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Voices/Letters Neighborhood character and public lands .............................................4 The Week in Review Pulse vigil, snow in the mountains and Glass Spiders.................6 Briefs Historic home, Maclay Ranch and smoking .........................................................6 Etc. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act won’t die.....................................7 News Freedom Gardens tries to move past politics........................................................8 News Rural residents at odds over private road access...................................................9 Opinion Why Zinke needs to debate Juneau as much as possible...............................10 Feature Words within the walls at the juvenile detention center .................................14
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Arts Minutiae and dreams in Michael Haykin’s vision of the West................................18 Music The Growlers, Pale Dian and Year of the Cobra .................................................19 Music How Helms Alee masters sounds of the sea.......................................................20 Books The Sympathizer rises above an off-the-boat story ............................................21 Film The Conjuring 2 haunts long after it’s over ..........................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 The Real Dirt The great scapes.....................................................................................25 Happiest Hour The Montana Distillery wins gold .......................................................27 8 Days a Week An echo, asking a shadow to dance .....................................................28 Agenda Relay for Life.....................................................................................................34 Mountain High Adult TnT.............................................................................................35
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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
by Derek Brouwer
Asked Tuesday afternoon at Southside Kettlehouse This week’s feature story looks at a program inside the Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center that uses art and poetry to help empower and inspire struggling kids. What’s something that helped you through tough times as a teenager? Followup: If you could offer any personal advice to a struggling teen, what would you say? Anna Peterson: For me it was music, and particularly playing music. I play jazz piano, so I would get lost in that during hard times. Expert opinion: As a therapist, I work with struggling teens a lot. Trust your own heart, what’s truest in your own heart.
Kevin Joyce: I was in art club as a teen, and that was also a conduit to get into trouble. You could go to the school and sneak into places. We had this huge trip, too, where they took us to Canada. We were seniors in high school, so we could drink in Canada. Listen up: You might not believe older people, but don’t write off what older people have to say. There’s some gems of truth there.
Britny Becker: My friends. I had a really good group of friends who I could talk to. We started our own science club at my high school. Not alone: Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Cas Fry: I’m an animal person. I mean, I’ve had a dog since I was 3 years old. The worst time ever was freshman year of college, when you couldn’t have dogs in dorms. Stick it out: It gets better. I think by far your teenage years are your harshest.
Alexis Billings: We used to go in my car and shine lights on deer. We would go offroading and then sneak up on deer with the headlights off. Teen spirit: Don’t say no. Take every opportunity given to you. Even if it doesn’t work out, it will help you in the end.
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A bigger issue Dwellings similar to the Timblo housein-process can be found in various Missoula neighborhoods (see “This new house,” May 26). I don’t find them particularly attractive and I am completely flummoxed as to why anyone would build a flat-roofed home around here. However, there is a bigger housing issue in this town that needs consideration in order to preserve “the context and the character of the neighborhood.” Important quality-of-life issues seem to be ignored by local governing units and municipal decision-making bodies, with one exception—the police department is very helpful with quality-of-life issues. The issues to which I refer involve the “slum-like” rental properties throughout the city. Drive through almost any quiet, welltended Missoula neighborhood—lawns mowed, weeds under control, homes generally well cared for—and you will likely see at least one dwelling that appears to have been dumped into the neighborhood from some far-away war zone. What is left of the exterior paint is peeling away, weeds are knee-high, garbage and other stuff covers the lot. The tenants’ vehicles crowd the nearby street. And until the locals request the assistance of the police, some of these tenants will be loud and disruptive. Often these tenants don’t care or have no apparent clue as to the proper dynamics of living in a neighborhood made up mainly of families that have paid for or are paying for their homes and who have a long-term vested interest in the area. Of course, many tenants who have to rent what they can find in their price range are victims of penny-pinching landlords. Tenants deserve better for their rental dollars than what is provided by the “slum landlord” who seems to be held to no standards to provide the lessees appropriate living space in good repair. If there are standards, who in city government should be enforcing these standards? If the standards allow such poor maintenance of real property, who in city government should be called to task for allowing these low standards? Some landlords obviously find it a great inconvenience to do the slightest amount of work on the property. After all, keeping up the property will cut into the bottom line. I can just hear the landlord’s pontifications now: “So there’s an old mattress in the backyard, a couple of shattered toilets in the side yard, what’s that to me? The weeds, the noise and the other aggravations the neighbors claim they are facing, well, phooey to the neighborhood. It’s my property to do with as I want.” So ye who profess a profound concern for the context and character of Mis-
soula neighborhoods, how about focusing your energies on figuring out some way to deal with irresponsible landlords (and yes, some irresponsible homeowners as well). They need to be reined in and held to high standards of property management and maintenance. Linda Holtom Missoula
Movement afoot There’s a student movement afoot in the Last Best Place. University students in our great state are joining together and letting it be known they recognize and celebrate the vital role that public lands play in the everyday lives of all Montanans. The Associated Students of both the University of Montana (ASUM)
“What is left of the exterior paint is peeling away, weeds are knee-high, garbage and other stuff covers the lot.”
and Montana State University (ASMSU) passed resolutions this spring urging our elected officials to maintain federal management of American public lands. Both resolutions passed with a majority vote. ASUM’s vote was unanimous. Public lands generate $6 billion a year annually in Montana—including $403 million in tax revenue—and support 64,000 jobs in the state. But more important than the economic benefits public lands offer Montana are the educational opportunities those lands provide. Students at both universities are the next generation of wildlife biologists, foresters, engineers, artists, geographers, geologists and leaders. Students in all of these fields and more rely on the natural classrooms that our public lands provide. Furthermore, professors in these fields depend on public lands not only to educate their students, but also to conduct valuable and groundbreaking research that brings acclaim to UM, MSU and the state. Most students at UM and MSU will tell
you that academics are only part of why they decided to attend these schools. UM and MSU attract and retain students because of our state’s natural beauty and the easy access we have to the extraordinary public lands in Missoula’s and Bozeman’s backyards. We have great respect for the indispensable place public lands have in the cultural identity of our state and its citizens. Hundreds of MSU students have found community on public lands such as Hyalite Canyon through the school’s outdoor recreation program, and hundreds of UM students have found the same on public lands throughout the state by taking part in the University’s Freshman Wilderness Experience. Both of these programs introduce incoming students to the importance of conservation, the sanctity found in natural beauty and the lifelong friendships that can be made while enjoying Montana’s amazing outdoor opportunities. Having recognized federal public lands as an essential part of Montana’s heritage, a majority of Montanans, including students at UM and MSU, are appalled by the shortsighted and irresponsible agenda to transfer ownership or management of American public lands to state or private hands. If Montana took over American public lands, our state would be faced with a $367 million deficit, according to Lee Newspapers. This could lead to many areas losing vital federal protections, including access to conservation and firefighting budgets, or being closed to public access altogether. Opening public lands to such peril is not in our state’s interest and does not have the support of our state’s students. Many from UM’s and MSU’s student bodies will soon be joining the Montana workforce. We have a responsibility as the leaders of tomorrow to ensure that these public lands remain as pristine and accessible as they are today and an interest in ensuring their continued contribution to economic stability, education and recreation for generations to come. As representatives of UM’s and MSU’s student bodies, we believe that our congressional delegation, our governor and our state representatives have a responsibility to their constituents to maintain the natural heritage of Montana by ensuring that federally owned public lands in Montana are not transferred to state or private hands. Sam Forstag ASUM President Missoula Matthew Campbell ASMSU Senator Bozeman
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Joe Weston
Wednesday, June 8 A Missoula City Council committee hosts a preliminary discussion on the request to demolish the Missoula Mercantile. Council members say it will be a long process to examine every piece of evidence involved in the proposal.
Thursday, June 9 Around 3 a.m, an unknown driver crashes into the Red Robin patio at Southgate Mall and then flees the scene. Red Robin staff announce they’ll need to do some repairs, but the restaurant will operate as usual.
Friday, June 10 Missoula County Public Schools celebrate the last day of the academic year. Kids will be free and parents will be held hostage until school starts again Aug. 29.
Saturday, June 11 A few dozen Missoulians descend upon Butte for David Bowie tribute band Glass Spiders’ concert at the Butte Depot. The show benefits KBMF, a nonprofit community radio station launched last year.
It’s been a rough year for visitors to Yellowstone National Park, including this driver who drifted too far off the road during a June 4 “bear jam” near Tower Junction.
Sunday, June 12 Local LGBT advocates and allies host a vigil on the University of Montana Oval for the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting earlier that morning.
Monday, June 13 Missoula International Airport posts photos on Facebook of a black bear galloping through the short-term parking lot. One man comments on the post, “This was the bear I saw this morning. The airport cop had a massive set of balls chasing it off with just a sidearm.”
Tuesday, June 14 While lower elevations throughout northwestern Montana receive a downpour of rain, higher elevations see more wintry weather. The National Weather Service tweets a picture of snow dumping on Big Mountain in Whitefish.
Affordable housing
Funding for Front Street Just north of Kiwanis Park, a green-and-pink Victorian home has nearly 150 years of Missoula history in its bones and a football-sized rock in the front room. The rock likely entered through a bay window, beneath which shards of glass and a crumpled can of Rainier sit suspended in some shrubs. The building at 503 East Front St. is a freakish structure that has been abandoned since city officials condemned it in January 2015. What started as one of Missoula’s earliest log cabins and a backdrop for some bizarre moments in city history ended up a 10-unit apartment complex where period architecture was patched up—and often over—with cheap repairs. It’s hard to say whether Bob Oaks, executive director of the North Missoula Community Development Corporation, is more excited about the site’s storied past or its now-promising future. Oaks should have a chance to cel-
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ebrate both later this summer, as funding falls into place that will allow NMCDC to deconstruct and study the historic building, then erect a new affordable housing development in its place. The complex, to be called Lee Gordon Place, will be NMCDC’s fourth such project since 2002 and the first to bring its new model of affordable homeownership to downtown Missoula. Much like the house itself, which was jury-rigged over the years into its present state, NMCDC is piecing together a slew of grants and funding sources to make the project happen. The bulk of the money is coming from federal housing programs, and on June 13 the Missoula City Council approved a Brownfields grant of up to $125,000 to remediate the property. In endorsing the funding during a council committee hearing, Councilman Bryan Von Lossberg called the allocation “one way we chip away” at the city’s affordable housing problem. Like with prior projects such as the Burns Street
Commons, the Front Street townhomes will be offered as part of NMCDC’s community land trust, which Oaks says keeps the units permanently affordable. NMCDC plans to offer seven townhomes at a price point under $150,000 to buyers who make less than 80 percent of the city’s median income. In 2015, only 10 percent of homes sold in the Missoula urban area were priced below $150,000, with the median sales price increasing again to $238,700, according to the Missoula Organization of Realtors. Oaks, a founding member of Preserve Historic Missoula, says deconstructing the building will be “a greater contribution to history” than trying to preserve what’s left of it. Both city and state preservation officers have “reluctantly” endorsed its demolition, as city senior grants administrator Nancy Harte told council members. (Unlike the Mercantile building, the Front Street building is not individually listed as a historic structure and is not subject to Historic Preservation Commission review.) NMCDC has approached the Missoula
[news] Redevelopment Agency for aid in deconstructing the home and is seeking private foundation money to fully investigate its history with a local researcher. Oaks calls these sorts of projects “very difficult� to pull off, adding that NMCDC wouldn’t have been able to acquire the property if the heirs to its deceased owner, Lee Gordon, hadn’t donated it. “There just isn’t money out there to buy land,� he says. Derek Brouwer
Bitterroots
Maclay Ranch up for auction The Maclay Ranch, once envisioned as a ski resort but sold after bankruptcy proceedings in 2012, will once again change hands following a July 30 public auction. While the transaction will bring closure for the current owner, it creates new unknowns for area residents. Investment company MetLife purchased the property in 2013 and originally listed it for sale at $22.5 million. A year later the price was reduced to $17.5 million. A website advertising next month’s auction breaks the 2,669-acre property into 11 parcels, ranging in size from just over 2 acres to around 960. One parcel includes former owner and resort visionary Tom Maclay’s old home, a log-and-timber-frame lodge. Another is drawn around the ski runs he’d had cut into the hillside. Craig Janssen of Live Water Properties, which is coordinating the auction with an Alabama firm that specializes in large land transactions, says the current owner is simply ready to move on. The auction assures “100 percent time certainty,� he says. “Aug. 1 they will not own the property anymore.� So far, no potential buyers Janssen’s spoken to have expressed a serious interest in reviving the ski resort plan. But the auction and potential breakup of ownership opens other possibilities. According to Missoula County Community and Planning Services, all the parcels could be further subdivided by a buyer with development in mind. That worries some of the same people who once fought the ski resort. “We’d like to see it go as a whole property,� says Jim Rokosch, executive director of the conservation group Bitterrooters for Planning. He explains that farmland could be broken up, and the ranch sits astride an important wildlife corridor for elk migrating from the Sapphire Mountains to the Bitterroot range. While a past attempt by elk advocates to work with MetLife on conservation easements failed,
the land auction could make things even more difficult if it increases the number of property owners with varying interests. Rokosch says in the Bitterroot Valley there are fewer and fewer opportunities to address long-term conservation goals on large acreages of land. “The reality of it is when you carve up the landscape, it’s being done for short-term profits,� he says. Devin Jackson, cochair of the Lolo Community Council, was unaware of the July auction, but he wasn’t surprised to hear the ranch might get broken up. Jackson says that although Lolo residents had mixed opinions on the ski resort—he supported it—they were at least familiar with longtime landholders the Maclays. “Now it’s a corporation and a corporation is going to do whatever it’s going to do,� he says. Andrew Graham
Smoking
Fines in the air City park rules prohibit spectators from lighting up cigarettes in the baseball field bleachers, but staff can’t do much to a smoker who refuses to comply. “The only authority we have is for our staff to go out and ask people to please stop doing things,� Parks and Recreation Director Donna Gaukler recently told city council members. “It makes it a very difficult situation to put our staff in on a regular basis.� A newly drafted city ordinance seeks to give the existing rules legal teeth, allowing city staff or property owners to call local law enforcement for backup and issue citations for noncompliance. The proposed changes would be the first to Missoula’s environmental tobacco smoke ordinance since it was adopted 17 years ago. The ordinance was ahead of its time—and highly controversial—when it was first created, City-County Health Department Director Ellen Leahy recalls. But state law has since surpassed Missoula’s original rules, making them obsolete. Rather than scrap the outdated ordinance, the health department decided to look for areas to clarify some gaps, codify existing practices and strengthen enforcement, Leahy says. The proposed ordinance would
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Dead on arrival. That’s how former Sen. Max Baucus, back in 1993, chose to characterize a bold new U.S. House measure dubbed the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. The bill would have designated millions of acres of wilderness in the West, and according to a New York Times article by Timothy Egan, Baucus’ response was to tell its sponsor, Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, to focus more on her Manhattan and less on his Montana. Two decades later, not much has changed. The size of the requested designation has slowly increased, from 16.3 million acres initially to 23 million today. And on June 6, NREPA debuted on a different battlefield, introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time. But the opposition Egan documented among Western congressional delegates 23 years ago remains as staunch as ever. Not a single senator from a state impacted by the bill has signed on as a cosponsor. In a statement this month, Sen. Steve Daines’ chief of staff, Jason Thielman, dismissed the latest version of NREPA as “an extreme proposal from a fringe environmental group.� Thielman was no doubt referring to Alliance for the Wild Rockies, the Montana-based nonprofit that, along with activist and singer Carole King, has been the bill’s most steadfast advocate. Sen. Jon Tester, who in 2014 helped secure the first wilderness designations in the state in nearly three decades, opted to voice his skepticism without the vitriol. “Montana is home to a lot of special places that deserve protection for future generations like the Rocky Mountain Front and Badger-Two Medicine,� Tester said last week. “But I oppose the Northern Rockies Ecosystem bill because it lacks the kind of broad support we’ve come to expect on Western public land issues.� However, the bill’s persistence all these years does speak to a desire for a broader, simpler fix. Logging, endangered species, public access, genetic connectivity—for many environmentalists, NREPA could address all these issues and more in one fell swoop. It’s a solution free of political horse-trading and industry compromise. NREPA doesn’t have a hope in the world of passing the Senate, and maybe it shouldn’t. But it has become a constant reminder for our representatives in Washington that there are folks interested in a purer, more straightforward resolution.
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prohibit smoking in certain areas of city-owned parks, including within 25 feet of playgrounds, aquatic facilities, duck ponds and any covered structure such as a picnic shelter, baseball dugout or grandstand. The health department hopes to make the ordinance “extraterritorial,� so it also applies to a 5-mile radius outside city limits. Doing so will require additional approval by county officials, Leahy says. At a June 13 committee meeting, city council members focused their scrutiny on the enforcement provisions. The Montana Clean Indoor Act only levels fines after three offenses, while the health department proposal suggested fines up to $100 for the first misdemeanor conviction, $200 for the second and $500 for the third. “I don’t see why we’d need to move towards this more stringent fine process,� Councilwoman Michelle Cares said. Leahy explains the proposed fines don’t so much have individual smokers in mind as business owners who refuse to comply with indoor smoking laws. Problems with local businesses have been rare, though she points to one pending court case against a bar that designated one room as a “smoking shelter.� “This isn’t being written for the police to go out and be patrolling for smoking,� Leahy says. Upon council’s request, the health department plans to tailor the enforcement and penalty provisions for individuals versus businesses before bringing back the proposed language for a public hearing. Derek Brouwer
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Pulling up roots Freedom Gardens tries to move past politics by Alex Sakariassen
When the latest conceptual drawings for the Missoula County Fairgrounds redesign went public earlier this spring, Heath Carey was disappointed to see the entire southwest corner of the property devoted to concrete. His agricultural nonprofit Freedom Gardens has been growing food on a leased 3-acre plot there since 2013, and the rendering reinforced his decision to uproot from the fairgrounds and pursue a new home. After a long series of headaches, Carey says he’s tired of fighting. “I never wanted to get into this to argue with people,” he continues. “I didn’t want to get into this to butt heads. I didn’t want to get into this to do anything other than inspire future growers and to provide food.” LaLonde Ranch may be the answer. On June 9, the Missoula Board of County Commissioners unanimously agreed to begin negotiations on a phased lease with Freedom Gardens for the LaLonde property. The 7acre parcel just north of Big Sky Brewing is home to one of the only remaining historic ranches in the Missoula Valley—though the county has done little with it besides using the barns for storage and supporting a livein caretaker since purchasing the place in 1991. Commissioner Jean Curtiss says it’s a piece of land every commissioner since has mulled what to do with. “We solicited ideas, we’ve had open houses out there to have people come out and look at it and see if they have ideas,” Curtiss says. “There’s been a few thrown out ... But nobody’s ever really come back with a proposal.” While Carey is optimistic about where those negotiations will lead, the hurdles of the past are never far from his mind. Freedom Gardens first rose out of a conversation Carey had with former fairgrounds Director Steve Earle in 2012. Earle approved a threeyear lease for Carey’s fledgling outfit, and the nonprofit began growing produce in a series of gravity-irrigated cold frames. But Earle stepped down in summer 2013, and as discussions over redevelopment continued, Freedom Gardens board member Susan Estep says the nonprofit’s future place at the fairgrounds increasingly came into question.
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“It became clear that we had no place at the fairgrounds,” says Estep, who also serves on the Missoula County Fairgrounds Advisory Committee. Commissioner Stacy Rye succeeded in securing a one-year extension for Freedom Gardens’ lease last fall, to allow the nonprofit time to figure out its next move. According to Estep, LaLonde Ranch had been kicked around as a potential backup plan for some time, having first been suggested by former Commissioner Bill Carey and later by Commissioner Nicole Rowley. Carey says the decision to actively pursue LaLonde Ranch was made in January. However, those negotiations were
process, but says the county’s questions weren’t intended to stall their plans. “People that have an ideology and a great vision and lots of passion always feel like government’s too slow,” she continues. “But I had somebody explain to me a long time ago when I first started this job that government’s slow for a purpose, and that’s because we’re dealing with the taxpayers’ money and the taxpayers’ property.” Carey says the possibility of Freedom Gardens securing a lease at LaLonde has “reinvigorated the project.” The uncertain situation at the fairgrounds has kept him from installing the 4,800-gallon aquaponics system and 3,200-square-foot greenhouse
photo by Alex Sakariassen
The historic LaLonde Ranch has become the desired future home of Missoula nonprofit Freedom Gardens, which says it supplied 800 pounds of fresh produce to the Missoula Food Bank last year.
complicated by the property’s inclusion in the Missoula Development Park, a 446-acre collection of lots along Interstate 90 the county has zoned specifically to accommodate industrial and tech businesses. During this month’s meeting, Development District Director Dori Brownlow questioned whether Freedom Gardens would be able to comply with the development guidelines adopted for the area, including design standards for landscaping and plants. Estep claims that despite those questions, members of the Missoula Development Authority have been supportive of their pursuit of LaLonde since first hearing about it this spring. Curtiss understands Freedom Gardens may be frustrated with the pace of the
he acquired several years ago—infrastructure that will be among his top priorities at a new location. He has grand plans for LaLonde, including a commercial kitchen, a museum dedicated to Missoula Valley agriculture and possibly even a maze made from espaliered fruit trees. Once a lease is finalized and signed, Carey says, Freedom Gardens can “put the key in the ignition and turn.” “The potentials are endless once you start to think about what you could do with 7 acres,” he adds. “That’s the part that’s got me excited again, it’s reinvigorated the project. Once the politics aspect of this thing is done, we can hit the ground running.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Right of way Rural residents at odds over private road access by Kate Whittle
Just a few miles southeast of the Turah exit on Interstate 90, Donovan Creek Road leads to a secluded rural neighborhood in a narrow canyon. A small wooden sign nailed to a post declares the last few miles of the road “private”—and residents would like to keep it that way, much to the frustration of one property owner in the area. “People up here think they know more about my business than I know about my
“All I want is to have legal access to the property so I can sell it,” Edwards says. “If you don’t have legal access, you have no value in the property.” But some of Edwards’ neighbors are fiercely opposed to the county assuming rights to the road. At a May 25 county commission meeting, Donovan Creek residents began arguing with Edwards on the floor, disrupting the public comment ses-
photo by Kate Whittle
Residents of a Clinton-area rural neighborhood are balking at one property owner’s proposal to turn a private road into a public access.
own, and that really ticks me off,” says Howard Edwards, a local real estate investor who’s trying to sell a house at the end of Donovan Creek Road. “A lot of these people, they think what applied 40 years ago applies to today, and it doesn’t.” In 2010, Edwards bought the 3,400square-foot home on the secondary market from Freddie Mac, with the intention of flipping it. In February, he finally found a buyer, but couldn’t secure a title insurance company to approve the sale because the only access is the private road. He’s been told that lenders nationwide are growing stricter about requiring public access, and he thinks if his neighbors try to sell their land, they’ll also be met with the same obstacle from title companies.
sion. One resident, Jamie Jarvis, stood up and announced, “If you tell me what I have to do with my road, we’re gonna have a problem.” Commissioner Cola Rowley had to frequently halt the meeting to ask people to sit down and stop arguing. She says this kind of issue is coming up more frequently, though it’s not usually this divisive. “We’ve had several instances of having to make the last section of a road public, or having to get private easements to access property,” Rowley says. “This one is the first one that to my knowledge has really been very contentious. There was a lot of discontent among the neighbors at that meeting. There was yelling.” Some of Edwards’ neighbors say
they’re sympathetic to his problem, but their property will be infringed on if the county takes over the narrow, mostly dirt road, which winds around steep hillsides. “If they ever wanted to widen it, it wouldn’t work,” says Sandra Hansen, who’s lived on Donovan Creek since 1974. “They’d have to take down part of the mountain.” She adds that she appreciates Edwards’ dilemma, but she thinks a different solution could be found. “I understand that Mr. Edwards has put in time and lawyer fees and money, but I’m not convinced that this is the right way to do it,” Hansen says. “My daughter lives next to us and she’s trying to sell her piece of property, and it has never come up from her Realtor.” Public versus private road access is a thorny issue and case law is inconsistent, according to county civil attorney John Hart. But he says the law is clear that Missoula County assumes a 60-foot-wide right-of-way for public roads. “I can tell you the county does not have any intention of making that road 60 feet wide, but it does encumber people’s private property,” Hart says. If county commissioners approve Donovan Creek as a public road, the county would be required to compensate landowners along the road for taking the 60-foot right-of-way. “That’s a loaded word—the cost—and I have no idea,” Hart says. “That’s a whole ball of wax there.” For Edwards’ part, he says he’s just asking for public access, and wants to assure his neighbors and the county that the road would continue to be privately maintained. But if public access isn’t granted, he says his only recourse might be to start suing his neighbors. “I’ve been dealing in real estate since 1960, so that’s, what, 56 years, and this is the damndest thing I’ve ever run into,” Edwards says. The county’s next public hearing on the Donovan Creek Road petition is set for June 22. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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A matter of distinction There’s a reason Commander Zinke wants so many debates by Dan Brooks
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Back in May, Democratic congressional candidate Denise Juneau challenged incumbent Ryan Zinke to six public debates. Six! Zinke consented to only three during the 2014 election cycle, and he briefly withdrew from the last one. So Juneau’s ask seemed a little like the sticker on a used car: you know they’re going to lowball you, so you start high and hope to get what you can. The Zinke camp was silent for a month. On June 9, Team Juneau issued a press release remarking on that silence. Later that day, the incumbent’s team issued its own release, titled “Zinke Calls for Five Debates—Two in Indian Country.” Five! That’s basically six. After ignoring his opponent’s debate proposal for a month, Commander Zinke came back with a counteroffer that fell just short of acceptance. Just when we all thought he had committed to the same kind of reticence he showed in 2014, he made terms just different enough to constitute negotiation. Improbably, it looks like Zinke will debate Juneau every month between now and election day. He is wise to do so. Conditions in this election are very different than they were when the incumbent Republican won his seat in 2014. Zinke came to the House from a reliably red state during a midterm election, when the president’s approval ratings were 10 points lower than they are now. He backed impeachment in the primaries. But this time, Zinke does not have Obama to define himself against. To make matters worse, he is running on a Republican ticket headed by Donald Trump. Zinke needs the debates to distinguish himself from his party’s nominee. If he wants voters to read level-headedness in his military background and not aggression, he will have to disown Trump’s belligerent foreign policy. If he wants to run on his reputation as a Washington outsider— a neater trick in your second term— he’ll have to distinguish his kind of
outsider from Trump’s ignorant buffoon. If he intends to preserve his image as a no-nonsense guy, Commander Zinke must overcome a lot of nonsense from the top of his ticket. That’s going to take some sophisticated messaging. Debates are the place to do that kind of work, and Zinke has shrewdly embraced them. But as we all learned at prom, just because you embrace something doesn’t mean you know what to do with it.
“But as we all learned at prom, just because you embrace something doesn’t mean you know what to do with it.”
There is reason to believe that nuanced messaging may challenge the Zinke campaign yet. Consider the very press release in which they offered five debates, wherein campaign manager Evan Wilson opines that “participating in the electoral process is a civic duty, not a chance to push some political agenda.” Although I appreciate the sentiment he’s going for, I submit that voting and otherwise participating in the electoral process is exactly the time to advance some political agenda. We set
a time every two years specifically to do that, and now it is upon us. Despite Wilson’s warning, I think we should go ahead and politicize the 2016 congressional campaign. That sort of tone-deaf commitment to talking points is the downside of the otherwise canny communications strategy that has marked Zinke’s political career. I don’t know if you’ve heard this, but he was a Navy SEAL. In his campaign materials and his public appearance, he has advanced the idea that he is a veteran, not a politician—advanced it relentlessly but effectively, even when it made him a subject of fun. But the upcoming debates draw attention to the limitations of his strategy. The prospect reminds us that although the commander possesses rare skills, they are not necessarily suited to the work of Congress. Zinke has almost certainly jumped into the ocean from more helicopters than Juneau, but which of them has attended more meetings, lifetime? The instincts of a soldier may not be so applicable to politics as those of an administrator, a bureaucrat, a person who runs schools. In the coming debates, Zinke will have to both distance himself from Trump and sell voters his record not just in the Navy but in Congress. That’s a lot to manage. One suspects it’s why Juneau tried to get him to double his debate performances from the 2.5 he managed last time. I don’t think any of us expected her to succeed so readily, but I’m glad she has. I congratulate Zinke on seizing this opportunity to distinguish himself from the honking billionaire at the top of his ticket. This is a good year to add nuance to his political brand. Voters will find Commander Zinke less compelling with each incumbency. Now is an opportune moment for Representative Zinke to distinguish himself, as well. Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and the threat of red billionaires at combatblog.net.
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WHO’S A GOOD BOY? – Life is good now for British men who “identify” as dogs and puppies, as evidenced by a BBC documentary, “Secret Life of the Human Pups,” showing men in body outfits (one a Lycra-suited Dalmatian, “Spot”), exhibiting “sexual” expressions (stomach-rubbing, ear-tickling and nuzzling their “handlers”), eating out of bowls, gnawing on chew toys, wearing collars so as not to be a “stray”, and jumping in the air for “treats.” However, decency demands that a Pup must only feign urinating against a lamppost. Said Spot (aka Tom), “It’s about being given license to behave in a way that feels natural, even primal.” Added “Bootbrush,” “[We] are trying to grasp the positive elements of the archetype of the dog.” NEW WORLD ORDER – As an alternative to the more costly in vitro fertilization, researchers at a Dresden, Germany, institute announced (in the recent journal Nano Letters) that they had developed a motorized device tiny enough to fit around a sperm’s tail, which could be commanded to propel it to “swim” faster toward the target egg, increasing the chances of fertilization. A prototype is still in the works. The Internet pornography behemoth PornHub recently added to the glut of physical fitness “apps” with one designed to help users tone up sexual muscles. The BangFit’s routines include the “squat and thrust,” the “missionary press,” and other ways to practice what the company describes as the “one activity people are always motivated to do and [for] which they are never too busy.” Imagine, for example, wrote Mashable.com, “quantify[ing] your dry humps.” THE CONTINUING CRISIS – As Libya’s central bank struggles to stabilize a halting economy, it could surely use the estimated $184 million in gold and silver coins that Muammar Gaddafi minted but left buried in an underground vault in the coastal city of Beyda, but the treasure is inaccessible because central bank officials don’t know the lock’s combination (as The Wall Street Journal reported in May). The latest plan is to have a locksmith squeeze through a 16-by-16-inch hole in the outer vault’s concrete wall and once inside to try his hand. If unsuccessful, the government’s bureaucrats likely cannot get paid, but even if successful, various anti-government factions may go to extremes to snatch the coins. BRIGHT IDEAS – Argentina’s TV channels have many of the same taboos as U.S. broadcasting, including restrictions on women’s hands-on demonstration of how precisely to examine themselves for breast cancer. However, as AdWeek reported in March, the agency David Buenos Aires apparently solved the problem with an explicit TV public service announcement featuring a model (facing the camera, topless) showing exactly how such an exam should go, e.g., where to press down, where to squeeze. The secret? The model was an overweight man with generous-sized “manboobs.” WAIT, WHAT? – Video surfaced in May of students at Winston Churchill High School in San Antonio, Texas, actually playing jump rope with the intestines of cats that had been dissected in biology class. Obviously, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was not pleased, but school district officials called the exercise a valid demonstration of the “tensile strength of the organ” and only reluctantly agreed to investigate further. When Triston Chase, 20, missed his court date in April in Harnett County, North Carolina, on financial fraud charges, it was revealed that his arrest in December had come when he had been found “residing” illegally, as a civilian, in a barracks at Fort Bragg -- in a facility housing the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Group. According to a prosecutor, Chase had been posing as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist “for months.” The official investigation of Special Forces’ barracks “security” was still underway at the time of Chase’s court date. EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE – (1) Efrain Delgado-Rosales was sentenced to five years in prison in March for smuggling non-citizens into the country. The Border Patrol had caught him 23 times previously but had declined to file charges. (2) Sean Pelfrey, 38, told his judge in May that the two assault charges against him in Framingham, Massachusetts, do not make him a “threat to society,” even though the current arrest was his 38th. (3) Matthew Freeland, 29, was convicted of several home-invasion offenses in Kingston, Ontario, in May, and the judge, considering a proper sentence, found only two previous probation orders – but then, looking further, found 59 convictions and sentenced Freeland to more than two years in prison. WEIRD ANIMALS – Among the critters for which life is most difficult are male nursery web spiders that (according to May research in Biology Letters journal) instinctively “court” females with food wrapped in silk -- offerings that (a) increase the males’ chances of scoring and (b) decrease, by 84 percent, their chances that the female will spontaneously eat the male. The study also found that males sometimes try to mate using nonfood items wrapped in silk (with mixed results) and also that sometimes unscrupulous females accept food gifts but nevertheless immediately devour the male. Thanks this week to Mel Birge, Stan Kaplan, Gerald Sacks and Don Schullian, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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he kids at the Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center have been discussing Beyoncé’s “Formation.” One day, inside a locked classroom, they listen to a recording of the pop star singing:
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My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils The kids, who range in age from 14 to 18, don’t understand all the references in the song, but they dissect it line by line. It’s layered with the cultural particulars of the African-American South. The song celebrates a denigrated subculture and turns the derogatory term “bama”—originally meaning a Southern country bumpkin—into an empowered identity. Author Jesmyn Ward recently wrote about the song in an essay for npr.org, where she noted, “[It’s] for those of us who write our stories or sing our songs about the South, who are told over and over that there is no audience for our art. For those of us who know Death rides shotgun, that He flares his robes when the red and blue lights flash behind us.” The imagery in “Formation” seems like a far cry from the mostly rural, mostly white Montana upbringing of the teenagers in the detention center. But the song’s outsider themes and struggle for reclaiming identity hit home. “These kids understand the feeling of being told that something about themselves is bad or wrong,” says Missoula writer Sarah Kahn. “They understand prejudice, preconception and labeling that turns into manifest destiny. They are told all the time that they are criminals, delinquents and bad kids.” The listening session is part of a program called Free Verse, which Kahn founded two years ago. She and a few fellow students from the University of Montana’s MFA creative writing program contacted the center and asked if they could come in a couple of times a week to offer an informal environment for the boys and girls to write and discuss writing. The graduate students bring in literary works from authors like Melanie Rae Thon, Denis Johnson and Amy Hempel. But popular music sometimes makes it easier to engage the group. “It’s a complicated song, and we are always trying to walk the line between relevance and appropriateness,” Kahn says. “We want to talk to our kids about what’s really happening, but of course we don’t want to bring anything that has issues that are too big to handle in our short lessons. One of the things that’s so great about ‘Formation’ is that it de-centers its viewers’ expectations of who are insiders and who are outsiders.” The day they listen to “Formation,” Kahn asks each young person in the room to reclaim or redefine a word of their own—a bad name they’ve been called or a negative term they always hear—and write something about it. (As a condition of reporting this story, the detention center permitted the Independent only written contact with juveniles in the facility and required we conceal their identities.) One of the kids chooses to work with the word “end.”
Amphetamine Money is a Hoax Momma told me put down toke Sittin’ in court don’t fucking choke Get caught in some shit Telling myself put down the dope This isn’t the end, you just gotta hope You’re too important To be hanging from a rope Cryin’ in my cell, Screamin’ at the meth to get off my breath It’s time for change Quit doing what other people think is cool Hop in your own lane End (n.) Beginning —Anonymous (Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center)
“At 14 and 15, a lot of our kids are looking at endings—sentences longer than the lives they’ve already lived,” Kahn says. “The circumstances of their lives so often dictate the course of their actions, and yet they end up shouldering the full weight of the consequences.” The Missoula detention center acts as a temporary holding place for kids from counties all across Montana waiting on court hearings or waiting to be placed elsewhere, like back in the community or in a long-term facility. Only five to 10 juveniles occupy the center at a time—their charges range from violent offenses to, in many cases, drug-related crimes—but more than a hundred pass through during the course of the year. The writing class is one of the few opportunities the kids have to personally reflect on where they are, for better or worse. “The thing about being a kid in a prison is it’s the most powerless you can possibly be,” Kahn says. “They go to court and nobody asks them what their side of the story is.” Creative writing programs for juvenile delinquents aren’t just about giving them an opportunity to tell their stories, though. Studies as far back as the late 1980s and early 1990s show that juvenile offenders often experience cognitive delays, and art programs like Free Verse can help rebuild or bolster skills like problemsolving, emotional management and critical thinking. Writing and other artistic exercises serve as an outlet but also produce positive ripple effects because the programs often reduce inmate violence and recidivism. In the long run, they increase the probability delinquents will make more positive choices when or if they’re given another chance in the outside world. At the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, the Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy program, which has been around for 15 years, welcomed published poet and author Reginald Dwayne Betts to speak to a class in January. Betts started writing in prison at age 16, after he was arrested for carjacking and tried as an adult. He ended up serving eight years. Now, he’s studying law at Yale.
“You have these kids who maybe have had a bad home life or traumatic experiences in their life and they’re trying to break the cycle, but they’re scared,” says Brenda Bassett, public information officer for the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office. “This is a program where they can get positive feedback from someone. It’s hard to break a cycle when criminal behavior is what you’ve known your whole life. When they can have a different experience, when they get to sit down and are focused, it’s a really cool thing to see.” According to a report from the Child Trends DataBank, juvenile centers across the U.S. detained almost 55,000 young people in 2013—with 150 in Montana. The number of detainees has dropped over the past decade, but the U.S. is still locking up children at six times the rate of other developed countries. A program like Free Verse is important because, according to the DataBank’s report, 50 to 75 percent of adolescents who spend time in juvenile detention centers end up incarcerated later in life. The Bureau of Justice Statistics measured America’s state and federal prison population in 2013 at more than 1.5 million. Another study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation titled “No Place for Kids” offers evidence that detention centers themselves are often to blame for recidivism and for exposing youth to more violence and abuse. When those centers embrace arts and writing programs like Free Verse, the study found they help create an environment where incarcerated youth can find a voice.
Forgive The loss of someone Is painful, Forgive me, I cannot Forget my sins. But I am here, In the air, And in your heart. But I am gone, Forgive me. —Anonymous (Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center)
Gail Chambers started working at the juvenile detention center as a teacher in 2012, around the same time she also started teaching at Willard Alternative School. Chambers coordinates with the county schools to help those at the center keep up with homework or study for high school equivalency tests. She says the detention center can be a harsh reality for certain offenders, but a relief to others.
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“For some, it’s the safest place they can be,” she says. “Some want to stay because it’s better than the environment they might have come from. You know, three squares a day, a bed to sleep on and it’s pretty consistent. There’s routine in their lives.” Free Verse offers a creative outlet within that routine, a chance to explore difficult emotions within a structured class setting. Chambers says her students ask every day if the Free Verse volunteers will be conducting a class. “One of the biggest things is, none of them are being told they have to do this,” Chambers says. “It’s not authoritative. They just come in and offer an opportunity for kids to drop what it is they’re doing and work on something that interests them and they get excited about that. It’s a great outlet for them and they make really good connections and they talk about themselves in a way that they really don’t normally do in an environment like we’re in. They can write it down and it’s okay for it to be on paper.” One day Kahn brought in Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing,” a story about a mother who orders a cake from a bakery for her son’s birthday. Before the celebration, a car hits the boy and he dies in intensive care. Meanwhile, the baker, unaware of the situation, repeatedly calls the mother with angry, anonymous taunts for not picking up the cake. Finally, the mother and father show up to the bakery, where the mother says, “My son’s dead. He’s dead, you bastard!” The baker, shocked, apologizes. Over warm rolls and coffee he confesses his anger stems from the grief of never having a family of his own. When the Free Verse instructors talked about the story with the class, Kahn asked them to think of situations in which what happens on the surface isn’t the whole truth or how people behave a certain way because they’re dealing with something other people can’t see. One of the kids raised his hand. “We know about that,” he told her. “That’s the reason all of us are here.”
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Wait I left my home still as a child I walked a thousand sorry miles To wait for my father To come find me like he said In the time I was alone So many years without my home I made brothers of a different kind instead Dad said, my boy, you gotta run Don’t wait for me, don’t wait for mum We’ll come get you when it’s safe for us to move So I waited many years And held back the pain behind my tears And waited for my father To come find me like he said I never found my father I never found my mother Never would I know in my lifetime I would be a hero to the masses To those born without chances There’s a freedom everyone deserves I know there’s greed and there’s corruption I’ve seen deaths and mass destruction I will not be commanded I will not be controlled I will not let my future go on Without the help of my soul —Anonymous (Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center)
Kahn grew up in the center of San Francisco, in the Twin Peaks area. When she was 25, she started volunteering for The Beat Within, a program that brings creative writing to juvenile halls in the Bay Area and,
since its inception in 1996, has expanded across California, as well as to New Mexico, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, D.C. The Beat Within magazine publishes the best works from the program. Kahn describes the large facility she worked at in San Francisco as “disturbingly similar to an adult prison.” She spent just under a year there before moving to Missoula for graduate school to study literature and fiction writing. “I knew that I wanted to volunteer at a juvenile hall but I couldn’t find any juvenile organizations I could join that I could help out with,” she says. “I called the hall to ask and they said, ‘Well, we don’t really have a program you could volunteer for,’ so I was like, I’ll make one.” It took Kahn and fellow creative writing student Caylin Capra-Thomas almost four months to get set up with the center. “Everyone there was friendly and we were finally able to get in,” she says. “I think they were not sure what we were going to be doing and we didn’t know what we were going to be doing. But we got our background checks through and then we showed up.” The Missoula detention center is a prison in almost every sense. Guards escort visitors through locks and metal detectors. “The floors are slick linoleum, like hospital hallways, but the walls are accented in metal and the windows are laced with the checkers of reinforced glass,” Kahn says. She describes the classroom as neat and tidy, with signs instructing the students on good behavior: to be respectful, to be attentive, not to move or stand unless asked. “No matter how often I come, it surprises me how young they are,” she says. “One of the boys we know well has shaved his head, the hair shorn to the scalp. ‘Do you like it?’ he says. He looks older, but the way he moves, his lanky, teenage limbs, and his smile are still a kid’s, like a boy growing a few adult features.” Free Verse instructors show up to the detention center in twos or threes and a center employee—most often Chambers—has to be in the room at all times. The kids will push boundaries, Kahn says. How she reacts depends on the emotional state of the students in the room. New arrivals tend to puff up with attitude. A bad court date can put someone in a bitter mood and affect the rest of the class. Not everyone agrees to read aloud when called upon. But even if no one talks, Kahn says, work almost always gets done. “They always write,” she says. “No matter what the mood is, they always write. You can’t go in there hoping they’ll like you or go in with a learning objective. No lessons, no morals. We try to be okay with it if they don’t connect with the material. That’s the gist. Kids reflect what you give to them and if you meet them with any amount of respect or interest in them, they usually meet you with the same.” The first summer, Kahn, Capra-Thomas and MFA writers Alicia Mountain and Jules Ohman brought in poems and other writing four days a week. The next year they added Hannah Withers and Roland Jackson, and this year, three more writers jumped on board the project. A year after starting Free Verse, Kahn contacted The Beat Within to create a partnership. Since then, she’s brought in copies of The Beat Within to
share with the young writers and help encourage submissions. These days, almost every writer sends their work to the journal. “One of the students I have now, his work was in print and he got a copy of it,” Chambers says. “He came up and shared that with me. He’s a very quiet kid, doesn’t share much at all, but he wanted to show me.” Often the power of the program manifests in small gestures like this. Kahn recalls one of her favorite, most bittersweet days. “One of our kids when we were leaving put his fist out for me to bump it and I laughed because I feel like I’m too old for that,” she says. “And he said, ‘We’re not allowed to hug you.’”
Kahn has a big vision for Free Verse. She recently obtained sponsorship for the program through the Missoula Writing Collaborative and won a grant from the Montana Arts Council. She and the other Free Verse instructors also raised $4,267 during a March Kickstarter campaign to help expand Free Verse into detention centers across the state. In addition, the group is exploring ways to connect more with the Missoula community. Kahn wants to launch a chapbook that would combine writing from both incarcerated and non-incarcerated youth. She’s also looking to capitalize on the local appearance of poet Danez Smith through the Montana Book Festival. Smith writes about fear and hope and identity, with lines like, “Paradise is a world
crime that’s on the surface,” Kahn says. “Our lofty goals are to give them agency over their narratives, to give them a voice, to listen to them, to bring poetry and other kinds of writing that are current and talk about social justice issues that might be relevant to them. But we’re not lawyers, we’re not policy makers. We wish we could dismantle the system, but we can’t save them. So, sometimes we’re just there to entertain them and break up their day.” For the kids, even that small distraction can mean a lot. In the Indy’s written exchanges with members of the Free Verse program, the teenagers described life in the center as “boring” and “hell” and a place where “you don’t get a say in anything you do.”
Let’s Pretend This game we Play is let’s pretend And pretend we’re Not pretending Life is hard, We all get that, But that doesn’t Mean we’ve hit Rock bottom Our past may Let us down but That doesn’t mean We can’t reach Back and grab it And tear the bad Memories to shreds Your will is your power Don’t pretend you don’t Have it Or you won’t —Anonymous (Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center)
“The thing about being a kid in a prison is it’s the most powerless you can possibly be. They go to court and nobody asks them what their side of the story is.”
where everything is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun,” and “Do you know what it’s like to live someplace that loves you back?” It’s the type of work her class responds to. “One of the kids who kind of likes to act out— and they all do because they need to be cool for each other—he was like, ‘I never thought I would hear my story in somebody else’s words. I never thought I would relate to anyone like this.’ And I think that’s true of a lot of them,” Kahn says of Smith’s poems. The temporary nature of the detention center means Free Verse instructors see kids only a few times before they go somewhere else. There’s no followup, no knowing what happened to them after they leave. There’s no way to know how their lives turn out or how much the writing they did made an impact, if any. But Kahn and the other instructors maintain high hopes. “They have these amazing, complex, rich, fascinating lives and they’re only asked about the
“Imagine having nothing to do but sitting in a small cell box being stuck in your mind thinking about all the fun sh@@ you did with your friends when you were free and all the sh@@ you’re missing out on,” wrote one, “not even to mention you having to think about all the wrongs you’ve done and now it’s too late to even try to fix cause you’re stuck here in this hell hole.” The answers are mostly bleak, except when discussing Free Verse. Each respondent explained they use the program to write about their personal lives— past, present and future. When asked about their goals later in life, one responded, “To not get in trouble anymore.” Another wrote, “I hope to go far.” The future might seem daunting, but writing is where they can find some redemption. “I think I’m pretty good at it,” one writes. “But I know I have tons of room to grow.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Lightness of being Minutiae and dreams in Michael Haykin’s vision of the West by Erika Fredrickson
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n 1994, artist Michael Haykin was living the Key West dream when he saw an advertisement in the South Florida Cultural Consortium newsletter that excited him. “I would always look through the newsletter and nothing ever struck me,” he says. “This time, I noticed a really small ad that said ‘Montana Artists Refuge’ with just a phone number. That was all the information. But to me it sounded interesting because Montana, a place where I’d never been, seemed exotic compared to the tropics. I called the number.”
“I figured at that point it was time to turn my attention to the next challenge,” he says. The Montana Artists Refuge was founded in the old mining town of Basin, just north of Butte, in the 1970s. It was a chance for artists to escape and make new work in an isolated but majestic place. Haykin applied for the residency and was accepted for the 1995 season. He left the overly familiar Key West landscape for a totally foreign one: rusted smelters, crumbling brick buildings and old railroad tracks against the backdrop of snowcapped peaks and forest.
tana, so my partner and I decided we would find our own place here and that’s how we ended up in Rawhide Canyon.” Rawhide Canyon is nestled in the mountains near Boulder about 10 minutes east of Basin. Haykin and his partner live in a small cabin and Haykin paints in a studio they built nearby. He’s continued the work of exhaustively exploring every nook and cranny of the land where the sun—or moon—shines. They also spend time in Tucson, where he paints a different kind of light. Over the years, he’s shown his work
shoots. For the painting, he recreates the gauzy effect over whole sections of his piece as if objects are just out of focus. It’s a technique he’s mastered over the years and it gives all his work a dreamy feeling. Haykin brings in other surprising elements. He grew up in Germany and Japan in a military family. He was fascinated, in particular, with how Japanese artists focused on small natural objects, like bugs, with a passion not so prevalent in American fine art. His focus on the little things—the way light shines on water or snow thaws under a tree—keeps his work
Michael Haykin’s paintings of life in Rawhide Canyon include, from left, “Red-winged Blackbird,” “Snow” and “Sunlight.”
The advertisement had come at just the right time. Haykin had a major bout of rock fever. For the last 10 years living on the island he’d been painting light from every angle he could think of. He painted the light on old Bahamian conch houses, on sand roads and on the small boats tied to the seawall. He painted sea shallows, mangrove backwaters and tidal creeks. “I painted Key West at night under streetlight, in moonlight,” he says. “Over time I began to shift into paintings of what lives on the water and under the water. I painted the more essential qualities of light and water: refraction, reflection, turbidity, its distortive quality, transparency, its opacity. Eventually I was painting multi-panel paintings of clear shallow water over featureless white sand.” Haykin’s thoroughness is almost mathematical in the way he systematically covers the dimensions of one subject matter. Light, at least in Key West, had run its course.
“It’s a little depressing looking, but in beautiful country,” Haykin says. “It was a bit of culture shock— well, it was a lot of culture shock. I wandered around and realized within a couple of weeks of being here, I really liked the look of the landscape—so big and mountainous. I wanted to be not only conversant with landscape on a visual level, I wanted to be fluent.” Haykin set a goal to paint all day, every day for the entire period of the four-month residency, mostly small 12-by-12 or 12-by-14 pieces. He applied for and was accepted to the residency again in both 1997 and 1998, painting the things he saw over and over, from as many perspectives as he could find. By the time he was done with his three stints in Basin, Haykin had painted the location over a thousand times. “I really felt like I understood the anatomy of the landscape—the muscle and the bone of it,” he says. “And at that point I had fallen in love with Mon-
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around the country and in Montana, most notably at the Holter Museum and the Yellowstone Club. His most recent paintings, a series that explores the way winter thaws into spring, goes on display this week at the Radius Gallery for a group show that also includes artists Dana Boussard and Dale Livezey. The artists’ works all explore light and home and take on the idea of understanding the West’s terrain through subtle details. “I was thinking about that protracted period of time when winter in Montana turns into spring and what happens to the old snow that seems to take so long to melt away,” Haykin says. “But I also wanted to infuse that with a waking dream quality on a personal level, like that thing that happens to all of us when that last dream you have intersects with your waking reality.” The result is blue hues of winter and hints of matted green and gold foliage poking out, messy but alive. Haykin often works from photographs. He points his camera at the sun or at a glare on the water and
from feeling like typical landscape art of the West. A friend of Haykin’s once observed of his work that it took thousands of paintings of the large view for the artist to make one large painting of the small view. Haykin’s walks through Rawhide Canyon are slow because he stops and looks at rocks and individual trees and insects. When he paints something—an ant, for instance—he also reads everything he can on it. It’s obsessive, he admits, but it’s how art works best for him. “The minutiae of the world gets overlooked, not only visually but intellectually,” he says. “What I learn is astounding to me on the nearly molecular level. I still have so much to learn and the way I learn it best is to paint it often.” New Works: Haykin Boussard Livezey opens at the Radius Gallery with a reception Fri., June 17, from 5 to 7 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
Dark surf The Growlers swim in bone-dry beach goth I like how dedicated The Growlers are to the 1960s psychedelic surf aesthetic, with its crashing reverb and angular, minor-key guitar picking. It’s a nice backbone for songs dealing in subject matter that isn’t all that retro. The Costa Mesa band hosts a festival each year called Beach Goth at the Observatory Grounds in Orange County, and the lineup proves the band’s good taste. In its fourth year, Beach Goth includes classic surf-punk bands like The Mummies and the 5.6.7.8’s, along with British punks The Subhumans and “The First Lady of Rockabilly,” Wanda Jackson. The Growlers fit right into that weird mix. Beach goth is a perfect way to describe them, too. They do sometimes sound a little Doors-ish, which is a turnoff, but overall they’re more like a surf version of Magnolia Electric Co. Frontman Brooks Nielsen has
a shadowy and seductive croon, much like Jason Molina. He manages to capture the nostalgia of surf rock but still sing about how the internet is “bigger than Jesus and John Lennon” and “techno [is] so shitty even disco seems punk.” Despite it being surf music, there are times Nielsen’s delivery is dry and flat. It takes some extra listenings to feel the undertow. Their most recent album, Chinese Fountain, doesn’t warm up until the pop-perfect fifth track, “Good Advice.” Nielsen is best when he’s not preaching about lame kids-these-days and, instead, digging into his own neuroses with imagery of “bone-dry bottles” and matches lighting up the sky. (Erika Fredrickson) The Growlers play the Top Hat Tue., June 21, at 8 PM. $20/$17 advance.
Pale Dian, Narrow Birth Pale Dian’s Narrow Birth is the official soundtrack of summer, if your plan for this summer is walking around with headphones and sadly remembering last summer. This is mood music. The ethereal vocals, echoing drums, reverberating guitars and generally vast soundscapes create just the right atmosphere for hanging out by the pool with your friends and realizing you’ve grown past them. Tracks like “Lonesome Waste” are perfect for a road trip with no particular destination, return date or other passengers. If you’d prefer more of a staycation, why not invite some strangers over, put on “Feral Bloom” and suffocate during an orgy?
Narrow Birth is kind of dark is what I’m saying here. It’s also beautiful, in a formal and detached way. The limited sonic palette evokes the ’80s, and its marriage of pop melodic phrasing to distorted noise seems to evoke that era’s sardonic cheer. This is party music for the hungover, the endless summer of the damned. You wouldn’t want to listen to Pale Dian first thing on Monday morning, but neither would you want to be without them, or bands like them. We need soundtracks for certain ineffable feelings, even if we haven’t felt them yet. (Dan Brooks) Pale Dian play the Palace Thu., June 23, at 8 PM, along with Holy Totem and Eat Strike.
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Year of the Cobra, The Black Sun Hailing from Seattle, Year of the Cobra is a powerhouse duo of Rickenbacker-driven stoner-sludge. With songs like “White Wizard,” “The Black Sun” and “Wasteland”—all from their 2015 EP—the band has achieved a dynamic and progressive sound without compromising the basic foundations of what makes heavy music so fun. That’s a balance many bands seek but rarely achieve. It’s satisfying to watch two people create enough music to get a room full of people to lose their minds. Four bands in particular come to mind who do this well: Big Business, Japanther, Dead and the recently reunited kings of the genre, Godheadsilo. Year of the
Cobra should be added to that list. They seem to exist in a minimalistic realm of bass-centric music and distant vocals that embrace the listener with the coziness of a warm blanket and soothing cup of tea, but just when you are getting comfortable and ready to take a sip, the cup is blown out of your hand by a tidal wave of glorious fuzz as you stand there drenched and happy and wanting more. (Randy Palmer) Year of the Cobra play the Palace Fri., June 17, at 9 PM, along with Mos Generator, Wizzerd and Swamp Ritual. Free for 21-plus. $5 for those 18 to 20.
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[music]
Salty dogs How Helms Alee masters sounds of the sea by Josh Vanek
photo by Amy Donovan
Helms Alee, pictured here at Total Fest, play aggressive seafaring music.
In the era of all kinds of terrible, gimmicky musical ideas (i.e. steampunk, pirate) the thought of a nautically themed rock band probably deserves immediate skepticism. Thankfully Seattle noise rock/metal group Helms Alee isn’t some shanty-belting “pirate punk” group. In fact, there’s no shtick involved at all. Rather, with Helms Alee there is a briny, ocean churn to the sound that channels the band’s love for open water in a way I’m positive a landlubber band couldn’t ever deliver. Guitar player/singer Ben Verellen explains the phrase “helm’s alee” as a reference he found in Inside Sailing. It involves having one’s tiller, aka steering wheel of a ship, on the side of the vessel that’s sheltered from the wind. I gathered there wasn’t a ton of significance behind the name, but it was one they liked, and Verellen had spent time sailing the Puget Sound, near the band’s home. For me, that was plenty. Once I learned there was this nautical orientation in their name, that helped open up all kinds of new dimensions to the band, kind of vocabularizing their music with whaling ships crossing rough seas every time I heard it. It helped explain the vastness, aggression, beauty and turbulence of the band’s sound. A Helms Alee record will feature pieces that have wave-like cudgeling riffs and clearsailing beauty, and all things in between. That seafaring orientation always has seemed like a great point of reference and what makes Helms Alee stand out. I’ve got a thing for trios more than most other rock setups, because I think the need for extra-sen-
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sory playing gets intensified the fewer players are in a band. It’s a good test of mettle not only to make it work, but to develop your own distinct sound in the process. Helms Alee has got that special power-trioshared DNA deal akin to memorable groups like the Experience, Karp, Hüsker Dü and Dinosaur Jr., where with just three players there’s this vibe created and really nothing you can think of sounds like it. Drummer Hozoji Matheson Margullis had been in the Spartan two-piece band Lozen, who first played here in 2006, and they immediately found a place in Missoula that would happily lock in with whatever variation of metal and noise they were putting down at the time. (I remember a Total Fest organizer, Johnny Fink, first telling us about Helms Alee during a festival planning meeting. He described them as “like Jesus Lizard and Karp”—except where normally those comparisons are made to less-than-stellar bands, he said, “this band is great.”) Since Lozen’s original pioneering of Missoula’s waters, there’s rarely been a year where there hasn’t been at least one or two Lozen or Helms Alee stop-ins. Helms Alee closed down Zoo City Apparel’s show space, played a bunch of Total Fests, and are good for some shore leave in Missoula, at least once a year. I’ll be there when they land this Sunday. Wearing a windbreaker. Helms Alee play the Palace Sun., June 19, along with Holy Lands and Slow Elk. $10. arts@missoulanews.com
[books]
America bound The Sympathizer rises above an off-the-boat story by Cab Tran
The Vietnam War produced a staggering number of Vietnamese landed on U.S. shores, it hasn’t been until literary works. Go into any bookstore and you’ll likely recently that the sons and daughters of those original find an entire section dedicated to biographies on Henry “boat people” started writing fiction with distinct AmerKissinger and Robert McNamara, military histories and ican panache. These writers include Monique Truong, a slew of memoirs by former U.S. servicemen whose re- Bich Minh Nguyen and Thi Diem Thuy Le, whose The luctant heroics are the stuff of Oliver Stone’s fantasies. Gangster We Are All Looking For is perhaps the funniest In fiction, no list would be complete without Robert novel about Vietnamese immigrants in America. What lifts The Sympathizer above an archetypal imOlen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (the collection won a Pulitzer in 1993) or Tim O’ Brien’s migrant story is its treatment of some very complex isThe Things They Carried. But what’s missing from the sues. Nguyen’s book is neither your typical How I discussion are narratives by the Vietnamese themselves. Struggled and Overcame Insurmountable Odds to That is, until The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Come to America story nor your First-Generation Poor debut novel about postwar America through the eyes of Immigrant Trying to Fit In novel, though there are vestiges here of both tropes. Nguyen one communist sleeper agent. The moves beyond the fish-out-of-water book was released in 2015 and just tale and does what other Vietrecently won a Pulitzer. namese-American writers have The entirety of The Sympamostly avoided in their work thus thizer is written from a communist far: He gets unabashedly cerebral prison cell as a lengthy confession about American and Vietnamese addressed to a shadowy figure politics, injecting enough satirical known only as the “Commandant.” shenanigans and catch-22s to apUndoubtedly, a big part of the pease even hardcore fans of “The book’s appeal to readers will be its Daily Show.” Along the way, spy-ish sensibilities, reminiscent of Nguyen somehow manages to writers like John le Carre—there’s squeeze in a college education’s enough espionage, double-crossing, worth of Marxist theories, ideas on assassination plots and CIA-inspired cultural appropriation and authenparanoia here to sate the appetite of ticity, and the intersection of race, any conspiracy buff. Who can forget class and xenophobia, without comthe CIA was involved with the The Sympathizer ing off like that annoying 19-yearheroin trade and funded General Viet Thanh Nguyen old kid you remember from college Vang Pao and the ethnic Hmong to hardcover, Grove Press who constantly tried to slip you his fight the communists, only to later 384 pages, $26 stolen ex-lib copy of Das Kapital. abandon them in the opium fields? The book isn’t without its faults. Nguyen’s writing (Fortunately for the Hmong, many of them ended up in style can be a slog at first. That he is a UCLA professor the U.S., with a sizable number settling Missoula.) As the story progresses, Nguyen’s satire becomes in- is no more apparent than when his confessor, between creasingly surreal. It reaches its absurdist peak halfway assassination plots and bowls of pho, digresses into through the novel when our nameless antihero is spir- lengthy interludes of ideological self-reflection. But ited from the environs of L.A.’s urban jungle—where he’s these diversions betray the fact that The Sympathizer, been living and maintaining his espionage activities at its core, wants to concern itself with how we underamong the Vietnamese expat community—to the real stand humanity through the lens of war and its afterjungles of the Philippines. He’s hired on as a “technical math—existential questions better suited for writers to consultant in charge of authenticity” on an upcoming explore than generals or political demagogues. As our film about the Vietnam War called The Hamlet. It goes antihero furiously edits and re-edits his confession to without saying, the film has a striking similarity to Apoc- the Commandant from his isolation cell, one can’t help alypse Now, and its eccentric and egomaniac director, but hear the echo of Clarice Lispector when she writes the Auteur, sounds and acts suspiciously like the real-life in The Hour of the Star, “So long as I have questions to Francis Ford Coppola. Marlon Brando may or may not which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.” Most make an appearance. These chapters are perhaps cogently, as the novel races toward its exhilarating OrNguyen’s finest and best showcase his abilities as a writer. wellian conclusion, the ultimate question it dares to ask Nguyen belongs to a new generation of Vietnamese- and tries to explicitly and absurdly answer is this: What Americans who have come of age and stepped from the is more precious than independence and freedom? shadow of their parents’ war. 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[film]
On edge The Conjuring 2 haunts long after it’s over by Molly Laich
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I saw the Conjuring 2 in a large multiplex at 10 in the morning with about a dozen other people in the theater, and right out of the gates, I regretted going by myself. I feared that someone was going to come up behind me and tap my shoulder or reach under my seat and grab my ankles unexpectedly. Throughout the showing, an old man who looked suspiciously like the movie’s ghost walked in and out of the theater. I heard some people mention him as we made our way to the exits: “Did you see that old man?” Probably he was just an elderly person enjoying the theater’s matinee prices like the rest of us, but then again, you can’t tell me for certain he wasn’t a demon. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as Ed and Lorraine Warren, a couple of real-life ghost hunters who’ve investigated thousands of paranormal incidences over their career. The sequel begins with a flashback to their most famous case, the Amityville haunting. We see Lorraine enter a trance that sends her on a terrifying vignette filled with spooky basements and omens of a Godless future. In the flashback, we meet one of the film’s central haunts: A demon in a nun’s habit with blue, hideous flesh, red lips and piranha-like teeth, armed with the terrifying ability to fade in and out of existence at will. If you’ve seen the first film from 2013, you know a little of what to expect, and if you haven’t, it doesn’t matter: This is a brand-new case file with little reference to the original. The family consists of a single mother (Frances O’Connor) and her four children, but it’s the middle daughter, Janet (Madison Wolfe), who suffers the lion’s share of the haunt.
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Director James Wan has proven himself to be a competent, albeit hopelessly commercial filmmaker. His many other credits include hits like Saw (2004), Insidious (2010) and Furious 7 (2015). What I admire most in the Conjuring films is their attention to period details (the film screams 1977, through and through) and the strength of the acting, particularly from Farmiga, an actress who in my estimation has never given a bad performance. The relationship between Ed and Lorraine feels romantic and real, and I admire the sincerity of their religious conviction. (Many of these cases look a lot like hoaxes in the light of day, which calls into question the authenticity of the real-life Warrens, but never mind.) One thing I’ll say for it, The Conjuring 2 is not subtle. We are bombarded with jump scares that never let up for the film’s tremendous two-hour-plus running time, and after a while, a certain amount of fatigue sets in. Still, the scares are delivered at unexpected times, and with a weird cadence so that we can never fully relax. Good cinematographers will tell you the best work should be invisible, but Wan’s camera flies in the face of that convention with shots that shift around the house audaciously, intrusively—almost like a ghost who can move through walls? A final warning: There are images in this movie that I am still working hard to burn out of my brain at night, and I’m a grown adult. Seriously, unless you want to be checking under beds and paying for lots of child therapy, keep your kids far away from this one. The Conjuring 2 is rated R for a reason. The Conjuring 2 continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL One of the world’s comedy rights of passage, the Roxy shows Monty Python and the Holy Grail as its Movie Cult selection this week. Ni! Sat. June 18 at 9 PM.
OPENING THIS WEEK CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Dwayne Johnson teams up with Kevin Hart to prevent worldwide chaos. Rated PG-13. Opens at Carmike 12.
THE NICE GUYS Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are a comedy dream team as two fading L.A. detectives trying to unravel the apparent suicide of a porn star in the ‘70s. This really is how people dressed back then. I have the Angel’s Flight pants to prove it. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 15TH ANNIVERSARY Sentiment runs deep on the 15th anniversary of the original The Fast and the Furious. Either that or they just never run out of ways to bilk money from a franchise. Playing just once, Wed., June 22 at 7 PM. FINDING DORY When Finding Nemo came out, my kid was two. Now he’s 15 and he won’t go see Finding Dory with me. Join the beloved cast once more for an adventure with Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, as she tries to find her family. Rated PG. Opens at the Carmike 12.
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 The sequel to 2013’s box office success Now You See Me, The Second Act has gotten mixed reviews. Starring Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman, I say, if you’re going to bomb you ought to have a cast like that on your side. Opens at Carmike and Pharaohplex.
HOME A clumsy alien lands on earth and befriends a cheerful young girl. Be advised, the trailer features a Biggie reference that will make you feel delighted/old. Featuring the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna and Steve Martin. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. INDEPENDENCE DAY DOUBLE FEATURE Spend an evening contemplating the end of civilization. Not at a Trump rally. At the Independence Day double feature at Carmike. Thurs. June 23 at 5 PM. Maybe this time I won’t cry. THE IRON GIANT Originally released in 1999, this animated Cold War fable brings a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) to the small town of Rockwell, Maine. Of course, an unlikely friendship is formed and people band together to save the outsider from harm. Part of Kids’ Stuff Matinee series at the Roxy. Tues. June 21 at 11 AM. MAGGIE’S PLAN Maggie’s plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man. Sounds like his wife’s plan was derailed too. Opens Fri. June 17 at the Roxy. THE MESSENGER An artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion, this film takes viewers on a visually stunning journey that reveals the problems facing birds, our planet and ourselves. Sun. June 19 at the Roxy. 7 PM. NT LIVE: ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS 2016 ENCORE Before he lent himself to the masses singing kick-ass car duets with celebrities, “The Late Late Show”’s
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS The pizza-loving subterranean reptiles return to save the city from a pack of destructive rhino beasts. Stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Tyler Perry. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
“It’s more crowded down here than North Reserve at rush hour.” Finding Dory opens Friday at the Carmike 12. James Corden showed up on Broadway regularly. National Theater Live shows him starring in One Man Two Guvnors at the Roxy Tues. June 21 at 7 PM. WEIRD SCIENCE Roxy’s Totally ‘80s Summer features 1985’s Weird Science, a film in which two geeky teenage boys create the woman of their dreams. As you might expect, she transforms them into cool kids and gives them a Porsche. Thurs. June 23 at 8 PM.
NOW PLAYING ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS The fantasy continues as Alice enlists the help of her new friends to save the Mad Hatter. Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Mia Wasikowska. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Captain America and Iron Man find themselves on opposite sides of the ideology fence in Marvel’s latest
installment of the “Avengers” franchise. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. THE CONJURING 2 Even this movie poster has the power to give me nightmares. But if you’re into demonic possession, malicious spirits and spending a couple hours wondering why the hell this single mother of four doesn’t just move, The Conjuring 2 will probably fulfill your dreams. Showing at the Carmike. (See Film.) THE JUNGLE BOOK The 1967 original with Louis Prima and Phil Harris will never be surpassed, but as they say, YMMV. Disney’s reboot of the Rudyard Kipling story features Bill Murray as Baloo the Bear, ScarJo as Kaa the Snake and Christopher Walken as King Louie. It holds promise. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. ME BEFORE YOU From the JoJo Moyes novel of the same name, a small-town girl forms an unlikely bond with the recently-paralyzed man she’s taking care of. Rated PG13. Showing at the Carmike 12.
WARCRAFT Get your role play on with the fantasy film adapted from the fantasy game World of Warcraft. Warning: diehards may be disappointed but it’s a great opportunity to dress up. Rated PG-13. Opens at Carmike. X-MEN: APOCALYPSE When Apocalypse the mutant attempts to destroy the world, the X-Men reunite to stop him. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
Capsule reviews by Gaaby Patterson and Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 7289380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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[dish]
photo by Genevieve Jessop Marsh
The great scape by Genevieve Jessop Marsh Just as I was about to buy my first head of garlic at the grocery, I was saved by a new arrival in my garden. Hardneck garlic plants all over Missoula are sending up what we call garlic scapes, a curling stem ending in a bud. Garlic scapes siphon needed energy from the garlic bulb and put it into the blossom. If you cut the buds and their associated stems right above the first leaf, they’re a perfect ingredient for dinner. Scapes can be used anywhere. You can straight-up grill them. You can add them to a stir-fry or your mashed potatoes. You can store scapes and pickle them. Scapes make a mean pesto—some of my favorite chefs say they make the best pesto—but fair warning: you’d be using raw scapes, so it’s going to be strong and your breath will definitely smell like garlic. Scapes have a mildly garlicky, slightly sweet flavor. When cooked, their texture resembles asparagus. I wanted to have a little fun with both scapes and asparagus, since they are both in season, and chose a variation of T. Susan Chang’s recipe for sesame ginger scapes and asparagus. It’s easy, quick and delicious. You could fry an egg, shovel it on top with a little spritz of tamari and call it a meal, especially if you are eating alone. Otherwise, it makes a lovely side. It’s actually good cold, too. Ingredients 1 ½ tablespoons refined coconut oil 1 dozen garlic scapes chopped into 2-inch lengths 1 small bunch of thin asparagus, chopped into 2inch lengths 1 1-inch piece of ginger root, peeled and grated 1 ½ tablespoon coconut aminos sauce
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2 tablespoons sweet marsala wine ¼ teaspoon fish sauce ½ teaspoon toasted sesame oil About 1 tablespoon toasted white sesame seeds to finish the dish Directions Chop the asparagus and scapes into 2-inch pieces. Grate the ginger. (Side note: I keep a few fingers of ginger in my freezer and it has changed my life. Or, at least, made it possible to cook many Asian dishes at the last minute.) Heat the coconut oil in a wok or cast iron skillet. Add the scapes for 2 minutes, until they get a little darker. Add the asparagus and ginger. Stir like crazy for about a minute or two so the ginger doesn’t stick to the side of the pan right off the bat; try to get the flavor distributed before the inevitable sticking happens. Push the asparagus and scapes to the side of the pan and add the coconut aminos, marsala wine and fish sauce together. It takes about 4-5 minutes to reduce it to a syrup. After it looks a bit like syrup, remove from heat and toss all the contents together with toasted sesame oil. As a finishing touch, toast the sesame seeds to boost their flavor (or if, like mine, they’ve been in the cupboard a long time). Genevieve Jessop Marsh is Garden City Harvest’s community outreach director and contributes to The Real Dirt, the nonprofit's blog. For more Dirt, visit gardencityharvest.org.
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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's is serving Espresso!! Yep, you heard us right. And, we have heard you. Bernice's espresso was created by the talented staff at Hunter Bay (and approved by the staff at Bernice's) to represent the full bodied flavor character of the infamous Bernice's Cup o' Joe. Our espresso is a rich Mocha Java blend of sweet berry African coffees united with Indonesian and Brazilian coffees for an espresso that compliments Bernice's palate of fresh baked treats. Serving 7 days a week 6a-8p. Now you can enjoy your morning croissant, muffin or scone with espresso! Wheee! Or, stop by after dinner and have a dessert with a demitasse. Bernice's: from scratch for your pleasure…always. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
NEW! KOREAN STEAK TACOS, KALUA PORK TACOS, CHINESE CHICK SALAD, PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE. ARNOLD MATCHA PALMERS, RED BERRY LEMONADE, TARO BOBA
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$
LUNCH & DINNER VEGETARIAN & GLUTEN-FREE NO PROBLEM
Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries &
gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble
Not available for To-Go orders
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[dish] teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it's coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula's largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.
Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa's BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you've come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa's best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$
Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 317-1829 romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$
Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 • themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $
The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 • missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $
The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegranate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh
Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon– Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
The Montana Distillery wins gold
HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: A Grizzly Berry, made with The Montana Distillery’s signature Woody St. Premium Vodka, puree from local huckleberries and organic lemonade, topped with soda and a lemon wedge. It’s one of the cocktails available at the distillery’s downtown tasting room, located on (you guessed it) Woody Street, around the corner from the Silver Dollar Bar. Why you’re drinking it: Woody St. Premium Vodka recently took gold at the Los Angeles International Spirits Competition, which featured more than 400 entries from 29 different countries in a blind taste test. The Montana Distillery became the only American micro distillery to receive gold in the vodka category. “It brings some awareness to what we’re doing and the quality of the product,” says owner Mark Hlebichuck. “It also hopefully helps to spread the word about the great community of distillers and brewers coming out of Missoula.” What else you’re drinking: The Montana Distillery also collected two silver medals in L.A. for its cucumber and raspberry vodkas, as well as two bronze medals for its bacon and ginger flavors. All are available in various specialty cocktails in the tasting room. But if Justin Tavenner is working behind the bar, you’re probably drinking his personal favorite, the Indian Paint-Brush. This spicy and sweet cocktail features pepper vodka, pomegranate, sweet ‘n’ sour, jalapeño simple and fresh cracked pepper, served in a salt rimmed martini glass.
photo by Skylar Browning
“It’s just spicy enough to not be too sweet, and it’s just sweet enough to not be too spicy,” Tavenner says. What you’ll be drinking soon: Right now, The Montana Distillery is focused on its line of vodkas. By the end of the summer, however, Hlebichuck hopes to unveil whiskey and gin. Where to find it: The Montana Distillery is located at 631 Woody St. and open Monday through Saturday, noon to 8 p.m. Sundays include an extensive bloody mary bar from noon to 6 p.m. —Skylar Browning Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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THU | 6-16 | 5:30 PM | CARAS PARK
TUE | 6PM | BIG SKY
Marshall Catch play Downtown ToNight 5:30-8:30 PM in Caras Park.
Phillip Phillips of “American Idol” fame brings his melodic pop to Big Sky Brewing Co. with Matt Nathanson and Eric Hutchinson. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6. $35–$45 at ticketweb.com.
WED | 9PM | STAGE 112 The Sweet Lillies are joined by Love is a Dog from Nebraska for a night of Americana heaven at Stage 112. Doors open at 8 PM, music starts at 9. $5 tickets for this 18+ show.
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SAT | 7PM | WILMA Six-time Grammy winner and second eldest son of Bob, Stephen "Ragga" Marley brings his Fruit of Life Summer Tour to the Wilma. Show starts at 7 PM. See thewilma.com for more info.
MON | 7PM | RED BIRD Nathan Eyre plays classical guitar and the octave mandolin at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7–10 PM. Free.
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Thursday
Friday
Missoula Public Library hosts family movies Thursday through June and July at 2 PM. Free. Spend a couple of hours at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. As you weed, mulch and build, you’ll learn about native plants and how to create your own garden at home. 4–6 PM Thurs. through Aug. 4. Free and open to the public.
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. 5:30-8:30 PM. Music by Marshall Catch. Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash. Rachel Toor reads from and signs copies of her new work, Misunderstood. Fact & Fiction downtown, 7 PM. Free. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. DJ Logisticalone provides the soundtrack for June Ecstatic Dance, a musical adventure of dance and self-expression. All ages welcome. MASC Studios. Sugg. $5 donation for this drug- and alcohol-free event. Hand me my glowsticks, Mama wants to jiggle. Dead Hipster Dance Party is tonight at the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Dead Horse Trauma, Two Foot Titan and Chrysalis play Stage 112. Doors open at 8 PM, music starts at 9 PM. $3-$5 for this 18+ show. Mudslide Charley play their bring-the-house-down blues at Top Hat Thu. at 9:30 PM. Vocalist Lee Rizzo is a force with which to be reckoned. Free. Venom, Inc., Necrophagia and more play the Palace Lounge. Doors at 9, show at 10. $10 in advance or $13 day of the show for 18 and over.
David Boone plays Ten Spoon Winery Fri., June 17. Tasting room open from 4-9 PM, music starts at 6 PM.
Celebrate your Bitterroot roots with Western Heritage Days, featuring a Calcutta auction and dancing on Main St. Friday, and a parade, wagon rides, beer garden and food court on Saturday. Stevensville. Call 777-3773 for details. You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library in the board room from noon-2 PM Fridays. No registration required, just show up! Join other peddlers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-2434599 for info. I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my work week by watch-
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ing some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. Free with $4 admission to MBHI.
nightlife Radius Gallery presents new works by artists Michael Haykin, Dana Boussard and Dale Livezey. Join them for an opening reception as they present their approaches to Montana as a place of contemplation. Reception from 5-7 PM. (See Arts.) Ladies’ Night Sip ‘n Shop at Missoula Winery offers shopping at retail pop-up booths, music, food and more. I’m sure boys are allowed. From 5-8 PM. $5.
Dodgy Mountain Men sing their storytelling hearts out at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Free. David Boone plays Ten Spoon. We like the way that sounds. Tasting room open from 4-9 PM, music starts at 6 PM. Steve Kalling plays live music in the Highlander tap room at Missoula Brewing Company. 6 PM.
Ice Cream, Trash and How to Escape, an original play written by Missoula natives Izzy Milch and Morgan Solonar, debuts at the Crystal Theater. $5 suggested donation at the door. (See Spotlight.) Sophie Jester and the Medicine play the Eagles Lodge from 8 PM to 1 AM. Free admission.
Hamilton Players presents Into the Woods! Just reading the name of that musical makes me burst into song. Only two weekends left. Fri. and Sat. at 8 PM and Sun. at 2 PM. $15 reserved seating. Call 406-375-9050 or go to hamiltonplayers.com for tickets. Mos Generator from Port Orchard are joined by Seattle’s Year of the Cobra, Kalispell’s Wizzerd and our very own Swamp Ritual. Free 21+, $5 18-20. Show starts at 9 and is accompanied by $2 shots of Jameson. (See Music.) Dusk play at Sunrise. How’s that for confusing? Show starts at 9:30 PM. See Band in Motion at the Union Club at 9:30 PM.
Saturday The 55th annual Belt PRCA Rodeo features two days of bareback riding, steer wrestling, mutton busting and all that other rodeo goodness. Belt is 20 miles east of Great Falls on Highway 87. Check beltrodeo.com for schedules and details. Celebrate your Bitterroot roots with Western Heritage Days, featuring a Calcutta auction and dancing on Main St. Friday, and a parade, wagon rides, beer garden and food court on Saturday. Stevensville. Call 777-3773 for details. Join Chef Bill for a French-style dinner on the lawn at Missoula Winery. $55 per person or $100 per couple. Oui, reservations must be made to participate. Call 406-830-3296. You’ll be bright-eyed and bushytailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Here’s the chance for the little ones to catch a big one. The Silver Lagoon Fishing Derbies offer
prizes for kids of all abilities. Fishing rods are limited, bring your own if you can. 9–11 AM at Silver Lagoon next to Currents in McCormick Park. Kids 12 and over need a license. $1 entry fee. Sign up for Missoula’s 16th annual Women’s Fly Fishing Clinic. $125 fee covers Stacy Jennings clinic, lunch by Two Sisters and enters you to win a pair of Simms waders. 10 AM to 2 PM at Frenchtown Pond. Go to www.kingfisherflyshop.com for more info. Canoe and kayak for the Blackfoot River Challenge. The 11-mile course takes you from Johnsrud to the weigh station and will start at 10:30 AM. $20-$25 entry fee. All proceeds will go to Missoula Food Bank. Go to blackfoot riverchallenge.blogspot.com for more info. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is hosting a free kids fishing event
from 11 AM to 1 PM at the RMEF Elk Country Visitor Center, 5705 Grant Creek Rd. Call 406-5234545 for more info. River’s Mist Gallery holds a Quick Draw competition from 1-2 PM. Watch as artists create works right before your eyes. River’s Mist Gallery in Stevensville. 406777-0520 for more info.
nightlife Way Cool Music at Ten Spoon Winery starting at 6 PM. Brian Smith plays Highlander tap room at Missoula Brewing Company at 6 PM.
Hamilton Players presents Into the Woods! Just reading the name of that musical makes me burst into song. Only two weekends left. Fri. and Sat. at 8 PM and Sun. at 2 PM. $15 reserved seating. Call 406-375-9050 or go to hamiltonplayers.com for tickets. Armageddon Blues Band plays Eagles Lodge from 8 PM to 1 AM. Free admission. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.
Six-time Grammy winner and second eldest son of Bob, Stephen “Ragga” Marley brings his Fruit of Life Summer Tour to the Wilma. Show starts at 7 PM. See thewilma.com for more info.
Band of Drifters wander into the Top Hat to play a show at 10 PM. Free.
Ice Cream, Trash & How to Escape, a play written by Missoula natives Izzy Milch and Morgan Solonar, debuts at the Crystal Theater Fri. June 17 and plays through the 18th. 7:30 PM both nights with a matinee on Sat. at 3 PM. Sugg. $5 donation at the door. (See Spotlight.)
Uncommon Evolution, Undun and Blessiddoom rock the face off the Dark Horse starting at 9:30 PM. $5.
Wild Coyote play Sunrise Saloon. Show starts at 9:30 PM.
Missoula’s own Sam Waldorf plays the Palace with Three-Year Day Job, Fruiting Nobodies and Max Williams. 10 PM - 1:30 AM.
Band of Drifters wander into the Top Hat Sat., June 18, at 10 PM. Free.
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Monday
The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25.
games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at The Base. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family-friendly, noon–8 PM.
The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 4-7 PM. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Call 210-8792 or drop in to observe a class. $60 for four classes.
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Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.
The second day of the Blackfoot River Challenge involves a slalom event for intermediate to advanced skill levels. $20-$25 to enter. All proceeds go to Missoula Food Bank. Go to blackfootriverchallenge.blogspot.com for more info. Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session. Dancers of all abilities are welcome. Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM–noon, $5. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Buzzed yoga with Hot House yoga instructors and Highlander beer at Missoula Brewing Co. starting at 11 AM. Never too early for a yoga/beer combination. $10.
nightlife Hamilton Players presents Into the Woods! Just reading the name of that musical makes me burst into song. Only two weekends left. Fri. and Sat. at 8 PM and Sun. at 2 PM. $15 reserved seating. Call 406-375-9050 or go to hamiltonplayers.com for tickets. Dig some great local brew and great local jazz at Imagine Nation Brewing Co.’s Sunday Night Jazz with Monk’s New Brew. Gary Kiggins hosts some of Missoula’s finest talent every Sunday, 5:30–8 PM. Free. Helms Alee play the Palace with Holy Lands and Slow Elk. $10. Show starts at 10 PM. (See Music) Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM.
WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word
Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Mon. from 6-8 PM. Sip a fancy soda for a cause at
Nathan Eyre plays classical guitar and the octave mandolin at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7–10 PM. Free.
Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Badlander’s Blues Monday offers new blues every week. Apropos for a Monday, no? The melancholy starts at 9 PM. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
local voices
Spotlight The brand-new Find Your Light Theatre Company was started by a handful of young people attempting to do just that: discover who they are in the dark, scary real world. Toward that end, and despite a lessWHAT: Ice Cream, Trash & How to Escape WHO: Find Your Light Theatre Co. WHEN: Fri. June 17 at 7:30 PM and Sat. June 18, 3 PM and 7:30 PM WHERE: Crystal Theater HOW MUCH: $5 suggested donation MORE INFO: findyourlighttheat.wix.com
than-fruitful gofundme campaign, these self-proclaimed “aspiring theater-makers”–UM students and Hellgate High School grads–are putting up their first original play, Ice Cream, Trash & How to Escape, at the Crystal this weekend. The play was written by
Izzy Milch, who just finished her freshman year at The New School in New York, and Morgan Solonar, a current UM theater student. Centered on themes of love, sickness and complication, it’s certain the play is informed by the burgeoning lives of the college stu-
dents who created it. (I can imagine the play I would have written at 19–that year I dated that lost boy. You know, the one with the tattoos and the snake and the room filled with tapestries and incense.) Ice Cream features UM’s Jenna Lockman as Delaney, a young woman who wants to be a children’s author. Violet, the “environmentalist roommate,” is played by Tessa Huston, and Zach French plays Sam, Delany’s best friend and maybe something of a lost boy himself. On the group’s website, a short trailer for the play features the three pensive actors as they meet in the middle of Higgins bridge. Over the shot, in a voiceover, Delaney says, “I dedicate this book, and my entire life with it, to Sam: college dropout and ice cream delivery boy extraordinaire.” Find Your Light Theatre Company may produce plays with angsty sentiment, but they’re producing plays, which makes them actual theatermakers, if you ask me.
—Gaaby Patterson
Tuesday They can’t stop (and don’t want to anyway). Improv Anonymous meets at Missoula Public Library to have a few laughs. Join them at 5:30 PM in the large meeting room.
nightlife Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at McCormick Park, 5 PM. Free. Art on Tap combines drinking and painting in an irresistible way. An instructor guides you from blank canvas to ready-to-hang art. All ages in the Highlander tap room
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at Missoula Brewing Co. $35. 5:30 PM. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. Find locations at facebook.com/ MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Phillip Phillips of American Idol fame brings his melodic pop to Big Sky Brewing Co. with Matt Nathanson. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6. $35–$45 at ticketweb.com Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rc. Skilled instruc-
tors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Greenough Park for your down dog. 6-7 PM. Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. Get your Tumble on at Adult TnT at Roots Acro Sports Center. The other “t” stands for Trampoline! For those 16 or older from 7:308:30 PM. (See Mountain High.) The Growlers make a stop on their Wet Dreams summer tour to lay some psychedelic surf rock on you
at the Top Hat. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $20/$17 advance at tophatlounge.com. (See Music.) Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: When did trampolining become an official Olympic sport? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM to 1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.
Wednesday
Thursday Missoula, land of fresh produce, provides yet another weekly market for all your organic needs. 10 AM to 2 PM every Thurs. in Mansfield Mall on campus. Missoula Public Library hosts family movies every Thursday through June and July at 2 PM. Free. Spend a couple of hours at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. As you weed, mulch and build, you’ll learn about native plants and how to create your own garden at home. 4–6 PM Thurs. through Aug. 4. Free and open to the public.
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Slightly Stoopid returns to the Big Sky Brewing Co. Wed., June 22. $36 at Ticketweb. 6:30 PM.
Join UM’s Outdoor Program for an all-day river rafting trip down the Blackfoot River. $65. Contact campusrec@mso.umt.edu for more info.
Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.
Stop by and visit the E3 Convergence Gallery and watch or paint with Bobbe Almer at an open studio. Bring your project, ask questions, or just hang out. 229 W. Main St., 10 AM–1 PM.
This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.
Is your toddler a budding Nikola Tesla in pull-ups? Find out at Science Sprouts: Early Childhood Program at SpectrUM Discovery Area, 218 E. Front St., from 11 AM to noon. Kids 2-5 participate in playful science experiments and crafts. Free with museum admission. Out to Lunch features live music in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from more than 20 vendors. This week’s music by Ed Norton Big Band. 11 AM–2 PM. Free.
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Slightly Stoopid return to Missoula for a big summertime show at Big Sky Brewing Co. Also Soja, Zion I, The Grouch and Eligh. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6:30. $36 at ticketweb.com. (Trivia answer: At the summer Olympics in Sydney in the year 2000.) Tell Us Something rounds up 8–10 storytellers to share their personal stories from memory. Stories are ten minutes, based on the theme “Bad Advice.” Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $10/$8 advance at thewilma.com.
At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.
Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.
The Missoula Marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula 304 N. Higgins. $100.
Enjoy Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy open mic night for the price of two drinks (and maybe your pride)! Featuring local come-
dians John Howard, Dan Brooks, Eliza Oh, Charley Macorn and more, it’s a great way to spend a Wednesday night. 7:30 PM. The Missoula City Band, directed by Gary Gillett, performs a free concert in the band shell at Bonner Park every Wednesday through Aug. 10. Bring a lawn chair. 8 PM. Free. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.
Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday through August, 5:30-8:30 PM. June 16, music by Marshall Catch. Visit missoula downtown.com for a list of performers. Get funky with Reverend Slanky at the 2nd annual Missoula Boaters Bash. Kick off boating season with food, drinks, yard games, river raffle prizes, local vendors and a free photo booth. Thomas Meagher Bar from 6-9 PM. A Night at the Museum provides a new program inspired by parts of their vast collection every fourth Thursday at the Miracle of America Museum in Polson. 6:30 PM, donations accepted.
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Poetry Slam at E3 Convergence Gallery! Sign up ahead of time at e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com. Poets must have at least three poems to compete. 7:30-8:30 PM. All ages welcome. From Austin, Texas, which is frequently compared to Missoula in respect to being a liberal college town surrounded by a state full of conservative soreheads, comes Pale Dian with their dark, introspective pop, with locals Holy Totem and Eat Strike. At the Palace, 8 PM. (See Music.) Hand me my glowsticks, Mama wants to jiggle. Dead Hipster Dance Party is tonight at the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails complete a perfect summer day with some homegrown bluegrass at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online at missoulanews.com
Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30-10:30 PM. No cover. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover. The Sweet Lillies are joined by Love is a Dog from Nebraska for a night of Americana heaven at Stage 112. Doors at 8 PM, music starts at 9. $5 tickets for this 18+ show.
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Though my grandmother died of cancer when my dad was just 18, the first time I remember cancer coming close to my life was in 1998, when our best friend’s 11-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. The feelings of powerlessness, even standing on the periphery, were so overwhelming. We did what we could. When she was home, we visited, brought her coloring books and movies, I gave her pedicures when she felt up to it. When she was at Children’s Hospital in Denver, we could email her every day and the nurses would print them and tack them up in her room. This child we loved was fighting for her life, bloated from chemo and losing her hair, getting infections which destroyed her eye socket. No matter what we did it never felt like enough. To say nothing about what was happening with her parents. Thankfully, Jessica recovered and we’ve been able to watch her grow into a beautiful, successful young woman. Last July, another loved one began a battle
with this horrible disease. Again, those feelings of helplessness became a regular part of my life. I made chicken soup by the gallon, filling their freezer with more Zip-lock bags than would ever be thawed. I visited as much as I could. This horrible, corroding disease has a way of making even the most heartfelt gestures feel insignificant. And still, when cancer moves into your life or the life of someone you love, it is definitely a call to action. Relay for Life is a nationwide movement which offers another source for doing something. In Missoula, our local teams have raised over $36,000 for the American Cancer Society. Join them this weekend as they walk for hope. —Gaaby Patterson Relay for Life begins Fri., June 17 at 7 PM at Community Medical Center. Visit Relay for Life Missoula for more information.
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Every Friday teachers get half off their first glass of beer at Imagine Nation Brewing. Some Fridays will include a speaker talking about issues facing education today. 2-8 PM.
People Who Stutter is a casual group of folks who get together the third Sunday of each month to just hang out and exchange stories and info. With Tricia Opstad, MS, CCC-SLP and Trevor Monsos. Liquid Planet Grille, 1025 Arthur St., 1:30–3:30 PM. Free.
Help Big Sky Brewing Co. celebrate 21 years of pumping out tasty local beer. Music, food and of course beer at Caras Park. 4–10 PM Free.
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Join the Missoula chapter of Relay for Life as they fundraise to fight cancer. Opening ceremony at Community Medical Center begins at 7 PM. (See Agenda.)
Sip a fancy soda for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family-friendly, noon–8 PM.
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Missoula’s Farmer’s Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave.
Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Westside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.
Missoula’s Clark Fork Market features vendors offering local produce and meats as well as locally made products, hot coffee and prepared foods. Music starts at 10:30 under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October.
Living with the Land is an open forum discussion about permaculture. Composting, greenhouses and hugelculture are just part of what will be covered. North Valley Public Library in Stevensville at 6 PM. Call 777-5061 for more info.
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AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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nless your bladder’s been wrecked by children, you probably love to trampoline. When you’re a grownup, though, you don’t have very many opportunities. You’re supposed to have outgrown all that. Along with napping whenever the mood strikes, picking your nose in public or being carried when you’re tired of walking. Besides, in the world of bounce, the bigger you are, the more likely it is you may cause an accident. Remember that time you bounced too close to your kid and sent the tiny tot flying through the zip door of the safety enclosure? It was supposed to be closed! Eh-hem. My point is, it’s not often that grownups are al-
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lowed, much less encouraged, to partake. The folks at Roots Acro Sports Center are changing all that. If you’re 16 or older, head on down to their gym on Tuesday nights at 7:30 so you can flip, twist, trampoline and tumble to your heart’s content. Instructors are on hand to help. We’ll all just wait patiently for someone to open an adult bouncy house. —Gaaby Patterson Adult TnT happens at Roots Acro Sports Center Tue. nights from 7:30 to 8:30 for ages 16 and up. $8 to drop in. Call 406-728-4258 for more info.
OPENING DAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 18 SUMMER STARTS NOW! Come up for Zip Line Tours, Scenic Lift, Aerial Adventure Park, Alpine Slide, mountain biking, hiking, Walk in the Treetops canopy tour, and more. Take advantage of early season pricing on Zip Line Tours and Aerial Adventure Park! Details online.
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Join other peddlers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.
The Missoula Marathon running at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
SATURDAY JUNE 18 Here’s the chance for the little ones to catch a big one. The Silver Lagoon Fishing Derbies offer prizes for kids of all abilities. Fishing rods are limited, bring your own if you can. 9–11 AM at Silver Lagoon next to Currents in McCormick Park. Kids 12 and over need a license. $1 entry fee. Sign up for Missoula’s 16th annual Women’s Fly Fishing Clinic. $125 fee covers Stacy Jennings clinic, lunch by Two Sisters and enters you to win a pair of Simms waders. 10 AM to 2 PM at Frenchtown Pond. Go to www.kingfisher flyshop.com for more info. Some of North America's best mountain bikers try to stave off local underdogs during the 2016 Missoula XC at Marshall Mountain. The featured races include the UCI Elite Women at 4:30 PM and the UCI Elite Men at 7. Stick around after sunset for a modified short-course race under the lights. Admission is free. More info at missoulaxc.org. Canoe and kayak for the Blackfoot River Challenge. The 11-mile course takes you from Johnsrud to the weigh station and will start at 10:30 AM. $20-$25 entry fee. All proceeds will go to Missoula Food Bank. Go to blackfootriverchallenge.blogspot.com for more info. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is hosting a free kids fishing event from 11 AM to 1 PM at the RMEF Elk Country Visitor Center, 5705 Grant Creek Rd. Call 406-523-4545 for more info.
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The second day of the Blackfoot River Challenge involves a slalom event. Go to blackfootriver challenge.blogspot.com for more info.
TUESDAY JUNE 21 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at McCormick Park, 5 PM. Free. Join the Montana Dirt Girls for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rc. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities at a local park. This week, head to Greenough Park for your down dog. 6-7 PM.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 22 Join UM’s Outdoor Program for an all-day river rafting trip down the Blackfoot River. $65. Contact campusrec@mso.umt.edu for more info. The Missoula Marathon running at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
THURSDAY JUNE 23 Feed your astronomy jones with UM’s Summer Planetarium Series. Spend some time looking at the skies, then enjoy a program from a presenter on different celestial objects and events. Two 50min. shows per night, 6:30 PM and 8 PM. Payne Family Native American Center Stargazing Room. $6/$4 for kids 12 and under.
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ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon YOU'RE THE NONE FOR ME You’ll probably think I’m messing with you, but I swear I’m not. I am a man who has no desire to have sex. I was married, but after my wife got pregnant with our second (planned) child, we never had sex again. I just had – and have – no desire to do anything sexually with another person. I have now been divorced for 11 years and celibate for almost 21. Since my divorce, I have never hooked up or even gone on a date. I don't want to. Sometimes, I have an urge to masturbate, but I have no desire to involve anybody else. I simply don't get why there is all this kerfuffle about sex. I see no reason to ever have sex again. –Curious As To Your Reaction Like many men, you’re looking to emulate something you saw in porn – only it’s the coffee table in the background. Though you refer to yourself as celibate, celibacy is a behavior a person chooses–a decision to fight off the urges most people have to hop on another person and do the humpus rumpus. What you have is a feeling–a longing for sex on a par with the enthusiasm of a guest at a trendy cocktail party being offered a slightly squirming sushi appetizer: “Uh, thanks, but don’t mind if I don’t.” Assuming you've been checked out by a doctor for any possible medical issues, chances are you’re “ace”–as people who are asexual like to call themselves. Asexuality is a sexual orientation -- that of a person who, as social psychologist Anthony Bogaert puts it, has “a lack of sexual attraction or desire for others.” Asexuality is pretty uncommon. According to a survey that Bogaert did in the U.K., maybe 1 percent of the population has an asexual orientation. (This estimate may be on the low side, as it was done in 2004, long before the varieties of sexuality and gender began rivaling the choices of the salad bar at Souplantation.) Asexuality plays out in varied ways. Some asexuals lack any interest in sex, finding it about as appealing as having another person stick a finger up their nose repeatedly (while panting, moaning, and shrieking in ecstasy). Others sometimes have urges for sexual release; they just see no reason to bring other people into the mix. So, while sexual attraction involves noticing another person and wanting to do all sorts of sex things with them, asexuals might find a person aesthetically pleasing but are generally as sexually interested in them as most of us would be in an adding machine or a potato. There are those who contend that asexuality is a physical or psychological
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disorder. And sure, some people probably use asexuality as a cover for unresolved issues or for shock value – like my (decidedly straight) sister did in coming home from college freshman year and announcing to my conservative Republican mother, "I think I'm a lesbian." My mother handled this perfectly: "That's nice; please put out the plates for dinner." Clinical psychologist Lori Brotto explains that asexuality doesn't meet the psychiatric bible's criteria for an arousal disorder -- physiological impairment or distress at the lack of attraction to others. Research by Brotto and others also finds that asexuals, in general, don't seem any crazier than the rest of us and have normal hormone levels and normal arousability, reflected in erectile function and vaginal lubrication. As one asexual put it: "I did, you know, test the equipment...and everything works fine, pleasurable and all; it’s just not actually attracted to anything.'' Some asexuals get into relationships with other people because they want a partner and/or a family. (They're asexual, not aloving.) The problem comes if they don’t disclose that their sexual orientation is “Do you mind if I read while you do that?” As for your situation, if you don’t feel there’s anything missing from your life, well, yay for you. But consider the “selfexpansion” model for romantic relationships, by psychologist Arthur Aron and his colleagues. It confirms what many of us intuitively understand: In addition to the ways a relationship challenges people emotionally, it expands who they are as individuals through exposure to their partner's ideas, identity, possessions, and social circle. You might be able to have that sort of partnership–with a girlfriend who likes the same hot stuff you probably do in bed (microwaved Chinese food). You can connect with like-minded individuals on the big forum for asexuals–AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network (asexuality.org). You might make some friends, and who knows...you might even meet the woman of your dreams -one who can’t wait to go home with you for a long night of meaningless Scrabble.
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Arborist Tech Assistant Missoula Parks and Recreation is seeking a seasonal, full-time SEASONAL ARBORIST TECHNICIAN ASSISTANT. Any combination of training and experience equivalent to high school graduation and two years of experience in tree care; hold a current First Aid and CPR certifications; hold a current Tree Worker and/or Aerial Lift Specialist certificate issued by the International Society of Arboriculture; will be required to obtain Montana commercial driver’s license. Preferred qualifications: Tree Risk Assessor Qualification and Electrical Hazards Awareness Program certification. Will assist arborists in performing a variety of tree care duties including pruning trees and removing hazardous trees; climb trees with ropes and saddles and/or use aerial lifts and other required safety equipment; clean up branches and debris from ground and grind in chipper; dispose of debris properly; plant trees; establish safe traffic control around pruning, planting, and tree removal sites; examine and diagnose diseased trees; identify tree hazards and assess their risk to surrounding target areas. Full job description
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at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10210205 Census Surveys Field representative to conduct monthly surveys to households in specific areas of the country. This is a long-term, ongoing, year-round, part-time position interviewing randomly selected households every month. Each household is interviewed eight times, over a 16-month period. The CPS interview is approximately 20 minutes in duration. Supplemental surveys conducted in addition to the CPS survey, which increases the length of the interview by approximately 10 minutes. Supplemental surveys cover a variety of topics, which include, but are not limited to, tobacco usage, volunteer work, and food security. Qualifications include a high school diploma or equivalent plus six months of general work experience OR one year of higher education. Applicants must be a U.S. citizens over 18 years of age, reside in Missoula County, have a reliable working vehicle, valid drivers license and be available to work day, evening and weekend hours. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10209918
proximately 30-40 hours per week. Pay will start at $10.00 per hour. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10209926 Lawn Crew Must have clean driving record and current license. Must be able to commute reliably to office and shop base. Able to work extended hours on occasion. Must accomplish mowing, trimming, edging services in a timely and professional manner. Applicants must professionally handle residential and business customers including large corporate clients. Full-time (32-40 hrs/week) $10.00/hr with performance review after 30 day trial period. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10210711 NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033 Nelson Personnel is in search for a professional, friendly individual to fill FULL-TIME a RECEPTIONIST/ADMIN ASST. position. $10-12/hr. Call Us at 543-6033
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HIGH SCHOOLERS! Join Montana Conservation Corps this summer. Work, camp, and adventure outside. See new places. Meet new friends. Earn volunteer service hours. Beginning in June and July. Crews leave from Bozeman, Helena, Kalispell, Missoula. No cost to participate, and earn up to $200. Call 1866056406622. Visit mtcorps.org/join/expedition.
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Janitorial Applicants should have basic working knowledge of general cleaning practices, common sense, and be polite and respectful of clients and coworkers. Successful applicants MUST be dependable and able to pass a background check. Requires a valid driver’s license, car insurance and vehicle. Duties include lifting up to 25 pounds, cleaning bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming and mopping floors and stairs, removing trash, and using cleaning chemicals. Will be working alone and with others. Need someone who is flexible as schedule will vary between day and evening shifts. Shifts are generally Monday-Friday ap-
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hours a week for 5-6 weeks. Duties include: data entry, event setup, communicating information on the Missoula in Motion (sustainable transportation) to the general public in person and via phone. Most have a valid Montana driver’s license to run a variety of errands. $10-$12.00/DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #27960 PATTEE CREEK MARKET: Apply Mon-Sat from 9am-4pm. Open positions include: Bakery FT. Deli Worker FT. 704 SW Higgins Production Support Contribute to running the business by ensuring quality and on time delivery when preparing prefinished siding, including: loading of automated machines, painting of boards by hand, and bundling and packaging of units for shipment. Contribute to improving the business by continually contributing and implementing ideas to improve the worksite or processes at all times. This includes creating a positive culture of continuous improvement by learning and applying lean principles, exhibiting honesty at all times, and respecting other people at all times. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27159 PT Cashier REI Previous cashiering experience. Previous customer service experience. 10key skills (preferred). s. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10210509
PROJECT MANAGER / CIVIL DESIGNER DJ&A, a consulting civil engineering, planning, and surveying firm, based in Missoula, is growing and seeking a Project Manager (civil engineer or landscape architect) with 10+ years of experience and an entry level Civil Designer or Civil Engineer.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Courttia Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: "How will you go about finding the thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" In response to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to him: "Even more important than the journey itself, is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to find comfort moving forwards without quite knowing where you are going." I nominate these to be your words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian. Have open-hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious and impossible secrets! I'm confident you will track them down – especially if you're willing to be lost.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My long-term predictions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astrological omens. Here we go: 1. You will have an excellent chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your romantic karma. 2. You will outgrow any addiction you might have to frustrating connections. 3. Unrequited love will either be requited, or else you'll become bored with the futile chase and move on. 4. You'll be challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past mistakes in a new intimacy. 5. You will have an abundance of good ideas about how to install the theme of smart fun at the heart of your strongest alliances.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Everything you do in the coming days should be imbued with the intention of enhancing the Flow. It's high time to identify where the energy is stuck, and then get it unstuck. You have a sacred mandate to relieve the congestion . . . to relax the tweaks . . . to unravel the snarls if you can, or simply cut through them if necessary. You don't need to tell anyone about your secret agenda. Just go about your business with zealous diligence and unflagging purpose. If it takes more effort than you wished, so be it. If your progress seems maddeningly gradual, keep the faith.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming months will be a favorable time to boost your skills as a cagey warrior. I don't mean you should push people around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave and crafty. You'll refrain from forcing storylines to unfold before they're ready, and you'll rely on strategy and good timing instead of brute strength and the decree "Because I said so." Now study this counsel from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also known as Crouching Dragon: "The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next 15 months, composting should be a primary practice, as well as a main metaphor. If you have been lazy about saving leftover scraps from your kitchen and turning them into fertilizer, now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts. The same is true if you have been lax about transforming your pain into useful lessons that invigorate your lust for life. Be ever-alert for opportunities to capitalize on junk, muck, and slop. Find secret joy in creating unexpected treasure out of old failures and wrong turns.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you ever made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven't, your yearnings probably aren't deep enough. Most of us, on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for connection with such unruly intensity that we have made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable behavior. That's the weird news. The good news is that now and then, the impulse to leave our safety zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe this is one of those times for you.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): During the next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices can you engage in on a daily basis that will build your potency and authority and clout? How can you gain access to more of the helpers and resources you need to carry out your life's master plan? These are excellent questions to ask yourself every day between now and July 2017. It's time to find or create your ultimate power spot.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The prison population in the U.S. is over two million, more than twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps about 41,000 people in jail, Italy 52,000, and France 66,000. That's the bad news. The good news, at least for you and your tribe, is that a relatively small percentage of you will be incarcerated during the next 15 months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Aquarians all over the world will specialize in liberation. Not only will you be extra ethical; not only will you be skillful at evading traps; you will also be adept at emancipating yourself from your own delusions and limitations. Congratulations in advance! It's time to start singing some new freedom songs.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The English word "catharsis" is derived from the ancient Greek katharsis, which was a technical medical term that meant "purgation" or "purification," as in flushing out the bowels. Aristotle converted katharsis into a metaphor that described how a drama performed in the theater could "clean out" the emotions of spectators. These days, catharsis may refer to any event that precipitates a psycho-spiritual renewal by building up and then releasing tension. I foresee at least one of these strenuous blessings in your immediate future.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your homework is to write a story about the life you're going to live between now and next April. The length of this predictive tale should be at least three pages, although it's fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations to lubricate the flow of your imagination. 1. What three questions would you love to have answered during the next 42 weeks? 2. Of the numerous adventures that might be fun to explore, which are the two that would be most consistently energizing? 3. What is the one thing you'd most like to change about your attitude or revamp about your life? 4. What new privilege will you have earned by April 2017? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to an old Chinese proverb, if you want to get rich, you must have a nickname. My meditations on your future suggest that this curious formula may have some validity. The next 15 months will be a favorable time to attend to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your wealth. And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity -- such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like Ace or Vixen or Sharpie, as well as off-putting ironic monikers like Poker Face and Stonewall. Instead, gravitate toward lively choices like Dazzler, FluxLuster, Hoochie-Coochie, or FreeBorn.
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months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JOSEPH H. SCHMITZ, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 31st day of May, 2016. /s/ Joseph H. Schmitz, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq.
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-16-78 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD A. SCHMITZ, a/k/a Richard Schmitz Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4)
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP16-93 Dept. No. 4 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHARLES EDWARD CASSELMAN, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four
MNAXLP months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Troy Dennison, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23 day of May, 2016. /s/ Troy Dennison, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 20 day of May, 2016. /s/ Troy Dennison, Applicant Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20 day of May, 2016. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2016 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP16-91 Dept. No.: 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
RE THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES RICHARD JOY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Janne M. Joy and Jannette Joy Hale have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail to, return receipt requested, to Janne M. Joy & Jannette Joy Hale, CoPersonal Representatives, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18 day of May, 2016. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney for the Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 18 day of May, 2016. /s/ Janne M. Joy, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Jannette Joy Hale, Co-Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause Probate No. DP16-76 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. LUCAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jane Lucas Rabe, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: April 28, 2016 /s/ Jane Lucas Rabe Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-16-400 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION TERRY W. PAYNE and PATRICIA J. PAYNE, Plaintiffs, v. HELEN E. SHULL, ESTATE OF HELEN E. SHULL, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file
your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land situated in the Southeast corner of Block 6 of McWhirk’s Addition to the City of Missoula, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, which is particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Southeast corner of said Block 6, and running thence Northerly along the West boundary line of Jefferson Street, a distance of 100 feet, more or less to the South Boundary line of the alley in said Block; thence West, at right angles, and along the south boundary line of said alley, a distance of 74.5 feet to a point; thence South and parallel to the West boundary line of said Jefferson Street, a distance of 100 feet, more or less to a point on the North boundary line of Front Street; thence East along the said North Boundary line of Front Street, a distance of 74.5 feet to the Southeast corner of said Block 6 and place of beginning. Dated this 31st day of May, 2016. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST By: M.J. Tanna Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-16-363 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION HOWARD D. EDWARDS, Plaintiffs, v. LARRY D. UYLAKI, a/k/a LARRY UYLAKI, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO,
MNAXLP WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 2484 located in the North one-half of Section 8, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Dated this 20th day of May, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-16-32 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF LINDA L. SKJELSET, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Douglas G. Skjelset, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the
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PUBLIC NOTICES laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing Notice to Creditors is true and correct. Signed this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Applicant Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Sharon J. Davis Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires May 14, 2018 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MURRAY DON ENGEBRETSON, Deceased. Probate No.: DP-15-210 Dept No.:2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Represen-
tative 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 Kelly Weaver, return receipt requested, c/o Rhoades & Siefert, PLLC, 430 North Ryman, Second Floor, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of May, 2016. /s/ Kelly Dawn Therese Weaver, Personal Representative Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Probate No DP 1689 District Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE
MNAXLP MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FERRIS E. CLOUSE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed as the CoPersonal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Anna Marie L. Clouse and Shawn F. Clouse, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Crowley Fleck PLLP, 500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street, Suite 500, P.O. Box 2529, Billings, Montana 59103, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25 day of May, 2016. /s/ Anna
Marie L. Clouse, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Ferris E. Clouse Dated this 25 day of May, 2016. /s/ Shawn F. Clouse, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Ferris E. Clouse NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200406086 Book 727 Page 1061, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Kimberly M. Boyd was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust
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encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the S1/2SW1/4NE1/4 of Section 32, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 3091. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 2012206570 Book892 Page 447, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association as Trustee for Mastr Alternative Loan Trust 2004-9. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note
(“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 21, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $121,370.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $117,908.44, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, 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. Boyd, Kimberly M. (TS# 7023.115651) 1002. 286742-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/14/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201118230 B: 884 P: 1257, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Douglas A Freas and Andrea L Freas, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 12 of West View, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 10 of Plats at Page 1. 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 12/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 26, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $176,552.93. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $173,598.16, 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 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public
PUBLIC NOTICES 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. Freas, Douglas A. and Andrea L. (TS# 7023.116195) 1002.286787-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/17/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200413948 Book 732 Page 1241, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Lori Hanebuth, a married woman as her separate estate was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company, a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 4 of Certificate of Survey No. 5200, a tract of land located in the Southeast one-quarter
MNAXLP of Section 20, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian, Montana Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201304679, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Trustee for GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-RP3. 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 03/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 2, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $194,900.52. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of
$180,898.17, 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 Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on September 22, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, 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 U S A - Fo re c l o s u re . c o m . HANEBUTH, LORI (TS# 7023.114234) 1002. 284908-File No.
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PUBLIC NOTICES RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. CHRIS JOHNSON and DARLA JOHNSON, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), as designated nominee for Mountain West Bank, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 4, 2006, and recorded on October 10, 2006 as Book 784, Page 1488, Document No. 200626239. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,161.34 beginning August 1, 2015, and each month
subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 9, 2016 is $292,042.89 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00000% totaling $4,329.32, escrow advances of $1,405.80, suspense balance of $-228.40 and other fees and expenses advanced of $257.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s
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MNAXLP 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
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 34, 155, 207, 214, OS50. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 6/20/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 6/23/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.
A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 4, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 4 day of April, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kailtin Ann Gotch know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Seterus vs JOHNSON, CHRIS 100999 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 26, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot A46 Of Windsor Park, Phase III, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. KARLA TECCA and VINCENT TECCA, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust, dated on April 20, 2007, and recorded on April 20, 2007 as Book 795, Page 1176, and Document No. 200709481, A Modification Agreement recorded May 5, 2014, Book 928 of Micro Records at Page 131. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $850.23, beginning August 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on
the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 13, 2016 is $201,687.82 principal, interest at the rate of 4.00000% totaling $18,858.99, escrow advances of $11,325.13, suspense balance of $-148.64 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,725.33, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the 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
PUBLIC NOTICES reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 17, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 17 day of March, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez know to me to be the assistant secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06-09-2021 Seterus vs TECCA 100866 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR
CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 28, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 OF OVERLOOK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF NILES E. BRUSH, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for US Bank N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on August 21, 2009, and recorded on August 31, 2009 as Book 846, Page 1030 under Document No. 200921585. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared
MNAXLP a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,545.84, beginning October 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 25, 2016 is $178,550.79 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25000% totaling $5,290.50, escrow advances of $1,002.25, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.
Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured
thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 11 day of March, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to
me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public
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237 ½ E. Front St. “G”. Studio/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 303 E. Spruce St. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops on site, cat? $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $460/month. 406-273-6034 Lolo, nice park. Lot for single wide 16x80. Water, sewer and garbage paid. No dogs. $280/mo. 406-273-6034
DUPLEXES
Garden City Property Management. Voted Best Property Management Company in Missoula for the past 8 years. 406-5496106 www.gcpm-mt.com
HOMES
feet! $260,000 KD 406-2045227 porticorealestate.com
10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with deck, studio & sauna. $299,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981.
1535 Liberty Lane. Centrally located professional office space in energy efficient building on the river. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
360 Stone Street. 5 bed, 4 bath ranch style on 3 acres. Additional 2.52 and 6.49 acre parcels also available. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com
More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com
210 South 3rd West. Lease space available by the Hip Strip near Bernice’s Bakery. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com
4 Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $469,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
COMMERCIAL
432 Washington St. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops. $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
1012 Charlo St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, storage, coin-ops, shared yard. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
509 S. 5th St. East #3. 2 bed/1 bath, 3 blocks to campus, coinops on site. $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES
ROOMMATES
118 Woodworth. 4 bed/2 bath, close to UM. Hardwood, wraparound deck, single garage, fenced back yard. $1400. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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7182 Uncle Robert Lane #5 2 Bed Apt. 1,000 sq. ft. $760/month 113 N. Johnson #3 1 Bed/1 Bath $625/month Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $760/month fidelityproperty.com
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Finalist
Finalist
4611 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath on almost 1/2 acre near the river. $409,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $525,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath University District home. $625,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 604 Overlook Way. 3 bed, 2 bath with fireplace & 2 car garage in Farviews. $244,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com Energy Efficient! 520 Luella Lane. Centrally located 2 story home near bike trails and the Good Food Store! Low maintenance, energy-efficient home with over 2000 square
Natural Housebuilders, Inc. Building comfortable energy efficient craftsman homes with radiant floor heat. 406369-0940 OR 406-6426863. Facebook/Natural House builders,inc. Solar Active House. www.faswall.com. www.naturalhousebuilder.net Trail Street 2144 Trail Street. Beautiful upgraded home in an awesome location with immaculate landscaping! A Must See! $280,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Wonderful Target Range home 4+ bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2car garage, shop, fenced yard, updated windows and appliances, u/g sprinklers, near river (406) 531-3753
CONDOS 2 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, Lewis & Clark condo. $146,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com
REAL ESTATE Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com
MANUFACTURED 4033 Mathew Street. 2 bed, 1 bath with deck & mountain views. $40,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND 156 ACRES, EASY ACCESS. $199,900. Bordered by USFS lands. Prime hunting. 15 minutes to Superior MT. Southern exposure, good mix of trees and meadows. Power nearby. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-8801956 • NewHomes@Montana .com • www.marktwite.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 20 acres Granite County $44,900. Wild Horse Road: Gated access, prime hunting area. Timber, views, usable terrain. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • newhomes@ montana.com • www.marktwite.com 2598 WHISKEY JACK, HAMILTON MT. $89,500. 20+ acres South of Hamilton. Bordered by USFS lands. Gated community access. Sweet seller terms available with 20% down. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@ Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 3.52ac $259/month Boulder, MT- 2.12ac $391/month Absarokee, MT21.3ac $203/month Red Lodge, MTMore properties online. Justin Joyner Steel Horse RE www.ownerfinancemt.com 406-539-1420 320 ACRES, GRANITE COUNTY. $172,000. Located about an hour east of Missoula. Bordered by BLM and State lands. Good grazing area. Prime hunting area. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com
4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 40 ACRES- 2 CREEKSSELLER TERMS. $69,900. 2 perennial streams. Gated legal access. Seller terms w/20% down. Easy year around potential. Off the grid. Great southern exposure. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com
Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lolo home. $255,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $190,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com NHN Roundup. Tract #5 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@ gmail.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714 Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard,
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REAL ESTATE
3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home on .47 acre lot. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $279,000. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4 BEDROOM HOME ON 12+ACRES. $349,900. Bring the Horses! Well kept home, 45x60 shop. All irrigated land. Less than an hour to Missoula. 2 story home. Incredible views and plenty of solitude. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com
82 Wildwood Lane, Stevensville, MT $175,000
82 Wildwood Lane, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath manufactured home on over 4.5 acres near Bitterroot River. $175,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 7288270 glasgow@montana.com Hot Springs 205 E Street, Hot Springs. Super-efficient 1 bed, 1bath. $139,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens. $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Six Mile Huson 17430 Six Mile Road, Huson. Stunning property with beautiful land and views. 3 bed, 1.5 bath early 1900’s well maintained farmhouse. Yard features a massive raspberry patch and many fruit trees! $235,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
Don't miss this opportunity to have a beautiful quiet location on 4.50+ park like acres with a pond, irrigation, and a huge shop! This 1977 double wide manufactured home on a permanent foundation, features 3 bdrms/ 2 baths, an open floor plan, updated windows, flooring, updated kitchen w/ newer counter tops, cabinets, range, and tiled master bath floor. The property is fenced and cross fenced for dogs and horses. There are outbuilding which have been used as barns, and chicken coops. There is a huge enclosed garden with a raspberry patch. The seasonal pond is used for irrigation and the sale includes the pump and hoses needed for watering. Don't miss the 36x40 shop w/ wood burning stove, on it’s own power w/ a separate bill. MLS #21604084 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com
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360 STONE ST. $415,000
UNDER CONTRACT 604 Overlook Way • $244,900 Farviews home with 3 beds, 2 baths, fireplace & 2 car garage in Lewis & Clark School District
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience
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5 bedroom, 4 bath Orchard Homes oasis on 2.99 acres with irrigation rights & pond with perfect space for a garden. Large dining area, tons of windows & large double garage. Separate 4 room suite has private bath including jetted tub, laundry room & gas fireplace.
Matt Rosbarsky 360-9023 512 E. Broadway