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Up Front: The PSC bogs down in sandbox antics Range: The Center for Biological Diversity sins Noise: Richie Reinholdt gets classic and bold

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Carnage. That’s what more than 100 people have come to the Lochsa River to see. They’re craving it. They’ve brought lawn chairs and coolers stocked with Bud Light.

They’re making sandwiches on truck tailgates and boiling Cover photo by Chad Harder hot dogs on camp stoves. They’ve got point-and-shoot and video cameras. They’re staking out the best views, climbing down onto the rocks to get closer to the action. We’re in Idaho, about 100 miles west of Missoula, just off Highway 12. We’re next to Lochsa Falls, one of the gnarliest rapids on the river. All day rafters and kayakers have been trying to run it. The spectators want to see them fail, cheering the loudest for those who fare the worst ..................................................14

News Letters We’re more than neighbors, bison before cattle, go Brandborg.................. 4 The Week in Review Rained out, Nate Montana’s bust, 911’s blaze........................6 Briefs Keeping the G-Spot pure, sturgeon’s chances of doin’ it................................6 Etc. An iPhone app to deter bears? Don’t count on it ...............................................7 Up Front The PSC falls to squabbling like kids in a sandbox ...................................8 Up Front There’s no job security for paraeducators in Missoula schools ................9 Ochenski As Montana floods, Schweitzer takes his coal spiel to China .................10 Writers on the Range The sins of the Center for Biological Diversity...................11 Agenda Flathead Lake Brewing Co.’s Humane Society benefit ...............................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Where are you hiding, my little gopher? .....................................20 Happiest Hour Silver Dollar Bar .............................................................................21 8 Days a Week Got the deck, waiting for the sun...................................................23 Mountain High Zoo Town Open disc golf tournament ..........................................33 Scope Party like a dirty hippy: Our guide to the LYME Fest....................................34 Noise Graham Lindsey, Richie Reinholdt, Hammerhead, Street Eaters ..................35 Books Brian Kahn’s Real Common Sense gives the Left a manifesto ......................36 Film Catherine Deneuve is much more than a trophy in Potiche...........................37 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................38

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 MARKETING AND ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold 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 Sunday, June 5 on the corner of Higgins Ave. and Spruce St. in downtown Missoula.

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

More than just neighbors What’s the most valuable thing you’ve ever lost?

Follow-up: What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever found?

Kevin Schouweiler: I’m always losing my car. One time I lost track of where I parked at the Mall of America and it took me four hours to find it. Enter the matrix: I once spent months working to build a website thinking I’d feel great. Then, once I reached my goal, I found myself unsatisfied since I had neglected friends, family, and things that were important to me.

Joel Kempf: My guitar. It was stolen from me at a bar. It was green and the first guitar that I ever owned and wrote music with. No guitar I’ve owned since sounds as good as it did. Damn bikes: I found a parking ticket on my bike at the mall in Eugene, Oregon. I had locked it to a tree and when I came out I had been ticketed for illegal parking…I never paid it.

Stephen Bridges: My innocence. I used to think animals were happy in the zoo, but then I found out they are not. Oh, rats: A dead nutria. They are pale, albino river rats found in the Northwest. They are pre-historic and disgusting-looking.

This letter is in response to MuthHillberry attorney Don Snavely’s comments that growth plans are the product of “a bunch of neighbors that get together and tell a bunch of other neighbors what to do with their property” (see “Neighbors’ fragile win,” June 2). Mr. Snavely neglected to mention that the public process involved in the Rattlesnake Comprehensive Plan included University of Montana students, many citizens groups, the Board of County Commissioners, former mayor Dan Kemmis, the Missoula City Council, Rattlesnake Middle School students, multiple neighborhood meetings, the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board, the Office of Community Development, the Missoula Public Works Department, and many city, county, state, and federal agencies as well as private organizations. It was signed off on

by Mayor Kemmis and former county commissioners Fern Hart and Michael Kennedy.

The Montana Supreme Court’s decision against the Sonata Park development was unanimous and scathing. The Supreme Court recognizes that comprehensive growth plans allow neighborhoods to have a say in deciding how they will grow. We think that’s a good thing.

Harold and Jan Hoem Missoula

Legislature abandons Montana values

Shannon James: I lost my camera in Costa Rica. It had all my pictures from when I was traveling and I was really upset because I couldn’t continue to document all the wonderful places that I was seeing. Time out: One time I found a really nice pocket watch—it had diamonds on it. I found it at soccer and just gave it to my coach.

The 2011 Montana Legislature adjourned more than one month ago, but the memory of that rocky road is still fresh in many minds. Those on the progressive end of the political spectrum knew it would be a rough go in this legislature for our values—including economic justice, fair taxation, corporate accountability, and environmental responsibility—but I’m not sure anyone could have predicted the assault these values would be under. During the session, far-right legislators like Rep. Janna Taylor, RDayton, and Sen. Bruce Tutvedt, RKalispell, said they were intent on “cutting spending,” even when proposals to do so made no logical sense (rejecting federal

funds for health and human services), were against the will of the people (cuts to Healthy Montana Kids), and were especially cruel (cuts to personal services for seniors and people with disabilities). These same lawmakers were unwilling to support common-sense proposals that would have increased revenue to the state, such as House Bill 222, sponsored by Rep. Dick Barrett, D-Missoula.

“Montana values include helping out a neighbor when times are tough...”

HB 222 would have required withholding of income tax at the time of sale on real estate sales of at least $250,000, but not if the seller was a Montana resident or business or if the property were a primary residence. This legislation would have collected a tax already on the books from wealthy out-of-staters who sell their expensive vacation homes in Montana. According to testimony by the Department of Revenue, these sellers are sometimes unaware of their tax obligation to the state but other times ignore attempts by the state to collect the tax after the sale has been finalized.

Collecting the tax at the time of sale would address both of these scenarios.

According to the bill’s fiscal note, this law would have resulted in an increase in income tax collections of more than $3 million each year. HB 222 wasn’t a new tax. It simply provided increased enforcement of a current law. But the bill died in the House Taxation Committee, tabled under the leadership of chairman Rep. Mark Blasdel, RSomers.

At the same time that conservatives were unwilling to help the Department of Revenue collect millions owed to the state through bills like HB 222, they were willing to give up many more millions by supporting measures like Senate Bill 372, a bill that reduced the business equipment tax in Montana. SB 372, sponsored by Tutvedt and signed by the governor in May, will reduce revenue to the state by more than $14 million in fiscal years 2013 and 2014, and even more in subsequent years.

Who are the biggest beneficiaries of the legislation? Conservatives would like you to think that small businesses in Montana will benefit most from this legislation. However, since the first $20,000 worth of business equipment is already exempt from taxation, it’s actually larger businesses that will benefit most. In fact, the largest beneficiaries of the bill will be multinational corporations doing business in Montana, like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. With big oil companies once again seeing record profits, this is hardly the time to offer them a tax break.

The tide seems to be turning in a progressive direction over the past few months. The pushback against an attack on collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin included tens of thousands of protestors in and around Madison. The recent election of democrat Kathy Hochul in a traditionally conservative district of New York State seems to bode well for progressives in 2012.

Like most Wisconsinites and New Yorkers, most Montanans aren’t interested in extreme far-right ideas. They know that the social progress gained in the not-sodistant past must be protected. Montana values include helping out a neighbor when times are tough and coming together as a community to make every citizen’s quality of life better. As Rep. Jon Sesso, DButte, said during the session, “A friend’s good fortune is a blessing.” Paul Wellstone put it this way: “We all do better when we all do better.”

Molly Severtson, executive director The Policy Institute Helena

Comments from MissoulaNews.com

What’s the beef?

The commercially grown beef raised here in the state is the focus of the issue with bison (see “Buffalo Battle,” June 2). I have not seen any statistics on the number of cattle that actually do graze within the potential roaming range of Yellowstone bison, or what actual impact these cattle herds might have on the overall number of cattle grown in Montana. If the point of hazing or “liquidating” bison is to keep them from infecting cattle, how many head of cattle are we even talking about? A few hundred head, maybe a cou-

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ple thousand? Out of all the cattle in the state, is this small percentage even consequential?

June 6 at 1:13 p.m.

Fight the good fight I wanted to be one of the first to comment and I hope many folks will write and applaud you for your efforts (see “Like an oak,” June 2). You are one of what most anyone would call an “old timer,” and maybe out of touch with modern-day thinking with your efforts. I believe your generation understood

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much more than current thinking for proper land use. I for one appreciate all you’ve done over your many years working tirelessly to maintain our national forests and forest ecosystems. To carry on what your father started is so admirable, and that you could keep fighting for so many years to protect our forests. I am one who understands we can use our national forests for sustainable forest production, along with our rangelands and croplands. When people get too greedy and lose sight of the longterm consequences we end up where it

seems we are heading now.

June 2 at 10:16 p.m.

No more cattle End cowboy welfare and subsidized grazing, and remove all cattle from public land (see “Buffalo battle,” June 2). It’s time for a Greater Yellowstone ecosystem extending beyond the park.

June 2 at 9:09 a.m.

Lead belly The dentistry profession still, decades after it’s proven to release vapors, feels

that it’s perfectly safe to fill you and your children’s mouths with mercury amalgam, so what’s a little lead in your diet (see “etc,” June 2)? Mmmm...bird shot.

June 3 at 8:48 a.m.

Under the influence What is truly sad is that we have elected conservative representatives in Helena complaining that the DUI laws are bad for their rural bars’ profits (see “The Reckoning,” May 5). What have THEY been smoking?

June 2 at 10:02 a.m.

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Gov. Brian Schweitzer asks President Obama to declare a major flood disaster in Montana. “I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments and that supplementary federal assistance is necessary,” he writes.

• Thursday, June 2 For the first time in the 11-year history of DownTown ToNight, inclement weather forces the Missoula Downtown Association to cancel the evening’s festivities. More than an inch of rain falls during the day. The MDA pushes the program back to Sept. 1.

• Friday, June 3 In the early morning hours Missoula police arrest University of Montana quarterback Nate Montana, son of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Nate Montana transferred to UM from Notre Dame earlier this year.

• Saturday, June 4 Officers responding to a domestic disturbance outside Hamilton find 53-year-old Tracy Garcia shot multiple times but still alive. Shortly after the incident police arrest 21-year-old Blake A. Sooth, who later says he shot Garcia in self-defense.

• Sunday, June 5 A piece of equipment at the Missoula County 911 Center catches fire, prompting emergency operators to vacate the building. With the county’s primary dispatch center down, a new backup facility, which opened only the week before, is put to the test. “If ever there was good time to have a fire, they hit the window,” says Missoula Fire Marshal Gordy Hughes.

• Monday, June 6 Missoula City Council hears impassioned testimony about whether it should beef up penalties for people who let their parking meters expire. The offense has garnered a $2 ticket since at least 1971. Supporters of the increase claim it’s necessary to deter serial parking hogs, but many urban retailers worry the move could spook shoppers.

• Tuesday, June 7 A woman who operates a grocery store on Missoula’s Hill Street reports that a customer passed off a counterfeit $20 bill. The Missoula Police Department says it hasn’t received any other reports of counterfeit currency being exchanged; it sends the faux bill to the Secret Service to investigate its origins.

A surging Rattlesnake Creek nears the top of its banks between Greenough Park and the Alpha East Apartments Tuesday, June 7.

Backcountry Keeping the G-Spot pure Two of the area’s best backcountry skiing areas might be closed to motorized use. The Lolo National Forest’s Missoula Ranger District is proposing a winter shutdown of the roads in the Lolo Pass area that access “Crystal Theater” and “The Spot” (actually, powder hounds call it “The G-Spot,” but Forest Service officials felt it best to lose the “G” in their announcement).

Last year, through the Montana Legacy Project, the Lolo National Forest acquired about 39,000 acres of land near Lolo Pass. It’s attempting to maintain existing uses in the area.

“It was apparent that [Crystal Theater and the G-Spot] were used for backcountry skiing by the earn-your-turn, climb-and-ski types,” says the Missoula Ranger District’s Andy Kulla. “They have some characteristics that are unique for this type of experience—close to Missoula, close to plowed roads, dependable snow, diverse terrain, and low avalanche danger.”

Under the proposal, the roads would be closed to motorized travel in the winter. They’re already closed to wheeled vehicles yearlong and to snow-

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mobiles from mid October to December 1.

The Montana Backcountry Alliance supports the proposal “wholeheartedly,” says board member Greg Peters. “It formalizes a history of non-motorized use on two of the best backcountry stashes close to Missoula.”

Stan Spencer, a member of Missoula Snowgoers Snowmobile Club, says he personally opposes the closure because he believes it sets a precedent for future closures that serve only one group of users. “Public lands should be managed for balanced multiple use,” he says. “All the closures, actual and proposed, favor non-motorized users and restrict access to areas traditionally used by motorized users.”

Crystal Theater and G-Spot are in the midst of a 226-mile groomed snowmobile trail system in Montana and Idaho.

“Some folks might be concerned that this is the beginning of a larger effort to close wintertime motorized use over a larger area,” Kulla says. “It’s not.”

The Missoula Ranger District is accepting public comments on the proposal through June 15.

Matthew Frank

Bison On the pill When Yellowstone National Park recently released nearly 700 bison captured during the winter after they migrated out of the park, it unexpectedly held back 53 younger animals, the subjects of a proposed and controversial birth control experiment.

The yearling-through-four-year-old bison will remain in the Corwin Springs facility as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service seeks regulatory approval to conduct research to determine whether a contraceptive vaccine can prevent a brucellosis-positive cow from shedding brucella bacteria.

Yellowstone permitted the proposed experiment May 17. Bison advocates are crying foul, calling it a “backroom deal” lacking public notice or involvement.

“It’s really a gross experiment,” says Stephany Seay, of the Buffalo Field Campaign. “They could do this study on livestock, on domestic bison that are already in research facilities. There’s absolutely no reason for them to steal wild buffalo from the public.”

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Back in 2000, state and federal bison managers specifically ruled out â&#x20AC;&#x153;using birth control to control the size of the bison population,â&#x20AC;? according to the Interagency Bison Management Planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Record of Decision.

But Lyndsay Cole, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s media coordinator, says the new experiment abides by the IBMP, which covers, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;potential needs for research to inform adaptive management.â&#x20AC;? That, she says, includes contraceptives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All that we have done at this point is get a research permit from the park,â&#x20AC;? Cole says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will have an environmental assessment and public comment, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected this fall.â&#x20AC;?

The 53 bison, and as many as 47 more, will remain at Corwin Springs until thenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and perhaps long after.

APHIS would use the contraceptive GonaCon, registered as a pesticide by the Environmental Protection Agency. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been used to control deer populations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to note that this is a birth control agent thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used to manage overabundant wildlife populations,â&#x20AC;? Seay says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and here this is Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last wild bison population, which is ecologically extinctâ&#x20AC;ŚIt makes no sense to inhibit their evolutionary potential.â&#x20AC;?

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companies pay to obtain an operating license. The company found that licensing revenue isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t covering even the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basic oversight expenses. In fact, Missoula is losing $110,000 annually on business licensing alone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a catch-up,â&#x20AC;? says Missoula Finance Director Brentt Ramharter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Transient vendors,â&#x20AC;? or individuals who solicit merchandise or services by going door to door, and porn shops featuring â&#x20AC;&#x153;devices depicting sexual activityâ&#x20AC;? will also see a hike. Pawnshops, which now pay $121 yearly, will shell out $310. All of the businesslicense increases will take effect July 6 and apply only to operations that bring in more than $6,000 in gross receipts annually.

Missoula City Council Pawn, porn, and beer Kettlehouse Brewery owner Tim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary told the Missoula City Council Monday night that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not happy about the prospect of shelling out more money for a license to make beer in the Garden City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We add value to Montana products,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary told the council. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a message that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sending to us brewers, people who have brought jobs to Missoula.â&#x20AC;?

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Learyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s testimony came just before the council voted 8-2 to increase licensing fees for businesses including breweries, wineries, secondhand stores, and porn shops. Municipal budget crunchers recommended the move to help keep Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s checkbook in the black. The proposal came largely in response to a study conducted by Wohlford Consulting that was released in February, in which the Sacramento-based firm evaluated how much it costs Missoula to regulate businesses versus what

Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measures to stay flush donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop with license fee increases. The council has yet to vote on Mayor John Engenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 budget, which proposes increasing property taxes by 3.6 percent next year. That pencils out to roughly $25 per year on a home worth $225,000. Engen says the hike is necessary to help keep the general fund balanced, cover increasing costs of providing health insurance to city staffers, and fulfill his commitment to give municipal employees a raise this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It first honors the commitment we made to our bargaining units,â&#x20AC;?

Engen said.

Council will likely vote on Engenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget June 13. As for Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary, by Tuesday morning heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d simmered down from the council meeting the night before. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really mind paying the additional $200 licensing charge if it helps keep municipal mechanisms humming along, he says. He just wants elected representatives to understand how their

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actions affect homegrown enterprises like his: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We make a living as businesspeople worrying about the little things.â&#x20AC;?

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Fisheries Business time for sturgeon Fisheries biologists in Montana and Idaho are once again turning their attention to the spring breeding habitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or lack thereofâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of the dwindling Kootenai River white sturgeon population. But four years into a critical habitat designation that stipulated Libby Dam be managed for sturgeon recovery, it looks like the fish might not need much help getting down to business this year.

The erection of Libby Dam in 1974 radically reduced spring flows on the Kootenai River, making it difficult for white sturgeon to reach gravel spawning beds upstream of Bonnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ferry, Idaho.

Sturgeon numbers have since plummeted by an estimated 9 percent annually. The federal government listed the population as endangered in 1994, and biologists believe that unless wild sturgeon start reproducing soon, fewer than 30 spawning fish will remain by 2015.

Last year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted its first spill test at Libby Dam to increase flows and coax sturgeon farther upstream.

Now it looks like year two wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen. Snowpack in the Kootenai River basin is way above average this year, according to the National Weather Service, so the Corps will blend sturgeon management into its flood control operations as the Kootenai continues to rise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be able to physically do in most years, even with flow augmentation,â&#x20AC;? says Brian Marotz, a hydropower mitigation coordinator with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The data Marotz hopes to collect during such an unusual year could also shed light on the importance of water temperature to sturgeon.

The Corps has been reluctant to accommodate white sturgeon in the past by releasing water from Lake Koocanusa, Libby Damâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reservoir, prompting the Center for Biological Diversity to sue it three times. A federal critical habitat declaration on the Kootenai River in 2008 made spill tests like the one last year a requirement for the Corpsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; management of Libby Dam. Marotz says last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spill test failed to encourage spawning females upstream. He remains hopeful that this year, nature will be a more successful aphrodisiac.

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Total collected by U.S. Marshals from an auction of the Unabomberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belongings in late May. The proceedsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including a $20,025 bid for Ted Kaczynskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoodie and aviator sunglassesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will go to the victims of his nearly 20-year mail bombing spree.

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Last week, following a tip from bear experts, a few of us in the Indy newsroom eagerly searched Appleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iPhone App Store for the ScareBear Trail Companion. What we found was not the latest in bear deterrent technology but a really good midweek laugh.

ScareBear, which was created in 2009, mimics a number of sounds including handclaps, an air horn, and a tin can full of rocks. The program costs a buck, has more than two million Facebook â&#x20AC;&#x153;likes,â&#x20AC;? and bills itself as â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfect for hikers, bikers, walkers, birdwatchers, and anyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trekking outdoors.â&#x20AC;? Never mind that you can just as easily clap your own hands.

The ScareBear app joins a growing list of outlandish and comical â&#x20AC;&#x153;deterrents.â&#x20AC;? As the late days of spring are already rife with wildlife conflicts, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a safe bet at least one person out there might find out the hard way that cheap gimmicks wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop pissed-off animals.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count Chuck Bartlebaugh, head of the Center for Wildlife Information, as that one person. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent the last 30 years gathering information on human-bear conflicts and discussing his findings with state and federal biologists. He scoffs at some of the bear deterrents people have dreamt up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ridiculous is to run into someone in Glacier National Park testing a bullwhip on grizzly bears,â&#x20AC;?

Bartlebaugh says, referring to a man he bumped into three years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First of all, what right do they have to go into a national park and find a passive grizzly bear to whip a bullwhip at?â&#x20AC;?

The gamut of untested and potentially disastrous deterrents Bartlebaughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heard of runs long, from the widely recognized bear bellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;also a feature on ScareBearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the Super Soaker. Recently, someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been advocating smoke-flares as a bear deterrent, Bartlebaugh says.

Apparently the flares demonstrate to bears that man has control over fire.

If bears boast that kind of reasoning power, why not just carry a white flag? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think if fancy pyrotechnics were enough to make a startled griz turn tail, one shot from a handgun would demonstrate our human ingenuity tenfold. Tell that to the guy who fired two rounds into a charging sow on the Blackfoot last month before it finally halted.

Bartlebaugh says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had nearly 100 run-ins with bears over the years. From his experience, common sense and two hefty cans of bear spray are the best defense.

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Survivor Island No end in sight to PSC infighting

by Jessica Mayrer

stituents about the merits of energy conservation through an event called the Billings Brownout. Because the money was used for education, he says, his actions were on the up-and-up and he’s appealing the ruling, adding, “I can’t find a law that I broke.”

Because Kavulla refused to vote for Molnar as chairman of the PSC, the commission elected Gallagher to that role. He didn’t last long.

In April, Missoula commissioner Gail Gutsche, along with the Gallatin Valley’s John Vincent and Kavulla, accused Gallagher of helping hide the fact that Molnar attended a Federal Energy Regulatory Conference on the taxpayers’ dime without permission from other commissioners.

A new alliance of Gutsche, Vincent, and Kavulla formed. Kavulla became chair. Gutsche is now vice chair. Since then, commissioners have broached the subject of ethical wrongdoing every week for the past five weeks.

During one meeting, commissioners debated where they should sit at their long table.

Gallagher admits it’s been a spectacle. “Different people have used various analogies—sandbox antics, a circus,” he says. “I like to call it Survivor Island, where we have Tribal Council and there can be alliance shifts. And next thing you know, you’re standing there getting your chairPhoto courtesy of mtlowdown.blogspot.com man’s torch snuffed out, being Public Service Commissioners Brad Molnar and Travis Kavulla debate leadership told the tribe has spoken.” qualities.

Ultimately, Montana consumers could be paying for arguing about the extent of Kavulla’s three-member Republican majority. this circus. Investors don’t like regulatory That didn’t happen. Kavulla refused to uncertainty, Gallagher says. The PSC’s involvement with such investors, and “the Las Vegas trip is one component of back Molnar unless Molnar signed off on a antics could spook investors who might that,” Gallagher told the Independent last code of conduct pledging, among other otherwise put money into Montana utiliweek. “People who own utilities have one things, to steer clear of acts of political ties. “Conflict at the commission could reprisal. thing in mind: making money.” translate to higher rates,” he says.

Molnar has a history of conflicts of Kavulla says the PSC’s legal counsel Meanwhile, unhappy with last cleared his Vegas trip in advance. The fresh- interest. Last year, Montana’s Commissioner Tuesday’s meeting, Gallagher says he’ll file a faced Republican asserts Gallagher’s claim of Political Practices ruled he violated the complaint against Kavulla. “I’m going to is simply retaliation for breaking from con- state’s code of ethics for elected officials drop all of my concerns into a single petiservative ranks. “We’re dealing with a kind when, in 2007, by his own admission, tion and ask the Commissioner of Political M o l n a r a s k e d P P L M o n t a n a a n d Practices to resolve the question for us.” of vendetta culture here,” he says.

Meanwhile, one has to wonder how NorthWestern Energy for money while he And Molnar is firing back. He alleges the PSC’s intended work will get done. Its was serving on the PSC. He was fined members of the Democratic minority are five members are elected to four-year terms. $5,750, and ordered to reimburse $14,945, breaking the rules and says he’ll propose Five months into its annual session, it a portion of the cost of investigating his case. looking at commissioners’ phone records.

Molnar says NorthWestern and PPL appears to be bogged down by what donations helped pay to educate conGallagher calls “sandbox antics.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com Red faces, raised voices, and allegations of ethical misconduct made a return appearance at last week’s meeting of the Montana Public Service Commission.

“I have to object to the continued hijacking of the commission work sessions,” said Republican commissioner Bill Gallagher, who represents Lewis and Clark, Lake, and Flathead counties, among others. “I want that objection on the record.”

Gallagher alleges that Republican commissioner Travis Kavulla, who represents northeastern Montana, breached PSC rules when Kavulla took a trip in March to a conference in Las Vegas paid for by investors in utilities that the PSC oversees.

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They’re supposed to evaluate the rates that utilities can charge for water, power, and phone service, among other things.

The PSC is also meant to be a quasi-judicial watchdog. For example, when they’re not bickering with one another, commissioners are now deliberating whether to scrutinize the sale of Mountain Water Company to the world’s largest private investment company, the Carlyle Group. If the PSC finds the sale of Missoula’s municipal water supply to Carlyle isn’t in the public interest, it could nix the deal.

The infighting erupted during the panel’s first meeting of this session, on Jan. 3., as it prepared to elect its chair. Brad Molnar, a Republican from Laurel, is the most senior commissioner and therefore seemed the logical choice for a panel with a

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The para paradox For paraeducators, there’s no job security

by Alex Sakariassen

work one-and-a-half hours a day, others as many as 15. Medley’s position at Lewis and Clark called for everything from grading papers and putting them in students’ cubbyholes to sitting down with students to help with math and reading—“everything a teacher does,” Medley says, “without running the classroom.”

Before the end of this school year— when these layoffs take effect—MCPS will have 150 active paraeducators across the district. Jobs aren’t guaranteed for these reserve units of public education, and Postma says there’s not much union bargaining can do about that. The need for paraeducators is fluid. McHugh explains it like this: If a classroom of 20 suddenly gains an extra student or two, the state requires that the district either relocate those extra students or hire a paraeducator to ensure adequate instruction for the oversize class. But if a student moves and a classroom is no longer oversize, “that para position would have to go away.

They’re that temporary.”

Medley’s all too familiar with this unstable situation, despite his limited time at MCPS. After taking his first position as a preschool paraeducator at Jefferson School, he almost immediately landed a second job in an oversize thirdPhoto by Chad Harder grade classroom at Lewis and Clark.

But just a few weeks later, Jeff Medley heads into what could be his last days as a paraeducator at Lewis and Clark Elementary. he says, one student moved away and his position was terminated. was looking for anything permanent when paraeducator and union president for “They lose one and all of a sudden they he applied with MCPS. But already his MCPS classified staff. “We have to try to don’t get that extra help,” he says. “Luckily future with the district is uncertain. MCPS explain that to our folks, and when you’re there was a guy resigning from another recently faced a string of layoffs—39, all beside yourself you’re not hearing a lot of paraeducator position, so I transitioned told—of paraeducators, who used to be this stuff. It seems like, ‘Oh well, they’re from the third grade into the first and second grade.” picking on us.’” known as teachers’ aides.

Medley hopes MCPS won’t start from Postma saw this coming to some The reasons for the terminations vary, from fewer oversize classrooms in need of degree when the district started hiring new scratch by hiring a different paraeducator extra help to the loss of federally-funded paraeducators two years ago using stimulus for his Jefferson student next year. “The Title I programs at three schools. The latter money. Now, either the general fund picks teacher at the preschool put a good word means that Medley, along with several oth- up that tab or many of those jobs disappear. in for me at the district, so it might be easiMcHugh doesn’t relish the potential er to get my name in the pool for next fall.” ers at Lewis and Clark Elementary alone, But as summer break begins, employwill no longer have a job. “Now they’re layoffs that have come as a result of Title I scrambling, and I guess what they’re trying eliminations, changes in oversize class- ment uncertainty will likely persist for to figure it out is how to keep as many peo- rooms, and a stimulus shortfall at MCPS. many paraeducators on the district’s disple as possible or to keep the help they With 16 years as a principal at Hawthorne placement list. It’s an “ugly feeling,” Postma Elementary and 16 years prior as an MCPS says. She’s been there before. Several times. need,” Medley says.

That scrambling is evident from the teacher, McHugh says there are a lot of peo- “You’re stuck out there in the summertime work Steve McHugh’s been doing the past ple on the displacement list that “I person- without unemployment. It’s nerve-wracking. It’s a very unfair situation, and I’m not few weeks. As MCPS personnel director, ally know.”

Paraeducators typically staff special sure what we can do about it.” he’s fielded phone calls from the Montana Office of Public Instruction about unfore- programs or take pressure off overworked seen funding that could save more than teachers in oversize classrooms. Some asakariassen@missoulanews.com Jeff Medley only joined Missoula County Public Schools part-time a few months ago. What started as a nine-hour-aweek gig overseeing the safety of a vulnerable preschooler quickly became a 24-houra-week paraeducator job in three classrooms in two schools. It’s what Medley calls one of “those Missoula jobs...I’ve delivered packages for FedEx,” he says. “I’ve done geophysical surveying out in Idaho, all sorts of jobs.”

Medley, who worked as a substitute teacher in Missouri years back, isn’t sure he

half the recently displaced paraeducators.

Already, he says, the district’s recalled 12 Title I positions, and he should know for sure about 10 additional jobs by the end of the week. MCPS is adding roughly 18 paraeducators funded through stimulus money and other avenues to a recall list, hoping some of them can be saved or transferred to new positions this fall. Seniority will be a major factor in those decisions.

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Coal cowboy in China Schweitzer peddles dirty fuel as Montanans sink

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Almost seven years ago, nearing the end of his first year in office, Gov. Brian Schweitzer threw what he called “The Governor’s Energy Symposium” at Montana State University. By then he had already earned the moniker “The Coal Cowboy” from national media for his over-the-top promotion of a mythological substance called “clean coal.” As many Montanans know, his lauded development of our coal resources never did amount to a single “clean coal” facility. So now that we’re back to reality, Schweitzer is off on his high horse again, this time to China, where he says he’s going to peddle Montana’s coal to Asia. And just like all those years ago, the “clean” part is mythological.

It’s worth noting that utility corporations primarily paid for the Governor’s Energy Symposium. To their way of thinking, it really didn’t matter how much Schweitzer wanted to talk about “clean coal.” What mattered was that he was talking about developing Montana’s enormous reserves of low-grade coal. As the owners of the massive coal-burning power plants at Colstrip well knew, there was plenty of money to be made turning coal into electricity without worrying about how clean the process was.

In fact, the wells and groundwater of Colstrip’s own employees had already been so badly polluted by seepage from coal ash ponds that they sued the companies they worked for in a desperate attempt to restore their water supplies.

They won, but the wells and groundwater remain forever polluted because coal is simply a very dirty fuel with lots of nasty side effects.

That episode aside, the Colstrip power plants never lost a beat. Day and night the draglines devour the Eastern Montana landscape, dumping endless tons of coal into the waiting maws of the furnaces. And while it is now almost lost in the history of the 1970s, some still remember the battle to double the number of Colstrip’s coal-fired power plants— a battle the citizens eventually lost. The new plants came on line, but their output was never destined for Montana’s use.

Instead, it was targeted for export on massive transmission lines because Montana already had all the electricity it needed to serve our population and there was money to be made in unregulated commercial sales to out-of-state interests.

The coal and utility companies had their eyes on an even bigger prize, however: the Otter Creek Coal Tracts. This massive deposit, estimated at 1.3 billion tons, lay beneath a checkerboard of land own-

ership, with half belonging to the state and half belonging to private interests.

The state’s half of the deposits were deeded to Montana by the federal government years before Schweitzer took office, when then-governor Marc Racicot cut a deal with the feds as compensation for their canceling a proposed gold mine on the border of Yellowstone National Park.

As Montana faces its most severe flooding in recent times, Schweitzer is in China for two weeks on a junket. We have communities underwater while our governor is on the other side of the globe peddling the dirtiest fuel on earth.

There were, however, some serious problems with developing Otter Creek.

First, the Tongue River Railroad would have to be built to haul the coal to market.

The citizen-rancher group Northern Plains Resource Council had battled the railroad’s promoters for years because the line would cut many of their members’ ranches in half. By the time Schweitzer came along, there was another problem— the railroad would run through the very expensive Miles City Hatchery, where the vibrations from the endless coal trains were determined to be very detrimental to the hatchery’s fish-raising operations.

And finally, the state had not yet decided to develop Otter Creek when Schweitzer took office. It was unpopular among many Democrats because coal burning

had been identified as the primary source of climate changing global warming gasses that now threaten the existence of life on earth as we know it.

Opportunity came knocking in the form of a Democratic governor who pushed coal development regardless of what science and experience proved. And so, with a smile on their faces, those utility and mining corporations gladly picked up the tab for the symposium to broadcast Schweitzer’s coal promotion. You can bet they laughed heartily while hiding behind the governor’s façade of “clean coal,” as he waved his little vials of liquid fuels derived from coal and lauded nonexistent Air Force contracts from the equally non-existent multi-billion-dollar plants that would be necessary to produce the fuels.

Now, seven years later, the Otter Creek Coal Tracts are open for business thanks to Schweitzer. An all-Democratic Land Board approved leasing the state’s share of the coal to the mega-corporation Arch Coal last year for $87 million and royalties when the coal is finally mined. To her credit, only Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau voted against the leases every time because of environmental and societal concerns. Attorney General Steve Bullock joined her in the final vote only because Bullock didn’t think the state got enough money for the coal. Led by Schweitzer, State Auditor Monica Lindeen and Secretary of State Linda McCulloch voted for the leases, and Otter Creek, unlike “clean coal,” became a reality.

This week, while Montana faces its most severe flooding in recent times, Schweitzer is in China for two weeks on a junket. We have communities underwater while our governor is on the other side of the globe peddling the dirtiest fuel on earth.

At the end of his Energy Symposium, Schweitzer said our biggest job was to show China and India how to use coal cleanly. Perhaps he’ll give that speech again to the Chinese. The truth, however, is that Montana’s coal is going to be exported in endless westbound coal trains for use in dirty, coal-fired power plants. The resulting pollution will come back to Montana in the form of mercury, acid rain, and even more radical climate change. While the Coal Cowboy is back in the saddle on his horse Promotion, “clean coal” remains as great a myth as ever.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent.

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Extreme green Does the CBD actually care about the environment?

by Ted Williams

It’s taken me decades to be recognized as an environmental extremist. I serve on two foundations that award major grants to groups defending wild land from developers, and I write a muckraking column for Audubon called “Incite.” Actually, I’m an extremist only as defined by people who perceive fish and wildlife as in the way. For those folks, all environmentalists are extremists. But radical green groups do exist, and they’re engaged in an industry whose waste products are fish and wildlife.

You and I are a major source of revenue for that industry. The Interior Department must respond within 90 days to petitions to list species under the Endangered Species Act. Otherwise, petitioners like the Center for Biological Diversity get to sue and collect attorney fees from the Justice Department.

For 2009, the Center reported income of $1,173,517 in “legal settlement.” The CBD also shakes down taxpayers directly from Interior Department funds under the Equal Access to Justice Act, and for missed deadlines when the agency can’t keep up with the broadside of Freedom of Information Act requests.

The Center for Biological Diversity also has two imitators—WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project.

Kierán Suckling, who directs and helped found the Tucson, Ariz.-based CBD, boasts that he engages in psychological warfare by causing stress to already stressed public servants. “They feel like their careers are being mocked and destroyed—and they are,” he told High Country News. “So they become much more willing to play by our rules.”

Those rules include bending the truth like pretzel dough. For example, after the CBD posted photos on its website depicting what it claimed was Arizona rancher Jim Chilton’s cowdenuded grazing allotment, Chilton sued. When Chilton produced evidence that the photos showed a campsite and a parking lot, the court awarded him $600,000 in damages. Apparently this was the first successful libel suit against an environmental group, yet the case was virtually ignored by the media.

“Ranching should end,” proclaims Suckling. “Good riddance.”

But the only problem with ranching is that it’s not always done right. And even when it’s done wrong, it saves land from development.

Amos Eno runs the hugely successful Yarmouth, Maine-based Resources First Foundation, an outfit that, among other things, assists ranchers who want to restore native ecosystems. Earlier, he worked at Interior’s Endangered Species Office, crafting amendments to strengthen the law, then went on to direct the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

“Ranching should end,” proclaims Suckling. “Good riddance.” But the only problem with ranching is that it’s not always done right. And even when it’s done wrong, it saves land from development.

Eno figures the feds could “recover and delist three dozen species” with the resources they spend responding to the Center for Biological Diversity’s litigation. “The amount of money CBD makes suing is just obscene,” he told me.

“They’re one of the reasons the Endangered Species Act has become so dysfunctional. They deserve the designation of eco-criminals.”

A senior Obama official had this to say: “CBD has probably sued Interior more than all other groups combined.

They’ve divested that agency of any control over Endangered Species Act priori-

ties and caused a huge drain on resources. In April, for instance, CBD petitioned to list 404 species, knowing full well that biologists can’t make the required findings in 90 days.”

Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and his Fish and Wildlife Service director, Jamie Clark, together saved the Endangered Species Act from a hostile Congress. One way they did this was with brilliant habitat conservation plans that rewarded landowners for harboring endangered species instead of punishing them—as the law had previously done.

A few plans were flawed, but the Center scarcely saw one that it didn’t hate. “My frustration was not so much with lawsuits about listings, which fell like snowflakes,” declared Babbitt, “but with litigation boiling up around the plans.”

Clark offered this: “Back then, the suits came mostly from CBD. Now I think CBD and WildEarth Guardians are trying to see who can sue most. Bruce (Babbitt), who was committed to saving endangered species, gave me the air cover I needed. I have yet to see that kind of commitment in this administration. The Service isn’t making progress.

Citizens need to be able to petition for species in trouble, but this has become an industry.”

Acquiring the public’s attention seems to motivate real environmental extremists almost as much as acquiring the public’s money. Recently, the CBD petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the manufacture and sale of lead ammunition and fishing weights.

There are lots of inexpensive, non-toxic alternatives. And lead projectiles for hunting and lead sinkers small enough to be ingested by birds do need to be banned. But the Center for Biological Diversity sought a ban on everything—no exception for the military, outdoor or indoor target shooting, or deep-sea sinkers that ostriches couldn’t swallow. It seems inconceivable that the CBD didn’t know its petition was going nowhere.

But for a year its name has been all over the news, and now, predictably, it is suing EPA. The Center for Biological Diversity gives every environmentalist a bad name.

June 16

June 23

Codi Jordan

Big Sky Mudflaps

Reggae Rock

A Blend of Jazz, Swing & Rhythm & Blues with a Healthy Dose of Latin Percussion

Family Activity: SpectrUM Science

Family Activity: Missoula Butterfly House & Insectarium

June 15

June 22

Zeppo

Ed Norton Big Band

Rhythm & Blues

Jazz & Swing

Family Activity: Montana Natural History Center

Family Activity: Missoula Butterfly House & Insectarium

Ted Williams is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes in Massachusetts.

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I was chillin’ in my crib, a couple of fine women on each arm, drinking the tastiest cold brew Missoula has to offer, and yo, I know I should have been happy, but I just kept thinking, “Isn’t there some way that I can kill this goblet of Flathead Lake Brewing Company’s Premiere Tripel beverage and support the Humane Society of Western Montana’s Adopt a Cat Month initiative at the same time?”

There is, dog! Oh snap, you were thinking the same thing, weren’t you?

No, but seriously. This Thursday, June 9, Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula is

selling goblets of its special brew for $5.50 and donating $2.75 from each pint sold between 4 and 8 PM to benefit cat adoptions. The ale is not a single, not a double, but a Tripel! It’s some whole new kind of deal. Do the right thing and pour one out for Mittens.

Molly Laich

THURSDAY JUNE 9

Health Center? These questions and more are the subject of Bonner Milltown Community Council’s monthly meeting at 7 PM in the Bonner School Library, 904 S. Hwy. 200 E. Call 207-4988.

Food, agriculture, and human values are some of the subjects up for discussion at the annual meeting, Food and Agriculture Under the Big Sky: Peoples, Partnerships and Policies, 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.

FRIDAY JUNE 10 Play some golf at the 31st Annual Conoco Grizzly Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Grizzly Scholarship Association to benefit the UM student Athlete Scholarships. Registration’s at 8:30 AM with a Shotgun start at 9:30 AM. $160 entry fee gets you a Nike Pullover, barbecue, cart, range balls and more.

Maximum 5 golfers per team. 1268 Bandmann. Call 243-6481.

Citizen Soldier: The Invisible Wounds of War is a professional education program for primary and mental health providers designed to share practical information about miltary culture and the needs and concerns of service members, veterans and military families, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, 500 W. Broadway. $100. Call Anne at 243-5575 or visit wmtahec.org.

SATURDAY JUNE 11 Any way you travel, homeWORD’s 9th Annual Sustainability tour, Preserving the Past, Building the Future promises to be informative and stimulating, 12–5 PM, $10 bike/walk/self-guided tours/$25 bus/moped. All tours start at the Boone and Crockettt Club under the Higgins Bridge. homeword.org.

SUNDAY JUNE 12 Celebrate peace and pizza alike for the Missoula Peace Park Fundraiser at Biga Pizza. $10 buys you a pizza buffet, with drinks not included. All proceeds go to benefit the Peace Park on Waterworks Hill, 5–8 PM, 241 W. Main St. Call 543-3955.

MONDAY JUNE 13 Shall the council support the newly proposed Milltown

Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula’s “Kill the Tripel—Support Adopt a Cat Month” is Thursday, June 9, 4–8 PM at 424 N. Higgins. Goblets of the Tripel are $5.50; proceeds go to the Western Montana Humane Society. Call 542-3847.

TUESDAY JUNE 14 Habitat 101 Class is the perfect jump start for what could turn into a summer of building houses, helping out and feeling good. This intro class to Habitat for Humanity and how you can volunteer will begin at 5:30 PM in the boardroom at the Missoula Public Library. To register or for more info call 549-8210.

Get a handle on your finances during homeWORD’s Financial Fitness workshop, which meets from 6–9 PM June 14–16 at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 303. Register and pay online at homeword.org.

Childcare vouchers are also available. $10 per person.

Call 532-HOME. 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 15 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 Living Art of Montana.

Free.

THURSDAY JUNE 16 People who know the meaning of value will drink up at The Great Northern Brewing Company in Whitefish starting at 4 PM for “Pints with Purpose,” where a dollar of each pint goes to a non profit. This month’s beneficiary is the Stumptown Arts Studio. 2 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Call 862-5929.

Motorized boat regulations on the river and what it all means for you is the subject of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks public hearing beginning 6:30 PM at the FWP office in Missoula, 3201 Spurgin Rd. Visit fwp.mt.gov or call 542-5500 for a copy of the proposal and associated Environmental Assessment.

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Bob Martin said the chief is “morally and legally obligated” to act if he witnesses a crime and to make an arrest if necessary. “It’s not against the chief,” Martin explained. “The action is against the city.” (Scranton’s The Times-Tribune) WORTHY OPPONENTS - Investigating loud noises shortly after 4 a.m. at Florida’s Osceola County Jail, a guard checked security cameras and discovered a bed sheet had been used to obscure the view of a cell occupied by Hector Luis Campos, 22. A search found broken brick near the doorframe, leading to the conclusion that Campos had tried to escape by “punching the brick,” sheriff’s official Twis Lizasuain said. “And his hand is very sore right now.” (Orlando Sentinel) After a housecat attacked a man at a home outside Cleveland, Texas, both the cat and the man were injured by a knife the man was holding. The man was severely injured. (The Cleveland Advocate) PRE-FIRING BONUS - A review of disciplinary hearings involving New York City teachers found that even when investigations confirm wrongdoing, the city’s Department of Education might take several years to dismiss teachers, who continue receiving pay. The review cited as an example Bronx teacher Barbara Lee, who DOE investigators confirmed in August 2005 had helped students cheat on their state math tests the previous May. Lee fought her termination, and the case dragged on until May 2010, when the city finally terminated her. During those five years, Lee received nearly $360,000 without teaching a single class. Indicating that suspended teachers have every incentive to drag out the process because of a shortage of arbitrators and the backlog of cases, Jay Worona, chief counsel for the New York State School Boards Association, acknowledged, “The whole system is very, very flawed.” (New York Post) IDENTITY CRISIS - Search warrants executed by members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force disclosed that Joseph Jeffrey Brice, 21, who was critically injured when a bomb he was making exploded at his home in Clarkston, Wash., had opened email and PayPal accounts using the name of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. (The Seattle Times) State police stopped a man at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County International Airport who identified himself with a Texas driver’s license. Troopers wrote down the information and then asked the man to repeat his date of birth. When he got it wrong, he ran off and tossed a wallet into some shrubs. Police caught the man and recovered the wallet, which contained 12 counterfeit driver’s licenses. Unable to determine the man’s real name, they booked him as John Doe. (Allentown’s The Morning Call) BIG FUTURE FOR DRONES - The increased use of remotely piloted, armed drones will lead future decision-makers to “resort to war as a policy option far sooner than previously,” according to a study by the British Defense Ministry. Noting drones are becoming increasingly automated, the study said that with minor technical advances, a drone could soon be able to “fire a weapon based solely on its own sensors, or shared information, and without recourse to higher, human authority.” (The Washington Post) FIRST THINGS FIRST - When police Officer Courtney Vassell tried to stop Roberta Spen, 64, for having faulty brake lights, the Coral Springs, Fla., resident instead headed for a McDonald’s drive-through lane and ordered lunch. Vassell pulled up behind her and told her to pull into the parking lot, but Spen got her food and drove off. When Vassell finally stopped her, he said she “rolled her window down one inch and said she was not speeding and she would not roll her window down.” Spen refused to hand over her driver’s license and drove away. Other officers joined Vassell in pursuit of Spen, who finally stopped for a red light. After failing to box her in there, officers finally succeeded in trapping her. She refused to leave the car, however, so they broke the driver’s side window and removed her. Police found no indication that Spen, who had no criminal record, was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and she wouldn’t explain her refusal to stop. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

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CARNAGE. THAT’S WHAT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE HAVE COME TO THE LOCHSA RIVER TO SEE. THEY’RE CRAVING IT.

THEY’VE BROUGHT LAWN CHAIRS AND COOLERS STOCKED WITH BUD LIGHT. THEY’RE MAKING SANDWICHES ON TRUCK TAILGATES AND BOILING HOT DOGS ON CAMP STOVES. THEY’VE GOT POINT-AND-SHOOT AND VIDEO CAMERAS. THEY’RE STAKING OUT THE BEST VIEWS, CLIMBING DOWN ONTO THE ROCKS TO GET CLOSER TO THE ACTION. who deftly slides through the whitewater.

But they don’t seem sated until a raft approaches with a man sitting on the bow without a paddle, feet dangling over the front, one fist in the air. Eight others are bunched in the back. When the boat crashes into the rapid, the man launches overboard.

That’s the popcorn.

Often the river has its way, seizing a boat like a dog with a chew toy. It grabs kayakers, chews them a bit, and spits them out upside down. A woman in a light-blue kayak is capsized in the mouth of the rapid for so long I get nervous.

She’s just stuck there, cycling around and around. The cheering subsides as the seconds pass. The rapid finally kicks her out and she pops up and acknowledges the crowd with a paddle pump. The crowd hoots in appreciation. I resolve never to float the Lochsa in a kayak.

We’re in Idaho, about 100 miles west of Missoula, just off Highway 12. We’re next to Lochsa Falls, one of the gnarliest rapids on the river. All day rafters and kayakers have been trying to run it. The spectators want to see them fail, cheering the loudest for those who fare the worst.

It’s the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend. The sky’s overcast. And the crowd hasn’t seen nearly enough carnage.

Boats approach the rapid in packs of three or four. Many are catarafts—two inflatable pontoons connected by a metal frame, with a seat or two in the middle.

The catarafters are playing it safe, rowing hard through the best line. That doesn’t result in carnage.

Cataraft, says a river guide here on his day off, “is French for too fat to fit in a kayak.”

A few tour company rafts make it through the rapid unscathed. A woman from Spokane, recording video with her iPhone, says “I wanted to see more popcorn.”

Popcorn is when rafters are bounced out of their boats.

Others approach Lochsa Falls with bravado and are praised for their showmanship. Some catarafters row backward to slow down and attempt to surf the rapid. They get bucked like bad bull riders. In fact, there’s some overlap here between bull-riding and rafting. The longer the rafters manage to stay in the swirl of the rapid, the better.

The spectators like a man paddling a ducky, and two others gripping paddleboards and wearing flippers. They also respond to a man with a chest-length gray beard and a sun-bleached life jacket

This Lochsa rodeo happens every year. It’s an informal festival for rafters, the confluence of a three-day weekend and the spring runoff at one of the wildest rivers in the West. The Clearwater National Forest serves as host, and so far forest officials don’t have a problem with it. It’s remote: There’s no cell phone service, and no gas, a road sign says, for 65 miles.

“Lochsa” is a Nez Perce word for rough water. Lewis and Clark described the river as “swift and stony.” They called the surrounding mountains “steep and stony.” They almost starved here. The spring-green mountainsides are rugged and uninviting. The river barrels and

Kayakers find calm waters below Lochsa Falls.

Opposite page: Giving the crowd what it wants.

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On the Lochsa, calm waters are hard to find.

bends through them; meander it does not. Rapids have names such as Grim Reaper, Killer Fang Falls, Termination, and Picking Up The Pieces.

The rafters come from all over the country.

This year, Michael Anderson took a train from Indiana to Glacier National Park and then pedaled his bike to Missoula en route to a Lochsa campground. Some float, some just watch. At Lochsa Falls there are river rats in “Raftafarian” T-shirts, teenagers playing Uno, inebriated 20-somethings heckling rafters, an elderly couple, and a wiener dog-clutching mom. The trucks are from Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington. On the window of one dusty truck topper someone wrote “My girlfriend is dirtier than this.”

The Rogers family, from Lewiston, Idaho, is hunkered down with their RV, tents, and ATVs for the weekend at the Lochsa Falls pullout. The night before, they stoked a bonfire on the pavement and put their generator across the highway, running a cord to it. “We don’t miss anything,” says Darla Rogers, inside the RV where they’d made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. “If you’re going to do it, you might as well do it big.”

The Rogers came because of YouTube. A lot of the people here did, including me.

YouTube hosts Lochsa highlight reels packed with non-

A pirouetting catarafter manages to hang on.

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stop carnage, like porn for whitewater hounds, and they’ve gone viral. Just about everyone congregated at the falls has seen them. The rafters are hoping to star in them.

“It’s an exhibitionist’s sport,” says Derek Farr, who traveled here from Grangeville, Idaho. “It’s the Academy Awards of rafting. People spend all this time in the wilderness with no one watching. This is their time to shine.”

Marty Engledow, a thick man with a sun-pinked face, in a cap and black sunglasses, is the guy behind the videos. He owns Rapid Action Whitewater Photography, based in Lowell, Idaho. They’re the only videographers here that are officially permitted by the Forest Service. Engledow and his cousin Jimmy are at the river today as part of a four-man camera crew. They’ve been coming just about every Memorial

Day Weekend since the mid ’90s, they tell me.

When YouTube blew up, in 2006, Engledow says, “I thought, ‘Let’s put something on and see what happens,’ and we got a lot of hits…So now we do one for this event every year.”

It wouldn’t be the event it is without Engledow’s videos. Those videos have also changed the way people run the river.

“People ham it up because they know they’re on camera,” he says. “People will row upstream to try to surf because they know they’re on camera. They might try to do a back flip because they know they’re on camera. They might take an inflatable couch, a pool toy, a love doll through it.”

Engledow says the videos are educational: They show people “the way to do it and the way not do it.” Mostly, though, it’s the way not to do it. That guy who popcorned off the front of the raft earlier in the day?

“He’s going to be on YouTube by midweek,” Engledow says. “If you make it through the rapid you usually don’t make the cut.”

All week waters have been rising around Montana and Idaho. But it’s been cool here. The river isn’t flowing as fast and high today as some expected.

“Friday was carnage day,” one river guide says.

“A little bit more carnage wouldn’t hurt,” says Farr.

Can’t get much closer than that.

“It’s the Academy Awards of rafting.

People spend all this time in the wilderness with no one watching.

This is their time to shine.”

Lochsa Falls rapid swallows a kayaker.

River rats congregate at Lochsa Falls to witness carnage.

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Death, and grace On Saturday, as the Rogers family hung around their RV, a sheriff ’s car raced by, then an ambulance. They heard a helicopter overhead. Eighteen miles upstream, in one of the more technical sections of whitewater, four rafters had fallen out of their boat.

According to the Idaho County Sheriff ’s Office, two of the rafters were able to swim back to it. Another safely made it to shore. The fourth, Randy Eroen, 35, an electrician from a suburb of Madison, Wisc., did neither.

Kayakers accompanying the raft threw him a life rope. He couldn’t reach it. The river swept him downstream.

The kayakers caught up with Eroen and found him unconscious. By the time someone called 911, the kayakers had pulled Eroen ashore and were performing CPR. They were unable to revive him. Medics couldn’t either.

“That kind of, you know, changes the mood of everything a little bit,” Darla Rogers says.

It was the first death of a rafter on the Lochsa in anyone’s recent memory. Heather Berg, the wild and scenic rivers administrator for the Nez Perce and Clearwater national forests, has worked the Lochsa for 10 years and can’t recall another one.

The medics were called to a point near milepost 132.

Peter Grubb, founder of Row Adventures, one of the local guiding companies, says the boat might’ve flipped on Lone Pine: “That’s actually a pretty nasty rapid that has a big hole in it.”

The rafters were approaching Castle Creek, at mile 131.2, perhaps the Lochsa’s largest, most demanding rapid. The Forest Service’s Lochsa River Guide describes it this way: “A long, twisting rapid whose half-mile length A kayak battles to stay above water.

Cars clog a remote stretch of Highway 12 in Idaho on Memorial Day weekend.

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is not totally observable from the water at any one time.

Large holes become large waves at high water, and everything pillows left off a huge block of bedrock at the bottom of the rapid. Considered un-runnable at high flows.

Must scout. Cannot be seen from highway.”

Eroen’s obituary said he was an avid outdoorsman who loved water sports. His family asked that memorial donations be sent to a river restoration effort in Wisconsin.

On Sunday, details of Eroen’s death are scant. People talk about it, they shake their heads, but the party goes on. In the afternoon, a group of rafters and kayakers navigate Lochsa Falls then pull their boats ashore and join the crowd. Still in their wetsuits, they crack beers and jockey for a spot with a good view. “It was incredible,” says one of the rafters.

A half-mile downstream, around a few corners from the crowd, a foursome from Missoula don wetsuits and walk paddleboards down to the water’s edge. Taking turns, they stand on the boards, crouch, and paddle onto a big, clean wave called Pipeline. It’s a treadmill of smooth rushing water and they ride it for a minute or so at a time, weaving easily back and forth and then falling away. There’s a gracefulness here, on a river that seems to be nearly devoid of it. There are few spectators. No one’s shooting video.

Marty Engledow has posted his 2011 Lochsa video—eight-and-a-half minutes of carnage set to twang y surf music. Search YouTube for “Lochsa River Madness 2011.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

A kayaker hitchhikes back upstream.

Kevin Brown rides Pipeline on a stand-up paddleboard.

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I saw something terrible in the garden last summer. Something had eaten several garlic plants from below. All that remained were decapitated garlic tops resting awkwardly in the holes where bulbs once grew.

I brought in the old hippy for a consult.

“Gophers,” he said.

The next day he brought his gopher trap. He proceeded to prowl my garlic patch, shovel in hand, looking for a pattern in the piles of tailings left behind by the gopher’s excavations.

After what seemed like a lot of soul searching, the old hippy began digging in a patch of ground about three feet from the garlic patch. About a foot down he intersected a tunnel. It ran parallel to the garden fence.

“Shit,” he said. “It’s not going into the feeding grounds.”

“By feeding grounds,” I asked, “you mean my garden?”

He nodded. “If the tunnel goes straight into the patch, then you know his den is at the other end of the tunnel. But this tunnel runs alongside the garden, so you don’t know which way his den is.”

The trap, a Victor-brand Black Box, is a tube-like contraption somewhere between a hangman’s noose and a mousetrap. You place it at the end of an exposed gopher tunnel. But when you cut into a tunnel, you have two tunnel ends to choose from.

You want to choose the opening that leads to his den, but when the tunnel runs alongside the patch you have nothing to go on, so you have to guess.

He chose the tunnel that leads toward the creek.

Respecting the gopher’s keen sense of smell, the old hippy donned a brand new pair of medical-grade Nitrile gloves and carefully fixed the trap to the end of the tunnel.

He buried the trap loosely, then positioned a piece of plywood (cardboard also works) over the hole. You want to let in just enough light so he’ll come and try to patch his tunnel.

“Gophers are really cool,” the old hippy said.

“And they’re an important part of the ecosystem. But when they get in your garden, well, that’s their karma, I guess.”

I saw Caddyshack at a young age and I’ve always remembered it fondly. My recent gopher conflict caused me to read up on the movie’s plot, which is

when I realized that I’d completely forgotten there was anything more to the film than the golf course groundskeeper, played by Bill Murray, going after a gopher. It turns out the movie was mostly about country club politics; the gopher part was just a sidestory leading up to an earth-shaking explosion that caused a crucial putt to fall in the cup.

Unlike Bill Murray’s character, the old hippy got it done. The next morning there was a dead, ratsized gopher in the trap.

Defending your territory, even from a small fuzzy mammal, delivers a primal satisfaction. It’s an

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urgent and just fight. But the rivalry can also get under your skin, a la Caddyshack.

I didn’t have gopher problems for about a year after that, but the other day I was watering the garlic patch and I noticed water running down holes where garlic plants had recently been growing.

I borrowed the old hippy’s trap and dug right below the disappeared garlic, where I found a waterlogged tunnel. Since it was in the middle of the patch, I had to guess which direction to face the trap.

I guessed wrong. Next to my trap the next day was a new mound of gopher tailings. I cleaned up the hole, placed the trap facing the other way, and re-buried it.

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The next day the trap was partially dug out but still un-sprung and there was a shiny spot on top that was sticky to the touch. Instinctively I brought my sticky finger to my nose for a smell and accidentally touched my nose. It smelled extraordinarily foul. And it was on my nose.

After cleaning up I called the old hippy.

“I think he peed on the trap!” I said.

“Wow,” he said. “He’s a crusty old fella.”

I explained how I’d set the trap in the garlic patch.

“There’s too many tunnels in the feeding area,” he said. “It’s too easy for him to go around the trap.

You need to find a tunnel outside the patch.”

Lacking the old hippy’s gopher tunnel divination skills, I dug a trench along one side of the patch, going about eight feet before I finally hit a tunnel, eight inches down. Upon further inspection, I’d actually taken out a Y-shaped intersection where two tunnels converged into a single tunnel that headed straight into the patch. I had to pick one of the two converging tunnels to set the trap.

I decided on the tunnel that headed toward the creek. But first, I shoved a brick into the other tunnel, lengthwise. The brick fit snugly, and I packed dirt around it to stop any light. I figured if the gopher hit the brick, he’d turn around and use the other tunnel, which of course he’d find in need of repair.

Before I installed the trap I washed it in hot water—no smelly soap—to remove the gopher’s nasty olfactory red flag. Then I placed the trap at the opening of the tunnel heading toward the creek. I scattered handfuls of dirt onto the trap and placed the plywood over the hole, allowing just a little light in.

Sometime between then and the next morning, the gopher’s karma caught up to him.

I’m glad I didn’t have to blow up the garlic patch to take him out, but during the heat of my obsession I shared a few curious moments of understanding with Bill Murray’s gopher-hunting maniac. And in those moments I realized there’s a reason that only the gopher part of the plot made an impression on me, and I doubt I’m alone. While few of us can relate to country club drama and golf tournaments, we can all understand the chess match, the battle of wills, the gritty struggle of man against beast that is the muddy path of the gopher hunter.

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Claim to fame: Bartender Matt Tschider says the same family has owned the Silver Dollar since 1935. That was just two years after the end of prohibition, a barfly notes.

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Who you’re drinking with: A person you recognize and reacquaint with. He’s drinking Rolling Rock in a can, and talks about the Silver Dollar’s nicknames. He calls it “The Buck.”

Young patrons, he laments, call it “The Dirty Dollar.” “I’m offended,” he says.

How to find it: Follow the brick road to 307 Railroad Street West, near Woody Street, in Missoula.

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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

Atmosphere: There are four flat-screens TVs, three pool tables, and video poker machines. And air conditioning, as your friend notes on the first hot day of the year.

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

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius.

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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 - 10. 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! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Share a meal within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues-Sun 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ The Sunrise Saloon & Casino 1100 block of Strand 728-1559 Every day is a great day at the Sunrise Saloon!

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

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

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

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun Wed 8-3pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ 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.

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THURSDAY June

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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: Peoples, Partnerships and Policies, running June 9–12 at UM. Call 243-6271 or visit cas.umt.edu/evst/ foodconference.

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 montanaseniorolympics.org/summer.html.

Kill the tripel – Support Adopt a Cat Month! The name says it all, sort of.

Come down to the Flathead Lake Brewing Company and imbibe for a good cause. From 4–8 PM, pay $5.50 for a goblet of their new special tripel beer, and $2.75 from each pint will go to benefit the Humane Society of Western Montana. 424 N. Higgins Ave.

nightlife Kenny James Miller 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. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 10, 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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The sounds are hanging from the branches. Oakland-based group Antioquia wants you to dance and feel good doing it at the Top Hat Wed., June 15, at 10 PM. Free.

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SPOTLIGHT on fire

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? I know; it’s impossible to know.

Here’s what I’m thinking: there ought to be enough strong men and sword swallowers and jugglers and bear tamers and everything in between in Missoula to eke an old school carnival out of the place. Well, Darla Torrez and her friends agree, and after three years of rallying for just

organizers. Seriously, I think somebody’s mother is slaving away in the kitchen as we speak, steaming hot dogs and baking cookies for 500 people.

There’ll be live shows, face paintings for the kids, and a beer garden sponsored by the Zootown Arts Community Center for the even older kids. Everything stays family friendly until around 6 p.m., then the burlesque women come out WHAT: Missoula Summer Carnival and all bets are off.

WHEN: Sunday , June 12, 2–10 PM

This town is due for a carnival. When I look out over the Higgins street bridge at Caras HOW MUCH: $10 all day /$4 a show Park, I want to see big top umbrellas and animals on unicycles and ladies with zee dragon tattoos and women with beards such an event, the First Missoula and men without beards. I want to Summer Carnival is about to be stumble into a gypsy fortune teller’s underway. booth and have a woman in heavily Their efforts represent weirdo accented English tell me all my dreams impromptu party planning at its will come true and I want to eat cotton finest, with hardly any sponsorship candy while doing all of it, and I want or backing by local businesses. Save to believe her. Is that so much to ask? a generous, last minute investment Also snakes. I asked the organizers

by Painless Steel Piercing and supif anyone would be draped in a snake port by Montana Radio Company for the event.

Short answer: probably. (holla!) the event is all home grown —Molly Laich and home made by the carnival’s

WHERE: Caras Park

$3 BREAKFAST WITH Bacon, Ham, or Sausage. Monday - Friday 7am-12 noon.

BOTTOMLESS MIMOSAS $3!

Monday - Friday, 8am-12pm

TRIVIA EVERY WEDNESDAY 8PM

CHECK OUT OUR NEW OFF-SALE LIQUOR STORE! LARGE INVENTORY!

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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.

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.

Trade in your cornmeal for moonshine when Cash For Junkers plays country swing Americana at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. Free.

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.

Not safe for air travel: The Box Cutters play blues and rock at The Top Hat with Newsfeed Anxiety, 10 PM, $5.

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Love and marriage and the hilarity therein are the subject of a real life married couple’s musical, I Do! I Do! running today through June 19 at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $25$37 and available by calling 862-SHOW, or visit alpinetheatreproject.org, 600 East 2nd St. in Whitefish.

Think Locally and act it too at the THINK LOCAL Summer’s First Art Bash, a 3day art fair featuring 40+ booths of fine art and designer crafts from artists all over Montana, along with food and music. Located on the Kalispell Court House Lawn, 800 Main St. Free.

Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me and other song loops that get stuck in my head for days after hearing

them are on center stage for the Hamilton Players production ofThe King and I at 100 Ricketts Rd. in Hamiton, $15/$18 children. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets and show times.

Play some golf at the 31st Annual Conoco Grizzly Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Grizzly Scholarship Association to benefit the UM student Athlete Scholarships. Registration’s at 8:30 AM with a Shotgun start at 9:30 AM. $160 entry fee gets you a Nike Pullover, barbecue, cart, range balls and more. Maximum 5 golfers per team. 1268 Bandmann. Call 243-6481.

Citizen Soldier: The Invisible Wounds of War is a professional education program for primary and mental health providers designed to share practical information about miltary culture and the needs and concerns of service members, veterans and military families, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, 500 W. Broadway. $100. Call Anne at 243-5575 or visit wmtahec.org.

Let the Summer Kickoff Party begin at Wye West Casino and lounge. Party starts at 4 PM with barbecue, horseshoes, cowboy golf and more. Karaoke begins around 9 PM, 8700 Truck Stop Rd. Call Marc for details at 360-3993.

And the living’s easy with The Top Hat’s Summa Time Evening Marketplace, 4–8 PM and every Fri. through the summer.

nightlife Art made out of found objects suspended in space to look like a forest is on display when the Montana Bricolage Artists present The Trunk Show with a reception from 5–9 PM at Montana Art and Framing. Show runs through July 31.

709 Ronan St. Free.

Monsters, monsters, and more monsters are loose at the ZACC. Join them when three local masters of the strange kick off this month long show of interactive art and Frankensteinian situations, inauguration 5:30–8:30 PM, 235 N. First St. Free.

Let’s let babies in bars (why not) for The Top Hat’s Family Friendly Fridays at 6 PM, this week with The Unknowns.

Free, all ages.

Drink some wine and sit back for songwriter David Boone’s live music at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 6:30 PM, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Free.

Ghosts roam the sulfur scented hallways and psychics peggy and Luna want to help you commune with them

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at the Whispering Wind’s Spirit Talks, 7 PM at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. Readings available by appointment. Call Peggy at 591-1095 and Luna at 407-2190.

Bring out your summer flannel for Seattle singer/songwriter Jessie Houghton’s live performance at the Missoula Winery with Sabrina Holland, 8 PM, 5646 W. Harrier. $5.

Let the funk ooze out of your pores and onto the floors when locals Reverend Slanky play funk and soul, 9 PM at the badlander. $5.

Dust off your best honky tonk moves and get out on the dance floor for Russ Nasset & The Revelators, 9:30 PM at the Union Club. Free.

W h o ’ s a f r a i d o f Vo o d o o Horseshoes? Join them for a blend of rock and space grass at The Garden Bar in Bigfork, 9:30 PM, 451 Elective Ave. 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.

Bellicosity rules when 8-piece folk rock outlet Wartime Blues plays at The Top Hat, 10 PM, $3.

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Think Locally and act it too at the THINK LOCAL Summer’s First Art Bash, a 3-day art fair featuring 40+ booths of fine art and designer crafts from artists all over Montana, along with food and music. Located on the Kalispell Court House Lawn, 800 Main St. Free.

Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me and other song loops that get stuck in my head for days after hearing them are on center stage for the Hamilton Players production of The King and I at 100 Ricketts Rd. in Hamiton, $15/$18 children. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets and show times.

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

Give your heart something to flutter about during Billings’ Heart & Sole Run, a race that offers your soles the chance to hit up a 10k or 5k race, or a 2-mile health walk. Dash to the phone and ring 237-3600, or e-mail heather.bergeson@svh-mt.org.

Help a kid avoid a cavity by participating in the 38th annual Governor’s Cup Race in Helena. The race features a 10k, 5k, fun run and other events, and raises money for the Caring Foundation of Montana, which helps Montana children get dental and medical care. Race fees are matched four-to-one by federal grants.

Get word on the bennies at govcupmt.com.

Double the fun for your feet during Run Wild Missoula’s Pengelly Double & Single Dip, which starts at UM’s Riverbowl Fields and offers the chance to participate in the Double Dip—a tall half marathon with 2700 feet of elevation gain—or the Single Dip, which is a 10k. Sprint for details at runwildmissoula.org.

The rain has small hands and flowers pick themselves for the 51st Annual Missoula Iris show at Southgate Mall.

The exhibitions theme is “ice cream social” and the flowers will be on exhibit for free to the public 10 AM–8 PM. For info about the show or rules to exhibit, contact Betty at 2513526 or Ed at 728-9376, or visit missoulairis.com 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.

Take in some kid’s literature and support a local author at Fact & Fiction for a reading and signing of Joanne Puccinelli’s book, Naughty Nello and The Sausages, 11 AM to 1 PM, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Be a biking sage during the 2011 Great Northern Stage Race, a two-day, three-stage cycling race in Whitefish that features criterium, timed trial and circuit race courses. Gear up at fvbr.wordpress.com.

If you ever wondered how Lewis & Clark and other pioneers ate during the blazing trails days, now’s your chance to find out, at Yummy in the Tummy: Historic Food Ways at Traveler’s Rest at Traveler’s Rest State Park. Interactive programs and demonstrations include a tasting of recipes from the Lewis & Clark Expedition and Salish plant food programs, 12–4 PM, $2. 6717 Lolo Creek Rd. Visit travelersrest.org.

Any way you travel, homeWORD’s 9th Annual Sustainability tour, Preserving the Past, Building the Future promises to be informative and stimulati n g , 12 – 5 P M , $ 10 b i k e / walk/self-guided tours/$25 bus/moped. All tours start at the Boone and Crockettt Club under the Higgins Bridge. homeword.org.

Get your young kids out in the garden for fun in the dirt at MUD’s hands-on Gardening with Kids Workshop, best suited for ages 5-8, accompanied by an adult. 1–2:30 PM at MUD site, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 MUD members. Call 721-7513 to register.

Expose your kids to the lost art of Nature Journaling at the Montana Natural History Center, for ages 5 and older, 120 Hickory St. $3/$1 MNHC members. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org.

nightlife Submit all queries to the dark one when Bobaflex return to Missoula, with Blessiddoom and Ocean’s Divide, 21+ at The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. at 7pm. $5.

Testify. Reverend Slanky brings on the funk and soul this Fri., June 10, at The Badlander, 9 PM. $5.

Yeah, you know pottery makes all the women crazy. Join the ZACC for Ladies’ Night, where $20 gets you two glasses of wine, plus hors d’oeuvres, plus a chance to create bowls and dishware and other fine lady things. 235 N. First St. Pre register at zootownarts.org/ ladiesnight.

Acoustic rules the night at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery with live music by Richie Reinholdt, 6:30 PM, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Free. (See Noise in this issue.)

Fish have all the fun. Hang out and talk about fish populations in the Fish Creek drainage with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and fisheries biologist Ladd KNotek at Big Pine Fishing Access site campground at 7 PM. For more info and directions to the site, call 722-1553 or 273-4253.

Get back to your dancing roots for the Contra Dance in the Bitterroot, where individuals or families of all experience levels learn the art and spin around to music by the Celtic Knots from

7–10 PM, $5 person/$10 family, Rocky Mountain Grange, 1436 South 1st. St.

Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland.

Free.

Seniors will show you how it’s done at their Saturday Night Dance with Heart to Heart, 7–11 PM, 705 S. Higgins. Call 543-1573.

Sometimes the sauce just doesn’t sit well, and the only cure is outlaw country by Whiskey Rebellion, 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, 2000 Graves Creek Rd. Free.

Back by popular demand, Hot Salsa Nights has returned to the Missoula Elks Club. $7 admission gets you a salsa lesson strarting at 8:30 PM, 112 N. Pattee St. Call 549-0542.

DJ Monty Carlo and guests are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bassheavy 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.

Is there any other kind? The Wild Coyote Band are a fourpiece country and rock band playing live music 9 PM at The Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. Free.

Get your swerve on to some Zootown rhyme hustla’s when Wapikiya Records presents t h e Wa p i k i y a S u m m e r Showcase, which is hosted

by DJ Erock and features sets of hip hop from MCs Koshir, Fr o d i e , O v e r t i m e , D i c e , Pallas Athena, Prime 1 and Regmachine, 9 PM at The Palace, $5.

W h o ’ s a f r a i d o f Vo o d o o Horseshoes? Join them for a blend of rock and space grass at The Garden Bar in Bigfork, 9:30 PM, 451 Elective Ave. Free.

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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.

Fall into a burning ring of fire when Johnny Cash cover band Cold Hard Cash play with a Cigarette Girls burlesque performance at The Top Hat, 10 PM, $5.

SUNDAY June

12

Think Locally and act it too at the THINK LOCAL Summer’s First Art Bash, a 3-day art fair featuring 40+ booths of fine art and designer crafts from artists all over Montana, along with food and music. Located on the Kalispell Court House Lawn, 800 Main St. Free.

Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me and other song loops that get stuck in my head for days after hearing them are on center stage for the Hamilton Players production of The King and I at 100 Ricketts Rd. in Hamiton, $15/$18 children. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets and show times.

One look at the Clark Fork should tell you the high waters are already here. Do you know where your family is? Consider attending the Flood & River

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Rescue Classes—Prepare for High Water on the blackfoot River and Alberton Gorge near Missoula. This three day class runs June 12–14, $335. Call Montana River Guides at 7774837 or visit montanariverguides.com.

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.

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

Eat this, not that! Join herbalist Tom Tracy of Swan Valley Herbs for his Edible and Medicinal Plant Workshop, a hike through Lone Pine State Park in Kalispell from 12 to 2 PM, $5.

Meet at the Lone Pine Visitor center and remember to wear sturdy shoes! Preregistration is required. Contact Mary Beth Chappelow, 755-2706 ext. 2.

Dead men tell tales at the Fort Missoula Post Cemetery’s event, Stories in Stones, where the

history of the cemetery and personal stories from some of the men, women, and children buried there are the subject, 1–3 PM, free. Call Robert Brown at 728-3476 ext. 1.

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.

Fire eaters, magicians, jugglers and more are making their way through Caras Park for the first annual Missoula Summer Carnival from 2 to 10 PM. Food, beer, a naughty burlesque show and more and more and more. $1 tokens/$10 all day/$4 individual show. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

nightlife Celebrate peace and pizza alike for the Missoula Peace Park Fundraiser at Biga Pizza. $10 buys you a pizza buffet, with drinks not included. All proceeds go to benefit the Peace Park on Waterworks Hill, 5–8 PM, 241 W. Main St. Call 543-3955.

For proof that you can make shelter out of just about anything, check out Becky Kemery’s slideshow and presentation, YURTS: Soft Shelter for Hard Times, 6–7:30 PM at Walking Bear Resort, 181 Hodgson Pines Way in Whitefish. Free. Call LuAnn at 471-7732.

Looking mean and meaning it. Bobaplex plays metal at The Dark Horse with Blessiddoom and Ocean’s Divide on Sat., June11, at 7 PM. $5.

How does anybody get paid in an 18-piece band? Never mind. The Ed Norton Big Band play classic jazz and swing at the Missoula Winery 6–8 PM, $5. 5646 W. Harrier. missoulawinery.com Bring on the slight ache when John Wayne and the Pain play their unique brand of midwest reggae at the Top Hat, 9 PM, $3.

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Choose your own adventure when Missoula Alliance Church hosts Summer Adventure Week 2011: “Esther: For Such a Time as This,” open to K through 6th grade students. Event runs June 13–17 every day from 9–11:30 AM. To register for this free event, visit macmissoula.com or call 2513983.

nightlife Bring along your lawn chair for the kickoff of Hillside’s Backyard Concert Series, this week featuring Tom Catmull, plus food on the grill. Concert is free, but seriously, bring something to sit on. 5:30–7 PM, Hillside Health Care Center, 4720 23rd Ave.

Now’s your chance to make your howling child a star: The Missoula Coyote Choir is holding auditions for kids in grades 3–5, both today and tomorrow, June 14 from 6–8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Rm #302. Call Amy at 546-3164.

Help welcome a true traveling poet into town when Michael Czarnecki drops by Shakespeare & Co. for a poetry reading and book signing, 7 PM, 103 South 3rd St. W. Free.

Shall the council support the newly proposed Milltown Health Center? These questions and more are the subject of Bonner Milltown Community Council’s monthly meeting at 7 PM in the Bonner School Library, 904 S. Hwy. 200 E. Call 207-4988.

Look beyond the obvious when a stand up-bass, trumpet, and piano converge to make Kalling Wilson Conspiracy, live at the Red Bird, 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.

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Get your 8 to 11-year-old kids out of your hair and into the great outdoors for Lone Pine State Park’s Summer Day Camp held June 14-16 from 10 AM–2:30 PM. $45 per kid.

Meet at The Lone Pine visitor center in Kalispell, 300 Lone Pine Rd. Call 755-2706 ext. 2.

nightlife Habitat 101 Class is the perfect jump start for what could turn into a summer of building houses, helping out and feeling good. This intro class to Habitat for Humanity and how you can volunteer will begin 5:30 PM in the boardroom at the Missoula Public Library. To register or for more info call 549-8210.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE: REGISTER & VOTE

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

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

E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana

541-7387 MOXIE

Pretty, sweet Moxie wants to remind everyone that cat adoptions at Animal Control are half-off for the entire month of June. She's hoping this will increase her chances of finding a home soon!

549-3934 EMMA

SISSY

Elegant Sissy is thinking very hard about the Super Summer Special on cats at the Animal Control Shelter. All during June cat adoptions are only $30, which she's decided is the best news she's heard lately!

Emma is a 3-year-old Lab mix. She is an intelligent gal who knows lots of tricks and loves to be the center of attention. Emma loves people of all ages and is ready to be a full-time companion. Come meet Emma and see her 'Sit Pretty' at the Humane Society.

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JENNINGS

Jennings has taken time out from romping in the cat room and playing with his toys to help spread the word about the reduced adoption fees at Animal Control this whole month. For just $30, this lively cat could be yours!

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd Clark Fork Market

CAMEO

Cameo really wants to be an only cat, and she has high hopes that an adoption fee of only $30 during the month of June may be just what it takes for her to get her wish for all the attention from a loving family.

BAILEY

Bailey is a sensational senior beagle. She is a favorite among dogwalking volunteers at the shelter and also happens to be a favorite among the dogs there too. Bailey has a knack for calming worried or shy dogs and is simply a joy to be around.

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

M E RY L

See that longing look on Meryl's face? This is a cat who really wants a home again, and she has her paws crossed that the Super Summer Special on cats at Animal Control will make that happen!

G WA D E O

Gwadeo is a 1-year-old terrier mix. This guy is always ready for action and looking for an energetic home. Gwadeo gets along with most dogs and knows some basic obedience, but would love to learn more.

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CHESTER

Chester is a mellow guy who gets along well with other cats and dogs. He loves to snuggle and be brushed, but most of all he loves getting cat treats. Chester is fully equipped with soft emerald-green eyes and a little pink nose.

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ROBBY

Robby thinks the $30 adoption fees at Animal Control for the month of June are great, but he'd like to remind everyone that his total adoption fee has been sponsored, so he's actually free. Such a deal!

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TECHNO

Techno is a large orange and white adult cat who loves being petted and brushed. He has a laid-back personality and gets along well with other cats.

At 7-years-old, Techno is still playful, yet never misses a snuggle opportunity.

www.gofetchDOG.com - 728-2275 627 Woody • 3275 N. Reserve Street Corner of 39th and Russell in Russell Square

TORI

Tori is a young Torti kitty who recently had kittens.

With all of her babies in their forever homes, it is now Tori’s turn to find a family of her own. Tori is easy-going and has a Zenlike personality.

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These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 SHY

Hi there. My name is Shy, so it should be no surprise that I am a little timid when you first meet me.

The only home I knew before AniMeals was a very stressful and unsafe situation. I am learning that life doesn’t have to be so nerve-racking.

MEEKA

Meeka’s my name and sass is my game! I’m fun and flirty and would make the perfect roommate! My story is kind of sad, but trust me I don’t dwell on it. A girl's got to deal with what a girl's got to deal with.

CALLIE

I’m Callie, you can think of me as the big man on campus. I am twenty pounds of pure man. I grew up outdoors but am now finding out how great it is to live inside! Instead of chasing after food and battling the weather, I now spend my days sprawled out on my ottoman.

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BODIE

Hi, my name’s Bodie, and I am one ball of fire.I love to play with the other kittens and take full advantage of the all-you-can-eat daily buffet!

I’m a triple threat here at AniMeals: I eat, sleep and play all day. It’s pretty great! Now I just wish I could find a forever family that loves me.

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Get a handle on your finances during homeWORD’s Financial Fitness workshop, which meets from 6–9 PM June 14–16 at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 303. Register and pay online at homeword.org. Childcare vouchers are also available. $10 per person. Call 532-HOME. 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.

The first step in helping Brian Kahn stop the radical right from hijacking America is to attend the reading and signing on the subject for his book, Real Common Sense, 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. (See Books in this issue.)

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

SPOTLIGHT western tooth envy There’s something off-kilter about Slam Poet Taylor Mali’s voice and countenance.

How to put this bluntly: he has a ponytail. He’s white. Slam poetry has broken wide open since its inception, and its authors too have found the freedom to step out of the urban landscape.

Mali writes about teachers, writing, love, work, and politics. His poems have titles like, “Falling in love is like owning a dog,” and “The the importance of proofreading.” He’s playing with form and expectations, people.

While exploring taylormali.com, I came across, “How to Write a Political Poem,” and I realized that I’d heard a recording of this years ago, back when we still didn’t know if Gore or Bush would take the presidency, and when I knew I wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t know what kind. I searched everywhere for voices that inspired me and often came up short, but this poem stuck. However it begins, it’s gotta be loud / and then it’s gotta get a little bit louder / Because this is how you write a political WHAT: Taylor Mali’s Slam Poetry poem / and how you deliver it with power. Anybody familiar with Slam WHEN: Tue. June 14, 7 PM Poetry recognizes the tropes and how swiftly they’re exposed here. He WHERE: The Roxy Theater, reads the piece like a how-to tem718 S. Higgins Ave. plate with just the right inflection, HOW MUCH: $5 and still, somewhere in all the meta, the poem manages to sneak in MORE INFO: Call 460-3734 some real ideas about politics. The piece left me feeling exhilarated and awful, and I can only imagine the bleak imitations it inspired me to write. Long after I hung up my poet hat and moved on to other mediums, the poem tucked itself away in my brain and resurfaced when I needed to be reminded of the importance of avoiding cliché.

But now I just sound like a fan. “How to Write a Political Poem” is over 10 years old, and I’m sure Mali’s work has changed and evolved since. In case my gushing enthusiasm doesn’t sway you, consider that he was a national poetry slam winner four times, and is one of those rare artists who makes a living at his craft. He’s basically one of the most famous slam poets you will ever have the chance to hear perform in Missoula, and I hope you don’t pass up the opportunity.

• New Happy Hour appetizers • Open Mic Night on Tuesdays and Trivia Night on Thursdays (7-10 pm both nights)

Enjoy Missoula’s best outdoor patio experience at Brooks and Browns.

Not to give away the ending, but here’s how the political poem ends: The same line three times / The same line three times / The same line three times…

—Molly Laich

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with. Ready? What’s the world’s largest lake? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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

Take it all in as Montana-based folk rock/Americana musician Graham Lindsey plays his acclaimed set at The Badlander, with locals Him & Her and Kevin Koutnik. 9 PM. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

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Your weekly lunch date with almost everyone is at Caras Park during Out to Lunch from 11 AM–2 PM, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by Zeppo. Free. Call 543-4238 or visit missouladowntown.com.

Nostalgia’s alive and well at The Daly Mansion when the preservation trust hosts its annual Children’s Lawn Party, featuring lawn and carnival games, ice cream, photos and a clown, 4:30 PM, $3, 251 Eastside Hwy. Visit dalymansion.org.

nightlife 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 Living Art of Montana. Free. Trivia Answer: The Caspian Sea. Wear your patented magic pants during Hump Night Theatre, an evening featuring music, performances by hypnotist Mark King, magic by Evan Disney, plus appetizers and drink specials, this and every Wed. from 7–9 PM at Deano’s Casino, 5318 W. Harrier. $7.

Piano man Keaton Wilson joins bass man Steve Kalling for a night of live music at Iza restaurant, 7–9 PM, 529 S. Higgins. Call 830-3237.

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

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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.

Stop in for Antioquia’s live music that inspires raucous dancing and deep listening alike, 10 PM at The Top Hat, $5.

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People who know the meaning of value will drink up at The Great North Brewing Company in Whitefish starting at 4 PM for “Pints with Purpose,” where a dollar of each pint goes to a non profit. This month’s beneficiary is the Stumptown Arts Studio. 2 Central Ave. in Whitefish.

Call 862-5929.

nightlife Jazz and trance are in full swing when EL3-OH! play live music at the Bitter Root Brewery from 6–8:30 PM, 101 Marcus St. Free.

Motorized boat regulations on the river and what it all means for you is the subject of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks public hearing beginning 6:30 PM at the FWP office in Missoula, 3201 Spurgin Rd. Visit fwp.mt.gov or call 5425500 for a copy of the proposal and associated Environmental Assessment.

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.

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.

Jazz, bluegrass, and bears, oh my! when long-standing rock legends Josh Clinger Trio plays The Top Hat with The Traffic Band at 10 PM, $3.

Rain, rain, go away. I don’t know how weather works. Please send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 10 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternatively, snail mail your events to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 543-4367. You can submit things online in the arts section of our website.

Scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says, “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH M aybe you think you’re pretty good at disc golf. Well, the 100 players competing in this weekend’s Zoo Town Open Tournament are really, really good. Ten of the best will make us all proud when they go on for a chance to compete for $50K in the USDG national championship.

I haven’t been back to Blue Mountain’s epic 18-hole course since last spring, when I lost my bright pink driver on something like the third hole in an open field. Needless to say, I’m not likely to qualify for anything higher than a spectator this year. Or any subsequent year.

But don’t let my athletic shortcomings rain on

your parade; disc golf enthusiasts should certainly be whelmed. The roster maxed out in just four hours, with players from nine states coming to compete in the renowned course’s first-ever Atiered tournament. We hope you’ll come out and support the top players in one of Missoula’s most cherished sports. Bonus points if you know what a mulligan is. I extend them to myself generously.

—Molly Laich The 2011 Zoo Town Open runs Fri., June 10 through Sun., June 12, at Blue Mountain.

Event begins with check in on Fri. 2–4 PM. For a detailed schedule of events, visit gardencityflyers.org.

Photo by Chad Harder

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 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.

SATURDAY JUNE 11 Give your heart something to flutter about during Billings’ Heart & Sole Run, a race that offers your soles the chance to hit up a 10k or 5k race, or a 2-mile health walk. Dash to the phone and ring 237-3600, or e-mail heather.bergeson@svh-mt.org.

Help a kid avoid a cavity by participating in the 38th annual Governor’s Cup Race in Helena. The race features a 10k, 5k, fun run and other events, and raises money for the Caring Foundation of Montana, which helps Montana children get dental and medical care. Race fees are matched four-to-one by federal grants. Get word on the bennies at govcupmt.com.

Double the fun for your feet during Run Wild Missoula’s Pengelly Double & Single Dip, which starts at UM’s Riverbowl Fields and offers the chance to participate in the Double Dip—a tall half marathon with 2700 feet of elevation gain—or the Single Dip, which is a 10k. Sprint for details at runwildmissoula.org.

The rain has small hands and flowers pick themselves for the 51st Annual Missoula Iris show at Southgate Mall. The exhibitions theme is “ice cream social” and the flowers will be on exhibit for free to the public 10 AM–8 PM. For info about the show or rules to exhibit, contact Betty at 251-3526 or Ed at 728-9376, or visit missoulairis.com 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 start-

ing with a meet-up at the Lone Pine Visitor Center, 300 Lone Pine Road outside of Kalispell. Free. Call 755-2706 Ext. 2.

Be a biking sage during the 2011 Great Northern Stage Race, a two-day, three-stage cycling race in Whitefish that features criterium, timed trial and circuit race courses. Gear up at fvbr.wordpress.com.

If you ever wondered how Lewis & Clark and other pioneers ate during the blazing trails days, now’s your chance to find out, at Yummy in the Tummy: Historic Food Ways at Traveler’s Rest at Traveler’s Rest State Park. Interactive programs and demonstrations include a tasting of recipes from the Lewis & Clark Expedition and Salish plant food programs, 12–4 PM, $2. 6717 Lolo Creek Rd. Visit travelersrest.org.

Get your young kids out in the garden for fun in the dirt at MUD’s hands-on Gardening with Kids Workshop, best suited for ages 5-8, accompanied by an adult. 1–2:30 PM at MUD site, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 MUD members. Call 721-7513 to register.

Fish have all the fun. Hang out and talk about fish populations in the Fish Creek drainage with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and fisheries biologist Ladd KNotek at Big Pine Fishing Access site campground at 7 PM. For more info and directions to the site, call 722-1553 or 273-4253.

SUNDAY JUNE 12 One look at the Clark Fork should tell you the high waters are already here. Do you know where your family is? Consider attending the Flood & River Rescue Classes—Prepare for High Water on the blackfoot River and Alberton Gorge near Missoula. This three day class runs June 12–14, $335. Call Montana River Guides at 777-4837 or visit montanariverguides.com.

Eat this, not that! Join herbalist Tom Tracy of Swan Valley Herbs for his Edible and Medicinal Plant Workshop, a hike through Lone Pine State Park in Kalispell from 12 to 2 PM, $5. Meet at the Lone Pine Visitor center and remember to wear sturdy shoes! Preregistration is required. Contact Mary Beth Chappelow, 755-2706 ext. 2. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Party city A guide to band highlights, late nights and morning perks for the 5th LYME Fest

by Erika Fredrickson

The Love Your Mother Earth festival sports the unfortunate acronym LYME, which recalls a disease borne by ticks. Besides the detestable experience of a tick burrowed into your skin, Lyme disease also causes fatigue and fever. No such symptoms stem from LYME, the festival, unless you want to count partying hard for three days—and maybe you should. This festival, which kicks off next week at Ryan Creek Meadows, constitutes the good kind of sick: three stages and a geodesic dome, 60 plus bands and DJs, crazy do-it-yourself workshops, food and craft vendors, an art gallery tent with interactive art installations, the experience of camping in the great outdoors, and general revelry. Some people are calling LYME the Burning Man of Montana. In its fifth year (and at its fourth venue), it’s starting to feel that way. With so many skills to learn and music to hear, we give you our guide to the first eco-friendly party of the summer.

Big names

One of this year’s main musical attractions is Polish-born DJ Michal Menert. Menert is linked to Colorado-based electronic artist Pretty Lights, but he recently dropped his own solo album, Dreaming of A Bigger Life. He’s got the laidback look down—all flannel and baseball cap—

but his big beats and tripped out samples say otherwise.

On a recent blog post Menert wrote: “As I prepare to take the stage…I ponder over the moments that gave me memories, erased parts of my brain, and decorated my skin with mystery bruises.” Uh...Let’s see if LYME is one of those moments.

The other main musical favorite is from closer to home. Signal Path started in Missoula playing to small but voracious crowds, made it big on the national electronic jam band circuit playing music festivals, went on hiatus, and, in the last year, reformed—during which time they were big enough to play the Wilma. Are they back on the rise? Who knows. Those who have watched them grow from bluegrass-heavy to electronic-oriented can go to LYME to brag about seeing SP back in the day.

Fellow travelers

On deck for LYME are several tight local bands including Kung Fu Kongress, Secret Powers, and Dodgy Mountain Men. Lately, the funk-styled Kung Fu Kongress has been playing so much that they might be Missoula’s house band, and for the festival they’re doing what no one else dares: an Earth, Wind, and Fire tribute. Secret Powers, on the other hand, have been laying low but not for lack of stuff to do. The power pop band pumps out contagious pop gems—think Beatles and Beach Boys—and is probably recording another album. For sure they’ve added a new member: the great local songwriter John Brownell of dispersed band Oblio Joes. Finally, Dodgy Mountain Men plays dingy, foot-tapping folk rock good for campfires, whisky, old-timey murderers, and hobbits.

Camp a-go-go

Glamping is when the rich come to Montana, sleep in a tent with a feather bed, lamp, and rug, and think they’ve had an outdoor experience. Camping at LYME is the opposite of glamping, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a plain Jane about it. This year, the LYME organizers are encouraging some camp creativity with a contest that awards prizes to the best themed or decorated campsite. First prize gets free tickets to LYME 2012. Already there’s talk on Facebook about pirate camps and 1970s disco themes, so you have every reason to start getting your color palette together now.

However, if you care nothing for home decorating, just bask in nature’s glory by setting up camp at the nearby Beavertail Pond State Park, which has 28

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developed camping sites (plus two rental tipis), a nature trail, and an amphitheater. Depending on the weather, you could go for a swim in the pond, but even if that doesn’t work out you can always fish.

Fire walk with me

Fire poi is the art of twirling fire on chains, and though it may not come in handy at your office job, you would look really cool doing it. A group called Sea of Flames will teach the art—plus fire safety—for beginners and intermediates. Other workshops provide the same kind of intriguing lessons. The art of double staff, which is rooted in martial arts (staffs available for practice and purchase); primitive life skills in which you learn how to take your basic needs into your own hands, in the wild without modern luxuries; beermaking, which has obvious uses; and, ways to make your own bug spray without toxins— killing bad bugs without killing the Earth.

After hours

You might think you’re going to have a good night’s sleep during LYME. But who wants to sleep when there’s glow-in-the-dark kickball at 2 a.m.? Nobody. Besides afterhours dance parties, you’ll find novel games and sports.

The big kickball game requires LED lights and a neon kickball. Those with poor night-vision and inadequate depth perception, beware.

Morning after

You know about tossing horseshoes, but do you know about Voodoo Horseshoes tossing pancakes? The psychedelic rock band will host a free pancake breakfast on Saturday morning. That means that after you’ve dragged yourself from your morning-dew tent, or after you’ve been up all night listening to DJs with names like Fatty Acid and Geeter, and jam band Brouhaha, you can refuel with fluffy cakes. And you’ll make the Voodoo Horseshoes even happier if you can bring a contributing ingredient like those frozen huckleberries you’ve been holding tight to.

The Love Your Mother Earth festival kicks off at Ryan Creek Meadows Thursday, June 15, at 6 PM and continues through Saturday, June 17. $35/$40 day of festival/free for kids under 12. Go to loveyourmotherearthfestival.com for tickets and full line-up. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Graham Lindsey We Are All Alone in this Together Spacebar Recording

T.S. Eliot said “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” Graham Lindsey’s not a thief. He is, however, a modern songster adept at combing the archives of Americana, alt country, and folk, judiciously pilfering influences, and then creating songs that sound eerily familiar and brand-new all at once. His voice uncannily Dylan-like, Lindsey dances along the edge between release and restraint, his delivery harkening back to his punk days and his lyrics a nod toward that anguished, lonesome, old-time ethos.

This is raw, elemental music, by a guy who’s drawn to the backwoods—in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and now Montana. But don’t mistake raw for unpolished: redo-

Richie Reinholdt Night and Day self-released

I like Marty Robbins’s Elvis-styled, NASCAR-racing persona of the 1970s.

But it’s his glam-less self from the late 1950s, belting out an innocent version of “Singin’ the Blues,” that gets me. That’s the sort of heartfelt purity that local singer-songwriter Richie Reinholdt sticks to in Night and Day, an album whose title first appears cliché until you hear the songs’ dark and light elements.

In “Home Now” Reinholdt sings about sheepskin by the fireplace, sweet pancakes, and coffee. The cho-

Hammerhead Memory Hole Amphetamine Reptile

The Alternate Universe, circa 1990s: King Buzzo of the Melvins appears in American Pie as “Garage Band Member;” Liz Phair’s “Supernova” is based on an encounter with Jon Lovitz; The Offspring break up; Hammerhead does not. If only.

Lucky for us, the trio has briefly returned from hiatus, as has its noisy, abrasive, aggressive, noodle and stomp. Their Memory Hole EP kicks off with “Resurrecto,” a bulldozer of a jam chock full of guitarist Paul Sanders’s distorted crunch, squawk, and squeak.

The rhythm section arrives and you realize what it must sound like when Decepticons make love. The overwhelming instrumentation engulfs the hazy vocals

Street Eaters Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons Plant-It-X

Street Eaters is a two-piece band that manages to sound like four.

They’re also a garage band whose rolling, low-fi guitar rhythms occasionally sound like Surfer Blood, a pop-punk band that periodically dips into Melvins heaviness, and an anthem-andcrunch outfit that more than dabbles in the dreaded riot

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lent with fiddle, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, pedal steel, and dobro, We Are All Alone in this Together is an exquisitely executed collection.

Lindsey’s third album is at times raucous, at others ethereal. My only complaint is that the few dirge-like tunes, including, unfortunately, the title track, drag a bit. Don’t mistake raw for unsentimental, either. Lindsey is as hopeful as he is pained, and the title and chorus of the first track encapsulates this: “Tomorrow is Another Night,” suggesting there’s always a new dawn, and always, inevitably, the accompanying darkness. (Melissa Mylchreest) Graham Lindsay plays the Badlander Tuesday, June 14, at 9 PM. $5. rus “and down the road we go” denotes a story about everyday life and the common person—something that pop country artists try so hard to embody but fail at in all their hubris. Reinholdt knows how to talk about real life without trying too hard to appear real. The blander “Make Her Mine” and “Dream Noir” still make you feel like you’re beneath the Southwest desert stars, so that’s nice. Still, it’s “Opium” with its smoky strut and, especially, the new wave “Going Van Gogh” with its mischievous lines about ears and scissors that rise above all else.

I doubt Reinholdt will be racing cars or donning rhinestone jackets anytime soon, but like Robbins he’s got the chops to be classic and bold. (Erika Fredrickson) Richie Reinholdt plays a CD release party at the Ten Spoon Winery Saturday, June 11, at 6 PM with Britt Arnesen. Free. hoarsely whispering sweet angst. Crushing. The title track is a time traveler’s delight, sending listeners back to simpler times when bands melded the vocal stylings of Joy Division with 10-ton riffage to mimic the pathos of epic self-flagellation.

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America has a rich history of bitching. About social And while the author’s humorless outlook is change. About religion. And, fundamentally, about pol- forbidding, his optimism that things can be correctitics. Sometimes, Americans even complain that there is ed is tenacious; what distinguishes Real Common far too much complaining going on. As angry bumper Sense from the thousands of other titles calling for a stickers and interminable internet threads suggest, major shift in values is that it actually offers soluAmericans don’t even have to talk when they vent their tions. For instance: government regulation of pharpoliticized misgivings. maceutical-drug costs; improving the media by levyWhat’s the alternative? “The alternative is to think ing a tax on broadcasting companies, which will be clearly, to orient ourselves, and to act,” Brian Kahn collected for airing educational ads; compulsory writes at the beginning of his universal service based on new book Real Common FDR’s Civil Conservation Sense, and if that sounds easCorps projects, such as ier said than done, it building roads and plantassuredly is. Kahn says that ing trees; and a progressive the fault for our inactivity lies tax on the wealthy. If his in our own consumerist tenadvice often sounds overdencies, but a larger part simplified, that’s because it resides with the Right, is. That’s not a bad thing, which has unfailingly been considering that its target opposed to progress of any audience is composed of kind and, worse, tried to working-class people and appropriate the Founding not professors of economFathers to support its views. ics or staff writers for The Real Common Sense Economist. attempts the daunting task of Offering a brief timewresting the ideals of the line of the U.S. from the American Revolution from founding of the nation to the clutches of the Right. the poverty and environKahn pinpoints the crises of mental catastrophes of American political life and today, Kahn shows how shows how each is an entanconservatives, tutored by glement of consumerism, the selfish philosophy of privatization, and irresponsiAyn Rand, have turned bility. Liberally peppering his Brian Kahn reads from Common Sense at the American Dream into Fact & Fiction Tuesday, June 14, at 7 PM. book with the words of Free. the American Myth.

Jefferson, the Constitution, Surprisingly, for a work FDR, and others (we would have liked more Kahn and that deals with such a wide array of troubling topics, fewer quotation marks), he laments the corporatist Real Common Sense shies away from an explanation insanity that caused our almost-Greater Depression, the of fundamentalist religious belief, which seems to media’s reliance on airing entertaining punditry over have given an artificial conscience to right-wing, antiinformation, and an unhealthy junk food culture that Enlightenment politics. Perhaps Kahn took another the government seems powerless to prevent. Kahn’s cue from Thomas Paine: questioning religion will rhetoric is occasionally heavy-handed, yet his writing is quickly make one very unpopular with a vast chunk both informative and intelligent, especially in his mock- of the population. Whatever the rationale for the ery of “socialist engineering”—the right’s taboo labeling omission, it seems a glaring silence in his otherwise of anything remotely humanist—that would include unequivocal attack on conservative principles.

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Yet Real Common Sense still manages to be a Like any strictly partisan book, Real Common momentarily important riposte to Fox News, the Tea Sense will elicit one of two responses: If you are on the Party, and other “falsifiers of American history,” in right you will loathe Kahn’s ideology, but if you are Kahn’s words. Its tone is homespun and conversationeven two inches to the left you will appreciate the rad- al, and what it lacks in comprehensiveness it achieves ical streak of Kahn’s mind and read it in one sitting. in a no-frills analysis of citizenship, community, and Somewhere between a New Deal Democrat and a responsibility. While nothing new to those familiar with Lincoln Republican, Helena-based Kahn is host of the Michael Moore’s films, it is nonetheless a clear-sighted award-winning radio program “Common Ground,” as tract on the agonies of government, media, education, well as an activist for a variety of causes. No doubt influ- and conservation. Both an update to Paine’s Common enced by his prodigious employment record—boxing Sense and a rebuttal of Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, coach, ranch hand, journalist, documentary filmmak- Real Common Sense is more a self-help handbook for er—Kahn displays an empathy for the common person proletarian guidance than a Paine-worthy polemic. It that is passionate and inflexible. He hammers away at will not transform the reactionary, but it just might his message that community trumps the individual, inspire the progressive. long-term goals are paramount, and extremists are ruining the country. arts@missoulanews.com

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More than a trophy Deneuve is liberated in Potiche

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On a day in which former International Monetary Fund chief Dominque Strauss-Kahn—a Frenchman whose reputation with women earned him the nickname “The Great Seducer”—pled not guilty to seven charges of sexual assault, I can’t help but think of the philandering antagonist of Potiche, and the bourgeois culture to which both men belong.

As the head of an umbrella factory that he inherited from his wife’s father, Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini) is a bombastic twit of a man, inflicted with a raging sense of entitlement and a Napoleon complex that does

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not lend itself to effective managerial skills amid growing worker unrest. Pujol’s misdeeds aren’t criminal like those of alleged rapist DSK, but the two men share a similar moral compass. His justification for scores of affairs and mistresses over the decades is that his wife Suzanne (Catherine Deneuve) “has just accepted it.” So extensive is the cheating that when Pujol discovers that their son is dating the daughter of a local baker, he is concerned the couple may be half siblings, thanks to one of those long-ago flings. Twenty-five years later he still sees nothing wrong with pulling Clinton-esque moves with his secretary while his wife sits in the adjacent room.

Robert’s depravity makes it even easier to like the already amiable Suzanne. She is the potiche, a word that translates literally into a vase or other decorative object, but which also means “trophy wife” in French society.

Suzanne is aware of the label—she even makes sad jokes about it as her husband criticizes her over breakfast— but there is a strange unwillingness to fight it, resigned as she is to a life of cleaning their mansion and sleeping in separate bedrooms.

Despite these heavy undertones of adultery and marital unhappiness, Potiche turns out to be fairly effective farce—a dark comedy that intertwines slapstick with more serious themes of women’s rights and capitalism versus socialism. The film is set in 1977 in an un-named provincial French town. A violent worker’s strike at the umbrella factory sets in motion a series of events that ends with Robert hospitalized and Suzanne anointed as

the temporary factory leader. She assumes the position only after her son and daughter pass on the job.

Nobody expects her to make any real decisions during her tenure.

But the factory workers love her. Gone is Robert’s autocratic rule, replaced by Suzanne’s willingness to actually negotiate with disgruntled employees seeking the grand European tradition of extra paid vacation, higher salaries, and a shorter work week. It’s socialist satire, and Deneuve slips into the role of CEO with charm, motivated by those around her who continue to downplay the surging women’s movement in France.

Not only is the film set in 1977, but Potiche actually feels like a film that was made 35 years ago.

That’s no criticism.

There’s a wonderful nightclub disco scene in which Suzanne dances with former flame and current Communist city mayor Maurice Babin (an uncomfortably heavy Gerard Depardieu) that’s either an ironic ripoff or loving homage to Saturday Night Fever. Either way it’s fantastic, and epitomizes a film that through its soundtrack, costumes, and general tone manages to capture a time and place as few period pieces do.

That’s not to say everything works here. Potiche feels a bit too much like the adapted 1970s play that it is. Despite the authentic setting, there’s an ebb and flow to the story that feels like it belongs on stage—and with only six main characters, it’s easy to see why it took more than three decades for someone to attempt a screen version. The added value is limited.

It certainly helps here that there isn’t a dud among the six actors, all of whom look like they’re having a ball. With his boyish bowl cut and added weight, Depardieu is cartoonish in an endearing way as the earnest mayor who’s still in love with Suzanne. But she’s been jilted one too many times. As Maurice pursues her and Robert tries to keep the sham of a marriage intact, Suzanne has her eyes on other things—the company for one, public office for two.

Deneuve alone is good enough here to carry the film despite its faults. The character transformation from trophy wife to accomplished factory leader happens quickly—perhaps too fast to be entirely believable—but it’s a flaw that can be overlooked. Potiche is best enjoyed as the farce that it is, buoyed by the charmingly resilient Suzanne.

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JUDY MOODY Third grader Judy Moody sets out to avoid a bummer summer when the popular kids’ book becomes a movie, aimed like a heat-seeking missile at young girls. Heather Graham and a bunch of impossibly cute-looking little people star. It might have been better if they’d used actual children. Carmike 10: 1:05, 4:10, 6:45 and 9. Village 6: 1:20. 4:20, 6:45 and 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12, 2:15, 4:30, 7:10 and 9:30, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat.

BRIDESMAIDS Kristen Wiig realizes how difficult life is as a maid of honor when her best friend Maya Rudolph appoints her to the task in this new Judd Apatow comedy. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7, and 9:50.

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3-D kids’ flick. Carmike 10: 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 and 9:10, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. in 2-D: 12:40, 3:10 and 6:10.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:15, 7 and 9:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp returns as

ton unleashed by his conniving brother. Anthony Hopkins co-stars in this 3-D saga, which is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Carmike 10: 1 and 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 9:40, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

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

“Just because it’s handwritten on construction paper doesn’t mean it’s not a valid license to possess a rocket-launcher.” Super 8 opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Woody Allen continues recent trends by taking his story out of New York. This time, the rich people are on vacation in Paris. They fight, cry, confront their own existential malaise and more. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates star.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:20, 2:30, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:40, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

SUPER 8 In a film season where original screenplays are rare, J.J. Abrams of Star Trek fame brings us a group of kids hanging out in a quiet summer town during the summer of 1979, until a train wrecks, and guess what? Mysterious things start happening. Spielberg produces what may be the The Goonies/ET for this generation. Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:55. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 showing on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Mountain 4 in Whitefish: 1:30, 4, 6:50 and 9:30.

VERDI MACBETH Catch a special screening of this operatic rendering of the classic Shakespeare tragedy. Carmike 10: Wed. June 13 at 12:30 PM only.

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FAST FIVE Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and other testosterone filled dudes return in the fifth installment of this series, which this time features even more fast cars—duh!—as the boys try to pull off one final job in Rio de Janeiro. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 9:55.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:30 and 9:45.

THE HANGOVER PART II The booze brothers return for more liquor soaked revelry and blacked out wackiness in the second installment of this comedic hit, which takes place in Bangkok before Ed Helms’ wedding. Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha costar. Carmike 10: 1:15, 1:35, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:30 and 9:50. No 1:15 showing on June 13.

Village 6: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7, and 9:10.

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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

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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: 7:05 and 9:50. in 2-D: 1, 4, 7, and 10. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3, and no 9:15 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 4:05, 6:05, 7:05 and 10. Fri.–Sun: Additional 12:05 and 9:05, and midnight shows Fri. and Sat. in 2-D: Fri.–Sun: 12:05 and 3:05. Mon.–Thu: 3:05 and 9:05. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 1:15, 4, 6:50 and 9:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:30.

Waltz co-star. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 8:45 with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat.

POTICHE Catherine Deneuve is a trophy wife who takes matters into her own hands when her husband is kidnapped by striking workers in this french language comedy whose title conveniently translates as “trophy wife.” Gérard Depardieu also stars.

Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson and Molly Laich.

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 automa-

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

Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:15 show on Sun. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:30, 4, 6:50 and 9:30.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., June 10. 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 .

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My best friend is a man for whom my feelings continue to grow. He’s been stuck chasing his ex-girlfriend who lives four hours away. She sees him once a month for a booty call. I fall asleep thinking about him and daydream about him while on dates with other men. He’s acknowledged that if his ex weren’t in the picture, he’d explore a relationship with me. Please help.

—Longing

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“IF his ex weren’t in the picture...!” You can always find your way to an “if.” It’s fun to vacation in if-land for a moment or two—like, if I had a TV show, I’d have a cook and a driver and a monkey to massage my feet under my desk. But, I don’t have a TV show, and monkeys throw feces. And this guy doesn’t want to explore a relationship with you or he’d be doing it instead of driving eight hours in hopes of servicing his ex back into a relationship with him. You can either live your life or sit around if-ing about what could be...his truck gets repossessed, and no bus lines go to ex-girlfriendville, so he looks deep into your general direction and says the words you’ve been waiting so long to hear: “Can I borrow your car for a coupla days?”

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

tractors and suppliers get paid in a timely manner. Thursday, June 16, 2011; 5:40 pm – seminar from 6 till 8 at First Interstate Bank – 101 E Front – Missoula. Free to Missoula Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, Bankers, Title Insurers ($25 if taken for CE credit).

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL ACCOUNT RECEIVABLE. At least 2-3 years experience in A/R and Quickbooks. Must have strong organizational skills, strong attention to detail, common sense, ability to manage workload efficiently, work well with others and communicate effectively orally and in writing. Need at least High School Diploma or GED and solid math and English skills. Need to be will-

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C2 June 9 – June 16, 2011

ing to take on general office tasks.

Background check will be conducted. Competitive pay and benefits.

Part time for summer, 20 to 30 hours to start. Will move into full time in September. Pay DOE. #2979775 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 ! BECOME A BARTENDER ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training courses available. 1-800-965-6520 ext. 278

Commercial Cleaning Branch Manager Will oversee & preform retail cleaning all accounts statewide. Janitorial knowledge preferred including floor strip/wax. $40k/yr. Complete benefits package, gas allowance, & bonus.

People skills & ability to handle high stress required. EOE Apply online at www.KBS-clean.jobs DISHWASHER. Must be able to lift 50 lbs and stand on feet for long periods of time. Washing dishes,

cleaning, stocking dishes in kitchen and out front, cleaning restrooms.

Full-time. Must have open availability, restaurant is open 24 hours. $7.75/hr. #2979788 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 FARMERS UNION OIL OF CIRCLE AND TERRY, MONTANA is currently seeking applications for a full-time bookkeeping position.

Applicant must have a high school diploma. A college degree or experience in the accounting field is

EMPLOYMENT ADVERTISING SALES REP Are you enthusiastic, creative, motivated? Do you work well under weekly deadlines and enjoy working with people? Are you an experienced sales person, or at least eager to become one? If so, then you may be the person we're seeking to join the Missoula Independent's classified sales department, and we're anxious to hear f ro m yo u ! S e n d yo u r resume to: lfoland@missoulanews.com or to PO Box 8275, Missoula MT 59807.

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a plus. Great Benefit Package. Pay is dependent on experience and education. Deadline for position is June 17, 2011. Please send resume or inquire at Farmers Union Oil, P.O. Box 460, Circle, MT 59215 FRONT DESK CLERK for Missoula hotel. Must have valid Montana driver’s license and clean driving record. Must be available to work a flexible schedule. Requires excellent customer service and telephone skills. Greeting customers, checking customers in and out, scheduling reservations; accepting payments; answering guest questions; run reports; and process all financial transactions. Shifts will vary. Wage DOE. #2979780 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 Linux Systems Administrator Modwest is looking for Linux Systems Admin w/3+ yrs experience in production environment.

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DIRECT CARE P/T, F/T positions providing services to adults w/disabilities in a res/com setting. Exp working w/persons with disabilities preferred.

Varied hrs. $9.00/hr.

Valid MT drivers license • No History of Abuse, Neglect/Exploitation

Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EOE.

PLANT MERCHANDISER. Customer service, Merchandising plants, trees & shrubs. Some sales assistance and Inventory maintenance. Assist in maintaining the live nursery product; Assist with merchandise processing and placement according to plan-o-grams; Ensure products are correctly displayed. #9953152 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 PT Summer Openings Interviewing now for... $14.25 base/appt to start Customer sales/service work Great part time income Call 830.3315 Now.

PROFESSIONAL ANALYTICAL TECHNICIAN for local vitamin company. 4 year college degree in related field, prefer Chemistry. 3-5 years work experience in analytical testing and assisting with methodology development for medicinal plants. Working

knowledge of Excel and MS Word.

Standing for long periods of time, working in laboratory and operations environments, typing, bending, stretching and reaching.

Under close supervision of the Director of Research and Development. \Assist analytical chemist solution, sample and reagent preparation and analytical assays. Maintain laboratory cleanliness. Complete paperwork as assigned.

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm. $15.50$19.37/hour DOE. #2979777 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER, LICENSED CLINICAL PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR. Masters degree in social work. Two years experience in clinical or mental health setting. Experience interviewing, screening, assessing and providing counseling to clients with mental health disorders. Crisis intervention work may involve exposure to potentially dangerous situations. Requires some evening

and weekend work and may require over forty hours in work week. Monday- Friday, 8:00AM5:00PM. $19.35 #2979772 Missoula Job Service 728-7060

SKILLED LABOR FELLER/BUNCHER. St. Regis, MT lumber mill. Must be experienced with equipment, not a training position. Drug test is mandatory. Will be falling timber w/ a Timbco feller/buncher. Mon-Fri and possibly some weekends. Could be working in any part of Western Montana. Currently the worksite is East of St. Regis. $17/hr with medical benefits after 180 days.

TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Msla, 1-800-545-4546

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SALES FURNITURE SALES. Must be organized and have attention to details. Will be working in store and onsite with clients. Sell custom order furniture, window coverings, upholstery and design. Store hours are opened from 9:30AM-

5:30PM, Monday - Saturday.

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EXPANDING SERVICES! MORE STAFF NEEDED! A Genuinely Rewarding Experience

Assistant Managers Full-time positions assisting Program Manager to run operations of non-profit medical & residential group homes in Missoula for adults with severe developmental disabilities. Orient new staff, monitor and document activities and programs for clients, assist with care plans, organize community outings, manage household budget and supplies, and assist with direct client care.

Shifts are typically weekday evenings and weekend days.

Habilitation Assistants We’re looking for compassionate, caring individuals to assist our adults with developmental disabilities reach their MAXIMUM POTENTIAL. You’ll work in one of our family-friendly group homes in Missoula with no more than 6-8 clients. Share going on outings, preparing meals, house cleaning, laundry, and provide personal hygiene care. Current shifts are 24 to 40 hours per week and are either evening, graveyard or weekend shifts.

All positions include great benefit and paid time off package!

Must have valid MT Driver’s License with good driving record, pass drug screen and background check and be a high school graduate or have GED. Apply at MDSC, 1005 Marshall Street, Missoula, MT 59801. Questions? Call 728-5484. EOE.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Acupuncture Easing withdrawal from tobacco/alcohol/drugs, pain, stress management. Counseling.

Sliding fee scale. Licensed acupuncturist Susan Clarion RNC CA MATS 552-7919 Classes at Meadowsweet Herbs: Lunch Time Urban Herb Walks Get outside on your lunch break this summer! Join us for a lunch time herb stroll happening every Thursday at noon to discover the herbs growing in our own downtown neighborhood. Walks will be different each week as we see both native plants and introduced herbs through their life cycles: leafing out, in bloom and berrying. Happening every Thursday through the summer! Starting June 2 at 12:00.

Cost: $5. Meet the Locals - Wild Medicinal Plants in Our Backyard: A series of In-depth Herbal Explorations in the Field Join Herbalist Jessica Maisel on a summer-long journey along the riverbanks and into the hills around Missoula to learn about the abundance of wild medicinal plants in our bioregion. Each class will be in

the field, rain or shine, where we will meet the plants and discuss plant identification, medicinal uses and preparations, ecology and the ethics and issues of wild harvesting.

Using Ayurveda to Achieve Balance and Wellness Ayurveda is an ancient Eastern Indian medical science of health and healing that involves diet, lifestyle, and herbal supplements. Saturday, June 11th, 11am-5pm. Cost: $50.

Please register early as class space is limited. Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. 3rd St. W., Missoula, MT 59801 728-0543 www.meadowsweet-herbs.com DR Naturopathic Take the Natural Path to Health with DR.

NATUROPATHIC. Specializing in: Primary care & midwifery, Pain management, naturopathic manipulation, metabolic disorders, Wilson’s temperature syndrome, herbal medicine, and HCG diet.

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Escape with Massage$50. Swedish & Deep Tissue. Gift Certificates Available. Janit Bishop, CMT. 207-7358 127 N. Higgins Healing Circle tonight, June 9 between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Stop by for an energy healing session at the Red Willow Ctr., 825 W. Kent.

Experienced healers use Reiki &

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

By Rob Brezsny

Is what you are doing not working?

We c a n h e l p w i t h t h a t .

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have a poetic license, as well as astrological permission, to be extra cute in the coming week. I mean you have a divine mandate to exceed the usual levels of being adorable and charming and delectable. Here’s the potential problem with that, though: Trying to be cute doesn’t usually result in becoming cuter; often it leads to being smarmy and pretentious. So how can you take advantage of the cosmic imperative to be wildly, extravagantly, sublimely cute—without getting all self-conscious about it? That’s your riddle of the week.

Christine Brasmer

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It would be an excellent week for you to declare war on everything that wastes your time. Well, maybe “declaring war” is not quite the right spirit to adopt; after all, we don’t want you to go around constantly enraged and hostile. How about if we phrase it this way: It’s prime time for you to ingeniously and relentlessly elude all activities, invitations, temptations, trains of thought, and habits that offer you nothing in return for the precious energy you give to them. Of course this is always a worthy project, but it so happens that you’re likely to achieve far more progress than usual if you do it now.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Primatologist Jane Goodall, who lived for years among chimpanzees in Tanzania, is one of the world’s top experts on the creatures. Can you guess what her favorite toy was when she was young? A stuffed monkey, of course. There were no doubt foreshadowings like that in your own childhood or adolescence, Gemini. Right? Signs of the magic you would eventually seek to ripen? Seeds of destiny that had just begun to sprout? Now would be a good time to reflect on those early hints. You’ll benefit from updating your understanding of and commitment to the capacities they revealed.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): After all these years, the American presidential election of 2000 still makes me cringe. Because of the archaic laws governing the process, the candidate who “lost” the election actually got 543,895 more votes than the guy who “won.” How could anyone in good conscience, even those who supported the less-popular “winner,” have sanctioned such a result?

It was perverse. It was pathological. It was crazy-making. I’d say the same thing if the roles had been reversed, and Gore had become president with a half-million fewer votes than Bush. You must not let something comparable to this anomaly happen in your personal life in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It is crucial that every winner be the one who deserves to be. Don’t sacrifice what’s right in order to serve corrupt protocol or outmoded conventions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I dreamed you had been tending an unusual garden for months. Your crops weren’t herbs or flowers or vegetables, but rather miniature volcanoes. Each was now ripe and stood about waist-high. They erupted with a steady flow of liquid blue fire that you were harvesting in large, gold, Grail-like cups. Apparently this stuff was not only safe to drink, but profoundly energizing. You sipped some of the potion yourself and distributed the rest to a large gathering of enthusiastic people who had come to imbibe your tasty medicine. The mood was festive, and you were radiant. This dream of mine is a good metaphor for your life in the immediate future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Darryl Dawkins played professional basketball from 1975 to 1996.

One of the sport’s more colorful personalities, he said he lived part-time on the planet Lovetron, a place where he perfected his interplanetary funkmanship. He also liked to give names to his slam dunks. The “Turbo Sexophonic Delight” was a favorite, but the best was his “Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam-I-Am Jam.” I encourage you to try some Darryl Dawkins-like behavior in your own chosen field, Virgo. Give a name to your signature move or your special play. With playful flair, let people know how much you love what you do and how good you are at what you do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to research published in The Journal of Personality (tinyurl.com/NoToSex), many college students prefer ego strokes to sex. Given the choice between making love with a desirable partner and receiving a nice big compliment, a majority opted for the latter. In the near future, Libra, it’s important that you not act like one of these self-esteemstarved wimps. You need the emotional and physical catharsis that can come from erotic union and other sources of pleasurable intensity far more than you need to have your pride propped up.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to be as attractive and endearing and in demand as it’s possible for you to be. I am not making any absurdly extravagant claims here—am not implying you’ll be as charismatic as a rock star and as lovable as a kitten—but you will be pushing the limits of your innate allure. I bet your physical appearance will be extra appealing, and you’ll have an instinct for highlighting the most winsome aspects of your personality. To help you take advantage of the potential that’s now available, please add the following word to your vocabulary: “concupiscible,” which means “worthy of being desired.”

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An uncanny stretching sensation will soon be upon you if it’s not already. Whether you’re prepared or not, you will be asked, prodded, and maybe even compelled to expand. It could feel stressful or exhilarating or both. And it will probably force you to rethink your fascination with anyone or anything you love to hate. For best results, I suggest that you don’t resist the elongation and enlargement. In fact, it would be a very good idea to cooperate. As the odd magic unfolds, it will increase your capacity for taking advantage of paradox. It may also give you a surprising power to harness the energy released by the friction between oppositional forces.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Nicolas Cage is a Capricorn. While performing his film roles, he often loses his composure. Of course the crazy things he does as an actor aren’t real and don’t lead to dire consequences in his actual life. But they afford him a great deal of emotional release. Let’s hypothesize that, like Cage, you could benefit from expressing the hell out of yourself without causing any mayhem. Is there a cork-lined sanctuary where you could go and safely unveil explosions of extreme emotions? Or some equivalent? For inspiration, check this Youtube compendium of Cage uncaged: bit.ly/CageUncaged.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My divinations suggest that you’d be wise to assign yourself an errand in the wilderness. The precise nature of the errand has not been revealed to me, but I suspect it involves you going to an untamed place whose provocative magic will tangibly alter your consciousness, awakening you to some truth about your destiny that you’ve been unable to decipher. I also believe your task is more likely to succeed if you create a small, whimsical shrine there in your ad hoc sanctuary.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you have any idea of how many of your diapers your mother changed when you were a baby? It was almost certainly over 1,000. Have you ever calculated how many meals she prepared for you? That number probably exceeds 10,000. While we’re on the subject, do you remember who taught you to read and write? Can you visualize the face of the first person besides your parents who made you feel interesting or well-loved or real? I encourage you to follow this line of thought as far as you can. It’s a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to visualize memories of specific times you’ve been well cared for and thoroughly blessed.

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 Palace Apartments, L.P., a Montana limited partnership (the “Partnership), has been awarded (i) a federal Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) Grant by the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC) to be administered by the State of Montana and the City of Missoula, (ii) an allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits from the Montana Board of Housing, and (iii) an allocation of Historic Tax Credits from the State Historic Preservation Office for the historic rehabilitation of The Palace Apartments, a currently existing 60 unit affordable housing community located at 149 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, scheduled to be completed in September of 2012. Contingent upon final approval of these awards, the Partnership is requesting proposals for architectural and engineering services to assist it in designing and supervising construction of this project in compliance with all applicable requirements under the Montana HOME Program, the Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, and the Federal Historic Tax Credit Program. Copies of the detailed request for qualifications (RFQ), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors that will be used to evaluate the responses, can be obtained by contacting Josh Kosar, Project Development Associate, Missoula Housing Authority, 1235 34th Street, Missoula, MT 69801, Tel: 406-549-4113 ext. 133, E-mail: jkosar@missoulahousing.org. All proposals in response to the detailed RFQ must be submitted by June 27, 2011.

The Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-19-7522 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO ADD LANDS TO CLINTON IRRIGATION DISTRICT IN RE THE MATTER OF: THE CLINTON IRRIGATION DISTRICT. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Commissioners of the Clinton Irrigation District have petitioned the Fourth Judicial District Court to include a five-acre parcel of land, located adjacent to and serviceable by the District Water System, within the boundaries of the District.

The petition will be heard by Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III on the 12th day of July, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located

COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 1106,134, 143, 268, 302, 201, 273, 272, k120, j143, k108. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday June 27th from 9-4.

Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to Tuesday, June 27th, 2011 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale.

Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

at 200 West Broadway. A copy of the Petition may be obtained from the Clinton Irrigation District or the Clerk f the Court’s office. DATED this 2nd day of June, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court 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 2584657. Missoula Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE WHITEFISH CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, -vs- DAN L. HOGAN and BEVERLY C. HOGAN, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks On the 23rd 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, towit: Parcel I: A tract of land located in the SE1/4SW1/4 of Section 17, Township 17 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 4715. Parcel II: A tract of land located in NE1/4NW1/4 of Section 20, Township 17 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, being more particularly described as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 4715 Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 2nd day of June A.D., 2011. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy 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 Cause No. DP-11-100 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF TEDDY R. MERSEAL, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Patricia Ann Morse has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patricia Ann Morse, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of June, 2011. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for 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 Cause No. DP-11-110 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT S. MATTHEW, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Jean L. Chinske, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 1st day of June, 2011. /s/ Jean L. Chinske, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-11-107 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. PETERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Erik C. Peterson, 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 31st day of May, 2011. /s/ Erik C. Peterson, 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 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 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 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $825,621.88. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200400734, Bk 724, Pg 1734, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Charles L. Patterson and Amy L. Patterson, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 12 of El Mar Estates Phase III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment

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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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may

also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93622) 1002.190711-FEI AUCTION STORAGE CONTENTS. 14-A 10:00 a.m. 6/15/11. 2122 South Avenue West, Missoula. Cash. 240-9371 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/07/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200732046, Bk 810, Pg 374, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Steven Salmi and Jennifer D. Salmi, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 26 and 27 in Block 42 of Daly’s Addition, a platted subdivison in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 6, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $198,484.06. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $192,906.52, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93581) 1002.190715-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.91308) 1002.191321-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/15/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200432695, Book 743, Page 1224, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Casey R. Peterson was Grantor, Argent Mortgage Company, LLC was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company 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 and being a portion of Lots 1, 2 and 3 in Block 15 of Low’s Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 1238A. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200920064 Bk. 845, Pg. 908, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank, National Association as Trustee, Successor-in-Interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A. Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of November 1, 2004, AssetBacked Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-WWF1. 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 09/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 17, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $183,635.34. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $151,978.07, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 29, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may

PUBLIC NOTICES also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.10007) 1002.146717-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 8, 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: THE WEST ONE-HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 23 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5073. TOGETHER WITH ROAD WAY EASEMENTS AS CONTAINED IN BOOK 77 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1276 AND 1277.

ALSO TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR PEDESTRIAN, EQUESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ACCESS TO ADJACENT FOREST SERVICE PROPERTYAS DISCLOSED IN BOOK 588 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1983 Jane Lund, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co. of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 21, 2007 and recorded September 28, 2007 under Document# 200725628, Book 806, Page 781. 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 $2,047.98, 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 March 17, 2011 is $271,544.87 principal, interest at the rate of 6.750% now totaling $6,913.24, late charges in the amount of $1,144.31, escrow advances of $-534.68 and other fees and expenses advanced of $101.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $50.22 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: April 1, 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 April 1, 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 CitiMortgage v Lund 42011.392

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

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 11, 2008 and recorded February 15, 2008 under Document# 200803290, Book 813, Page 385. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc..

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

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

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2011 Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 11, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Citimortgage Vs. Williams 42011.378 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE 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 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 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 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 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 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

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"Crossword of the Decade"–gee, already?

by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Like a '60s foursome 4 Salves 9 He's ennui-inducing 13 Solder component 15 '70s UK band ___ Heep 16 Sherman Hemsley sitcom 17 "___ it seems..."

18 Guy you see to solve your muscle connection problems?

20 Responses to "Has this been invented before?"

22 It may have an equalizer 23 It's grounded in Australia 24 Tree goo 27 "Absolutely" 28 Show opener 31 Crux 32 Alan of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Sunshine Cleaning" 33 It's said coming and going 34 Journalist you can't take seriously 'cause he's just so gosh darn cute?

37 Kilt pattern 39 "The Smartest Guys in the Room" subject 40 Almond ___ 41 Element before tent or bar 43 Kung ___ chicken 46 "That hits the spot!"

47 1501, in Roman numerals 48 James in the Watergate scandal 50 Poe poem about getting good reception with the girl of his dreams?

54 Mound that leases out rooms?

56 Jogger's attachment, perhaps 57 "Get ___ writing" 58 Learner, in some cases 59 Game with mallets 60 Final Four org.

61 Alleviated Last week’s solution

62 How old Jonesin' Crosswords recently turned

DOWN 1 One of Peter Rabbit's sisters 2 Infuse with bubbles 3 Tends to the turkey 4 Where Forrest Gump was shot 5 Geometry class calculation 6 "Perfect Strangers" actor Mark ___-Baker 7 "Sin City" actor Michael 8 "Prove it!"

9 Abu ___ (figure in Islamic history) 10 Something left out 11 Dog first voiced by John Kricfalusi 12 It may be studied as a second lang.

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

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

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

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/21/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0035277 FEI NO. 1006.133839 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 FITZGERALDTRAVERS, 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. 100126688 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

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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. 110035365 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. 110036396 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

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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., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-6.

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 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. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0038353 FEI NO. 1006.134822 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 WILLIAM R. NOONEY AND ANNA M. WALTER-NOONEY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES LLC as Trustee, to

PUBLIC NOTICES TER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO MISSOULA COUNTY IN BOOK 219 OF DEED RECORDS AT PAGE 622, AND THE VACATED PORTION OF SYCAMORE STREET ADJACENT THERETO. FURTHER EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION PLATTED AS ALICE ACRES NO. 2, RECORDED IN BOOK 6 OF PLATS AT PAGE 13. FURTHER EXCEPTING THEREFROM LOT 1 OF BROOKSIDE ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. FURTHER EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION OF LOT 2 OF BROOKSIDE ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF THAT WAS CONVEYED BY THE CORPORATION DEED RECORDED MAY 20, 1965 IN BOOK 240 OF DEED RECORDS AT PAGE 385 AND ALSO EXCEPTING THAT PORTION CONVEYED IN THE CORPORATION DEED RECORDED OCTOBER 10, 1965 IN BOOK 242 OF DEED RECORDS AT PAGE 493. FURTHER EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION OF LOT 3 OF BROOKSIDE ADDITION

NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF THAT WAS CONVEYED BY THE WARRANTY DEED RECORDED APRIL 3, 1967 IN BOOK 6 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1371. AND FURTHER EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION OF LOT 4 OF BROOKSIDE ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF THAT WAS CONVEYED BY THE WARRANTY DEED RECORDED MAY 24, 1966 IN BOOK 6 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 12.

AND AS AFFECTED BY THE BOUNDARY LINE AGREEMENTS RECORDED APRIL 4, 1977 IN BOOK 95 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 111, DECEMBER 8, 1992 IN BOOK 369 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 3 AND OCTOBER 4, 1993 IN BOOK 395 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 79. Property Address: 2990 WOODLAND AVENUE, Missoula, MT 59802.

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 CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2006-16, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-16. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the perform-

ance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $542,601.05 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has

elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/04/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0039429 FEI NO. 1006.135579

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 09/19/2011, 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. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SCOTT G. COONEY SINGLE MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/23/2006 and recorded 08/28/2006, in document No. 200621838 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 1252 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR AND NINE OF COBBAN CAMP SITES ADDITION, VACATED, AND THE VACATED PORTION OF SYCAMORE STREET ADJACENT THERETO AND NOW BEING THE NORTHEAST QUAR-

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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 MELLON 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 MISSOULA WEST INDUSTRIAL SUBDIVISION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Less and Excepting therefrom that portion deeded to the State of Montana in Book 497 Page 1888 Micro Records. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 26th day of May A.D., 2011. CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana

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