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STATE DEMS EMBRACE MARRIAGE EQUALITY

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June 14– June 21, 2012

nside Cover Story On a recent sunny morning, I’m driving forest roads looking for a “moonscape,” because that’s how one Forest Service staffer had described to me the pocked forest floor left behind by crystal diggers. The diggers scour these woods near Lolo Pass hunting for quartz crystals— Cover photo by Chad Harder geologic Easter eggs formed underground by slow, tectonic happenstance. On the slope along the road, I see dozens of holes dug beneath tree roots and under granite boulders. I walk to a stream bed and find mounds of sandy sediment next to flooded pits, surrounded on the banks by more tree roots hanging bare. I keep driving, specks of quartz crystal in the road gleaming in the sun ...........14

News Letters Keep Montana under a million .......................................................................4 The Week in Review Kale chips, plane crashes, a party ............................................6 Briefs Will the music man be silenced? .......................................................................6 Etc. A stuffed bear and a record...................................................................................7 Up Front Missoula’s mentally ill behind bars get help ...............................................8 Range It’s an ill wildfire that burns no good ............................................................11 Agenda Protest singer David Rovics comes to Polson...............................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Keeping fruit in your life ...............................................................18 Happiest Hour Wildwood Brewing in Stevensville ..................................................19 8 Days a Week It’s a good week to melt wax on your forehead..............................21 Mountain High A presentation on loons..................................................................29 Scope Former Missoula filmmaker Sean Ackerman gets celestial.............................30 Noise Busdriver, K-Holes, Pony Time, Orca Team .....................................................31 Books Michael Downs’s Greatest Show finds art in circus fire.................................32 Soundcheck Missoula’s Skin Flowers follow a psychedelic blues path ...................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Asked the afternoon of Monday, June 11, in Caras Park in downtown Missoula.

What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found in the woods?

Follow up: Do crystals have special powers?

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Beautiful and true Jamie Rogers’s piece is brilliant (“The one that got away,” June 7). Ah, but you already know that!

Dave Van Nice Helena

The human quota Bethany Humphreys: Back when I was maybe 13, I climbed a tree up on Waterworks Hill and found a bag with a note in it asking if anyone finding it wanted to be tree buddies. We left notes back and forth for each other for a while. Open mind: I don’t know, but you shouldn’t knock it ’til you try it, right?

Charlie Natheos: The coolest thing I found was about $300 in twenties, all scattered about and blowing in the wind outside of Four Corners near Bozeman.

Happy stones: Some people believe the ancient Atlantians may have used crystals for communication and healing, but who knows. Clearly crystals do make some people happy, and that itself is a special thing, right?

Lisa Vollenweiter: It wasn’t exactly in the woods, but this should count: When I was a kid, my folks moved all over the world and we once found a bunch of Roman coins while digging in the Egyptian desert. Stone me: I can’t say with certainty, but friends I trust certainly believe in their powers. Things like amethyst having calming properties.

Ronny Rodriguez: I’m from the Dominican Republic and haven’t spent much time in your woods, but I would have to say all the wild animals. We just don't have that kind of diversity. Voodoo child: Where I come from, people have all kinds of different beliefs—and no, there aren’t as many people practicing voodoo as there are in Haiti. But I don’t think crystals have special powers.

Monica Jagelski: Wow, I’ve found lots of neat things in the woods. We’re from Arizona, and the coolest thing has to have been Apache tears.

They’re small black crystal obsidian stones in a geode, and very cool.

Crystal clear: They’re a part of Mother Nature, right? Then of course, since we’re in Missoula!

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Now that the population of Montana has exceeded the one million mark, how many can I, as a native Montanan with a sense of equal “justice,” trap, haze, herd, harass, poison, shoot or execute to bring the number back down to our time-honored “under a million” population? Where do I find the application for that license for legal kill? And who gets to select the human targets to get picked off?

In peace, Marie A. Root Missoula

The Supreme Court’s folly I appreciated Ray Ring’s depiction of those fictional, giant corporation-people with wealth that exceeds that of many nation states and, often, with the influence to match (see Range, May 24). It was good for a chuckle despite its dark side. The humanity he attributed to ExxonMobil (“Exx’Em”), Victoria’s Secret (likes to be called Vikki) and Nike instantly reforms these faceless and beguiling entities with no discernible mission except to further their own interests with little regard to their effects on others. They could almost have personalities.

But what about the even darker side of this rush to personhood? Such as Royal Dutch Shell? Or BP? How about vignettes of their actual, living lives as people, realizing it would be entirely possible to have these mammoth, foreign-based corporations easily drown out reason in our electoral process and get their way in Congress and, perhaps, the White House?

Or how about the Sinopec Group and China National Petroleum? Since China is the largest foreign holder of our IOUs, why shouldn’t their global corporate players be granted U.S. personhood and all the rights and privileges thereof? Maybe an opportunity to bid for control of our electoral system?

What the hell, a permanent seat on the Supreme Court? An office in the West Wing?

Why not naming rights? Forget about that long, clumsy “The United States of America.” No more rabid cries of “USA! USA! USA!” at the Nike/GE Olympic Games. Try on “Sinoamerica” for size. Has a certain lyrical ring, doesn’t it?

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Ray Ring gets it right: The uprising in the West against the Supreme Court’s lunacy is beginning to resemble the Arab Spring. People are, indeed, rising up and declaring that corporations are not people and that their money—in fact, any money—is not speech. And that at least five members of our once respected Supreme Court are nuts.

The only way to shove this Supreme Court aside and nullify their bizarre Citizens United ruling is to organize and mobilize for the protracted battle to

“People are, indeed, rising up and declaring that corporations are not people and that their money—in fact, any money—is not speech.”

amend the U. S. Constitution, reaffirming the original intent of the authors of our founding document. Sorry, Victoria, your secret is safe with us, but you’re not a person. And no, Exx’Em, your money is not speech; not one penny of it.

Missoula is making its pitch in this effort. We’ve already passed, resoundingly, a referendum rejecting the Supreme Court’s folly and calling for such a constitutional amendment. Stand with Montanans is aggressively circulating a petition calling for the state of Montana to adopt, as its policy, the twin concepts that money is not speech and corporations, though useful, are not people. And we have formed Missoula Moves to Amend, a local action and educa-

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tion group to inform and involve citizens in this effort.

Wa n t t o h e l p ? S i g n t h e S t a n d with Montanans petition. Contact wrwilde44@msn.com at Missoula Moves to Amend and tell him you want to help.

Spread the word. Talk it up. We’re right. The court is wrong.

Bruce Midgett Missoula

Micro-unions, bad “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln imparted upon us this wisdom. In much the same way, a workplace divided into separate union groups does not create a prosperous business environment.

However, a troubling new rule, called the “micro-union rule” and put in place by Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, could lead to just such a situation. It allows for the creation of multiple collective-bargaining units in a single workplace. That’s a significant departure from traditional union formation and an alarming development for employers.

In fact, the NLRB recently approved the formation of a new micro-union in New York in a department store. Workers in the second-floor designer shoe department are now in one union and workers in the fifthfloor contemporary shoe department are in a separate union.

Imagine a similar situation soon occurring in Montana. The results could be devastating for business as employers suddenly are forced to negotiate with multiple, competing collective-bargaining units with varying agendas. Division would ensue and miles more red tape would further choke job creation.

This nightmare situation can occur because a new NLRB regulation created in 2011 stomped on decades of bipartisan policy and replaced well-thought-out rules with entirely new and short-sighted regulations that allow for multiple micro-unions within a single company—something that only benefits big labor bosses.

Although others in Montana’s congressional delegation have weighed in, Sen. Jon Tester has remained curiously quiet about an issue that clearly is not in Montanans’ best interests. I am sure the millions in big labor campaign contributions have everything to do with his silence.

Micro-unions are bad for both Montana workers and employers alike.

Jill Taber Missoula

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• Wednesday, June 6

by Chad Harder

Garden City Harvest staffers serve Lowell Elementary School students kale chips with their lunch, a taste test before Missoula County Public Schools permanently adds locally grown kale to the district’s elementary and middle school menus in the fall.

• Thursday, June 7 Secretary of State and Chief Elections Officer Linda McCulloch reports that more than 61 percent of the total votes cast in Montana’s 2012 primary election were cast by absentee ballot, a nearly 30 percent increase over the statewide presidential primary in 2008.

• Friday, June 8 A small southbound plane with only the pilot onboard reportedly encounters bad weather at Lost Trail Pass near the Montana-Idaho border, south of Missoula, and skips off Highway 93 before crashing. The pilot walks away. The crash is under investigation.

• Saturday, June 9 West Virginian Ray Dolin, 39, who’s hitchhiking the country for a book about kindness, is randomly shot in the shoulder by a drive-by shooter a few miles west of Glasgow. Law enforcement arrests a suspect, Lloyd Christopher Danielson III, 52, hours later.

• Sunday, June 10

Marriage equality Dems get on board

On the morning after Indy Fest, an eight-hour party celebrating the Independent’s 21st birthday, staffers cope with hangovers blamed on the all-too-tasty Indy Red Ale, brewed specially for the event by the Blacksmith Brewing Company in Stevensville.

• Monday, June 11 Montana GOP officials announce that former presidential candidate and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will address the Montana Republican Party Convention June 16 in Missoula. State Republican Chairman Will Deschamps anticipates the Garden City will be overrun with pachyderms. “We’re filling all the hotels,” he says.

• Tuesday, June 12 Pearl Jam announces a concert at the University of Montana’s Adams Center on Sept. 30. The band has partnered with Sen. Jon Tester’s reelection campaign in the “Best Seats in the World” sweepstakes, through which donors to the campaign have a chance to watch the show from a recliner on stage.

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Inspired by the sounds of the band Off In The Woods, live painter Luke Smith adds touches to a horse’s mane on a cow skull canvas at Indy Fest in Caras Park on Sat., June 9.

On June 9, Montana Democratic Party delegates voted unanimously to approve a party platform amendment supporting gay and lesbian marriage equality.

“All adults should have the right to legally marry another adult of their choice, regardless of sex or gender,” the Democrats’ amendment to their 2012 platform states.

Jim Elliott, chair of the Montana Democratic Party, says the party supports same sex marriage because it’s the “right thing” to do. “The government shouldn’t tell people whether or not they can get married,” he says. “Democrats believe people should be treated fairly, and we’ll keep working to make sure that happens.”

The Montana party joins a recent swell of support for gay and lesbian rights from Democrats across the nation. On May 9, President Barack Obama announced that he supports gay marriage.

This past weekend, state Democratic parties in Texas and Pennsylvania also voted to support granting equal marriage rights to gay couples.

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Prior to last weekend’s vote in Helena, the Montana Democratic Party favored same-sex civil unions. Such partnerships provide a mechanism to receive state rights, but they are typically valid only in the state of residence and do not provide a framework to access federal marriage benefits.

The federal Defense of Marriage Act prohibits gay marriage. However, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments on the constitutionality of DOMA sometime this spring. If the court finds it unconstitutional, or if the U.S. Congress reverses DOMA, married same-sex partners would have access to federal benefits. Couples bound in civil unions would not.

In the wake of the Democratic Party’s gay marriage vote, some wonder if the Montana Republican Party will revisit its stance on homosexuality during its convention in Missoula, which kicks off June 14.

The Montana Republican Party’s platform now calls to re-criminalize homosexual sex.

Montana GOP Chairman Will Deschamps says that it’s too early to say if delegates will revisit their stance. “We’ll wait and see.”

As for the Montana Democratic Party’s support for gay marriage, Deschamps sees it as unwise. “The

state Democratic Party is railing against the majority of people in the state,” he says, pointing to a 2004 constitutional amendment that now defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

That law passed by 67 percent.

There are a couple of avenues available to make gay marriage a reality in Montana: Voters could reverse the state gay marriage ban through a constitutional initiative. Another path to legalizing such unions is through judicial intervention.

Jessica Mayrer

Education Silence in the Swan The school year ended on a low note this year for Seeley-Swan High School and Swan Valley Elementary School. Due to budget cuts, Friday was the last day of Bob Green’s long career as the schools' music director, amplifying community concern that music education may end with the departure of Seeley’s music man.

That is, if the school district can’t find someone to fill Green’s position.

Starting this fall, the position will be cut to 33

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percent of full time without benefits, a salary Green couldn’t accept and one that many in Seeley believe is too low to attract a qualified replacement.

Locals collected over 200 signatures in support of Green and in opposition to the budget cuts to the arts. The petition was mailed Friday to the Missoula County School Board, which will adopt the final budget for the 2012-13 school year Aug. 14.

Bill Peabody came to know Green when his children were in school and through the 2 Valleys Stage performing arts group, which Green cofounded in 2001. 2 Valleys Stage brings music, drama and dance professionals from around the country to put on productions in the Swan Valley.

Green, says Peabody, “doesn’t want to go, he doesn’t want to leave the community, but he would be forced to, unless they reconsider.”

Missoula County Public Schools Fine Arts Director John Combs says that the cut in personnel is so far only happening within the SeeleySwan High School program. “It’s already difficult to find someone to go into smaller schools,” Combs says, “and if you don’t have a teacher, you don’t have a program.”

Combs adds that the loss of the arts program in the schools means the loss of a fundamental part of students’ education. “It stimulates the part of their brains that is not necessarily all facts and figures.”

Peabody echoes Combs’s concerns. “This is the only exposure some of them will ever have to the arts unless they leave,” he says. “If we remove the music from the curriculum, what would be their exposure?”

Peabody hopes the petition will make the school board reconsider a potentially fatal blow to the arts program in Seeley. “Like every community, we have some talented kids and this would deprive them of an education,” he says. “Even though we are small in number, our students deserve the same education as city kids.”

Jackie Coffin

Forests Cone conundrum In response to public concerns expressed earlier this spring, the Flathead National Forest has refined a proposal to fell 270 western larch over the next 10 years. But those changes might not be enough to appease environmentalists with the Kalispell-based Swan View Coalition.

The Flathead’s revised proposal—up for public comment until early July—now calls for felling a maximum of 150 trees in order to harvest cones for reforestation efforts. Silviculturist Melissa Jenkins says the

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project is particularly important because the district’s western larch seed lot is running dangerously low.

And since larch cone crops are notoriously finicky, with heavy crops occurring only once every seven to 14 years, the Forest Service needs to act quickly.

“We have wildfires and harvested areas that we need to reforest,” Jenkins says. “That species is an important component of what we need to put back.”

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tion areas and previously harvested stands.

“We’re talking 50 to 150 trees over a 10-year period,” Jenkins says. If the timing is right and the crop is good, she adds, even 50 trees might be on the high end.

Alex Sakariassen

BY THE NUMBERS Tentative pay raise for state employees over the next two years, as agreed upon by Gov. Brian Schweitzer and labor representatives this week.

The figure now has to be approved by the state legislature next spring.

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The Swan View Coalition’s initial opposition to the project stemmed from complaints against cutting down the trees. The group pressed Flathead officials to instead use less invasive measures of cone collection, such as climbing the larches or shooting cones down. Jenkins explains that neither of these alternatives were solid options given safety concerns and limited harvest opportunities. Larches afford only a short window—two to three weeks—to collect ripe cones.

The proposal calls for collecting nearly 50 bushels of larch cones.

“It takes 4,000 of those cones to make a bushel,” Jenkins says. “Even when we fell them, it takes a long, long time to pick a bushel of cones. So to do it while you’re up in the air, it’s extremely difficult and timeconsuming.”

Jenkins lists a host of additional sensitivities.

Cones must be collected at a variety of elevations and from a variety of individual stands. There are geographic and environmental limitations, too.

Collection sites can’t fall within wilderness areas and can’t conflict with endangered or sensitive wildlife species.

But the latest version of the proposal seems to meet most of the demands of local environmentalists—except for the renewed call for cutting. The Flathead only plans to remove one larch tree per acre. Wherever possible, activity will only take place in ongoing timber sales, previously identified collec-

Last week’s primary results appeared to give Sen. Jon Tester’s re-election campaign fresh ammunition against GOP challenger Rep. Denny Rehberg.

Dennis Teske, a farmer from Terry, managed to bleed nearly 25 percent of the Republican vote from Rehberg; Democrats were quick to proclaim that one in four Republicans don’t support Rehberg’s bid for senate.

But that’s not entirely the case. Montana saw similar results in the 2010 primary race for the state’s sole House seat. Mark French pulled roughly 19 percent of the Republican vote away from Rehberg then. An additional six percent went to A.J. Otjen, making Teske’s performance June 5 less than surprising.

“When voters are given a choice, a certain number of those voters will take the other choice regardless,” says David Parker, a political science professor at Montana State University. “There’s a wide swath of people who do consider themselves Republican.

Some of them had somebody—Teske—who spun himself as a bit more libertarian.”

Some of those same folks may vote for the libertarian candidate, Dan Cox, in the general election this fall. But Parker questions whether that will ultimately hurt Rehberg’s chances. “He got 15,000 more votes than Jon Tester did on the same election day,” Parker says.

Few developments in the Tester and Rehberg campaigns so far have surprised Parker, who’s writing a book on Montana’s 2012 senate race and regularly contributes to the blog Big Sky Political Analysis.

Tester has now run seven ads statewide essentially branding himself, once again, as a Montana farmer working for Montana values. That’s a typical first step for any political candidate, Parker says. The one surprise has come from Rehberg, whose ads seemed to skip a beat in an already intense race.

“He’s not in the phase where he’s saying, ‘Hey, I’m Denny. I’m the great guy you know, because X, Y, Z,’” Parker says. “He moved right into the compare-and-contrast phase, which usually happens later in campaigns. That’s unusual. That’s surprising.”

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Duke feels he’s got a pretty good case for getting in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Up until this June, he’d been living out of his trailer on a rented patch of private property west of Lincoln. He’s a homeless vet, ex-Coast Guard, with a bum right shoulder and sleep apnea. Disability from the Veterans Administration typically covers his bills, but space in his fifth wheel was limited. So Duke hung his taxidermied black bear in a nearby cottonwood, in clear view from the county road. He thought it’d be cute.

Then someone called the state’s TIP-MONT hotline in late April. A few days later, Duke awoke with three men from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on his doorstep. They asked to see his hunting license.

The road they’d followed in had passed within six feet of the stuffed bear, its head raised and its front paw lifted at a right angle. Lincoln-area warden Ezra Schwalm informed Duke that they’d need to check on the bear.

Duke can come off as ornery, despite his essentially amiable nature. His real name is Robert Febach, but nobody calls him Robert or Mr. Febach.

According to the wardens’ reports, Duke’s language that morning was colorful. He informed them that the bear was stuffed, that he’d shot it years ago. One warden took photos. Sergeant Dan Curtin later wrote, “We then laughed with Mr. Febach as he used various adjectives and perhaps a noun or two to let us know what he thought of our investigation.”

The wardens offered to bring coffee next time.

There won’t be a next time. About a week later, Duke’s landlord sent him an eviction notice.

Although Duke “has been a courteous renter” and “always paid his electric and rent on time,” the landlord cited the FWP incident and said he didn’t need added stress.

Now Duke’s on the move again. Life’s been that way for years.

He isn’t shy about his frustrations—for example, “They can’t tell a taxidermy job from six fucking feet away?” But after a few expletives, he’s genial again.

“I should be in the Guinness Book,” he says.

“Only guy ever to catch three wardens with one stuffed bear.”

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Helping the hopeless New project gets aid to the sick and jailed

by Jessica Mayrer

through layers of bureaucracy. Hahn and Egan also coordinate with families to help bolster safety nets and better keep people from re-offending.

Hahn says sometimes detainees just need someone to talk to. Others benefit from new ways of coping. That was the case with a recently incarcerated Marine Corps veteran who has PTSD. Hahn recognized that the veteran was still deeply connected to his military training. She drew from her own background to reach him, telling him, she recalls, “Your mission is, whenever you find yourself getting upset or anxious or claustrophobic, you know, your heart is starting to beat heavily and the room is closing in—your mission is to find your center. … Your mission is to find that place and to help yourself calm down.”

It worked, O’Day says; the veteran got into the habit of asking detention staffers to remind him of his mission.

Hahn’s background also gives her insight into the stresses detention officers face. “The men and women that work in corrections are also doing time,” she says. “They are in the facility in the Photo by Chad Harder same environment, without the windows, having to go through University of Montana social work students Kate Hahn, left, and Ashley Egan are doors that are operated by other helping mentally ill inmates cope. people, dealing with this day in We deal with a lot of people who don’t want the risk of suicide, provides coping strate- and day out, 12 hours a day. In a way, gies for detainees and educates detention- they’ve volunteered to do that time, kind of to be here.”

Kowalski’s worked at the jail for 19 center staffers about ways to ease inmate side by side with the inmates. Having the ability to walk out at the end of the day is years. In that time, he’s had plenty of oppor- anxieties rather than exacerbating them.

Kate Hahn, who is earning her master’s nice, but you still go back.” tunities to see issues that arise from trying O’Day says Project C.A.R.E. is unusual to house mentally ill people in a secure set- degree in social work at UM, helped launch ting. “The one part of inmates’ incarcera- C.A.R.E. and brings an unusual perspective because social work students are working in tion that we really struggle with out here is to the project after working as a military it as part of their degree requirements. The dealing with the mentally ill, or somebody police officer for the Air Force. During her program’s grant through the Mental Health going through a crisis,” he says. “While jails 10-year military tenure, Hahn routinely Settlement Trust runs out in December, aren’t set up for handling the mentally ill, encountered people with brain injuries, however. O’ Day is seeking funding to conwe do get them in our population all the post-traumatic stress disorder and other tinue it. “Our goal is to get a full-time … time. … It’s not a problem that’s getting forms of mental dysfunction. It pained her social worker at the detention center,” she to send them to jail. “I had to step back and says, who could supervise as many students any better.”

That problem stems at least in part look at the big picture and say, ‘I need to as that social worker could handle.

She’s pleased with the project’s success from a dearth of funding for community [help] before people get to this situation,’” thus far, O’Day says, but she also cautions mental health services, which leaves jail the she says.

Since the project began, Hahn and that communities need to make a larger place of last resort for the mentally ill.

“What routinely happens is, somebody gets Ashley Egan, who’s completing her under- commitments to fill gaps in mental health released from our jail, they’ve been sobered graduate requirements at UM’s School of care. “It’s like we’re in this rock-and-hardup. They’ve been through detox. They get Social Work, have counseled and advocated place,” she says. “What’s it going to take for put back into the community, and there’s on behalf of more than 70 Detention our society to address and look at mental nothing there for them,” Kowalski says. Facility detainees, advocacy that entails health issues before they get to the point of “They just start self-medicating again, get tracking down elusive psychological and getting arrested?” back in the same situation, and they’re back social services for inmates when they’re released. It can be painstaking trying to cut in our community.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com Captain Jason Kowalski is in charge of the Missoula County Detention Center, which is not an easy job. Guards aren’t trained social workers, yet they’re charged with safely managing a stream of incoherent and violent individuals and addicts going through the emotional and physical pains of withdrawal.

“We deal with inmates that want to kill themselves,” Kowalski says. “We deal with inmates that just want to hurt themselves.

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Fire on the mountain New Mexico faces blazes for better and worse

by Martha Schumann Cooper

I have grown accustomed to stinging eyes, an itchy nose and a raw throat. Smoke is always heavy in the air, especially in the morning after cool nights have pushed it down to the deepest part of the Gila River Valley, where I live.

Despite all this, I have to confess that I take some delight in watching the progress of New Mexico’s biggest wildfire, now called the Whitewater-Baldy after two lightning-caused fires merged. It is almost as if I have a front-row seat at a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle.

One afternoon—perhaps the day the fire grew by a massive 60,000 acres—I noticed the light was dimming, though it was too early for the sun to be going down.

I looked out a north-facing window and was sobered by a swirling, dark sky that resembled a bad bruise of purple, black and rose. The fire kept moving. By June 6, it had spread across 259,025 acres of the southwest portion of the Gila Wilderness in southwest New Mexico. Fortunately, this is a remote area where few people live.

Trained as a forest ecologist, I recently completed my red card and assisted with a prescribed fire on the Gila National Forest.

I’m starting to feel like I might have missed my calling. Maybe I should be out there fighting the fire, armed with a drip torch or a Pulaski.

The day after the storm ignited the Baldy Fire, I noticed a wisp of smoke that looked almost like a cloud high above the mountains. Over the next few days, the smoke grew and I began to track the fire’s daily progression online as well. Usually, not much happens in the Cliff-Gila Valley, and yesterday, a phone message from a neighbor said, “The best view of the fire is probably from our house. We propped up a ladder so we could get on the roof for a bet-

ter vantage point. Come on up.”

Locals have mixed feelings about the fire. We know that the piñon-juniper and ponderosa pine needs to burn, and it rarely does these days, even in the Gila National Forest, which has developed one of the most progressive fire-management programs in the nation.

Out-of-control fires that burn through the canopy leave sediment and ash that can turn rivers black, kill fish, bury frog habitat and ruin water quality for months.

Foresters prefer the kind of fires that creep along the forest floor, rousing themselves for occasional blowups that create an opening in the canopy, then returning to creep along the ground again. Low-severity fires thin trees, bring sunlight and nutrients to grasses and wildflowers, improve the resilience of the surviving trees and lower the likelihood of subsequent serious fires.

Out-of-control fires that burn through the canopy leave sediment and ash that can turn rivers black, kill fish, bury frog habitat

and ruin water quality for months. It can take decades for tree cover to return, and sometimes it doesn’t return at all.

The Whitewater-Baldy Fire is burning in a place that I hold dear to my heart.

Mogollon Creek is where I first backpacked in the Gila Wilderness. A friend and I spent the next day there, sitting on warm rock slabs by the river, alternately swimming and drying off in the sun. We also watched Gila trout dart through the crystal-clear water. I wonder now, Will the creek be clear or choked with debris when we next hike in?

Every time I return to the Gila Wilderness, I notice old fire scars. I would love to have an enormous map that shows the area’s fire history. Many patches of ground in the Gila have burned not just once but several times, and recent fires, like last year’s Miller Fire, are now retarding the progression of the Whitewater-Baldy Fire.

The press is calling this fire “unusual” because, despite its huge size, it seems to be one of those mostly low-intensity blazes.

Meanwhile, I continue to cheer this fire on, reminding myself of the good work it is doing, leaving behind a mosaic of burn severity. The end of heavy smoke is in sight, and I’m looking forward to resuming my morning runs. I am grateful this fire is being managed in a way that will, in many places, restore the watershed to a healthier state.

We’re all learning so much: how to think and talk about the complexity of fires and forest and smoke, and how to reconcile the good effects with the bad. There are so many shades of gray. Just look at the changing sky outside my window these days.

Martha Schumann Cooper is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She lives in Gila, New Mexico.

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The 2012 Montana Women in Business Conference keynote speaker is Sarah Calhoun of Red Ants Pants fame, plus there are talks on financing and using social media. Bitterroot River Inn and Conference Center in Hamilton. 7:30 AM–5 PM. $65. Visit montanawbc.org.

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MONDAY JUNE 18 Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

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SELF-EXAMINATION - After former Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained that his department was “awash in taskings for reports and studies,” he ordered a study to find out how much the studies cost. Two years later, the Government Accountability Office undertook its own study of the Defense Department’s study of studies and concluded it was a failure. Its “approach is not fully consistent with relevant cost estimating best practices and cost accounting standards,” the GAO reported. The Pentagon said it “partially concurs” with the GAO’s findings. (ABC News) The nonprofit Pew Research Center, one of the country’s most reputable polling organizations, discovered that barely 10 percent of Americans contacted for its surveys respond. That compares with a response rate of 36 percent just 15 years ago. The pollsters identified two big reasons for the drop in responses to its telephone surveys: people switching from landlines to cell phones and caller ID. (Slate) LITIGATION NATION - When William Martinez, 31, saw a cardiologist in Gwinnett, Ga., about chest pain that radiated into his arm, the cardiologist determined the man was at “high risk” of having clogged heart arteries. He ordered a nuclear stress test to be done in eight days. The day before the test, Martinez and a friend had sex with a woman who was not his wife. He died shortly after the threesome. Martinez’s widow and their two children sued the cardiologist, insisting he should have had Martinez tested immediately or at least warned him to avoid physical exertion. A jury awarded the family $3 million. (Gwinnett Daily Post) After the body of electrical engineer Paul Martin, 35, was found lying naked from the waist down in his Spencerport, N.Y., basement and hooked up to an electrical device attached to his genitals, his insurance company denied his widow’s claim for accidental-death benefits, declaring Martin died from “a deliberate act on his part.” Amanda Martin sued The Hartford life-insurance company. She lost, but an appeals court vacated the decision, declaring The Hartford’s position “would exclude injuries resulting from merely negligent acts, even if the insured did not intend to injure himself”— i.e., accidents. The court directed the insurance company to reconsider paying Amanda Martin’s $81,000 accidental-death claim. (New York Post) ANOTHER NAIL IN JOURNALISM’S COFFIN - Robots are being taught to write news stories.

Programmers at Chicago-based Narrative Science have developed computer algorithms that initially produced rote summaries of sports games and stock market data but have advanced to learning human sensitivity, enabling them to recognize a team’s strong performance or pick up on trends and details that human reporters might miss. Robot reporters are already getting bylines for earnings forecasts at Forbes.com. (Wired) INFAMOUS FIRSTS - Police who arrested Chad Lee Lindley, 40, in Fargo, N.D., identified him as the first person in North Dakota to be charged with pimping. “We are not going to tolerate this,” Lt. Joel Vettel announced. (Fargo’s WDAY-TV) Retired judge Jacques Delisle, accused of murdering his wife of 50 years, was identified as the first member of Canada’s judiciary to stand trial on such a serious charge. Authorities said Delisle was living a double life and seeing his secretary when partially paralyzed Marie-Nicole Rainville, 71, was found dead at the couple’s Quebec City apartment with a revolver lying beside her. Delisle called 91-1 and reported the death as a suicide. When the operator asked him if Rainville had mentioned taking her own life, Delisle answered, “It’s a long story.” (CBC News) IGNITING OUTRAGE - Citizens in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, objected after their long-time “eternal flame” was extinguished for five hours. The 28-year-old flame, a tribute to Soviet soldiers who died in World War II, burns in Victory Square in front of a statue of a woman symbolizing those who waited for loved ones to return from the war. Yevgeniy Orlenko, deputy director of the state-owned energy supplier KyrgyzGaz, explained the gas was shut off because the local government’s unpaid bills totaled $9,400. After the incident was reported abroad, KyrgyzGaz officials re-explained that the gas had actually been turned off for maintenance. (The Washington Times) SALESMANSHIP FOLLIES - During a tour of six Asian countries, Russia’s newest civil airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100, took passengers on demonstration flights. In Indonesia, the aircraft completed its initial flight, but on its second flight later that day, it disappeared 21 minutes after take-off while flying over a volcano south of Jakarta. The crash killed all 45 on board. Earlier this year, two Superjet 100s operated by Russia’s Aeroflot had to make unscheduled landings because of faulty landing gear. (CNN) COMPUTER JUSTICE - A computer glitch resulted in 1,200 citizens being summoned for jury duty all at once in Placer County, Calif. The system’s error caused a rare traffic jam on Interstate 80 in Auburn as 800 of the jurors actually showed up for the 8 p.m. Tuesday session. Court executive officer Geoff Brandt explained the technical error caused the juror-summoning system to go into default mode, “and we were unaware the default mode was to call in every jury panel we had scheduled for the week.”

Although Brandt added, “We apologize profusely,” the people who showed up were informed that they’d still have to show up on their real scheduled day. (Sacramento’s KVOR-TV) INSTANT KARMA - Even though Spain’s King Juan Carlos, 74, is honorary president of the Spanish branch of the World Wildlife Fund, in April he made a secret trip to Botswana to hunt elephants.

While on safari, the monarch fell and broke his hip. (Associated Press)

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Patrick Cunningham digs for quartz crystals in what he calls his “honey hole.”

Searching for symmetry The magic of crystal digging and the mess it leaves behind

by Matthew Frank • photos by Chad Harder

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n a recent sunny morning, I’m driving forest roads looking for a “moonscape,” because that’s how one Forest Service staffer had described to me the pocked forest floor left behind by crystal diggers. The diggers scour these woods near Lolo Pass hunting for quartz crystals—geologic Easter eggs formed underground by slow, tectonic happenstance. On the slope along the road, I see dozens of holes dug beneath tree roots and under granite boulders. I walk to a stream bed and find mounds of sandy sediment next to flooded

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pits, surrounded on the banks by more tree roots hanging bare.

I keep driving, specks of quartz crystal in the road gleaming in the sun. As I round a corner, I see a man ahead, the first person all morning. A shovel and pickax bound together with a bungee cord rest on his shoulder; he’s about to go digging. He’s wearing rubber boots, a camouflage T-shirt over his stocky frame, a pistol on his hip and a weathered leather fedora over his shaved head. He has wide eyes and a gray goatee. He’s Patrick Cunningham,

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from Stevensville, he says with a southern drawl.

At first Cunningham, who is 47, seems wary of me, but when he hears that this is my first crystalhunting expedition, he invites me to follow him.

Down we go into a gulch, navigating thick deadfall, across a burned snag spanning a rushing stream and then up to a wall of exposed earth. The steep surface has naturally sloughed off, leaving what Cunningham calls his “honey hole.”

Cunningham hasn’t stopped talking—about how he spent seven months camping and digging last

year; about how diggers around here use crystals as currency, trading them for staples like coffee, eggs and gasoline; about unearthing two 10-pounders; about the resident grizzly bear (hence the pistol); about all the folks from Oregon, Washington, California and Nevada who come here to dig; about how he used to be a wild boar and black bear hunting guide in North Carolina; and about how he spent the last several months working for an oil company in eastern Montana, earning at least a couple of thousand dollars a week, all the while craving

to be here, back in the mountains, at his camp, and spending his days in the dirt. He’s never been married, has no kids, no dependents, he boasts.

He hunts in the fall, digs in the summer and works in between.

At the foot of the slide, Cunningham unfurls dirty gray coveralls and dons them over his clothes.

He pulls on gloves. He grabs his pickax and hands me and the photographer I’m with hand tools out of his backpack. “Start lookin’,” he says. We scramble up the dirt.

Within 30 seconds, Chad, the photographer, finds a crystal. “Good for you,” Cunningham hollers. “I did too!” He walks over to inspect Chad’s small, opaque crystal.

“Let’s see what you got there, buddy. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Good job. That’s a pretty good one. Look at that. Just like that. And we ain’t even started diggin’. Right on, dude. Right on.” He and Chad highfive. “All right.”

His face already shining with sweat, Cunningham crouches beneath the overhang at the top of the slide and gouges into the earth with his pickax. “Where there’s little ones, there’s big ones,” he says. “You just gotta be persistent and keep digging.”

He’s full of such nuggets of crystal-digging wisdom: “It’s like gold—where there’s some, there’s usually some more.”

“Some of them come easy, some come hard.”

If you find a small crystal, “there’s a daddy and a mommy close by.”

“It’s intuition, luck and being in the right place.”

He says he’s found crystals “staggering down

the road drunk. I’ve found them in between my feet in the creek. I’ve found them driving down the road and found ’em diggin’ eight-foot holes.”

There’s money in this. Cunningham says he could sell a 10-pounder for a couple of thousand dollars. But he says that’s not his motivation; he’s traded or given away more crystals than he’s sold to

30 or 40 pounds out here this summer.”

Near the top of the slide, I comb through earth with my hand fork, releasing a cloudy broken crystal about three inches long.

“Yeah baby, yeah baby,” Cunningham yells. “That’s a $30 or $40 crystal right there, man.

Hell yeah.”

collectors. He’s here more because finding a big crystal, he says, “makes you laugh and all giddy and happy. … I’m a grown kid playing in a giant sandbox, and if you make a little money at it, that’s cool. … And it’s good exercise. I’ll lose

‘It’s kind of like gambling’ A couple of weeks before, I’m sitting in an office in the Forest Service headquarters in Missoula talking with Judy Reese, the geologist for the Lolo, Bitterroot and Flathead national forests. For years,

crystal diggers have roamed the forest, but Reese is reluctant to talk about it; she doesn’t want to encourage more digging. She refuses to identify the locations of popular dig sites, not even the names of drainages. “I don’t think people understand that that’s not appropriate—that that’s not allowed because of the extent of the resource damage,” she says.

The legality of crystal digging is something of a gray area. A free-use permit lets you collect a limited amount of rock in designated areas within the national forest. But to legally dig for crystals, a certified mineral examiner needs to first determine whether they’re common or uncommon, a mineral material or a locatable commodity. “We don’t do that,” Reese says, at least not for Joe Public digging around in the woods. So folks like Cunningham aren’t technically allowed to do what they do, but the Forest Service doesn’t have the staff to stop them. Nor are local forest officials inclined to designate an area a crystal-digging site, which would require extensive environmental review and resources.

All the agency can really do, then, is discourage the activity. But in the Lolo Pass area, it’s fighting an uphill battle.

Reese first became aware of the problem when she came to the Forest Service in 2006.

Rangers had encountered deep holes concentrated in one area on the Missoula district. It lacked the funding to hire crews to fix the damage, so, in 2007, it organized a staff work day. About 20 Forest Service employees refilled holes with hand shovels, re-vegetated and mulched the area, and posted signs stating that crystal digging isn’t

Crystals found near Lolo Pass range in color from an intense black, like these, to shades of brown and white. Some of the smaller crystals can be transparent.

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allowed. But the district can’t do that everywhere crystal diggers dig.

“It’s kind of like gambling,” Reese says. “They think they’re going to find the big one. But they don’t, and they keep on digging.”

Carl Anderson, a ranger in the area, describes the five- to 10-acre dig sites—the “moonscapes”—as having “holes that range in size from a shovel scoop to holes big enough to bury a person in,” many of which are under boulders and trees and along road banks. This is what separates the impact of crystal diggers from that of, say, morel mushroom hunters.

“We’ve reclaimed and rehabbed some of that just to come back a year or two later and have them dug up again,” Anderson says. “It’s gotten so extensive that it’s not a hand-tool operation to reclaim some of these sites, you need to get equipment in there to do it. So it’s a huge environmental impact. It’s something that we have a difficult time addressing”— especially when, as he notes, some guidebooks direct rock hounds to these areas.

Rock hounds acknowledge that some impact is unavoidable. “We try really, really hard to repair our damage,” says Pamela Myers, vice president of the Bitterroot Gem and Mineral Society. “That’s not to say that there isn’t damage—one can’t dig into the side of a hill and not wreak havoc on that hill to some degree. But to try and repair that is important.

Not everyone thinks along those lines, I’m sure.”

Crystal digging presents the agency with other problems, too, Anderson says, such as noxious weed invasion, garbage left at camps and conflicts involving possessive diggers. About a year ago, he says, a man encountered a group of crystal diggers on his mining claim. One of the diggers showed his gun and ran the claimant off, Anderson was told.

And then there’s the issue of safety. Anderson recalls that a man died while crystal digging near Lolo Pass several years ago. Cunningham, the digger, would later tell the story secondhand: “He was laying on his belly, getting all excited finding crystals,

A milky quartz crystal found in a naturally sloughed off hillside near Lolo Pass.

reaching in the hole, reaching in the hole, and he wasn’t clear on what they call the overburden”—the ground overlying a dig site—“and it fell off, and there was a 50-pound rock that landed right on the back of his neck. It broke his neck. He was dead before they uncovered him.”

From Middle-earth Geology books will tell you that many areas just

Yarrow Grace uses dowsing rods to measure how crystals affect one’s field.

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south and west of Missoula are part of the 15,000square-mile Idaho batholith, a term geologists use to describe large intrusions of rock solidified from lava or magma. The Idaho batholith extends roughly from Missoula to Boise. It’s made up of two large

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swaths of granite—the Bitterroot batholith, to the north, and the Atlanta batholith, to the south—which are typically separated by the Salmon River.

These granite expanses were formed during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million years ago.

Within the Idaho batholith, though, there are distinct intrusive rock formations of varying ages. The Lolo batholith, which includes the Lolo Pass area, is a smaller and younger mass of granite formed dur-

ing the Eocene epoch, about 50 million years ago.

Quartz crystals formed there in rock cavities, explains Reese, the Forest Service geologist. As the mass that is now the Lolo batholith rose slowly to the surface, over eons, hydrothermal solutions carrying silicon dioxide—which is what quartz crystals are made of—flowed into the cavities.

Crystals form from a tiny nucleus, “and once you have the nucleus and you have a concentration of those fluids, the crystals will grow,” Reese explains. “But you need that space and that opening to get the crystal to form.”

Weathering frees crystals from the granite.

That’s why they’re found in the soil.

Their colors “range from black to shades of brown and white,” Marlen Tweten wrote 30 years ago, in a four-page report about the Lolo Pass area’s crystals for The Mineralogical Record. “Some crystals may be an intense black while others may have some brown tips with a brownish-white prism. Some of the smaller crystals under four centimeters may be transparent.”

In the same report, Tweten wrote about crystalcollecting techniques in the area. When Reese gives me a copy of the report, she summarizes them: “Finding a crystal or crystals may not be an indicator of more crystals in the same place. … I think that’s a good quote to put in your article,” she says.

Something no one’s ever seen before Today, Marlen Tweten regrets writing about Lolo Pass’s crystals in a national magazine such as The Mineralogical Record. It only led to more people digging there, he says.

Tweten, 69, now retired, tells me this as he walks down the basement steps of his home in Missoula’s University District. He’s a tall, lanky, slow-talking man who’s been collecting crystals for decades. In his basement, there’s a lit glass display case that holds a few dozen of his favorites. Most are that intense black color.

He guesses he’s found 15,000 crystals.

“I’ve often wondered how many millions of quartz crystals I’ve walked over,” he says. “You go in the undisturbed parts and they could be down a foot, or three feet. There’s no way of knowing. And the pockets are scattered.”

He likens crystal digging to fishing or skiing. “You do it because it’s fun,” he says. “It’s so much fun finding something that no one’s ever seen before. You dig a lot of pockets that don’t have much in them, but once in a while, you hit it big— like these, the big ones here,” he says, pointing to the bottom shelf of the display case.

It holds three crystals the size of footballs. Tweten found them in a pocket that took him three days to dig out.

Still, this isn’t much of a hobby for him anymore. He says there are too many people digging around Lolo Pass now—“too many people who don’t know the rules or won’t follow them. And there’s no way to reach them,” since so many come from out of state. “How many times can you go over a road until you don’t find anything?”

Yet the incentive to dig crystals grows with their value. “Prices have gotten way out of line,” he says. There are collectors who would pay thousands for

The Forest Service says crystal diggers damage the forest near Lolo Pass.

his largest crystals, but they’re not for sale; he plans to donate all his best specimens to the Mineral Museum, in Butte.

Carry a crystal, be a tree It turns out that my quartz crystal, the one I found with Cunningham, may not be the best crystal for me to carry around. It amplifies my field too much, making it harder for me to be like a tree.

I learn this from Yarrow Grace, a crystal healer who meets me in Missoula’s Caras Park on a recent afternoon. A petite, white-haired woman with intense and friendly brown eyes who has a business called Labyrinth LightWorks, Grace brings a bag full of crystals wrapped in cloth. She carefully unwraps them and places them on a table. They’re all different kinds; one is a black quartz crystal she found herself near Lolo Pass. She doesn’t like to dig, though, she says. She prefers to search previously dug sites when it’s raining, when crystals the diggers missed shine.

Grace begins her explanation of the therapeutic and metaphysical properties of crystals by pulling out copper dowsing rods, which are typically used to find water. The rods supposedly respond to influences we can’t see in our three-dimensional world. In this case, she’s using the rods to determine the size of my field.

This is my non-physical body around my physical body (some call it the soul, she says) that constantly informs everyone of what I’m willing to experience.

It’s influenced by my thoughts and emotions.

We’re on the stage in Caras Park. Grace has me stand still while she walks about 15 feet away and points the dowsing rods at me.

“When I get in your field, the dowsing rods will open, so I can see where you really begin and end— not your physical self, but your whole self.”

She takes about three steps toward me and the dowsing rods begin to move. Apparently my field is

very large. That means I’m not as grounded right therefore it probably won’t have a grounding “When you’re out in nature, be huge, be large, but now as I could be. So she has me close my eyes and effect. She walks 15 feet away and points the dows- still be the tree.”

I should work with my crystal, she says. she tries it again. This time, she’s able to walk sever- ing rods at me. They start spinning. My field is big“Sleep with it, consider it like your dog friend, ger than ever. al feet closer before the dowsing rods move. a being that you’d want to offer sunlight “So take a moment in the day just to shut to, maybe water to, earth energy to. If your eyes,” she says. “It’s going to center you you treat it as you would a friend, it will, and ground you.” over time, become as clear as that,” she Grace has me hold crystals to my navel to says, pointing to a transparent crystal on see how they affect the size of my field. First I the table. try a smoky quartz crystal, which apparently grounds me, because she’s able to walk pretty close before the dowsing rods open but not Giant sandbox close enough to be within arm’s length, which As Patrick Cunningham takes a break is ideal. So we try a black tourmaline crystal. from digging and sips some water, his fedoThat’s just about right. She suggests that I ra off, he says he doesn’t really believe in carry black tourmaline with me in my pockets, that “New Age” stuff about crystals. Though or in my shoes, as she often does. he does say that one of his crystals, which You want to tighten your field, she says, to he keeps in a wooden box with many othbe “cohesive” and have your own experiences. ers, is always colder than the rest. He If your field is too large, you bring in everyone can’t explain why. “It’s the weirdest shit I’ve else’s. “You’d be a lighthouse to everybody ever seen.” that says, ‘Come on in, I’m open’—and unless As for what the Forest Service thinks you want that to happen, everybody’s going of his favorite summertime activity, to take advantage of your open-door policy.”

Cunningham says he’s glad they don’t perThe point, she says, is to relate from your mit it. He’s also glad they don’t, or can’t, do own perception out into the world, “rather anything to stop it. The status quo works than having … his feelings, those computers, for him. those florescent lights, that person’s emoHe reminds me that when he’s not here tions” and everything else inside you. digging in the dirt, he’s working for one of Instead of being a lighthouse, she says, be the many oil companies that make a fortune a tree. off public land and that do far more damage Be conscious of the bottom of your than he and his pickax ever could. “As long feet. Imagine your spinal column as a taproot. as people got common sense and don’t Some believe that crystals have therapeutic and Be steady, rooted up through your solar wantonly try to damage the woods, I don’t metaphysical properties. plexus. Whenever you feel distress, “take a see a problem with it,” he says. deep breath and flush it down that taproot And with that, he puts his fedora on It’s probably not a good idea to keep that crysand give it back to the earth.” and climbs back into his giant sandbox.

I show her my crystal. It’s milky quartz, which tal on me, she says.

It might be okay if I’m out in the woods, though. means that it’s somewhat irradiated, she says, and mfrank@missoulanews.com

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The fruit is on FLASHINTHEPAN Cherries and strawberries, the gateposts of fruit season, are weeks early in many places, thanks to a short, hot spring. As the summer unfolds, these fruits will be followed by apricots, raspberries, peaches, blueberries, grapes, apples, pears and plums. The plants that bear these colorful spheroids of seeded fructose are found in many places, public and private. Acquiring the fruit takes creativity, and can sometimes push the limits of your comfort zone.

A crop of apricots neglected on a neighbor’s tree can often be gleaned for a knock and the polite asking. Farmers packing away their leftovers at the end of market might be ready to make a deal (such arrangements have been known to lead to offers to pick trees clean).

There are feral or abandoned orchards, U-pick farms and orchards, even grocery stores—after all, when fruit is in season it’s usually cheap, so you don’t have to fall out of a tree or get shot for trespassing just to get some.

That said, the harvest is not going to come to you. Go get that fruit before the birds and bugs get it, before it ends up in the compost pile or the dumpster and before it drops to the ground. If it does drop, pick up the good ones.

I consider this generalist approach to fruit acquisition to be in the hunter-gatherer tradition. Hunter-gatherers, anthropologists believe, generally have more free time than people in any other societal structure, allowing for plenty of backgammon and baby-making through the ages.

As part of an integrated modern lifestyle, picking a bunch of fruit probably won’t create any extra free time. In fact, it can sometimes land you a large ripe pile that you then have to invest more time in processing.

That’s why when I preserve the bounty of summer, be it fruit, vegetable, berry or root, I usually choose the simplest path to quickly and efficiently stabilizing the product. I’m trying to pack away as much food as I can, and I don’t often want to mess around with recipes that slow me down. I do have some specialty preparations I’ve grown to depend on over the years, like my pickled peppers, salsa, catsup and stack of frozen plum tortes. But while I appreciate a jar of apricot chutney as much as anyone, I prefer to just put them in jars and figure it out later.

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be resurrected in the dead of winter as practically anything you want, including jam.

I leave the cherries and strawberries whole. The sauce between fruit chunks thickens as it cooks. Add water as necessary to keep the fruit covered. The longer you cook it, the thicker the resulting mush will be.

If I’m doing this with apricots, and sometimes peaches, I let the fruit cool after it’s been cooked down and then puree it in a blender or food processor into a thick juice before canning.

Fruit-in-jars can be frozen or canned. If you have the freezer space, your best bet is to freeze the jars, filled three-quarters full to allow for expansion. That’s the quickest, easiest option.

And since freezers work harder when they’re not full, you’re saving both energy and your freezer’s life by taking this easy-freezy route.

This is especially applicable in early summer, when freezers tend to be at their emptiest.

If you don’t have freezer space, canning the fruit is your best option. Low-acid fruits like apples, pears and plums will need to be pressure-canned, while the tarter fruits can hold off spoilage with their acid content and only need a simple water bath.

Photo by Ari LeVaux Cherries need to bathe in water for 25 minutes (longer at high elevations).

Fruit-in-jars is more involved. The process is Strawberries, along with apricots, which are coming similar to making jam, but I prefer it because it’s sim- on as we speak, are higher in acid and need only 20 pler and, more importantly, because jam requires minutes.

To properly handle all of the fruit that’s coming, pectin, a polysaccharide usually derived from apple peel that’s available in powder form. Pectin is what you need a trusted source that gives the proper prothickens jam, but only if you add sugar, which makes cessing times and techniques for each fruit, and that the pectin congeal. Adding sugar to fruit is unhealthy tells you which ones need pressure and how much. and absurd, and since I’m not a bread person, I have This information is out there in many forms. A county or university extension service is a good source of little use for jam.

All the jam-spreaders out there (likely a majority information on processing fruit in your area. The of the general populace) should take note that there book Stocking Up by Rodale Press has this informais a type of pectin called Pomona’s Pectin that’s tion. The National Center for Home Food designed for low-sugar or no-sugar jam. The recipes Preservation (http://nchfp.uga.edu/) has canning that come with it call for juice, like apple or pineap- times for fruit at every elevation.

Experiment with different preparations. Figure ple, in place of sugar.

That’s all I’m going to say about jam, because I out which storage forms you and your family prefer. skip the sugar, juice and pectin entirely. I simply Each year you’ll get better, and more efficient, at cook the cleaned, pitted and perhaps chopped fruit squirreling away the fruits of summer in a way that in a pot, preferably heavy-bottomed, in a little bit of still allows for some good old fashioned hunter-gathwater, with the lid on. The resulting fruit-in-jars can erer leisure.

For cherries and strawberries, both of which are in season now, I have two methods: freezing them whole, which is easiest, and making a simple preparation I call fruit-in-jars.

To freeze them whole, just clean, dry and (if applicable) pit the fruit, pack them gently in a jar or bag, with as little air inside as possible, and freeze. That’s it. They won’t last as long as a Twinkie but will last up to a year with no significant deterioration.

LISTINGS

Best

Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

by ARI LeVAUX

tion of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wifi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week.

Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$

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. $-$$

Alcan Bar and Grill 16780 Beckwith St. Frenchtown • 626-9930 Tantalize your taste buds with Angus beef burgers, chicken strips, shrimp, and biscuits and gravy from Alcan Bar & Grill. With more than 20 years of experience and 10 years in the business, we have been offering fresh meals and beverages at the area's most competitive prices.

Our friendly professionals offer personalized service and make sure you leave our restaurant as one of our friends. We offer have a variety of specials for ladies night and sports events featuring drink specials and free food. Contact us today and enjoy our incredible menu selection. 9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun.

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Wow! Cupcake Maynia is back in full force.

This year’s theme? Junk In The Trunk. Try a Chubby Hubby, Almost Elvis, Caramel Popcorn, or Drumstick cupcake. Top of the list: Blueberry Pancake; a Sourcream Blueberry cupcake filling with handmade Blueberry filling and frosted with Maple Blueberry Buttercream. Upwards of 16 flavors to choose from! And PLEASE check out Bernice’s Facebook. Cupcake portraiture is entertaining and introducing each member of Bernice’s staff. We are having so much fun and brining it directly to you. See you soon. xoxo Bernice.

Big Sky Drive In 1016 W. Broadway • 549-5431 Big Sky Drive In opened June 2nd 1962.

We feature soft serve ice cream, shakes, malts, spins, burger, hot dogs, pork chop sandwiches and breaded mushrooms all made to order. Enjoy our 23 shake and malt flavors or the orange twist ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$

Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) • 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selec-

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.

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Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. 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.

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The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm SunWed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ 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. eMpanadas @ the Clark Fork River Market Under the Higgins St. Bridge www.empanadalady.com 728-2030 Hechas a mano con amor...¡Qué sabor! Made by hand with love…what flavor! Carne de búfalo, pollo, lamb, salchicha, humita, acelga & more. Since 2005, Missoula’s original Argentine-style empanadas are crafted from premium, homegrown ingredients and delivered by bicycle, straight from the oven to the market, every Saturday 8am – 1pm. Taste the difference.

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-9pm Tuesday-Sunday. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week.

Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 41-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Spring is here! It's the perfect time of year to enjoy our newly expanded patio! Happy Hour from 4-7pm every day! We now have a huge selection of bottled India Pale Ales. Tuesday Music Showcase from 7-10 pm. Thursday is Trivia Night. $6 Bud Light Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday 7-10pm. Win your bar tab! 1st place gets $50 tab, 2nd gets $30 tab, & 3rd gets $20 tab. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

Wildwood Brewing in Stevensville What you’re drinking: Organic, Montanamade beers. The region’s newest brewery opened in March, brewing additive- and adjunctfree Bavarian-style lagers, pilsners, bocks and more. A newer offering caught my eye in the repurposed barn taproom: White Bark Wheat Ale. In an amazing nod to the powers of yeast, this ale tastes like banana candy and cloves.

Next, I spy a sign by the cash register saying the brewery’s Ambitious Pale Lager won Garden City Brewfest’s best lager as well as best Montana beer. Tempted with these facts and my own slight snobbery, I venture in. A solid pour creates a heavy head that hangs like a cloud. The first taste is aromatic, the second is smooth and the rest falls back with that perfect carbonation you seldom find in American lagers and ales.

Who you’re drinking with: Stevensvillians old and young and anyone else you choose, whether that be grandma or your dog Sparky, if you come in for a growler fill (or three) between 4 and 8 p.m. But the biggest crowd coming in to taste these new top-fermented treats are “brewers from their breweries, actually,” says owner Jim Lueders. “They’re beer connoisseurs. It makes sense they’d want to try it.”

What the future holds: They've got a canning line and they’ve got the design, but

Photo by Brooks Johnson

the government has to approve the labels, which puts the estimated availability of their canned beer at about a month from now. As far as varieties go, Lueders will try ales on occasion, and some seasonals may stick longer than others, but the IPA trend is not on his radar. “In my mind, beer should be balanced,” he says, meaning hops have a place and it’s not the throne.

How to find it: From Missoula, go south on US 93 about 25 miles. It’ll be on the left side of the road, a few blocks before the stoplight that brings you into Stevensville proper.

They’re open every day from 4 to 8 p.m.

—Brooks Johnson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

SATURDAYS $1 SUSHI 4pm-9pm Mondays & Thursdays - $1 SUSHI (all day) Not available for To-Go orders

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Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 510. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. 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. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few.

For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver!

Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from

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Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.

Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare.

Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly.

549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right!

Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9.

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ 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. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. • 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook. Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! $

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Defying the laws of tradition. Primus plays the Big Sky Brewery on Sun., June 17, at 8 PM. $35. Visit knittingfactory.com.

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Air out your art: Polson’s Sandpiper Art Gallery is hosting a Reservation Views Plein Air Paint Out. For applications and more information, call 883-5956 or visit sandpiperartgallery.com.

The 2012 Montana Women in Business Conference keynote speaker is Sarah Calhoun of Red Ants Pants fame, plus there are talks on financing and using social media. Bitterroot River Inn and Conference Center in Hamilton.

7:30 AM–5 PM. $65. Visit montanawbc.org.

For summertime learning and such, the Montana Natural History Center’s

miniNaturalists Pre-K Program has moved to the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Bugs, dirt and explorations abound. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members.

Visit montananaturalist.org.

The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30–6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment. 120 Hickory.

The North Valley Family Center’s Welcome Baby Meeting gives you a chance to handle your own business after the little one arrives, because if you don’t take care of you who will? 5501 Hwy. 93. Ste. 3. 10 AM–Noon. Free.

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The Boys and Girls Club Summer Program kicks of this week and is open to all Westside kids throughout the summer. Food and fun provided by the Missoula Food Bank, NMCDC and the ZACC. There is even a garden for all the childrens to use. Burns Street Events Center, 1500 Burns St. 2–5 PM. Free.

To register, stop by now through Aug.24.

Josh Farmer hooks up the team and heads to Draught Works Brewery to play tunes for your Uncle Bud. 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free.

Dudes, come get your climb on during Freestone Climbing’s Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 15, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Actually, half the plants you’re watering are destroying your soil — or are they? Find out at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens during the class Which Are Weeds?: A Native Plant Gardener’s Conundrum. 5:30-7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at

Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from 5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by Dead Winter Carpenters. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms.

2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Hey fellow lovers of knowledge and spirituality and the Root, this month’s Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meeting is Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears with Buddhism teacher Pema Chadron. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

It’s all good, good, good when John Schiever rocks it during Bitter Root Land Trust Pint Night at the Bitter Root Brewery.

6–8:30 PM. Free.

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Shramana’s track “Petty Theft” makes me off-kilter, the kind of off-kilter that comes from having had too much caffeine and not enough sleep. The tune’s chromatic grind seems to come from a deep, dark, dry well. One guarded by snapping dog vocals and columns of jouncy, unpredictable armored brigands that tumble forth from barren walls indiscriminately shouting orders of defiance and counteraction. Of course, these are good things. Sonically disconcerting, maybe, but challenging like much of Shramana’s latest album Dreaming As Punishment. This is not to be confused with their Total Shitcore EP, which has a more classic punk sound and features older tunes from the not-so-distant past. On DAP, the band is willing to stretch out riffs a little longer, play slower and quieter, fool with structure more and generally sound bleaker. As vocalist, guitarist and main songwriter Reggie Herbert notes, “I guess we’re a metal band now.” A not-so-unusual progression for musicians who are learning to play an instrument and a far remove from the “shitcore” WHAT: Shramana dual album release party moniker he and drummer Levi Woods and WHEN: Sat., June 16, at 8 PM bassist Ryan Bilunka once used to describe themselves. The sound of the band shouldn’t WHERE: Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St. surprise anyone who has listened to Herbert’s show on KBGA, “Dirty Flannel,” where he DJs as HOW MUCH: $5 Regicide and plays grunge goodies from the ’90s such as the Melvins and Fudge Tunnel alongside newer-ish heavies like Zoroaster and Enabler, as well classic punker tunes by Black Flag and others.

Don’t assume that Shramana is all bluster and boom and simple rage thrown together to create a noisy goo of heavy tunes, though. Herbert and his bandmates put time and thought into what they do, seeking to get better, heavier and more sonically diverse. But they don’t do it for you; they do it for themselves. They know how to craft songs that make you want to sing along but choose not to. They are honest about their disdain for modern society and share their difficulties with it in their music. And although they play for themselves, there is a reticent urge to connect with a wider audience, which they might well do during their album release show at Zoo City Apparel this Saturday, where they’ll play along with openers Swamp Ritual, My Two Dads, Darshan Pulse, Throne of Lies and LA’s Angry Youth. “I’ve always thought rejecting society in lieu of finding your own truth to be a good thing.” Herbert says, “Everybody can relate to that.”

–Jason McMackin

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June 14– June 21, 2012

Kim Barnes reads from her book In the Kingdom of Men, a story about the lives of women locked behind doors, both metaphorical and literal. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free.

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your usually useless knowledge and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

He’s in no hurry to get off the dude ranch: Kenny Wait plays country at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.

Like a boss, here to promote Synergy Sessions at the Palace, comes a night of local DJs, cool stuff for sale and live painting. 9 PM. Free.

The Voodoo Horseshoes take over the VFW during their monthlong residency with virtue, aplomb and the straight dopeness. Also TBA openers. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. Free.

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

Sand in your knuckles? Corn in your teeth? No matter, Grit won’t judge you when they play The Top Hat at 10 PM. Free.

The Roy Kay Trio loads up the classic country pick-up with oldtimey tuneage and a few originals for an evening of rural times. 11 PM. Cost TBD.

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It looks like a solar phone charger could come in handy right quick, so join AERO MT and learn how to build one at the Energy Solutions Workshop, which also explains how to get and finance renewable energy projects. UM FLAT, 633 S. 5th St. E. 10 AM–4 PM. $20. Register at aeromt.org.

nightlife LMFAO! got nothing on the gypsy jazz of El 3-Oh!, who perform at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–8:30 PM. Free.

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

Grab the lil’ lizards and head on down to The Top Hat for Family Friendly Friday with music by The Salamanders. 6-8 PM. Free.

Headphone Steve vs. Saturn Rings ain’t no cartoon wrasslin’ upstart, it’s a dubstep versus electro/break fiasco at Monk’s Bar. Don your robot walkers and pick a side.

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Montana History Comes Alive at Beavertail Hill State Park when presenter Ellen Baumler talks about leprosy-haver and state legislator Orville Willett. 26 miles east of Missoula on I-90. 8 PM. Free.

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of high-powered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.” Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com You probably know what the hills are alive with but if you don’t, the Hamilton Players will tell it you during their performance of The Sound of Music. 100 Rickets Rd. 8 PM. $15/$8 child.

Fact: rock and roll is noise pollution and that’s all right by me when VTO, I Hate Your Girlfriend and Modality trip balls for you peeps at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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They’ll knock the rocks out of your socks: The Blox play the Pulse, in the Press Box, at 9 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

7–8:30 PM. $40.

The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South. $2 suggested donation.

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June 14– June 21, 2012

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Do the honky tonk hustle with that down-for-all-that-good-stuff gal who works at the help desk in the library’s reference section when Russ Nasset & The Revelators do work at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

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Let out a holler, it’s Blue Collar performing for you and yours at the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 9 PM. 1101 Strand. Free.

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Local rock bands seek audience, commitment: Trick Shot, The Chalfonts and Shake Well play Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Free.

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

Free. Call 728-8799.

If it’s not the recession, it’s the weather: Dead Winter Carpenters play roots ‘n’ roll at The Top Hat. 10 PM. $7.

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See all the beautful people and purchase fresh-baked yummies and gorgeous veggies and maybe have a taco at one of western Montana’s farmers’ markets. In Missoula, at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville, on Main Street; and in Hamilton, at South

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June 14– June 21, 2012

If you’re like me, you spend much of your “work day” trolling the tubes for wrestling promos from the ’70s, weird Japanese breakfast cereal ads and live performances of unsung musicians. The performances of transgendered artist Baby Dee somehow manage to blend all of those things with humor, melancholy and love. In some of the videos, she is trailer park chic: checkerboard trousers of black and white, a puffy pink hooded jacket made from the same shaggy material that dons the heads of troll dolls, a leopard print tie, hair dye detuned to a strawberry blonde from its once fiery red. At times, her appearance is less chic and more casual: polka-dotted pants, striped shirts and red knit cap replete with puffy ball on top. But it’s the ballads and torch songs of the pianist and harpist that are more arresting than her wardrobe. In “Safe Inside the Day,” from The Line of Best Fit Sessions on YouTube, she sings with the anguish and pensiveness of a good Irish tenor: “A gift that's bigger than WHO: Baby Dee, with locals Mountain Breathers the box it came in / And if I can remain there / In that heaven of your eyes / And WHEN: Wed., June 20, at 9 PM find a tiny paradise of no goodbyes / And if I can remain there I will stay.” There is palWHERE: Palace, 134 W. Broadway Ave. pable ache in that performance, which begins quietly before Dee erupts into a HOW MUCH: $5 near-wail, eyes squeezed shut, approaching tears, as the song closes with catharsis and release. It’s a wonder that Dee could go on to perform other emotionally charged tunes, as this one seems to have left her bereft of energy, but she does, with the same energy and same emotive power.

However, Baby Dee is no one trick pony. She has worked with Andrew WK and Antony and the Johnsons. She has trimmed trees and been a church organist. She is a harpist and accordion player as well as a pianist. She is funny. She is forlorn. She’ll break your heart and make you smile.

–Jason McMackin

Third and Bedford Streets. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes down between 8 AM and 1 PM. Cast Off 2012 at the Festival of the Fly up in West Glacier is a heckuva way to get your summer fishing started, with instruction, comps, product demos and more. Glacier Outdoor Center. Visit outdoormedia.com for the deets.

Get out of town and check out the all the pretty birds down Dillon (Melrose, really) way on the Five Valleys Audubon Field Trip to SW Montana. The trip is led by Cynthia Hudson and Nate Kohler. Call 7220016 to sign-up. Attendees must provide their own accommodations.

Get a peak at the conservation efforts down the ‘Root during the MPG Ranch Grasslands Excursion with the Montana Native Plant Society. Botanist Mel Waggy leads this expedition.

Missoulians meet at the SW corner of the old Wal-Mart parking lot at 8:30 AM. All others meet behind the IGA in Florence at 9 AM. Call Mel for more details at 273-6140.

The Bitter Root Day Festival roots and toots all the live-long day—well from 9 AM to 1 PM, anyway—with art, food and a jerky contest, as well as Salish cultural activities. Held in Hamilton at the Ravalli County Museum at the old court house. Free.

Help keep the critters a-howling by purchasing a few odds and ends at the IWFF’s White Elephant Rummage Sale at the Roxy Theater. 718 S. Higgins. 9–3 PM. Uncover the mysteries of your backyard during the Montana Natural History Center’s Saturday Discovery Day: Ecology Walk for Families at the Mt. Jumbo Saddle Trailhead. The trailhead is near the top of Lincoln Hills Rd. 10 AM-Noon. $5/members free. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Introduce yourself to this year’s Griz football team during Griz Day at the Carousel, with visits from players and an auction featuring an autographed photo of former Havre Blue Pony Marc Mariani.

Caras Park 11 AM–3 PM. Free.

The Hot Springs Farmers Market busts out the dee-lish grub for all you all, with tunes come 4 PM at the Aftermarket Music & Arts Series. 11–3 PM. Let Montana Triennial artist Cindy Swidler give you the real tour of the MAM during her Artist’s POV Tour. 335 N. Pattee. Noon. Free.

Scope out the updated digs at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives during the Contemporary Collectors Circle Field Trip. Contact Ted at the MAM to join up: ted@missoulaartmuseum.org or 728-0447 ext. 222.

Bring that special pal to the ZACC for BOGO Pottery Saturday, where you can paint mugs and the like and get a discount on that second one and maybe a smooch from that special barista. 235 N. 1st St. Noon–6 PM. Prices vary.

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Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Step right up ya buggers for the 2nd Annual Missoula Carnival held at Caras Park, featuring the whimsy of the Rainbow Trolls, the Shaneca Show and the old-time vaudevillian stylings of the Merry Pranksters Variety Show. Games, food and beers all day, shows at 1 PM, 4 PM and 8 PM. Free.

Zig-uh-zag-ahh to the tunes of all kinds of fatty boom blatty DJs when CoreElation presents Turn On, Tune In, Drop Beats with DJs Over EZ, Nic Jaymes, Geeter and asyn9. Palace. 9 PM. Free.

nightlife It’s the Mike Bader Bear Jam and that is all I have to say about that. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free.

Mudslide Charley slip-slides the blues alongside the brews at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton.

6–8:30 PM. Free.

Step back man, it’s Rod Blackman busting out the jamz at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

All around rad lady Grace Kelly showcases her sax playing at DalyJazz, with the aid of David Morgenroth, Craig Hall and Adam Greenberg. 7 PM. $40 suggested donation. RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Get your P-burg on and join the Wild Coyote Band for some fun and frolic at the Sunshine Station Bar in Philipsburg. 3830 Hwy. 1. 7 PM. Free.

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of highpowered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.”

Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com You probably know what the hills are alive with but if you don’t, the Hamilton Players will tell it you during their performance of The Sound of Music. 100 Rickets Rd. 8 PM. $15/$8 child.

Let’s get real, let’s get heavy, it’s Shramana’s Dual Album Release Party, with old schoolers Angry Youth, as well as Swamp Ritual, My Two Dads, Darshan Pulse and Throne of Lies. Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main. 8 PM. $5. (See Spotlight.)

DJ Monty Carlo is rolling solo and will sell you Rolos during Absolutely, a dance party featuring

Let out a holler, it’s Blue Collar performing for you and yours at the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 9 PM. 1101 Strand. Free.

BBQ in the afternoon, Shane Clouse by moonlight? Sho enuff.

That’s what’s going down at the Lumberjack Saloon during the SFW BBQ and Fundraiser from 2–7 PM. $20. Maybe a nap. Music at 9 PM with Mr. Clouse. Free.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799.

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Make tracks during the Discovery XC Mountain Bike Race, a single-track and double-track smackdown on the steeps of the Discovery Ski Area. The event is part of the Montana Off-Road Series (MORS). Get cranking to montancycling.net.

Do these things: relieve stress, fear and anxiety naturally at Jack Fontana’s Conscious Connected Breathing Workshop. 200 N. Higgins Ste. 204. $54. Call 3700425 to register.

Take a Sunday stroll and a spin on the carousel at the Carousel Sunday Market & Festival, which offers up local veggies, crafts and all sort of yummikins. Every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM at the New Park parking lot near A Carousel for Missoula. Visit carrousel.com/acfm/carousel-sundaymarket-and-events.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

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

This week’s National Accordion Month Film at the Missoula Public Library is Schultze Gets the Blues.

And, yes, the preceding sentence exists. Lg. Meeting Rm. 2 PM. Free.

You probably know what the hills are alive with but if you don’t, the Hamilton Players will tell it you during their performance of The Sound of Music. 100 Rickets Rd. 2 PM. $15/$8 child.

Brent Jameson troubadates his way into your hearts at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 4–6:30 PM. Free.

nightlife Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of highpowered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might now from

“Dallas” and “Knot Landing.” Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish at 6 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Get a mouthful of world jazz and share it when Tapas takes the stage at The Top Hat. 7 PM. Free.

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

Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

Suck on this! Stalwarts of the ‘90s Primus perform whacked out antipop tuneage at the Big Sky Brewery in Missoula at 8 PM. $35, with advance tickets at knittingfactory.com Blam-o!

Ambassador Gun unloads leaded ass-stomps of grindy, punk and metal gnar at the VFW, with Blue Ox and TBA locals.

245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.

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Achin’ to get the kids out of the house already? Send ‘em to Kids Clay Camp at the Clay Studio of Missoula. This camp last Mon.–Fri. and runs from 9:30–11:30 AM. 1106 A Hawthorne. $81. Visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org.

Get them kids out from under that Tay-Vay this summer during the MAM’s I Love to Draw, a four-day course that allows kids ages 7 to 11 to create a sketch book and fill it with rad drawings and the like.

335 N. Pattee. 1–3 PM. $50/$45 for members.

The High Country Carvers welcome carvers of all abilities to their meetings, which take place at the Evergreen Fire Dept. No power tools, but you need gloves and a bench hook. 2236 Hwy. 2.

2–4 PM. Those looking for mother-to-mother breast feeding support can find it when the La Leche League meets every first Mon. of the month at 10 AM at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth St. W., and on the third Mon. of the month at 6 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Children and babies are always welcome.

nightlife At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

Easiest way to make rent since keno: Bingo at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $10 buy-in.

There’s nothing bland about band, man, so dust off that flugelhorn, Chuck, and join the Missoula City Band for rehearsal in the Sentinel High School Band Rm. How bad could you be? Call 728-2400 or go to missoulacityband.org.

Oh yah, it’s Dick Skultin on accordion and Chuck Hart on guitar at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 111 N. Higgins. 7–10 PM. Free.

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of highpowered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.”

Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

Come by and do you that funk-adoo. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. Free.

Milkcrate Monday’s with the Milkcrate Mechanic presents another night of electric mayhem from all corners of the sub-genre world with Random Music for Random Kitties. Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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If you’re grieving the loss of a pet, take comfort at the Pet Bereavement Group, which meets the third Tue. of each month at 21st Century Homeopathy, 813 1st St. in Hamilton, at 6:30 PM. Call 370-0699.

Make it happen, for Fun with Yoga at the Families First Children’s Museum might work for you and the kids. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters.

All are invited. Noon–1 PM. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5.

Don’t just express yourself, be expressive at the ZACC’s weekly, one-hour poetry workshop. 235 N. 1st St. 8 PM. Free.

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of highpowered drama you can’t get

Karaoke with DJ LRock at the Press Box. First place wins a $25 bar tab. On the last Tues. of the month, the winners battle for supremacy. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

The Badlander’s Live and Local Night fiesta gets gyspified when Polebridge’s Burlesco gets tuneful along with Jennifer Fawcett. 9 PM. Free.

Solstice Party at the Missoula Winery. With tunes by Salsa Loca and an open-air art auction squired

by Mayor John Engen. 5646 W. Harrier Way. missoulacultural.org.

Num-nums and various vittles are the order of the day at Missoula’s Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM to 2 PM. This week’s tunage provided by Gladys Friday.

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It’s a good ol’ fashioned, Hawaiianthemed block party! Blues Alley is hosted in the alley between the Rhino and The Top Hat and features dance performances, food, drink specials, music from Mudslide Charley and 3 Eared Dog and all your friends from 5-9 PM. All-ages. $3.

Bring on the summer with a sweat and a holler during the Runners Edge Wine Run at Ten Spoon Vineyard. There is a fun run for the kids and a 10K for the adults. 4175 Rattlesnake. 6 PM. $30. Visit runnersedgemt.com.

Missoula Aging Services offers a Caregiver Support Group. 337 Stephens. 4–5 PM. Free.

nightlife Get onboard and learn how to get on a board during Habitat for Humanity 101, where potential volunteers can learn how to help the folks at Habitat build homes for low-income peeps. Board (really?!)

Room, Missoula Public Library.

5:30 PM. Call 549-8210 for more info.

Former changer of lives and UM journalism prof. Michael Downs reads from his new collection of short fiction, The Greatest Show, at Shakespeare & Co. 103 S. 3rd St. W. 7 PM. Free. Pub trivia answer: Estonia.

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of highpowered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.”

Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com

Start making sense at the weekly Taking Pounds Off Sensibly Meeting (TOPS) at First Baptist Church in Whitefish. Weigh-in at 5 PM. Meeting at 5:30 PM. For more info., call 862-5214.

You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip-Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups.

Free. Call 543-6691.

For over 100 years the Missoula City Band has been you source for concert-band tunes in the Missoula Valley, and they continue that tradition with their weekly concert series at Bonner Park all summer long. Corner of Ronald and Hastings. 8 PM. Free.

Dr. Hillery Daily wants you to get some dang rest, so hit up her Sleep Better Naturally workshop at the Bitterroot Public Library. 7–8 PM. Free. Call 363-1670.

Take a load off while you get a load of some of the area’s better musicians during the Musician Showcase at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn Downtown. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200 S. Pattee St. Free.

come. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com

enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.”

Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: In what country is it considered good luck for the rest of the year if you jump over a solstice bonfire without setting your pants on fire? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams

by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy

Fight for your right to make a jerk of yourself and win money doing it at

Trip and hop on to the bus y’all, cuz underground hip-hop all-star Busdriver is in the house (technically, in the Palace) for an evening of hot stuff, with locals Zoo Effort and The Codependents. 9 PM. $8.

Art heals at Living Art of Montana’s third Wednesday of every month’s workshop Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors. Noon–1:30 PM at the Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder #17. Free. Call 549-5329.

Sweat it out with the K-Holes when they play the VFW at 9 PM with the Velcro Kicks and Needlcraft. $3–$5.

Fill up on your neighbors’ numnums at the Arlee Community Development Corporation’s Jocko Valley Farmers Market, this week with music by Rennie Frank. Uptown Arlee. 4–7 PM.

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Howl at the moon and shoot out the lights at the Missoula Cultural Council’s inaugural Summer

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Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander during Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots.

Free.

Baby Dee ain’t no child, sunshine, but she is a powerful voice and sassy harpist. Locals Mountain Breathers open. Palace. 9 PM. $5.

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Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip-Hop (7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are wel-

You haven’t really experienced Montana until you’ve soaked in the scene at Libby’s Logger Days.

Watch large men cut even larger pieces of wood, among other com-

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petitions, starting today at 5 PM and running through Sunday, all at J. Neil’s Memorial Park in downtown Libby. Visit loggerdays.org.

Love thy neighbor? Sure. But this weekend you should also give the globe a big wet one and a hug because it’s the Love Your Mother Earth Festival. Bands include Euforquestra, The True Spokes, Bobo David, The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra and many others. Today through Sunday, June 24, at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $55 in advance from Ear Candy or Rockin Rudy’s, or $65 at the gate. Visit loveyourmotherearthfestival.com.

Learn how to get some of the grant cheddar that is floating around during the Mansfield Library’s Grant-Seeking Basics and Proposal Writing Basics courses.

1–3:30 PM. Free. Call Linder at 243-5869 to register.

nightlife It’s Joan Zen again at the Draught Works Brewery, performing musical tuneage by the bucketful. 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free.

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

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

Dudes! Did you know that some them bugs you thinks is bees is just plain old moths and the like? Serious! Join biologist David Schmetterling as he uncovers who the diabolical dopplegangers are in his talk Bee Mimics, at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. 5:30–7:30 PM. $10/$5 for MNHC members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from

EEO employer.

June Readings & Signings Wednesday, June 20th Bruce Holbert LO NESO ME ANIMALS

Tuesday, June 26th Alafair Burke NEV ER TELL

5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by Cabin Fever. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Dan Dubuque believes that there is a difference between living and living well and he’ll show you that difference when he plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of high-powered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.” Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your usually useless knowledge and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

SBC challenges you to direct your dollars to local businesses during the

Thursday, June 28th William Hjortsberg JUBILEE HITCHHIKER

BUY LOCAL FORTNIGHT: June 9 - 23

All Events are at 7pm, at Fact & Fiction Downtown

More info: sustainablebusinesscouncil.org

Spectacular furniture made from gourmet, reclaimed lumber.

Visit our booth at

Local Fest, June 23rd. merrillbradshaw.com

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Show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

The Voodoo Horseshoes take over the VFW during their month-long residency with virtue, aplomb and the straight dopeness.

Also TBA openers. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. Free.

Deep Bass Grime isn’t only on my pickguard, it’s also on the dance floor at the Palace when TBA locals DJs do the drums and bass thang. Hard. 9 PM. Free.

Our Arts editor says, “All aboard for Party Trained, tonight!” Typical. Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

Local singer-songwriter John Smith guides you through the New World at The Top Hat. 10 PM. Cover TBA.

Well, “Happy Father’s Day” is a great sentiment and all, but my wife’s birthday is next week and that is pretty rad, too. I think I’ll buy her a cake and mow the lawn. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., June 15, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH T he loon is more than just the namesake of Canadian currency. The common loon is a master fisher with a wingspan of four to five feet and the ability to live along the Pacific coastline as well as in the mountains of Montana.

Unfortunately for us, loons are merely “breeding residents” of the Treasure State, according to the FWP field guide. That and there are only 200 or so of these diving aquatic birds in the entire state.

So it would seem that you’d have to be some kind of Sleuthy McSleutherson with a lot of time on her hands to find one of the few that live in our neck.

Not so. The fine folks at the FWP have guest pre-

senter Donna Love of Seeley Lake to show you the ways of these birds during the Salmon Lake Evening Program: Loons. During the program, Love shares photos and stories and she presents hands-on activities for the entire family. Perhaps in the early evening aurora you’ll hear the mournful cry of the breeding males seeking a mate, or at least get a peek into the secret lives of the loons.

The Salmon Lake Evening Program: Loons, with Donna Love, takes place on Sat., June 16, at 8 PM in the Salmon Lake Campground amphitheatre. Free. For more info., contact Chris Neu of the FWP at 240-0155.

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Call Mel for more details at 273-6140.

For summertime learning and such, the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program has moved to the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Bugs, dirt and explorations abound. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Uncover the mysteries of your backyard during the Montana Natural History Center’s Saturday Discovery Day: Ecology Walk for Families at the Mt. Jumbo Saddle Trailhead. The trailhead is near the top of Lincoln Hills Rd. 10 AM-Noon. $5/members free. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Dudes, come get your climb on during Freestone Climbing’s Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

Actually, half the plants you’re watering are destroying your soil — or are they? Find out at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens during the class Which Are Weeds?: A Native Plant Gardener’s Conundrum.

5:30-7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation

FRIDAY JUNE 15 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

7–8:30 PM. $40.

Montana History Comes Alive at Beavertail Hill State Park when presenter Ellen Baumler talks about leprosy-haver and state legislator Orville Willett. 26 miles east of Missoula on I-90. 8 PM. Free.

SATURDAY JUNE 16 Cast Off 2012 at the Festival of the Fly up in West Glacier is a heckuva way to get your summer fishing started, with instruction, comps, product demos and more.

Glacier Outdoor Center.

Visit outdoormedia.com for the deets.

Get out of town and check out the all the pretty birds down Dillon (Melrose, really) way on the Five Valleys Audubon Field Trip to SW Montana. The trip is led by Cynthia Hudson and Nate Kohler. Call 722-0016 to sign-up. Attendees must provide their own accommodations.

Get a peak at the conservation efforts down the ‘Root during the MPG Ranch Grasslands Excursion with the Montana Native Plant Society. Botanist Mel Waggy leads this expedition. Missoulians meet at the SW corner of the old Wal-Mart parking lot at 8:30 AM. All others meet behind the IGA in Florence at 9 AM.

SUNDAY JUNE 17 Make tracks during the Discovery XC Mountain Bike Race, a single-track and double-track smackdown on the steeps of the Discovery Ski Area. The event is part of the Montana Off-Road Series (MORS).

Get cranking to montancycling.net.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

MONDAY JUNE 18 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students.

Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 Get certified at the Zootown Surfer’s ACA Level 4 Whitewater Kayak Workshop and Certification Exam, which takes place on local rivers. Must be a good paddler and have solid river roll. The course takes place each day until Sun., June 24. $395. Call Jason at 370-4436 for more info.

Bring on the summer with a sweat and a holler during the Runners Edge Wine Run at Ten Spoon Vineyard.

There is a fun run for the kids and a 10K for the adults.

4175 Rattlesnake.

6 PM. $30.

Visit runnersedgemt.com.

THURSDAY JUNE 21 Dudes! Did you know that some them bugs you thinks is bees is just plain old moths and the like?

Serious! Join biologist David Schmetterling as he uncovers who the diabolical dopplegangers are in his talk Bee Mimics, at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. 5:30–7:30 PM. $10/$5 for MNHC members. Visit montananaturalist.org. calendar@missoulanews.com

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The fall and rise of Sean Ackerman’s The Diary of Preston Plummer

by Erika Fredrickson

The Diary of Preston Plummer stars Rumer Willis (progeny of Bruce and Demi), Trevor Morgan (“Empire Falls”) and Robert Loggia (Lost Highway, Jagged Edge, Big) and was made by filmmaker Sean Ackerman, who lived for a few years in Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley.

But the story of how it came to be all starts a decade ago, when Ackerman wrote the original screenplay and brought it to Hollywood. He was a greenhorn then, fresh out of NYU’s film school, emotionally invested in the story he’d written—a fictional tale about a disillusioned young man who falls in love with a young woman who harbors mysterious family secrets. Ackerman spun the story from a real place he used to visit during film school called Amelia Island, a 17-mile long, one-mile wide island off the coast of Florida.

“I had a friend whose parents owned two Southernstyle restaurants on the island,” Ackerman says. “It was a great cheap vacation to go and sleep on her parents' couch and eat for cheap or free at the restaurant. It seemed like there were so many possibilities for stories there, and so a lot of the inspiration for early plot lines came from that place.”

At the time he pitched the script, he was working for producer Jean Doumanian, whose studio was putting out Woody Allen movies (until Allen sued her). Ackerman did not get the reception he’d hoped for. The studio he optioned it to wanted to change the plot.

“I had a kind of classic filmmaker-goes-to-Hollywood nightmare trip through the studio system,” he says. “The studio was basically like, ‘Either you change the plot … or we don’t want your script anymore.’ And so I said, ‘You don’t want my script anymore.’”

The film was was put on a shelf. A few years later, Ackerman decided to move to Montana to make a film that he wanted set in the Bitterroot Valley. He worked for the local ABC station in Florence and made Straight Line, the story of Bobby, who takes a road trip, which ends up being a self-discovery trip, in his old Buick to follow his girlfriend from Montana to Panama. The “nobudget” film, which cost $35,000 and featured Ackerman’s non-actor mom garnered some good reviews, including one in Variety, and was accepted into the South by Southwest Film Festival.

Then Ackerman went to medical school at the University of Washington. He ended up back in Montana, doing clinicals in Missoula for his third year of school. He loved medicine but he also loved movies, so, after school, he dusted off The Diary of Preston Plummer, took a year off and started making the movie himself.

“If I had made The Diary of Preston Plummer 10 years ago, it would have cost 2 million dollars at minimum based on the equipment and the kind of filmmaking models that were available at that time,” he says. “But you can do things cheaper now than you could then. And our budget this time was $125,000.”

That’s big bucks for some of us, but small bucks for a film. They shot on location at Amelia Island, flying people down, housing and feeding them for a month. The actors, says Ackerman, had read the script and believed in it enough to work for very little. “It’s really hard to cast a movie of this size,” he says. “You have to convince people you don’t know to work for free and give away a month or two of their life for free to you. You have to get someone

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to fall in love with the story.” Some nights, Rumer Willis cooked the crew dinner. It was that kind of down-to-earth environment, he says.

Amelia Island has some extreme socio-economic diversity. There’s a Ritz Carlton on one corner; on another, there’s a ramshackle part of town that has been plagued with drugs and crime. There’s a state park with a Confederate fort looking out over the channel, and there’s an island 100 yards off the coast of Amelia Island where John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette were married.

“And so you can be standing at a gas station in line behind a CEO from a Fortune 500 company who’s standing behind a crack addict who’s standing behind a park ranger who’s standing behind a tourist,” Ackerman says. “There’s all kinds of character in this epically beautiful place.”

Ackerman is a David Lynch fan, but it wasn’t until one of his friends pointed out the eerie similarities between “Twin Peaks” and The Diary of Preston Plummer that he realized how that Lynchian flavor had seeped into his work.

“The island, I think, is not only a very beautiful place, but it’s also sort of a strange place,” he says. “It’s a place that has a lot of lights and also a lot of darks. There’s a hotel at the center of the movie that’s really Great Northern-y. I have shots of this pulp mill that towers over the environment and it reminds me of the Packard logging mill. And then, actually, the diary itself is a dictaphone of the very same model Kyle McLaughlin was using in ‘Twin Peaks.’” (Even weirder, McLaughlin was slated to play the father role in Preston Plummer when Ackerman first pitched it in Hollywood. Chris Cousins, of “Breaking Bad,” was ultimately cast as the father.)

There are some striking scenes in this film. In one, Willis’s character has a breakdown and tosses furniture into a pool. The coffee cup lands perfectly on the table. With little money, Ackerman was creative with the underwater ocean shots as well.

Instead of setting up a pricey underwater soundstage, they bought a black tarp and bricks from Home Depot for around $50. The tarp was held down at the bottom of a pool by the bricks, so that when the actors swam in it, it looked like a dark ocean abyss. That, interspersed with shots of real ocean—the shafts of light shining through the water—makes it look real. And some of it was.

“We had to do night shots in the ocean and we did it in shark-infested waters during hammerhead shark-mating season,” says Ackerman.

“When we shined the light at the water, all the little fish came to the surface, attracting a lot of bait to near where the actors were.” Which is just another testament to the dedication of his cast.

“So, even if you don’t like the movie,” Ackerman adds, “I think the thing we’re proud of is we made it with really sincere intentions and a lot of passion.”

The Diary of Preston Plummer premiered at the Miami International Film Festival in March. It shows for one night only at the Wilma Theatre on Friday, June 15, at 7:30 PM. $8. arts@missoulanews.com

Scope Noise Books Soundcheck Movie Shorts Busdriver Los Angeles’s Busdriver spits dense rhymes that are clever as hell and bite like a shot of Jameson. The indie rap vet—who’s been a regular fixture of the L.A. underground scene since the 1990s—sprinkles ample doses of sarcasm, absurdity and self-deprecation into labyrinthine rhyme schemes. He’s a pioneer progressing a musical form that’s been flooded as of late with bland imitators and not nearly enough innovators.

More recently, the rapper has added singing to his vocal repertoire, which adds a touch of pop to his everchanging, experimental palette. His newest record, 2012’s Beaus$Eros, is chock-full of this hybrid vocal style. It weaves hip-hop beats with tight hooks borrowed from synth pop, experimental electronic and indie rock.

It’s a deliciously odd combination highlighted on the

K-Holes Dismania Hardly Art

Certain forms of music are like sex: fun to make yourself with your friends, but significantly less fun to watch. Noise rock is one such form. As with sex, the fun of watching noise rock depends heavily on how into it the performers seem to be. Loud, thumping and notoriously willing to exchange fluid, New York’s K-Holes are totally into it. Their latest LP, Dismania, is a nihilistic half-hour experiment in

Pony Time Pony Time Per Se Records

Arguments over what’s punk and whether garage should be a thing ignore one crucial distinction: If you can’t dance to it, it’s jazz. In the 15 minutes that constitute sides A and B of their self-titled EP, Pony Time veer from New Wave to pop punk to riff rock and even disco, but the head never stops bobbing.

On each track, the Seattle two-piece preserves the driving beat that separates the combos from the bands, and it pays off. Pony Time is a six-track EP with six good songs.

It helps that we are living in a golden age of reverb. Luke Beetham’s whiny vocals come drenched in it, echoing around in a satisfyingly ethereal complement to the muscular rhythms. When Pony Time

Orca Team Restraint HHBTM Records

When I think about surfing, it usually involves sunlight and being rescued by pretty girls. None of these things happen in Seattle, so why would a band there form around that concept? Orca Team, straight out of Puget Sound, take strong melodies that dip in and out of minor chords like the tide coming in, wash them with

dance floor-ready jam “You Ain’t OG” and on “Kiss Me Back to Life,” which features piercing, post-breakup lines like “I’m more than a boyfriend / I’m a mistake to learn from / I’m more than a boyfriend / I’m a mistake to live through.”

The last time he played here—in 2007, to a packed crowd—his speedy and verbose wordplay was intoxicating. I’d expect an even stronger buzz onstage when he returns this week. (Ira Sather-Olson) Busdriver plays the Palace Tuesday, June 19, at 9 PM, with locals Zoo Effort and The Codependents. $8. turning experience into form. Arching and hoarse, taut and ragged by turn, it is a reminder that how you do music is ultimately more important than what. There are only so many positions, after all.

In that spirit, K-Holes—which includes Jack Hines, formerly of the Black Lips— offers a charismatic take on familiar music. Dismania sounds like a surf-reverb birthday party, and it is not particularly striking on its own.

The rough edges and occasionally manic rhythms offer a clue, however, to K-Holes’ famously intense live show.

Dismania documents the kind of music that should be experienced, not heard, and it stands in relation to KHoles as an old copy of Penthouse relates to a date. You can get the basic idea, but it’s better to go get all sweaty and exhausted yourself. (Dan Brooks) K-Holes play the VFW Tuesday, June 19, at 9 PM, with the Velcro Kicks and Needlecraft. $3–$5.

sounds lumbering or jerky, these reverberations pull it all back to jaunty, Roadrunner-era pop. They should sound great in the shrieking glass chamber that is Zoo City Apparel. Pony Time is the right band to see there: jump-up-and-down music played with run-in-a-circle intensity. Catch them in the kind of sweaty little show that you can brag about later, after they are too big for the room. (Dan Brooks) Pony Time plays Zoo City Apparel Thursday, June 14, at 8 PM, with Sharkpact, Stickers and Skin Flowers. $5. reverb and dry them with driving, soft bass. The lead singer sounds like the son of Morrissey and Fleet Foxes, with the ever-present female “ooh-ooh” haunting the choruses.

No, I'm not describing Real Estate or Beach Fossils, but I may as well be. That lo-fi beach pop sure is popular these days. You can’t really blame them, though, because the sound is easy-going and stays with you like a jellyfish sting.

The band doesn’t bow down to brevity but embraces its power—instead of one song getting stuck in your head, the entire album does. On every track, there’s heartbreak: “It’s you, out of reach” or “You’re too busy to love me.” Still, it’s hard not to bob your head to these airy and upbeat songs, as twinged with lyrical sadness as they are. (Brooks Johnson)

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Circus life Short stories reveal everyday hope and horror

by Molly Laich

are tethered to Ania, her husband and her son. “Mrs. Liszak� features Ania as a strange old woman in the 1970s, but the story belongs more to a messed-up teenage orphan with no connection to the fire at all. In “At the Beach,� Ania’s son Teddy meets his second wife and marries her. “The biologist watched him kiss her and thought: That’s what it’s like to have loved for years.� The biologist is mistaken; this is their first kiss, but at least in this story we get a glimpse of what we all want marriage to be for everyone all of the time.

These stories are true and, more importantly, never tired or boring. The themes are familiar, but the action goes to unexpected places. Good stories reveal secrets in plain site. The Greatest Show knows parents love children far more than children love their parents: “She had never felt any such thing before, not even love for her own mother. That awareness saddened her, because what was true for her was likely true for Teddy.� It knows marriage isn’t just one thing: “She smelled the piney scent of his cologne and was angered by his constancy and glad for it.� And it knows that grief hurts: “Not for the first time that day, he wished that he and Sophie could talk about Sophie’s death.�

The second, smaller chain of stories deals with the aforementioned Sophie, though we never meet her directly. Her story is about her ex-husband, her exhusband’s sister, her brother Nick and Nick’s children. My favorite story in the collection is “Son of Captain America,� about Nick’s son Franco and his someMichael Downs reads from The Greatest Show at Shakespeare & times friend and neighbor Dominic, who Co. Wed., June 20, at 7 PM. are children in the 1970s and then grow up to be frightening teenagers. It has the was concerned there’d be a lot of burnt tigers and chil- scope of an Alice Munro story, with the viciousness of dren screaming, but it’s worse than that. Beware of, Raymond Carver. At the start, a dog is dead and instead, the ordinary horrors of losing a parent, never Dominic’s father has killed it, probably. The boys do terrible things together. I felt angry with them, and I having children, divorce, getting old.

The book consists of 10 short pieces, but it might worried. In one moment, Dominic has “abrupt knowlbe more accurate to call these stories chapters in two edge of what he’s just inherited.� “Son of Captain intertwining novels. The first concerns Ania and her America� is about the ways we are like our parents and husband Charlie, who emigrated from Poland to the ways we are different.

These stories are strange, sad and beautiful. They Connecticut. They have a son named Teddy. When he’s three years old, Ania steals circus tickets from her fit together and at the same time are disjointed as well employer. While there, they are burned up but survive. as just about any other linked collection I can think of.

There is a graphic description of the circus fire in this They’re made out of ideas that are familiar and, first chapter, but we’re spared after that, because because they’re familiar, deserve to be explored and “Ania� isn’t a story about a circus fire; it’s about a luke- ruminated on. I think I was expecting a kind of survey warm marriage. “She had hoped for more, for some- of the Hartford Circus Fire tragedy. With 10 chapters, thing electric with mystery, yet now she felt nothing I emotionally prepared for 10 charred bodies. Instead, but Charlie’s skin and, maybe, some gratitude for his we’re given up-close just two families that spread out weight in the bed, and then a growing unease that all and multiply. But 165 people died in the fire. It’s nights would be like this night, that she would forever unsettling and exhausting to think of all the stories feel nothing more than skin and gratitude.� To me, that went unwritten. that’s scarier than a burning tent.

Of the 10 stories in the collection, seven of them arts@missoulanews.com The Greatest Show, by former UM journalism professor Michael Downs, is a collection of interconnected fictional stories set around the real life 1944 Hartford Circus Fire that killed and wounded hundreds of people. Mostly though, this is a story about marriage, children, grief, hope and disappointment. I

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It’s a downpour day outside the hidden downtown alley space where Skin Flowers are blasting through their set, with occasional breaks for swigs of Olympia and drawn-out cigarettes. Some songs linger like the smoke in the air, while others give a solid 3:15 punch. There is a whirlwind of influences present, giving off the feel of a found mixtape from 1979. You’re fairly positive you woke up to one of these songs not too long ago.

“It’s classic rock in quotation marks,” guitarist and singer Colin Johnson says. “It’s the weird song that comes on the classic station and people are like, ‘What the hell band is this? Who are these people?’”

really uptempo and sometimes dirty. Johnson packs more psychedelic sounds into his guitar work and lets the endings linger a little longer into instrumental jams. The set’s sequencing disguises the different styles and gives it a cohesive feel.

“Nick and I, when writing stuff, kind of go for something like lost gems—the songs that are overlooked because they’re not immediately poppy,” Johnson says. “This is what happens if you make a band out of that.”

It began with Johnson as musical architect and Ryan as engineer, the songs getting hashed out and the rest of the band catching up. By now, it’s a collabora-

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Skin Flowers consists of a catchy bass, two drum sets and two guitars that seem to switch between blues rock and psychedelic rock. It’s the kind of rock ’n’ roll Mick Jagger convinced you was possible but that you eventually found on weird B-sides, too.

“We draw that inspiration from bands that we’re having a laugh at or being goofy about, but still having a sincere love of,” Johnson says.

Johnson, drummer Tom Helgerson (of the band Shahs) and guitarist/vocalist Nick Ryan are all Minneapolis transplants. Last year, over Christmas break, they returned home and played a show, but they didn't really push the project for two months afterward. Back in Missoula, they picked up bassist John Fleming of Secret Powers and another drummer, Dave Turley, to fill out the sound, and here they are, living the dream.

“John and I had talked about starting a band for over a year now,” Johnson says.

“A scuzzy pop band, that was my emphasis,” Fleming adds.

“Emphasis on the scuzz,” says Johnson.

“It turned into something more rootsy, but there’s nothing wrong with that,” Helgerson says. “Roots can still be scuzz!”

The roots part came from Ryan, whose songwriting takes on familiar blues and country rock patterns—

tive process and nobody is anybody’s boss.

Johnson says the original plan was to take it slow, play a show every month until there was a good base of songs to cycle through. That turned into a show every week for seven weeks straight. Now they’re thinking of recording by July, and Johnson has high hopes for where the first Skin Flowers record is headed.

“All of us being pop nerds, when you think about that record you think, ‘We’re just going to make something as good as Out of the Blue. We’re just going to make an ELO record.’ Which, of course, is impossible.”

Ryan has a different idea.

“Everyone will be like, ‘This Steely Dan record is awesome. They’re Stealing Dan!’” Later this summer comes the possibility of a tour, maybe just across the Northwest. It depends on if Fleming can take time off from his Osprey baseball addiction. And if everyone shores up some funds.

“We all need to play shake-a-day,” Helgerson suggests. “VFW pots are at $1,000 right now!”

“We’ll probably get electrocuted right after winning shake-a-day, survive it and get chased down like in Final Destination,” Ryan laughs.

Skin Flowers plays Thu., June 14, at Zoo City Apparel at 8 PM. $5, all-ages. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise Books Soundcheck Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK THE DIARY OF PRESTON PLUMMER New lives and dark pasts collide on a paradisiacal island in this dark, Lynchian film by Sean Ackerman. Starring Robert Loggia and Rumer Willis. Wilma: Fri., June 15, at 7:30 pm.

ROCK OF AGES I think Poison summed up this film back in ‘88, when they did the “Mama’s Fallen Angel” video, as did Guns ‘n’ Roses with their “Welcome to the Jungle” video, but this time we’ve got fun and games starring Tom Cruise as an ’80s glam metal up-and-comer overcoming obstacles (groupies) and challenges (cocaine) and doing it all for love. Also starring

THAT’S MY BOY Adam Sandler (long-lost outrageous partier dad) and Andy Samberg (affable son/square) join forces in what must be a delightful comedy about fatherhood, unconditional love, cutting the cheese and accidentally seeing/feeling boobs. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10 pm. Village 6: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:15 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sunday.

NOW PLAYING THE AVENGERS Dude, Loki shows up through a space portal and starts controlling people’s minds and doing

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL PBS fans now have proof that the world does revolve around them, as this film about British Boomers retiring to an Indian hotel and learning about life, love and loss is bound to bring Dame Judi Dench fans to tears. Starring Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Rated PG-13. Wilma: 7 and 9:15 pm nightly, with Sat. matinees at 1 and 3:15 pm.

DARLING COMPANION This film, made for dog-lovers, love-lovers and Boomers, asks the question: What if I love my dog more than my husband? And: What if he lost that dog? And: Could we somehow relearn to love one another even after this horrendous act? Answer: Perhaps. Starring Diane

there’s TV in the future? Heinous. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Stanley Tucci. PG-13.

Carmike 12: 4:15 and 10 pm.

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED The critters are still wayward things, far from home, but hiding out in a circus might not be so bad. Hey, I bet some of the jokes are good fun for adults, too. Or something. Starring the voices of Ben Stiller and Chris Rock. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 12:30, 2:40, 4:40, 7 and 9:10 pm. 3D: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:45 and 9 pm.

Village 6: 12:30, 4:50 and 7 pm. 3D: 2:40 and 9:10 pm. Pharaohplex: 9 pm nightly, with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. No 9 pm show on Sun. 3D: 7 PM nightly. Showboat: 4, 7:15 and 9:15 pm.

MEN IN BLACK III In what may end up being the best one of the bunch according to some sources, Agent Will Smith has to go back to the 60s to save Agent Tommy Lee Jones (now played by a younger, hepper Josh Brolin) from an alien murder plot.

Let the guffawing begin. Also starring David Rasche of TV’s “Sledgehammer.” Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 pm.

Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sunday.

PROMETHEUS For those who carry a torch for director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) his return to the sci-fi genre couldn’t come sooner. In this film, scientists uncover the origins of the human race and fly to the darkest corners of the galaxy to have their livers eaten by an eagle. Whoops, that’s no true, they battle evil in order to save the human race. Starring Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 9:45 pm. 3D: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 pm. Village 6: 4:15 and 7:10 pm. 3D: 1 and 10:05 pm. Pharaohplex: 9:10 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sun. 3D: 6:50 pm nightly.

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN In a world where someone is fairer than Charlize Theron, Snow White goes downright rural on that wicked old witch and love and action and adventure combine to most certainly make for sexual tension and mixed messages about female empowerment. Starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1, 1:15, 4, 7, 7:15, and 9:45 pm. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 10:15 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Hollywood explains to us the miracle of life and that men and women are different and that babies change us and that life doesn’t always “deliver.” Starring Cameron Diaz (childless) and Jennifer Lopez (has bore children). Rated PG13. Carmike 12: 4:15 and 10:15 pm.

What day did the Lord create Tom Cruise, and couldn't he have rested on that day too? Rock of Ages opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

Julianne Hough. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 9:45 pm. Big D: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:15 pm. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm.

Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sunday. Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9:20 pm.

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his evil business. That’s when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is all, “Ah, hell, no,” and initiates the Avengers Initiative. It. Is. On. Also starring Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 10:15 pm. 3D: 1:15 and 7:15 pm. Village 6: 1, 4:10, 7:15 pm and 10:15 pm.

June 14– June 21, 2012

Keaton, Kevin Klein and the always rad Dianne Weist. Rated PG-13. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with a 1 pm Sat. matinee. No show on Sat., June 9.

THE HUNGER GAMES Oh lordy, in the future children are chosen by The Man to fight to the death on live TV. Wait,

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., June 15. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; P h a r a o h p l e x i n H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan883-5603.

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Held on the main streets of Polson July 21st and 22nd, this wonderful festival draws many thousands of visitors every year. With three different booth sizes to choose from, this is an affordable festival to attend. Local Montanamade products are preferred. If you would like to get an application, please email: boone@valley journal.net. So the sooner you get your application in, the better. Deadline for vendors is July 1st. You can also leave a message at (406) 871-8252.

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WEDDING HER WHISTLE I just turned 26, and I’m ready to be married. My previous two boyfriends dragged their feet and then said the blood-boiling line: “I will marry you ... someday.” I met a guy online, and we initiated a relationship on the basis that he was ready for marriage. Four months after our first kiss, I broke up with him after he, too, expressed hesitation about marriage. He insisted that he loves me but is hesitating because I have a drinking problem and PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). Once a month, I take everything that I love and tear it to shreds—as if in a werewolf state. I come to, devastated by my actions. I need structure and commitment from a loving partner for strength, and an engagement now would help me transcend my conditions. He wants me to do it alone and wants to see improvement before he commits. I want to make him realize how cruel he was in insisting in his profile that he was ready for marriage and not following through.

—Unwed You’re a fierce advocate of truth in advertising—except when you’re the one engaging in the sins of omission: “I’m ready to be married. Oh, also, once a month, I’ll try to rip out your internal organs with a shrimp fork. Any takers?”

Typically, when a man is ready for marriage, he’s looking to settle down with the right woman, not sprint to the altar with the first woman he meets who can fit into a size8 long white dress. If marriage actually were a cure for alcoholism, people in AA would have florists instead of sponsors, and church basements would be packed with brides tearfully confessing to being powerless before a $10,000 wedding cake that releases a flock of white doves.

You likewise don’t marry a guy because your hormones turn you into a werewolf once a month and you need somebody to bolt the exits so no sheep or cattle go missing. Per psychiatrist Dr. Emily Deans in one of my previous columns, biochemical options for dialing down turbo PMS include the 24-day or three-month birth control pill; the antidepressant bupropion; magnesium malate supplementation (500 milligrams at bedtime); and cycling from a low-carb diet to a higher-carb, low-protein diet three days to a week before your period starts.

At the moment, you’re married to escaping your problems. Addiction treatment specialist Dr. Frederick Woolverton writes in his very helpful book Unhooked that at the

heart of any addiction is avoidance of suffering. Instead of feeling uncomfortable feelings and dealing with them, you hold their little heads down and drown them in a pond of cheap gin. And instead of doing the grown-up thing and working to overcome your addiction, you decide that the “power greater than yourself” will be the groom. But, only when you don’t need a man to feel whole are you healthy enough to choose one for the right reasons. Then you see, over time (a year, at the very least), whether you and he make sense together. Marriage is a lifetime commitment, not a lifeboat to rescue you from your troubles already in progress: “Do you take this woman ... to have and to hold, and to hold her hair back as she’s driving the porcelain bus?

YOUTH IS FLEEING My friend is constantly dragging me to parties to be her wing woman. She’s in her late 40s but hits on hot young guys in their early 20s who never reciprocate interest.

Guys her age or older approach her, but she blows them off. I’m sick of these depressing evenings and of accompanying her to the mall so she can get “hipper clothes.” Is there a kind way to tell her she needs to rethink who she’s pursuing?

—Frustrated How uplifting, spending your weekends watching Generation Y getting hit on

by Generation Why Are You At This Party?

Of course you want to clue in your friend, “You could wear head-to-toe Forever 21, and you’d still look 49 and counting.” And you could gently suggest she expand her dating horizons to include men who are actual possibilities. But her persistence in the face of failure suggests she’s pretty attached to believing that the answer to her datelessness can be found at the mall.

What you can control is how you spend your time. Extending yourself to make a friend happy is nice; subjecting yourself to regular misery is too nice. The next time she tries to drag you along, tell her you’re party-weary and tired of the mall ... but how about lunch or a hike? Granted, out on the trail, you could still witness the uncomfortable sight of a cougar stalking its prey—but not by changing out of its mom jeans.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s time for your right hand to find out what your left hand has been doing lately, and vice versa. They’ve been attending to their separate agendas for a while, and now it would be wise to have them work together more closely. As they get reacquainted, a bit of friction would be understandable. You may have to serve as a mediator. Try to get them to play nicely with each other for a while before jumping in to the negotiations about how best they can cooperate in the future. And be very firm with them: no slapping or fighting allowed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some relationships that you call “friendships” may be little more than useful connections or status boosters or affiliations that enhance your power and influence.

There’s no shame in that. But it’s also a smart idea to make sure that at least some of your alliances are rooted primarily in pure affection. You need to exchange energy with people who don’t serve your ambitions so much as they feed your soul. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cultivate friendships like that. Take good care of those you have, and be alert for the possibility of starting a new one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you remember what you were doing between July 2000 and June 2001? Think back. Did anything happen then that felt like a wild jumpstart, or a series of epiphanies, or a benevolent form of shock therapy? Were you forcibly dislodged from a rut by an adversary who eventually became an ally? Did you wake up from a sleepy trance you didn’t even know you had been in? I’m guessing that at least some of those experiences will be returning in the coming months, but on a higher octave this time.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Steven Covey describes your “circle of concern” as everything you’re concerned with or worried about. Your “circle of influence,” on the other hand, is anything that’s within your ability to change right now. For example, you may have general longterm questions or anxieties about the future of your health. That’s your circle of concern. But your circle of influence contains specific actions you can take to affect your health today, like eating good food, getting enough sleep, and doing exercise. What I’m seeing for you, Cancerian, is that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to spend less time in your circle of concern and more in your circle of influence. Stop fantasizing about what may or may not happen, and simply take charge of the details that will make a difference.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a wild zoo about two hours northwest of Seattle. After paying your fee, you can drive your car through acres of land where large animals are allowed to roam free. When I took the tour, I stopped my rented Dodge Stratus by the side of the road to get a better look at a humongous buffalo with a humped back and a long woolly beard. It lumbered over to where I was parked and for the next five minutes thoroughly licked my windshield with its enormous purple tongue. My head was just inches away from its primal power, and yet I was safe and relaxed and perfectly amused. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a comparable experience sometime soon, Leo.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the Biblical book of Genesis, Jacob had a dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder that went up to heaven. I recommend that you try to incubate a similar dream, or else do some meditations in which you visualize that scene. It would help prime your psyche for one of this week’s top assignments, which is to be adaptable as you go back and forth between very high places and very low places. Heaven and earth need to be better connected. So do the faraway and the close-at-hand, as well as the ideal and the practical. And you’re the right person for the job.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thomas Edison said something to the effect that a person who is thoroughly satisfied is probably a failure. I guess he meant that if you’re not always pushing to make your life better, you must not have very high standards or passionate goals. While I can see the large grains of truth in that theory, I don’t think it applies in all cases—like for you right now, for instance. During the upcoming grace period, it will make sense for you to be perfectly content with the state of your life just as it is. To do so won’t make you lazy and complacent. Just the opposite, in fact: It will charge your psychic batteries and create a reservoir of motivational energy for the second half of 2012.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Twenty-four-year-old actress Annalynne McCord has risen up in rebellion against what she calls “Hollywood’s perfection requirement.” Lately she has been brazenly appearing in public without any make-up on. She has even encouraged paparazzi to snap photos of her in her natural state. ‘I’m not perfect,” she says, “and that’s okay with me.” I nominate her to be your role model in the coming weeks, Scorpio. You will be able to stir up useful blessings for yourself by being loyal to the raw truth. You can gain power by not hiding anything. (And yes, I realize that last statement is in conflict with the core Scorpionic philosophy.) Here’s my guarantee: It’ll be fun to be free of unrealistic images and showy deceptions.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Nineteenth-century Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev once called his fellow novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky a “pimple on the face of literature.” But more than a hundred years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a much more highly regarded and influential writer than Turgenev. Use this as inspiration, Sagittarius, if you have to deal with anyone’s judgmental appraisals of you in the coming days. Their opinions will say more about them than about you. Refresh your understanding of the phenomenon of “projection,” in which people superimpose their fantasies and delusions on realities they don’t see clearly.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take a few deep breaths. It’s important not to get overly worked up about your recent diversion from the Truth and the Way. I mean it’s not like you sold heroin to high school students or dumped toxic waste into a mountain stream, right? It’s true that you’ve incurred a minor karmic debt that will ultimately have to be repaid. And yes, you’ve been reminded that you can’t allow yourself to lower your standards even slightly. But I doubt any of it will matter in five years—especially if you atone now. So please go ahead and give yourself a spanking, make a definitive plan to correct your error, and start cruising in the direction of the next chapter of your life story.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Have you ever tried to drink from a fire hose? The sheer amount and force of the water shooting out the end makes it hard to actually get any moisture in your mouth, let alone enjoy the process. On the other hand, it is kind of entertaining, and it does provide a lot of material to tell funny stories about later on. But are those good enough reasons to go ahead and do it?

I say no. That’s why I advise you, metaphorically speaking, to draw your sustenance from a more contained flow in the coming week. Cultivate a relationship with a resource that gives you what you really need.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming week will be an excellent time to declare your independence from anything that depresses you, obsesses you, or oppresses you. You will attract help from unexpected sources if you take that brave action. At the same time, it’ll be a perfect moment to declare your interdependence with anything that fires up your imagination, stirs up smart hope, or fills you with a desire to create masterpieces. Be adventurous as you dream about blending your energies with the very best influences.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA CITY GOVERNMENT CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Curb and Sidewalk Improvements S. 6th St. W. – Russell St. to Orange St. City of Missoula Project 10-036 This project consists of removing and replacing approximately 8,000 square feet of 4” and 6” sidewalk, 4,000 square feet of new 4”, 6”, and 8” sidewalk/driveway with 150 lineal feet of curb, asphalt repair and associated work. Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for City of Missoula Project 10036 S. 6th St. W. – Russell St. to Orange St. curb and sidewalk improvements” The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name, Address and Montana Contractor’s Registration Number. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability. A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished the Contractors making application therefore from the Office of the City Engineer, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash can not be accepted). Full amount of payment will be refunded upon return of the plans and specifications in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening.

Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this proj-

ect. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor performing work on a “Public works contract” shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the contract documents. The provisions of this part do not apply in those instances in which the standard prevailing rate of wages is determined by federal law.

“Public works contract” means a contract for construction services let by the state, county, municipality, school district, or political subdivision or for non-construction services let by the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision in which the total cost of the contract is in excess of $25,000.

The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against on the basis race, ancestry, color, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or familial status, creed, ex-offender status, physical condition, political belief, public assistance status or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, except where these criteria are reasonable bona fide occupational qualifications.

Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the bid opening at 3:00 p.m. on June 26, 2012. The City of Missoula provides accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person’s ability to participate in any service, program, or activity of the City. To request accommodation, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (406)552-6079. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA CITY GOVERNMENT CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on June 25, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance to amend Title 20, sections 20.80.030 entitled “non-conforming structures”, 20.80.040 entitled “non-conforming uses”, 20.110.050.B entitled “rear setback” and 20.110.050.C entitled “side setbacks” to facilitate and clarify alteration and replacement options for non-conform-

ing structures and certain non-conforming uses. For further information, contact Tom Zavitz, Office of Planning & Grants at 552-4983. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA CITY GOVERNMENT CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on June 25, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on an application for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funds (JAG lX) in the amount of $57,701 for the City of Missoula Police Department. Missoula County’s portion will be $17,701. For further information contact Mark Muir, Police Chief, at 552-6320. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF POST-ELECTION AUDIT A post-election audit of the Primary Federal Election held on June 5, 2012 will be held starting at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 14, 2012, at the Missoula County Record’s Center at 2147 Ernest Ave, Missoula, Montana.

The audit is open to the public. /s/ Vickie Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County By /s/ Debbe Merseal, Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder MISSOULA CITY GOVERNMENT PUBLIC COMMENT SOUGHT The DRAFT City of Missoula’s Program Year 2011 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) will be available for public review and comment starting Saturday, June 16, 2012. The CAPER describes activities undertaken by the City as a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) entitlement grantee for the program year ending March 31, 2012. Public comments on the City’s performance received by Thursday, June 28, 2012, will be included in the final version of the CAPER to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Comments may be made in writing to the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT, 59802 or via email to nharte@co.missoula.mt.us.

The City of Missoula and OPG welcome comments on its CDBG and HOME activities, Consolidated Plan and annual Action Plans on a yearround basis. Copies of the CAPER are available for review at OPG in Mis-

soula City Hall, 435 Ryman or on OPG’s website at www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb. Persons wishing to receive a copy of the CAPER or to review it in an alternative format should contact Nancy Harte at OPG, 258 4934.

The Regular Board Meeting of the Missoula Housing Authority will be held at 5:30 on June 20th, 2012 at Missoula Housing Authority Headquarters: 1235 34th Street, Missoula Montana 59801.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-12-91 DEPT. NO. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PEGGY BIRD JACOBSON a/k/a PEGGY EILEEN BIRD JACOBSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned was 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 Julio K. Morales, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Morales Law Office, PO Box 9311, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 30th day May, 2012. MORALES LAW OFFICE, P.C. /s/ Julio K. Morales, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DA-12-16 Department No. 1 Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE/PARENTING OF Jeffrey Golleher, Petitioner, and Brandon Brown, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain an adoption. DATED this 29th day of May, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By /s/ Casie Krath, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-94 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARION BRADLEYCOOK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said 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 Mary Bradley Keller and Shawn

Joseph Bradley, Co- Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives We declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 24th day of May, 2012, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Mary Bradley Keller /s/ Shawn Josesph Bradley MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-96 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORA JEAN BUELOW, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John Buelow, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 31st day of May, 2012. /s/ John Buelow, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-11-230 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Norma J. (Nonie) White, Deceased.

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

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Kimberly A. Lux, return receipt requested at 6939 Mormon Creek Road, Lolo, MT 59847, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of June, 2012. /s/ Kimberly Lux, 6939 Mormon Creek Road, Lolo, MT 59847 Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Wednesday, June 20th from 4 – 6 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public.

For further information, contact Kellie Battaglia, Homeword Operations and Program Director, at 532-4663 x12. If you have comments, please mail them to: Homeword, 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 116A, Missoula, MT, 59808-2026.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE Trustee Sale Number 11-03089-5 Loan Number: 0211732441 APN: 4276180 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 4, 2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in

Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT A-125 OF WINDSOR PARK PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 4225 DIAGON LN, MISSOULA, MT MICHAEL A GONZALEZ AND SHERI L GONZALEZ, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA CO, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ROCKY MOUNTAIN BANK, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of January 16, 2009, and recorded on January 22, 2009 under Document No. 200901318, Book 832, Page 349 in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA. (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the ‘Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated October 22, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of April 30, 2012: Balance due on monthly payments from July 1, 2011 and which payments total: $15,453.72: Late charges: $618.12 Net Other Fees: $40.00 Advances: $2,921.23 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $233,686.04 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.00000% per annum from June 1, 2011, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in Interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL

714.730.2727 DATED: April 30, 2012 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature A-4242612 06/07/2012, 06/14/2012, 06/21/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on October 1, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., on the steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, in Block 33 of Union Addition to the City of Missoula, Montana, according to the official map or plat thereof, now on file and of record in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 1811 & 1819 Holborn Street and 901, 910 and 912 Kensington Avenue, Missoula, Montana 59801. E. Martin Hyland, III, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., which was designated as beneficiary in a Montana Trust Indenture dated January 5, 2006 and recorded January 6, 2006 in Book 767 at Page 275 of Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Notes secured by the Trust Indenture have not been made as required.

As of May 2, 2012, the sum of $321,558.15 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $306,186.61, with interest accruing thereon at a rate of 8.5% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $71.30. In addition, Grantor is in default for failing to pay taxes before becoming delinquent. In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and note and elected to sell the interest of E. Martin Hyland, III, the original Grantor, his 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 Timothy D. Geiszler, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Trust Indenture 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.

DATE this 2nd day of May, 2012. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA, County of Missoula. This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 2nd day of May, 2012

by Timothy D. Geiszler. /s/ Cheryl A. Spinks, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula, Montana.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200925331, in Book 849 Micro Records Page 579, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kristen M. Bounds, a married person and Stewart Bounds was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, NA was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 3 of the Amended Plat of Country Club Addition No. 2 a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to . Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 20, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $190,839.84. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $185,389.22, 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 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.100163) 1002.214632-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/09/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200720650 Bk 803 Pg 515, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Zach Allen and Robin Allen, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 1 of Meadowlark Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 18, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $237,373.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $228,105.55, 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 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.100015) 1002.214890-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200917604, Bk 843, Pg 1246, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jhawn D. Thompson and Misty J. Thompson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 57, together with the Northerly half of vacated Bedard Street adjoining said Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown as vacated by Resolution recorded April 7, 1966 in Book 2 of Micro Records at Page 533. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201119250, Bk 885, Pg 877, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of April 17, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $170,872.81.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,856.94, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The

trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.97589) 1002.207163-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 24, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $895,195.33. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 23, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 31 OF KING RANCH PHASES II AND III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jodi A Keating, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Washington Mutual Bank, FSB, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 29,1999 and Recorded July 30,1999 in Micro Records 591, Page 837, under Document No. 199920867. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ahmanson Obligation Company, a California Corporation. 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 $1,088.91, beginning August 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been ap-

plied 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 April 5, 2012 is $168,173.43 principal, interest at the rate of 5.807% now totaling $29,362.92, late charges in the amount of $273.66, escrow advances of $7,265.76 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,493.51, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.28 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 19, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 19th day of March, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst 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, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase v Keating 41485.929 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 23, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of Corrected Plat of EL DORADO, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 13 of Plats at Page 9 ASHLEY MILLER, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 21, 2007 and recorded on September 21, 2007 at 11:30 AM under Document No. 200724956 in Book 806 Page 109. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Primary Capital Advisors LC. 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 $1,125.35, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 9, 2012 is $170,849.21 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $26,251.64, suspense balance of $878.11 and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,994.51, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.01 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be re-

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quired to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 15, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15th day of March, 2012, 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Pcm/miller 41970.010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 23, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 15 OF ORCHARD PARK PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Charles A Hill, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 18, 2003 and recorded on July 23, 2003 in Book 712, Page 838 under Document No 200326742. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $872.20, beginning October 1, 2011, 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 22, 2012 is $95,886.61 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25% now totaling $1,967.63, late charges in the amount of $126.32, escrow advances of $-224.15, and other fees and expenses advanced of $34.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $13.79 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

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

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property

to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis 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 15, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15th day of March, 2012, 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Citimortgage V Hill 42011.626 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/07/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which PETER CLIFFORD as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/21/2005 and recorded 04/22/2005, in document No. 200509181 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 751 at Page Number 112 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 16 LESS THE WEST 4 FEET OF THE SOUTH 60 FEET OF SAID LOT 16 AND ALL OF LOT 17 IN BLOCK 82 OF URLIN’S ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE IS IN BOOK 514 AT PAGE 2671 MICRO RECORDS. Property Address: 516 N 2ND ST W, Missoula, MT 59802-2920. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due

and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $139,481.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.75% per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0036050 FEI NO. 1006.158565 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/19/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RYAN E. JONES, A SINGLE MAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/23/2009 and recorded 10/28/2009, in document No. 200925805 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 849 at Page Number 1053 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 17 IN BLOCK 3 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Property Address: 9225 GROUSE DR, Missoula, MT 59808-1051. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $223,987.84 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.875% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042089 FEI NO. 1006.159276

PUBLIC NOTICES Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/18/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ERIN O DOHERTY, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/19/2008 and recorded 02/22/2008, in document No. 200803879 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 813 at Page Number 974 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 15 AND 16 IN BLOCK 67 OF SOUTH MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 833 CLEVELAND ST, Missoula, MT 59801-3736. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $80,387.82 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120042087 FEI NO. 1006.159277 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/18/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DONALD R. COLE AND KATHRYN I. COLE, AS JOINT TENANTS HUSBAND & WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to LSI TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/02/2008

and recorded 12/15/2008, in document No. 200827189 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 830 at Page Number 777 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT A138 OF CANYON EAST, PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4535 BORDEAUX BOULEVARD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $194,504.50 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 01/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120042088 FEI NO. 1006.159281 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which NANCY K. COLEMAN, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/03/2011 and recorded 02/07/2011, in document No. 201102369 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 873 at Page Number 784 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 6227, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPLE MERIDIAN, MONTANA. TAX ACCOUNT NUMBER(S): 2429-26-2-02-010000 Property Address: 16460 HASHKNIFE WAY, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $293,547.41 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.875% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042091 FEI NO. 1006.159282 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/21/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which PATRICK LANDELLS & AMY HOUSE, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/06/2006 and recorded 10/12/2006, in document No. 200626539 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 785 at Page Number 153 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS B AND C OF CAR LINE ADDITION, BLOCK 55, LOTS 25 THRU 28, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE SEWER SERVICE LINE EASEMENT OVER AND ACROSS LOT A AS SET FORTH ON SAID PLAT. Property Address: 3114 SOUTH CLARK STREET, Mis-

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 26, 95, 143, 204, 281. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting June 18, 2012 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 June 21st, 2012, 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.

soula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $208,201.89 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/09/2012 RECONTRUST COM-

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 27,36, 52, 156, 226, 249, 362, 506, 512, 513, 538, 571, and 639. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday June 25, 2012. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, June 28, 2012, 4:00 P.M. Buyers 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 are final.

PANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042687 FEI NO. 1006.159286 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/14/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEONARD T. CONLEY AND TERESA B. CONLEY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AM TITLE INS CO OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WEBSTER BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/12/2006 and recorded 01/19/2006, in document No. 200601333 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 767 at Page Number 1163 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5754, LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (NE1/4) OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA; MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. NOTE: ANY CONVEYANCE OR SECURITY INSTRUMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: TOGETHER WITH ROAD FOR INGRESS AND

COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on June 23rd, 2012 at 11 am.

Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. A live auction will be held Saturday, June 23rd at 10 am at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. 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.

“GQ Poseurs” – so not what the seem.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 Like some mattresses 5 Cat of many colors 11 Cranberry growing site 14 Bailiwick 15 ___ acid 16 Number one prefix?

17 Table salt, in chemistry class 18 Noah's mountain 19 Summer Olympics city after London 20 Worked hard on a mathematical proof?

23 Bollywood's home 25 Agent's activity 26 Leading figure on a long journey?

31 Really slow, on sheet music 32 Hash browns, e.g.

33 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gordimer 35 Roadside bomb letters 36 ___ vert (green bean, in French cuisine) 37 Not working today 40 Separately 41 Scotch mixer 45 Play with blocks 47 Voyage to see the world's great bedcovers?

49 Movie that spawned the spoof "Scary Movie" 51 Up the ante 52 Marketer's popularity quotient for Limburger?

57 Curvy letter 58 100% 59 Comedian Cook 62 "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Vardalos 63 Elvis Costello hit 64 Controversial radio host Don 65 Be a gourmand 66 Highest-quality 67 The largest one-digit square

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1 ___ interference (baseball ruling) 2 401(k) alternative 3 Went out slowly 4 Sick-and-tired feeling 5 James who played Sonny Corleone 6 Farm measure 7 Heavy metal 8 Macy Gray's first hit song 9 Genoa goodbyes 10 One of Nadya Suleman's kids, e.g.

11 Trademarked swimsuit that covers everything except the face 12 Cuban region from the Spanish for "East" 13 Words uttered in disbelief 21 Word after mole or mall 22 Bread in a Seinfeld episode 23 Stanford-Binet test scores 24 Rapa ___ (Easter Island) 27 Completely lose it 28 Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Aziz 29 Word that may be bid 30 Actress Christina of 2012's "Bel Ami" 34 "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" writer Coward 36 Quit standing 37 Warranting "Parental Advisory" stickers, maybe 38 Reddish-purple shade 39 Aims for 41 Substitute 42 Hobby of in-creasing popularity?

43 Slam 44 Big galoot 46 Incredible Hulk co-creator Stan 48 Beef ___-tip 50 ___ Park (Thomas Edison's home) 53 It goes in one ear, gets flipped, then into the other 54 Increase 55 Elvis's middle name, per his death certificate 56 Mind 60 "Agnes of God" extra 61 Ending for legal or crossword ©2012 Jonesin’ Crosswords editor@jonesincrosswords.com

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PUBLIC NOTICES EGRESS AS SET OUT IN BOOK 102 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 328 AND BOOK 104 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 751. Property Address: LOT 1A MESSINA DRIVE, AKA 23508 MESSINA DRIVE, Bonner, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $218,854.01 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may

become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/04/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0041449 FEI NO. 1006.158887 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/21/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLINTON J ADCOCK AND AMBER K ADCOCK, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES as Trustee, to

secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/16/2009 and recorded 01/22/2009, in document No. 200901326 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 832 at Page Number 357 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 9A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4379, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 6003 AIRWAY BLVD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2010 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following:

The unpaid principal balance of $313,492.39 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/14/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0139822 FEI NO. 1006.117071 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/25/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby se-

cured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which A. LYNETTE BROWNLEE, A SINGLE PERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/12/2010 and recorded 02/17/2010, in document No. 201003182 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 855 at Page Number 665 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 11 OF RIVER ROAD ESTATES PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TAX ACCOUNT NUMBERS(S) 3650205 Property Address: 615 LAFRAY LANE, Missoula, MT 59801.

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monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $173,908.28 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/11/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0044073 FEI NO. 1006.159778 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY

Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-12-85 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED S. HANGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Harold H. Hanger, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2012. /s/ Harold H. Hanger, Personal Representative. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE'S ATTORNEY: RONALD A. BENDER, ESQ., WORDEN THANE P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806

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Just like the fruit she's named for, this young lady is both sweet and spicy. Her smile is happy, her personality is lively, and what she wants most of all is to be part of a family again.

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Pickles likes his private, safe space, but he also enjoys being handled and petted. He will probably always be a bit shy, but he's getting more outgoing every day (and he couldn't possibly become any more handsome)!

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This outgoing one-yearold knows what he wants and how to get it!

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If you watched the Grammy Awards on TV, you must remember how happy Adele was to win hers. That's exactly how happy our Adele will be when she has a home and family again!

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Pharaoh knows why the ancient Egyptian's worshiped cats. It's hard to disagree as you gaze into his stunning blue eyes. Pharaoh is an outgoing Siamese who enjoys all the good things in life. Call the Humane Society at (406)549-3934 for more information.

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BOULDER

A boulder is defined as a large, smooth piece of rock detached from its place of origin. Boulder was detached from his place of origin as a kitten during our 2010 kitten season. He is a beautiful 1 1/2-year-old Tuxedo kitty.

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1805 PHILLIPS #E: 1 BEDROOM, SECOND FLOOR, DINING AREA, DECK-AREA, ON-SITE LAUNDRY FACILITIES, * SOME QUALIFICATIONS *, OFF STREET PARKING, NO SMOKING OR PETS $590 * 1YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP & $100.00 GIFT CARD. Garden City Property Management 549-6106

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3901 O’LEARY #224: 1 BEDROOM, 2ND FLOOR, TURRET, PRIVATE DECK, STORAGE, * FREE CABLE *, PARKING, ON-SITE LAUNDRY, BEHIND HOME DEPOT, NO PETS OR SMOKING ALLOWED, HEAT PAID $665 * 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP * Garden City Property Management 549-6106 3901 O’LEARY: 2 BEDROOM, 2 STORY W/ PRIVATE DECK,

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MOBILE HOMES 3 bed, 2 bath, large lot, furnished, water/sewer/garbage paid, no dogs. $985/mo. 273-6034 Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent w/s/g/elec included $400/month 406-273-6034

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1825 S. 9th Street W. “A” 2bed/1bath, upper level, central location, all utilities included. $875. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 218 Barclay “A” 2bed/1.5 bath, upper unit in Lolo, shared yard, W/D. $675. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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Single garage, patio, fenced yard, W/D & DW. $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath near Benson’s. $1,300 S/G paid. D/W, fenced private yard, garage, off street parking.

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Fenced yard, beautiful house, nice neighborhood. CLEAN! No pets, no smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 3901 O’Leary: Two bedroom, 2 story unit, Newer, Carport, Storage, Free cable, Private deck, #219 has washer and dryer, 1 1/2 bath, Dishwasher, No smoking or pets allowed $100.00 COSTCO GIFT CERTIFICATE GCPM , $825, 549-6106, gcpm-mt.com 601 Cherry 2bed/1bath near Rattlesnake Creek, W/D hkups, carport. $1000 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1375 Woodhill. 2 bed, 1 bath on quiet street with river access. MLS #20122336. $179,900. Call Betsy 880-4747. Montana Preferred Properties 1500 Philips. 2 bed, 1 bath with single garage on corner lot. Fenced yard with deck. $154,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 1537 Defoe. 2 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage near Lowell School. $167,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $184,999. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2024 S. 6TH ST. W.: 2 BEDROOM, MOBILE HOME WITH PRIVATE FENCED YARD, CENTRAL LOCATION, PARKING, AIR CONDITIONER, * FREE CABLE *, NO PETS OR SMOKING ALLOWED $595 * 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP * Garden City Property Management 2180 Amity Lane. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with basement & 2 car garage.

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MLS #20113117 $225,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana. 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath Rose Park/Slant Streets home with a great yard. $249,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Target Range area home on 0.9 acres. $319,900 Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4227 South 7th West. Beautiful sample home to be built. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with covered porch and 2 car

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MLS #20121798, $325,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com

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428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $269,000.

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Corner lot, close to schools, great trees, lots of upgrades, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, full basement, so much house for this price of $210,000. 240-5227 2107 Park St. porticorealestate.com

PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm. 2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $280,000.

MLS #20120012. 9869 Lee’s Lane, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com

Energy-Efficient Sweet Bungalow in Slant Street ‘hood with double lot and raised beds ready to plant!

835 Rollins. $179,500. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Rattlesnake Valley 909 Herbert.

Perched amidst the trees and canopy of the Rattlesnake Valley, this home is a beauty! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $399,000. Call Anne for details. 546-5816 www.movemontana.com

Slant Street Condo 525A Cleveland. Upgraded and beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Slant Streets: $174,900 porticorealestate.com 240-5227

4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage.

Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 541-547 South 2nd West. Wonderful 4-plex in great neighborhood. Suitable for condo conversion. Newer rubber membrane roof. $275,000.

MLS #20120840 Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.541547s2ndst.com 6107 Brusett. 4 bed, 3 bath Martz home with 2 car garage & basement.

Lower Miller Creek.

MLS #20121397. $300,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749 6544 MacArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath must-see home with 2 car garage.

Cherry cabinets, hardwood floors, tile, granite. MLS #20122825. $240,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

6785 Prairie Schooner. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1/2 acre at end of quiet culde-sac.

MLS #20122287. $259,900. Call Betsy 880-4747.

Montana Preferred Properties Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, greenbuilt development may be your ticket.

STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/- acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house?

Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 360-8234

Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks. Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university.

Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $265,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Historic Preservation AwardWinning Marshall House Beautiful professional building with great design for offices or home and awesome exposure for business. 436 S 3rd W. $395,000 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home!

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for a place to call home?

Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 5447507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

Looking for homebuyer education?

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1847 West Central. 3 bed, 1.5 bath townhome with 2 car garage. No HOA fees. MLS #20121385. $165,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Missoula 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com 2 Bdr, 1.5 Downtown Missoula condo. Zoned for Residential or Commercial use. $299,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Central Missoula Condo. $194,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 6614 MacArthur. Spacious 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse with 2 car garage. Great views. Budget for improvements.

Seller motivated. $194,500 MLS #20122949. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

bed, 1.5 bath on corner lot with single garage. Fenced yard with deck. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com For a limited time a purchase of a condo at the Uptown Flats will include a large flat screen TV and assistance with up to $5000 Buyers closing costs!The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units at $149,900. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com

23645 Mullan Road. Beautiful 14 acre meadow with pasture & trees near Huson. $169,900. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Treehouse Feel in this fairly new condo with single garage. Great location close to school, bike trail, Good Food Store and town. 935B Garfield. $117,500. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

2951 Expo Parkway. 1.24 acres off I-90 between Motel 6 & Cracker Barrel. MLS #20120951, $399,000.

Additional 1.57 acres at $499,000.

MLS #201200952. Jeremy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 5522410

21220 Ranch Court Huson, MT 59846

Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails.

240-5227. porticorealestate.com

$545,000 Asking Price

If you are looking for privacy, you have found it on this beautiful almost 30 acre, treed piece of property with beautiful cedar home. Huge kitchen, fabulous game room with pool table, Fisher wood stove and great wet bar. Formal living room, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, hot tub with rock landscaping, 3 bay shop with mechanic pit, wood stove, 8ft shop lighting and 50 amp RV hookup. Seasonal creek and pond. This home has nice landscaping and end of road privacy. Call Nancy Miles for a personal showing.

Nancy Miles 550-7145

MANUFACTURED

HOMES

4005 Mathew. 3 bed, 2 bath Champion. Full range of appliances. Landscaped with deck & great views of Missoula & Lolo Peak. $74,900. MLS #20122704. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com

LAND FOR SALE

11689 Stolen Rock Court, Missoula • 5 bedroom 3 bath • $329,900.00

1 Russell Park West. Centrally located 3 bed, 1.5 bath with garage and daylight basement. New paint and

Riverfront Condominiums • Starting at $144,900.00 • Owner financing with 3.5% down

6875 Prairie Schooner • 3 bed • 3 bath tri-level Oak & tile flooring • Large family room Fenced yard • Many upgrades $259,900

702A Charlo. Newly remodeled 3

RICE TEAM

flooring. $189,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Robin Rice • 240-6503

Missoula Properties

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 12:00-2:00 P.M. UPSCALE DOWNTOWN LIFESTYLE THE UPTOWN FLATS 1 and 2 bedroom condos available

$139,900. Limited time Call Anne for more details

546-5816

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REAL ESTATE 601 West Broadway. .58 acre along Clark Fork River. MLS #20120935, $1,700,000. Jeremy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 552-2419 7268 West Fork, Darby. Prime hunting and natural spring out your back door. 2 bed double wide on almost 6 acres. $109,900.

MLS #20120445. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com

OUT OF TOWN 11165B Napton, Lolo. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with basement in heart of Lolo.

Well-maintained with lots of upgrades. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres.

Close to the river and Forest Service land. $208,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Potomac area home on 20 acres. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Stevensville log home on 1.2 acres. $139,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $65,000.

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32609 Jocko Road, Arlee. 2 bed, 2 bath on almost 6 acres. Fireplace, loft and 3 car garage. $214,900. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL

4 Bdr, 2 Bath Rose Frenchtown area home on 0.5 acres. $239,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres. $449,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $629,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

wood, tile and beautiful warm colors.

5697 Explorer Court. $225,000.

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5751 Daisy Lane, Florence. 3 bed, 2 bath with basement & 3 car garage on 10 quiet acres. Covered deck & heated shop. MLS #20120760. $330,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com

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Big Arm On Flathead Lake. 45765 Meadow Lake Lane. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on lakefront acreage. Two additional homes included.

MLS #20120312. $1,200,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.co Lolo End of Cul-de-sac Beauty Open, light, private, quiet and in immaculate condition. Huge yard, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with hard-

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