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Up Front: City digs in against Rattlesnake residents Ochenski: The shame of Montana’s buffalo war Noise: Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside

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On a recent rainy Saturday morning in Hamilton, Stewart Brandborg, who is 86, white-haired, and plagued by a bad back and wracking cough, is gearing up for another wilderness fight. “I’ve actually got to put my running pants on and get back to work,” he says. He’s trying to stop a new subdivision that’s planned in his neighborhood ......................................................14

News Letters Tester champions wilderness, CO2 is a scapegoat ........................................ 4 The Week in Review Red Fang rocks, geeks don drag, river rats gather .................6 Briefs Making snowboards in school, dodging floodwaters......................................6 Etc. Must lead bullets be sacred?................................................................................7 Up Front Mission Valley’s Amish go their own way...................................................8 Up Front Upper Rattlesnake residents triumph over developer—for now ...............9 Ochenski The shame of Montana’s buffalo war ......................................................10 Writers on the Range Salmon, Idaho residents look to a brighter future .............11 Agenda Sunday Streets Missoula offers a car-free thoroughfare .............................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan The seeds of future growth..........................................................18 Happiest Hour Al’s and Vic’s ...................................................................................19 8 Days a Week And the Molly Llama thrived...........................................................21 Mountain High Missoula Lions Club Bicycle Poker Run ........................................29 Scope Abe Coley aims to dominate the world, starting with First Friday ...............30 Noise Destroy Nate Allen, Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside, Ratatat .................32 Arts Adrian Arleo’s ceramic flights............................................................................31 Film Morgan Spurlock does it again with The Greatest Movie Ever Sold ...............33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................34

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

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Molly Laich STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITORS David Loos, David Merrill ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jenn Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Rhonda Urbanski, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Teal Kenny FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold EDITORIAL INTERN Jed Nussbaum CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, George Ochenski, Nick Davis, Andy Smetanka, Jay Stevens, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Ali Gadbow, Azita Osanloo, Cathrine L. Walters, Anne Medley, Jesse Froehling

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STREET TALK

by Elizabeth Costigan

Asked outside of the Orange Street Food Farm.

Q:

A natural disaster has struck. You have five minutes to leave your home. What do you take with you besides people, pets, and pictures? Follow-up: What would you absolutely leave behind?

Tyler Theisen: Probably my iPod and that’s it. I could probably do without everything else. Everything that people own is the same—the same TV, the same X-Box. But an iPod is what helps someone to express themselves and it contains a lot of memories. Om: I’d leave behind everything else. A fresh start is really attractive to me and something that I have wanted for a while now.

Samantha Copp: I guess valuable documents such as birth certificates and social security cards. And lots of food and diapers since I have a three-month-old! Bad hair day: I would leave behind the non-essentials like makeup, my straightener, electronics, TV, and my couch.

Mellonie Roesler-Begalke: That would be a “cow jumping over the moon” cookie jar. It was a wedding gift to my mother and father when they got married. My mother passed away when I was 11 and it was always sitting on the counter when I was a kid. It’s the one special thing I have from them together. Jarhead: Everything else I would leave behind.

Ingrid Cady: I could live without my stuff. But I would take my dog’s medication. She has hip displasia. Turn off the light then: My bed. I don’t like it. The bedposts are really creepy and cast shadows in the night.

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Wilderness champion Between 1994 and 2008, there wasn’t a single hearing in the U.S. Senate on the management of Montana’s wilderness lands. This is Big Sky Country, home of Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. Montana is also home to the Bob Marshall, the Beartooths, and the largest National Forest in the lower 48 states—the wild Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest. Yet not even one hearing in 16 years. However, during the short time span of 2009 and 2011, Sen. Jon Tester has managed to achieve two hearings on the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, a bill that would protect wilderness across western Montana. He has achieved this with unprecedented support from the timber industry and outdoors enthusiasts of all stripes. In Montana, our wild lands are the envy of the world. The amount of tourists enjoying these magnificent places every year is proof. Political desire to recognize this treasure and ensure it for generations to come is the only aspect lacking. Tester has the will and he is representing

Montana in a way it truly deserves. Katie Zuck Missoula

But CO2 is good! Carla Wise’s piece is just another leftist opinion lacking any scientific basis (see “Let gas prices rise,” May 19, 2011). CO2 isn’t a pollutant, and in fact is necessary for most life on Earth. Without CO2, which plants utilize for food, most life would die off. Increasing CO2 levels result in faster plant growth—essential for feeding the ever-growing human population. Science shows that there’s no correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature (aside from the fact that CO2 levels rise many years after warming begins). Alarmists evoke the usual bogeymen, such as thinning snowpacks. However, our snowpack is well above normal this year, and changes in sea surface temperatures portend a cooling trend for approximately the next 30 years. There’s been no statistically significant warming since 1995, even as carbon dioxide continues to pour into the atmosphere. Periods of warming and cooling have

been occurring for eons without the help of humans. In fact, scientific analysis of ice cores reveals that increases in atmospheric CO2 typically occur hundreds of years after warming begins, which shows that CO2 is not driving the warming. Michael Mann’s faked “hockey stick” graph, which purported to show a stable climate until CO2 levels began rising, is scientific fraud. As one scientist declared, “Michael Mann is at Penn State, but he should be in the state pen.” The ClimateGate emails revealed more science fraud at the highest levels of climate research. The data was changed to fit the preconceived notions of the ClimateGate conspirators, and the original, raw data was “lost.” How convenient. Thus, climate change clearly isn’t caused or significantly contributed to by CO2, and it would be foolish to stop using oil and coal. Wind turbines and solar power are pretty much useless and won’t have any significant effect on climate anyway. Roger Stang Missoula

Comments from MissoulaNews.com

Keep bears protected

Stinky mass

The science doesn’t support the delisting of bears, particularly the science of bear habitat (see “You’re next,” May 26, 2011). Doug Peacock is exactly right about habitat. We need significantly more habitat now to support the bears we already have. If the agencies were serious about bear conservation, they’d expand habitat and ensure connectivity among populations. But of course, that’s politically incorrect, and the agencies lack the courage to do what’s required by science and by law. The fact of the matter is that the cards are all stacked against bears and bear conservationists. That’s why these issues end up in court. It’s the only place we can get anything resembling a legitimate hearing. May 31, 2011 at 9:01 a.m.

When I moved to Missoula in 1973, the winters were dark in town, with the heavy smell of wood smoke. Then, after a couple of weeks, as the

Delisting a moving target

unlikely to play

The Endangered Species Act was passed as a mechanism to preserve biodiversity by giving threatened species a priority over other uses and a mechanism to accomplish that through establishment of recovery plans that, when achieved, will lead to delisting (see “You’re next,” May 26, 2011). We should be celebrating the success of the ESA in retuning grizzlies to more secure status rather than complaining and establishing ever-moving targets for delisting. The states, whose participation in the grizzly recovery effort was critical to its success, are unlikely to play on a field with no goal posts in sight. May 31, 2011 at 1:22 p.m.

“The states, whose participation in the grizzly recovery effort was critical to its success, are on a field with no goal posts in sight.” valley smog got thicker and you used your headlights during the “day,” the smells (and particulates) of the traffic blended with the mix. Of course then it was the villain lumber industry with their tee pee burner eliminating the sawmill scrap before they got eliminat-

ed. Now the University of Montana tries to take their place with the biomass burner that can pay for itself. If I’m not mistaken “biomass” includes bullshit, but of course, that was then and this is now. May 30, 2011 at 8:40 p.m.

Gassing down As gas prices increase so does your enjoyment of driving your SUV, if done right (see “Let gas prices rise,” May 19, 2011). Take the bus more, support organic farming, carpool, ride a bike. The fact that gas prices are increasing and they will continue to will take care of the problem. It’s the artificial means of keeping gas prices down that are a big part of the problem. Wars for oil, for example, are a real problem. May 19, 2011 at 1:52 p.m.

Love this band This is one of the worst band reviews I have ever read (see “Ghostland Observatory,” May 19, 2011). I had never heard of Ghostland Observatory before I went to their concert, but I went because I wanted a weekend out of town and a friend promised me I would not be disappointed. Not only was their crowd interaction fantastic, but the energy in the venue was consistently high throughout the entire show. I don’t normally dance, but I danced the whole evening, I was entranced through the whole performance, and three days later I still find myself rehashing the whole night. May 23, 2011 at 5:34 p.m.

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Pamella Janelle Anderson, 48, of Missoula, appears before Justice of the Peace John Odlin three days after being charged with her seventh DUI. Anderson twice crossed a double-yellow line near the Missoula airport, when pulled over had her belt undone and pants unzipped, and eventually urinated in a patrol car, the Missoulian reports.

• Thursday, May 26 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announces the closures of more than a dozen fishing access sites on the Bitterroot, Clark Fork, and Blackfoot rivers due to high water and flood conditions. Over the next few weeks, the agency says, swift currents, cold water, and hidden snags will “greatly increase the risk of drowning.”

• Friday, May 27 Red Fang dominates the Palace before a room full of PBR-drinking metal heads and a swirling pit of moshers. The Portland band, which will share an upcoming festival stage with Megadeth, plays “Wires” and “Prehistoric Dog,” two songs made popular by the band’s music videos, which were directed by “Jackass” writer Whitey McConnaughy.

• Saturday, May 28 Large men drink alcoholic “marmot-juice” before donning small silver dresses to strut their stuff in a drag show in a conference room at Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center. The performance marks one high point of many during the four-day MisCon science fiction convention, an annual celebration of all things geeky.

• Sunday, May 29 In Idaho, more than 100 river rats congregate at a section of the Lochsa River dubbed “Lochsa Falls” to watch rafters navigate one of the river’s biggest rapids. But a pall is cast over the usually rowdy holiday weekend following the drowning of a rafter the day before.

• Monday, May 30 The Missoula Mavericks trounce the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen twice at Ogren-Allegiance Park. The home team racks up eight-run victories in each game. At the end of the four-day Dale Dahlgren Memorial Day Tournament, the Mavericks are 5-0, earning them the right to hold onto the class AA title.

• Tuesday, May 31 Benjamin Levi Bartlett, 29, of Missoula, pleads guilty to a single count of distribution of dangerous drugs, a felony. Bartlett admits providing marijuana to a 15year-old girl at the city’s Caras Park last summer. The court tells him not to renew his medical marijuana card, and he’s released on his own recognizance.

The Blackfoot River (left) runs a light tan as it flows past Bonner and into a chocolate brown Clark Fork on the afternoon of May 27.

Riverfront Triangle Seventh time’s the charm Since 1984, Missoula has tried six times to develop its portion of the Riverfront Triangle, a prime piece of real estate at the southwest corner of Orange and Front streets along the Clark Fork River. Nothing’s panned out. Now the city’s betting on lucky number seven. Earlier this month, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency issued another request for proposal for the city’s 1.87 acres there, commonly called the “Fox Site,” which in recent years has been a parking lot. “We’ve done this so many times for that site that I don’t know if it’s exciting or not,” says the MRA’s Chris Behan. Roger Hobbs thinks it is. He’s a local developer who’s been encouraging the city to issue an RFP. He says he plans to submit a proposal before the June 29 deadline. “We’re interested in creating jobs at that location and having a mixeduse of retail, restaurant, and medical office [space], and most likely a residential component as well,” says Hobbs, who is also the owner of the

Orange, Calif.-based builder R .C. Hobbs Company. Hobbs says he envisions a four- or five-story building on top of a two-story, 300-space parking garage. The upper floors might have about 25 market-rate apartments. He forecasts the project would create about 700 jobs. Hobbs’s proposal might be more feasible than previous ones, which have included a controversial $60 million performing arts center. Most of his company’s $500 million in projects over the last 35 years have been built in Los Angeles County, he says, but it owns and renovated two retail spaces in downtown Missoula. Other proposals will probably come in as well. A hotel and conference center might be among them, Behan says. He adds that a “vertically mixed-use” development would be ideal. “It’s a cool site,” he says. “It’s pretty darn unique. We’ve always been pretty guarded about what might go in there. It really needs to be the right thing. It’s a very important corner.” Matthew Frank

Flooding Higher ground The banks of the Clark Fork River near Reserve Street in Missoula were dotted with tents and tarps less than two weeks ago. Grassy berms and scrub-choked flats here have long served as a camp for a segment of the area’s homeless, who are relatively undisturbed on this small stretch of riverfront property. Now the muddy Clark Fork, which crested to flood stage on May 25, has temporarily reclaimed its channels beneath the Reserve Street Bridge. Only a single green tent remains visible to passing drivers, isolated at the highest point of what’s now an island. The usual cast of campers is nowhere in sight. Outside the Missoula County Courthouse, Cock-Eyed Joe offers word from the street on what went down when the waters rose. Folks had no choice but to relocate as their established camp spots washed out. The self-nicknamed Stinky Mike moved up under the bridge to stay dry, Joe says. A gal named Dawn had to move as well, and apparently lost some of her belongings to the river.

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Joe’s been homeless in Missoula for nearly 10 years. By his recollection, this is the worst flooding the Reserve Street camp’s ever seen. “Teepee Len’s staying at the Pov right now,â€? he says. “It’s just been in the last week or so. Water’s getting up high.â€? Homeowners just downstream on Tower Street weren’t able to pull up stakes as the Clark Fork climbed its banks. Volunteers spent the past week filling sandbags and distributing them to flooding or already-flooded homes. Water covered the pavement a foot deep in some places. The situation drew so much public attention that Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen issued a press release asking non-residents to steer clear of the area. Looky-loos were causing traffic jams. “Hundreds of vehicles are flooding the area to get a look,â€? Ibsen said last Friday. The flooding of the Reserve Street homeless camp may be just a footnote on the Clark Fork. As the river subsides, campers will return to the banks and quickly rebuild what they had, Joe says. “It’s a good spot. Cops don’t mess with ya‌And there’s plenty of firewood out there.â€? Alex Sakariassen

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shop students craft wooden canoes, but last year, while he was skiing with a ski patroller and former Big Sky High School counselor, the ski-building concept hit them. “I mentioned the idea to a couple students,� Traeder says, “and then it just skyrocketed. The light bulbs went on. So we funded the entire program, and we raffled off a canoe, and the proceeds from that helped go into building the ski press.� “It’s a demo board,� Traeder says of the first prototype. “It didn’t turn out that great, but the learning curve was great.� He hopes the ski shop, part of the

Snowboards The learning curve On a recent morning, a room away from the buzz of saws and the sparks of masked welders, a quartet of Big Sky High School seniors toiled over a nondescript white snowboard lying on a shop table. A few feet away stood a hand-made, $2,000 pneumatic press, which can apply 40,000-50,000 pounds of pressure, and a computerized numerical coding machine. The snowboard is the first product to come out of this mini ski and snowboard shop tucked away in the back of Big Sky High School, and the culmination of the senior projects of Justin Beschorner, Damien Bourdon, Nora Rector, and Jeff Stahl. Their last day of high school is just days away, and they’re hurrying to complete another snowboard and two pairs of skis before the final bell rings. “If we whip some of these out, I mean, there’s still a lot of snow. We could go up somewhere and make a track,� says Rector. Their teacher, Scott Traeder, usually has his

school’s industrial education department, will allow future students to build their own skis and snowboards, too. This crew of seniors, all headed to either the University of Montana or Montana State, may continue with the craft. Asked if they’d thought of going into business together, they all nodded their heads. “We’ve definitely talked about it,� says Stahl. “We’ll try pressing out a few boards and sell them to friends next season.� Matthew Frank

Fair housing Ain’t over ’til it’s over Tempers flared in Kalispell last spring over the establishment of a recovery-based group home in a residential neighborhood near Flathead High

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School’s athletic stadium. Freedom House— designed to offer clean and sober housing for recovering drug and alcohol addicts—ran afoul of nearby homeowners and city officials concerned about oversight of the home. Kalispell City Attorney Charlie Harball says the public uproar gradually subsided after a city council hearing last fall. The city had no grounds to issue a cease and desist order, Harball adds, and “treated it as we would treat any community residential facility of eight people or less.� Kalispell left Freedom House alone, hoping the Montana Legislature would pass regulations for such sober houses. Kalispell Planning Director Tom Jentz says the facility’s president stepped down not long after the controversy due to personal troubles, and its board of directors disbanded. “The sign came down off the building,� Jentz adds, “and they were just another rental facility in the city of Kalispell.� B u t M o n t a n a Fa i r H o u s i n g reopened the Freedom House debate early last month when it filed a suit against the City of Kalispell in U.S. District Court. The Butte-based nonprofit, which filed similar complaints with both the state and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last year, alleges that in not issuing Freedom House a conditional use permit to operate as a group home, the city violated the Federal Fair Housing Act. “There’s no governmental oversight of how a family operates, and the accommodation we want from the city is [for Freedom House] to be treated like a family,� says Steve Polin, a Washington, D.C. attorney representing MFH. “Each sober house has its own rules and regulations and a manner in which they enforce these rules and regulations. To a certain extent, it’s really not anybody’s business how this takes place.� MFH’s legal complaint came as news to Harball. He’s received no notification from federal district court in Missoula, he says. As far as he and Jentz know, Freedom House is still operating as a sober facility, just without a board of directors or a name. And the city has no problem with that. “We don’t hear any problems there, the police aren’t called there, there isn’t graffiti on the walls,� he says. “So I’m not sure where Montana Fair Housing is on it, what they wanted to do.� Alex Sakariassen

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Kill quota set by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on wolves in the Trapper Peak area of the Bitterroot Valley this week. Officials suspect the Trapper Peak pack is responsible for killing a horse on a ranch south of Darby last Thursday.

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It’s getting to the point where the National Rifle Association could propose a Bring Your Gun to School Day and Montana’s congressional delegation would promptly send out press releases about how the measure defends the state’s outdoor heritage. So it was no surprise when Sen. Jon Tester recently introduced a bill to permanently exempt lead bullets, shot, and fishing tackle from Environmental Protection Agency regulation. “Hunting, shooting, and fishing are more than just pastimes in Montana—they’re part of our outdoor heritage,� Tester said. “They’re Montana values that we pass on to our kids and grandkids. And I’ll fight for those values whenever Washington D.C.’s rules get in the way of common sense.� Excuse us: common sense? As the Indy reported in January, a 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of 738 North Dakotans found that those who ate a lot of wild game had higher lead levels in their blood than those who ate little or none. The more recent the consumption of wild game harvested with lead bullets, the higher the level of lead. That’s why the federal government now warns that pregnant women and young children shouldn’t eat wild game killed with lead bullets. As for the lead-tainted gut piles left behind, a study conducted in the Yellowstone area by the Wyoming-based institute Craighead Beringia South found that lead levels in bald and golden eagles nearly double during hunting season. Evidently Tester, who faces a challenge from Rep. Denny Rehberg, will do anything to maintain his perfect rating with the NRA, which is always a factor in the political calculus of Montana. The group argues that attempts to regulate lead bullets are intended to “drive away hunters by mandating the use of costly ammunition they cannot afford.� Copper bullets and other alternatives to lead may cost more, but do Tester and the NRA find no value in hunters bringing home uncontaminated meat? It should be noted that Tester’s proposal follows an effort by the Center for Biological Diversity to ban all lead ammunition. That’s going too far—and so is permanently exempting lead from regulation. There’s middle ground. Tester has commendably sought it on a host of other issues. He ought to keep looking for it now, before his race against Rehberg further devolves into a duel over who loves guns more, hates wolves more, and wants to cut the most trees.

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other more.” These adaptations have not come easy. Western Montana’s Amish population has had to contend with the same environmental conflicts farmers and ranchers in the state have faced for more than a century. Grizzlies are their biggest problem to date, Beachy says as he scans the tree line at the base of the Missions through a pair of binoculars. The butcher here, Leroy Miller, keeps a coop for broiler chickens out in his field. At dusk, grizzlies will roam down from the mountains in search of easy food. Miller’s tried numerous deterrents. But wildlife biologist Stacy Courville with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes says the majority of bear conflicts they had in the Mission Valley last year were in the Saint Ignatius area, at Amish homes. The community has experienced its brushes with controversy as well. Dinner Bell Bakery and Banquets shut down in the fall of 2004 when the Montana Department of Environmental Quality linked the restaurant to a salmonella outbreak. The owners of the establishment were the seventh Amish family to settle in Saint Ignatius. One major aspect that hasn’t proved problematic for the Amish comPhoto by Alex Sakariassen munity is striking an accord with the local society. While they primarily Ed Beachy of the Mission Valley’s Amish community keeps an eye out for remain detached in the interests of limgrizzlies. iting exposure to the ills of the outside puters, pickup trucks, barcodes, and the area; there’s only one left now. There world, Frey says they do “mix and miniPhones. But here, change happens slowly used to be two or three good-sized potato gle.” This July will mark the ninth annual farms; there’s none of them left. And as far Mission Valley Amish Auction, an all-day and methodically. “We have our standards, and it’s a stan- as the stockgrowers, you could count them affair open to the public, one of a numdard we all agree on,” he says. “When we on one hand anymore.” ber of summer auctions hosted by the moved [to Saint Ignatius], we did not have The Mission Valley Amish have adapted Amish. fax machines. And we decided as a group to that altering economic landscape, and “A lot of people in the community hire that we needed fax machines to help us not just by getting on board with faxes. In them to do work, quite a bit actually,” Frey make a living in Montana. So now we have stark contrast to the nation’s large, says. “They’ve actually melded into the area fax machines.” agrarian-based Amish communities in quite well.” That gradual approach to change goes Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, Beachy’s That the Amish in Saint Ignatius have for community dynamics as well. Beachy community recognized a need for certain become a recognized segment of the valmoved to the Mission Valley in 1999, two concessions a decade ago. They’ve phased- ley’s population doesn’t diminish the years after the area’s first Amish family had in electrical generators for commercial uncertainty of the future, however. The relocated from Rexford. As the years passed, needs, turned primarily to trade-based Mission Valley is “economically maxed-out,” the community grew, opening up shops, business as farming has faded, and even Beachy says. There’s no space for new cartrades, even a restaurant—the Dinner Bell opened the door for cell phone use among penters, new butchers, new concrete mixBakery and Banquets. Buildings became their construction crews, who mostly work ers. It just doesn’t pencil out. Having too small for gatherings like weddings and jobs miles north in Polson. recently split, the community is now in the funerals. The number of families has nearly “The one thing that is different here is process of identifying a new location in the doubled in the last six years. you’re kind of by yourself,” says Beachy, West to branch out to. Yet as with all things, the Amish here So earlier this year, the Amish split into who was raised Amish near Berlin, Ohio. two districts, a north and a south. Each has “You don’t have the interaction with other are in no hurry. approximately 15 families, Beachy says. They Amish people around you, because they “We have time,” Beachy says. continue to share a single community cen- aren’t there. We’re still basically abiding by “Whether it takes one year, two years, we ter, built years ago to accommodate the the same principles we did back there, but have time.” expanding Amish population. The division in a small community, there’s one thing we just makes events easier to host. But even like about it: You learn to depend on each asakariassen@missoulanews.com Ed Beachy still tallies his sales at Montana Bird and Garden on a handheld calculator. His wares, nestled in a garage beneath the Mission Mountains outside Saint Ignatius, include seeds, animal feed, and fertilizer. Beachy also occasionally relies on the honor system, trusting customers to record their purchases in a spiralbound notebook. The store doesn’t have a website because, as a member of the Mission Valley’s growing Amish community, Beachy isn’t online. The Amish have a saying: “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” To Beachy, that applies well to rapid technological advancement. Mere acres away lies a world of com-

with this recent change, it’s becoming clear that the Mission Valley has a limited carrying capacity. Property values have increased dramatically since the first families settled, as have the number of subdivisions in the area. There’s less farmable land. It’s reached a point where continued growth for the Amish community in Saint Ignatius doesn’t appear feasible. “The area’s been subdivided considerably, and there’s a lot of five-acre pieces, 10-acre pieces which we didn’t have 15 years ago,” says Saint Ignatius Fire Chief Ray Frey, a Mission Valley native. “Farming in the valley is dwindling pretty fast…There used to be a dozen dairies in

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Neighbors’ fragile win Sonata Park plaintiffs wonder what’s next by Jessica Mayrer

cil blatantly disregarded their growth plan. They garnered a significant victory this month when the Montana Supreme Court found that the council erred in giving Muth-Hillberry permission to go ahead. “It is a resounding decision,” Kathy says. The weight city officials must place on neighborhood plans like that crafted by Rattlesnake residents was at the center of the legal dispute. Arguing for the city, Missoula Attorney Jim Nugent pointed to a law passed in 2003 by the state legislature. He interpreted it to mean that neighborhood plans are advisory only—that, in essence, they don’t have any teeth.

courts intend to treat neighborhood plans as more than advisory documents, the city might have to tweak those plans, Nugent says. “There are several instances where the [Rattlesnake Valley] growth policy needs to be revisited,” he says. “It’s impossible to come to grips with.” For instance, he points out that when neighbors oppose zoning regulations, the city council must muster a supermajority of eight votes to make a regulation law despite opposition. Neighborhood plans, on the other hand, require a simple majority of six votes to be incorporated in planning documents. “There’s a growing disconnect between growth policies and zoning,” Nugent says. “As long as that disconnect exists, there are going to be problems with this.” Nugent is also taken aback by the court’s emphasis on city viewsheds in its Sonata Park findings. Judges cited the growth plan’s directive to protect views as further evidence that Sonata Park doesn’t fit in with the character of the Upper Rattlesnake neighborhood. That finding alone, Nugent says, sets Missoula officials up for a whole new round of lawsuits. “If we don’t let them use their land, it’s a taking. We can’t prevent people from Photo by Chad Harder using their own private land.” Kathy Heffernan is fighting to keep the Upper Rattlesnake rural. Muth-Hillberry attorney Don Snavely agrees. He also points to the property just off Duncan Drive near the The Montana Supreme Court found court’s finding that the Sonata Park develNorth Hills. Upper Rattlesnake residents otherwise. A panel of five judges unani- opment could disrupt areas frequented by voiced concern about the project’s effect mously agreed that the city didn’t give wildlife. From where he sits that puts an on wildlife habitat, water quality, and traffic enough credence to the community plan. awful lot of land off limits. “Where the hell congestion. Plus, residents told the Governing bodies must “substantially com- are we supposed to build?” he asks. “Where Missoula City Council as it deliberated ply” with bottom-up blueprints for growth do you go? In the middle of the street?” approving the subdivision, locals had like that crafted by the local residents, the Snavely says growth plans are inheralready charted their vision for growth. In court said. ently flawed: “There’s a bunch of neighbors fact, they’d spelled it out in a neighborhood The decision faulted the city council that get together and tell a bunch of other plan crafted more than a decade before. and planning board members for disregard- neighbors what to do with their property. The Rattlesnake Valley Comprehensive ing the Rattlesnake plan. “Indeed, many of Snavely says his client is debating Plan is like a handful of others across the the city officials involved in approving whether to ask the city council to amend city that reflect grassroots efforts to shape Muth-Hillberry’s application were openly the Upper Rattlesnake growth plan. If growth. The Rattlesnake plan specifically contemptuous of the plan,” the decision Muth-Hillberry persuades the council to stipulates that the area slated to become states. “Some second-guessed its goals and change the policy, it could still make the the Sonata Park subdivision accommodate recommendations, others downplayed its development fly. no more than one home per five-acre par- relevance, and one bluntly characterized The Heffernans say they’re troubled as cel. That’s a far cry from the 1.1-acre-per- growth policies in general as a ‘waste of they watch the city and developers try to home development Missoula’s City Council time.’” skirt the citizens’ will. “To me, this seems approved for the area in 2007 by a vote of “It’s good that the court system is there more about finding a way around the 10 to 2. for the little guy,” says Carey, the president Supreme Court decision than creating a T h e a p p r o v a l p r o m p t e d t h e of the North Duncan Drive Neighborhood balanced process for considering all viewHeffernans to join Dave Harmon, Robin Association. points,” Kathy says. Carey, and the North Duncan Drive The victory could be short lived, howNeighborhood Association in a lawsuit to ever. Nugent and the city are now considerjmayrer@missoulanews.com stop the subdivision, arguing that the coun- ing the Supreme Court’s decision. If the Deer graze in the valley below Kathy and John Heffernan’s Upper Rattlesnake home. Horses meander in a neighbor’s yard. The couple lives in one of the few Missoula neighborhoods that retains a rural feel. After investing more than three years and thousands of dollars in attorney fees to stop a subdivision from being built next door to their pastoral property, the Heffernans aim to keep it that way. “You’re kind of putting yourself, your reputation, and your money at risk,” Kathy says. The couple mobilized in 2007 to stop developer Muth-Hillberry from building 37 homes on 34 acres next to their un-zoned

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The video is heartbreaking. An hours-old bison calf, wobbling on spindly legs, tries to keep up with its mother as agents from Montana’s Department of Livestock and assorted federal agencies chase her down an asphalt road. The slick road provides little traction for the newborn and it goes down hard on the pavement. Scrambling to get back up, the calf tries desperately to follow its mother up a hillside but is unable to climb the snow banks still lining the road. It’s springtime in Montana–and the annual effort to haze the last remaining wild bison herd in the nation back inside the borders of Yellowstone National Park has, to our state’s lasting shame, begun once more. This is an old and very sad story that begins with a decision to engage in the wholesale slaughter of what was once a thundering population of 50 million buffalo that had lived on the Great Plains for eons. Because they were the source of nourishment, both spiritual and bodily, for indigenous tribes, the federal government, driven by lust to exploit the wideopen resources of the West, was determined to herd what was left of the Indians onto reservations. A key to breaking their resistance was to decimate their primary food and materials source–the buffalo. The eradication plan was successful and, in what may have been the largest and certainly the ugliest extermination in modern times, the bison disappeared from the plains almost in their entirety. A small band had been saved, however, and some survivors eventually found refuge within the borders of Yellowstone National Park. Hard on the heels of the mass bison slaughter came the cattle barons for whom the open, grass-covered plains were free for the taking. Unfortunately, they also brought the disease brucellosis, which causes cattle to abort. The disease was transmitted to Yellowstone’s small bison herd and remains there, infecting the bison. In the meantime, a nationwide brucellosis-eradication program has all but eliminated the disease in domestic cattle. Theoretically, it is possible for bison to transmit brucellosis to cattle in the wild, although there has never been a documented case to prove that. Consequently, for more than two decades, cattle ranchers have kept up a ruthless campaign to keep Yellowstone’s bison inside the park boundaries. But of course, Yellowstone National Park, as most people know, is not the Great

Plains. Its snow-filled mountains encompass the headwaters of some of the West’s largest rivers. Bison, like virtually everything else in the world, cannot live on snow, nor were they ever meant to. And so, like all hungry animals, they seek nourishment for their survival, which

Like all hungry animals, they seek nourishment for their survival, which takes them outside the park’s snowbound borders and into direct conflict with the cattle industry.

takes them outside the park’s snowbound borders and into direct conflict with the cattle industry. It is worth noting that in recent years Montana has lost its status as a brucellosis-free state due to outbreaks of the disease in certain cattle herds. But the important fact—and it is a fact, not a theory—is that the wild bison of Yellowstone could not and did not transmit the disease to those cattle. The prevailing theory is that the cattle contracted brucellosis from elk, and, as everyone knows, elk are virtually everywhere in Montana and cannot be contained. It is also worth noting that our cold, wet spring has once again cloaked our mountains in new snow extending down even into the lower elevations. You can be sure the snow didn’t avoid Yellowstone, and what few areas were perhaps snow-free within the Park’s boundaries are again covered in white. These conditions do not concern the agents of the Department of Livestock and

their federal cohorts, however. The Interagency Bison Management Plan, which is designed to protect the cattle industry rather than manage bison, calls for hazing the bison back into the park at this time of the year come hell or high water. We have the high water, to be sure. Equally sure is the hell into which state and federal agents are now plunging some of America’s last wild bison as they use all-terrain vehicles, horses, and even low-flying helicopters to move the panicked buffalo back into the park’s borders. When Governor Brian Schweitzer took office he pledged to solve the bison issue, which has plagued Montana’s image at home and abroad with its captures, killings, trucking bison to slaughter, and the endless, worthless hazing. With a little over a year left in his final term, however, this promise, like so many made by this governor, remains unfulfilled. This week, as in so many weeks before it, the state and federal governments will once again drive the bison over roads, across rivers, and through dense forests in their attempts to force them back into the snow-filled park. As an excuse, they will hold up the brucellosis “threat,” even though it remains a theory, and laud their great role in saving the cattle industry from such a scourge. But here’s the rub. In many of the places where the bison are being hazed, such as Horse Butte, there are no cattle and there is no grazing. In fact, many of the private landowners in the area have repeatedly voiced their support for the bison being allowed to graze and give birth on their private lands. Likewise, they have voiced their opposition to the continued hazing, the low-flying helicopters, the ATVs, and the endless intrusion on their otherwise peaceful existence. If you want to watch the heart-rending video of these agents hazing newborn bison calves, you can see it at www.buffalofieldcampaign.org. But be warned, it will be difficult for those with a shred of humanity to see the death of that helpless bison calf. The Battle for the Buffalo has once again been joined. Let us all hope that someday soon it will finally end and become just a shameful memory. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Our salmon, ourselves Can an Idaho river town be saved? by Gina Knudson

The people of Salmon, Idaho may have reclaimed their namesake river this spring. It happened during Riverfest 2011, a fundraising event created to help build a kayak park downtown, where the Salmon River splits into two channels. The event attracted a lot of the 20-something boater crowd of river guides and semi-obsessive kayakers, many of whom grew up here. Riverfest’s film festival, showing work by both amateurs and professionals, fed the crowd’s thrill-seeking. Watching the raw talent of the paddlers portrayed by filmmakers fueled a sense of community pride. The next day, as a local priest sprinkled holy water on the sweep boats, drift boats, and kayaks before they set out, more than one commercial outfitter murmured his hope that in addition to a safe season, it would be great if paying customers came this way. This town of 3,100 has experienced some tough economic times. Just north of town is the put-in point for main Salmon trips and the takeout for trips through the Middle Fork. Veterans of the rafting and fishing industry, many of them the mothers and fathers of Riverfest’s organizers, have found it tough to make a living. Some were here in the 1970s and ’80s, when the Frank Church Wilderness was designated, when recreational salmon fishing season was shut down because of an alarming decline in fish returns, and when floating the Salmon’s majestic forks first required a permit. Salmon residents have seen drought, wildfire, and bleak economic times that would make anyone in tourism shudder. As these river veterans and parents pushed off to float the day-stretch of the Salmon with families and friends, many talked about how relieved they were to see so many young people among the celebrants. One of the event’s organizers, Amy Tonsmeire, wearing cutoffs and knee socks, stood ready to climb aboard a dory full of

young women. Tonsmeire grew up as part of Salmon’s river community; her family has owned a river outfitting business since the 1970s. She said the Riverfest celebration this year represents a torch passing from one generation to the next—an inherited responsibility to look out for both the town and the river’s future.

Fewer than 1 percent of the salmon that hatch in the cold, high waters of central Idaho make it back to spawn and die here. That even one fish can still do this is worthy of triumph and celebration. In promoting the event, Tonsmeire and her cohorts discovered that the inaugural Riverfest really revived a town tradition. Long-time river runner Roger Nottestadt’s video showed competitive and crowded community boat races from the ’80s, a graphic reminder that Salmon’s river culture was hardly invented by this generation. But for the last 20 years, the community’s celebration of the Salmon River as its lifeblood lacked spirit.

Some say that a cherished connection to the river was broken when chinook salmon were cut off from these interior waters by dams. Fishing shut down, and chinook became hatchery fish raised in concrete tanks like a crop. This year’s Riverfest explored that theory when it premiered Jim Norton’s PBS Nature program called Salmon: Running the Gauntlet— perhaps the first PBS documentary ever projected at the Shady Nook, a local tavern and restaurant. The documentary’s spectacular images of the salmon’s journey from this innermost sanctuary to the Pacific Ocean—and then back—along with Norton’s narration brought most of us up short as we contemplated what had been lost over the years. Salmon are heroic in their stamina, persistence, and toughness. Faced by the maze of barriers we have erected to obstruct their passage, fewer than 1 percent of the salmon that hatch in the cold, high waters of central Idaho make it back to spawn and die here. That even one fish can still do this is worthy of triumph and celebration. The return of young people to Salmon, Idaho, is not nearly so dramatic, but it’s what I was happy to notice and cheer. Sure, it’s tough to make a living on the river and in this town, but that’s not an insurmountable barrier when choosing a life that brings you satisfaction. In the documentary, Jim Martin, a former Oregon state wildlife employee, said, “If the fish were in any worse shape, they wouldn’t be savable; if they were in any better shape, people wouldn’t care as much. This is the time.” Like the fish, the town of Salmon has suffered losses. But neither is beyond hope. Maybe this is the time.

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Maybe you’re like a lot of crotchety drivers I know, and you already think that bicyclists and pedestrians rule the roads in Missoula. I find it usually depends on the circumstance. When I’m in the car I want bicyclists to get out of my way, and when I’m crossing the street I find cars to be noxious and inconsiderate of my slow, casual gait. In a bustling world where SUVs and Smart Cars roam free, it’s easy to forget that the roads belong to everyone. Sunday Streets Missoula is all about taking back the streets for the car-less. From 10 AM to 4 PM, Higgins Avenue will be completely free of automobile traffic. Use the

THURSDAY JUNE 2 Talk transit with the Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, which meets the first Thu. of every month. Join them at 10 AM at the Missoula Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine. Women rule at the WORD open house (as in Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development, Inc.) to celebrate 25 years and their new director, Stacy Rye, 4:30 to 6 PM, 2525 Palmer St., Ste 1. Free. Eat crunchy food and talk sustainable urban living at the MUD Mingles Potluck from 6–9 PM at the MUD site, 629 Philips St. Free. Visit mudproject.org for details. Create your own delicious frozen treats when Stumptown Art Studio hosts its Annual Spring Show & Ice Cream Social, featuring a year of work by student artists from 6–9 PM at 141 Central Ave. Free.

FRIDAY JUNE 3 The LGBTIQ community has done their part to keep Missoula weird and fabulous, so why not join them for a collaborative art exhibit at the Western Montana Community Center. Drink locally donated wine and view art that focuses on marriage, transgendered reality and more. The event is free but bring some cash for drinks/donation. 127 N. Higgins, Ste. 202. gaymontana.org. It’s oh so quiet at the Milltown Garden Patch Silent Auction Fundraiser from 5–8 PM at Zootown Brew, which will feature live music by Ugly Pony and The Dodgy Mountain Men, and items for sale like jewelry, raft trips, birdhouses and more, all to benefit development of an eductional program for students of Bonner School. 121 W. Broadway. milltowngardenpatch.org.

SATURDAY JUNE 4 Play something called Stickgame at The SKC Adeline Mathias Endowment Project, which runs Fri. June 3 with events from 4–7, and Sat. 12-2PM, all at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. Call 675-3577. Be a pal and come celebrate the Neighborhood Council’s 15th Anniversary as part of First Friday and the Sunday Streets Missoula celebration today around noon. missoula-neighborhoods.org.

SUNDAY JUNE 5 Come to celebrate conservation and the outdoors, stay for the huckleberry lemonade at Ecology Project

time to spontaneously engage in some of the many festivities planned for the street walk and to shop and eat in the local businesses exhaust-free. All human powered forms of transportation are encouraged. I’d like to think there’s some wiggle room here. Does anyone have a Segway? If I don’t see someone on a horse, I’m going to be very upset. Molly Laich Sunday Streets Missoula is Sun. June 5th from the X’s to 5th St., and 4th St. from Higgins to Toole Park, 10 AM–4 PM. The event is free and open to the public.

International’s 3rd Annual Swift Fiesta during Sunday Streets, 10 AM–4 PM at the Swift Building, 315 South 4th St. E., Free. Party. Pizza party. Enjoy all you can eat delicious pizza— and pizza’s unwelcome cousin, salad—and support the Paxson Elementary School Garden at the same time at Biga Pizza from 3–8 PM. 241 W. Main. $7 kids/$10 adults.

TUESDAY JUNE 7 Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Missoula Park Board are seeking volunteers to serve on the newly forming Conservation Lands Advisory Committee. Applications for this volunteer position can be obtained through the Mayor’s office, City Hall, 2nd floor, 435 Ryman, due today. Call 721-PARK. Party with patriots when the Missoula Patriots host a meeting at Valley Christian School, 2526 Sunset Lane, beginning with a potluck at 6 PM and followed by guest speaker Fulton Sheen’s talk “Merging Streams of Commonwealth” at 7. Free. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

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

THURSDAY JUNE 9 Food, agriculture, and human values are some of the subjects up for discussion at the annual meeting, Food and Agriculture Under the Big Sky, running J u n e 9 – 12 a t U M . C a l l 24 3 - 6 271 o r v i s i t cas.umt.edu/evst/foodconference. Put on your moon boots for the local Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Community Group Meeting at 7 PM, where this month’s program will feature the presentation, Journeying Towards the Soulcentric Life. 125 Blanchard Lk. Rd. in Whitefish. Call 862-9591.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Dexter White, 41, called 911 in North Charleston, S.C., complaining that he paid $60 to a drug dealer for crack cocaine but received only $20 worth of drugs and that the dealer refused to give him his $40 change. White said he smoked his crack before calling the cops, who arrested him anyway, for disorderly conduct. (Charleston’s WCSC-TV) No one spoke to the 911 operator who answered a call in Onondaga County, N.Y., but the operator overheard three men in a car planning break-ins. The men also mentioned their location. Realizing one of them had “pocket dialed” his cellphone’s emergency number, the operator alerted sheriff’s deputies. When one of the callers announced, “there go the cops now,” the passing deputy turned around, stopped the vehicle and found tools reported stolen from a local business. Arrested were brothers Ronald J. Euson, 30, and Thomas Euson Jr., 28, and their cousin, Allen Euson, 29. (Associated Press; Syracuse’s The Post-Standard)

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When Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton received a text message from a Helena, Mont., teenager asking to buy marijuana, Dutton realized the boy had misdialed his drug dealer’s number. He directed the texter to meet a detective posing as the dealer. When the texter arrived with a friend, the detective identified himself. One of the boys fainted. No citations were issued, but Dutton said they faced worse punishment from their parents. (Helena Independent Record) POETRY PH.D.S CHEAP - Ninety-three of 162 U.S. public research universities have adopted a “differential tuition” scale that charges students in potentially high-earning fields more than those with less earning potential. Business and engineering students typically pay more than English majors, for instance. Before 1988, only five institutions used the sliding scale, according to Glen Nelson, who researched the issue while at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In the past three years, Nelson said, 18 institutions have adopted the practice, with business students paying 14 percent more tuition and engineering students paying 15 percent more. (Omaha World-Herald) DEFINE “CERTAIN GOODS” - FBI Special Agent Frederick C. Kingston decided to take a joy ride in a 1995 Ferrari F50, which was being stored in Lexington, Ky., as evidence in a car-theft case. Within seconds of leaving the warehouse, Kingston lost control of the high-performance vehicle, which “fishtailed and slid sideways” and then crashed into a curb, bushes and a small tree, according to his passenger, Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson. Declaring the rare automobile a total loss, Motors Insurance Co. sued the government for the $750,000 it had paid the stolen car’s owner five years before the FBI recovered it. The Justice Department refuses to pay the Michigan company, insisting it is immune to tort claims when “certain goods” are in the hands of law enforcement. (Detroit News) FIRST LINK IN A CHAIN - After spending three months embedded with NASA’s mission control, Andrew Kessler wrote his first novel: Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission. Next, he opened a bookstore in New York City’s high-rent West Village and stocked it with just one book: his own. The store, Ed’s Martian Book, is divided into sections, among them “staff favorite,” “best-seller” and “self help.” Reactions vary. “A lot of people are scared to come in,” Kessler noted. “Some people wonder if we’re Scientologists.” (CNN) NO DETOURS - A 24-year-old German man told authorities he became trapped in a women’s prison in Hildesheim after he noticed its open gate and mistook it for a shortcut to a nearby park. By the time he realized his blunder, the gate had been locked. Mayor Henning Blum happened to be passing the prison when he heard the man’s cries for help and notified police, who freed the man and began investigating why the prison gate wasn’t closed. (Reuters) GUILT RIDDEN - When police pulled over a car in Rensselaer, N.Y., a 21-year-old male passenger bolted from the car. He jumped into the Hudson River, whose current carried him 250 feet downstream before he could grab a branch and hold on until police rescued him. The unidentified man explained he fled because he thought officers had a warrant for his arrest. No warrants were outstanding. (Associated Press) COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT - Although 41 percent of adults in England and Wales support independence for Scotland, according to a poll by the market research firm YouGov, only 29 percent of Scottish adults favor breaking away from the United Kingdom. (Reuters) DON’T THUMP THE MELONS - As many as 115 acres of watermelons exploded in China’s Jiangsu Province after farmers there overdosed the melons with the growth stimulator forchlorfenuron during wet weather, turning them into what Chinese news media described as “land mines.” The 20 farmers affected were using the chemical for the first time, hoping to capitalize on a surge in watermelon prices. (Associated Press) FOURTH-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Citizens have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes, according to the Indiana Supreme Court, which ruled in a separate case that same week that police serving a warrant do not need to obtain a judge’s permission to enter a home without knocking. (The Times of Northwest Indiana) WAY TO GO - When a woman found a man using the bathroom of her apartment in Fayetteville, Ark., she screamed. The man, identified as John Standridge, who was homeless but spending the night in a neighboring apartment, then ran out of the room with his pants around his ankles, tripped, fell down the stairs and died. (Northwest Arkansas’ KHBS-TV) Louisiana State Police reported Jacques Luckett, 27, rear-ended another car on I-20 outside Ruston, then, for some reason, got out of his car and lay down on the road, where another vehicle ran him over. He died. (Monroe’s News-Star) REVOLTING GRAMMAR - A ceremonial banner hung in China’s Forbidden City intended to congratulate local police for catching a suspect in the theft of rare handicrafts. Instead, it appears to be an invitation to revolution. Actually it’s just a typo, a common occurrence in Mandarin Chinese, which is rife with homonyms. The slogan read, “To shake the great strength and prosperity of the motherland, and to safeguard the stability of the capital,” but the word for shake, “han,” is pronounced the same as the intended word: guard. When pictures of the subversive-reading banner were posted on the Internet, many Chinese reacted not by demanding freedom but by mocking the literacy level of the person who designed the banner. (The New York Times)

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t’s easy to spot Stewart Brandborg’s influence on the landscape. It’s visible in what’s not here. Brandborg’s most notable accomplishments have come through his work with the Wilderness Society, which he led for 13 years. He helped create the National Wilderness Preservation System, which now protects 109 million acres from Alaska to New Mexico and South Carolina to New York. Montana’s share is 3.4 million acres that roll across the Lincoln-Scapegoat, Bob Marshall, and Selway-Bitterroot wildernesses. Brandborg’s efforts also opened the door to preservation of the sprawling Rattlesnake Wilderness, in Missoula’s back yard. On a recent rainy Saturday morning in Hamilton, Brandborg, who is 86, white-haired, and plagued by a bad back and wracking cough, is gearing up for another fight. “I’ve actually got to put my running pants on and get back to work,” he says. He’s trying to stop a new subdivision that’s planned in his neighborhood. Brandborg—his friends call him Brandy—is a fighter with a contagious cackle of a laugh. He gets around with a walker these days, but his zeal seems undiminished. He’s from fighting stock, especially when it comes to saving wilderness, which is almost the Brandborg family business. His father, Guy Brandborg, was one of the early leaders of the conservation movement. “You can’t continue to pollute the air, the water,” Brandy says. “You can’t continue to raid the public lands. You can’t continue destructive mining, logging.” This has been his unceasing cry. And for the Brandborgs, it’s always five minutes to midnight: “I do feel that we are at a critical juncture,” he continues. “If people don’t show more involvement, the corporate world as we know it will cause the loss of much of what we have.”

“If this goes through as written, it means that this particular senator has dictated what’s going to happen to those acreages.” Opposition like Rehberg’s has gathered steam and force lately. Brandy, meanwhile, is where he’s always been, and where his father was before him: arguing for the people’s right to wilderness, and not yielding an inch.

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‘THEY TOOK THE BITTERROOT’

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“They try to always say this is the extremist fringe, you are the wildeyed advocate,” says Stewart Brandborg.

decades, Montana was in the forefront of that fight. But then it stalled. “Beginning about 30 years ago, corporate forces, combined with hard-right politics in both Idaho and Montana, exerted a significant amount of antiwilderness pressure on our two states’ delegations and other members of Congress,” says Pat Williams, who served nine terms in Congress for Montana

designate 650,000 Montana acres for wilderness—acreage that western conservationists have long coveted. At the same time, it would set aside nearly 370,000 acres for mixed-use recreation, release portions of wilderness study areas for motorized use, and mandate logging of 100,000 acres of national forest in Montana over 15 years. Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Republican who is

It can sometimes seem these days as though the preservation of wilderness is a timeless American value. It wasn’t always that way. Europeans came to the New World and found dark forests where they were sure man-eating animals and dangerous Native Americans lurked. So they cleared them, and went on clearing them as they moved west. Even before the timber was needed, the United States government encouraged clear-cutting in the name of dominion, just as it urged its citizens to drain swamps that they would one day seek to restore as wetlands. Gifford Pinchot would become the nation’s chief forester. When he was coming of age in the 1880s, he wrote in his autobiography, “the greatest, swiftest, the most efficient, and the most appalling wave of forest destruction in human history was then swelling to its climax in the United States. Nobody knew how much timberland we had left, and hardly anybody cared.” Roughly half of the nation’s wooded areas were in private hands. Businesses devoured old-growth trees. “What talk there was about forest protection was no more than the buzzing of a mosquito,” Pinchot wrote, “and just about as irritating.” When President Theodore Roosevelt took office, in 1901, the nation’s consciousness began a slow shift. Roosevelt had discovered the redeeming power of

THE STUBBORN BRANDBORGS AND THE FIGHT FOR WILDERNESS

BY JESSICA MAYRER

He’s not a man who necessarily looks for compromises, and, as he says, it’s led some to label him “the extremist fringe,” a “wild-eyed advocate.” He wears those badges proudly, but he’s prouder still that he’s convinced others to follow his lead. “That is the grand elixir,” he says. “They get the light of activism in their eye.” That doesn’t mean Brandy is satisfied. The Wilderness Act of 1964 gave average citizens the tools to fight to keep wild places pristine. In succeeding

between 1979 and 1997. “Ever since then, it has been particularly difficult, particularly for western states, to overcome those forces.” Often the issue is framed as jobs and money versus the intangible value of land left as it is. It’s one that’s likely to stay before Montanans, at least for the time being. Last week, Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, introduced his most recent draft of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, which was first introduced in 2009. It’s an effort at compromise that would

challenging Tester for his Senate seat in 2012, has been a severe critic of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, and likely will campaign against it, presumably in part because it creates new wilderness in Montana. Brandy doesn’t like it either. Rehberg has said his opposition to Tester’s bill stems partly from the way it was put together. So does Brandborg’s: He decries a lack of grassroots input. “What we see here is a usurpation of national forest management,” he says.

wild places in the West as a young man. He became president as a consensus formed that the continent was fully settled. On the heels of that realization came alarm in some quarters that the natural world was disappearing. Roosevelt appointed the populist Pinchot to lead the newly formed Forest Service in 1905, and saw the federal government’s land inventory grow from 40 million acres to nearly 200 million by 1910. Early acquisitions included Montana’s Beaverhead and Deerlodge

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Below: The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness

national forests. Under Pinchot’s leadership, there was controlled logging on federal lands, but the idea was also to preserve them for future generations. Pinchot’s writings enraptured Guy Brandborg. Born in 1893, the elder Brandborg came to believe in the Forest Service’s mission, to manage forests as a way to sustain the economy for the long haul, by living off the interest while leaving the woody principal untouched. When he was named Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor in 1935, he felt like he’d arrived at the right place at the right time to do great things. “He was consumed—that’s the word—by his desire to have people know what the national forests are: that they belong to the public,” Brandy says of his father, who died in 1977. “That was his principal motivating conviction…If they understood that the forests were to serve the public, they would focus and be supportive of the agency, supportive of programs.” Guy resisted pressure by superiors and industry to increase logging on public lands. It wasn’t long after that, says

Brandy, “with his espousal of that fine stuff, that he was recognized by the corporate world as the source of too much enlightenment.” Guy was an advocate of social forestry—loosely, the doctrine that all citizens should have a voice in how forests are managed. In 1949, the Department of Agriculture accused him of disloyalty to the United States.

He was ordered to prove he wasn’t a communist. “No evidence for these accusations was given,” writes Frederick H. Swanson in his new biography of Guy, The Bitterroot & Mr. Brandborg. “Brandborg was allowed 15 days to answer the charges in writing and was given the right to request a hearing. His reply was earnest, heartfelt, and reasonable, indicating he still did not fully understand the nature of the game he was in.” Guy was an amiable man who had made a lot of friends, including some among Montana’s elite who vouched for him. He was cleared of the charges in six months. After he retired from the Forest Service in 1955, he watched in growing horror as machines cut terraces in the Bitterroot Forest’s hillsides and new roads sprawled throughout it to accommodate more logging trucks with bigger loads of old-growth timber. Wildlife was displaced. Sediments, the result of erosion from clear cutting, washed into valleys, wiping out irrigation ditches. “By God, they came in, three major logging companies and great big mills,

to take the Bitterroot,” Brandy says. “And they did take the Bitterroot.” When Guy supervised the forest, he’d directed that no more than 7.5 million board feet of ponderosa pine be cut per year, a quantity that he thought was sustainable. In 1969, the Forest Service says, it allowed 71.6 million board feet of timber to be harvested. In ostensible retirement, Guy led a coalition of farmers, loggers, and other citizens who fought to save the forest, arguing their case with Congress, the Forest Service, and the press. In 1969, he approached Dale Burk, a young Missoulian reporter. Burk was a third-generation Montanan, the son and brother of loggers. Guy invited Burk to dinner at his two-story home on the west side of Hamilton, and told him that the Forest Service was harvesting an unsustainable amount of timber in the Bitterroot Forest without the public’s consent. Soon Burk was on the story. “I really resented the fact that these people were lying when I came to realize what they were doing,” he recalls. “I grew up in the wood products industry. I believed it was being done on a sustained-yield basis. And it was not. And when we sought answers, we got lied to.” Burk wrote a series of articles detailing his findings. “It was the first time anybody had publicly challenged the Forest Service,” he says. In 1976, Congress passed the National Forest Management Act, seeking to better balance the interests of conservationists and recreational users with those of the timber industry, by enacting guidance for timber harvesting and requiring public involvement in forest plans. All of that, says Burk, began with Guy Brandborg.

NATURE UNFETTERED

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Mid-way through Guy’s tenure at the Bitterroot National Forest, his son Stewart, then 18, got a Forest Service summer job as a fire lookout at Ward Mountain, in the Bitterroots. He had food, a bedroll, and a few books. The wind blew incessantly, he recalls. Golden-mantled squirrels scurried through the brush, mountain goats scaled the granite range, and Brandy got indoctrinated in the family business. It was the doctrine of wilderness. “For me, it’s unspoiled nature,” he says now, “the natural world, the combination of flowing streams in the Bitterroot or even in the desert—the isolation; what you see, what you feel, and the fact that it is unspoiled, not impacted by human beings…You have the epitome of natural forces working unchallenged, unfettered.” That appreciation carried Brandy through a master’s degree in forestry

another job, this time in says, but that’s over. Now, logging in from the University of Idaho and Lakeview, Ore., where he was a the Bitterroots has become cumbermore than a decade of work as a welder. Now he has a 12-hour some and unprofitable, he says, due to wildlife biologist for state and trip home to the Bitterroot the flipside of zealous conservation: federal agencies in Idaho and excessive regulation. His last Forest Valley. Montana. And then he met Thomas’s father was a coal Service contract was seven inches thick, Howard Zahniser, who took his miner in Illinois who told his he says; he knows because he measured zeal to a new level. son to make his living some it with his carpenter’s rule. Complying Zahniser, the son of a other way—any other way. So with all its mitigation mandates, such as Pennsylvania minister, was the Craig moved west, to Montana, ceasing work if the soil is too wet, eats executive secretary of the where he hoped to find more into any profit, he says. He’d planned Wilderness Society. The conserspace and opportunity as well on 180 days of work for himself and a vation group was founded in as the wilderness he loves. He crew under that last contract, he says, 1935, the same year Guy started first thought of becoming a but he was forced to shut the job down work in the Bitterroot Forest, by forester when he saw the way a after 57 days. “My guys were crying at the naturalist Aldo Leopold and logging outfit botched a job on me, saying ‘Craig, we’re only working influential forester Bob Marshall, his family’s farm: “It was just all two days out of three, I can’t feed my among others. “All we desire to of the dastardly things you hear. family.’” save from invasion,” they proThe last time Thomas logged in You know, when you look at a claimed, “is that extremely minor logger you think of an evil, Montana was almost three years ago, a fraction of outdoor America Darth Vader-kind of guy, and job on private land. In the meantime, which yet remains free from Photo courtesy of Stewart Brandborg that’s what happened to he’s worked in Louisiana, Mississippi, mechanical sights and sounds Veteran forester Guy Brandborg fought to preus…We had this mess that took Missouri, Minnesota, California, and and smells.” serve public forests for the next generation. about 40 years to get where it’s Nevada. More nights than he cares to Zahniser, a prolific writer count, he misses dinner with his wife. roadless lands for possible wilderness okay now.” and a powerful speaker, was So Thomas went to forestry school. “Poor soul, she got tangled up with me. intent on creating a new national designations. Its advocates said it democwilderness system. Unlike federal ratized the process whereby wilderness He invested in logging equipment and She should have found some other fellow…this has been a hard thing.” forests, these lands would remain off- areas could be set aside for protection. It worked steadily for decades. Who’s keeping him from working There was a time when Thomas limits to commerce such as logging and also whetted Brandy’s appetite: “I was to mechanized activities. “Our noblest, looking up at the ceiling saying, ‘Oh my made a decent living in Montana, he in Montana? To Thomas it’s clear: folks happiest character develops with the God, we got only nine million acres, and influence of wilderness,” he wrote. there’s all this stuff in the parks, and the “Away from it we tend to degenerate refuges, and the forest.’” Each new candidate for a wilderinto the squalor of slums or the frustration of clinical couches. With the ness designation would have to be mapped, its pristine qualities quantiwilderness we are at home.” Zahniser was a kind and gentle man, fied. The proposal would then be vetBrandy recalls. “He was smooth. I was ted through a public hearing, and by persuaded, seduced, by this wonderful Congress and then the president, character.” Brandy had found a mentor. before it could be placed in the national preservation system. Zahniser had found a protégé. Brandy built a grassroots wilderness In 1960, Brandy became the Wilderness Society’s associate executive movement. In communities across the director, serving under Zahniser in nation, he tracked down people with a demonstrated love of nature, such as Washington, D.C. From 1956 to 1964, Zahniser wrote birders. “I’d smell around…I’d call and 66 drafts of a federal wilderness bill that say, ‘Can I come over for breakfast, would realize his vision, penning some at lunch, or dinner?’” He took Zahniser’s place at the his living room table, searching for the right language to move the gears of gov- head of the Wilderness Society, serving ernment. Congress vetted the bill there until 1977, as the environmental through 18 hearings. Industry lobbies movement grew and groups such as his were no happier than they had been helped strengthen protections for pubwhen Teddy Roosevelt created the Forest lic lands. Brandy came back to Montana in Service. “All the commodity outfits—gas, oil, 1986. He served as the first president of timber—landed on the wilderness bill,” Friends of the Bitterroot, which sought to Brandy says. “Total opposition—‘It will ensure that the Forest Service in Montana never go anywhere.’ And they owned a adhered to federal environmental laws. And he took on a variety of other local lot of members of Congress.” Both houses of Congress finally environmental issues. Depending on how you look at it, he passed the Wilderness Act in 1963. Zahniser died in 1964, four months was either saving wilderness or locking before President Lyndon Johnson signed up public lands. Brandy would say the public was saving the lands. But there it into law. The Act permanently closed 9.1 mil- was also a growing backlash. lion acres of federal land to most forms of development, including roads, dams, Photo by Elizabeth Costigan buildings, motorized activity, and ‘THIS HAS BEEN A HARD THING’ resource extraction. It ordered the Forest On a Friday morning at the end of Stewart Brandborg likes to sit on his deck outside Hamilton overService, the National Park Service, and the May, Craig Thomas is gassing up his looking the Bitterroot Mountains. It’s a good place to think about all Fish and Wildlife Service to survey other truck. The 63-year-old was just laid off at of the things he still has to do.

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NO SURRENDER

Photo courtesy of Stewart Brandborg

Nearly 50 years ago, Stewart Brandborg helped form a grassroots movement that ensured 109 million acres of wilderness would stay pristine in perpetuity.

like the Brandborgs and their allies, who have fought to protect forests and wilderness areas. The restrictions in his last contract, he says, “are directly the result” of litigation “that developed these mitigation factors.” Conservationists talk a lot about battling industry, he says, but what about the loggers? Many of the restrictions that hamper his vocation are devised during administrative hearings, he says, which many working folks can’t attend. “We’re busy trying to make a living.” Gordy Sanders is the resource manager at Pyramid Mountain Lumber, the oldest family-owned and –operated lumber mill in Montana. Sanders has been in the woodproducts business for 40 years. At least 30 mills in Montana have closed in the last two decades, he says, largely because the federal government is an undependable partner. The Bitterroot Forest yielded 3.5 million board feet of lumber last year, less than 5 percent of its 1969 level. “We’re seeing a significant reduction in the amount of logs on trucks,” Sanders says. “It takes years and years and years for the agencies to offer a sale.”

Thomas says all of this doesn’t make him angry so much as jealous. From where he sits, it looks like Brandy has won. “I have great respect for the individual, even the stuff he did to eliminate me,” he says. “I wish I had done half as well.”

At 53, Dan Brandborg, one of Brandy’s five children, says he doesn’t have the same will to organize the masses shared by his father and grandfather, whom he affectionately describes as “bossy.” When it comes to being the child of a zealot, he says, he and his siblings joke that “if dad had gone into Christianity, we would all have really been in trouble.” As it is, they’ve felt the heat generated by Brandy’s and Guy’s ardor. In 1988, their family cabin in Tin Cup Canyon burned. The family suspected it was arson. “It was pretty darn suspicious,” says Dan, a renewable-energy consultant. “The cabin was a real blow, but it’s just part of it.” The fire was perhaps emblematic of the passion behind the continuing debate about how best to manage Montana’s miles and miles of hills, mineral deposits, and forests. Land is no abstraction in Montana, says Pat Williams: “It’s real. We work, live, and play on it. And so it’s not entirely unusual that we’d be willing to fight over it as well. And we do.” Lately, Sen. Tester, with his Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, has put himself forward as a referee. “Montanans put down their fists and, with great humility, worked together to create something big,” he said of his bill last week. “Everyone gave a little and will get a lot.” No, Brandy says. The bill would set a dangerous precedent. No lawmaker in D.C. should tell a forester how to do her job or tell citizens how to manage their

lands. “It just opens the door to shootfrom-the-hip management.” More specifically, some conservationists balk at Tester’s compromise because it would remove wilderness study areas from protection, including land in the Sapphire and west Pioneer mountains. Meanwhile, multiple-use proponents such as the Gallatin Valley-based Citizens for Balanced Use, which advocates for motorized recreation on public lands, contend that wilderness designations tend “to privilege some parts of social culture and nature at the expense of others.” Putting more land in Montana out of bounds for resource extraction will further hinder job growth in the state, says CBU board member Kerry White. “We’re kind of in the fight of our life here,” he says. Echoing Rep. Rehberg’s opposition, White says he’s afraid that if Tester’s bill passes, its only concession to industry, the logging mandate, will be tied up in years of litigation. The only guarantee in the bill is hundreds of thousands of additional acres of wilderness, he says. It’s “totally bogus.” Sanders, of Pyramid Mountain Lumber, disagrees. Tester’s bill could bring a needed boost to the Montana timber industry, Sanders says, and break a 30year impasse over the state’s public lands. As the debate over Tester’s bill intensifies, Brandy looks through his living room window, to the Bitterroot Mountains, and gets ready for another day. “The war will go on,” he says. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

Photo courtesy of Stewart Brandborg

The University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation awards Brandborg an honorary doctorate degree last year.

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lenges like global warming, it’s possible that the genetic information stored in seed banks could be used to create new varieties better able to withstand whatever climatic curveballs may come our way. Three years ago marked the opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in arctic Norway. Not a seed bank, since it doesn’t do any regeneration of seed, Svalbard simply holds copies of seed collections from seed banks around the world. If seed banks are like insurance policies against regional crop disease and catastrophe, Svalbard is the insurer who insures the insurance company. Every time a depositor seed bank regenerates any of its seed varieties, they update Svalbard’s collection, which is on track to hold deposits from 53 nations by the end of 2012. Had Svalbard been up and running before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the contents of the country’s

war-torn and looted national seed bank might have been backed up in Norway. The collection, which included rare strains of wheat, almonds, and apricots, was lost in the chaos of the U.S. invasion and occupation. Efforts to save Iraq’s national seed bank during the U.S. invasion were more successful. The collection, which includes Mesopotamian strains of lentil, wheat, and chickpea, was moved to Aleppo, Syria, where it now faces political instability all over again. Svalbard has been nicknamed the “Doomsday Vault” because its location and construction were designed to withstand a variety of manmade and natural disasters. North enough to withstand rising temperatures, high enough to skirt tsunamis and rising sea levels, remote enough to survive a nuclear war, and deep enough in a mountain to withstand meteorites, bombs, and tornadoes, Svalbard has as good a chance as anything on earth of surviving the big one. Fears have been expressed by some in the seed community that the centralization of so many seeds will facilitate GMO takeover, biopiracy, or some other sort of greedy exploitation. “We built a tunnel in a frozen mountain and put seeds in it,” explains Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Rome-based nonprofit that funded Svalbard’s construction and now covers its operating costs. Fowler is patient but weary as he defends the accusations that Svalbard is the Trojan Horse for a Monsanto gene-grab, or will otherwise bring about some kind of global doomsday of its own. While comet and tomahawk missile strikes are unlikely to test the vault’s defenses any time soon, there are, unfortunately, many smaller, regional doomsdays happening all the time. And that’s where Svalbard can make a difference, Fowler says. If a Svalbard depositor’s primary collection is lost, a la Afghanistan, that depositor would have a back-up of that country’s agricultural genetic hard-drive. And while the Afghani seed bank perished in the war, all was not lost. Nikolay Vavilov had made a trip there in 1918, and had gathered samples of fruit, nuts, and wheat for his collection. A little more than 20 years later, as Vavilov languished in a Siberian prison, members of his staff died to save that collection. So far 111 seed varieties from the Vavilov Institute’s collection have made it to Svalbard, with more on the way.

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During the Nazi siege of Leningrad, a group of scientists at the world’s oldest seed bank starved to death rather than eat the wheat, potato, nut, and other seeds stored at Leningrad’s Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry. At the same time, courtesy of Stalin, the institute’s founding visionary Nikolay Vavilov was starving to death in a Siberian prison—but not before he’d gathered more than 50,000 samples from 40 countries for his institute’s collection. Today the Russian government is attempting to sell Vavilov’s land to private developers. The seeds can be moved, but not so easily transported are the hundreds of varieties of rare fruit trees planted in the institute’s historic orchards. Seeds are cheap these days, typically sold for fractions of a penny. But should supplies dry up, it will become difficult for a hungry populace to put a price on these tiny items, given the fact that they can produce infinite amounts of food. Seeds provide the kind of security to agriculture-oriented people that gold provides to the money-minded. Seed saving is as old as agriculture, though today it hardly ranks as a priority for most people, even among gardeners. Nonetheless, a small, committed culture of seed savers is thriving. Many seed savers are also seed exchangers, like the ones I met early this spring in Espanola, New Mexico. Farmers and gardeners from the region brought together their most prized seeds and displayed them on tables. They explained their seeds to their fellow savers and perused each other’s collections, taking however much of whatever they wanted. After all the inner circle of seed savers got their fill, the action opened up to the general public, like me, who’d showed up with nothing but empty bags. My haul included Tarahumara sunflower seeds, Hopi blue corn, Inca rainbow sweet corn, Chimayó chile, yin-yang beans, and seeds for what a little girl promised will be the juiciest carrots ever. “If you love something, set it free” could be a mantra for these seed lovers, because getting their seeds into wider circulation increases the likelihood that their precious strains will survive. The possibility that many heirloom strains could disappear is real, as the number of crop varieties under cultivation is dropping. Seed exchanges are like the organic, decentralized cousins to seed banks, which are stable institutions devoted to preserving collections of seeds. Worldwide, the number of seed banks recently surpassed 1,700. Some

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

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

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

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

HAPPIESTHOUR Al’s and Vic’s Atmosphere: Al’s and Vic’s has a classic pool hall ambience that gives you the feeling you’re walking into a scene from The Outsiders, expecting to see a greaser hustling the billiard tables in the back. The beauty of the bar is its simplicity, from the black-andwhite pictures that cover the walls to the functioning payphone on the wall by the door. Claim to fame: According to the bar’s Myspace page, it’s the oldest Missoula establishment in its original location. Al and Vic Pepe built the bar in 1936, and even though the old watering hole has gone through a series of facelifts over the years, it’s a safe bet that much of the original character has been preserved. Happy hour: The bar keeps a steady weekday clientele thanks in part to its drink specials. On Sundays, they advertise $1.50 Olympia with lime, and on Wednesdays the special is $1.75 Bud Light. The real favorite, however, is the $3 double well drinks on Monday and Tuesday that have helped win them the Independent readers’ pick for “Best Bar for a Stiff Pour” three years in a row.

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with the old guys at the end of the bar, grab a “bucket of beer”– four PBR cans served in a tin pail full of ice for $7, and find a table on the concrete patio out back. Who you’re drinking with: Anyone from a crew of Roller Derby girls to well-dressed socialites fresh from dinner at the adjacent James Bar. Where to find it: 119 West Alder St., at the far end of the downtown strip. — Jed Nussbaum

What you’re drinking: “This is a whiskey bar,” said Winter Sanor, who has worked here for 10 years. If you don’t want to drink Jameson

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

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Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5 - 10pm. Late night happy hour 9-10pm. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Oil & Vinegar Southgate Mall 549-7800 Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM-9:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM6:00 PM. With a visit to Oil & Vinegar, you will discover an international selection of over 40 estate-produced oils & vinegars suspended in glass amphora-shaped containers on a dramatic backlit wall. Guests can sample the varieties and select from various shapes & sizes of bottles to have filled with an “on-tap” product of choice. Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 North Higgins Avenue 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 46 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$

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

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The Sunrise Saloon & Casino 1100 block of Strand 728-1559 Every day is a great day at the Sunrise Saloon! Enjoy two happy hours daily, plus daily drink specials. Wednesday is Ladies night. Missoula's only dedicated country bar with live country music Thursday Saturday. Play our liberal machines while enjoying great entertainment and friendly service. 21+ only. Open daily 8 a.m. 2:00 a.m. NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 5497979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right. Home of the Famous Fish Taco. Crowned Missoulas best lunch for under $6. Mon-Sat. 11-10 Sun. 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER.

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Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun Wed 8-3pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

BITTERROOT Spice of Life 163 S. 2nd St., Hamilton 363-4433 Spice of Life welcomes you to the Bitterroot’s best locavore dining experience. Serving up fresh and fun food in a conscientious manner. For lunch try one of our hand made burgers from Lolo Locker or one of our fabulous fresh salads. Dinner selections include natural beef which contains no growth hormones or antibiotics ever, sustainable seafood selections and pasta dishes made from Montana wheat from Pasta Montana. Quench your thirst with beer from right here in Hamilton or try one of our reasonably priced yet fantastic wine selections. Children’s menu available. No reservations. So come as you are to Spice of Life! 163 S 2nd St. Hamilton, MT. Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:00 to 2:00 Dinner: Wed - Sat 5:00 to 9:00. 363-4433.

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meets the first Thu. of every month. Join them at 10 AM at the Missoula Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine. Women rule at the WORD open house (as in Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development, Inc.) to celebrate 25 years and their new director, Stacy Rye, 4:30 to 6 PM, 2525 Palmer St., Ste 1. Free.

nightlife Dream Addiction promises to rock so hard at Downtown ToNight, as part of Caras Park’s ongoing concert series on Thursdays from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. Eat crunchy food and talk sustainable urban living at the MUD Mingles Potluck from 6–9 PM at the MUD site, 629 Philips St. Free. Visit mudproject.org for details.

The Clay Studio of Missoula 1998-2011: Retrospective, is a large group exhibition of ceramic works from artists like Meagan Cheney, whose piece is pictured above. The exhibition opens at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne Unit A, on Friday, June 3, with a reception from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Free.

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Dalyjazz is all about bringing you the best jazz music in Missoula, and this month they’re presenting Azar Lawrence, with Benito Gonzalez. Show is $45 for non members. RSVP required. dalyjazz.com.

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Live it up and enjoy an early afternoon High Tea & Tour of the Conrad Mansion Museum. Check out the 26 rooms built in 1895 and all the grandeur therein. $25. Register by the Wed.

Talk transit with the Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, which

Create your own delicious frozen treats when Stumptown Art Studio hosts its Annual Spring Show & Ice Cream Social, featuring a year of work by student artists from 6–9 PM at 141 Central Ave. Free. Ogle a weird blend of abstract and landscape paintings at Mark Baumbach’s art exhibition at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, 6-9 PM, 305 Baker Ave. in Whitefish. whitefishgallerynights.org, or call 863-ARTS. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 3, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Learn to “folf” at Missoula REI’s Disc Golf 101 class, where you’ll go over the rules of the game, basic throws and different types of discs from 6:30–8 PM at 2230 N. Reserve St. Free. Foster Kids from the wrong side of the tracks are the subject of this documentary from a local filmmaker, From Place to Place, which screens at the Wilma at 7 PM. $8/$5 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and fromplacetoplacemovie.com. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets. Mudslide Charley hosts and performs gutbucket blues and ramshackle soul at Blues & Bread from 8–10 PM at Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. 3rd St. W. Free. Get claustrophobic when Cabin Fever plays a highly danceable set at The Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, 1805 Regent St. Free. He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Guess who’s coming to dinner? The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank play acoustic, blues, and folk, 10 PM at The Top Hat. Cover TBA.

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Dalyjazz is all about bringing you the best jazz music in Missoula, and this month they’re presenting Azar Lawrence, with

Flow, Phil Nesmith’s glass plate positives of the Deepwater Horizon disaster are on display at The Rocky Mountain School of Photography as part of First Friday, June 3, from 5–8 PM, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Benito Gonzalez. Show is $45 for non members. RSVP required. dalyjazz.com. The LGBTIQ community has done their part to keep Missoula weird and fabulous, so why not join them for a collaborative art exhibit at the Western Montana Community Center. Drink locally donated wine and view art that focuses on marriage, transgendered reality and more. The event is free but bring some cash for drinks/donation. 127 N. Higgins, Ste. 202. gaymontana.org. Brothers know best? The exhibition Peter and Henry Meloy: Collaborations features functional and structural ceramics and runs through Sept. 10 at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library on the UM Campus. Resident tradespeople display hand made wood and fabric products/art pieces in the co-op, plus a BYOB potluck for Ceretana Cooperative Woodshop & Noah’s Fabric Works at Ceretana Studios, 801 Sherwood St. Call Jacob at 274-6491. Anyone with a horse and a desire to compete are invited to the Montana Mounted Shooters 12 th Annual To w n s e n d R a n c h C o m p e t i t i o n Shoot, which will run June 3–5, with festivities beginning Fri. at 2 PM, Sat. at 10

Billie Shugart and her daughter, Janette, sell Western silver jewelry as well as beautiful modern jewelry.

AM, and continuing on Sun. at Townsend Ranch, 3278 Standing Bear Rd. in Darby. Call 821-3749. The Montana Museum of Art & Culture are at it again with the opening of their exhibit, 60 Artists, 60 Artworks, 60 Years: Celebrating the Archie Bay Foundation. Join them for an open reception on campus at the UM PARTV center 4–6 PM. Gallery will run until Sept. 10. Free. Join Missoula Adult Services in, Celebration of Recovery, a show featuring artwork by local artists, 4–7 PM at Western Montana Mental Health Center, 1315 Wyoming St. And the living’s easy with The Top Hat’s First Friday kickoff to the Summa Time Evening Marketplace, 4–8 PM and every Fri. through the summer.

nightlife One of a kind, hand-crafted, sterling silver jewelry may or may not be hanging from the rafters at Jill Johnson’’s gallery at 5 PM at The Monkey Bar Gym, 725 W. Alder #3. Preview her work at jilljohnson.etsy.com. Get your ohm on and help celebrate the grand opening of the Ewam Buddhist Center and Tibetan Store. The event

Hal has developed a unique pottery style - perfect for collectors!

will also display Thangka art, refreshments, and a lecture on Sacred Art of Tibet. Located above Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. 3rd St. W. 5–7 PM. Free. Whales are turning back into wolves, metaphorically. Explore this wild claim and more at Ann Karp’’s art show, Submerged, which features oil paintings that explore our evolutionary ties, 5–7:30 PM at Computer Central, 136 E. Broadway. sidewaysgaze.com/art. More is more at Sasha Nikole Smith’’s art showcase, featuring some of her large-scale work, 5 to 8 PM, 314 N. Higgins. Free. Form meets function when Larry Diskin makes lamps and other works of art out of bike parts and recyclables, plus live music by Mark Kersting, 5–8 PM at Frankie’s Mercantile, 223 W. Front St. Free. (See Spotlight in this issue.) It’s oh so quiet at the Milltown Garden Patch Silent Auction Fundraiser from 5–8 PM at Zootown Brew, which will feature live music by Ugly Pony and The Dodgy Mountain Men, and items for sale like jewelry, raft trips, birdhouses and more, all to benefit development of an eductional program for students of Bonner School. 121 W. Broadway. milltowngardenpatch.org.

Functional & decorative handmade pottery. John Ward has perfected his colors, glazes and firing techniques over many years.

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I believe you can get me through the night. Dream Addiction promises to rock at Downtown ToNight, as part of Caras Park’s ongoing concert series on Thu., June 2, from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.

The audacity of both art and this long gallery title, Megalobamboozlementarianism are on display all over town, starting 5 PM at: Bernice’s Bakery, Betty’s Divine, Butterfly Herbs, Taco Del Sol, Missoula Aid’s council, Piece of Mind, and Zoo Town Apparel. Free. Go to abecoley.com to find out about the artist reception tour. (See Scope in this issue.) Forget the five boroughs, The Missoula Art Museum’s exhibition Neighbor Days features art from the 18 neighborhoods that make up the Missoula council system, 5–8 PM, 335 N. Pattee. Free. Call 728-0447. Just ordinary, regular butterfly portraits by Laurie Urfer are on display at Butterfly Herbs, 5–8 PM, 232 N. Higgins Ave. Something meets nothing at The Brink Gallery’s exhibition sounding, featuring the work of several artists, 5–8 PM, 111 W. Front. Unique glass plate positive images are featured at Flow, an exhibition featuring oil stained landscapes from the recent spill down south. Reception 5–8 PM at Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 216 N. Higgins Ave. rmsp.com/gallery. Free. Rustic yet elegant jewelry is the subject of Ciara Everett’s show Wired at Bathing Beauties, 5–8 PM, 501 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Beeswax makes everything better at The Darkroom, where Amanda Holloway shows her uniquely rendered encaustic photographs, 5–8 PM, 135 N. Higgins Ave. Free. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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Celebrate the art of writing secret notes on scrolls with The Artists’ Shop gallery reception of Artists & Alphabets: The Art of Contemporary Calligraphy, 5–8 PM, 304 N. Higgins. Free. Celebrate the long-lasting bond between Big Sky Country and the clay mediums during the exhibition opening of Persistence in Clay: Contemporary Ceram-ics in Montana. The show runs through Sept. 11, and there are a variety of events happening throughout the weekend, including a reception from 5–8 PM at Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula, 424 N. Higgins Ave. Free. (See Art in this issue.) Your painting needs will be met at Stephanie Frostad’’s art exhibit from 5–9 PM at Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. Keeping it real civilized with samples and signings for the Habitat for Humanity Cookbook at Fact & Fiction, 5:30–7:30 PM, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Jessica Goulding captures the beast’s underbelly at her photography exhibit of the underground in Seattle, 5:30–8 PM at Yellowstone Photo, 321 N. Higgins. yellowstonephoto.com. Say it in clay with Clay Studio of Missoula for their gallery exhibit, Retrospective from 5:30-9 PM, 1106-A Hawthorne St. Free. Let’s let babies in bars why not for The Top Hat’s Family Friendly Fridays at 6 PM, this week with Reid Perry. Free, all ages.

Two local favorites strut their stuff at The Frame Shop & Gallery’s first friday opening: Linda Stout’s Works on Paper, and Barbara Warden’’s recent Firetalk fiber art. 6–8 PM at 325 Main St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-6684. Wet rocks and more are on display at Gayle and John Salisbury’s photography exhibit Soft Stones and Water from 6–8 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Free. Not to be confused with mountain dew or other majesties, River’s Mist at the Gallery of Fine Art are kicking off their show with a reception from 6–9. The show runs June 3–27 at 317 Main St. in Stevensville. Call 777-0520. Smoke up, Johnny. The Lil’ Smokies are playing bluegrass outside at The Old Post as part of First Friday at 6:30 PM, 103 W. Spruce. Free. Give me your best no face when EL-3OH! plays gypsy jazz at 6:30 PM in the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlensnake Drive. Free. Call 549-8703. Dresses swirl like spinning plates when Elenita Brown dances at The Senior Citizen Center in Stevensville at 7 PM, 100 Mission St. Donations encouraged. Call 777-3546. Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O ’ S h a u g h n e s s y C e n t e r, 1

Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets. Kick it old school when Ratatat brings their eclectic blend of hip hop, electronica and other highly danceable musical stylings to the Wilma Theatre, with Despot and E*Rock at 8 PM. $25. Get tickets at Ear Candy, Rockin Rudys, 800-514-ETIX or online at 1111.presents.com. (See Noise in this issue.) Formal wear not required for Bitter Root Range, a three piece acoustic set at 8 PM at Lutzenhiser Jewelry in Stevensville, 116 Main St. Free. Short films rule at Le Petit Outre’s first friday screening of film shorts presented by Missoula’s Big Sky Documentary FIlm Festival. Films start at 8 PM, with local music and refreshments beforehand, 129 S. 4th St. W. Free.

Is there any other kind? Wild Coyote Band are playing classic rock at The Eagles Lodge at 8 PM, 2420 South Ave. W. Free. Spurs may or may not be jangling for the Mountain Mixer at the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 8–10 PM. For pricing and more info, call 273-0652. Dance with strangers and get your R&B fix when local legends Zeppo MT play The Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. These boots are made for dubstep, and that’s just what you’ll hear when Bootz play at The Top Hat, $5.

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Eat animals and throw their shoes around at the Buck Snort Restaurant, Bar & Casino’s grand opening event, featuring live music, an outdoor bar, open mic, live music starting at 6 and so much more. $5.50 sandwiches all day. 16995 US Hwy 93 N just north of Missoula. Keep it local every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If you’re after non-edibles, check

SPOTLIGHT red dress Amanda Holloway likes to photograph women against a Montana landscape, but it’s not like that. They’re not wearing Patagonia and they’re not out walking their dogs. Her woman is naked, or sprawled out on the grass in a dress the color of her lips, or she’s surrounded by floating leaves, looking down serenely at an exposed navel. Weirder still is the way the pictures are rendered. Holloway uses an ancient process called encaustics. She mounts photographs onto wood and then “burns in” several layers of beeswax. From there the wax can be manipulated by carving into the layers, painting on them, or adding extra materials like book pages and flower petals. The results are spooky and ethereal. When you look into the layered images, it’s difficult to know what’s real and what’s been altered through the wax. She tells me that the ancient Greeks used the same method on funerary urns and portrait caskets. She says that some of them are still intact today. I start making false correlations. I want to ask her what the occasion is (as in, who died?) but I know the answer. People die every day and even more people take pictures, so that question is settled. Holloway’s show is called The Strong and the WHAT: Amanda Holloway’s photography exhibit, The Strong and the Graceful WHEN: Friday, June 3, 5–8 PM WHERE: The Dark Room, 135 N. Higgins Ave HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: Call 549-1070

Graceful. It’s about a woman’s unique relationship to the earth, what happens when strength meets softness, the benefit of stones and air, and the prettiness that rests in the space between. When describing her work, Holloway evokes the Universal Mother and uses words like “ever-lasting.” I don’t disagree entirely, but I think her work is edgier than that. The woman in the red dress looks to me like she’s been screaming and now she’s exhausted. Her collapsing in the grass is the end result of a barefooted chase and her pursuer is lurking just out of the frame. The nude woman crossing a fallen tree over a river reminds me of my mother in the 1970s. In some pictures, the figures are obscured in layers and hardly resemble people, as though someone came along and stole their heads and hands. Holloway’s women are strong, but they are also fragile, and to me, for whatever reason, painfully mortal. —Molly Laich

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The Psychology of Relationship with Ken Silvestro Are you experiencing: •Repetitive patterns of poor relationships? •The affects of trauma as a young child on current relationships? •A desire for deeper and more satisfying relationships? •A desire for greater self-esteem in relationships? •A desire to better understand your partner and yourself? Then this is the course for you! Join Ken Silvestro for this fascinating look at relationships and their complexities.

Wednesdays, June 15- July 13, Noon-1:00pm For more information or to register, please contact Kathy Mangan

at 406-721-0033 or rwlcmt@gmail.com. For a complete listing of our classes, please visit www.redwillowlearning.org. Sliding scale fee available. Red Willow Learning Center, 825 West Kent Street, Missoula

SPOTLIGHT i love lamp When I first saw Larry Diskin’s bicycle lamps, I couldn’t get an obscure Canadian backpack rapper out of my head. Buck 65’s song, “50 Gallon Drum” begins with the gravelly, calmly spoken words, “My idea of Heaven… I like art made of garbage.” Who doesn’t like art made of garbage? (Or, “recycled parts,” to put it more delicately.) There’s something romantic about taking someone else’s refuse in order to birth something new, and to have that thing be not just beautiful and interesting, but also functional.

searches out recycling bins at bike shops. Even the lamps themselves tend to come from second hand stores. Generally the only new things on Diskin’s lamps are the shades, and the effect is something bizarre with every creation.

Buck goes on in the song to talk about other things he enjoys: “the fixing of a flat tire,” and, “static, fuzz, hiss; it’s just the thing sometimes.” Isn’t it? Nearly everything that goes into Diskin’s lamps comes from other materials. For the bicycle parts—the gears and chains and handlebars that make up weird appendages on the lamp—he WHAT: Bicycle Lamps by Larry Diskin WHEN: Fri., June 3, 5–8 PM WHERE: Frankie’s Mercantile, 223 W. Front St. HOW MUCH: Free

Association of Firefighters Burn Foundation. Pre-register by May 29 to receive a shirt, and click to montanamaderun.org for more info.

Medicine power! at the Montana Natural History Center for their Discover Day workshop, Camas Root: Native Uses & Harvesting. Registration required. $45/$35 for MNHC members. montananaturalist.org or call 327-0405.

There’s such a thing as National Trails Day, so why not celebrate it with Kalispell Parks and Recreation for their event, Walk the Flathead. Walk begins at 10 AM. Check in at 9 AM at the Woodland Park Lagoon Pavilion for this free, all ages event. Call 758-7848.

Run wild to support Montana made products and businesses during the Montana Made Run 5K and 10K at McCormick Park in Missoula, which is open to racers and walkers alike and raises funds for the International

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out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Give it your best shot at the Powder River Buffalo Shoot near Brodus, where participants use single shot or lever-action rifles to shoot at five metal targets that are 250 to 1,000 yards away. Aim for details by calling 436-2270 or by e-mailing broadusfire@rangeweb.net.

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Confession: when I first got to Missoula, I bought this brilliant red bicycle from a woman on craigslist who told me the bike had great “starter energy.” I named her Betsy and we got along really well for a year so, until we didn’t. Things fell apart. One night I left her chained irresponsibly for days outside of the Golden Rose and she lost her seat. Later the tire kept grinding against the brakes in the front, until one day the wheel stuck in place suddenly and I went flying over the handlebars. “This isn’t going to be that bad,” I thought, moments before my face hit the pavement. “Okay, that was a little worse than I thought,” I concluded upon seeing my mangled face. After the spill I got fed up and left the bike lying sad on its side under the Orange Street Bridge. Betsy, I swore I would do the right thing and come back for you, but I didn’t. I should have donated you to Free Cycle. If I’d known Larry Diskin were around, sweet Betsy, I’d have had you made into a lamp.

Trout Unlimited in Idaho needs a few good Montanans to fly fish some carp out of the Snake River for their annual event, Carpfest. Tournament gets underway at 10 AM and it’s $150 for a team of two, with tons of prizes up for grabs and other events included. Visit carpfest.blogspot.com or call Hunt at 552-0891, ext. 714. Kate Davis explains it all when she signs copies of her book, Raptors of the Rockies, 10:30 AM at Fact & Fiction, 220

N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Walk on the wild side, of flowers that is, when Lone Pine State Park presents a series of spring wildflower walks every Sat. at 11 AM until June 18 starting with a meet-up at the Lone Pine Visitor Center, 300 Lone Pine Road outside of Kalispell. Free. Call 755-2706 Ext. 2. As part of their ongoing Open Studios on First Saturdays, Alpine Artisans Inc. are opening their studios for public walk ins from 11 AM–5 PM. alpineartisans.org. Play something called Stickgame at The SKC Adeline Mathias Endowment Project, which runs Fri. June 3 with events from 4–7, and Sat. 122PM, all at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. Call 675-3577. Be a pal and come celebrate the Neighborhood Council’s 15th Anniversary as part of First

Beer Drinkers’ Profile Pam & Jude

Summer vacation Friday and the Sunday Streets Missoula celebration today around noon. missoula-neighborhoods.org.

nightlife Bitter Root Range continues a world domination tour with their three piece acoustic set as the closing act at Rocky Mountain Range in Hamilton, 1436 S. 1st St. Free. All bets are off when Dan Dubuque plays at 6:30 PM in the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlensnake Drive. Free. Call 549-8703. Just like Grandma used to do, The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall wants to play you mountain music from great local bands and other entertainers on the first Sat. of every month, with this month’s lineup including names like Bob Adkin’s Country Step Cloggers and The Montana Kids, 1436 S. First St. in Hamilton. Call 961-4949. Get back in baby’s arms when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents Always...Patsy Cline, a revue of Cline’s music with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O ’ S h a u g h n e s s y C e n t e r, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $20. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets. Is there any other kind? Wild Coyote Band are playing classic rock at The Eagles Lodge at 8 PM, 2420 South Ave. W. Free. Spurs may or may not be jangling for the Mountain Mixer at the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 8–10 PM. For pricing and more info, call 273-0652. DJ Monty Carlo and guests are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free, with visuals by V3R. Swig drinks while listening to old school rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free. Pile up like cars or sleeping hamsters for Traffic Jam’s show at The Palace, with

Tonsofun, The Gutterslugs, and DJ Brand One. Doors at 9 PM, 3$ for 21+/$8 for 18+.

11:30 AM and 12:30 PM, plus other events at Carousel Market, 101 Carousel Dr.

Raashan Ahmad of the Crown City Rockers is coming to The Top Hat and he’s bringing his hip hop with him, 9 PM, $7.

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

Continue smoking, Johnny. The Lil’ Smokies are playing bluegrass at the Lumberjack Saloon at 9:30 PM, 2000 Graves Creek Rd. Free. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Party. Pizza party. Enjoy all you can eat delicious pizza—and salad—and support the Paxson Elementary School Garden at the same time at Biga Pizza from 3–8 PM. 241 W. Main. $7 kids/$10 adults.

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The Missoula Area Secular Society presents its Sunday M.A.S.S. Brunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for brunch from 10 AM–noon at the meeting room of Sean Kelly's Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend,. Visit secularmissoula.org. Locavores unite at the Target Range Community Farmers’ Market, which features a plethora of local foods and assorted goods and runs from 10 AM–1 PM every Sun. until Oct. 9 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free. Call Peggie at 728-5302. Come to celebrate conservation and the outdoors, stay for the huckleberry lemonade at Ecology Project International’s 3rd Annual Swift Fiesta during Sunday Streets, 10 AM–4 PM at the Swift Building, 315 South 4th St. E., Free. Yet another opportunity to peruse and purchase local crafts and produce hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 11 AM–3 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 16 at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park Pavilion. Free. Visit carrousel.com/carousel-sundaymarket-and-fes. Wonder about animals when the June 5th Market has crazy, animal centered family events planned as part of the Sunday Streets activities, with shows at

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Discover the next big thing in art a t Pa x s o n E l e m e n t a r y ’ s Student Art Show, which will feature student artwork that was created with three visiting artists, 8:30 AM–7:30 PM, 101 Evans St.

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What brings you to the Iron Horse today?

It's our first outdoor dining event of the year. And the food here is great! Highlights of the perfect summer vacation? Pam: Great weather, reading a book by the river, & BBQ's with family & friends! Jude: My job reinstated, loads of happiness, & good things for my family! Beer Of Choice? Miller Lite or Kettlehouse

Come sit outside & enjoy the patio seating! Something New Is Always Happening At The Horse 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866

Red Bird Wine Bar presents the kind of jazz that makes toes tap when Ruth Dada and Chris Duprii play from 7–10 PM, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Free. See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Mon. at 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign-up. Kick off your week with a drink, free pool and a rotating cast of electronic DJs and styles for your booty during Milkcrate Monday with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free. Find the sweet spot between modern and vintage when Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside play a blend of indie, rock and folk at The Top Hat, with Stellarondo, 6 PM. (see Noise in this issue.)

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Committee. Applications for this volunteer position can be obtained through the Mayor’s office, City Hall, 2nd floor, 435 Ryman, due today. Call 721-PARK. Native fish and how to monitor them are the subject of Chris Down’s brown bag Seminar on Fish Monitoring and Mercury Assessment in Glacier National Park. Find out the results of fish tissue tests and what it means for human and wildlife at noon in the community building in park headquarters, West Glacier. Free.

nightlife It’s on when Javier Ryan presents an Acoustic Throw down at The Top Hat, featuring a ton of great local acts, free. Let the jam flow openly during open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. Email terillovet@hotmail.com. Party with patriots when the Missoula Patriots host a meeting at Valley Christian School, 2526 Sunset Lane, beginning with a potluck at 6 PM and followed by guest speaker Fulton Sheen’s talk “Merging Streams of Commonwealth” at 7. Free. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. B r o a d w a y, h o s t s Y WC A Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready?. Which film beat out Saving Private Ryan to take the best picture Oscar in 1998? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

Local documentary From Place to Place about kids aging out of foster care screens at The Wilma on Thu., June 2, at 7 PM. $8/$5 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and fromplacetoplacemovie.com.

free pool plus reggae, dancehall and hip hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

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Learn the tools of the trade at the A Hopa Mountain Community Leadership Workshop by Josh Meyer, where coveting practical skills to affect community change is the focus. 2–4 PM at Bozeman Public Library, 626 E. Main St. Free. Register by emailing josh.meyer@hopamountain.org or call 586-2455.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays and Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where drink specials mix with music by The Tallest DJ in America every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free.

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Fall into the ZACC and hear several awesomely named bands perform. Welcome Destroy Nate Allen and Yester from out of town, plus local acts Candyland Liberation Front and The Whoopass Girls for this $5 all ages show. 235 N. 1st St. (See Noise in this issue.)

Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week. This week’s beneficiary is New Leaders Council. Free. Visit kettlehouse.com. Pub Trivia Answer: Shakespeare in Love.

All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features

Wear your patented magic pants during Hump Night Theatre,

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

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Food, agriculture, and human values are some of the subjects up for discussion at the annual meeting, Food and Agriculture Under the Big Sky, running June 9–12 at UM. C a l l 24 3 - 6 271 o r v i s i t cas.umt.edu/evst/foodconference.

Middle aged folks and those in their golden years can try their experienced hands at archery, basketball, and even horseshoes during the annual Montana Senior Olympics summer games, which meets for three days in Great Falls.

nightlife Not safe for air travel: The Box Cutters play blues and rock at The Top Hat with Newsfeed Anxiety, $5. Kenny James Miller promises to rock so hard at Downtown ToNight, as part of Caras Park’s concert series on Thursdays from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. Interested anglers in Missoula, take heed: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hosting a public meeting to discuss potential changes to Montana’s 20122015 fishing regulations. Brown trout and other fish are on stage, 7 PM, The Missoula FWP office, 3201 Spurgin Rd. Free. Put on your moon boots for the local Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Community Group Meeting at 7 PM, where this month’s program will feature the presentation, Journeying Towards the Soulcentric Life. 125 Blanchard Lk. Rd. in Whitefish. Call 862-9591. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit,

Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. Insert joke about this band rocking so hard you will be electrocuted here, when High Voltage plays at The Top Hat, 10 PM, $3. The Dalai Lama recently gave up his political position as leader of the exiled Tibetan government. The Molly Llama is still here. It’s a whole different animal. Be a deer by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 3 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternatively, snail mail your events to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 5434367. You can submit things online in the arts section of our website. Scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says, “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH J ust like the not at all famous “squirrel bunny” (an animal I swear exists) Sunday’s bike ride combines two things that don’t belong together: Poker and long distance cycling. That’s right. It’s the Missoula Lions Club Bicycle Poker Run. The 50-mile route follows the Clark Fork River from the Bearmouth RV Park through Drummond and on to the Jens exit. More ambitious riders can take the 100-mile route through Drummond over the Ovando Helmville Road to the Nevada Reservoir. I’m told this is one of the most beautiful and quiet rides in the Missoula area. Here’s where the poker comes in: riders draw a

card at each water stop, and the best hand at the end wins a cash prize. The tournament pays out to the top three hands in both the 50 and 100-mile races for $100, $75, and $50. Additional prizes will be raffled, and there’s a free barbecue following. As far as I know, no squirrel bunnies will be served. The Missoula Lions Club Bicycle Poker Run begins Sun., June 5, beginning at the MT Bearmouth RV Park. 100 milers start at 7 AM and 50 milers at 9 AM. Cost is $50 per rider with proceeds going to benefit the non-profit club’s various organizations. For more info, visit missoulalionsclub.com.

Photo by Elizabeth Costigan

THURSDAY JUNE 2 Eat crunchy food and talk sustainable urban living at the MUD Mingles Potluck from 6–9 PM at the MUD site, 629 Philips St. Free. Visit mudproject.org for details.

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

Anyone with a horse and a desire to compete are invited to the Montana Mounted Shooters 12th Annual Townsend Ranch Competition Shoot, which will run June 3–5, with festivities beginning Fri. at 2 PM, Sat. at 10 AM, and continuing on Sun. at Townsend Ranch, 3278 Standing Bear Rd. in Darby. Call 821-3749.

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Native fish and how to monitor them are the subject of Chris Down’s brown bag Seminar on Fish Monitoring and Mercury Assessment in Glacier National Park. Find out the results of fish tissue tests and what it means for human and wildlife at noon in the community building in park headquarters, West Glacier. Free.

Medicine power! at the Montana Natural History Center for their Discover Day workshop, Camas Root: Native Uses & Harvesting. Registration required. $35 for MNHC members/$45. montananaturalist.org or call 327-0405. Give it your best shot at the Powder River Buffalo Shoot near Brodus, where participants use single shot or lever-action rifles to shoot at five metal targets that are 250 to 1,000 yards away. Aim for details by calling 436-2270 or by e-mailing broadusfire@rangeweb.net. Run wild to support Montana made products and businesses during the Montana Made Run 5K and 10K at McCormick Park in Missoula, which is open to racers and walkers alike and raises funds for the International Association of Firefighters Burn Foundation. Pre-register by May 29 to receive a shirt, and click to montanamaderun.org for more info. There’s such a thing as National Trails Day, so why not celebrate it with Kalispell Parks and Recreation for their event, Walk the Flathead. Walk begins at 10. Check in at 9 AM at the Woodland Park Lagoon Pavilion for this free, all ages event. Call 758-7848. Trout Unlimited in Idaho needs a few good Montanans to fly fish some carp out of the Snake River for their annual event, Carpfest. Tournament gets underway at 10 AM and it’s $150 for a team of two, with tons of prizes up for grabs and other events included. Visit carpfest.blogspot.com or call Hunt at 552-0891, ext. 714.

Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Missoula Park Board are seeking volunteers to serve on the newly forming Conservation Lands Advisory Committee. Applications for this volunteer position can be obtained through the Mayor’s office, City Hall, 2nd floor, 435 Ryman, due today. Call 721-PARK.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 Interested anglers in Hamilton, take heed: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hosting a public meeting to discuss potential changes to Montana’s 2012-2015 fishing regulations. Brown trout and other fish are on stage, 7 PM, at the US Forest Service Supervisor’s office, 1801 N. 1st St. Free.

THURSDAY JUNE 9 Middle aged folks and those in their golden years can try their experienced hands at archery, basketball, cycling, golf and even horseshoes during the annual Montana Senior Olympics summer games, which meets for three days at various locations in Great Falls. Shoot for more info at montanaseniorolympics.org/summer.html. Interested anglers in Missoula, take heed: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hosting a public meeting to discuss potential changes to Montana’s 2012-2015 fishing regulations. Brown trout and other fish are on stage, 7 PM, The Missoula FWP office, 3201 Spurgin Rd. Free. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Taking the cake Local artist Abe Coley bamboozles First Friday by Erika Fredrickson

Missoula artist Abe Coley favors the cliché of having your cake and eating it too. He’s abrasively straightforward at times, coy at others. He outs people on Facebook: When his girlfriend cheated on him he posted a note about it. When an acquaintance left town without paying him the $60 she owed him he posted a picture of her with the words “deadbeat” across her face. Some of his Facebook friends are supportive of his antics, while others chide him for being petty and vengeful. “One of the more valid criticisms I get is I have a huge ego and I don’t take criticism very well,” he says. “But I’m also a pretty laid back guy.” The Facebook postings are, he claims, “more of an intellectual exercise than trying to fuck with someone. I don’t like fucking with people, but I do like creating interesting circumstances.” Coley wears a few different hats. He’s coordinated underground rock shows with touring bands at his art studio, the BSMT. He’s the outreach and tech coordinator at the building materials re-use center, Home Resource. For his job there, he uses Facebook to highlight used items, but in an alternative way. A set of kitchen cabinets, for instance, is advertised with the idea that you can put it in your backyard for an alley cat apartment complex. Coley translates that prankster attitude into his art work. He likes to create paintings that make others uncomfortable or, at least, uncertain about what they’re looking at. Some of his portraits look like two or three faces, plus a floating ear. One painting shows an asexual crotch, a sort of ambiguous bulge between two legs with two hands holding the unidentifiable mass. “It wasn’t a penis, it wasn’t a vagina, it was just this bulge,” Coley says with an impish smile. “It was really bizarre because all the ladies thought it was a woman because that’s what it looks like giving birth, and all the dudes thought it was a huge penis wider than it is long. That was my most successful piece of all.” With his sculptures he often adds so many artifacts that it’s hard to look at the art in its entirety for too long, and you know what he means when he says some friends say his work makes them queasy. He cites artists like Takashi Murakami as his inspiration. “He has an impossible amount of depth in his paintings. It’s really hard stuff to look at. It makes your brain hurt. That’s really what I go for.”

Even in more innocuous works you notice Coley’s penchant for odd angles and an array of colors: the mural at the Orange Street underpass isn’t controversial—though he and his friends initially started painting it without permission—but it is loud. A couple of years ago for a summer First Friday, Coley had two exhibits at once—one at now-defunct burrito bar, La Parilla, and another at the Piece of Mind head shop. A year later, he accidentally ended up with three shows at once that fell into place at the last minute. “I wasn’t ready at all,” he says. “I put up some really bad art.” This year he decided to be more prepared and, true to character, more over-the-top. His June First Friday show is called Megalobamboozlementarianism: Abe Coley for Dictator of West Montanastan. It’s a walkingbiking-skateboarding tour of his exhibits, which Coley will guide and which spans six locations around town starting at Bernice’s Bakery and moving to Betty’s Divine, Piece of Mind, the Missoula Aids Council, Taco del Sol, and Zoo City Apparel, changing location every half hour to 45 minutes. Instead of the usual exhibition fare of wine and cheese, Coley plans to hand out healthy snacks: broccoli, rhubarb from his garden, spinach, and bananas. The guide—which is downloadable from his website at abecoley.com—is a table of corresponding chakras, energy states, and elements that go with each venue. The exhibit name has several meanings for Coley. It’s about absurdity, for one thing, given the long name. It’s also bamboozling in that he’s occupying so many venues and because he didn’t tell each venue—at first—that he was setting up art shows elsewhere. The dictatorship part is a joke about the overseas political uprisings of late—a paradoxical embrace of being a dictator, but also making fun of dictators. “It’s the ultimate fantasy to be in charge of everything,” he says. “Since 2011 has really been the year of dictators getting a black eye, I thought it was the perfect tongue-in-cheek move to declare my candidacy of a country that doesn’t really exist but that exists in the minds here, in Montana, where it’s a hotbed of whackos and freethinkers. That’s my demographic.”

The “serious joke,” as he calls it, also serves a practical function for something Coley cares about: supporting local businesses. The exhibit is a kind of scavenger hunt. If you buy a cake at Bernice’s, underwear at Betty’s, and other items listed on Coley’s exhibit tour guide, you get one of his paintings for free. “You spend a little more but you get lots of stuff and it spreads the love to other businesses,” he says. “That’s one of the pieces of my dictatorship platform, is being pro-business.” Coley says he knows what you’re thinking. You think that he thinks he’s better than he is. That he’s just self-centered enough to take over six venues for First Friday. But Coley says that over-the-top jokes have to be followed through to get to the punch-line. It’s a way to shake up expectations people have of First Friday. “It’s a total joke, but it’s also real because I’m actually doing it,” he says. “And it is a commentary. There’s so much drama in politics and it seems like it’s not working for a lot of people so this is just about that: Let’s try it a different way.” Coley talks as much about other local artists’ work as his own, including favorites like Courtney Blazon, Adelaide Every and Dane Hansen, while acknowledging the role of mainstream artists like Monte Dolack, whose art is a far cry from Coley’s. In this art exhibit Coley might be the dictator, but as he sees it, the Missoula art scene should always be a democratic Petri dish. “There are so many great artists in Missoula,” he says. “We should all be working together to be constantly blowing each other’s minds.” Abe Coley’s art tour begins at Bernice’s Bakery Friday, June 3, at 5 PM. Go to abecoley.com for a downloadable schedule and info on the scavenger hunt. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

First Friday Hot Picks Expect cowboys, sunset countrysides, haunting portraits, and textured forests at the Dana Gallery All Star Show. As you might guess, this showcases star artists from the popular gallery at 246 N. Higgins, with works by Andy Cline, Paul Dykman, Jim Connelly, Alan Chan, Nicholas Oberling, Jennifer Li, Parvin, Robert Schlegel, Caleb Meyer, Robert Moore, David Mensing, Francis Switzer, and Scott Switzer, with an opening reception from 5 to 8 PM. Stephanie Frostad is already a respected Missoula artist with her deep, crisp country imagery that seems straight out of a Hans Christian Andersen tale. This First Friday she let’s you peek at new work when you head to Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan Street (between 6th and Russell), for a reception from 5 to 9 PM.

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Missoula artist Abe Coley translates his unapologetic prankster attitude to a full night of First Friday art.

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Sounding is the ancient processes of determining the depth of water. The Brink Gallery 111 W. Front, carries that idea out in all sorts of directions with the group exhibition, “sounding,” curated by Kerri Rosenstein, showing works by James Agard, Fred Green, Ariya Martin, Wes Mills, and Rosenstein with an opening reception 5-8 PM.

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Destroy Nate Allen Some of us are a tough sell when it comes to the childlike tone of do-it-yourself folk punk bands. Kazoos and off-key, cutesy vocals usually make me want to set everything on fire—anything to escape the sense that I’ve been dropped into the middle of a kindergarten music class full of giant children. Destroy Nate Allen teeters into that silly, affected sandbox often enough. But when the husband-wife duo hold back a bit, it becomes clear how talented they are. On Until My Ankle’s Better, the Conor Oberst-style of “The Circle Must Be Broken” (a tip of the hat to the traditional Christian hymn, perhaps?) and the anthemic “Fruit Punch and Alcohol” are playful without feeling toddlerlike. Same goes for the Springsteen-style “Small Town,” which is the most subdued song on the album, and also the most moving. Nate sings wistfully along to a mournful organ: “Got caught on punk rock. Green Day

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Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside’s latest, Dirty Radio, is tailor made for a Sunday afternoon toodle up Rock Creek with your best gal or a forlorn Friday night of red wine and mustard sandwiches. It’s also made for those of us burned out by flat vocal performances built on Auto-Tuned tracks and made even more listless with Pro Tools knob-twisting. You want to know what the

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changed my life in ’94. Many years later, I still like dancing circles on the floor.” It’s a nostalgic detail that brings me back to being a youngster far more effectively than any classroom sing-a-long ever could. (Erika Fredrickson) Destroy Nate Allen plays the Zootown Arts Community Center Tuesday, June 7, at 8 PM with Yester, Candyland Liberation Front, and The Whoopass Girls. $5. radio should sound like? Read on. From the opener, “I Swear,” (Not the All-4-One song, sadly), Ms. Ford sets to reminding you of all the good things in the world: Ella, Etta, Aretha, Regina. Her voice is on the edge of control, every gulp of air audible, each syllable enunciated with alacrity and steeped in moxie. The Sound Outside add to the retro flavor via stripped-down arrangements with stand-up bass, jangly surf-esque guitar, a pinch of organ, and driving bass drum. “Against the Law” builds to a percussive crescendo with spooky guitars and the ominous clang of a distant bell. Ford’s vocals burst like a summertime thunderstorm over the slow and subtly surging song. Dirty Radio is filthy with energy, emotion, and tradition—three settings Auto-Tune doesn’t have. (Jason McMackin) Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside play the Top Hat Monday, June 6, at 6 PM with Stellarondo. Cover TBA.

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Ratatat Ratatat uses a particular guitar sound that symbolizes what is best and most limiting about the band. Compressed and chorused like an incredibly clear recording of 10 guitars two miles away, it’s the same sound Steve Vai used in 1985 to assure us that the getting-laid part of rock ’n’ roll was no longer important. For Ratatat, it’s the sound of irony at work. It undercuts their most ambitious tracks, stitching together elements of the composition but also reminding us that hey, these guys are just screwing around. Ratatat is not just screwing around. Their famously chaotic live shows, complete with lasers and video projections, are actually carefully planned. Parts of the band’s newest release, LP4, suggest similar ambitions: The harpsichord on “Bob Gandhi” and dulcimer on “Bare Feast” reach for the poignant lyricism of a Books

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Like a lot of people, I can tell you my life story via Beastie Boys albums. But I won’t do that to you in print (pass me a brass monkey the morning of a Griz game and I’ll fill you in). Like it or not, these oldsters are still kicking it, ignoring popular trends and doing what they do best: being the B-Boys. I know many couldn’t care less. Yes, there are more

album—only with, you know, dancing. But then that guitar kicks in, and we remember to put our tongues back in our cheeks. It’s possible that this is what pop music sounds like now that we’ve all acknowledged that it’s dumb and we like it anyway: the sound of not giving a damn, carefully. (Dan Brooks) Ratatat plays the Wilma Friday, June 3, at 8 PM with Despot and E*Rock. $25. Sold out. talented rappers out there, but there isn’t a more groundbreaking, influential crew putting out records in 2011. (Perhaps the inimitable Wu-Tang Clan?) The fact is you can’t compare the Beasties to other rappers; you can only compare Beasties records to Beasties records. That says something about their incredible evolution of sound, about their singularity and innovation, and about their non-stop devotion to the craft of pop. So how does Hot Sauce stand up to the rest? Real darn well. It sounds both modern and ancient, a trope of theirs since Paul’s Boutique. They play their own instruments. The juvenile jokes fly as fast as the ‘70s and NYC references. If you skipped the last few releases, this one might bring you back to that old skool rap. (Jason McMackin)

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Fly away home Arleo gives her ceramics a bird’s eye view by Erika Fredrickson

Cliff swallows have colonized Adrian Arleo’s Lolo property for most of the 13 years she’s lived there. The first year they flew in, the sculptor and her husband, writer David James Duncan, allowed the birds to build mud nests above the door of their home. ‘That was a mistake,” she says, laughing. “It was a big mess.” The couple had to scrape the daubed mud off the ledge each season the birds arrived to deter nest-building, but they do encourage the swallows to build along the sides of the house and garage. “There’s sort of this cyclical aspect to living here—the return of certain things,” says Arleo. The precariously supported nests often fall to the ground, and yet the birds keep building. Arleo and Duncan have made a habit of pounding in nails where the birds can secure their homes. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship: The birds eat mosquitoes and flies.

ple to be drawn to this Ba imagery. Ten years ago, the Seattle-based writer Sherman Alexie visited Arleo’s studio. Alexie was experiencing a dry spell; no words were coming out. After looking at Arleo’s collection of human-bird imagery he spent the evening writing two poems, which ended up in a collection called Dangerous Astronomy and which sported one of Arleo’s piece on the cover. His experience at her studio, according to a couple of interviews with the writer, kept him writing for years to come. Arleo’s Ba-inspired pieces are part of an upcoming First Friday ceramics explosion. The Clay Studio of Missoula is showing a 1998–2011 retrospective. Persistence in Clay at the Missoula Art Museum and 60 Artworks 60 Artists 60 Years at the University of Montana-based Montana Museum of Art and Culture are two exhibits celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Archie Bray Foundation. The Helena-based ceramics

Adrian Arleo’s piece “Two Bas Consort and Console” shows as part of this week’s Archie Bray Institute’s 60th anniversary celebration.

For Arleo, who often uses animals and the natural world in her ceramic sculptures, they provide inspiration. One of her ceramics series was based on the cliff swallow nests. She’s used wasp nests and honeycomb imagery in her work. Other pieces combine animals— often birds—with human characteristics. One striking piece has two ceramic branches facing each other occupied by birds that have human hands and faces. They evoke something from ancient myths, or creatures from a fairytale land. Arleo recalls a trip to the Phoenix Art Museum 10 years ago where she spied a carved white wood figure “the size of a crow” that also used human-bird imagery. She was drawn to it because it was so similar to her work, yet it was thousands of years old. The Ba figure, as she learned, was part of an ancient Egyptian belief. “It was very familiar to me,” she says. “I looked into what it meant and it has different interpretations. Egyptians believed that humans have multiple non-physical aspects to being a person. And the Ba is one of them. It has the ability to leave and return to the body after it’s dead. It’s kind of an element of eternal soul in a way.” A few years later she saw another Ba figure—a tiny bird-like human touching a sarcophagus—in Las Vegas’s Hermitage Museum. “That struck me,” she says, “because when I’ve used bird imagery, it also represents the soul as a fragile or ephemeral or invisible aspect of a person.” Arleo says in her experience it’s common for peo-

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institute has put Montana on the map for clay arts, and it’s famously linked to such Montana greats as Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos, plus artists-in-residence from around the world, including Tre Arenz, Val Cushing, Eva Kwong, and Robert Sperry. Arleo, who has taught classes at Archie Bray, got hooked on clay when she was 13. She studied art and anthropology at Pitzer College in California where she grew to love artifacts as art. She got her MFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. Though her art has evolved, she says, she’s always worked with clay. Besides the bird-human piece, Arleo will show a piece at MAM called “Eve Honeycomb.” It’s made of clay, with just a little encaustic wax and oil paint, but its texture looks like pure honeycomb, and it glows as though it has some light shining from within. Sometimes, she says, she’ll make a piece that has more light than the others. “Every once in a while there will be a piece that has a real presence because of the expression on the face. I’m always shooting for that, but it’s sort of like some pieces just have this little bit of magic. I just really feel like there’s somebody there.” Adrian Arleo presents her work along with numerous other ceramic artists at the Missoula Art Museum with a reception from 5 to 8 PM, and at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture with a reception from 4 to 6 PM Friday, June 3. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Brought to you by Morgan Spurlock gets meta with advertising by Dave Loos

ed by product placement, and you begin to understand just how meta this whole endeavor is. To Spurlock’s great surprise, Sheetz becomes one the first major sponsors to sign on, later joined by Jet Blue, Hyatt, Mini Cooper, Merrell Shoes, and a host of others. And then there is POM Wonderful, who apparently paid $1 million to be the title sponsor. The best scenes in The Greatest Movie Ever Sold are those where Spurlock fulfills his contractual obligations while moving the film’s narrative along. Yes, all other branded beverages are blurred out, and yes, Spurlock manages to pimp the merits of Merrell while interviewing Mr. Consumer Advocate himself, Ralph Nader, about the fallacy of advertising. It’s a fine line to walk, with Spurlock juggling the need to earnestly promote a product while at the same time discussing the growth of product placement and corporate influence on artistic freedom in the entertainment industry. The latter is an important subject for sure, but ultimately secondary to the fun This film brought to you by the Missoula Independent. in watching the direcproduct placement and branding—sounded a bit too tor try to finance the film. Early on Spurlock reads a much like the M.O. of a one-trick pony. The idea that brusque and condescending rejection letter from The Greatest Movie Ever Sold could be funded entirely Volkswagen. Later, while pumping gas at a Sheetz into by sponsors (or “brand integration” as they call it in the his Mini Cooper and drinking a POM Wonderful, he biz), didn’t sound like too much of a challenge. And a tells us that the best part of today is that “I’m not drivdocumentary by Captain Obvious without a shred of ing a piece of shit Volkswagen.” There’s also a fantastic conflict or suspense just sounds dull. At least in Super running gag about Mane ‘n Tail, the shampoo for both Size Me there was always the remote possibility that horses and humans. If Michael Moore ever tried to make a film like this Spurlock would drop dead of a coronary on screen. That the full title of the documentary is POM it would blow up in his face. But Spurlock finds a fasciWonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold tells nating middle ground where he deftly plays both sides you right away Spurlock succeeded. But the real sur- with equal aplomb. One minute he’s starring in a slickprise here is that the film is a delight—a compelling and ly produced 30-second commercial for one of his sponoften-hilarious look at modern advertising that moves sors, and in the next scene director Peter Berg is telling along so briskly that you never have a chance to stop him how corporations are ruining films. There’s a small and consider the dearth of earth-shattering conclu- lull in the middle when Spurlock talks to specialists sions. As director, co-writer, and emcee, Spurlock about the effect of advertising on the brain, but generdeploys the same airy, everyman charm that made ally this is a sharply-edited documentary. It clocks in at Super Size Me such a success. Only here he gets to play a just-about-perfect 90 minutes. To drive home the meta-ness of it all, The pitchman, a role he seems born for, even while he’s Greatness Movie Ever Sold follows Spurlock up until winking at the audience. There’s a look you’ll see a lot in this film on the the point he is appearing on late night talk shows to faces of various marketing executives as Spurlock sits in promote the very film that we are watching. And, as bland conference rooms and attempts to explain what contractually obligated to do, he appears in a suit he’s doing. Let’s call it the “I’m just going to nod and adorned with logos of the 22 companies who ended up pretend like I understand what’s going on, but I’ll get shelling out cash for the film. It’s the closest thing you’ll fired if I say yes to him” look. Their perplexed expres- ever see to a human NASCAR car. The Greatest Movie Ever Sold continues at the sions are justified. Take the meeting with Sheetz convenience store executives, in which Spurlock tells them Wilma Theatre. that a clip of this very meeting about their product will appear in a documentary that is both about and fundarts@missoulanews.com Morgan Spurlock burst onto the scene in 2004 with Super Size Me, an entertaining first-person documentary that sought to prove the most obvious hypothesis in cinematic history—if you eat only McDonalds food for a month, your health will decline—but did so in a way that was riveting. It was the masochistic voyeurism of watching someone clog their arteries with Big Macs. Seven years later, Spurlock is still known as the McDonalds guy, which doesn’t speak well for his recent catalog of work, and which is why his latest documentary conceit—that moviegoers today are inundated by

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow in the fourth edition of this popular pirate adventure/fantasy series. This time around, Depp must contend with the sultry Penélope Cruz, along with zombies and Ian McShane, on his quest to find the Fountain of Youth. Carmike 10: 1, 4:20, and 7:30 with a Fri. show at 10:30. in 2D: 1, 4, 7, and 10. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3, and no 9:15 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun: 12:05, 1:05, 3:05, 4:05, 6:05, 7:05, 9:05 and 10, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:05, 2:05, 4:05, 6:05, 7:05 and 9:05. in 2-D: Fri.–Sun: 12:35, 3:35, 6:35 and 9:35. Mon–Thu: 1:30, 4:30 and 8:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 1:15, 4, 6:50 and 9:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:30. RIO A rare macaw who never learned how to fly high in the sky has to tackle the task after he escapes some smugglers during a trip to Rio de Janeiro. Tracy Morgan, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and others lend their voices to this 3D animated flick. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 3:55. in 2-D: 1:15.

“I went ahead and set this tunnel on fire with my mind. Is that cool?” X-Men: First Class plays Friday at the Carmike 10.

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such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and David Suzuki. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7, with a Sun. matinee at 1 and no shows on Fri. KUNG FU PANDA 2 Jack Black lends his voice to a panda kung fu master who must team up with Angelina Jolie, David Cross, Dustin Hoffmann and others in order to stop a villainous Gary Oldman from annihilating kung fu (and the whole country of China) in this 3-D kids’ flick. Carmike 10: 1:05, 4:10, 6:30 and 8:55, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. in 2-D: 1:30, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 PM show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5, 6:45, 7:25, 9:10 and 9:45, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:30, 2, 4, 4:30, 6:30, 7, 9 and 9:30. in 2-D: Fri.–Sun: 12:40, 3:10, 6:10 and 8:45, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1, 3:30, 6 and 8:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 1:30, 4:15, 7 and 9:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9.

THOR Chris Hemsworth is the arrogant son of Odin who gets kicked out of his homeland and banished to Earth, where he’s found by Natalie Portman and soon forced to go head-to-head with an automaton unleashed by his conniving brother. Anthony Hopkins co-stars in this 3-D saga, which is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Carmike 10: 7 and 9:50. Village 6 in 2-D: 1, 4, 7:15 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: in 2-D: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15, 6:55 and 9:40, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. in 2-D: 3:55, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Hal Holbrook reminisces about his life in the 1930s as a vet in the circus—and the elephant that brought him and Reese Witherspoon together—in this adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel of the same name. Robert Pattinson and Christopher Waltz co-star. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 6:40 and 9:20. Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson and Molly Laich. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., June 3. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 0 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 June's First Friday: Megalobamboozlementarianism. Stop in and check out Abe Coley's artful audacity on display. Healthy drinks and snacks will be served. 5-8pm!

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Please join Butterfly Herbs for their June First Friday celebration. Laurie Urfer Portraits of Regular Butterflies. Reception at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free.

The Frame Shop & Gallery hosts two local favorites: Linda Stoudt, “Works on Paper,” and Barbara Warden, recent “Firetalk” fiber art.

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CLAY STUDIO 1106 Hawthorne Unit A, 543-0509 The Clay Studio of Missoula 1998-2011: Retrospective, is a group exhibition celebrating the rich legacy of the Clay Studio, and features ceramics works by many of the artists who have actively contributed to its continuing success. Participating artists include Doug Baldwin, Renée Brown, Cheyenne Chapman-Rudolph, Meagan Cheney, Eva Champagne, Danny Crump, Fuminori Deguchi, Hannah Fisher, Donna Flannery, Clare Ann Harff, Alex Kraft, Mike Kurz, Jayson Lawfer, Ryan Mitchell, Jill Oberman, Joseph Pesina, Larry Phan, Alison Reintjes, Audrey Rosulek, Lauren Sandler, Kyla Strid, Shalene Valenzuela, Steve Wicklund, and John Zimmerman. The exhibition will be on display from June 3-26, 2011, with an opening on Friday, June 3, from 5:30-9pm. Gallery events are free and open to the public. For more information email us at info@theclaystudioofmissoula.org or call us at 406-543-0509.

THE FRAME SHOP & GALLERY 325 Main St, Hamilton, 541-6683 The next First Friday opening at the Frame Shop & Gallery will host two local favorites: Linda Stoudt, “Works on Paper”, and Barbara Warden, recent “Firetalk” fiber art. Please join us on Fri June 3 from 6-8 pm at 325 Main St., Hamilton. Call 363-6684 for more info. Show continues through July. ONE ELEVEN 111 N. Higgins, 541-7376 Please join us at One Eleven for our June First Friday event. Featuring Bella Cosa Art by Deana Mattos Diefenbach. Reception 5-8 pm. SUSHI HANA 403 N. Higgins, 549-7979 June's First Friday at Sushi Hana features an exhibition of Montana Artists. Display running June 3rd-June 30th. Artist's Reception 5-8pm, this Friday, June 3rd.

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EXTREME MEEKOVER Women always insist they’re looking for a “nice guy,” but they waste no time running past one to get to a jerk/bad boy. It really seems they’re drawn to guys who treat them badly. My most egotistical friends score with women like crazy, and I’m a nice guy who’s alone. If my experience is any indication, what women really want are domineering users who have sex with them and toss them aside. —Nice And Tired Of It Dateless guys like to blame their situation on how “nice” they are—as if nothing zaps a guy’s mojo like being the kind of fellow who’d bandage a bird’s wing or drive an old lady to the store. Night after night, they rock themselves to sleep, whimpering, “Am I just too wonderful to be anyone’s boyfriend?” when the question they probably should be asking is, “Why doesn’t the approval-starved, needy suckup get the girls?” Self-proclaimed nice guys are often not nice at all but overly nice—snakes in worm’s clothing driven by crushing wimpiness, fear and desperation. Instead of taking the straightforward approach to hitting on a woman, the so-called nice guy offers to do a bunch of chores for her—not out of the goodness of his wimpy little heart but to bribe her into wanting him. This guy not only finishes last, he gets left holding the broom. “Nice” versus “jerk”/”bad boy” is actually an oversimplification. NYU personality psychologist Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman has been digging into the nuances, which he laid out in his talk at an evolutionary psychology conference I attended in April at SUNY-Binghamton. Kaufman described the classic jerk as “narcissistic, selfish, thrill-seeking and chauvinistic.” He focused on the narcissistic angle, noting that narcissists tend to be a bust in long-term relationships (they’re all about being admired instead of being a partner), but they’re “masters at first impressions.” He cited research that suggests a whole lot of us find narcissists highly likeable at first. We’re drawn to them thanks to four things: They tend to dress with personal style (flashy or expensive clothing), they have self-assured body language, they come off warm and charming, and they pepper their conversation with witty remarks. But, in the research, those who initially found the narcissists charismatic, well-adjusted, and fun saw their true colors upon further interaction (recognizing them for the self-obsessed, groupie-seeking, manipulative creeps they actually are).

While many women are drawn to bad boys, especially in their early 20s, there are three basic types who will put up with one: thrill-seekers, fling-seekers, and sad-sack gaping wounds. Regarding your contention that women want “domineering” men, Kaufman laid out research that shows they actually want men who are “assertive” as opposed to “dominant.” What’s the difference? Well, a guy who says to his date, “We’ve got to leave right now” as opposed to tying her up and throwing her in the trunk. Kaufman summed up his talk by describing the ideal man as strong without being aggressive and demanding, and sensitive without being meek, wimpy, or submissive. He described this man as “the Prestigious Man,” and gave George Clooney as an example. This sort of man is confident, achievement-oriented and extroverted while also being caring, generous and helpful. Kaufman emphasized that kindness and assertiveness aren’t mutually exclusive, and having both in one man is especially important to women. He also noted that the Prestigious Man has genuine self-esteem, based on his accomplishments (as opposed to the blustery “Look at me!” self-esteem of the not-so-nice guy). So, the answer for you and other nice guys is...become George Clooney? No, nor should you start hitting on women with “Hi! I’d like to have sex with you and throw you away like used Kleenex!” But, think about where a guy who might say that is coming from. He’s having fun, shaking things up. He isn’t living in fear of rejection. And he doesn’t take rejection as a statement of his worth, just a sign that it’s time to go offend the next girl. What you need to do is borrow from the bad boy’s successful tactics. You won’t transform yourself overnight, but you can work on being more self-assured, and until you start to feel it, do your best to act selfassured. To ramp up your Prestigious Man/Clooneyness, Kaufman suggests you do something socially valuable, something to help humanity. As a bonus, if there’s one place you’re less likely to find narcissistic, self-serving jerks competing with you for the ladies, it’s the volunteer world. In time, with practice, you just might convince some cute volunteer girl to come home with you to help you put Bactine on that rash you got from tucking your tail between your legs.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The film The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of the U.S. army’s efforts to harness psychic powers for military purposes. It’s not entirely a work of the imagination. In fact, there’s substantial evidence that such a program actually existed. As the movie begins, a caption on the screen informs viewers that “More of this is true than you would believe.” I suspect there’ll be a comparable situation unfolding in your life in the coming weeks, Aries. As you experience a rather unusual departure from your regularly scheduled reality, fact and fiction may be deeply intertwined. Will you be able to tell them apart?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I dreamed you were a member of an indigenous tribe in what Westerners call New Guinea. You had recently begun to show unusual behavior that suggested you were developing enhanced cognitive abilities. You’d solved one of the tribe’s long-standing problems, were spontaneously spouting improvised poetry, and had been spotted outside late at night having animated conversations with the stars. Some of your friends and relatives were now referring to you by a new name that in your native tongue meant “the one who dances naked with the deities.” How would you interpret my dream, Taurus? I think it suggests you could be on the verge of growing an intriguing new capacity or two. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the far northern reaches of Ilulissat, a town in Greenland, the sun sets for good on November 29 every year and doesn’t rise again until January 13. Or at least that was the case until 2011. This year, to the shock of locals, sunlight broke over the horizon on January 11—two days ahead of schedule. Though a few alarmists theorized that this disturbance in the ageold rhythm was due to a shift in the earth’s axis or rotation, scientists suggested that the cause was global warming: Melting ice has caused the horizon to sink. I expect something equally monumental to make an appearance in your world soon, Gemini. Can you handle an increased amount of light?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m not a big fan of the “No Pain, No Gain” school of thought. Personally, I have drummed up more marvels and wonders through the power of rowdy bliss than I have from hauling thousand-pound burdens across the wasteland. But I do recognize that in my own story as well as in others’, hardship can sometimes provoke inspiration. I think it may be one of those moments for you, Cancerian. Please accept this medicinal prod from the ancient Roman poet Horace: “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents that in times of prosperity would have lain dormant.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his 1934 book Beyond the Mexican Bay, British author Aldous Huxley observed that “the natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.” He was using the word “orgies” in its broadest sense—not to refer to wild sex parties, but rather to cathartic eruptions of passion, uninhibited indulgence in revelry, and spirited rituals of relief and release. That’s the kind of orgy you’re due for, Leo. It’s high time to punctuate your routine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do,” wrote the essayist Walter Bagehot. Personally, I don’t think that’s the supreme joy possible to a human being; but it definitely has a provocative appeal. May I recommend that you explore it in the coming weeks, Virgo? The astrological omens suggest you’re in an excellent position to succeed at an undertaking you’ve been told is unlikely or even impossible for you to accomplish.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When people unsubscribe from my newsletter, they’re asked to say why they’re leaving. In a recent note, a dissatisfied customer wrote, “Because you are a crackhead who makes no sense. You sound like you write these horoscopes while you’re stoned on mushrooms.” For the record, I not only refrain from crack and magic mushrooms while crafting your oracles; I don’t partake of any intoxicants at any other time, either—not even beer or pot. I’m secretly a bit proud, however, that the irate ex-reader thinks my drug-free mind is so wild. In the coming week, Libra, I invite you to try an experiment inspired by this scenario: Without losing your mind, see if you can shed some of the habitual restrictions you allow to impinge on the free and creative play of your mind.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re a physicist or Wall Street broker, your assignment this week is to read the poetry of Pablo Neruda (bit.ly/NerudaSongs). If you’re a kirtan-chanting yogini or the author of a New Age self-help newsletter, your task is to read up on the scientific method (bit.ly/ScienceMethod). If you’re white, be black, and vice versa. If you’re yellow, be violet, and if red, be green. If you’re a tight-fisted control freak, try being a laid-back connoisseur of the mellowest vibes imaginable—and vice versa. It’s Mix-It-Up Week, Sagittarius—a time to play with flipping and flopping your usual perspectives, roles, and angles.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There is time for work,” said fashion designer Coco Chanel, “and time for love. That leaves no other time.” I understand and sympathize with that perspective. But I’m going to beg you to make an exception to it in the coming weeks, Aquarius. In addition to getting a healthy quota of work and love, please do your best to carve out a few hours specifically devoted to engaging in unadulterated, unapologetic, unbridled play—the kind of flat-out, free-form, full-tilt fun and games that has the effect of permanently increasing your levels of liberation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Although I myself have an intimate ongoing relationship with the Divine Wow, it’s perfectly fine with me if other people don’t. Some of my best friends are atheists and agnostics. But I must admit that I laughed derisively when I heard that the supposed genius named Stephen Hawking declared, with the fanatical certainty of a religious fundamentalist, that heaven does not exist. How unscientific of him! The intellectually honest perspective is, of course, that there’s no way to know for sure about that possibility. I bring this up, Pisces, as an example of what not to do. It’s particularly important right now that you not be blinded by your theories about the way things work. If you put the emphasis on your raw experience rather than your preconceived biases, you will be blessed with as much beauty and truth as you can handle. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF JOINT CITY/COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, passed Resolution Number 7619 at their regular meeting held on May, 23, 2011. A resolution of intention to consider adoption of the Missoula County Emergency Operation Plan and set a joint public hearing with the Missoula Board of County Commissioners for June 13, 2011. The full resolution and a copy of the Emergency Operation Plan are on file and open for inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, at City Hall, 435 Ryman, the Missoula County Department of Emergency Services, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or online anytime at www.co.missoula.mt.us/oes. The City Council and the Missoula County Commissioners will hear all matters pertaining to the proposed plan at a joint meeting on June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine St. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments prior to the date of hearing on June 13, 2011. Send written comments to the City Council via the City Clerk addressed to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or via e-mail council@ci.missoula.mt.us. Send comments by phone, mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax (406) 721-4043, or via email bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. For more information, contact Chris Lounsbury, Director of Emergency Services at 406258-4469. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF JOINT CITY/COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, passed Resolution Number 7617 at their regular meeting held on May, 23, 2011. A resolution of intention to adopt the Missoula Active Transportation Plan (MATP)2011 as an amendment to the Missoula County Growth Policy and a replacement of the 2001 Non-Motorized Transportation Plan and set a joint city and county public hearing for June 13, 2011 The full resolution and a copy of the Missoula Active Transportation Plan are on file and open for inspection in the City Clerk’s Office or the Office of Planning and Grants, at City Hall, 435 Ryman, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or online anytime at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/Transporta tion/. The City Council and the Missoula County Commissioners will hear all matters pertaining to the proposed plan at a joint meeting on June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine St. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments prior to the date of hearing on

June 13, 2011. Send written comments to the City Council via the City Clerk addressed to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or via e-mail council@ci.missoula.mt.us. Send comments by phone, mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax (406) 721-4043, or via email bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. For more information, contact Ann Cundy, Office of Planning and Grants at 406-258-4931. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council hold a public hearing on June 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider: I. An ordinance amending Title 20, the Missoula city zoning ordinance, Chapter 20.25 (Overlay Districts), Section 20.25.060 regarding the Southside Riverfront Neighborhood Character Overlay. II. An ordinance to rezone certain properties to be included in the Southside Riverfront Neighborhood Character Overlay as described in Title 20, Section 20.25.060 of the City of Missoula Zoning ordinance. Copies of the ordinances are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact John Newman, Office of Planning & Grants, at 258-4719. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 3:00 pm, on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, and will then be opened and publicly read in the mayor’s conference room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Brooks Street Commercial Corridor Curb & Sidewalk Improvements – Phase II Missoula Redevelopment Agency This work consists of installation of curb and gutter, sidewalks, detectable warning surfaces, storm drainage sumps, asphalt patching, striping, landscape topsoil, rock mulch, shrubs, and trees. Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for Missoula Redevelopment Agency, Brooks Street Commercial Corridor Curb & Sidewalk Improvements – Phase II” The envelopes shall also be marked with the bidder’s name, address and Montana contractor’s registration number. A complete set of the contract documents and project manual may be examined or obtained at the office of WGM group inc. located at 1111 East Broadway missoula, MT . Required deposit is $50 per set. Full

amount of payment will be refunded upon return of the plans and specifications in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. The will be a prebid conference at WGM Group’s main conference room, 1111 East Broadway, Missoula, Montana (406) 728-4611, on Monday, June 6th, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Interested contractors are encouraged to attend. Questions regarding the project manual, drawings and specifications shall be directed to the Engineer, WGM Group, Inc., located at 1111 E. Broadway, Missoula, Montana, (406) 728-4611. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and payment bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211.Registration information can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. Contractors are required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula business licensing requirements. The Missoula Redevelopment Agency reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to time and date set for bid opening. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula County Consolidated Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the following item, 6A, on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers

located at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 6A. Amendments to the City of Missoula Title 20 Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 20.75 Signs and Chapter 20.100 Terminology The Missoula Office of Planning and Grants is proposing amendments to Title 20 Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 20.75 Signs and Chapter 20.100 Terminology. The purpose of these amendments is to clarify and revise certain terminology, definitions, and various permitting procedures within the chapters. Specific sections within the chapters to be amended include, but are not limited to: Prohibited Signs, Sign Characteristics, Signs in Particular Districts, Awning Signs, Banners, and Definition Terminology. The City Council will conduct a public hearing on these amendments at a time to be determined. Public attendance and comment are welcome and encouraged. The proposed amendments to Title 20 Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 20.75 Signs and Chapter 20.100 Terminology are available for public comment. The amendments can be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Send comments to Lewis YellowRobe at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, 59801 or to lyellowrobe@co.missoula.mt.us. If anyone attending the meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services. MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS Engineer/Architect The purpose of this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is to assist the Missoula County Airport Authority (MCAA) in the process of selecting a qualified Engineer/Architect and Planning team to complete the project herein described. Project includes but is not limited to: 1. Preliminary Master Planning for an Industrial Business Park 2. Construction Documents for Site Preparation and Infrastructure and Utility Extensions. 3. Construction Documents for Potential Industrial Manufacturing Building Facility., 4. Construction Administration of improvements Interested parties shall contact Cathy Tortorelli with MCAA at (406) 728-4381 for a full RFQ document. MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE V-TEC, RANDY MINEER, Claimants, Against ALEXANDER EDWARD HAYDEN, Owner. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks On the 9th day of June A.D., 2011, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at 2420 Benton Avenue, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain personal property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: 1999 Chevrolet Malibu, 4D, VIN/1G1ND52M6X6164571 Together with all and singular the tenements,

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TRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No 1 Cause No DP 11 94 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL P. LEJEUNE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JAMES H. LEJEUNE., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above -entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2011 . /s/ James H. LeJeune Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-89 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS RAY JENKINS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Maureen Jenkins, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner & Nygren, P.C., 620 High Park Way, PO Box 4947, Missoula, Montana 59806-4947, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 5th day of May, 2011. /s/ Maureen Jenkins, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-95 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY L. SELLS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to BRENT R. SELLS and MONICA L. SELLS, the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner & Nygren, P.C., 620 High Park Way, PO Box 4947, Missoula, Montana 59806-4947, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2011. /s/ Brent R. Sells /s/ Monica L. Sells Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-103 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GARY VAUGHAN WILSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Brian Wilson has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent, Gary Vaughan Wilson, 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 Brian Wilson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o John Spangler Law Office, P.O. Box 567, Superior, Montana, 59872, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of May, 2011. /s/ Brian Wilson, Personal

Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-96 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VAIL SANDFORD, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Anita Jakob at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2011. /s/ Anita Jakob, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-11-81 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHERINE DANKERS, a/k/a KATHERINE BAUMGARDNER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jack Baumgardner, James Baumgardner and Darlene Richardson, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of April, 2011. /s/ Jack Baumgardner, James Baumgardner, Darlene Richardson, Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-87 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROSSANA V. PATERNI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Michael Paterni has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael Paterni, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Tiimothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of January, 2011. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-93 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF IRENE L. BAND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Irene Neilson 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 Irene Neilson, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Tiimothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803

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PUBLIC NOTICES or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of May, 2011. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorneys for the Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Recorded on 04/15/11 Trustee Sale Number: 11-002286 Loan Number: 1279004013 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on August 24, 2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 18 IN BLOCK 3 OF HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF: More commonly known as: 2419 DUNCAN DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT KAREN E. THOMAS AND DONALD F. THOMAS, AS JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to WILLIAM L. DAVIES, ATTORNEY LICENSED TO PRACTICE IN THE STATE OF MONTANA, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CENTEX HOME EQUITY COMPANY, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of November 2, 2005, and recorded on November 14, 2005 under Document No. 200530122, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-2 (the “Beneficiary”) FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated March 10, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of April 5, 2011: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2010 which payments total: $16,961.68: Late charges: $1,100.66: Advances: $270.00 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $300,364.12 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.00000% per annum from August 1, 2010, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attor-

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

ney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10Ih day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-730 - 2727 DATED: April 7, 2011 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY. Trustee By: Julie Wagner, Authorized Signature ASAP# 3982096 05/19/2011, 05/26/2011, 06/02/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/19/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200727851 Bk 807, Pg 1211, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Gerhardt, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 6, Township 15 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Certificate of Survey No. 229, less and excepting therefrom that portion conveyed to the State of Montana by Bargain and Sale Deed recorded April 29, 2002 in Book 681 of Micro Records at Page 82. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following applications: A request from Mr. Jay Kirby for Special Signs; Signs as Part of Building for DeMarois located at 3115 W. Broadway (SEE MAP J).

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

Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. E-mails can be sent to hkinnear@co.missoula.mt.us. Project files may be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 31, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $271,668.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $269,546.31, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all 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# 7023.93474) 1002.190462-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/07/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200629422, Bk-787, Pg-197, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael D. Bortz and Helen F. Lewis was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Wilmington Finance Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 in Block 7 of Second Supplement to Linda Vista, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee for CIT Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1, by Vericrest Financial, Inc. as attorney-in-fact. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 30, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $300,842.50. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $289,346.83, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 9, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary

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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# 8349.20167) 1002.190176-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $825,621.88. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200400734, Bk 724, Pg 1734, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Charles L. Patterson and Amy L. Patterson, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 12 of El Mar Estates Phase III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 7, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $144,282.08. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of

$123,238.94, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all 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# 7023.04573) 1002.190911-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/26/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200338653, Bk 719, Pg 1110, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Tanya M. Sharbono and Benjamin D. Sharbono as joint tenants was Grantor, Washington Mutual Bank FSB was Beneficiary and Title Services, MT was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, MT as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 2 of Lake View Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200709128, Bk 795, Pg 823, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $126,162.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $124,684.13, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93622) 1002.190711-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/07/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200732046, Bk 810, Pg 374, mortgage

records of Missoula County, Montana in which Steven Salmi and Jennifer D. Salmi, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 26 and 27 in Block 42 of Daly’s Addition, a platted subdivison in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $198,484.06. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $192,906.52, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all 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# 7023.93581) 1002.190715-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/05/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200610429, Bk 773, Pg 1178, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Deborah R. Snyder, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot B of Car Line Addition, Block 55, Lots A, B and 6A, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 12, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $84,982.40. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $80,005.93, 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 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is

made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.91308) 1002.191321-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A parcel of land in the SE1/4Ne1/4 of Section 10, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point which bears 332.0 feet East along the North line of said SE1/4NE1/4 from the Northwest corner of said SE1/4NE1/4; thence, S.30°30’E., 192.05 feet to a point which is 80 feet distant Northwesterly when measured at right angles from Engineer’s Station 702+03.5 on the center line of Montana State Highway Project No. f215(10), which said Engineer’s Station 702+03.5 is South 1562.1 feet and West 811.5 feet, more or less, from the Northeast corner of said Section 10; thence, N.43°32’E., 121.95 feet to a point which is 90 feet distant Northwesterly when measured at right angles from Engineer’s Station 703+25.0 on said center line; which said Engineer’s Station 703+25.0 is South 1481.5 feet and West 720.6 feet, more or less, from said Northeast corner of Section 10; thence N.16°13’w.,81.89 feet to a point on said North line of said SE1/4NE1/4; thence West along said North line 158.0 feet to the point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 215 Micro Records at Page 2127. John D Reeves, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Chicago Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 22, 2003 and Recorded October 22, 2003 in Book 720, Page 968 under Document No. 200340504.. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB as successor in interest to IndyMac Bank, FSB. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,333.52, beginning December 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 19, 2011 is $200,607.57 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $1,200.91, late charges in the amount of $202.80, and other fees and expenses advanced of $69.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $11.00 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of

PUBLIC NOTICES a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 4, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 4, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Indymac Vs. Reeves 41969.431 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 50 OF DOUBLE ARROW RANCH PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF THEADORE LEE THORNTON and CHRISTINE GAIL THORNTON, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage, a Division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED OCTOBER 22, 2007 AND RECORDED OCTOBER 29, 2007, IN BOOK 808, PAGE 96, UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200728459. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association fka National City Mortgage. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,369.16, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 16, 2011 is $362,386.01 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $34,998.02, late charges in the amount of $236.92, escrow advances of $2,749.20, and other fees and expenses advanced of $268.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $65.78 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, 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 4, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 4, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Pnc Vs. Thornton 41230.590

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 15, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6090, located in the Northeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter (NE1/4SE1/4SE1/4) of Section 23, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana Stuart Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2001 and recorded October 22, 2001 at 4:30 o’clock P.M., in Book 669, Page 1585, under Document No. 200126283. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,015.18, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 11, 2011 is $75,297.89 principal, interest at the rate of 7.625% now totaling $3,028.06, late charges in the amount of $234.42, escrow advances of $627.80, suspense balance of $-495.05 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,021.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 7, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 7, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Gmac Vs. Williams 41207.535 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 15, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 8 OF LINDA VISTA SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT PHASE 5, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Peter B. Hance and Sara N. Hance, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 12, 2003 and Recorded on June 12, 2003 under Document # 200320718, in Bk-708, Pg1339. The beneficial interest is currently held

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r by EverHome Mortgage Company, Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1341.32, beginning March 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 17, 2011 is $192,468.89 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $3605.33, late charges in the amount of $134.14, and other fees and expenses advanced of $92.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 7, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 7, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Everhome V. Hance 41470.162 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 19, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF A.P.N. : 0497003 Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998 and recorded May 13, 1998 at 3:58 o’clock P.M. in Book 541, Page 0296, as Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,109.48, beginning January 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 15, 2011 is $97,135.05 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $21,418.53, late charges in the amount of $141.75, escrow advances of $5,366.75, suspense balance of $-233.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,215.43, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.67 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property

and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 11, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North DakotaCommission expires: 12/24/2014 Aurora v Schafer 40990.128 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 19, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 21 IN BLOCK 7 OF THE CORRECTED PLAT OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 3 AND 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jaime E. Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 11, 2008 and recorded February 15, 2008 under Document# 200803290, Book 813, Page 385. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,340.10, beginning May 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 7, 2011 is $183,027.27 principal, interest at the rate of 6.000% now totaling $10,247.06, late charges in the amount of $166.76, escrow advances of $1,052.47, and other fees and expenses advanced of $135.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.09 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the

sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 11, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Citimortgage Vs. Williams 42011.378 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 25, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the N 1/2 of Section 22, township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M. Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as tract C2 of Certificate of Survey no. 3534. Less and excepting that portion of Tract C2 of Certificate of Survey no. 3534 more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of Tract C2, Certificate of Survey No. 3534, thence northwesterly, along the Frontage Road right-of-way, along a non-tangent curve, whose center bears S29°00’21”W., 4074.20 feet, an arc length of 160.00 feet; thence N27°33’07” E., 574.09 feet; thence S. 62°26’40” E., 160.00 feet; thence along the East boundary of said Tract C2. S.27°33’12” W., 575.00 feet to the point of beginning. Debra Ann Finley, 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 August 7, 2001 and Recorded on August 13, 2001 in Book 666, Page 567, as Document No. 200121908 and Re-Recorded on September 5, 2001 in Book 667, Page 860, as Document No. 200121908. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,214.17, beginning August 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 22, 2011 is $143,642.86 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $16,793.56, late charges in the amount of $135.84, escrow advances of $4,699.05, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,981.89, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.04 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 16, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark On March 16, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Phh V. Finley 41392.505 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 29, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A parcel of land located in and being a portion of the Northwest onequarter of Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Section 30, a fence corner; thence East along the North line of said Section 30, a distance of 750.00 feet to a set rebar, said point being in Finley Creek; thence S.16°41’57”E., along Finley Creek a distance of 104.40 feet to a set rebar; thence S.23°37’46”W., along Finley Creek, a distance of 174.64 feet to a set rebar; thence South along Finley Creek a distance of 325.00 feet to a set rebar; thence S.84°17’51”W., 656.08 feet to a set rebar, said point being on the East right-of-way line of a road; thence N.00°14’57”E., along said right-of-way line, a distance of 105.94 feet to a point on a non-tangent curve (cul-de-sac); thence Northeasterly, Northerly and Northwesterly along said non-tangent curve (cul-de-sac) being concave to the West and having a radius of 50.00, for a distance of 157.08 feet to a point on a tangent line; thence N.89°45’03”W., along said right-ofway, a distance of 60.00 feet to a set rebar, said point being on the West line of said Section 30, thence N.00°14’57”E., along said West line of Section 30, a distance of 444.00 feet to the true point of beginning. The Toni L. McOmber Revocable Trust, 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 May 9, 2006 and recorded May 9, 2006 under Document# 200610640, Book 773, Page 1389. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, for J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2006-A4. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,009.22, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 2, 2011 is $349,814.82 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $12,090.79, late charges in the amount of $500.95, and other fees and expenses advanced of $64.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $65.89 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 21, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA )) ss. County of Stark) On March 21, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Phh V Mcomber 41392.753 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 08/29/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEONARD T. CONLEY AND TERESA B. CONLEY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AM TITLE INS CO OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WEBSTER BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/12/2006 and recorded 01/19/2006, in document No. 200601333 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 767 at Page Number 1163 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5754, LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONEQUARTER (NE1/4) OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA; MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. NOTE: ANY CONVEYANCE OR SECURITY INSTRUMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: TOGETHER WITH ROAD FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS SET OUT IN BOOK 102 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 328 AND BOOK 104 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 751. Property Address: LOT 1A MESSINA DRIVE, AKA 23508 MESSINA DR, Bonner, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $222,068.21 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from 01/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/14/2011, ReconTrust

Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0025606 FEI NO. 1006.133035 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/06/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOHN C MOSS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/20/2007 and recorded 03/08/2007, in document No. 200705526 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 793 at Page Number 341 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 17 AND 18 IN BLOCK 66 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1408 HOWELL STREET, MISSOULA, MT 59802 Property Address: 1408 HOWELL STREET, Missoula, MT 59802. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $133,385.07 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.50% per annum from 12/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/19/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0148477 FEI NO. 1006.119982 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/06/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KATHLEEN M LIKVAN, A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/26/2005 and recorded 08/31/2005, in document No. 200522853 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 759 at Page Number 460 in the office of the Clerk and

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Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 30 FEET OF LOTS 1 AND 2 IN BLOCK 47 OF KNOWLES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 209 CHESTNUT ST, Missoula, MT 59801-1808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $144,356.05 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.375% per annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/21/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0035277 FEI NO. 1006.133839 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/06/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CHAD JAY SCHULTZ as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/19/2007 and recorded 09/19/2007, in document No. 200724834 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 805 at Page Number 1840 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 7, 8, 9 AND THE EAST ONE-HALF OF LOT 10 IN BLOCK 55 OF DALY’S ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2019 SOUTH 12TH STREET WEST, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $203,883.73 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.125% per

annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/21/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0035366 FEI NO. 1006.133840 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/08/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SUE FITZGERALD-TRAVERS, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/24/2004 and recorded 03/02/2004, in document No. 200405438 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 727 at Page Number 413 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5A OF OTOUPALIK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4119 SPURGIN ROAD, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-04. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $142,885.78 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 9.125% per annum from 10/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/26/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0126688 FEI NO. 1006.114440 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/12/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash,

the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOHN J. CRAMER as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to COMMUNITY BANK-MISSOULA, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 03/28/2007 and recorded 03/30/2007, in document No. 200707556 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 794 at Page Number 853 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 11 AND 12 IN BLOCK 64 OF DALY’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVIDION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 1845 SOUTH 13TH STREET WEST, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $144,643.76 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.50% per annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/27/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0035365 FEI NO. 1006.134432 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/13/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JESSICA L JOHNSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/18/2005 and recorded 11/22/2005, in document No. 200531162 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 764 at Page Number 1146 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 6, BLOCK 1, OF HUGHES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 132 ANN’S LANE, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, NOT IN ITS

INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-16. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $109,184.39 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.20% per annum from 12/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/28/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0036396 FEI NO. 1006.134569 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/14/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JUSTIN POLLACK, AND ANGELA POLLACK, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES (MISSOULA) J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/15/2007 and recorded 02/22/2007, in document No. 200704238 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 792 at Page Number 513 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF TRAVELER’S REST ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 358 MARI COURT, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 20076. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $419,862.83 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.50% per annum from 11/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may

PUBLIC NOTICES become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/29/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0038353 FEI NO. 1006.134822

that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/13/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which WILLIAM R. NOONEY AND ANNA M. WALTERNOONEY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES LLC as

Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given

Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/22/2006 and recorded 09/25/2006, in document No. 200624340 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 783 at Page Number 992 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT X7 OF MARK ADDITION TO BIG SKY ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 832 S PERIMETER ROAD, Seeley Lake, MT 59868. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MEL-

LON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-J8, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-J8. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME

DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $600,558.93 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 01/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/28/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0036559 FEI NO. 1006.134571 SHERIFF’S SALE KIT HOMEBUILDERS WEST LLC Plaintiff, Against CROFTS LAND COMPANY LLC, and MONTANA HOMES OF MISSOULA, INC., and DEAN CROFTS, Individually Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks On the 16th day of June A.D., 2011, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court

House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: Lots 4 and 7 of MISSOULA WEST INDUSTRIAL SUBDIVISION, LOTS 2, 4, 7 AND 9, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. and Lot 5 of MISSOULAWEST INDUSTRIAL SUBDIVISION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Less and Excepting therefrom that portion deeded to the State of Montana in Book 497 Page 1888 Micro Records. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 26th day of May A.D., 2011. CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy

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Waters Rising in Western Montana By Diane Beck, 2011 MOR President Every few years or so, it seems that Western Montana is in danger of flooding. Many homeowners combat this problem only when waters start to rise but do little to actually prevent the floods from happening or minimizing damage. Spring flooding is a common problem, but that doesn’t mean that you have to shovel out hundreds or maybe even thousands of dollars repairing the damage that has been done. Take action this year and take a couple steps towards flood protection. Tips to Minimize Future Flood Damage: 1. Sump Pump Check: The first line of defense that your home has against flooding is your sump pump. A well-conditioned sump pump is the first step towards fewer floods, and it may even eliminate your problem altogether. 2. Clean Gutters and Downspouts: Your gutters and downspouts are flood-protecting devices that also need to be maintained. Clogged gutters or downspouts will allow water to saturate your foundation much more easily, and make flooding a regular occurrence. 3. Replace wooden floorboards with concrete and lay tiles rather than carpet downstairs.

4. Install one-way valves into drainage pipes to prevent water and sewage backing up into the house. 5. Move plug sockets higher up the walls so they are above the likely water level. 6. Re-plaster internal walls with a water-resistant material such as lime plaster or cement render. 7. Install water-resistant doors and window frames and attach flood skirts and barriers to doors, windows and airbricks. If Flooding Does Occur: 1. Move costly possessions and important documents and shift valuable and electrical goods off the floor for their own protection – ideally upstairs. Don’t forget your appliances. They’re often one of the most valuable assets in your home. 2. Protect soft furnishings. Rugs can be moved upstairs if flooding looks likely and you can throw curtains over their rails to protect them 3. Stock up on sandbags - buy flood boards and sandbags to block doorways with, as these will help you fight the flooding and protect your home.

4. Protect irreplaceables. Items of sentimental value, such as photos, should be packed in waterproof bags and put somewhere safe, ideally upstairs. No amount of insurance money can bring these back, so put them out of harm's way. 5. List useful contacts - write down important numbers such as your home insurance provider and policy number, and Floodline. Keep this information to hand. 6. Pack a flood kit - put together an emergency kit containing personal IDs, any required medication and a change of clothing in case you do need to evacuate your home. 7. Keep informed. Watch the weather forecast to make sure you're up-todate on any threats. The Missoula Organization of REALTORS® understands that in times of natural disaster, the risks go far beyond dollars and cents. If you experience flooding, be sure to take you and your family’s safety seriously. Do not walk or drive through flowing water, avoid electrical lines and outlets in your home, and most importantly, heed any evacuation warnings. Our community is resilient and can rebuild together.

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GREAT NORTHSIDE LOCATION. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, fenced yard, hardwood floors, fireplace, lots of natural light, washer/dryer, off-street parking, walk to community gardens, parks, brew pub and downtown . Prudential Montana. $169,900. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Newer 1689 sq ft one level home with wood and tile floors, 2 master bedrooms, gas fireplace, one acre, fencing, covered patio, and 1000 sq ft. garage. $359,900. MLS# 20110410. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

Handsome, Spacious Home on Prime Upper Miller Creek Acreage, 5+ bedrooms, with out of town living on quiet cul-de-sac, and acres. Rodeo Rd. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com IMMACULATE HOME ON A 20,000+ SQ FT LOT. Beautifully updated and maintained 4 Bdr/3 Bath Linda Vista area home. Great yard and deck, spacious living room, 2 family rooms, two full kitchens, master bedroom and more. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Price Reduced 3 bed, 1.5 bath centrally located condo w/ 1 car garage. 1 bedroom has deck, gas fireplace, tall ceilings in living room. New trim, interior paint and vinyl. $135,000 • MLS # 20110908 Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com Price Reduced! 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 car garage. Nice deck in private back yard. Close to Clark Fork River. Close to recreation area for horse back riding, hunting, snowmobiling and 4 wheeling. $172,400. MLS#10004303. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

on very rare lot, mature landscaping, tennis court, home has lots of upgrades, 506 Redwood 3278787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL HIDDEN TRAILS HOME. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, double garage, cathedral ceilings, wood laminate flooring, dining area, and more, all just a few minutes from UM and downtown. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING CLOSE TO THE BITTERROOT RIVER. 4 Bdr/3 Bath single-level Stevensville home. Great, open floor plan, incredible mountain views, next to public park, walk to Downtown Stevi or Bitterroot River. $219,000.

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Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com SPACIOUS PLEASANT VIEW HOME PRICED TO SELL. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, double garage, corner lot, open floor plan, cathedral ceilings, main floor master and laundry, great deck and more. $216,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

RICE TEAM

Janet Rice • 240-3932

Robin Rice • 240-6503

Rattlesnake Home on Large Lot, nice 3br home sits

2511 Sunridge Court • 5 bed, 3 bath home in South Hills • Central air, vaulted ceilings, • Yard w/ underground sprinklers & privacy fence. • $255,000 • MLS # 10007275

NEW! TO BE BUILT! Megan Lane, Frenchtown

• 3 Bed, 2 bed home on 1 acre • $2000 appliance allowance • $1300 landscaping allowance • $199,900 • MLS #1000716!

PRICE REDUCED 3811 Stephens #35, Missoula • 3 bed, 1.5 bath centrally located condo • 1bedroom has deck • Gas fireplace, tall ceilings in living room • New trim, interior paint and vinyl • $135,000 • MLS # 20110908 117 Dallas, in LOLO. $189,900 • 3 Bed 2 Bath home on the hill in Lolo. • Spacious living room, large backyard & deck, great views of the mountains, and huge family room in the basement. • Perfect home for RD financing.

REAL ESTATE

Sweet Slant Street Home, Three bedroom home on quiet street in heart of Missoula, hardwood, great yard, solid home, lots of potential! 632 Cleveland 3278787 porticorealestate.com TWO BLOCKS FROM UM CAMPUS. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, hardwood floors, lots of light, remodeled and updated bath, living room plus dining room, gas fireplace, off-street parking and much more. $199,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 3278787 porticorealestate.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula. com OR call 550-3077

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

own place? This sweet new, greenbuilt development may be your ticket. 1400 Burns, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

3344B Connery Way. Modern three level townhome. Easy maintenance yard, 2 bed 3 bath double car garage. $192,000. MLS 10006082. Call Anne 546-5816 for showings. Windermere Real Estate

Rare Wilma Building Condo – unique loft style condo offers a carefree, fun lifestyle with an amazing view on top of the historic Wilma, $219,900 3278787 porticorealestate.com

Affordable Condo, Didn’t think you could afford to buy your

Uptown Flats Unit #213 1 bed 1 bath and all the amenities included in this Quality Downtown Condo. $149,900. MLS 20110263. Call Anne 546-5816 for showings. Windermere Real Estate

LAND FOR SALE 370-7689

Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $169,900. MLS#906774. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@ bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

1331 Bulwer St #B 2 bed 1 bath $139,900

Natural Housebuilders, Inc., *AFFORDABLE small homes* Additions/Remodels* ENERGY EFFICIENT crafted building* Solar Heating* 369-0940 or 642-6863* www.naturalhousebuilder.net SPECTACULAR HORSE PROPERTY ON THE BITTERROOT RIVER. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, 10.4 acres, crossfenced, 4 stall custom barn with hay loft, hardwood & tile floors, gourmet kitchen, arched doorways, 2 decks, spectacular mountain views, 400 feet of river frontage. $475,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

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COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins for sale. Many updates to this grand ole downtown building. $875,000. MLS 10003350. Call Anne 546-5816 for showings. Windermere Real Estate

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1725 A Park Place MLS #20111197 $149,000 3 bed, 1-1/2 bath, 1car garage TOWNHOME with fenced yard

321 N. Higgins MLS #100003360 $790,000 Updated commercial building in heart of downtown Missoula

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