver water tower. $2 for adults/$1 kids under 12.

Run Ronnie, run: Local folk musician Ron Dunbar plays the Top Hat’s monthly artist-in-residence series every Thu. in May from 6–8 PM. Free, all ages.

Plan your next organized barley soda drinking spree when The Keaton Wilson Conspiracy plays modern and classic jazz at 6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-PINT. Fight off the smarmy fu manchu army when alt rock rockers the Foo Fighters play with openers Motörhead and Biffy Clyro at 7 PM at the Adams Center. $49.50 plus fees at all GrizTix outlets and online at griztix.com. Call 888-MONTANA. Those interested in learning more about the management of the North Hills/Evaro elk herd are hereby invited to a meeting of the North Hills/Evaro Elk Working Group, which features comments by biologist Vickie Edwards and meets from 7–9 PM at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Road. Free.

Join Nine Mile Wildlife for a lecture given

by Rob Roberts, Settled, Mined and Left Behind: TU’s efforts to improve fisheries and water quality in Ninemile Creek at Alberton Community Center at 7 PM, 701 Railroad St. Free.

Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

Show a little soul with Devotional Singing led by Brian Vayu Jameson, whose gentle nature and humor encourages shy singers from 7 to 8:30 PM at 607 Grantsdale Rd. in Hamilton.

Donation recommended.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free.

E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets.

Get off your slimy high horse and get poppy when Los Angeles’ Greenhorse

plays post-pop at 9 PM at the Palace.

Yoya and The Lil’ Smokies open. $5.

Get fresh and dirty at the same time when The Klassix play live music at The Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM, Free.

If you find yourself in between fights, check out DJ MVP spinning the Foo Fighter pre/post party at The Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, 1805 Regent St. Free.

SPOTLIGHT sci-fi’s silver age

Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

Don’t suffer from gam shrinkage and bust an erratic move when the Top Hat hosts Electronic MKVR, a night of house music with Seattle’s Ben Shelton plus locals Iammusi Shan, Shea Daze and Fatty Acid at 10 PM. Free.

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The nerds have landed at MisCon, Missoula’s science fiction and fantasy convention running May 27–30 at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $15 day pass/kids $15 four-day pass or $10 day pass. Register by May 25 at miscon.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Save the date with wine at the one year anniversary of the Missoula Winery and Event Center, featuring live music, food and drink. Party starts at noon at 5646 W. Harrier Blvd. $10.

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

nightlife Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Missoula Park Board are seeking volunteers to serve on the newly forming Conservation Lands Advisory Committee. Applications for this volunteer position can be obtained through the Mayor’s office, City Hall, 2nd floor, 435 Ryman, due by 5 PM. Call 721-PARK. Good news for people who love Modest Mouse, with Talk Demonic at Big Sky Brewery. Doors open at 6 PM for this $34 all ages show.

Photo courtesy of Robin Betzhold

In 1986 at the Inn on Broadway, a collection of local diehard science fiction fans congregated for the first-ever MisCon. One of the event’s guests of honor was New York Times best-selling fantasy author Tracy Hickman, best known for his work on the Dragonlance fantasy series. One of the other writers in attendance that weekend was Jim Crumley, best known as one of crime fiction’s most influential writers. Fun to imagine what sort of literary tips that unlikely pair swapped back in the day.

Over the years, MisCon has put together more eclectic combinations of characters than the flight deck of the Starship Enterprise—and its silver anniversary is no different. The guests of honor this year include Kass McGann, pictured above left, a steampunk seamstress who runs Reconstructing History, a Pennsylvania shop specializing in historical clothing; Montana artist Tiffany Toland-Scott, whose work covers everything from vampires to equine spirits; and author Carol Berg, whose latest series is described as a “double-agent murder mystery set in a renaissance-style world where science is marginalizing WHAT: MisCon 25 magic.” (Now that’s a plot WHEN: May 27–30 up Crumley’s alley.)

In addition to panel discussions and workHOW MUCH: $35 weekend pass/$25 youth shops featuring the guests pass/$15 day pass/$10 youth pass of honor and other professionals, the weekend MORE INFO: www.miscon.org includes a full slate of role playing games, movie screenings and social events. If you’re looking to geek out with the weekend’s biggest crowds—and perhaps make your own connection with some unlikely characters—we’d suggest Friday night’s Silver Age Masquerade Ball, Saturday’s costume contest or Sunday’s barbecue and medieval lawn games. In all, organizers expect more than 600 people to attend the four-day event. However you choose to take part, may the force be with you.

WHERE: Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center

—Skylar Browning

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Do it on the day when Jes Mullette and Joy French present their improvisational show, By Accident/On Purpose at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. with shows at 6 and 8 PM, $10 adult/$8 child, student, senior. Call 541-7240.

Fr e e t o w n To u r n a r o u n d brings on the danceable, original funk from 6–9 PM at The Top Hat. Free for all ages.

Dan Dubuque is going to take you on an experimental musical journey at The Keep restaurant from 7–10 PM, 102 Ben Hogan Dr. Free.

Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20.

Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets.

The howling: check out The Missoula Coyote Choir with The Fledglings and The Wolf Pack at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. at 7:30 PM. $10/$7 advance.

Party until question mark at Dark Dreams: Heroes and Villains, as part of MisCon’s ongoing events this weekend in the basement of Joker’s Wild. Dress up as your favorite superhero, villain, or other.

4829 N. Reserve. $5/free for MisCon attendees. 18+ only.

Hear it straight from the horse wrangler’s mouths with Stories of Ranch Women, a series of individual monologues presented at the Stevensville Playhouse at 8 PM, 319 Main St. in Stevensville. $10 advance/$15 at the door. Call 777-0520.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

Calling all Divas to the Dance Floor for a special performance at the Elks Lodge to benefit the DE LA LUNA Foundation, 112 N. Pattee St. at 9 PM. $5 for 21+/$7 for under 21. delalunafoundation.org.

(See Agenda in this issue.)

A little metal never hurt anyone, right? Don’t miss Ripchain, Judgment Hammer and Kadmin at The Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. Free.

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sounds like something you’re into, check out Whiskey Rebellion at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave. at 9:15 PM. Free.

Marshall Catch are at it again with their crowd pleasing rock music at The Great Northern Bar & Grill at 9:30 PM, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

SATURDAY May

28

The nerds have landed at MisCon, Missoula’s science fiction and fantasy convention running May 27–30 at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $15 day pass/kids $15 four-day pass or $10 day pass. Register

by May 25 at miscon.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Flower power is not dead at the Median Iris Show, hosted by The Missoula Iris Society. Entries accepted at Southgate Mall from 7–9:45 AM, followed by the public exhibition 10 AM–6:30 PM. Free. Call Donna at 542-1945.

Keep it local every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If you’re after non-edibles, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Who wants to climb Mt. Sentinel obscenely early in the morning to look at birds?

Five Valleys Audobon is sponsoring this 5-mile half day field trip which meets in the university parking lot at 8 AM and returns via the Hellgate Canyon and Kim Williams trails. Free. Call 549-5632.

Birds are words. Come birding in Glacier National Park with Flathead Audubon.

Meet at the Alberta Visitor Center in West Glacier at 8 AM, returning by noon.

Entrance fee or park pass required. Call to sign up at 892-7406.

The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula would like to announce their summer hours.

Beginning this weekend through labor day, the museum will run Mon.–Sat. 10 AM–5 PM and Sun. Noon to 5 PM. Current exhibits include: The Road to Today: 250 Years of Missoula County History; Where the Mountains Roared: The Fire of 1910, and more. Call 728–3476.

Experience a virtual picker’s paradise at the St. Regis 35th Annual Flea Market, all weekend, held at St. Regis Community Park Complex from daylight to dusk. Free.

Call 649-1304.

Walk on the wild side, of flowers that is, when Lone Pine State Park presents a series of spring wildflower walks every Sat. at 11 AM until June 18 starting with a meet-up at the Lone Pine Visitor Center, 300 Lone Pine Road outside of Kalispell. Free. Call 7552706 Ext. 2.

Sumio Harada’s photo presentation Focus on Mountain Lions features pictures of those things I just said, 11 AM–1 PM at Montana House, 198 Apgar Loop Rd., W. Glacier. Free.

The first rule of this Advanced Soap Making Class is for you to find out from 11 AM–4 P M at Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. W. $50/$35 materials fee. Call 728-0543.

Perfect your stern strokes while competing against over 200 rafters during the Bigfork Whitewater Festival, a competition that features international kayak racing on the “Wild Mile” part of the Swan River in Bigfork, plus activities for nonracers throughout the weekend. Peel out to bigfork.org for info, or call 837-5888.

nightlife Pull my strings and you’ll go far when the Shannon Soderlund Quar tet performs from 5:30–7:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cost TBA.

Still rocking after all these years. Legendary band Mötorhead opens for Foo Fighters at the Adams Center on Thu., May 26, at 7 PM with Biffy Clyro. $49.50 plus fees at all GrizTix outlets and online at griztix.com. Call 888-MONTANA.

Do it on the day when Jes Mullette and Joy French present their improvisational show, By Accident/On Purpose at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. with shows at 6 and 8 PM, $10 adult/$8 child, student, senior. Call 541-7240.

Catch Tom Catmull’s hardto-pin-down-but-definitely American-roots driven sound at The Bitter Root Brewery from 6–8:30 PM at 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free for all ages.

Drink wine and enjoy the acoustic stylings of Boise-bred musician Douglas Cameron at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. at 6:30 PM. Free.

Dance and gamble at the Missoula Senior Center during their Saturday Night Dance with Black Jack from 7–10 PM. $5. 705 S. Higgins. Call 543-1573.

Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O ’ S h a u g h n e s s y C e n t e r, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20.

Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets.

Hear it straight from the horse wrangler’s mouths with Stories of Ranch Women, a series of individual monologues presented at the Stevensville Playhouse

at 8 PM, 319 Main St. in Stevensville. $10 advance/$15 at the door. Call 777-0520.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

DJ Monty Carlo and guests are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free, with visuals by V3R.

SUNDAY

Swig drinks while listening to old school rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free.

If “outlaw country mountain man cosmic cowboy music” sounds like something you’re into, check out Whiskey Rebellion at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave. at 9:15 PM. Free.

Marshall Catch is at it again with their crowd pleasing rock music at The Craggy Range Bar & Grill at 9:30 PM, 10 Central Ave. in Whitefish.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against

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The nerds have landed at MisCon, Missoula’s science fiction and fantasy convention running May 27–30 at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $15 day pass/kids $15 four-day pass or $10 day pass. Register

by May 25 at miscon.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Locavores unite at the Target Range Community Farmers’ Market, which features a plethora of local foods and assorted goods and runs from 10 AM–1 PM every Sun. until Oct. 9 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free. Call Peggie at 728-5302.

It’s everyone’s favorite: devotional verse. The Annual Poetry Reading will be part of the morning service at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula at 10 AM. Come to listen or share your own work.

102 McLeod. Free.

Experience a virtual picker’s paradise at the St. Regis 35th Annual Flea Market, all weekend, held at St. Regis Community Park Complex from daylight to dusk. Free.

Call 649-1304.

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Yet another opportunity to peruse and purchase local crafts and produce hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 11 AM–3 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 16 at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park Pavilion. Free. Visit carrousel.com/carousel-sunday-market-and-fes.

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

Experience a virtual picker’s paradise at the St. Regis 35th Annual Flea Market, all weekend, held at St. Regis Community Park Complex from daylight to dusk. Free. Call 649-1304.

If the memorial day parade in Corvallis doesn’t completely party you out, eat BBQ and listen to The Blue Melon Band perform live music at The Wild Mare at 11:30 AM, 283 Second St. Free.

nightlife Let the Trailer Park Boys remind you just how hilarious

crippling poverty can be with their live performance at the Wilma. Pay $32 at the door/$30 advance. Doors at 7.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Mon. at 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471

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The nerds have landed at MisCon, Missoula’s science fiction and fantasy convention running May 27–30 at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $15 day pass/kids $15 four-day pass or $10 day pass. Register by May 25 at miscon.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Learn the basic strokes, how to read whitewater, the roll and an introduction to moving water and boat safety when you attend this Fundamentals of Kayaking class. Register by today for $185. Classes are June 2, 7, 9 from 8:30-2:30 at University of Montana Grizzly Pool, June 14 and 16 at Clark Fork River Days, and June 18th on the Blackfoot River.

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Discuss and communicate campuswide issues and university initiatives at the University Council Meeting at 2 PM, on campus in the University Center, rooms 332333. Open to the public. Call the UM Office of the President at 243-2311.

Hear it straight from the horse wrangler’s mouths with Stories of Ranch Women, a series of individual monologues presented at the Stevensville Playhouse at 8 PM, 319 Main St. in Stevensville. $10 advance/$15 at the door. Call 777-0520.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

MONDAY

Kick off your week with a drink, free pool and a rotating cast of electronic DJs and styles for your booty during Milkcrate Monday with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace.

Free.

TUESDAY

nightlife

Hold on, it’s about to rock... no, seriously, wait for it: Iron & Wine are playing the Wilma theatre with The Head & the Heart. Doors open at 7 PM for this sold out show.

after 10 AM on Monday to sign-up.

nightlife Let the jam flow openly during open mic/jam night hosted

by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com.

Photo courtesy of Robin Wade

The Montana Monologs includes, from left, Deborah Goslin, Gretchen Spiess, Wendy Woollett, Paul Kelley, and Ellen Wade.

“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.”

John Steinbeck said it first, and playwright Wendy Woollett agrees. She’ll go you one further: There’s nothing like a real Montana woman. She wanted to know more about how these tough rancher chicks lived on the daily.

What were their childhoods like? How did they function as wives, mothers, and horse wranglers? Woollett’s monologs are the culmination of a decade’s worth of research into these questions.

and done things, like they are women who have worked. The descendents of Woollett’s ranch chicks look to me like they know something I don’t.

I’ve seen who I imagine are the children of these women, driving in from the outskirts of town in their pick up trucks with pretty, leathered faces. They look like they’ve seen

“I am in love with Montana,” said the California-born Steinbeck. To say that you’re in love with a state is another way of saying you’re in love with nostalgia. You can’t hug or cuddle the land, but you can indulge in the memory of how you imagine it used to be. I imagine these monologs offer just such an indulgence.

WHAT: The Montana Monologs WHEN: Sat., May 27, and Sun., May 28, at 8 PM nightly, and Sun., May 29, at 2 PM. WHERE: Stevensville Playhouse, 319 Main St. in Stevensville.

HOW MUCH: $15/$10 advance MORE INFO: Call 777-0520

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The Montana Monologs has been evolving since its debut at Donrovin Ranch in 2007. The latest will feature a monolog called “Epiphany,” from the life of Stevensville’s late Lynne Wolfe, played by Deborah Goslin; “7UP,” from the life of Pat Shepard of St. Ignatius, played by Gretchen Spiess; and the new “Bole,” from the life of the late Dorothy O’Neil of Choteau, played by Ellen Wade.

As an added bonus, the actors will perform alongside musician Paul Kelley’s score. What did ranch women listen to? Did they order records in the mail and wait weeks for them to arrive? Did they make drums out of buckets and blow grass through their fingers? I don’t know.

I’m from Michigan. The land is flat.

—Molly Laich

Experience the heartbreaking prose of high schoolers at the Aerie International Reading, plus the unveiling of the new issue at Break Espresso at 6 PM, 432 N. Higgins. Free.

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. B r o a d w a y, h o s t s Y WC A Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

Look who’s blowing up Zootown once again: it’s raptastic Tech N9ne at The Wilma Theatre, 7 PM, $28 at the door/$26.50 in advance.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready?. What president was

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shot while walking to California Governor Jerry Brown’s Office (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features free pool plus reggae, dancehall and hip hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace.

Free.

Medieval and Spanish blues rule the night when finger picking, classically trained guitarist Claude Bourbon plays his eclectic blend of classical, jazz, and western folk at The Top Hat. Show starts at 10 PM. $3.

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Broken Valley Road Show are a mess of folks who remember that bluegrass is also country as part of Caras Park’s ongoing concert series Out to Lunch, every wednesday from 11 AM–2PM. Free.

Our country bumpkin needs will be met at the Jocko Valley Farmer’s Market, beginning today and running every Wednesday through October 5th from 4–7 PM, located on Hwy 93 in downtown Arlee. Call 726-5550.

nightlife Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse N o r t h s i d e Ta p R o o m ’ s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and

every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week. This week’s beneficiary is Spirit at Play. Free. Visit kettlehouse.com.

Wear your patented magic pants during Hump Night Theatre, an evening featuring music, performances by hypnotist Mark King, magic by Evan Disney, plus appetizers and drink specials, this and every Wed. from 7–9 PM at Deano’s Casino, 5318 W. Harrier. $7.

opportunity and resource development, inc.) to celebrate 25 years and their new director, Stacy Rye, 4:30 to 6 PM, 2525 Palmer St., Ste 1.

Free.

nightlife Dream Addiction promises to rock so hard at Downtown

Spring Show & Ice Cream Social, featuring a year of work by student artists from 6–9 PM at 141 Central Ave. Free.

Learn to “folf” at Missoula REI’s Disc Golf 101 class, where you’ll go over the rules of the game, basic throws and different types of discs from

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

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. Gerald Ford

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Women rule at the WORD open house (as in women’s

Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20.

Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets.

Get claustrophobic when Cabin Fever plays a highly danceable set at The Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, 1805 Regent St. Free.

Grab whatever noise making instrument is in reach for the Local Musician’s Open Jam at Discovery Square from 7 to 11 PM, 540 Nucleus Ave. Free.

Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays and Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where drink specials mix with music by The Tallest DJ in America every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar.

Free.

gories that change weekly.

Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

Sweet beard, sweet melodies. Iron & Wine plays the Wilma Theatre with The Head & The Heart. Doors open at 7 PM for this sold out show.

ToNight, as part of Caras Park’s ongoing concert series on Thursdays from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.

Eat crunchy food and talk sustainable urban living at the MUD Mingles Potluck from 6–9 PM at the MUD site, 629 Philips St. Free. Visit mudproject.org for details.

Create your own delicious frozen treats when Stumptown Art Studio hosts its Annual

6:30–8 PM at 2230 N. Reserve St. Free.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia cate-

Letter to the editor: Dear Molly Laich: you are the n e w c a l e n d a r e d i t o r.

They’re calling you Molly Llama out of great reverence. Don’t mess this up.

Love, Molly. Oh, hello everyone. I did not see you there.

Thanks for having me and please be patient as I fumble through the transition. Help me help you by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 27 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternatively, snail mail your events to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 543-4367. You can submit things online in the arts section of our website. Scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says, “submit an event.”

THE EWAM BUDDHIST CENTER AND TIBETAN STORE

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT THE NEW EWAM TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTER UPSTAIRS AT 180 S. 3RD ST. WEST, MISSOULA, MT FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011 FROM 5-7PM with a Tibetan Thangka Exhibition and discussion at 6pm

GRAND OPENING Contact www.ewam.org or 406-726-0555 for information.

Visit www.ewambuddhagarden.org. Ewam is a federally-registered 501c(3).

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MOUNTAIN HIGH irds and fishes are falling in love and building nests at the 19th Annual Loon and Fish Festival celebrating art and wildlife this weekend. The event will feature a wide variety of art sales and demonstrations sure to tickle any fish or fowl lover’s senses.

Weekend activities include a wildflower walk, loon nest site walk, artist’s quick draw, and a bevy of wildlife films and speakers, including Nobel Prize winner Steve Running. Artist Bob Korn is donating pottery bowls decorated by local artists for purchase at a Soup Bowl Luncheon on Saturday given by area restaurants. The festival promises a variety of booths from local and statewide wilderness organiza-

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tions, a raffle, and more. Everything’s free except lunch, and all proceeds from sales go to benefit the Seeley Lake Food Bank.

The Loon and Fish Festival is sponsored by the Alpine Artisans, a group of artist and arts supporters committed to promoting the arts within the context of the natural splendor of the Seeley, Swan and Blackfoot Valleys.

The two day event runs Sat., May 28, from 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sun., May 29, from 10 PM to 3 PM, at Seeley Lake elementary school. For further information and event schedule, visit alpineartisans.org or contact Scott Milner at 6770717. Free.

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Cinemas, Live Music & Theater

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (PG-13) Nightly at 7 Fri (5/27), Sat (5/28) and Wed (6/1) at 7 & 9 I Am Nightly at 9 Fri (5/27), Sat (5/28) and Wed (6/1) at 7 & 9

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

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STRONG COMMUNITY SPIRIT. TOP-NOTCH BENEFITS. SPECTACULAR COMMUTE.

Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY MAY 26 Find out what delicious berries you can plant in your garden—whether for you or the birds, at the Native Plant Garden Community Event: Native Berries at Fort Missoula under the big silver water tower. $2 for adults/$1 kids under 12.

Those interested in learning more about the management of the North Hills/Evaro elk herd are invited to a meeting of the North Hills/Evaro Elk Working Group, which features comments by biologist Vickie Edwards and meets from 7–9 PM at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Road. Free.

Join Nine Mile Wildlife for a lecture given by Rob Roberts, Settled, Mined and Left Behind: TU’s efforts to improve fisheries and water quality in Ninemile Creek at Alberton Community Center at 7 PM, 701 Railroad St. Free. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

FRIDAY MAY 27 Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Missoula Park Board are seeking volunteers to serve on the newly forming Conservation Lands Advisory Committee. Applications for this volunteer position can be obtained through the Mayor’s office, City Hall, 2nd floor, 435 Ryman, due by 5 PM. Call 721-PARK. Hear it straight from the horse wrangler’s mouths with Stories of Ranch Women, a series of individual monologues presented at the Stevensville Playhouse at 8 PM, 319 Main St. in Stevensville. $10 advance/$15 at the door. Call 777-0520. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Birds are words. Come birding in Glacier National Park with Flathead Audobon. Meet at the Alberta Visitor Center in West Glacier at 8 AM, returning by noon. Entrance fee or park pass required. Call to sign up at 892-7406.

At Community Medical Center in Missoula, we offer nurses the same opportunities and benefits you'd find at all the big-city hospitals in other states. That's why we fill full- and part-time positions with hard-working professionals like you, with a great salary range and manageable shifts.

For a full listing of positions, visit www.communitymed.org

Apply online: www.communitymed.org 2827 Fort Missoula Road, Missoula, MT 59804 406-327-4244

From day one.

Walk on the wild side, of flowers that is, when Lone Pine State Park presents a series of spring wildflower walks every Sat. at 11 AM until June 18 starting with a meet-up at the Lone Pine Visitor Center, 300 Lone Pine Road outside of Kalispell. Free. Call 755-2706 Ext. 2.

Perfect your stern strokes while competing against over 200 rafters during the Bigfork Whitewater Festival, a competition that features international kayak racing on the “Wild Mile” part of the Swan River in Bigfork, plus activities for non-racers throughout the weekend. Peel out to bigfork.org for info, or call 837-5888.

MONDAY MAY 30 Learn the basic strokes, how to read whitewater, the roll and an introduction to moving water and boat safety when you attend this Fundamentals of Kayaking class. Register by today for $185.

Classes are June 2, 7, 9 from 8:30-2:30 at University of Montana Grizzly Pool, June 14 and 16 at Clark Fork River Days, and June 18th on the Blackfoot River.

TUESDAY MAY 31 Help pull your weight to keep Missoula beautiful with the Woad Warrious weed pull. Meet at the M trailhead at 6:30 PM. Call 544-7189

SATURDAY MAY 28

THURSDAY JUNE 2

Flower power is not dead at the Median Iris Show, hosted by The Missoula Iris Society. Entries accepted at Southgate Mall from 7–9:45 AM, followed by the public exhibition 10 AM–6:30 PM. Free. Call Donna at 542-1945.

Eat crunchy food and talk sustainable urban living at the MUD Mingles Potluck from 6–9 PM at the MUD site, 629 Philips St. Free. Visit mudproject.org for details.

Who wants to climb Mt. Sentinel obscenely early in the morning to look at birds? Five Valleys Audobon is sponsoring this 5-mile half day field trip which meets in the university parking lot at 8 AM and returns via the Hellgate Canyon and Kim Williams trails. Free. Call 549-5632.

Learn to “folf” at Missoula REI’s Disc Golf 101 class, where you’ll go over the rules of the game, basic throws and different types of discs from 6:30–8 PM at 2230 N. Reserve St. Free. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Pas de mal Phillipe and Frederique Leiritz knew they wanted mountains and wine.

The circus and country music were bonuses.

by Erika Fredrickson

The story of the Missoula Winery begins almost two decades ago on the French-Swiss border. That’s when winery owners Phillipe and Frederique Leiritz, both from France, worked for a Swiss nuclear research company that develops scientific instruments for physicists. Frederique, aka “Frenchie,” was a project manager and Phillipe was a designer and technician. It was a good life: They had a child and were surrounded by wine and the breathtaking Swiss Alps.

When the company opened a plant in Michigan, however, Phillipe wanted to take advantage of somewhere new, so he asked if he could go. The family spent nine years in Michigan. They had two more kids. But Phillipe grew tired of the long hours and jet lag, and quit. “I was traveling all over the world and my health was really deteriorating,” he says. “I really was going to have a heart attack before 50.”

Frenchie and Phil say they also missed the mountains.

So when his boss asked him what he was going to do after quitting, Phil told him he was going to Montana. It was a whim, he says, but he decided to take it seriously. “We didn’t know Montana. But it is the dream of everyone in Michigan to move to Montana. I said, ‘Okay, I’m not going to talk about it, I’m going to do it.’ I took a two-month vacation. And one day my wife was tired of seeing me.” He laughs. “She kicked me out and said ‘Time for you to look for a job.’ So I came west.”

After Phil scouted out Montana, the family moved to Missoula. Phil worked as the vice president of a company specializing in landing gear for fighter planes. On the side, the couple began to dabble in winemaking. Frenchie started working as an event planner for Lake Missoula Cellars.

Lake Missoula closed in 2010 due to economic hardship.

Phil and Frenchie bought it and took it on as their new project. Seven years after moving to Missoula, once again surrounded by mountains, they now had a winery of their own, which they opened a year ago.

The wine tasting room is open every day during the summer, but the venue itself is about more than just wine.

So far the Leiritzes have hosted country artist Rodney Crowell, plus regionally popular bands like Storyhill and Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs. Friday nights often see singer-songwriters, and Saturdays, jazz bands. But the

venue has had some more surprising acts, too. Recently, a theater group put on a play there. In early spring, the Leiritzes hosted two nights of Bellatrix, a local cirque production that included aerialists, fire dancers, and sword fighters. Both nights sold out.

It hasn’t been entirely easy. The winery is only six minutes from downtown via I-90, but it can seem farther away, since it’s located near the airport. The winery’s worked on a few incentives to get people out there: designated drivers can get into events for free, plus a free glass of wine the next time they come. The Leiritzes are also working on other aspects that appeal to Missoula folk, including sustainable projects.

Local musician Kevin Van Dort—the lone American employee—handles the winery’s events, concerts, and sales. He’s helped Phil and Frenchie build an outdoor stage with reclaimed wood from the old Liberty Lanes bowling alley. The stage is set to be revealed this week, when the winery celebrates its one-year anniversary.

“We soldiered through and made it happen,” says Van Dort. “Right now we’re in the final stages of taking off all the polyurethane coating, which is very thick for bowling lanes. So it’s a been a labor of love, for sure.”

When all is said and done, the winery should be able to host 400 or 500 people for outdoor shows.

The Leiritzes have also recently started recycling wine bottles, in a town where glass recycling is difficult to come by. “I started working with a few restaurants in town and the word got out,” says Phil. “People are bringing their empties and we clean them, remove the label, and use them. Yesterday we bottled 2,500 and all were recycled, and the bottles are cleaner than new bottles when we finish washing them. In time we’re hoping to get the proper equipment to do it on a larger scale.”

The winery has also developed an internship program for French exchange students. Jérémy Maggi, their current intern, is working on getting the university crowd more in touch with its inner wine drinker without resorting to vinegar. He’s working on a Griz Card deal where students can access good wines for a low price— $3 per glass instead of $6 or $7. It’s his way of breaking the average American student of the notion that French

culture is snobby or only for the rich.

“In the U.S. the French culture and wine is considered classy, and so it’s expensive,” Maggi says. “I don’t understand why. I want students to be able to afford to try our culture and to taste our wine.”

Settling in to their new venture, Phil and Frenchie have started honing the aspect of their winery that makes it unique in Missoula: the French part. Though they’d love to have their own vineyard—their grapes come from the Columbia Valley in Washington and the Columbia Gorge in Oregon—they’re looking for ways to keep the French countryside appeal. They offer 11 exclusively French-style wines, including a crisp rosé and a sweet muscat. Every Friday, Phil builds a fire outside for people to stand around, many of whom come to speak French. On Saturdays, they play a French version of Bocce ball, called Petunque, in the grass outside the winery. Sundays they often host barbecues where anyone can bring a dish and, in turn, be treated to a French cocktail called kir, a mix of fruit liquor and white wine. They’ve offered special events: a fondue party last November was a big hit. In early spring they served raclette, a Swiss and French Alps cheese dish roasted over a fire.

“We don’t have a vineyard like you’d have in the south of France,” says Phil, “but we try to transform the atmosphere.”

In years to come, they’re looking to start a wine club, they say, plus plant a small test vineyard, hire a French winemaker, and start distributing their own brand of wine, Mark Rafael, outside Montana. In the meantime, they’re striving for a good time—which doesn’t always mean it has to be French-flavored. This summer, Frenchie is making sangria. It’s “not typical French,” she says, “but it’s really good. And it’s made by me, a French woman—so it’s French!”

The Missoula Winery celebrates its one-year anniversary at the winery Friday, May 27, at noon with live music from Ron Dunbar, Marshall McLean, and David Boone, plus lawn games, food, and wine tasting. $10, includes a raffle ticket. 396-5731.

Photo by Chad Harder

The Missoula Winery has hosted a number of shows over the past year including, left, Bellatrix Cirque and, right, the Soulaphone Brass Band.

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Stand and deliver Lb.! gets heavy on metal’s technical fringe

by Jason McMackin

“doom kit,” which features a bass drum turned into a floor tom and an extra-large bass drum for pounding out the slow, heavy parts. The second drum set is more lithe. “It’s built for spastic speed grindcore stuff,” Stickney says. He smoothly transitions from one set to the other by simply spinning his throne 90 degrees.

Schutte’s “small rig” includes an enormous multispeakered bass cabinet as well as a traditional guitar stack. He plays a specially tuned eight-string guitar, enabling him to cover an enormous sound spectrum via a pedal set-up that could befuddle some electrical engineers. “I knew I wanted those notes that aren’t available to other guitarists,” he says.

Schutte passionately speaks about his modified active pick-ups the same way chefs talk about foie gras.

“Two batteries for a total of 18 volts to up the mids and cut the top end slightly…” And so on. He dreams of “being able to hang out on my porch with people and talk about strings and pickups all day.” The gear doesn’t cover up sound or hide poor musicianship, it only makes things more complicated, which the band loves.

“If I hear a riff in my head and I can play it the first couple of tries then I throw it out,” Schutte says.

“When we write a song it takes us two months to learn to play it,” adds Stickney.

That’s what makes the live shows pay off for Lb.!. After 25 to 35 hours of practice Photo by Chad Harder per week these perfectionists are stoked to Missoula metal band Lb.! is, from left, David Stickney share their efforts with the people. A show and Ryan Schutte. in Great Falls caused a bit of commotion because Stickney’s sets wouldn’t fit on the Schutte and drummer David Stickney each sport a drum riser. But that was fine by Lb.!. beard that would make a Civil War reenactor proud.

“We hate stages a lot. Our favorite place to play is on While Schutte’s is a dark, foreboding mass nearly mask- the floor,” Stickney says. “We want the audience as close ing his face, Stickney’s is a blonde wispy thing that some- as possible.” how makes him look younger than his 23 years. The yin Schutte echoes his bandmate: “I really don’t like the and yang of the beards are like their musical relation- separation between the musician and the audience…I ship, which Stickney describes as “two warriors spar- want them to feel like they’re a part of it. I want people ring.” And it often does feel like a complex battle plan of experiencing the full force of my rig. I want people with infantry and cavalry trying to outflank and outfight one their heads by Dave’s toms getting battered by them.” another. Songs are built based on complicated number At a recent performance in Missoula, Schutte shoutformations, which Stickney says, “a music major would ed, “Come in!” after all their songs. The inclusion of the have no way to understand.” Via effects pedals, the gui- crowd in the performance is a bit at odds with metal’s tar kicks out bass parts and, simultaneously, shrieks with typically exclusionary fans and musicians. finger tapping riffs. On the drums, floor toms may delivThere are no more diehard fans in the world than er the bass line while the snare accents act as melody. metal fans. And it seems as though they go to shows just The guitar and drums may meet up after 15 measures to see if a band can pull off the musical acrobatics live. only to split off again after a brief alignment. With songs They hate. They judge. They’ll love you for the rest of clocking in at around 13 minutes and built with dozens their lives if you don’t burn them. of riffs and odd time signature changes sometimes Lb.! Exists in a universe dominated by sound that occurring after each measure, a system was necessary to only they completely understand. keep it all in order.

Schutte says he has no time for fakers or “The best thing to ever happen to me was when I understudies. discovered that Post-it makes giant pieces of graph paper “There’s always that awkward conversation when you can stick to the wall,” Schutte says. Songs are you meet someone who says they’re into metal. Do you mapped out like a campaign with each riff numbered. actually listen to metal or are you just into The Blaze?

This is a war of attrition where, Stickney says, “The only Just because you put distortion on pop music doesn’t limits are speed and the limitations of the human body.” make it metal.”

Upon arriving at a Lb.! show the array of gear Lb.! plays the Palace Friday, May 27, at 9 PM might lead you to believe that a large posse group like with Red Fang and Tidal Horn. $8.

P-Funk was about to bring the funk. Not so. To start with there are two drumsets. Stickney calls the first his arts@missoulanews.com For good or naught, heavy metal music has always been about excess. Bands vie for the titles of world’s loudest, fastest, slowest, sludgiest, doomiest, horniest, filthiest, drunkest, and most in league with Satan. To the casual music fan, metal still means the butt-rocking ’80s with its bulging codpieces, boys with teased hair and groupies who would do anyone to get a look under Bret Michaels’ bandana. But excess isn’t all bad. Excess in spirit and energy can drive people to make great art.

Missoula’s ridiculously belligerent genre-defying metal duo Lb.! (“pound!”)has taken the bar of excess and razed it with bruising beats and fretboard wizardry. The duo’s instrumental music is a brutal alchemy that crosses genres of grindcore, doom, and dubstep. Yes, dubstep.

“Metal is such a flexible genre,” says guitarist Ryan Schutte. “It’s like the New York City of music—a melting pot.”

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Red Fang Friendly reminder: For every Hipster® residing in Portland, Ore., there are four pasty bastards in black hoodies drinking Hamm’s by the rack, smoking grass, and pissing their pants who have forgotten more about Poison Idea than you ever knew. Gosh bless ‘em, those are the kick axe heavy rockers called Red Fang.

Normally, the word accessible is used either negatively (by me, anyway) or to describe a wheelchair ramp, but the Herculean guitar riffage and the carpet bomb-like castigation provided by this rhythm section are as accessible and, most importantly, as brutal as anything going on in rock and roll. Add to that the complementary textures of dueling vocalists (throaty bellows vs. urgent wails) and elegant, melodic arrangements, and you’ve got yourself a band with a plan for world domination. Yeah, I’m saying the Fang’s sophomore release, Murder in the Mountains, is elegant,

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I first saw Kevin Murphy perform at a “dirty 30” art school party. He was all of 17 at the time, but carried himself with the quiet confidence of a rock ’n’ roll vet as he banged out Stooges-inspired jams with his high school bros. It was paradoxical and perfect. My generally jaded ears perked; it seemed to me that these youngsters were the real deal—knowledgeable and kind to boot.

including the sludgy, Melvins-meets-Alice in Chains, “Throw Up.” Speaking of throwing up, the “Prehistoric Dog” video from the band’s eponymous debut is the greatest tribute to alcoholism and live action role-play of all time. In fact, if you don’t like it you won’t like Red Fang; if you do, it’s because you recognize the simple sophistication of a band vomiting on their living room floor.

(Jason McMackin) Red Fang plays the Palace Friday, May 27, at 9 PM with Tidal Horn and Lb.!. $8.

That was 10 years ago and at least one band away.

The Moondoggies, Murphy’s current band for which he sings and plays guitar, lays down an entirely different brand of rock. The newest release, Tidelands, finds these stellar musicians building on the strengths of their 2008 debut, with harmony-rich tunes that rock more like Crazy Horse than CSNY, and feature delightfully depressive moments that evoke the gray coastlines of the Pacific Northwest. Live shows simmer with the energy of a band confident in its craft, doing what comes naturally. Hearty, hook-laden songs swirl around your head for days after.

If the often-misappropriated Americana label that’s being slapped on any band with a bearded bass player has you wanting to jam a pencil in your ear hole, don’t fret. These dudes defy that trendy definition. (P.J. Rogalski) Moondoggies plays the Palace Saturday, May 28, at 9 PM with Fiancee and Airstream Safari. $5.

S. Carey Artists from popular and well-established bands face the misfortune of invariably having their side-projects compared to their fame-maker. Such is the case with Sean Carey, drummer for Bon Iver and the brains behind new project S. Carey. Like Bon Iver’s overnight hit For Emma, Forever Ago, S. Carey’s 2010 debut All We Grow is best classified as low-key, whispery indiefolk touched by melancholy.

Tone and genre aside, the similarities grow sparser. S. Carey is more buoyant and ethereal than Bon Iver.

And the instrumentation is much lusher, with oboe, timpani, saxophone, flute, and xylophone threaded through the guitar and piano. Although Carey crams what seems like an entire graduating class of music majors into his arrangements, the result feels surprisingly sparse and vaporous.

The sound isn’t as immediately affecting as Bon Iver’s simple guitar and falsetto-laced harmonies, but it’s gentler and more contemplative. S. Carey’s rise to prominence will probably be more gradual than the Justin Vernon-led outfit. But if you’re looking for a soundtrack to sigh to, it’s easy enough to find rewarding moments here. (Cameron Rasmusson) S. Carey plays the Badlander Monday, May 30, at 9 PM with Other Lives and Butter. $10.

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If you became trapped in conversation with a desperate person of a certain age/fashion of eyeglasses during the past decade, you probably had to talk about TV On The Radio. The band released a series of half-good albums inordinately popular among people who suck, which made them something to set yourself against. That was a shame, because they

always had it in them to be sexy as hell.

Nowhere is that more evident than on Nine Types of Light, whose falsetto choruses and get-on-the-floor syncopation remind us what Midnight Vultures could have been if Beck hadn’t chickened out. Here is the slow grind and monolithic bass that made Return To Cookie Mountain a secret party album, minus the preachy modern rock of Dear Science. TVotR makes two kinds of songs—smart and sexy—and Nine Types is almost all the second kind. For danceability and sheer audible presence, it is the best work of the band’s career, harnessing its technical power while abandoning the constraining lameness of Art. It’s as if the smartest guy in the room finally got drunk enough to go make out in the kitchen.

It’s what he wanted all along. (Dan Brooks)

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since aging out of foster care and talks at length about just wanting someone to love him. Micah gets introduced early in the film, but then disappears. As expected, his second chance ends with an arrest for purse snatching. He spends the rest of filming in jail.

Mandy and Raif are treated to a more unexpected turn of events. After an early version of From Place to Place gets screened for state lawmakers, they receive an invitation to speak in Washington, D.C., at a congressional caucus dealing with foster care reform. They become not just the faces of a locally made documentary but also of an effort to reshape national policy. Watching the two of them step into this highprofile role provides the film’s best footage and a stunning transformation, especially with Mandy.

By the closing credits she looks completely different, full of a purpose and confidence never previously afforded.

Williams has her work cut out for her in tackling such a huge topic and following such an improbable string of events. The biggest challenge is striking the right balance between the three main personal stories and the broader issue of foster care in America. The latter gets force-fed with a series of statistics tossed onto the screen, each accompanied by music from Wapikiya Records, the Missoula hip-hop label. The figures are important—every year, 30,000 kids age out of foster care, and by age 21, one in seven will be homeless, 50 percent will be unemployed, and 77 From Place to Place, directed by Missoula’s Paige Williams, looks at kids like Raif, pictured, who percent of the men will be arrested—but the conhave grown out of the state’s foster care program. stant presentation interrupts the film’s flow.

The personal stories also lack some of the three-year deferred sentence with a six-month [sen- expected grit inherent to the subject matter. Mandy says tence] to run concurrent, which means when I—er, if point-blank that she was a troubled kid who deserved to I—fuck up again they’ll put my sentences together and be moved from home to home, but we never learn what she did or hear from any of her foster parents. You’d make me do both of them together at the same time.”

Micah’s stumbling over the difference between expect to see more of where Raif crashes each night, “when” and “if ” underlines one of the more glaring what he eats, and how he survives day-to-day performpoints in this feature-length documentary: A deeply ing for spare change. He puts up such a brave and flawed foster care system almost guarantees that he’ll charming front that street life doesn’t seem that bad.

Perhaps the shortage of observed detail at the start end up back in jail. Even more troubling is that Micah is what makes the trip to D.C. so effective. The viewer knows this and seems resigned to his fate.

From Place to Place explores the troubling issue of finally gets to see Mandy and Raif in action, dispelling what happens to foster kids once they’re no longer the statistics and simply telling their stories on a grand under the state’s care. “Care,” of course, is a funny word. stage. It’s a classic study in contrast, with Raif wearing a The film, directed by Paige Williams of Missoula-based studded leather jacket—he can hardly get past the metal Porch Productions, illustrates how a lifetime of jumping detectors—and asking polished politicians for a simple from temporary home to temporary home creates a per- answer: How can he make it better? Rep. Jim manent problem with how each foster kid functions in McDermott, D-Wash., says he’ll approach it the same society. A system intended to save at-risk youth may, way he’d eat an elephant: one bite at a time. In a separate meet-and-greet, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says under its current setup, actually increase the risk.

The faces of such a monumental problem become he’ll handle it the same way he would 10,000 marshmalthree Missoula teenagers: Micah, his sister Mandy, and a lows: by eating one at a time.

It’s no wonder that D.C. embraced Raif and big-hearted street kid named Raif. Mandy, who was placed in 13 homes over seven years, is the most Mandy’s straightforward message with such enthusiasm grounded, earning her GED, applying to the College of and, eventually, action. Nothing takes the place of a Technology, and working to maintain a serious relation- powerful personal story.

From Place to Place screens at the Wilma ship. She wonders who might walk her down the aisle when she gets married. Raif (eight homes, four years) Thursday, June 2, at 7 PM. $8/$5 advance at Rockin spends most of his time beatboxing for spare change on Rudy’s and fromplacetoplacemovie.com. the sidewalk outside Liquid Planet. He’s comfortable living on the street, has tried to leave Missoula 45 times arts@missoulanews.com One of the most honest and telling moments of From Place to Place involves an innocent slip of the tongue. Micah, an 18-year-old who first entered a group home at age nine, is walking along the Clark Fork River and talking about his recent release from jail on a felony charge of breaking down a bathroom door at Southgate Mall. The judge apparently takes into account Micah’s past—he’s been in 21 homes in 10 years—and his tenuous future as an expecting father.

“I got out of jail today,” says Micah. “I was in there for two-and-a-half, three months…and they gave me a

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OPENING THIS WEEK KUNG FU PANDA 2 Jack Black lends his voice to a panda kung fu master who must team up with Angelina Jolie, David Cross, Dustin Hoffmann and others in order to stop a villainous Gary Oldman from annihilating kung fu (and the whole country of China) in this 3-D kids’ flick. Carmike 10: 1:05, 4:10, 6:30 and 8:55, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. in 2-D: 1:30, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15.

Village 6:1:15, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 PM show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Mon: 12:30, 3, 6, and 8:45.

Tue.–Thu: 1:30, 4, 6:30 and 9 with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. in 2-D: Fri.–Mon. 12:30, 1, 3, 3:30, 6, 6:45, 8:45 and 9:15. Tue.–Thu. 1, 1:30, 3:30, 4, 6, 6:30, 8:30 and 9, with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 1:30, 4, 6:50 and 9. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9.

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD My enthusiasm for Morgan Spurlock’s highly anticipated follow-up documentary to his hit film Super Size Me about the proliferation of product place-

Sun. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7, and 9:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Mon. 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5:05, 6:35, 7:35, 9:15, and 10. Tue.–Thu. 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:35, 7:15, and 9:45 with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:15, 7, and 9:15.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS It’s 1963, JFK is prez, and mutants are on the loose. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence star as mini versions of the XMen in this prequel to the Marvel Franchise.

Carmike 10: Thu. at midnight. Village 6: Thu. at midnight.

NOW PLAYING BALLET IN CINEMA: COPPELIA The Paris Opera Ballet presents its rendition of this classic tale, about a doctor and his infatuation with a doll he created that he hopes will come to life.

Carmike 10: Sun. only at 9 AM. BRIDESMAIDS Kristen Wiig realizes how difficult life is as a maid of honor when her best friend Maya Rudolph appoints her to the task in this new Judd Apatow

Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30, with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. Mountain Cinema 4 in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:15, 7, and 9:15.

I AM Director/producer Tom Shadyac sheds his comedic side in this acclaimed documentary that seeks to ask questions like “What’s Wrong with the World?” with answers from thinkers and activists such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and David Suzuki. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7, with Fri. Sat. and Wed. shows at 7 and 9.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow in the fourth edition of this popular pirate adventure/fantasy series. This time around, Depp must contend with the sultry Penélope Cruz, along with zombies and Ian McShane, on his quest to find the Fountain of Youth. Carmike 10: 1, 4:20, and 7:30 with additional shows Fri.–Sat. at 10:30. in 2-D: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3, and no 9:15 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05 with

western/horror/sci-fi 3-D flick is based on the Korean comic of the same name. Village 6: 1:20, 4:20, 7:30 and 9:40. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri.-Wed. 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45.

RIO A rare macaw who never learned how to fly high in the sky has to tackle the task after he escapes some smugglers during a trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Tracy Morgan, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and others lend their voices to this 3-D animated flick.

Carmike 10 in 2-D: 1:10 and 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 3:55, with an additional midnight show on Mon. in 2-D: 1:15, with an additional midnight show on Mon. SOMETHING BORROWED Ginnifer Goodwin’s a single attorney who gets lovestruck by her best friend Kate Hudson’s soon-to-be husband, Colin Egglesfield, after they drunkenly hook up on her 30th birthday. John Krasinski (The Office) also stars in this romcom based on Emily Giffin’s novel of the same name.

Carmike 10: 7:10 and 9:35, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 4:15 and 9:35, with Fri.–Sat. and Mon. shows at midnight.

SOUL SURFER A teen surfer with high hopes on the waves has to relearn the sport after a shark gnaws off her arm. Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid co-star.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 6:45 and 9:20 with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. THOR Chris Hemsworth is the arrogant son of Odin who gets kicked out of his homeland and banished to Earth, where he’s found by Natalie Portman and soon forced to go head-to-head with an automaton unleashed by his conniving brother. Anthony Hopkins co-stars in this 3-D saga, which is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 9:50. Village 6 in 2-D: 1, 4, 7:15 and 10.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: in 2-D: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:10, 6:55, and 9:40, with Fri.–Sat. and Mon. shows at midnight. in 2-D: 3:55, with midnight show on Mon. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri.–Wed. 4, 6:50 and 9:15, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: Fri.–Wed. 4:15, 7 and 9:15.

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Hal Holbrook reminisces about his life in the 1930s as a vet in the circus—and the elephant that brought him and Reese Witherspoon together—in this adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel of the same name. Robert Pattinson and Christopher Waltz co-star. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:20 and 6:50.

Same antics, different exotic animal. The Hangover Part II opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

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Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7, with Fri. Sat. and Wed. shows at 9.

THE HANGOVER PART II The booze brothers return for more liquor soaked revelry and blacked out wackiness in the second installment of this comedic hit, which takes place in Bangkok before Ed Helms’ wedding. Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha costar. Carmike 10: 1:15, 1:35, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:30, 9:50 and 10 with 12:10 AM shows Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on

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comedy. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7, and 9:50 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, and 9:40, with midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. FAST FIVE Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and other testosterone filled dudes return in the fifth installment of this series, which this time features even more fast cars—duh!—as the boys try to pull off one final job in Rio de Janeiro. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 9:55.

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additional shows Fri.–Mon. at 10 PM and midnight show on Mon. in 2-D: Fri–Mon. 12:30, 3:05, 3:35, 6:05, 6:35, 9:05, and 9:35. Tue.–Thu. 1:30, 2:05, 4:30, 6:05, 8:30, and 9:15, with additional shows Fri.–Mon. at 12:05 PM and midnight shows Fri. Sat. and Mon. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:30.

PRIEST In a dystopian world where vampires and humans have duked it out for ages, warrior priest Paul Bettany springs into ass kicking action when a bloodsucker kidnaps his niece. This

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SO, HIS WILD OATS I offhandedly mentioned to a friend that I thought her married brother was really cute. She revealed that his divorce (from a 10-year marriage) would soon be final. (It will be at the end of this month.) She then played matchmaker. He and I have been dating for three months. Things were going fabulously—until a few nights ago. We were picking a movie to watch on his laptop, and I noticed one of his browser pages was opened to Match.com. He saw that I saw it but said nothing. The thought that he’s continuing his search for romance hurts. I feel like I’m not good enough. I’ve gone from being comfortable seeing where this goes to wanting to have the “define the relationship” talk. Am I being irrational? Should I just try to relax? (Of course, he could’ve been on Match because he’s canceling his membership or tying up loose ends.)

—Beside Myself Sure, the guy could’ve been on Match to cancel his membership—or to inflate his salary and height. He’s just getting out of a 10-year marriage. This is the time for a man to play the field—or, in Tennyson’s words, “When sprung, a young man’s fancy turns to ill-advised sex with a string of bar sluts.”

Whoops, just as he was about to finish picking the lock on his ball and chain, up popped you. He likes you, he’s having fun with you, but the timing is still the timing.

Instead of expecting him to take himself off the market before he’s even signed his divorce papers, consider that his comparison shopping is not only in his best interest but yours. If, after seeing who’s out there, he comes back to you, it’s because he wants you for all the things you are, as opposed to the one thing you’re not: his almost-ex-wife.

Of course you want to nail down a good thing—especially when you suspect it’s been trolling the Internet for your replacement. But, having the “define the relationship” talk at this point would most likely define the relationship right out of existence. You can’t make a man commit.

What you can do is make the most out of whatever time you have together—which takes accepting that things end and that you can’t order up love without the risks: “I’ll take the candle-lit dinners, regular sex, and somebody to snake the drain—but no heartbreak, no pickles, and a Diet Coke with three ice cubes.”

It’s actually when you stop trying to hang on to a guy and you just try to have fun hanging out that he’s more likely to

want to stick around. Tell this guy you understand his situation and the timing, and just ask whether he’s dating other women. He should get the sense that you aren’t somebody he can put on hold indefinitely, and you should set up some sort of cutoff date in your own mind to ensure that he won’t. Meanwhile, if he isn’t exclusive to you, you should make yourself a little less available. Give him a chance to miss you. In time, maybe he’ll be all yours—or maybe he won’t. If you need a guarantee, date a washing machine. You can tell people you met online—on Sears.com: “I flirted with a Whirlpool first, but he had me at 30 percent off until midnight.”

FADE TO BLACKHEADS My girlfriend is cute, but I’ve never really been attracted to her or found her intellectually interesting. Perhaps it’s unfair that I’ve stayed for so long (two and a half years), but there’s much I love and admire about her. She’s compassionate, ethical, goodhumored, and patient, and she treats me like a king—cooks extraordinary meals, gives me backrubs and rejuvenating skin care treatments. Is there hope for us?

—Pampered There’s much you love and admire about your girlfriend—like the way she plucks those little stray hairs from between your brows. Just think where you’d be without her. Well, probably in a sexually and intellectually fulfilling relationship, but with much larger pores.

Maybe you believe that if you like a woman as a person, everything will fall into place. She’ll get interesting. Sexual attraction will come. Or, maybe that’s what you tell yourself to keep those cucumber facials coming. You obviously have minimum standards for a girlfriend.

Hold them up to women you meet, and ditch those who don’t measure up— before they spend two years waiting on Your Royal Highness. Unfortunately, the love you now have will be hard to replace. Unless, of course, you can score an appointment at the corner massage place, buy yourself dinner afterward, and, on your way home, stop off at the drugstore for some Biore face strips.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Weaseling out of things is important to learn,” said cartoon antihero Homer Simpson. “It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.” I normally don’t share that sentiment. My standard advice is to face up to challenging situations and take responsibility for the part you played in creating them. But I’m going to rebel against my custom this week and endorse Homer’s approach, Aries. You may be on the verge of getting sucked into a mess that you had virtually no role in creating. Either that, or you’ll be asked to carry out a mission that is irrelevant to your long-term goals. In either case, you have cosmic permission to weasel out.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m going to bring up a sore subject only because I think you’re finally ready to make it much less of a sore subject. The truth as I see it, Taurus, is that a part of you got petrified way back when. A formerly fluid and flexible part of your psyche got turned into stone, metaphorically speaking, losing much of its usefulness and creating distortions throughout the rest of you. Now, after all this time, you have circled back to a phase when you have the power to at least partially un-petrify this lost function. To get the process started, I suggest you turn your attention to it in such a way that you feel like laughing and crying at the same time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins coined the verb “to selve,” which is what a person does in the process of creating his or her distinctive presence in the world. Writing this column is an ongoing opportunity for me to selve, for example, because each time I conjure up a new horoscope I exercise the idiosyncratic combination of skills, attitudes, training, and knowledge that is special to me. According to my reading of the omens, Gemini, you are in a phase when you have a sacred duty to selve with extra intensity and alacrity. In fact, I suggest you be ruthless in seeking out experiences that give you a chance to tap into, cultivate, and express your most unique qualities.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here comes your ninth loss of innocence, Cancerian. Or is it your tenth? As you will soon prove once again, you manage to make every time feel like the first time.

When the moment arrives and the sweet purity ebbs away, the twinge that shudders through you will have the same primal intensity you’ve experienced before. But here’s the redemption: Like most of the previous transitions, this one will lead to a surprising blessing you couldn’t have gotten any other way.

When your innocence is reborn—as it will be, sooner or later—it will be wiser and wilder than ever before.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a small chance that the following scenario will soon come to pass: You’ll be invited to become part of a situation that promises to give you special privileges or inside information, but after you join you’ll find out that your participation would require you to compromise your principles. But there’s a far greater chance—over 80 percent—that the following scenario will take place: You’ll be invited to join your fortunes to a group or circle or tribe or situation that won’t ask you to dilute your integrity or betray your values at all. In fact, it’s likely to activate a dormant part of your potential. The moral of the story, Leo: Be very discerning.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Right now you have more power than you realize—more power to understand confusing situations, more power to influence people you’ve assumed are resistant to change, and more power to overcome your apparent disadvantages. In fact the only factor that could prevent you from accomplishing way more than what you thought possible is a lack of confidence. Please note, Virgo: I’m not urging you to cultivate a foolishly arrogant faith in your ego. Rather, I’m clueing you in to the fact that there are hidden forces at work you can call on to help you— wisdom that has been dormant, love that has been neglected, and allies who have been mum.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest love letter in history was written by an Indian man named Harish Kondakkuli. The gushing 143-page message took him over three months to complete. Oddly, it was addressed to an imaginary woman, since there was no one in his life he was actually in love with. I encourage you to consider the possibility of exceeding his achievement in the coming weeks, Libra. You’re at the peak of your ability to express wickedly delicious passions and profoundly tender intentions. There may even be a real person, not an imaginary one, who warrants your extravagant outflow.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Postsecret.com is a website where people can anonymously reveal their deep, dark feelings. I came across one entry that I think would be perfect for you to use as your own in the coming weeks. “I don’t want to cover up my scar,” it read. “It’s a good conversation starter and it makes me look bad-ass. But thank you anyway!” To further inspire what I hope will be your fearless effort to claim the power inherent in your wounds, I also offer this spur from musician and author Henry Rollins: “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her irreverent platinum-selling song “Monster,” Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj offers up a poetic sequence never before heard in the history of the planet: “Pull up in the monster…with a bad b-tch that came from Sri Lanka / yeah I’m in that Tonka, color of Willy Wonka.” I hope that you will soon come up with an equally revolutionary innovation in your own chosen field, Sagittarius. All the cosmic forces will be conspiring in the coming weeks to help you to do the equivalent of rhyming “Tonka” and “Sri Lanka” with “Willy Wonka.” Please cooperate! (The NSFW video is here: http://bit.ly/MinajMonster.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Time is the enemy of romantic love, said Andrew Marvell in his 17th-century poem “To His Coy Mistress.” Medieval author Andreas Capellanus had a different idea, identifying marriage as the enemy of romantic love. In Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, Tristan rails against the daylight, calling it the enemy of romantic love. And in their book Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard’s Thought, the editors theorize that “capitalism, which makes a fetish out of sex…is the enemy of romantic love.” While all of those statements may be true, they’re only mildly relevant for you right now. The most dangerous enemy of romantic love—or any other kind of love, for that matter—is this: not listening well. Overcome that enemy, Capricorn.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In an age when bee populations have dropped dramatically, some gardeners have found they need to pollinate their tomato plants manually. One woman I know tickles each swollen bulb of seeds with a toothbrush. Another uses a camelhair brush.

Metaphorically speaking, Aquarius, I suspect you will have to try something similar in the coming weeks: making an intervention to facilitate a fertilizing process that doesn’t quite seem to be happening naturally.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF JOINT CITY/COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, passed Resolution Number 7619 at their regular meeting held on May, 23, 2011. A resolution of intention to consider adoption of the Missoula County Emergency Operation Plan and set a joint public hearing with the Missoula Board of

County Commissioners for June 13, 2011. The full resolution and a copy of the Emergency Operation Plan are on file and open for inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, at City Hall, 435 Ryman, the Missoula County Department of Emergency Services, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or online anytime at www.co.missoula.mt.us/oes. The City Council

and the Missoula County Commissioners will hear all matters pertaining to the proposed plan at a joint meeting on June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine St. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments prior to the date of hearing on June 13, 2011. Send written comments to the City Council via the City Clerk addressed to: Public Hearing

Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or via e-mail council@ci.missoula.mt.us. Send comments by phone, mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax (406) 721-4043, or via email bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. For more information, contact Chris Lounsbury, Director of Emergency

Services at 406-258-4469. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF JOINT CITY/COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, passed Resolution Number 7617 at their regular meeting held on May, 23, 2011. A resolution of intention to adopt the Missoula Active

Transportation Plan (MATP)-2011 as an amendment to the Missoula County Growth Policy and a replacement of the 2001 Non-Motorized Transportation Plan and set a joint city and county public hearing for June 13, 2011 The full resolution and a copy of the Missoula Active Transportation Plan are on file and open for inspection in the City Clerk’s Office or the Office of Planning and Grants, at City Hall, 435 Ryman, from 8:00 a.m. to

5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or online anytime at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/Transportation/. The City Council and the Missoula County Commissioners will hear all matters pertaining to the proposed plan at a joint meeting on June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine St. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments prior to the date of hearing on June 13, 2011.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Send written comments to the City Council via the City Clerk addressed to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or via e-mail council@ci.missoula.mt.us. Send comments by phone, mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax (406) 721-4043, or via email bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. For more information, contact Ann Cundy, Office of Planning and Grants at 406-258-4931. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council hold a public hearing on June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider: I. An ordinance amending Title 20, the Missoula city zoning ordinance, Chapter 20.25 (Overlay Districts), Section 20.25.060 regarding the Southside Riverfront Neighborhood Character Overlay. II. An ordinance to rezone certain properties to be included in the Southside Riverfront Neighborhood Character Overlay as described in Title 20, Section 20.25.060 of the City of Missoula Zoning ordinance. Copies of the ordinances are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact John Newman, Office of Planning & Grants, at 258-4719. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Monday, June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: 2404 39th Street – Birth Center Conditional Use Request from the Birth Center (c/o Marianne Grant) for a Conditional Use approval at 2404 39th Street (see Map W), zoned

RM1-35 (Residential 1 multidwelling). The applicant requests a medical office conditional use in order to expand the existing Birth Center into an existing unused garage. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and case file are available for public inspection at the Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street. Call 258-4657 for further assistance. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

public hearing on June 6, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider: An ordinance to amend Title 13, Chapter 13.06 “Industrial Wastewater” An ordinance to amend Chapter 13.18 “Wastewater Haulers” A resolution revising sewer use fee structure and a sanitary sewer rate increase. Copies of the ordinances and resolution are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact Sherry Kenyon, Wastewater Treatment Plant, at 552-6606. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 3:00 pm, on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, and will then be opened and publicly read in the mayor’s conference room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Brooks Street Commercial Corridor Curb & Sidewalk Improvements – Phase II Missoula Redevelopment Agency This work consists of installation of curb and gutter, sidewalks, detectable warning surfaces, storm drainage sumps, asphalt patching, striping, landscape topsoil, rock mulch, shrubs, and trees.

Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for Missoula Redevelopment Agency, Brooks Street Commercial Corridor Curb & Sidewalk Improvements – Phase II” The envelopes shall also be marked with the bidder’s name, address and Montana contractor’s registration number. A complete set of the contract documents and project manual may be examined or obtained at the office of the Missoula Redevelopment (MRA) Agency, located at 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, MT. Required deposit is $50 per set. Full amount of payment will be refunded upon return of the plans and specifications in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. The will be a pre-bid conference at WGM Group’s main conference room, 1111 East Broadway, Missoula, Montana (406) 728-4611, on Monday, June 6th, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Interested contractors are encouraged to attend. Questions regarding the project manual, drawings and specifications shall be directed to the Engineer, WGM Group, Inc., located at 1111 E. Broadway, Missoula, Montana, (406) 728-4611.

Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a

surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form.

Performance and payment bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability.

Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9211.Registration information can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406444-7734. Contractors are required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula business licensing requirements. The Missoula Redevelopment Agency reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to time and date set for bid opening. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY Missoula County Request for Proposals Missoula County is seeking proposals from qualified newspapers for a printing contract for legal advertising. The contract shall be awarded in accordance with MCA §§18-7-411-413. Interested parties may obtain specifications and proposal procedures from Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Room 212, Missoula, MT 59802, or bberens@co.missoula.mt.us.

Interested providers are asked to submit three (3) printed, double-sided copies of their proposal to the County Auditor’s Office by 3:00PM, Thursday, June 9, 2011. No late proposals will be accepted. Envelopes must be sealed and marked “Proposal for Printing Contract for Legal Advertising.”

Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS Partnership Health Center is

inviting sealed bids for a two year contract for janitorial services at the PHC facilities located at 323 W. Alder Street and 401 W. Railroad Street.

Interested parties may obtain specifications and bid procedures from the Finance Office, Partnership Health Center, 323 W. Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802, (406)258-4181.

Proposals will be accepted until 3:00PM, Tuesday, May 31, 2011, and must be sealed and marked “Proposals for PHC Janitorial Services”, and addressed to the Finance Director, Partnership Health Center, 323 W. Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802.

Technical questions may be directed to Terry Delgadillo, Office Manager, Partnership Health Center, (406)2584183. A pre-bid walk through will be conducted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 11:00am with participants meeting in the Partnership Health Center Finance Director’s office, located at 323 W. Alder, 2nd floor. Partnership Health Center/Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS Engineer/Architect The purpose of this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is to assist the Missoula County Airport Authority (MCAA) in the process of selecting a qualified Engineer/Architect and Planning team to complete the project herein described. Project includes but is not limited to: 1. Preliminary Master Planning for an Industrial Business Park 2. Construction Documents for Site Preparation and Infrastructure and Utility Extensions.

3.

Construction Documents for Potential Industrial Manufacturing Building Facility., 4.

Construction Administration of improvements Interested parties shall contact Cathy Tortorelli with MCAA at (406) 7284381 for a full RFQ document.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No 1 Cause No DP 11 94 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL P. LEJEUNE, 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 JAMES H. LEJEUNE., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above -entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2011 . /s/ James H. LeJeune Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-89 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS RAY JENKINS, 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

Missoula Police Department NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES This notice is hereby provided in order to determine the legal registered owner and/or Lien holder of the following described vehicle(s). The following vehicle(s) will be sold at auction after 30 days of this notice unless reclaimed by the legal registered owner(s)/Lien holder(s) showing proof of ownership/lien, picture ID, and paying all fees due at the Missoula Police Dept., 435 Ryman Missoula, MT 59802. Notice is given to provide notice to the legal registered owner(s) and/or Lien Holder(s) in accordance with MCA61-12-402 (5).

Agency #: . . .Vehicle Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VIN # PAV11 195 . . .1997 Ford Taurus SW White . . . . .1FALP57U6VG128357 Dated this the 23rd day of May, 2011.

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DATED this 5th day of May, 2011. /s/ Maureen Jenkins, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-95 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY L. SELLS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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 BRENT R. SELLS and MONICA L. SELLS, the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner & Nygren, P.C., 620 High Park Way, PO Box 4947, Missoula, Montana 59806-4947, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2011. /s/ Brent R. Sells /s/ Monica L. Sells Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Probate Case No. DP-11-66 Judge Townsend Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of DONALD W. HANSON, 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 Carolyn L. Hanson, Personal Representative to the estate of Donald W. Hanson, return receipt requested, at c/o Katherine Holliday, Esq., Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC, PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED May 2, 2011. /s/ Carolyn L. Hanson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-96 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VAIL SANDFORD, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate 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 Anita Jakob at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2011. /s/ Anita Jakob, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-11-81 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHERINE DANKERS, a/k/a KATHERINE BAUMGARDNER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-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 Jack Baumgardner, James Baumgardner and Darlene Richardson, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of April, 2011. /s/ Jack Baumgardner, James Baumgardner, Darlene Richardson, Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-87 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROSSANA V. PATERNI, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Michael Paterni 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 Michael Paterni, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Tiimothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of January, 2011. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-11-90 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF HARRY RICHARD SMITH, 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 the Personal Representative, Steve Richard Smith, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 6th day of May, 2011. /s/ Steve Richard Smith, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-82 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BESSIE HOELL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to S. Melanie Hoell, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of April, 2011. /s/ S. Melanie Hoell, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Recorded on 04/15/11 Trustee Sale Number: 1100228-6 Loan Number: 1279004013 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on August 24, 2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 18 IN BLOCK 3 OF HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF: More commonly known as: 2419 DUNCAN DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT KAREN E. THOMAS AND DONALD F. THOMAS, AS JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to WILLIAM L. DAVIES, ATTORNEY LICENSED TO PRACTICE IN THE STATE OF MONTANA, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CENTEX HOME EQUITY COMPANY, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of November 2, 2005, and recorded on November 14, 2005 under Document No. 200530122, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-2 (the “Beneficiary”) FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated March 10, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of April 5, 2011: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2010 which payments total: $16,961.68: Late charges: $1,100.66: Advances: $270.00 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $300,364.12 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.00000% per annum from August 1, 2010, plus late charges.

Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings.

The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10Ih day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid 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 trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing.

SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-730 - 2727 DATED: April 7, 2011 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY. Trustee By: Julie Wagner, Authorized Signature ASAP# 3982096 05/19/2011, 05/26/2011, 06/02/2011

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/21/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200809215, Bk 817, Pg 0993, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David A. Zink and Tammy M. Zink, husband and wife and Georgena R. Compton, all as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The East half of Lot Twenty-eight (28) and all of Lot Twenty-nine (29), in Block Forty-eight (48) of East Missoula Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 800 Micro Records, Page 702. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Bk. 863, Pg. 978, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance 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 03/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 22, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $242,688.83. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $212,901.30, 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 2, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.08349) 1002.165986-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/19/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200727851 Bk 807, Pg 1211, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Gerhardt, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 6, Township 15 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Certificate of Survey No. 229, less and excepting therefrom that portion conveyed to the State of Montana by Bargain and Sale Deed recorded April 29, 2002 in Book 681 of Micro Records at Page 82. 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 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 31, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $271,668.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $269,546.31, plus accrued interest, accrued

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93474) 1002.190462-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/07/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200629422, Bk-787, Pg-197, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael D. Bortz and Helen F. Lewis was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Wilmington Finance Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 in Block 7 of Second Supplement to Linda Vista, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee for CIT Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1, by Vericrest Financial, Inc. as attorney-in-fact. 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 10/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 30, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $300,842.50. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $289,346.83, 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, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-

Foreclosure.com.

1002.190176-FEI

(TS#

8349.20167)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3.

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 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $825,621.88. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, 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 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200400734, Bk 724, Pg 1734, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Charles L. Patterson and Amy L. Patterson, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. 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 4 in Block 12 of El Mar Estates Phase III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 7, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $144,282.08. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $123,238.94, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r 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 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.04573) 1002.190911-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/26/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200338653, Bk 719, Pg 1110, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Tanya M. Sharbono and Benjamin D. Sharbono as joint tenants was Grantor, Washington Mutual Bank FSB was Beneficiary and Title Services, MT was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, MT as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 2 of Lake View Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200709128, Bk 795, Pg 823, 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 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $126,162.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $124,684.13, 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 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93622) 1002.190711-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/07/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200732046, Bk 810, Pg 374, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Steven Salmi and Jennifer D. Salmi, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 26 and 27 in Block 42 of Daly’s Addition, a platted subdivison in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $198,484.06. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $192,906.52, 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 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93581) 1002.190715-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale T.S. No. 100039159 Title Order No. NWT002615 THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/14/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT.. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LAURA E PETERSON AND MICHAEL J. PETERSON, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEYAT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/18/2005 and recorded 07/19/2005, in document No. 200517944 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 756 at Page Number 465 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: A TRACT OF LAND BEING A PORTION OF U.S.GLO LOTS NO. 7, SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 762. TOGETHER WITH A 60 FOOT WIDE ACCESS EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO(S). 2 AND 437. Property Address: 17825 BEARGRASS MOUNTAIN ROAD, MISSOULA, MT 59808 The beneficial

interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-35CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-35CB There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $171,996.71 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 11/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 04/29/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee Amanda Green, Authorized Signer 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3983498 05/12/2011, 05/19/2011, 05/26/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A parcel of land in the SE1/4Ne1/4 of Section 10, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point which bears 332.0 feet East along the North line of said SE1/4NE1/4 from the Northwest corner of said SE1/4NE1/4; thence, S.30°30’E., 192.05 feet to a point which is 80 feet distant Northwesterly when measured at right angles from Engineer’s Station 702+03.5 on the center line of Montana State Highway Project No. f215(10), which said Engineer’s Station 702+03.5 is South 1562.1 feet and West 811.5 feet, more or less, from the Northeast corner of said Section 10; thence, N.43°32’E., 121.95 feet to a point which is 90 feet distant Northwesterly when measured at right angles from Engineer’s Station 703+25.0 on said center line; which said Engineer’s Station 703+25.0 is South 1481.5 feet and West 720.6 feet, more or less, from said Northeast corner of Section 10; thence N.16°13’w.,81.89 feet to a point on said North line of said SE1/4NE1/4; thence West along said North line 158.0 feet to the point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 215 Micro Records at Page 2127. John D Reeves, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Chicago Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 22, 2003 and Recorded October 22, 2003 in Book 720, Page 968 under Document No. 200340504.. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB as successor in interest to IndyMac Bank, FSB. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,333.52, beginning December 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of February 19, 2011 is $200,607.57 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $1,200.91, late charges in the amount of $202.80, and other fees and expenses advanced of $69.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $11.00 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid

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PUBLIC NOTICES by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

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

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 4, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 4, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Indymac Vs. Reeves 41969.431 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 50 OF DOUBLE ARROW RANCH PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF THEADORE LEE THORNTON and CHRISTINE GAIL THORNTON, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage, a Division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED OCTOBER 22, 2007 AND RECORDED OCTOBER 29, 2007, IN BOOK 808, PAGE 96, UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200728459. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association fka National City Mortgage. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,369.16, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 16, 2011 is $362,386.01 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $34,998.02, late charges in the amount of $236.92, escrow advances of $2,749.20, and other fees and expenses advanced of $268.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $65.78 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

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

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certi-

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

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 4, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 4, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Pnc Vs. Thornton 41230.590 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 15, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6090, located in the Northeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (NE1/4SE1/4SE1/4) of Section 23, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana Stuart Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2001 and recorded October 22, 2001 at 4:30 o’clock P.M., in Book 669, Page 1585, under Document No. 200126283. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,015.18, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 11, 2011 is $75,297.89 principal, interest at the rate of 7.625% now totaling $3,028.06, late charges in the amount of $234.42, escrow advances of $627.80, suspense balance of $-495.05 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,021.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

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

(including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 7, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 7, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Gmac Vs. Williams 41207.535 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 15, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 8 OF LINDAVISTA SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT PHASE 5, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Peter B. Hance and Sara N. Hance, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 12, 2003 and Recorded on June 12, 2003 under Document # 200320718, in Bk-708, Pg1339. The beneficial interest is currently held

by EverHome Mortgage Company, Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1341.32, beginning March 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 17, 2011 is $192,468.89 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $3605.33, late charges in the amount of $134.14, and other fees and expenses advanced of $92.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

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

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 7, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 7, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said

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County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Everhome V. Hance 41470.162 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 19, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF A.P.N. : 0497003 Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998 and recorded May 13, 1998 at 3:58 o’clock P.M. in Book 541, Page 0296, as Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,109.48, beginning January 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 15, 2011 is $97,135.05 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $21,418.53, late charges in the amount of $141.75, escrow advances of $5,366.75, suspense balance of $-233.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,215.43, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.67 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 11, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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. Stephanie L Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North DakotaCommission expires: 12/24/2014 Aurora v Schafer 40990.128 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 19, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula

County, Montana: LOT 21 IN BLOCK 7 OF THE CORRECTED PLAT OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 3 AND 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jaime E. Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 11, 2008 and recorded February 15, 2008 under Document# 200803290, Book 813, Page 385. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc..

Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,340.10, beginning May 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 7, 2011 is $183,027.27 principal, interest at the rate of 6.000% now totaling $10,247.06, late charges in the amount of $166.76, escrow advances of $1,052.47, and other fees and expenses advanced of $135.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.09 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

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

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 11, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Citimortgage Vs. Williams 42011.378 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/22/2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RONNY L. STRAIGHT AND VICKI L. STRAIGHT HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST

AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/25/2003 and recorded 07/31/2003, in document No. 200327979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 713 at Page Number 573 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 8440 PHEASANT DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $110,421.58 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 11/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/06/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110029886 FEI NO. 1006.132267 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/29/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEONARD T. CONLEY AND TERESA B. CONLEY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AM TITLE INS CO OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WEBSTER BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/12/2006 and recorded 01/19/2006, in document No. 200601333 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 767 at Page Number 1163 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5754, LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONEQUARTER (NE1/4) OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA; MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. NOTE: ANY CONVEYANCE OR SECURITY INSTRUMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: TOGETHER WITH ROAD FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS SET OUT IN BOOK 102 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 328 AND BOOK 104 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 751. Property Address: LOT 1A MESSINA DRIVE, AKA 23508 MESSINA DR, Bonner, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in

interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $222,068.21 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from 01/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/14/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110025606 FEI NO. 1006.133035 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/06/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOHN C MOSS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/20/2007 and recorded 03/08/2007, in document No. 200705526 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 793 at Page Number 341 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 17 AND 18 IN BLOCK 66 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1408 HOWELL STREET, MISSOULA, MT 59802 Property Address: 1408 HOWELL STREET, Missoula, MT 59802. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $133,385.07 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.50% per annum from 12/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the

PUBLIC NOTICES Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/19/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 100148477 FEI NO. 1006.119982 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/06/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KATHLEEN M LIKVAN, A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/26/2005 and recorded 08/31/2005, in document No. 200522853 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 759 at Page

Number 460 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 30 FEET OF LOTS 1 AND 2 IN BLOCK 47 OF KNOWLES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 209 CHESTNUT ST, Missoula, MT 59801-1808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $144,356.05 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.375% per annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or

advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/21/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0035277 FEI NO. 1006.133839

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Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/06/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly

appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CHAD JAY SCHULTZ as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/19/2007 and recorded 09/19/2007, in document No. 200724834 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 805 at Page Number 1840 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 7, 8, 9 AND THE EAST ONE-HALF OF LOT 10 IN BLOCK 55 OF DALY’S ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2019 SOUTH 12TH STREET WEST, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME

DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $203,883.73 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.125% per annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/21/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0035366 FEI NO. 1006.133840

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on July 11,2011, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 of Park Addition, Block 6, Lots 13 through 17, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the

official recorded plat thereof. Todd A. Berg and Leslie O. Berg, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Whitefish Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded May 16, 2008, in Book 819 of Micro at Page 91, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded February 23, 2011, in Book 874, Page 442, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provision of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $282,806.92, plus interest at a rate of 5.6% totaling $25,134.79, for a total amount due of $307,941.71, as of February 24, 2011, plus he costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, Trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 25th day of February, 2011. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss.

County of Missoula). On this 25th day of February, 2011, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana,

personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana.

My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 SHERIFF’S SALE KIT HOMEBUILDERS WEST LLC Plaintiff, Against CROFTS LAND COMPANY LLC, and MONTANA HOMES OF MISSOULA, INC., and DEAN CROFTS, Individually Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks On the 16th day of June A.D., 2011, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: Lots 4 and 7 of MISSOULA WEST INDUSTRIAL SUBDIVISION, LOTS 2, 4, 7 AND 9, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. and Lot 5 of MISSOULA WEST INDUSTRIAL SUBDIVISION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Less and Excepting therefrom that portion deeded to the State of Montana in Book 497 Page 1888 Micro Records. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 26th day of May A.D., 2011. CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy

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home for entertaining! MLS # 10007275. $255,000. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

attached 2 car garages, like new, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #22 & #2. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

3 bed, 2 bath home on gorgeous acre just west of Frenchtown. Some updating has been done with newer siding, newer roof and the main bathroom has been totally remodeled with new cabinets, paint, and tile. The gorgeous yard has mature pines, tons of flowers, a playhouse, and even a small pond. $234,900 • MLS # 20111782 Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

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Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Beautiful River home on Bitterroot just minutes from Missoula. 3 bed 2 bath with a deck that could hold the whole party. $979,000 or Equity Shares available.

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Farm Houses w/land in Missoula, these funky farm houses boast lots of land to spread out and do your thing, Development potential. 3278787 porticorealestate.com Five bedroom 4+ bath townhome on golfcourse with excellent views and gracious space. $445,000. MLS 10007754.

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Prudential Montana. $169,900. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Handsome, Spacious Home on Prime Upper Miller Creek Acreage, 5+ bedrooms, with out of town living on quiet cul-desac, and acres. Rodeo Rd. 3278787 porticorealestate.com IMMACULATE HOME ON A 20,000+ SQ FT LOT. Beautifully updated and maintained 4 Bdr/3 Bath Linda Vista area home. Great yard and deck, spacious living room, 2 family rooms, two full kitchens, master bedroom and more. $265,000.

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717 Cooper: 1 bed, 1 bath bungalow with stainless steel appliances, built in breakfast bar, wood floor, privacy fence & storage shed. $157,500 MLS # 20111199. Call Shannon Hilliard at 239-8350 today!

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Rare Wilma Building Condo – unique loft style condo offers a carefree, fun lifestyle with an amazing view on top of the historic Wilma, $219,900 3278787 porticorealestate.com Rattlesnake Home on Large Lot, nice 3br home sits on very rare lot, mature landscaping, tennis court, home has lots of upgrades, 506 Redwood 3278787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL HIDDEN TRAILS HOME. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, double garage, cathedral ceilings, wood laminate flooring, dining area, and more, all just a few minutes from UM and downtown. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING CLOSE TO THE BITTERROOT RIVER. 4 Bdr/3 Bath single-level Stevensville home. Great, open floor plan, incredible mountain views, next to public park, walk to Downtown Stevi or Bitterroot River. $219,000. Prudential

Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com SPACIOUS PLEASANT VIEW HOME PRICED TO SELL. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, double garage, corner lot, open floor plan, cathedral ceilings, main floor master and laundry, great deck and more. $216,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Sweet Slant Street Home, Three bedroom home on quiet street in heart of Missoula, hardwood, great yard, solid home, lots of potential! 632 Cleveland 3278787 porticorealestate.com

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• 3 Bed/2 Bath, single level living • A/C, concrete patio out back door • Chain link fence (back yard), UG sprinklers • One block to Hellgate Elementary School • $198,000 • MLS#20111250

1433 Sherwood $179,000 MLS#20112785 Westside bungalow, corner lot, fenced back yard, some gardens, fruit trees, and detached garage w/extra storage. Many updates include laminate flooring, new paint, newer roof, some updated electrical & nice kitchen. High ceilings, front porch, great character, small bonus room off of kitchen. Check out: www.1433sherwood.com

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