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FEDS WANT MILLER CREEK SUBSTATION TO TRANSMIT MONTANA’S WIND POWER

BULLOCK’S GIMMICK: ETC. STEVE HERE, BUY A SNOWMOBILE

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MONTANA CREATORS DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO RAISE FUNDS

by Erika Fredrickson

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FEDS WANT MILLER CREEK SUBSTATION TO TRANSMIT MONTANA’S WIND POWER

BULLOCK’S GIMMICK: ETC. STEVE HERE, BUY A SNOWMOBILE

RANCHER RANGE COLSTRIP-AREA WANTS COAL-ASH REGS

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nside Cover Story In a society in which the axe often falls first on arts funding during a down economy, many Missoula artists wonder whether contributions from Kickstarter, a crowd-sourcing fundraising platform, are telling them something different about support for the arts..............................................................14 Cover illustration by Andy Smetanka

News Letters Outhouse outrage............................................................................................4 The Week in Review Missoula’s budget and a nightmarish Father’s Day .................6 Briefs Breakfast with Newt...........................................................................................6 Etc. Bullock should know better than to buy votes ....................................................7 Up Front Feds float Missoula substation to move wind energy .................................8 Up Front Montana vets face increasingly tough times................................................9 Range Colstrip waste ponds a looming menace .......................................................11 Agenda The 4th annual Garden City Localfest............................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Ninja chips .....................................................................................18 Happiest Hour Draught Works covers your munchies.............................................19 8 Days a Week All hat and no cattle .........................................................................21 Mountain High Beer and mountain biking ..............................................................29 Scope Meet the Dodgy Mountain Men ......................................................................30 Soundcheck A dose of vintage fuzz-rock ..................................................................31 Books Jo Deurbrouck transports us to wild waters ..................................................32 TV When two reality shows feature Montana, who wins? .........................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

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

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jason McMackin STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITOR Ted McDermott NEWS INTERN Jackie Coffin ARTS INTERN Brooks Johnson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler MARKETING INTERN Jon Tweeten FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Chris Dombrowski Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Jamie Rogers, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Asked the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18, at the University Center on the UM campus.

What’s the best way to make money?

Follow-up: What’s the best way to lose money?

Justin Carlat: Nowadays, I’d say through entrepreneurship. Find what you love doing and opportunities will present themselves. Wrong direction: Well, I just came from Vegas. … But anytime you’re going in the wrong direction, it’s easy to lose money.

Daniel Green: Find a point of demand, then get out and capitalize on it.

Textbook: Failure to see an opportunity or, if you see it, failure to take advantage of it.

Anya Jabur: Fill an existing need, like home delivery of prepared meals. I personally want that service back. It’s gone, and that’s sad to me. Long odds: The lottery, or gambling.

Andrew Badger: Expand your social network. You get to know this person and then they know that person, who can get you a good position. Eyes wide open: Not keeping track of your money—where it is, where it’s going.

Dalton Swan: Stay dedicated to your business and spend whatever time is required to get you where you’re going. Tom Sawyer: Get lazy and pass your work off to others.

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I-166 misguided I have read small business owners support Initiative 166, which supposedly is going to keep large national corporations from, in the words of our governor, stealing our government.

I-166 supporters’ intent may be to keep out-of-state corporate money out of Montana politics, but the actual effect of the initiative’s passage will have far-reaching and devastating consequences for Montana’s farmers, ranchers and other small business owners.

We may well succeed in denying free speech to groups of Montanans, but I-166 will have little effect on billionaires like George Soros who have a battery of lawyers on call to protect their rights.

I-166 would establish “a state policy that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights because they are not human beings, and charges Montana elected and appointed officials, state and federal, to implement that policy.” If it passes, this will become Montana law and be enforced against Montanans, but it will not change the U.S. Constitution or affect major national or international corporations in any way.

Ninety-nine out of 100 Montana businesses, including small farms and ranches, are incorporated. We incorporate to share the proceeds of our enterprise with our family or business partners and to protect them from punitive taxes and regulations.

As a group of folks forced to incorporate for our protection, why should we be denied the same rights we have as individuals? If we lose those rights, we lose due process, the legal means to protect our property and our family’s future.

If you are a Montana business owner and support I-166, you are bringing the rope to your own hanging.

Jake Cummins Montana Farm Bureau Federation Bozeman

Crackpots In a recent email to fellow Ravalli County commissioners, Commissioner Suzy Foss stated the following: “Our county is currently considered the leader in producing solid policies other counties can emulate, in the past we have been the

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laughing stock of the state. Personally I prefer to be a leader in county government versus a follower.”

So what are these leaders leading us toward? A crude and overt threat against a president’s life in the form of a bulletpocked outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Reading Library,” adorned with infantile sexual slurs against the first lady, built by a prominent local Republican and

“Apparently you haven’t noticed yet that the tea you’re swimming in is leaking pretty rapidly out of a cracked pot.”

displayed as a Republican float at Corvallis’s Memorial Day Parade? A call to violence with a Shoot, Shovel and Shut-up raffle sponsored by your Ravalli County Republican Central Committee, which is headed by Terry Nelson, a well-paid county employee hired by our commissioners whose main job seems to be promoting anti-government county supremacy schemes such as the “Large Predator Policy” and “Natural Resource Management Policies”?

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Correction: In last week’s article “Searching for symmetry,” we misstated the properties of milky quartz crystals.

Milky quartz is not irradiated, according to crystal healer Yarrow Grace, which is why it doesn’t tend to have a grounding effect. The Indy regrets the error.

Please specify, Ms. Foss: Who is leading whom, and who is and who is not laughing at Ravalli County?

All of you Tea Partiers who claim to be so concerned for the children and for “future generations,” please enlighten us: Are bullet-pocked threats against chief executives and other overt calls to violence from your own employees and Republican operatives actually “solid policy” or did you really mean to say “solid waste”?

Apparently you haven’t noticed yet that the tea you’re swimming in is leaking pretty rapidly out of a cracked pot.

Bill LaCroix Victor

Outhouse outrage My father was a die-hard Republican who didn’t much like FDR. I was seven years old when President Roosevelt died, and the small New Mexico town where we lived held a community-wide celebration of his life. My father took me out of school to attend, as he believed it appropriate to honor the office of the president. I remember how thrilled I was to go with him, and I especially remember that we all sang Roosevelt’s favorite song, “Home on the Range.”

What a contrast to the Republican party of today. How horrified my father would be at the complete lack of respect for the office of president displayed at the recent state Republican convention— an outhouse covered with graffiti. I am quite certain my father couldn’t support such antics, and I know I certainly can’t.

Our country is in real trouble when bathroom humor is considered acceptable by supposedly responsible people who want to lead. I wonder where they will lead us.

Jean Bowman Missoula

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The Missoula City Council continues its debate about whether to allow accessory dwelling units, or “grandma flats,” in all residential neighborhoods. Some worry that the proposal will increase neighborhood density. One woman says she favors the idea because it would enable her to live on her daughter’s property.

• Thursday, June 14 A Missoula City-County Health Department test of dust near the Montana Rail Link yard shows that very little of it—between 1 and 5 percent—is composed of coal. But the results don’t put to rest questions about how increased coal-train traffic could affect public health.

• Friday, June 15 USA Cycling announces that Missoula mountain biker Sam Schultz, 26, will compete in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. “I’m super pumped. … I can’t wait to represent the U.S. over in London,” Schultz says in a video interview. He’s scheduled to race Aug. 12.

• Saturday, June 16 The Montana Newspaper Association’s annual convention hosts the first debate between Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Rep. Denny Rehberg and Jon Tester, the Democratic incumbent. They duel over health care reform, campaign funding and the difference between ranching and farming.

• Sunday, June 17 On Father’s Day, a 52-year-old father driving a motorhome accidentally runs over his 5-year-old son.

The boy, who suffers severe head and chest injuries, is airlifted to Great Falls and later to Seattle, where he’s listed in critical condition.

• Monday, June 18 The Missoula City Council votes 8-2 to approve the city’s $119.5 million budget for fiscal year 2013.

Property taxes will go up by 3.28 percent, helping to fund wage increases for city employees. Council also votes to increase homeowner contributions to road and park districts.

• Tuesday, June 19 The shakeup of the University of Montana’s administration continues with the school’s announcement that Jim Foley, the vice president for external relations, will step down. President Royce Engstrom says the move is part of “ongoing cabinet-level adjustments,” which come in the wake of a sexual assault scandal that’s rocked the university.

Sarah Walter kayaks down the Bitterroot and past Josh Ramirez as he fishes beneath Buckhouse Bridge on the afternoon of Sunday, June 17.

Bitterroot Power play A group of Bitterrooters is working with Ravalli County Commissioners to craft a new policy that calls for returning the heavily forested region to a resource extraction-based economy.

“The genesis of the document was a group of citizens basically trying to save their city from the economic decline that they’re seeing,” says Nancy Ballance of the Bitterroot Natural Resource Recovery Committee, which is spearheading the local effort.

Ballance and other committee members say that increasing environmental restrictions on state and federal lands, which make up 77 percent of Ravalli County, have limited resource extraction and economic activity.

Balance says that’s why about 30 locals helped to draft the 46-page “Bitterroot Valley Natural Resource Use Policy.” It calls for greater county involvement in the management of forests, roadless areas and mineral extraction on state and federal lands.

Ravalli County Commissioners are holding a series of public meetings to vet the document.

During a June 18 meeting, Commission Chair Suzy

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Foss said commissioners aim to use it as a blueprint to guide the lawmaking body. “It’s just a policy statement.”

Bitterroot National Forest Ranger Dave Campbell points out that the federal government already has a protocol for managing public lands.

Guidelines are spelled out in individual forest plans that are crafted with scientific study and public input. “I’m just wondering how you think it would change,” he asked commissioners during the June 18 meeting. “It’s still not very clear to me how this is taking place.”

The term used for what the committee and commissioners are working to achieve with federal and state governments is “coordination.” In 2011, Foss invited the conservative nonprofit group Stewards of Liberty to conduct a training session on the strategy.

Dozens of rural communities across the country are working to implement coordination. The movement prompted Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak in January to officially respond to their efforts. He said that while counties are invited to lend expertise and analysis to discussions about federal land management, “It must be remembered that a local gov-

ernment, by virtue of its cooperating agency status, has no authority to impose specific provisions of county ordinances in forest plans.”

Commissioners are scheduled to take up the issue again July 9 at 1:30 p.m.

Jessica Mayrer

Politics Breakfast with Newt On June 16, University of Montana College Republicans sat in dark suits sipping coffee, while ranchers young and old in worn cowboy boots and white Stetsons sat next to women in sun hats as they waited for the arrival of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, on the final day of the GOP’s convention at the Hilton Garden Inn in Missoula.

When Gingrich arrived, he fed the momentum that had built during the two preceding days of campaign speeches, political workshops and the presence of one now-notorious bullet-ridden outhouse bearing the sign “Obama Presidential Library.”

“This is the most important election since 1860,” Gingrich told the audience. “We must tie the

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Senate race to the presidential race. It’s one more piece of the machine.”

The Senate race between Democratic incumbent Jon Tester and Republican challenger Rep. Denny Rehberg is among the most contested in the country.

Gingrich said if Republicans are to take control of the Senate, it’s vital that Rehberg wins.

With stronger Republican leadership, he said, Montana would be able to regain a stronger resource-extraction economy. “Timber mills will come back to Montana. The timber industry will see a recovery and there will be a market for timber over the next 20 years. … We have to shift from Sierra Club mismanagement to Theodore Roosevelt-era environmental planning to maintain healthy and diverse forests.”

Gingrich said that with the leadership of candidates like Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill and congressional candidate Steve Daines, Montana can provide an even stronger example for the rest of the nation when it comes to resource extraction, energy independence and maintaining state autonomy.

“I don’t think any future president should ever bow to a Saudi king,” Gingrich said, evoking a standing ovation from the audience.

The Romney presidential campaign paid for Gingrich’s visit to Montana. Gingrich officially pulled out of the presidential race weeks before the Montana primary, but still won four percent of Montana’s vote. Since then, Gingrich has endorsed Romney and has toured the country rallying support for Romney’s campaign.

“I don’t think Romney would come here and think he’d know about what it is like to be a Montanan,” Gingrich said “I think Romney would say most of Montana’s decisions should be made in Montana.”

Jackie Coffin

Recreation The Blackfoot gets primitive Big Blackfoot Riverkeeper Jerry O’Connell is running a bit of an experiment this summer. In conjunction with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, he’s monitoring a new campsite at Ninemile Prairie, about 150 yards from his house. The hitch? You gotta float in to camp out.

The new site is one of three trial spots FWP is trotting out this season to meet local demands for more primitive recreation options. Camping on the Blackfoot has historically been limited to

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developed sites—easy drive-in access, fire pits, pit toilets. Availability at those sites can be dicey even on weekdays, and they’re usually teeming with fellow campers.

“I just like the hell out of the idea of being able to float knowing you’re going to camp somewhere and have a quiet, private experience,” O’Connell says.

FWP river recreation manager Chet Crowser says the main goal of these new sites is to diversify opportunities on the waterway. But there’s a host of trick-

le-down benefits for both the agency and Blackfootarea landowners. For starters, Crowser believes the more remote sites could put a dent in illegal “pioneer” camping and alleviate landowners’ concerns about fire, trash and human waste on private property. And increasing the number of campsites on the river will make sure float campers don’t get stuck without a place to sleep.

While the new campsites, located at River Junction, Corrick’s River Bend and Ninemile Prairie, will be operated on a permit system, Crowser doesn’t anticipate any user conflicts. FWP intends to monitor the site at River Junction, and O’Connell has volunteered to cover Corrick’s and Ninemile.

The potential for fire damage and trash accumulation is still there. But, given the kinds of users most likely to utilize the primitive sites, O’Connell isn’t nervous. “I’ve done it in the wilderness, and I love the idea of being able to do it here on the Blackfoot,” he says. “It’s good stuff. It’s good for public opinion, it’s good for the image of the river.”

He’d even like FWP to name the sites. He’s already got a suggestion for the spot near his house: “The Maclean site.”

“It’s right on Norman Maclean’s favorite fishing hole,” O’Connell says. “I’ve talked to a grandson

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who’s been fishing there with him. … It’s a great fishing spot. A great nook.”

Alex Sakariassen

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Points separating Rep. Denny Rehberg and Sen. Jon Tester in a poll of 500 Montana voters released Tuesday by Rasmussen Reports.

Rehberg leads Tester 49-47, but with a sampling error that makes it a dead heat.

Bison Just give them a home Conservationists and state agencies are now obsessing over the question of where to establish wild herds of bison in Montana. Talk has bounced from state land to Indian reservations to private reserves in eastern Montana. But the social and judicial hurdles keep going up, preventing any sort of lasting solution.

The National Wildlife Federation believes the 1.1 million acre Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge could be the answer. In a recent column for High Country News, regional director Tom France wrote that the refuge in central Montana “has the three things wild bison need: grass, water and space.”

It also happens to be “a significant piece” of the bison’s native habitat, says longtime conservationist and Montana author Jim Posewitz. “And by native habitat I mean habitat originally occupied by the buffalo since the late Pleistocene.”

The National Wildlife Federation and others have already set the stage for such restoration. In 2009, the group expanded its Wildlife Conflict Resolution Program to the Russell refuge, working to retire livestock grazing allotments. The controversial program has contributed to the phasing out of cattle grazing on some 250,000 acres of refuge land—making it available, in theory, for bison.

“We brought elk back to the [Refuge] by hauling them in,” Posewitz says. “We brought bighorn sheep back to the [Missouri] Breaks by hauling them in...and we can see the net effect of all that was an exceptional wildlife resource living with reasonable compatibility with the domestic production of livestock.”

Posewitz sees the refuge as an answer for more sentimental reasons. He recounts a story wherein Russell, working as a range cowboy in the late 1800s, lamented the decimation of the bison and wished he could have lived in Montana during the days of the Sioux. The bison are the last step in proving the strength of the country’s conservation ethic, Posewitz says.

“We know we’re not going to restore 30 million buffalo to the continent. But we think there can and should be one place where we can add the buffalo to the conservation pyramid of wildlife restoration.”

Alex Sakariassen

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One of the more heated debates during Montana’s 2011 legislative session centered on state revenue projections. Republicans, who held strong majorities in both houses, sought to slash the budget. Underestimating revenues is a good place to start, since the Montana Constitution stipulates that the legislature’s appropriations can’t exceed anticipated revenues. The parties’ projections differed by hundreds of millions of dollars. In the end, Republicans largely got what they wanted: a budget cut of about six percent that starved all sorts of social programs.

As it turns out, those conservative revenue projections were way off. The state is looking at a general fund budget surplus of more than $400 million.

Now, in a political jujitsu move, Attorney General Steve Bullock, the Democratic candidate for governor, wants to capitalize on that pile of cash. Bullock recently proposed using $100 million of the surplus to give homeowners one-time property tax rebates of $400. He said last week that the money, the result of the state’s sound fiscal management (read: Republicans wringing government dry), will allow families to “take the kids out to dinner, put a down payment on a snowmobile, maybe buy some fencing.”

Yes. A snowmobile. That’d be sweet.

It’s a familiar appeal to voters. In 2007, Gov. Brian Schweitzer pushed the same rebate through the legislature.

Bullock’s opponent, Republican Rick Hill, called Bullock’s proposal a “one-time gimmick that won’t do anything to stimulate the economy.” Instead, Hill is calling for permanent property tax relief that would save homeowners that $100 million every year (so we can also cover the monthly payments on our new snowmobiles). The revenue shortfall would be made up, of course, from more energy development—fracking, mining Otter Creek’s coal and so on.

It feels icky to be offered money that Republicans cut from social programs. But more than that, isn’t it somewhat ironic that Bullock’s dangling $400 in front of voters’ noses?

Our intrepid attorney general is leading the fight against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, which has allowed corporations to spend ungodly amounts in support of their candidates. Conservative casino mogul Sheldon Anderson, for example, just gave a pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC $10 million. Bullock rightly argues that billionaires like Anderson shouldn’t be able to buy votes.

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A second wind Feds float Missoula substation to move energy west

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Tapping Montana’s vast wind energy potential requires new transmission lines to get the energy to market, but efforts to build new lines have faced stiff headwinds.

Proposals such as NorthWestern Energy’s Mountain States Transmission Intertie, or MSTI, have stoked eminent domain disputes and been slowed by legal battles.

Meanwhile, as the Southwest quickly develops renewable energy sources and transmission capacity, the window for sending faraway Montana wind energy there, partly along MSTI, appears to be closing.

large as 40 acres. The agency wants to build it in one of three locations along the existing power line in the Miller Creek drainage, an area already crossed by a web of power lines, or north of St. Regis.

Only about 20 citizens attended the meeting at the fire station on Latimor Street.

Some voiced opposition to a Miller Creek substation. In response, BPA says it will explore other options.

Beyond a new substation, the project includes proposed “reinforcements” at the BPA’s Garrison, Hot Springs, Bell, Dworshak

Jamison hopes Gaelectric, which is based in Ireland but does much of its work in Montana, can begin constructing a 430megawatt wind farm near Harlowton by 2015 or 2016. It would be the state’s largest wind farm by far, and roughly double the state’s wind energy capacity. Gaelectric also has an 80 megawatt project in the pipeline.

The company paid more than $18 million in deposits to BPA and NorthWestern Energy to secure transmission service on BPA’s upgraded line, Jamison says.

“It’s a huge step,” Jamison continues.

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Power lines in the Miller Creek area, where a new substation could be built to move wind power.

Opening, though, could be more than 500 megawatts of new transmission capacity along the Bonneville Power Administration’s existing transmission line that connects Montana to the Northwest.

Van Jamison of Gaelectric, the primary wind energy developer that would move power along the line, calls it the “lowest-hanging fruit” and the “least impactful upgrade of transmission capacity available anywhere in the West. It doesn’t involve placing a single new pole anywhere other than where poles are currently situated.”

If Jamison’s right, green-lighting this transmission project could be a relative breeze—and provide a big boost to the state’s wind industry.

The proposed upgrade of BPA’s line, which was originally built to move power generated by the coal-fired Colstrip plant east of Billings, would require construction of a new substation, possibly in the Miller Creek area south of Missoula.

Last week, representatives of BPA, the federal agency that supplies and transmits power around the Pacific Northwest, came to Missoula to discuss possible locations for a new substation that could be as

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and Hatwai substations in Montana, Idaho and Washington. It would also involve stringing new wire along about 12 miles of line in Montana and Idaho.

BPA spokesperson Teresa Waugh says the entire project is expected to cost between $115 and $225 million—a bargain compared to the $1 billion cost of MSTI. She says the upgrade’s 520 megawatts of additional capacity is enough to power 500,000 homes, or a city half the size of Seattle.

Montana wind is attractive to markets in the Northwest largely because, as Jamison explains, it complements wind generated in the Columbia Gorge area: There, the wind peaks in the spring and summer; in Montana, the wind peaks in the winter. Gorge winds tend to blow at night, Montana’s during the day. “So we provide geographic diversity both on a diurnal and seasonal basis,” Jamison says.

BPA is seeking comments on its Montana-to-Washington Transmission System Upgrade Project through July 2. A draft Environmental Impact Statement should be released in the fall of 2013, and a final EIS a year later.

“The No. 1 impediment to any sort of generation development in Montana has been lack of transmission capacity. We can basically blindfold ourselves, spin ourselves around and then throw a dart at a map of Montana and find a wind area that has higher wind speeds than what’s being developed in Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Iowa—all of those states. That’s how substantial the Montana wind resource is.

We’ve got the land, we’ve got the wind.

What we’ve never had, of course, is the transmission. So we’ve now resolved that, at least for the first 510 megawatts of projects in our pipeline.”

Jamison calls the BPA upgrade the “last easy-to-achieve transmission out of Montana. From this point forward, new lines will have to be built.”

MSTI would be the next-lowest-hanging fruit, though it’s hardly low, considering the ongoing debates over the path the line would follow between Townsend to south of Jerome, Idaho, and doubts about its economic viability. MSTI’s draft EIS is expected later this year. mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Veterans’ affairs Montana’s vets face increasingly tough times

by Alex Sakariassen

Throughout the month of May, Allen Erickson saw 34 new families walk into the Northwest Montana Veterans Food Pantry.

They were veteran families, some with wives, some with kids, some with both.

Many were new to the Kalispell area, Erickson says. Others had recently fallen on hard times and needed support. Ten families were homeless.

Erickson wasn’t all that surprised. The food pantry, which he and his wife started 12 years ago, usually sees an increase in patronage this time of year. But since Erickson’s May tally, four more veteran families have turned to him for help. All of them are homeless.

“We have a lot of new kids,” Erickson says. “Thank the Good Lord quite a few of them aren’t homeless. But they’re so close to it, it’s not funny. … It shouldn’t be that way.”

Erickson’s concerns for veterans, particularly those returning to Montana from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, are well founded. In 2008, a state survey of homelessness found that 282 military veterans in Montana were living with friends, at shelters, in treatment facilities, on the streets— in a word, were homeless. Of those, 11 had families with them.

This year, the same survey found 383 homeless veterans statewide; 20 had family members with them. For those trying to transition into civilian life, the combination of a poor job market and lasting injuries from the wars is having a noticeable impact.

“We’re seeing an increasing number in the more recent conflicts,” says Paul Harmon, a re-entry and justice outreach specialist for the Department of Veterans Affairs. It’s still a lower percentage than homeless veterans from previous conflicts, he adds, “but the numbers are increasing. We’re also seeing more families … and more women veterans that are homeless.”

The VA’s been working to meet the needs of those who’ve served, both in the state and across the nation. Harmon says that in Montana alone, over the past three years, the agency has quadrupled the number of staff assigned to manage homeless issues. They’ve increased contracts with community partners, started giving housing

vouchers to veterans and their families in 2008 and redoubled efforts to train returning vets for new jobs. There’s even a proposal to construct housing units for veterans at Fort Harrison, near Helena.

But the problems run deeper than housing. Nationwide, the number of veterans seeking mental health care has jumped from fewer than 900,000 in 2006 to 1.2 million in 2010. On average, 20 percent of veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer some sort of mental health condition;

“We have a lot of new kids,” Erickson says. “Thank the Good Lord quite a few of them aren’t homeless. But they’re so close to it, it’s not funny. …

It shouldn’t be that way.” according to a 2011 report to the Government Accountability Office, roughly one in three such cases involves Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Mental health issues like PTSD have made it difficult for returning vets to transition back into old jobs or hold down new ones, Harmon says. Those difficulties can be compounded by the small size of many Montana communities.

“We’ve worked with several veterans who have had multiple deployments, and then they come back and the job that they had before they left, there’s problems there,” Harmon says. “Then, because of their mental health stuff, they can’t seem to hold a job. It’s not a big area like Salt Lake or Denver, where’s there’s lots of different jobs and you could bounce from job to job.

Here, in some of these places, if you bounce four or five jobs you’re not going to be able to find work anymore.”

VA Montana says it’s added five new mental health clinicians to address such concerns. According to public affairs officer Terrie Casey, the agency hired one new physician in early June and intends to have two more in place by the end of July. There are currently 81 mental health clinicians employed by the VA in Montana.

Casey says VA Montana also has become much more proactive in diagnosing vets with mental health conditions early on. Last November, the agency rewrote its strategy on assessing returning veterans. Now, when a unit comes home to the state, the VA schedules physician appointments for each member to determine physical and mental health. Usually that scheduling is left up to the veteran, Casey says, and it’s easy for those appointments to slip through the cracks. She adds that Montana is one of the only VA programs in the country—if not the only one—to offer such a service.

Up in Kalispell, Erickson knows what even the smallest gesture can do. About six years ago, he recalls, a man who’d served in Vietnam asked his wife Linda for help getting a photo ID during a veterans gathering in Libby. Both Erickson and his wife are veterans. Both have been homeless, he says, with children. Linda didn’t hesitate to help the man.

“His mom happened to run into my wife, and she was crying, so my wife took her aside,” Erickson says. “She said this was the first time her son had been out of the woods since he came home from Vietnam in the early ’70s.”

Two years later, Linda saw the man again. He was spruced up, clean shaven. He walked up to her and told her he had a job, was living in an apartment. All because of her help.

With an influx of newer, younger veterans, Erickson only expects his volunteer work in Kalispell to get busier. “You just get attached to these guys and gals,” he says. “It’s not just helping anymore. It’s become personal.”

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Coal-ash clash Colstrip waste ponds are a looming menace

by Clint McRae

In Montana, clean water is the lifeblood of any successful ranch. I know this, because I am a fourth-generation rancher in southeastern Montana. My greatgrandfather, a Scottish immigrant, settled along the banks of Rosebud Creek in the 1880s because of its abundance of clean water, both aboveground and below it.

I’m sure he never dreamed that, 100 years later, pollution from nearby coal-fired power plants would put everything he’d built in jeopardy.

In Colstrip, about 120 miles east of Billings, construction of four coal-fired power plants began in the 1970s and 1980s.

Along with these power plants came huge coal-ash ponds and big open pits filled with coal ash, the toxic remains from burning coal. Coal ash is full of dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, lead, selenium, chromium and mercury, and it constitutes our nation’s second-largest industrial waste. Ranchers in my area were concerned that our water would be contaminated by this pollution, but we were always assured that the waste ponds would be lined with impermeable materials and would not leak.

That was just the first of many lies we were told.

One coal-ash pond, built in the 1990s, has failed 18 times, affecting the people of Colstrip. Testing of a reservoir adjacent to another coal-ash pond has shown sulfate levels to be at 2,000 parts per million—higher than the toxic threshold for cattle. In 2009, a group of 57 homeowners were awarded $25 million after successfully suing Pennsylvaniabased PPL, owner of the power plants, for contaminating drinking-water wells in homes and businesses just north of town and just 10 miles from my ranch. But all of us worry that the water in our community continues to be contaminated by toxic coal ash, and the power companies, the state government and the federal government

aren’t doing anything to stop it.

In 2008, a massive coal-ash pond failed in Kingston, Tenn., spilling over a billion gallons of toxic coal ash into a nearby river and the surrounding area. Three hundred acres were poisoned and two dozen homes were damaged or destroyed. Miraculously, no one was injured, but residents of that small town have been forced to move in

Ranchers were assured that the Colstrip coal-ash ponds would be lined with impermeable materials and would not leak.

That was just the first of many lies we were told. order to avoid the coal-ash deluge. That catastrophe inspired the Environmental Protection Agency to introduce the first-ever federally enforceable safeguards against coal ash. Nearly four years after the Kingston event, Montanans still wait for those protections from coal ash to be applied to our community.

That delay could become permanent if a group of zealous members of Congress get their way. Congress is considering a transportation bill that includes an unrelated amendment that would prohibit the EPA

from ever setting federal coal-ash protections. The amendment would make coal ash less regulated than coffee grounds and banana peels. Republican Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia led the industryfavored legislation. The controversial group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adopted a resolution in 2010 that mirrors the legislation McKinley proposed.

Tacking his dirty amendment to a must-pass bill that is designed to ensure the safety of our roads and communities insults the millions of Americans—myself included—who live near coal-ash dumping grounds.

When will enough be enough?

The EPA says that it has identified 46 coal-ash dumpsites where containment failure will result in the loss of human life.

Already, nearly 200 coal-ash sites around the country have been found to be contaminated by arsenic, selenium, mercury, hexavalent chromium or other toxic chemicals.

This is water that people fish in, swim in, boat on and depend on. I know that my cattle drink from ponds containing chemicals from coal ash.

This threat is real—and even as the EPA moves slowly to enact federal safeguards, some people in Congress want to make sure those safeguards never happen at all. Yet it is clear that the status quo is a failure that makes the land and the people who live on it sick. It’s time that our government becomes a government that is truly of the people, for the people and by the people—with big polluters no longer getting a free pass.

Clint McRae is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a rancher in southeastern Montana.

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I’m not sure when it became hippy-dippy to not be improvident with materials made from our environment. My grandma keeps a drawerful of aluminum foil that has been re-used a hundred times, to tent pie crusts. No one would dare call Grandma

Dodgy Mountain Men Ruby (former hop picker, lookout-tower guard and baker of fine chocolate pies) a hippy or an environmentalist, but there she is using cloth napkins, drying clothes outdoors on a clothesline and saving old jeans to patch torn clothing or to construct a scarecrow. Of course, she doesn’t use the word “sustainability” and she wastes things here and there like the rest of us, but she makes an effort—and that, I think, is more than a lot of us do. Missoula’s Sustainable Business Council makes an effort, too. They encourage businesses to reduce, reuse, recycle and then some. Most importantly, they remind businesses of the ways businesses can affect the environment

FRIDAY JUNE 22 Join Dr. Jill M. Williams for Mental Health and Tobacco Dependence: Road Map for Wellness and Recovery at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 200 S. Pattee. Call Erica for details at 258-3685.

SUNDAY JUNE 24 Mob rules during this Crop Mob. What’s a crop mob? Crew up, do some weeding, listen to tunes (Josh Slotnick), get free dinner. Clark Fork Organics, 3507 S. 7th St. W. Noon-5 PM. Call David to RSVP at (303) 328-7001.

MONDAY JUNE 25 Give up the funk and the blood at the American Red Cross. 2401 N. Reserve. Ste. 6. 2–6 PM. Call 800 RED-CROSS. Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

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and they offer solutions. This year, the SBC hosts the 4th Annual Garden City Localfest, which encourages the community to “Think Local–Buy Local–Celebrate Local.” The event includes a Local Gourmet Chef Challenge from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., wherein local

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chefs and their celebrity counterparts must create a dish based on local ingredients in a “shop, chop and cook” style competition. Local Americana players the Dodgy Mountain Men perform tunes from 6–8 p.m., and local food and beverage vendors are on hand as well.

—Jason McMackin The Missoula Sustainable Business Council’s 4th Annual Garden City Localfest takes place on Sat., June 14, from 11:45 AM–8 PM at Caras Park. Free. Visit sustainablebusinesscouncil.org.

Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 13 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Help give them bears room to breathe and get yourself some brews at the Vital Ground Pint Night at Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Black Mountain Boys grass it up at 7 PM. 5–11 PM. 424 N. Higgins.

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups.

Free. Call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 Get it together, Don and Donna Juans, and get checked out during National HIV Testing Day. Walmart Supercenter on Mullan and Reserve from 11 AM–1:30 PM and the Walmart on Brooks from 2–5 PM. Free. Visit openaidalliance.org.

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 e-mail 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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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - A man walked into a Chicago bank carrying a bag and told the teller he had a bomb. Police said he ordered the teller to stuff the bag with cash, then, when the bag was full, the robber left without taking it. (Chicago Tribune) Two men flagged down police in Athens, Ga., to report they’d been robbed. The officers, who’d just seen a man running down the street carrying a gun, doubled back and called for backup to set up a perimeter. Officers spotted a discarded handgun on the ground near a trash bin. An officer waiting to take pictures of the weapon and log it into evidence heard a cell phone ringing inside the bin, opened the lid and found Zachariah Henry Garrett, 17. He fit the robber’s description and was carrying two stolen cell phones. (Athens Banner-Herald) HOMELAND INSECURITY - Congressional investigators accused the Transportation Security Administration of “wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars” by warehousing body scanners rather than deploying them to commercial airports. Their report indicated about 5,700 pieces of security equipment, with a value of $184 million, are being stored, 85 percent of it for more than six months, more than a third of it for more than a year and one piece for six years, more than half its useful life. TSA Chief Financial Officer David R. Nicholson responded by telling a joint hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure and House Oversight and Government Reform committees that $184 million is only about 5 percent of all the security equipment the agency has. But Rep. John L. Mica, R-Fla., called this revelation merely the latest in a long line of TSA procurement failures. Noting the agency spent more than $30 million buying explosive-trace-detection portals, known as “puffers,” for use at screening checkpoints, Mica said only half of them were ever deployed, and they didn’t work. “Where are the puffers?” he demanded. (The Washington Times) More people are showing up at airport security checkpoints with guns in their carry-on bags, according to the TSA. The agency’s blog reported that five years ago about 500 handguns were found at checkpoints, whereas last year “over 1,200 firearms were discovered at TSA checkpoints across the nation. Many guns are found loaded, with rounds in the chamber. Most passengers simply state they forgot they had a gun in their bag.” The agency insisted the increase isn’t because more people are carrying guns to airport checkpoints but because it’s better at catching people with weapons. (The New York Times) After Rush Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, the Missouri House spent more than $1,100 in taxpayer dollars to install a security camera trained on a new bronze bust of the conservative commentator. Clerk Adam Crumbliss said Republican legislative leaders had expressed concerns the bust might be vandalized, noting that since the bust was added, “We’ve had lots of calls, and some calls and complaints have been a little beyond the pale.” The Hall of Famous Missourians honors dozens of people, such as President Harry Truman, Walt Disney and former Cardinals baseball star Stan Musial, but Limbaugh’s is the only bust with a camera specifically pointed at it. (Associated Press) FIVE FIFTHS - Idaho liquor regulators decided not to let Five Wives vodka be stocked at state-run liquor stores, declaring the brand offensive to Mormons, who make up more than a quarter of the state’s population, even though the vodka is sold in Utah, a state dominated by Mormons. Five Wives maker Ogden’s Own Distillery also noted Idaho allows the sale of a Utah beer named Polygamy Porter. After the distillery protested, Idaho regulators agreed to make Five Wives vodka available through special warehouse orders. (Associated Press) PRESSING CHARGES - Rachel George, 21, was charged with assaulting several police officers who tried to arrest her at a baseball game in Pittsburgh’s PNC Park, including Sgt. Sean Duffy, who, it was reported, “injured himself striking her in the face.” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) EVOLVING VIEW - Elizabeth Halseth, a former Nevada state senator who ran on a Christian family values platform, posed in a black bikini as a write-in candidate for Maxim magazine’s “Hot 100” contest. Running as a political unknown in 2010, the 27-year-old Halseth won as a Republican in a Democrat-majority district. A campaign mailer showed her opponent with his wife, who wore a revealing evening dress, and the caption, “Not Our Values.” After becoming the youngest woman ever elected to the Nevada senate, she and her husband divorced. She resigned in February, explaining she needed to “focus my efforts completely as a mother and job seeker.” (Reuters) FREE CONSULTING - Before San Francisco city leaders voted whether to recommend naming a Navy ship after slain gay rights activist, city supervisor and former naval officer Harvey Milk, Supervisor John Avalos said he consulted a Ouija board to help him make the right decision. He said he believes he made contact with Milk’s spirit and that Milk spelled out letters indicating, “Good riddance to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’” The Board of Supervisors approved the non-binding resolution, 9-2.

(San Francisco Chronicle) MEDICAL MIRACLE - A man checked into a Denver hospital with a kidney stone and left as a woman. “We’re in the emergency room,” Steve Crecelius said. “The nurse is reading the ultrasound and says, ‘Huh, this says you’re a female.’ It validated everything I had always felt inside.” It turns out Crecelius was born with both male and female sex organs. “I remember wearing my mom’s clothes and makeup, very secretly, not telling anybody,” said Crecelius, who now goes by “Stevie” and said she’s grateful for the support of her wife Debbie and their six children, noting that Debbie even took her shopping for her first bra. (Denver’s KDVR-TV and The Denver Post) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - A 17-year-old boy on his way to school in Corpus Christi, Texas, stopped at a taco stand and placed an order. When the boy realized he was late, he canceled the order. Police said a man at the taco stand, Guillermo Torres Jr., 19, followed the boy and tried to run him over with his truck. He missed but jumped out and punched the teen in the face. Torres hopped back into his truck and resumed chasing the teen before losing control and crashing into a building.

He was treated for a head laceration and arrested. (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

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he first successful Missoula fundraising campaign using Kickstarter was titled “A Girl and Her Laser Cutter: A Story of Want and Desire.” Andrea Leggitt, owner of one-woman business Salty and Sweet Design, makes silhouette mobiles of everything from bicycles to Day of the Dead-style skulls. She wanted a laser cutter, an expensive piece of machinery that would let her cut cleanly through mat and bamboo. Her goal was $2,500. At the end of 2010, Leggitt had raised $3,720.

Next came a Kickstarter campaign for alt-folk band Wartime Blues, which funded its recording project at $1,858, a little above its goal. Up-and-coming business Cairn Cartographics raised $5,704 on Kickstarter to map the Bob Marshall Wilderness. And then some larger projects arose: Filmmaker Damon Ristau raised $25,430 for his film The Bus, about the VW vehicle, which he showed at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in February to a crowd that included a lot of rabid VW bus fans. By the time the campaign for the feature film Winter In the Blood was funded at $67,223 in July 2011, artists in Missoula and many other places were starting to get the picture:

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Screw grant funding. Ask the masses and thou shalt receive.

Kickstarter, the crowd-sourcing online platform for creative projects from films to food endeavors to albums, books and more, was launched in 2008 by Yancey Strickler, Perry Chen and Charles Adler, from Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Through the end of 2011, only about a dozen projects in Missoula were funded using it. But in just the first six months of 2012, over 20 projects in Missoula and 20 others within Montana have successfully reached their goals, as Kickstarter seems to be approaching a point of critical mass.

Now, Montana artists and artisans are seeing a wide variety of their endeavors getting funded with the help of individual contributors, from an Indian food cart to an experimental airplane and from a punk album to a historical fiction project in the Arctic.

Local artists riding this wave seem to be both excited and apprehensive. In a society in which the axe often falls first on arts funding during a down economy, they wonder whether Kickstarter contributors are telling them something different about support for the arts. Yet they also wonder whether they might reach a saturation point with Kickstarter and crowd-funding. Still, for

now, it’s a strange and exhilarating new avenue to realize artistic vision, with interesting lessons to be learned along the way.

LIFE ON THE FRONTLINES Kickstarter (kickstarter.com) has guidelines for what it can be used to fund.

For example, it can’t be used for charities.

Its focus is helping to fund individual creativity. Projects must fit into one of these categories: art, comics, dance, design, fashion, film, food, games, music, photography, publishing, technology and theater.

They must have tangible goals. It can’t be used to fund lifestyles—no asking for tuition or vacation money or the newest Apple device. And a project can’t focus on firearms, as Kickstarter defines them, or alcohol, energy drinks, porn, infomercial products or hate speech. Project owners choose a deadline and a minimum of funds to raise; if the minimum isn’t met by the deadline, no funds are collected. The all-or-nothing funding, coupled with contributors’ ability to withdraw pledges during a campaign, adds suspense.

There’s a practical reason Kickstarter is working for artists. Like start-up businesses, so many art projects—especially

films—benefit from a chunk of upfront money. A Kickstarter page gives artists a place to imagine their projects, pitch them to the world and get financial backers, and to create something that already has fans.

Once you define your project, there are incentives to think about. The site is set up so that, in exchange for donating, people get something in return. For a small contribution, you might offer a simple, personal “thank you” postcard. A larger contribution might guarantee copies of the art project in the form of prints or albums or DVDs. And, in the case of some Missoula projects, musicians who want to back a friend’s Kickstarter project have offered themselves: For a contribution such as $500 or $1,000, a contributor would get to book the band for a private function.

Artists don’t get all of the money they raise. Kickstarter takes 5 percent off the top.

Amazon, the online retailer, which processes the contributions, takes another 5 percent. And some artists are giving another cut to a campaign manager, a niche that Patrick Cook has carved out in Missoula.

Cook, 25, a guitarist and vocalist for the Missoula band Grandfatherglen and a filmmaker who’s directed two music videos for on-the-rise Missoula musician

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David Boone, as well as directing and acting in theater, has managed three Kickstarter campaigns so far, which in part entails marketing them—finding ways to publicize them on social media, for example—as well as handling email inquiries, setting up meetings with big potential partners, curating the Kickstarter page to keep it fresh and dynamic and laying the groundwork for post-Kickstarter funding.

In return, he’s been paid up to 10 percent of the funds an artist raises. Cook managed the Kickstarter campaign for Winter In the Blood, a Montana-made film of James Welch’s novel, directed by Andrew and Alex Smith (The Slaughter Rule) and featuring actors such as David Morse (The Hurt Locker) and Dana WheelerNicholson (“Friday Night Lights”). Cook was named an associate producer for his Kickstarter work on it.

Cook’s most recent Kickstarter campaign was helping to raise $30,000 for filmmaker Andy Smetanka for And We Were Young, a feature-length animated film about American soldiers during World War I, based on journals, interviews and historical documents. Smetanka had already established himself as a silhouette artist and animator who’s made music videos for the Decemberists and who recently traveled to New York to work on a project about bees with Isabella Rossellini. For And We Were Young, he created trailer-like teasers to update his Kickstarter campaign, with striking animations of soldiers sneaking through grass and blasting their bayonetted rifles into a beautifully ominous orange sky.

Cook took the updates a step further by conceiving and directing a series of oldtimey-looking black-and-white videos called “The Bunker Diaries: Tales from the Western Front.” Smetanka, dressed in a peri-

od uniform, sits in what looks like a bunker (actually, his root cellar) and narrates letters to his supporters. In the first episode, we see him rattled by an offscreen explosion.

“Dear Friends of And We Were Young,” he says: “It’s not so bad, you know, life on the frontlines of the Kickstarter campaign. I think we’re well on our way to our goal.”

Cook worried that $30,000 might be setting the bar too high. The film would cost more than that, but would people be willing to give even that much?

“Kickstarter tells you to construct campaigns around fields of definites,” Cook says. “That’s family and friends.

And we kind of reached a little outside of what we thought we could get in the community—what we knew we could get from that direct group of support. We set our goal beyond.”

Smetanka also hoped to tap World War I buffs. But the average World War I

buff might not be an avid Facebooker. “I think of my dad who’s 76, and this is the kind of project he’d be pretty excited about—if only he knew how to turn on a computer,” Smetanka says. So he wrote letters to World War I organizations, people who make replica firearms and uniforms, historical societies and university departments, hoping to coax them to his Kickstarter page. The director of one World War I organization gave him a pointer. “He said, ‘Look, if you want to reach potential backers with money, you’ve got to get airplanes in there, because people who are interested in World War I, if they are at all, it’s because of airplanes.’”

Smetanka had tried to avoid airplanes in his film; they seemed like they might be too much work on top of his already painstaking silhouette process. But, he says, “I spent a weekend cutting out biplanes and making a little slideshow.”

GETTING STARTED Ready to launch a Kickstarter campaign?

Go to kickstarter.com and follow these steps.

• Make sure your project meets Kickstarter’s criteria.

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Andy Smetanka

• Create an account.

• Come up with an intriguing title.

• Write a concise, clear pitch.

• Make a video providing an artful, in-depth view of your project and of how you’re going to make it happen.

• Provide images of your project so far or blueprints of what it will be.

• Set a goal and a deadline.

He doesn’t know if that moved any supporters—ultimately, he didn’t get much response from World War I buffs, he says, although what he got seemed enthusiastic—but it pushed him. Now he had biplanes involved, and his WWI landscape was going to be that much more layered.

“It made me get a lot of work on the movie done—and not to mention all these things Patrick and I did: the bunker diaries and the updates. Thinking farther down the road with an eye toward DVD extras, we have this bizarre little satchel of artifacts that is sort of funny and stands by itself.”

WAR BY OTHER MEANS

Illustration by Andy Smetanka

And We Were Young

The Kickstarter campaign for Smetanka’s WWI film started feeling, aptly enough, like a political campaign or a battle. He and Cook would meet to strategize at the back of Le Petit Outre, the bakery where they both pull shifts, or at Smetanka’s house in the North Hills. “It was like a war room,” says Cook. “We’d just sit there and wrack our brains about what we’re going to do the next week out.”

How could they reach more people?

Kickstarter has a couple of ways of driving traffic to its site. One is to list staff picks of projects.

Each episode of “The Bunker Diaries” continued to narrate the trials and tribulations of Smetanka’s Kickstarter campaign.

“We were really putting pressure on them for a Memorial Day feature,” he says. “We were kind of fighting to get them to notice us and at the same time we were sort of fighting a campaign against the exhaustion of being in this campaign, like, ‘Oh! Will it ever end?’” he says melodramatically. “‘I don’t know!’... Those ended up being really fun, but for me that kind of

felt like a response to the whole ordeal of Kickstarter at that point. We weren’t being petty or snipey, but I could definitely read between the lines and see that I was struggling with the whole process of having this thing take over my life.”

Smetanka took a family vacation to the Oregon coast in the last week of his campaign. Even with Cook at the wheel, it seemed like a crazy time to be away. He was $17,000 short of his goal. The campaign had started with a spike in contributions and then plateaued. Though he was able to relax most days in Oregon, he says, it was hard not to check in at the local library every few days to see if he was actually going to raise the money to make his film. “It turns your email into a crack-like experience where you look at it every five minutes to see if you have new backers.”

He set up a Plan B: He made a deal with his sister that, if needed, she’d loan him up to $5,000 to make the goal.

“You get into this campaign,” he says.

“And of course, it makes you want it really badly. You want it so badly that at the end, you find yourself prepared to make really strange decisions, like ‘I can hawk one of my kids.’” He laughs. “Well, not that extreme, but you do find yourself making really big Plan Bs that aren’t really compatible with your project. It definitely messes with your head.”

Meanwhile, on Facebook, there was a flutter of people sharing Smetanka's project. Cook says that people who had been talking about donating to it suddenly realized it was now or never. “I would love to write a psychology thesis on this platform,” he says. “That last week alone is fascinating, it’s amazing what happened. That was the most movement I’d ever seen in the last week of one of my campaigns.”

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With 72 hours to go, there were still several thousand dollars to be raised.

Would they make it?

“There’s this great thing that happens where people jump in at the 11th hour to be the hero,” says Cook. “They want to feel like they single-handedly brought this over the finish line.”

They came in $2,000 over their goal.

“It’s a feeling I’ve always craved,” Smetanka says, “having some kind of security or padding for a project. It’s that shoulder, that break that a lot of artists dream of, where you can tune out the rest of the world and finally work on this thing that’s

moved upstairs in your head and won’t leave. And to get it, and to finally dawn on you that you got it, is pretty astonishing.”

UPPING THE ANTE Doug Hawes-Davis’s All the Labor is a music documentary about Austin band The Gourds, which also has a hearty following in Missoula. Hawes-Davis is a Missoula-based filmmaker and co-founder of High Plains Films, known for documentaries such as Libby, MT, Facing the Storm, This is Nowhere and Brave New West, as well as founding the Big Sky Documentary

KICKSTARTER DOS AND DON’Ts according to Patrick Cook

Dos: • Identify your core audience.

• Create a large email list of interested parties.

• Tell all your friends about the project.

• Reach out to bloggers, news media and web publications.

• Pledge to other people’s campaigns.

• Update your page regularly with video, messages and/or photos.

• Stay optimistic; fear of not making your goal quickly sounds desperate.

• Set your timeline to a reasonable 30 or 60 days, or you will lose steam.

• Read blog tips on the Kickstarter page to find out how others succeeded.

• Plan for incentive costs, taxes and Kickstarter and Amazon payments when drafting your budget.

• Use terms like “partner,” “facilitate,” “co-create” and “support.”

• Write off your incentive levels and project costs.

• Have a reasonable Plan B: Have someone ready to kick in support if you think you’ll come up a little short.

Film Festival. And he’s a Gourds fan; he saw their second Missoula show, in 2001, when they played the now-defunct Blue Heron, and was hooked. When he heard a rough mix of their album Old Mad Joy a couple of years ago, he got to talking with the band about a documentary.

He started filming All the Labor late last summer. He and a crew toured with the band, collecting commentary by band members, concert footage, archival images and candid, entertaining behind-the-scenes footage that captures the irreverent quintet wonderfully. He started a Kickstarter campaign in May, hoping to raise $45,000.

From the beginning, Hawes-Davis had banked on Kickstarter for funding.

But it wasn’t carefree. He’d already mounted one Kickstarter campaign, to raise money to distribute Facing the Storm, his bison documentary, and it had failed, although the film ended up on PBS and won a regional Emmy. Likely, the pitch to contribute to distribute a film wasn’t as enticing as one to help fund the making of one, he says, and he didn’t put much effort into Kickstarter campaign updates. But it was all new to him then.

Hawes-Davis, who is 43, started his company High Plains Films, located in downtown Missoula, in 1992. He was used to seeking foundation grants to make his films. He and his High Plains partner, Drury Gunn Carr, would begin a project and try to keep it afloat with money from contract film work for groups such as the Sierra Club, and with sheer frugality. Any money they made from their films went to the making of their next one. “It’s not really a great, sustainable model, but it sort of got us by,” Hawes-Davis says, at least until the market for DVDs of films began to dry up.

That’s when he took a closer look at Kickstarter. He saw how it had helped Missoula director Damon Ristau raise money to make the documentary The Bus. That one was ideal for Kickstarter. There are organized fans of VW buses, whose dedication Ristau examines in his film. There aren’t many foundations that would give a

Dont’s: • Talk ad nauseam about Kickstarter; no one likes a Kickstarter zombie.

• Set your goal too high: some campaigns make a million; chances are yours won’t.

• Set your goal too low: Donors should know you’re serious about funding the project.

• Overdo your incentives; remember, you have to deliver when the campaign’s over.

• Pledge to yourself, as Amazon payments will shut your project down.

• Forget to save all of your receipts for write-offs and taxes.

• Use terms like “donate.” This isn’t a cause, it’s your art!

• Borrow a bunch of money to make your goal; that’s losing your head.

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The Gourds, from All The Labor

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grant to make a film like that, but there were plenty of individuals who might.

Hawes-Davis wanted to connect with Gourds fans, among others. The band was at a perfect crossroads. They’d just signed with the renowned blues and altcountry Vanguard label but hadn’t blown up to the point where it might have been harder for Hawes-Davis to film them. And the band, which is Southern-flavored, more moonshine than fine wine, is endearingly quirky. “They’re not the sort of instant, you know, Jack Johnson melody,” says Hawes-Davis. “They take a little bit of time to grow on you, and I know from being a fanatic music fan, that’s the music that sticks with me much longer than the pop melody.”

Having already shot footage for the film, Hawes-Davis sunk his time into editing portions of it for Kickstarter updates. “It was far, far more work just to set up Kickstarter than I thought it was going to be,” he says.

“To decide on the amount. To decide what the awards were going to be. … It was as much as writing a grant proposal, for sure.”

His rewards—or incentives—for contributors started with a thank-you email and a place on a donor wall at $5. At $15, you got a thank-you postcard. At $25, you got a Gourds CD. At $30, $50, $75 and $100, you got DVDs and Blu-Ray HD films and movie posters. “When we started, I thought, well, there’s only one way this is going to get funded, and that’s if I can essentially pre-sell the DVD to Gourds

fans.” As the campaign went along, he began to see that there were High Plains Films fans contributing as well.

There were obstacles. The Gourds worried that the Kickstarter campaign might seem as if they were exploiting their fans. Until several days before the campaign began, The Gourds’s manager was trying to find another way to fund the film, through big donors. When that didn’t work, Hawes-Davis says, the manager said, “Let’s Kickstart this thing.”

Still, Hawes-Davis fretted. “If my Kickstarter campaign fails, not only do I not get the money and I look like a failure, The Gourds look like a failure,” he says, adding, however, that the band never told him that. Still, “They were in somewhat disbelief that we could ever raise so much money this way, and so that was a lot of added pressure.”

On the final day, the campaign had raised $47,000—$2,000 over goal. It was more money than Hawes-Davis had ever gotten from a single funding source.

THE GOLDRUSH Patrick Cook has also managed a Kickstarter campaign for Missoula's Stellarondo. The quintet—an art-folk group that uses glockenspiel, pedal steel and musical saw, among an array of instruments— lately has been playing their sweet-and-dark, high-lonesome songs in conjunction with readings from author Rick Bass. Recently, Bass and the band headed to Portland, Ore., where they recorded an album of stories and instrumentals. They decided to try to fund the endeavor with Kickstarter.

Stellarondo hired Cook and another Kickstarter aficionado, Caitlin Hofmeister (who also co-managed the Winter in the Blood Kickstarter campaign), to manage their effort, with a target of $8,000.

Using Kickstarter “felt a little bit like going out on a limb to ask for money,” says Stellarondo guitarist and singer Caroline Keys. “But Patrick and Caitlin, those two are a savvy, incredibly talented team. I feel like a Kickstarter campaign run entirely by [us] would not necessarily be done so well. Those two had done all their homework, all the research about which weeks are slump weeks and which weeks are big weeks. So we kind of had this experience where we were close to it but we didn’t have our hands on every knob and button during the process.”

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Stellarondo on tour

Stellarondo is a classic shoestring operation. When they went to play a show recently in Astoria, Ore., for example, they found themselves without a place to crash for the night. Their original hosts had cats, and Travis Yost, their upright bassist, is allergic to cats. Their Plan B crash pad also had cats. So did the Plan C. Discouraged,

driving up the gloomy Oregon coast, they caught sight of a hotel at the end of a pier.

Keys and Bass asked if they could exchange a night in the hotel for a night of music and storytelling. “They said, ‘We never do anything like this. Yes!’” recalls Keys. “It wasn’t an immediate yes—we had to do some talking. They gave us a room and we all put

on bathrobes and went and played in the lobby” for two other musicians who’d been booked for the night, the front desk staff and couple from Kansas City. “The front desk worker, one of them, was just in tears by the end,” Keys says. “We just got a glorious letter from the hotel saying how deeply affected everyone was by our visit.

CURRENT MISSOULA KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGNS • Freeload is a gritty, thoughtful documentary-in-progress by filmmaker Dan Skaggs who has spent the last year hopping trains and capturing the dreams and tribulations of fringe characters who live their lives on the rails. Last day to support: July 16.

• Missoula’s Josh Farmer—an accomplished musician who cooly blends jazz, rock, funk and soul—is heading into the studio with his band to make an EP, and the $5,500 he needs will go toward mixing, mastering, studio time, production and promotion. Last day to support: July 8.

• Tyson Ballew of Tummy Rock Records is making a 7-inch record for $600 featuring the Portland punk bands Andrew Link, Metallica 300 and King Elephant, a loud and fast Missoula band with members from Blackfeet rez rabble rousers Goddammitboyhowdy. Last day to support: July 7.

• Missoula’s Lynda DeBerry has been traveling to Guatemala to restore the Concha Acustica, a theater where she hopes to produce a play called “The Happy Prince” starring local Guatemalan actors. She needs $2,000. Last day to support: June 25.

… They’re trying to figure out how to get us back there.” The next night, they played in a 200-seat auditorium for eight people.

“That’s just how it goes,” says Keys, not sounding disappointed at all.

In the Portland studio, while making their album, they checked on the Kickstarter campaign when they could.

“There were different levels of panic among us,” Keys says. “There were some moments where we were trying to figure out how we would get it done if we didn’t hit our goal.”

When they returned to Missoula, the band dispersed, but they all checked Kickstarter—“some of us daily,” says Keys.

Three days before their deadline, they reached their goal.

“It’s like many things in life,” Keys says. “There’s no horn section blowing behind you when you reach your goal. It just happens. And then people kept giving. The spirit of that was pretty overwhelming. And still is. This thing we’re doing is going to exist because we asked.”

The money will fund the mixing, mastering and duplication of the album and the album art. It also will help cover the cost of traveling to Portland and of studio time.

At the end of their campaign, Stellarondo, Cook and Hofmeister drove up to the Yaak Valley and celebrated in the way you’d hope a wildly creative Montana band would: After a dinner of elk burgers and rhubarb pie, they visited the Yaak cemetery, then hiked in pouring rain to the Canadian border, where they set up a movie camera and staged a defection.

“So many people are taking advantage of this,” Keys says of Kickstarter.

“Aside from the fundraising aspect of it, there’s this kind of beautiful publicity thing about it. Now there’s so many people who know about projects that are out there, whether or not they’ve helped fund them.”

Patrick Cook calls this Kickstarter era a goldrush. And as in a goldrush, ultimately, there might be a few big winners and a lot of losers. A list of the saddest Kickstarter projects on Buzzfeed.com, for example, includes a T-shirt that says “I Love You Mom,” which raised $0 of its $120 goal; a one-man concert detailing a personal journey through harmonica and sword fighting; a $270,000 World Trade Center replica memorial to be built in St. Louis; and a “realistic” dating board game called Single Again. On the other end, a campaign for the Pebble Technology customizable watch for Android and iPhone raised over $10 million. In Kalispell, John McGinnis raised $95,000 to build a futuristic-looking, energy-efficient airplane.

What could Kickstarter still do for technology, art and design? What if, instead of investing in politicians to change the world, people looked to artists?

Andy Smetanka considers that and chuckles. “Finally,” he says, “the artists get all this money and the politicians will have to have bake sales.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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It appears that kale is succeeding where spinach and other green things have consistently failed: in the task of getting swallowed by children. The key is to bake the kale into crispy chips. In kale chip taste tests recently conducted in Missoula, it was determined that kids will eagerly turn their mouths green with extra helpings.

The evidence was convincing enough that the food purchaser for Missoula County Public Schools placed a kale order with a local farm, to be delivered for the fall term. Edward Christensen, assistant supervisor of food and nutrition for Missoula schools, says the taste test was the final and most crucial hurdle, but the fact that kale is so healthful and grows so well in his region makes it especially attractive. “Kale is disease and pest resistant, and cold tolerant.

It’s the low-hanging fruit of Montana.”

Jason Mandala is the community education director for Garden City Harvest, the nonprofit Missoula farm that got the contract to grow kale for the schools. It was Mandala who sold Christensen on chips as a kid-friendly way to serve a dark-green leafy vegetable in school cafeterias. Though Christensen was impressed, his opinion wasn’t the only one that counted. Only after successful taste tests were conducted at area schools was the deal was done.

“The kids gobbled them up,” Mandala says.

“They taste similar to a potato chip but they’re a lot better for you.”

Mandala recently applied for a USDA grant to fund a project that would use school district land to grow even more food for students. Plans include a project developed by students at Missoula’s Sentinel High School that aims to create positive environmental and public health changes by molding consumer habits at an early age. Consumer habits, in this case, would mean kale appreciation. The plan includes greenhouses outfitted with grow lights and hydroponic gear to be donated by the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Such repurposing of confiscated marijuanafarming equipment is not as unusual as you might think, says Mary Stein, associate director of the National Farm to School Network. “That’s happening in several places around the country,” she told me.

And it’s just one example of how individual farm-toschool programs can adapt to local opportunities and conditions. “Farm-to-school programs are as different as the communities they’re part of across the country. In Sitka, Alaska, fish-to-school is a big deal.”

Mandala agrees that different geographical locations will have their own low-hanging fruit, and it’s up to locals to find it. “You have to identify what grows well, wherever you are, and what your land situation is, and how much you need, and what kids are going to eat,” he says.

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tonutrients, which are important in a number of ways, including for eye health.

Kale is also high in calcium, and one of the best sources of vitamin K, which helps the body absorb calcium. “Most of the calcium in milk goes through your body, and most of the calcium in kale gets absorbed by your body,” he says, though he admits that the joys of calcium absorption remain a tough sell.

More often he just calls them “ninja chips,” and lets the flavor and crunch seal the deal.

Ninja chips The more curly the kale, the better, in terms of workability. But this recipe can be made with any kale, and even with collards, which take a bit longer because of their higher moisture.

Strip the leaf flesh from the central vein and rip it into bite-size pieces. Mix them in a bowl with 1 to 3 tablespoons of olive oil (the amount depends on the size of the bunch; you want enough to coat all surfaces) and a ½ teaspoon (plus or minus) of salt or garlic salt. Place the pieces on a cookie sheet (or sheets) in a single layer. Bake at 350° for 10 to 15 Photo by Ari LeVaux minutes, keeping close watch to make With the contract in place, Mandala recently sure they don’t burn. seeded more than 500 kale plants. Early summer, it “You don’t want too much brown, because turns out, is a great time to start a fall crop of kale. browning is the start of burning. If you burn them, The seeds can be planted directly in the ground or they taste horrible,” Mandala says. started indoors, as Mandala did with his red bore Before they brown, the leaves turn a bit yellow. and winter bore kale, which are the best varieties for That’s your clue that the end is near. Since a tray’s chip making, he says. Their extra curly leaves grip oil contents won’t cook completely evenly, there will be and flavorings, while their high fiber (even for kale) overdone and underdone parts. Remember that the makes for a solid crunch. Plus, the shape of the leaf chips will get crisper as they cool. lends itself to easy stripping of the leaf ’s flesh from Christensen, who’s become an expert on kale the central vein, he says. But any kale would work, chips, tells me, “Thirty seconds is the difference and all kale is good. between a perfect kale chip and a burnt kale chip.”

In addition to the chips’ pleasing taste, kale’s He also cautions against using convection ovens. many health properties provide ample opportuni- The leaves, he says, blow away. ty for creative storytelling to help entice the Once they’re out of the oven, the chips quickly students. cool and are ready to eat. You can toss them with any “We tell kids it will help them see in the dark,” number of seasonings, from Cajun spice to garlic Mandala says, referring to kale’s high content of phy- powder to old-fashioned salt and pepper.

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What’s the word: New best friends Draught Works and Zimorino’s Red Pies have teamed up to bring you a double dose of delight. Every Monday at Draught Works Brewery, from 5 to 8 p.m., you can enjoy your favorite beers like Clothing Optional Pale Ale or Shadow Caster Alt and order a $5 medium pizza that Zimorino’s will deliver to your table.

Draught Works kicked off the new partnership June 11 with live music from Mudfoot and the Dirty Soles, the bluesrock band of Zimorino’s owner Bob Zimorino.

“We got run over by it,” says Draught Works coowner Paul Marshall. “We thought it would be a good night, but it turned out to be a great night.”

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Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

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

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

Call if you need us to deliver!

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

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

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

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

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

We'll do our best to treat you right!

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

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. • 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook. Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! $

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Arts & Entertainment listings June 21– June 28, 2012

Flyin’ the flannel. Alt-rock-country music dudes Wilco play the Big Sky Brewery on Thurs., June 28, at 7:30 PM, with Portland, Ore.’s Blitzen Trapper. $44. Tix available at knittingfactory.com.

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You haven’t really experienced Montana until you’ve soaked in the scene at Libby’s Logger Days. Watch large men cut even larger pieces of wood, among other compe-

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

Love thy neighbor? Sure. But this weekend you should also give the globe a big wet one and a hug, because it’s the Love Your Mother Earth Festival. Bands include Euforquestra, The True Spokes, Bobo David, The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra and

many others. Today through Sunday, June 24, at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $55 in advance from Ear Candy or Rockin Rudy’s/$65 at the gate. Visit loveyourmotherearthfestival.com. (See Spotlight.) end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 22, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Hellgate High graduate and founder of BlogHer Lisa Stone speaks at the Montana Innovation and Entrepreneur Day at Gallagher Business School. There also workshops and other speakers scheduled. 9 AM. Visit innovatemontana.com.

Learn how to get some of the grant cheddar that is floating around during the Mansfield Library’s GrantSeeking Basics and Proposal Writing Basics courses. 1–3:30 PM. Free. Call Linder at 243-5869 to register.

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

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

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

Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from 5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by Cabin Fever. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly

meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

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

The Huckle Somewhere Awesome Tour shows up somewhere awesome, aka Missoula, and performs at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman. 7 PM. $3.

The National Theater Live broadcast of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Cordon, screens at the Roxy Theater at 7:30 PM. 718 S. Higgins. $16/$14 seniors/$11.

SPOTLIGHT Tipper at LYME

Apparently IDM stands for Intelligent Dance Facebook: pretty good for our little yearly festival.

Music (there's a name for everything these days), His last full-length album was pleasingly ambiwhich is a long cry from disco, Top 40 or Moby, in ent, while his most recent EP returned to glitchy my mind. No, it's more like ramblings. This guy British DJ David Tipper. does it all, I guess. My He's not just playing with WHO: Tipper friend told me to computer games here; check out 2003's every track is like a calcu- WHAT: Love Your Mother Earth Festival Surrounded. “It's lated algorithm, every WHERE: Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton super dramatic,” she wobble and scratch like a told me, and I will fresh coat of paint. So WHEN: Sun., June 23, at 2:30 AM pass this wisdom sure, it's IDM—smart onto you. Creepy music from a smart HOW MUCH: $65/$55 advance for entry to melodies and hollow the four-day festival composer. bass evoke the feelHe's the LYME headlining you're in a dimly er for a reason: This stuff rules. He helped pioneer lit tunnel that might not end. Whatever he busts glitch-hop and has inspired imitators of his bass- out at LYME, it's going to be layers of surround friendly styles everywhere. He has over 13,000 fol- sound and dirty dancing fun. lowers on SoundCloud and 15,000 likes on —Brooks Johnson

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

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

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

Deep Bass Grime isn’t only on my pickguard, it’s also on the dance floor at the Palace with Bocks Elder, which does the drums and bass thang. Hard. 9 PM. Free.

Our Arts editor says, “All aboard for Party Trained, tonight!” Typical.

Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

Local singer-songwriter John Smith guides you through the New World at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free, but they’d love it if you donated.

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

Celebrate Western heritage in historic Stevensville during Heritage

Days. Things kick off this evening at 5 PM, but Saturday features a parade and evening dance. All events on Main Street. Visit mainstreetstevensville.com.

The Missoula Osprey open their first home series with a two-night stand against the hated Great Falls Voyagers at 7:05 nightly. Call 543-3300.

The F WP and the U SF WS hosts a three-day Becoming an Outdoorswoman Birding Workshop at Ninepipes Lodge near Charlo. The workshop features big-time bird watchers from throughout the state and tours galore. $98 includes all meals. Call Liz at 444-9940 to learn more.

The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South Ave. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info.

The 4th Annual Blackfoot River Challenge is exactly what it sounds like, a three-day paddlingpalooza, with clinics on Friday, a 10-mile downriver race on Saturday and slalom races on Sunday. Proceeds benefit the Missoula Food Bank. $10 for clinics/$5 with food donation. $20 per event or $25 for more than one (bring along some non-perishable food items, too). Visit blackfootriverchallenge.blogspot.com.

The UM Outdoor Program hosts a Fundamentals of Kayaking Class that teaches basic strokes, how to read whitewater and boat safety. The cost includes gear, pool rental and transpo. $185. Register

by Fri., June 22. Call 243-5172.

Join Dr. Jill M. Williams for Mental Health and Tobacco Dependence: Road Map for Wellness and Recovery at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 200 S. Pattee. Call Erica for details at 258-3685.

nightlife Dan Dubuque shares his weissenborn and churango skills (look them up) with the folks at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free.

Hey, we know the Wilma can be a bit, uhh, finnicky, so the Roxy Theater is hosting the IWFF’s Rain Check Night, with viewings of films that had a time at the festival.

718 S. Higgins. 6 PM. Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities.

Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

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

Forget television, the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of Master Class is the kind of highpowered drama you can’t get enough of. The story of an opera diva who challenges her master class to take the kinds of risks that made her a controversial star, the play features Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh and is directed by David Ackroyd, who you might know from “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.” Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com This week’s Beavertail Hill State Park Evening Program: Glacial Lake Missoula examines the impact of the lake and particularly jökulhlaups. Beavertail Hill State Park, 26 miles east of MIssoula on I-90. 8 PM. Free.

Singing? Songwriting? New album?

Must be Brad Parsons performing at the Missoula Winery. 5646 Harrier. 8 PM. $5.

Them fine playin’ Steel Toe Floes are performing old-timey tuneage at Symes Hot Springs Hotel from 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

Bozeman prog-rockin and reggae doers In Walks Bud busts the tunes to make them fumes at the Palace. 9 PM. $5.

The Lil’ Smokies unleash the nitrates on Pulse inside the Press Box. 9 PM. Free.

Family Friendly Friday with Grandfather Glen is an intergenerational funfest for kids and parents alike at the Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free.

Blue and the Vagus Nerve play that music for you and your former Anthro 101 prof. to get down to at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset brings his git-tar to the The Keep from 6:30–9:30 PM. 102 Ben Hogan Dr. Free.

Shodown questions your spelling ability but not your love of dancing with that spiffy lookin’ thang down at the insurance office on Orange.

9:30 PM. Free.

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

7–8:30 PM. $40.

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

Free. Call 728-8799.

Local Gourmet Chef Challenge • 11:45-2pm Dodgy Mountain Men • 6-8pm Baby and Bukowski at 4:30 Featuring DJ Monty Carla LOCAL FOOD, BEER, WINE, LOCAL VENDORS, KIDS’ ACTIVITIES, DEMONSTRATIONS & ENTERTAINMENT

David Boone, aka Dawns, bids you to wake up and groove at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Spirit Hole and Skin Flowers do covers from King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King ... in my dreams, but they do play tunes at the VFW tonight. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $3.

Without Annette and The Hasslers leave The Hoff to his own devices when they play Sean Kelly’s. 10 PM. Free.

WORD Inc.’s LadyFest is a bonanza of lady action down at the Badlander, with Danielle Oliver, Baby & Bukowski, I Hate Your Girlfriend and DJ Tygerlily. 9 PM. $5.

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See all the beautful people and purchase fresh-baked yummies and gorgeous veggies and maybe have a taco at one of western Montana’s farmers’ markets. In Missoula, at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville, on Main Street; and in Hamilton, at South Third and Bedford Streets. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes down between 8 AM and 1 PM. The Sierra Club hosts a Women’s Only Blodgett Canyon Day Hike, which boasts surreal views of the canyon, 1200 feet of elevation gain and nine miles of rambling. Contact Mary at mowens320@gmail.com to go along.

Get outside and let the UM Outdoor Program worry about the transpo during their 8-mile ChaPaa-Qn Day Hike. $30. Call 2435172.

Make Pliny the Elder happy and join the good eggs at Five Valley Audubon for a peek at the common loon up around Seeley and Clearwater lakes. Meet at the UM fieldhouse parking lot at 8 AM. Free. Call Larry for more info. at 549-5632.

Teach the children well or have Missoula area Ducks Unlimited do it at their Greenwing Event, which teaches kids about duck calling, decoys, nesting, dog training and more at the Western Montana Retriever Club. 9AM- 4PM. For more info. go to ducks.org/montana/events.

Haul your big ol’ booty up the Swan for the 10th Annual Celebrate the Swan Race, which features a 10K, 5K and 1-mile fun run as well as a half-marathon. The race benefits the Mission Mountains and Swan Range Backcountry Rangers. 9 AM. Race

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day registration begins at 8 AM. $25/$20 adv. Visit swaneco systemcenter.org.

Th e H o t S p r i n g s Fa r m e r s Market busts out the dee-lish grub for all you all, with tunes come 4 PM at the Aftermarket Music & Arts Series. 11–3 PM. Taste all the Treasure State has to offer at th 4th Annual Garden City LocalFest, which has a farmer’s grip of music, kids’ activities and, new this year, the Local Gourmet Chef Challenge. Caras Park. 11:45 AM-8 PM. Free.

Get the real low-down during the Artists’ POV Tour at the MAM with Montana Triennialist Amy Jane. 335 N. Pattee. Noon. Free.

The name says it all: Family Fun Day: Root Beer and Hula Hoop Party at the North Valley Family Center. 5537 Hwy. 93. Noon–3 PM. Free.

Get a local at the 4th Annual Garden City Localfest, which is hosted by the Sustainable Business Council, takes place at Caras Park and features tunes by the Dodgy Mountain Men and Local Gourmet Chef Challenge, plus food and activities. 11:45 AM–8 PM. Free.

(See Agenda and Scope.)

nightlife John Floridis plays music at Draught Works Brewery from 5–8 PM. 915 Toole. Free.

Celebrate the arrival of summer and bueno fishing during Salmon Fly Days at the Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile, where there will be a fundraiser called Reel Recovery to provide fishing retreats to cancer patients. With tunes by The Lil’ Smokies, food, a silent auction, not to mention plenty of BS to go around, no doubt. 73 Rock Creek Rd. 5 PM. $5.

Love thy neighbor? Sure. But this weekend you should also give the globe a big wet one and a hug because it’s the Love Your Mother Earth Festival. Bands include Dodgy Mountain Men, Euforquestra, The True Spokes, B o b o D a v i d , T h e Te q u i l a Mockingbird Orchestra and many others. Today through Sunday, June 24, at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $55 in advance from Ear Candy or Rockin Rudy’s / $65 at the gate. Visit loveyourmotherearthfestival.com. (See Scope.)

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

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

Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish, at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Sister Fix don’t give a hoot owl about Lou Reed when they share their harmonies at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

DJ Monty Carlo is rolling solo and won’t be playing pork-flavored tunes during Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rumpshaking tuneage. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Power-popping punkerinos Terry Malts do the three-chord whackadoo at the Palace. 9 PM. Cost TBA. Get bit by the Wild Coyote Band when they do a bit of howling down there at the Lumberjack Saloon up Hwy. 12. 9 PM. Free.

The Southern Comfort Band won’t make you hurl like their namesake, so grab that little ol’ thing from the Food Farm and spin ‘im around the dance floor at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

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

10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799.

Well isn’t this special: Shut the %&$* Up and Dance, with Tahjbo, Grit and The Josh Farmer Band goes down at the T$p H@t.

10 PM. $3 for boys/Nada for girls.

James Green, Epoche and Erik Bartz take the stage at Sean Kelly’s for your aural pleasure (don’t be gross). 10 PM. Free.

Marshall Catch ain’t a tucker, sucker, so check out the tunes at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman. 10 PM. $5.

Mudfoot and the Dirty Soles boogie down filthy like at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

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The Heart to Heart Duo plays the Missoula Senior Center’s Saturday Night Dance, so slide into them glad rags and show the youngsters how it’s done. 705 S. Higgins. 7–10 PM. $5.

Love thy neighbor? Sure. But this weekend you should also give the globe a big wet one and a hug

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because it’s the Love Your Mother Earth Festival. Bands include Euforquestra, The True Spokes, Bobo David, The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra and many others. Today through Sunday, June 24, at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $55 in advance from Ear Candy or Rockin Rudy’s, or $65 at the gate. Visit loveyourmotherearthfestival.com. (See Spotlight) Take a Sunday stroll and a spin on the carousel at the Carousel Sunday Market & Festival, which offers up local veggies, crafts and all sort of yummikins. Every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM at the

New Park parking lot near A Carousel for Missoula.

The Summer MADE Fair at Caras Park is chock-full of rad handmade local goodies and crafts and is “family and hipster friendly.” Food by the handsome fellas of Burn St. Bistro. 11 AM–6 PM. Free.

The inaugural Philipsburg Celtic Fest has tunes by many bands with the word Dublin in their names, so it ought ought to be a fine afternoon of music and shenanigans. Winninghoff Park. 2 PM. $20/$20 adv./$15 students, seniors and vets.

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

Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

Mob rules during this Crop Mob. What’s a crop mob? Crew up, do some weeding, listen to tunes (Josh Slotnick), get free dinner.

Clark Fork Organics, 3507 S. 7th St. W. Noon-5 PM. Call David to RSVP at (303) 328-7001.

SPOTLIGHT fight the youth

Something for everyone at Fort Missoula’s

4th of July Celebration & PANCAKE BREAKFAST Huge pancake breakfast put on by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (for the benefit of the Friends) from 8:00 until 11:00, on July 4th with entertainment and special events from 10:00 until 4:00 including homestead fun & games, historical demonstrations, antique engines, live music, silent auction, crafts, food, and more!

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for students, $15 for a family.

Children under 6 and members of the Friends of the Museum are free.

The Pancake Breakfast is a separate price.

Pepsi-Cola Bottling and Bayern Brewery are sponsoring this year's event.

For more information, call 728-3476. fortmissoulamuseum.org

Having been haunted by Thurston Moore my videos and the sounds of other groups. So I did entire life, it is no surprise that he has followed me what any contrarian boy would do: I hated on to Missoula, where he no doubt plans to dredge them relentlessly. Thank Superman for adulthood, up all of my high school for a certain German insecurities all over record store in Stuttgart again. Why Thurston? WHO: Thurston Moore, with Hush Arbors with a Dead Moon Why? In the early '90s, poster on the door and and Monster with 21 Faces when we thought we for the continuing and were figuring out how to WHEN: Sun., June 24, at 9 PM constant creativity of be musically hep, there Moore. His solo work is was Moore’s longtime WHERE: The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. quieter than much of band Sonic Youth. Older. HOW MUCH: $15, tickets available at Ear Sonic Youth catalogue, Smarter. More sophistibut there is an intensity Candy cated than the Pacific and morosity lurking in Northwest post-punk we his latest release, thought so highly of. Cobain wore their shirts. Their Demolished Thoughts, that takes the place of posters adorned the walls of PDX’s now defunct bombastic guitar spits and squawks. His new tunes 2nd Ave. Records. Most importantly, the girls in the are genteel but laden with emotion, well-crafted journalism room seemed to like them, and I liked but not flat; in other words, Moore is still older and the girls in the journalism room. I couldn’t name smarter and creating music that is more sophistione of the group's often noisy, oddly tuned tracks, cated than the rest. yet I felt the band’s insisting presence in zines, –Jason McMackin

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Serene tambourine. Korn plays the Wilma Theatre on Wed., June 27, at 8 PM, with Sluggo and JDevil. $45. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s.

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

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

Will Stack and Tim Anderson unbunk the skunk and wake-up the neighbors with tunes at Draught Works Brewery from 4–7 PM. 915 Toole. Free.

nightlife Rock royalty graces the Top Hat when Thurston Moore, he of Sonic Youth and the Ecstatic Peace record label, arrives for a solo show. 9 PM. $15. (See Spotlight.)

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

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“Dallas” and “Knot Landing.” Shows at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second Street in Whitefish at 6 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz.

Free.

The A-OKs outta Denver are joined by Tulsa’s The Last Slice, Do It Kappa and Gretchen at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.

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Get signed up for the Robert Moore Painting Workshop at the Dana Gallery, 246 North Higgins Ave., which takes place on July 6 and 7. To register, call 721-3154.

Kids Clay Camp at the Clay Studio is a five-day ceramics good time for kids ages 9 to 13.

9:30–11:30 AM. $81. Visit claystudioofmissoula.org.

Preschool Art: Storytelling Through Art teaches the kiddos how to create a narrative, but don’t tell them that. Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee. 10 AM–Noon. $50/$5 members. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Kids 7-11 can creep out the fam after their Marionette Class at the MAM, where they learn to build a puppet and write a story for it. Too rad. 1–3 PM. $50/$45 members.

Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Give up the funk and the blood at the American Red Cross. 2401 N. Reserve. Ste. 6. 2–6 PM. Call 800 RED-CROSS.

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

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

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

thing about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip-Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson.

1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

the type of question you could be presented with: Who was the last US president to have facial hair? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Whorb-whorb with dubsteppers Skism, Dodge and Fuski at the Top Hat. $16/$14 adv./$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5.

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

Bow down to the sounds at Royal

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Korn been around for a long time, but it’s still nu metal to us. See the band that recorded Life is Peachy and See You on the Other Side at

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

Milkcrate Monday’s with the Milkcrate Mechanic presents another night of electric mayhem from all corners of the sub-genre world with Vinyl Night. Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 PBR pitchers.

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

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

Noon–1 PM. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free.

Help give them bears room to breathe and get yourself some brews at the Vital Ground Pint Night at Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Black Mountain Boys grass it up at 7 PM. 5–11 PM. 424 N. Higgins.

You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do some-

Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip-Hop (7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com

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

Birdhouse ain’t no dickhouse but it does play rock with a spot o’ country feelings, with 3J Rap Sword. Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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The Laugh For A Change Comedy Show is a benefit for the Cancer Fund of America and features locals Becky Margolis, Charlie Ames and Miles Kinney, plus Spokaniacs Jason Komm and Tom Meisford. Music later on by Shakewell and Steady Changes.

Elbow Room, 1855 Stephens.

7:30 PM. (Pub trivia answer: William Howard Taft, mustache.)

Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

Come by and do you that funk-adoo. 245 W. Main. 10:30 PM. Free.

Call Phil at 224-0816 to sign-up.

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

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

Grab a can of corn and head out for an evening of America’s pastime when the Missoula Osprey take on the Helena Brewers during a three-night stand at 7:05 PM nightly. Call 543-3300.

The Acousticals, featuring Richie Reinholdt, Chad Fadely, Andy Dunnigan and Ted Lowe, gets down to it at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 111 N. Higgins. 7–10 PM. Free.

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2–5 PM. Free. Visit openaidalliance.org.

The Boys’ Tour Kickoff Show brings a little noise and less funk to the VFW, with I Hate Your Girlfriend, Skinny Legs and Silly Red Hat. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.

(See Soundcheck.)

Shh, Alafair Burke reads and signs copies of Never Tell at Fact & Fiction. 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free.

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

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of

Reggae, featuring dancehall jams

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

Fight for your right to make a jerk of yourself and win money doing it at Karaoke with DJ LRock at the Press Box. First place wins a $25 bar tab. On the last Tues. of the month, the winners battle for supremacy. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Badlander’s Live and Local Night with Silly Red Hat brings the hotsteppas to justice at 9 PM. Free.

the Wilma, with J. Devil and Sluggo opening.

8 PM. $45 at ticketfly.com.

Num-nums and various vittles are the order of the day at Missoula’s Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM to 2 PM. This week’s tunage provided by Broken Valley Roadshow. Free. Visit missouladowntown.com Get it together, Don and Donna Juans, and get checked out during National HIV Testing Day. Walmart Supercenter on Mullan and Reserve from 11 AM–1:30 PM and the Walmart on Brooks from

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For summertime learning and such, the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program has moved to the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens.

Bugs, dirt and explorations abound.

10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members.

Visit montananaturalist.org.

The Daly Mansion Preservation Trust hosts a Children’s Lawn Party at ye olde Daly Mansion in

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Hamilton. Dancing, singing, games, fun. 1–4:30 PM. $3.

Night. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

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Our Arts editor says, “All aboard for Party Trained, tonight!” Typical.

Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from 5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by Chele Bandulu. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

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

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

Community Medical Center meeting rooms.

2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

The Voodoo Horseshoes VFW Residency Final Night includes back up from the Red Carpet Devils and Steady Changes. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. Free.

The Steel Toe Floes pick their way into your hearts and scam some free beers, too, when they perform American(a) music at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 6–8 PM. Free.

Plaidder service. The National Theatre presentation of One Man, Two Guvnors screens at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave., on Thur., June 21, at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors/$11 students. Tickets available at Shakespeare & Co. and Rockin Rudy’s.

The Bottlecap Boys get all kinda high-falutin’ and harmonizing when they play some folksy quartet tunes a the Bitter Root Brewery.

6–8:30 PM. Free.

Higgins. 7 PM. Free.

Get soaked in watermelon sugar when William Hjortsberg reads from his book Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan. Fact & Fiction, 220 N.

Listen, Roger, Wilco brings their rarified sound and well-reviewed tunes to the Big Sky Brewery along with PDX alt-country all-stars Blitzen Trapper at 7:30 PM. $44,

with advance tickets available at knittingfactory.com.

St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman

Show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic

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The water is clearing up. The snow will be gone and back before you know it. Get out there and get you some summer, people. Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 22, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH M ountain bike racing. A single word description? Barfifying. If you’ve never been in a cross-country mountain bike race, try this out: make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; mount your bicycle at the bottom of a long switchback-strewn hill; put the entire sandwich in your mouth; squirt some water from your water bottle in your mouth; now, pedal as hard as you can up the hill without stopping. Repeat. And repeat. This may not sound like a ringing endorsement, but for some of us, this is our idea of fun. Racing is challenging. It can take some of the fun out cycling, but if you take it just seriously enough and avoid certain pitfalls (becoming a weight weenie for example), racing is a blast, especially when beer is involved. This is the case for the Kettlehouse Weekday Race League held at Marshall Mountain for three consecutive Wednesdays. The approximately 5K course is the same one used by pros and Olympians alike, including Missoulian Sam Schulz, who was recently chosen to be a part of the

U.S. Olympic team headed to London in a few weeks.

The organizers allow riders to choose between one, two or three laps, which features single and double track, 850 feet of climbing and an updated downhill section that is a bit less technical than last year’s course. The purpose of the series is to prep it for the Hammer Nutrition Missoula XC race that takes place on Sat., July 14. So, besides making the course ready for the pros and visiting riders, the Beer League allows us locals to meet like-minded riders, have dee-lish brew and scope out the course, picking up a little home field advantage.

The Kettlehouse Weekday Race League takes place on three consecutive Wed., June 27, July 4 and July 11, at 5:30 PM, on the Marshall Mountain race course. Cost is $10 each day but a USA Cycling license must be purchased for $5 per day or $60 for the year.

Visit missoulaxc.org/p/beer-leagues.html.

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FRIDAY JUNE 22 The FWP and the USFWS hosts a three-day Becoming an Outdoorswoman Birding Workshop at Ninepipes Lodge near Charlo. The workshop features big-time bird watchers from throughout the state and tours galore. $98 includes all meals. Call Liz at 444-9940 to learn more.

The 4th Annual Blackfoot River Challenge is exactly what it sounds like, a three-day paddlingpalooza, with clinics on Friday, a 10-mile downriver race on Saturday and slalom races on Sunday.

Proceeds benefit the Missoula Food Bank. $10 for clinics/$5 with food donation. $20 per event or $25 for more than one (bring along some non-perishable food items, too). Visit blackfootriverchallenge.blogspot.com.

The UM Outdoor Program hosts a Fundamentals of Kayaking Class that teaches basic strokes, how to read whitewater and boat safety. The cost includes gear, pool rental and transpo. $185. Register by Fri., June 22. Call 243-5172.

about the transpo during their 8-mile Cha-Paa-Qn Day Hike. $30. Call 243-5172.

Make Pliny the Elder happy and join the good eggs at Five Valley Audubon for a peek at the common loon up around Seeley Lake and Clearwater Lakes.

Meet at the UM fieldhouse parking lot at 8 AM. Free.

Call Larry for more info. at 549-5632.

Teach the children well or have Missoula area Ducks Unlimited do it at their Greenwing Event, which teaches kids about duck calling, decoys, nesting, dog training and more at the Western Montana Retriever Club. 9 AM–4 PM For more info., go to ducks.org/montana/events.

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Tour on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and choose a $25 gift certificate to: Big Dipper Ice Cream Bayern Brewing Kettlehouse Brewery Ten Spoon Winery ...or a pedicure!

Haul your big ol’ booty up the Swan for the 10th Annual Celebrate the Swan Race, which features a 10K, 5K and 1-mile fun run as well as a halfmarathon. The race benefits the Mission Mountains and Swan Range Backcountry Rangers. 9 AM. Race day registration begins at 8 AM. $25/$20 adv. Visit swanecosystemcenter.org.

This week’s Beavertail Hill State Park Evening Program: Glacial Lake Missoula examines the impact of the lake and particularly jökulhlaups.

Beavertail Hill State Park, 26 miles east of MIssoula on I-90. 8 PM. Free.

Celebrate the arrival of summer and bueno fishing during Salmon Fly Days at the Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile, where there is a fundraiser called Reel Recovery, which provides fishing retreats to cancer patients, tunes by The Lil’ Smokies, food and a silent auction. Not to mention plenty of BS to go around, no doubt. 73 Rock Creek Rd. 5 PM. $5.

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The Sierra Club hosts a Women’s Only Blodgett Canyon Day Hike which boasts surreal views of the canyon, 1200 feet of elevation gain and nine miles of rambling. Contact Mary at mowens320@gmail.com to go along.

Help give them bears room to breathe and get yourself some brews at the Vital Ground Pint Night at Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Black Mountain Boys grass it up at 7 PM. 5–11 PM. 424 N. Higgins.

Get outside and let the UM Outdoor Program worry

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Dirty dodgers The Dodgy Mountain Men take their stompgrass in stride

by Brooks Johnson

It’s the middle of the night in the middle of America and Google Maps is not being especially helpful. Though they initially chalk it up to driver error, the Dodgy Mountain Men are lost in Indiana, victims of smart phone failure. Back and forth they crisscross in a ’90s Dodge Caravan. The 20-minute drive turns into three hours. It’s after 4 a.m. when they reach Bean Blossom, Ind., the next stop on their tour. Far too late to crash on anyone’s floor, they drive to the Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground where two of them pitch a tent in the parking lot and the other two sleep in the van. The Dodgy Mountain Men are men who take these things in stride. And besides, it’s not an inconvenience. The Bill Monroe Park is the site of the John Hartford Memorial Festival, where they’re already set to play the next afternoon. In the morning, they unpack their gear and hit the stage as the self-proclaimed “least bluegrass band at a bluegrass festival.” And eventually, without too much trouble, they make their way back to Missoula. Next time, they vow, they’ll be packing an atlas.

The Missoula stompgrass band is on a roll. For their tour, between May and June, they played 16 shows along the northernmost interstates, en route to festivals like the one in Indiana and another in Pennsylvania. It was a tour

in support of their recent debut album Stronger Than Death, which came out four stops into the trip. The CD had been pressed in Chicago, so they picked it up instead of waiting on the mail.

The band started two years ago and managed to establish themselves locally, playing a string of shows in and around the Missoula Valley. They’re booked through the summer, including for a gig at River City Roots Fest in August. This Saturday night (technically, Sunday morning) they’re the final band playing the Love Your Mother Earth Festival, which they’ll play after an evening show at Local Fest in Caras Park. It’s their third time playing LYME, having proven themselves on a plywood plank one year and moving to a mid-level stage the next.

“Pretty much, we’re playing 1 a.m. until we can’t make the crowd dance anymore,” guitarist and singer Eric Bostrom says.

Their stompgrass style and willingness to roll with the punches is enough to get them on festival lineups from here until whenever they quit.

“If we were a band in Portland, well there’s 50 bands like us,” says Jed Nussbaum, vocalist, mandolin player and guitarist. “But here we get these opportunities, and that’s what allows us to build our momentum in the first place.”

The band’s new album bridges the gap between blues and bluegrass, acoustic and electric. The mandolin and guitar work follow classic verse-chorus-solo pattern and deliver a rootsy undercurrent. Nussbaum’s and Bostrom’s deep voices resonate in “Montana Storms” and “Simple Man’s Blues” atop a walking bass and a pair of uncommon drums. Those tablas add a world music vibe and almost a lounge feel; if you’re in a lounge in, say, New Delhi. There are a handful of good jams to while away an afternoon like the sun gave it to you on a stick. Other songs pick up the tempo the way a sunset begs for the party to start. Dodgy Mountain Men play music meant to be heard outside: It’s perfect for dancing with a sweaty crowd.

The Dodgy Mountain Men really do take a “dodgy” persona on stage and into their songs, being gruff, bearded men and all. They get away with being a little grungy, likely from sleeping in the van or on the floor. But the sound is polished: The band’s first show back in Missoula sounded like they plugged a CD player into the PA. They also played a last-minute gig at the Top Hat opening for Dead Winter Carpenters last week. In just eight songs, they brought the floor from empty to 40.

“We’re not bluegrass enough for the traditionalists, we’re not rock enough for the punkabilly kids, not jammy enough for the hippies, but we get a little of everybody,” Nussbaum says.

The Dodg y Mountain Men play LocalFest at Caras Park Saturday, June 23, at 6 PM. Free. They play Love Your Mother Earth Festival later that night, at 1 AM, at Rock Creek Lodge. arts@missoulanews.com

Love Your Mother Earth Festival WHAT: Four days of bands, DJs, art, vendors, workshops and camping.

WHEN: Thu., June 21, through Sun., June 24, all day and all night.

WHERE: Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton.

HOW MUCH: $65/$55 advance.

WHY: First of all, everyone’s going to be there—Facebook says so. Second, some of the region’s best electronic music will be playing all night, every night. Third, there are more local bands in one go than at any other time in a Missoula calendar year.

Finally, it’s at Rock Creek, possibly the most beautiful place on earth and just 25 miles east of town.

MORE INFO: Go to loveyourmotherearthfestival.com.

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World meet Boys Here’s your dose of vintage fuzz-rock

by Jason McMackin

For crying out loud in the night, how has no other band named themselves Boys? Sure, we had the R&B outfit The Boys back in the ’80s, but Boys has been squarely in our sights since grade school. Right next to Girls, in fact. The name obviously implies youthfulness and an abiding innocence combined with a measure of tomfoolery. A rhetorical trap might lead this writer to compare their fuzz rock sound similarly: youthful, innocent, carefree. That would be

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lazy and, more importantly, untrue. Although the men of Boys range in age from 21 to 23 years, they sound as if they have been doing this for years. That’s because they have. Maybe not this exactly, but playing music anyway.

It recently occurred to them that each of the members has been playing music for around 10 years, whether it be strumming a guitar alone in a room or rocking Chicago numbers in the high school pep band. They joined forces the way many bands do in the 21st century, via Craigslist and the food service industry. “I sold Kale [Huseby] a guitar on Craigslist; two weeks later we’re playing a show,” drummer Justin Haider says. “Then we’re in a band together for two years.” After that band dissolved, bassist Rob Cave joined the duo by happenstance as well. “I went into Justin’s work to apply for a job and he asked me if I was playing with anyone,” bassist Rob Cave says.

“I recognized the mustache,” says Haider.

“Mustache Rob.” (It should be noted that Cave has Missoula’s finest mustache. One that will cause you to slow down and look at it if you happen to drive past him, and one that you will likely mention to a co-worker later in the day.)

The band played their first show a few weeks later. What they do could be called garage rock.

Haider suggests a few variations on that notion: “Girl garage rock, girl fuzz, girl blues.” Their sound is a byproduct of Missoula’s current music scene, both the local acts and the national acts that seem to be stopping here with more frequency.

“We saw Naomi Punk and we wrote a song in response to that,” says vocalist and chief songwriter Huseby. “We saw Ty Segall and we wrote a song in response to that, too.” These influences are readily heard on their demo tracks. Moody fuzzed-out guitars and deceptively simple arrangements sound as if they were pulled from an AM radio during a late night try at coitus.

Huseby’s vocals are imbued with the scratchy, thin and distorted tone that much of the garage genre favors, but his true voice still comes through. He delivers his lyrics with the confidence of early Jagger on “Electric Chair Blues,” but there’s also a subtle hiccup in his style—a hiccup that is almost countrylike in the way he swallows some of his syllables. While “Blues” and “Now a Raid of Sea People” share a similar spooky sound, one that would sit well in a picnic Photo by Steele Williams scene of a David Lynch film, the band isn’t all blues and melancholia. “Parapets” has plenty of “la-duh-duhdahs” and ends quickly like the other tracks, leaving the listener la-duh-duh-dahing all to himself.

On June 27, Boys is self-releasing nine songs on an album called Shy Shirely, which was recorded with Dead Hipster’s Chris Baumann at Black National Recording Studios, in Missoula. Haider says that all the tunes could fit on a 7-inch record, though they’ll be released on CDs and tapes. The brevity of the tracks in concert with layers of hooks create a craving for more.

The band hopes to cultivate that craving-for-more as it embarks on a tour that will take them to the great Northwest, as well as to not-so-great places like Idaho Falls, Idaho. With the tour on the horizon and mentions of the band on blogs from the UK to Brooklyn— such as Dingus and Just Like Honey—the musicians of Boys seem unequivocally positive.

“It’s inspirational to play for people who want to watch and listen to live music,” Haider says, “not watch someone with a laptop.”

The Boys play an album release and tour kickoff show Wed., June 27, at 9 PM at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Free.

SPICY CALAMARI Hefeweizen-marinated calamari, cornmeal dusted and flash fried, served with a sweet Sriracha sauce. $4.95

TAMARACK WINGS Jumbo wings tossed in your choice of Buffalo, Switchback Stout BBQ, or Pacific Rim sauce served on a bed of beer-battered fries with a side of bleu cheese. $7.95

BABY BACK RIBS AND FRIES A half rack of tender pork ribs smothered in our Stout barbeque sauce on a bed of beer-battered fries. $9.95

VEGGIE QUESADILLA Filled with diced tomatoes, olives, bell peppers and green onion. Served with our house-made salsa. $6.95 Add Chicken-$2

CHICKEN STRIPS Beer-battered chicken breast strips on a pile of beer battered fries. Served with a side of our house-made Ranch. $8.95

THE HELLGATE PIZZA Pepperoni, Redneck Italian sausage, red onion, jalapeños, black olives and fresh garlic, with marinara and mozzarella, finished with Sriracha. $13.95 & $20.95

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What the river says Jo Deurbrouck transports us to wild waters

by Chris Dombrowski

In his little-known classic Under the Influence of York publishing house. This is an intricately researched, Water, poet Michael Delp writes, “This river could kill tension-filled, riveting tale that is told in spare but lumiyou, but it won’t. It will confuse you. When you think nous prose. Flip literally anywhere in the book to find you are riding the flow east, you will really be going such glinting lines as: “Below me, the river glowed botwest. When you try to take a compass reading, you tle-green as it does in late summer. On the far bank, the will be wrong.” Anyone who’s ever stood knee-deep tiny town of Riggins was visible mostly as trees, their well-watered riot as alien as in a Western river during jungle against the canyon’s runoff or floated through a clean, stark, straw-colored valley’s meandering botslope.” Or: “The West is so tomlands can attest to such thirsty that it has been conpowerful and disorienting sidered reasonable to capqualities of moving water; ture entire rivers and transand anyone who’s ever port them hundreds of spent more than a minute miles—allowing their native trying to navigate a raft or drainages to die—in the kayak through a raucous name of human thirst.” On wave-train would agree many pages, Deurbrouck that water falling at a fairly rivals Jon Krakauer and steep pitch is one of the Susan Casey for tension and strongest, most dangerous, depth, but the subculture least discriminating musher story details is not as cles on earth. Not only can romantic (read: marketable) the river kill you, it just as sherpas or surfers. might.

Instead, this is sandal tans I’m not divulging too and six-packs around the much plot-wise to say that bankside hot springs and former whitewater rafting bonfires; this is river towns guide and Idaho author like Riggins and Stanley, Jo Deurbrouck’s Salmon complete with transient River nonfiction adventure paddlers who know what narrative Anything Worth Anything Worth Doing eddies and tongues and Doing ends in tragedy—as Jo Deurbrouck thalwegs are.

Deurbrouck points out by paperback, Sundog Book Publishing way of Hemingway, “All 212 pages, $15 paperback And yet the appeal of stories, if continued far Deurbrouck’s story is as enough, end in death.” Fluvial, compact and efficient, wide as the horizon where the Columbia meets the Anything Worth Doing is the tale of two near-mythic Pacific. Anyone who’s ever sung along buzzed to the Salmon River whitewater guides, Jon Barker and Old Crow Medicine Show line “If I die in Raleigh, at Clancy Reece, who share an unparalleled intimacy least I will die free” will love this story, as will anyone with the West’s last great wild river. Their credo, who has ever known and been quickened by the feral “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” empow- spirits of wild people in love with wild places, and ers their renegade journeys, which include a 900-mile, anyone who has ever sat beside a river and pondered 30-day “source to sea” trip from the headwaters to the the water’s beauty and brute strength, and anyone mouth of the Columbia, an all-in, five-day, 500-mile who wants to be transported by a landscape and a relay down Idaho’s biggest rivers and, finally, ultimate- story rooted in the physical world. ly for Reece, an attempt at a 24-hour solo float-speed Roughly midway through Anything Worth record through the heart of the Idaho wilderness. Doing, Deurbrouck offers a dram of foreshadowing Rendered valiantly by Deurbrouck, Reece’s life burns by way of Reece’s journal, in an entry dated June, 23, like pure blue flame, his bullheaded enthusiasm for 1988, from part of the Oregon leg of the “source to river-running chiding the reader’s daily to-do lists and sea” expedition. Recounting a conversation with postmodern ennui. Why worry when you can row, Barker, Reece writes: “‘This is foolish,’ I said. ‘We’ll right? The book doesn’t answer that question, but never know if we don’t try,’ he said. So we tried. It instead implies another rhetorical question: Is the was foolish. Now we know.” Deurbrouck’s move to intensely committed, full-hearted, headlong pursuit of momentarily turn the story over to Reece’s journals is freedom always a touch suicidal? Do the most skilled a deft one. It helps shift the narrative perspective adrenaline seekers inevitably seek that which is just from borderline voyeuristic to utterly participatory. beyond their mortal reach?

And in the end, as Deurbrouck implies, the story Jim Harrison once said that editors in the New doesn’t belong to her—it doesn’t even belong to York publishing world consider anything west of New Reece and Barker. The story belongs to the river, and York’s East River “regional literature.” Such an assertion Deurbrouck gives it radiant return. explains, but does not excuse, the fact that a book like arts@missoulanews.com Anything Worth Doing wasn’t gobbled up by a big New

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Stranger than fact It’s “Mountain Men” versus “Hutterites”

INFORMATIONAL MEETING Discuss Maclay Bridge Planning Study • Missoula County Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:00 p.m. • Target Range Elementary School Multi-purpose Room • 4095 South Avenue W., Missoula, MT

by Skylar Browning

Montana has attracted more than a few reality television shows over the years, but this summer features two that debuted within days of each other. “Mountain Men” (Thursdays on the History Channel) is produced

by Missoula-based Warm Springs Productions and stars Tom Oar, a former rodeo cowboy who lives in the Yaak Valley with his wife Nancy. Tom’s one of three men— the others are in North Carolina and Alaska—who battle the elements and struggle to live off the land in often extreme conditions.

“American Colony: Meet the Hutterites” (Tuesdays on the National Geographic Channel) focuses on a religious community located about 100 miles from Billings. Episodes mostly follow a strong, single mom

to live in the mountains of North Carolina after the spirits suggested it. He possesses the slow drawl and understated confidence of someone with whom you’d want to share a jug of moonshine. Also, he’s “passionate about hammers” and “lusts” after them; he owns more than 200. You end up loving Eustace sorta like he loves hammers.

Hutterites: Wesley, who is as central to the show as anyone but doesn’t live under Bertha’s roof. He’s a farmer who drives a school bus part-time, volunteers as a firefighter and also earned an online college degree, allegedly with just a 12kbs internet connection. His biggest accomplishment, though, was scoring a date with an attractive Canadian waitress during the aforementioned road trip.

Biggest surprise Mountain Men: In a clip from a future episode, Eustace cleans a freshly killed deer and takes a cleaver to its head, only to toss a hunk of skull-and-brains to his loyal dog for a crunchy snack.

Hutterites: Aside from Wesley’s date, the harvest party shows Hutterites know how to get down. Bottles of Jäger made the rounds, shots were kicked back and a keg of Bud flowed freely.

Missoula County, in partnership with the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), have initiated the development of the Maclay Bridge Planning Study to determine potential needs of the Maclay Bridge and connecting roadways within the area.

The purpose of this meeting is to present the initial findings of the existing conditions analysis and environmental scan, and to obtain information from the meeting attendees to identify needs and objectives of the Maclay Bridge and connecting roadways. The planning study will identify potential improvements and will assist in facilitating a smooth and efficient transition from transportation planning to future project development/environmental review, if any, based on need and funding availability. The Maclay Bridge Planning Study is a planning-level study and is not a design or construction project. The Maclay Bridge crosses the Bitterroot River approximately 2.75 miles west of Reserve Street via North Avenue. North Avenue connects to the existing bridge as the eastern approach, and River Pines Road serves as its western approach.

The meeting is open to the public and the public is encouraged to attend. Local governments attempt to provide accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person's participation in this meeting. For reasonable accommodations to participate in this meeting, please contact Jeff Key, Robert Peccia & Assocs. Inc., at (406) 447-5000 at least two days before the meeting. For the hearing impaired, the TTY number is (406) 444-7696 or (800) 335-7592, or Montana Relay at 711. Alternative accessible formats of this information will be provided upon request.

Comments may be submitted in writing at the meeting, by mail to Sheila Ludlow, Project Manager, MDT, P.O. Box 201001, Helena, MT 59620-1001

or online at www.mdt.mt.gov/mdt/comment_form.shtml Please indicate comments are for the Maclay Bridge Planning Study.

“Mountain Men”

Most memorable quote named Bertha as she tries to balance the colony’s strict religious beliefs and modern day amenities while raising two teenagers. After the first three episodes of both shows, we decided to line them up against each other and see how they represent the Treasure State.

Montana depiction Mountain Men: Sends the message Big Sky Country is full of grizzlies and wolves, and cold.

Hutterites: Sends the message Big Sky Country is full of golden fields of grain and not much else, and cold.

Primary story lines Mountain Men: Survival, both tedious and extreme. On the less dramatic side, Tom spends an episode trapping some devious beavers in order to protect his neighbor’s water supply.

Hutterites: Soap operas of every kind. For example, Claudia, Bertha’s 19-year-old daughter, battles against the elders’ traditions, meets boys on Facebook and convinces a younger group from the colony to road trip to a Canadian wedding.

Secondary story lines Mountain Men: Killing things. Beavers, deer, elk and lynx all make their way onto stovetops or into freezers for meals.

Hutterites: Killing things. Cows, pigs, ducks and chickens all get shot, slit or decapitated on the farm for family-style meals.

Mountain Men: “We never get ready; we just run out of time”— Nancy Oar talking about the couple’s never-ending effort to prepare for eight months of Montana winter.

Hutterites: “I’m just a Hutterite with my hair down, that’s all”—delivered by Claudia after she had the courage to attend the harvest party without her traditional head covering.

Mainstream buzz Mountain Men: Eustace’s doggy treat was featured on “The Soup” blog, complete with disgusted staff reactions.

Hutterites: Numerous newspapers report elders are “deeply disappointed” over the “distorted” portrayal of their followers, with particular disdain for the show’s focus on heavy drinking and cursing.

Worst reality TV ploy Mountain Men: The editing makes it look like stock footage of drooling predators surround Tom every time he leaves the house. Unnecessary. We get it: He lives in the wild.

Hutterites: The elders have a case in that, despite NatGeo’s insistence that the show is pure, it comes across painfully scripted and set up.

Reason to keep watching Mountain Men: It’s the better of the two, and Eustace.

Hutterites: Can’t say. Despite strong women like Bertha and Claudia, it’s just not that interesting.

Best supporting character Mountain Men: Eustace Conway, who decided

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Scope Soundcheck Books TV Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER Honestly, the 16th president of the United States is about to go all kinds of action hero on some vampires trying to take over the country.

I bet he’s like, “What’s so civil about war anyway?” before he goes berzerk on them vamps. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10 pm. 3D: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 pm. Big D: 3D: 1, 4, 7 and 9:30 pm. Village 6: 1 and 7 pm.

3D: 4:10 and 9:45 pm.

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

Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with Sat. matinees at 1 and 3 pm. 9 pm only on Fri., June 22, and Wed., June 27.

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED The critters are still wayward things, far from home, but hiding out in a circus might not be

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

scientists uncover the origins of the human race and fly to the darkest corners of the galaxy to have their livers eaten by an eagle. Whoops, that’s no true, they battle evil in order to save the human race. Starring Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:15 and 7:15 pm. 3D: 4:15 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sunday.

ROCK OF AGES I think Poison summed up this film back in ‘88 when they did the “Mama’s Fallen Angel” video, as did Guns ‘n’ Roses with their “Welcome to the Jungle” video, but this time we’ve got fun and games starring Tom Cruise as an ’80s glam metal up-and-comer overcoming obstacles (groupies) and challenges (cocaine) and doing it all for love. Also starring Julianne Hough. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12: 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:30, 7, 9:30 and 10 pm. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm.

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

BRAVE In this Disney-Pixar animation, a princess gets the whole fruitin’ kingdom in an uproar and finds herself rolling with a witch before she can make it all right again.

Starring every Scottish actor except Sean Connery, including Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson and Kelly Macdonald. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 12:15, 4:45 and 9:15 pm. 3D: 2:30 and 7 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm. 3D: 1 and 9:10 pm.

Pharaohplex: 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sun. 3D: 7 pm nightly. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm.

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN In a world where someone is fairer than Charlize Theron, Snow White goes downright rural on that wicked old witch and love and action and adventure combine to most certainly make for sexual tension and mixed messages about female empowerment. Starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 9:45 pm.

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD As an asteroid tumbles toward earth, a doomed Steve Carell stumbles back to his high school sweetheart (played by Keira Knightley) after his wife abandons him. Can love outlast certain death? Is anything certain? Oh, the humanity. Rated R. Village 6: 1:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm.

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THAT’S MY BOY Adam Sandler (long lost outrageous partier dad) and Andy Samberg (affable son/square) join forces in what must be a delightful comedy about fatherhood, unconditional love, cutting the cheese and accidentally seeing/feeling boobs. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10 pm. Village 6: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:15 pm.

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

THE AVENGERS Dude, Loki shows up through a space portal and starts controlling people’s minds and doing his evil business. That’s when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is all, “Ah, hell, no,” and initiates the Avengers Initiative. It. Is. On. Also starring Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 1, 4:10, 7:15 pm and 10:15 pm.

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL PBS fans now have proof that the world does revolve around them as this film about British Boomers retiring to an Indian hotel and learning about life, love and loss is bound to bring Dame Judi Dench fans to tears. Starring Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Rated PG-13.

Wilma: 7 and 9:15 pm nightly, with Sat. matinees at 1 and 3:15 pm. 7 pm only on Fri., June 22 and and Wed., June 27.

HYSTERIA How and why did Mortimer Granville go about inventing the electric vibrator, aka “Granville’s Hammer?” Hey, no mom jokes, buddy! Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy. Rated R.

“Don’t make me axe you again!”

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

so bad. Hey, I bet some of the jokes are good fun for adults, too. Or something. Starring the voices of Ben Stiller and Chris Rock. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 12:30, 4:50 and 9:10 pm. 3D: 2:40 and 7 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sunday. Showboat: 4, 7:15 and 9:15 pm.

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

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

PROMETHEUS For those who carry a torch for director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) his return to the sci-fi genre couldn’t come sooner. In this film,

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned!

Show times are good as of Fri., June 22. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan–883-5603.

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DIGGER

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Taz is a big, reserved, handsome fellow who couldn't go along when his owners moved. He prefers being a family pet to living in the shelter, and he hopes to be adopted into a loving home just as soon as possible!

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Moe always has a big smile on his face, especially when anyone pays attention to him.

He's a great combination of behaviors; he loves to romp and play, but he also enjoys relaxing in the sunshine and just hanging out with his people.

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ANNABELLE

Annabelle is a beautiful example of understatement. Her colors are muted, her meow is tiny, and her personality is quiet. She would do best in an adult home with gentle people who match her sedate manner.

CUCUMBER

Ah me, oh my. The days just keep passing by. This independent lady knows what she wants from life.

Cucumber enjoys starting her morning with a scratch behind the ears, a quick breakfast, a mid-afternoon nap, and a stroll in the evening to survey her surroundings.

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PAUL BUNYAN

This handsome grey cat has absolutely stunning green eyes, and his overall regal appearance would add a touch of class to any family. He's a bit shy (and he doesn't care for other cats), but he'd love to be part of a family again.

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PAT T O N

Patton has been at the shelter so long that he hardly remembers what a real home is like! This big, mellow guy gets along with everyone and is fun to have around. Also, $40 of his adoption fee has been sponsored, and that makes him a real deal.

KOEN

Koen's watchful eyes take in everything. The fly on the counter, the bird out the window, the creak of an opening door - he takes it all in and is ready for action. This playful acrobat turns everything into a toy. His rambunctious antics are sure to keep you laughing!

TROPICANA

Sitting in her cage, Tropicana dreams of a vacation! All she wants is some room to s-t-r-e-t-ch out in and a place to play! This energetic, outgoing, two-year-old female is great company.

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This three-year-old is not only smart, but as handsome as they come. If there’s one thing he knows, it is love. He would love to teach you what he knows. Will you be his student?

SHADOW

At eleven years old, Shadow will be just that: your shadow. He has no problem letting you know when he wants something. YOU can have the most beautiful Shadow by adopting from AniMeals!

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BOULDER

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There is no gambling involved with THIS Blackjack! You will definitely be dealt a winning hand by giving this big boy a forever home! He is a sweetheart of a cat who likes his food as much as he likes his lovin’!

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WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARASITES My boyfriend of two months is a gem, but his house is a horror. The fridge and bathroom are disgusting, and the whole place is seriously messy. There’s this eerie feeling that the house was formerly homey, like nothing has changed since his wife left him three years ago— down to the box of sanitary pads in the bathroom cupboard and the very wife-ish folksy kitchen art everywhere. I wonder if the state of things reflects some inner devastation he’s feeling post-divorce. He takes pride in his home’s exterior, meticulously maintaining his lawn, and I don’t think he’s trying to impress the neighbors (not a pretentious bone in his body). He hadn’t changed his sheets in our two months together, so I removed the pillowcases and dropped them on the floor as a hint. He didn’t get it. It seems too early in the relationship to say anything.

Still, I don’t feel I should have to keep faking that I’m comfy in his home and in his bed on sheets that feel like they haven’t been washed since the 1980s.

—Yuck A woman can leave a man, but apparently, cows grazing on a field of gingham and “Rooster Crossing” signs are forever.

And of course, nothing says a man’s open to a relationship like his ex-wife’s threeyear-old box of Kotex.

Welcome to the Museum of the ExWife. At least, that’s how you’re seeing it, and that’s understandable. In trying to make sense of things, people have a tendency to look for some underlying deep meaning. And, sure, maybe the biohazards and lingering Kountry Kitchen Kwaintness are reflective of some inner darkness on his part (depression, inability to cope with his loss and move on).

Or...maybe it was his job to care for the outside of the house and hers to care for the inside, and after she left, he never thought to fill in the blanks on the chore wheel. Before long, the place became Home Sweet Bacteria Rodeo.

If you don’t see other signs suggesting he’s depressed or troubled, he’s probably just mess-blind. It’s hard for those who practice what would be considered ordinary tidiness and house hygiene to understand, but for some, all the chaos and grunge just blends into a big, benign whatever. The basic rule of this sort of laissez-faire housekeeping: If the crud isn’t so big and scary that it’s

grabbing your ankle as you’re en route to the toilet, why get your last pair of clean underwear into a wad? It is cute that you thought dropping stuff on the floor—the floor of a man who basically lives in a two-bedroom landfill—would have an impact on his housekeeping standards. You should actually consider it a bit troubling that he apparently made no attempt to tidy up for you. Even the most squalor-inured tend to look at their living situation through new (and horrified) eyes when a new romantic partner is coming over and try to do something—get a backhoe in there, burn the bedding, crash a Febreeze truck into the living room.

I’m not suggesting you go all Joan Crawford on the man (“NO. MORE. WIRE. HANGERS!”), but you can’t let him think it’s no big deal for you to get in bed onto sheets that feel like they haven’t been washed since the Reagan administration.

(If you put out a message that anything goes for you, whether in the housekeeping department or any other, very likely, anything will.) Don’t be pulling on any rubber gloves, either. (Start cleaning up after him and you’ll keep cleaning up after him.) Instead, say something gentle but direct like “I think you’re a great guy, but I really need you to clean your place so I feel comfortable there.” There is a chance that he’ll break up with you over this. But, what kind of man kicks the girl out of bed and keeps the cracker crumbs?

Instead of trying to get him to clean up his whole act at once, take things step by grody step. Whatever effort he makes, keep letting him know you appreciate it. If the house isn’t getting to a civilized level of clean, gently suggest that it needs a woman’s touch—a cleaning woman’s: “Ever thought of getting a maid once a month?” Finally, address the ex-wife’s leftovers by joking that some of the decor doesn’t quite seem a reflection of him. In fact, you’re particularly confused by the box in the bathroom cabinet, but you’d like to be supportive: “A man’s first period is a very special time, and there’s no reason to feel ashamed about the changes in your body, which should soon have you turning cartwheels in a flowing white skirt.”

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Swans, geese, and ducks molt all their flight feathers at once, which means they may be unable to fly for several weeks afterwards. We humans don’t do anything like that in a literal way, but we have a psychological analog: times when we shed outworn self-images. I suspect you’re coming up on such a transition, Aries. While you’re going through it, you may want to lie low. Anything resembling flight—launching new ventures, making big decisions, embarking on great adventures—should probably be postponed until the metamorphosis is complete and your feathers grow back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2011 car traffic began flowing across Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, a newly completed span that joins the city of Qingdao with the Huangdao District in China. This prodigious feat of engineering is 26.4 miles long. I nominate it to serve as your prime metaphor in the coming weeks.

Picture it whenever you need a boost as you work to connect previously unlinked elements in your life. It may help inspire you to master the gritty details that’ll lead to your own monumental accomplishment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An apple starts growing on its tree in the spring. By early summer, it may be full size and as red as it will ever be. To the naked eye, it appears ready to eat. But it’s not. If you pluck it and bite into it, the taste probably won’t appeal to you. If you pluck it and hope it will be more delicious in a few weeks, you’ll be disappointed. So here’s the moral of the story, Gemini: For an apple to achieve its potential, it has to stay on the tree until nature has finished ripening it. Keep that lesson in mind as you deal with the urge to harvest something before it has reached its prime.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob: In one of your recent horoscopes, you implied that I should consider the possibility of asking for more than I’ve ever asked for before. You didn’t actually use those words, but I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant. Anyway, I want to thank you! It helped me start working up the courage to burst out of my protective and imprisoning little shell. Today I gave myself permission to learn the unknowable, figure out the inscrutable, and dream the inconceivable.—Crazy Crab.” Dear Crazy: You’re leading the way for your fellow Cancerians. The process you just described is exactly what I advise them to try in the coming weeks.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture yourself moving toward a building you haven’t seen before. Trust the initial image that leaps into your imagination. What type of path are you on? Concrete or dirt or brick or wood? Is it a long, winding way or short and direct? Once you arrive at the front door, locate the key.

Is it under a mat or in your pocket or somewhere else? What does the key look like? Next, open the door and go inside to explore. Where have you arrived? See everything in detail. This is a test that has no right or wrong answers, Leo—similar to what your life is actually bringing you right now. The building you’ve envisioned represents the next phase of your destiny. The path symbolizes how you get here. The key is the capacity or knowledge you will need.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My first poetry teacher suggested that it was my job as a poet to learn the names of things in the natural world. She said I should be able to identify at least 25 species of trees, 25 flowers, 25 herbs, 25 birds, and eight clouds. I have unfortunately fallen short in living up to that very modest goal, and I’ve always felt guilty about it. But it’s never too late to begin, right? In the coming weeks, I vow to correct for my dereliction of duty. I urge you to follow my lead, Virgo. Is there any soul work that you have been neglecting? Is there any part of your life’s mission that you have skipped over? Now would be an excellent time to catch up.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my nomination for one of the Ten Biggest Problems in the World: our refusal to control the pictures and thoughts that pop into our minds. For example, I can personally testify that when a fearful image worms its way into the space behind my eyes, I sometimes let it stimulate a surge of negative emotions rather than just banish it or question whether it’s true. I’m calling this is to your attention, Libra, because in the weeks ahead you’ll have more power than usual to modulate your stream of consciousness. Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that says, “Don’t believe everything you think”? Make that your mantra.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the hands of a skilled practitioner, astrology can help you determine the most favorable days to start a new project or heat up your romantic possibilities or get a tattoo of a ninja mermaid. Success is of course still quite feasible at other times, but you might find most grace and ease if you align yourself with the cosmic flow. Let’s consider, for example, the issue of you taking a vacation.

According to my understanding, if you do it between now and July 23, the experiences you have will free your ass, and—hallelujah!—your mind will then gratefully follow. If you schedule your getaway for another time, you could still free your ass, but may have to toil more intensely to get your mind to join the fun.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What is your most hateable and loveable obsession, Sagittarius?

The compulsion that sometimes sabotages you and sometimes inspires you? The longing that can either fool you or make you smarter? Whatever it is, I suspect it’s beginning a transformation.

Is there anything you can do to ensure that the changes it undergoes will lead you away from the hateable consequences and closer to the loveable stuff? I think there’s a lot you can do. For starters: Do a ritual—yes, an actual ceremony—in which you affirm your intention that your obsession will forever after serve your highest good and brightest integrity.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As someone who thrives on simple organic food and doesn’t enjoy shopping, I would not normally have lunch at a hot dog stand in a suburban mall. But that’s what I did today. Nor do I customarily read books by writers whose philosophy repels me, and yet recently I have found myself skimming through Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness. I’ve been enjoying these acts of rebellion. They’re not directed at the targets that I usually revolt against, but rather at my own habits and comforts. I suggest you enjoy similar insurrections in the coming week, Capricorn. Rise up and overthrow your attachment to boring familiarity.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The ancient Chinese book of divination known as the I Ching speaks of “catching things before they exit the gate of change.” That’s what happens when a martial artist anticipates an assailant’s movement before it happens, or when a healer corrects an imbalance in someone’s body before it becomes a full-blown symptom or illness. I see this as an important principle for you right now, Aquarius. It’s a favorable time to catch potential disturbances prior to the time they exit the gate of change. If you’re alert for pre-beginnings, you should be able to neutralize or transform brewing problems so they never become problems.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Neurophysiologists say that singing really loudly can flush away metabolic waste from your cerebrum. I say that singing really loudly can help purge your soul of any tendency it might have to ignore its deepest promptings. I bring these ideas to your attention, Pisces, because I believe the current astrological omens are suggesting that you do some really loud singing. Washing the dirt and debris out of your brain will do wonders for your mental hygiene. And your soul could use a boost as it ramps up its wild power to pursue its most important dreams.

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CITY OF MISSOULA COMPETETIVE SEALED PROPOSALS (CSP) TO PROCURE AND INSTALL PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT AND FALL ZONE MATERIAL AT WHITE PINE PARK The City of Missoula (City) is requesting proposals to design provide and install playground equipment, fall zone and drainage material in White Pine Park, City project No. PR 07-12 WPPG located at 1551 Scott St. The project is funded through a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG.) The City will select one (1) Supplier to provide equipment, materials and labor for the project as outlined in this request.

This project consists of the design, procurement and installation of one (1) playground system including fall zone and drainage material at White Pine Park in Missoula, Montana.

Work is to include the design of a play system within the constructed play area boundaries at the park per the attached exhibits, and the installation of commercial grade playground equipment including all necessary footings, drainage materials, landing mats, and fall zone material. Supplier shall install and bring to finish grade approximately 4” of washed sand per specifications in the play area for fall zone drainage. Supplier shall provide geotextile separation fabric under engineered wood fiber fall zone material. Copies of the detailed Competitive Sealed Proposals including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, may be obtained on the city’s website: http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids or at the Parks & Recreation Office during normal business hours at 600

Cregg Lane, Missoula MT, 59801, starting June 21, 2012. For more information, contact Dave Shaw, Missoula Parks & Recreation at (406)552-6264, or emailing dshaw@ci.missoula.mt.us. Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 5:00 pm MST, July 9, 2012 at 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802-4297. A Selection Meeting will be held at 3pm on July 16, 2012, in the Parks & Recreation Conference Room at 600 Cregg Lane, Missoula MT, 59801. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Curb and Sidewalk ImprovementsS. 6th St. W. – Russell St. to Orange St. City of Missoula Project 10-036 This project consists of removing and replacing approximately 8,000 square feet of 4” and 6” sidewalk, 4,000 square feet of new 4”, 6”, and 8” sidewalk/driveway with 150 lineal feet of curb, asphalt repair and associated work. Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for City of Missoula Project 10-036 S. 6th St. W. – Russell St. to Orange St. curb and sidewalk improvements” The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name, Address and

Montana Contractor’s Registration Number. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form.

Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability. A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished the Contractors making application therefore from the Office of the City Engineer, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash can not be accepted). Full amount of payment will be refunded upon return of the plans and specifications in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211.

Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to

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TERMS: $85.00 MINIMUM BID Notice is hereby given to all owners of the following vehicles; unless reclaimed, the following vehicles will be sold at the Missoula Police Department Auction on Thursday June 28th, 2012, at 10:00 am at Pro-Towing @ 1922 S 3rd St W, Missoula, in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, property situated in the County of Missoula, particularly described as follows:

Caretaker -- Immediate Opening: The city-owned Moon-Randolph Homestead is a historic homestead located in Missoula's North Hills. The City of Missoula and the North Missoula Community Development Corporation are soliciting applications for a year round caretaker(s) to maintain the Homestead, its gardens, orchard and outbuildings. Caretaker(s) must be available to coordinate and/or lead public tours and open days from May 1st to October 31st. This is an unpaid position that provides on-site housing and utilities free of charge. Experience in public engagement, gardening, animal husbandry, construction, maintenance, preservation of historic sites, fundraising, newsletter production and data base management are useful to this position. A valid State of Montana drivers' license is required. For more information about this position contact the North Missoula Community Development Corporation (406) 829-0873.

Please send a letter of interest with a resume of relevant work history or other experience to the following address: Missoula Parks Operations office: 100 Hickory St. Missoula Mt. 59801 Attn: Moon-Randolph Applications must be received no later than 4pm 7/06/2012 to be considered.

EEO/AA/ADA Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

For more information on position, go to www.nmcdc.org/mrhhome.html and click on links below “Caretaker information”

AGENCY ASSIGNED NUMBER.................VEHICLE DESCRIPTION ..........................................VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER 12-075...................................................1998 CHEV BLZ WHI...............................................1GNDT13W8W2220019 12-076...................................................1994 FORD EPR BLU..............................................1FMDU34X6RUC70740 12-077...................................................1981 PLY AOW TK WHI...........................................JP7FP2456BY107211 12-078...................................................1982 VOLV 240 DL 4D GRN ....................................YV1AX4941C1810887 12-079...................................................1991 FORD TEM 4D WHI ........................................2FAPP36X0MB105986 12-080...................................................2003 CHRY SEB 2D SIL ..........................................4C3AG42G03E166496 12-081...................................................1996 PLY VOY VAN GRN .........................................1P4GP44R8TB144605 12-082...................................................1987 MAZ B2000 TK BLK/RED ...............................JM2UF2118H0598526 12-083...................................................1998 CHEV VEN VAN BLU.......................................1GNDX03EWD168203 12-084...................................................1984 CHEV CAV 2D RED .........................................1G1AE27P3EJ268846 12-085...................................................1988 CHEV CAM 2DR RED......................................1G1FP21E4JL179163 12-086...................................................1988 CHEV CAV 4D BLU .........................................1G1JC5119JJ220550 12-088...................................................1990 MERC TOPZ 4D BLU.......................................1MEPM36X4LK649638 12-089...................................................2002 OLDS ALER 2D SIL ........................................1G3NL12E92C312220 12-090...................................................1983 CHEV PK TK PLE............................................1GCCT14B3D8114961 12-091...................................................1996 MERC COUG 2D RED......................................1MELM62W2TH611173 12-092...................................................1991 MAZD B2600 TK WHI.....................................JM2UF3148M0108418 12-094...................................................1991 FORD ZZZ VAN WHI........................................1FTHS34HXMHA36025 12-095...................................................2002 PONT GRM 4D WHI........................................1G2NF52F12C299751 12-096...................................................1994 OLDS 88 4D WHI ...........................................1G3HN52L0R4803051 12-097...................................................1992 VOLV 240 GL GLD..........................................YV1AS8803N1460251 12-098...................................................2003 DODG CAR VAN BLU......................................1D4GP25313B212815 12-101...................................................1997 CHEV BLZ SUV GRN.......................................1GNCS13W6V2220761 12-107...................................................1990 SUBA LEG 4D BRO.........................................JF2BC63CXLG626371 12-108...................................................1996 NISS ALT 4D MAR..........................................1N4BU31D6TC138098 12-109...................................................1967 CADI ELD 2D RED/WHI ..................................H7240834 12-110...................................................1997 HYUN ACC 4D SIL..........................................KMHVF24N3VU378525 12-111...................................................1988 MERC TOP 4D GRY ........................................1MEPM37X8JK645667 12-113...................................................1992 FORD TAU 4D BLU .........................................1FACP50U6NG112086 12-114...................................................1981 VW RAB 2D HB SIL........................................1VWDB0174BV104405 12-115...................................................1992 PLYM VOY VAN WHI.......................................1P4GH44R1NX125462

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PUBLIC NOTICES bidding on this project. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor performing work on a “Public works contract” shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the contract documents. The provisions of this part do not apply in those instances in which the standard prevailing rate of wages is determined by federal law. “Public works contract” means a contract for construction services let by the state, county, municipality, school district, or political subdivision or for nonconstruction services let by the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision in which the total cost of the contract is in excess of $25,000. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against on the basis race, ancestry, color, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or familial status, creed, ex-offender status, physical condition, political belief, public assistance status or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, except where these criteria are reasonable bona fide occupational qualifications. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the bid opening at 3:00 p.m. on June 26, 2012. The City of Missoula provides accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person’s ability to participate in any service, program, or activity of the City. To request accommodation, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (406)552-6079. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for the construction of: MRA URD II – Western Curb & Sidewalk Project – Phase 2 will be received by the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802 until 3:00 p.m., local time, on Tuesday July 10, 2012. The bids will then be publicly opened and read aloud at the: Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802 Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT, 59802, enclosed in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for MRA URD II – Western Curb & Sidewalk Project – Phase 2.” The envelope shall also be marked with the bidder’s name, address and Montana contractor’s registration number. This project consists of installing approximately 1,378 lineal feet of city curb, 7,880 square feet of city sidewalk, drainage facilities, ADA facilities, and associated work. A complete set of the project manual, drawings and specifications may be furnished or reviewed at Territorial Landworks, Inc. 620 Addison Missoula, Montana (406-721-0142) upon a nonrefundable payment of $50.00 (plus shipping) by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash cannot be accepted). In addition, the project manual, drawings and specifications may

also be examined at the Missoula Plans Exchange, (406) 549-5002 and iSqFt® website: http://www.isqft.com. There will be a non-mandatory pre-bid conference at the Missoula Redevelopment Agency Conference Room, MRA Office, 140 West Pine St, Missoula, Montana (406-552-6160), Thursday June 28 2012 at 11a.m. Interested contractors are encouraged to attend.

Questions regarding the project manual, drawings and specifications shall be directed to the Engineer Territorial-Landworks, Inc.; 620 Addison, PO Box 3851; Missoula, MT 59806.

(406) 721-0142 Proposals must be accompanied by cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form.

Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula and Missoula Redevelopment Agency against liability. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula business licensing requirements. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as set out in the bid proposal. The contractor performing works on a “Public works contract” shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage rate.

A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the contract documents.

The provisions of this part do not apply in those instances in which the standard prevailing rate of wages is determined by federal law. “Public works contract” mean a contract for construction services let by the state, county, municipality, school district, or political subdivision or for nonconstruction services let by the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision in which the total cost of the contract is in excess of $25,000. Any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement is subject to all appropriate federal laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Missoula Redevelopment Agency hereby notifies all bidders it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this invitation; disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation. The Disadvantaged Business Enterprises’ contract goals are 0%. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated on the basis of race, ancestry, color, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or familial status, creed, ex-offender status, physical condition, political belief, public assistance status or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, except where these criteria are reasonable bona fide occupational qualifications. The Missoula Redevelopment Agency reserves the right to waive informali-

ties, to reject any and all bids received , and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the Agency’s requirements.

No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is specified above. The City of Missoula provides accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person’s ability to participate in any service, program, or activity of the City. To request accommodation, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 406-552-6080.

City of Missoula is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at Tuesday July 10, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.

Jason J. Henderson, Esq., Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm 38 Second Ave E Dickinson, ND 58601 Phone: 701227-1841 Fax: 701-225-6878 cdellwo@mackoff.com MT Bar #11141 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-165 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS INC. ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-12 Plaintiff, v. GERALD WHITEHEAD; TERRI WHITEHEAD; PATRICIA B. MARTINEZ; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER; MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; STATE OF MONTANA, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DIVISION; ALSIDE SUPPLY CENTER; and NORTHWEST COLLECTORS, INC., Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT PATRICIA B. MARTINEZ: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiffs attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

This action relates to an action to rescind the Trustee’s Sale and Trustee’s Deed and to reinstate a Note and Deed of Trust covering property situated in Gallatin County, in the State of Montana and described as follows: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 2 OF LINDA VISTA TENTH SUPPLEMENT PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. “WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 5th day of May, 2012. (SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Shirley E Faust by Deputy Clerk of the District Court Dated this 21 day of May, 2012.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for Plaintiff 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Tel: (701)-227-1841 By: Jason J. Henderson, Attorney #11414 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or

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any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification. You are also advised that upon your request within the thirty day period, we will provide you with the name and address of your original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. We are attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

MISSOULA COUNTY EARLY NOTICE OF A POTENTIAL IMPACT TO A FLOOD HAZARD AREA The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks is considering committing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Economic Development Initiative – Special Projects funds, authorized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriation Act, 2010, to undertake a project known as Milltown State Park Development at the confluence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers. The specific elements of this proposed project include grading; improvement of a park access road; paving of a parking lot; development of a riverfront trail; various visitor facilities; and development of a walk-in river access point. The proposed action, if implemented, would impact a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA); reference Panel #1485 effective August 16, 1988. The purposes of this notice are to: (1) inform the public of this potential consequence and (2) request comments concerning: (a) potential adverse impacts of the proposed project on the SFHA and (b) alternative sites or courses of action that might avoid or reduce these impacts. The 1988 FEMA map has not been revised subsequent to removal of the Milltown Dam. Preliminary hydraulic modeling by River Design Group estimates that the revised 100year flood elevation at the park is approximately 20 feet lower than represented on the 1988 map. This project will only intrude on the estimated floodplain where the non-motorized put-in descends into the Clark Fork. Details concerning the proposed project are available for examination/copying at Missoula Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, weekdays between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. or by appointment.

Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the proposed project to: John Adams, OPG, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802-4292. All comments must be received no later than July 14, 2012.

John Adams, Environmental Certifying Officer Missoula County MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE 2011 DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAX SALE. All 2011 delinquent taxes, including penalties, interest and costs, are now a lien upon the real property upon which those taxes were assessed. Unless the delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs are paid prior to the time of the Treasurer's tax sale, the county lien will be offered for sale.

The Treasurer's tax sale is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 12, 2012 in the County Treasurer's Office, second floor, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W Broadway St, Missoula, Montana. A list of all properties on which 2011 taxes are delinquent will be on file at the time of the sale and open for public inspection during business hours 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Penalties, interest and costs will be added to the delinquent taxes upon payment by the owner or purchaser. Before a tax lien can be purchased for assignment, "Proof of Notice" according to MCA

15017-323 (5) must be presented at the time of purchase. Vickie M Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer. Missoula County, Montana.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-12-91 DEPT. NO. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PEGGY BIRD JACOBSON a/k/a PEGGY EILEEN BIRD JACOBSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned was appointed Personal Representative of the 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 Julio K. Morales, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Morales Law Office, PO Box 9311, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 30th day May, 2012.

MORALES LAW OFFICE, P.C. /s/ Julio K. Morales, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DA-12-16 Department No. 1 Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE/PARENTING OF Jeffrey Golleher, Petitioner, and Brandon Brown, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain an adoption. DATED this 29th day of May, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By /s/ Casie Krath, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-644 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Cody Glen Potton, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Cody Glen Potton to Cody Glen Weisenburger. The hearing will be on July 19, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: June 7, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-647 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Taylor Britton Gibbs, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Taylor Britton Gibbs to Theodore Voges Gibbs IV. The hearing will be on July 17, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. the hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 6/11/12. /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molli Zodo MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-94 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARION BRADLEYCOOK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary Bradley Keller and Shawn Joseph Bradley, Co- Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives We declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 24th day of May, 2012, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Mary Bradley Keller /s/ Shawn Josesph Bradley MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-98 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DONALD KENNETH ROOT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months

after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Sharon Schmelebeck, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 10th day of June, 2011. /s/ Sharon Schmelebeck, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-96 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORA JEAN BUELOW, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John Buelow, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 31st day of May, 2012. /s/ John Buelow, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-12-85 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED S. HANGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Harold H. Hanger, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of May, 2012. /s/ Harold H. Hanger, Personal Representative. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S ATTORNEY: RONALD A. BENDER, ESQ., WORDEN THANE P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-11-230 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Norma J. (Nonie) White, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Kimberly A. Lux, return receipt requested at 6939 Mormon Creek Road, Lolo, MT 59847, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of June, 2012. /s/ Kimberly Lux, 6939 Mormon Creek Road, Lolo, MT 59847 AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE This Amended Notice replaces the May 2, 2012 Notice of Trustee Sale recorded at Book 893, Page 925. Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on the November 7, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., on the steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, in Block 33 of Union Addition to the City of Missoula, Montana, according to the official map or plat thereof, now on file and of record in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 1811 & 1819 Holborn Street and 901, 910 & 912 Kensington Avenue, Missoula, Montana 59801. E. Martin Hyland, III, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., which was designated as beneficiary in a Montana Trust Indenture dated January 5, 2006 and recorded January 6, 2006 in Book 767 at Page 275 of Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Notes secured by the Trust Indenture have not been made as required. As of May 2, 2012, the sum of $321,558.15 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $306,186.61, with interest accruing thereon at a rate of 8.5% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $71.30. In addition, Grantor is in default for failing to pay taxes before becoming delinquent. In accordance with the provi-

sions of the Trust Indenture, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and note and elected to sell the interest of E. Martin Hyland, III, the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Timothy D. Geiszler, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Trust Indenture and note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred.

DATE this 15th day of June 2012. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA County of Missoula. This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 15th day of June 2012 by Timothy D. Geiszler. /s/ Cheryl Spinks, (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing Missoula, MT My Commission Expires: 02/28/2016 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE Trustee Sale Number 11-03089-5 Loan Number: 0211732441 APN: 4276180 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 4, 2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT A-125 OF WINDSOR PARK PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 4225 DIAGON LN, MISSOULA, MT MICHAEL A GONZALEZ AND SHERI L GONZALEZ, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA CO, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ROCKY MOUNTAIN BANK, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of January 16, 2009, and recorded on January 22, 2009 under Document No. 200901318, Book 832, Page 349 in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA. (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the ‘Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated October 22, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of April 30, 2012: Balance due on monthly payments from July 1, 2011 and which payments total: $15,453.72: Late charges: $618.12 Net Other Fees: $40.00 Advances: $2,921.23 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $233,686.04 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.00000% per annum from June 1, 2011, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in Interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727 DATED: April 30, 2012 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature A-4242612 06/07/2012, 06/14/2012, 06/21/2012

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200925331, in Book 849 Micro Records Page 579, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kristen M. Bounds, a married person and Stewart Bounds was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, NA was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 3 of the Amended Plat of Country Club Addition No. 2 a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to . Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 20, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $190,839.84. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $185,389.22, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.100163) 1002.214632-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/09/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200720650 Bk 803 Pg 515, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Zach Allen and Robin Allen, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 1 of Meadowlark Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 18, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $237,373.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $228,105.55, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments

for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.100015) 1002.214890-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200917604, Bk 843, Pg 1246, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jhawn D. Thompson and Misty J. Thompson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 57, together with the Northerly half of vacated Bedard Street adjoining said Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown as vacated by Resolution recorded April 7, 1966 in Book 2 of Micro Records at Page 533. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201119250, Bk 885, Pg 877, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 17, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $170,872.81. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,856.94, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.97589) 1002.207163-File No. NOTICE THAT A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Circle H Ranch LLC at 35 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey, 07901-3544; R.E. Loans, LLC doing business at 201 Layfayette Circle, Layfayette, CA 94549; Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC at 14241 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX, 75254; James F. Cozzeto & Blue Skies Development unknown address; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, LOT 23 OF WEST POINTE PHASE I. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, S26, T14 N, R20 W, BLOCK XXX, Lot 023, LOT 23 OF WEST POINTE PHASE I. Parcel No. 3876103. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on 06/02/2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Brigitte Brazda whose address is P.O. Box 549, Post Falls, ID 83877, and a tax deed will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $606.76 Penalty: $12.12 Interest: $201.43 Costs: $213.29 Total: $1,033.60. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 19, 2012. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Brigitte Brazda, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2.

The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this June 22, 2012. Brigitte Brazda NOTICE THAT A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Circle H Ranch LLC at 35 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey, 07901-3544; R.E. Loans, LLC doing business at 201 Layfayette Circle, Layfayette, CA 94549; Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC at 14241 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX, 75254; James F. Cozzeto & Blue Skies Development, unknown address; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, WEST POINTE LOT 15C OF WEST POINTE PHASE I 26-14-20. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, S26, T14 N, R20 W, BLOCK XXX, Lot 15C, WEST POINTE LOT 15C OF WEST POINTE PHASE I 26-14-20. Parcel No. 3871709. 2.

The property taxes became delinquent on 06/02/2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Brigitte Brazda whose address is P.O. Box 549, Post Falls, ID 83877, and a tax deed

will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $549.17 Penalty: $10.98 Interest: $182.33 Costs: $213.29 Total: $955.77 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 19, 2012. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Brigitte Brazda, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this June 22, 2012. Brigitte Brazda NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 24, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $895,195.33. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-

Foreclosure.com. (TS# 1002.97599-File No.

7777.26264)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200525893 Bk 761 Pg 663, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Brett Pedersen, Robin Pedersen, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Home Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 36, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference in Book 332 at Page 355 Micro Records. By

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by Matt Jones

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

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

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

Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. A live auction will be held Saturday, June 23rd at 10 am at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201204834 B: 891 P: 111, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 27, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $187,148.89. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $182,037.15, 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 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.100530) 1002.215678-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 13, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 21 IN BLOCK 2 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jasmine E. Deminck and Wayne P. Deminck, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on September 9, 2008 and recorded on September 15, 2008 at 11:57:59 AM. o’ clock in book 826, page 420, under document No. 200821236. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company.

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 $1,764.26, beginning May 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of May 1, 2012 is $277, 463.38 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $18,654.41, late charges in the amount of $976.26, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,491.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.51 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and

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

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 9, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 9th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Guild V Diminck 41291.580 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 13, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT 43 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1925 LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT ACROSS TRACTS 29 THROUGH 39 INCLUSIVE FOR ACCESS, INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED BY WARRANTY DEED RECORDED IN THE BOOK 165 OF MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1010 Cordel M. Earl, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity Nat’l Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Indymac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 24, 2006 and recorded on February 01, 2006 in Book 768, Page 436 under Document No. 200602437. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee of IndyMac Residential Mortgage-Backed Trust, Series 2006-L1, Residential Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-L1.

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 $1,427.93, beginning February 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of April 13, 2012 is $170,247.10 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $35,464.67, escrow advances of $1,485.54, and expenses advanced of $5,230.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.56 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the

proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 5, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 5th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Onewest V Earl 41969.591 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/19/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RYAN E. JONES, A SINGLE MAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/23/2009 and recorded 10/28/2009, in document No. 200925805 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 849 at Page Number 1053 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 17 IN BLOCK 3 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Property Address: 9225 GROUSE DR, Missoula, MT 59808-1051. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE

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PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $223,987.84 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.875% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120042089 FEI NO. 1006.159276 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/18/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DONALD R. COLE AND KATHRYN I. COLE, AS JOINT TENANTS HUSBAND & WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to LSI TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/02/2008 and recorded 12/15/2008, in document No. 200827189 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 830 at Page Number 777 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT A138 OF CANYON EAST, PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4535 BORDEAUX BOULEVARD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $194,504.50 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 01/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s

fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042088 FEI NO. 1006.159281 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which NANCY K. COLEMAN, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/03/2011 and recorded 02/07/2011, in document No. 201102369 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 873 at Page Number 784 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 6227, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPLE MERIDIAN, MONTANA. TAX ACCOUNT NUMBER(S): 2429-262-02-01-0000 Property Address: 16460 HASHKNIFE WAY, Missoula, MT 59808.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $293,547.41 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.875% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/08/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042091 FEI NO. 1006.159282 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/21/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with

any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which PATRICK LANDELLS & AMY HOUSE, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/06/2006 and recorded 10/12/2006, in document No. 200626539 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 785 at Page Number 153 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS B AND C OF CAR LINE ADDITION, BLOCK 55, LOTS 25 THRU 28, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE SEWER SERVICE LINE EASEMENT OVER AND ACROSS LOT A AS SET FORTH ON SAID PLAT. Property Address: 3114 SOUTH CLARK STREET, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $208,201.89 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/09/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042687 FEI NO. 1006.159286 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/14/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEONARD T. CONLEY AND TERESA B. CONLEY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AM TITLE INS CO OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WEBSTER BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/12/2006 and recorded 01/19/2006, in document No. 200601333 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 767 at Page

Number 1163 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5754, LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (NE1/4) OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA; MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. NOTE: ANY CONVEYANCE OR SECURITY INSTRUMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: TOGETHER WITH ROAD FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS SET OUT IN BOOK 102 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 328 AND BOOK 104 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 751. Property Address: LOT 1A MESSINA DRIVE, AKA 23508 MESSINA DRIVE, Bonner, MT 59823.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $218,854.01 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/04/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0041449 FEI NO. 1006.158887 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/07/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which PETER CLIFFORD as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/21/2005 and recorded 04/22/2005, in document No. 200509181 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 751 at Page Number 112 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 16 LESS THE WEST 4 FEET OF THE SOUTH 60 FEET OF SAID LOT 16 AND ALL OF LOT 17 IN BLOCK 82 OF URLIN’S ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE IS IN BOOK 514 AT PAGE 2671 MICRO RECORDS. Property Address: 516 N 2ND ST W, Missoula, MT 59802-2920. The ben-

PUBLIC NOTICES eficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $139,481.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.75% per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 04/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0036050 FEI NO. 1006.158565 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/21/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLINTON J ADCOCK AND AMBER K ADCOCK, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/16/2009 and recorded 01/22/2009, in document No. 200901326 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 832 at Page Number 357 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 9A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4379, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 6003 AIRWAY BLVD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2010 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RE-

CURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $313,492.39 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/14/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0139822 FEI NO. 1006.117071 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/25/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which A. LYNETTE BROWNLEE, A SINGLE PERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/12/2010 and recorded 02/17/2010, in document No. 201003182 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 855 at Page Number 665 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 11 OF RIVER ROAD ESTATES PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TAX ACCOUNT NUMBERS(S) 3650205 Property Address: 615 LAFRAY LANE, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $173,908.28 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real

property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/11/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0044073 FEI NO. 1006.159778 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/28/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SHELLEY SMITH OTOUPALIK as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/10/2008 and recorded 06/16/2008, in document No. 200813430 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 820 at Page Number 1008 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: MANUFACTURER’S NAME: KIT MANUFACTURING MODEL: GOLDEN STATE MODEL YEAR: 2000 HUD TAG#: IDA 195212 AND IDA 195213 SERIAL NUMBER: 5117GO179E18 LENGTH AND WIDTH: 67 X 27 TRACT A1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5212, LOCATED IN THE WEST ONE-HALF OF THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH A 60 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTITILITY EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON SAID CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5212. Property Address: 7473 GROOMS ROAD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $257,412.56 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the

sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/17/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0045381 FEI NO. 1006.159877 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/01/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KIM KLAGES JOHNS, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES LLC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/28/2004 and recorded 02/03/2004, in document No. 200402977 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 725 at Page Number 1806 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 21 OF RIVER HEIGHTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. PARCEL NO. 3153908 Property Address: 8285 HAVEN HEIGHTS ROAD, Missoula, MT 59808.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2004-5AR, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-5AR. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $245,758.28 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.75% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/21/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0045684 FEI NO. 1006.159907 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee

will, on 10/04/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M GORDON, AND RENEEA J GORDON, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY LICENSED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/03/2008 and recorded 10/08/2008, in document No. 200823029 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 814 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 9A OF LOW’S ADDITION NO. 10, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE SEWER AND WATER EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF SAID SUBDIVISION. Property Address: 620 S GARFIELD ST, Missoula, MT 59801-2262. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $168,118.79 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 09/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/21/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0110374 FEI NO. 1006.110532 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/05/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the

trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CAREY M PRATHER, AND RYAN R PRATHER as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 04/28/2008 and recorded 04/29/2008, in document No. 200809577 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 817 at Page Number 1352 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 8 OF HENRY’S ESTATES 2ND ADDITION PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF IN BLOCK 24 OF PLATS AT PAGE 91.

Property Address: 15911 LEMAZION PL, Frenchtown, MT 59834-9573. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $234,911.94 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 01/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/22/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0047911 FEI NO. 1006.159995.

Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/05/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS J ADAMS, AND ANGELA D ADAMS, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 08/08/2006 and recorded 08/21/2006, in document No. 200621241 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 655 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DE-

SCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS POLICY IS SITUATED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA, COUNTY OF MISSOULA, CITY OF MISSOULA, AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOTS 5 AND 6 IN BLOCK 5 OF WEST RIVERSIDE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. APN: 2039203 Property Address: 940 4TH WEST RIVERSIDE, Missoula, MT 59802-5710. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2012 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $158,248.06 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 03/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 5/22/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0047875 FEI NO. 1006.160001 PUBLIC COMMENT SOUGHT The DRAFT City of Missoula’s Program Year 2011 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) will be available for public review and comment starting Saturday, June 16, 2012. The CAPER describes activities undertaken by the City as a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) entitlement grantee for the program year ending March 31, 2012. Public comments on the City’s performance received

by Thursday, June 28, 2012, will be included in the final version of the CAPER to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Comments may be made in writing to the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT, 59802 or via email to nharte@co.missoula.mt.us. The City of Missoula and OPG welcome comments on its CDBG and HOME activities, Consolidated Plan and annual Action Plans on a year-round basis. Copies of the CAPER are available for review at OPG in Missoula City Hall, 435 Ryman or on OPG’s website at www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb. Persons wishing to receive a copy of the CAPER or to review it in an alternative format should contact Nancy Harte at OPG, 258 4934.

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RENTAL APARTMENTS

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109 Turner Court #3. 2bed/1bath, W/D hookups, storage unit, near Northside Park, off-street parking, pet? $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1213 Cleveland “E”. 1 bed/1bath lower level unit. Shared yard, central location, shared W/D. Pet OK. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1324 South 2nd “C”. 3 bed, 2 bath, shared yard, W/D, DW.

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6705 SLIDE ROCK: 2 BEDROOM, SIDE BY SIDE DUPLEX, CARPORT, WASHER & DRYER HOOK-UPS, YARD, NEAR CLINTON – 25 MINUTES EAST OF MISSOULA, NO SMOKING, PET OK ! $650 * 1YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP *

1800 S. 4th W. #8: Two bedroom, 2nd floor, Dining area, Big closets, Large unit, New Carpet, Near Good Food Store, Off street parking, On site laundry, No smoking or dogs allowed, Cat considered $100.00

Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES

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114 Bentley Park Loop. 3 bed, 2 bath 2 story home in central location. Open, airy floor plan. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

541-547 South 2nd West. Wonderful 4-plex in great neighborhood. Suitable for condo conversion.

Newer rubber membrane roof. $275,000.

MLS #20120840 Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.541-547s2ndst.com

1375 Woodhill. 2 bed, 1 bath on quiet street with river access. MLS #20122336. $179,900. Call Betsy 880-4747. Montana Preferred Properties 1500 Philips. 2 bed, 1 bath with single garage on corner lot. Fenced yard with deck. $154,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1537 Defoe. 2 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage near Lowell School. $167,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $184,999. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath Rose Park/Slant Streets home with a great yard. $249,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Target Range area home on 0.9 acres. $319,900 Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $269,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula, 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage.

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

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $189,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico

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360-8234 Character + and Ready to Move Into! Corner lot, close to schools, great trees, lots of upgrades, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, full basement, so much house for this price of $210,000. 240-5227 2107 Park St. porticorealestate.com

6107 Brusett. 4 bed, 3 bath Martz home with 2 car garage & basement. Lower Miller Creek. MLS #20121397. $300,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749

Energy-Efficient Sweet Bungalow in Slant Street ‘hood with double lot and raised beds ready to plant! 835 Rollins. $179,500.

240-5227 porticorealestate.com

6544 MacArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath must-see home with 2 car garage.

Cherry cabinets, hardwood floors, tile, granite. MLS #20122825. $240,000. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views.

Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $375,000.

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6785 Prairie Schooner. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1/2 acre at end of quiet cul-de-sac. MLS #20122287. $259,900. Call Betsy 880-4747.

Montana Preferred Properties

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

Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $259,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com

Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000.

1400 Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/- acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house? Here it is! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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Rattlesnake Valley 909 Herbert. Perched amidst the trees and canopy of the Rattlesnake Valley, this home is a beauty! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Slant Street Condo 525A Cleveland. Upgraded and beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Slant Streets: $174,900 porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm.

2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $280,000. MLS #20120012. 9869 Lee’s Lane, Mis-

1333 Toole #C14. 2 bed, 2 bath affordable downtown living. Main floor, great southern exposure. $120,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

Historic Preservation Award-Winning Marshall House Beautiful professional building with great design for offices or home and awesome exposure for business. 436 S 3rd W. $395,000 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

RICE TEAM

1725A Park Place. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1 car garage. Fenced, landscaped backyard. No HOA fees. $150,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate.

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6614 MacArthur. Spacious 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse with 2 car garage. Great views. Budget for improvements. Seller motivated. $194,500 MLS #20122949. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

2 Bdr, 1.5 Downtown Missoula condo. Zoned for Residential or Commercial use. $299,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

702A Charlo. Newly remodeled 3 bed, 1.5 bath on corner lot with single garage. Fenced yard with deck. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Central Missoula Condo. $194,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

428 Jefferson • $269,000 • Charming 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown • Hardwood floors & tile • Fenced yard • Garden beds • Sunny & warm!

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4433A Bordeaux

$179,000 Robin Rice 240-6503

• Newer Bellvue model 3 bed, 2 bath

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NEW LISTING! 1 Russell Park West • 3 bed, 1.5 bath, 1 car garage • Daylight basement • Great yard & deck MLS #20123414 $189,000

2441 Mcintosh Loop • 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 55+ Community • Home owners fee $370/month • $106,000 • MLS# 10006023

2014 29th Avenue PRICE REDUCED • 4 Bed, 2 bath, basement, 2 car garage • Large deck overlooks yard • New furnace & water heater • $225,000• MLS# 20110384

1641 Stoddard • Single-wide 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • Fenced yard, deck & lots of trees • Great building lot MLS #20116883 $99,500

• Attached 2 car garage • Upgraded appliances & fixtures

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• Fenced back yard

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

240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900. Great downtown living!

Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Treehouse Feel in this fairly new condo with single garage.

Great location close to school, bike trail, Good Food Store and town.

935B Garfield. $117,500. 2405227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 1 Russell Park West. Centrally located 3 bed, 1.5 bath with garage and daylight basement. New paint and flooring. $189,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

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

2951 Expo Parkway. 1.24 acres off I-90 between Motel 6 & Cracker Barrel.

MLS #20120951, $399,000. Additional 1.57 acres at $499,000. MLS #201200952.

Jeremy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 552-2410 601 West Broadway. .58 acre along Clark Fork River. MLS #20120935, $1,700,000. Jeremy

Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 552-2419 Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $65,000.

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

Well-maintained with lots of upgrades. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7 2 8 - 8 2 7 0 . glasgow@montana.com 170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres.

Close to the river and Forest Service land. $208,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Potomac area home on 20 acres. $199,900. Prudential

Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Stevensville log home on 1.2 acres. $139,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 32609 Jocko Road, Arlee. 2 bed, 2 bath on almost 6 acres. Fireplace, loft and 3 car garage. $214,900.

Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

4 Bdr, 2 Bath Rose Frenchtown area home on 0.5 acres. $239,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres. $449,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $629,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Lolo End of Cul-de-sac Beauty Open, light, private, quiet and in immaculate condition.

Huge yard, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with hardwood, tile and beautiful warm colors. 5697 Explorer Court. $215,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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