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OREGON MANUFACTURER SETS UP IN BONNER, POSITIONS ITSELF ALONG MEGALOADS ROUTE

DOWNTOWN BRIDGES IN SO MUCH HAS CHANGED DISPLAYS ICONS NEWS ARTS DANA OPINION NEED OF REPAIR, OR MORE IN GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE OF A DIFFERENT WEST

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NEWS

OREGON MANUFACTURER SETS UP IN BONNER, POSITIONS ITSELF ALONG MEGALOADS ROUTE

DOWNTOWN BRIDGES IN SO MUCH HAS CHANGED DISPLAYS ICONS NEWS ARTS DANA OPINION NEED OF REPAIR, OR MORE IN GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE OF A DIFFERENT WEST

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cover illustration by Kou Moua

News Voices/Letters All politics, all the time...........................................................................4 The Week in Review Memorial Day services, Redskins and a smoked pig...................6 Briefs Lawyers, guns and political races.........................................................................6 Etc. Montana’s long path to gay marriage ......................................................................7 News Manufacturer positions itself along megaload route in Bonner...........................8 News Study calls for costly repair or replacement of downtown spans ........................9 Opinion Gay marriage finally gets a fair shake in Montana .........................................10 Opinion Western states cash in on recreational opportunities....................................11 Feature Coal casts a long shadow, from Crow to Missoula to the world ....................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Icons of a newer West............................................................................................18 Music Two Cow Garage, Wyoamericana Caravan Tour and Survival Knife ..................19 Books Slash, grass and balls in Todd Snider’s new memoir ........................................20 Film Latest X-Men sequel packs in awesome moments................................................21 Film Despite its weirdness, The Double has heart .......................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Munchies The string cheese incident ..........................................................................24 Happiest Hour Getting a “Little Drunk”......................................................................26 8 Days a Week Feeling dirty.........................................................................................27 Mountain High The K9-X 5K Canicross Race ..............................................................33 Agenda Demeter Fest ...................................................................................................34

Exclusives

Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover ...............................................................................................C-11 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-12

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle PHOTO INTERN Grace Ryan ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING, PROMOTION & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Jason McMackin, Brad Tyer, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Josh Quick, Brooks Johnson

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Sands for Senate

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, May 27, near the corner of Higgins and Main.

The Dana Gallery’s new exhibit is titled Icons of the West. Who or what do you see as an icon of the West?

Follow-up: What’s your favorite gallery to visit during the First Friday Art Walk?

Cassie Sheets: The American bison. The first time I traveled here I went to the bison jumps near Simms. I like to think back on the meaningful relationship people had with the bison. Black and white (and beer): The Dark Room. They always have someone who has a different take on photography. You never know what you’re gonna find there.

Stephen Millhouse: It’s the majestic scenery. The mountains like the Missions . . . and Flathead Lake? Holy cow. Multimedia: I don’t have a favorite but enjoy the fact that the galleries are there to show the diversity of artists in town.

Shawn McLean: Remington. He’s my favorite sculptor. Or Ansel Adams’ photography. Texture: The Brink gallery. I like the lighting and the setting there. They have good variety but I’d like to see some more sculptures.

Danica Born: Everything revolves around the mountains, whether it’s the mountains we ski on or the waters we play in. Mixed media: Always has to be the Missoula Art Museum. They have so many different artists and each room opens up your senses to different art techniques.

Caitlin Schwinden: Charlie Russell.

His style of painting and his art have been ingrained into my brain from school field trips while growing up in Great Falls. Photo sensitive: The Dark Room. I’m into photography and it’s nice to see a forum for the many photographers in town to display their achievements. And I usually go to the ones with alcohol.

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Diane Sands has been my friend for over 40 years. I know that Diane will make an excellent senator for Senate District 49.

Diane understands the varied needs of her rural and urban constituents in Senate District 49. Having served eight years in the House of Representatives, Diane understands how to work with legislators of both parties to get things done for us. Diane Sands listens and works for her constituents.

Sands has made a difference for the Lolo community. She sponsored legislation that secured $280,000 for the expansion of Travelers’ Rest State Park, which included the addition of the visitors’ center and museum.

Diane Sands has committed to preserving Montana heritage and has worked tirelessly at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula where she raised more than $350,000 in federal, state and local funding for historic preservation. As a result, Diane received the 2013 Montana Historic Preservation Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement. As a historian and a person born and raised in Montana, Sands has demonstrated her love of Montana and its people.

Join me in electing Diane Sands to the Montana Senate. She has the experience, commitment and a proven record of accomplishments that makes her the choice for Senate District 49.

Jean Belangie-Nye Lolo

Return to reason Montanans value individualism and freedom from government oversight. We believe the people who live in our state know what is best for their family, their business and their life.

Yet some politicians in our state don’t trust us—and believe it is the right and responsibility of the government to enter our homes, spy on our bodies and dictate our relationships with our children.

Independent Libertarianism has always been a dominating force in Montana—because whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, Montanans have always been able to agree on freedom from government interference in our everyday lives.

It is time for Montana to return to reason. It is confusing to see Montanans vote folks into our legislature who do not support the values upon which Montana was built: privacy, freedom and opportunity.

Ryan Zinke supported three bills that unconstitutionally regulate your family— placing government-mandated forms between a parent and their child—violating Montana minors’ right to privacy as guaranteed by Montana Code section 41-1402. Matt Rosendale supported state bureaucratic control of local school districts, attacking evidence-based education and violating the Montana Pathway to Excellence Program (MCA 20-7-103).

Steve Daines might be the most confusing of all. He claims: “as a member of the House of Representatives, I swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” yet voted four times to violate our 14th Amendment defined by SCOTUS case 410 U.S. 113.

We can’t let folks who don’t understand the Constitution make decisions for Montanans. We must protect our right to Freedom and Privacy from prying government eyes as our undeniable right, and elect Montanans who will stand up for our Constitution.

Emily Likins Missoula

and the only candidate recognized by local labor unions in the primary election for Missoula County sheriff.

Ben Darrow Missoula

A voice for Elsie I have personally experienced Elsie Arntzen’s giving a citizen from Deer Lodge—me—a voice that is heard by a senator from Billings—Elsie.

Elsie Arntzen listens and that can restore our faith in government. Wherefore, I endorse Elsie Arntzen for U.S. Congress.

James Wangerin Deer Lodge

Championing Edmunds

“It is confusing to see Montanans vote folks into our legislature who do not support the values upon which Montana was built: privacy, freedom and opportunity.”

I first met Champ Edmunds a couple of months ago at a Lincoln-Reagan dinner held in Livingston. I instantly was impressed by his sincerity and passion for a better, freer life for Montana citizens. That night he did not give the typical politician’s speech filled with noncommittal statements, but rather with heartfelt beliefs.

I know that Champ will fight against over-regulation for both businesses and individuals; stop the IRS from targeting conservatives; eliminate dependency on foreign oil; put brakes on the EPA’s recent assault on coal plants and regulating Montana citizens from burning wood and wood pellets for heat; push back against Common Core allowing educational decisions to be made on a local level and he supports a full repeal of Obamacare.

I sensed a kindred spirit with Champ and I fully support Champ for Montana’s U.S. Senate.

Vicki Schultz Candidate for HD 62 Bozeman

Lowy for Justice Dems for McDermott I applaud the Missoula County Democrats for endorsing T.J. McDermott, a life-long Democrat, in the primary election for sheriff.

I also applaud the AFL-CIO (Missoula Trade and Labor) for endorsing T. J. McDermott for sheriff.

Whether or not the position of sheriff should be partisan or non-partisan is another issue. McDermott just happens to be a true Democrat in a Democratic primary election. T.J. is also a friend to workers and a supporter of workplace fairness and the right to organize freely.

Josh Clark, a well-known Republican, has made a critical mistake by trying to pretend to be somebody that he is not in an effort to fool the Democratic voters of Missoula County. Pretending to be somebody that you’re not speaks only to a greater integrity issue with this candidate.

On Tuesday, June 3, join me in voting for T.J. McDermott, the only Democrat

I write to urge your support for Matthew Lowy to serve as Missoula’s next Justice of the Peace to continue the good work John Odlin began before he retired this past March.

Matt has spent the past decade enforcing Montana’s laws. Presently, he is tops in his field as a certified child welfare law specialist protecting abused children.

Matt has broad support throughout Missoula county based on his community service, work ethic and commitment to all the folks residing in our community. His focus on healthy families is of particular interest to me and many other professionals I’ve worked with over the years who share his idea of a holistic approach.

Matt Lowy has the compassion to be a fair judge, the knowledge of the law to be an efficient judge and the ethic to be an outstanding judge. Voting for Matt is an investment in our community. Please join me June 3 marking your ballot for Matt Lowy to serve as Missoula’s next Justice of the Peace.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, May 21 The Wall Street Journal explores the likelihood of former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer running for president in 2016.

Schweitzer tells the paper, “I think I’ve got ideas and drive,” but wonders if his voice would be heard in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, May 22 A letter signed by 50 Democratic U.S. Senators, including Montana Sens. Jon Tester and John Walsh, is leaked to the media, urging NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to change the racist name of Washington’s football team. The team’s president later responds saying “Redskins” is a source of pride among American Indians.

Friday, May 23 Amidst its ongoing effort to acquire Mountain Water Company from the Carlyle Group, the city of Missoula files a motion with the Montana Consumer Council arguing it has an interest in the rates the Montana Public Service Commission allows the water company to charge customers.

Saturday, May 24 Despite overcast skies and morning thunderstorms, Splash! Montana opens for the season. The outdoor water park features three water slides, a lazy river, an Olympicsize pool and a soon-to-be expanded concession area.

Sunday, May 25 Jamie Rogers, a former staff writer and frequent Indy contributor, ties the knot with Carly Jenkins in a festive ceremony outside of Philipsburg. Sources confirm the presence of a smoked pig and a large shirtless male on the premises.

Monday, May 26 Eleven different memorial services are held throughout Missoula to recognize those who died while serving the U.S. Military. The last of these services honors the 43 Montanans killed while stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tuesday, May 27 The Public Prosecutors’ Office in Hamburg, Germany, announces its investigation into the killing of Diren Dede, a German exchange student shot for trespassing in Markus Kaarma’s Missoula garage on April 27.

Elliott Oppenheim of Buglers Across America plays alongside the VFW Post 209 Honor Guard during a Memorial Day celebration at Rose Park.

Ravalli County

Intra-party politics During the June 3 Republican primary, three members of the Ravalli County Board of Commissioners could be ousted by members of their own party.

“The political philosophy of the commission will shift back to a more moderate stance,” predicts Ravalli County Commission candidate Ray Hawk. He says he’s set to trounce incumbent Ron Stoltz during the Republican primary and thereby help steer the five-member commission back toward the center.

It’s not a coincidence that the three Republican incumbents—Stoltz, Suzy Foss and Jeff Burrows—are those who cast the deciding votes in two recent heavily criticized commission decisions. In September, the trio voted to decline a federal grant that for 40 years funded family planning services for low-income women. That same month, they voted to appoint embattled Ravalli County Treasurer Valerie Stamey to her post.

Stamey had no background in managerial accounting prior to being selected to lead the treasurer’s office. She was, however, a Republican Party insider. In February, an independent audit found that Stamey had stopped producing monthly treasury reports and failed to deposit

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a backlog of property tax payments. Critics, including Hawk, say the commissioners’ decision to hire someone with little experience contributed to the county’s finances falling apart. “They could have hired somebody besides an unqualified political ally,” Hawk says.

Foss challenger Doug Schallenberger steers clear of such pointed criticisms, but he echoes Hawk when saying he aims to change the commission. “It just seems like they went more to the extreme side,” Schallenberger says.

While Schallenberger criticizes Foss for leaning too far right, another Foss challenger, former Ravalli County Planning Board Chair Jan Wisniewski, says Foss isn’t sufficiently conservative.

“I think she’s not quite firm enough,” says Wisniewski, who was ousted from the planning board for reportedly referring to indigenous people during a public meeting as “drunken Indians.”

In response to the myriad criticisms, incumbents say they’ve done good work. After years of teetering toward insolvency, the county budget is balanced, they say. Burrows, who faces Bill Menager in the primary, says also that he’s keen to learn from mistakes. For example, he aims to revamp hiring protocol based on the lessons learned from the Stamey controversy.

In the final days before the primary, incumbents

argue it’s easy to second-guess from the sidelines. Actually performing under such heavy scrutiny is a significantly more challenging task. “I think that anytime somebody runs they think they can do a better job,” Burrows says.

Jessica Mayrer

Trapping

Beaver deceiver FTW The Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge became the focus of a brief trapping dust-up in mid-May after a refuge volunteer went public with a story about discovering a dead beaver in a conibear trap off one of the refuge trails.

Critics sounded off in news stories and letters to the editor, with refuge manager Tom Reed countering that the beaver had been trapped under a special use permit for management reasons. One group—the nonprofit Trap Free Montana Public Lands—issued a press release pointing to the incident as another reason to support a 2014 ballot initiative banning trapping statewide.

“Getting our initiative on the ballot and successful passage of it will protect beavers and other species on Montana public lands and refuges,” the group wrote.

But the narrative on Lee Metcalf could be moving toward a less divisive close. Shortly after hearing about

[news] the refuge’s actions, members of Footloose Montana met with Reed to express their concerns and open a dialogue about possible non-trapping solutions to problem beavers. Footloose secretary Connie Poten says the group spent “four and a half hours” touring the refuge with Reed and were reassured that “he hasn’t been trapping willy-nilly.”

“He said several times, ‘I’m never going to do that again,’” Poten recalls. “I think he’s really interested in other methods of managing wildlife down there.”

To that end, Footloose is now in talks with the refuge to help install a non-lethal device called a “beaver deceiver”—a trapezoidal fence that angles out and away from the mouth of a culvert, discouraging beavers from damming. The design was developed by Vermont wildlife biologist Skip Lisle. Beaver deceivers have proven successful in protecting culverts in Washington state; Lisle also partnered with Missoula ecologist Amy Chadwick to install such a structure near Butte last year.

Poten adds that Footloose—which intends to push its own anti-trapping ballot initiative in 2016— may also help the Lee Metcalf refuge by installing fencing around several larger cottonwoods to protect them from beavers.

While Reed does feel a beaver deceiver could aid maintenance in certain areas, he says it won’t solve problems with beavers refuge-wide. The refuge’s mandate is to manage for migratory birds. It may not be his preferred option, but Reed says trapping “is a management option we’ll continue to evaluate.”

Alex Sakariassen

have known that she was unstable. Yet they left her unattended for 35 minutes.

The Brilz family isn’t alone in alleging negligence at the Missoula County Detention Center. The family of 31year-old Heather Wasson filed a lawsuit against the county in 2011, two years after Wasson died in a jail cell from a seizure caused by acute alcohol withdrawals. That case is scheduled for an October trial.

Datsopoulos says he took the Brilz case on contingency because he wanted to call attention to deficiencies dealing with mentally ill and addicted inmates. He believes the settlement constitutes an acknowledgment by the county that it erred. “I believe in this case, they’ve taken a new step, which is, ‘We’ve got problems,’” Datsopoulos says, “‘and we’ve got to face the problems today.’”

The Missoula Board of County Commissioners oversees the detention center budget. Commission Chair Jean Curtiss says in recent years jailers have taken significant

Detention center

County settles claim Missoula County recently agreed to pay the family of a mentally ill woman who hung herself with a phone cord while incarcerated at the Missoula County Detention Center $250,000 to settle allegations of jailer negligence.

“I think it’s going to create some positive changes,” says Missoula attorney Milt Datsopoulos, who represented the woman’s family. “This particular thing won’t happen again with the phone cords.”

The settlement marks the end of a legal controversy that began in April 2011, when 27-year-old Michayla Brilz killed herself in a detention center holding cell. Court documents indicate that Brilz had been treated for bipolar disorder. In the months leading up to her death, she was arrested for obstructing a police officer, resisting arrest and driving under the influence. In spring 2011, she was jailed after prosecutors alleged she paid a babysitter with prescription medication.

Datsopoulos argued that because Brilz had been previously incarcerated in the facility, jailers knew or should

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

steps to better keep mentally ill and addicted inmates safe, including constructing a padded cell, installing additional security cameras and hiring case managers to help counsel unstable detainees.

Curtiss adds, however, that a lack of community services for people in crisis leaves the detention center in a difficult position. In the wake of the settlement, she says the county is evaluating ways to fill the gap by expanding community treatment options for mentally ill and addicted people because “(Jail) isn’t the best place to deal with them.”

Jessica Mayrer

BY THE NUMBERS Percent of locals who say they’re unsure whether a for-profit company or the city of Missoula owns the municipal water system, according to a survey conducted this month as part of the city’s effort to acquire Mountain Water Co. from the Carlyle Group.

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Guns

Jobs shot down When Remington Outdoor Company announced on May 15 that it was shuttering Kalispell-based rifle-barrel manufacturer Montana Rifleman, it signaled the end of a business that had thrived in the Flathead Valley for nearly 25 years and the loss of between 60 and 80 local jobs. In response, on May 18 and 22, the Flathead Job Service conducted a pair of rapid response workshops designed to help the laid-off workers look for new jobs, file for unemployment insurance and otherwise deal with being handed a 60-day notice that their jobs were being sent to Huntsville, Ala. Lori Reiner, who helped conduct the workshops, says the employees “didn’t seem totally discouraged,” in part because many of them were hopeful they would be able to find work nearby—as in, directly next door to Montana Rifleman, at the Montana Rifle Company.

But that optimism may not extend to everyone. Jeff Sipe, who runs MRC’s day-to-day operations, estimates his company will only hire a small number of the Rifleman employees, despite the long and close connection between the two companies.

Sipe’s father, Brian, founded both companies—Montana Rifleman in 1990 and MRC in 1999. MRC has always sourced its barrels from its neighbor. That continued even after Brian sold Rifleman to Remington early last year and retired.

Jeff Sipe says the company wasn’t entirely caught offguard by Remington’s decision. After a while it became clear that it didn’t make business sense for Remington to ship barrels from Montana to its manufacturing operations in the east, and the Kalispell facility would likely move or close. MRC prepared by purchasing the machinery it needed to make its own barrels. It also plans to begin making its own synthetic stocks. The new production capacity means MRC will need new workers, but not enough to cover everyone recently let go next door.

“We will probably hire a handful of guys,” Sipe says.

“It’s not just that we’re trying to hire them. We are in a growth cycle right now that we have to hire more people. ... But if those guys have specific skill sets that fit our specific needs, obviously it’s an easy fit for us.”

Ted McDermott

ETC. In 1989, Linda Gryczan and a handful of other gay rights advocates first asked Montana legislators to repeal the state’s “deviate sexual conduct” law, which classified gay sex as a felony prosecutable by 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. A Democratic lawmaker responded to her testimony by calling her “slime.”

Despite the Montana Supreme Court’s 1997 declaration that the provision was unconstitutional, lawmakers refused to scrub the law from the books until just last year. At a ceremony in the Capitol, gay rights activists celebrated the hardfought win. “It’s a very powerful symbol,” Gryczan told the Independent.

But the repeal was just that: symbolic. Despite the victory, it remained legal in most parts of the state to, based on sexual identity, deny employment and housing. Similarly, Montana’s 2004 constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples remained firmly intact.

In light of the fact that it took gay rights activists so long to secure a symbolic win, recent victories seem to be occurring at a breakneck pace. In 2012, the state’s Democratic Party endorsed gay marriage for the first time. Days later, the GOP repealed an official platform plank that called to re-criminalize gay sex. Then, last week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks to repeal the state’s 2004 constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The ACLU maintains in the lawsuit that the ban “cannot be squared with the State’s history or with its culture.”

The plaintiffs—Sue Hawthorne and Adel Johnson of Helena, Ben Milano and Chase Weinhandl of Bozeman, Shauna and Nicole Goubeaux of Billings and Angie and Tonya Rolando of Great Falls—seek to “challenge any and all Montana statutes that refer to marriage as a relationship between a ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ or ‘man’ and ‘woman.’”

The effort to contest the Montana’s ban comes amidst a wave of successful challenges to similar prohibitions at the state and federal level.

That wave started last summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriages are entitled to federal recognition.

Moments after the ACLU filed the lawsuit in federal court, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock expressed support for the plaintiffs. The Montana Democratic Party quickly followed. There’s a legal fight looming, but already the tenor of the conversation has changed. Momentum is clear. Progress is at hand. Nobody has been called “slime.” And Montana will soon be a better place for it.

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The perfect spot Manufacturer positions itself along megaload route in Bonner

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Earlier this year, Oregon-based Harris Thermal Transfer Products broke ground on a massive new fabrication facility near the old Stimson Lumber mill in Bonner. Once completed, general manager Eric Groenweghe says the 35,000-square-foot plant will hopefully allow Harris Thermal to expand its business to the eastern United States and make it more competitive with other pressure vessel and heat exchanger companies in Texas.

But the 116-acre site the company purchased from Western Montana Development last year also puts Harris Thermal in an ideal geographic position to increase its production for industrial clients in the Alberta tar sands.

Missoula has already gotten a glimpse of the company’s larger-scale works. This win-

and send them up to Canada,” Groenweghe says. “That’s not our intention. We want to expand our business … and the best way to expand our business is to open a facility in a more logistically attractive and financially attractive area.”

Groenweghe estimates that when the plant is complete, Harris Manufacturing will employ 25 to 30 individuals. Those would primarily be skilled jobs like welding, he adds, and the company is actively working to forge a partnership with Missoula College with the goal of offering employment opportunities to recent graduates. If construction continues on schedule, Harris Manufacturing intends to begin operations this fall.

“We think there’s a good, available

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Oregon-based Harris Thermal is building a new fabrication facility near the old Stimson mill in Bonner—in part to cut transport costs of oversized equipment to the Alberta tar sands.

ter, transport company Omega Morgan trucked three giant Harris Thermal-made evaporators through Montana en route to the Alberta tar sands. Legal proceedings in Idaho prevented two of the megaloads—manufactured for a GE subsidiary called Resources Conservation Company International—from traveling up Highway 12. However, with fewer oppositional voices to megaload shipments along the Blackfoot River corridor and the Rocky Mountain Front, highways 200 and 93 remain a viable path for Canada-bound oversized equipment.

Groenweghe says while Harris Thermal does have several clients active in the tar sands, such equipment is only a small part of the company’s interest in establishing a facility in Missoula. The plan with Harris Manufacturing, the Montana-based subsidiary created last November, is to mirror much of what Harris Thermal already does at its West Coast base—namely, construct heat exchangers, pressure vessels and wastewater treatment equipment for a host of industries including pulp and paper.

“If you look at the entire picture of what we’re planning and wanting to do in Missoula, it’s not just [to] build megaloads

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workforce there in skilled jobs considering the closure of the Stimson mill site, the closure of Smurfit-Stone,” Groenweghe says.

“The hope is that we might actually draw some people that have moved away back.”

If Harris Manufacturing does succeed in expanding its tar sands clientele, the effort could benefit from conversations currently taking place among Montana lawmakers.

The legislature’s Revenue and Transportation Interim Committee met in early May in part to discuss a study of megaloads and explore any impediments to the “private, cooperative funding of routes to accommodate oversize vehicles.” Several trade groups have grown increasingly critical of the separate permit and fees Missoula city officials require of oversized loads, and pressure is building among Republicans in Helena to officially identify a specific highway corridor for megaload traffic through the state.

A key part of the informal corridor that oversized loads have used so far stretches north and east beyond Bonner. Critics have argued for nearly five years that megaload shipments on Highway 200 along the Blackfoot River could present a host of public safety and environmental concerns. With

the legal saga on Highway 12 now over, Highway 200 could become the next battleground for megaload opposition.

“If, in its wisdom, the state of Montana decides that a high and wide corridor is necessary, then I would hope that we would look to what happened in Idaho along Highway 12—the Lochsa [River], the Wild and Scenic Highway, which is now permanently forbidden as a route for megaloads— and consider Highway 200 equally valuable to those of us in western Montana,” Susan Estep, a Missoula resident and cofounder of the regional nonprofit All Against the Haul, told the interim committee May 6.

However, some in Montana’s business community see broader opportunity in oversized load traffic. Glenn Oppel, government relations director for the Montana Chamber of Commerce, wrote to the committee in early May that the lack of a clearly defined corridor “serves as yet another disincentive for businesses, in particular manufacturers, to locate in Montana.” Oppel attributed the interest in establishing facilities in Montana directly to the state’s proximity to the tar sands and the Bakken oil fields.

For several years now, the Missoula Economic Partnership has been touting that geographic closeness in the hopes of attracting new business from the manufacturing sector. The organization bills Interstate 90 and highways 200 and 93 as a “convenient corridor to the Canadian oil sands,” and the branding has proven effective. Back in November 2012, MEP President and CEO James Grunke told the Missoula City Council that his office was receiving multiple calls each month from companies interested in relocating closer to the Canadian border.

Harris Manufacturing marks the biggest success for MEP in that effort so far. Groenweghe says after the company expressed an initial interest in a Missoula area facility, MEP proved invaluable in “getting us information and helping us through this process.” He understands that some in Missoula haven’t been particularly keen on megaloads over the past few years and might take issue with tar sands-destined equipment being manufactured right here.

But most of what Harris Manufacturing plans to do is much smaller in scale. He feels that even if oversized load production increases, it won’t have a negative or even tangible impact on the community.

“I don’t think you’re going to notice,” he says. “It certainly won’t be anything bigger than what you’ve already seen go through there.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

[news]

Buckling bridges Study calls for costly repair or replacement of downtown spans

by Ted McDermott

Last year, the Montana Department of Transportation classified the Madison Street and Higgins Avenue bridges in downtown Missoula as being structurally deficient.

Now, after a year of study, public comment and input from the city, MDT has recommended two options for the deteriorating structures: major rehabilitation or total bridge replacement. How it will pay for either remains up in the air.

MDT prefers to rehabilitate the bridges, and Bridge Bureau Chief Kent Barnes says

tion, there’s really two goals here,” Barnes says. “One goal is to rehabilitate and preserve the structure. The other goal is to reconfigure the bridge deck and widen it as best we can to meet the needs and desires for increasing pedestrian and bike access across the bridge.”

Barnes explains that meeting those goals means finding a way to repair the bridges’ existing problems, slow future deterioration, preserve the existing four lanes of traffic and expand the width of bike lanes

photo by Grace Ryan

The Montana Department of Transportation suggests a major rehabilitation of the “structurally deficient” Madison Street and Higgins Avenue bridges in order to stabilize the deteriorating structures while also increasing bike and pedestrian access.

he’d be “very surprised” if this option doesn’t prove to be the most feasible, most affordable and best suited to meet users’ needs.

“What would really drive us toward [bridge replacement] at this point,” Barnes says, “is if we get in there and we start looking at the structural rehabilitation and we start recognizing that there’s more problems with the structure than we believe there is.”

The known structural problems with the spans, which connect downtown to the Hip Strip and the University of Montana, are outlined in the Missoula Bridges Planning Study, which the department released earlier this month. The study describes “several forms of deterioration,” including cracked concrete decking, corroded steel and leaking joints in the deck. As a result, the study ranks the bridges “poor for structure condition and deck condition.” It also describes the steel-and-concrete structures as “vulnerable” to seismic activity. In addition, the bridges fail to meet current needs.

“When we talk about major rehabilita-

and sidewalks—all without exceeding the bridges’ existing foundation capacity. It’s no easy task considering the decks of both bridges are already crowded. The challenge for engineers is to find ways to make more room without adding too much weight and overloading the existing spans. That will likely mean removing medians, narrowing traffic lanes and widening the decks to the extent possible.

In order to determine exactly if—and if so, how—the bridges can be rehabilitated, MDT must conduct a structural analysis, which will take money currently not budgeted. MDT plans to rely primarily on the federal Highway Trust Fund to initiate and complete the project, but that fund is projected to be completely depleted this summer. Until a new transportation spending plan is signed into law, the MDT can’t proceed. The planning study estimates work on the rehabilitation project will begin within one to five years. The funding uncertainty, though, means “one year is drifting away very quickly,” Barnes says.

The total cost of major rehabilitation is projected to be $4 million–$8 million for the Higgins bridge and $2 million–$5 million for Madison. According to the study, that would buy approximately 25 to 50 more years for each structure. It’s not a permanent solution, but Barnes thinks it’s for the best.

“Where is Missoula going with the whole transportation network?” he asks.

“Some of the traffic studies right now say that what we should be doing with Madison and Higgins is expanding them to three lanes each direction.”

One such study predicts annual average daily traffic on the Higgins bridge will go from 18,148 vehicles in 2010 to 23,578 in 2040. Traffic on the Madison bridge is projected to almost double over that 30-year period, rising from 12,685 vehicles a day to 22,411. As a result of such data, MDT did consider an option for replacing the current spans with six-lane bridges. While such a plan was rejected, it remains a future option.

“It could be that in 30 years, there is a pattern change that we have to expand those bridges out to support higher actual traffic lanes,” Barnes says.

Ellen Buchanan, director of the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, says she and others in city government acknowledge the possibility of increased downtown traffic, but she has a different vision of how best to manage that growth. Instead of larger bridges that would disrupt downtown’s character, she floats the idea of an electric streetcar crossing the Madison bridge and combating the rising traffic patterns. She also says additional one- or two-lane bridges could be added to the downtown area to meet demand.

“Traditionally in the United States our traffic engineering answer to congestion has been to make streets wider,” Buchanan says.

“The thinking now is slowly but surely shifting to maybe you just expand the network, you disperse the traffic over more streets instead of making three streets so wide no one wants to be on them. That same thinking could apply to a bridge.”

In the meantime, work on the Higgins and Madison bridges will have to wait until Congress and the Obama administration agree on a way to increase revenue for the Highway Trust Fund, which currently relies on the federal 18.4 cents-per-gallon gas tax.

Proposals include closing corporate tax loopholes, adding tolls to more highways and raising the federal gas tax for the first time since 1993. tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Changing opinions Gay marriage finally gets a fair shake in Montana

by Dan Brooks

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Last week, four couples filed suit against the state of Montana in federal court, arguing that our constitutional ban on gay marriage deprives them of equal protection under the 14th Amendment. I use “our” reluctantly. Article XIII, Sec. 7 of the Montana Constitution is petty and embarrassing, but it’s the law of the land, and for the time being we are stuck with it.

Like many kinds of bigotry, it once enjoyed popular support. The amendment insisting Montana would only recognize marriages between one man and one woman passed with 67 percent of the vote in 2004.

But 2004 was a long time ago, and a lot of bad ideas were fashionable then.

That was the year Republican strategists, concerned that Americans might not vote for George W. Bush now that they had gotten to know him, pushed gay marriage amendments to attract evangelical voters to the polls. It was a clever bit of electioneering: demonize one small group of American voters in order to attract a larger one. And I’m sorry to say it worked.

But what did it do for Americans who weren’t running for office? It’s not as if 2004 was the year we saw heterosexual marriages dwindle to near zero, pushed aside by a flood of couples who preferred the convenience and social cachet of marrying someone of the same sex. Article XII, Sec. 7 solved a problem that didn’t exist.

The idea that traditional marriage needed defending was a stalking horse, a safe way to rile up voters with an idea most people agreed on. Depending on which study you read, 90 percent of Americans identify as straight. Asking them if they wanted to “protect” their kind of marriage was like KISS asking Detroit if it wanted to rock.

Montana’s gay marriage ban was democracy at its worst. It invited the majority to assert itself at the expense of a minority, and it did so for no discernible gain. The ugliest thing about the 2004

ballot initiative was that it raised prejudice to the level of law. But the most pathetic thing is that it didn’t work.

Gay marriage is not going away. Over the last year, federal courts have ruled again and again that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, chipping away at an entrenched prejudice that used to be one of the safest bets in politics. As of this writing, 30 states face legal challenges to their marriage laws. North Dakota is the only state whose same-sex marriage ban has not gone

“Asking straight Americans if they wanted to ‘protect’ their kind of marriage was like KISS asking Detroit if it wanted to rock.” to court. And I think we can agree that Montana is better than North Dakota.

Besides the tidal shift in national attitudes over the last 10 years, I can think of two pieces of evidence that suggest Montana does not feel the same way about same-sex marriage that it did in 2004. Last fall, for the first time ever, a statewide survey conducted

by MSU–Billings students found that more Montanans support same-sex marriage than oppose it. And one of those Montanans is Gov. Steve Bullock.

Bullock was attorney general the last time someone tried to overturn the state ban on gay marriage, and his office stood

in the way. But like a lot of Montanans, he has changed his mind, and now Gov. Bullock supports the effort to overturn Article XIII, Sec. 7.

Current Attorney General Tim Fox, on the other hand, still supports the ban. In some ways he has to, since he is a Republican and his party seems determined to ride this issue to demographic irrelevance. But he is also a smart man, and he should see that there is no future in depriving Montanans of their rights just to pander to a rapidly shrinking slice of the electorate.

In an ideal world, he might look at the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and see that Montana’s ban on gay marriage is legally unsound, too. But I will settle for political expedience. This is not the same state that it was in 2004, and Montanans do not hold all the same opinions.

Yesterday’s cynical strategy is today’s growing embarrassment.

Fox could end the embarrassment right now by declining to defend Article XIII, Sec. 7 in court. He would be a hero—not just to gay couples, many of whom might vote Republican, but also to any thinking voter who has ever changed his mind.

Emerson remarked that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Montanans aren’t fools, even if certain hobgoblins have occasionally encouraged our worst ideas at the ballot box. We aren’t so consistent, either. In the last 10 years we have been inconsistently fair, to our shame.

But we have also proven inconsistent in our opinions, and that is to our credit. It means we’re still thinking about things. Our attorney general should think about getting on the right side of history while he has the chance.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and KISS at combatblog.net. His column appears every other week in the Independent.

[opinion]

Out in the open Western states cash in on recreational opportunities

by Tom Flynn

Traveling through the Beehive State recently, I was struck by two completely different stories emerging from Utah. On one weekend, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman led a group of angry protesters— many of them armed—on an illegal ATV ride through Recapture Canyon, the site of 1,000year-old Ancestral Puebloan dwellings that some archaeologists have likened to a “mini Mesa Verde.”

As the small group of riders attempted to exploit the spirit of the Old West to its advantage, they grabbed more than their fair share of media attention. They certainly don’t represent the larger community of responsible all-terrain vehicle riders. But with rancher Cliven Bundy’s son, Ryan, on hand, plenty of the reporting wove the Recapture story into the larger “movement” drama that opened a few weeks ago with the attempted cattle roundup on BLM land in Nevada.

I think the real story coming out of Utah began much earlier, 300 miles to the north in Salt Lake City. On May 8, Gov. Gary R. Herbert hosted the state’s inaugural Outdoor Recreation Summit, an event whose focus is simple: “to explore and share new ways to responsibly grow, promote and enhance Utah’s flourishing recreation economy.”

I was there on behalf of mountain bikers, hikers, backcountry skiers, rock climbers, paddlers and the other outdoor recreation enthusiasts that the Outdoor Alliance works for, to promote both conservation and access to the public lands. There were folks from across the public-private spectrum: outdoor manufacturers and retailers, user groups, sportsmen, state and federal land managers, county commissioners and more. We all came together in the spirit of collaboration, and in pursuit of a bright and balanced future for economic development, recreation and conservation in Utah.

The summit itself was as much about planning for the future as it was a celebration of the fact that a collaborative approach is al-

ready paying dividends. The Outdoor Industry Association calculates that outdoor recreation generates $12 billion in consumer spending and 122,000 jobs for Utah’s economy annually. And Utahns are working it.

They deploy savvy marketing to bring skiers to the “Greatest Snow on Earth” and all sorts of hikers, campers and sightseers to “The Mighty Five” national parks in southern Utah’s red rock country (Bryce, Zion, Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands), as well as to the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National For-

“In a recent poll of Montana business owners, 70 percent of those responding agreed that ‘the Montana outdoor lifestyle’ was a factor in their decision to locate or expand their business” est, which enjoys more yearly visitors than all five national parks combined. Utah is investing in outdoor recreation. And people are investing in Utah.

This is a story that is playing out across the West, where state governments and the business community are turning their attention to the multiple economic benefits that come with a strong foundation of high-qual-

ity outdoor recreation. The Idaho Outdoor Business Council has coalesced to provide “a strong voice on behalf of sustainable recreation and of the benefits of healthy lands and waters to Idaho’s important outdoor recreation economy.” In Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee has commissioned a blue-ribbon task force to help him grow the outdoor recreation economy.

In a recent poll of Montana business owners conducted by the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, 70 percent of those responding agreed that “the Montana outdoor lifestyle” was a factor in their decision to locate or expand their business in Montana. This topped the list of factors, outranking tax rates, access to raw materials, utility costs, quality health care, access to high speed Internet and airline service.

And in Arizona, the Sonoran Institute conducted qualitative research with hiring managers and employees from some of the state’s leading companies. Its findings indicate that outdoor recreation on protected public lands plays a key role in recruiting the highly skilled workers needed to drive Arizona’s knowledge economy forward.

So while the Cliven Bundy and Phil Lyman soap operas make convenient fodder for hungry news cycles, they do not accurately represent the West. Those of us who live, work and play out here know the real story. It is one focused on common ground, not conflict. It’s a story that honors the past, but drives toward the future. And it has the confidence and creativity to balance economic development, recreation and conservation with the challenges and demands brought on by growth and change in today’s American West.

Tom Flynn is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the western regional director of the Washington, D.C.-based Outdoor Alliance. He lives in Boise, Idaho.

photo by Steele Williams

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[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - British police arrested five members of a Liverpool gang for breaking into a clothing store after they attracted the attention of customers at a bar next door with loud banging while using a sledge hammer to smash the door. The suspects were apprehended after a high-speed chase. Attorneys for the defendants conceded the heist was “well-planned but badly executed.” (Liverpool Echo) Investigators charged Ian Dishon Isabel, 29, with secretly recording girls using an elementary school restroom in Davenport, Iowa, after cameras found behind the toilets showed not only close-up images of children from the waist down, but also those of the man installing them. Isabel conducts an after-school program at Hayes Elementary. “Although the male’s face is not visible,” the police affidavit said, “his identification card can be seen hanging from a lanyard on his neck.” (Moline, Ill.’s WQAD-TV)

ANOTHER 15 MINUTES OF FAME - An Israeli company sprung Thamsanqa Jantjie from a South African psychiatric hospital to appear in a commercial for its social live-streaming app. Jantjie gained worldwide attention as the sign-language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service who made meaningless gestures and afterward blamed the incident on schizophrenia. Tel Aviv-based Livelens hired a Zulu-speaking journalist to convince staffers at the hospital that Jantjie needed to be released for one day for a “family event” and then shot the ad in a few hours, according to company marketing manager Sefi Shaked. After the National Association of the Deaf objected that a company would “hire and portray any individual who has become synonymous with mockery of sign language interpreting,” Shaked pointed out, “At the end of the day, a schizophrenic guy got paid and did a nice campaign — a sad story with a happy ending.” (NBC News) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - State police said Chad Olm, 34, was showing his guns to his son and nephew, both 11, at his home in Pike County, Pa., when he showed them the laser sight aimed at the ceiling and the wall. Olm then pointed the laser at his nephew, who reached out for the gun just as Olm pulled the trigger, believing it to be unloaded. It wasn’t, and the bullet fatally shot the nephew in the head.

(Stroudsburg’s The Pocono Record) Sheriff’s deputies reported that a group of friends at a home in Anderson County, S.C., decided to try on a bulletproof vest and have someone shoot them. Blake Wardell, 26, went first, but the bullet from the smallcaliber handgun fired by Taylor Ann Kelly, 18, missed the Kevlar and struck Wardell in the chest, killing him.

(Greenville’s WHNS-TV)

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Three parents beat up a school bus driver in West Palm Beach, Fla., because he didn’t let children off fast enough to suit them. Driver Joseph Beauzile, 40, kept the door closed while he made the elementary school students form a line. Police said Shacaurra Burns, 25, forced her way onto the bus, and Ryan Beckford, 33, ripped the door open and began punching Beauzile while Jean Bertrand, 33, held him down. (South Florida Sun Sentinel) Jeanwell Napolean, 50, stabbed his wife repeatedly at their Port Charlotte, Fla., home following a marriagecounseling session with the couple’s pastor. Their nephew said his uncle snapped because he had hoped for his own pastor’s position but didn’t get it. (Fort Myers’s WBBH-TV) Daniel Trent admitted stabbing a friend and his dog during an argument that began when Trent disputed his friend’s claim to the last beer in a 24-pack of Natural Ice. After Trent stabbed Mark Durham, 56, he said the victim told him to kill the dog, so he did. “I should’ve stopped drinking,” Trent said. (Ocala Star-Banner) A woman threatened to “shoot everyone” at a Burger King restaurant in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after she and her two friends argued with a worker about her cinnamon roll not being fresh. The three women left when employees threatened to call police. (Charleston’s WCBD-TV)

LIFE’S IRONIES - More than 100 people reported suffering food poisoning at a national Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Md. After surveying more than 1,300 of the nation’s top food safety professionals who attended the conference, state health officials said only 400 responded, so the actual toll might be higher. (NBC News)

MOTHER-OF-THE-YEAR (QUARTER FINALS) - While on vacation in Key West, Fla., Suzanne Simon, 38, kicked her 12-year-old son out of the car without any shoes because he was reading the car’s GPS incorrectly, according to a police report. She also sent her 8-year-old daughter in search of beer. Police arrested Simon, who lives in Sugar Land, Texas, on suspicion of child neglect. (Houston’s KHOU-TV) Police arrested Sonja Hernandez, 39, for bringing her 8-year-old son, teenage daughter and three other teens with her to set fire to nine vehicles in Fort Worth, Texas. Arson investigator Brad Sims said no motive had been determined. (Fort Worth’s KXAS-TV)

ON SECOND THOUGHT - David Shaff, administrator of the Portland, Ore., Water Bureau, announced the city would flush 38 million gallons of treated water down the drain after surveillance cameras caught a 19year-old man appearing to urinate into an open reservoir. Tests showed the water was safe to drink, but Shaff defended the decision: “My customers expect they will receive water that has not been deliberately contaminated.” Two weeks later, the city decided not to dump the water but instead divert it to an empty reservoir to “see how long it stays fresh and clear,” Water Bureau official Jaymee Cuti said. (Associated Press) When Christopher Lewis refilled his 89-cent drink without paying at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Charleston, S.C., a federal police office issued him a ticket and banned him from the hospital. Facing a $525 fine, Lewis explained that he told the officer he hadn’t seen the sign saying no free refills and was willing to pay the 89 cents. Hospital officials who reviewed the incident decided a warning was sufficient. (Associated Press)

WRONG ARM OF THE LAW - A sheriff’s deputy in Riverside County, Calif., trying to kill a dog he insisted was threatening his life “pulled his service weapon, shot one round and injured himself in the leg,” according to a sheriff’s official. (Riverside County’s The Press-Enterprise) A former police officer who tried to set fire to a food cart belonging to a blogger who exposed police corruption in Little Rock, Ark., died while fleeing when the blogger tackled him and he fell face first. (Little Rock’s KARK-TV)

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row Tribal Chairman Darrin Old Coyote rides proudly along Crow Agency’s main drag on a Thursday morning in mid-May, wearing an ornate headdress and riding a horse named Skip. Behind Old Coyote stretches a long procession of tribal officials, parade floats and 20-yearold Crow member Amanda Not Afraid, recently crowned Miss Indian Rodeo 2014 at a ceremony in Las Vegas. Hundreds of people line the streets. A vendor on the curb is selling decorative beach towels.

Another offers biscuits and gravy for $3 off a grill in the bed of a pickup.

Old Coyote became the 21st chair of his tribe in late 2012, when his people elected him by a wide margin over incumbent Cedric Black Eagle. Today’s parade honors the tribe’s Head Start students, and each class sits atop its own float. Other flatbeds are dedicated to various tribal offices and organizations, from the Apsaalooke Hous-

ing Authority to the Apsaalooke Nights Casino.

Near the end of the parade route, Old Coyote stops on the side of the road, waving to the procession until the last float rolls slowly by.

The Crow Indian Reservation in south-central Montana is the state’s largest, encompassing roughly 2.2 million acres—nearly half of it individually allotted trust land. Flanked on the west by the Pryor Mountains and the east by the Little Bighorn Battlefield, much of Crow is dedicated to livestock grazing and cropland.

But the area is rich in natural resources, too. The Powder River Basin, a geological bonanza of coal deposits, stretches north from Wyoming over the reservation boundary. An estimated 9 billion tons of coal lie beneath Crow alone, and since the Colorado-based Westmoreland Mining

Crow Tribal Chairman Darrin Old Coyote is a strong proponent of coal development on his reservation.

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Company first came to the reservation to open its Absaloka Mine in the 1970s, the tribe—now numbered at more than 13,600 members—has relied almost solely on the coal industry as its economic backbone. Revenues from coal development account for nearly half of the Crow Tribe’s annual budget.

After the parade, Old Coyote leans against his horse trailer. He’s untucked his green ceremonial shirt from his jeans and replaced the headdress with a cowboy hat.

His spurs—the same pair, adorned with the American flag, that he wore while riding behind President Barack Obama on horseback on the reservation in 2008—jingle as

he crosses his legs. Coal might be a “bad four-letter word” to many, he says. But for a people suffering from a staggering 47 percent unemployment rate—a people now 40 years dependent on a product scientists, environmentalists and political officials around the globe are blaming for climate change—there aren’t many alternatives.

“Unless these NGOs can tell me how else to feed my people,” Old Coyote says, “we’re going to pursue development.”

In January 2013, Old Coyote signed an agreement with mining company Cloud Peak Energy to lease 1.4 billion tons

Critics have become increasingly vocal about the effects more coal development in Montana and Wyoming could have on train traffic through cities like Missoula and Spokane.

of coal in the reservation’s southeast corner. Negotiations started in earnest years earlier, and former Chairman Black Eagle—who had also attempted to focus on advancing the now-botched $7 million Many Stars coal-to-liquids plant—helped advance the deal prior to being voted out of office. Cloud Peak paid the tribe $2.25 million at the onset of the agreement. Approval by the Bureau of Indian Affairs last June won the Crow an additional $1.5 million. Since 2012, Cloud Peak has awarded more than $65,000 in scholarships to Crow students. The company has also promised preferential hiring of tribal members when mining commences. The exploratory phase of Cloud Peak’s agreement is estimated to last five years.

Cloud Peak is something of an anomaly among coal companies in the Powder River Basin. For a company incorporated just five years ago, it has made significant progress not only in securing vast coal reserves but in greasing the political wheels in the West. And by Old Coyote’s thinking, Cloud Peak could bring new opportunities for his people. He’s already seen the impacts in his own family.

“My daughter, she’s applied for one of the grants,” he says, referring to the company’s tribal scholarship program.

“She’s currently going to school in MSU Bozeman, and she’s a recipient of the Cloud Peak scholarship.”

A BIGGER PICTURE The Crow aren’t alone in seeing the promise of what Cloud Peak has dubbed the Big Metal project—named for a character from Crow creation stories. Cloud

Peak, which derives its own name from the peak in the Bighorn Mountains where Crow ancestors first settled, currently trails behind regional heavyweights like Peabody Energy, Alpha Natural Resources and Arch Coal with a mere 1.3 billion tons in coal reserves. But the 1.4-billion-ton deal with the Crow tribe will more than double the company’s coal reserves in the region, solidifying it as the third largest reserve holder in the entire Powder River Basin.

“We continue to see projections for a very robust demand internationally for coal, and a very stable demand for coal from the Powder River Basin,” says Rick Curtsinger, Cloud Peak’s media relations manager. “We believe that we are very well positioned moving forward to help meet that demand for low-cost, affordable electricity.”

While Cloud Peak may be a relatively new name, the company can trace its roots back more than a century through its former parent company, multinational British-Australian metals firm Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto was founded in 1873 when investors purchased a mine complex along the Rio Tinto River in Spain. Over more than a century, the company’s interests expanded globally to include iron ore, uranium, copper, diamonds and coal. And as it expanded, the company increasingly garnered the attention of environmentalists across the globe.

Rio Tinto arrived at the Crow Reservation as one of the largest mining companies in the world, and the second largest producer of coal in the U.S. In 2008, it announced plans to sell off its

Wyoming-based American offshoot, along with heavy stakes in mines throughout the Powder River Basin. Cloud Peak Energy was born, and in November 2009, common stock in Cloud Peak was offered to the public at $15 per share. Executives who had overseen the offshoot during its Rio Tinto days transitioned to the new company.

Cloud Peak’s stock soared 40 percent in its first year. By summer 2011, the company had won a bid on additional coal tracts at the Antelope Mine in northern Wyoming for roughly $297.7 million. The bid more than doubled Cloud Peak’s holdings at the Antelope Mine and helped beef up the company’s portfolio, which also included Rio Tinto’s old Spring Creek Mine, an expansive open-pit operation just over the Montana border near Decker. Cloud Peak signed a 10year deal that June to ship coal from its Antelope, Spring Creek and Cordero Rojo mines through Vancouver’s Westshore Terminal to markets in Asia.

But Cloud Peak’s agreement with the Crow came as a surprise to some. Mike Scott, regional representative for the Sierra Club in Billings, notes that other companies in the past six years have experienced serious difficulty in expanding their operations in the Powder River Basin. Cloud Peak’s play seemed bold when he first heard about it in 2011.

“When Otter Creek got leased in 2010, there was this flood of new proposals for mines that came right after,” he says. “Most of those projects just collapsed, to the point where Otter Creek is really the only one that’s still floating

around out there. To see Cloud Peak decide to come and try to make that play when all these other companies sort of failed did surprise me.”

Cloud Peak’s plans for the future—and the coal it hopes to develop through the Big Metal project—hinge heavily on the completion of two proposed export terminals on the West Coast: The Gateway Pacific Terminal in Cherry Point, Wash., and the Millennium Export Terminal in Longview, Wash. Those port projects are pivotal to Cloud Peak increasing its coal supply to markets in Asia, Curtsinger says.

“Our CEO and President Colin Marshall has said that the ports developing terminal capacity certainly makes the production of the Crow tribal coal much more likely,” he explains, “as it’s incredibly important to have that capacity to meet that demand.”

That reliance has dragged Cloud Peak into the center of a much more contentious regional debate. The coal industry is increasingly at odds with critics fearful of impacts to small communities stemming from increased exports to Asia.

Cloud Peak managed to secure a third of the annual throughput at the Gateway Pacific terminal. The company doesn’t expect to begin actually developing its coal reserves on Crow for four or five years, a timeline that coincides with Gateway Pacific’s desired start date. When the terminal opens in 2018, Cloud Peak expects to ship more than 15 million tons of coal a year there—a volume of production and export that could result in a massive bump in coal train traffic through Montana, Idaho and Washington.

The Lummi Nation on the Washington coast has been a staunch opponent of Gate-

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way Pacific’s development in recent years, with the tribe citing “dramatic and long-lasting impacts on not only the fisheries but the Lummi fishing fleet.” Cultural concerns for the Lummi range from historic shellfish harvesting tracts to the presence of a 3,500year-old village site near the proposed export terminal. Last July, after months of protest, Lummi tribal leaders officially stated their opposition to the terminal in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

measure passed last fall pertaining specifically to the Millennium terminal—drew criticism from both the pro-mining group Count on Coal Montana and the Crow government. Old Coyote, concerned with the resolution’s potential effect on Cloud Peak’s plans, went so far as to write a letter to the council.

“For our plans to create jobs and bring new investment to succeed, we must do all we can to see that the con-

isn’t enough of a reality for people to risk the backlash for speaking out.

“Over the last 30 years, companies have bored holes all over for projects that fell apart,” Scott says. “People have a lot to worry about. They might not waste time on this until they know it’s going somewhere.”

That relative silence seems odd when compared to another proposed mining project in southeastern Montana. Arch

Northern Cheyenne member Phillip Whiteman Jr., right, and his wife Lynette Two Bulls teach people both on and off the Northern Cheyenne Reservation a more spiritual, solution-based approach to life and activism. Whiteman believes a focus on the problem merely escalates it.

“If the projects at Cherry Point are constructed and operated there will be impacts on the Lummi treaty rights forever,” Tim Ballew II, chair of the Lummi Indian Business Council, wrote in the July 2013 letter. “It is imperative that the Corps carry out its trust responsibilities as they relate to the Lummi Nation and the treaty rights to fish, gather and hunt in the usual and accustomed places.”

struction of new coal export facilities is not impeded unreasonably,” Old Coyote wrote last October. “I would respectfully request that you at least remain neutral on this issue and not encourage an [Environmental Impact Statement] process that would obstruct important economic opportunities for the Crow Tribe and the state of Montana.”

Coal’s push to strip mine the 18,000-acre Otter Creek site has resulted in legal challenges, rallies and even protester arrests over the past four years. Politicians have rushed to support the proposal, with former Gov. Brian Schweitzer famously touting the economic benefits of development at Otter Creek as “the biggest, fastest horse in the state.” Arch Coal intends to access an estimated 1.4

“Unless these NGOs can tell me how else to feed my people, we’re going to pursue development.”

—Crow Tribal Chairman Darrin Old Coyote

The Lummi aren’t alone. Last month, two Missoula-based coal protest groups— the Blue Skies Campaign and 350-Missoula—met alongside the railroad tracks bisecting Greenough Drive to draw attention to both local impacts and the contribution coal burning has made to climate change. Missoula lies along the path to those West Coast terminals, a fact that has twice prompted the Missoula City Council to request that the Army Corps expand the scope of environmental reviews for West Coast coal terminals to include impacts of increased coal train traffic on the community. The second of those resolutions—a

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THE OTTER CREEK PARALLEL Vocal opposition to Cloud Peak’s Big Metal project doesn’t appear to have taken root on the Crow reservation. The loudest critics of the company’s plans reside hundreds of miles away, while on Crow the most common talking points come from Old Coyote and other politicians in the form of jobs, economic stimulus and the bonus of educational opportunities for students. The Sierra Club’s Mike Scott says he’s heard from a few tribal members who have their doubts. Mostly he feels the mine, still in its earliest exploratory stages,

billion tons of coal on state land—the amount Cloud Peak has secured in its agreement with the Crow tribe.

The concerns voiced by ranchers over the Otter Creek proposal differ radically from those raised by coal critics in Missoula and beyond. Arch Coal owns a third of the stake in the Millennium terminal, with eyes on Asian coal markets, and the plan for Otter Creek includes development of and shipping along the proposed Tongue River Railroad. Among the Northern Plains Resource Council’s long list of criticisms over the rail line is the position that it will “make ranching and farming more difficult and ex-

pensive, will split ranchland in half separating fields from the [Tongue] river, and will shift the liability of train crossings to the landowner.”

Numerous ranchers have echoed those fears since 2011.

“I think the reality is that while people do want economic development, they’ve all seen boom and bust happen already,” Scott says. “They get this, they know what it is. They know that very few people get rich and everybody else gets stuck with the bill, and they don’t think it’s worth it.”

Proximity to North Dakota’s Bakken oil boom certainly hasn’t helped. Everyone knows someone who worked in the patch for a few weeks, Scott says, only to quit when the truth about crime, pollution and inadequate infrastructure became evident.

“They don’t want their communities to become Williston,” he adds.

Cloud Peak has perhaps sidestepped similar backlash thanks to its apparent political acumen. The company established a strong base early on with formation of a political action committee in 2010, and campaign contributions trickled out from Cloud Peak to political candidates in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. Cloud Peak began lobbying Congress as well, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on issues ranging from Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases to the National Environmental Protection Act process for proposed export terminals. The company has relied on a list of revolving door lobbyists with strong ties in the West; from 2011 to 2013, that list included former Montana Republican Party Executive Director Mark Baker, who also worked as a legislative director for Sen. Conrad Burns and as chief of staff to Rep. Rick Hill.

According to data from the Sunlight Foundation, the company donated $16,000 to former Rep. Denny Rehberg between 2010 and 2012, including $10,000 to support his bid for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Jon Tester.

Tester and recently retired Sen. Max Baucus have also received campaign contributions from Cloud Peak in the past—$2,000 and $5,000 total, respectively—but not nearly in the amounts that have poured into Republican coffers.

In the 2014 election cycle, Republican Rep. Daines has replaced Rehberg as the biggest recepient of Cloud Peak money.

Cloud Peak contributed $10,000 to Daines’ U.S. Senate race in the past year alone—the most to any single candidate nationwide. The donations come on the heels of heavy support for Daines’ initial congressional bid. Daines has come out as a strong backer of coal development in the state—though when asked about the do-

nations, his office maintained that Daines has “always been a strong supporter of responsibly developing Montana’s energy resources.” He trumpeted the signing of Cloud Peak’s agreement with the Crow Tribe last year, offering his full support for the project months in advance of the BIA’s approval.

“Just this week I met with Chief Old Coyote in Washington, D.C.,” Daines wrote in a Jan. 24, 2013, statement. “I am eager to continue a strong relationship with our tribal leaders to help create more jobs in Montana’s tribal communities. This agreement marks an ideal beginning to that effort.”

Tester extended similar support for the project at the time, with the provision that “implemented properly,” the tribe’s partnership with Cloud Peak stands to improve the quality of life for its members.

Tester announced this spring that he, along with Sen. John Walsh, would push for reauthorization of the Indian Coal Production Tax Credit, a $2.50-per-ton tax break that could stand to benefit Cloud Peak for its future development on Crow. By comparison, Cloud Peak is offering the tribe $0.08 to $0.15 per ton, with an additional 21- to 30-percent payment from coal sales for royalties and production taxes.

Tester has, in fact, spoken directly with Cloud Peak on several occasions. His schedules for Feb. 7 and June 12, 2013, both listed meetings with company representatives. Tester’s communications director, Marnee Banks, says those conversations centered on the company’s work in Montana, with Cloud Peak reassuring the senator that “mining on tribal land will create jobs and boost tax revenue.” Despite those meetings and Cloud Peak’s years-long lobbying record on tax issues, Banks says Tester decided to support the tax credit measure only after discussions with Crow leaders like Old Coyote. “The decision,” she adds, “was not made at the behest of the coal lobby.”

Daines’ office says the congressman also intends to introduce a tax credit reauthorization measure in the U.S. House, one that would make the break permanent.

A DIFFERENT BRAND OF ACTIVISM A wall of dark blue storm clouds rolls across the sky above Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, which lies just east of Crow and several miles north of the mine-dominated landscape around Decker. Northern Cheyenne tribal member Phillip Whiteman Jr. hurries to unsaddle his horses as bolts of lightning crisscross the sky. He’s spent much of the late afternoon repairing a mechanical bucking machine outside a trailer on his lower acreage. His wrinkled hands are covered in grease. Wind kicks dust in his eyes as he hauls tack to a shed.

Whiteman wouldn’t call himself a coal critic. He wouldn’t say he’s anti-coal, nor would he choose to call opposition to development a “war” as individuals like Daines have. The founder of Yellow Bird

Inc., a grassroots organization focused on environmental protection and spiritual identity, Whiteman approaches the issue far differently than high-profile groups like the Sierra Club, the Blue Skies Campaign or Greenpeace. Sitting at his dining room table up the road from his corral, he runs through a series of hand exercises designed to highlight just how left-brained many people are. Lacing your fingers together in a certain way may feel wrong or uncomfortable. Those words don’t sit well with Whiteman. They insinuate a focus on the negative, not the positive.

“You can have the best of intentions, but you’re still part of the problem,” White-

Coal is rich below Northern Cheyenne, too, and poverty is pervasive.

The tribe has flirted with the idea of pursuing development for years; in 2006, reservation voters overwhelmingly supported a referendum calling for the mining of coal. Past tribal officials have even campaigned on the promise of jobs and economic stimulus. Yet the Northern Cheyenne haven’t issued a single permit, and many on the reservation have staunchly opposed the proposal at Otter Creek. Whiteman credits the lack of development here to a strong grassroots pushback, and to the fact that his people maintain powerful ties to their past.

To understand what coal development means for the environment, Whiteman believes people need to take a hard look at the history of indigenous tribes in the United States. American Indians never displayed a sense of ownership over the land, he says.

How can you own something that owns you? Western industrial culture is “warped thinking,” and has in many ways backed large parts of Indian Country into situations of poverty and joblessness. For centuries tribes have been traumatized, oppressed, abused. Now

Chairman Old Coyote feels the 1.4-billion-ton coal deal he signed with Cloud Peak Energy last year will ultimately bring more jobs and more revenue to his people, who suffer a 47 percent unemployment rate. “A war on coal,” he says, “is a war on Crow families.”

man says. “You have to know what you’re for, not against. If you’re against fossil fuels and industrial culture, you’re escalating it and you’re elevating it. You’re focusing on the problem, not the solution.”

Whiteman won’t directly criticize coal companies or their activity. It’s an oddly calm mentality considering his reservation, while free of coal activity itself, is bordered to the north by the Colstrip coal-fired power plant and to the west and south by mines like Spring Creek and Decker. If development at Otter Creek commences, Northern Cheyenne will be surrounded on all sides. Yet when asked if he feels pained or frustrated or concerned driving past these areas, Whiteman rejects the emotions.

“It don’t concern me because I believe in a power greater than myself,” he says. “I believe in universal law, natural justice, and I believe in a self-correcting earth. It’s those that are doing this act, they’re the ones that should be concerned because everything comes back around.

What you put out there comes back.”

“It goes back to language, culture and identity, our connection to air, land and water,” he says, adding that those who did take a run at development are “no longer with us. They’re no longer in office.”

Whiteman and his wife, Lynette Two Bulls, an enrolled member of South Dakota’s Oglala Lakota Nation, espouse a holistic belief system that builds on that connection to the land. It translates into everything Yellow Bird Inc. does. For tribal members, the company builds that connection through the annual 400-mile Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run between Crawford, Neb., and Busby, an event that commemorates the trek Northern Cheyenne took to return home in 1879 after a bloody breakout from Fort Robinson. For visitors, Yellow Bird Inc. teaches how to approach critical issues from a positive, solution-based mindset.

Whiteman and Two Bulls recently hosted a crew from Greenpeace interested in incorporating those lessons into their organization’s activism.

that abuse is being enacted in new ways with broader implications.

“That land gave birth to us,” he says.

“We have astrology stories dating back to the beginning of time that we come from the stars. With that kind of imprint and that kind of history, we predate manifest destiny. We predate eminent domain. We predate that, and what happened to our people is a crime. Now it has moved on into Mother Earth.”

THE WAR ON COAL Darrin Old Coyote isn’t just banking his tribe’s future on one mine or one resource alone. This spring, the Crow Tribe received a $665,000 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior to help fund a $44.5 million hydroelectric dam. The Yellowtail Afterbay Hydropower Project on the Bighorn River could generate up to 12 megawatts of power, and is expected to begin operating by 2018.

Old Coyote points to the Yellowtail Afterbay project as further evidence that the

tribe is trying to “diversify our revenue stream.” Coal isn’t the only gift on the reservation. Still, Old Coyote believes Cloud Peak’s deal will ultimately offer more jobs and more revenue for the Crow than renewable industries like hydro or wind energy could.

Scott, with the Sierra Club, isn’t so sure. Cloud Peak doubling its reserves with a 1.4-billion-ton deal may look good to investors on paper, and a few million dollars up front—along with thousands in scholarship funding—may have some tangible impact on Crow initially. But the voices of coal critics are getting louder. The industry’s domestic market is shrinking. And opposition to the new infrastructure necessary to ramp up exports is strong.

“As people have understood more what the impacts of strip mining are, I don’t think you have as much sympathy out there for coal as you used to,” Scott says. “I think the other thing is the decline in the use of coal. A few years ago, coal was almost 50 percent of the nation’s energy. It dropped to 37 percent pretty abruptly. People who pay attention to this saw the 10-percent reduction over just a couple of years and the lights didn’t go off.

Hospitals didn’t stop working. The catastrophe the coal industry has promised us if we stop using coal never materialized.”

Old Coyote is insistent that Cloud Peak could provide a quicker fix for his people than other alternatives. He frequently turns to a creation story when defending his tribe’s need to take Cloud Peak up on its promises. The Creator blessed the Crow Tribe with resource-rich land for a reason, he says. It was a gift, one he intends to use to improve his people’s lot.

Old Coyote views opposition to increased train traffic and West Coast terminal development as part of a broader war on coal. He’s not the only one using the motif; in a press release earlier this month, Daines decried Gov. Jay Inslee’s announcement against reliance on coal in Washington as a “new front in the War on Coal.” His office elaborated on the issue, saying that reductions in demand for power from Colstrip would “directly affect the amount of coal it would be able to obtain from Montana reserves, like those found on the Crow reservation.”

“A war on coal,” Old Coyote says, “is a war on Crow families.”

“We as Crows have been through many types of wars,” he adds, “from assimilation to small pox to inter-tribal warfare.

We survived. We endured through many hardships. But there are always better days ahead of us. We will continue fighting.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Another West Five artists who put an oddball twist on iconic imagery at the Dana Gallery

by Sarah Aswell

The Dana Gallery’s Icons of the West features some alternative takes on Western art such as Pamela Hodges-Faulk’s “Drunken Bird” and, below, Nate Loda’s “Cattle Man,” Adair Peck’s “Mountain Goat” and Jack Dempsey Boyd’s “Manifest Destiny.”

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eople of the West, do you tire of Western art?

Perhaps you’ve been to one too many wannabe “saloons” decked out with terribly idealized prints of cattlemen and their cattle. Or weekend cabins boasting uninspired, boring landscapes depicting Mountain Life.

This month, we can all find reprieve from the stereotypes, the stale ideas and the status quo. The Dana Gallery’s third annual Icons of the West, a juried exhibit made up of 120 pieces, includes a refreshingly diverse lineup of artists, equally celebrating the traditional bison and grizzly imagery as well as the notso-traditional slag heaps and vigilantes. The well-respected downtown gallery isn’t always known for being experimental or weird, but among the displays we found pieces that evolve and even defy Western subjects and symbols. From oil paintings of Playmobil cowboys to sculptures of contemporary taxidermy roadkill, here are five of our favorites.

Pamela Hodges-Faulk, “Drunken Bird” After you become roadkill, you rarely get to become anything else. But if you are lucky enough to find your way into the studio of Missoula resident Pamela Hodges-Faulk, getting hit by a car is just the beginning. In this sculpture, which greets you right inside the Dana Gallery’s front door, a fantastic taxidermy bird struts along a piece of driftwood, with bright spirals of leaves and trash (is that an iced tea label?) swirling out among the animal’s plumage. We may never know why this particular bird tried to cross the road, or why it was hit, but we admit that, for art’s sake, we’re kind of glad it happened.

Nate Loda, “Cattle Man,” “Campire,” “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” There are plenty of creative ways to criticize the past, explore the American experience and tell people about your own personal life stories. But artist and George Mason University master’s candidate Nate Loda does so by painting still lifes of provocative scenes enacted by Playmobil toys. Loda has three paintings on display at Dana Gallery, all focused on perhaps the two most complicated and misunderstood icons of the West: cowboys and American Indians. These aren’t like any oil paintings you have ever seen, and if they are, we’re guessing you’ve seen Loda’s work before.

Adair Peck, “Mountain Goat,” “Elk,” “Buffalo” This is not anything close to that papier-mâché project you did in grade school. In her artist statement, Bozeman’s Adair Peck describes her art as a place where “anxiety, fear, pain and corruption often coexist with humor and hope.” That’s an apt description of her three papier-mâché trophy mounts—a mountain goat, elk and buffalo that seem to be watching the rest of the Icons of the West exhibit from above.

Partially playful and cartoonish, partially grotesque and disturbing, the mounts are a thoughtful take on three of the most common symbols of the region.

Jack Dempsey Boyd, “Manifest Destiny” From even a few yards away, this American Indian headdress looks like a perfectly traditional (and

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

possibly problematic) piece of Western art. But as you get closer, you see that the feathers are intricately cut dollar bills while the decorations are constructed from coins and credit cards, not leather and beads.

Surprise: Missoula sculptor Jack Dempsey Boyd has taken what has often been a misused and misappropriated icon of the West and given the viewer something new to think about. The dream of early American settlers to take over the West and make it over in their own image couldn’t be summed up any better than this statement about consumerism. It’s also pretty stunning to look at.

Meagan Thompson, “Null and Void Landscape” When you think about traditional Western landscapes, they often contain dramatic mountains, big skies and sweeping prairies—usually piled high with cattle or wildflowers, forests or streams. But this stark photograph by Butte artist Meagan Thompson captures a landscape that is dramatic—and iconic—in a very different way: the roll of a hill after a winter of heavy snow, the sky just a slightly different shade of white than the ground. There are a few dead fingers of plant life poking through the surface, just enough to orient the viewer and remind us that we aren’t on an alien planet. Thompson’s photo also emphasizes another point we all know too well: being a Western icon in Montana usually means spending a lot of the year blanketed in snow.

Icons of the West continues at the Dana Gallery through June 30. arts@missoulanews.com

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Can’t fake it Two Cow Garage won’t hold back A couple years ago, I saw one of the singers for Two Cow Garage, Micah Schnabel, play a solo acoustic set at a small show in a Portland basement venue. I brought a couple friends along and explained that Schnabel was a singer-songwriter guy. I realize now that my friends were expecting some kind of pleasant, mild evening of guitar strumming and Fleetwood Mac covers.

But Schnabel sang, wailed, brandished his guitar and threw himself around like he was fronting a punk band in front of a crowd of Two Cow Garage hundreds, instead of at a small club where the audience sat a couple feet away from the micro- makes sense now why this band meant everything to me in my identity-crisis-ridden college days. phone. “Whoa,” said one of my friends afterward.

More than a dozen years after forming, Two Cow In these days where rock and country are dominated by bloodless milquetoasts trying to appeal to Garage is partying even harder, as is evident on ironic modern culture, it can be jarring to come 2013’s Death of the Self Preservation Society. This is across musicians who don’t hold back. The Ohio- probably the most fast-paced, boot-stomping, cohebased Two Cow Garage, which Schnabel formed in sive work the band’s ever put out. “I just never 2001 along with gravelly voiced bassist Shane learned to fake it, all we have is sincerity,” Schnabel Sweeney, presents a backwoods-barroom-poet lyri- sings on the album’s title track. I don’t need this band cal sensibility, backed with slow-burning alt-country quite as much as I did in my wayward youth, but Two or driving punk rock arrangements. While this isn’t Cow Garage still makes me want to fight and/or make supposed to be a country band, the great country out with everyone. (Kate Whittle) Two Cow Garage plays the VFW on Tue., June tradition of self-recrimination is inherent in everything Two Cow does. Feeling guilty, but wanting to 3, along with Monks and the Mothers and Birds crack another beer and find trouble anyway—it Mile Home. 9 PM. $6/$8 for ages 18-20.

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Wyomericana Caravan Tour Maybe it’s just me, but Wyoming doesn’t stand out as a real musical hotbed. Our smaller, squarer neighbor state is certainly better known for its cowboys than its tunesmiths, but the Wyomericana Caravan Tour aims to change that. The tour, which came through Missoula last year and returns again this week, spans five states in 19 days, and is composed of three Wyoming roots groups out to prove there’s more to their home state than breakin’ broncos.

The acts rotate sets at each tour stop, so there’s no actual headliner. J. Shogren Shanghai’d is a weatherbeaten troubadour whose rough-hewn voice evokes Johnny Cash and Jerry Joseph, a mixture that serves his stories well. The growling lament “Broken Every Vow” is a particularly powerful number, driven by a lazy banjo lick and droning mandolin. Screen Door Porch, who has made a handful of appearances in town over the years, crafts breezy folk rock that re-

flects its name. The tandem male-female vocals play to a formula nearly beat to death in today’s radio-folk arena, and yet the group’s approach feels convincingly organic.

Out of the three groups, it’s Patti Fiasco who is most likely to turn heads at the far end of the bar.

The band delivers the rowdiest batch of tunes, with a mixture of rock ’n’ roll and country twang featuring the electric dobro. Frontwoman Alysia Kraft creates vivid imagery in her lyrics to get her point across, such as in “Losing Game,” when she laments, “Well the room is cold and the bed is neat, but I miss every tangle of those sheets.” So many songs are about love lost, but not every songwriter can make you feel the consequences with this kind of ache. ( Jed Nussbaum) The Wyoamericana Caravan Tour plays the Top Hat Fri., May 30, at 10 PM. $8.

Survival Knife, Loose Power Like its predecessor Unwound, the so-called “post-rock” band that disintegrated in 2002, Survival Knife is a pleasing mix of opposites. Moody in its arrangements and uplifting in its lyrics, alternately discordant and harmoniously arranged, Loose Power relies on the aesthetic thrill of contrast. In this way, it continues the satisfying paradox of Unwound, a band everybody liked even though nobody had heard of them.

The outro of “Cut to the Quick” captures Loose Power at its best. After a muscular, even plodding seven minutes of distorted power chords, it dissolves into a

Zeppelin-esque acoustic guitar arpeggio and then, in the distance, a ringing bell. That moment of clarity seems to be what Survival Knife is reaching for: the calm certainty that follows a cathartic burst of noise and emotion.

Most of the time, they get there. “Roman Fever,” for example, resolves furious and sometimes atonal chaos into a stern order, and you can hear the emotional determination behind it. Sometimes the tension slackens and messy-to-resolved feels more like a formula than a dynamic. But Survival Knife is very good at what it’s good at, even if it could stand to take a few more risks. (Dan Brooks)

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No apology needed Slash, grass and balls in Todd Snider’s new memoir

by Bob Wire

Todd Snider’s memoir/confessional/apology is boisterous, aggressive people who took what they one of the best arguments for the legalization of mar- wanted, like pirates.”

Thompson demanded that Snider go fetch his ijuana that I have ever seen. The barefoot folk singer loves him some weed, and when such songwriting guitar, which was already buried in the van, and play gods as John Prine and Kris Kristofferson have cham- some tunes for him. Snider declined. “I’m through pioned his work and count him as a friend, you gotta dicking around!” said Thompson, flying into a drug tip your hat to the wacky tobaccy. If Todd Snider were rage. “We’re here to hear you sing. What the fuck?”

Then he pushed Snider over a coffee table onto a Popeye, marijuana would be his spinach.

If you’re already a fan of his music, it will come couch. So much for meeting your idol.

I’ve read a lot of rock bios and autobiographies, as no big shock that I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like (Mostly True Tall Tales) blazes like a cross-joint and a good one is as rare as a pork roast at a PETA potluck. A great song writer dipped in Sterno. Snider is does not a great book writer like that friend you always make. Chuck Berry, for inhope shows up to the stance, wrote skintight, brilparty—a virtuoso storyliant lyrics about teenage teller with endless material life and celebrating rock that’s just crazy enough to and roll, but that rapid fire be true. lyrical prose didn’t hold up In the intro to this in book-length form. Steven shambling collection of recTyler’s tell-all, Does the ollections, he says he could Noise In My Head Bother have called this book SmokYou?, is so aggressively fliping Grass and Dropping pant and full of creaky old Names, “because it’s mostly jokes that it’s more tedious that.” Big names are indeed t h a n s a l a c i o u s . Ke i t h dropped like napalm from Richards’ Life is a refreshing a streaking fighter jet. exception. Keith is just Keef.

(Maybe that’s not the best He tells his stories with a simile about a guy who reminimum of flash, but also leased an album called doesn’t dilute his famously Peace Queer.) From Jimmy dry English wit with a lot of Buffet and Hunter S. buzz-killing pathos or finThompson to Garth Brooks ger-pointing. (And it helps and Slash, the bizarre pathat he lacks the self-aggranrade of characters wends I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like dizement of Mick Jagger.) through Snider’s peri(Mostly True Tall Tales) Snider is a screw-up, patetic musical existence in Todd Snider and he knows it. He owns a series of episodes that had paperback, Da Capo Press up to his mistakes and bad me laughing, cringing, 304 pages, $16.99 judgment, whether it’s casquinting in disbelief and shedding a few tears. But mostly laughing. This book reer-stunting tantrums or the near-miss ODs that led to multiple stints in rehab. could be an exercise program for your face.

“By now,” he writes, “you know I’m pretty open This is no genteel memoir. “Jerry Jeff Walker’s Balls” covers the time Snider passed out at his outlaw to drugs, and I’m not sorry about that. Plus I don’t country idol’s house after spraying vomit everywhere, care what happens to your children.”

What really gives this book its sizzle is Snider’s and awoke on the coach as a naked Jerry Jeff stood casually brilliant wordplay. “I think a song from one over him, yelling, “Never again!”

“That’s when I opened my eyes. And the first person to another person about love or unrequited thing I saw, twelve inches from my face, was Jerry Jeff love,” he writes, “is the height of depth.”

Lyrics to several of his songs are included, to Walker’s balls. I could describe this vision in great deshow the end product of the wild circumstances that tail. I will not. You’re welcome,” he writes.

In “Who Wears a Waistlet?” Snider recalls bellying inspired them. He frequently works the same vein as up to a hotel bar in Los Angeles and seeing Slash at Springsteen, but without the mythology. His genius the end of the bar. “There was nobody in the bar but lies in the details, like in “Double Wide Blues”: myself, the bartender, and Slash from Guns N’ Roses. “Metallica song blasting from three trailers down / It’s Right, Slash. Lead guitar. Nose ring. He wore a dozen them cut-off T-shirt and nunchuk kids coming around bracelets. He was a bracelet guy. Around his neck, the / Tonight they’ll get drunk and try to get laid / End same gamut of stuff. A neckless [sic] guy too. Anklets. up in a fight out behind the arcade.”

I cannot recommend this book highly enough for Waistlets. He made Mr. T look like a lunch money those who enjoy unvarnished views of the music busipimp. I was awestruck, terrified,” he writes.

And then there’s the time he met one of his idols, ness from the inside, humor that’s rowdy and wry, Hunter S. Thompson, backstage after a show. Thomp- and a writer who treats the English language like son was introduced by Snider’s boss at the time, origami made from a tab of acid.

Jimmy Buffet. “They were clearly fucked up,” writes Snider. “Those guys were alpha guys. They were loud, arts@missoulanews.com

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I think I’m coming down on the side of it being a very enjoyable hot mess.

The title, for instance, sounds like a MAD magazine parody title. The premise for this latest X-Men film is that it’s the year 2023, and the world is a bleak, dystopian place with dark skies and hovercrafts. (So this is going to be funny to watch in nine years; or else we better see hovercraft technology hurry the hell up already.) Giant, unkillable robotic solders called sentinels are hunting down and killing all mutants. Professor X decides the best way to stop this dystopian future will be to have Kitty Pryde send Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine back in time—or, excuse me, have him “project his consciousness into his younger self ”—to the year 1973, when an evil scientist first designed the sentinels. (In the original comic this story is based on, it’s Kitty who goes back into time. I haven’t really seen the change raise many comic nerd hackles, though, probably because comic nerds adore Wolverine like none other.)

With a vague set of instructions from Professor X, Wolverine arrives in ’73 and finds that stopping the evil scientist’s plot will require all sorts of hand-tohand combat, shenanigans, flights to Paris and explosions at the White House. Epic battles ensue.

I found the plot devices suspect at best, and the time-travel thing poses giant continuity problems for future X-Men sequels. But if you’re gonna make a silly summer superhero blockbuster, packing a bunch of awesome things into it is definitely the way to go.

There’s all sorts of fun tidbits if you’re a big comic fan, but also plenty to enjoy if you’re unfamiliar with the X-Men universe. The ’70s setting gets exploited to the max, with references to just about everything you’d hope for, from AM radio to aviator shades to

Pong to Richard Nixon. We get to see our superheroes swagger around in killer bell-bottoms, leather jackets and unbuttoned shirts. We meet a teenage Quicksilver, the guy who runs so fast he’s invisible, and his scene where he busts Magneto out of the Pentagon is worth the cost of admission alone.

Also, a lot of extremely handsome and/or beautiful people have intense conversations while standing very close to each other. I kept rooting for somebody, anybody, to just make out already. No dice.

Days of Future Past is also packed with a ridiculous amount of decorated actors and excellent cameo appearances. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen make obligatory appearances as Magneto and Professor X. Peter Dinklage chows down on the scenery as an evil, mutant-hating scientist—good or bad, he’s just so damn likable. Jennifer Lawrence is pissed-off, badass and very toned in the blue Mystique outfit. Michael Fassbender as a calculating, brooding young Magneto is fantastic. For my money, James McAvoy (one of my favorite actors ever since seeing Atonement—a very different kind of movie, but also one you should see) steals all his scenes as a young, long-haired, drunken Professor X who hasn’t come to terms with his powers.

Somehow, of course, Wolverine and co. fix everything, but the last third of Days of Future Past gets pretty stressful—after seeing a bunch of mutants die in upsetting ways, you can’t help but wonder just how this is going to turn out okay. Spoiler alert: it does. ( Withhold your surprise that X-Men: Apocalypse is slated to be released in 2016.)

Oh, and there’s a completely gratuitous, pandering, objectifying scene where we get to see Jackman’s naked ass. Totally worth seeing in the theater.

X-Men: Days of Future Past continues at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Split ends Despite its weirdness, The Double has heart

by Nick Davis

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I suppose it’s bad form to throw an early flag on a movie as technically proficient as The Double, but the substance of the film is polarizing enough to warrant an immediate qualifier: If you enjoy the kind of existential surrealism practiced by the likes of David Lynch and Terry Gilliam, this one is right in your wheelhouse. But if you’d rather eat worms than twist your brain into knots trying to figure out the significance of, say, repeated and disconnected images of a dead white pigeon (dove?) with a hollowed-out body filled with straw (sticks?), well … start digging.

A word of caution, though. Possessed of no great fondness for self-referential navel-gazing, I consider myself to be generally aligned with the latter camp, enough so that I started digging right around the first time that damn bird showed up. But they pay me to watch these things, and I’ll be damned if The Double didn’t force me into a double-take. I still don’t know exactly what happened in there, but it’s a film I can’t stop thinking about, and with that thinking comes a growing (gnawing, even) appreciation.

Directed and cowritten by Richard Ayoade, The Double is the story of an impossibly neutered data-collections clerk named Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg).

Simon is a bit of a cog in a gray world, so unimposing that the security officer at his work doesn’t remember him after seven years of dutiful service. His boss, Mr. Papadopoulos ( Wallace Shawn), ignores Simon’s efforts at advancement and calls him “Stanley.” Simon takes a shine to Hannah, the copy-room girl, but does so furtively, gazing across the span of their neighboring apartment buildings with a telescope.

Enter James Simon, the only employee to survive the shuttering of a different branch of the same firm. James Simon is a physical doppelgänger of Simon James, but the exact opposite in spirit—outgoing, charming and manipulative. James quickly becomes the office darling, gaining favor with bosses and ladies alike. The bulk of The Double’s story rides the twisting relationship between Simon and James, all the way to its surprising conclusion.

Ayoade adapted the script from a lesser-known Dostoevsky novella of the same name, though signif-

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icant liberties with the plot line and setting make this wholly his vision. The Double is set outside of any one identifiable time or place, with oddly designed office computers and hand dryers juxtaposed against peculiar versions of mid-20th-century TVs and telephones.

Nothing seems to work quite right, as if everything was somehow already antiquated, and the resulting feel is consistently and gloriously disorienting.

Ayoade employs a steady diet of claustrophobic camera work (the only significant scene set outside the tight confines of industrial-type buildings is a bizarre nighttime funeral) that feeds upon Simon’s increasingly desperate efforts to save (and, in a sense, to create) his identity in the lee of James’ exponentially larger shadow. The director also works wonders with light and music in the film, creating an atmosphere that’s almost soothing as he sends your brain down one rabbit-hole or another.

None of this would work without some serious lifting from Eisenberg, who already demonstrated a knack for channeling the odd combination of social awkwardness and ruthlessness in his Oscar-nominated turn as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Here, as both Simon and James, Eisenberg splits those polar attributes into two characters, and he plays both sides of the line with aplomb. The scenes that pair Simon with James—and there are many—are simply fascinating, as the meek Eisenberg fumes with indignation and the bold Eisenberg sneers back with contempt. It can’t be easy, acting against yourself in another role, but Eisenberg sure makes it look like a whole lot of fun.

The Double has both a genuine sense of humor and quite a bit of heart. More than enough of both, in fact, to make up for a gratuitous dead bird or two.

So if you’ve got any kind of tolerance for cinematic head trips, I’d highly recommend you put down the shovel, grab a ticket and strap in for the ride.

The Double screens at the Roxy Fri., May 30, through Sun., June 1. Visit theroxytheater.org. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK BOY An 11-year-old New Zealand kid gets a chance to know his long-lost father. Starring James Rolleston, Taika Waititi and Moerangi Tihore. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy on Sat., May 31 at 6 PM as part of New Zealand Day festivities.

BRINGING IT HOME This 2013 documentary advocates for hemp, the plumb useful plant that goes into everything from salad dressing to buildings. Screening at the Roxy Theater Wed., June 4, at 7 PM, with live music from Good Old Fashioned, hemp samples and a keg of Kettlehouse Fresh Bongwater afterward.

COLD IN JULY A homicidal ex-con and a protective papa wind up in a tangle of violence and drama in 1980s Texas. Starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson. Not rated. Wilma.

THE DOUBLE A mild-mannered, wimpy government clerk is horrified when his doppelgänger is good at everything he’s not. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska and Wallace Shawn. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy May 30-June 1 at 7 and 9 PM. (See Film.)

MALEFICENT Angelina Jolie rocks a bitchin’ horn headdress in a weird version of Sleeping Beauty. Also starring Elle Fanning and Sharlto Copley. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST Charlize Theron is the love interest in the comedy western directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane. To be fair, I would cast Charlize Theron as my love interest, too. Also starring Liam Neeson. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Peter Parker, Oscorp, supervillains, web shooting as weird visual metaphor for adolescence, crappy reboot, blah blah blah. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

BLENDED Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are back as an unlikely rom-com pair, this time as two single

We’re gonna need a bigger stick. Boy screens Sat., May 31, at the Roxy.

parents who meet at a resort. Also starring Wendi McLendon-Covey and Kevin Nealon. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

GODZILLA Rawr! The eponymous monster battles other monsters and humanity gets caught inbetween.

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Quirk-lovers rejoice, Wes Anderson brings us the lighthearted adventures of a mid-1930s concierge and a lobby boy. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham and Mathieu Amalric. Rated R. Wilma.

MILLION DOLLAR ARM Jon Hamm plays a sports agent trying to recruit Indian cricket players to play MLB. Thanks, white guy, for recognizing a minority’s potential. Also starring Aasif Mandvi and Alan Arkin. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NEIGHBORS In an alternate universe where Seth Rogen is even remotely in the same league as Rose Byrne, they play a couple with a newborn baby who encounter comedic shenanigans when a frat moves in next door. Zac Efron plays the frat guy. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE OTHER WOMAN Gals team up to get revenge on the cheatin’ dude who’s been, er, three-timing them. IMDB Plot keywords include “woman in bikini,” so this sounds pretty intellectual. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

PARTICLE FEVER Bring your thinking caps for physicist Mark Levinson’s documentary of the effort involved to launch the Large Hadron Collider; contemplation of how and why we exist is involved. Oof. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy May 30-June 1 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM.

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Wolverine gets sent into the past to prevent a world-ending catastrophe and possibly erase our memories of the last several terrible X-Men spinoff films. Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and, ooh, James McAvoy as beardy young Xavier. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer. (See Film.)

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

The string cheese incident by the SOUStown CHEF

MUNCHIES

There’s an old saying about your eyes being big- with mozzarella and other toppings. Bake 12-16 minger than your stomach. For me, the problem is more utes or until crust is golden brown and cheese melted.

Why it’s good: I’ve never eaten stuffed-crust along the lines of my culinary expectations far surpassing my budget and free time. I’d love to eat a Life- pizza in a certain chain restaurant. This way I don’t line rib-eye, some garlic-roasted potatoes from my have to.

CSA and fresh greens plucked from my backyard garden every day of the week, but reality usually dishes Poppers What you need: 1 cup panko bread crumbs, 1 / 4 up something far less spectacular. Like cereal for dinner. Or leftover takeout from two days earlier. Or teaspoon kosher salt, 1 / 4 teaspoon garlic powder, 8 worse. sticks of mozzarella string cheese (cut in half ), 8 small Know your farmer? Sure. I dig that as much as the jalapenos (cut in half lengthwise, stems and seeds renext conscientious Missoulian. But I also know what’s moved), 16 wonton wrappers, bowl of water, 1 beaten typically in the fridge on a egg, oil for frying.

Wednesday night after bar How to make it hapbreak, and it ain’t pretty. Luckpen: Combine the panko, salt “Know your farmer? and garlic powder in a bowl. ily, after years of cooking both commercially and, more reTake one half of string cheese Sure. But I also cently, for a growing family and one half of a jalapeno and with wildly divergent tastes, place in a wonton wrapper.

I’ve picked up a few tricks that know what’s typically Wet your finger in the water can help bridge the gap from and run along the edges of the disparate remains in your the wrapper, then fold. Dip in the fridge on a dorm room to something into the egg, then coat it in closer resembling the spread the panko mixture.

Wednesday night at your Super Bowl party.

In a large pot, heat 1 inch While others in this space of oil to 350 degrees. Fry the after bar break, do a damn good job of edumozzarella sticks, in batches if cating readers on the local necessar y, until golden and it ain’t pretty.” food scene or the merits of brown, 2-3 minutes. Use a organic labeling, I see my role slotted spoon to transfer to a as helping in life’s less glampaper towel-lined plate. orous moments of culinary need. Like, say, when you Sprinkle with kosher salt. realize the bulk package of string cheese is just begWhy it’s good: Fresh ingredients make a world ging to be used for more than a packed school lunch of difference compared with frozen options at the or a time-killing snack while you search the pantry for grocery. additional sustenance. Here are three easy recipes, each taking less than 20 minutes of prep and cook Mozzarella bites time, to turn that stringy stuff into something better.

What you need: 4 mozzarella sticks, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning, 1 / 3 cup panko bread crumbs Stuffed-crust pizza and 1 cup marinara sauce (heated).

What you need: 12 ounces of pizza crust (I preHow to make it happen: Preheat oven to 350 fer Le Petit), 7 sticks of string cheese, 1 / 2 cup pizza degrees. In a bowl, whisk egg. In non-stick skillet, mix sauce, 2 cups mozzarella cheese, any other toppings. seasoning and bread crumbs over medium heat. Cook How to make it happen: Heat oven to 425 de- and stir until browned. Break string cheese in half or grees. Grease 12-inch pizza pan with cooking spray. thirds. Dip one piece of string cheese in egg, then coat Spread out dough in pan. Extend over sides by at least in toasted bread crumbs. Place on baking sheet. Re1 inch. Place string cheese around inside edge of crust. peat. Bake for 5-6 minutes.

Why it’s good: Same as above. Plus, recipes don’t Fold extended edge of dough over string cheese and pinch to seal. Spoon your sauce onto dough, then top get any easier than this.

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[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you!

Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 When the sun shines, the trail along the Clark Fork beckons me for a stroll. As I pass Boone & Crockett I realize one quick side step up the hillside and I can stop at Bernice's. Mmmmm. Iced coffee to help me kick into the last leg of my cruise and a chocolate chip cookie. Or an herb cream cheese croissant and a deli container of Bernice’s Signature Curried Chicken Salad. Tradition. While you embrace the sunshine remember Bernice's. Open 6a - 8p seven days a week. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns: Thursday 5/29 Big Brains Trivia 7-10 pm. Friday 5/30 Live Music with Tom Catmull 6-9 pm. Monday 6/2 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 6/3 Burger + Beer $8. Wednesday 6/4 $2 Wells & $2 PBR Tall Boys. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients.

Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

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El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$

BUTTERFLY HERBS COFFEES, TEAS AND THE UNUSUAL 232 N. HIGGINS •

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Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close.

Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

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Getting a “Little Drunk” HAPPIEST HOUR Pocket-sized drinking buddies: Folks standing in the checkout line at Orange Street Food Farm may have noticed a new display of whimsical pewter figurines with the “Made in Montana” stamp. Those who looked twice no doubt discovered these aren’t just cheesy run-of-the-mill collectibles. They’re actually bottle openers fashioned to look like your stereotypical lush, and the tagline says it all: “Get a ‘Little Drunk.’”

Where they come from: The Little Drunk line of bottle openers was developed by Hamilton artist Tim Joyner, who deals in Westernthemed prints and sculptures. Joyner says he hatched the idea years ago and always got a chuckle out of his “Get a ‘Little Drunk’” wordplay. The figurines, which just hit retail outlets in the region this month, go for $4.99 each and have been available on Joyner’s website since the beginning of the year. Joyner says they’ve proven popular so far. In fact, he just

put in an order for 900 more from the caster he contracts with in Kalispell.

Collect ’em all: Joyner has designed and marketed five different Little Drunks to start. The Indy recently picked up “Toasted Ted,” the “wino” of Joyner’s pewter crew. Joyner realizes that not everyone may appreciate his sense of humor, which is why he’s doublemarketing one of his Little Drunks as the “Montana cowboy” using separate packaging. Joyner’s longterm goal with the figurines is to continue developing new characters to introduce to the lineup. “I’m a trinket-y kind of guy,” he says.

Where to get a Little Drunk: Joyner’s retail distribution is fairly small for now, mostly bars and grocery stores between Hamilton and Lincoln. We found ours at the Food Farm.

The Little Drunks can also be found on his website at timjoyner.artistwebsites.com.

—Alex Sakariassen

Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6?

Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences.

Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers!

Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom

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Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an allencompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches.

We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. Now serving omelettes and mimosas on Sunday, 11-4. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 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. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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Jump the gun. The In My Life musical theatre tribute to the Beatles plays at the Dennison Theatre Sun., June 1. 7 PM. $26-$41.

Tickets available at GrizTix outlets and griztix.com.

THURSDAYMAY29 Self-effacing poet BJ Soloy presents a reading at Shakespeare and Co., along with sci-fi fan Bridget Carson. 7 PM. Visit shakespeareandco.com.

Singer-songwriter Luke Dowler plays pop-inspired tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Undo that keyboard hunchback with Lunch Re-Boot Yoga with Mary Hanson.

Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon-1 PM. $9 drop-in.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media.

ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members.

Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more. The program takes a break for the summer after June 12.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Tom Catmull plays his Missoula-fied brand of tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Author and former Moscow correspondent for NPR Gregory Fiefer presents his new book, Russians: The People Behind the Power, as part of the Montana World Affairs Council’s Distinguished Speakers Program.

Turner Hall. 7 PM. When Finisher starts a residency, they end it, by golly, so the last May residency entails the CATCH, Shramana, Arctodus, and some Minneapolis outfit called Scaphe. VFW. 8 PM. $5/$7 for ages 18-20.

The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents the ‘60s-era French farce Boeing Boeing, about flight attendants and a philanderer, at the O’Shaughnessy Center. May 28-31 and June 5-7 at 7:30 PM. $20. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

The Temple of Ruin Tour, featuring burlesque sensations Surlie Temple and Ruby Ruin, brings an “international trail of destruction and sparkles” to the Top Hat, along with our own sparkly Cigarette Girls. 8 PM. $10. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin’ Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Cool off after summer shenanigans when Colorado six-piece Cold River City plays funky reggae tunes at the Palace, along with Mendelssohn. 9 PM. No cover.

Get all duked out and head on down to the Sunrise Saloon, where the O’Connells play tunes to dance by. 9:30 PM to close.

Come in like a wrecking ball when the Badlander hosts the new TNT dance party,

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[calendar] featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. From 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

FRIDAYMAY30 G e t s l u d g y, y ’ a l l , w h e n Chron Goblin, Kadmin and Swamp Ritual play the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

Little ones can go on a global journey, no passport needed, with the Cultural Friday series at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 11:30 AM-noon. May 30 features Italy.

WaterDance Productions seeks leads for its upcoming feature film with open auditions at the large media room in the Missoula Public Library from 1-5 PM. Major parts are for a man in his late 40s with a casual business appearance, a woman in her early 20s with a “semi-punk” vibe and an elderly woman. Email wmtacu@gmail.com for more info.

nightlife Go for a sociable stroll when the Singles of Missoula meet up at Currents, 600 Cregg Lane, for a river walk at 5 PM, potentially followed by dinner. Call Carol at 251-2228 for more info.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 68 PM. No cover. May 30 features Andrea Harsell.

The Missoula Rabble portrait and story project presents a gallery exhibit, Kickstarter fundraiser and reception at the ZACC from 6-8 PM, with beer, food, music and the chance to get “rabbled” yourself. (See Spotlight.)

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us special. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents the ‘60s-era French farce Boeing Boeing, about flight attendants and a philanderer, at the O’Shaughnessy Center. May 28-31 and June 5-7 at 7:30 PM. $20. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Triple Sec Jazz pours a sweet mix of swing, bossa, ballads and blues at the Missoula Winery. 7:3010 PM. $5.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 7:30-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

You’ll just havta to check out Zootown Improv to find out what’s in store for this sketch comedy and improv evening at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. W. 8 PM and 10 PM. Beer and wine bar available. 8 PM show is $12 per person/$22 for two, if bought in advance at stensrudplayhouse.com.

10 PM show is $5/free with 8 PM ticket stub.

Missoula native LioNicol escapes the LA heat to sing some cool poppy tunes. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. Bust a move when Kung Fu Revival plays the Badlander, along with Bozeman’s literary sounding hip-hop outfit Hemingway and the Organix. 9 PM. $5.

Make a li’l mess when Gil and the Spills and Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails play Sean Kelly’s at 9 PM. No cover.

Get all duked out and head on down to the Sunrise Saloon, where the O’Connells play tunes to dance by. 9:30 PM to close.

Is that a rocket in your pocket, or are you just excited to see Russ Nasset and the Revelators at the

Union Club? Tunes start at 9:30 PM, either way.

Do-si-do with a jackalope when the Wyoamericana Caravan rolls into town with Americana and rock outfits like Screen Door Porch, The Patti Fiasco and J Shogren Shanghai’d. Top Hat. 9:30 PM. $8.

The Camp Daze Warm-Up Weenie Roast entails tunes from Bad Naked, Pancakes, FUULS and Beatzelvox; pork products not included.

VFW. 10 PM. $2.

SATURDAYMAY31 The fourth annual Bowling for Animals shindig includes food, drinks, bowling, T-shirt, silent auction and more, all to support Animal Wonders and its live Animal Ambassadors, who will be hanging out and being cute and stuff.

Westside Lanes. 5:30-8:30 PM. $20 adults/$10 kids ages 212/$50 for a family of four.

Get hot coffee, baked treats, fresh produce and bump into all the friendly acquaintances you can handle at the Missoula Farmers Market, now running for 42 years. 8 AM-1 PM. Local emergency officials host a mock disaster drill at the Missoula Airport, and volunteers are needed to play victims and family members. 7:30 AM-4:30 PM. Call 728-7682 or visit missoulaagingservices.org to sign up.

Early rising produce-seekers, occasional walk-of-shamers and waffle sandwich lovers rejoice, the Clark Fork Market is back in action under the Higgins Bridge.

Saturdays through October from 8 AM-1 PM.

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The Missoula Rabble, which you can find on Facebook and Instagram, documents the individuals who make Missoula greater than the sum of its parts. Almost daily, McKee posts a beautiful, typically black and white portrait of a random Missou-

WHAT: Missoula Rabble exhibit WHEN: Fri., May 30 from 6-8 PM WHERE: ZACC, 235 N. First St. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: facebook.com/missoularabble

lian and a blurb about his or her life. The bios are weird and silly and funny and sometimes sad. Recent entries include a man in town to meet his daughter for the first time, a vibrantly tattooed woman who acknowledges her problems with drug use, a Butterfly barista who used to play in Knot Knocked Up and a couple who had just gotten married two hours before.

Bring a green thumb along when the Montana Native Plant Society offers information and a sale of more than 40 native plant starts, from Actaea to Wyethia, at the Clark Fork River Market, plus a pre-planned pollinator garden. 8 AM-1 PM. Oi! As part of New Zealand Day, the Montana Youth Rugby Association hosts a “try-on” clinic for elementary and middle school girls from 10 AM-1 PM, followed by a pick-up touch rugby tournament until 4 PM. Fort Missoula Rugby Pitch. Visit missoulacultural.org.

The community gamelan Manik Harum (aka a traditional Balinese percussion orchestra) performs the shimmering tunes along with dancers from the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre at the Clark Fork Market, under the Higgins bridge. 10 AM-noon. Free.

The first-ever Demeter Fest celebrates local and sustainable foodways with a smörgåsbord of tunes from HELLGATE, WydeEyedChylde, Mateo Mblem, Cain and Fable, Corporate Defiance, VelociVox, Trouble Troy, Humble Mugs, Jael Johnson, Gerygone and Twig and more. Plus there’s $3 microbrew and $2 PBR specials. Stage

“The Octopus” is one of several characters documented in the Missoula Rabble exhibit.

McKee plans to turn Missoula Rabble into a book, to make for something with a little more heft and permanence than a Facebook page. Her Kickstarter campaign, which is, as of press time, more than halfway to the $10,000 goal it needs to make

by June 10, intends to publish the Rabble book through the local Milltown Press.

If you’re unfamiliar with Missoula Rabble, you can check out some of the portraits, learn more about the Kickstarter and get rabbled yourself at the reception on May 30 at the ZACC. Who knows, you might learn something surprising about someone you thought you knew.

112, noon-bartime. All ages from noon-9 PM, 18-plus from 9 PM to 2 AM. $7/$10 for all ages at the door, or $5/$8 for all ages in advance at stage112.com. (See Agenda.)

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Unleash the creativity within at Art on Tap, a painting class where you’ll go from canvas to complete artwork. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. 12:30-3 PM. $36.

Check out artontapmissoula.com.

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[calendar] WaterDance Productions seeks leads for its upcoming feature film with open auditions at the large media room in the Missoula Public Library from 1-5 PM. Major parts are for a man in his late 40s with a casual business appearance, a woman in her early 20s with a “semi-punk” vibe and an elderly woman. Email wmtacu@gmail.com for more info.

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25.

Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2– 3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.

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nightlife Get all shook up when singersongwriter Chad Ball plays acoustic tunes with a tinge of outlaw country orneriness at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Caroline Keys and Jeff Turman do Saturday nite up right at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

The Stensrud Dinner Theatre presents Bullets for Broadway, a musical murder mystery. 314 N. First St. Performances on Saturday at 7 PM, with booze and dinner catered by Silk Road. $50. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.

Throw some centripetal motion into the mix when Cash for Junkers and Western Union play country, honky tonk and western swing at the Top Hat. 7 PM. Free.

The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents the ‘60s-era French farce Boeing Boeing, about flight attendants and a philanderer, at the O’Shaughnessy Center. May 28-31 and June 5-7 at 7:30 PM. $20. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays jazz tunes with covert flair at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St. 8-10 PM. No cover.

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight.

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Give it a shot when Chance McKinney plays tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. No cover.

Debauchery shall ensue, y’all, when Undun, Blessiddoom & My

Too cool for pool. The Fray plays the Big Sky Brewery Amphitheater, along with Barcelona and Oh Honey on Thu., June 5. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $35. Tickets at Big Sky’s taproom, Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

Fist Your Face rock out at the Dark Horse, corner of Strand and Regent.

9 PM. No cover.

Do that devil’s work you do so well when Idle Ranch Hands play tunes at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

SUNDAYJUNE01 Let there be dancing, dancing in the streets for the annual Sunday Streets party, which closes off Higgins from the XXXXs to Fifth Street downtown and opens it up for walking, biking, food vendors, activities, kids’ games and more.

10 AM-4 PM. Free. Call 552-6732 to volunteer, which gets you a shirt and an ice cream coupon.

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As part of the general Sunday Streets shenanigans, instructors host Yoga on Higgins Bridge. Modified Bikram class at 11:30 AM and Body Flow infusion class at 2 PM. BYOMat. It’ll move to Caras Park in case of bad weather. Learn more at SundayStreetsMissoula.org.

nightlife Check the beat when Black Mountain Boys play tunes for your Sunday Funday pleasure at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

Knock back some ethanol alcohol for a scientific buzz with viewing party of “Cosmos” with Neil deGrasse Tyson. 501 Lounge in the upstairs of the Iron Horse. Get there and order your dranks at 6 PM or so.

Sometimes, the name says it all: The “In My Life” Musical Theatre Tribute to the Beatles plays at the Dennison Theatre. 7 PM. $26-$41. Tickets available at GrizTix outlets and griztix.com.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM. Free.

MONDAYJUNE02 Check out some up-and-coming talent with the release party for Aerie International 2014, a literary magazine by high school students curated by a Big Sky High class. Crystal Theatre. 6 PM. Free.

Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Do your body good at the Yoga: Pure and Simple class with Marina, with basic meditative and balance poses. Yoga Fitness Center, 123 Alder St. Mondays through June 30 from 7-8:15 PM. $40 for all five/$10 drop-in. Check out yogafitnesscenter.net.

The son of Johnny Cash’s manager explores talented but troubled figures in My Father and the Man in Black, screening as part of the Big Sky Film Series at the Top Hat. 8 PM. Free.

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for the working class. 10 PM. Free.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout.

Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

TUESDAYJUNE03 Backpack rapper Pigeon John plays the Palace, along with Grayskul, Rafael Vigilantics, and local fellas including Ronnie Dar Lingblom, Rude Max, Codependents and Traff the Wiz. 10 PM. $15/$10 in advance, plus $5 surcharge for ages 18-20. Tickets at standupmt.com.

Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Mis-

[calendar] soula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

The Beginning Essential Oils class will go over tips for immune and emotional support and basic first aid. Walking Stick Toys. 11 AM-12:30 PM. $5/$35 to take home a first aid starter kit. RSVP via the Walking Stick Toys Facebook page, or call 543-1179. Check out walkingsticktoys.com.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon– 1 PM. Free.

nightlife Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

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

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place at 8 PM. Here’s a

question to tickle your brainwaves: What is the largest member of the weasel family? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and get a $20 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials.

VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. Aran Buzzas chills out with “homegrown Montana folky tonk” at the Top Hat. 8 PM. 21plus after 9 PM. No cover.

Just don’t call ‘em country when hard-partying outfit Two Cow Garage plays the VFW, along with Monks and Mothers and Bird’s Mile Home.

10 PM. $6/$8 for ages 18-plus.

(See Music.)

WEDNESDAYJUNE04 The Our Missoula Kick-Off Meeting is the start to a year-long process of crafting a 20-year growth policy for the Garden City.

Mayor Engen and nationally known urban planner Ed McMahon will chat at the DoubleTree Hotel, 100 Madison St. 7-9 PM. Childcare provided. Learn more at 552-6628.

Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow. Wednesdays, 7:30-8:15 AM. Previous experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/$8 drop-in.

The kid’s classic that’s perfect for spring, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, featured at Barnes and Nobles’ Story Time. 11-11:30 AM. Free.

nightlife Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle.

Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. First Wednesday of the month from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 7 PM. Free, all ages. June 4 features the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio.

Chicago rawkers Local H tear it up at the Palace, along with Bad Veins. 9 PM. $15/$12 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s at 1111presents .com. (Trivia answer: Wolverines, traditionally called “skunk bears” by the Blackfeet Indians, are the largest weasels.)

Awaiting the cue. Singer-songwriter Luke Dowler plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton Thu., May 29. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

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THURSDAYJUNE05 The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents the ‘60s-era French farce Boeing Boeing, about flight attendants and a philanderer, at the O’Shaughnessy Center. May 28-31 and June 5-7 at 7:30 PM. $20. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Undo that keyboard hunchback with Lunch Re-Boot Yoga, a gentle practice with Mary Hanson. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon-1 PM. $40 for six classes/$9 drop-in.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:155 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more. The program takes a break for the summer after June 12.

nightlife The Fray, who sings your aunt Margery’s favorite song “How to Save a Life,” play the Big Sky Brewery Amphitheater, along with Barcelona and Oh Honey. 5417 Trumpeter Way. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $35. Tickets at Big Sky’s taproom, Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:30-8:30 PM. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Post up for the afternoon and make yourself at home when Tacoma’s The Tenants play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Homegrown gal Andrea Harsell plays rock ‘n bluegrass ‘n such at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Shady characters. Colorado’s Cold River City plays funky reggae tunes at the Palace, Thu., May 29, along with Mendelssohn. 9 PM. No cover.

The Missoula Dream Center presents a local rendition of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 2023 S. Higgins Ave. June 5-6 and 13-14 at 7 PM. $10. Check out missouladreamcenter.com.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

The Whiskey, Wingnuts and Wenches tour presents all the death and thrash metal you can shake a stick at, with Last of Lucy,

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Darkale, Vengeance and Arctodus at the Palace. 9 PM. Free.

Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free.

Come in like a wrecking ball when the Badlander hosts the new TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails spread the

gospel of “mountain girls, whiskey and rainbow trout” at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.

Zakk Wylde burning a piano, now that’s art.

Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801.

You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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hile dogs might not always serve their original evolutionary purpose as hunting companions, they still definitely serve all sorts of useful roles in our lives today. Several studies show that owning and regularly walking a dog is good for our mental well-being, cardiovascular fitness and blood pressure—and theirs.

Take canicross, for example, where humans run harnessed to dogs. The upcoming K9-X 5K Canicross Race in Hamilton features human-dog teams where humans are harnessed to one or two dogs. Think of it as a “dryland version of skijoring,” according to the Bitterroot Mushers website. The race also includes divisions for runners with regular leashed dogs and

dog-free runners, too, in case you’re not prepared for canicross.

The benefit of the harness is hands-free control of your critter—plus, if your dog is anything like my family’s tireless border collie, he or she will keep you motivated to keep up the pace and go the extra mile.

—Kate Whittle The K9-X 5K Canicross Race is Sat., May 31, and includes 5K and 1.5-mile races for human-dog teams and runners without dogs.

Hamilton Dog Park, 900 block of Adirondac Avenue. Registration from º8:30-9:30 AM, race start at 10 AM. $10, race-day registration only. Visit bitterrootmushers.org.

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Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

Dames will pack a lotta heat at the Babes N Bullets women’s shooting event, a fundraiser for Tough Enough to Wear Pink of Montana. 9 AM-5 PM at Deer Creek Shooting Range, on Deer Creek Road past East Missoula. $100 registration gets you into the shooting clinic, T-shirt, snacks, goodie bag and after-party. Competition is restricted to women, but pals of any gender can come to the afterparty for an additional $20. Email Ryan at rcorwin@bobwards.com for more info or call 728-3220.

SATURDAY MAY 31

SUNDAY JUNE 1

Today kicks off the 44th annual Tour of the Swan River Valley, a two-day, 226-mile trek that starts in Missoula, travels along Highway 200 to Seeley Lake, heads over to Flathead Lake and then back down to Missoula. This supported ride includes food, baggage shuttle and camping arrangements, so all you need is your bike and your game face. $109/$99 before March 1; must be a Missoulians on Bicycles member. Visit missoulabike.org.

Kick off the month by cycling one of the toughest stretches in the state during the Cow Country Classic Loop, a 50-mile road race that climbs 2,408 feet in elevation in Wolf Creek. There’s also an 87-mile option for those prepared to go the extra 37 miles. Visit montanacycling.net.

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

The latest Five Valleys Audubon adventure goes forth to visit a Bitterroot colony of bobolinks, AKA prairie songbirds with adorable names. Meet at the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot for carpool departing at 8 AM and returning around 1 PM. Call Terry for info at 214-1194.

Bust out your spiffiest running duds for the fifth annual Lolo Fun Run 5K and 1-Mile, a fundraiser for Lolo School sports programs and Missoula Children’s Theatre productions. 9 AM. $20 adult registration. Visit lolo.k12.mt.us for registration forms and info.

MONDAY JUNE 2 Today’s the final day for spring antelope permit drawings. Check out fwp.mt.gov for more information.

TUESDAY JUNE 3 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info.

THURSDAY JUNE 5 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org. calendar@missoulanews.com

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In ancient Greek mythology, Demeter was the Greek goddess of the harvest—and so much more. She also presided over agriculture, sacred law, fertility and the cycle of life and death. Demeter’s prominence reflected just how important agriculture was to ancient societies—and it’s still just as important for our survival, but perhaps we just don’t think about it on a daily basis. Our industrialized food system keeps most of our modern firstworld civilization separate from the means of actually growing our own sustenance.

The sustainable food movement is working to undo that disconnect.

Demeter Fest, on May 31 at Stage 112, is an upcoming event with hours of music and speakers to advocate for getting closer to the earth, questioning the prevalence of GMOs and supporting organics.

Being conscientious about sustainability

doesn’t mean we can’t party like Greek gods of old at Demeter Fest.

Proceeds benefit a local chapter of the Organic Consumers Association, which spreads awareness of corporate malfeasance (cough, Monsanto, cough) and advocates nationwide for local foodways. Plus, there’s a $3 local craft brew special—so you can put your money where your mouth is.

—Kate Whittle The first-ever Demeter Fest on Sat., May 31, includes tunes from H E L LG AT E , W y d e -EyedChylde, Mateo Mblem, Cain and Fable, Corporate Defiance, VelociVox and more. Stage 112 at the Elk’s. All ages from noon-9 PM, 18plus from 9 PM to 2 AM. $7/$10 for all ages at the door, or $5/$8 for all ages in advance at stage112.com.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY MAY 30 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY MAY 31 Today kicks off the 44th annual Tour of the Swan River Valley, a two-day, 226-mile trek that starts in Missoula, travels along Highway 200 to Seeley Lake, heads over to Flathead Lake and then back down to Missoula. This supported ride includes food, baggage shuttle and camping arrangements, so all you need is your bike and your game face. $109/$99 before March 1; must be a Missoulians on Bicycles member.

Visit missoulabike.org.

You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

The latest Five Valleys Audubon adventure goes forth to visit a Bitterroot colony of bobolinks, AKA prairie songbirds with adorable names. Meet at the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot for carpool departing at 8 AM and returning around 1 PM. Call Terry for info at 214-1194.

Bust out your spiffiest running duds for the fifth annual Lolo Fun Run 5K and 1-Mile, a fundraiser for Lolo School sports programs and Missoula Children’s

Theatre productions. 9 AM. $20 adult registration. Visit lolo.k12.mt.us for registration forms and info.

Dames will pack a lotta heat at the Babes N Bullets women’s shooting event, a fundraiser for Tough Enough to Wear Pink of Montana. 9 AM-5 PM at Deer Creek Shooting Range, on Deer Creek Road past East Missoula. $100 registration gets you into the shooting clinic, T-shirt, snacks, goodie bag and afterparty. Competition is restricted to women, but pals of any gender can come to the afterparty for an additional $20. Email Ryan at rcorwin@bobwards.com for more info or call 728-3220.

SUNDAY JUNE 1 Kick off the month by cycling one of the toughest stretches in the state during the Cow Country Classic Loop, a 50-mile road race that climbs 2,408 feet in elevation in Wolf Creek. There’s also an 87mile option for those prepared to go the extra 37 miles. Visit montanacycling.net.

MONDAY JUNE 2 Today’s the final day for spring antelope permit drawings. Check out fwp.mt.gov for more information.

TUESDAY JUNE 3 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info.

THURSDAY JUNE 5 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members.

Visit montananaturalist.org.

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

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 LEA• Lea is a female, orange and white short-haired cat. She is around 7 years old and is very mellow and easy going.

Her special trait is that she has no teeth so she requires a wet food diet. Lea is very sweet and will melt your heart when you meet her. Come to the shelter and meet this special girl.

CONSTANCE•Constance is a middleaged, female short-haired cat. She is declawed so needs to be an indoor-only cat.

Constance takes a little time to adapt to change so she needs a quiet, patient home that will understand her needs. Once she is comfortable in her surroundings, she can be quite sweet and loving. She has been at the shelter way too long!

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JUDE•Jude is a newer cat at the shelter. She is a gray and white female around 4 years old. She is declawed so needs to live indoors. Jude was surrendered by 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 her owner because she could no longer Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) keep her. She was nervous at first but is truly a delight now that she has warmed 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) up. Jude would make a great indoor com- Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) panion for any home.

MARIETTA•Marietta is a 3-year-old lab/pit mix female. She is a very playful, young dog that would make a great hiking companion. She does need a home where she will be the only dog in the family. Maybe your home will be the perfect fit?

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

BJ•BJ is a male border collie around 3-

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HONEY•Honey is a young lab/pit female. She was very scared when she first came to the shelter but now has fallen in love with our staff. Her new game is when you are leaving her kennel, she likes to nibble on your shoes. We feel it’s her way of asking you not to leave. Honey is a very loveable dog who would love to be a lap dog if you let her.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 BENJAMIN• Benjamin loves to talk!

If you come in during, he'll tell you about Adopt-a-Cat month - and he'll also tell you how much he wants a nice home of his own! He's very smart, loves using interactive food toys, and happens to be a staff favorite! Come meet this special boy today.

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ANGELICA• Angelica loves laps! This 8-year-old torti also enjoys feather toys, and being part of the family. She qualifies for the Seniors for Seniors program, but don't tell her that. She says, "Senior? I'm barely middle aged!" Come check out this beauty today.

LOVEY•Lovey has the perfect name: This 13-year-old boy loves everyone, including cats, dogs, and kids. He enjoys riding on your shoulder, and even being held like a baby! He also has the most beautiful green eyes. Don't you have a spot in your heart for this lovey cat?

AUGUSTINE• Augustine is a sweet one-year-old calico who came to the shelter with eight tiny kittens, all of who have been adopted. It's Augustine's turn now!

She's affectionate, outgoing, and, thanks to Blue Mountain Vet Clinic, she's spayed and ready to go home during Adopt-a-Cat month!

RIGSBY•Rigsby is an independent tiger cat who loves two things: head-rubs and his scratching post. This nine-year-old fellow would also love to find a new home where he can relax and sleep in the sun.

He hopes someone will come and adopt him during June, which is Adopt-a-Cat month!

BELLA• Bella is one of those cats that might actually be a dog. She will follow you on walks around the neighborhood.

She's playful and independent. Bella definitely a quirky gal. Stop by to meet Bella and learn about June's Adopt-a-Cat month special.

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COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD ADD/ADHD relief ... Naturally! Reiki • CranioSacral Therapy • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Your Energy Fix. James V. Fix, RMT, EFT, CST 360840-3492, 415 N. Higgins Ave #19 • Missoula, MT 59802. yourenergyfix.com CHERRY FESTIVAL SEEKING VENDORS Wanted: Seeking vendors for Polson’s Main Street Flathead Cherry Festival. This is a very well-attended event, held on the main streets of Polson July 19th and 20th. This unique celebration of Montana’s cherries draws many thousands of visitors each year. Three booth sizes are available, making this affordable for anyone. Local Montana-made and cherry-themed products are preferred. Food vendors welcome. To view and fill out an application, please visit www.flatheadcherryfestival.com. Booth spaces are limited

and our deadline is June 20, 2014.

This is a two-day event and we reserve the right to refuse duplicate products. You can direct questions to vendors@flatheadcherry festival.com, or 406-686-1155.

Missoula Medical Aid: Working for Health in Honduras. In 1998 we responded after a devastating hurricane. The need still continues, and so do we. Will you help? Volunteer or donate today! missoulamedicalaid.org Missoula Medical Aid: Working for Health in Honduras. Please donate now at missoulamedicalaid.org!

TO GIVE AWAY First Friday Free For All. Haircuts will be donated to the first 20 people in the door & you

may receive one free haircut every three months. Noon to 4 pm, 1st come, 1st served. Mighty Aphrodite Salon. 406-7211866. 736A S. 1st W. Missoula (next to Free Cycles). Find us on Facebook.

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Vaccinations, nail trims, microchips, and name tags available. $15 dog booster, rabies, or kennel cough; $25 cat booster with leukemia. All proceeds benefit the Bitter Root Humane Association. For more information, please contact the Shelter at 363-5311.

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Friday May 30th – Sunday June 1st at the Orchard Gardens Community Room 210 N. Grove St, Missoula Jordan Leahy is a teacher and translator of Tibetan and Sanskrit.

He holds an MA in Indo-Tibetan Studies from Naropa University.

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PET OF THE WEEK Blanca arrived at the shelter with a frostbitten nose and ears. Luckily, she’s feeling much better now, and this three-year-old girl is just looking for a nice, warm home where she’ll never have to worry about being cold again. Blanca also wants to make sure everyone knows that June is Adopt-a-Cat month!

Adoption fees on cats will be waived for adopters who donate the HSWM’s “Paw it Forward” fund to spruce up the cat area. Come meet Blanca and her feline pals today!

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BAD HAREM DAY I'm 30, and I've been married to my sweet, beautiful wife for three years. I am a bartender at a club and have numerous opportunities to cheat dangled in front of me. After coming close on several occasions, I finally told my wife I wasn't happy, and we separated three months ago as a prelude to divorcing. I moved in with a friend and started taking advantage of my new single life. However, it's already getting old. I miss my wife and her intelligence and our connection. How do I start the conversation with her about getting back together?

—Screwed Up After several years of marriage, for a lot of couples, pretty much the only way to have hot sex is to do it under an electric blanket.

Ideally, you could have the security of marriage while continuing to pick up sex snacks at the mall food court of bachelorhood. (In a perfect world, Starbucks would also serve free beer.) But back here in the real world, a monogamous relationship demands trade-offs, and the biggie is giving up hot sex for love and constancy. Even couples who keep having sex almost never have it as hot (or as regularly) as they did at the start. There are just certain elements that can't be replaced—sexual tension and suspense, for example—once you know for sure that you'll not only be going home with your date but be waking up to them snoring and drooling on your shoulder for the next 50 years.

Part of the problem is the way we view monogamy—as the inevitable next step after falling in love. It's just assumed that a couple will be sexually faithful for a lifetime; there's typically no discussion of how, exactly, they'll accomplish that or whether they even can. Of course, for many people—women especially—there is no acceptable alternative to monogamy. "Open marriage, honey?" Right. You may as well suggest, "You know, I'm thinking we should spend the rest of the afternoon disemboweling squirrels."

Also, many people mistakenly believe that a happy and loving marriage is a magical fidelity wand that wards off the temptation to wander. Infidelity researcher Shirley Glass, in "Not 'Just Friends,'" calls this a "misconception ... not supported by any research," though it is commonly cited on TV and in self-help books as a way to "affair-proof your marriage." What it can end up being is a way to stick blame on

the person who got cheated on, as if their saying "I love you" more fervently or keeping the living room better vacuumed could have kept their spouse's underwear from ending up on someone else's spouse's hotel room floor.

Additionally, some people seem to have a biological and psychological profile that makes them more prone to long for the sexual variety pack. One factor in this is being high in what psychologist Marvin Zuckerman calls "sensation seeking"—craving novel, varied, and intense sensations and experiences and being willing to take risks to get them. Sensation seeking has repeatedly been associated with high testosterone, and men with high testosterone tend to divorce more often and have more sex partners. This isn't to say these factors are an excuse for cheating. ("Biology made me do it!") You ultimately have the ability to make choices—difficult as that may be in the moment when you're feeling very much like a penis-controlled robot.

Sure, you miss your wife now, but if you get her back, will you start pining for the parade of bar floozies? Testosterone does decline significantly with age, as does sensation seeking, so you may find monogamy more doable at 40 than you do at 30. Assuming your wife, like most women, requires monogamy, what you owe her is honesty about the trouble you have with it so she can decide whether she's willing to put herself in harm's way. If you do get back together, talk about what you (each) need to do to avoid temptation (like, for you, maybe finding a job where you aren't surrounded by hot drunk girls flashing you their thong for free drinks).

This level of honesty is likely to bring you both closer and build trust, making your relationship deeper and stronger.

You're ultimately telling your wife that you see there's a world of women out there but what matters most to you is having her—her beauty, sweetness, and intelligence, and your connection. You now understand that this requires consistent effort.

(There's a reason the saying is "relationships take work" and not "flings are like forced labor.") You're committing to doing your part to keep some sparks flying in your marriage—and not by having her find you in bed with another woman and then chase you around with a Taser.

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CLERKS/CASHIERS A Missoula business is seeking full time Clerks/Cashiers for the graveyard shift.

No experience is required. Must be able to lift between 20 and 35 lbs and be wellgroomed for high customer contact. Will provide excellent customer service, serve as cashier, operate lottery machines, stock shelves and clean. Must be flexible and available for all days—days will vary.

Will work 11:00 pm until 7:00 am. Pay is $8.50/hour, depending on experience.

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Job# 10052017 FENCE ERECTOR Full-time FENCE ERECTOR needed. Will be erecting chain link, wood and metal fencing and gates.

Welding experience a big plus. Must have a valid drivers license as will be driving company pickups. Must be able to drive a standard transmission. Lots of heavy lifting; must be able to lift up to 75 lbs. Will also have to travel out of town at times. Employer is will train hard workers.

Work is Full-time; Monday through Friday, 8:00AM to 4:30 PM, or until the job is complete. Wage starts at $9.00 per hour if training is required; higher pay with experience. Company offers benefits.

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Job# 10053008 Housekeeper **Providence is calling a Part-time Housekeeper to Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, MT.** We are seeking a detail-oriented individual to perform a variety of cleaning duties in support of maintaining a sanitary, safe and attractive health care environment. *This is a part-time position (32hours/week) with benefits. Evening shift.* Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10051822

Housekeeper - Part and Full Time Duties of the Housekeeper Include: Carries out duties of cleaning hotel rooms, hallways, common areas and grounds.

These duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Strip and make beds, clean bathrooms and other areas of the hotel within allotted timeframe Replenish supplies such as towels, in room coffee supplies, paper and writing supplies Perform seasonal deep cleaning tasks. Clean lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators, and other common areas of the hotel Competencies include ability to respond to customer needs, excellent customer service skills. Demonstrate ability to interact professionally with coworkers, guests and management. Qualifications include high school degree or GED and three months experience in hospitality or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of a drug check. This is a safety sensitive position. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10052005

PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT TEACHERS Missoula YMCA is seeking a dynamic, outgoing, reliable Assistant Teachers for preschool aged children. Duties include assisting with planning and implementation of lessons and classroom activities while providing a safe, age and developmentally appropriate, quality care for children.

Will work in a team environment. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related field, or two or more years of experience in a licensed child care center. Must be dependable, empathetic, willing to take on tasks and be respectful of diversity of children and their families. Need to be able to work effectively with other staff, management, parents and children. Must be groomed for public contact and have solid written and verbal communication skills. Background check will be conducted. Center is open Monday-Friday, day shift, both full time and part time positions available.

Pay will be discussed at interview. Full time positions offer vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, and a gym/organization membership. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10053037 Deliver y/Shuttle/Relief Driver Class A CDL required. Two years verifiable driving experience, two years ramp food experience, and doubles endorsement preferred. Must be able to lift 100 lbs several times during the day.

Must be able to pass all pre-employment screenings. Must be hard working and self-motivated. Must have excellent driv-

ing skills and know the local area or read a map/guide. Must be able to read/write and record data, able to perform simple math calculations, able to pay close attention to details. Will be responsible for the deliver of merchandise, off-load using hand truck and truck ramp, maintaining paperwork and operate safely. Must have great customer service skills. Job requires: frequent walking/standing; sitting for periods of 30 minutes or more; able to get in and out of truck all day; use bot arms to push/pull pallet; frequent bending/crouching/squatting; and frequent use of feet in operation of foot pedal. Additional details of job can be found at www.fsafood.com WE ARE AN EEO/AA EMPLOYER AND CONSIDER APPLICANTS WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE , COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, DISABILITY OR VETERAN STATUS. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10053011 Fleet Mechanic MECHANIC (Greenough, MT) compensation: DOE Position Title: Fleet Mechanic Job Description: Fleet Mechanic is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of all ranch and resort vehicles and equipment. Must have the ability to prioritize work and schedule accordingly. Will be working on passenger vehicles, 15 passenger vans, trucks, tractors, heavy equipment, including ATV’s, boats, jet ski’s, golf carts, small engines, lawn and garden equipment. Performing diagnostic work, trailer repair and wiring; 12 volt electrical systems, and generators. To include but not limited to diesel, 4 stroke and 2 stroke experience.

Classification: Non-exempt, Full-Time Regular Position Qualifications/Responsibilities: • 3+ years experience in auto/passenger vehicle repair, not an entry level position • Must have own required hand and air tools to perform a timely and quality repair • Road test vehicles to ensure quality of repair and safety of employees and guests v Tire repair, mounting and balancing • Must be able to use computer and email • knowledge of parts look-up, ordering parts and documentation of all work performed • Keeping track of shop tools and replacing when they are lost or broken • Helping cattle crew with farming and cattle operations when possible • Filling out proper paper work for necessary repairs, and parts • Keeping track of outgoing fuel records and employee fuel codes • Purchasing and keeping track of fuel • Buy and sell all vehicles and equipment as needed • Licensing all new vehicles and renewing all old vehicles • Metal work and fabrication • Keep track all vehicles, and reallocate when necessary • Write and enforce resort vehicle policy • Keep current and accurate service records on all vehicles and equipment • Personally responsible for the condition of the Lipson fleet Educational Requirements: • High

School Diploma or GED • 2 years of mechanic based education or equivalent • 4 years work base experience Licensure/Permits Required: • Valid MT drivers license • CDL a plus • Welding certification a plus Perks of Working for Paws Up • Free shuttle service to Missoula (when resort is open) • Complimentary lunch provided to all employees (when resort is open) • Housing provided when available • Carpool reimbursement opportunities • Bonuses provided throughout the year (when available & qualified) To Apply: Please respond with your cover letter and resume (in a single .doc file) to hrmanager@pawsup.com. Be sure to include your name in the resume file title.

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Guitar Instructor The Missoula Childbloom Guitar Program is seeking a part-time instructor to work with children ages 5-12. Applicants must have music reading skills, an understanding of classical guitar technique, and experience teaching music to children. E-mail office@missoulachildbloom.com for more information and to schedule an appointment to drop off a resume(no e-mailed resumes please).

Lead Teacher Missoula YMCA is seeking a dynamic, outgoing, reliable Lead Teachers for early childhood education. Duties include planning and implementation of lessons and classroom activities while providing a safe, age and developmentally appropriate, quality care for children. Will work in a team environment. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related field, or two or more years of experience in a licensed child care center. Must be dependable, empathetic, willing to take on tasks and be respectful of diversity of children and their families. Need to be able to work effectively with other staff, management, parents and children. Must be groomed for public contact and have solid written and verbal communication skills. Background check will be conducted. Pay will be discussed at interview.

Full time positions offer vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, and a gym/organization membership. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10053035 Legal Secretary - Job #2563 Legal Secretary-Full-time or Part-time -Missoula Dorsey & Whitney LLP accepts online applications. Please go to the ‘Careers’ section of the Dorsey website at www.Dorsey.com and complete Dorsey’s online application form. We do not accept application materials by mail or email except as a reasonable accommodation for qualified disabled applicants.

Individuals who are unable to use our online process due to a disability should call 612-492-5302. There is a position avail-

EMPLOYMENT able for a Legal Secretary in Dorsey’s Missoula office. Both full-time and part-time candidates will be considered. Duties: Create and revise documents from handwritten, typed or electronic copy; compose letters as directed; answer telephones and interact professionally with firm clients; file paper/electronic documents and information promptly and accurately; time entry, travel arrangements and expense report preparation; assist with special projects, a variety of general office duties and cooperate as a team member with co-workers; may be requested to perform other duties not mentioned above. Requirements: High school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent; typing of 50 wpm with a high degree of accuracy; proficiency in Word; strong proofreading and organizational skills; at least 3+ years litigation legal secretary experience preferred; excellent oral and written communications skills; flexibility regarding hours desired (overtime may be requested).

Dorsey & Whitney LLP is one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States with 18 offices across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We are a premiere legal advisor to technology, life sciences, financial services, energy, mining, retail and manufacturing companies worldwide. Dorsey offers a competitive salary and benefits package including health care plans, a generous paid time off policy, paid holidays, retirement savings plan, profit sharing contribution, and more. DORSEY & WHITNEY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE/RECEPTIONIST Missoula insurance office seeking reliable individual for the position of part time to full time OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE/RECEPTIONIST. Exceptional customer service skills, multi-line telephones, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and other computer tasks. Must have a minimum of two years office experience with those having insurance office experience preferred. Greeting customers, making telephone calls, answering telephones, data input, filing, taking messages, operating various office equipment and other duties as assigned. $10.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10051981 Patient Service Representative The Patient Service Rep telephones Home Health patients who are scheduled for clinical visits the next day. Position confirms visits and patient availability, then notifies clinicians and Scheduler of cancellations and changes. Work schedule is from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays (approximately 20 hours per week). Requirements include 1 year of general of-

fice experience, plus working knowledge of office productivity software. High school graduate preferred. Prior experience in a medical setting preferred. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10052013

SKILLED LABOR DRIVERS: PRIME, INC. COMPANY DRIVERS & Independent Contractors for Refrigerated, Tanker & Flatbed NEEDED! Plenty of Freight & Great Pay! Start with Prime Today! Call 800-277-0212 or apply online at driveforprime.com EXPERIENCED DRIVER OR RECENT GRAD? With Swift, you can grow to be an award-winning Class A CDL driver.

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HEALTH CAREERS

Certified Nursing Assistant **Providence is calling a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Surgical/Pediatric, to St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, MT.** We are seeking a compassionate and caring individual to provide safe and reliable routine daily care to patients admitted to the hospital.

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Job# 10051695 Certified Nursing Assistant Oncology **Providence is calling a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Oncology, to St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, MT.** We are seeking a compassionate and caring

individual to provide safe and reliable routine daily care to patients admitted to the hospital. *This is a .9 FTE night shift position, 36 hours per week, from 7:00pm-7:00am, with rotating weekends required.* Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10051694 RN - IV Therapy The IV Therapy Nurse is responsible for on-going patient/caregiver education, problem solving and direct patient nursing care for infusion patients. IV nursing services are provided both in the office and in the residences of patients throughout the greater Missoula area. Schedule is part-time (approximately 16 hours per week), includ-

Certified Nursing Assistant **Providence is calling a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Surgical Pediatrics, to St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, MT.** We are seeking a compassionate and caring individual to provide safe and reliable routine daily care to patients admitted to the hospital. *This is a 24 FLEX night shift position, with 24-36 hours per week.* Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10051697

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INTERPRETER/CSW FT position providing services to Adults w/disabilities in a residential/community setting. American Sign Language is required. Su: Noon-9p, M & T: 3p-10p, W: 1p-10p, Th: 3p-11p. $11.75-$12.00/hr. Closes: 6/3/2014, 5pm.

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OPPORTUNITIES

The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly newspaper, is seeking an experienced part-time Production Assistant to help with the construction of the paper, including advertising and editorial content, as well as collateral material. Qualified applicants should have extensive experience working with Quark Xpress and Adobe Photoshop, a keen eye for design, a willingness to adhere to strict deadlines, and a proven ability to work well with others in a high-pressure setting. This job is high-tech, fast-paced, and good fun.

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Multi-tasking skills, multi-line phone, construction and accounting experience preferred, valid driver’s license, Mon-Fri 8-5, references required at interview.

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are seeking a Surgical Tech to collaborate with an Operating Room (OR) team in providing efficient, safe, cost effective patient care outcomes before, during and after surgery. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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FULL-TIME HIGH SCHOOL

VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHER

ing rotating coverage of weekends, holidays and on-call. Requirements include Montana RN license (BSN preferred); and valid driver license, auto insurance & reliable transportation. CRNI certification preferred. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10052039

FT Position Supporting persons with disabilities residentially. Supervisory exp preferred. W: 2p-11p, Th: 1p-11p, F: 1p-11p, Sa: 9:30a-9:30p. $9.60-$9.85/hr.

Closes: 6/3/14, 5p.

CSW FT position assisting adults w/disabilities in their day to day living. Exp working with adults w/disabilities preferred. M-F: 7a- 3p. $9.25-$9.65/hr. Closes: 6/3/14, 5p.

CASE MANAGER FT position providing targeted case management/ coordinating support services to persons age 16 or older w/developmental disabilities in Helena, MT. Minimum requirements: BA in Human Services and 1 year exp w/individuals with disabilities. MF: Varied hours $15.14/hour. Closes: 6/3/14, 5p.

DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL Supporting Persons with Disabilities in Enhancing their Quality of Life. Evenings, Overnights & Weekend hours available. $9.00-$10.40/hr.

Valid MT Driver License, no history of abuse, neglect or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org.

Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EOE.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER The Montana Newspaper Association, celebrating its 129th year of representing the Montana newspaper industry, is recruiting a Business Development Manager. This position is responsible for the development and marketing of print and digital advertising programs with regional and national business clients, works with association members to expand Montana advertising programs and promotes other MNA services. We are looking for an individual well-versed in sales and marketing with the ability to build long-term business relationships with our members and clients. Candidates must have strong innovative, communication and organizational skills. We offer competitive compensation, benefit allowance and work flexibility.

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Position closes June 3.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suspect that some night soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand on stage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There's a strong possibility you will be wearing pink and green striped socks and a gold crown. And it gets worse. In your dream, I bet you will forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd. Your mouth will be moving but no words will come out. So that's the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life. So when you are called on to show what you've got and make a splashy impression, you will be well-prepared.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I slip into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that's rotting on the forest floor. I see exuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cowpie in a pasture. I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So what do my visions mean? I'm guessing you're going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay. You are shedding and purging and flushing. In the process, you are preparing some top-notch fertilizer. It won't be ready for a while, but when it is, a growth spurt will begin.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Dear Diary: Almost everything that was possible to change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding and I am not exaggerating. Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chip-chipchipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud? Why is it I'm not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders? Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defenses were totally stripped away? I think I'll go with that theory."

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): About 32,000 years ago, squirrels in northeast Siberia buried the fruits of a flowering plant deep in their burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then a flood swept through the area. The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got a hold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you will be capable of pulling off during the next 12 months, Virgo. I'm not sure what exact form it will take. A resuscitation? A resurrection? A recovery? The revival of a dormant dream? The thawing of a frozen asset or the return of a lost resource?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won.

Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate. He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never took home an Oscar. If there is anything that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favorable time ever to break the spell. In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I should have kissed you longer." I hope you won't be replaying that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now. I hope you won't be obsessing on similar mantras, either, like "I should have treated you better" or "I wish I would have listened to you deeper" or "I should have tried harder to be my best self with you." Please don't let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now to make any necessary changes in yourself so that you will be fully ready to give the important people in your life the care they deserve. If you do so, you will be free of regrets later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?" Those are questions Louise Gluck asks in her poem "Prism." Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That's what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into beginner's mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You could really benefit from engaging with a compassionate critic—someone who would gently and lovingly invite you to curb your excesses, heal your ignorance, and correct your mistakes. Would you consider going out in search of a kick-ass guide like that? Ideally, this person would also motivate you to build up your strengths and inspire you to take better care of your body. One way or another, Capricorn, curative feedback will be coming your way. The question is, will you have a hand in choosing it, or will you wait around passively for fate to deliver it? I highly recommend the former.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Now would be an excellent time for you to dream up five new ways to have fun. I'm not suggesting there's anything wrong with your existing methods. It's just that in the next few weeks, life will conspire to help you drop some of your inhibitions and play around more than usual and experience greater pleasure. The best way to cooperate with that conspiracy is to be an explorer on the frontiers of amusement and enchantment. What's the most exciting thing you have always wondered about but never done? What interesting experiment have you denied yourself for no good reason? What excursion or adventure would light up your spontaneity?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some earthquakes happen in slow-motion. These rare events occur 22 to 34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier. Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, this gradual variety can take many days to uncoil and never send dishes flying off shelves up here on the earth's surface. I suspect your destiny will have a resemblance to this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages.

BLACK BEAR NATUROPATHIC

ARIES (March 21-April 19): "When I was young," wrote French author Albert Camus, "I expected people to give me more than they could—continuous friendship, permanent emotion." That didn't work out so well for him. Over and over, he was awash in disappointment. "Now I have learned to expect less of them than they can give," he concluded. "Their emotions, their friendship, and noble gestures keep their full miraculous value in my eyes; wholly the fruit of grace." I'd love to see you make an adjustment like this in the coming months, Aries. If you do, the astrological omens suggest you will experience a blessing like Camus'.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now is an excellent time to transform your relationship with your past. Are you up for a concentrated burst of psychospiritual work? To get the party started, meditate your ass off as you ponder this question: "What fossilized fixations, ancient insults, impossible dreams, and parasitic ghosts am I ready to let go of?" Next, move on to this inquiry: "What can I do to ensure that relaxed, amused acceptance will rule my encounters with the old ways forever after?" Here's a third query: "What will I do with all the energy I free up by releasing the deadweight I had been clinging to?"

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MUSIC

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Banjo lessons not just for guys anymore. Bennett’s Music Studio 721-0190 BennettsMusicStudio.com Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons.

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PETS & ANIMALS

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All cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped free of cost before they’re adopted. For more information call AniMeals at 721-4710.

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PUBLIC NOTICES LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Probate No. DP-14-102 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: KEITH A. MCDANIEL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sean P. Salsbury 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 above-named as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 21st day of May, 2014. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-14-99 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONNA M. SMITH, 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 said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to JOHN E. SMITH and DEBORA J. PLASTER, the Co-Personal Representatives, 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 15th day of May, 2014. /s/ John E. Smith, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Debora J. Plaster, Co-Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for CoPersonal Representatives By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause No. DP-14-78 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NANCY REBECCA PETERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner, Martha Lee Gilmore has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Formal Probate of Will, Determination of Testacy and Heirs and Appointment of Personal Representative, as Petitioner for the above-named Estate. For further information the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the Clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 18th day of June, 2014, at the hour of 1:30 p.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and contest the Petition or object to the appointment of such Petitioner. DATED this 13th day of May, 2014. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-14-98 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD M. BARTH, DECEASED. 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 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 Gloria M. Mielke, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 12th day of May, 2014. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

DATED this 5th day of May, 2014. /s/ Gloria M. Mielke, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-14-535 NOTICE OF PENDING NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF: SONJA MARIE LLOYD, Petitioner. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Name Change of SONJA MARIE LLOYD to obtain an order of this Court granting leave to assume the name of SONJA MARIE CROWN, will be pre-

sented to the above-entitled Court, at the Missoula County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on July 16, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, and that at such time, application will be made for the relief sought in the said Petition. DATED this 19th day of May, 2014. WELLS & MCKITTRICK, P.C. By: /s/ EVONNE SMITH WELLS, Attorneys for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-14-100 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HOMER V. BROWN, 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 certified mailed to Stephen J. Holden, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 15th day of May, 2014. /s/ Stephen J. Holden, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-14-103 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HANNAH GWEN CAPEN, 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 Nathan Capen, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 10th day of May, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Nathan Capen BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Christopher L. Decker P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Nathan Capen, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-97 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARGIE E. DONOVAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 M. SHAUN DONOVAN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 668, Superior, Montana 59872 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 12th day of May, 2014. /s/ M. Shaun Donovan, Personal Representative PO Box 668, Superior, MT 59872 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/18/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200618223 BK 779, PG 714, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Barbara A. Marlenee was Grantor, New Century Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and Stewart Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 9D on Certificate of Survey No. 1747, being a Tract of land located in the NW 1/4 of Section 30, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Together with a private access and public utility easement as shown on Certificate of Survey No. 1747.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201213443 BK 897 Pg 320, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. 2006-NC2, Asset Backed Pass Through Certificates Series 2006-NC2. 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 be-

MNAXLP cause of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 26, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $137,155.05. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $130,786.65, 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 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7777.19731) 1002.267046-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/14/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201001221 Bk:854 Pg:103, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Keith R Bridenstine was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Bank of America, N.A., its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J Peterson, Attorney at Law was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J Peterson, Attorney at Law as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 18B of Certificate of Survey No. 1722 located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 19, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201109341 Bk: 878 Pg: 756, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. 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 April 7, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $201,990.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $150,753.92, 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 18, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

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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# 7021.18106) 1002.267505-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/28/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200616328 BK 778, PG 388, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jason Hudson, Jennifer Hudson, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson of Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby, and Kloster, PC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson of Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby, and Kloster, PC 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 9 of West View, Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201223190 BK 904, PG 267, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. 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 10/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 1, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $176,555.97. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $153,733.74, 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 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

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

access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.109081) 1002.267339-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/31/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200928024 Bk: 851 Pg: 474, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Paul E. Morrison, a married man as his sole and separate property was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 17 of Lakewood Estates Phase I, 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 non-occupancy and is grounds for acceleration on the Deed of Trust under paragraph 9 (b) (i) The property ceases to be the principal residence of a Borrower for reasons other than death and the Property is not the principal residence of at least one other Borrower. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due in full. As of April 1, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $257,349.68. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $256,386.68, 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 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.108632) 1002.267338-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 11, 2014, 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: Unit No. 22 of THE CEDARS, a residential condominium situated on Tract D of HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 1, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, and according to the Declaration of Condominium on file and of record in the Office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder in Book 121 at Page 107 Micro Records, filed and recorded pursuant to the provisions of the Montana Unit Ownership Act, Section 67-2301, et seq., R.C.M. 1947 as amended. TOGETHER WITH an undivided fractional interest in the general common elements equal to the fractional ration such unit owner’s unit bears to the total area of units and a 100 per cent right to use the limited common elements appertaining exclusively to his or her unit AND SUBJECT TO the Bylaws of THE CEDARS recorded June 26, 1978 in Book 121 at Page 111 Micro Records, restated June 6,

1983 in Book 189 at Page 989 Micro Records, restated October 6, 1983 in Book 195 at Page 1569 Micro Records, and restated May 21, 1999 in Book 583 at Page 289 Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana Peter J Kelly, 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 Deed of Trust dated February 29, 2008 and recorded March 5, 2008 in Book 814, Page 257 under Document No. 200804692. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $745.73, beginning July 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 18, 2014 is $119,777.89 principal, interest at the rate of 4.625% now totaling $4,412.91, late charges in the amount of $111.32, escrow advances of $3,188.36, and other fees and expenses advanced of $835.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.18 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, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 11th day of March, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Greentree V. Kelly 42072.126 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 7, 2014, 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 11A

OF SOUTHSIDE ADDITION TO BLOCK 11, LOTS 11A AND 12A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Abraham F Schulz and Lyudmila N Schulz, 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 Deed of Trust dated July 29, 2005 and recorded August 5, 2005 in Book 757, Page 989 as Document No. 200520109. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,018.43, beginning May 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 31, 2014 is $110,801.46 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $5,763.30, late charges in the amount of $109.44, escrow advances of $2,072.57, suspense balance of $-384.81 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,212.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.98 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )ss.

County of Bingham) On this 28th day of February, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Green Tree V Schulz 42072.052 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 7, 2014, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 3 AND 4 IN BLOCK “E” OF CAR LINE ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Mary A Elsea and Mark J Elsea, 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 Deed of Trust dated September 09, 2009 and recorded September 10, 2009 in Book 847 page 205 under Document No. 200922159. The beneficial interest is currently held by Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $964.59, beginning August 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 23, 2014 is $168,917.81 principal, interest at the rate of 5.0% now totaling $5,630.56, late charges in the amount of $307.93, escrow advances of $1,529.76 and other fees and expenses advanced of $309.10, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.14 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 28th day of February, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 M&T V. Elsea 41902.341 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 7, 2014, 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 14 AND 15 IN TRACT 14 OF SCHOOL FIVE ACRES TRACTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Jesse Crowe and Michael E. Crowe, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Chicago Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated April 6, 2004 and Recorded July 9, 2004 in Book 735 on page 1476 under Document No. 200419169. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to Citifinancial Mortgage Company Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $788.88, beginning June 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 19, 2014 is $136,431.91 principal, interest at the rate of 3.0% now totaling $2,930.48, late charges in the amount of $525.12, escrow advances of $2,253.15, and other fees and expenses advanced of $196.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $11.21 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 28th day of February, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same./s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Citimortgage V Crowe 42090.072 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee’s Sale No: 08-FSL-127393 Loan

MNAXLP No.: 1005215105 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, ALLIANCE TITLE and ESCROW CORP, the duly appointed Successor Trustee, will on September 19, 2014, at the hour of 11:00 AM, of said day, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, the following described real and personal property (hereafter referred to collectively as the “Property”), situated in the County of MISSOULA, State of Montana, to-wit: SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA AND STATE OF MONTANA: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS A PORTION OF PARCEL 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4880. The Trustee has no knowledge of a more particular description of the above-referenced Property but, the Trustee has been informed that the address of 901 BEN HOGAN DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59803, is sometimes associated with said real property.

GEORGE L. STEVENS AND GERTRUDE LOUISE STEVENS, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to HOME CONNECTS LENDING SERVICES, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, A PENNSYLVANIA CORPORATION ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 10/11/2006, recorded 1/16/2007in Volume 790, page 719, of Deeds of Trust, under Instrument No. 200701181, Mortgage records of MISSOULA County, MONTANA. The beneficial interest is currently held by First Community Bank.

The default for which this sale is made is the failure to pay when due under the Deed of Trust Note dated 10/11/2006, THE MONTHLY PAYMENT WHICH BECAME DUE ON 1/20/2013 AND ALL SUBSEQUENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS, PLUS LATE CHARGES AND OTHER COSTS AND FEES AS SET FORTH. Amount due as of May 13, 2014 Delinquent Payments from January 20, 2013 1 payments at $ 1,210.02 each $ 1,210.02 1 payments at $ 1,209.93 each $ 1,209.93 1 payments at $ 1,092.84 each $ 1,092.84 1 payments at $ 1,209.93 each $ 1,209.93 1 payments at $ 1,248.55 each $ 1,248.55 1 payments at $ 1,276.23 each $ 1,276.23 1 payments at $ 1,297.25 each $ 1,297.25 2 payments at $ 1,221.28 each $ 2,442.56 1 payments at $ 1,182.25 each $ 1,182.25 1 payments at $ 2,578.22 each $ 2,578.22 1 payments at $ 1,182.25 each $ 1,182.25 2 payments at $ 1,221.28 each $ 2,442.56 1 payments at $ 1,092.84 each $ 1,092.84 1 payments at $ 1,221.28 each $ 1,221.28 (01-20-13 through 05-13-14) Late Charges: $ 0.00 BENEFICIARY ADVANCES TOTAL UNCOLLECTED $ 0.00 Suspense Credit: $ 0.00 TOTAL: $ 20,686.71 All delinquencies are now due, together with unpaid and accruing taxes, assessments, trustee’s fees, attorney’s fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. The principal balance is $299,914.19, together with interest thereon at 4.750% per annum from 12/20/2012 to 2/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 2/20/2013 to 3/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 3/20/2013 to 4/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 4/20/2013 to 5/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 5/20/2013 to 6/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 6/20/2013 to 7/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 7/20/2013 to 8/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 8/20/2013 to 10/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 10/20/2013 to 11/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 11/20/2013 to 12/20/2013, 4.750% per annum from 12/20/2013 to 1/20/2014, 4.750% per annum from 1/20/2014 to 3/20/2014, 4.750% per annum from 3/20/2014 to 4/20/2014, 4.750% per annum from 4/20/2014 to 5/20/2014, 4.750% per annum from 5/20/2014, until paid. The Beneficiary elects to sell or cause the trust property to be sold to satisfy said obligation. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same.

DATED: 5/14/14 ALLIANCE TITLE and ESCROW CORP Trustee By Joel Meng, Asst Secretary c/o REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES 616 1st Avenue,

Suite 500 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: (206) 340-2550 Sale Information: http://www.rtrustee.com A-4460915 05/29/2014, 06/05/2014, 06/12/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 12-02366-5 Loan Number: 7144167207 APN: 3261900 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 24, 2014 at the hour of 11 :00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NE1/4 OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 17 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4385. More commonly known as:19570 HIGHWAY 200 EAST,BONNER,MT RICHARD GENSCH AND LYNN GENSCH, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to WESTERN TITLE AND ESCROW, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR CAPITAL FAMILY MORTGAGE COMPANY OF MONTANA, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of April 18,2003, and recorded on April 18, 2003 under Document No. 200313429 BK704 PG-132, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 7, 2014 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 May 14, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from August 1, 2012 and which payments total: $22,055.92: Advances: $1,861.10 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $135,251.41 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.75000% per annum from July 1, 2012, 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 10th 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.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: May 14, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive, Suite 101 Rancho Cordova , CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1095743 5/29, 6/5, 06/12/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 13-00103-17 Loan Number: 7140061719 APN: 3356906 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 24, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 13B of Sorrel Springs, Lots 13A and 13B, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as: 18175 MUSTANG

LANE,FRENCHTOWN,MT DAVID PARCELL, AN UNMARRIED INDIVIDUAL, as the grantor grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE, INC. , as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of March 14, 2005, and recorded on March 16, 2005 in Film No. 749 at Page 248 under Document No. 200505894, 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 Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2005-1 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated April 17, 2014 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 May 15, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from July 1, 2012 and which payments total: $45,040.95: Late charges: $649.71 Advances: $2,275.91 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $268,816.94 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 3.62500% per annum from June 1, 2012, 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 10th 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.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALESINFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED:May 15, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1095745 5/29, 6/5, 06/12/2014

CLARK FORK STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 34, 136, 248, 274.

Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 5/19/2014 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 6/19/2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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19 "All right then, leave!"

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10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $320,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard & garage. $225,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355. betsy@milyardteammt.com 3904 England Blvd. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Pleasantview. $230,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 4101 O’Leary. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with 2 car garage in Hellgate Meadows. $279,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com

1290 Lena Lane. 3 bed, 3 bath with 3 car garage near fishing access in Target Range. $320,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com

4415 Shepard Lane, East Missoula.

3 bed, 3 bath on 1 acre near Canyon River Golf Course & ShaRon river access. $330,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

4571 Heaven’s Gate. 4 bed, 4 bath Farviews home on 2 acres. $995,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

1944 South 8th West. Remodeled 2 bed, 1 bath with deck on 2 lots. $158,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

4781 Montrose. 3 bed, 2 bath in Canyon Creek. RD eligible. $182,500. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355 betsy@milyardteammt.com

1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath splitlevel in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-law apartment. $325,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

507 North Avenue East. 4 bed, 2 bath University area bungalow with single garage. $319,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com

223 West Kent. 3 bed, 2 bath with wood floors, arched doorways, solarium, deck, basement & single garage. $297,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties 2000.com 2515 Klondike Court. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style in Grant Creek with 2 car garage. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range.

Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $238,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2611 Deer Canyon Court. 4 bed, 3 bath with daylight basement, patio, deck & 2 car garage. $439,000.

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532-9229 tory@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on almost 5 Target Range acres bordering DNRC land. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com 309 Plymouth. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Craftsman bungalow with wood floors, sky lights, patio and claw foot tub. 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in lower level. $339,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

5454 Canyon River Drive. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on Canyon River Golf Course. $550,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 5619 Prospect. 5 bed, 4 bath wellmaintained Grant Creek home with 3 car garage. $419,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 5805 Mainview. 4 bed, 2 bath South Hills home with basement & deck. $220,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Propeties. 5417355 betsy@milyardteammt.coom 6833 Linda Vista. 5 bed, 3 bath with 2 family rooms, extra downstairs kitchen and large fenced yard. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 716 South 6th West. Classic 3 bed, 2 bath with fireplace, deck, fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 7201 Old Grant Creek Road. 4 bed, 3 bath with Grant Creek frontage, deck & fireplace. $655,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355 betsy@milyardteammt.com 756 Angler’s Bend. 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car gargage on East Missoula golf course. $472,600. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 5329229 tory@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apartment on 5 view acres. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your

options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

room home with character and a 1 bedroom cottage house. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $850,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355, betsy@milyardteammt.com

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When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe $226,500. 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard. A home with character! KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $199,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

Lot 42 Jeff Drive. To be built 2 bed, 2 bath Hoyt home in Linda Vista with 3 car garage. $369,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229. tory@montana.com

2121B Jasmine Place. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with deck, patio & 2 car garage. $198,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

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2800 Highcliff #5. 2 bed, 1.5 bath condo in Grant Creek near Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. $121,500. Chris Honzel, Lammbros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com

Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com

324B North Grant. 3 bed, 2 bath condo with fenced yard & 2 car garage. $169,900. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com

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505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail.

No HOA fees. $289,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

Slant Street Charmer 733 Marshall $225,000. Slant Street charmer with lots of light, a wonderful yard with raised beds, and an awesome shop all in a convenient location and ready to move in to. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Unfinished LOG HOME! Superior craftsmanship in this unfinished OFF GRID LOG home built on daylight walk out basement with 2nd story. Windows installed, fully wired, septic installed (3000 gal) approved for 5 bedrooms, well, charming barn, stunning Mission Mountain views & water fall. Its been done right finish to your tastes. 20 ac w/FIP irrigation water. Custom 4 or 5 bedrooms,you decide how may baths, 50 yr roof shingles, breakfast nook, incredible elevated bldg site & views. Basement is livable with wood heat, kitchen, shower & compost toilet. Garage area is inside barn. Excludes BUT negotiable: Greenhouses, solar system, stove & fridge in lower level. Greenhouse biz produces extra income! Priced @ $450,000. For more information call our office @ 406-745-4940 or visit our website @ www.missionvalleyproperties.com University District 102 East Kent $265,000. University 4 bed-

5505 Creekstone. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Grant Creek. $130,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. betsy@milyardteammt.com Cooley Street Condo 1545 Cooley St. #C. This upper level 2 bedroom condo provides for easy, sweet living close to downtown and has great North Hills views. $128,500 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $150,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $158,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 5465816 annierealtor@gmail.com

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REAL ESTATE Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

Prices!! 16 x 80 Single Wides Tape & Texture Throughout, Oak Cabinets, Glamour Bath, Upgraded Insulation = Starting at $45,900 Modular Homes Loaded with Upgrades = Starting at $89,500 Elite Homes - Call Troy at 406-6966282 or Jason at 406-855-2279

Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 53.5 acres overlooking Missoula.

Utilities in place, septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5402 Canyon River Road. Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15,901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES

605 Dunkleberg, Drummon. 2 bed, 2 bath on 28 acres with

creek. $249,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com

910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

NHN Edgewood. 3.35 end-of-road acres on east side of Mount Jumbo.

Close to river. $89,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 11 acre Mission Mountain building site. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Over 40 acres with 2 creeks near Mission Mountains.

Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.

1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise ZappKnapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp,

1790 Dukes. 3 bed, 2 bath in Katoonah Lodges, a 55+ community. $83,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 4752 Parent. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 decks and heated shop. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NEW HOME SPRING BLOWOUT!!

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FOR BUYING MORE FOR LESS 512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com

5505 Creekstone 2 bed, 1.5 bath Grant Creek condo. $130,000 MLS #20140810 5805 Mainview 4 bed, 2 bath South Hills home with great views. $220,000 MLS #20142246 3501 Paxson 4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement & 2 car garage $225,000 MLS #20140601

NEWLY RESTORED HISTORIC DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS The Palace is located on the Corner of Broadway & Ryman Studios start at $407 a month + $450 deposit 1 Bedrooms start at $554 a month + $550 deposit.

2 Bedrooms start at $707 a month + $650 deposit.

Water, sewage, trash, and heat are included in rent.

ADA wheelchair-accessible units available.

• On-site property management • Secure building • Coin-op laundry with new machines

Call 549-4113 x130 Matty Reed, Property Manager

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REAL ESTATE $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter.

Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321 Rock Creek Acreage. 20 acres adjacent to Forest Service land. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

COMMERCIAL 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home.

Zoned commercial. $190,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com

11901 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo. 2 bed, 2 bath with many upgrades including roof & windows. $197,500. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 1290 Thunder’s Trail, Potomac. 3 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. $795,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered

by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $465,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 280 Hellgate Drive. 3 bed, 2.5 bath Colonial Cottage east of Bonner.

Wood stove, deck, fruit arbor & fenced garden. $355,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath Lolo home. $234,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, historic Stevensville home. $236,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $239,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres. Great mountain views. $335,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

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Missoula Properties 728-8270

PERFECT PICKS 1117 Cleveland • $255,000 4 bed, 2 bath with hardwood floors and single garage

2200 Garland • $112,500 2 bed, 1 bath renovated condo that doesn't feel like a condo

7650 Becca • $42,250 3 bed, 2 bath manufactured home with deck in East Missoula

221 Eddy Spottswood Condo • $195,000 Light & airy 1 bed, 1 bath in U District. 946 sq.ft. of move-in ready space. Tile, pergo, all appliances along with community clubhouse & storage near parking spot.

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REAL ESTATE Bitterroot Acreage 994 Pathfinder $599,000. 330 acres with knock-your-sock-off views East Side Stevi/Florence area with a small house. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com River Access 17430 Six-Mile, $285,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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655 Woodworth Ave, Missoula $364,500

223 West Kent $297,900

3 bed/3 bath darling 40's bungalow.

Just blocks to U of M. Hardwood floors, coved archways. Fenced backyard.

Pat McCormick

Secret Garden Retreat Near Rose Park 3 bed, 2 bath with wood floors, arched doorways, solarium, French doors, skylights & deck. A gardener's dream!

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