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Since their rise half a decade ago, trackers have become an increasingly common tool for political parties during tense election years. They dog the opposition’s every step, documenting their conduct and hoping to capture that single “gotcha” moment that could give their side a leg up. How will they affect the Tester-Rehberg race?.............................14

News Letters Save a farm, vote for I-166 .............................................................................4 The Week in Review Max Baucus gets validation.....................................................6 Briefs Grizzlies, bachelors and fires ...........................................................................6 Etc. Confronting inmate suicide.................................................................................7 Up Front BLM takes heat for coal lease prices ..........................................................8 Up Front Elke Govertsen’s chaotic success................................................................9 Range Extremists battle one another while we get something done......................11 Agenda Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy.........................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Megadrought, the new normal ....................................................18 Happiest Hour Missoula Black & Tan......................................................................19 8 Days a Week Track this.........................................................................................21 Mountain High Reveal the Path ..............................................................................29 Scope The Western Montana Plein Air Paint Out.....................................................30 Noise Black Mountain Moan, Milk Music, Waxahatchee, Advance Base..................31 Books Sharma Shields aims for the funny bone ......................................................32 Film Wes Anderson’s aesthetic evolves.....................................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................34

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Exclusives Street Talk ..................................................................................................................4 In Other News..........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ...............................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ..............................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle ..................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World..............................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jason McMackin STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITOR Ted McDermott NEWS INTERN Jackie Coffin ARTS INTERN Brooks Johnson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler MARKETING INTERN Jon Tweeten FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Chris Dombrowski Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Jamie Rogers, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreestz

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STREET TALK

by Steele Williams

Asked the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, at the Big Sky BBQ Festival.

What’s the best way to reach you as a voter?

Follow up: I say “Montana politics” … what do you say?

John Engen: Be measured, be thoughtful, be reasonable, be smart, be humble and do the right thing.

Party forth: The November election. … Governor, Senate, AG … the whole deal. … And don’t forget our guy who’s running for president. He’s practically already got the job, if you ask me.

Stephanie Courville: On my cellphone, because it’s always with me.

You can read emails from your phone, but it’s much easier to ignore or delete them. Pre-occupied: What was that thing where people put tents outside of the courthouse? Oh yeah, Occupy Missoula. That seemed to be a really big deal here in Missoula.

Jesse Varichak: By either the phone or social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. The phone calls are so much more annoying, though. They try to trap you on the phone and get you to join their cause and do what they do.

It’s a pyramid scheme. Rock ’n’ run: Parking my boat on the rocks of Flathead Lake and still having a solid chance of winning an election.

Ben Mancini: My telephone number.

I have a computer but don’t know how to work that Facebook thing.

Call me: I think of any Democrat.

The middle class is hurting these days and needs help.

Greg Swinson: Glenn Beck, because he’s the next best thing to Paul Harvey. All media throws out total bullshit. It’s like we’re living in communist Russia. Absentee: Get rid of Tester and Baucus. We need shorter term limits; they’ve got to get some fresh blood in there. You can’t call yourself a Montanan if you’re only here half the year.

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Save a farm, vote for I-166 Obviously, someone’s out there raising a bit of rabble regarding Initiative 166, the measure to nullify the Supreme Court’s novel notion that corporations are people and money is speech. I-166 will likely qualify for the November ballot and Montana citizens will likely vote its passage, apparently causing Jake Cummins of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation considerable concern.

His commentary on this citizens’ initiative (see Letters, June 11) is stunningly simplistic, confused and confusing. And wrong on several points.

I’d be interested to know if his conclusions were the result of his own thinking, or if he’s simply rolling out talking points blathered by those who, for various self-serving reasons, oppose the movement to squelch the corporate takeover of our electoral system and, by extension, of the family farms that his group, one would think, seeks to support.

First, let’s dispatch the nonsensical idea that money and speech are the same. Money is not speech and has no material relationship to freedom of speech. Unfortunately, our Supreme Court does not agree with that proposition, but they have not always been right. And they have done all sorts of handstands, back flips and other gymnastics and contortions to try to prove their point—including, in the Citizens United case, directing the parties to completely deconstruct and reconstruct their cases so the justices could get to the ruling they were predisposed to make. Money is a flexible medium of exchange that can buy things: clothes, food, houses, tons of TV time and, eventually, elections and the politicians they help prevail. But it is not speech. Speech is the expression of thoughts and ideas. The former sometimes enables the latter, but that does not make it the latter. I-166 simply strives to make that distinction clear within the state and federal constructs that explain who is who and what is what.

Second, there’s a difference between the inalienable rights conferred by a constitution and pertinent

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to actual human beings, and legal rights conferred by laws and regulations promulgated by governments, to the benefit of specified groups of people and organizations. Mr. Cummins’ ability to incorporate, as a small farmer or small businessperson, is a legal right provided him by Montana law. He’s not “forced to incorporate,” as he states. It is in his best interest to do so because it provides him protection as an individual citizen in the event of legal action against his farm

“Money is a flexible medium of exchange that can buy things. But it is not speech. Speech is the expression of thoughts and ideas. The former sometimes enables the latter, but that does not make it the latter.”

or business and it guarantees him access to the courts and equal protection under the law. It also may give him some tax breaks. It is to the benefit of all the people because it provides enterprising people an incentive to start businesses with less exposure to risk, whether it be farming or operating a hot dog stand. None of this will change if I-166 passes. What may change, though, is that Mr. Cummins and his fellow Farm Bureau

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Correction: In our June 21 issue, we miscredited a photo of the Dodgy Mountain Men. It was taken by Matt Riley. The Indy regrets the error.

Federation members may have better access to legislators and greater involvement in farm policy matters because the influence of the global giants of agriculture won’t overwhelm him, either at the polls or in the lobbies of the legislature.

Family farms will not benefit by the defeat of I-166. And they will not lose any legal protections if it passes.

In fact, the exact opposite will be true: Mega-corporations that seek to dominate the production, processing, distribution and marketing of agricultural products will be able to pay to influence elections for their own purposes.

And the aims of Monsanto and ADM are almost always counter to the interests of family farmers. Once these global behemoths have successfully purchased the lawmakers in both state legislatures and federally, laws and regulatory measures that benefit them, to the exclusion of smaller farming operations, will be the order of the day. Montana, as a farming state, has a great deal to lose if large corporations continue to be allowed to spend huge amounts of cash in political campaigns. Not only will farm policy at the federal level become the plaything of the wealthy corporations who have taken over so much of America’s farmland, but these corporations will also soon take over the legislatures of the states for their own benefit. The continued takeover of family farms by giant agriculture, enabled by unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns, will eventually leave Cummins and friends in the Farm Bureau Federation in the dust. Only it won’t be their dust anymore.

Given the stake most of Montana’s farmers have in the passage of I-166, is Mr. Cummins really speaking as the voice of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation? And more importantly, is he really advocating in the best interests of Montana’s farmers?

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VIEWFINDER

by Steele Williams

During the Korn concert at the Wilma Theatre in downtown Missoula, a man reportedly falls some 20 feet from the theater balcony while attempting a handstand on its rail. The band pauses while paramedics carry the man out on a stretcher.

• Thursday, June 28 In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Affordable Care Act—a law chiefly authored by Montana Sen. Max Baucus and intended to provide Americans with health insurance coverage—is constitutional. Baucus says Montanans “can breathe a little easier today knowing they get to keep the cost savings and protections” under the law.

• Friday, June 29 At Missoula’s Ogren-Allegiance Park, the Helena Brewers score three runs in the top of the 10th inning to stymie a rally by the Missoula Osprey and secure a 6-5 victory, despite Osprey outfielder Breland Almadova’s three hits and five plate appearances. The Osprey fall to 6-6.

• Saturday, June 30 Cadaver dogs find the body of missing Missoula veteran Matthew Charlick, 26. He apparently shot and killed himself not far from where his vehicle was found on Miller Creek Road two weeks prior.

Charlick served three years in the army.

• Sunday, July 1 Missoula triathlete Linsey Corbin goes “To. The. Well.,” as she writes on Twitter, to win Ironman Austria, her first Ironman event in Europe, in 9:09:58. Her tweet continues: “Sooooooo worth it!

2x IM Champ - me like-y!” by which she means “two-time Ironman champ.”

• Monday, July 2 The Missoula City Council rolls out a new information delivery system that allows locals to watch the Garden City’s lawmaking proceedings online, anytime. The “SIRE Technologies System” also provides online access through the city’s main web page to comprehensive histories of individual legislative efforts. It costs the city $83,155 for hardware, software and a five-year service agreement.

• Tuesday, July 3 Missoula county closes open burning until further notice the day before the Fourth of July. The fire danger is bumped up to “moderate,” but public use of fireworks and campfires is still permitted in the county (but not the city). Officials urge the public to use extra caution as the state continues to experience dry conditions and extreme wildfires.

Ross May throws a rock for Frank the Tank, his friend’s pit bull, at a Clark Fork River beach on Saturday, June 30.

Fires Beating the Pony It’s 4 a.m. on June 25 and Jon Agner, the district fire management officer of the Madison Ranger District, should be sleeping, but instead he’s on the phone planning evacuations from the unruly walls of fire burning the valley below.

As of Monday, July 2, the Pony and Bear Trap 2 fires continued to burn while firefighters worked day and night to extinguish the almost 20,000 acres of wildfire in the BeaverheadDeerlodge National Forest. The larger Bear Trap 2 fire—burning 15,341 acres—was, as of press time, 100 percent contained, with firefighters mopping up the scorched earth. But the Pony fire, of 4,800 acres, raged on, burning dead timber on steep, rocky slopes and threatening the town of Mammoth. It’s hard to contain, Agner said. “With large stands of dead beetle-kill forest, they go up like a matchbook and tend to fall pretty fast.”

The Pony fire had almost 400 people working to contain it. A key factor in the success of the

crews’ initial response, Agner said, was the cooperation and teamwork of fire crews from federal, state and county departments. “I believe it’s born out of necessity,” he said. “With declining federal budgets and less resources available, you see a lot more cooperation between state, county and federal resources in fire response—much better than 20 years ago.”

Cooperation between the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Madison County volunteers was essential in filling the void left by the many Montana firefighters working in Colorado, where fires have burned thousands of acres, destroyed 722 homes and left one person dead.

Many of the crews are returning from Colorado after their 15-day tours to help battle fires in their home state. “We need to beef things up here, with the season kickin’ up early as it is,” Agner said.

He joked that the outcome of Montana’s fire season can only be predicted six months later.

“But to see a crown fire between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. in late June, that’s unusual fire activity,”

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Agner said, “and could be an indicator that, yes, we’re dry and this could be an extremely busy season.”

Jackie Coffin

Reality TV Break out the roses It's Saturday afternoon and the Sunrise Saloon is teeming with young, attractive, single women. They congregate in groups of three or five, electrons circling around nuclei. One girl per group is filling out a stack of paperwork, hoping to find the man of their dreams.

ABC’s “The Bachelor” has come to Missoula.

Alexandra Jernstrom is pretty sure the show came to town to cast a cute country girl for the next season. She only joked about auditioning at first, but her friends prodded her. And she feels she’d be a good fit—shy but sweet. She’s all smiles and painted orange fingernails. “I just want to find someone,” she says, blushing slightly at the prospect.

So does Ashley Duncan, a staffer with the

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Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, in Helena. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been watching â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bachelorâ&#x20AC;? with her mom since the show started in 2002. Meeting Mr. Right in Montana is tricky, she says. Maybe national television will work. Looking around the Sunrise at the competition, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confident about her chances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can clap with one hand,â&#x20AC;? she says, listing her unique talents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really, really good at Big Buck Hunter.â&#x20AC;?

Erica Gerard brought an audition tape of her playing guitar and piano. But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;wishy-washyâ&#x20AC;? on whether television can really help her find â&#x20AC;&#x153;the right one.â&#x20AC;? Who would that be? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outgoing, physical, nice smile,â&#x20AC;? Gerard says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m big on teeth and smiles.â&#x20AC;? No wonder. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dental hygienist in Bozeman.

I bump into Craig Toomey, general sales manager with ABC/FOX Montana and the casting callâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s de facto coordinator, near a pile of gift bags.

He asks if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to audition, too. Apparently theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also looking for the bachelor himself.

Only one other guy has signed up, Toomey says.

I shrug and he hands me a stack of paperwork and a rose. I can see why the girls thought the questions were tough. Asked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why are you Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Eligible Bachelor?â&#x20AC;? the only response I can think of is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m single, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m awesome?â&#x20AC;?

Inside the audition room, they train a camera on me and rattle off a few questions. I must sound less than enthused; the whole thing lasts less than three minutes. Somehow, I doubt I fit the bill.

Gerard tracks me down on my way out, having just auditioned herself. She feels better about her chances now, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but there are a lot of pretty girls here,â&#x20AC;? she says. It really doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if she gets on the show though, she confides. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of fish in the sea.â&#x20AC;?

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Wildlife A new player on the plains Mike Madel hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped moving since the grizzlies woke up. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting onto porches and into bird seed and cattle feed. The bears have been pushing east out of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem for years. But Madel, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bear management specialist in Choteau, hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen this many human-griz conflicts in more than two decades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re repeating the types of conflicts we experienced in the mid â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had lots of sheep depredation and beehive damage

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early on. Now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s porches, human food and livestock food.â&#x20AC;?

Madel thinks the bears are showing up and getting in trouble at least in part due to a mild winter with a low level of livestock deaths along the Rocky Mountain Front. Without those early carcasses to feed on, he says, dispersing sub-adult males began traveling east much earlier. This spring, Madel captured a male preying on calves on the east side of the Continental Divide. The bear had become habituated to the food source; only after the agency euthanized it did they realize the bear had made his way over all the way from the Blackfoot River.

Even sows have proven unusually problematic this year. Last month, a four-year-old female griz

caused the deaths of roughly 70 sheep on three Great Falls area ranches in a two-week span. FWP trapped the female, who was in poor shape, along with her cub and relocated the two to northwestern Montana in accordance with interagency grizzly management guidelines.

The sow was an extreme case, Madel says. She was one of the youngest sows with a cub on Montana record, and she was likely stressed as a result.

Females have been establishing home ranges beyond the mountains for years, infringing on agricultural land and teaching their offspring how to live outside state and federally owned tracts. In fact, grizzlies are spending much more time on the high plains these days as they begin to repopulate their native habitat. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this development that has FWP and other agencies switching focus to areas outside the grizzliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recovery zone, and working to strengthen the level of acceptance for bears theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been fostering along the Front for decades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pulse this year is something we could see year after year after year now,â&#x20AC;? Madel says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we may have to become more creative about

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Blocking exchange backfires Over a year ago, when the Montana Legislature was in session, the House Business and Labor Committee considered a bill to create a state-based health insurance exchangeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an online marketplaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;under the newly passed federal Affordable Care Act. Rep. Edward Greef, a Republican from Florence, remembers that in the wake of the passage of health care reform, there was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;overriding sense of confusion,â&#x20AC;? and so Republicans, who outnumbered Democrats 14-7 in the committee, let the exchange bill die. Greef says they were wary of the health insurance mandate, and figured â&#x20AC;&#x153;if the act gets repealed or is unconstitutional, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to deal with this.â&#x20AC;?

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law last week, but now Montana canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t create its own insurance exchange. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too late. Jan. 1, 2013 is the deadline for states to demonstrate to the feds that their exchanges will be up and running by 2014, and the Montana Legislature doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet before then.

Instead, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will implement Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exchange, assuring more federal intervention in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health insurance market than if the legislature had passed HB 124â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the very thing, it appeared, many Republican lawmakers in Montana wanted to avoid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lose a lot of decision-making authority over the exchange,â&#x20AC;? says Lucas Hamilton, spokesperson for Montana insurance commissioner Monica Lindeen, a Democrat.

Lindeen lobbied hard for the passage of HB 124. Without it, the state loses out on millions of dollars in grants. The feds will run the technical aspects of the exchange, market it to Montanans and approve the private insurance plans included in it. Because the state must also approve those plans, it will lead to â&#x20AC;&#x153;double regulation,â&#x20AC;? Hamilton says. He says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfortunate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know our market better, we live here, we actually purchase these polices ourselves, we know the needs of Montana consumers. So we definitely think that a state-based solution would have been preferable.â&#x20AC;?

Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not alone: Only 10 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws enacting exchange programs, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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In 2009, the Montana Legislature shelved a bill that would have created a pilot suicide prevention program in jails across the state. The Linda Wilson Memorial Jail Suicide Prevention Act, named for a woman who hanged herself in 2007 with a telephone cord from her Miles City jail cell, would have cost state taxpayers $264,000 for the first year and, state budget crunchers say, less in subsequent ones.

The bill would have provided for a 24-7 â&#x20AC;&#x153;triageâ&#x20AC;? line, enabling jail staffers and inmates to call mental health professionals during times of crises. In Kentucky, a similar program reduced jail suicides by 80 percent.

Montana legislators cited budget constraints when tabling the bill. According to the Montana Board of Crime Control, 12 inmates have committed suicide in county and city detention facilities across Montana since then.

In advance of the 2013 legislative session, elected representatives are again hashing out whether getting a suicide prevention bill through the lawmaking body is a priority. The Montana Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Interim Law and Justice Committee last week deliberated the merits of a program similar to the one proposed in 2009. It would create a 24-7 phone triage line and create a comprehensive suicide prevention protocol for city and county facilities.

Law and Justice interim committee member and state Democratic lawmaker Margaret MacDonald said during the meeting that implementing such a program seems a no-brainer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are largely preventable.â&#x20AC;?

MacDonald says the program would cost taxpayers roughly half a cent each yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;during a time when Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sitting on an estimated $400 million surplus.

Some committee members, however, including Republican Rep. Michael More, of Gallatin Gateway, cautioned that amid the â&#x20AC;&#x153;furyâ&#x20AC;? and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;furorâ&#x20AC;? of crafting a budget, it could be tough to persuade fiscally conservative legislators to get on board.

Committee Chair Jim Shockley, a Republican senator from Ravalli County, said he liked the idea of having greater mental health services in jails. But, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How are we going to get the money?â&#x20AC;?

Money is always going to be an issue. But, as MacDonald says, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for lawmakers to look past the bottom line and to their humanity. Or, to put it another way, how many more Montanans must die in custody by their own hands before the state raises this small ante?

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Coal con?

BLM takes heat for lease prices in Montana, Wyoming

by Matthew Frank

Last week, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, an energy think tank that seeks to reduce the use of coal, published a report accusing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of leasing its coal in the Powder River Basin for such low prices that taxpayers missed out on about $29 billion in revenue over the last 30 years.

The substance of the accusation irked Ellen Pfister, a rancher in the Bull Mountain area northeast of Billings whose land lies near leased BLM land and atop a tunneling longwall coal mine. “If you’re going to be mined and have your land damaged, you at least want it to be worth something to the public who owns the coal,” Pfister says. “It’s bad when they do it for pennies, and you’re still damaged.”

The Powder River Basin is a coal deposit the size of West Virginia that spans southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming and supplies the U.S. with more than 40 percent of the coal it burns in a year. The IEEFA report, called The Great Giveaway: The costly failure of federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin and written by analyst Tom Sanzillo, says the BLM has been selling Powder River Basin coal for a fraction of its market value, and that the “competitive” bid process rarely is; since 1991, only four of 26 major Powder River Basin coal leases have had more than one bidder, Sanzillo found.

The report came just days before the BLM leased the North Porcupine coal tract in Wyoming, on June 28. Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the world, bid more than $793 million for the 6,364-acre tract, which contains some 720 million tons of mineable coal. It will effectively expand Peabody’s North Antelope Rachelle Mine, the most productive coal mine in the country, which shipped more than 100 million tons in 2010.

Sanzillo says Peabody’s $1.10 per ton bid is well below the $2.79 he says those tons are worth—a difference of $1.2 billion. It makes the North Porcupine “a perfect illustration of everything that is wrong with the way the federal government is giving away taxpayer-owned coal for what is well under fair market value,” Sanzillo said in a prepared statement.

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Sanzillo is calling for the Department of the Interior to implement a moratorium on federal coal leases in the Powder River Basin while Congress conducts a review of the federal coal-leasing program.

Sanzillo isn’t the only one taking the BLM to task. In April, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts and the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, asked the

saying at the time that taxpayers shouldn’t “effectively be bailing out multinational coal and energy companies.”

BLM spokesperson Beverly Gorny defends the agency’s lease prices. “It appears that the assumption is what was paid [in last week’s North Porcupine lease] is all that’s being paid for the coal, and that simply isn’t the case,” she says. “All this does is assure the company of having the

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Government Accountability Office to examine federal coal-lease practices for the first time since 1994. “With such rapid market changes taking place,” Markey wrote, referring to the push to ship U.S. coal to Asia, “American taxpayers must be assured they are receiving the full value for energy resources held in the public trust, especially when mining companies are seeking to export hundreds of millions of tons of coal for premium prices.” Markey noted that Powder River Basin coal fetches more than $20 a ton in Asian markets.

And on June 25, about 20 organizations, including the Montana Environmental Information Center, penned a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar asking for a review of the coal leasing program. “Absent a significant reform of the coal leasing process, Americans are delivering a massive subsidy to a handful of coal companies and putting the health of their own communities at risk,” they wrote.

Some contend that Montana-owned coal is also selling for too little. In 2010, for example, the Montana Land Board voted to lease the state’s Otter Creek tracts in southeastern Montana for 15 cents per ton.

Attorney General Steve Bullock voted against the lease because of the paltry sum,

lease rights to mine that coal. They still have many, many, many more bills to pay before they’re done mining that coal, such that the American public is getting the full value.”

Peabody will pay an annual rental payment of $3 per acre and 12.5 percent of the value of the coal produced, which Gorny says will add billions to state and federal coffers over the life of the mine.

Federal regulations dictate how the BLM prices coal. The agency consults with appraisers, mining engineers and economists to determine the market value assessment, which is kept confidential before the bidding process. That, Gorny says, ensures that even when there’s only one bidder, the auction is still competitive, because mining companies are “bidding against the house.”

Ellen Pfister, the Bull Mountain rancher, isn’t buying it. Taxpayers are getting fleeced, she maintains, because BLM has not “viewed their operations in leasing coal as an operation on behalf of maximizing return to the public as much as they view it as an act of accommodating the desires of the industry that wants to lease the coal.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Mama says Elke Govertsen’s chaotic success

By Jessica Mayrer

On a recent warm afternoon, there’s a bit of relative calm for Mamalode publisher and Missoula entrepreneur Elke Govertsen. She sits on her deck in the Rattlesnake as kids bounce on trampolines in her yard. A hummingbird flits by. The Disney-esque moment doesn’t last long.

“Mom, can I have another Gogurt?” says one of Govertsen’s two sons around the time the family’s 13-year-old dog, Truly, approaches for a sniff.

Five adults, four kids, three dogs and two cats live in the the two-story orange home that Govertsen and her husband Paul Donaldson own. Neighborhood kids stream in and out many days. The living room has a drawing wall: Kids and adults are permitted to scribble on it with permanent ink. It’s all symbolic of the controlled chaos that inspires Govertsen’s personal and professional exploits. She calls herself the “anti-perfect mom.”

Before launching Mamalode, in 2009, Govertsen helped nonprofits get off the ground. But she had no formal publishing experience. Today, she’s learning as she goes, reading up on business, publishing and entrepreneurship and asking experts about their favorite tricks.

The homework is paying off. Govertsen hit a milestone last week when Lisa Stone, CEO and cofounder of the website BlogHer, which draws 40 million unique visitors monthly, declared Mamalode “America’s Best Parenting Magazine in Print.”

Stone, a Missoula native, says that the depth of Mamalode’s content stands out among other parenting magazines that lean heavily on how-to lists, recipes and weightloss plans. By contrast, Mamalode, Stone notes, “is about the emotional lives of parents.”

Govertsen began brainstorming what would become Mamalode after giving birth to her eldest son, Boone. At 26, the new mother felt isolated. She didn’t know many other young parents. She felt unsure of her parenting skills. “I was just, like, ‘I’m a really bad parent. Something that was supposed to happen to me didn’t. I’m scared,’” Govertsen recalls. “I loved him. But still, there are all these conflicting emotions. And I hadn’t really heard about those.” Govertsen set out to make friends. To her relief, the other young parents she met shared her feelings of inadequacy and loneliness.

Talking about those feelings made Govertsen feel better. It was “just an instant pressure valve,” she says.

Govertsen gave a party for those new friends, her first annual “Mother’s Day Eve Bash,” in 2005. They did yoga and pilates and drank wine. They shared stories.

Within a few years, hundreds of moms were attending.

Local businesses called, asking Govertsen if they could sponsor the bash, she says. It became clear that not only was she filling an emotional void, she had tapped into a highly desirable demographic: Market research commonly shows that

“We’re like user-generated content, but really curated.”

Print and online contributors include local notables Jennifer Savage and Missoula City Councilwoman Caitlin Copple, who, for Mamalode’s most recent issue, wrote a piece titled “Baby Fever,” detailing her growing desire to have a child.

New York Times bestselling author Kelle Hampton, whose blog Enjoying the Small Things lured more than 100,000 unique visitors between June 26 and July 2, writes for Mamalode and was the publication’s first paid subscriber. Hampton says she signed up because of the magazine’s honesty. “It just felt like you were walking into somebody’s home,” Hampton says.

“There’s a certain rawness.”

Govertsen is clearly pleased with recognition from writers like Hampton and Stone, but she says her work isn’t about ego. You won’t see her on the cover of every issue of Mamalode. “I don’t want it to be a magazine that’s about me,” she says.

Mamalode continues to distribute 10,000 free magazines quarterly in Missoula.

Prior to last week’s BlogHer recognition, the publication had more than 1,000 paid subscribers in 50 states and 10 countries. While many publications across the nation have been laying off staffers and declaring bankruptcy, Photo by Steele Williams Mamalode has almost always run in the black, Govertsen mothers control upwards of 85 percent of says. She’s now focusing on increasing its household spending. “Now that I’m in busi- national presence online and in print while ness and people ask me to sponsor stuff, I turning to mobile applications. realize that I missed huge opportunities to When she isn’t publishing the magamake a bunch of money,” she says. zine and herding kids, Govertsen oversees She’s no longer willing to miss those The Main Thing Is, a side project that focusopportunities. In 2009, Govertsen carried es on custom publishing, branding and the Mother’s Day Eve concept over to facilitating small business workshops. TMTI Mamalode. She had only $400, she says, just recently rolled out a custom publication for enough to print advertising rate cards. She Community Medical Center, which is a regused them sparingly, taking them back if a ular Mamalode advertiser. And this spring, potential advertiser didn’t seem interested. she says, she licensed use of her tradeGovertsen printed 10,000 copies of marked Mother’s Day Eve Bash to an organMamalode’s first issue that year, distribut- ization that aims to to roll it out nationally ing them free to locals. Content then and in 2013. now is written largely from a first-person Financially, Mamalode and Govertsen’s perspective. There are no full-time various endeavors look promising.

Mamalode writers; it’s all freelance. But there’s more to this tale, she says.

Govertsen and her staff, including editor “I think it’s going to make a lot of money. But Dori Gilels, encourage professional word- I think it’s a byproduct of something better. smiths and novices alike to contribute. They I think it’s going to make a really good edit lightly; the idea is to leave writers’ voic- story first.” es intact. “I want our readers to be, like, ‘I have a story for you,’” Govertsen says. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Hail the collaborators Rural communities still have to fight off extremists

By Gina Knudson

The fiery rhetoric that periodically consumes rural communities in the West is smoldering again. Some environmentalists berate those of us who try to collaborate to solve contentious publiclands issues; meanwhile, conspiracy theorists spread scary stories about the U.N. subverting our government through its Agenda 21.

The discord has emerged in several communities dependent on natural resources—places like the Swan Valley, in Montana; Salmon, Idaho; Hayfork, Calif.; and Enterprise, Ore. But these communities have changed since the timber wars and Sagebrush Rebellions of the 1980s and ’90s. The winner-take-all mentality of those days wasn’t especially kind to them, and in the past decades, local people have worked hard to build what Courtney White, cofounder of the Quivira Coalition, calls the “radical center.”

Or as Melanie Parker of Swan Valley puts it, “We are not the voices of industry, and we are not the voices of environmentalism. We represent the third way, and we are rapidly becoming the new way of doing business in the West.”

Parker was asked to explain this approach to Congress in 2010, at a House Subcommittee hearing titled “Locally Grown: Creating Rural Jobs with America’s Public Lands.”

The goal, she said, was to find lasting solutions that benefit both the environment and the community, whether that meant boosting stream flow in chinook salmon-spawning territory crossing a ranch in central Idaho or improving forestry conditions in southwestern Montana and thereby putting local contractors to work. Forestry collaboratives across the West have been working on that approach, with members that include county commissioners, economic development agents, forestry businesses, environmentalists, fire departments, wildlife advocates, sportsmen, anglers and community-based organizations.

This new way of doing business requires a high investment in building

and maintaining relationships—including relationships with people who don’t like each other much. The results can be gratifying, but they are not instantaneous. Replacing the usual boom-and-

They warm their hands on one another’s fires as they do their best to discredit and destroy the bonds small-town residents have with one another. bust cycles with consistent stewardship of natural resources can take years. And along the way, collaborators have to withstand the criticism of people all bent up about Agenda 21, plus the attacks of those who should know better, such as environmentalists who accuse collaborators of being sell-outs. Or as former Independent columnist George Ochenski damned the strategy recently, “Collaboration is an industry-initiated, industry-funded and industry-friendly strategy to neuter the environmental movement.”

Meanwhile, the notorious Agenda 21 really does exist, but it is simply a white paper issued by the United Nations 20 years ago that warned that economic disparity and deteriorating ecosystems were increasing tensions in the world. Now, Agenda 21-ophobes, feeding on a daily diet from the John Birch Society and similar organizations, charge that members of the community-based conservation movement are really zombies programmed to

depopulate the rural West, employing such weapons as greenbelts and “smart” power meters. These critics also denounce the very words “consensus,” “collaborate” and, worst of all, “sustainable.”

The two extremes fan one another’s flames. Their shared belief in the lack of intelligence and independence of their rural neighbors is the oxygen that keeps the conflagration alive. They warm their hands on one another’s fires as they do their best to discredit and destroy the bonds small-town residents have with one another. The rural West may not be a utopian vision of perfect harmony, but the ancient art of neighborliness still persists in these sparsely populated places.

So if the extremists want to spend their time consuming that energy, we’re happy to let them do it. We have learned not to chase every fire.

Our energy will be spent here instead, on the ground in our communities: opening fish passages, tending the forests and range, repairing roads, clearing trails and learning from the land and from each other. Our work isn’t easy, and it won’t be quick. America is hard work.

Democracy is hard work. We think we are up to it. What the third way can see that our detractors can’t is that we’ve found a better, more effective way than the gridlock and endless arguing of the past.

The notions that we can sacrifice the land for the benefit of the people or sacrifice people to the conservation of land are equally ludicrous to us. We dare to imagine that our work might result in revitalized rural communities, but we don’t waste a minute dreaming that such a future will be handed to us by big business or big government. We know that such change is possible, as it always has been, because of the thoughtfulness, ingenuity and courage of our rural neighbors.

Gina Knudson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She lives in Salmon, Idaho.

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A young boy stares into space from a shoddy hospital bed, clutching the bandages wrapped around the remains of his left leg. A teenage girl hangs her head over the cross marking her mother's fresh grave. A 74-year-old legless man stares out the window of a room he rarely leaves, Ronald McDonald’s face frozen in the television beside him.

This is just a small sample of the Nicaraguans Paul Dix photographed in the ’80s and again in the early part of this century. Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy came from the part-time Montanan’s tenure with Witness for Peace, where he met editor Pamela Fitzpatrick. Combined with testimony and historical accounts, each photo tells a different story of and from the Contra war’s mostly civilian victims. The glossy coffee-table book is entirely black-and-white and bilingual, often incorporating the Nicaraguan dialect.

The book takes great pains to paint the history of the United States’ proxy war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolutionaries. Counter-revolutionaries (Contras) were supplied with guns and money to push out the communist Sandinista government.

“We’re Reagan's freedom fighters,” says one young Contra to his captive in the book's foreword.

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The most shocking part of the book is not the constant anguish, the dismembered limbs or the shots of daughters burying their mothers—though of course they are disheartening and powerful portraits of the human side of war. What stands out the most is forgiveness and hope. That here, in the second-poorest country in the western hemisphere, there is a sense that “everything will be alright.”

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN Police investigating the murder of Juliana Mensch, 18, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., identified James Ayers, 32, and Nicole Okrzesik, 23, as their suspects after obtaining the couple’s internet searches, texts and Facebook messages. Five days after the victim was strangled, police found her body under a pile of clothing in the couple’s apartment, where Mensch had been staying. Among their Google searches and pages visited were: “Whats on those rags that make people pass out,” “ways to kill people in their sleep,” “could you kill someone in their sleep and no one would think it was murder” and “how to suffocate someone.” They exchanged hundreds of messages after the crime, some arguing over getting rid of the body: “If the smell gets worse were [sic.] fucked.” The police affidavit says Okrzesik posted pictures on Facebook of her and Ayers at a bar “partying” a few hours after Mensch was killed, with the comment: “Wooooo—at Wet Willie’s South Beach.” (HLN-TV) After arresting Keenan Alex, 28, for stealing a bait car, Los Angeles County sheriff’s detective Anthony Shapiro testified in court that Alex made incriminating statements after he read Alex his rights. The Cadillac Escalade, which was left with its engine running and keys in the ignition, was rigged with cameras for a TruTV reality show. The unedited video shows Shapiro didn’t read Alex his rights. As a result, Alex went free and Shapiro was placed on leave. (Los Angeles’s KTLA-TV) EYES BIGGER THAN STOMACHS Japanese scientists have developed goggles designed to curb appetites by making food appear to be as much as 50 percent larger than actual size. To make the illusion more convincing, the image processing system is able to make the user’s hand appear to be normal size, so the food looks bigger rather than simply magnified. “By changing the size of the food and scaling it up, we have shown that participants eat about 10 percent less over the course of a day” while wearing the goggles, Takuji Narumi, one of the University of Tokyo researchers working on the project, said. (Britain’s Daily Telegraph) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION Police charged Calvin Bernard Hill, 54, with stabbing a 41-year-old man while the two were riding in the back seat of a PT Cruiser in Greenwood, S.C., after they argued over which one of them “can have the most sex.” When questioned, Hill denied stabbing the victim, claiming, “That man stabbed his self.” (The Smoking Gun) SPERM IN THE NEWS The United States is the world’s leading exporter of sperm. According to market analyst Marketdata, the U.S. fertility industry has gone from $979 million in 1988 to $4.3 billion projected for 2013. American sperm is considered the “gold standard,” Time senior editor Jeffrey Kluger said on “CBS This Morning.” He attributed its reputation to Food and Drug Administration-regulated quality control on sperm donations, including who can donate, and variety, thanks to America’s multi-ethnic population. Also, unlike Canada, Australia and Western Europe, U.S. donors may remain anonymous. They’re paid according to quality standards such as height, health and education, and can earn as much as $60,000 a year. (CBS News)

MAMA’S BOY A New York City jury convicted Thomas Parkin, 51, of fraud after he cashed his deceased mother’s Social Security checks every month for six years, stealing about $44,000. He also took part in a real estate scam involving a foreclosed Brooklyn apartment building that had belonged to his mother. Perpetuating the fraud that his mother was still living, he filed a fraud lawsuit against the new owner and set up a meeting with the Brooklyn District Attorney to discuss the matter.

Prosecutors said Parking showed up “dressed as his 77-year-old mother, wearing a new red cardigan, lipstick, manicured nails and breathing through an oxygen tank.” (Reuters) FREE AT LAST Shortly after Adidas used its Facebook page to tout the upcoming release of its JS Roundhouse Mid—an oversized tennis shoe equipped with attached orange plastic shackles and promoted with the tagline “Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?”—critics labeled the shoes as “Adidas slave shackle kicks” and accused the company of evoking slavery. The shoemaker defended the shoes as “nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott’s outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery,” but announced it was “withdrawing our plans to make them available in the marketplace.” (Los Angeles Times) SPOILSPORTSMANSHIP Prior to the start of the Euro 2012 soccer championship, Poland’s Krakow Post warned potential trouble-makers that local law enforcement officials had formed anti-hooligan squads equipped with shotguns capable of firing “baton rounds that probably won’t kill you as long as you’re 30 meters away,” a truck-mounted water cannon affectionately known as “the typhoon,” a high-tech sonic cannon that can induce involuntary urination and dogs “trained to bite you directly in the testicles.” (Agence France-Presse) LIVING OFF THE GRID After a security camera showed Manuel Ovalle, 35, in his neighbor’s backyard, walking away with two dark-colored bags, police in Mesa, Ariz., said Ovalle admitted filling the bags with water he’d taken from the neighbor’s swimming pool because he doesn’t have running water. The arresting officer also found a stolen Playstation 3 game console in Ovalle’s living room but noted it couldn’t be used because the home has no electricity. (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic)

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Yet Rehberg’s Senate campaign went on the offenThe banquet hall at Buck’s T-4 Lodge in Big Sky on a few Rehberg staffers packing up the congressman’s two; Big Sandy farmer versus Billings rancher. Even durJune 16 is split roughly 50-50. T-shirts, stickers and signs own caravan. And, of course, the GOP’s tracker. He ing the June 16 debate, neither candidate seemed to sive fast. The congressman has focused on a different have a clear lead. message this year, trying to tie Tester as closely to advertising Sen. Jon Tester’s 2012 re-election bid domi- stands next to the SUV, camera in hand, idling.

And so it falls on campaigns to keep doing what President Barack Obama as possible. It’s not a new tactic nate the right side of the room. Supporters of Republican they’ve done now for more than a year: push their can- by any means; in 2008, Democratic congressional chalPlease leave a message challenger Denny Rehberg populate the left. lenger Jim Hunt tried equally as hard to tie the incumDemocrats currently control the U.S. Senate. They didate’s message.

Tester’s jabs at Rehberg have elicited cheers The Tester campaign has spent hundreds of hours bent, Rehberg, to the administration of President George throughout the 93-minute debate, the first and only have since 2007, and yet, in 2012, the tables could easily one in the race so far. Rehberg’s base has answered turn. The GOP is a mere four seats away from a majority, and thousands of dollars this year depicting the incum- W. Bush. But to hear Rehberg tell it, you’d think Montana with equal volume at every opportunity. Moderators and the party means to take those seats; the National bent as a “straight-talking, hardworking, common sense had lost the downhome Tester it elected by a narrow have struggled to contain the partisan passions, to no Republican Senatorial Committee has rolled out a fierce United States Senator who gets things done,” as his cam- margin over three-term Republican Sen. Conrad Burns avail. Several women repeatedly heckle Rehberg. As “Take Back the Senate” campaign. The GOP has trumpet- paign website puts it. It’s an elegantly simple message: back in 2006.

It’s that message that Pat Williams, Montana’s the debate winds to a close, one stands to walk out: ed its chances repeatedly over the past year only to find, Tester grew up on the family farm in Big Sandy, taught in “You’re a corporate puppet, Denny,” she shouts as she in races initially thought to be easy pickings, Democrats public school, met his wife Sharla in a church pew and former nine-term Democratic congressman, finds particularly distasteful. heads for the door. Campaign Obama is unpopular in sources later claim that a woman Montana and will undoubtedconfronted Rehberg’s family in the ly lose the presidential elecbar outside the banquet hall, shovtion here. So Rehberg choses ing the congressman’s wife, Jan. to forgo boasting of his own There is at least one sedate qualifications and to instead member of the audience, a young tell Montanans that a vote for man in a grey hooded sweatshirt.

Tester is a vote for Obama.

When the crowds disperse and the Williams knows both candicandidates head to their green dates personally, considers rooms, he quickly moves in behind them friends. But the negativiTester, training a handheld digital ty is too much, he says, and he video camera on the incumbent. wonders if Tester and Rehberg Tester smiles and shakes hands with even get along in D.C. The supporters, engaging in idle chitrivalry between Republicans chat. The young man films every secand Democrats has, in ond of these interactions, his camera Williams’ eyes, overwhelmed held mere feet from Tester’s face. not only campaigns but poliSince their rise half a decade tics in general. ago, trackers have become an “Every single person that I increasingly common tool for politiran against or ran against me was cal parties during tense election a friend of mine,” Williams says. years. They dog the opposition’s “And if not before the campaign, every step, documenting their conthey were good friends duct and hoping to capture that sinafterwards. We liked each gle “gotcha” moment that could give other. And Democrats and their side a leg up. Former Sen. Republicans in the U.S. House George Allen, a Virginia Republican, liked each other. We just didn’t lost his re-election bid in 2006 when agree on policy.” he referred to a Democratic tracker Tester and Rehberg are of Indian ancestry as a “macaca.” The likely split pretty evenly when tracker’s camera was rolling. Allen’s it comes to support. What comment likely cost him the vote. they’re fighting over now is the The last six years of American 15 or 20 percent of voters who politics are full of examples of how haven’t yet made up their one person with a camera can unravminds, Williams says. And el a campaign. According to a those voters, particularly the spokesman for the Montana ones who make up their minds Democratic Party, however, the priat the polls, are highly influmary objective of a tracker is simply enced by negative advertising. documentation. Trackers, at least There’s a golden rule in officially, have more to do with political campaigning. To be accountability and transparency than sure that any given voter cloak-and-dagger politicking.

Photo by Alex Sakariassen remembers your candidate’s “Accountability is a good thing,” Sen. Jon Tester, center, chats about small business with Home ReSource founder Lauren Varney, left, and Jack Rowan of name when he or she hits the says Bowen Greenwood, executive Home ReSource, during a visit to Missoula in May. polls, you have to relay your director of the Montana Republican message seven times. Tester and Party. “Some of the stuff Sen. Tester says, he would not necessarily say to a reporter. We want to putting up strong candidates like former North Dakota continues to fly home from D.C. nearly every weekend Rehberg have equal name recognition, which means have our guy around as much as possible to help make attorney general Heidi Heitkamp and Medal of Honor to tend the farm. He is Montana, and at times seems like their battle will require a more advanced set of tools. the kind of guy you could just grab a beer with.

Linda Vaughey is continually amazed at how vast sure the public is aware of everything that the opposition winner and former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey. is saying.”

The Rehberg campaign, meanwhile, is reinforc- that array of tools has become since her days as Third-party groups such as the Karl Rove-backed The young man at the debate—who declined to give Crossroads GPS have taken up the Senate fight as well, ing Rehberg’s image. He’s a fifth-generation Montana’s Commissioner of Political Practices.

“There’d be the literature drops, the yard signs, his name on the record—is employed by the Montana attacking the five Democratic candidates they perceive to Montanan. He’s a rancher, a small business owner, a Republican Party. He follows Tester everywhere, just as be the weakest this year. Pundits across the country have veteran of politics since the early 1980s. When he the newspaper ads, television if you could afford it,” the tracker with the Montana Democratic Party follows declared 2012 the “Battle for the Senate.” One of those appears in ads, he’s usually leaning against a fence in she says. “When I look back just a half a dozen years, Rehberg. In the days of social media and rampant out- battlegrounds is Montana. a denim shirt, cattle behind him. His campaign has it was a pretty unsophisticated time when you comside spending, trackers are just one tool in a toolbox Two weeks ago, the latest poll from Rasmussen also played up his family-man cred lately, releasing a pare that to what’s going on now. It’s become much designed to make—or break—a campaign.

Reports put Rehberg ahead of Tester 49 percent to 47 message from his daughter Katie about battles for more of a science, and messages are targeted to cerLater, Tester’s campaign communications director, percent, with a 4.5 percent margin of error. The two the TV remote, among other things. He’s so married tain interest groups.” Back in 2004, Vaughey says, Aaron Murphy, pulls around front of Buck’s T-4 in a share almost equal name recognition, and their approval to his responsibility that he reportedly sleeps on the “we were still struggling with putting together beige SUV. He idles there, waiting for Tester to finish his ratings in various polls over the past several months have couch in his D.C. office—an anecdote the congress- guidelines for candidates to follow when they had websites.” meet-and-greet. The parking lot is devoid of people, save risen and dipped in unison. It’s neck-and-neck for the man’s staff have always been quick to relate.

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Tweet me money Websites are standard fare these days. Of course, so too are yard signs, literature drops and television ads.

But campaigning in the 21st century has increasingly incorporated social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to push messaging. If anything, Obama’s success in the 2008 presidential race proved that to reach the modern voter—particularly the young voter—a candidate has to exist on multiple platforms.

“The difference is there are more ways to get your message out,” Vaughey says. “It’s more important to use a variety of avenues just because, nine times out of 10, your opponent’s going to be. In order to reach the same voters, you have to understand how to use the technology.”

Earlier this month, the Tester campaign announced that Pearl Jam would play a benefit concert for the Senator in Missoula Sept. 30. Word spread fast through Montana media and Pearl Jam fan clubs, but in the days following the announcement, the campaign admitted something else: They’d teased the concert the weekend before, using Twitter. Attentive followers of the campaign’s Twitter feed had had a chance to get the news ahead of time, provided they noticed that the first letters in a string of tweets spelled out “Pearl Jam.” Twitter and Facebook have allowed the candidates to communicate with voters on a much more frequent and informal level. Tester and Rehberg alike have shared links, posted photos, even cracked jokes using their respective social networks. Just last week, Tester informed Facebook users that he’d be on MSNBC “in 15 minutes” to talk about Citizens United in the wake of the Supreme Court’s rollback of Montana’s Corrupt Practices Law. Rehberg recently posted a photo of supporters marching in Stevensville’s Western Heritage Parade, and one of campaign staffers at the American Legion Rodeo in Augusta. Social media has simply made campaigns more interactive for the voting public, says Bowen Greenwood with the state GOP. “Many Americans and many Montanans have felt left out of politics in the past, and there’s a great desire among our people to have our voices heard,” Greenwood says. “That’s why Denny Rehberg does so many listening sessions. It serves something in a democ-

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Savvy internet developers are even turning Twitter into a fundraising tool. Two weeks ago, Twitter’s commerce platform Chirpify announced the establishment of Tweetlection, a site that allows you to tweet a donation to a political candidate via your Paypal account. The site, according to Chirpify, was built “to bring democracy to Twitter.”

For Williams, the campaign trail today winds through a landscape vastly different than the one he traveled for 18 years. Blogs, Facebook, the 24-hour news cycle—people are getting their news more regularly and from a more diverse array of media. Candidates are forced to keep up with a rapidly changing voter culture.

“A huge number of individuals now get their news from the internet, Money raised and spent by so the candidates have to use it as one Jon Tester and Denny Rehberg of their minions,” Williams says. “To show how times have changed, it’s in their Senate race through mid-May, 2012 only been 16 years since I left Jon Tester (D) Denny Rehberg (R) Congress and I never received one email. Not one. All handwritten letters, and of course big stone tablets.

The world changed in 16 years.”

But those changes have come with a sour aftertaste. Williams believes the 24-hour news cycle has “altered America’s perception of government” through tireless stories about “something bad happening.”

Republicans and Democrats alike have spent 30 years “denigrating government and politicians,” he says, leaving voters distrustful of both. The internet is particularly rife with negative politicking. Montanans for Tester recently rolled out a new website, rehbergair.com, which offers voters detailed information on 13 luxury trips Rehberg has taken, allegedly on the dime of special interests. The site is designed like a vacation planning page, with links to “five-star dining and drink” and “premium shopping.”

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with powerful friends,” the site states. “But if you’re a Montanan who doesn’t have lobbyists and special interests eager to send you on 13 luxury trips, you are probably out of luck.”

Social networking has opened the door for attacks especially wide. Much of Rehberg’s Facebook wall and many of his tweets either refute “the latest liberal attack” or decry Tester’s voting record, portraying the incumbent as Obama Lite. The dialogue has increased in frequency not just between candidate and voter, but indirectly between candidate and candidate.

“People expect that if the opponent levels a charge or says something negative about another candidate, they expect that candidate to have a quick response within 24 hours,” Vaughey says. “There’s a dialogue voters are watching between candidates, and that’s interesting.”

Andrea Marcoccio, CEO of Forward Montana, a nonprofit organization dedicated to training and electing young leaders in the state, calls it the “24-seconds-ago news cycle.” Social media, and its increasing role in political campaigns, has made it easier for people to catch a candidate’s mistake, then hone in on it. “I think we’ve seen it be detrimental to individuals or campaigns,” says Marcoccio, who also worked as a field organizer in Montana for Obama’s 2008 campaign. “They say the wrong thing and that becomes the focus for a month, because of a 24-character comment.”

The occasional ding on a campaign is well worth the payoff though. Marcoccio thinks voters—especially young voters—are now more exposed to political news and opinion than ever before.

“Ultimately, I think it’s information and it’s opinion and it’s power. I think it’s awesome because more young people have access to articles they wouldn’t necessarily go and read in The New York Times.”

And then there’s TV The camera pans in on a ramshackle Western town. Scraggly weeds sprout at the bases of slatwood buildings. Digitized dust blows past the screen. An old-fashioned wanted poster has Rehberg’s picture, complete with cowboy hat, plastered between the words “Congressman Rehberg, what’s wrong with Washington.”

The voiceover is ominous, and touches on a key attack point that the left has leveled against Rehberg this

year: his voting record on congressional pay raises. The ad, which cost $197,191 to produce and air, is one of two so far paid for by Patriot Majority USA, a 501(c)(4) that touts itself as a group “encouraging a discussion of economic issues in the United States.”

Television ads are one of the oldest tools in the campaign toolbox. They provide affordable, easy access to thousands of voters. Based on station ratings, candidates and third parties can gauge roughly how many viewers a single message reaches. And broadcast advertising hasn’t lost its touch in the new media world, even colonizing YouTube and Hulu. This spring, the National Republican Senatorial Committee reserved about $3 million worth of Montana airtime for fall 2012. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee followed in lockstep with an additional $3 million. Montana television will be choked with ads from campaigns and outside allies come October.

Even within the microcosm of television advertising, however, there are intricacies at work. Campaigns typically start a cycle by introducing their candidate to voters.

It’s a positive affirmation of character. According to a spokesman for the Montana Democratic Party, “There’s an incentive to introduce a candidate through a positive ad at first, then develop a bit more of a contrast as time goes on.”

The first few ads from the Tester campaign were notably character-driven: Tester fixing the combine, Tester visiting a disabled veteran in the hospital, Tester packing Montana beef with him to D.C. The last one ends on a shot of Tester and his wife eating hamburgers.

“I’m Jon Tester and I approve this message,” the Senator tells the camera. “And I approve of Sharla’s cooking, too.”

Rehberg’s first ad was a stark contrast. The ad opens with a shot of Tester and the line “Jon Tester’s dishonest attacks hide his votes for higher taxes—55 times.” Only in the campaign’s fourth ad did Rehberg, shown driving a Jeep Wrangler past the U.S. Capitol, introduce himself as a candidate “guided by what’s best for Montana.”

“The purpose of most political advertising today is to tear down the opponent, and interestingly enough people accept that,” says former Montana congressman Pat Williams. “They buy it. They like it. Ads ought to be for the purpose of telling the public what the person paying for the ad—that is, what the candidate—will do for them, not ‘why my opponent is a bigger SOB than I am.’”

The negativity playing out on television has only been amplified this season by third-party attack ads, such as the Patriot Majority USA attack on Rehberg. The conservative-leaning Crossroads GPS, another 501(c)(4), aired its first anti-Tester ad nearly a year ago. The spot accused Tester of â&#x20AC;&#x153;reckless spendingâ&#x20AC;? in D.C., but stopped short of calling for voters to oust him. Rehberg was never mentioned.

As â&#x20AC;&#x153;social welfareâ&#x20AC;? groups, neither Patriot Majority USA nor Crossroads GPS are required to disclose their donors to the Federal Elections Commission. They are, however, forbidden from direct involvement in campaigns.

The wear factor of all these messages from all these groups can be worrisome for those working to encourage high voter turnout. Television ads clearly still play a key role in modern campaigning, Forward Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcoccio says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think the factor in 2012, and similar in 2008, is saturation. How much messaging can the average voter take via television before itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just in one ear and out the other? How you fight through that clutter is talking to that same voter while the commercialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on. You get them off the couch and talk to them at the door.â&#x20AC;?

Washington and Oregon, will be rolling out an online voting component to social media this year called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ballot.â&#x20AC;? Add changing patterns among voters, and the modern campaign is a shape-shifter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The percentage of people voting absentee now is really having an impact on how resources are allocated in campaigns,â&#x20AC;? Vaughey says, citing one factor in flux. According to the Montana Secretary of Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 61 percent of voters in the Montana primary this June voted by mail-in ballot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a pretty good saturation by the time those absentee ballots are sent out,â&#x20AC;?

Vaughey says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really caught behind the eight ball in terms of perhaps missing a pretty large segment of voters.â&#x20AC;?

In Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battle for the Senate, each campaign is emptying its toolbox. But they can only control their own tools, making much of this close race about response time. Campaigns create the news they want and respond to what they have to.

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Do not adjust your set In May 2011, then-GOP tracker Ethan Heverly was hot on Testerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heels outside a union-funded dinner, camera in hand. Heverly followed the Senator and his wife across a parking lot, asking why he supported Wall Street banks over Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small businesses. Heverlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questions went unacknowledged. Tester got into his car and prepared to drive off.

The last few seconds of the videoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is posted on YouTubeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are shot mere inches from Testerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driver seat window. The car backs out, and the camera swings to the ground.

A press release from the Montana Republican Party later accused Tester of running over Heverlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foot, intentionally. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He clearly turned the wheel of his truck with the intention of hitting me,â&#x20AC;? Heverly stated in the release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was no doubt from the smile on his face that he knew exactly what he was doing.â&#x20AC;?

The accusation was a clear attempt to discredit Tester. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;gotchaâ&#x20AC;? moment failed to hit its mark, however, and the incident went as unacknowledged as Heverlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questions to Tester in that parking lot.

Linda Vaughey, the former Commissioner of Political Practices, finds it fascinating how far campaign tactics have advanced in recent years. Even organizations like Forward Montana are helping drive politics to the next level; Marcoccio says her group, in league with affiliates in Colorado,

Williams believes the best tools are often those a campaign creates itself. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re different for every campaign, he says. Tester and Rehberg alike seem to be tailoring their messages to Montanans who are right-of-center. Montana may be a red state, Williams says, but he ran nine times without disguising where he stood on the political spectrum. And nine times, he won. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I ran, I used to say to my ad makers and my staff, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Montanans are left of center. They support Social Security. They support Medicare and Medicaid. They like the Interstate Highway System and farm payments. Those are liberal programs.

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With the Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling this month striking down Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corrupt Practices Act, Williams predicts a tsunami of spending from wealthy Republican backers like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers, and from unions coming out to support Tester. The messages will blur, the rhetoric will be thick. 2012 may well hinge not on the tools Tester and Rehberg now have, but on their reflexes and agility.

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In a dirt parking lot near Many Farms, Arizona, a Navajo farmer sold me a mutton burrito. He hasn’t used his tractor in two years, he told me, and is cooking instead of farming because “there isn’t any water.” He pointed east at the Chuska mountain range, which straddles the New Mexico border. In a normal year, water coming off the mountains reaches his fields, he said.

But this might be the new normal for the American Southwest, writes William deBuys in his new book, A Great Aridness. It was published late last year, months after one of the Southwest’s driest summers in recorded history, during which fires of unprecedented size scorched hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. This summer is worse than last; forest fires have already broken last year’s records. The rains haven’t come, and temperature records are falling like leaves from a dried-up tree. Springs, wells and irrigation ditches are bone dry. Farms are withering. We’ve all heard the gloomy scenarios of global warming: extreme weather, drought, famine, breakdown of society, destruction of civilization.

My current perch in Placitas, New Mexico, feels like a front-row seat to the apocalypse.

Intuitive as the connection may seem, we don’t know if the current drought is a consequence of global warming, deBuys writes. Periodic, decadeslong droughts have been relatively common in the last few thousand years, according to analysis of dried lake beds. Most of the area’s famously collapsed civilizations—Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, the Galisteo pueblos—are thought to have died out for lack of water in these extended dry periods, which deBuys calls “megadroughts.”

By contrast, the last century’s human population growth in the American Southwest occurred during a relatively wet period in the climactic record.

We were due for another megadrought sooner or later, deBuys writes, which could be expected to dramatically alter human settlement patterns in the area. While this current heat may not be caused by global warming, he writes, climate change could nonetheless trigger the next megadrought.

In the Sandia Mountains above Placitas, last winter’s snowpack was relatively high. But the spring runoff never came, because the snow evaporated straight into the air of the hottest spring on record.

Lynn Montgomery has been farming in Placitas for more than 40 years. Like many farmers in northern New Mexico, he irrigates his land with water from an acequia, a type of canal system implemented by Spaniards, who’d adopted the technique from the Moors. This year, for the second year in a row, Montgomery’s acequia has run dry. Last year summer rains came in time to save his crops, but this year the rains haven’t come. The ditch is dry. His farm is dying.

First to go were the young Italian prune trees.

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decades-old grape vines are dropping their fruit and clinging to their lives. The 30-year-old asparagus patch is toast, as are the perennial herbs, garlic and strawberries, along with everything he planted this spring. Even the weeds are dead.

The farm was part of a thriving community in the ’60s and ’70s. Most of the inhabitants drifted away or ran away or got dragged away by the police.

Montgomery was the last man standing. He sold the farm to the local Pueblo Indian tribe, on the condition that they assume ownership after his death, and spent the proceeds paying lawyers to enforce water law around Placitas. He managed to stop several developments that would have illegally taxed the fragile aquifer.

Despite his successes, which included a victory at the New Mexico Supreme Court, many wells were drilled, especially in the ’80s and ’90s, dropping the water table to the point at which many springs in Placitas began running dry, along with the acequias they feed. Montgomery’s neighbors, with the turn of a tap, can water their grass and wash their cars

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thanks to the wells that killed the spring that feeds his acequia. But it’s only a matter of time, he told me, until they feel his pain.

“At that point all the bedroom community types will realize that the real estate people have bamboozled them, and most of us too,” he said, referring to the Placitas real estate boom of the late 20th century.

Harold Trujillo is member of an acequia near Mora, New Mexico. All the acequias in his Sangre de Cristo mountain valley, near the headwaters of the Pecos River, are dry, he told me by phone. Before this year, the worst he remembered was 2002, which, according to the Colorado state engineer’s office, was the region’s driest year in the last 300.

“In 2002 there were natural ponds that never dried up. Cows could drink out of them. Now those ponds are dry. People have been digging them deeper with backhoes to get them to fill with water,” Trujillo said.

Tempers are getting short. Trujillo said he was verbally threatened last weekend at Morphy Lake, the reservoir his acequia association helped build.

“We were opening Morphy Lake to get water in the river. These people wanted us to open it more, so more water would flow into the river. But we can’t. We need to save some water for July and August, because we don’t know if it’s going to rain or not.”

Even if the next megadrought has already begun, deBuys says, we wouldn’t know it yet. “The character of a drought becomes clear only retrospectively.” Either way, he suggests, our decisions for the future should be the same.

“Building resilience against drought into the region’s water systems and cultural practices would be a wise course, irrespective of the cause or timing of the next emergency,” he writes.

To that end, Lynn Montgomery is scraping together the resources to re-tool his farm to be more efficient with water. He’s installed a holding tank, in which he’ll be able to store precious acequia flow before it goes dry again in future years. And he’s switching from traditional flood irrigation, the way it’s always been done in Placitas, to more efficient drip tape. It remains to be seen whether his adaptations, and his resilience, will be enough to help him face the new normal.

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Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm SunWed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. eMpanadas @ the Clark Fork River Market Under the Higgins St. Bridge www.empanadalady.com 728-2030 Hechas a mano con amor...¡Qué sabor! Made by hand with love…what flavor! Carne de búfalo, pollo, lamb, salchicha, humita, acelga & more. Since 2005, Missoula’s original Argentine-style empanadas are crafted from premium, homegrown ingredients and delivered by bicycle, straight from the oven to the market, every Saturday 8am – 1pm. Taste the difference.

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

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

Missoula Black and Tan About a month ago, beer enthusiast Rod Austin was home barbecuing with his family. Two of his favorite local beers, Kettlehouse’s Cold Smoke Scotch Ale and Big Sky’s Summer Honey, were in front of him. The Cold Smoke he’d often found too dark, especially with barbecue. The Summer Honey is light, both in flavor and alcohol content. He thought, “What the hay, why not mix ’em?”

He loved it. So much so that he hasn’t had one of the beers by itself since. On the Grizzly Growler blog he called it “Quite possibly the best beer I’ve ever Photo by Chad Harder experienced.” He’s been going to bars around town and spreading the word. hasn’t waited long enough before drinking He says nine samplers out of 10 approve. The one to see. “But I think that’s what makes it so great—that they don’t separate, and the only disagreement is what to call the blend.

Austin thinks “Cold Honey” is a good name. two mix in such a way that is harmoniously But he says folks at The Central in downtown delicious.”

—Matthew Frank Missoula seemed to prefer “Summer Smoke.”

Others like “Missoula Black and Tan.” And Happiest Hour celebrates western Austin can’t help but plug “Austin Ale.” Montana watering holes. To recommend a Regardless, he thinks this concoction has legs.

He says the two beers don’t separate like bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, a typical black and tan, at least not quickly; he email editor@missoulanews.com.

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

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Best Breakfast In Town! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

Draught Works and Zimorino’s have partnered for $5 medium pizza Mondays. Order your pizza for delivery at Draught Works from 5pm to 8pm and receive any medium for $5.

1st Friday Live Fusion Art with Jason Bohman; come see the spectacle.

Chug for Charity pint nights every Tuesday, come support worthy community groups.

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Nicaragua Shade Grown Fair Trade

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Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 36 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm Happy Hour 3-6pm Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close $-$$ $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$

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Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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BUTTERFLY 232 NORTH HIGGINS AVENUE DOWNTOWN

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

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

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

Call if you need us to deliver!

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

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

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

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

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

We'll do our best to treat you right!

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

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

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Todos los pescados bonitos. Former National Geographic photog William Albert Allard displays some of his work at the Darkroom, 135 N. Higgins Ave., on Fri., July 6, from 5–8 PM. Free.

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You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

Dan Dubuque gets it done one night at a time. This time it’s at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 5:30–8 PM. Free.

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

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

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

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

Lead on to the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre’s performance of Ken Ludwig’s comedy Fox on the Fairway. 7 PM. Visit operahousetheatre.com.

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 6, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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

Suhan Chen discusses Chinese music, history, art and music at the Families First Children’s Museum.

225 W. Front. 5–7 PM. Free.

See Rita Quigley’s photography exhibit of landscapes, fly-fishing stills and abstract natural subjects at Hunter Bay Coffee. 101 E. Front St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Make some foolhardy memories at Solstice, a beach party, foam party, party party good time at Pulse inside the Press Box. Bring your swimsuits and prepare to get wet! Ask me about Ibiza, too. 9 PM. 835 E. Broadway. Free/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

Yes! Mixed-media artist Nicholas Kakavas’ exhibit Nonsense uses spray paint, glass, resin and photography to explore the babble and balderdash at Betty’s Divine. 521 S. Higgins. Free.

It’s big and shiny. It’s Airstream Safari’s first week of their monthlong VFW residency, with Ryan Chrys, The Ghosts, Mendelsson and Three-Eared Dog. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free.

DJ Bionic gets the dance party abumpin’ and a-grindin’ at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman. 9 PM. Free.

Write this down, take a little note: Our Arts editor needs a ride to ALL the Party Trained shows. Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Cruise the streets of Missoula today and scope all that art on display in

Ivan McDermott shows off his artistic wares at Adult Ave. this First Friday.

Of course you’ll go, cuz you love art.

137 E. Main. 5–8 PM. Free.

Broadway vets Georgia Stitt and Susan Egan raise funds for Next Step Prep with their show Glamour and Goop at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St., on Tue., July 10, at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $50 for reception and show or $20 for the show only. Visit mctinc.org.

galleries and storefronts and on sidewalks during First Friday, when artists of all styles and scenes unleash their works on the town for you to peruse. Visit firstfridaysmissoula.blogspot.com.

Michael Haykin exhibits his collection of paintings Earth and Sky at the Jest Gallery in Whitefish. 305 E. Second St. 5–9 PM. Free.

Join the good eggs at Adventure

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Cycling for a free Downtown Block Party Celebration. Tunes by the Gravely Mountain Boys, screen-printing and a peep of the MAM’s new outdoor sculpture garden. 4–8 PM. 150 E. Pine. Free. (See Mountain High) The Miles City Caledonian Highland Traveling Dance Team brings its Celtic dance stylings to the Missoula Public Library at 4:30 PM. Free.

nightlife Evan Holstrom exhibits works at Zoo City Apparel, while Advance Base, Hello Shark and Skinny Legs perform. 139 E. Main. 5 pm until they are done. Free. (See Noise.)

The Bigfork Museum of Art & History hosts 35 Artists Celebrate 35 Years, which is exactly what is says it is. 525 Electric Ave. 5–7 PM. Free.

Cruise by the Open Aid Alliance to see the Fiftyeleven Feelings/ Cincuentaonce Art Show, which explores familial and other kids of relationships. 500 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

Photographer John K. Mercer exhibits photos, duh, at Prudential Montana Real Estate. 314 N. Higgins.

5–8 PM. Free.

Barb Schwarz Karst exhibits her Rust Belt Series of abstract paintings which depict dead and dying machinery from close-up. Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

VonCommon Studio presents the YMCA Youth Art Camp Exhibit,

featuring artworks created by the students of VonCommoner Chase McBride, alongside new works by B. Jean S., Jonathan Marquis and Adelaide Every. 127 E. Main. St. 316. 5–8 PM. Free.

Renee Brown’s sculptural exhibit amplify is hosted by the Brink Gallery.

111 W. Front. 5–8 PM. Free.

Carolyn Baker’s artwork is on display at Suite 406 from 5–8 PM. 101 E. Broadway. Free.

Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival unveil the new poster for the Western Montana State Fair at the Monte Dolack Gallery. 5–8 PM. Free.

‘Smithy Glenn Gilmore shows off his forged metalwork in his exhibition Hot Iron in Hot July at the Artists’ Shop. 304 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

William Albert Allard exhibits some of that good photography at the Darkroom from 5–8 PM. 135 N. Higgins. Free.

Scott Parker exhibits his works at the Rock Bottom Gallery (below the Top Hat). 5–8 PM. Free.

Ashley Jerman displays her handmade jewelry at the Rising Tides Gallery in Bathing Beauties Beads.

501 S. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

The art wall at Butterfly Herbs features Lewis Roth’s relief sculpture and spray paint works. 232 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free.

House Design Studio hosts laurie e. mitchell’s mixed-media and found object exhibit Perspectives from 5–8 PM. 133 N. Higgins. Free.

For this First Friday, the Dana Gallery hosts a bevy artists creating a mural.

The gallery also kicks off the 10th Annual Western Montana Plein Air Paint Out! Look for artists painting all about town this week. 246 N. Higgins. 5–8 PM. Free. (See Scope.)

First Friday at Garden Mother Herbs boasts more artists than you can shake a paint brush at, check ‘em out and have s’more, too. 345 W. Front St. 5–9 PM. Free.

129 S. 4th St. W. 6–8 PM. Free.

The Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday currently has a TBD artist and a good chance for fun times and hollering. 6–8 PM. Free.

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

935 Toole. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

Charlie Seitz and Maddie Patterson get you swingin’ at The Keep from 6–9 PM. 102 Ben Hogan Drive. Free.

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

Call 493-1210 for more info.

Party Trained plays music at the Eagles Aerie. 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Crazed dentists and man-eating plants aren’t that far from reality, are they? Little Shop of Horrors got a boost when it came to the big screen with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis.

The musical production by the Alpine Theatre Project brings back what was a spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies. You can catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center in Whitefish, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Mad Anthony makes mad music for you to dance by at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Worb, worb, worb, it’s Fishbowl Friday: The Wobblin’ Waffle Edition, a night of dubstep, drum ‘n’ bass and more, with a grip of DJs, $5 fishbowl drinks and free waffles.

Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Enjoy the rock and roll of New Jersey’s Black Wine and Brick

Mower, along with locals Buddy Jackson and The Hasslers, at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. $3.

Flashback says you’re never to old to rock. See if it’s true down at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman. 9 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset and the Revelators give you reason to dance (they’re playing music!) at the Sunrise Saloon.

9:30 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Ukelele fanatics unite for Shotgun the Avalanche, which performs along with Endstop and Javier Ryan at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $2.

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See all the beautiful people and purchase fresh-baked yummies and gorgeous veggies and maybe have a taco at one of western Montana’s farmers’ markets. In Missoula, at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville, on Main Street; and in Hamilton, at the courthouse. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes down between 8 AM and 1 PM. Run down to the Caras Park Pavilion to pick up your registration packet and hang out with like-minded foot abusers at the Missoula Marathon Expo and Missoula Marathon Festival from 8 AM to 6 PM, where food and fun abound as well as a kids’ marathon at 10 AM. Go to runwildmissoula.org for details.

The annual Whitefish Arts Festival attracts more than 100 artists to Depot Park in downtown Whitefish for a weekend of fine crafts, food and

George Carlton brings his guitar on up to the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery for an evening of chillaxing.

4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free.

Paul Dix talks about his book Nicaragua at Fact & Fiction. 220 N. Higgins. 5:30 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)

Larry Phan shares his earthen wares with us in his exhibition American Standard at the Clay Studio. 1106 A Hawthorne. 5:30–9 PM. Free.

Alt-country homie Stephen Wolf performs at the North Valley Public Library in Stevi at 6 PM. Free.

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

Muralist Ann Karp repurposes TV satellite dishes for her exhibition Telecommunications at Le Petit Outre. With music by Aran Buzzas.

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community celebration. Starts at 10 AM both today and Sunday.

Explore the peaks in the Little Belts over three days with the Wilderness Institute. Field leaders from the institute guide you and cook you dinner. Nice. Call 2435361.

Step one: Admit you have a problem (usually it’s a propensity for exaggeration and/or filling out dream journals). Step two: Attend Writers Anonymous, an adult writing workshop in the Missoula Public Library boardroom. 10 AM–noon. Free.

Healthy families dance together at S.A.F.E.’s Family Fun Dance, held at Hamilton’s Legion Park from 10 AM–noon. Free.

Part-Time $13.96-$20.94 per hour (Includes 14.16% locality pay) To learn more, visit https://tsajobs.tsa.dhs.gov Call 1.877.872.7990 Text TSO to 95495

Raccoon dreams. Renée Brown unveils her exhibit, amplify, at the Brink Gallery on Fri., July 6, from 5–8 PM. Free.

Help out AniMeals and AniMania by purchasing a doll with strange, mythic eyes at the Doll, Toy and Teddy Bear Show in Darby at the Community Clubhouse. 106 Main.

10 AM–4 PM. $2 or a donated pet item.

Keeping a Nation in Motion

John W. Wulf quietly signs his book Lady Who Loves the Whisper at Fact & Fiction. 220 N. Higgins.

10:30–noon.

The Hot Springs Farmers Market busts out the dee-lish grub for all you all, with tunes come 4 PM at the Aftermarket Music & Arts Series. 11 AM–3 PM. Join Steve “Red Tail” Rickard at the

Big Hole Battlefield Summer Speaker Series down Big Hole way.

Red Tail talks about the cultural influences of the Indians in the Great Basin and shares a chicken snare saddle (a what?), among other accoutrements. Noon, 3 PM and 7 PM. Big Hole National Battlefield Visitor Center, 16542 Hwy. 43 W. The guild that sews together, stays together, so join Selvedge Studio at its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike. 509 S. Higgins Ave. 12–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free).

Pack up the kids for a day of walking and exploring and an evening of astrological wonders during the Montana Natural History Center’s Family Backpack Trip. The trip takes places near Drummond, with a a two-mile hike to the campsite. $200 per family of four, $40 for each additional child. Meals included.

RSVP by calling 327-0405.

nightlife David Boone needs neither introduction nor description when he plays the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free.

Russ and Sam Nasset perform tunes for you all peoples at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole.

5:30–8 PM. Free.

Kenny Westbrook makes the lis-

Offering Farmstead Organic Cheeses, Bitterroot Brie, Feta-U-Beta, Curds, Cultured Butter, Farmstead O.G. Beef, Pork & Sausages.

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tening easy when he plays the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

John Smith gets his one-man band on at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Learn what’s going on with the birds while you sleep during the Walk by the Light of the Moon Program: Bird Moon. Meet owls and hawks and learn to find other feathered friends. Bass Creek Picnic Area. Take Bass Creek Rd. from Hwy. 93 and follow the signs. 7 PM. Free.

A bunch of rag-tag musicians with who knows what kind of instruments get together on the first Sat. of every month for the Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree, a musical concert with Scatter the Mud from 7–9:30 PM at The Grange Hall, 1436 South 1st St. Call Clem at 961-4949.

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

Crazed dentists and man-eating plants aren’t that far from reality, are they? Little Shop of Horrors got a boost when it came to the big screen with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis.

The musical production by the Alpine Theatre Project brings back what was a spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies. You can catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center in Whitefish, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo get their Ponch and John on once again and join forces to fight lame beats and punk rocker car thieves during Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Sho Down keeps the fireworks booming when they play the

Lumberjack Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

Get your snack on and enjoy brunch with Senator Jon Tester at the Stock Farm Ranch near Hamilton. 10–11:30 AM. $50-$500.

RSVP@ jontester.com.

Welcome to Bartertown, plebes!

It’s the Radioaction-Post Apocalyptic Party, a night of electronic music with Bozeman’s Anivox, plus locals Logisticalone and Geeter. Palace. 9 PM. Free.

Take a Sunday stroll and a spin on the carousel at the Carousel Sunday Market & Festival, which offers up local veggies, crafts and all sort of yummikins.

This week, the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium shows off its buggy wares. Every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM at the New Park parking lot near A Carousel for Missoula.

Visit carrousel.com/acfm/carouselsunday-market-and-events.

Three-way is the best way today at the VFW, when Travis Yost, Shramana and Milk Music rock the hizzle. 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. $5.

Get a right-quick musical edu-ma-cation with Black Mountain Moan, Mudslide Charley and Three-Eared Dog. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 9 PM. $5. (See Noise.)

The Philipsburg Jamarama hosts 16 bands, with the proceeds benefitting nonprofits like the Wounded Warriors Project and Project Healing Waters.

Winninghof Park Ampitheatre.

Noon-8 PM. $25 per family/$10 ind.

Grab a blanket and enjoy the cinemagic with your special friend(s) under the stars at the Missoula Outdoor Cinema. This evening’s screening is the kid-friendly Chicken Run, starting around 9:30 PM at the the Headstart school on the corner of Worden and Phillips on Missoula’s Northside. Free, but donations accepted.

The Country Kings get you boot-scootin’, which may lead to boot-knockin, at the Sunrise Saloon. Let us not forget the mechanical bull that is on hand as well. 1101 Strand.

9:30 PM. Free.

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

Say goodbye to romance during the Josh Clinger Trio farewell show at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Go with the jam when the Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 9614949.

Fred Boner uncorks the jug and sprays tunes into the sky when he plays the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 4–7 PM. Free.

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If it’s Wrangler butts that be driving you nuts, then the 70th Annual PRCA Rodeo in Drummond might put you in a mood or give you a spell. Parade at noon, rodeo at 2 PM.

Sponsored by the Drummond Kiwanis. Drummond is 52 miles east of Missoula on I-90. Visit drummondmontana.com.

Why are all these people running?

Must be the Missoula Marathon, which starts at 6 AM and finishes on the Higgins Avenue bridge. If you’re not running, consider cheering on some of the poor souls struggling through 26.2 gorgeous miles of terrain. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

nightlife Crazed dentists and man-eating plants aren’t that far from reality, are they? Little Shop of Horrors got a boost when it came to the big screen with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis.

The musical production by the Alpine Theatre Project brings back what was a spoof on 1950s sci-fi movies. You can catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center in

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SPOTLIGHT marathon, man The worst thing I’ve ever done was run the inaugural Missoula Marathon. But that wasn’t the marathon organizers’ fault. My training partner and I should’ve known better than to run our first marathon in July. As the minutes and miles ticked by, and as we passed from irrigated pastures east of Frenchtown, and through the shaded hills of Big Flat Road, the temperature quickly rose and things went from fun to another “f” word.

During the first 13 miles I felt light and fast. Like a for reals runner. I chatted with other runners. I thought about how the months of training were paying off. Mistakenly, I started thinking about how I’d hit the finish line in my goal time of four-and-a-half hours. After crossing the Clark Fork,

heat of the mall parking was bad, so bad that more than a few volunteers asked me if I was okay and wondered what exactly I was doing there. The watermelon they handed out was divine, both going in and coming back out a few minutes later. Dazed and confused, I had WHAT: Sixth Missoula Marathon to ask my wife (who followed me on her bicycle) if the mice I saw crossing the road were WHERE: Begins in Frenchtown and ends on real. Fortunately, they were. But we finished.

Higgins Ave. in front of the Wilma Theatre We had beers at Red’s Bar afterward. I peed a little bit of blood, and I didn’t run again for a WHEN: Sun., July 8, at 6 AM year. To avoid the heat, the marathon begins an hour earlier these days and has been HOW MUCH: Late-registration $110-$120 voted Best Overall Marathon by Runner’s World in 2009. There are kid-friendly events. though, no amount of Baby Ruth candy bars could A bigger shwag bag. But you will never, ever see give me the energy I need to do that, even though me out there again, except as a spectator. Post up they had done the trick in quite a few mountain bike races in the past. My pace dropped from a somewhere between miles 19 and 25 and give a lope to a speed-walk to getting passed by a holler to the participants.They’ll love you for it.

–Jason McMackin hunch-backed 80-something-year-old man. The

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July 11 Erik "Fingers" Ray

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Whitefish, 600 E. Second St., at 6 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatre project.com Put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when the Ed Norton Big Band plays the Missoula Winery at 6 PM. 5646 W. Harrier. $5. missoulawinery.com.

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

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

July 18 Ed Norton Big Band

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What a freak show: Dent May, Shotgun the Avalanche and Javier Ryan provide a nice mix of musical business at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 8 PM. $3-$5 sliding scale.

Nato Coles (Used Kids, Modern Machines) does solo work along with Waxahatchee, Swearin’ and local tastemakers Buddy Jackson. Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main. 8 PM. $5.

(See Noise.)

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Have them teens of yours join the totally sweet woodcarver John Thompson for Wood Carving Basic Relief Techniques at the MAM from 9:30 AM to noon. This four-day course will have 12- to 17-year-olds carving seagulls in no time. 335 N. Pattee. $70/$63 members.

Draw super bears and other local creatures at Montana Mega Fauna, a class for four- to six-yearolds at the MAM, where the lives of bears, wolves and more are uncovered and rendered throughout the week. 1–3 PM. $50/$45 members.

Call 728-0447.

$13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

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

Who knows what you might find when you join the Rattlesnake Watershed Group for a walk during The Rattlesnake: Explore Your Backyard Creek. Meet at the end of Duncan Dr., near the walking trail. 6 PM. Free.

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

6:30–8:30 PM.

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Easiest way to make rent since keno: Bingo at the VFW. 245 W. Main.

6:45 PM. $10 buy-in.

At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance.

The S.A.F.E. Book Club discusses Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke at the Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton. 7 PM.

DalyJazz hosts pianist Geoffrey Keezer and vibraphone player Joe Locke. These dudes have chops and outrageous resumes. 7 PM. $40.

RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

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

Cash for Junkers makes the sour sweet when they perform at the Red Bird Wine Bar from 7-10 PM. 111 N. Higgins. Free.

Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. Come by and do you that funk-a-doo. 245 W. Main.

10:30 PM. Free. Call Phil at 2240816 to sign-up.

Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic presents another night of electric mayhem from all corners of the sub-genre world during Live and Local HipHop Night. Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 PBR pitchers.

This week at the Badlander’s Live and Local Night, Aran Buzzas is joined by fellow tunesmiths 907 Britt and Britchy. 9 PM. Free.

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The Cultural and Art History Club of Whitefish meets to discuss the only things that matter, like Johannes Vermeer. Stumptown Art Studio.

10AM–12 PM. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk-camp locution with the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited.

Noon–1 PM. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free.

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

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 5433955.

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

BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 Betty's July First Friday will showcase work by local artist Nicholas Kakavas. His show, entitled "Nonsense," is a collection of mixed media pieces, combining spray paint, glass, resin, and photography. The show will explore the nonsensical aspect of Kakavas' art, and its place in the art world at large. As always, the cheap wine and delicious Bernice's treats will be flowing.

THE BUTTERCUP MARKET 1211 Helen Ave., 541-1221 The Buttercup Market and Cafe is pleased to host the paintings of Shea Ketcham in her show "Spring Reflections in Pastel." The work hangs from July 1 to July 31, with an artist's reception from 3 to 5 on Friday, July 6. Refreshments will be served courtesy of the Buttercup, located at 1221 Helen Ave, in the Heart of the University District.

Look back, maniac. The Philipsburg Opera House Theatre performs the hilarious romp Fox on the Fairway on Sat., July 7, at 7 PM. $18/$10 for children 12 and under. Visit operahousetheatre.com.

thing about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip-Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with ageappropriate children’s groups. Free.

Call 543-6691.

Broadway pros Susan Egan and Georgia Stitt present Glamour and Goop, a fundraiser to benefit Next Step Prep. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams. 6:30 PM gala, 7:30 PM show. $50 for both/$20 for show. Visit mctinc.org.

DalyJazz hosts pianist Geoffrey Keezer and vibraphone player Joe Locke. These dudes have chops and outrageous resumes. 7 PM. $40.

RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Please join Butterfly Herbs for their July First Friday celebration! The art wall will feature Lewis Roth: Relief Sculpture and Spray Paint works. Reception 5-8 p.m.

TEN SPOON VINEYARD AND WINERY 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, 549-8703 This Friday, escape to Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery to sample our award-winning wines and enjoy live music by George Carlton. Drink sample flights or wine by the glass. Indoor and outdoor seating with a view of the vineyard. Delicious antipasto plates by Biga Pizza, while supplies last. Or, bring your own snacks.

Always certified organic, with no sulfites added. And, all made here in the Rattlesnake. Open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 5-9 pm (music 69) Visit tenspoon.com or facebook.com/tenspoon for more information.

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

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of ques-

THE CLAY STUDIO OF MISSOULA 1106 Hawthorne St., Unit A, 543-0509 Former long-term Clay Studio resident artist Larry Phan returns to Missoula with his exhibition American Standard. Phan will display a diverse body of ceramic objects crafted for domestic use. The show will focus on the overkill of luxurious objects made for specific purposes. The exhibition will be on display at the Clay Studio of Missoula from July 6-27 with an opening reception on Friday, July 6, from 5:30-9pm. For more information, please email us at info@theclaystudioofmissoula.org or call us at 543-0509.

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tion you could be presented with: In which East Coast city did First Friday begin? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

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

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

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

The Zootown Throwdown, featuring Javier Ryan, Grit and more, hits the brakes and flies right on by. 10 PM. Free.

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Num-nums and various vittles are the order of the day at Missoula’s Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM to 2 PM. This week’s tunage is provided by Erik Fingers Ray. Free. Visit missouladowntown.com Don’t be a dummy, get an inexpensive eggsaver at the Protect Your Head Helmet Sale.

Old Western Montana Clinic, 515 W. Front. 11 AM–2 PM. Helmets range from $8 to $23.

Ask hyrdogeologist Dr. Chris Brick about jökulhlaup’s during the Clark Fork Coalition Walks & Talks: Glacial Lake Missoula Tour. Meet at the CFC offices. 140 S. 4th St. W. Noon.

Free.

Fill up on your neighbors’ num-nums at the Arlee Community Development Corporation’s Jocko Valley Farmers Market. Uptown Arlee. 4–7 PM.

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Boombox rocks the electronica at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $14/$12 adv., with a $5 surcharge for those 18-20.

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If you’ve never watched the graceful movements of a Missouri Fox Trotter horse in action, you’ve never beheld beauty. Not to fear: The Big Sky Fox Trotter Association is holding its annual point show at the Sapphire Event Center in Corvallis. The three-day show hosts horses and riders from all over the country. Call 777-0577 for more info.

All the pretty horses have gathered outside Kalispell for The Event at Rebecca Farm, a four-day equestrian competition. Visit rebeccafarm.org for a full schedule and admission info.

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

Bugs, dirt and explorations abound. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Borg, borg, borg, the Missoula Senior Center hosts a Swedish pancake supper and bingo night. 705 S. Higgins. Food at 4 pm, bingo at 6 pm.

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

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

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

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Get filled up on B12 and iron at Hamilton’s Wednesday Evening Farmers’ Market on Bedford St. 6–8 PM.

Too awesome! The Northwest Connections 15th anniversary event hosts special guest and all-round rad dude “Jungle” Jack Hanna and introduces the Bud Moore Conservation Award at the Hungry Bear Steakhouse in Condon. 5 PM. Visit northwestconections.org.

UM MFA grad and nice lady Sharma Shields reads from her first collection of short fiction, Favorite Monster. Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. 3rd W. 7 PM. Free. (See Books.)

Lookout for basalt flows when the Grand Junction Rockies take on the Missoula Osprey for three nights, beginning tonight at 7:05 PM. Call 543-3300.

Spoonboy is not a Soundgarden fan, but he plays with ONSIND and Tyson Ballew at Zoo City Apparel. 139 E. Main. 8 PM. $5. Pub trivia answer: Boston.

For over 100 years the Missoula City Band has been your source for concert-band tunes in the Missoula Valley, and they continue that tradition with their weekly concert series at Bonner Park all summer long. This week, they are joined by vocal duo Karen & Ken. Corner of Ronald and Hastings. 9:30 PM. Free.

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

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Twist them knobs and drop down them menus. It’s time for another installment of Local Laptops, with TBA DJs at the Palace. 9 PM. Free, with a $5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

Kick the tire and light the fire, Bosco, the Independent’s Best of Missoula party gets rockin’ with tunes, food and awards galore.

Categories include Most Awesomest Dude and Least Canadian. Caras Park. 5 PM. Free.

Hobie Hare walks and talks you through the Macro Photography Workshop at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens, where you can learn how to zoom in on the little things.

5:30–7:30 PM. $25/$20 MNHC members.

Call 327-0405.

Scientist and best-selling author Gregg Braden discusses his book Deep Truth, which posits that evolution alone does not explain our existence. Bitterroot Public Library. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

Rodeos, teddy bear shows and art, oh my! No more excuses, friends. There’s so much to do you may just give up on choosing, but don’t! Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 6, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online at missoulanews.com.

MOUNTAIN HIGH S ince the weather's finally holding, it's been nice seeing so many beautiful people riding their bikes around town. I've taken advantage myself, skidding into the office and stretching my legs down Orange Street at the end of another long day of journalism-ing. Yep, we Missoula folk love to bike, so it's no surprise that Adventure Cycling chose Missoula as their home way back in 1976. The mapmakers, tour guides and all-around cycling advocates just finished upgrading their downtown office with an eco-friendly new wing, and they are ready to party. The whole intersection of Pattee and Pine will be filled with food, music and a First Friday event shared with the MAM. Which means it will be pretty packed, so don't be ironic and drive down there.

Great timing: The next day you can stare at

spokes on the silver screen when Reveal the Path opens at the Wilma. The producers of Ride the Divide present a worldwide adventure that follows famous cyclists around Scotland, Morocco, Alaska and Nepal. Reveal is one of those movies you just go “whoa” at, and maybe it will make you decide to buy that touring frame and do something with your summer after all.

—Brooks Johnson

Head to Adventure Cycling during First Friday festivities for a tour of their newly remodeled digs, live music and ice cream, lots of ice cream, from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, don't miss Mike Dion's and Hunter Weeks' film Reveal the Path and forsake your bike seat for one in the Wilma Theatre at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $10. A Q&A with Dion follows.

Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY JULY 5 You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

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

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

935 Toole. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing.

935 Toole. Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

MONDAY JULY 9 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

Who knows what you might find when you join the Rattlesnake Watershed Group for a walk during The Rattlesnake: Explore Your Backyard Creek. Meet at the end of Duncan Dr., near the walking trail. 6 PM. Free.

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Explore the peaks in the Little Belts over three days with the Wilderness Institute. Field leaders from the institute guide you and cook you dinner.

Nice. Call 243-5361.

Ask hyrdogeologist Dr. Chris Brick about jökulhlaup’s during the Clark Fork Coalition Walks & Talks: Glacial Lake Missoula Tour. Meet at the CFC offices. 140 S. 4th St. W. Noon. Free.

Join Steve “Red Tail” Rickard at the Big Hole Battlefield Summer Speaker Series down Big Hole way. Red Tail talks about the cultural influences of the Indians in the Great Basin and shares a chicken snare saddle (a what?), among other accoutrements. Noon, 3 PM and 7 PM. Big Hole National Battlefield Visitor Center, 16542 Hwy. 43 W. Pack up the kids for a day of walking and exploring and an evening of astrological wonders during the Montana Natural History Center’s Family Backpack Trip. The trip takes places near Drummond, with a a two-mile hike to the campsite. $200 per family of four, $40 for each additional child. Meals included. RSVP by calling 327-0405.

Learn what’s going on with the birds while you sleep during the Walk by the Light of the Moon Program: Bird Moon. Meet owls and hawks and learn to find other feathered friends. Bass Creek Picnic Area. Take Bass Creek Rd. from Hwy. 93 and follow the signs. 7 PM. Free.

SUNDAY JULY 8 Get back in shape and learn something new at

THURSDAY JULY 12 All the pretty horses have gathered outside Kalispell for The Event at Rebecca Farm, a fourday equestrian competition. Visit rebeccafarm.org for a full schedule and admission info.

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

10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Too awesome! The Northwest Connections 15th anniversary event hosts special guest and all-round rad dude “Jungle” Jack Hanna and introduces the Bud Moore Conservation Award at the Hungry Bear Steakhouse in Condon. 5 PM. Visit northwestconections.org.

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

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Fresh air time The Dana Gallery celebrates 10 years of painting outside

by Erika Fredrickson

Claude Monet had his frustrations with painting nature. “It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience,” he once said. “It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written—but then, try to do it!”

Hard to feel too bad for the guy. Monet managed to get the whole plein air thing down well enough: the 1868 “On the Bank of the Seine,” with its blue-green glow; the 1865 “Le déjeuner sur l’herbe,” where four sharply dressed men and women settle into a picnic in the woods; or the 1875 “Les bateaux rouges, Argenteuil,” where red boats sit in dreamy lily-pad waters.

The tradition of painting in the open air exploded in the 1870s and never really died out. That it’s crossed borders into Russia and made its way to the Americas only speaks to the allure of the experience, no matter what your native tongue. Painting in the open air means you have an immediate connection with the landscape—you feel the weather, take in the smells and sounds and try to capture those dynamics in a visual way. Natural light gives a different sheen and fluidity than studio light.

In Missoula, the Dana Gallery has been getting into the spirit of it for 10 years. Artists from around Montana and the nation—many of whom are represented by the Dana Gallery—travel to Missoula to paint

Artist Nick Oberling from Kalispell does some plein air painting.

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ranch and farmlands, stark stretches of prairie, train yards, street life with traffic lights glowing red and green, wildflower-brushed mountains still topped with winter snow.

Dudley Dana, owner of the highly acclaimed gallery, says that he’s not trying to be dramatic, but the plein air paint out he’s held since 2002 is vital to the gallery, which started out as a small photography gallery in 1996 and has since blown up to be one of the top painting galleries in the region.

“I actually think the paint out is the reason we’re even here,” he says. “If we hadn’t done the paint out, we probably wouldn’t even be in business.”

Plein air shows happen everywhere, but Dana added his own touch when he started what’s called the “purchase awards.” People can commit money to the show—some pay $500, some pay $2,000 or more— which makes them eligible for a tiered lottery where they’ll get to choose from the 100 or so plein air paintings created during the week-long paint out and keep one. Whoever draws first, picks first, which makes for some suspense and excitement, and sometimes disappointment if you get your favorite painting snapped out from under you.

This year, artists will be traveling from the usual nooks of Montana, plus Kentucky, Texas, Chicago, California, Idaho and Oregon. The last few years, painters spent time at the farmers' markets, capturing

the social vibrancy and color from overflowing tables of fruits and vegetables. And it’s interesting for the market-goers to watch. “It’s kind of magical for people to see a canvas start out with nothing and grow into something in not that long a period of time,” says Dana.

Most years, painters also go up to Ovando—a hot spot for painting, where ranchers welcome the artists into their homes and onto their properties.

“We don’t structure everything, because that’s what makes it fun. We can suggest that people go out to ranches. And then the last couple of years we’ve tried to keep them in town the first couple of days. But it’s like herding ants,” he says, laughing.

The paint out coincides with the Missoula Marathon this year, and Dana hopes to get the painters scattered throughout town to illuminate the crowds and runners, the peripheral happenings. He wants to exhibit those paintings during next year’s marathon.

This year also marks the first time the painters will gather together on First Friday and create a mural on a canvas together in the Dana Gallery as art show-goers look on. How does that work? Dana considers the question, and says, “I don’t know,” with a hint of wonderment. We’ll just have to see.

One painter to look out for this year is Lori McNee, whose still lifes of birds—magpies, ravens and hummingbirds—are often indoors. The oil renderings show birds perched on ceramics, books, vases, lemonade pitchers and other table-top items.

They’re rich browns, glowing golds, bluebird blues. You may have seen some of them in the Dana Gallery’s recent exhibit Icons of the West.

Her landscapes are similar to her birds.

Seaweed green waters reflect a boat on the shore. Mist covers a river flanked by red willows.

McNee currently ranks 27th on the list of Top 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter. She appears to be an art business guru who appeals to followers through lists and warm, cheesy quotes about life and art and love. But it all seems to work. On her Art Business & Fine Art Tips website, her post titles are things like “How to Become an Eco-Friendly Artist,” “5 Ways I Use Instagram to Boost My Art Business” and “DIY: Build an Art Gallery Hanging System for Around $100.”

McNee and the other 20 artists will arrive in town Friday, and you’ll be able to catch them on the streets and in the countryside for several days after, painting their hearts out. Their paintings will go up at the Dana Gallery July 12, with an official opening reception in August.

But it’s the plein air process this week that should entice you outdoors. Plein air’s for everyone. And as Dr. Seuss once said, “It’s opener out there in the wide, open air.”

The 10th annual Western Montana Plein Air Paint Out opens at the Dana Gallery Friday, July 6, at 5 PM for a reception where 20 painters live paint a mural. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

Scope Noise Books Film Movie Shorts Black Mountain Moan Black Mountain Moan EP self-released

Damn, I could drink malt liquor all day listening to this album on repeat. Any healthy dose of harmonica, guitar and drawn-out blues vocals will definitely send me back and forth to the Orange Street Food Farm with a shopping cart full of forties. Black Mountain Moan’s debut does just that and even features a trap set beckoning my lazy feet off the hammock and into the yard.

The local band’s EP is reminiscent of the Black Keys before they had a tendency to make hits or diverge into rock. BMM plays it straight, with catchy blues riffs looped with some solo work and thick

Milk Music Beyond Living self-released

The guitar tone on Beyond Living is beautiful, like what J Mascis might have done if he could hear right.

Muscular but distinct, rich without being shrill—you could use it to weld a stained-glass window. It offers a joyful counterpoint to Milk Music’s yelping vocals and midtempo arrangements, transforming tracks like “Fertile Ground” and “Out of My World” from what might have been plodding mud rock into buoyant, beer-can-raising jams. If you are not

Waxahatchee American Weekend Don Giovanni Records

An old friend of mine had a playlist called “SLEEP,” though I don’t think it ever worked, maybe because she was missing Waxahatchee. The solo folk act also known as Katie Crutchfield is a good soundtrack to being under covers, lying in bed. More than lullabies, American Weekend is full of songs about getting married at 15, blurry nights and bathtubs, all delivered with a wistful young voice and a few lightly strummed chords.

But there’s a tendency to mistake sleepy for boring, which is not the case. Check out this line, which came as a surprise halfway through the album: “We’ll

Advance Base A Shut In’s Prayer Caldo Verde

Owen Ashworth’s stories are about childhood and its end. With his Casio drumbeat and melancholic keys, he summons characters trying to get by in the world. In “Riot Grrrls” he’s a riot grrrl of the 1990s, working at the local cinema, driving around in his father’s Taurus, listening to mix tapes.

In “The Sister You Never Had” he’s a young boy setting the table for his mom. Summers go on forever.

Later in the song, he’s living on an island, barely hearing from his family. Is he in some kind of Attica

harmonica on the side, served up fast. This is done just right on tracks like “Jumper On The Line.” Then they slow it down on “Going Down To The River,” seven minutes of wailing harp doused with sadness.

While the music is great, it doesn’t offer a trademark. There isn’t a moment that stands out and says, “This is Black Mountain Moan’s, and theirs alone.”

That’s okay. It’s another entry in a genre older than my grandma, a style that never goes out of style.

Even Zoloft couldn’t beat the blues. (Brooks Johnson) Black Mountain Moan play a CD release party at Monk’s Sat., July 7, at 8 PM.

annoyed at having just read three consecutive sentences about guitar tone, you will like Milk Music.

Beyond Living rocks along with almost no missteps. The album rarely zigs when it should have zagged, but it often zigs and zigs again. Like a hypnotist or Galaxie 500, Milk Music knows that repetition relaxes the mind. It’s easy to reach the end of Beyond Living and not be sure how much time has passed, both because it is unified and because it is uniform. It’s a punishing vortex that takes rock beyond art and into experience, where it belongs.

Or it’s a heavily painted wall of sound—it all depends on whether you like both The Melvins and The Breeders. Most good people do. (Dan Brooks) Milk Music plays the VFW Sat., July 7, at 10 PM. buy beer to shotgun, we’ll lay in the lawn…” Get those power chords out of your head, punk; the song is delivered through excited high chords played like she just discovered them. Plus a tambourine. A totally awesome and necessary tambourine. The album ends with a piano and some of her strongest vocals when she sings: “I have Waxahatchee Creek … and we’ll never speak again.” (Brooks Johnson) Waxahatchee plays Zoo City Apparel Sun., July 8, at 8 PM. $5. or did he just escape to solitude? We’re left to wonder.

Advance Base isn’t much different from Ashworth’s previous band, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. This album falls flat sometimes; the Casio meanders like a prim church hymn. Ashworth’s stories aren’t always provocative enough to override that. But it’s an album that grows on you.

Ashworth’s dry, depressed vocals barely shift tone enough to let you know what to feel; it’s all in the story he tells. The nostalgia here is reminiscent of Michael Chabon’s Mysteries of Pittsburgh, minus the elation. The stories happened long ago and Ashworth captures that keen twinge of never being able to go back. (Erika Fredrickson) Advance Base plays Zoo City Apparel Fri., July 6, at 8 PM with Hello Shark and Skinny Legs. $5 donation.

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Monstrous truths Sharma Shields aims for the funny bone

by Chris Dombrowski

INFORMATIONAL MEETING Discuss Maclay Bridge Planning Study • Missoula County Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:00 p.m. • Target Range Elementary School Multi-purpose Room • 4095 South Avenue W., Missoula, MT Missoula County, in partnership with the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), have initiated the development of the Maclay Bridge Planning Study to determine potential needs of the Maclay Bridge and connecting roadways within the area.

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

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

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

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

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It is with great respect for her fiction that I now our particular “century and moment of mania,” as proclaim Sharma Shields the Dave Chappelle of someone called it, and completely owned by short fiction—the 14 stories in the award-winning Shields. Who else could write, in the aforemenFavorite Monster are that funny. And by “that tioned Carol’s voice, “After her tedious involvement funny” I don’t just mean they’ll help the reader with crank and the home shopping network, [Mrs. build an abdominal six-pack in 134 pages, though Lipman] hungered for as much counsel as she could they will; I mean they are laced with that nearly- get.”

Set mostly in the Northwest (an alternate title to impossible-to-write, spare-absolutely-no-one humor that makes the reader chortle and cringe by turns, the book could have been the third story’s title, “Field Guide to Monsters of by the sentence. the Inland Northwest”), not all Favorite Monster, winner of the pieces in Favorite of the 2011 Autumn House Monster set human characters Fiction Prize, opens with “The onstage beside inhuman charMcGugle Account,” a story that acters. “Sunshine and The begins: “We were all surprised Predator,” for instance, begins when Brian hired the innocently enough: “Dad said, Cyclops.” Other enticing first If you’re bored, be like the lines include “He was my seriBlue Collar Kids. Get a friggin al killer” (“Souvenirs”); “My job.”

So adolescent “class hatred for Agnes led directly to prude” Erin does as told, and our family’s appearance on finds work at the local theme ‘Oprah’” (“Antropolis”); “For park running The Rock ‘N’ most people who met the Roller with “class slut” Joan. werewolf on a moonlit night, a The two girls quickly endear bloodbath ensued” (“The themselves to (and, in Writer’s Werewolf ”); and, “In Shields’s hands, become perjunior high I shared my first kiss with the boy who wore a Sharma Shields reads from Favorite fect foils for) one another.

In an early and foreshadprophetic glass eyeball” (“The Monster at Shakespeare & Co. Wed., July 11, at 7 PM. Free. owing scene, ne’er-do-well Ones”).

Joan consoles the responsible Titillating as these leads are, though, they would ultimately disappoint the narrator for a careless blunder: “‘What’s the matter?’ she asked. reader if Shields, winner of the Tim McGinnis Award ‘I feel awful,’ I blubbered, ‘I don’t want to get for Humor and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose, were not able to develop and fired.’

‘You’re not going to get fired,’ Joan laughed. give comedic complication to the initial friction of her openers. To paraphrase a remark from Robert Her blonde hair caught the sun and tossed it back.

Frost on poems, there are many ways to get oneself ‘You know what you have to do around here to get into the woods, but only the artist gets into and out fired?’

I shook my head. of the woods. Time and again in these stories, ‘Kill someone.’”

Shields enters the forest with boldness and eluciDespite its absence of “monsters,” “Sunshine dates an original path home.

A young PR account manager, Carol, narrates and The Predator” thoroughly asserts Favorite “The McGugle Account,” and at the opening of the Monster’s cunning and implicit thesis, that we story she details the new-to-the-workplace, Proust- humans need only our will and ineptitude to trump quoting Cyclops, with whom she later copulates: the horridity of Cyclops, Medusa, Werewolf, et al.

“No, it wasn’t until he turned that I saw why It’s a metaphoric stretch, but one might say others described him as revolting: the large eye, set- these three creatures serve as talismans, or intentled like a rough diamond above his eyebrows (not tions, for Shields’s stories and what they hope to under them as many would think) was, to put it accomplish: draw truths out with their gaze, turn mildly, intimidating. But what an eye it was! The time to stone and draw blood. And do they ever. color of warm sand, bright and penetrating. So penSeveral years ago, after experiencing rabid sucetrating that when he caught my gaze I swore he cess with The Chappelle Show, Dave Chappelle could see the color of my bones beneath my expen- embarked on a self-imposed exile to South Africa sive tweed suit and inexpensive (and somewhat grit- because he said he deemed disingenuous the fame ty) bra and underwear.” and money his comedic talents had brought forth, but Though these stories—one is tempted to call I always wondered if perhaps he left America because them “tales”—employ elements of the surreal or he was simply funnier than everyone else. So is uncanny, they are utterly un-fantastic, told in a Sharma Shields. For our abdominal muscle tone and spare, matter-of-fact voice that recalls Russell Edson, hearts, let’s hope hard she decides to stick around.

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Moon on the rise

Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13)

Wes Anderson’s aesthetic evolves

Nightly at 7 and 9 Sat. (7/7) at 1, 3 and 9

by Molly Laich

There’s something neurotic and troubling at the center of Wes Anderson’s now iconic style. People are beginning to talk. Over the past 15 years, he’s created an instantly recognizable aesthetic and it’s very good.

His films cut houses in half and show us the moody souls of the people inside of them. But some of you are saying you’re over it, that you want something different. I can’t tell you that Moonrise Kingdom breaks

crisp and painful that you’ve willfully forgotten it in adulthood.

This is a comedy and an adventure story and a traditional fable of star-crossed lovers. There are social workers in menacing blue uniforms. (Oh, hello, Tilda Swinton; what are you doing here?) There are gunfights in the woods, dirt bikes, high climbs up steeples, flood waters and shotgun weddings. The stakes are high.

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the Anderson mold, but I promise that the mold is evolving. The storytelling is more brilliant and new characters have been brought into the fold. You can play bingo with Anderson tropes: Yellow titles. Old music. Symmetrical framing. Anderson’s films are easy to spot, but they are not particularly varied. So here’s the question: Does it matter?

Watching Moonrise Kingdom, his sixth live-action feature, I felt simultaneously annoyed and won over.

A young girl staring at us through binoculars? Really, Wes? Again? I think he can’t help himself. These are the crayons he’s been given to color with, and we have to take it or leave it.

It’s 1965 on an island off the coast of New England, two kids have absconded and there’s a storm coming. At one corner of the island, we meet a gang of Khaki Scouts on what appears to be a never-ending overnight expedition. They are led by Scout Master Ward, played by Edward Norton, who is as delightful and heartbreaking as ever. Sam (an actual 13-year-old, played by Jared Gilman in his first ever role) is a misfit and an orphan. Suzy (Kara Hayward) lives in a big house on the island with her parents, played by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, along with her pajama-clad little brothers. Suzy and Sam develop an adolescent romance through letter writing. Their connection is born out of a mutual inability to fit in; they’re meant to be together. They meet in the wilderness, armed with Sam’s survival skills and Suzy’s suitcase full of books. When Sam unbuttons his scout uniform and the two of them dance on the beach in their underwear, God. Their romance is as serious as a war. It may remind you of a time in your life that was so

People have argued that the acting in an Anderson film is wooden, that anyone could do it.

Really? Could anybody be Bill Murray? Try imagining Cameron Diaz as Margot Tenenbaum, or Tom Hanks in the Edward Norton role. Even a young Tom Hanks, and you’ll see that there is deliberation in the casting and that it matters. Anderson plays the star system to his advantage; happy actors need not apply. Bruce Willis is my favorite addition to the universe. Does he ever smile? Surely he does, but can you picture it?

Look at a filmmaker like M. Night Shyamalan, whose movies have jumped the shark and then fallen into a pit with nothing but sharks all the way to the bottom, and you’re thinking, “Jesus Christ, just quit with the smoky colors, the somber acting, the lame twists.” But here’s the thing: He can’t stop. M. Night Shyamalan can’t do anything but horror, and Wes Anderson can’t live without skullcaps, absent parents and The Kinks. Some artists are just like that.

Even if the films of Wes Anderson have roughly the same flavor, at least, unlike Shyamalan, the flavor gets richer with age—more sophisticated. Every time out, Anderson’s uncovered something different, some brand new sadness that hurts, but still, it’s funny.

Moonrise Kingdom functions in an alternate universe that gets every detail correct. The camera zooms up to a front door, and you would swear it’s a dollhouse until a human comes walking out, stands dead center in the frame and stares at you. Now you are on your own. What are you going to do with this feeling?

Moonrise Kingdom continues at the Wilma Theatre.

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Scope Noise Books Film Movie Shorts NEWLY REVIEWED: KATY PERRY: PART OF ME Vocalist Katy Perry uses her sparkler-coated chest to put that 3D to good use in this infront-of and behind-the-scenes look at one of the world’s most popular singing robots.

Rated PG. Village 6: 1:30 and 7 pm. 3D: 4 and 9:30 pm.

SAVAGES In this Oliver Stone-directed teen fantasy/film, a couple of weed growers go after the Mexican cartel who stole their shared girlfriend. Starring Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch and John Travolta. Rated R. Village 6: 1, 4:15, 7:20 and 10:25 pm.

MAGIC MIKE Oh, hells yeah, girlfriend, a fine looking stud learns the wily and wild ways of the male stripper lifestyle from an older, more experienced performer. Stuff like, pumping your hips forward and the best type of tear-away trousers for bachelorette parties on cruise ships. Starring the hunky Chaning Tatum, well-tanned Matthew McConaughey and female, Olivia Munn. Rated R. Village 6: 1:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sun.

Pine, Elizabeth Banks and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 pm.

PROMETHEUS For those who carry a torch for director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) his return to the scifi genre couldn’t come sooner. In this film, scientists uncover the origins of the human race and fly to the darkest corners of the galaxy to have their livers eaten by an eagle. Whoops, that’s no true, they battle evil in order to save the human race. Starring Michael Fassbender and Charlize

TED Mark Wahlberg’s childhood wish comes true and his teddy bears turns into “Family Guy”‘s Peter Griffin, and his only true pal... until a woman comes along and tries to separate the man from his foul-mouthed friend. Also starring Mila Kunis and Joel McHale. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10:15 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sun.

TO ROME WITH LOVE Woody Allen directs this picaresque which continues to be described as a “love letter” to one of the world’s all-time great cities. Starring Penélope Cruz and Jesse Eisenberg. Rated R. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm, nightly, with Sat. matinees at 1 and 7 pm.

CONTINUING: ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER Honestly, the 16th president of the United States is about to go all kinds of action hero on some vampires trying to take over the country.

I bet he’s like, “What’s so civil about war anyway?” before he goes berzerk on them vamps.

Rated R. Carmike 12: 7:30 and 10 pm.

Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun at 3 pm, no 9:10 pm show on Sun. THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN Peter Parker may just find out what happened to his parents and perhaps where they are; in the meantime, he’s got a nemesis and a lot of CGI to overcome. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 4:15, 6:45, 7:15, 9:45 and 10:15 pm. 3D: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:30 PM. Big D 3D: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7:10 pm. 3D: 12:30 and 10:20 pm.

Pharaohplex: 9:15 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9:15 pm show on Sun. 3D: 6:45 pm nightly. Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 pm.

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

Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm.

BRAVE A princess gets the whole fruitin’ kingdom in an uproar and finds herself rolling with a witch before she can make it all right again. Starring every Scottish actor except Sean Connery, including Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson and Kelly Macdonald. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7 and 9:15. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 9:10 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sun. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm.

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED The critters are still wayward things, far from home, but hiding out in a circus might not be so bad. Hey, I bet some of the jokes are good fun for adults, too. Or something. Starring the voices of Ben Stiller and Chris Rock. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 1:45 and 4:45 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sun. Showboat: 4, 7:15 and 9:15 pm.

Dia de los dead. Savages opens Thursday at the Village 6.

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

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

Carmike 12: 7 and 9:30 pm.

MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson directs this story of young love and follows two 12-year-olds on an adventure after they run away from home. All of Anderson’s guys are in this. Starring Ed Norton, Bruce Willis, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.

Rated PG-13. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with 1 and 3 pm matinees on Sat. PEOPLE LIKE US A dude must a find a sister he never knew he had and give her the $150,000 their dead father left to her. Then they probably have to recodify the meaning of family. Starring Chris

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Theron. Rated R. Carmike 12: 7:30 and 10:15 pm. Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9:20 pm.

ROCK OF AGES I think Poison summed up this film back in ‘88 when they did the “Mama’s Fallen Angel” video, as did Guns ‘n’ Roses with their “Welcome to the Jungle” video, but this time we’ve got fun and games starring Tom Cruise as an 80s glam metal up-and-comer overcoming obstacles (groupies) and challenges (cocaine) and doing it all for love. Also starring Julianne Hough. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:30, 7, 9:30 and 10 pm.

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

TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION Eugene Levy is the CFO of a big corporation and if that isn’t a funny enough premise he’s been set up as a fall guy in a Ponzi scheme the mob and some other bad dudes are running.

Not laughing? Well, his family has to live with Madea, get the money back to the rightful owners, Madea style, snap-snap. Also starring Tom Arnold. Rated PG-13. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 10:15 pm.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

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SIMON

This handsome red Heeler just wants to have a special person that he can be with all the time. His idea of a perfect life is being the constant companion of someone who will appreciate his good looks and happy personality.

CELESTIAL

Celestial is a senior citizen who has spent many of her years traveling and who is now ready for the more sedate life of a pleasant retirement home. She's still lively, but with a dignified, serene manner.

MANNY

Who could resist that face! Manny has a playful attitude to match his free-spirited look. He loves to romp with other dogs and sniff out new adventures. He is a Golden Retriever/Cocker Spaniel mix and he has the golden locks to prove it!

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HUMPHREY

Humphrey is full of energy and is ready for any kind of activity that you can think up for him. However, he knows how to behave and can be a perfect gentleman or even a snuggle-bug when the situation calls for it.

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PENELOPE

Penelope is quite a talker and would love to have a new home where there are people interested in conversation. She's also neat and tidy, as well as quite sweet, so there's really no reason not to take her home ASAP!

COCO BEAR

Outgoing Coco Bear is still waiting for the perfect family. She is 12 years old and blind.

Coco Bear is very smart and has learned to navigate her surroundings without sight. If you tell her "step" she knows to feel with her paws for the stairs.

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PICKLES

Pickles has such a shy personality that he needs a quiet, adult home with people patient enough to let him keep to himself while making the adjustment to new surroundings. Once that happens, his new family with have a great pet.

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OSCAR

Oscar came from a home with many cats, so he never got much individual attention.

However, since he's been at the shelter he's learned to enjoy the attention of people, and now he wishes he had some special ones of his own!

SCOOTER

This 6-year-old with stunning eyes will be a steadfast companion. All Scooter wants is your love and attention. She is very reponsive and has learned a lot with the volunteer dog walkers at the Humane Society.

MIDGE

Midge may be 9 years old but she is amazingly patient with children.

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TEEBO

Rambunctious Teebo LOVES to play. He enjoys sitting in a window to survey the scene.

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Teebo will turn tricks to chase a toy or laser light. He is a Personal Asisstant according to his feline-ality personality assessment.

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BLIZZARD

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

SHADOW

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

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THRILLA IN VANILLA My best friend is a guy.

We have tons in common and have conversations that are lively, honest, and deep. He’s basically everything I’ve ever wanted in my future husband, but he has an infatuation for Filipina women half his age. I’m 37, his age, and Caucasian. His plan is to find and marry a girl from the Philippines. In fact, he is so stuck on marrying a Filipina that he is learning to speak Tagalog and travels to the Philippines twice a year but has yet to have anything work out. I maintain hope that he’ll eventually develop the attraction to me that I have for him and that compatibility will trump looks, because he often tells me how much he appreciates me. Am I fooling myself, or could he outgrow his Filipina fetish?

—Boring American Woman If people could override their physical attractions, strip clubs could hire homely but very kind women to bare only their souls. For the price of a lap dance, they’d tell a man all about their work easing the suffering of cancer patients or nursing stray dogs back to health. Afterward, he’d go home to his hot but mean wife and do his marital duty—while fantasizing about Martha getting little Buster to a really good home.

Whenever you start looking at your friend through future-husband-colored glasses, remind yourself that the guy’s learning Tagalog, and not because he calls the cable company and they say, “Press one for Tagalog.” Lust is a powerful and automatic biochemical reaction driven by sex hormones in the brain. One study by Dr. Ingrid R. Olson suggests that we appraise whom we find hot in 13 milliseconds or less—approximately 25 to 30 times faster than an eye blink. And unfortunately, we can’t rejigger whom we lust after—any more than we can convince ourselves that something that smells like ass really smells like lily of the valley.

You need to stop focusing on how you click with this guy. I also really click with my friend Debbie, but when I look at her and feel longing, it’s to ask her where she got her barrette. This means we’re well-matched as friends and hair accessory shoppers but nothing more. What you need is a guy with a you fetish—one who thinks you’re the hottest thing since he leaned back, trying to look cool for you, and burned his hand on the party host’s stove. To find that man, banish your Filipina-phile from your mind as anything

more than a friend with a thing for women who aren’t you. If that’s hard to do, stop hanging out with him so much until it stops being hard. Save for meeting a fairy godmother in the supermarket and having her transform you into a 4’11”, 18year-old hottie from Manila, there’s only one way you’ll ever make this guy fall for you, and that’s by installing a tripwire.

GETTING INTO YOUR GENES I’m 27 and passionately in love with a 24-year-old woman I just started dating.

I said something in passing about not knowing whether I want kids, and she said, “If I’m not pregnant within two years by you, I’ll get pregnant by somebody else.”

Shocked, I asked who. Her answer: “Preferably a friend, but it doesn’t really matter.”

My jaw dropped. I wonder whether I even matter or I am just being used.

—Disturbed You were probably picturing yourself as more of a sex machine than a sperm dispenser. (If there’s a movie of your relationship in your mind, it’s the kind that gets blocked by Net Nanny software. In hers, Julie Andrews and the von Trapp children are bounding through the meadows in their clothes made out of curtains.)

The fact that her romantic role model seems to be the speeding bullet doesn’t mean that she isn’t into you or that she’s using you. In fact, her honesty suggests otherwise. (She didn’t let you get all attached only to tell you to either dad up or get out.) But, numerous studies splashed across the media show that single parenting disadvantages kids economically, emotionally, in school performance, and in their later relationships, and troublingly, all she can think about is the tumbleweed blowing around her empty womb.

If you know you don’t want kids, now’s the time to leave. If you aren’t sure, you can stick around and try to figure it out, but the giant ticking uterus hanging over your head may warp the course of getting to know her.

After all, it’s kind of a romance-killer to be hearing “It had to be you...” while you know she’s thinking, “Then again, the UPS guy looks like he has a healthy sperm count.”

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Members of the Nevada Republican Party have concocted a bizarre version of family values. A large majority of them are opposed to gay marriage and yet are all in favor of legal brothels. Their wacky approach to morality is as weird as that of the family values crowd in Texas, which thinks it’s wrong to teach adolescents about birth control even though this has led to a high rate of teen pregnancies. My question is, why do we let people with screwed-up priorities claim to be the prime caretakers of “family values”? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to reject the conventional wisdom as you clarify what that term means to you. It’s an excellent time to deepen and strengthen your moral foundation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s a term for people who have the ardor of a nymphomaniac in their efforts to gather useful information: infomaniac. That’s exactly what I think you should be in the coming week. You need data and evidence, and you need them in abundance. What you don’t know would definitely hurt you, so make sure you find out everything you need to know. Be as thorough as a spy, as relentless as a muckraking journalist, and as curious as a child. P.S. See if you can set aside as many of your strong opinions and emotional biases as possible. Otherwise they might distort your quest for the raw truth. Your word of power is empirical.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Of all the signs of the zodiac, you’re the best at discovering short cuts.

No one is more talented than you at the art of avoiding boredom. And you could teach a master course in how to weasel out of strenuous work without looking like a weasel. None of those virtues will come in handy during the coming week, however. The way I see it, you should concentrate very hard on not skipping any steps. You should follow the rules, stick to the plan, and dedicate yourself to the basics. Finish what you start, please!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Norse mythology, Fenrir was a big bad wolf that the gods were eager to keep tied up. In the beginning they tried to do it with metal chains, but the beast broke free. Then they commissioned the dwarves to weave a shackle out of six impossible things: a bear’s sinews, a bird’s spit, a fish’s breath, a mountain’s root, a woman’s beard, and the sound a cat’s paws made as it walked. This magic fetter was no thicker than a silk ribbon, but it worked very well. Fenrir couldn’t escape from it. I invite you to take inspiration from this story, Leo. As you deal with your current dilemma, don’t try to fight strength with strength. Instead, use art, craft, subtlety, and even trickery. I doubt you’ll need to gather as many as six impossible things. Three will probably be enough. Two might even work fine.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a time when your personal actions will have more power than usual to affect the world around you. The ripples you set in motion could ultimately touch people you don’t even know and transform situations you’re not part of. That’s a lot of responsibility! I suggest, therefore, that you be on your best behavior. Not necessarily your mildest, most polite behavior, mind you. Rather, be brave, impeccable, full of integrity, and a little wild.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Goldfish that are confined in small aquariums stay small. Those that spend their lives in ponds get much bigger. What can we conclude from these facts? The size and growth rate of goldfish are directly related to their environment. I’d like to suggest that a similar principle will apply to you Librans in the next ten months. If you want to take maximum advantage of your potential, you will be wise to put yourself in spacious situations that encourage you to expand. For an extra boost, surround yourself with broadminded, uninhibited people who have worked hard to heal their wounds.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Over the years, you’ve explored some pretty exotic, even strange ideas about what characterizes a good time. In the coming days, I’m guessing you will add to your colorful tradition with some rather unprecedented variations on the definition of “pleasure” and “happiness.” I don’t mean to imply that this is a problem. Not at all. To paraphrase the Wiccan credo, as long as it harms no one (including yourself), anything goes.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There come times in your life when you have a sacred duty to be open to interesting tangents and creative diversions; times when it makes sense to wander around aimlessly with wonder in your eyes and be alert for unexpected clues that grab your attention. But this is not one of those times, in my opinion. Rather, you really do need to stay focused on what you promised yourself you would concentrate on. The temptation may be high to send out sprays of arrows at several different targets. But I hope that instead you stick to one target and take careful aim with your best shots.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve been meditating on a certain need that you have been neglecting, Capricorn—a need that has been chronically underestimated, belittled, or ignored, by both you and others. I am hoping that this achy longing will soon be receiving some of your smart attention and tender care. One good way to get the process started is simply to acknowledge its validity and importance. Doing so will reveal a secret that will help you attend to your special need with just the right touch.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Due to the pressure-packed influences currently coming to bear on your destiny, you have Official Cosmic Permission to fling three dishes against the wall. (But no more than three.) If you so choose, you also have clearance to hurl rocks in the direction of heaven, throw darts at photos of your nemeses, and cram a coconut cream pie into your own face. Please understand, however, that taking actions like these should be just the initial phase of your master plan for the week. In the next phase, you should capitalize on all the energy you’ve made available for yourself through purgative acts like the ones I mentioned.

Capitalize how? For starters, you could dream and scheme about how you will liberate yourself from things that make you angry and frustrated.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Check to see if you’re having any of the following symptoms: 1. sudden eruptions of gratitude; 2. a declining fascination with conflict; 3. seemingly irrational urges that lead you to interesting discoveries; 4. yearnings to peer more deeply into the eyes of people you care about; 5. a mounting inability to tolerate boring influences that resist transformation; 6. an increasing knack for recognizing and receiving the love that’s available to you. If you’re experiencing at least three of the six symptoms, you are certifiably in close alignment with the cosmic flow, and should keep doing what you’ve been doing. If none of these symptoms have been sweeping through you, get yourself adjusted.

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Submit resumes to Kathy Mangan along with a writing sample and 3 references. 825 West Kent, Missoula 59801 Maintenance Tech III Silvertip Apartments. Missoula Housing Authority seeks high-energy, dedicated individual to perform day-to-day maintenance work on units, structures, grounds, and equipment at the new Silvertip Apartments. Entry level wage $11.90 per hour, excellent benefits. For required application package visit www.missoulahousing.org/abo ut/employment or contact Adam Ragsdale, Missoula Housing Authority, 1235 34th Street, Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-4113 x 128, aragsdale@missoulahousing.org Applications reviewed every Friday until position is filled.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA City of Missoula Vehicle Maintenance Division Public Works Department 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 COMPETITIVE SEALED PROPOSALS (CSP) TO PROVIDE AND INSTALL ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTING TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, CITY HALL BUILDING The City of Missoula (City) is requesting competitive sealed proposals (CSP) to provide energy efficient lighting to City of Missoula, City Hall Building. This CSP will result in a contractual agreement to supply and install energy efficient lighting in the City of Missoula, City Hall building. Copies of the detailed Competitive Sealed Proposals including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, may be obtained on the City’s website: http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bi ds or at the Vehicle Maintenance Division during normal business hours at 1305 B Scott Street, Missoula MT, 59804, starting June 25, 2012. For more information, contact: Jack Stucky, Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent at (406) 552-6387, or e m a i l jstucky@ci.missoula.mt.us.

Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 5:00 p.m. MST, August 1, 2012, at 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 598024297. A lighting contractor will be selected and a contract will be made shortly thereafter. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on July 23, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on an ordinance amending chapter 12.44 Missoula Municipal Code entitled “Cemeteries” amending section 12.44.070 to provide that cemetery revenues be deposited into the City's general fund and designated for the provisions of cemetery services. For further information contact Doug Waters, Cemetery Director, at 5526064. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk,

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435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING MISSOULA COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED MANAGEMENT PLAN 2012 UPDATE REQUEST. Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the 2012 Missoula County Noxious Weed Management Plan Update.

The Missoula County Weed Board is requesting approval of the biennial update to the county noxious weed management plan.

Major changes from the 2010 plan cover the inclusion of aquatic invasive species (AIS) management for aquatic plants that are listed on the state noxious weed list, guidelines for the development of subdivision vegetation management plans, and non-compliance policies. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their Public Meeting on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Administration Building, Room Admin B14, 199 W. Pine St., Basement Level, Missoula, MT. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted any time prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, email, or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices at the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W. Pine St., Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721.4043, Phone: (406) 258.4877, E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. A copy of the plan is available for review at the Missoula County Weed District/Extension Service office.

Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Bryce Christiaens, Weed District Manager, Missoula County Weed District, 2825 Santa Fe Court, Missoula, MT 59808; or by calling (406) 258.4217. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. Dated this 18th day of June, 2012 BY ORDER OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE 2011 DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAX SALE. All 2011 delinquent taxes, including penalties, interest and costs, are now a lien upon the real property upon which those taxes were assessed. Unless the delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs are paid prior to the time of the Treasurer’s tax sale, the county lien will be offered for sale. The Treasurer’s tax sale is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 12, 2012 in the County Treasurer’s Office, second floor, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W Broadway St, Missoula, Montana. A list of all properties on which 2011 taxes are delinquent will be on file at the time of the sale and open for public inspection during business hours 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Penalties, interest and costs will be added to the delinquent taxes upon payment by the owner or purchaser. Before a tax lien can be purchased for assignment, “Proof of Notice” according to MCA 15017-323 (5) must be presented at the time of purchase. /S/ Vickie M Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer. Missoula County, Montana.

MISSOULA COUNTY Notice of Public Hearing Amending the By-Laws of the Missoula County Board of Trustees for the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula to add term limits. The Missoula County Board of Trustees for the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula will conduct a Public Hearing on the above item on Monday, July 16, 2012, at noon, in Building T-1 at Fort Missoula.

The Board of Trustees will be acting on a resolution to amend the by-laws of the Trustees to add term limits for board members of up to a limit of 3, 3-year consecutive terms, (a maximum of 9 years) beginning in January 2013. Your attendance and your comments are welcomed and encouraged. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to Dr. Robert M. Brown, Executive Director of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail, or personal delivery to Dr. Brown at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Building #322-Fort Missoula, Missoula, MT, 59804; Fax: 406-543-6277; Phone: 406728-3476; and/or E-mail: ftmslamuseum@montana.com.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-105 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WALTER F. WICKBERG, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Marilyn M. Nelson has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed, return receipt requested, to Marilyn M. Nelson, Personal Representative, c/o Cederberg Law Offices, P.C., PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 19th day of June, 2012. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-80 Dept.

No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY PARKE OSTHEIMER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Anthony McIlvain, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 23rd day of May, 2012. /s/ Anthony McIlvain Ostheimer, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-644 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Cody Glen Potton, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Cody Glen Potton to Cody Glen Weisenburger. The hearing will be on July 19, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: June 7, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-647 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Taylor Britton Gibbs, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Taylor Britton Gibbs to Theodore Voges Gibbs IV. The hearing will be on July 17, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. the hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 6/11/12. /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molli Zodo MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-720 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Dien Dac Vu, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Dien Dac Vu to Steven Dien Dac Vu. The hearing will be on 7/31/12 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: June 25, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Nicole Borchers, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-98 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DONALD KENNETH ROOT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Sharon Schmelebeck, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 10th day of June, 2011. /s/ Sharon Schmelebeck, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-104. Honorable John W. Larson, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF Todd W. Pennell, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Nancy Pennell, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Mis-

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DATED this 18th day of June, 2012. /s/ Nancy Pennell, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-103 Dept. No. 3 Hon. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE M. MORIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DIEDRE MORIN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court.

Date: 6/18/12, Missoula, MT /s/ Diedre Morin, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-12-72 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RONALD G. OGDEN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claim 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 by certified mail with return receipt requested to Rowdy Ogden, Personal Representative, at c/o O’BRIEN LAW OFFICE, P.C., P.O. Box 7936, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court.

DATED this 23rd day of May, 2012. /s/ Rowdy Ogden Rowdy Ogden Personal Representative for the Estate of Ronald G. Ogden Nakia (“Nick”) Jesse James Tabbert, THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS. Nakia (“Nick”) Jesse James Tabbert, you are hereby summoned to answer the Petition for Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, 200 West Broadway, Missoula Montana 59802 as Cause Number DA-1132, and to file your Response and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner’s attorney at the address below within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or respond, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition, to wit: Your parental rights over minor child Torren Nathaniel Tabbert will be terminated. Plaintiff’s attorney of record is Thomas W. Trigg, ASUM Legal Services, University Center 112, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. You are further notified that the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court has ordered that a hearing on the petition to terminate your parental rights in Torren Nathaniel Tabbert will be conducted at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 on the 26th day of July, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. Date: 6-152012 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court

AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE This Amended Notice replaces the May 2, 2012 Notice of Trustee Sale recorded at Book 893, Page 925.

Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on the November 7, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., on the steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, in Block 33 of Union Addition to the City of Missoula, Montana, according to the official map or plat thereof, now on file and of record in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 1811 & 1819 Holborn Street and 901, 910 & 912 Kensington Avenue, Missoula, Montana 59801. E. Martin Hyland, III, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., which was designated as beneficiary in a Montana Trust Indenture dated January 5, 2006 and recorded January 6, 2006 in Book 767 at Page 275 of Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Notes secured by the Trust Indenture have not been made as required. As of May 2, 2012, the sum of $321,558.15 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $306,186.61, with interest accruing thereon at a rate of 8.5% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $71.30. In addition, Grantor is in default for failing to pay taxes before becoming delinquent. In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and note and elected to sell the interest of E. Martin Hyland, III, the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Timothy D. Geiszler, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Trust Indenture and note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. DATE this 15th day of June 2012. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA County of Missoula.

This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 15th day of June 2012 by Timothy D. Geiszler. /s/ Cheryl Spinks, (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing Missoula, MT My Commission Expires: 02/28/2016 Jason J. Henderson, Esq., Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm 38 Second Ave E Dickinson, ND 58601 Phone: 701227-1841 Fax: 701-225-6878 cdellwo@mackoff.com MT Bar #11141 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-165 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS INC. ASSET-

BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-12 Plaintiff, v. GERALD WHITEHEAD; TERRI WHITEHEAD; PATRICIA B. MARTINEZ; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER; MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; STATE OF MONTANA, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DIVISION; ALSIDE SUPPLY CENTER; and NORTHWEST COLLECTORS, INC., Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT PATRICIA B. MARTINEZ: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiffs attorney within twentyone (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

This action relates to an action to rescind the Trustee’s Sale and Trustee’s Deed and to reinstate a Note and Deed of Trust covering property situated in Gallatin County, in the State of Montana and described as follows: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 2 OF LINDA VISTA TENTH SUPPLEMENT PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. “WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 5th day of May, 2012. (SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Shirley E Faust by Deputy Clerk of the District Court Dated this 21 day of May, 2012. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for Plaintiff 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Tel: (701)-227-1841 By: Jason J. Henderson, Attorney #11414 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification.

You are also advised that upon your request within the thirty day period, we will provide you with the name and address of your original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. We are attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200525893 Bk 761 Pg 663, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Brett Pedersen, Robin Pedersen, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Home Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly

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described as follows: The E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 36, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

Recording reference in Book 332 at Page 355 Micro Records. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201204834 B: 891 P: 111, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 27, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $187,148.89. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $182,037.15, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.100530) 1002.215678-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 13, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 21 IN BLOCK 2 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL

RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jasmine E. Deminck and Wayne P. Deminck, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on September 9, 2008 and recorded on September 15, 2008 at 11:57:59 AM. o’ clock in book 826, page 420, under document No. 200821236. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,764.26, beginning May 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 1, 2012 is $277, 463.38 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $18,654.41, late charges in the amount of $976.26, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,491.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.51 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT.

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 9, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 9th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Guild V Diminck 41291.580 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 13, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT 43 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1925 LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT ACROSS TRACTS 29 THROUGH 39 INCLUSIVE FOR ACCESS, INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED BY WARRANTY DEED RECORDED IN THE BOOK 165 OF MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1010 Cordel M. Earl, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity Nat’l Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Indymac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 24, 2006 and recorded on February 01, 2006 in Book 768, Page 436 under Document No. 200602437. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee of IndyMac Residential Mortgage-Backed Trust, Series 2006-L1, Residential Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-L1. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,427.93, beginning February 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 13, 2012 is $170,247.10 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $35,464.67, escrow advances of $1,485.54, and expenses advanced of $5,230.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.56 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,

costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 5, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 5th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Onewest V Earl 41969.591 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 27, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 13A of CAR LINE ADDITION, BLOCK 17, LOTS 13A AND 16A, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Charles P. Smith, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Washington Mutual Bank FSB, A Federal Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on June 07, 2004 and recorded on June 14, 2004 at 11:23 A.M. o’ clock, in Bk-734, Pg-332, under document No. 200416363. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank NA successor by merger to Washington Mutual Bank fsb. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the

PUBLIC NOTICES amount of $330.65, beginning October 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 9, 2012 is $47,666.43 principal, interest at the rate of 6.37500% now totaling $2,100.77, late charges in the amount of $49.59, escrow advances of $471.50, and other fees and expenses advanced of $63.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.33 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 25, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to

be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase/smith 41954.044 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 27, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 47 OF MALONEY RANCH PHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Chad M Bauer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2007 and recorded October 15, 2007 in B-807, Pg-612, under document No. 200727252. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,344.71, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by Russell Lockner for a side yard setback variance to expand an attached garage at 13 Brookside in the Brookside PUD. SEE MAP S.

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 1, 2012 is $259,344.69 principal, interest at the rate of 7.00000% now totaling $27,257.52, and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,298.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $49.74 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors, if such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by Jack Long to appeal an administrative decision made by the Office of Planning and Grants regarding the denial of a request to establish a pawn-shop as an accessory use to a secondhand store that would be allowed as an accessory use to the Copperstone Store All, located at 8700 Roller Coaster Road and zoned C-I1. See Map R.

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 46, 105, 148, 161 and 235.

Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting July 16, 2012 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to July 19, 2012, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the 258-3869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning and Grants at 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

For a complete legal description or additional information regarding the appeal you may contact Jamie Erbacher at the same number or by e-mail at jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us

price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed

by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 18, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 18th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Bannock County, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Nationstar V Bauer 41706.508

Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued TO: Jennifer A. Hanson 6305 Timothy Ct Missoula, MT 59803-2761.

Recording Information: Book 792 of Micro Records at Page 432. Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Current Occupant. LINDA VISTA 06TH – SUPP, S12, T12N, R20W, BLOCK 2, Lot 1. 6305 Timothy Ct. Missoula, MT 59803-2761 Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation 343 Thornall Street Edison, NJ 08837. Recording Information: Book 723 of Micro Records at Page 1537 David W. Wilson and Loretta L. Wilson 6305 Timothy Ct Missoula, MT 59803-2761. Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: LINDA VISTA 06TH – SUPP, S12, T12N, R20W, BLOCK 2, Lot 1. Parcel # 3096807. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as : LOT 1 OF LINDA VISTA SIXTH SUPPLEMENT AND THE AMENDED PLAT OF LOT 10, BLOCK 2, LINDA VISTA THIRD SUPPLEMENT, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Parcel # 3096807. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 2, 2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Cynthia P. Larson, whose address is 1098 Foster City Blvd, Suite 106 – PMB 715, Foster City, CA 94404, and a tax deed will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax Penalty Interest Costs TOTAL $ 9,399.18 $ 187.96 $ 2,007.69 $ 334.21 $ 11,929.04. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 12, 2012. 8.For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of the redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Cynthia P. Larson, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-3271. Further notice for those persons listed above whose address are unknown: 1.The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 22nd day of June, 2012. Cynthia P. Larson

"British Invasion"–are you ready?

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 "Unbelievable" band of 1991 4 Wallflowers lead singer Dylan 9 Like much medicine 13 DiCaprio, to fans 14 Puget Sound city 15 Stupor 16 Writing assignment that, through complete luck, got an A? 18 Vowels that look like an H 19 Did away with Homer's neighbor for good?

21 He was joined on stage by a Tupac hologram in 2012 23 ___ out a living 24 Item rolled by gaming geeks 25 Axton of "Gremlins" 26 Exhale like a dog 29 "Bionic ___" (2007 NBC remake) 31 ___-Tzu (Chinese philosopher) 32 Song played on a sitar 33 Detergent brand 34 Band of John Wayne-loving computer programmers?

39 Come up short 40 It's good to hear after a spill 41 Freddy's street 43 Big bone 46 ___-rock 47 Popeye's kid ___'Pea 48 That, in Spanish 49 "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly ___ Jepsen 51 Stair part 52 Completely fooled one of the Beverly Hillbillies?

57 Color of un zafiro 58 Bumper sticker slogan for Stooges fans?

61 ___ and void 62 Fixed sock holes 63 56, in old Rome 64 "___ does that star-spangled banner..."

65 ___-Hawley Tariff 66 Have some havarti

DOWN

1 "The Santaland Diaries" occupation 2 "Spaceballs" director Brooks 3 Seeker's cry to the hider 4 Mock 5 Mil. school 6 Head of Germany?

7 Folded breakfast dish 8 Former Israeli prime minister 9 Took way too much 10 Warning on video games with lots of gore 11 Hank who voices Chief Wiggum 12 Take down a notch 14 Precocious kid 17 MTV mainstay Loder 20 City where Whitney Houston's funeral was held 21 Rival of UPS and FedEx 22 Word before hog or rage 26 Rate 27 In the past 28 Lowest point 30 ___-Wan Kenobi 32 Wanted poster word 33 Leaping creature 35 Pond fish 36 Punk offshoot 37 Song from "Licensed to Ill," with "The" 38 Show whose fans are named by adding "ks" to the title 42 Debussy's "La ___" 43 Selena's music genre 44 Rodeos and Troopers, e.g.

45 Actor Scott of "Quantum Leap" 46 Train in a 1974 movie title, or its 2009 remake 47 ___ Spin (classic toy) 50 Heartburn causes, maybe 51 No longer working: abbr.

53 Pocoyo's pachyderm friend 54 Prefix before space 55 Fighting word that means "hand," not "person" 56 ___-à-porter 59 Jefferson founded it 60 Model maker's need

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montanaheadwall.comMissoula Independent Classifieds Page C7 July 5 – July 12, 2012

PUBLIC NOTICES Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/01/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KIM KLAGES JOHNS, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES LLC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/28/2004 and recorded 02/03/2004, in document No. 200402977 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 725 at Page Number 1806 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL

DESCRIPTION: LOT 21 OF RIVER HEIGHTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. PARCEL NO. 3153908 Property Address: 8285 HAVEN HEIGHTS ROAD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 20045AR, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-5AR. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured

by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $245,758.28 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.75% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/21/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120045684 FEI NO. 1006.159907 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE.

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C8 July 5 – July 12, 2012

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/04/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M GORDON, AND RENEEA J GORDON, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY LICENSED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/03/2008 and recorded 10/08/2008, in document No. 200823029 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 814 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DE-

SCRIPTION: LOT 9A OF LOW’S ADDITION NO. 10, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE SEWER AND WATER EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF SAID SUBDIVISION. Property Address: 620 S GARFIELD ST, Missoula, MT 59801-2262. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the

beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $168,118.79 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 09/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/21/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 100110374 FEI NO. 1006.110532 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED

TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/05/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS J ADAMS, AND ANGELA D ADAMS, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/08/2006 and recorded 08/21/2006, in document No. 200621241 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 655 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DE-

PUBLIC NOTICES SCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS POLICY IS SITUATED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA, COUNTY OF MISSOULA, CITY OF MISSOULA, AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOTS 5 AND 6 IN BLOCK 5 OF WEST RIVERSIDE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. APN: 2039203 Property Address: 940 4TH WEST RIVERSIDE, Missoula, MT 59802-5710. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2012 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $158,248.06 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 03/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 5/22/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120047875 FEI NO. 1006.160001 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/05/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLARK G. ANDERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/25/2007 and recorded 05/31/2007, in document No. 200713508 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 798 at Page Number 594 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF TOWER LOTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 1125

TOWER STREET, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-12.

There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $194,451.04 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.02% per annum from 09/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110085495 FEI NO. 1006.142564 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JARED HEGGEN AND JENNIFER HEGGEN, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/16/2006 and recorded 08/22/2006, in document No. 200621349 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 763 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 45 OF MALONEY RANCH, PHASE VIII, AS A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE

OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6573 LOWER MILLER CREEK ROAD, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2007-J2 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-J2.

There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $1,662,837.92 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 02/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120045686 FEI NO. 1006.160835 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RONNIE L. SIMPSON, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), con-

veyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/07/2009 and recorded 10/26/2009, in document No. 200925608 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 849 at Page Number 856 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE S 1/2 OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 47A, JORDAN RANCHETTES, OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1135. Property Address: 2122 PROSPECT CT, Bonner, MT 598239607. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $239,669.22 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 08/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/05/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120017190 FEI NO. 1006.155031 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/16/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash,

the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DAVID O LARSON, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/08/2008 and recorded 04/09/2008, in document No. 200807824 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 816 at Page Number 1000 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 38 OF EAST MISSOULA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 213 CLYDE ST, Missoula, MT 598025406. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $180,898.85 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee

to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/04/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120053538 FEI NO. 1006.160932 NOTICE THAT A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Circle H Ranch LLC at 35 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey, 07901-3544; R.E. Loans, LLC doing business at 201 Layfayette Circle, Layfayette, CA 94549; Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC at 14241 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX, 75254; James F. Cozzeto & Blue Skies Development, unknown address; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, WEST POINTE LOT 15C OF WEST POINTE PHASE I 26-14-20. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, S26, T14 N, R20 W, BLOCK XXX, Lot 15C, WEST POINTE LOT 15C OF WEST POINTE PHASE I 26-14-20.

Parcel No. 3871709. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on 06/02/2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Brigitte Brazda whose address is P.O. Box 549, Post Falls, ID 83877, and a tax deed will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $549.17 Penalty: $10.98 Interest: $182.33 Costs: $213.29 Total: $955.77 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 19, 2012.

For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9.

If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Brigitte Brazda, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this June 22, 2012. Brigitte Brazda NOTICE THAT A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Circle H Ranch LLC at 35

Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey, 07901-3544; R.E. Loans, LLC doing business at 201 Layfayette Circle, Layfayette, CA 94549; Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC at 14241 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX, 75254; James F. Cozzeto & Blue Skies Development unknown address; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, LOT 23 OF WEST POINTE PHASE I. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, S26, T14 N, R20 W, BLOCK XXX, Lot 023, LOT 23 OF WEST POINTE PHASE I. Parcel No. 3876103. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on 06/02/2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Brigitte Brazda whose address is P.O. Box 549, Post Falls, ID 83877, and a tax deed will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $606.76 Penalty: $12.12 Interest: $201.43 Costs: $213.29 Total: $1,033.60. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 19, 2012. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Brigitte Brazda, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10.

The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2.

The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this June 22, 2012.

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1920 S. 14th St. “C” newer studios with a/c, w/d, Pergo flooring … $600 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bedroom near North Missoula Community Garden. $625 W/S/G paid. Off-street parking, storage. CLEAN! No smoking, no pets. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom near Shopko. $695 W/S/G paid. Off street parking, washer/dryer hookups, private deck. CLEAN! No smoking, no pets. GATEWEST 728-7333

2 bedroom on quiet cul-de-sac. $695 H/W/S/G paid, coin-op laundry, off street parking, D/W. CLEAN! No smoking, no pets.

GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom remodeled condo near Montana Club on Brooks $850.

W/S/G paid, dishwasher, W/D hookups, gas fireplace, covered carport, off street parking, storage. CLEAN! No pets, no smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

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2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath townhouse $750 S/G paid, W/D in unit, storage, carport & off-street parking.

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950-2,170 sq. ft. $895-$1,990 + merchant fees.

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RENTAL 2236 FOOTHILLS: : 2 BEDROOM, SOUTHHILLS, GREAT VIEWS OF MISSOULA, HOOKUPS, OFF-STREET PARKING, NICE BACK DECK!, SHARED YARD, NO PETS OR SMOKING ALLOWED $650. 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP. Garden City Property Management 5496106

CONDO!, MAIN FLOOR ON END, SOME WOOD FLOOR, DISHWASHER, DISPOSAL, HOOK-UPS, STORAGE, MICROWAVE, NO SMOKING, SMALL PET ALLOWED ! $895.

1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP. Garden City Property Management 549-6106

2339 Mary #2 2bed/1bath, HEAT PAID, lower unit, coin-ops on site, storage, near Reserve Street shopping. $600. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

3 bedroom, 2 bath house in great neighborhood. $1,300 S/G paid. D/W, fenced yard, lawn care provided, attached garage, off street parking.

CLEAN! No pets, no smoking.

GATEWEST 728-7333

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3714 W. Central #1 2bd/1ba, upper Target Range unit, w/d

hkups, shared yard, pet? $675.

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 Studio on quiet cul-de-sac. $495 H/W/S/G paid, coin-op laundry, off street parking, D/W. CLEAN! No smoking, no pets.

GATEWEST 728-7333

NICE BACK DECK!, SHARED YARD, NO PETS OR SMOKING ALLOWED $650. 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP. Garden City Property Management 5496106

Awesome Duplex 1521 S 4th St. West. Awesome duplex on beautiful tree-lined street near Good Food Store & bike trails: $279,900 porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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2236 FOOTHILLS: : 2 BEDROOM, SOUTHHILLS, GREAT VIEWS OF MISSOULA, HOOKUPS, OFF-STREET PARKING,

722 Bulwer. Garden-level studio, shared yard, central location, garage, cat? $575 Grizzly Property Management 5422060

1325 Linnea Lane. 4bed/2.5 bath, newer home, central location, DW, W/D hookups, pet okay. $1300. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bedroom 1 & bath condo, 2 years new! $750. Washer and

dryer in unit, dishwasher, garbage paid, covered parking.

CLEAN! No smoking. No pets.

GATEWEST 728-7333 2415 Mary. 2 bed, 1.75 bath house. Single garage, patio, fenced yard, W/D & DW. $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 4317 Larkspur 2bd/1ba ranch style, w/d hkups, single garage, dog? … $1150. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 9325 HWY 93 S: FOUR BEDROOM FARMHOUSE!, 2 STORY, RECENTLY REDONE!,

HOOK-UPS, DW, NEAR LOLO, 2 BATHROOMS, GAS FIREPLACE, NO SMOKING OR PETS ALLOWED $1,195. 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP. Garden City Property Management 5496106

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

Creek. Private backyard & patio. $189,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

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

541-547 South 2nd West. Wonderful 4-plex in great neighborhood. Suitable for condo conversion. Newer rubber membrane roof. $275,000. MLS #20120840 Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.541547s2ndst.com

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

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1537 Defoe. 2 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage near Lowell School. $167,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1641 Stoddard. 2 bed, 2 bath single-wide on large zoned lot. Commercial zoning. MLS #20116883. $99,500. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

2 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $184,999. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath Rose Park/Slant Streets home with a great yard. $249,000. Prudential Montana.

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

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

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

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon

6107 Brusett. 4 bed, 3 bath Martz home with 2 car garage & basement. Lower Miller Creek. MLS #20121397. $300,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749 6785 Prairie Schooner. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1/2 acre at end of quiet cul-de-sac. MLS #20122287. $259,900. Call Betsy 880-4747.

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

1400 Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/- acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house? Here it is! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 3608234 Character + and Ready to Move Into! Corner lot, close to schools, great trees, lots of upgrades, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, full basement, so much house for this price of $210,000. 240-5227 2107 Park St. porticorealestate.com

Energy-Efficient Sweet Bungalow in Slant Street ‘hood with double lot and raised beds ready to plant! 835 Rollins. $179,500. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views.

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

Call Anne for details. 546-5816 www.movemontana.com Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks. Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university.

Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $259,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Historic Preservation Award-Winning Marshall House Beautiful professional building with great design for offices or home and awesome exposure for business. 436 S 3rd W. $395,000 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $280,000. MLS #20120012. 9869 Lee’s Lane, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Rattlesnake Valley 909 Herbert. Perched amidst the trees and canopy of the Rattlesnake Valley, this home is a beauty! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Slant Street Condo 525A Cleveland. Upgraded and beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Slant Streets: $174,900 porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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

1725A Park Place. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1 car garage. Fenced, landscaped backyard. No HOA fees. $150,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail,com 2 Bdr, 1.5 Downtown Missoula condo. Zoned for Residential or Commercial use. $299,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2441 McIntosh. 2 bed, 2 bath.

Low-maintenance living in lovely 55+ community. MLS #20121579. $106,000. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Central Missoula Condo. $194,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 702A Charlo. Newly remodeled 3 bed, 1.5 bath on corner lot with single garage. Fenced yard with deck.

$155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone superinsulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900. Great downtown living!

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

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

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

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

Montana Preferred Properties.

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

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

Jeremy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 552-2410 601 West Broadway. .58 acre along Clark Fork River. MLS #20120935, $1,700,000. Jeremy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 552-2419

170 South 1st • Clinton • Quaint mini farm on 2.2 fenced acres close to Forest Service & river • 2 bed, 1 bath • 2 car garage & outbuildings • End-of-road privacy & lots of natural light

Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home!

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

1701stclinton.com • MLS #20123028 • $203,000

Looking for a place to call home?

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

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2238 Hillside Dr• South Hills

$155,000

Looking for homebuyer education?

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NEW LISTING! 15305 Spring Hill Frenchtown $595,000 MLS #20124330 • 4 bed, 2.5 bath cedar-sided home • Fireplace, large kitchen, 3 car garage • Over 3 acres bordering Forest Service

SELLER MOTIVATED TO SELL! 232 Cap de Villa • $219,900 • Well-maintained 4 bed, 1.5 bath • Fenced backyard with deck • Landscaped with UG sprinklers MLS #20116816

PRICE REDUCED! 101 Boardwalk • $315,000 • 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage • Zoned commercial with separate office MLS #20116174

PRICE REDUCED! 102 Boardwalk • $298,500 • 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • Zoned commercial with 48x30 shop MLS #20114242

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• 3 bed, 1.5 bath town home on quiet cul-desac • 2 car garage & fenced backyard • HOA $40/month include outside maintenance MLS #20124281

For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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Rochelle

Missoula Properties Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

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REAL ESTATE Lot 16A MacArthur. New 3 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage. Fantastic Missoula views.

MLS #20122947. $184,900.

Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hood. $65,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

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

Close to the river and Forest Service land. $208,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Potomac area home on 20 acres. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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

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

dential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Lolo End of Cul-de-sac Beauty Open, light, private, quiet and in immaculate condition.

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

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

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

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