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Voices The readers write................................................................................................4 Street Talk The mysteries of bitcoin..............................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Launching a UM levy, art matters at Sunrise Saloon, and tiny Bakken homes.........6 Etc. And the race is on ...................................................................................................7 News What ‘blockchain security services’ can bring to Bonner ....................................8 News A Willow Creek washout revives questions about the Gold Butterfly project.....9 Opinion Steve Daines doesn’t understand flags or free speech .................................10 Opinion Shooting back is just as violent as shooting first ..........................................11 Feature Jeff Halvorson tried to build utopia. Now it could be yours for $399,999....14

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Arts Ted McDermott finds his way back to fiction .......................................................18 Books Maile Meloy returns with Do Not Become Alarmed ........................................19 Comedy Gingers on Ice finds its Freudian balance.....................................................20 Film The Force tackles toxic cop culture .....................................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 Resistance Kitchen Donald Trump is a political typo pasta salad .............................23 Happiest Hour Mint-infused cold brew at Black Coffee Roasting Company .............25 8 Days a Week Who, what, when, where and how much..........................................26 Agenda 4.1 Miles: a documentary about refugees ......................................................31 Mountain High No-elimination tennis means you never lose, right?.........................32

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News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds..................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess .................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y...................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .....................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World .................................................................................................C-10

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Friday afternoon at Imagine Nation Brewing

Can you describe what “bitcoin” is? Follow-up: If you had half a million dollars to invest in a Montana business, what business or industry would it be?

Patrick Cermak: I don’t know. Bitcoin is like a chocolate coin, like you grab the chocolate and you bite it with the wrapper on it. That’s the first thing I thought of. Betting on building: CTA Architects. I think they’d be a good company to be invested in. They do good work, and would continue to do good work.

Greg Petschl: I can’t, because I have no idea. But [there’s] a lot of coin [business] going on in Montana, you know, gold, silver, trade, pawn shops. So I’m going to go ahead and say it’s in that industry. Marketing man: Advertising. There are lots of billboards going on still, but I’d invest in advertising in the digital world. Like LumenAd.

Colleen Rivers: It’s electronic money. I suppose it’s no less fake than paper money. Brewery relations: I might just give the money to my brother, Robert. This is his and his wife’s bar. And I’d give half the money to Youth Homes, too.

Claire Amundson: I have no idea. I’ve never heard of that in my life. A tiny little coin? Hear hear for beer: Imagine Nation Brewery. I like beer, and it’s cool here. People play music, it’s familyfriendly. They’re letting me have my preschool graduation here.

Mike Jacobsen: I don’t know a lot about the bitcoin, but I have a friend who does the online gaming thing on video [Twitch]. He gets paid in bitcoin. Must be a trend: I would do the breweries. Breweries are banging in town right now. Everywhere you go, there’s a brewery on every corner, doing their thing.

[4] Missoula Independent • June 22–June 29, 2017

The union solution

Full-time job

The April determination by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry to enforce Montana’s tip-sharing law is a complicated ruling for both service industry workers and restaurant owners (“A tip-splitting case at Missoula’s The Keep could change the way restaurants do business,” June 8). The truth is, most restaurant workers rely on tip-sharing to get them from paycheck to paycheck (and let’s be real, if the dishwasher did a bad job or the food is nasty, nobody’s going to be getting a tip). With the formation of an employee union, the workers enter into a collective bargaining agreement with their employer—because collective bargaining agreements are determined and voted upon by the workers, it wouldn’t violate Montana’s labor laws to include a fair tipsharing structure as part of the agreement. A restaurant workers’ union would help ensure that the back of the house is fairly compensated for their significant “[contribution] to a good meal and experience.” Unionizing is a simple solution to a complicated ruling for restaurant employees and owners alike. Absolutely anyone can start a union at their workplace, and Good Jobs Missoula can help you navigate the process. Emily Likins Good Jobs Missoula Missoula

As the designated driver of the ’70s, I was happy to drive Jay and other friends home safe (“Twenty years after his death, artist Jay Rummel still haunts Missoula,” June 15). It was a crazy time. The first time I saw him he was on the tiny stage at the Top Hat. Shirley Juhl was one of the Gilded Lily owners then. My mother was scandalized by the Rummel print on the wall behind our couch. Kids never minded it. “Girl from the North Country,” I think. Thumbtacks, yes. Hannah Johns missoulanews.com

Sarcasm alert Let’s see if I have this right (“Engstrom to earn $119K next year as UM professor,” June 16 ). UM fires Engstrom, who drove UM into the ground in less than 5 years. They hire him back to teach entry level classes when he has not been in the classroom for more than 25 years. At the same time UM is laying off faculty and staff. Makes perfect sense! Will Carr missoulanews.com

Google an answer As usual, federal and state taxpayers provide 90 percent of the funding (“Why getting rural schools up to internet speed is such an incredibly slow go,” June 15). Then CenturyLink owns it? Why should private companies own and monetize publicly funded infrastructure? Existing fiber in Montana came from the evisceration of Montana Power under Racicotera privatization and the Touch America debacle/boondoggle and subsequent bankruptcy and destruction of hundreds (if not thousands) of Montanans’ retirement savings. So why are we repeating this insanity? Doug Murray missoulanews.com

The reason that Playfair has been inundated with pickleballers is that the city is refurbishing the usual courts at the Fort and building six dedicated pickleball courts. This is not nearly enough. Bend, Oregon, has 16 beautiful courts. You should complain to the city that Missoula needs more pickleball courts. But we’ll probably be off of Playfair later this summer. More and more young people are picking it up, and there are many more pickleball tournaments than there are tennis tournaments in this region. You should try it. Phil Carlos missoulanews.com

A bird’s life

the wall behind

That is very unfortunate (“The world is watching Missoula’s osprey drama,” June 15). On a brighter side, there are three thriving Osprey chicks in the Bitterroot Valley that have nested on a moving crane(!) There’s a live YouTube feed for them as well at http://bit.ly/2s5v4DL Ryan Newhouse missoulanews.com

our couch. Kids

Regulate responsibly

“My mother was scandalized by the Rummel print on

never minded it. ‘Girl from the North Country,’ I think. Thumbtacks, yes.”

Thank you, Kate Cholewa, for a thoughtful and informative response to Mr. Brooks’ piece from the other week (“Correcting the record on Montana’s marijuana tax,” June 15.) It is refreshing to see Montana moving forward with common sense, transparent and accountable legislation and beginning the process of responsibly regulating Montana’s budding medical cannabis industry. Tayln Lang missoulanews.com

Man on the inside Man of many talents Most all the people in Rummel’s art work are locals. I recognize some of them. Some have also passed along as Jay has. I have a River City Bad Girls T-shirt that has his artwork on it. The shirt does not fit me anymore but I would never get rid of it. Jay told some good stories, too. He was a storyteller as well as an artist. Diana Sanchez missoulanews.com

#notallpickleballers I am one of those pickleballers, though not one who was there for this (“A pickleball rebellion at Playfair Park,” June 15). I agree, there is no excuse for the impoliteness of crossing the court while the ball was in play. Perhaps they were newbies. None of the people I play with would do such a thing.

Many Republican and all Democratic senators are being kept in the dark while a cabal of old white men develop a top secret “health care plan.” But Sen. Daines brags that he’s being consulted. This is not a compliment. If he is privy to what the cabal is up to, it’s because they know he will not break ranks. He can be counted on to march in lockstep with whatever the group comes up with. The fact that a bill of this magnitude is being developed behind closed doors with no input from most Republicans and none from Democrats, to be followed by a full vote with little time for discussion or debate, tells me that this is a bill, like the one the House passed, won’t be good for most Montanans. But, to his credit, Daines is a loyal guy. Loyal to his party. But not to the people of Montana. I’d love for Daines to prove me wrong. Pat Tucker Hamilton

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, June 14 Mayor John Engen presents a proposed 2018 city budget containing an estimated 3.87 percent property tax increase. City Council can add to the budget to cover additional programs, and public hearings will be held from July 17 to July 24, when the budget is scheduled for approval.

Thursday, June 15 The city opens an extension of the Kim Williams Nature Trail to the Canyon River subdivision, two-and-a-half miles east of the Kim Williams trailhead. The trail extension crosses under I-90 and provides bicycle and pedestrian access to East Missoula.

Friday, June 16 The Secretary of State’s office announces it will investigate voter fraud after a Missoula County woman reports that a mail-in ballot has been cast in her name with a false signature in the May special election. The Missoula County Elections Office says it was a clerical error.

If the levy breaks...

UM’s public appeal Montana college students will pay higher tuition next year—about 8.5 percent more at the University of Montana—after state legislators cut the university system’s budget. But that’s just a scratch compared to the budget blow Montana voters could inflict next year. A state property tax known as the six-mill levy has been a reliable part of university funding for nearly a century, renewed every 10 years via voter referendum by margins as wide as 2 to 1. But those margins have been on an “absolute, perfect downward slide” over the last three cycles, as regent Bob Nystuen recently pointed out, and polling found less than 50 percent support this time around. The levy next appears on the November 2018 ballot. For the first time in memory, its passage may be in real jeopardy. If it fails, the university system stands to lose about $20 million each year—more than five

times the cuts imposed by the Legislature this spring. That could translate to a 17 percent tuition hike, or millions more in budget cuts at a time when UM is already struggling to stanch its financial bleeding. Levy advocates are gearing up early to make sure that levy passes. Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Mike Frank, who chairs the pro-levy campaign, says the group began organizing a year ago, “which is likely earlier than has occurred in the past.” They’ve turned to Hilltop Public Solutions, the Billings political consulting firm known for its work with Democratic Party candidates, to manage the campaign. It will cost a pretty penny, by education campaign standards, to get the message out. The 2008 campaign cost $240,000, according to campaign finance data compiled by Hilltop, with the lion’s share contributed by corporations and university foundations. Frank says the pro-levy group doesn’t have a fundraising target yet, but they’ve been approaching donors and recruiting allies since the fall.

The decision to start early was driven by awareness of what Frank describes as trends in the “climate” for Montana ballot measures. Over the last few years, voters in the state’s largest cities have shelled out for large K-12 bonds, in some cases narrowly. Additionally, the last several years have been unusually tumultuous for the university system. UM in particular has produced a steady stream of bad headlines and is dealing with a painful downsizing process just as the levy campaign ramps up. The six-mill levy is the only time residents get a direct, up-or-down vote on college funding, and supporters want to ensure that the campaign doesn’t become a referendum on the system’s recent troubles. They plan to pitch the benefits of affordable college to the state’s economy while emphasizing that the levy is not a new tax. “I can’t give an opinion on how the campuses have been run,” Frank says. “But what I can give an opinion on is the importance of education.” Derek Brouwer

Saturday, June 17 Missoulians and resident refugees team up for a soccer tournament benefit hosted by Soft Landing Missoula to fund refugee resettlement. The tournament features six teams of seven players and is followed by a community dinner. Everybody wins, probably.

Sunday, June 18 A deck collapses at Glacier Camp on Flathead Lake during a memorial service, injuring more than 50 people, who are transported to local hospitals by ambulance and helicopter. Two remain in critical condition. Officials call it a “mass casualty incident.”

Monday, June 19 Filing closes for city elections and candidates are confirmed for Missoula’s mayorship, seven City Council seats and the municipal court judge. Three candidates have filed to run for mayor: incumbent John Engen, Lisa Triepke and Madison Schroeder.

Tuesday, June 20 On a 6:30 a.m. flight from Missoula to Salt Lake City, a passenger feels something crawling on his ankle. He shines a light on it, sees a two-inch scorpion crawling away, stomps it, becomes dizzy, and almost passes out.

Those of us who work so hard behind the scenes to bring you the Hellgate nest camera are still in shock. Even though we know that reproduction is tricky for many species of wildlife, we were hopeful that this year would be a success for Iris and Louis.” —University of Montana biologist Erick Greene, in a June 19 Facebook post after three osprey chicks died of starvation

[6] Missoula Independent • June 22–June 29, 2017

[news] Hanging art

Painting sparks debate Social media erupted last week in arguments about a painting in Missoula’s Sunrise Saloon and Casino. The painting depicts three men hanging from a barn rafter. One of the bar’s co-owners can be seen on video posted to Facebook describing the image as a depiction of the last hanging at the Missoula County courthouse. Missoulians calling for its removal contend that the hanged men are black, and that the painting conveys a racist message. The conflict first rose to public attention in early June when 17-year Montana resident Yolanda Garcia posted a photo of the painting on Facebook. Garcia had been a Sunrise patron for years, and says she’d already taken issue with another bar decoration: a vintage whiskey ad featuring a black man above the motto “I knows de ropes.” When a bartender drew her attention to the hanging painting, which is accessorised with a rope noose, Garcia sent a letter to the owners asking them to take both items down. Two weeks later, on June 14, Garcia met with Sunrise co-owner Rick Zavarelli at the bar. She was accompanied by friend and state Green Party coordinator Danielle Breck and Montana Human Rights Network organizer Garrett Lankford. Breck streamed a portion of the exchange live on Facebook, including Zavarelli’s assertion that he’d commissioned the piece based on a painting he’d seen at Missoula’s now-shuttered OK Corral bar. Zavarelli declined to remove the painting. “I honestly thought they would just do the right thing and take it down,” Garcia says. Garcia adds that the whiskey ad had been removed that morning—a fact that co-owner Kammy Zavarelli confirmed to the Indy. Beyond that confirmation, the bar’s owners declined to comment for this story. Garcia, Breck and Lankford initially announced a protest outside the Sunrise, but decided earlier this week to relocate the rally to Kiwanis Park. Breck explained the change in Facebook comments, writing that it would avoid confrontation and ensure the event “remains a celebration of [Missoula’s] diversity.” The rally is scheduled for 3 p.m. on June 24. Lankford hopes the event, as well as future conversations with the bar’s owners, will move Missoula forward on the issue of racism. The process won’t be easy, he says. “But it’s worth it.”

Since the video was posted, Garcia says, she’s received numerous threats from the saloon’s defenders. She understands that it’s Zavarelli’s decision whether to remove the painting, but she also thinks the establishment should be respectful of its patrons. “There was a time last week when I was crying every day, and I just wanted my life to go back to normal,” Garcia says. “I don’t know what I want from this. I guess what I want is for people to have a little more understanding.” Alex Sakariassen

Boomtown surplus

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$55,263 Annual cost of adding a full-time victim witness assistant to the Missoula city attorney’s office to comply with Marsy’s Law, according to preliminary budget documents released by the mayor’s office. Grants from the Montana Board of Crime Control could cover 75 percent of the expense. County Attorney Kirsten Pabst told the Associated Press in early June that her office already has two victim witness coordinators.

Living large in tiny homes When the deal’s too good to pass up, you buy first and figure out the details later. That’s not how low-income housing developments typically start, but it’s what Homeword’s Andrea Davis decided to do when the Missoula nonprofit director saw the price tag on the surplus manufactured homes designed to house Bakken oilfield workers. The units don’t look like much on the outside. But they seemed well built, appliances were already installed, and they cost just $35,000 apiece. Davis ordered ten. “It was such a good opportunity that we didn’t want to let it go,” she says, “but we didn’t have a project yet.” That was last year. The houses, 450 to 550 square feet each, were shipped to Missoula’s wastewater treatment plant while Homeword looked for ways to turn them into dream homes for low-income Missoulians. Today, armed with a $270,000 federal HOME grant awarded this month by the city, Davis says Homeword is prepared to work out the details. Davis says Homeword has long seen potential in small, manufactured houses as entrees to homeownership, particularly with “tiny homes” so in vogue, but they come with not-small challenges. Financing is more complicated than with traditional housing. Zoning is tricky. Neighbors might object. Buyers might not be interested. Homeword dispelled the latter fear in short order.

After a Missoulian article highlighted the acquisition last November, nearly three dozen people called to express interest in buying the little houses, Davis says. One by one, the other hurdles are being cleared. Homeword has been working with other Missoula nonprofits to find the structures’ “highest and best” uses, whether earmarking a unit for YWCA clients or linking them to Garden City Harvest’s community gardens. Through those discussions, Homeword has identified a ⅓-acre lot adjacent to the new Missoula Food Bank suitable for placing six of the units on permanent foundations in a “clustered” configuration. Most important, Davis says, the project looks like it will make good on the structure’s initial promise as a good deal. Missoula residents need an annual income of $63,000 to afford a median-priced home in the city, but Homeword will use the federal HOME money to reserve five of the first six units for individuals earning only about half that much. After purchasing land, installing the units and sprucing them up, Davis says, Homeword should be able to sell them for $100,000 or less by the end of next year. Only 8 percent of homes sold in Missoula County last year were priced below $150,000, according to the Missoula Organization of Realtors. And with some resourceful touches, these little houses shouldn’t look like fire sales. “There’s just an opportunity to make these cute,” Davis says. Derek Brouwer

ETC. A fourth term. John “Your Mayor” Engen, already the city’s longest-serving mayor, will try to pull an FDR come November. He signaled his reelection bid nearly seven months ago, in what was surely one of the most unusual campaign announcements in Missoula history: He wrote an open letter explaining a month-long absence from office by disclosing that he had entered an inpatient rehab program for alcoholism. What we now know is who wants to unseat him. The filing period for city elections closed June 19, yielding two mayoral challengers. Lisa Triepke, the director of marketing and community outreach with CostCare health clinics, started campaigning back in April and is already hammering Engen over spending and potholes. A third candidate, Madison Schroeder, works at State Farm, according to her LinkedIn profile, but hasn’t yet set up a campaign page. Besides mayor, City Council seats in all six wards are up for grabs, with all but one of them contested. The close of the filing period delivered answers to two big questions: How many incumbents would seek to defend their seats, and how many women would run? The 2015 race was wide open, with no incumbents in the field, and it produced the first female-majority council in Missoula history. Three councilwomen—Emily Bentley, Annelise Hedahl and Marilyn Marler—aren’t seeking reelection this fall. Six women have filed to run for open seats, including five newcomers and recent Ward 2 appointee Ruth Swaney. Here’s a look at the full slate of municipal races: • In Ward 1, incumbent Bryan von Lossberg faces University of Montana freshman Jamelet Laursen. • In Ward 2, incumbents Jordan Hess and Swaney will vie with Jack Metcalf for two open seats. • The seat to be vacated by Bentley in Ward 3 has three candidates—all Missoula professionals—in Heather Harp, Jon Van Dyke and Thomas Winter. • Jon Wilkins seeks a fourth term in Ward 4 against challengers Jesse Ramos, Chris Badgley and Greg Strandberg. • The Ward 5 seat being vacated by Annelise Hedahl will be contested by Stacie Anderson of Good Shepherd Preschool and Cathy Deschamps of St. Pat’s. • Marilyn Marler’s Ward 6 seat has one candidate in Julie Merritt, whom Marler has endorsed. • Municipal Court judge Kathleen Jenks faces off against Brendan McQuillan, a domestic violence special prosecutor for Lake County.

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Bitcoin of the realm What can “blockchain security services” do for Bonner? by Michael Siebert

On June 6, Gov. Steve Bullock announced $1.1 million in economic development grants to more than a dozen Montana businesses. Most companies that received grants had a straightforward pitch for the money. Lake County’s HotWoods LLC treats wood for use in musical instruments and pool cues, among other products, and will receive $70,400 after creating 11 jobs. The Missoula Economic Partnership was awarded $27,000 to help a Colorado-based tire manufacturer, Green Diamond Tire, complete a business plan and feasibility study for relocating to Montana. But the business that received the lion’s share of the $1.1 million is less easy to understand. Project Spokane, LLC, which will receive $416,000 upon successfully creating 65 new jobs in Bonner, provides “blockchain security services” for the Bitcoin network, according to a press release from the governor’s office. But multiple news sources that cover digital currency, including CoinDesk, Trustnodes and the Cointelegraph, use a different phrase to describe what it does–bitcoin mining, which is the process of creating additional units of the currency, i.e., bitcoins. And Montana may be the first state in the nation to help fund such an operation. “There’s been lots of data centers opening up all over the Northwest, and I think there’s always just some inherent confusion [about] what they’re doing,” says James Grunke, president of the Missoula Economic Partnership, which administered the grant. The grant application says Project Spokane also provides “hosting services” for international clients. The company’s general manager declined to comment for this story. Individual companies do not apply for the development grants. Rather, counties apply for the funds on behalf of businesses that are currently located in, or wish to relocate to, that area. The state benefits from the boost in employment and tax revenues. Grant monies tied to job creation are disbursed only after the jobs are established. Project Spokane’s

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grant money will be used to pay for equipment, software and furnishings for an office space in Bonner, as well as employee wages and “lease rate reduction.” Bitcoin is a form of peer-to-peer digital currency, meaning that bitcoin transactions involve no middlemen, like banks or credit card companies. The “blockchain” is analogous to an accountant’s ledger, a sequence of every transaction that occurs via the bitcoin network. Bitcoin mining is essentially the process of verifying transactions in

According to the grant application, Project Spokane was drawn to Montana due to the state’s relatively low cost of electricity. Mining is an energy-intensive process due to the computing power necessary to the activity. The company purchases electricity produced by the state’s hydroelectric dams, according to Montana Department of Commerce Director Pam Haxby-Cote. Project Spokane is headquartered in an office that occupies half of the 320,000square-foot former Bonner sawmill. The

illustration by Charlie Wybierala

Project Spokane received a $416,000 state grant to bring 65 new jobs to its facility in Bonner.

the blockchain. Once a transaction is verified, the miner receives a reward in the form of bitcoin. A district judge in Manhattan declared bitcoin legitimate currency in 2016, and the Internal Revenue Service taxes bitcoin as property. DinBits, a news service covering digital currency, classified Montana as a “bitcoin friendly” state in an article earlier this year, meaning there are no legislative restrictions on the currency. Project Spokane’s grant application uses the term “Blockchain Security Services,” but its description of that service sounds a lot like bitcoin mining. The grant application says the company “runs tens of thousands of computer servers in [its] datacenter to support the process of generating new blocks on the Bitcoin network.”

company plans to double its current array of servers, and according to the grant application, the servers will generate sufficient heat that no additional heating of its office space will be required in winter months. At press time, one bitcoin was worth $2,552.99, though the exchange rate can fluctuate dramatically. The grant application includes letters of support from Jacob Pelczar, vice president of Bank of Montana, Rick Edwards, director of key accounts and economic development at Northwestern Energy, and Mayor John Engen. Haxby-Cote says the governor’s office hopes the company will look for opportunities to open additional data centers in the state. msiebert@missoulanews.com

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Washout A landslide sharpens criticism of timber project by Alex Sakariassen

It was a hell of a rainstorm. Starting McKay informed the Indy early this week from the Stevensville Ranger District that June 12, the Sapphire Mountains east of that the Bitterroot’s sole road mainte- came to ferry them home. McKay emphaHamilton got hit with 48 hours of record nance crew had already cleared debris sized the unusual volume of rain that precipitation—more than 2 inches in and was expected to complete recon- caused the Willow Creek slide, quoting a some places, as much as 3.7 inches in struction and stabilization as early as Fri- veteran forest hydrologist as saying he’d others. The impact on Willow Creek day. The crew is well versed in landslides “never seen anything like it.” The slide will have an impact on the Road was alarming. A portion of the on forest roads, McKay added. It’s already upper road sloughed away, creating a cleared as many as 60 slide areas that de- timeline for the Gold Butterfly Project, landslide that swept mud, logs and boul- veloped along the Magruder Corridor which is currently in the scoping phase. McKay confirmed that forest officials have ders down the hillside and across the west of Darby over the winter. delayed a public field trip to the lower roadway clear to Willow project area, originally scheduled for Creek itself. June 21. The trip could happen next “I don’t believe that road was in week or the week after, McKay said, good shape even before it blew out,” depending on when Willow Creek says Larry Campbell, a Darby resiRoad is reopened. Forest officials dent and member of the nonprofit also extended the public comment Friends of the Bitterroot. “The fact deadline until two weeks after that that it did blow out is Mother Nafield trip. ture’s audit.” McKay said he isn’t aware of any Campbell’s concern stems not conversations among forest staff just from the fact that Willow Creek about alterations to proposed Gold Road washed out. The Bitterroot NaButterfly roads resulting from the tional Forest had previously identiWillow Creek blowout. Asked about fied the road as a primary haul route potential impacts to bull trout in for its proposed Gold Butterfly timWillow Creek as a result of the sudber project. The proposal calls for den sediment load, he said an treatment on roughly 10,500 acres of agency fisheries manager had exforest between Burnt Fork and St. pressed no long-term concerns. Clair creeks, including extensive vegJim Miller, with Friends of the etation management and fuel reducBitterroot, says he is heartened by tion work. The U.S. Forest Service the agency’s willingness to reschedtentatively plans to install 21 miles of ule the field trip and extend public new permanent and temporary comment. Yet he shares Campbell’s roads—and decommission 33 miles position that the washout of Willow of existing roadway—as part of the photo courtesy Larry Campbell Creek Road underscores broader project. Based on the Willow Creek Heavy rains in the Sapphire Mountains last apprehensions about the Gold Butincident, Campbell believes that the week caused a landslide on Willow Creek terfly Project, which, if approved, Forest Service should be paying Road, depositing debris from an upper stretch more attention to maintenance of of roadway onto the lower roadbed, pictured. would be the largest timber project on the Bitterroot in at least seven existing roads in the area before building more. “It’s the upper roadbed that was com- years. Friends of the Bitterroot has been “The bigger picture is that they’ve promised and actually slid all the way monitoring the proposal since its initial angot a road system that exceeds their ca- down onto that hillside and landed on that nouncement last year, Miller says, and conpacity to maintain and to bring up to lower road,” McKay said. “That’s what’s tinues to oppose it for a litany of reasons, including potential impacts to bull trout modern [best management practices],” taking the time.” McKay went on to explain that the habitat, the scope of commercial treathe says. “What I’d like to see is just overall, forest-wide, bring your road system Forest Service first became aware of the ments and the addition of new roads in the into a state where you can afford to at road’s condition when a 12-person team Sapphires. “I think this blowout of the road sort of mostly silviculturists were returning least maintain it.” By Bitterroot Forest spokesman Tod from a Gold Butterfly site visit. The team of focuses” that opposition, Miller says. McKay’s estimation, the situation on Wil- was stranded by the landslide and had to asakariassen@missoulanews.com low Creek Road is far from dire. In fact, descend the road on foot to reach vehicles

missoulanews.com • June 22–June 29, 2017 [9]

[opinion]

No burning need What Steve Daines doesn’t understand about flags by Dan Brooks

Last week, as senate Republicans crafted a secret bill to remake the nation’s health care system, a special prosecutor moved closer to investigating the president and nine separate mass shootings erupted across the country, Sen. Steve Daines took on our most pressing problem: flag burning. In a press release on Flag Day, Daines proposed a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to outlaw desecration of the American flag. The reason his idea takes the form of a constitutional amendment and not a law is that the Supreme Court has ruled that burning the flag is constitutionally protected expression. As you may remember from your coworker who complains about feminism on Facebook, the First Amendment broadly protects speech of any kind, including nonverbal expressions like donating to super PACs and lighting up Old Glory. While these expressions may not be good in themselves, we generally agree that the act of protecting them is. You might say it’s one of the qualities that makes America exceptional. To quote the dissenting opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in United States v. Schwimmer, “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” Fortunately, Sen. Daines does not want to restrict that. Although it might seem, at first blush, that he is proposing the first constitutional amendment in U.S. history to restrict expression, he actually just wants to restrict a behavior. American jurisprudence offers plenty of precedent for that, as his staff explained to Jesse Chaney of the Helena Independent Record. Quote: “Daines’ staff said the senator does not consider flag desecration to be a form of peaceful expression. They said his amendment would not limit anyone’s right to expression, but [would] distinguish flag desecration as conduct not protected by the Constitution. The senator’s staff noted that Congress al-

[10] Missoula Independent • June 22–June 29, 2017

ready bans many other forms of conduct through criminal law.” I’m no lawyer, but that last part checks out. Criminal law does ban many behaviors. If the government can make it illegal to steal a car, why can’t it make it illegal to burn the flag? They’re both just conduct, after all. Of course, speech is also a type of conduct. Pretty much any form of expression is. Publishing a newspaper, painting a picture, criticizing the government— they’re all conduct. What distinguishes expression as a category of behavior is symbolic content. When I speak, it’s not

“The flag has been relentlessly deployed by those who would make it a symbol of their own purposes, and their grubby fingers leave marks.” the act of making noise with my mouth that matters. It’s the words I say, the symbolic meaning of those noises. If we define expression as conduct with symbolic meaning, the senator’s argument runs into problems. I quote the very first thing he says in his press release: “The American flag has been a symbol of hope and freedom for centuries and ought to be respected. Our nation’s flag must be set apart as a protected symbol worthy of honor.” He uses “symbol” twice there. Despite his claim that he does not consider flag burning a form of expression, Daines makes it pretty clear that he thinks of it as

symbolic. Presumably, he didn’t propose this amendment to protect individual flags. He’s concerned about the idea that burning the flag expresses. That may be an idea we hate. Burning the flag seems like a vague and unhelpful way to express yourself, like trying to improve your internet service by tearing up your Charter bill. But I submit that as Americans, an idea we hate even more than flag burning is making laws about what we can and cannot say— especially when what we want to say has to do with how our country operates. In this sense, the desecration of the American flag is ongoing. The flag is on bumper stickers telling us to love guns and go to church. Since Sept. 11, 2001, it’s on the lapel of every Washington cynic who wants the United States to be synonymous with his or her political agenda, from war in the Middle East to deregulating the health insurance industry. The flag has been relentlessly deployed by those who would make it a symbol of their own purposes, and their grubby fingers leave marks. Sen. Daines will probably not find a tighter grip than anybody else has. His proposal stands little chance of changing the Constitution. That would require a two-thirds majority in both the House and the Senate, plus ratification from 38 states. The former hurdle seems insurmountable in the Congress we have, and the latter hasn’t been overcome in 25 years. It’s appropriate that Daines proposed his idea on Flag Day, since it seems purely symbolic. But we should take a moment to think about what it means. At best, it reflects his career-long habit of prioritizing safe gestures over substantive debate. At worst, it suggests that his idea of what makes America exceptional differs from the historical consensus. Neither explanation reflects how we want a senator to think. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the patriotism of cynics at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Farce of arms Shooting back is just as violent as shooting first by Robbie Liben

What? Is the NRA trying to create a new market? With gun sales plummeting since Trump’s inauguration and the market among conservatives utterly saturated, ginning up fear of the groups they’ve armed makes perfect sales sense. “Arming the Left” (by Michael Siebert, May 18) spins a dystopian tale of Nazis shooting crowds of demonstrators and posits, “Let’s say you’re black or Jewish or” fill in the blanks. “You’re unarmed and your belief that something like this could never happen here has just been shattered.” I am Jewish. I am well aware that it can happen here. It already has. Many times. Blacks, native people, poor people and minorities know it intimately, from lynching and Jim Crow to native genocide and gay bashing. All were and are carried out by armed men who believe they are righteous. That’s why I advocate pacifism. A philosophy that undermines the legitimacy of violence as a solution will ultimately make us all safer. Learning nonviolent communication, conflict resolution and de-escalation are critical, but are nowhere mentioned in the article. Strong community is critical. If that “20-year-old kid storming toward you with a pistol on his hip” sees you as the friendly neighbor, rather than the armed other, he’s more likely to talk rather than shoot. If you are armed, he will be more likely to draw that pistol. Are you likely to shoot him even if that pistol stays on his hip? Will your weapon embolden you to use violence? If you’re armed, are you any different from that kid? The United States has a long, dismal history of political violence. It happens in a context, not in a vacuum. Understanding the context is key to understanding violence and building movements that are far more effective at stopping it. Picking up a gun doesn’t begin to address the reasons for violence. Throwing more weapons into the mix can only make things worse as each side points to the arms and violence of the other to justify its own aggression. George Ciccariello-Maher says, “bearing arms as a leftist isn’t just about self-de-

fense—it’s about building movements.” This can be true. But it says nothing about the nature of the movement or the perils weaponry brings. One movement mentioned is the Black Panther Party, which initially took up arms in a very disciplined manner to effectively resist police brutality. Bearing

“American history is replete with movements that picked up arms only to have those arms used against them. Weapons are most effective in the service of government and corporate interests. They are least effective and most dangerous among left movements.” guns helped force police to follow the law. They were also the Panthers’ Achilles heel, because many believed it was appropriate to use those guns. The FBI sowed the seeds of mistrust, making some Panthers believe that others were government infiltrators. The ensuing paranoia led many party members to kill each

other and the party literally self-destructed. American history is replete with movements that picked up arms only to have those arms used against them. The point is that weapons are most effective in the service of government and corporate interests. They are least effective and most dangerous among left movements. There’s a darker side to weapons: You have to dehumanize your adversaries to use them. Nick Campbell “thinks that people beholden to certain ideologies simply can’t be reasoned with, because they fundamentally don’t respect the rights of other people to exist.” That’s a textbook example of dehumanizing your opponent. To say that the left should dehumanize others to make ourselves safer because they’re dehumanizing us is dangerous hypocrisy. When the left and right dehumanize each other, where does it end? What are the limits of self-defense? Shoot the armed kid charging you? With his gun still on his belt? Kill the leaders? Kill anyone you determine “simply can’t be reasoned with”? Do we really want this country to look like Syria or Sarajevo? No? Then dial back the rhetoric before yet another righteous murderer does something we’ll all regret. “…[Y]ou plunk down $500 for a handgun… you immediately feel safer holding it. For the first time since November, you feel like you have some power.” These are the chilling words of a writer who can’t think through the consequences of rhetoric. I sure don’t feel safer knowing that a gun is your only conception of power. It sounds so romantic to be on the front lines, breaking the norms, using guns and machismo to protect civilization from… them. That’s Hollywood, not reality. Let’s build community. Let’s organize movements. Let’s learn de-escalation. Let’s teach conflict resolution. That’s what would make me feel safer. And that’s what would build a stronger and more egalitarian society. Robbie Liben is a computer programmer in Missoula and a lifelong nonviolent political activist.

missoulanews.com • June 22–June 29, 2017 [11]

[offbeat]

ADVERTISERS ARE COMING FOR YOU – The New York Times reported in May that the “sophistication” of Google’s and Facebook’s ability to identify potential customers of advertisements is “capable of targeting ads ... so narrow that they can pinpoint, say, Idaho residents in long-distance relationships who are contemplating buying a minivan.” Facebook’s ad manager told the Times that such a description matches 3,100 people (out of Idaho’s 1.66 million). GOVERNMENT IN ACTION! – Harry Kraemer, 76, owner of Sparkles Cleaning Service in London, Ontario, was alone in his SUV recently and decided to light up a cigarette based on his 60-year habit, but was spotted by Smoke-Free Ontario officers and cited for three violations. Since his vehicle was registered to his business, and the windows were up, the cab constituted an “enclosed workspace.” It took a long legal fight, but in May, the Provincial Offences Court cut Kraemer a break and dismissed the tickets. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) finally prevailed in federal appeals court in February in its Endangered Species Act designation that wetlands in Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish should be preserved as a safe habitat for the dusky gopher frog. Landowners barred from developing the land pointed out that no such frogs have been spotted there for “decades,” but have been seen elsewhere in the state and in Mississippi. FWS concluded the St. Tammany area could be a place that dusky gopher frogs might thrive if they decided to return. THE JOB OF THE RESEARCHER – From the abstract of California State Polytechnic assistant professor Teresa Lloro-Bidart, in an April academic paper, comparing behaviors of native-California western gray squirrels and disruptive (to residents’ trash cans) eastern fox squirrels: “I juxtapose feminist posthumanist theories and feminist food study scholarship to demonstrate how eastern fox squirrels are subjected to gendered, racialized and speciesist thinking in the popular news media as a result of their feeding/eating practices (and) their unique and unfixed spatial arrangements in the greater Los Angeles region....” The case “presents a unique opportunity to question and re-theorize the ontological given of ‘otherness’ that manifests in part through a politics” in which “animal food choices” “stand in” for “compliance and resistance” to the “dominant forces in (human) culture.”

These are the good old days.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS – Japan is in constant conflict over whether to become more militarily robust (concerned increasingly with North Korea) even though its constitution requires a low profile (only “self-defense”). When the country’s defense minister recently suggested placing females into combat roles, constitutional law professor Shigeaki Iijima strongly objected, initiating the possibility that Japan’s enemies might have bombs capable of blowing women’s uniforms off, exposing their bodies. The ridicule was swift. Wrote one, “I saw something like that in Dragon Ball” (from the popular comic book and TV productions of Japanese anime). TOOK IT TOO FAR – Already, trendy restaurants have offered customers dining experiences amidst roaming cats (and in one bold experiment, owls), but the art house San Francisco Dungeon has planned a two-day (July 1 and 8) experimental “Rat Cafe” for those who feel their coffee or tea is better sipped while rats (from the local rat rescue) scurry about the room. Pastries are included for the $49.99 price, but the rats will be removed before the food comes. (Sponsors promise at least 15 minutes of “rat interaction,” and the price includes admission to the dungeon.) BRIGHT IDEAS – Organizers of northern Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival (billed as the world’s biggest metal music extravaganza) expect the 75,000 attendees to drink so much beer that they have built a nearly 4-mile-long pipeline to carry 105,000 gallons to on-site taps. (Otherwise, keg-delivery trucks would likely muck up the grounds.) Some pipes were buried specifically for the Aug. 3 to Aug. 5 festival, but others had been used by local farmers for ordinary irrigation. SMOOTH REACTIONS – Robert Ahorner, 57, apparently just to “win” an argument with his wife, who was dissatisfied with their sex life, left the room with his 9mm semi-automatic and fired four shots at his penis. (As he said later, “If I’m not using it, I might as well shoot it off.”) Of course, he missed, and police in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, said no laws were violated. In a lawsuit filed against an allegedly retaliating former lover, Columbia University School of Public Health professor Mady Hornig said her jilted boss tried repeatedly to harm her professional standing, even twice calling her into his office, dropping his trousers and asking her professional opinion of the lesion on his buttock.

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[12] Missoula Independent • June 22–June 29, 2017

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missoulanews.com • June 22–June 29, 2017 [13]

he compound called Orange Acres is arranged in four quadrants. At the bottom of the sloping property, abutting U.S. 93, used cars are parked in grassy rows. Next to the cars, the first strawberries of the year are ripening in a garden. Uphill of the garden is owner Jeffrey-James Halvorson’s single-story house. And across from his house, Halvorson has converted an old tannery into what’s most simply described as a guesthouse. Flagpoles flank the junction at the center of Halvorson’s property. A flag showing a smiley face with the words “Peace, love and happiness” flaps atop one. From the other flies the yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” banner of American revolutionaries, its coiled rattlesnake ready to strike.

[14] Missoula Independent • June 22–June 29, 2017

Halvorson is Orange Acres’ only permanent resident, but he likes company. He’s variously advertised this 8.36-acre strip of land south of Arlee as a commune, couchsurfing community center, nerd colony, dharma station and free guest ranch. The Missoulian called it “peculiar.” A couchsurfing Mother Jones reporter noted the unconventional house rules (dreadlocked guests must provide their own pillowcase) and the assault rifle Halvorson claims to keep on the premises. In his late 30s and sturdily built, Halvorson smiles like an old friend as a reporter pulls up, stepping away from the yellow refrigerator that he and a preppy, twentysomething man named Wes are lugging across the yard. At the same time, a lanky, older guest turns off

the lawnmower he’s been pushing beside his motorhome. The sound of the engine gives way to wind chimes dancing in a summer breeze. The breeze blows open the doors to an outdoor cupboard, exposing stacks of dishware to the sun. Halvorson is, in no particular order, an ambassador for couchsurfing, an ordained minister (credentialed online) and a used-car salesman. To the extent that others might see contradictions among those personas, he is unfazed. One minute Halvorson is explaining his spiritual mission to give food and shelter to veterans, homeless people and pretty much anyone who isn’t drunk and wants a place to rest. The next, he’s saying that Missoula County officials should be jailed for what he considers their campaign over the last six years to stop him. The

minute after that, he’s sprinkling “beback” dust on a potential buyer whose first offer is too low. A self-described Libertarian, Halvorson likes to demonstrate taxation policy by passing around a dollar bill and cutting off a third of it with each exchange. Pretty soon the whole dollar is gone, but what’s really diminished is liberty. “We started as a country where we left (England) so people could have their freedom to farm, to live, to thrive, to practice their religion,” he says. “To practice who they are.” One of those Puritans, John Winthrop, famously imagined his colony “a city upon a hill.” He was quoting the Book of Matthew, in which Jesus describes his followers as “the salt of the earth” and the “light of the world.” The

new world, Winthrop meant, would offer more than a chance for his fellow nonconformists to flee a king. It would carry the promise, and the baggage, of righteousness. Nearly 400 years later, two poles of American righteousness are staked out on this gentle slope south of Arlee: the hippie and the rattler, the “take and eat” of Matthew meets the “Come and take it!” of battle and self-determination. In the middle is Jeff. Standing on his hill.

ay Lewellen found Orange Acres on Craigslist, where it was listed as a “nerd colony, free guest ranch, for

property, Lewellen laid down in a recycled-wood cabin barely bigger than the mattress inside it. He couldn’t sleep because of strange rustling sounds on the other side of the wall. “It was kind of like The Hills Have Eyes,” Lewellen says. Halvorson had forgotten to mention his sheep. Missoula residents familiar with Halvorson likely know his name from the newspaper, where he’s a frequent flyer on the Missoulian’s letters page, and from that paper’s coverage of Missoula County’s controversial crackdown on land-use violations, which landed him in court. But most people who meet Halvorson are introduced to him online, through Couchsurfing.com and other

goes hungry, but if Halvorson catches you spending money on alcohol instead of food, you’ll be asked to leave. Surfers without references must complete a lengthy questionnaire that asks whether they’ve ever clubbed baby seals and what they’d miss most about life if they died today. Couchsurfing is a natural fit for Halvorson, who says he’d like to meet every person on Earth, if only he could live long enough to do it. He admits to being the guy who tries to strike up a conversation in the grocery line. His worst nightmare is being trapped alone on an island with $1 million and a direct line to an Amazon drone, because he’d have no one to share the deliveries with.

Jeffrey-James Halvorson, 38, envisioned his eight acres near Arlee as an “ark” for economic refugees and vagabonds. Then Missoula County officials showed up.

young adults.” The post explained that people willing to pull their weight could stay for up to 20 days, maybe longer. The listing featured a photo of people in Stormtrooper helmets posing next to a black limousine. “We are not a cult,” the ad promised. Lewellen is 29 years old, originally from Florida, with twin neck tattoos that depict a pot leaf folded into a peace sign and a skeleton hand flashing the sign of the horns. He was planting dragon fruit in the Philippines earlier this year when he decided to move to Montana. He doesn’t consider himself a nerd, but figured rent-free temporary housing would buy him time to find his footing in a new city. His plane landed in Missoula at midnight. Halvorson met him at the airport. After a quick tour of the Orange Acres

sites that cater to people in search of a free place to sleep. Couchsurfing is for idealists, strangers who trust one another to open their homes to fellow humans without recompense. This experiment in generosity and sharing has since been coopted and commodified by Airbnb, but commercialized hospitality is sterile compared to couchsurfing havens like Orange Acres, where host and guest alike wear their eccentricities on their sleeves. Halvorson introduces himself in his Couchsurfing.com profile as a “rebel, do-gooder” who is “out to right the wrongs of the world.” Then he lists the details: Guests staying more than one night have to pitch in on chores. No crackheads, Sierra Club members, haters or meanies allowed. Dogs and children are welcome if they’re leashed. No one

in hopes of attracting customers. No one came. “I think they think it’s a gimmick,” he joked in a 2011 YouTube video. “They don’t trust used car salesmen.” The economy, unraveling in recession, was forcing millions of people from their homes nationwide. Seeing newly homeless Missoulians camped in tents and parking lots, Halvorson began to fashion Orange Acres into a safe harbor for victims of the recession, and as an “ark” where he and the friends he would make could ride out the collapse. He renovated the tannery into a two-story guesthouse and erected cabins, barns and fences from salvaged wood. Orange Acres had around 20 beds total, with ad-

More than 1,000 people have stayed at Orange Acres since 2007. Halvorson, under the username SWINGCADILLAC, has more than 300 references on Couchsurfing.com.

Halvorson, whose parents divorced when he was young, moved often as a child. He’s lived mostly around Missoula, having returned in 1997 after graduating high school in Oregon. Before Orange Acres, he operated Orange Cars on Mullan Road and lived in a “postage-stamp” house in the city. He ran for City Council in 2005 but dropped out before election day. Halvorson was already hosting couchsurfers, but he was itching to get out of town. In 2007, in his late 20s, he found eight acres on the Flathead Reservation, on the edge of Missoula County, that looked like a good long-term (if not short-term) investment. The property, including a three-bedroom home and a defunct tannery, was in foreclosure. He got a deal and set to work on the land. The mini-golf came first. Halvorson built the free course next to his car lot

ditional capacity for motorhomes and tents on the property. At its peak, Halvorson told the Missoulian in 2010, Orange Acres was hosting as many as 30 people at a time. Halvorson was tapping an impulse that had been ingrained in him from a young age. His father, Mike, remembers taking Jeff to deliver Kentucky Fried Chicken to homeless encampments on Thanksgiving and Christmas. “He needs that feeling that he’s helping people, that he’s making a difference in someone’s life,” says Akshay Shinde, a guest who has lived on the property for several years and is now considered Orange Acres’ “second in command.” The guesthouse entryway is covered with messages of thanks scribbled on wood placards nailed to the walls and

missoulanews.com • June 22–June 29, 2017 [15]

ceiling. More than 1,000 people have stayed at Orange Acres, by Halvorson’s estimate, mostly during the summer months. Shinde says the arrangement is mutually beneficial, since the guests help maintain the property, but watching over all those strangers, particularly in the property’s heydey, could get complicated nonetheless. Officials with Child and Family Services and the Secret Service have shown up looking for kids and fugitives, Halvorson wrote in court documents. Guests have stolen about $300 worth of property over the years, and Shinde can recall a few uncomfortable incidents of drunken behavior. Halvorson has since forbidden all drugs or alcohol on site, and become stricter about weeding out freeloaders. But the vibe remains laid back. The guesthouse dining room serves as a gaming den, where Halvorson hosts twice-weekly Dungeons and Dragons and Firefly games. On a recent afternoon, Halvorson and a guest from Colorado named Esa Hall are ribbing one another about their opposing views on psychedelic drugs. Halvorson is strapping bicycles to a trailer in preparation for a trip to Oregon for his 20th high school reunion. Hall and other guests will hold down the fort while he’s gone. Hall has been at Orange Acres for three weeks. Halvorson has taught him to how to weld (so he can help build the raft trailers that Halverson sells) and driven him to see the nearby trout hatchery and Garden of One Thousand Buddhas. “He treats people here like family, in a lot of ways,” Hall says.

“Orange Acres was listed on Craigslist as a ‘nerd colony, free guest ranch, for young adults.’ The listing featured a photo of people in Stormtrooper helmets posing next to a black limousine. ‘We are not a cult,’ the ad promised.”

alvorson’s troubles began in the summer of 2009, when citycounty health department employee Tom Barger—also a neighbor—came out to the property. The department had received an anonymous complaint about the motorhomes, Barger explained, according to court records. He mailed Halvorson a letter telling him to stop operating an unlicensed trailer court. Nothing happened. A little more than a year later, Barger sent another letter. Now county health officials had read a Missoulian story about Halvorson’s couchsurfing operation and become concerned about the septic flow from so many guests. Halvorson sent a letter back, which a judge eventually described as containing “veiled threats against Barger and other public servants.” Halvorson refused to allow health officials on Orange Acres without a search warrant. Deputy County Attorney James McCubbin filed suit in 2011, accusing Halvorson of violating sanitation and subdivision laws, failing to comply with

county building codes and operating an unlicensed accommodations establishment, trailer court and campground. In addition to asking a judge to force a halt to Halvorson’s activities, the county in its initial complaint sought civil penalties totalling $1,000 for each day the property was deemed to be in violation. The county also attached notice of the lawsuit to Halvorson’s property title, effectively preventing him from selling or refinancing the land. They were throwing the book at him. They should have been thanking him, Halvorson thought. To his way of seeing, he was providing services to struggling Americans who were being failed by local, state and federal governments during a recession caused by regulators failing to do their jobs in the first place. How could he be sued for that? All Halvorson could conclude was that a government he already viewed as authoritarian was trying to force him to live under the same postage-stamp constrictions that he’d started Orange Acres to escape.

The outbuildings where some Orange Acres guests stay are built with salvaged wood. For years, Halvorson has scavenged wood pallets as building material.

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“What they care about is how pretty your house looks ... when they drive by, because they’re so selfish in their views that they want everything to look beautiful,” he says of city and county officials. “They don’t want to have to look at poor people. They don’t want to have to look at homeless people.” The county’s pursuit of Halvorson coincided with a controversial period for the county attorney’s office. Shortly after filing the Orange Acres lawsuit, McCubbin filed a high-profile case against the owners of the Dunrovin Ranch in Lolo. The Dunrovin case involved similar areas of law, and it would backfire on the county when a judge chastised the county’s lawyers for harassing a small business. Noticing the similarities, the Missoulian editorial board accused the county of an “attitude problem” in its approach to Orange Acres. County officials took pains to distinguish the two suits, and McCubbin was removed from the Orange Acres case. Where the issues at Dunrovin had turned on a question of law, the county said, the Orange Acres issue boiled down

to a matter of gallons: Orange Acres was likely producing far more wastewater than the property could handle. When Halverson bought the property, it was permitted for a three-bedroom home and a commercial business with six employees. The county argued that Halvorson, by turning the tannery into a bunkhouse, had created a second home. Homes tend to produce more wastewater than businesses, thus creating a public health hazard if the septic system overloads and pollutes groundwater. Homeowners can petition the state to rewrite restrictions on their property and expand septic systems, but when health inspectors were finally able to visit Orange Acres, they found groundwater so close to the surface that even the approved configuration was risky. Orange Acres, it seems, just wasn’t suited to support a village.

eputy County Attorney John Hart drove up U.S. 93 in May 2015 with a message for Halvorson: “Trust me.” The soft-spoken attorney had been assigned to the Orange Acres case during his first week on the job. By then, the suit was already “voluminous” and “acrimonious,” in Hart’s words. Halvorson, acting as his own attorney, had filed a counterclaim against the county for $6.5 million. The county still had a black eye from the Dunrovin case. “I looked at it and said, ‘There’s got to be a way to solve this problem,’” Hart says. Hart was in the process of delivering that message to Halvorson when some customers inquired about a motorhome. Hart marveled at the ensuing sale.

As a result of Missoula County’s lawsuit, Halvorson moved the guest kitchen outside. It’s stocked with cheese, bread and Top Ramen so cash-strapped guests always have something to eat.

“He couldn’t even get it started. It wouldn’t even start, and he sold it to this family. I sat there and watched him lift this thing up, try to get it running. Nonetheless, this family was desperate to buy this motorhome from him,” Hart recalls. Halvorson told the family he would get the necessary parts and have it running the next day. “They insisted on giving him earnest money so that he wouldn’t sell it to anybody else. This is Jeff Halvorson the salesman, here. I just sat there, flabbergasted.” Halvorson remembers his first encounter with Hart differently, as he’d later describe in court filings. He says Hart told him point blank, “The county will not allow you to help these people.” In the months that followed, Hart says, county staff “bent over backwards” to find a way to settle the case without a trial so that Halvorson could do “most, if not all” of what he wanted to do at Orange Acres. Meanwhile, the suit consumed more and more of Halvorson’s life. The stress was visible to those around him, including Shinde. Legal briefs eventually started to spill over the top of a cardboard box in his office. He kept at it. “There’s some wars that are fought in battlefields and some that are fought in courtrooms,” Halvorson says now of his refusal to walk away. “We lose just as much freedom through laws being created as we do from people coming in and invading your country.” He interrupts himself to point out a flock of starlings flying overhead. “There’s our air force right there,” he says, adding that the birds have been known to divebomb guests, but not him. Halvorson landed several missiles of his own in mounting his defense. For one, he discovered that Barger, the health official, had been apparently more accommodating when reviewing septic permits for the property’s previous owner than the county had been toward Orange Acres. Halvorson demanded similar accommodation, and insisted that the county either let him keep operations at Orange Acres intact or buy the property from him for $390,000. But Halvorson made some dubious arguments, too. In briefs as long as 60 pages, he claimed the county was violating his constitutional rights, criminalizing homelessness and discriminating against him on the basis of race, religion and political views. He claimed race discrimination because the regulations don’t apply equally to tribal members on the reservation. He also claimed to be 1/16 Cherokee.

“No crackheads, Sierra Club members, haters or meanies allowed. Dogs and children are welcome if they’re leashed.” His day in court—two, actually— came in late 2015 in the form of a bench trial. Judge Ray Dayton, of Anaconda, ultimately sided with the county, for the most part. He ordered Halvorson to remove all but three guest sleeping quarters and dismantle the bunkhouse kitchen. Halvorson would owe no penalties, and the county would reimburse him several hundred dollars for a building permit that had been revoked.

everal people had showed up to support Halvorson at the trial. One was a friend with cerebral palsy whose family stayed at Orange Acres after his disability benefits were canceled. Another was Mike Halvorson—Jeff ’s dad. Jeff had listed his father’s political views in court briefs as one reason he believed the county was targeting him. The mention was reference to battles his father had waged against the city of

lot. Father and son “had a disagreement of sorts,” in Jeff ’s words, that led Jeff to open his own Orange Cars, to prove he could succeed on his own. The name was a nod to his mother’s real estate business in Florida, where Jeff says she subdivided orange groves. “That’s my color of independence,” he says. Years later, when the county filed its lawsuit against Orange Acres, Jeff and

Halvorson sells used cars from his highway frontage along U.S. 93. He started selling cars on his father’s lot in Missoula in the '90s, but eventually left to start his own business, Orange Cars. Orange “is the color of my independence,” he says.

Halvorson’s $6.5 million counterclaim was dismissed. In the end, the county cut a $1,700 check to cover Halvorson’s share of mediation costs after he disputed the charges. (Halvorson disputes having disputed the charges.) When Halvorson filed a post-trial motion last winter arguing that Dayton’s order would hinder his ability to assist homeless vets, Hart pointed to the “nerd colony” ad that was still up on Craigslist. He called Halvorson’s claims “self-righteous and baseless.”

Missoula in the 1990s, experiences that shaped Jeff ’s view of the government as well. Back then, Mike operated his own car lot, M&M Auto Sales, on Brooks Street. Following a dispute, the city had ordered him to remove his decades-old business sign from the street because it was taller than updated regulations allowed. Mike refused to back down and eventually lost his business license. The fight over the sign changed his family’s life forever, Mike says now, choking up as he describes it. Jeff used to work for his dad at that

Mike went “round and round” about what he should do. Mike insisted he would never beat city hall, that he was going to ruin his own life trying to help couchsurfers, that Orange Acres wasn’t a hill worth dying on. Jeff decided to defend his ground. On the witness stand, at the culmination of four years of uncertainty and countless hours of wrangling with the county, Jeff pointed to his father. “He broke down, he was bawling,” Hart says. “He kind of looked at his dad and said, ‘I’ve done a lot of this for you.’”

Mike was crying, too. “When I saw him in the courtroom, I was so afraid. [But] to watch him conduct himself, I was absolutely—I was so proud of him,” Mike says now.

n March, Hart filed notice with the court that Halvorson had complied with Judge Dayton’s order. The county also lifted the notice that was preventing Halvorson from refinancing or selling Orange Acres. It’s already listed for sale on Craigslist, at $399,999: “8 Acres w/business and house on hwy 93, w/ best views in msla county.” Halvorson says he wants Orange Acres to continue, just not in Missoula County. He launched a GoFundMe campaign after the judge’s ruling last April, explaining his plan as follows: “If this Go Fund Me campaign is successful, it will allow us to upgrade the current property and pay off the mortgage, or if we can raise enough money buy a new property outside of Missoula County where we could have more than 6 bedrooms.” At press time he’d raised $1,970 of his $259,000 goal. For now, the flags at Orange Acres still fly. But the nine or so bunks in the old tannery have been reduced to just one. And just two unplumbed cabins remain in use for guests. As for the guesthouse kitchen, which he was required to dismantle, Halvorson had another idea. He decided to move it outside. Now sinks, hot plates, refrigerators, heated pantries and cupboards full of dishes are arranged in the open air between the tannery and Halvorson’s house. Nothing in county or state code prohibits that, he says. He checked. Two sanitarians from the health department didn’t say a word about it, Halvorson says, when they inspected Orange Acres in March. “It kind of sucks that our veterans are having to stand outside when it’s 20 below zero to make Top Ramen, instead of being inside nice and warm,” Halvorson says. “But if that’s what makes Missoula healthy—by gosh, good job, health department! You saved America! You got people to comply with your laws that you wrote!” Asked what he thinks about Halvorson’s outdoor kitchen, Hart reasons that plenty of homeowners have outdoor barbecues. As a reporter starts to explain that the setup is somewhat more elaborate than that, Hart interrupts. “Don’t tell me,” he says. “I don’t want to know.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • June 22–June 29, 2017 [17]

[arts]

Damaged hero Ted McDermott finds his way back to fiction with The Minor Outsider by Erika Fredrickson

hen Ted McDermott was accepted into the University of Montana’s creative writing program in 2009, he already had one novel written and another in progress. He worked on the second novel during his time in the program and after graduation, but he couldn’t find an interested publisher. “It turns out the novel was really convoluted and bad,” McDermott says. “I started thinking maybe this isn’t for me, and I decided to stop writing fiction altogether.” McDermott took a job at the Missoula Independent as a copy editor and worked morning hours as a baker at Le Petit Outre. He published a few essays, including one for The Believer magazine, titled “The Lights Go On and You Reach for Your Hat,” about his obsession with the “baffling” and “unflinching” films of Bobcat Goldthwait. “[Goldthwait’s films] employ the clichés of Hollywood movies as a means of mercilessly mocking convention and sentiment,” he wrote in the essay. “They are flawed films that refuse to entertain.” One morning at Le Petit, McDermott placed some dough in a large industrial mixer and turned the machine on as he always did. This time, though, he’d forgotten to remove the thermometer from the mixture. He reflexively reached in to grab it, realizing his error too late. The machine crushed his hand, breaking 12 bones. At the hospital, a nurse delivered a piece of advice. “She said to me, ‘The universe is trying to tell you something,’ in that way that you don’t really want to hear in that moment, you know?” McDermott says. “And I was thinking, ‘Shut up!’ I was also on all sorts of crazy drugs and in shock— I’m probably romanticizing this somewhat apocryphal moment—but after that, I started writing again.” The Minor Outsider, McDermott’s debut novel, is the result of his climb back into the world of fiction. It’s a story about a young writer named Ed who arrives in Missoula to attend the University of Montana’s creative writing program, where he meets another grad student,

photo by Celia Talbot Tobin

Ted McDermott’s debut novel follows a troubled protagonist based loosely on the author.

Taylor. Their intense romantic relationship appears doomed from the start, partly because Ed is so self-destructive, which may be related to his belief that he has a cancerous tumor spreading throughout his body. The book began not as a novel but as a series of aimless third-person stories about himself—almost like journal entries—that McDermott wrote while laid up at home on pain meds, recovering from the mixer accident. “I think I was trying to understand my life, and so I just kept writing them,” he says. They weren’t quite fiction and they weren’t quite nonfiction, and in that liminal space, he began to slowly home in on a truth, he says. “Someone once said fiction is the worst-case scenario, so I played with that idea,” he says. “I started to introduce one lie and then another, and each one

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would lead me on a different path. Unlike the other novels I wrote, I didn’t write this one for publication. I didn’t expect it to see the light of day.” Part of the book’s illusion of truth lies in its recognizably familiar facts. The physical description of Ed matches Ted. The book’s not-veiled Missoula landmarks include the “M,” the Clark Fork and the pipe shop at the corner of Higgins and 6th Street. “I was worried about how people would read it,” McDermott says. “I think my parents were really worried that my in-laws were going to read this book and disown me. But when they read it, they read it as fiction, which I thought was very generous and kind of them to do. Because it is fiction … and it’s through the prism of this worst-casescenario Ted.” That’s true. If you know the affable McDermott, The Minor Outsider has the

unnerving effect of making you feel like you’re meeting a darker, distorted version of him. “He was 29 and he liked to watch people shoot drugs into their arms on YouTube while he ate the Safeway version of Cheerios,” he writes. “He believed this had something to do with being afraid of, but interested in, death. He’d never done heroin. He was a coward.” At the same time, the people that McDermott has written about over the years offer insight into the type of characters to whom he’s drawn. McDermott wrote another essay for The Believer about photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard. He searched for meaning in Meatyard’s nightmarish images by visiting every house Meatyard ever lived in (Meatyard and McDermott both grew up in Normal, Illinois, though Meatyard died a decade before McDermott was born.) What he realized is that there was

no way to really know what Meatyard was trying to do. McDermott also met some dark characters during his year as a reporter for the Indy, a job he held for a few years after his stint as copy editor, and while he was working on the novel. For his first feature story, he interviewed Ryan Payne, a militia member from Montana who had been part of the armed conflict between federal agents and Cliven Bundy. Payne invited McDermott to his house in the woods outside Anaconda. “He talked about violence a lot in a way that made it seem normal to shoot cops and stuff, but I thought he was a really interesting guy and a very troubled person,” McDermott says. “He didn’t just pop up out of nowhere. When he was 18 years old, he got flown to Iraq and given an assault rifle and told to do what you need to do to take over this country— and it really changed him and skewed his world and made him unhappy.” McDermott says he found empathy for unsympathetic characters during his time as a reporter. He also came to respect how difficult it can be to write journalism when every line in a story has to be factual. “The one year I spent working at the Independent was probably the most important year for my writing life,” he says. “Though crushing my hand in a mixer was important because it sort of set me straight in some ways that I can’t quite explain.” Sticking to the facts is also what drove him crazy about journalism, he says, and back to fiction. But fictional stories have to ring true, too, and sometimes that means making your protagonist as difficult as any living person. “When a character in fiction is too likable, I don’t trust them,” he says. “When they’re not likable I find them more sympathetic. Because they’re flawed, like me.” Ted McDermott reads from The Minor Outsider Tue., June 27, at 7 PM at Shakespeare & Co. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[books]

Keeping track When bad things happen to bad people by Chris La Tray

What happens when two pairs of loathsome, self- picted with such skill—their utter disconnect from involved, over-privileged American parents take a the world beyond their experience, and their abovecruise to Central America and then lose track of their average competence in the tiny world of their own young children? Do Not Become Alarmed, Helena- comfort zone—that every time I set the book aside born author Maile Meloy’s third novel (for adults) I felt anxiety from having spent time with them. They’re capable of nothing more than generating takes on that question. The answer isn’t pretty. Two married couples and their four children wealth within a very specific set of upper-middleleave Southern California en route to Panama dur- class parameters, but they flail hysterically when ing Christmas vacation. The two women are things go sideways in a foreign environment. There cousins who grew up together, and their children are few redeeming qualities to be found in any of them, but Meloy delivers a range in age from 6 to 11. fascinating peek into their The trip starts out well minds. I hoped the entire enough, with everyone bunch would end up in getting along and having a the belly of a crocodile by good time, but when the novel’s end. families decide to go But while Meloy deashore in an unnamed velops her leads in all their Central American country, unpleasant glory, not things unravel quickly. everyone in Do Not BeThe two men go golfcome Alarmed gets so ing with another passenthorough a treatment. In ger, a wealthy Argentinian the case of the minor charof German descent. The acters, the depiction of Argentinian’s wife and her wealthy American arrotwo children accompany gance comes off without the two American women much nuance. In fact, and their children on an most of the many characouting to go zip-lining. ters are drawn a little Then their van breaks thinly, as if each represents down and the group hikes a single element of what to a beach to keep cool might otherwise add up to while waiting for a rea multifaceted individual. placement vehicle. One of Do Not Become Alarmed Finally, and at the risk the American women Maile Meloy Hardcover, Riverhead Books of giving away too much sneaks off into the jungle 352 pages, $27 plot—stop reading now if to get it on with the sexy tour guide while the other American and the Ar- you’d rather not know—there’s the matter of a gentinian watch the six kids playing in the water scene depicting the rape of a teenage girl about on floating tubes. Both women fall asleep, the tide midway through the story. It’s well-enough forechanges, and before anyone realizes it the children shadowed that readers can see it coming, but I was have been swept into a river and into the jungle. still put off when it arrived. The scene is used to Whether and how all parties are ultimately reunited advance the story in a fairly significant way, but, even so, it struck me as heavy-handed and unnecis the heart of Meloy’s book. Do Not Become Alarmed is told from the per- essary. The villains are already plenty villainous, spectives of multiple members of a large ensemble the characters are already in a seemingly insurcast, and it can be a little confusing at first. But the mountable pickle and the stakes are already high. roving perspectives also help maintain the breath- To deploy a rape scene in this fashion seems like less pace of the narrative. It’s what makes thrillers checking a box on a list of terrible things to put a thrilling, what inspires the reader to read “just one character through. These characters, as awful as more chapter!” before turning out the light. Meloy they may be, are put through enough. Maile Meloy reads from Do Not Become has a deft and clever hand at maintaining suspense, Alarmed at Shakespeare & Co. Wed., June 28, and that’s the book’s strong suit. To say that the two couples at the forefront of at 7 PM. this story are terrible characters isn’t a knock on Meloy’s portrayal. It’s a compliment. They’re dearts@missoulanews.com

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[comedy]

Shouting funny Comedy trio Gingers on Ice finds its Freudian balance by Ednor Therriault

Jacob Godbey’s cropped strawberry blond hair makes his Windex-blue eyes appear even bluer as he peers through the glass into the kitchen at the rear of Break Espresso, where tasty confections are being whipped up on a recent Saturday morning. He’s explaining how his comedy duo, Gingers on Ice, has become a trio with the addition of “intern” Seth Rockenbach, whose curly shoulder-length tresses are most decidedly blond. “Humor can transcend hair color,” says Godbey, a newly minted graduate of UM’s Media Arts program. “Eventually it just becomes a name with little meaning to it. We’re kind of stuck with it.” “It’s more of a complexion thing,” adds Rockenbach, a Folsom, California, native who cut his comedy teeth in clubs in Sacramento. “I fit the ginger complexion, the only thing I don’t have is the hair.” With fellow carrot-top Alex Tait, Godbey formed Gingers on Ice as an outgrowth of the fertile comedy breeding ground of the Stensrud improv group, where they met in 2015. Godbey spent his high school years in Lewistown writing and performing sketch comedy, while Tait, from Jackson, Wyoming, was drawn to stand-up. At the Stensrud shows, both found they were adept at improv. “So what it became was just one big mess of all three of those with a little bit of music thrown in once in awhile,” Godbey says. After a couple of successful tours and a handful of well-received shows in Missoula, the Gingers decided to bring in a third wheel, someone to expand the limits of their comedy universe. Rockenbach responded to an online application that had been sent to him by his boss, who just wanted to know if there was really a group that would call itself Gingers on Ice. He applied for the gig, interviewed with Tait and Godbey, and in February became the first non-ginger Ginger. They tossed Rockenbach right into the deep end. “We messaged him Friday night,” says Godbey: “‘Seth, can you learn the script? We had an actor bow out.’ Then he showed up, he did it, knew all his lines, and we kept him around.” Rockenbach’s elastic face contorts into faux shock. “Coming up to our first show, I was terrified,” he says. “I was like, ‘Guys, I’m so nervous,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, me too’ with a very Kristen Stewart-like response, dead face, no emotion.” The pair’s chemistry is palpable, but how does the new Ginger fit in with Tait, who’s off working a 12-hour shift at a local sporting goods store? Rockenbach has a pet theory. “As a group, as one conscience, Alex is the ego, ( Jacob) is the superego, and then I’m the id,” he says. “I’m the complete other side from Jacob.”

photo by Amy Donovan

Gingers on Ice features, from left, Seth Rockenbach, Alex Tait and Jacob Godbey.

Godbey nods in agreement. “Alex is probably the most charismatic.” “Voices,” adds Rockenbach. “The kid has some of the craziest voices that he pulls out of nowhere.” Godbey: “I want to put it on record that I’m tired of a lot of Alex’s voices.” Rockenbach: “I want to put it on the record that they are new and fresh and hilarious.” Godbey laughs, but Tait has become conspicuous by his absence. In a duo, Godbey was the mellower of the two. Tait’s creative daring frequently pushed their material into unexpected new places while Godbey gamely kept pace. “Alex is the guy at the party in the middle of the room making everybody laugh and you want to be friends with him,” Godbey says. “I think the audience feels that way. They want to be friends with Alex, they want to hang out with him.” Rockenbach has already worked with Tait enough to recognize his lightning-rod appeal, and

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adds that he knows he can count on Tait to have his back when things get dicey onstage. In the live comedy world, when things do go sideways, the recovery from the stumble can say more about the performer than the mistake. What happens when a joke falls flat or the audience starts to turn on them? “If it’s not working,” Godbey says, “some restructuring might be needed. There’s a weird formula for jokes where you can swap two otherwise trivial words around and it will work a hundred times better. It’s very strange, and it’s different for every performer.” His deliberate, pragmatic approach runs counter to Rockenbach’s more devil-may-care attitude. “It’s five minutes,” Rockenbach says. “If that five minutes goes poorly, you still have the rest of the night to have fun. Why would you let it get you down? You’re a comedian. Your job is to make every-

thing funny. If it goes wrong, learn from it, move on and just do it again.” The Gingers’ march toward world domination—or something like it— continues. Godbey and Tait have completed a 23-minute pilot of their sketch show, which they’ll be posting online in hopes of being picked up for a shot at a series. The goal, of course, is to one day make their living at comedy. “The dream,” Rockenbach says, “is to sit in a room of funny people, shout as much funny stuff as you can at each other, come out with something, write it, and go home and have a house that you’re paying for with that. So you’d never have to work that nine-to-five job, you’re just living, breathing what you do when you’re not working as well. That’s the dream.” Gingers on Ice perform at the Roxy Fri., June 23, at 8 PM. $8. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Cop culture The Force goes behind the blue wall by Molly Laich

The Force is the second documentary in a three-part series from filmmaker Peter Nicks.

Peter Nicks’ documentary feature The Force takes an intimate and humanizing look at the Oakland Police Department as it undergoes federally mandated reforms in front of an increasingly distrustful public. The film begins shortly after the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case that sparked demonstrations in Ferguson, in the wake of nationwide protests against police brutality. The situation captured by Nicks’ cameras in Oakland from 2014 to 2016 aptly represents the fraught relationship between police and citizens in cities all over the country, and it makes for mesmerizing and, at times, challenging cinema. (This is the second installment of a three-part series. The Waiting Room (2012) offered a look inside Oakland’s overrun hospitals.) The film’s early going spends a lot of time with police chief Sean Whent, the latest in a string of chiefs tasked with dismantling the department’s “blue wall of silence,” i.e., the long-standing tradition of officers covering up and not reporting fellow officers’ misconduct. We see Whent delivering what seems like a promising lecture to classrooms of new cadets about the tremendous responsibility they have as representatives of the state in a country with a rich tradition of distrusting the government. The officers’ pressed uniforms, stoic faces and military postures suggest an audience that’s taking these lectures to heart, but are they, really? The department has a real battle on its hands, what with a crippling shortage of officers and decades of earned mistrust, particularly among poor people and minorities. In one sequence, we see a community activist offering a lesson on police brutality in America, and how that history affects cultural perceptions today: “The past stole your identity and ran up an incredibly high bill. And everything that we do is either going to help run

that bill up, or it’s going to bring that bill down.” On top of true reform, police departments across America have a massive public relations problem to solve. You don’t need me to tritely remind you that we live in a polarized time in America. Most everyone will come to this film with their own beliefs and agendas about the police, and our daily media tend to butter their bread affirming such pre-packaged narratives. It’s the documentarian’s job to step back and look at the situation from angles we aren’t always privy to. For example, we see in the film a chaotic incident unfold that involves lethal force exerted by officers on black victims, and the media frenzy that follows. Was the victim shot in the back while running away, or was he an actual threat to officers? Up until this point in history, most people have had little choice but to take the cops’ word as gospel. At least now we can check the body cameras the cops are required to wear. The film undergoes a pivotal and somewhat abrupt tonal shift in the final act, when the department erupts in a damning sex scandal. Things seemed to be going so well and then—whoops— dozens of officers are suddenly implicated in the sex trafficking of a minor, and maybe Chief Whent didn’t handle it as professionally as he could have? From there, we get a flurry of press conferences with a very unhappy mayor at the helm. When she stands before the press and accuses the entire department of a “disgusting, toxic, macho culture,” it starts to feel like finally, maybe, we’re getting somewhere. The Force screens at the MCT Center for Performing Arts as part of the Big Sky Film Series Thu., June 29, at 8 PM. Free.

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[film] Rated R. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon and Zoë Kravitz. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE BOOK OF HENRY As a working single mother, Naomi Watts is glad to have a gifted son to help around the house. And then he builds a Rube Goldberg machine to save his next-door neighbor from her abusive stepfather. That’s a bit more than just doing the dishes. Rated PG-13. Also stars Jacob Tremblay and Dean Norris. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (2005) Sometimes the only thing you can do when your parents get divorced is plagiarize a Pink Floyd song for a talent show. Honestly, it’s better than what your brother is doing in the library right now. Rated R. Stars Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney. Playing Sun., June 25 at 8 PM at the Roxy Theater.

CHURCHILL With World War II still raging around him, exhausted Prime Minister Winston Churchill questions the planned Allied invasion of Normandy. Rated PG. Stars Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson and John Slattery. Playing at the Roxy.

STALKER (1979) There is a room, somewhere in the middle of the dangerous wreckage of a once great city, where all of your dreams come true. Now a reluctant guide leads two academics through post-apocalyptic Russia, hoping to uncover its secrets. Not Rated. Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh and Anatoli Solonitsyn star in director Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece. Playing Thu., June 29 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Indistinguishable robots beat the gears out of each other for three hours. Rated PG-13. Stars Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel and Anthony Hopkins. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING

“Rum, sodomy and the lash. Am I forgetting anything?” John Slattery and Brian Cox star in Churchill, opening at the Roxy. dealing with public distrust and an explosive scandal. Not Rated. Directed by Pete Nicks. Playing at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Thu., June 29 at 8 PM. (See Film)

closer to your desolate home is a real nightmare. Rated R. Stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot and Carmen Ejogo. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

ALL EYEZ ON ME Before his murder, before the fame and before the music, Tupac Shakur was just another man trying to find his way in the world. Rated R. Stars Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira and Jamal Woolard. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966) A mysterious drifter and a Mexican outlaw form an uneasy partnership to stay alive and find a fortune buried in desert. You’re already whistling the theme to yourself, aren’t you? Rated R. Stars Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef. Playing Thu., June 22 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

THE MUMMY An ancient evil awakens in Egypt and the only person who can stop it is Tom Cruise. That guy sure gets around. Rated PG-13. Also stars Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis and Javier Botet. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex, which would be a pretty appropriate place to see it.

BARBARELLA (1968) Blind space angels, mad scientists and a machine that kills you with orgasms. Just another day at the office for this daring space hero. Rated PG, but a 1968 PG. Stars Jane Fonda, Ugo Tognazzi and Marcel Marceau. Playing at the Roxy Sat., June 24 at 9 PM.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Marvel Comics’ ragtag group of space heroes are back for more action, more adventure and more hit songs from the ‘70s. Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Kurt Russell. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

THE PENGUIN COUNTERS A ragtag group of scientists head to Antarctica, hoping to find the key to humanity’s survival among the penguins that live there. Not Rated. Directed by Peter Getzels. Playing at the Roxy Mon., June 26 at 7 PM.

CARS 3 Pixar’s deeply troubling and confusing franchise about a world populated by talking cars returns to make sure the company has enough money to finance their good films. Rated G. Stars the voice talents of Owen Wilson, Kerry Washington and Armie Hammer. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) He’s young, rich and obsessed with death, but this young man didn’t know what he was missing until he met a 70-something woman who teaches him about life. Rated PG. Starring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort and Vivian Pickles. Rated PG. Playing at the Roxy Wed., June 28 at 8 PM.

THE FORCE Oakland’s long-troubled police department struggles to confront the federal demands for reform while

IT COMES AT NIGHT Having houseguests is always stressful. But having houseguests while an unnatural horror creeps ever

47 METERS DOWN Mandy Moore versus a bunch of sharks. What more do you want? Rated PG-13. Also stars Claire Holt and Matthew Modine. Playing at the Pharaohplex.

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A QUIET PASSION You know the pathos and the poetry behind Emily Dickinson, but now see the life that led to a literary icon. She’s the one that did those dirty limericks, right? Rated PG-13. Stars Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine. Playing at the Roxy. ROUGH NIGHT These women just wanted to send their best friend off with a fun and memorable bachelorette party, but then they went and accidentally killed a stripper and now have to Weekend at Bernie’s their way out of it.

WAKEFIELD A successful lawyer decides he’s going to take a break from it all. Instead of going to Hawaii or Europe, however, he just hunkers down in the attic. He probably should have told his wife, though, because she is worried sick. Rated R. Stars Brian Cranston, Jennifer Garner and Beverly D’Angelo. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., June 22. WALKING BEAR COMES HOME: THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHUCK JONKEL He’s conducted the world’s first capture-and-handling study of black bears in Montana, now this famed biologist heads to the Arctic to do the same with polar bears. Not Rated. Directed by Frank Tyro. Screening for free at the Roxy Theater Thu., June 22 at 7 PM. WONDER WOMAN Like most of us, Diana, princess of the Amazons, was trained on a sheltered island paradise to be a warrior. When an American pilot shows up to tell her about a massive conflict raging in the outside world, she joins the fight and becomes Wonder Woman. Rated PG13. Stars Gal Gadot, Robin Wright and Chris Pine. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn and Erika Fredrickson. Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.

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Trump is a political typo pasta salad by Andrea Grimes

RESISTANCE KITCHEN

When I woke up, it was covfefe. Everybody was on the covfefe jam. Some people were joking about covfefe. Others were scolding those people for joking about covfefe. Still others were scolding people for scolding people for joking about covfefe. And then Donald Trump’s least favored minion, Sean Spicer, sentient-thumbed his way into the fray, telling reporters that covfefe was a secret message from President Orange Drink to secret people who secretly knew what he meant, sparking yet another round of takes. Covfefe was a typo. Trump meant to type “coverage” and he typed “covfefe” instead. We were talking about it for nigh on two days. At least one of those days was dedicated to talking about how Donald Trump is so astoundingly insecure that he is unable to admit that he is capable of producing typos—a fact that his grammatically offensive Twitter account makes obvious to anyone with the barest grasp of the English language. You can’t write about Donald Trump’s Twitter account without having “(sic)” programmed into a keyboard shortcut. To repeat: This administration is unwilling to acknowledge the most minor, consequence-free mistake that Trump could possibly make. If I were Donald Trump, I would be overjoyed that I had finally fucked up in a way that did not matter whatsoever. Instead, he’s shipping out Sean Spicer to tell us that this typo wasn’t a typo made by a man who is, himself, a political typo. So for dinner, I made a pasta salad that I’ve made so many times I literally can’t fuck it up. This is my typo-free pasta salad. Ingredients 1/2 pound of penne or rigatoni or whatever 1/4 cup of julienned basil (separated) 1 pint of fresh cherry or grape tomatoes, halved or quartered (separated)

1 tablespoon of capers (rinsed) 2 cups arugula about 8 ounces of mozzarella, the good kind, either in little balls or big balls torn apart about 4 ounces of parmesan (shredded, separated) 1/4 cup olive oil 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 cloves garlic 1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes in oil, or sun-dried tomato paste salami, prosciutto, coppa or other tasty deli meat, diced or sliced (optional) salt and pepper Directions Boil your pasta and run it under cold water when it’s done to your desired tenderness. In the meantime, in a food processor, pulse the sun-dried tomatoes, half your basil, the garlic, the vinegar, the oil, half your parmesan, half your fresh tomatoes and a couple turns of salt and pepper to make the dressing. ( You might need to adjust the oil/vinegar to your liking.) In a large bowl, combine the cooled pasta, the mozzarella, the rest of your fresh tomatoes and parmesan, the rest of your basil, your deli meat, your arugula and your capers and toss. Add the dressing in dollops—you might find that you like more or less on your salad. (I myself pour the whole lot over it because I love this sun-dried tomato dressing.) If you can stand to keep it in the fridge for several hours or overnight, it’ll taste incredible afterward. Resistance Kitchen is a blog about food, rage and politics at resistancekitchen.tumblr.com. Andrea Grimes is a journalist for hire, Bloody Mary expert and Texpat living in the Bay Area.

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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$

“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 It’s a done deal! No foolin’. Bernice’s Bakery will be introducing a new owner June 1st! Christine and Marco have spent the last 15 years stewarding the development and sustainability of one of Missoula’s iconic businesses. Congratulations to Marco and Christine! And, congratulations to the new owner Missy Kelleher. Come in and say hello or goodbye. Follow that up by a “hello” to Missy in June as you snag your favorite treat or a cup o’joe. Bernice’s Bakery Keepin’ Missoula Sweet. $-$$

LUNCH COMBO 3 rolls with miso soup or green salad for your busy summer schedule!

406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online AsahiMissoula.com. Delicious dining in or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.

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BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

BUTTERFLY HERBS

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$

Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$

The minty side of coffee

HAPPIEST HOUR

Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

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. $-$$

photo courtesy of Black Coffee Roasting Company

Why you’re drinking: With the mercury steadily climbing toward “oh crap, it’s July” levels, it’s getting a lot harder to justify that piping hot cup of morning joe. Yet coffee is no less essential to job performance, or to getting out of bed in time for the Saturday markets, just because it’s summertime. ’Tis the season, in other words, for cold brew, and Black Coffee Roasting Company has just the refreshing twist that summer heat—we will be getting some summer heat, right?—calls for. What you’re drinking: BCRC rolled out its mint-infused cold brew last year, and the seasonal drink is back this summer by popular demand. It’s 16 ounces of chilly, tremenscalming goodness—a mixture of cream, homemade mint simple syrup and the shop’s signature AM blend over ice. Like last year’s version, this one involves fresh mint blended with mint oil and added directly to the syrup for what co-owner Jim Chapman says is a stronger flavor with more reliability. “Sometimes the flavors we like with [coffee] surprise us,” Chapman says. “Mint isn’t

something I’d immediately expect to go with coffee, but it totally works.” When you should drink it: Morning, afternoon, whenever you feel a little overheated (or need to combat a case of the yawns). The mint-infused cold brew has developed enough of a fanbase that it may stick around for a few more months, even as BCRC experiments with other flavored cold brew combos. And if it tickles your tastebuds, keep an eye open for additional variations throughout the summer while you’re soaking up the rays on BCRC’s side patio. Where to find it: Black Coffee Roasting Company, 525 E. Spruce St. The 16-ounce mint-infused cold brew costs $4. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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SAT | 8 PM | MONK’S World-record-holding rapper MURS shows off his skills at Monk's Sat., June 24 at 8 PM. $20. 18-plus.

SUN | 7 PM | ZOOTOWN BREW Tow'rs plays Zootown Brew Sun., June 25 at 7 PM. $12/$10 advance.

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THU | 6/29 | 6 PM | DRAUGHT WORKS Singer-songwriter Sista Otis preaches the gospel of rock and roll at Draught Works Thu., June 29. 6 PM–8 PM.

FRI | 7 PM | SHAKESPEARE & CO Author Lynsey G. reads from Watching Porn and Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist at Shakespeare & Co Fri., June 23 at 7 PM.

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THU | 6/29 | 9 PM | TOP HAT STRFKR plays the Top Hat Thu., June 29. Doors at 8 PM, show 9 PM. $21.

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Thursday nightlife Historian James Longhurst, author of Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road, explores why the history of bicycling matters in the 21st century. Imagine Nation Brewing. 5:30 PM–7:30 PM. Free. Missoula’s favorite weekly music and food festival continues with Good Old Fashioned playing at Downtown ToNight. At Caras Park 5:30 PM. Free. Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to Greenough Park. 6 PM–7 PM. $3. Ain’t no hungry horses around here anymore. Max Hay plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Defenders of Wildlife and the Endangered Species Coalition host a screening of Walking Bear Comes Home, followed by a discussion on grizzly bear conservation. The Roxy Theater. 7 PM. Free. Get cash toward your bar tab at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Pinot noir meets Trio Noir when Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo play Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free. Brooklyn’s The Bergamot brings rich harmonies and indie sensibility to Zootown Brew. 9 PM. $12/$10 advance. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Groove away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9. Free. Hip-hop automatons Flobots take the Turing Test of music at the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$8 advance.

Seattle's iji plays the ZACC Below Fri., June 23 at 7:30 PM. $5. Enjoy the thrill of outlaw kart racing at Big Sky Kartway, west of Missoula. Funds raised at this event go to support AniMeals. Doors at 5:30 PM, race at 7. Free.

nightlife Jami Kidd and George Regan provide the soundtrack as you sip made-in-Montana wine at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free.

Rebelution, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Hirie and Collie Buddz perform at the Big Sky Brewery Amphitheater. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 6:15. $30. Lynsey G. reads from her new memoir, Watching Porn and Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. The Carla Green Trio serenades under the Big Sky at the Keep’s

outdoor terrace. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. This is why we shouldn’t allow proper nouns in Scrabble. Seattle’s iji (pronounced "eeh-hee") plays the ZACC Below. 7:30 PM. $5. I don’t think that’s a real cocktail. Gingers on Ice bring a potent blend of sketch comedy and improv to the Roxy Theater. 8 PM. $8. (See Comedy.)

Spotlight Though both the annual holiday and summer MADE fairs now feature hundreds of artists showcasing the very finest in the creative crafts, the very first Missoula MADE fair started out as a very intimate event. Originally hosted in the Loft above the Higgins Alley Restaurant in late 2007, the inaugural MADE fair showcased the work of 18 local artists. Though WHAT: Summer MADE Fair WHERE: Caras Park WHEN: Sun., June 25. 10 AM–5 PM HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: missoulamadefair.com

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Swamp Ritual, Wizzerd, Abrams and Cannon unite for a night of hard rock at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free. Be aware, be peaceful, be present for the Joan Zen Band at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Explore planets, nebulas and distant galaxies during Free Observation night at Blue Mountain Observatory. 10:30 PM. Visit hs.umt.edu/physics/blue_mountain_observatory for tickets.

diy diy small, this initial gathering of DIYers, artists and craftspeople has since grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade. Now, no matter what kind of art you're looking for, the MADE fair has you covered. Looking for a new painting that really brings your living room together? Need some gear for a summertime adventure? What about ceramics, music or upcycled art? Even if you don't know what you're looking for, the MADE fair has something for everyone. Traditional crafts like handcrafted jewelry and clothing mingle with distinctly Big Sky efforts like antler art and madein-Montana soap. The fair also features activities for all ages, demonstrations and food vendors.

—Charley Macorn

art by Courtney Blazon

Saturday

The Clark Fork Market features farm-fresh produce, live music and delicious food every Saturday in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM. Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club takes you on a run through Missoula. A free breakfast follows. 8 AM. Email hillaryo@runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses, and diverse delicacies. Join the fun every Saturday through October. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM– 12:30 PM. Garden City Tennis Association’s No-Elimination Singles Tournament will have you courting tennis greatness at Playfair Park. Visit gctamissoula.org for more info and registration. 8 AM. $25. Take a class on how to access intuition more effectively at Inner Workings Resources. Visit innerworkingsresources.com for more info. 10 AM–5 PM. $80. Family Art Day in the Missoula Art Park celebrates community and art with activities for the kiddos and art for the adults. 11 AM–1 PM. Free. Missoula author Eric Olson signs copies of books from his “Montana Courthouse Tales” series at Barnes and Noble. 1 PM–3 PM. Author Caroline Patterson reads from her collection of short stories, Ballet at the Moose Lodge at Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM. What are you waiting for? Try your hand (and elbows and knees and feet) at Muay Thai with a free martial arts class at Missoula Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. 2 PM–4 PM.

Take a stand against racism with Our CommUNITY Aligned Against Hate at Kiwanis Park. Festivities include music, dancing and a potluck-style BBQ. 3 PM–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Andre Floyd brings the taste of blues to Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free. Jeff Carroll provides the soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. MASC Studio hosts a night of circus shenanigans featuring acrobatics, dance and acrobats. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30. $5. The kings and queens of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana are teaming up for a night of drag duets at the Badlander. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $5. 18-plus. Tango Missoula hosts an introductory class and milonga social dance on the fourth Saturday of each month. The beginners lesson starts at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight. No experience or partner necessary! Potluck food and refreshments. $8/$6 for students. MURS, the man who holds a Guinness World Record after rapping for 24 straight hours, shows off his skills at Monk’s. 8 PM. $20. 18-plus. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

Oakland's Media Jeweler plays the ZACC Below Sun., June 25. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5. The summer Missoula MADE fair is back with the best outdoor arts and crafts market out there. See the work of hundreds of local and regional artists, live demonstrations, food, music and more. Caras Park. 10 AM–5 PM. Free. (See Spotlight) A peaceful march dedicated to the lives of Philando Castile, Charleena Lyles and others who have lost their lives to racial pro-

filing starts at the XXXXs on Higgins at 1 PM.

nightlife Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Scratchdog Stringband plays Draught Works. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Enjoy a free, locally-sourced dinner, yard games and music when the North Missoula Community

Development Corporation hosts a block party at the Burns Street Center. 6 PM–8 PM. Portland’s Muhjadeen and Oakland’s Media Jeweler unite for a night of rock at the ZACC Below. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5. To w ’ r s , F l a g s t a f f ’s b a n d o f wand’ring troubad’rs, plays Zootown Brew. 7 PM. $12/$10 advance.

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Five Valleys Audubon walks the Point-of-Rocks historic trail near Alberton on a half-day field trip in search of canyon wrens. Meet in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot at 7:45 AM. Email bwsgenea@ gmail.com for more info. Free.

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nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Author Jamie Harrison reads from

The Widow Nash, her new book about a woman starting over in Livingston after faking her death. Fact and Fiction. 7 PM.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.

Caroline Keys, Jeff Turman and Gibson Hartwell provide the tunes at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

The Cigarette Girls Burlesque troupe performs a brand new show celebrating the heroes, stars and inspirations that passed last year. See acts dedicated to Prince, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and more at the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$10 advance. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

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Tuesday Enjoy positive, consensual cuddling at Cuddle Co.’s Snuggle Party at Imagine Nation Brewing. Call 406-290-3855 for more info and registration. $15. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.

nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10/$35 for four classes. Call 549-7933 for more information. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander. 8 PM. Free. Butte author Ted McDermott reads from his new Missoula-based novel The Minor Outsider at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: The United States Marines adopted what animal as its mascot on today’s date in 1927? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

Experimental pop band Animal Collective roar into the Wilma Wed., June 28. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28/$25 advance. Out to Lunch features the music of Erik “Fingers” Ray in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from 20 vendors. 11 AM–2 PM. Free.

nightlife Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week: Missoula Urban Development Project. 5 PM–8 PM. Empty Bowls, Missoula Food Bank’s annual advocacy dinner, welcomes First Lady Lisa Bullock to speak about ending hunger in our neighborhoods. Ten Spoon Vineyard. 5:30 PM. $30. Think you’re a wine expert, huh? Put yourself to the test at Brown Bag Wine Tasting at the Dram Shop. Try to determine the style, origin and price of six mystery wines by taste alone. 6 PM. $18. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join

in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. Bring your biggest wig to Bob Ross Night at the Zootown Arts Community Center. Paint some happy little trees while enjoying a glass of wine. 6 PM–8 PM. $25. Soft Landing Missoula hosts a screening of five short films about refugees at Missoula Public Library. 6 PM. Free. Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the Revival Comedy Open Mic at the Badlander, of course. Sign-up at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. Author and former relative of Helena Maile Meloy reads from her new book about a family vacation going very wrong at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: English bulldog.

Wait, do you mean some sort of socialist zoo? Experimental pop band Animal Collective roars into the Wilma for an evening of neo-psychedelic music that will make you feel ways about things. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28/$25 advance. Former Big Sky residents Michael Lowney and Kurt Cowley return after making their mark on Broadway with a special showcase of music at MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $30. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Let the drums roll out, let the trumpet call. Strike up the Missoula City Band. See local musicians perform together every Wednesday at the Bonner Park Band Shell. 8 PM. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

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Thursday The Arlee Pow Wow is a six-day celebration with ceremonies and competitions to honor Native American elders and traditions. Pow Wow Road at the south end of Arlee. Check arleepowow.com for details.

Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with Joan Zen playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park every Thursday night between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free.

Come flaunt your verbal prowess at Poetry Slam at E3 Convergence Gallery. Are you the victor of verse? 7 PM. Free. Sign up by contacting e3gallery@e3gallery missoula.com.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Groove at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

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Singer-songwriter Sista Otis preaches the gospel of rock and roll at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30– 10 PM.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks before the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. We also accept gift cards, blank checks and loose change.

The Thomas Meagher Bar hosts the Third Annual Missoula Boaters Bash, a block party featuring the music of Reverend Slanky, yard games, food and beer. Donations raised at the event go to support local river protection and restoration. 5 PM–9 PM.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.

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Boldly going where no one has gone before, indie-electronic group STRFKR plays the Top Hat. Show at 9 PM. $21. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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Take a stand against racism with Our CommUNITY Aligned Against Hate at Kiwanis Park. Festivities include music, dancing and a potluck style BBQ. 3 PM–6 PM. Free.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

SUNDAY JUNE 25 A peaceful march dedicated to the lives of Philando Castile, Charleena Lyles and others who have lost their lives to racial profiling starts at the XXXXs on Higgins at 1 PM.

MONDAY JUNE 26 Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.

and Standing Alongside America's Muslims host a screening of this film, along with five other short films about the ongoing refugee crisis across the world. A discussion about the crisis, and what Missoula can do about it, follows the screenings. —Charley Macorn

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Marsha Goetting hosts presentations on how to protect the finances of family members with Alzheimer’s and how to avoid probate with payable on death designations. Missoula Public Library. 2:30 PM. Visit estateplanningforalzheimers.eventbrite.com for more info and registration. The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 28 NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week: Missoula Urban Development Project. 5 PM–8 PM. Empty Bowls, Missoula Food Bank’s annual advocacy dinner, welcomes First Lady Lisa Bullock to speak about ending hunger in our neighborhoods. Ten Spoon Vineyard. 5:30 PM. $30.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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THURSDAY JUNE 22 Defenders of Wildlife and the Endangered Species Coalition host a screening of Walking Bear Comes home, followed by a discussion on the current status of grizzly bear conservation. The Roxy Theater. 7 PM. Free.

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Enjoy the thrill of outlaw kart racing at Big Sky Kartway. Funds raised at this event go to support AniMeals. Doors at 5:30 PM, race at 7. Free.

The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park. The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water. 8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere.space/coffeeclub for more info.

SATURDAY JUNE 24 Five Valleys Audubon walks the Point-of-Rocks historic trail near Alberton on a half-day field trip in search of canyon wrens. Meet in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot at 7:45 AM. Message bwsgenea@ gmail.com for more info. Free. You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

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Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club takes you on a run through Missoula. A free breakfast follows. 8 AM. Email hillaryo@runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration.

THURSDAY JUNE 29 The Thomas Meagher Bar hosts the Third Annual Missoula Boaters Bash, a block party featuring the music of Reverend Slanky, yard games, food and beer. Donations raised at the event go to support local river protection and restoration. 5 PM–9 PM. Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to Pineview Park. 6 PM–7 PM. $3.

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Earn $300-$1000 per month working part-time! The Missoulian is looking for reliable individuals to deliver the daily newspaper in the Missoula, Bitterroot and Flathead areas. For individual route details go to: missoulian.com/carrier If you’re looking for extra income, are an early riser and enjoy working independently, you can make money and be done before most people get going with their day. If this sounds like you, please submit your inquiry form today at

missoulian.com/carrier or call 406-523-0494. You must have a valid driver’s license and proof of car insurance. This is an independent contractor business opportunity. Poverello Center Provides services to residents of The Poverello Center, maintains safety and health standards, and provides support services for operation of Center. Performs inspections in accordance with health and safety standards. Maintains safety through rule en-

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This wise, little charmer is looking for a mature home who understands his independent nature and loves his goofy personality! Aristotle enjoys playing with his small dog friends and taking sunbaths on warm days! If you are interested in a sweet, mature dog partner. Aristotle is part of our Senior for Senior program, so come visit him at the Humane Society of Western Montana at 5930 Highway 93 S, today! www.myHSWM.org

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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon SILICONE VALLEY I’m a guy who hates fake boobs. I’ve dumped women I really liked upon discovering they have them.Total dealbreaker for me. However, I obviously can’t just ask whether a woman has them. What should I do? I don’t want to waste my time or hers. —Real Deal Right. Not exactly a first-date question: “So ... did you get your boobs from your mom’s side of the family or from some doc’s Yelp review?” Your aversion to counterfitties doesn’t come out of nowhere. Breast implants are a form of “strategic interference,” evolutionary psychologist David Buss’ term for when the mating strategies of one sex are derailed by the other. Women, for example, evolved to seek “providers”—men with high status and access to resources. A guy engages in strategic interference by impressing the ladies with his snazzy new Audi—one he pays for by subletting a “condo” that’s actually the backyard playhouse of the rotten 8-year-old next door. A woman doesn’t need an Audi (or even a bus pass) to attract men. She just needs the features that men evolved to go all oglypants for—like youth, an hourglass bod, big eyes, full lips and big bra puppies. Men aren’t attracted to these features just becuz. Biological anthropologist Grazyna Jasienska finds that women with big (natural!) boobs have higher levels of the hormone estradiol, a form of estrogen that increases a woman’s likelihood of conception. Women with both big boobs and a small waist have about 30 percent higher levels—which could mean they’d be about three times as likely to get pregnant as other women. So, big fake boobs are a form of mating forgery—like a box supposedly containing a high-def TV that actually contains a bunch of no-def bricks. There are some telltale signs of Frankenboobs, like immunity from gravity. Women with big real boobs have bra straps that could double as seat belts and bra backs like those lumbar support belts worn by warehouse workers. However, an increasing number of women have more subtle implants (all the better to strategically interfere with you, my dear!). Though you might get the truth by teasing the subject of plastic surgery into conversation, you should accept the reality: You may not know till you get a woman horizontal—and the sweater Alps remain so high and proud you’re pretty sure you see Heidi running across them, waving to the Ricola guy playing the alpenhorn.

MY FAWNY VALENTINE I went out with this guy twice. He was really effusive about how much he liked me and how we had the beginnings of something awesome. He seemed sincere, so I ended up sleeping with him, and then, boom. He vanished. Was he just telling me he was into me to get me in the sack? I can’t imagine ever doing that to somebody. —Integrity A guy’s “I really care about you” makes a woman feel that he’s got a real reason for being there with her—beyond how the neighbor’s goat’s a surprisingly fast runner. Men evolved to be the worker bees of sex—the wooers of the species, trying to sell women on their level of love and commitment with mushy talk and bunches of carats. Women generally don’t need to work to get sex; they just need to let men know they’re willing— which is why around Valentine’s Day, you don’t hear the tool-time version of those Kay Jewelers commercials, reminding the ladies, “Every kiss begins with a circular saw!” This difference aligns with what evolutionary psychologist David Buss calls men’s and women’s conflicting “sexual strategies”—in keeping with how getting it on can leave a woman “with child” and a man with a little less semen. Accordingly, Buss finds that women are more likely to be “sexual deceivers”—to dangle the possibility of sex to get a favor or special treatment from a man. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to be “commitment deceivers.” In Buss’ lab, when the researchers asked 112 college dudes about whether they’d “exaggerated the depth of their feelings for a woman in order to have sex with her, 71 percent admitted to having done so, compared with only 39 percent of the women.” Knowing the different ways men and women deceive and are prone to be deceived is the best way to avoid being a victim of that deception. Borrow a motto from Missouri, the Show Me State. And note that this “show me” thing takes time. Wait to have sex until you’ve been around a guy enough to see that he’s got something behind those flowery words—beyond how getting you into bed is preferable to dressing his penis in a tiny cape and playing video games.

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EMPLOYMENT SMART SALES AND LEASE (est 2001) seeks full time Customer Service Manager.Work online from home. ($12/$20hr). Management experience a plus. Some evenings/weekends. Resume, questions: careers@smartsalesandlease.com. Window display person. Some experience. Call for details. 7212090. Small Wonders Futons.

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SKILLED LABOR Concrete Finisher Missoula concrete company is in search of an experienced CONCRETE FINISHER. Looking for dependable and reliable team members. Must have own hand tools. Will work all aspects of finishing concrete.This position may allow for an experienced applicant to step into superintendent position. Wages D.O.E. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10291163

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GARAGE SALES 3rd annual Bitterroot Valley 50Mile Garage Sale. Lolo to Darby. Friday June 23 & Saturday June 24. Bigger and better! Over 250 s e l l e r s ! w w w. b i t t e r r o o t 50milegaragesale.com THE "WHOLE ENCHILADA SALE" We're Moving! You're saving! A whole house full of treasures! Everything priced to sell! Saturday only until July 22nd! 927 3rd St. N Lincoln, MT 59639 Got Junk? Want Junk? 11th Annual Sanders County Yard Sale-ing application deadline June 16. Sales June 23-24. Go to www.SandersSaleing.com for applications and event information.

TER OF THE ESTATE OF: LAURIE BERG-SHANER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that PETER MORTEL 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 abovenamed as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of June, 2017. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 1 Your Case No. DV-17-473 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of, Christin Lyn Lulow, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Christin Lyn Lulow has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Christin Lyn Lulow to Christin Senechal Danielson and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 28th day of June, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, in courtroom number 1. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 22nd day of May, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-150 Dept. No. 1-Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARLYN HUBERT SIMMS, DECEASED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to PATTY SIMMS-DAUM, Personal

Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 9th day of June, 2017. /s/ Patty Simms-Daum, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-128 Dept. No. 4-Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOYCE WOOD MONTREUIL, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to VANESSA J. MARINO, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 19th day of May, 2017. /s/ Vanessa J. Marino, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-136 Dept. No. 1-Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE WARREN WEBER, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 4337 POTTER PARK CT, MIS-

SOULA, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 8th day of JUNE, 2017. /s/ TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-136 Dept. No. 1-Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE WARREN WEBER, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 4337 POTTER PARK CT, MISSOULA, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 8th day of JUNE, 2017. /s/ TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-123 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of JOEL B. HEFTY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be either mailed to Bonita L. Hefty, Personal Representative by certified mail, return receipt requested, c/o Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP, Attorneys at Law, P.O. Box 1178, Kalispell, Montana 59803-1178, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED May 18,2017 /s/ Bonita L. Hefty Personal Representative’s Attorneys: Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP By: /s/ C. Mark Hash

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): There are places in the oceans where the sea floor cracks open and spreads apart from volcanic activity. This allows geothermally heated water to vent out from deep inside the earth. Scientists explored such a place in the otherwise frigid waters around Antarctica. They were elated to find a “riot of life” living there, including previously unknown species of crabs, starfish, sea anemones and barnacles. Judging from the astrological omens, Aries, I suspect that you will soon enjoy a metaphorically comparable eruption of warm vitality from the unfathomable depths. Will you welcome and make use of these raw blessings even if they are unfamiliar and odd? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m reporting from the first annual Psychic Olympics in Los Angeles. For the past five days, I’ve competed against the world’s top mind-readers, dice-controllers, spirit whisperers, spoon-benders, angel-wrestlers and stock market prognosticators.Thus far I have earned a silver medal in the category of channeling the spirits of dead celebrities. (Thanks, Frida Kahlo and Gertrude Stein!) I psychically foresee that I will also win a gold medal for most accurate fortune-telling. Here’s the prophecy that I predict will cinch my victory: “People born in the sign of Taurus will soon be at the pinnacle of their ability to get telepathically aligned with people who have things they want and need.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While reading Virginia Woolf, I found the perfect maxim for you to write on a slip of paper and carry around in your pocket or wallet or underwear: “Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.” In the coming weeks, dear Gemini, I hope you keep this counsel simmering constantly in the back of your mind. It will protect you from the dreaminess and superstition of people around you. It will guarantee that you’ll never overlook potent little breakthroughs as you scan the horizon for phantom miracles. And it will help you change what needs to be changed slowly and surely, with minimum disruption.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now that you’ve mostly paid off one of your debts to the past, you can go window-shopping for the future’s best offers.You’re finally ready to leave behind a power spot you’ve outgrown and launch your quest to discover fresh power spots. So bid farewell to lost causes and ghostly temptations, Cancerian. Slip away from attachments to traditions that no longer move you and the deadweight of your original family’s expectations. Soon you’ll be empty and light and free—and ready to make a vigorous first impression when you encounter potential allies in the frontier.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I suspect you will soon have an up-close and personal encounter with some form of lightning.To ensure it’s not a literal bolt shooting down out of a thundercloud, please refrain from taking long romantic strolls with yourself during a storm. Also, forgo any temptation you may have to stick your finger in electrical sockets. What I’m envisioning is a type of lightning that will give you a healthy metaphorical jolt. If any of your creative circuits are sluggish, it will jumpstart them. If you need to wake up from a dreamy delusion, the lovable lightning will give you just the right salutary shock. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Signing up to read at the open mike segment of a poetry slam?

an outfit that’s a departure from the style you’ve cultivated for years? Getting dance lessons c Buying or a past-life reading or instructions on how to hang-glide? Hopping on a jet for a spontaneous getaway to an exotic hotspot? I approve of actions like those, Virgo. In fact, I won’t mind if you at least temporarily abandon at least 30 percent of your inhibitions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I don’t know what marketing specialists are predicting about color trends for the general population, but my astrological analysis has discerned the most evocative colors for you Libras. Electric mud is one. It’s a scintillating mocha hue.Visualize silver-blue sparkles emerging from moist dirt tones. Earthy and dynamic! Cybernatural is another special color for you. Picture sheaves of ripe wheat blended with the hue you see when you close your eyes after staring into a computer monitor for hours. Organic and glimmering! Your third pigment of power is pastel adrenaline: a mix of dried apricot and the shadowy brightness that flows across your nerve synapses when you’re taking aggressive practical measures to convert your dreams into realities. Delicious and dazzling! with the armor of jaded coolness? If so, here’s my proposal: In accordance with the astrological e yourself omens, I invite you to escape those perverse forms of comfort and safety. Be brave enough to risk feeling SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you ever hide behind a wall of detached cynicism? Do you protect

the vulnerability of hopeful enthusiasm. Be sufficiently curious to handle the fluttery uncertainty that comes from exploring places you’re not familiar with and trying adventures you’re not totally skilled at. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars,” writes Jack Gilbert in his poem “Tear It Down.” He adds that “We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows.” I invite you to meditate on these ideas. By my calculations, it’s time to peel away the obvious secrets so you can penetrate to the richer secrets buried beneath. It’s time to dare a world-changing risk that is currently obscured by easy risks. It’s time to find your real life hidden inside the pretend one, to expedite the evolution of the authentic self that’s germinating in the darkness.

solar system. It seems I was already laying a foundation for my interest in astrology. How about g ofyou,theCapricorn? I invite you to explore your early formative memories.To aid the process, look at old

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):When I was four years old, I loved to use crayons to draw diagrams

photos and ask relatives what they remember. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your past can show you new clues about what you might ultimately become. Potentials that were revealed when you were a wee tyke may be primed to develop more fully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I often ride my bike into the hills.The transition from the residential district to open spaces is a narrow dirt path surrounded by thick woods on one side and a steep descent on the other. Today as I approached this place there was a new sign on a post. It read “Do not enter: Active beehive forming in the middle of the path.” Indeed, I could see a swarm hovering around a tree branch that juts down low over the path. How to proceed? I might get stung if I did what I usually do. Instead, I dismounted from my bike and dragged it through the woods so I could join the path on the other side of the bees. Judging from the astrological omens, Aquarius, I suspect you may encounter a comparable interruption along a route that you regularly take. Find a detour, even if it’s inconvenient.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I bet you’ll be extra creative in the coming weeks. Cosmic rhythms are nudging you towards fresh thinking and imaginative innovation, whether they’re applied to your job, your relationships, your daily rhythm or your chosen art form. To take maximum advantage of this provocative luck, seek out stimuli that will activate high-quality brainstorms. I understand that the composer André Grétry got inspired when he put his feet in ice water. Author Ben Johnson felt energized in the presence of a purring cat and by the aroma of orange peels. I like to hang out with people who are smarter than me. What works for you? Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause Probate No. DP-13-182 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEBORAH C. RAMSEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James W. Ramsey, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: March 5th, 2014 /s/ James W. Ramsey Personal Representative Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-17-47 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN B. PARKER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Douglas C. Parker, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: March 1, 2017 /s/ Douglas C. Parker Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-17-135 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

SHIRLEY PHILIP a/k/a SHIRLEY SUE PHILIP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Shawn Kretchmer, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26th day of May, 2017, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Shawn Kretchmer, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Shawn Kretchmer, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Case No. DP17-98 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of KAREN G. TIPP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 Bryan C. Tipp, the Personal Representative, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 18th day of April, 2017. /s/ Bryan C. Tipp MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP17-148 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD G. BITTNER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date

PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to ROSS H. BITTNER, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Charles W. Schuyler, PC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 8th day of June, 2017. /s/ Ross H Bittner, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-17-146 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ESTHER RUTH WEBER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said Estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Levonne E. Campbell, c/o WORDEN THANE P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 6 day of June,2017. /s/ Levonne E. Campbell, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP16-31 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF:VALUENT DAVID THOMPSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Barbara A. Doty, has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Barbara A. Doty, Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 17th day of Feb-

ruary 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 17th day of February 2016. /s/ Barbara A. Doty, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 John W. Larson Cause No.: DP-17-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: RAYMOND O. WIEDMER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda K. Garberg, 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 Linda K. Garberg, Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13 day of March, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 15 day of March 2017. /s/ Linda K. Garberg, Personal Representative Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, June 27th, 2017, from 3 – 5 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public. For further information, contact Erin Ojala, Homeword Administrative Specialist, at 406-532-4663 x10. If you have comments, please mail them to: Homeword, 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 116A, Missoula, MT, 59808. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by LINDY M. LAUDER, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq.,

MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER IS/ARE: Grantor: William Austin Pugh, III (“Grantor”) Original Trustee: Charles Peterson Successor Trustee: Lindy M. Lauder, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary:Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: William Austin Pugh, III THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book 756 of Micro Records at Page 1609. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Montana Trust Indenture to secure an original indebtedness of $67,143.24, dated June 13, 2006, and recorded June 22, 2006, as Document No. 200615125, Book 777 of Micro Records at Page 498, records of Missoula County, Montana; and Substitution of Trustee dated April 20, 2017, and recorded May 1, 2017, under Document No. 201707212 Book 978 Page 70, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $625.42 due under the Trust Indenture Note dated June 13, 2006, which is secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. The borrower is due for the September 1, 2016 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF APRIL 5, 2017 ARE: Principal: $48,111.92 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 9.490% per annum. As of April 5, 2017, the interest balance is $3,486.91 and interest accrues at the rate of $12.51 per day. Late fees: $40.00 The Beneficiary anticipates

and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: September 21, 2017 Time: 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 S. Fourth St., Suite 100, Missoula, MT 598077099 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and 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. Dated this 2nd day of May, 2017. /s/ Lindy M. Lauder LINDY M. LAUDER Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on May 2, 2017, by Lindy M. Lauder, as Trustee. /s/ Dawn L. Hanninen [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: February 14, 2020 File No.: 093399-000007 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 Successor Trustee will, on October 5, 2017 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 Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the

execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: Missoula County Courthouse, on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Fesaltu F Samuela and Makereta A Samuela joint tenants and not as tenancy in common as Grantors, as conveyed said real property to I.R.E. Processing as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated December 12, 2005 and was recorded on December 16, 2005 as Instrument No. Book 765 of Micro Records at Page 1627; Instrument No. 200533225, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 500 Sherwood St., Missoula, MT 59802 and being more fully described as follows: LOTS 11 AND 12, BLOCK 3 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments beginning September 16, 2016 through May 18, 2017 in the principal amount of $4,395.26; plus escrow in the amount of $1,379.27;

plus total uncollected in the amount of $1,955.91; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. 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, to wit: $73,966.93 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.75000 percent per annum beginning August 16, 2016 in the amount of $3,086.71; plus deferred amounts of $7,281.16; plus other fees and costs in the amount of $1,962.91; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: May 4, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on August 9, 2017, 09:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 18B of the Homesteads, a platted Subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof, recorded in Book 20 of Plats, at Page 4. More commonly known as 2229 Hillside Drive, Missoula, MT 59803-1152. Alfred K. Greene and Erica DavisGreene, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on August 27, 2015, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on August 28, 2015 as Instrument No. 201516444, in Book 950, at Page 327, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Pingora Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Assignment Dated: December 28, 2016 Assignment Recorded: December 28, 2016 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201623519, in Book 972, at Page 947, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 1, 2017 as Instrument No. 201703702, in Book 975, at Page 760, of Official Records.The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning September 1, 2016, 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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable.

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The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $180,906.07, interest in the sum of $5,045.27, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $411.58 for a total amount owing of $186,362.92, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

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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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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 by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 28th day of March, 2017. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 48810 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 3, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following de-

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scribed real property situated in Missoula County, Montana:TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5641, LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Michael R McVey, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 18, 2007, and recorded on June 25, 2007 as Book 800 Page 290 Document No. 200716085.The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 beginning July 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 8, 2016 is $217,245.14 principal, interest totaling $32,100.57, escrow advances of $20,211.68, suspense balance of $-27.84 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,915.70, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person,

including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 16, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 16th day of May, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, 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/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Caliber Home

Loans vs Michael R McVey 100761-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 4, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 29 IN BLOCK 2 OF LAKEVIEW ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Edna B. Herron and Michael R. Herron, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 23, 2007, and recorded on February 26, 2007 as Book 792 Page 863 Document No. 2007704588. The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 beginning April 28, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 12, 2016 is $159,990.30 principal, interest totaling $17,394.74, escrow advances of $9,648.60 and other fees and expenses advanced of $699.54, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against

the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 25, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 25th day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of

PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP 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/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 09-06-2022 Caliber Home Loans vs Edna B. HerronMichael R. Herron 101800-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 5, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 2 OF NEW MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 13 OF PLATS AT PAGE 16. Christopher S Hewitt and Stephanie M Hewitt, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for American Home Mortgage, its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on August 26, 2005, and recorded on August 31, 2005 as Book 759 Page 426 Document No. 200522819. The beneficial interest is currently held by United Guaranty. 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 beginning June 24, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 19, 2017 is $28,276.32 principal, interest totaling $23,245.60 plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real prop-

erty 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: May 26, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339

Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 26 day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 Law Offices of Goldberg & Oriel vs Christopher S Hewitt Stephanie M Hewitt 102829-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 25, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 94 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Ronald James Fenlon, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Liberty American Mortgage Corp. , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 22, 2005, and recorded on August 29, 2005 as Book 759 Page 146 Document No. 200522539. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank, N.A., Successor Trustee to LaSalle Bank National Association, on behalf of the Holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005HE12, Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2005-HE12.

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 beginning July 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 8, 2017 is $187,468.32 principal, interest totaling $4,844.54 late charges in the amount of $108.96, escrow advances of $3,172.38, and other fees and expenses advanced of $43.91, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation

or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 17, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 17th day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Al-

bert, 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/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 SPS vs Fenlon 102958-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 28, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana:The E1/2 of Lot 25, all of Lots 26 and 27 and the W1/2 of Lot 28 in Block 61 of SUPPLEMENT TO CAR LINE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 522 at Page 733 Micro Records JAMES K HARBISON and SUSAN E HARBISON, as Grantors,

conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Financial Montana Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on December 14, 2005, and recorded on December 20, 2005 as Book 766 Page 391 Document No. 200533743. The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 beginning January 31, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 15, 2017 is $193,022.70 principal, interest totaling $27,292.30, escrow advances of $14,138.25, and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,604.30, plus accruing in-

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EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 21, 104, 133, 157, 159, 279, 284, 318, 681 & 683. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, June 26, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 4:00 PM on the day of the auction. 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 final

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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: May 12, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 12th day of May, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 09-06-2022 Caliber Home Loans vs JAMES K HARBISONSusan E Harbison 102447-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 29, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel A of The Amended Plat Of Tract 1 And 2 Of CALRTON Tracts, Block 2, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. Together With An Easement For Access Over 20 Foot Strip Along An Existing Road Parallel to the North Portion Of The Westerly Boundary Of The Above Described Parcel A. More Accurately Described as Follows: Parcel A of The Amended Plat Of Tract 1 And 2 Of CARLTON Tracts, Block 2, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. Together With An Easement For Access Over 20 Foot Strip Along An Existing Road Parallel to the North Portion Of The Westerly Boundary Of The Above Described Parcel A. RUBY FINCH, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 7, 2005, and recorded on June 8, 2005 as Book 754

Page 40 under Document No. 200513735. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation aka PHH Mortgage Services. 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 beginning February 1, 2017, 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 2, 2017 is $95,944.79 principal, interest totaling $1,894.36 late charges in the amount of $52.40, escrow advances of $116.21, and other fees and expenses advanced of $81.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only 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

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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: May 23, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 23rd day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally

appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 PHH vs FINCH 101879-2

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

446 Washington St. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops, close to the U and lots of activities. Cat? $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 722 ½ Bulwer St. Studio/1 bath, just remodeled, shared yard, single garage, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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REAL ESTATE HOMES

erties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

1302 Linnea.Well-designed 4 bed, 3 bath with patio and attached single garage. $235,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 1817 South 5th West. Adorable, sunny 2 bed, 1 bath bungalow with fireplace, large yard & great irrigation ditch. $250,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath South 39th St home, $245,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $182,000. BHHSMT Prop-

2000 Raymond. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath Rattlesnake home with wood floors, stonework, sun room and covered patio. $335,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Franklin to The Fort home with a large barn. $325,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, River Road home. $267,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3701 Brandon. 4 bed, 3 bath with cook’s kitchen, 2 gas fireplaces and great views. $419,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 3913 Heritage Way- What an amazing opportunity to live in the cherished Rattlesnake neighbor-

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Lovingly maintained & completely remodeled University bungalow, close to trails. This 4 bed, 2.5 bath home has new floors, paint, plumbing, electric, roof, furnace & on-demand hot water heater. Master bath has deep soaking tub & heated floors. Newly painted deck off kitchen to fenced yard. Double detached garage. Don’t miss the classic arched doorways. You will love this home! MLS #21705821

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JONESIN’

"That's Not a Word!"–not entering the dictionary anytime soon. ACROSS

1 Newspaper revenue source 8 Used, as a saddle 15 Player seen in bars 16 Raw material used to make steel 17 *Mork's epithet on "Mork & Mindy" 18 *Second word of "Jabberwocky" 19 Flynn of "Captain Blood" 21 "___ friend!" 22 Tax prep pros 26 Typeface embellishment 28 Chemical that makes a flea flee 29 Sound 31 "The Wizard of ___ Park" 33 "Science Guy" Bill 34 *Creatures questioned by Mr. Salt in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" 37 Disreputable, slangily 38 Accompany to the airport, maybe 42 *Scuttle's guess at naming a human artifact (really a fork) in "The Little Mermaid" 46 Sony handheld console since 2005, briefly 49 Big bankruptcy of 2001 50 Seven on "Sesame Street," sometimes

51 "Only ___" (Oingo Boingo song) 53 Ranks above viscounts 55 Got all the questions right on 56 "___ the Wind" (Garth Brooks album) 58 "Super!" 60 *Scrabble play by Bart (which Homer challenged) in the second-ever episode of "The Simpsons" 62 *May 2017 mis-tweet that won't go away 67 Dawn-related 68 Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo 69 17th-century Dutch philosopher who wrote "Ethics" 70 7UP alternatives

DOWN 1 Racecar driver Foyt and Backstreet Boy McLean, for two 2 "That's, like, preschool level" 3 Musical genre from Jamaica 4 Candy with collectible dispensers 5 Xavier Cugat's ex-wife Lane 6 Beer from Golden, Colorado 7 Minima and maxima, in math 8 Brother or sister 9 Musical adaptation abbr. 10 "Hop ___!" 11 Lacking guidance 12 Allergen with its own index 13 The Who's "Baba ___" 14 Turn on its head 20 ___ Ishii ("Kill Bill" char-

acter) 22 "Mangy Love" folk-rocker McCombs 23 Genre for the Ramones 24 "Whiles, like ___, I go to find my fawn": Shakespeare 25 Fitted for a ring, e.g. 27 "It's just a ___ wound!" 30 Harriet's TV spouse 32 Creme-filled cookies 35 Arthur ___, inventor of the crossword in 1913 36 Old photo shade 39 Oil-producing gp. 40 Outdoor gala 41 "SNL" alum Armisen 43 Munchable morning mix 44 Collected wisdom 45 Intertwines 46 Winter coats 47 Decelerate 48 Ancient scroll materials 52 City known for mustard 54 Walk hard 57 Kia hybrid SUV since 2016 (what, you expected "Robert De ___"?) 59 Finished 61 "Moulin Rouge!" director Luhrmann 63 TGIF part 64 Id ___ (that is) 65 Moriarty, to Holmes 66 Low-ranking USN officer

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REAL ESTATE

6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realy 239-8350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 6869 Deadman Gulch. Private 4 bed, 3 bath on 2.71 acres with deck & 3 car garage. $890,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 901 Defoe. Updated 3 bed, 1 bath with new flooring & deck, Near Northside pedestrian bridge. $229,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

TOWNHOMES Uptown Flats #101. 1 bed, 1 bonus room, 1 bath close to community room. $193,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #303. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico

Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #30 borhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

LAND 13221 Old Freight. Approximately 11 acres near St. Ignatius with incredible Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2.1 acre waterfront lot in Alberton. $179,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard 5@gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and

large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungsten holdings.com (406) 293-3714

COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

OUT OF TOWN 19600 Twin Lakes Rd- Glorious setting on 10+ acres of pristine park-like forest full of wildflowers and so completely loved for nearly 40 years $267,500 PorticoRealEstate.com 230 Lakeside Drive- Lolo- Amazingly sweet lot with peaceful and private back yard complete with small pond/water feature, beautiful rock and garden landscaping. $250,000. KD 406-240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $385,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

NEW LISTING: 1543 34th St — $375,000 Go to website to learn more about the fabulous features of the this lovingly kept Southgate Triangle ranch home. 5 bed 3-1/2 bath. Double car garage. MLS #21707154

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2405 42ND ST. $338,000 South Hills 5 bedroom home with main floor utilities, cathedral ceilings, double garage, central air, underground sprinklers and much more! Call Vickie Amundson at 544-0799 for more information.

2161 South 10th Street • $269,900 Large 4+ bed, 3 bath across from Franklin Park with Rattlesnake views. New furnace & water heater. Lots of shade trees.

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