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Voices/Letters Cycles of Change, bison calf and mandatory minimums .......................4 The Week in Review Library campaign, nitrous oxide and plane crash .......................6 Briefs Geocaching, anthem tryouts and finding Valerie Stamey.....................................6 Etc. Ag lands prove pivotal in county race ......................................................................7 News In Merc fight, an ordinance fails its first test .........................................................8 Opinion The consequences of saving Missoula’s historic Merc. ....................................9 Opinion The American bison earns its new national recognition................................10 Feature What Montana media can learn from the communities it left behind ............12
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Overcoming rock’s boys’ club to start an all-woman band ...................................16 Music OverTime, Grant Farm, PJ Harvey ......................................................................17 Books Blurred lines in David Allan Cates’ poetry debut ..............................................18 Film Unlocking the Cage takes a smart look at animal personhood ............................19 Film The Lobster satirizes the rules of attraction ..........................................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................21 What’s Good Here It’s not easy being green ...............................................................23 Happiest Hour Juice shots at Black Coffee Roasting Co..............................................25 8 Days a Week Nirvana heaven ....................................................................................26 Agenda Jewelry sale benefit for Missoula Aging Services .............................................34 Mountain High Montana Natural History Center anniversary.....................................35
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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
[voices] by Alex Sakariassen
Asked Tuesday evening at Southside Kettlehouse This week, one Indy writer recounts her experiences playing in a local band. Have you every played a musical instrument? Followup: If you could be in any band in history, what band would it be?
Bethany Joyce: I have and I do. I play the cello primarily, but love to figure out other instruments. Love piano and the musical saw. Working on violin now. That g ypsy sound: I would love to play with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli— would love to be their bass player in the 1930s. That French gypsy-jazz, gypsy-swing.
Claire Wagstaff: My dad taught me how to play harmonica. He also has a ukelele philharmonic in Athens, Georgia, and he got me a ukelele. I also play blades of grass. Whistlin’ foliage: Moody Blues, because they play the flute... and you could probably get away with a blade of grass in that band.
Look to the future This is a plea to all Missoula’s residents to not limit your aspirations to a single situation but to look at the broader principles we are standing for and to incorporate them into our community. Projects like Free Cycle’s Cycles of Change Campaign, running now until July 1. Cycles of Change is looking to create new generators of economic prosperity in downtown Missoula. It’s our city’s opportunity to create the future we want. Not a day goes by without individuals expressing their opinions on whether to keep the Missoula Mercantile or allow a hotel to rebuild on the property. Arguments against the hotel remind us we do not need another cookie-cutter corporation from outside the community destroying our history in the quest for profit. Proponents of tearing down the Merc point to the needed economic growth and downtown foot traffic. Both points are addressed by the Cycles of Change Campaign. For $5 per city resident Free Cycles would be able to purchase and transform the property, located at 732 S First St. West, into a unique, dynamic and vibrant hub located at the nexus of the Garden City’s trail system for cyclists from around the city, state and country. I urge every Missoulian who is discontent with the Mercantile situation to look to the future and make changes where we are able, perhaps by donating to the Cycles of Change Campaign online at freecycles.org. Leah Hammerquist Missoula
All the emotions
Cameron Harris: I have not. I guess I’ve had aspirations to play guitar, but I’ve never really pursued them. The big time: I’d say Radiohead. They’ve had a long, successful career and they continue to push the boundaries of music. And it’d be great to know what it’s like to play to a stadium of people.
Cole Grant: Yes. I’m a bass player. Wartime Blues, I’ve played with Mesozoic Mafia [and] with Slow Leslie. Keeping the beat: Miles Davis’ 1971 band because they just held the groove so hard. Michael Henderson was the bass player at the time and he was 17 ... He holds down the chaos.
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I am astonished by the recent news coverage of the bison calf that was euthanized in Yellowstone National Park. I have felt outrage, sadness, anger and the need to cry and the need to laugh. It’s just a bison so get over it. There are a lot bigger issues that face our world, our state and our community. That bison calf, gone and destroyed. The Blackfeet and most other Native American peoples have a different belief system when it comes to animals and the rest of Mother Earth. The animals were placed among us humans as partners. Our lessons in life and survival were taught by the animals. Animals could take on human form to teach and guide us and often save us. And then change back to their animal form. Crazy notion, huh? We Catholics differ from most other Christian denominations because we believe in “transubstantiation.” We believe that the bread and wine is “substantially transformed into the body and blood of Christ.” Crazy, huh? There is a natural order that all animals follow. A grizzly bear attacks and mauls a tourist who comes upon her and her cub
feeding on berries. We euthanize her for the attack because she has become sensitized to the taste of tourist. On her part she was protecting her family, following the natural order of things (and getting rid of that annoying ringing bell). My Judeo/Christian, European DNA inherited from my Irish father, born in Butte, cheers for the justice gained for the tourist. My mother’s Blackfeet heritage cries for the needless death of this creature. We can cite the bison cow for child endangerment and abandonment and sentence her to death (sorry, we already did that). Or we could have sentenced her to a life of domestication, eating in a corral, posing for tourist cameras in an environment safe for both, continuous petting by children and
“We do not need another cookie-cutter corporation from outside the community destroying our history in the quest for profit.”
maybe becoming ground bison for meals. Maybe the park could have raised her and displayed her and her story of abandonment for the next tourist that believes it is a good idea to put wildlife in their car! At least they had a seat belt in place. Harry Barnes Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Browning
Mandatory minimums It’s no secret that our nation’s prisons are overcrowded and failing to keep our communities safe. Compared to peer nations around the globe, no country has more of its population behind bars. Our per-capita incarceration rate is five times higher than Great Britain, nine times that of Germany and 14 times higher than Japan. Almost one-quarter of the prisoners worldwide are in American jails, despite the United States accounting for just 5 percent of the world’s population. The reasons for our prison overcrowding are many, but one factor has been the tough “mandatory-minimum” sentencing laws that were enacted in the 1990s. The intent behind these laws was good—to bring
consistency to sentencing. At the time, judges were given wide discretion in sentencing criteria, which led to some disparities in sentences for similar crimes. But over time those mandatory minimum laws meant that some offenders could get very long sentences for relatively minor offenses. For instance, the federal mandatory minimum sentence for nonviolent drug offenses is currently 10 years. In fact, most of the offenders behind bars today are nonviolent drug offenders. Instead of using the sentencing to hold them accountable and treat the root of their crime, we are keeping them in jail, making their reentrance into society much more difficult. I’m not suggesting we should suddenly go soft on crime. What I am suggesting is we become smarter about how we sentence criminals. Because not only is our corrections system the largest in the world, it’s by far the most expensive as well. And believe it or not, there is a very good chance that reform of our justice system could be passed by Congress this year. Already, 34 senators (19 Democrats and 15 Republicans) have cosponsored the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015. One of the most recent additions to that cosponsor list is Montana’s Sen. Steve Daines. The SRCA is a good step toward relieving overcrowding while focusing tougher sentencing on repeat and violent offenders. The SRCA would allow judges more discretion in sentencing for lower-level crimes. Most significantly, it would allow a judge to lower the mandatory minimum from 10 to five years for drug offenses for defendants who have never had a violent offense, do not participate in gang activity, were not involved in the production or “wholesale” level of drug trafficking, and had never distributed drugs to a minor. Sentencing reform is never an easy task to accomplish. For basic public safety, we need to make sure that the people who should be behind bars are behind bars. But prescribing a sort of one-sized-fits-all approach to sentencing and taking away discretion from judges has produced the new problem of expensive prison overcrowding we have today. The SRCA is a measured approach that has attracted significant support from Republicans and Democrats alike. That’s rare in Washington these days. So let’s encourage our congressional delegation to work to keep the momentum going. Thank you Sen. Daines for taking a leadership role on a difficult issue. It really will make a difference for Montana and our nation. State Sen. Nels Swandal Wilsall
missoulanews.com • June 9–June 16, 2016 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, June 1 Yes for Missoula Library officially begins its campaign asking for community support of a $30 million bond on the November ballot. The funds will go toward building a new facility for Missoula Public Library, which serves 1,500 patrons daily.
Thursday, June 2 A day after St. Patrick Hospital’s announcement that it is “the only hospital in Missoula” to offer nitrous oxide for laboring mothers, Community Medical Center chimes in with a press release saying that it also offers nitrous oxide. The treatment is an increasingly popular alternative to epidurals.
Friday, June 3 The First Friday art walk includes four citysponsored “parklets,” small temporary parks occupying parking spaces on the street. Missoula In Motion created an interactive map online where citizens can learn more about each parklet.
Saturday, June 4 Local waterpark Splash Montana hosts its opening weekend, just in time for an early summer heat wave. Starting June 11, it will be open seven days a week.
Sunday, June 5 A small plane carrying three people crashes and rolls over while landing at the Hamilton airport. One man is taken to the hospital with minor reported injuries.
Monday, June 6 The hip messaging app Snapchat adds a “Montana Primary” image to its available set of photo filters. No word yet on whether it has made voting seem cool to millennials.
Tuesday, June 7 Missoula County facilities managers announce that installation of an air conditioning unit at Missoula Animal Control will start June 27. The unit will be funded with donations from a community-driven campaign that raised $13,000 last year.
Bob Ellenbecker leaps into the Blackfoot River on June 5 after a float trip during one of Missoula’s unseasonably hot days.
Ravalli County
The search for Stamey Search the address on the affidavit of service returned to Ravalli County District Court last month and Google Maps will drop you on a rural highway in South Carolina a few miles shy of the North Carolina line. A 2012 street-view image shows a brick bungalow flanked by woods, a pair of “No Trespassing” signs in the driveway. It’s at this address that a private process server succeeded May 9 in delivering a summons and legal complaint filed against Valerie Stamey by Ravalli County officials two years ago. The complaint accuses Stamey of misconduct in her former role as county treasurer, a charge that includes a $29,000 fine. Deputy County Attorney Howard Recht describes the long search for Stamey as “unusual” and full of “false starts.” Shortly after suit was filed in June 2014, Sheriff Chris Hoffman’s office attempted to serve the papers at her Victor home to no avail. Hoffman says there was con-
siderable interest in the community that Stamey be served, which led to “a lot of phone tips” about sightings. None panned out. The search led to South Carolina, where court documents reveal repeated attempts by the Sumter and Greenville county sheriff ’s offices to locate Stamey at several different residences, including that of her ex-husband. Hoffman says an anonymous tip steered officials to the correct address this spring, but three attempts by the Greenville County sheriff to serve her were rebuffed. An affidavit of non-service states that during the first, on March 17, a male resident told authorities Stamey was not home. “He would not accept the papers for her and became angry saying to leave,” the affidavit continues. “He had a weapon in a holster on his person.” Recht says the Ravalli County Attorney’s Office finally hired a private process server, who succeeded in handing the papers to Stamey’s husband, Richard, at the front door of their house.
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“I’d love to tell you it was just a masterful piece of police work that got it done,” Hoffman says, “but it happened the way things generally happen.” Stamey was given 21 days to respond to the court— a point Recht says he reiterated in a letter to her in May— but has not yet done so. However, she did send a letter to Ravalli County Attorney Bill Fulbright claiming the summons was “constitutionally invalid” and that she was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Ravalli County District Court. “I have made you aware of the flaw in your continuing to waste tax dollars to try and illegally serve me,” she wrote on May 28. “It is amazing to me you did not recognize this flaw before spending so much time and money.” Recht estimated the total cost of the search for Stamey in the “hundreds of dollars”—“minimal,” he adds, compared to the more than $100,000 the county spent on auditing and remediation following Stamey’s departure. Alex Sakariassen
[news] State Parks
Managing cache flow The way Pat Doyle figures it, there’s probably a geocache in every one of Montana’s state parks. If anything, as the state park system spokesman, he’s understating the situation. Three at Council Grove, three at Frenchtown Pond, four on Wildhorse Island— even a cursory glance at Geocaching.com’s online map shows hundreds, maybe thousands of caches throughout Montana, a reflection of the sport’s increasing popularity among locals and visitors alike. “It’s actually huge over in Europe,” Doyle says, “so a lot of tourists that come to Montana from Europe do geocache while they’re here.” This spring, Montana State Parks formalized a permit system for placement of geocaches on the public lands it manages—part of a larger effort to update the rules governing the state park system. The popular pastime involves using a GPS device to locate a hidden cache, usually containing small trinkets and a log book. Doyle says the permits, which are good for two years and do not require a fee, weren’t a response to any agency concerns about geocaching but rather to prevent any potential natural or cultural resource damage and ensure “we actually know what’s out in our park system.” “One of the things that we’ve got to keep doing in parks with all of our user groups is keep that communication line open,” Doyle says. “And in this case we really didn’t have any communication line until now.” Chet Crowser, the regional park manager in Missoula, says the geocaching community accounted for “a pretty good amount” of the public comment received on the new administrative rules. In response to that input, the State Parks and Recreation Board wound up striking out language limiting a geocache’s life to four years and allowing caches to contain money provided it doesn’t exceed $5. Crowser feels the agency’s interaction with geocachers, at least in the field, is fairly strong. “The geocaching community, they might be under the radar in the sense that it’s a self-guided activity,” he says, “but I would say they’re a pretty engaged community of park visitors out there with their particular activity.”
According to Montana Geocachers, all land management agencies in the state that allow placement of geocaches require permission first. Prior to formalizing administrative rules in May, Montana State Parks did have a localized registration policy guiding the practice. Doyle says the state has not tallied the number of geocaches in state parks yet, but he’s assuming it will happen at some point. Alex Sakariassen
National anthem
Oh, say can you sing? Without a crowd, Ogren Park at Alliance Field is a lazy sort of place, especially on a recent Saturday when two young Missoula Osprey employees are there roasting in the early June heat. The ballpark is recovering from the hangover left by Brutus Beefcake and Mick Foley during a Big Time Wrestling event the night before. The two groundskeepers in tank tops take their work slowly, shooting the breeze while they hang up the netted backstop behind home plate from the basket of a small crane. Into the park runs Robin Kendall, ten minutes to noon, warming her vocal chords as she strides through the front gate. She finds a third Osprey employee outside the press box, who is still making sure the microphones work for the national anthem tryouts that don’t start for another 10 minutes. No matter, the two walk down to home plate, Kendall taps the mic a few times, then sings to her audience of three. She’s halfway through the anthem by the time her wife and kids find their way inside. Kendall smiles and waves, finishes up, and high fives Osprey marketing assistant Chris Ward. Kendall is a shoo-in for the gig, having sung her whole life and performed at local sporting events in Tennessee, where she’s from. Plus, her
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As the 10 p.m. news broadcast the preliminary results of the June 7 primary, cheers went up at the largely Democratic gathering at Brooks and Browns. It was a historic primary on the national level. Hillary Clinton became the first woman to claim a major party’s nomination for president of the United States. Missoula opted to “feel the Bern,” as Bernie Sanders, who drew thousands to his appearance at Caras Park last month, carried the county with a 60 percent majority. But at Brooks and Browns, all eyes were on the results of the Missoula County Commission race, which had proved to be the closest and most divisive contest of the local primary. Interim commissioner Stacy Rye faced off against her former city council colleague, Dave Strohmaier, splitting friends and allies. With election reports showing Strohmaier opening up a clear lead, sustainable agriculture advocate Neva Hassanein picked up pom-poms and waved them around the bar, grinning. “Missoula’s a Democratic county,” Hassanein said. “The race is at the primary level. This is it tonight.” Hassanein attributed the win to the efforts of Montana Conservation Voters, which heavily canvassed throughout the county to promote Strohmaier. MCV’s endorsement of Strohmaier was largely driven by bitterness over a failed rewrite of county agricultural lands regulations. Rye had joined the other commissioners in voting against an ag lands proposal in January, citing concerns about how the regulations would affect landowners’ property value. No pom-poms were to be found a few blocks away at Rye’s election watch party, held at the Depot. Rye left the party for a while to find privacy while her supporters, including City Councilwoman Emily Bentley and former Councilman Bob Jaffe, talked in quieter tones. “They’re not good,” Jaffe said of the early results. Back at Brooks and Browns, more supporters filtered in and the crowd grew increasingly boisterous. As Strohmaier led with 52 percent, he described himself as “cautiously optimistic”—and he was already considering the November election, where he’ll be up against Republican challenger Todd Geery. “In Missoula County, this is the heavy lift, in the Democratic primary,” Strohmaier told the Indy. “We started three months ago with no money, no organization, no staff, and I think we’ve come a long ways in a pretty short amount of time.”
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judge is no Simon Cowell. Ward is a lifelong baseball fan and newly minted college graduate from Chicago who dropped a job application in a bucket at Major League Baseball’s winter meetings. He ended up with the Osprey this summer because the club happened to call him. “If you’re trying out, I’ve got to give you props,” Ward says. Tryouts start at noon, and Kendall is the only performer to come by during the first hour. Ward isn’t concerned, noting that the Osprey have a sizable pool of returning singers who are already scheduled for the year. The next singer, 14-year-old Nevaeh Norton, has never sung the national anthem outside of the bathroom, but she nails the song as her family looks on with pride. “How do you feel?” her father asks when she’s done. “Better,” Norton says. The afternoon’s third and final rendition comes from another 14-year-old, Marshall Softich, who lugs his trombone onto the field. Softich clears his spit valve and practices some scales while his father sets up a music stand. He gets through a few bars before his sheet music flies off the stand. Softich starts over, and his tryout ends with a word of encouragement from Ward. Ward spends the rest of the hour in the shade of the press box, looking out over the diamond, waiting for opening day. Derek Brouwer
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Murky rules In Merc fight, an ordinance fails its first test by Derek Brouwer
City staff, HPC members and HomeBase fore filing its demolition permit application In August 2006, Missoula Mayor John Engen stood on a street corner in the East Montana’s attorney have tussled for the last didn’t make for meaningful prior consultaPine Street Historic District to receive federal three months over the rules laid out in the tion with the commission, even if it technirecognition for the city’s historic preservation ordinance, on everything from the timeline cally fulfilled the requirement. efforts. At the time, Missoula was the fifth and for review to application criteria. By March HPC vice chair Steve Adler countered, largest Montana town to receive the Preserve 29, HomeBase attorney Alan McCormick asking Loken, “Is this the hill we want to America community designation, which came summarized the collective frustration in an die on?” in the form of a sign to be placed on the email to city staff, writing, “We have all come “I think it’s important because we’re getstreet corner where Engen stood. The subse- to recognize the ordinance is badly worded ting sniped on protocol here,” Loken replied. quent write-up on the White House website and potentially too vague to be enforced.” In The HPC ultimately found other hills began with reference to the city’s roots as a a separate email, Historic Preservation Officer upon which to fire back, but the sense that center for commerce, highlighting the Mis- Leslie Schwab put it another way. an ordinance designed to encourage historic “I hate this ordinance!” she wrote. soula Mercantile building’s role. preservation could be used to scuttle it left a Both the developer and HPC members sour taste in some HPC members’ mouths. Ten years later, that scene seems like ancient history, replaced by a dogfight over the Mercantile’s future that has pitted preservation advocates against the mayor. Engen threw his weight behind a private developer’s application to demolish the Merc as soon as the plan was unveiled in March, while building advocates scored a small victory June 2 when the Historic Preservation Commission voted 6-0 to deny the permit. Its decision was swiftly appealed and HPC members’ objectivity again called into photo by Derek Brouwer question. While the Merc’s fate is not yet sealed, city Whether or not the Missoula Mercantile is demolished, city officials, Historic Preservation Commission members and the site’s developers say the contentious process has been hamofficials know where at pered by a poorly worded city ordinance. least one wrecking ball will swing once Missoula City Council has its saw the ordinance’s unclear language as HPC chair Mike Monsos, speaking with the say: against the rules used to govern historic working against them. McCormick says it’s Indy shortly before the final hearing (which hard for his client, or any developer, to fulfill he did not attend), said one goal of the preservation in the city. The process by which the HPC came to the requirements for a permit when city staff process established in the 2010 ordinance its conclusion was marred by procedural sna- and the HPC can’t agree on what the rules was to involve the HPC at an early stage so fus, accusations of bias and mutual distrust. are, while some HPC members felt the letter members could offer their preservation exAdding to all parties’ frustration, they say, was of the ordinance was being used to under- pertise to developers without being “an ima never-used city ordinance, the language of mine its intent. pediment to the process.” The disputes continued through the which seemed to buckle during its first test. “We weren’t really ever given a chance “It was always going to be controversial,” HPC’s final meeting and were at the core of to be involved in that way,” he says of the Development Services Director Mike Haynes members’ objections to the application. Re- Merc permit. “The mayor just said the buildsays. “I think the failing of the ordinance or visiting an earlier debate, HPC member Scott ing is going down.” the shortcoming of the ordinance definitely Loken complained that HomeBase’s “courtesy presentation” to the HPC a few days bemade this a much more difficult process.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Hollow victory The consequences of saving Missoula’s historic Merc by Dan Brooks
I should be happy, because warm weather is here, Missoula has two functioning Indian restaurants and the Historic Preservation Commission voted not to demolish the Mercantile building. Yet I feel strangely empty. Birdsong and turmeric fill the air, and HomeBase Montana’s permit to knock down one of the city’s oldest buildings has been denied, but somehow my heart does not leap to the joy of summer or whatever. Why is that? If the commission ruled the way I wanted it to, how am I yet bummed? Maybe it has something to do with what route the committee took to reach its decision. When last we checked on their deliberations, back in April, members were outraged to be accused of bias after signing a “Save the Merc” petition. Several of them decried the city attorney’s recommendation to recuse themselves, but they did not rule. Neither did they rule at their May meeting, which too few of them attended to achieve a quorum. Finally, after a fourhour meeting last week, the committee voted 6-0 against demolition, with four members abstaining and chairman Mike Monsos absent. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Historic Preservation Committee decided to preserve the historic Mercantile. Along the way, they alerted us all that A) they exist and B) they are not good at operating their branch of city government. Perhaps through no fault of their own but possibly by botching meetings and incurring obvious conflicts of interest, the commission wrecked its credibility in the process of issuing an opinion. It was not a satisfying working of our civic machinery, nor did it satisfy as a resolution to the Mercantile’s ongoing saga. HomeBase immediately appealed the committee’s decision, which means the plan to destroy the Merc will come before the Missoula City Council. The council, for its part, has no established procedure for deciding whether to overrule or uphold the preservation committee’s decision.
Given the many emails from city officials in support of demolition that were read into the record at the committee’s last proceedings, it seems possible the council’s deliberations will face similar accusations of bias to those of the HPC. At least council has more practice holding public meetings. But it appears HomeBase’s plan to knock down the Merc has not been resolved so much as
“If we plan to stick by our decision, we should now make a plan for government to intervene.”
called up to a more professional league of government. All this raises a question for those of us who think we support the committee’s recent decision. What does a saved Merc look like? It doesn’t look like what happened last week. The commission’s decision feels provisional in the extreme. But even if city council upheld the committee’s decision and Mayor Engen chased the developers out of town with his oversized mayoral mallet, the Merc would still be a derelict building languishing in the middle of downtown. It would still await a buyer, even
after we ran off the most promising prospect it had seen in years. And those of us who don’t want to see it knocked down to make way for a hotel would still have to answer the uncomfortable question of what we saved the Merc for. The university isn’t going to buy it. Neither is any existing local firm. Thanks to its vast size, unfinished interior and—depending on whom you ask—possible instability, whoever wants to use the building for any purpose but nostalgia will need an enormous amount of capital. Purchasing and renovating the Merc will cost so much money as to virtually guarantee whoever does it will come from outside Missoula. They will have no more affection for our historic downtown storefront than HomeBase and Marriott have. If we want to preserve the Merc, as the Historic Preservation Commission has declared we do, we cannot rely on the market to do it. We need a plan. The city of Missoula has, at least provisionally, committed to preserving that building. It is therefore obliged to either seek out a buyer who can renovate the Merc and productively occupy it or lay out terms to attract one. The market has proven insufficient on this issue. It offered its assistance in the form of a national hotel chain and demolition deal, and we declined. If we plan to stick by our decision, we should now make a plan for government to intervene. That may or may not be wise, but it certainly wouldn’t be unprecedented. In recent memory, the city has committed tax money to a Starbucks on Brooks Street and to help expand the mall. It could find a way to lure some buyer to a historic building we all claim to love, or at least want more than a hotel. But that would require us to save the Merc by doing something other than rejecting plans to destroy it.
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Facing the storm The American bison earned its new national recognition by Gaynell Terrell
He was one of Nature’s biggest gifts, and the country owes him thanks. Charles M. Russell, 1925 The bald eagle has been the national symbol since 1782, but Western artist Charlie Russell was right: The buffalo was far more important to the story of the American West. Congress agrees on very little these days, but this May, it successfully passed a bill that was quickly signed by President Obama. The National Bison Legacy Act designates the American bison, most often called the buffalo, as our first national mammal. What’s more, the bill enjoyed the support of a wide array of ranchers, environmentalists, zoos, outdoorsmen and Native Americans. As the Wildlife Conservation Society put it, the animal “is an icon that represents the highest ideals of America.” The story of the buffalo, once roaming in immense herds, also touches on some of the lowest points in American history. As settlers and gold-seekers pushed toward California throughout the course of the 19th century, tragedy often followed in their wake, including the brutal repression and massacre of the American Indian, the wide-scale exploitation of wildlife resources and the near-extinction of North America’s largest land animal, the buffalo. With notable candor, the National Bison Association’s Dave Carter says “the fact that we almost screwed it up” then did not prevent the diverse and sometimes conflicting groups from agreeing on a united effort to help restore the buffalo. The end goal includes everything from sustainable commercial meat production to Indian spiritual revitalization. In the early 1800s, there were more than 30 million buffalo in North America, ranging in massive herds from Alaska to Mexico. By 1890, only about 500 animals were left. By the early 1900s, there were only about 30 genetically pure animals surviving in isolated
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areas, such as private ranches and the Yellowstone caldera. In his book Last Stand, Montana author Michael Punke depicted the collapse of the buffalo in a sad telling of historical events. This included the scourge of the hide hunters, who sent 1.5 million hides back East in the winter of 1872-1873, leaving the carcasses
“‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody wrote in his diary that he killed 4,280 buffalo in 18 months to feed construction workers for the Kansas Pacific Railroad.”
to rot on the plains. In 1874, the Sharps Company issued the Sharps Old Reliable, “the rifle to end all rifles.” Hunter Frank Mayer used one to kill 269 buffalo in a single hunt, shooting from 300 yards away. Railroads sponsored buffalo-killing expeditions, during which one Kansas man is said to have shot 120 animals in 40 minutes. Passenger trains on the newly minted transcontinental rail-
roads would stop for hours while a single herd passed, and sportsmen took aim. And the rail workers had to be fed. A young man who came to be known as “Buffalo Bill” Cody wrote in his diary that he killed 4,280 buffalo in 18 months to feed construction workers for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Mercilessly, the U.S. Army participated in wholesale slaughter of the buffalo. Author Larry Barsness, in Heads, Hides & Horns, chronicles the relationship of the buffalo to North American Indians and why the Army worked to wipe them out: “Either the buffalo or the Indian must go. Only when the Indian becomes absolutely dependent on us for his every need will we be able to handle him. If we kill the buffalo, we conquer the Indian.” Yet, the buffalo survives, and Native Americans have a big role in the animal’s restoration. The InterTribal Buffalo Council represents 63 tribes engaging in, or planning, management to restore buffalo culture, and in some cases to manage herds for commercial ventures, which in turn will aid Indian communities. Executive Director Jim Stone says the new national animal designation is a vehicle that will allow tribes to be “buffalo-centric” again. People talk about oil and gas as the new buffalo, gaming as the new buffalo. “There’s still the old buffalo,” Stone says. Stone, a Yankton Sioux, says his South Dakota tribe harvested its last buffalo in 1886. It wasn’t until 1993—107 years later—that the tribe could conduct another ceremonial slaughter of a buffalo. Stone believes a national buffalo designation resembles the effort to put the image of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad “conductor,” on the $20 bill. Buffalo, you’re the national mammal. You deserve no less. Gaynell Terrell is a contributing writer to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She lives in southwest Montana.
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Cashing In– By 2009, when Zimbabwe's central bank gave up on controlling inflation, its largest currency was the 100 trillion-dollar bill -- barely enough for bus fare in Harare and not even worth the paper needed to print it. However, that 100 trillion-dollar note (that's "1" plus 14 zeros) has turned out to be a great investment for several astute traders in London and New Zealand, who bought thousands of them at pennies on the trillion and now report brisk sales to collectors on eBay at US$30 to $40 a note -- a six-year return on investment, according to a May report in London's The Guardian, of nearly 1,500 percent. Can't Possibly Be True– Long-divorced Henry Peisch, 56, has seven children, but only one is still living with his ex-wife, who had originally been awarded $581 in monthly support for all seven. (Three children are now independent, and three others successfully petitioned courts to live with Henry.) The resultant hardship (the $581 remains in effect) caused Henry to ask the Bergen County, New Jersey, Family Court several times for a "hardship" hearing, which the court denied, thus even defying the New Jersey Supreme Court. On April 8, Family Court Judge Gary Wilcox, noting Peisch's appearance on a related matter, spontaneously "granted" him his "ability to pay" hearing (with thus no opportunity for witnesses or evidence-gathering) -- and summarily jailed him for missing some $581 payments because, the judge concluded, he did not "believe" Peisch's hardship claims. Magician and professional gambler Brian Zembic, 55, finally consulted surgeons recently about removing his historic Ccup breast implants, which he bore on a $100,000 bet in 1996 (with a rider of $10,000 annually for retaining them). He also won a companion game of backgammon to determine who would pay for the original surgery. He told news sources in May that he had intended to have them removed early on, but that they had "grown on" him and become "a normal part of my life." Government In Action – U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, in a May publication deriding the value of certain federally funded research, highlighted several recent National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation projects, such as $13 million for exploring musical preferences of monkeys and chimpanzees; $1.1 million judging whether cheerleaders are more attractive when seen as a squad than individually; $390,000 to determine how many shakes a wet dog needs to feel dry; and $5 million to learn whether drunk birds slur when they sing. (Also strangely included was the valuable study by Michael Smith of Cornell University ranking where on the human body a bee sting was most painful. He found, from personal testing, that "on the penis" was only the third worst -- research that brought Smith a prestigious Ig Nobel prize last year.) Australia! – Yahoo News Australia reported (with photos) a man in Tallebudgera Creek on the country's Gold Coast swimming with his pet snake. The man, standing chest-deep in water, would toss the snake (apparently a carpet python) a few feet and, according to the videos, the snake would swim back to him each time. In the man's other hand, of course: beer. In April, police in Broome (in Australia's far northwest) on traffic patrol stopped a 27-year-old man whose "several" children, including one infant, were unrestrained in his car while "cartons of beer" were "buckled into car seats," according to an Australian Broadcasting Corp. report. He faces several charges, including driving on a suspended license. New World Order – Transgender Blues: Ms. Jai Dara Latto, 23, won the title Miss Transgender UK last September in London, but in February organizers stripped her of the title for being insufficiently trans, passing the crown to Ms. Daisy Bell. Officials had spotted Latto (who has worked as a "drag queen") in a BBC documentary wearing boxer shorts, and since switching underwear is usually a crucial step for transgenders, officials concluded that Latto must not yet have made a sufficient-enough commitment to qualify for the title. Birdbrains – In a recent book, biologist Jennifer Ackerman noted the extraordinary intelligence of birds -- attributed to the dense packing of neurons in their equivalent of humans' cerebral cortex (according to an April Wall Street Journal review of Ackerman's The Genius of Birds). For example, the New Caledonia crow, among others, knows how to make and use hooked tools to hide food (and retrieve it from tricky-to-reach places), and the blue jay and others, which store many thousands of seeds during autumn, also steal seeds from less-vigilant birds -- and they even return to re-hide food if they sense they were spotted storing it earlier. Additionally, of course, the birds' equivalent of the human larynx is so finely tuned as to be regarded as the most sophisticated sound in all of nature. Perspective – The president of the New England Organ Bank told U.S. News & World Report recently that she attributes the enormous upsurge in donations in recent years to the opiod "epidemic" that has produced a similarly enormous upsurge in fatal overdoses. Now, one out of every 11 donated organs comes as a result of the overdosing that in 2014 claimed over 47,000 lives. (An organ-sharing organization's chief medical officer reminds that all organ donations are carefully screened, especially those acquired from overdose deaths.) Nature 2, Florida 0 – Nicole Bjanes, casually zipping along Interstate 4 in Volusia County around noon on May 9, saw a red-eared slider turtle come sailing through the air and crash into her windshield, sending her car off the road. The Florida Highway Patrol said the turtle had become airborne after being hit by another car. (It was apparently unhurt and swam away when a firefighter released it into a nearby pond.) Thanks this week to Chuck Hamilton and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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hree days before Christmas, the Big fork Eagle’s two employees received an email from their parent corporation’s regional publisher asking when they could meet. The request came as the reporter and editor scrambled to finish the week’s issue from their small office on the north shore of Flathead Lake, an otherwise dull space they’d decorated for the season with a string of holiday lights—the fat, plastic kind that look like multicolored buds on a vine—and a small artificial tree in the window. They put the issue to bed, and the next morning they visited the publisher at his office, 18 miles away. Inside, he told them to finish the next edition quietly; it would be the paper’s last. The decision to stop printing the Bigfork Eagle was “pure economics,” Daily Inter Lake Publisher Rick Weaver told readers a week later, in the paper’s final edition. “But we are not going away,” he also wrote, referencing plans to shift coverage online. That’s why he refused to publish a eulogy submitted by one of the Eagle’s former owners for what once touted itself as “The Best Little Weekly Newspaper in Montana.”
resulting upheaval has plainly destabilized Montana’s fourth estate, from Bigfork to Missoula. The Missoulian’s struggles, in particular, have spilled into public view since strained finances forced a change in publisher, followed by the messy and disputed exit of former Editor Sherry Devlin as the paper looks to more aggressively change with the times. In many respects, the state’s smalltown papers have been better shielded than places like Missoula from the turmoil caused by an uncertain advertising model and evolving reader habits. But the ground is beginning to shift in these places as well. A report released in May by the Solutions Journalism Network found that while community newspapers in Montana are still a vital part of the rural places they serve, residents are quickly turning to social media to stay connected. And even where these papers aren’t endangered financially, the study found readers in small-town Montana are often starving for the kind of information they believe would help them chart their communities’ future. “The results, in some communities, are what might be called news deserts,”
watering hole, including signs for Creative & Native, Kravingz Cafe, Hotel Bigfork and Wild Mile Restaurant & Deli. They even extend to the ceiling of the covered stage in the back. With the Eagle apparently gone for good, Donna Lawson, who owns a downtown liquor store called The Jug Tree, jokes with a friend about who should pull down the newspaper’s sign and haul it to the bar. The Eagle’s faded and brown sign depicts a bald eagle swooping down. A brighter replacement sign painted by cartoonist Jerry Sprunger was waiting in the wings, but no one got around to hanging it before the paper shut down. Bigfork was one of the last communities in the state whose paper could boast its own political cartoonist—a 30-year practice maintained by Sprunger and his father that was part of the “time-honored tradition” of picking up the paper each week, Lawson says. Jerry’s cartoons—which he recently sent the Indy by post, having sworn off the internet after he once downloaded a virus— lambasted the Koch brothers, caricatured the Montana Legislature and poked fun at local culture and politics. When wealthy landowners
It’s not easy to find a copy of the Eagle’s last edition. The local museum didn’t save any, nor the local library branch, which doesn’t have space for archives (though an older patron suggests looking online). Even library headquarters in Kalispell seems to have misplaced it. Recent issues are stacked in a dusty upstairs closet, where the newest Eagle on file is dated May 27, 2015. The librarian shrugs at the missing seven months and insists the closet be kept shut so the rest don’t disappear, too. The May 27 edition is a reminder that the Eagle isn’t alone in its demise. The week’s opinion page led with a guest column decrying a decision by Lee Enterprises, the state’s biggest newspaper chain and Missoulian parent company, to dismantle its Capitol Bureau and cut loose “Montana’s two premiere (sic) journalists.” Two decades after the internet ushered in the information age and transformed the world’s news habits, the
the report concludes, “places that lack access to reliable, relevant information needed for people to participate effectively.” The forces seen as conspiring to bring down the Eagle, from corporate neglect to new digital platforms to fading relevance, are playing out across the state. Media outlets—big and small, print and digital, family- and corporate-owned—are racing to find their place as readers and communities transform. “I still think there’s a demand for news,” says University of Montana School of Journalism professor and state newspaper historian Dennis Swibold. “But we’ll just see how essential each piece of that is.”
began building a private bridge from their shoreline property to Dockstader Island, Sprunger reimagined it as a Golden Gate “bridge to nowhere,” complete with a fish police force that would patrol the lakebed for trespassers. Sprunger’s editorial cartoons are emblematic of how Montana’s newspapers have helped bring their communities to life. Readers looked to the bundled newsprint on their doorsteps each day or week to see a mirror image of their triumphs and struggles, to learn about the world and to participate in their collective community dialogue. Swibold, the UM journalism professor, thinks of them as a glue that binds a place together, or a two-dimensional town square. It’s especially true in Montana’s small towns. “They’re still sort of alive in their communities,” he says. “The community
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BEGINNING TO FRACTURE The backyard patio behind Bigfork’s Garden Bar is lined with the signs of bygone local businesses. Dozens of them cover the walls that enclose the popular
thinks of them that way. It’s like a public entity.” But as communities have grown or shrunk or migrated online, their newspaper reflections are beginning to fracture. Readership nationwide has been declining steadily for more than a decade, with less than one-quarter of adults under 45 read-
ing a newspaper each day, according to the most recent Pew Research Center data. In Montana, 37 percent of all adults reported reading their daily newspaper “regularly” last year. The loss of readers has been much slower in small towns; slightly more than half of adults in Montana’s rural counties still say they read their paper regularly, according to a 2015 survey by the Greater Montana Foundation. The more troubling statistic involving readers in small towns is how they view their local newspaper. The Solutions Journalism Network report found that only 20 percent of rural residents across the intermountain West consider their local news source to be consistently relevant and reliable. The insight was gleaned from a series of surveys and focus groups in 10 communities with
varying levels and quality of professional media coverage, including Seeley Lake, Philipsburg, Anaconda, Ronan, Whitefish and Ravalli County. “We found that news ecosystems in these places are often patchy in terms of both quantity and quality,” the report states. “In some cases, people in small mountain towns manage to get news and information via a mix of word-ofmouth communication and traditional news outlets. But when it comes to complex, often deeply ingrained local challenges and what can be done about them, the knowledge and understanding that could drive productive citizenship is more elusive.” The vast majority of Montana newsrooms resemble the outlets scrutinized in the “Mountain News Deserts” report, with the town’s entire newspaper staff smaller than the intrepid team of four Boston Globe journalists popularized by the Oscar-winning film Spotlight. The Eagle, for instance, had just a reporter and an editor, and the owners of family-run papers in Seeley Lake and Lincoln juggle all duties, from ad sales to circulation to newsgathering. The depth and quality of community reporting has always varied widely among small weekly papers. But over time, state media outlets with the resources to take on the most complex issues have largely retreated from rural Montana as budgets dry up. The Solutions Journalism Network tallied only three of 26 stories published by Missoulian staff in a particular week that pertained to Missoula’s surrounding small towns—the lowest proportion of any regional publication the organization examined. So while Bigfork isn’t a “news desert” in the literal sense—the roadside along Highway 35 is dotted with as many Inter Lake and Missoulian mailbox holders as cherry trees—community leaders don’t see regional publications as filling the gap. “In a lot of ways having a local paper helps a smaller community such as us stay informed, promote growth or items that are of importance to the community,” says Paul Mustascio of the Community Foundation for a Better Bigfork. “People had a voice through the paper.”
ONLINE CHALLENGES For the past 123 years, the Choteau Acantha has been that voice for Teton County. Melody Martinsen and her husband, Jeff, have run the company for the last quarter century, building one of the state’s most respected small newspapers in this rural ranching community along the Rocky Mountain Front. Melody is a dyed-in-the-wool journalist who embraces the idea of being the
community’s source for unbiased, thorough reporting on civic issues, a watchdog for open government and resident storyteller. “I’m a hard news reporter,” she says. “Let me tell you what government is doing that you need to know. And it’s not sexy, it’s not funny, but you need to know it if you’re going to be a good citizen.” Her office is lined with awards and artifacts from the paper’s long history, plus pictures of her son and a stack of musical scores for the Choteau summer community band for which she’s the organizer. “That’s Kalamazoo,” Martinsen says as a black cat walks over to her desk on a re-
idents are changing, too. A quarter of Montana senior citizens now read the news daily online or on their phones, according to the Greater Montana Foundation survey. Martinsen was relatively early in her embrace of online publishing, posting most of the Acantha’s stories to its website for free. That still didn’t stop residents from starting a Facebook group called “Choteau Online Yard Sale and Information.” The group has more than 2,200 members—800 or so more than the city’s population, and about 100 more than the Acantha’s Facebook page.
most vital service will eventually falter. Communities need newspapers, she says, “and if they don’t have newspapers, they need something that does what a newspaper did.” Online publishing is still a new tool in other corners of the state. Nathan and Andi Bourne, who purchased the Seeley Swan Pathfinder in 2012, introduced a revamped website in December with the goal of providing easier access to stories for the large proportion of its readers who live in Seeley Lake seasonally. The old site, the Bournes say, tried to be the town’s online homepage, but their goal is to focus
More than any other kind of news, small town newspapers point to high school sports as a mainstay of their coverage that will keep readers coming back. “We were runners up at state, and, gosh, got very little coverage for it,” says David Creamer, the Bigfork School District’s athletic director. Creamer could see how regional priorities were changing, long before the Eagle closed up, and decided to take matters into his own hands. He now operates some of the most active social media accounts among any school in the state, posting regular updates and photos of high school and junior high sports to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. When a football player was recruited this spring to play for a local college, Creamer tweeted a photo of him signing the paperwork to the 559 people who follow @bigforksports. He doesn’t have time to cover everything he’d like, but his accounts include action shots, scores, video and more. “I think people are still getting information faster than they were with the Eagle or have been with the Inter Lake or [Flathead] Beacon anyway for certain things,” he says. The day after Creamer says this, graffiti containing a bomb threat was discovered in the high school science lab, prompting an afternoon evacuation and search by local police. Regional media covered the story the next morning, but only after the district had notified parents and posted an update to its website.
“THE BUGLE ?” Small towns can feel like “news deserts” to residents if they aren’t getting the information they need to solve local problems, according to a new report by the Solutions Journalism Network.
cent morning. The cat belongs to a nearby law firm but often wanders in to nap on a bed placed atop the office printer. Much like the ranchers who surround the town, the Martinsens have dedicated their lives to the Acantha to eke out a living in a community whose population and business community are steadily declining. They haven’t missed publication once since buying the paper when they were 24-year-olds. Even when the Martinsens’ only son was born premature, his heart and lungs not working as he lay in a hospital ICU in Great Falls, the Martinsens still managed to write a paper the following day. “That was the hardest paper I’ve ever put out,” Melody says. As she looks to the future, Martinsen is less concerned about publishing weekly papers as she is about adjusting to the pressures of social media and digital readership. Choteau isn’t just shrinking; its res-
Increasingly, social media sites such as Facebook have accelerated the sort of word-of-mouth exchanges at the bank or post office that used to characterize smalltown life. “People also talked about social media—mostly Facebook—in the way people in bigger cities sometimes describe their local news websites,” the Solutions Journalism Network report found. “News spreads on Facebook in an informal, word-of-mouth fashion, and much of it is what might be expected from a free online network: silly videos of pets, flashback photos, ranting opinions and garage sale notices.” It’s the “and Information” part of the Choteau Online Yard Sale Facebook page that sticks out to Martinsen. She doesn’t expect readers to get all their information from the Acantha, but she’s worried that if the paper can’t keep pace with its readers, its ability to sustain its
first on making it a reliable, faster source for essential news such as summer wildfire updates. The new strategy played out recently when the Mission Mountains Mercantile in Condon burned to the ground. The fire started in the early morning hours of May 18, and by 9:30 a.m. Nathan posted a short story online, including a photo of the fully engulfed building. He followed up later with a long collection of memories submitted by locals about the beloved “lifeblood” of the tiny town. When papers miss the internet buzz, other locals are stepping in. The Bigfork boys basketball team was having one of its best years ever when the Eagle closed up shop. No longer could students count on seeing their steady stream of wins splashed across the paper each week. Feature stories were replaced with box scores and phoned-in briefs from regional outlets.
Sally Finneran, the Big fork Eagle’s last reporter, was shocked when she was called into Weaver’s Kalispell office and told the paper would shut down in a week. She wasn’t laid off. Instead the publisher asked her to work in Kalispell, where she would continue to cover Bigfork occasionally as part of an open beat at the Inter Lake with her stories posted to the Eagle’s website. It wasn’t the loss of the print paper that surprised Finneran. She and David Reese, the editor, had recently discussed how the ailing Eagle might need to be reborn in an online-only form. But the swiftness of the announcement, focused solely on finances rather than the community, wasn’t exactly how they envisioned the paper would change with the times. “I don’t think the concept was a bad idea,” Finneran later wrote on a Facebook support group for ex-journalists, “the transition just wasn’t handled with any thought or plan.” Both she and Reese declined the publisher’s offers.
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LEE PURSUES RURAL AUDIENCE ONLINE Lee state bureau reporter Holly Michels has racked up 30,000 miles on her new Subaru over the past eight months, and she has a heap of page views to show for it. Michels and fellow bureau reporter Jayme Fraser show off a printout of online reader data to talk about how their new approach to statewide reporting is drawing in readers from all corners of the state. “Over the last few months, about half of our page views have come from new users,” Fraser says, referring to readers who haven’t been to a Lee newspaper website in the prior 30 days. Since Lee Enterprises dismantled its Capitol Bureau in May 2015, many have been skeptical that the company can replace the reporting provided by veterans Chuck Johnson and Mike Dennison, whose combined 60-plus years experience covering Montana government was unparalleled in the state. University of Montana School of Journalism professor Dennis Swibold was among them. Swibold has long monitored the state’s largest media company, following its stock price and quarterly reports as a way to keep his finger on the pulse of the industry’s health in the state. Lee has cut staff, raised subscription rates and consolidated operations as it tries to recover from debt incurred by the company’s purchase of the Pulitzer chain of newspapers in 2005, just before the newspaper industry began to nosedive. The circumstances have made for a particularly rocky transition to online-oriented publishing at places like the Missoulian. Recently released court records show how financial pressures drove a series of management decisions since 2014 that have led to high turnover, two lawsuits and a complete loss in newsroom leadership. Lee’s shake-up of its Capitol Bureau last year looked like another cost-cutting move, particularly as reports surfaced that Johnson and Dennison had been asked to take steep pay cuts to remain on the job. But in explaining the move to reporters, Billings Gazette Editor Darrell Ehrlick suggested a philosophical shift behind the change: a desire to cover statewide issues from outside the capital. A little over seven months since they’ve been on the job together, Fraser and Michels say the new emphasis is paying off. Fraser, who returned to Montana after three years at the Houston Chronicle, focuses on number crunching, while Michels, a former editor at the Helena Independent Record and the Gazette, travels the state looking for big stories in small towns. They see the blend of data and narrative storytelling as a way to cover state government without leaving rural Montana behind. “We’re holding state officials accountable in a new way, but also in a lot of ways I think a better way, because we’re taking their decisions and connecting it directly to the communities they’re affecting,” Fraser says. Web analytics, they say, show evidence of their broadening reach. Bureau stories on average attract roughly 30 percent more new online readers than stories from the company’s five Montana newsrooms, with many logging on from rural areas. Nine of their top 10 most popular stories online have involved travel, and Fraser says data-driven infographics also help make state issues applicable to small-town readers. Many of the small communities Michels now visits still receive Lee newspapers on their doorsteps each day, but it’s been less often in recent years that a Lee reporter pays a visit, as the daily papers have dropped regional staff in favor of the papers’ home markets. The company’s focus might be showing early results, but the bigger test will come once the reporters are forced to juggle their responsibilities with the legislature in session. “They’re trying to fill that gap in for all of the papers—two people getting up into all the regions of Montana—and also watch state government in a way,” Swibold says. He argues the state needs both.
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Two months after the Eagle shut down, Finneran, who now works for a wholesale plant nursery, says she took a call on her cellphone from a former source who wanted to pitch her a story. “Have you realized that it’s not a thing anymore?” she asked him. “You don’t read it, do you?” The call didn’t feel as devastating as it might seem. Finneran herself was struggling to find value in many of her stories for the Eagle, calling the work “glorified ads for fundraisers”—the kind of thing
munity forum. Patrick Jones, who owns a rare books store in town, squints to remember the paper’s name. “The Bugle?” he asks. By the time it folded, the paper Wilson used to brag was “The Best Little Weekly Newspaper in Montana” was unrecognizable to some of the town’s 1,500 year-round residents. Former employees attribute the Eagle’s wilting to neglect by its corporate leaders. “That sense of ownership that a community has over a paper just didn’t exist
Weaver, the Inter Lake publisher, likens this assessment of the Eagle’s failure to tunnel vision. In 14 years, Hagadone never was able to turn a profit in Bigfork, he says. He suspects Lee lost money there as well. Booming real estate, a stronger sales force—nothing brought enough advertisers to pencil out. By the end of 2015, the cumulative loss had surpassed how much the Eagle could be sold for. It’s why Weaver chose to shutter the paper so abruptly. “If we’re going to close the darn thing,” Weaver says of his thinking,
Nathan and Andi Bourne, owners of the Seeley Swan Pathfinder, are updating Seeley Lake’s newspaper for the internet age. They introduced a redesigned website last December and are beginning to post some breaking news, while also juggling ad sales and covering local government.
found on Facebook pages, Instagram accounts and newsletters. “Nothing we were doing was so groundbreaking or information they couldn’t somehow get other ways eventually,” she says. There was a time when the tiny Eagle was breaking new ground. TownNews.com, the newspaper industry’s largest system for delivering online news, was born in the Eagle’s “back shop” 27 years ago, fathered by former owner Marc Wilson. The now-defunct paper still has a website—powered by TownNews.com— but no dedicated staff. Bigfork’s leaders say they miss the Eagle, but it’s hard to pinpoint what the community has lost. Lawson, the liquor store owner, says she wished the Eagle had been around to galvanize residents about what to do with an aging one-car bridge (Bigfork’s latest hot topic), but with a little extra “foot stomping,” a good number of residents turned out to a com-
because the community building part of it wasn’t there,” says former reporter Camillia Lanham, who worked there in 2012 and now is editor of a California alt weekly. “If you’re half-assing it because it’s not a moneymaker for you, then you’re never going to put the time into it to cultivate the relationships with the community.” Wilson passed the paper to Lee Enterprises in 1997, which then sold it and six other weekly newspapers in northwestern Montana to conservative newspaper and real estate magnate Duane Hagadone, whose regional media conglomerate also includes the Daily Inter Lake. Reese says Hagadone’s ownership brought potentially “tremendous resources” that didn’t exist when he started his journalism career there under Wilson and Wilson’s wife, Ginny. But the paper was an increasingly hard sell to advertisers, and Hagadone didn’t seem fully committed to earning clients.
“should we wait for another year or another six months since we’re losing money every month?” Swibold, thinking of the Bigfork example, sees the paper’s quiet disappearance as a sign that the community no longer saw the Eagle as essential. “I don’t know how else you could read it,” he says. But there is a void, as former Eagle reporter Bill Simonsen notes. Simonsen tells of a recent trip to the auto parts store, where he asked to see the manager, who was also an old friend. The friend had been dead for eight months. “Who knew, other than his family and perhaps a quarter of his customer base? Who knows how many of my old friends are dead, or their family members?” Simonsen asks. Once the paper dies—or the obituaries become too expensive—you don’t know who else is dying, Simonsen says.
knowledge that can enable citizenship, empowering people to be more active and creative.” Local news in Bigfork may not be In Choteau, the Martinsens have gone for long. Weaver says he still been thinking a lot lately about how hopes to hire a staffer “soon” so he to shore up the paper’s business can reintroduce the Eagle in its leaner model so their community doesn’t form, which he believes Hagadone eventually lose the kind of news that can operate profitably. He’s been aponly becomes more important as its proached by one prospective buyer economy wanes. Melody can name over the last several months, but he the local businesses and industries isn’t interested in selling the paper for that have disappeared since she’s someone else to try their hand. owned the Acantha. She’s seen the “If we couldn’t make it, I meatpacking plant and feed mill couldn’t see how anybody could burn down, the Great Falls Clinic make any money out of it,” he says. close and state offices relocate out of If a news source does return, town. Martinsen says at times she how could it avoid a similar fate? can’t help but wonder when her One finding in the Solutions Journalnewspaper might follow suit. ism Network study showed a wide One antidote to the sinking feelgap in the kind of news that smalling comes from the “happy file” in a town readers say they want and the news they actually receive. Concerns A sculpture park in downtown Bigfork includes a cabinet drawer where she keeps about the town’s economic future bronze newsboy statue, a nostalgic symbol of a notes from readers who were afand quality of life topped their list of bygone media era. Finding a copy of the last print fected by her stories. Among them is interests, but economic coverage, for edition of the local newspaper, however, is no a letter she received years ago after publishing a feature story about an instance, made up a small fraction of simple task. The coverage need not be all doom elementary school teacher who was unnews reports in those areas. On the other hand, crime and, yes, high school sports and gloom, either. The report found read- dergoing intensive chemotherapy for lymers eager for help in finding a collective phoma. A woman had written to say she were said to take up too much space. recognized her own symptoms from readReaders don’t always read or click on path forward. “Without trusted sources to translate ing the article, saw a doctor and was able the kinds of stories they claim they want in surveys or focus groups. But what them, complex and mystifying issues in to get her cancer treated. Martinsen is the first to say she doesn’t seems to be missing too often in small these communities stay just as mystifying towns, the Solutions Journalism Network and complex. That’s a challenge to the vi- know the formula that will make Choteau’s found, is a venue where big issues take tality of small towns across the West: paper viable in the future. But as long as center stage. In many Montana communi- When people don’t know what the prob- the notes for her “happy file” keep arriving, ties, those questions strike at the heart of lems are, it’s harder to get to solutions,” she and her husband aren’t giving up. the town’s identity and economic viability the report states. “What’s needed is not just access to relevant information, but to dbrouwer@missoulanews.com in a fast-changing world.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Some Bigfork business owners can’t name the town’s weekly newspaper, which stopped publishing in December after 40 years, while others say they miss the voice it gave local residents.
JOURNALISTS GO DIGITAL ON THEIR OWN A proposal before Missoula City Council last October to expand background checks on gun purchases had the Missoulian’s former editor fired up and government reporter Martin Kidston feeling uncomfortable. The kind of aggressive coverage Kidston says he was asked to do was at odds with his more “diplomatic approach” to finding the truth “in a way that treats you with courtesy and respect, and assumes you’re not a crook and you’re not trying to pull the wool over my eyes.” Three months later, not only had Kidston quit the daily paper, but he was launching a news website imagined as an alternative to the Missoulian’s style of coverage that could help put “a different face on the community, talking about what the community does well and does right, while also reporting the news.” One of his first big stories? Breaking the news that his former boss, Matthew Bunk, had been suspended for bringing a firearm with him to work. Kidston is the latest Montana reporter to stake his own claim to online publishing after a career in corporate daily journalism, hoping to create a new way to make a living doing community journalism. He follows the example set by another former Lee Enterprises reporter in Billings, Ed Kemmick, whose online-only Last Best News has been publishing for over two years. Discouraged by his company’s direction, Kemmick quit the Billings Gazette in 2013 after 24 years at the paper. He was 58 at the time. Soon after, Kemmick set out to cover the state’s eastern half himself, supported by online advertising. Last Best News has the flavor of a small-town paper, filled with a mix of Kemmick’s reflections, civic reporting and laid-back lifestyles coverage such as a 25-part series reviewing local church services. Kemmick at times has produced hard-hitting journalism, including recent coverage of an “old-fashioned police scandal” in Red Lodge where he forced release of public records that neither the local paper nor the Gazette had pursued. Funding independent journalism with online ads is difficult math, and many in the industry have watched Kemmick’s experiment closely to see if his formula can succeed. Also on the radar is an alternative, nonprofit approach being explored by former Great Falls Tribune reporter (and long-ago Indy staff writer) John S. Adams at his site, Montana Free Press. Adams began publishing to the site last year but is currently focused on fundraising ahead of the 2017 Montana Legislature, at which point he hopes to introduce more in-depth, watchdog reporting he sees other outlets foregoing. “That will depend on whether or not there are enough people out there who care about that kind of reporting to support it financially,” he says. Montana’s first big experiment in online startup journalism came in 2005 with New West. The Missoula-based company was more ambitious, seeking to cover regional issues as well as local news in cities across the West. Courtney Lowery, the site’s cofounder and an adjunct professor in the University of Montana School of Journalism, attributes New West’s collapse to the Great Recession, but sees promise in smaller projects like Kemmick’s that boast strong local personality and lower overhead costs. “It’s not the fact that he’s online,” she says. “It’s that readers know they can trust him, he has a voice, he doesn’t pull punches, he’s invested in his community. All the things that made him a successful newspaper man now make him a successful independent news site.” Kemmick says he has managed to pay most of his bills by relying on ads from local businesses, but he also began actively soliciting reader donations last year during a “perilous” stretch around tax season. After posting a call for help on the site’s Facebook page, some $5,000 poured in, Kemmick says. Earlier this year, he absorbed a Billings weekly newspaper, bringing on its former editor as a second Last Best News staffer. Whether the site can support two full-time journalists remains uncertain, Kemmick says. “We need more money and we need it quick,” he says. “So if it’s that much trouble to go from one to two people, what does it take to become something big enough to be what the Gazette used to be? That almost seems impossible. So I still don’t see how we’re going to cover the world the way newspapers used to online.”
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[arts]
Girls to the front Overcoming rock’s boys’ club to start an all-woman band by Kate Whittle
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ometime in my freshman year of college, some dudes were hanging out in my dorm room, and one of them picked up my Yamaha acoustic guitar I’d had leaning against the wall. He tuned it by ear and deftly tinkered with it, playing blues licks and some old standards. He said, “Oh, you know, I’ve mostly taught myself.” I’d been trying to teach myself guitar casually for years, but I couldn’t figure out how to move past the basics of strumming chords. Guitar instruction textbooks mystified me. I thought if I couldn’t teach myself out of books, I wasn’t smart enough to learn how to play music. It didn’t help that the only people I knew who played rock ’n roll were boys, and most teenage boys I’d met were more interested in showing off than they were in encouraging self-conscious girls to play. My family wasn’t unsupportive, but nobody pushed me to take lessons—the guitar itself was a Christmas gift to my brother, who wasn’t remotely interested in it. There certainly wasn’t a Girls’ Rock Camp where I grew up in the sticks of eastern Montana. As a whole, rock music and its subgenres remain highly gendered. None of the rock on the radio or the concerts around my hometown featured women (or people of color, for that matter.) Guitar magazines have always been a sausage fest. In retrospect, I didn’t keep after guitar for about the same reason I don’t know how to change the oil in my car: Nobody ever told me not to, but nobody ever told me I could do it, either. And, I thought, why should I bother when there’s a zillion dudes out there who can do it more easily than I can? After freshman year of college, I took the guitar home and left it in a closet to gather dust. I didn’t touch a guitar again for the next eight years. But I did embed myself into the Missoula music scene by DJing for KBGA and running a punk blog and helping organize Total Fest a couple times. I’ve met people who were welcoming of women, but I’ve also encountered guys who were dismissive of the idea that a woman could even have an opinion on music at all. A local musician once told me, with a sneer, “Oh, it’s Kate Whittle, the queen of punk rock.” I assumed people like him would be the first to laugh if I ever tried to play music again. But last fall, out of the blue, my friend Julia asked if I wanted to help start a feminist rock band. She promised the rest of the band would also be learning how to play for the first time. No guys would be allowed to join us, so we’d be free to screw up and improvise without fear of condescension or dismissal. I said yes, not really thinking the project would ever turn into something.
photo courtesy of Tim Arrowtop
The Blaine Janes playing a basement show in April.
Over the next few months, we gathered other novices and began our self-taught Rock Band 101. Like, how to lug borrowed amps and hand-me-down guitars up and down treacherous basement stairs. How to get a rickety mic stand to stay up with some duct tape. How to write simple arrangements. How to carefully disagree. And yes, how to sometimes let a dude drum for us when our regular lady drummer was out of town. After a winter of practicing in a freezing garage, we arranged a setlist and settled on a name—Blaine Janes, after the street where we practice. Julia, our infinitely determined band leader, selected a Planned Parenthood benefit in early April as our first show. Having that date scribbled on the calendar made me nervous about having to play music in front of other
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people. I expected experienced musicians to make fun of our simple three-note bass lines or for a sound guy to judge my dinky little 30-watt practice amp. But I couldn’t let my bandmates down, so I loaded up my car and arrived at the ZACC for our first show in early April. I drank malt liquor in the parking lot until I felt bold. My friends showed up and they seemed excited. When it was our turn to play and I stood up onstage, I was terrified. The stage didn’t seem that tall until I stepped up on it and felt like my every flaw would be exposed. In my panic, I couldn’t get my E string to tune, and the band had to make stage banter while I fiddled with it for a very long minute. But then our drummer kicked off the first song—a cover of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”—and away we went.
After our set, I was surprised and gratified when my Actual Musician Friends—still mostly men— turned out to be enormously supportive of my fledgling band. At the handful of shows we’ve played since, I haven’t seen people scoffing at our four-chord progressions or earnest covers. I’ve seen drunk people dancing around and spilling their beers. Maybe there are gals out there who will see us and realize, “If they can do it, I can do it.” My band isn’t the best band ever, but we are willing to rock out just because we can. Though we still can’t get the damn mic stand to stay up. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
[music]
Grand style OverTime’s latest showcases keen skills OverTime gets a “mixed by” credit on every track of his new album, and you can hear why. The Foundation sounds better than any Missoula rap project I can think of. Consistently distinct and balanced tracks make the production loud but clear. These are walkout songs in the grand style of the early 2000s, produced with modern instrumentation and a keen ear. OverTime’s rapping hearkens back to the last decade, too. He often builds lines around internal and endstopped rhymes with a free/fast flow between, and he doubles his vocal tracks. Both techniques evoke the style of Eminem—a comparison white rappers surely hate, but which is a compliment to OverTime’s craft. Showing evident care for his
lyrics, he constructs the same emotive blank verse Eminem wrote in his prime. If his flow sounds a little stiff, it is only because mainstream rap has turned toward free verse in the intervening years. None of that matters, though, because OverTime has heart. I defy you to hear him rap about “$500 a show” and not come over to his side. This is music for the individual come-up, for after work when you’re thinking about how much money you’ll save by cooking at home. OverTime is making it earnestly, and he’s making it well. (Dan Brooks) OverTime plays an album release show at Monk’s Bar Sat., June 11, at 9 PM, along with other acts. $10/$7 advance.
Grant Farm, Kiss the Ground When I first heard Tyler Grant was a former national flatpicking guitar champion, I expected his music to be acoustic, traditionalist bluegrass. Instead, his Colorado-based quartet, Grant Farm, is a mostly electric, nottoo-grassy romp. Their brand of “Cosmic Americana” evokes the Grateful Dead’s rootsy side, coupling searing telecaster with swirling organ, country drum shuffles and big three-part vocal harmonies. Their energetic, danceable mix has made them a staple of the Northwest festival circuit, but their third studio album, Kiss the Ground, falls a little short of capturing the group’s onstage energy. The record starts strong by emphasizing the cosmic over the Americana on “Get In Line,” a funky rocker with a Doors-y vibe. Most of the album straddles
the line between rock and country without ever sounding disjointed. Technical proficiency and tight harmonies abound, but many of the songs lack a strong vocal lead, so it’s a good thing Grant’s impeccable lead guitar playing packs the needed expressive punch. From his wahladen, Jerry Garcia-esque licks on “One Hundred Ways...” to the flawless chicken pickin’ on “Colors,” Grant demonstrates an exciting mastery of his instrument that really pushes these songs. With a compelling lead singer they would be an unstoppable force, but as it stands the band’s groovy nature burns brightest in a live setting. (Jed Nussbaum) Grant Farm play the Top Hat Sat., June 11. Doors at 9:30, show at 10 PM. $5.
PJ Harvey, The Hope Six Demolition Project These are protest songs. After spending the ’90s turned inward and the 2000s exploring (both her music and the world), experimental rocker PJ Harvey has landed in 2016 with an album that offers a response to what she’s seen and learned–specifically on recent journeys with photographer Seamus Murphy to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. Each song retains Harvey’s signature ghostly, grungy sound paired with her simple but poetic lyrics. What’s new and different for Harvey is the content: vividly painted portraits of places in turmoil, from the projects of D.C. to the rubble of Kabul, along with not-so-subtle statements about war and poverty. The album has blues and spiritual undercurrents and her all-male band offers
deep-voiced backup vocals. Harvey also lets her talents on the saxophone shine, both through deep brooding blasts and soaring melodies, in addition to playing a parade of her other usual instruments (guitar, violin, harmonica, autoharp). So far this might all sound pretty depressing: aging alt-rock singer takes up saxophone and moans about world conflict. But somehow that’s not at all the case. Like the very best protest music, Harvey’s songs don’t get dragged down into the bleakness and despair of their subjects. Instead, they raise them up, make them personal and even danceable. A few even allude to hope–sometimes with nothing more than a surprising switch from a minor to major key. (Sarah Aswell)
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[books]
Mysterious spaces Blurred lines in David Allan Cates’ poetry debut by Erika Fredrickson
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When taking a first stab at fiction, diehard poets your kisses the rain, a/ dough-handed baker whose kill at crafting individual sentences. But they often— warm bread made her cry/ a merchant marine with a and I say this from firsthand experience—struggle with tattooed belly who woke/ nightly trembling and gaspdeveloping characters and finding a direct storyline. I ing into her ear.” I recently read Stephen King’s book On Writing imagine it works both ways: A fiction writer who is used to providing more information to the reader, and found it absolutely fascinating, especially when strains against the often abstract, nonlinear nature of he talked about how fiction writers should allow their poetry. In The Mysterious Location of Krygzstan, Mis- characters, as if by magic, to take on a life of their own. soula fiction writer David Allan Cates (Tom Connor’s Poetry is the same way, it’s just a different kind of veGift, Hunger in America) makes his poetry debut with hicle. In Cates’ book, the poems that feel most controlled and self-assured end up remarkable grace. It’s a collecbeing the least compelling. The tion that explores the line beothers are strong because they tween the romantic and the seem to burst with raw unintenpractical and juggles the imtion and delight in colorful agery of eroticism and desire, specifics that help paint the sometimes keeping it all optiscene: “purple garlic,” “salt mistically afloat, sometimes sheets” and “tangled squatters.” smashing it into pieces. This is also a book about In fact, Cates doesn’t ever location in the abstract sense, identify the line, he blurs it, and so the best poems locate that in the course of this messy space where complicated emoprocess, he’s able to provide clartions live. I especially like the ity in other ways. In “Now What,” poem, “What We All Want” for instance, an encounter, poswhere Cates (or the voice of sibly between lovers, is recalled the poem) confesses to the without embellishment: “There pain of loss, regret and unkindwas no rip/ and wild fall. We lay ness through the lens of Gone down, remember? There’s frost with the Wind and Macbeth. on the hay—/ we’re on our backs/ “I want Mellie and Bonnie/ the blue sky/ harder than we alive,” he writes. “I want somethought/ the river grayer/ than it’s one to care ... I want/ the bad ever been.” The Mysterious Location of Krygzstan calls reversed. I want/ all the perWith “Young French Lovers David Allan Cates fumes of Arabia to sweeten Lady/ Are No Better Off Than Any paperback, CreateSpace Macbeth’s bloody hands. I want Other Kind,” the title says it all, 52 pages, $9.99 the spot/ out, too ... Don’t you?” but Cates drives it home by The “Don’t you?” is the most uncomfortable part combining exotic and erotic imagery of two lovers of all. At first read, I thought it was an unnecessary with bombs exploding and trucks spilling smoke. Throughout The Mysterious Location of Krygzstan line—a pedestrian and overdone rhyme. But giving it certain things continue to crop up: the moon, dogs, more thought, it’s a perfect example of the kind of coffee, kisses and boats. They’re like the bread crumbs thing that makes so many of Cates’ poems interesting. for finding a connection between each poem, though, Here, Cates seems to be taking exception with the idea fortunately, they never feel like heavy-handed symbol- that fictional stories are seen as separate from reality— ism. Some poems are straightforward investigations of as mere entertainment or fodder for think pieces and an idea. “The Purpose of Kissing” and “On a Cliff with college essays or as temporary epiphanies you have You” toy with the deeper meaning of ordinary gestures while talking about a really good book with friends between lovers. These poems provide some medita- over late-night beers. ‘Stop,’ he’s saying. ‘Why can’t the tion and even levity, but they’re not as powerful as the world be a kinder, better place? Why?’ It’s an almost ones where Cates lets concrete imagery lead. He’s at embarrassingly child-like sentiment. It’s full of the kind his best not when he’s trying to explicitly puzzle out a of cutting emotion only a good poem can deliver. David Allan Cates reads from The Mysterious question, but when he talks about love and desire in the way you might at the height of a terrible fever, like Location of Krygzstan at Shakespeare & Co. in the title poem when he writes, “...my Great Aunt Thu., June 16, at 7 PM. Edna with a parade of lovers—/ a wood cutter to whom she whispered in his sawdust/ beard, I’m a plant and efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[film]
Animal people Cage takes a smart look at laws of personhood by Molly Laich
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In the documentary feature Unlocking the Cage, filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker follow animal rights lawyer Steven Wise and his team as they work to declare certain kinds of animals as “nonhuman persons” in the eyes of the law. It’s an idea that’s gaining some traction, but it’s nowhere near reached the tipping point. In the film, Wise sites a poll that says one-third of Americans think that animals and humans should have similar rights. He says it in the wake of yet another courtroom loss, and with a gleeful optimism that is characteristic of people who champion impossible causes. To me, that glass is still two-thirds empty and I continue to lament our country’s schizophrenic attitude toward animal welfare, generally. ( We could look at the way the internet lost its mind when a gorilla got shot at the Cincinnati Zoo after a little boy fell into his enclosure, but I think that episode says more about our collective hatred for other mothers than it does our love for primates.) Wise begins the campaign with animals that are generally considered more sentient than most: elephants, dolphins, whales and chimpanzees. More than their intelligence, they’re good candidates because they don’t make Americans a lot of money, they’re mostly not native to the United States and we don’t eat them. That’s the real elephant in the room, even if the film never once brings it up. People have a daily, deep-seeded motivation to keep animals in their own neat category, and it’s different from other civil rights causes. To put it simply: We don’t eat gay marriage for breakfast. To begin, Wise and his team seek out cases of chimpanzees held in captivity for sport and profit. The ordinary legal route for getting a chimp out of a circus-like situation and into a sanctuary is to argue the case under preexisting animal welfare laws. Wise
and his legal team are making a different kind of argument, that chimpanzees have scientifically measured levels of cognition and emotional intelligence, and so any kind of captivity amounts to false imprisonment under habeas corpus. But you grant one chimpanzee personhood (the opposition argues) then they all want to be persons, and what’s next, dogs getting married? Unlocking the Cage is a pretty straightforward, agenda-driven story, designed to educate you on the issue and persuade you of its justness. Many animal welfare films will come at you with a lot of pathos, hoping you’ll empathize with the animals and confront your exalted place in the food chain. Unlocking the Cage takes a decidedly more cerebral approach. The film is at its best when it allows us to eavesdrop in the courtroom. When Wise argues in front of the New York Supreme Court, the judges ask tough, probing questions, and both the questions and answers are given their proper shrift. More than anything, Unlocking the Cage highlights the boring, bureaucratic dirty work necessary to make our laws reflect our evolving values. It wasn’t about separate drinking fountains in the ’60s and it’s not about bathrooms for trans people today. In 50 years, our grandchildren might be embarrassed by our insistence that an elephant has the same legal standing as a coffee table. Or maybe we’ll have gone too far in the other direction and future generations will lament that we passed laws that allowed the chimpanzees to take over and become our Overlords. Who’s to say? The Big Sky Film Series presents Unlocking the Cage at the Silver Theatre Sun., June 12, at 7 PM. 2023 S. Higgins. Free. arts@missoulanews.com
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Beast within The Lobster deftly satirizes the rules of attraction by Molly Laich
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Worst game of hide-and-go-seek ever.
The plot of The Lobster is summarized on imdb.com with one terrifying sentence: “In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.” Being turned into an animal is a particular fear of mine, and reading that description made me genuinely afraid to see this movie. Last summer, I fell asleep to Kevin Smith’s horror film, Tusk, about a kidnapped podcaster (I have still never seen it in its entirety). That night, and many nights since, Justin Long’s grotesque transformation into a walrus has weaved its way in and out of my dreams in an unpleasant way. To be a lobster, trapped under the lonely weight of the ocean, with black slimy eyes and claws where my hands should be, sounds like a fate worse than death. But as it turns out, my fears were (mostly) unwarranted, because The Lobster is (sort of ) a comedy. This is the first English language feature from Greek writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos. His 2009 movie Dogtooth earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film and by all accounts seems to share an equally batshit premise. The Lobster stars Colin Farrell as David, who begins his stay at “The Hotel” with his brother (a collie), after his wife leaves him. It’s a lot of fun watching David learn the culture of this strange, polite dystopia at the same time we do. The Hotel staff enforces terrifying rules with European politeness. For example, when a man with a lisp ( John C. Reilly) breaks the “no masturbation” policy, they bring a toaster to his breakfast table and make him stick his hand inside.
Hotel guests are defined by their eccentricities and expected to find a match with similar quirks. David is short-sighted, his friend has a limp, there’s a girl with a nosebleed, a German woman is marked by cruel indifference, and so on. The men and women circle around each other like shy teenagers at a school dance. There must be something wrong with them if they can’t find suitable matches on their own in The City, after all. Beyond the walls of The Hotel, a group of escaped guests called The Loners have formed their own society in The Woods. Living with The Loners means no dating, a rule enforced by their cruel dictator (Léa Seydoux) with shrewd efficiency. Rachel Weisz plays “The Short-Sighted Woman” who gets all the men to catch her rabbits using a wile that borders dangerously on breaking the rules. The consequences are dire, yet these characters speak with a droll, hilarious resignation that undercuts the horror just enough to make it palatable. Farrell’s portrayal of David in particular is nothing short of comedic genius. He’s a nice person, but he’s not a pushover or a blank slate, and it’s a pleasure to see the way he improvises in a series of trying situations. At its core, The Lobster is a satire on human attraction and the societal norms we foist on the institution of coupling. Yet there are so many other ideas and bizarre happenings floating around it’s hard to know what conclusions to come to by the end. That’s not a criticism. If anything, the mystery makes you want to watch the film again and again until you get it. Claws down, The Lobster is the weirdest movie I’ve seen this year. The Lobster opens at the Roxy Fri., June 10. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] THE NICE GUYS Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are a comedy dream team as two fading L.A. detectives trying to unravel the apparent suicide of a porn star in the ‘70s. This really is how people dressed back then. I have the Angel’s Flight pants to prove it. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK AMERICAN PSYCHO Do we love anything more than a cute antihero leading a double life? No. Christian Bale stars as the businessman-by-day, serial-killer-by-night in this slasher film from 2000. Showing at the Roxy Sat. Rated R.
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING From The Lonely Island comedy trio, this farce features Andy Samberg as a boy band pop star whose career is tanking while he flails desperately to keep his celebrity status. Also starring Imogen Poots and a ton of real-live celebrities. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12.
BEVERLY HILLS COP If for nothing else but the soundtrack, travel back to the ‘80s with Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley on the hunt for leather-clad troublemakers. Rated R. Plays at the Roxy Thurs., June 16, at 8 PM. THE CONJURING 2 Even this movie poster has the power to give me nightmares. But if you’re into demonic possession, malicious spirits and spending a couple hours wondering why the hell this single mother of four doesn’t just move, The Conjuring 2 will probably fulfill your dreams. Showing at the Carmike. THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART III So much material to cover in the life of homeless teenage gutter punks. Check out rock ‘n roll anthropologist Penelope Spheeris’ latest at the Roxy. Wed., June 15. 8 PM. Unrated. EPIC This animated fantasy transports a young girl to a forest where a battle between magical forces of good and evil is taking place. It will be, uh, epic. Starring the voices of Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson and Beyoncé Knowles. PG. Thu., June 16, at 10 AM at Carmike 12. THE LEGO MOVIE The toys you grew up stepping on now star in an action-packed animated adventure to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the world together. (P.S., I dunno how kids feel about it, but it earns an A-plus from inebriated 20-somethings.) Brought to you by the “Clone High” writers, and starring the voices of Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks and Craig Berry. Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy Tue., June 14 at 11 AM. THE LOBSTER Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos brings his view of a dystopian future much different than Katniss Everdeen. This one features Colin Farrell being funny. Yum. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy. NOW YOU SEE ME It’s the FBI versus four of the world’s greatest illusionists during this caper. This will go way beyond pulling rabbits out of hats. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Woody Harrelson. Oh, and Morgan Freeman
RISKY BUSINESS The Roxy’s Totally ‘80s Summer blasts off with the movie that shot Tom Cruise to superstardom, wiggling in his tighty whities. When the straight arrow teen’s parents leave him home alone for the weekend, his life quickly fills with hookers, pimps, drugs and money. And a preponderance of bass. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., June 9 at 8 PM.
See what I mean? Nightmares. Conjuring 2 screens at Carmike 12. and Michael Caine show up, too. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE PURITY MYTH The Purity Myth, a documentary centered around the disturbing trend of “purity balls” shows for free on Mon., June 13, at 7 PM at the Roxy. The film will be followed by a panel and audience discussion. (See Spotlight) TIME TO CHOOSE Academy Award-winning documentarian Charles Ferguson takes a proactive look at climate change in his new film Time to Choose. Take a look at the remarkable people working to save our planet and follow their lead. At the Roxy Tues., June 14, at 6 PM. WARCRAFT Get your role play on with the fantasy film adapted from the fantasy game World of Warcraft. Warning: diehards may be disappointed but it’s a great opportunity to dress up. Rated PG-13. Opens at Carmike.
NOW PLAYING ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS The fantasy continues as Alice enlists the help of her new friends to save the Mad Hatter. Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Mia Wasikowska. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE What’s next, a movie inspired by a grocery store receipt? When an island of happy, flightless birds is invaded by green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely heroes to save the day. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Captain America and Iron Man find themselves on opposite sides of the ideology fence in Marvel’s latest installment of the “Avengers” franchise. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. THE JUNGLE BOOK The 1967 original with Louis Prima and Phil Harris will never be surpassed, but as they say, YMMV. Disney’s reboot of the Rudyard Kipling story features Bill Murray as Baloo the Bear, ScarJo as Kaa the Snake and Christopher Walken as King Louie. It holds promise. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP Based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan, the Whit Stillman-directed movie follows Lady Susan Vernon in her efforts to set her daughter—and herself—up with a suitable gentleman. Rated PG. Showing at the Roxy. ME BEFORE YOU From the JoJo Moyes novel of the same name, a small-town girl forms an unlikely bond with the recently paralyzed man she’s taking care of. Rated PG13. Showing at the Carmike 12.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS The pizza-loving subterranean reptiles return to save the city from a pack of destructive rhino beasts. Stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Tyler Perry. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. UNLOCKING THE CAGE Animal rights lawyer Steven Wise attempts to shift our thinking about animal rights. In Unlocking the Cage, he argues animal rights should be on par with human rights. Showing at the Silver Theater, 2023 S. Higgins, Sun., June 12, at 7 PM. Free. X-MEN: APOCALYPSE When Apocalypse the mutant attempts to destroy the world, the X-Men reunite to stop him. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. Capsule reviews by Gaaby Patterson and Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 7289380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MAISEY•
Maisey is a 3-year-old female Lab/Bull Terrier mix. She is a young girl who is eager to please and ready to play. She would love a family that will give her lots of play time in the yard, but really all Maisey wants is a couch to hog and someone to snuggle. She is always so excited to see people and spins in circles when she thinks she's going to get attention.
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TRUMAN•Truman is an 8-month-old male Lab mix. This young and rambunctious fellow wants to play all day! Truman is eager to please and very treat-motivated. So, although he doesn't have any formal training yet, he's the perfect blank slate to train up the way you want.
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KINLEE•Kinlee is a 2-year-old female longhaired black and white cat. She is as sweet as can be and loves to snuggle. Kinlee's favorite form of affection is being brushed out. She rolls herself upside down to be brushed in just the right spot. Please visit Kinlee at Petsmart’s adoption center. ROGERS•Rogers is a 6-8 year-old male shorthaired black and white cat. He doesn't seem to dislike other cats, but isn't sure if he really appreciates being in close quarters with them either. Rogers is curious and outgoing, but not the most cuddly creature we've met. He'd enjoy holding long, philosophical conversations over a bag of cat treats long before he'd be interested in a snuggle session.
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JADE• Jade is a 2-year-old female Tortie cat. She is a rather social creature and greets you with her inquisitive eyes every morning. Jade usually likes other cats, but once in a while her Tortie personality comes out. When this happens, she will usually complain loudly at the injustices she's been dealt in life. She forgives (or forgets) easily, though, and reverts to her gentle ways.
DUDLEY•Dudley is a 1-year-old male German Shepherd mix. He is a big, bouncy boy with lots of get-up-and-go. Dudley is very smart and knows several commands, including sit, shake, and wait. He could use a fair amount of training for general manners. For this reason, we would like to see him go to an experienced dog owner or someone who can commit to a training program.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 BARBIE• This cat is a Barbie girl in a Barbie
world. Not surprisingly this green-eyed girl is friendly, independent, and loves being held and brushed. Her favorite spot to sleep is on a pillow next to your head. If you're ready for a glamour cat, this brown and black tabby is your girl. Barbie’s adoption fee is only $10 during June’s Adopt-a-Cat Month!
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SNUFFLES• Snuffles is a sweet lady with a lot of love to give, but she hides it beneath a shy exterior. Take a few moments to let her warm up, and she'll shine the sweet light of her affection upon you. After that, it's on like Donkey Kong -- this senior lady transforms into a verbal, playful feline, who favors attention above all things. Catnip, sleeping and toys come a distant second, third and fourth in her mind.
LUCKY•Lucky certainly thinks he is “man enough” to be adopted during Adopt-a-Cat Month. In partnership with Best Friends, the Humane Society of Western Montana is asking “Is your dad man enough?” To celebrate all the awesome, cat-loving dads this month, select cat adoptions will be only $10! Visit myhswm.org to learn more.
SAMI• Sami can’t wait to be adopted and is excited to say that during June’s Adopt-a-Cat month her adoption fee is just $10. This gentle gal is looking for a quiet home where she can engage in meaningful conversation and then join you for a nap.
CHI CHI•Stop by Petco to meet Chi Chi! This fluffy gal is looking for a quiet home where she can relax and live like royality. At 12 years old Chi Chi appreciates napping, cat treats, and entertaining visitors. If you would like to spend some one on one time with Chi Chi, stop by The Humane Society of Western Montana today!
LORENZO• Lorenzo was recently transferred to us from another facility and is ready to find his new home in Missoula. We are still learning about Lorenzo's likes and dislikes, but we do know that he loves to sit in windowsills. He is a sweet and playful young cat who is ready to crawl into your heart today!
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It’s not easy being green by Jamie Rogers Leafy greens have gotten an unfair shake in America. In a country with so many proud food traditions— from lobster rolls to smoked brisket to corn on the cob—you might think we’d have figured out some better things to do with a category of vegetable so varied in taste and appearance. But besides Caesar salad, spinach dip and slow-cooked collards, our food culture has generally failed in paying homage to what may be our most versatile produce. The reasons for this betrayal are complicated, but I think can be boiled down to a simple fact: The cheapest and most widely available greens are pallid and flavorless varieties of lettuce. We hide them on burgers and deli sandwiches, and we slather them in creamy dressings. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There’s a world of greens available in Missoula, running the gamut of flavors and textures. From purple kale to rainbow chard, oakleaf lettuce to radicchio— if you are looking to spice up your obligatory helping of vegetables at dinner, greens are worth reconsidering. And arugula is a good place to begin. Native to the Mediterranean, arugula is a diminutive green with a lot of flavor. It’s a member of the Brassica genus, and like its relative mustard, it packs a punch. Mildly nutty, arugula is best known for its peppery taste, which ranges on the heat spectrum from subtle to a wasabi-style burn you feel in your sinuses. Tossed with a simple vinaigrette or added to a salad of chopped lettuce, it offers a little intrigue to the otherwise mundane. But don’t think of it only as a salad green— arugula is a multitasker. Also known as rocket, roquette and eruca, arugula is cultivated around the world not only as a component for salads but also as
WHAT’S GOOD HERE a culinary herb. Served on top of pizza or a piece of meat, cooked into a tomato sauce, folded into an omelet or blended into pesto, its uses are limited only by a willingness to try. If arugula has a downside, though, it’s availability. Though you can find it year-round at just about every grocery store in Missoula, local farmers grow the good stuff from May to October. Fortunately, western Montana is home to dozens of such farms, and few, if any, grow as much arugula as County Rail Farm in Dixon. Tracy Potter-Fins and her partner, Margaret De Bona, began growing organic vegetables near the Jocko River in 2011. During their first season, they harvested about 200 pounds of arugula, but quickly realized the market had an appetite for more. “Demand went up and we obliged,” says PotterFins. “Now, in our sixth season, we harvest almost as much every week as we did that first year.” And while the farmers have harvested and packaged thousands of pounds over the years, Potter-Fins says they haven’t tired of eating the pungent greens. They still skim some product from each harvest. “We have a bag of it in our fridge and on our table at every meal. It goes in salad, under eggs, on top of pasta, blended into anything and munched throughout the day for a gentle kick …,” she says. “It’s one of the many vegetables on the farm I’m constantly in awe of—it looks as gorgeous in the field as it does on the plate.” You can find County Rail Farm arugula at Missoulaarea grocery stores. Or, better yet, meet the people who produce it by visiting their stand at the Clark Fork Market. They can help reinforce why leafy greens—and arugula in particular—deserve more respect.
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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 • asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's is serving Espresso!! Yep, you heard us right. And, we have heard you. Bernice's espresso was created by the talented staff at Hunter Bay (and approved by the staff at Bernice's) to represent the full bodied flavor character of the infamous Bernice's Cup o' Joe. Our espresso is a rich Mocha Java blend of sweet berry African coffees united with Indonesian and Brazilian coffees for an espresso that compliments Bernice's palate of fresh baked treats. Serving 7 days a week 6a-8p. Now you can enjoy your morning croissant, muffin or scone with espresso! Wheee! Or, stop by after dinner and have a dessert with a demitasse. Bernice's: from scratch for your pleasure…always. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries &
gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble
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[dish] teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it's coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula's largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.
Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 317-1829 romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$
Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 • themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $
The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 • missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $
Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegranate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh
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Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa's BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you've come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa's best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$
The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$
Juice shots at Black Coffee Roasting Co.
Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon– Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
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Shots shots shots: As summer heat waves approach, stay cool as a cucumber with the cold-pressed juice shots recently added to the menu at Black Coffee Roasting Co. Something different: Black Coffee coowner Ella Chapman says she devised the shots as a refreshing alternative to coffee or tea. She makes them herself using a powerful juicer that extracts fruit juice with 2,000 pounds of hydraulic pressure, leaving only a papery bit of pulp behind. But Black Coffee won’t be turning into a juicery any time soon. “A little shot of juice, it’s not too small or too big, it’s a nice amount,” Chapman says. “And we’re a coffee shop, we specialize in coffee and coffee roasting, but we also want to make sure we’re offering our clientele something more to drink than coffee.” The flavors: The shots come in three rotating varieties. Currently, there’s a beet-appleginger-lemon shot, which is bracingly sweet-tart with a hint of earthiness. Chapman says many people’s favorite is the carrot-
orange-turmeric, a vivid sunrise-colored concoction. “People keep coming back for that,” she says. The latest addition is a yellow cucumber-pineapple-ginger flavor that even kids enjoy, she says. The fruits and veggies offer health benefits, of course, but it’s most important to her that people appreciate the taste. How to drink them: Some people do knock the shots back like, well, a shot, but it’s also worth it to sip and savor the bright flavors. The juices also pair well with coffees. “It’s fun to see people take a shot of espresso and follow it with a juice shot,” Chapman says. Where to find them: At Black Coffee Roasting Co., 525 Spruce St. Open seven days a week. —Kate Whittle Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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THU | 6-16 | 10PM | PALACE Venom, Inc. play with Necrophagia and more at the Palace Lounge Thurs. June 16. Doors at 9, show at 10. $10 in advance or $13 day of the show for 18 and over.
TUE | 9PM | TOP HAT The White Buffalo returns to Missoula for a night of gritty country-rock at the Top Hat Tue. June 14. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance at tophatlounge.com
FRI | 10PM | TOP HAT Bozeman's 2015 Best New Local Band and Best Folk Act Hawthorne Roots come to the Top Hat Fri. June 10. We hear they put on a killer show. 10 PM. Free.
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WED | 6PM | GREAT BURN Aran Buzzas plays a blend of honky tonk and folk originals he calls folky-tonk. Check him out at Great Burn Brewing, 6– 8 PM. Free.
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Thursday Friday Missoula, land of fresh produce, provides yet another weekly market for all your organic needs. 10 AM to 2 PM every Thurs. in Mansfield Mall on campus. Spend a couple of hours at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. As you weed, mulch and build, you’ll learn about native plants and how to create your own garden at home. 4–6 PM. Free and open to the public.
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday through August, 5:30-8:30 PM. June 16, music by Missoula XC, Zillastate. Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class in dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. every Thursday from 6–7 PM. $5 donation. Dan Dubuque is in the business of kicking ass with his blazing steel guitar work. And business is good. Get on the receiving end at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8:30 PM. Free. Missoula County Democratic Convention will caucus to select local Democrats to be considered to represent Montana at the Democratic National Convention. Meeting will be held at Hellgate High School’s main auditorium at 6 PM. Feed your astronomy jones with UM’s Summer Planetarium Series. Spend some time looking at Missoula’s night skies, then enjoy a program from a presenter on different celestial objects and events. Every other Thu. through Aug. 18, two 50-min. shows per night, 6:30 PM and 8 PM. Payne Family Native American Center Stargazing Room. $6/$4 for kids 12 and under. Summer’s here and the time is right for folk dancing in the streets. Missoula Folklore Society hosts their Summer Dance, at the fairgrounds Home Arts building. Skippin’ a Groove provides the music and Bev Young and Morna Leonard do the calling. Workshop at 6:30 PM, dance at 7. $5, all ages. Missoula novelist, former Missoulian reporter and pie enthusiast Gwen Florio reads from and signs copies of Disgraced, her new book featuring her celebrated character Lola Wicks. Shakespeare & Co., 7 PM. Free.
Health care professionals convene for the the seventh biannual Montana Pain Initiative Conference, June 1011 at the University Center Ballroom. Follow “Montana Pain Initiative” on Facebook. Just think of the Instagram oppor tunities when you join the Willow Tree Planting and Riverbank Restoration out at Council Grove State Park, where Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks aims to preserve the natural beauty of the park. Volunteers are needed to cut stems, dig holes and plant trees starting at 10 AM. Contact Jamie at councilgrove.americorps @gmail.com to join in. You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, t h e f i b e r- a r t s c r a f t group that meets at the Missoula Public Library in the board room from noon-2 PM Fridays. No registration required, just show up!
Magpies play with BOYS and Critical Failure at the Palace, Fri., June 10, at 10 PM. $5 cover for this 21-plus show. The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence Painted Color Ceramics shows you Bring an instrument or just kick back Enjoy free cinema at Missoula Public every Friday on the Higgins Bridge how to Color Your World with and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Library’s World Wide Cinema night, from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit crayons at their latest family-friendly Session every Friday at the Union the second Friday of every month. jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. The series showcases indie and forworkshop. 4-6 PM. $30 pays Club from 6–9 PM. No cover. Join other peddlers for a weekly ride for supplies, lesson and finished Montana Professional Artists Assoc. eign films. Doors open at 6:45, show at 7 PM. Check missoula to Free Cycles Missoula and back to product. hold their annual art show and sale publiclibrary.org for info. Free. UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. at the Bitter Root River Inn. Reception 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra nightlife starts at 6 PM. Call 406-961-3887 Live music most Fridays at The Keep. Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info. This week Kira Means plays from 7It holds true that players are going for more info. 10 PM. Free. Experience what it would have been to play and haters are going to like to live with the dinosaurs when hate, and thusly, we must shake, Do your part for Big Brothers Big Sis- Glad it’s Friday? So is Gladys FriJurassic Quest comes to the Adams shake, shake it off. Dance it up to ters’ annual spring fundraiser, with day. Because you’ll be shaking your Center, June 10-12. Interact with hot traxx from artists like Tay Sway dinner, live and silent auctions and moneymaker to their R&B and good more than 50 life-size animatronic and Katy Perry at the Oulapalooza, tunes from singer songwriter Chance ol’ rock ‘n roll at the Union Club. McKinney. 6 PM at The Ranch Club. dinosaurs. Hours vary. $13 for 12 a two-hour cardio blast at the 9:30 PM. No cover. and under/$18 for adults. See Lifelong Learning Center. 5:30- Visit bbbsmissoula.org. www.umt.edu/griztix/ for info. 7:30 PM. Register at the Lifelong As Eminem always says, “Don’t be Bozeman’s 2015 Best New Local Learning Center’s website in scared, ‘cus there ain’t nothin’ to Band and Best Folk Act Hawthorne Now’s your chance to become an advance. $11. worry ‘bout.” Put on your gigantic Roots come to the Top Hat to share esteemed local aesthetic expert with their original “unique and exciting” the Missoula Art Museum’s Art Celebrate young artists at the YAAP 17-layer skirt and bolo tie and head Guide Training, led by education cu- (that’s Young Artists After-School Pro- to the Top Hat to get down with The sound. We hear they put on a killer rator Renee Taaffe. 3 PM. Email gram, for those in the know) gallery Beet Tops. 6-8 PM every family- show. 10 PM. Free. reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org to opening with works from artists ages friendly Friday. As Shane Hickey says, one of these get all the deets. 6-11. The show runs concurrently things is not like the other: Magpies, Transplanted Texan Tom Catmull with the opening for Jesse Jackson BOYS and Critical Failure play a I don’t know about you, but wrapping says he likes to makes sounds using Brown, whose colorful patterned tour kickoff at the Palace, starting at up my work week by watching some acoustic and electric guitar and sing poor cricket getting devoured by a paintings will be on display in the a little bit, too. “The harmonica is 10. $5 cover for this 21-plus show. large Chilean tarantula is somehow hallway gallery. Hosted at the ZACC mostly just for flavor and to help us Badlanders now hosts I Love the 90s very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at from 5:30 to 8:30 PM. both pass the time.” Check out the and they’ve promised no less than 4 the Missoula Butterfly House and In- Get the summer medicine you need show at the Montana Distillery, corNon Blondes/Nirvana heaven. sectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. Free when Doctor, Doctor plays Missoula ner of Woody and Railroad streets, Starts at 10. $3 cover for this 21+ with $4 admission to MBHI. Winery 6-9 PM. Free. from 6-8 PM. show.
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Saturday You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Bitter Root Day will be celebrated at Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton with a street festival to honor the Montana state flower. Call 406-3633338 for more info. Missoula’s Farmer’s Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave. Missoula’s Clark Fork Market features vendors offering local produce and meats as well as locally made products, hot coffee and prepared foods. Music starts at 10:30 under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October. Add to your vintage jewelry collection AND help Missoula Aging Services provide critical services for Missoula’s senior citizens at the “Wear It Again” Jewelry Sale at St. Anthony Church, 217
Tremont St. from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (See Agenda)
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Jeanette Rankin Peace Center’s second annual unconference will look at how we can all become the wings of peace in our communities. 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM at the University Congregational Church.
Expect big gowns and sparkly smiles at the Mrs. Montana America Pageant 2016, hosted by the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Call 8303296 for info.
Experience what it would have been like to live with the dinosaurs when Jurassic Quest comes to the Adams Center, June 10-12. Interact with more than 50 life-size animatronic dinosaurs. Hours vary. $13 for 12 and under/$18 for adults. See www.umt.edu/griztix/ for info. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Today’s the day the fun starts! Splash Montana opens daily for the summer. 11 AM7:30 PM Mon. through Fri. and 11 AM-6 PM on weekends. Dave Lucas reads and signs his book of poetry Weather at Fact & Fiction at 11:30 AM.
Venture up the Rattlesnake to hear John Floridis play Ten Spoon Vineyard Winery at 6 PM. Tasting room open 4-9 PM. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover. The Jack Saloon and Grill presents County Line. Pull up a log at 7000 Graves Creek Road in Lolo. 6 PM. Free. Missoula-grown hip-hop artist OverTime returns on his fifth U.S. tour to finish things off in his hometown, at Monk’s Bar specifically. Doors at 9:00 PM, show at 10. $10 at overtimemusic.com. (See Music) Grant Farm bring their joyful roots rock to the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. (See Music)
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County Line play the Lumberjack Saloon for the Dyno Days and Tractor Pull, Sat., June 11, at 6 PM.
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Sunday Join Aaron Parett for Charlie B’s: a Tyrptich, songs and poems by Parrett and local poets Mark Gibbons and Dave Thomas. At Charlie B’s from 35 PM. Call 406-396-4942 for info.
The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
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Join the Rocky Mountaineers as they head to Spotted Dog near Deer Lodge to see how far they can hike in. You know, if that’s your thing. Contact Julie Kahl at jawkal@ rockymountaineers.com for info.
Dig some great local brew and great local jazz at Imagine Nation Brewing Co.’s Sunday Night Jazz with Monk’s New Brew. Gary Kiggins hosts some of Missoula’s finest talent every Sunday, 5:30–8 PM. Free.
Experience what it would have been like to live with the dinosaurs when Jurassic Quest comes to the Adams Center, June 10-12. Interact with more than 50 life-size animatronic dinosaurs. Hours vary. $13 for 12 and under/$18 for adults. See www.umt.edu/griztix/ for info.
The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band puts some swing in the month’s second Sunday when they play the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com.
Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session on Sunday mornings. Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you move like nobody is watching at the Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM–noon, $5. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up. No cover.
Experience what it would have been like to live with the dinosaurs when Jurassic Quest comes to the Adams Center, June 10-12. Interact with more than 50 life-size animatronic dinosaurs. Hours vary. $13 for 12 and under/$18 for adults. See www.umt.edu/griztix/ for info.
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Spotlight Now, a dozen plus years later, I can look back at these days and realize things could have been so much worse. Despite being taught outright lies and dangerous half-truths, I never had to attend a purity ball. A purity ball, a party that falls somewhere between prom and exorcism, is an event where fathers give their prepubescent daughters silver rings, making them promise to not WHAT: The Purity Myth have sex before marriage. Purity balls, and our culture’s views on sexWHO: UM Department of uality, are at the forefront in the 2011 Women’s, Gender and Sexuality documentary The Purity Myth. Based Studies on the book of the same name, this movie explores the damaging double WHEN: Mon., June 13, at 7 PM standard society puts on women. VirWHERE: Roxy Theater ginity: either you have it and that’s great, or you don’t and that’s bad. HOW MUCH: Free Except when it’s not bad. The Purity MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org Myth is a documentary that is absolutely worth watching, but is going are something you catch from toilet to stick with you for a long time. Which, seats and door knobs. Second: concompared to those sex ed class lessons, doms don’t prevent the transmission of is something I’d much rather have stuck HIV. Third: saving yourself for marriage in my head. is the only way to lead a clean, produc—Charley Macorn tive, Godly life.
Fifteen years ago my most pubertyravaged school friends and I were given two weeks of sex ed in rural Montana, where even the idea of sex ed was controversial. I remember very little from that class (which probably explains why my current sex life is best compared to a circus train on fire), but three lessons have stuck with me for years. First: sexual transmitted infections
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Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free.
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Monday Sip a fancy soda for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family-friendly, noon–8 PM. Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon–1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillow learning.org. Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25. The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 4-7 PM. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Call 210-8792 or drop in to observe a class. $60 for four classes.
nightlife Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.
Caroline Keys and Friends, aka Jeff Turnman and Gibson Harwell, play original country folk at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–9 PM. Free. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
Caroline Keys with Jeff Turnman and Gibson Harwell, play original country folk at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–9 PM. Free.
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Tuesday Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly class at Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from noon-1 PM. $35 for four classes or $10 drop-in. Visit redwillowlearning.org. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday in June and July at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.
nightlife Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set
up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at Toole Park, 5 PM. Free. Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Westside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. Find locations at facebook.com/ MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Get those thumbs limbered up! The Official MPL Gamers Club meets to play Wii and Xbox 360 in the YA dept. at the Missoula Public Library.
Wednesday Is your toddler a budding Nikola Tesla in pull-ups? Find out at Science Sprouts: Early Childhood Program at SpectrUM Discovery Area, 218 E. Front St., from 11 AM to noon. Kids 2-5 participate in playful science experiments and crafts. Free with paid museum admission. Out to Lunch features live music in the riverfront setting of Caras Park every Wednesday through August. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from more than 20 vendors. This week’s music by the Salamanders and the Retro-Tones. 11 AM–2 PM. Free. Visit missouladown town.com for a schedule of performers. Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wed. through the summer. Croquet, bocce and Petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4-7 PM.
nightlife Montana Natural History Center turns 25! Enjoy free admission, free kids activities, free show by The Salamanders and a free ice cream cone or beer (age appropriate) to the first 100 people. 120 Hickory Street. 5:30-7:30 PM. (See Mountain High) Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free. This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Local singer/songwriter Aran Buzzas plays a blend of honk tonk and folk originals he calls folky-tonk. Check him out at Great Burn Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free.
Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash. Michael J. Dax reads from and signs copies of his new book, Grizzly West. Fact & Fiction downtown, 7 PM. Free. Camp Daze Presents: Pro Teens, the very clever band from Phoenix, playing with Tiny Plastic Stars and BOYS at the ZACC starting at 7 PM. All ages, small cover TBA. Win big bucks off your bar tab and / or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Halfprice whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30-10:30 PM. No cover. Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover.
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Ages 13–19, 6:30 PM. Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, from 7– 9 PM. $5. Call 381-1392 for more info. Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7-9 PM.
Soothe your disappointment over Drake’s latest album when LA-based trippy rapper Adder takes over the Palace Lounge. Guests include Tommy V, Codependents and Lowborn, a new supa-group including Wormwood, Krillhead and Mr. Soap. 8 PM. Cover TBA. Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free.
Try to hang on when Blue October from San Marcos, Texas, fill the room with their melodic, emotional tunes. At the Wilma with Austin’s Danny Malone. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $29 at thewilma.com.
Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM to 1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.
Either very confident or very mean, Stage 112 hosts an open mic roast for Zach Jarvis before he leaves for greener pastures. The free-for-all starts at 8 PM.
The White Buffalo returns to Missoula for a night of gritty country-rock at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance at tophatlounge.com.
Spotlight Horror icon Boris Karloff famously said, “There is nothing scarier than a clown after midnight.” From this we can infer Mr. Karloff never
Man’s Best Friend. Like me, many see rats as disease-carrying, holiday-ruining monsters. But as Rachel Toor, UM MFA grad and author of upcoming young adult nonfiction book Misunderstood, explains, these rodents are generally clean, WHAT: Misunderstood reading make excellent pets and are an WHO: Rachel Toor integral part of scientific advancement. WHEN: Thu. June 16, at 7 PM I don’t know if rats’ marketWHERE: Fact & Fiction ing department put up any money to HOW MUCH: Free have MisunderMORE INFO: factandfiction books.com
woke up to pee in the middle of Christmas night only to find rats skittering around his bathtub and picnicking on his toothbrush. And while I personally have never seen a clown after midnight (not for lack of trying, mind you), I cannot imagine the sounds I would make in this situation would be in any way comparable to the screams I made that Christmas. Maybe it’s a matter of marketing. I’d imagin some animals must have a more money for self-promotion than others. On paper, cats–only different from spiders because of fur, size and number of legs– are well loved by huge swaths of the human population. Dogs have successfully branded themselves as
rat-a-tat tat stood published, but if it did it was money well spent. Misunderstood features profiles of rat lovers and rat activists as well as autobiographical tales of Toor’s own childhood and her own pet rat, Iris. While I may still be skeptical about rats, if they have a fan base that can produce an entire book, maybe rats are better creatures than I’ve been giving them credit for.
—Charley Macorn
Thursday Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.
David Allan Cates reads from his new book of poetry The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan at Shakespeare & Co. 7-8 PM. (See Books)
Missoula, land of fresh produce, provides yet another weekly market for all your organic needs. 10 AM to 2 PM every Thurs. in Mansfield Mall on campus.
Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash.
Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4–5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks or $10 drop-in.
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
Spend a couple of hours at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. As you weed, mulch and build, you’ll learn about native plants and how to create your own garden at home. 4– 6 PM. Free and open to the public.
Hone your performance skills at Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with singing and prizes at 9 PM. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday through August, 5:30-8:30 PM. June 16, music by Missoula XC, Zillastate. Visit missouladowntown.com for a list of performers. Rachel Toor reads from and signs copies of her new work, Misunderstood. Fact & Fiction downtown, 7 PM. Free. (See Spotlight)
Hand me my glowsticks, Mama wants to jiggle. Dead Hipster Dance Party is tonight at the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Mudslide Charley play their bring-the-housedown blues at Top Hat at 9:30 PM. Vocalist Lee Rizzo is a force with which to be reckoned. Free. Venom, Inc., Necrophagia and more play the Palace Lounge. Doors at 9, show at 10. $10 in advance or $13 day of the show for 18 and over.
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Mudslide Charley play their bring-the-house-down blues at the Top Hat Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free.
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photo courtesy of Kim Hutcheson
Ask anyone who knows her, they’ll tell you my mom’s always had killer style. She was wearing leggings back when they were called stretch pants. Scarves, capes and outrageous boots took up residence in her walk-in closet before the word “hipster” even existed. And her collection of vintage jewelry: unrivaled. Not only has she always had a standing jewelry case that’s taller than she is, she’s got drawers and drawers in her closet lined with necklaces, earrings and bracelets to make you feel like Coco Chanel or Audrey Hepburn or Lillian Gish. When I was a dumb kid, I begged for her to let me shop at Claire’s, but she continued to try to transmit some taste. Though I was a reluctant beneficiary, I was always the girl at high school dances decked out in amazing vintage jewelry. It’s a shame I haven’t always appreciated the gifts she offered me. Thankfully, I appreciate them now. I’ve inherited a few of my mom’s pieces over the years and have acquired some of my own,
THURSDAY JUNE 9 Missoula County Democratic Convention will caucus to select local Democrats to be considered to represent Montana at the Democratic National Convention. Meeting will be held at Hellgate High School’s main auditorium at 6 PM. Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month. This month talk DNA with Pierre Franckh. Community Room, 6– 7:30 PM. Free and open to the public. Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash.
FRIDAY JUNE 10 Health care professionals convene for the the seventh biannual Montana Pain Initiative Conference, June 10-11 at the University Center Ballroom. Follow “Montana Pain Initiative” on Facebook. Do your part for Big Brothers Big Sisters’ annual spring fundraiser, with dinner, live and silent auc-
like a three-strand pearl necklace with a delicate diamond clasp that makes me believe I’m Jackie O. whenever I wear it. I’m always looking to expand on my starter-kit collection. And now I have my own 11-year-old reluctant beneficiary. You can bet I’ll be dragging her along to Missoula Aging Services’ Wear It Again Jewelry Sale this Saturday. There will be tons of items to choose from and all proceeds go to help MAS continue to provide critical programs for Missoula’s elders and their caregivers. It’s no wonder I’m thrilled about this event. I’ve definitely come to appreciate good people and vintage jewelry as I’ve grown older. —Gaaby Patterson Wear It Again Jewelry Sale put on by Missoula Aging Services is Sat. June 11 from 8:30 AM to 3 PM at St. Anthony Church, 217 Tremont St.
tions and tunes from singer songwriter Chance McKinney. 6 PM at The Ranch Club. Visit bbbsmissoula.org.
SATURDAY JUNE 11 Jeanette Rankin Peace Center’s second annual unconference will look at how we can all become the wings of peace in our communities. 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM at the University Congregational Church.
SUNDAY JUNE 13 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family-friendly, noon–8 PM.
TUESDAY JUNE 14 Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Westside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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ost likely, if you live in Missoula, Mont., you love the nature. What else would possess you to be willing to slog through six months of winter? That passion for nature can be handed down from parents to children or it may come through teachers who transmit that respect and reverence to their students. No one knows that educational quest better than the Montana Natural History Center. According to its website, MNHC, which was founded in 1991 was the “brainchild of a group of educators who were involved in various efforts to educate both kids and adults about the natural history of western Montana.” Those educators decided to pool their efforts and try to align their mission under one roof. For the past quarter century, that roof has sheltered kids activities, summer camps and naturalists that go into schools and give lectures. They provide master naturalist certification courses
and put together the “Field Notes” program on Montana Public Radio. On June 15, Montana Natural History Center celebrates 25 years of encouraging enlightenment, appreciation and respect for the beautiful state in which we live. If celebrating nature isn’t enough motivation for you, there will be live music by the Salamanders, drinks from Big Sky Brewing and food from Big Dipper, Big Thai Country, Covered Wagon Hotdogs and El Cazador. Free ice cream cone or beer, whichever’s appropriate, to the first 100 people that show up! —Gaaby Patterson Montana Natural History Center’s 25th Anniversary, Wed., June 15, 5:307:30 PM in the MNHC parking lot at 120 Hickory Street. Free to attend. Go to montananaturalist.org for more info.
photo by Joe Weston
THURSDAY JUNE 9 Spend a couple of hours at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. As you weed, mulch and build, you’ll learn about native plants and how to create your own garden at home. 4–6 PM. Free and open to the public. Feed your astronomy jones with UM’s Summer Planetarium Series. Spend some time looking at Missoula’s night skies, then enjoy a program from a presenter on different celestial objects and events. Every other Thu. through Aug. 18, two 50min. shows per night, 6:30 PM and 8 PM. Payne Family Native American Center Stargazing Room. $6/$4 for kids 12 and under.
FRIDAY JUNE 10 Just think of the Instagram opportunities when you join the Willow Tree Planting and Riverbank Restoration out at Council Grove State Park, where Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks aims to preserve the natural beauty of the park. Volunteers are needed to cut stems, dig holes and plant trees starting at 10 AM. Contact Jamie at councilgrove.americorps@gmail.com to join in. Join other peddlers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.
SATURDAY JUNE 11 Bitter Root Day will be celebrated at Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton with a street festival to honor the Montana state flower. Call 406-3633338 for more info.
Today’s the day the fun starts! Splash Montana opens daily for the summer. 11 AM-7:30 PM Mon. through Fri. and 11 AM-6 PM on weekends.
SUNDAY JUNE 13 The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100. Join the Rocky Mountaineers as they head to Spotted Dog near Deer Lodge to see how far they can hike in. You know, if that’s your thing. Contact Julie Kahl at jawkal@rockymountaineers.com for info.
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TUESDAY JUNE 14 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at Toole Park, 5 PM. Free. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM.
THURSDAY JUNE 16 Montana Natural History Center turns 25! Enjoy free admission, free kids activities, free show by The Salamanders and a free ice cream cone or beer (age appropriate) to the first 100 people. 120 Hickory Street. 5:30-7:30 PM. (See Mountain High)
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THE LITTER PRINCE My boyfriend and I just moved in together, and it's going well, except for how he leaves empty containers and trash everywhere. I asked him to please just put these in the garbage. He did this -- for a single day. These empties everywhere are driving me crazy, not because I mind picking them up but because I feel disrespected. It's weird, because he's otherwise sweet and attentive. –Exasperated That used Q-tip is only a collectible if he used to be Elvis. Of course, because your eyes go right to the empty cans and fast-food carcasses, you're thinking his must, too. Maybe – but maybe not. Psychologists Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals contend that men and women evolved to have differing spatial abilities, corresponding with the sexual divisions of labor -- men as hunters and women as gatherers (of salad and appetizers). Experiments by Silverman, Eals, and others support this theory. Men have more distance-oriented visual and navigational abilities, which would have been useful for tracking prey across a big plain: "Yo, bros, I believe that's dinner!" Men also excel at "mental rotation" -- turning objects around in their minds -- which would have helped them land a spear in a moving four-legged dinner entree before it got away. Women, on the other hand, do far better (sometimes 60 to 70 percent better) on tests of "object location memory" -- remembering objects and their placement in a setting. This ability for noticing and recalling detail would have helped them remember wee landmarks pointing back to where to find those yummy grubs. (It's less helpful with a boyfriend who waits to toss trash until it requires a backhoe.) The fact that your boyfriend tidied up upon request suggests he cares about your feelings. His doing that only once maybe just means it isn't a habit. Habits – behaviors we do pretty automatically – get ingrained over time through repeated action. They are triggered by cues in our behavior and environment. Unfortunately, for him, the action of throwing back, say, the last drop of Mountain Dew has been associated not with slamdunking it into the wastebasket but with leaving it on the coffee table for the archeologists to find. You could try to help him make the trash-trashcan association, maybe by one day tacking notes on the empties – like "Hello, Mr. Archeologist. I was enjoyed in 2016." The reality is that he may not always remember, in which case you should remind yourself that a guy who's otherwise "sweet" and "attentive" isn't leaving the
mess to mess with you. You and he can also figure out ways he can do his part around the house (washing the cars, bringing in the garbage bins, etc.) so you can pick up after him with a laugh instead of loathing. Someday, you two may bring new life into the world, but it shouldn't be a mystery fungus inside a Chinese food container that got kicked under the bed.
IRRECONCILABLE INDIFFERENCES My girlfriend of two years seems to be gradually moving me out of her life. Seeing her two or three times a week has dwindled into maybe once -- and no overnights. She'll meet me at the movies and then ditch me afterward, saying she's got a bunch of things to do. She denies anything's wrong, claiming she's just "very busy." I think there's more to it. —Left Hanging It seems you're right; she's really looking forward to your dates – the way a cow looks forward to a personal tour of the slaughterhouse. People talk about what a high falling in love is, and they aren't wrong, because their body's basically in the throes of a biochemical drug binge. University of Pisa psychiatrist Donatella Marazziti looked at blood samples of people who'd been madly in love for less than six months and found that they had serotonin levels comparable to people diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Luckily, obsessively having sex is more fun than obsessively washing your hands. Falling in love also alters testosterone levels -- though differently in men and women. Men's drop – making them more cuddlywuddly – and women's goes up, increasing their interest in sex. Unfortunately, this increased interest is temporary. Marazziti found that T levels went back to normal between the one- and two-year mark – which is when the feeling "We're perfect for each other!" can start to be replaced by "We're perfect for other people." This may be how she's been feeling. To get an answer -- beyond knee-jerk denials that anything's wrong -- email her. Ask her whether you two have a problem, and tell her to take a couple of days to think about it. Upon reflection, she should either decide to try to fix things or break up with you -- and not in a way that mimics continental drift.
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Breakfast Bar Attendant Needed at Missoula hotel in the university area. Responsible for cooking, heating food, and setting up breakfast area. Maintains food levels and cleanliness of area. Occasionally run airport shuttles. Valid driver’s license and clean driving record required. Shift runs from 5:30 to 11:00 a.m., 4 to 5 days a week. Must be available to work weekends. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10208282
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Calendar Editor Each week the Independent receives hundreds of press releases for its online and print calendar of events. We’re looking for a motivated, organized and funny writer capable of wrangling all those releases and creating a thorough— and thoroughly entertaining—guide to what’s going on around town. This part-time position puts you at the center of the local arts scene, and includes ample opportunity to write additional freelance stories for the paper’s award-winning A&E section. Send resume, cover letter and examples of your writing via email to editor@missoulanews.com
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PROJECT MANAGER / CIVIL DESIGNER DJ&A, a consulting civil engineering, planning, and surveying firm, based in Missoula, is growing and seeking a Project Manager (civil engineer or landscape architect) with 10+ years of experience and an entry level Civil Designer or Civil Engineer.
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EMPLOYMENT General Laborers General laborers needed from mid-June through the first week in December to pour concrete into barrier forms. 50-100ppl. Client will provide all PPE. Employees will need their own work boots. The works hours will be from 7am to 3: 30pm, with a half hour lunch. Hours could vary depending on concrete delivery times. There is a possibility of some overtime. $13/hour. – Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27827 NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033 Nelson Personnel is in search for a professional, friendly individual to fill FULL-TIME a RECEPTIONIST/ADMIN ASST. position. $10-12/hr. Call Us at 543-6033 NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill a PRODUCTION SUPPORT position for a manufacturing company. $11.00/hr. Full-Time. Call Us at 543-6033 PATTEE CREEK MARKET: Apply Mon-Sat from 9am-4pm. Open positions include: Bakery FT. Deli Worker FT. 704 SW Higgins Production Support Level 1 - Contribute to running the business by ensuring quality and on time delivery when preparing prefinished siding, including: loading of automated machines, painting of boards by hand, and bundling and packaging of units for shipment. Contribute to improving the business by continually contributing and implementing ideas to improve the worksite or processes at all times. This includes creating a positive culture of continuous improvement by learning and applying lean principles, exhibiting honesty at all times, and respecting other people at all times. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27159 Receptionist Busy company is in need of a part time receptionist (8am-2pm, M-F), to answer incoming calls, assist customers, file and fulfill other office duties, as needed. Multi-line phone, computer, and customer service skills required. You must be able to multi-task, provide excellent customer service and be extremely organized. The ‘right fit’ will have an outgoing personality, pleasant smile, positive telephone voice, and enjoy interacting with people. $11.00. This a part-time - long-term position. Job ID# 27797
Sound Engineer The OLE Beck VFW Post 209 is currently looking to hire a SOUND ENGINEER. Must be able to work nights and weekends. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10208843 Trader/Broker Assistant Ideal candidate will work in a fast-paced, changing and growing open office environment with a strong work ethic. Duties include: assisting domestic trader(s) with prospects and customers, maintaining orders, arranging and tracking shipments, building and maintaining relationships with new and existing logistics companies, customers and prospects, customer support and maintaining transaction paperwork and supplier audits. Must be confident, extremely detail oriented and possess strong written, oral, organizational skills. Must prioritize and be flexible and innovative in problem solving. 2+ years related business experience. Proficiency in MS OfficeOutlook, Excel, and Word. Excellent compensation and benefits package. – Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27755 Travel Agent Travel agents do much more than help members plan exceptional getaways. They are critical in helping deliver our tradition of trust through unparalleled service and value. As a rapidly growing and financially stable company we are recruiting a creative, dynamic and motivated Travel Agent to drive big ideas and enhance services for our members. This is an immediate part-time opportunity for a sales-minded individual to join an exclusive team of Travel Agents in our booming Missoula, MT Branch office. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27636 WORK OUTSIDE! NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill a Maintenance position for a property management company. $10/hr. Full-time. Call Us at 543-6033
ing, strong teamwork, de-escalation and crisis response skills, a passion for alternative learning environments, and an ability to engage with parents, teachers, school administrators and colleagues in a positive and goaloriented atmosphere. This position will provide individual and group-based interventions focused on the development of social skills interactions, managing emotional and behavioral challenges, teaching coping skills, and integrating interventions focused on positive behavioral support. Bachelor’s degree in related field required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10208336 Children’s Guitar Teacher The Childbloom Guitar Program is seeking a parttime guitar instructor beginning 8/29. Applicants must have experience working with young children in an educational capacity. This a well paid, fun, flexible, and rewarding position! E-mail resume or questions to office@missoulachildbloom.com Forensic Scientist Every day at the Montana Department of Justice, our employees are dedicated to ensuring the wellbeing and rights of the people of our great state. At the Department of Justice we do the right thing for the right reason. If you’re looking for an opportunity to be part of a team that builds a culture of character and excellence, demonstrates collaboration and selfless public service, and upholds the law and pursues public safety, the Department of Justice may just be the career for you. Please take a moment and watch the linked video to learn how the Department of Justice serves the citizens of Montana. Job Overview: This position performs a full range of scientific analysis of various materials and substances. Each analyst conducts quality control and quality assurance procedures, makes
significant technical contributions to the laboratory, shares new ideas, builds strong internal and external networks, and mentors and develops less experienced staff. As an expert witness examiners testify in court regarding analytical results, methodology, interpretation and reliability of results within their forensic field. Analysts may also supervise training programs and conduct research and planning in support of laboratory projects and goals. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10208786
SKILLED LABOR CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED from the Missoula area. • Must be present to apply • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 9am-5pm M-F. Quality Transportation is hiring CDL-A Drivers. Locations in NV and CA. MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE. Call 775-635-2443 or www.qtinv.net for application. Tool Room Machinist An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a full time, experienced Tool Room Machinist. Responsible for producing machined parts by programming, setting up and operating a CNC machine; maintaining quality and safety standards. Experience with G-code programming, Solid Works for CAD and CAM is preferred, other 3D solid modeling experience will be considered. Experience setting up manual and mill lathes. Knowledge of basic math, geometry and trigonometry. Ability to interpret drawings and specifications. Hours are M-
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clinical and computer skills (Epic experience preferred) and be able to demonstrate their initiative and ability to work in a team environment with patients, providers and co-workers. Be a part of an organization that makes a difference in our health care community. Seeking LPN/CMA’s with experience in Dermatology, Family Practice, Midwifery and a Sleep Clinic setting with a current MT LPN license or certified/registered MA required. New graduates will be considered. Wage range from $13.50-$20.25/DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27049 RN Missoula County is seeking a part-time REGISTERED NURSE - CARE MANAGER. Requires graduation from an ACEN (Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing) approved program. BSN desired. Requires one year experience in providing chronic disease management and interventions with clients. Requires current license to practice as a registered professional nurse in Montana. Must be able to obtain a Chronic Care Professional Certification within 90 days of employment. Requires a current Montana Driver’s License. This position performs work as a registered nurse, as a member of primary care medical teams to provide Medicaid care management throughout a multiple county region for the Partnership Health Center (PHC). The work requires some physical exertion such as bending, walking and lifting boxes of files (up to 20 lbs.).
Requires the manual dexterity to perform manual nursing skills, such as drawing blood, giving injections, filling syringes, etc. The employee may risk exposure to potentially dangerous situations, including exposure to communicable diseases. Work is part-time (32 hrs/week) and pay is $20.98/hr. CLOSE DATE: 06/13/16. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10208281
SALES Inside Sales Inside Sales of all products glass and glass related. Also Organizing and Managing shop materials, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory all Residential Products along with assisting on customer service. $10-$15/hour DOE - Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27663 Insurance Member Specialist As a Member Specialist you will join a team of highly skilled colleagues offering exceptional service. You will be accountable for your individual goals as well as shared team goals. Required Qualifications and Experience: Attendance is an essential function of the position, minimum one year of sales experience, solid knowledge of basic geography, ability to read a map, minimum one year working in customer service with direct contact with the public, high school diploma or GED. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #27635
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ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our advertising sales team. Customer service experience and strong organizational skills are required. Sales experience is preferred, but we’re happy to train someone who brings a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm. We offer a competitive comp and benefits package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment. Send resume and salary history to: LFoland@Missoulanews.com or Lynne Foland, P.O. Box 8275 Missoula, MT 59807
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A half-dead blast from the past is throttling the free flow of your imagination. Your best possible future will be postponed until you agree to deal more intimately with this crumbled dream, which you have never fully grieved or surrendered. So here's my advice: Summon the bravest, smartest love you're capable of, and lay your sad loss to rest with gentle ferocity. This may take a while, so be patient. Be inspired by the fact that your new supply of brave, smart love will be a crucial resource for the rest of your long life.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem "Interrupted Meditation," Robert Hass blurts out the following exclamation: "I give you, here, now, a magic key. What does it open? This key I give you, what exactly does it open?" How would you answer this question, Gemini? What door or lock or heart or treasure box do you most need opened? Decide today. And please don't name five things you need opened. Choose one, and one only. Doing so will dissolve a mental block that has up until now kept you from finding the REAL magic key.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I will provide you with two lists of words. One of these lists, but not both, will characterize the nature of your predominant experiences in the coming weeks. It will be mostly up to you which emerges as the winner. Now read the two lists, pick the one you like better, and instruct your subconscious mind to lead you in that direction. List 1: gluttony, bloating, overkill, padding, exorbitance. List 2: mother lode, wellspring, bumper crop, gold mine, cornucopia.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Mythologist Joseph Campbell analyzed fairy tales for clues about how the human psyche works. For example, he said that a fairy tale character who's riding a horse is a representation of our relationship with our instinctual nature. If that character drops the reins and lets the horse gallop without guidance, he or she is symbolically surrendering control to the instincts. I bring this to your attention because I suspect you may soon be tempted to do just that that -- which wouldn't be wise. In my opinion, you'll be best served by going against the flow of what seems natural. Sublimation and transcendence will keep you much stronger than if you followed the line of least resistance. Homework: Visualize yourself, as you ride your horse, keeping a relaxed but firm grasp of the reins.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "The road reaches every place, the short cut only one," says aphorist James Richardson. In many cases, that's not a problem. Who among us has unlimited time and energy? Why leave all the options open? Short cuts can be valuable. It's often smart to be ruthlessly efficient as we head toward our destination. But here's a caveat: According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you're now in a phase when taking short cuts may be counterproductive. To be as well-seasoned as you will need to be to reach your goal, you should probably take the scenic route. The long way around may, in this instance, be the most efficient and effective. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Truth is like the flu," says poet James Richardson. "I fight it off, but it changes in other bodies and returns in a form to which I am not immune." In the coming days, Scorpio, I suspect you will experience that riddle first hand -- and probably on more than one occasion. Obvious secrets and wild understandings that you have fought against finding out will mutate in just the right way to sneak past your defenses. Unwelcome insights you've been trying to ignore will finally wiggle their way into your psyche. Don't worry, though. These new arrivals will turn out to be good medicine.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to Guinness World Records, the most consecutive hours spent riding on a roller coaster is 405 hours and 40 minutes. But I suspect that during the next 15 months, a Sagittarian daredevil may exceed this mark. I have come to this conclusion because I believe your tribe will be especially adept and relatively comfortable at handling steep rises and sudden dips at high speeds. And that won't be the only rough talent you'll have in abundance. I'm guessing you could also set new personal bests in the categories of most frequent changes of mind, most heroic leaps of faith, and fastest talking.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Whether we like to admit it or not, all of us have acted like puppets. Bosses and teachers and loved ones can manipulate us even if they're not in our presence. Our conditioned responses and programmed impulses may control our behavior in the present moment even though they were formed long ago. That's the bad news. The good news is that now and then moments of lucidity blossom, revealing the puppet strings. We emerge from our unconsciousness and see that we're under the spell of influential people to whom we have surrendered our power. This is one of those magic times for you, Capricorn. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A few weeks ago you undertook a new course of study in the art of fun and games. You realized you hadn't been playing hard enough, and took measures to correct the problem. After re-familiarizing yourself with the mysteries of innocent joy, you raised the stakes. You began dabbling with more intensive forms of relief and release. Now you have the chance to go even further: to explore the mysteries of experimental delight. Exuberant escapades may become available to you. Amorous adventures could invite you to explore the frontiers of liberated love. Will you be brave and free enough to meet the challenge of such deeply meaningful gaiety? Meditate on this radical possibility: spiritually adept hedonism.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Sharon Dolin compares artists to sunflowers. They create "a tall flashy flower that then grows heavy with seeds whose small hard shells you must crack to get to the rich nut meat." As I contemplate the current chapter of your unfolding story, I see you as being engaged in a similar process, even if you're not literally an artist. To be exact, you're at the point when you are producing a tall flashy flower. The seeds have not yet begun to form, but they will soon. Later this year, the rich nut meat inside the small hard shells will be ready to pluck. For now, concentrate on generating your gorgeous, radiant flower. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-16-93 Dept. No. 4 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHARLES EDWARD CASSELMAN, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Troy Dennison, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23 day of May, 2016. /s/ Troy Dennison, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 20 day of May, 2016. /s/ Troy Dennison, Applicant Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20 day of May, 2016. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2016 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP-16-91 Dept. No.: 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES RICHARD JOY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Janne M. Joy and Jannette Joy Hale 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 certified mail to, return receipt requested, to Janne M. Joy & Jannette Joy Hale, Co-Personal Representatives, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.
MNAXLP DATED this 18 day of May, 2016. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney for the Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 18 day of May, 2016. /s/ Janne M. Joy, CoPersonal Representative /s/ Jannette Joy Hale, Co-Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause Probate No. DP-16-76 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. LUCAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jane Lucas Rabe, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: April 28, 2016 /s/ Jane Lucas Rabe Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-16-85 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY ELLEN WEYERMANN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Gary L. Weyermann, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 12th day of May, 2016 ST. PETER
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OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the abovenamed Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attor-
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OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the abovenamed Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 2484 located in the North one-half of Section 8, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Dated this 20th day of May, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-16-32 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF LINDA L. SKJELSET, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Douglas G. Skjelset, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing Notice to Creditors
is true and correct. Signed this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Applicant Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Sharon J. Davis Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires May 14, 2018 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 4 Karen S. Townsend PROBATE NO. DP-16-86 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES E. STUEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said Estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Kristina Schueller, f/k/a Kristina Henrikson Denny c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 13 day of May, 2016. /s/ Kristina Schueller, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Ross P. Keogh MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 4 Cause No.: DP-16-90 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES JOSEPH MCCOY a/k/a Charles J. McCoy, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jana McCoy, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 19th day of May, 2016. /s/ Jana McCoy, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By: /s/ David H.
PUBLIC NOTICES Bjornson, Attorneys for Jana McCoy, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MURRAY DON ENGEBRETSON, Deceased. Probate No.: DP-15-210 Dept No.:2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Kelly Weaver, return receipt requested, c/o Rhoades & Siefert, PLLC, 430 North Ryman, Second Floor, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of May, 2016. /s/ Kelly Dawn Therese Weaver, Personal Representative Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Probate No DP 16-89 District Judge John W. Larson NO-
TICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FERRIS E. CLOUSE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed as the 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Anna Marie L. Clouse and Shawn F. Clouse, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Crowley Fleck PLLP, 500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street, Suite 500, P.O. Box 2529, Billings, Montana 59103, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25 day of May, 2016. /s/ Anna Marie L. Clouse, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Ferris E. Clouse Dated this 25 day of May, 2016. /s/ Shawn F. Clouse, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Ferris E. Clouse NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to § 71-1-301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a
MNAXLP Trustee Sale to be held on Thursday, August 25, 2016, at 11:10 a.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 14 in Block 87 of RAILROAD ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. EXCEPTING THEREFROM that tract of land conveyed to the State of Montana by Deed recorded September 29, 1964 in Book 237 of Deeds at Page 69. Recording Reference: Book 675 of Micro Records at Page 596. Rodney M. Harsell and Toni L. Harsell, as joint tenants, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, Division of Glacier Bank, which was designated as beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated March 2, 2010, and recorded March 3, 2010 in Book 856 of Micro Records, at page 234, records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust are now in default and
the required payments on the Promissory Note secured by the Deed of Trust have not been made as required. As of April 19, 2016, the sum of $14,601.13 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $13,434.32, with related late fees and interest accruing thereon at a rate of 7.25% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $2.66. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and note and elected to sell the interest of Rodney M. Harsell and Toni L. Harsell, Grantors, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed David J. Steele II of Geiszler Steele, PC, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Deed of Trust and note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all
amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATE this 21st day of April, 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. /s/ David J. Steele II, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA County of Missoula. This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 21st day of April, 2016, by Timothy D. Geiszler, on behalf of David J. Steele II, Successor Trustee. /s/ Katie M Neagle Notary Public for the State of Montana Commission expires: 07/28/2019 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200406086 Book 727 Page 1061, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Kimberly M. Boyd 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 Es-
crow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the S1/2SW1/4NE1/4 of Section 32, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 3091. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 2012206570 Book892 Page 447, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association as Trustee for Mastr Alternative Loan Trust 20049. 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 10/01/15 installment payment and all monthly install-
ment payments due thereafter. As of April 21, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $121,370.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $117,908.44, 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, 2016 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, ex-
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PUBLIC NOTICES press or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Boyd, Kimberly M. (TS# 7023.115651) 1002.286742File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 22, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Court-
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house located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA, COUNTY OF MISSOULA, WITH A STREET LOCATION ADDRESS OF 7140 BUCKHORN LN; MISSOULA, MT 59808-5688 CURRENTLY OWNED BY JAMES B KELLER AND MARGARET KELLER HAVING A TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF 04-2199-11-1-02-180000 AND FURTHER DESCRIBED AS COUNTRY CREST 3-LOT 17 1.17AC JAMES B KELLER and MARGARET KELLER, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, Attorney at Law, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 10, 2007, and recorded on January 17, 2008 in Book 811 Page 1400 as Document No. 200801167. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A. First American
MNAXLP Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $274.72, beginning July 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 31, 2015 is $34,422.10 principal, interest at the rate of 8.12500% totaling $4,425.13, late charges in the amount of $41.19, suspense balance of $-175.84 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,507.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the 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
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 34, 155, 207, 214, OS50. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 6/20/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 6/23/2016 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.
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 10, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 10 day of March, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 BAC vs 100782-1
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 26, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot A46 Of Windsor Park, Phase III, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. KARLA TECCA and VINCENT TECCA, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust, dated on April 20, 2007, and recorded on April 20, 2007 as Book 795, Page 1176, and Document No. 200709481, A Modification Agreement recorded May 5, 2014, Book 928 of Micro Records at Page 131. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $850.23, beginning August 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 13, 2016 is $201,687.82 principal, interest at the rate of 4.00000% totaling $18,858.99, escrow advances of $11,325.13, suspense balance of $-148.64 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,725.33, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obliga-
PUBLIC NOTICES tions 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 17, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of
MNAXLP Bingham) On this 17 day of March, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez know to me to be the assistant secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06-09-2021 Seterus vs TECCA 100866 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 28, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 OF OVERLOOK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT
THEREOF NILES E. BRUSH, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for US Bank N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on August 21, 2009, and recorded on August 31, 2009 as Book 846, Page 1030 under Document No. 200921585. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,545.84, beginning October 1, 2015, 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 25, 2016
is $178,550.79 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25000% totaling $5,290.50, escrow advances of $1,002.25, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the 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 procla-
mation 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, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 11 day of March, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 01/19/2018 US Bank National Associationvs NILES E BRUSH 100997-1
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Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $525,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath University District home. $625,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 532 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, arched doorways and single garage. $255,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 738 Michigan. Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath with fenced backyard & Mt. Jumbo views in East Missoula. $243,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Energy Efficient! 520 Luella Lane. Centrally located 2 story home near bike trails and the Good Food Store! Low maintenance, energy-efficient home with over 2000 square feet! $260,000 KD 406-2045227 porticorealestate.com Farviews Home 107 Ironwood Place. Beautiful home with delicious views galore on a quiet cul-de-sac located in the Farviews area bordering golf course. Roomy 3 bed 2.5 bath with 2910 sq. ft. of living space and an over-sized garage. $309,500. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane
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Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 . 5 8 1 6 . annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND FOR SALE 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-
6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3.52ac $259/month Boulder, MT- 2.12ac $391/month Absarokee, MT21.3ac $203/month Red Lodge, MTMore properties online. Justin Joyner Steel Horse RE www.ownerfinancemt.com 406-539-1420 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy
Trail Street 2144 Trail Street. Beautiful upgraded home in an awesome location with immaculate landscaping! A Must See! $280,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 2 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, Lewis & Clark condo. $146,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $154,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
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Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Roundup. Tract #5 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com NHN Roundup. Tract #7 20 acres. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714 Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat
McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com
OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lolo home. $255,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $190,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home on .47 acre lot. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $279,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 82 Wildwood Lane, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath manufactured home on over 4.5 acres near Bitterroot River. $175,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 7288270 glasgow@montana.com Hot Springs 205 E Street, Hot Springs. Super-efficient 1
bed, 1bath. $139,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com
11250 FRED LN,
UNDER CONTRACT
$215,000
Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens. $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Six Mile Huson 17430 Six Mile Road, Huson. Stunning property with beautiful land and views. 3 bed, 1.5 bath early 1900’s well maintained farmhouse. Yard features a massive raspberry patch and many fruit trees! $235,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
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[C12] Missoula Independent • June 9–June 16, 2016
738 Michigan • $243,500
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker
Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath on cul-de-sac in Real Estate With Real Experience East Missoula. 9,600 sf lot, fenced backyard, pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653) landscaped and great Mt. Jumbo view! Properties2000.com
This home sits on 5+ acres with lots of southern exposure, greenhouses & well for irrigation. 1700+ sq.ft. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, big formal dining room, spacious master bath with soak tub, detached double garage, additional metal building (big enough for an RV) and more.
Matt Rosbarsky 360-9023 512 E. Broadway