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Voices The readers write.............................................................................................A-4 Street Talk It was the best of Missoula, it was the worst of Missoula........................A-4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time...................................A-6 Briefs Cost of a prison call, cities balk at medical marijuana, and buying the pharm.....A-6 Etc. What the papers aren’t telling you about the USS Billings..................................A-7 Opinion Voting fraud? What voting fraud? .................................................................A-8 Opinion A monument to why we need monuments ...............................................A-10 Insert At long last, it’s the 2017 Best of Missoula!

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Stephanie Frostad connects nature and politics ...............................................A-14 Music Cowboy Junkies, Toby Foster, Sneaky Bones.................................................A-17 Books Sherman Alexie’s tribute to his mother.........................................................A-18 Film The Beguiled: a gothic Bachelor.......................................................................A-20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ..................................................A-22 Starters Tacos with a cause at Locals Only...............................................................A-23 Happiest Hour Taste the Brasilience at Imagine Nation .........................................A-25 8 Days a Week And freedom rang on every damn one of ‘em................................A-26 Agenda A picnic celebrating the Americans with Disabilities Act.............................A-43 Mountain High Running with beer .........................................................................A-44

Exclusives

News of the Weird ...................................................................................................A-12 Classifieds ................................................................................................................A-45 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................A-46 Free Will Astrology ..................................................................................................A-48 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................A-52 This Modern World .................................................................................................A-54

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[voices]

STREET TALK

by Derek Brouwer

Asked Friday at the University of Montana Oval

This week’s Indy celebrates the people and businesses that make Missoula great. What’s your favorite thing about Missoula? Follow-up: What’s your least favorite thing about Missoula?

Tristen Ray Hollist: I don’t know, man, I love the sunsets. The mountains, man. There’s just something about here where you can’t beat it. Cruisin’ and carvin’: I can’t think of anything off the top of my head, but if I had to say something, it would probably be longboarders. I love longboarders, I just hate walking with them.

Scott Zeller: The river. I’m able to float, just hang out, relax, skip stones, catch fish if I need to. Traffic runs through it: I hate Reserve Street and I hate Russell Street. I try to avoid them at all costs.

Mandy Cunningham: My family that’s here. That’s probably my favorite thing about coming here. Otherwise, I love the trees and the river. There’s a plan? The road plan, the traffic.

Point, pickleballer

Not ‘ha-ha’ funny

No excuses

As one of the many “old guys and gals” who have embraced pickleball, gosh, I am so sorry the “old tennis guys” were politely asked to move to another court (“A pickleball rebellion at Playfair Park,” June 15). Goodness, there are only eight other courts available to tennis players at all times. And those courts are generally sparsely populated. The Zootown Pickleball community is one of the most welcoming groups in town. Parks and Rec teaches lessons twice each week at no charge. It is a sport particularly popular with the senior group for the “open play” concept of everyone welcome. We even have purchased quiet balls to reduce the noise level. Nearly every time we are on the pickleball courts, we apologize politely, sometimes even beg to ask the tennis folks if they could go to another court since we only have the four tennis courts that are lined for pickleball. Courts were built for us all to enjoy and share. Times are changing and sports are changing. As far as noise, these “old tennis players” object to the lovely joyful sounds of fun coming from our courts. Do they object to the joyful sounds of children playing at Splash Montana? As I tell anyone who will listen: Who would have thought at age 65 I would learn a new sport and meet so many wonderful people who have become true friends. Ruth Havican USA Pickleball Association Ambassador Missoula

I just want to know how they plan to enforce this rule? Are they going to install fingerprint scanners in front of every bathroom in Montana? This just seems like a waste of time to me. It’s funny, with all the talk of passing bills like this around the country, you would think we would see more articles regarding people being assaulted in restrooms… Denzel Allen facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Save our trailer courts! (“Concerned neighbors press for change at the Hollywood Mobile Home Park,” June 29.) They were our affordable housing before government decided to put everyone in HUD apartments. Don’t let them use this as an excuse to raze the place. Carol Minjares facebook.com/missoulaindependent

The bathroom agenda Kaelan Cunningham: The hiking and the outdoor activities you can do, like biking. If only more people biked: It’s the traffic. It’s so bad. Diagonal roads. They’re acute angles for some reason. It freaks me out a little bit.

Jess Sheldahl: My favorite thing about Missoula is the people here, because they’re really friendly but they’re also really weird. I also work for KBGA, so I get to talk to a lot of members of the community. It’s really diverse and cool. Fixing those roads: My least favorite thing about Missoula is the construction right now. I can’t go on the walking bridge under the Madison St. bridge, and that kind of ruined my summer.

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This group is attempting to impose its agenda in Montana in many ways (“The Montana Family Foundation wants to see your kid’s bathroom pass. You should wonder why,” June 29). Many of our elected representatives, including Daines, Gianforte, Fox, Arntzen and many state legislators, were backed by them. The criteria they use to decide to back a candidate are incredibly narrow and bigoted. Not only are they anti-LGBT, they also advocate for charter schools because they want the taxpayers to pay for their children’s private Christian school education. They have a right to their religious beliefs, but I don’t want them to impose them on me and my children. Traci Rasmusson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Moved on up

“Are they going to

We lived a block from there about 10 years ago. I lost count of how many times our cars were broken into at night. The apartment complex had this nice laundry area with coin-op machines. One day we got in there and the change machine had been pried off the wall. The TV in there was stolen twice. It was a crappy area to live, for sure. William C. Riley facebook.com/missoulaindependent

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Protect the water

Wolf reward Thank you for mentioning the reward fund that my organization, National Wolfwatcher Coalition, contributed to (“One wolf ’s journey from survivor to star, and what her death says about our appetite for the wild,” June 29). Let’s hope

scanners in front of every bathroom in Montana? This just seems like a waste of time to me.” the reward is large enough to get someone to come forward with information. Poachers, the “shoot, shovel and shut up” kinds, need to be caught and punished. They are taking from all of us. Thanks for keeping this in the news reminding people of the reward fund. Candy Copeland missoulanews.com

At what price? I would title the story “At What Price?” (“City cuts a check, takes ownership of Missoula’s water system,” June 22). The mayor was either an idiot or pretended to be an idiot (when it comes to his cost prediction). Missoula is famous for being so expensive by Montana standards that most take for granted that when their children become adults they will need to move some place they can afford, with a job that pays enough to live well. It starts with a premise that Missoula has to grow. Add all the other costs piled onto the water company takeover. Seems pretty crazy for a city of our size to be obligated to so much debt, and mostly getting money from property taxes. Glen Bumgardner missoulanews.com

Here in Montana, summertime always reminds us why we care about clean water. Thanks to the Clean Water Act, many of the places we go swimming, fishing or paddling—like the Clark Fork river— are now cleaner. That’s why I was so appalled to learn that the EPA is proposing to repeal key protections for Montana’s waterways. Finalized in 2015 with widespread public and scientific support, the Clean Water Rule restored federal protections to 63 percent of Montana’s streams, which feed waterways like the Clark Fork and help provide drinking water to 234,219 Montanans. The rule also protects wetlands, which help filter out pollutants and provide wildlife habitat. More than 800,000 Americans—including doctors and nurses, businesses, mayors, farmers and local organizations— urged the EPA to adopt the Clean Water Rule. Yet the new EPA is now proposing to dismantle it. Repealing this rule turns the mission of the EPA on its head: Instead of protecting our rivers, lakes, and streams, the Trump administration would leave them open to pollution. It defies common sense, sound science and the will of the people of Montana. EPA should reconsider this reckless repeal and stand up for Montana’s waterways. Skye Borden Director, Environment Montana Missoula Clarification: A story in the June 29 issue about a no-hate rally in Kiwanis Park (“Pepe goes to a picnic”) misidentified Yolanda Garcia as African-American. She is black and Puerto Rican. The Indy and reporter Derek Brouwer regret the error.

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[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, June 28 For the first time this year, Glacier National Park opens the entirety of Going-to-theSun Road, which stretches 50 miles and climbs more than 3,000 feet to Logan Pass. Don’t worry about covering it too quickly— there’s still construction.

Thursday, June 29 The Commissioner of Political Practices rules that Gov. Steve Bullock’s 2016 campaign didn’t report expenditures for his use of the state plane in a timely manner. The commissioner tells the Associated Press a financial settlement is likely.

Friday, June 30 The Montana Secretary of State’s office says it won’t release certain voter information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers, that was requested by President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud.

Saturday, July 1 The inaugural Meagherfest Intn’l, a festival honoring Montana’s storied Irish territorial governor with speakers and music, takes place in Helena. Thomas Francis Meagher died when he fell off a steamboat near Fort Benton 150 years ago.

Calls from prison

Please insert another coin The Montana Public Service Commission is grappling with the question of how much to charge prisoners for phone calls made from municipal and county detention facilities. The commission opened the issue for public comment on June 19, after the state Legislature’s capping of prison phone rates earlier this year. Solicitation of comments closed July 3, and the PSC is now evaluating them. House Bill 426, introduced by Rep. Jean Price, D-Great Falls, capped the price of phone calls made by state prisons inmates at 10 cents per minute, lowered from 25 cents. But municipal and county detention facilities aren’t affected by the new law. Further complicating the issue is the Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to cease its push for lower prison rates nationwide, ending an initiative that had been pressed at least since 2013, according to the Washington Post. That change of direction was implemented shortly after President Donald Trump named Ajit Pai head of the FCC. That leaves individual states to set their own rates. The current rate cap, set by Montana’s PSC

in 2015, is $1.16 per minute. Individual city and county detention centers have the authority to charge prisoners any rate up to and including that amount. (The Missoula Sheriff ’s office was unable to provide the rate that inmates in the Missoula County Detention Center are charged for calls.) Chris Puyear, communications director for the PSC, says the charges are intended to cover the expense incurred in providing telecommunications to prisoners. Overall use of operator-assisted calls has declined for years, but it remains common in local and state facilities, according to a PSC press release. Puyear says the current rate was calculated by taking the average call rate for operator-assisted calls and adding 50 percent. Excessive rates can be a burden on the families of the incarcerated, who sometimes cover the cost of calls made by inmates, and can make keeping in regular contact costly. A 30-minute phone call at the current rate cap costs about $34.80. “The largest benefit [to lowering rates] is that it reduces a burden on families who are trying to stay in touch with loved ones who are behind bars,” Puyear says. “In many cases we're talking about some of Montana’s most vulnerable citizens.” Michael Siebert

Buying the pharm

Merc developer gets tax help Mercantile developer Andy Holloran began his visit with Missoula Redevelopment Agency board members June 30 by expressing relief. The pharmacy portion of the now-deconstructed Missoula Mercantile building had been spared from collapse after mishaps had put its survival at risk. Had the pharmacy toppled, it would have jeopardized the $3.6 million in tax assistance Holloran had come to the MRA board to seek. Phew! Catastrophe apparently averted, the Bozeman-based developer was able to focus his presentation on showing off the latest design of the custom Marriott Residence Inn, for which he plans to break ground July 10. City officials had fully expected Holloran to seek tax-increment financing help for his controversial $38 million project. The site is in the middle of one of the city’s six urban renewal districts, where new property tax revenues are pooled and reinvested to address blight. The former Merc building, as MRA director Ellen Buchanan said at the meeting, had been “the epitome of blight.”

Sunday, July 2 Championship Sunday at the 119th annual Arlee Esyapqeyni celebration of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille tribes welcomes hundreds of people for dance and drumming contests. The pow wow wrapped up with a July 4 parade.

None of your business”

Monday, July 3 The Missoula County Fire Protection Association upgrades the county’s fire danger to “high,” citing an expected heat wave and dry grasses and shrubs. The ban on debris burning is still in place.

Tuesday, July 4 America celebrates its first Independence Day with Donald Trump as president. Trump tweets a video of a church choir’s performance of propagandistic schmaltz titled “Make America Great Again.” Public discourse weeps.

—Response to questions on a state financial disclosure form submitted last year by Billings legislative candidate David Lewis. The form was accepted without question, part of a failing legislative ethics accountability system as described in a July 3 story by the Lee Enterprises State Bureau.

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[news] The new building, on the other hand, will feature all the amenities of a modern extendedstay hotel and more. Holloran detailed plans for 22,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, showed renderings of the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rustic lobby, which will include wood salvaged from the former Merc, and explained the interior alleyway, dubbed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mews,â&#x20AC;? that celebrates the razed structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contributions to Missoula. The show-and-tell presentation was crucial to Holloranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $3.6 million ask. The Merc project is unusual in that it arrived at the MRA with conditions already attached by City Council. In approving a demolition permit last year, council made Holloran commit to building the Marriott according to design concepts he had already presented, including preservation of the pharmacy. MRA board members and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new historic preservation officer, Emy Scherrer, pressed Holloran on exterior design choices, including a large amount of stucco-like siding, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t demand any changes. Holloran had also committed to deconstructing the Merc, rather than demolishing it outright, so that historic materials could be salvaged. Just over half of the tax-increment financing awarded to the project is intended to defray deconstruction and preservation costs. Most of the nearly $300,000 in annual taxes the project is estimated to generate will be used to pay off the TIF bond over the next 25 years. As MRA board members prepared to vote, one Missoula resident in the audience asked Holloran what would happen if the tax assistance was denied. That would â&#x20AC;&#x153;stressâ&#x20AC;? the project, he replied. The MRA board approved the funding unanimously. Derek Brouwer

Not in my town

Balking at medical pot A â&#x20AC;&#x153;coming soonâ&#x20AC;? sign in the window of Choteau businessman Jim Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Main Street building is not being well received. Local governments across rural Teton County sprang into action as word spread that Anderson, owner of Grizzly Sports and Auto, was leasing part of his space to a medical marijuana dispen-

sary. The town of Fairfield, 18 miles away, banned pot dispensaries in city limits, and in late June Choteau imposed a 90-day moratorium against such businesses. Anderson isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t surprised. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fear thing,â&#x20AC;? he says. He should know. Anderson voted to ban dispensaries in 2010 as a member of Choteau City Council. That ban expired in 2013, and now the self-professed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Montana redneckâ&#x20AC;? finds himself on the other side of the debate. Nothing in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new medical marijuana law, ushered in by last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I-182 ballot initiative, prohibits local governments from curtailing dispensaries within their jurisdictions. For years, some of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Billings, Great Falls, Kalispell and Helenaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have done just that. While dispensaries in those areas operate just outside city limits, bans in small towns could make it difficult for cardholders in rural areas to acquire medicine. The scope of such prohibitions is unclear, as the Department of Public Health and Human Services, the state agency administering the new program, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t track local regulations, according to a spokesperson. Bloom Montana, which operates three dispensaries near Billings and Helena, is scheduled to open in Choteau later this summer (Bloom partner Nick Frentsos declined to comment). Anderson says he signed a 10-year lease with Bloom after receiving the go-ahead from the mayor and city attorney in April. But at a recent public hearing livestreamed online by the Choteau Acantha, city officials expressed concern that state marijuana regulations have yet to take full effect, and one resident urged officials to â&#x20AC;&#x153;keep our town pristine.â&#x20AC;? Anderson, who according to the Acantha â&#x20AC;&#x153;led the chargeâ&#x20AC;? against dispensaries in 2010 by comparing them to strip clubs, says todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s op-

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19 million Miles biked annually by Missoulians over the course of 8.2 million annual trips, according to estimates in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bicycle Facilities Master Plan. The plan, adopted by City Council on June 26, analyzed Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike infrastructure and made recommendations for improvements. ponents misunderstand medical marijuanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clientele. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the snowflakes, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the millennials, it was the baby boomers who voted this in,â&#x20AC;? he says of I-182. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re old and worn out, and if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go with the old medical approach â&#x20AC;Ś then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to find alternatives.â&#x20AC;? Anderson says he reconsidered his view on medical marijuana after he and his wife developed â&#x20AC;&#x153;brain growths,â&#x20AC;? though he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a patient himself and says he voted against I-182. Money, too, has a way of changing hearts. In Billings, councilman Shaun Brown suggested during a March discussion that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d reconsider the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban if medical marijuana generated more tax revenue. And in Choteau, Anderson says leasing to a dispensary allows him to stay afloat in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Main Street America.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, if I want to stay in business in Choteau and pay these high taxes they impose on me, this is an alternative.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Based on his verbal agreement with the city, Anderson says his tenant plans to open shop in August, despite the 90-day moratorium. If the city reneges and attempts to enforce its new rule, Anderson says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;this obviously will be settled in court.â&#x20AC;? Derek Brouwer

ETC. Ah, Independence Day, when Americans hork hot dogs, wrap ourselves in Old Glory and patriotically violate the United States Flag Code with our stars and stripes T-shirts. This year, Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but mainly Billingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;had extra reason to celebrate. Just in time for the 4th of July, the U.S. Navy pushed a new warshipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the USS Billingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;into Lake Michigan. And boy did Billings celebrate. Mayor Tom Hanel, three Billings city councilors and Sen. Jon Testerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Sharla, traveled to the Wisconsin shipyard to christen the vessel. And the Billings Gazette sent a reporter and a photographer to Wisconsin to document it all. They captured Sharla Tester, the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sponsor, contributing a jar of Montana dirt to a mastsetting ceremony and breaking a champagne bottle on the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, this is just â&#x20AC;Ś wow,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Tester as she climbed onto the 389-foot long shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deck,â&#x20AC;? the Gazette reported. The USS Billings is part of the Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing fleet of â&#x20AC;&#x153;littoral combat ships,â&#x20AC;? or LCSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a new Swiss-army knife of a warship thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small, agile and able to perform the functions of larger vessels. That was the plan, anyway. Near the bottom of one Gazette story was brief mention of trouble in the LCS program. The reference was forgiving, alluding to â&#x20AC;&#x153;breakdownsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative publicity.â&#x20AC;? A Pentagon evaluator was more direct, writing in a 2016 report that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ship is not reliable.â&#x20AC;? The hull of one LCS vessel cracked after two months on the water, and subsequent ships have been plagued by problems and cost overruns. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve even earned a nickname within naval ranks: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Crappy Ships.â&#x20AC;? Taxpayers are spending more than $300 million each for these warships, and Sen. Tester, as a member of the appropriations subcommittee on military construction, is responsible for oversight of the LCS program. (Perhaps not coincidentally, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also received $13,000 in campaign contributions from LCS contractor Lockheed Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employee PAC.) But Tester has another kind of accountability on his mind. He assured the Great Falls Tribune last month that he will continue pushing the Navy to name a boat for Montana, â&#x20AC;&#x153;which he said is the only state to not have a warship named after it.â&#x20AC;? Correction: There was a WWI-era USS Montana, but its name was later changedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the USS Missoula.

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What fraud? For a columnist and a president, it’s the ‘Best Of’ times by Dan Brooks

This year’s Best of Missoula issue marks a historic victory for one of our town’s most beloved institutions: me. Granted, I did not win the popular vote. I owe my victory to peculiarities in the Best of Missoula electoral college, which divides the ballots into geographic districts and then assigns each district to a raccoon. The raccoons race toward a ham sandwich, with the fastest going on to select the Best Journalist by biting him. The winning raccoon bit the bejeezus out of me this year. That was lucky, since some other candidates technically got more votes than I did—including Derek, Alex, Erika and certain prolific users of the comments section. Still, I deserved to win. Because of the mainstream media’s bias in favor of “reporters” who disseminate “facts” that are “accurate,” the ballot system does not reflect the will of the people. Only the raccoon system can do that. I have also heard from credible sources that many readers voted illegally. This fraud concerns me, since I am a fervent believer in the integrity of our Best of Missoula electoral system. Although my victory is huge and impressive, it would have been even bigger if 3 to 5 million ballots had not been cast by Missoulian readers, Californians and other aliens who are forbidden by law from voting in the Indy readers’ poll. Again, the raccoon thing is what matters. Readers, editors, emergency room physicians—they all agree it was stunning and historic how much I won that part. But I would have won the popular vote, too, if it weren’t for fraud. As Missoula’s best journalist, I’m calling for a thorough investigation into this year’s poll to find instances of readers voting illegally. I already know about several million, of course, but they’re secret. I want you to find them. I was going to just take my rod and scepter and go home, but I decided to follow the example of that other historic winner and steward of secret facts, President Trump. Last week, his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity asked states to supply data about voters in

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the 2016 election, including names, addresses, partial Social Security numbers, party affiliations and veteran status. According to the White House, the commission will use that information to conduct a “thorough review of registration and voting issues in federal elections.” This review will presumably find evidence proving that 3 to 5 million immigrants voted illegally in the presidential election, as Trump already said they

“As Missoula’s best journalist, I’m calling for a thorough investigation into this year’s poll to find instances of readers voting illegally. I already know about several million, of course, but they’re secret. I want you to find them.” did. It’s a classic application of the scientific method. First, you tell the world what you know is true. Then you find evidence for it. As a journalist, I use this approach all the time. It’s how I broke powerful, anonymously sourced stories about recent sightings of Bigfoot in Greenough Park, Mayor John Engen’s connections to the Rothschild family and health code violations by a certain downtown restaurant

my lawyers beg me to stop mentioning. All of these are real news stories the fake media doesn’t want you to hear. When evidence for them finally emerges, everyone will agree I am the best journalist in town. They already agree with that, but soon they will agree even more, and my victory will be huger. In the meantime, I must contend with naysayers. In this way, too, I resemble President Trump. Although he has already used the authority of his office to alert us to a level of voter fraud that is literally unheard of, haters and losers refuse to believe him. They say that he shouldn’t make sweeping claims without “evidence,” but then they won’t even help him gather it. More than two dozen states have declined to fully comply with the presidential commission’s requests. Montana’s own director of elections and voter services, Derek Oestreicher, has said his office will not release any confidential voter information. Although data like names and registrations are publicly available, the state’s voter files do not include birth dates or Social Security numbers. It’s a frustrating turn of events. How is the president going to prove millions of people voted illegally when no evidence of that happening exists? It’s another example of how the media, the states and available information are all against him. At times like these, President Trump must remain strong. I didn’t get where I am today by waiting for evidence to support my public statements, and neither should he. Now is the time to do something about voter fraud, both across the United States and in the Best of Missoula poll. If we wait until we can prove that fraud is happening, it will be too late. We must take action now, before the raccoon of democracy is returned to the cage of evidencebased reasoning. You won’t hear me caterwauling about “proof.” As a real American, I say we should let freedom bite. Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and unjust poll results at combatblog.net.

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[opinion]

Sequoia in absentia A California reminder of what national monuments are for by Zach St. George

The old logging roads are grown over with brush and trees, and the smaller trails have faded to faint lines in the duff, barely visible enough to follow. The only human artifacts I’ve seen in two days of hiking are a rusty cable and a sun-bleached Tecate beer can. The only signs of what happened here are the stumps themselves. I’m in California’s Sierra Nevada, in a valley called Converse Basin, a corner of what is currently Giant Sequoia National Monument. I say “currently” because Giant Sequoia is one of the 20-odd monuments whose status is under review by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. While I hope for this entire monument’s continued protection, Converse Basin is not so much a natural wonder as the glaring absence of one. Between the dry ridgelines are wet alpine meadows, and in these meadows, scattered amid the pines, firs and cedars, lie the ruins of what was once the world’s greatest forest of giant sequoia trees. This place is a monument to why we need monuments. The sequoias are among the biggest and oldest living things on Earth, which in one way suggests their toughness. It took a crew of men three weeks to fell its first sequoia; lacking a saw big enough for the job, the workers attacked it with an auger, drilling hole after hole after hole until it finally toppled. What other tree could resist so long? But the sequoias are few, just 70odd groves scattered along the central Sierra Nevada’s west flank. Their rarity makes it clear that, for all their toughness, they are also fragile—and made more so by the attention they attract. In the northern groves, where European-Americans first found them, few sequoia could be found, and people cut them as trophies. “Many a poor, defrauded town dweller will pay his dollar and peep,” John Muir wrote. “But a true and living knowledge of these tree gods is not to be had at so cheap a rate.” I’ve seen these museum exhibits, and they are impressive, but Muir is right. It is dif-

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ferent to stand before the living trunks, to look up and up and be made small. But people did much worse than take a few trophies. As miners, loggers, and explorers crisscrossed the jagged mountains, they discovered the bigger southern groves, where the sequoias were the dominant trees in the forest.

“Between the dry ridgelines are wet alpine meadows, and in these meadows, scattered amid the pines, firs and cedars, lie the ruins of what was once the world’s greatest forest of giant sequoia trees. This place is a monument to why we need monuments.” To many, these plentiful groves suggested that the trees could be not mere curiosities, but commodities. Thanks to lobbying by Muir and other early conservationists, Congress created Sequoia and General Grant (now Kings Canyon) national parks in 1890, protecting many of the biggest groves. But just a few miles from the new national parks, workmen swarmed

through Converse Basin, building roads and mills. In photos, these loggers stand on the stumps clutching saws and axes, wearing suspenders and brimmed hats, their faces blank. They are immigrants and Civil War veterans, with kids to feed and rent coming due—working men with the most relatable problems. Writing of that era, historians often hasten to shift blame to the lumber barons themselves. Part of that is true: Hiram Smith and Austin Moore were the ones who built the mill and sent the sequoias sailing down from Converse. But they only did what many business owners would do, then or now, given the option. Timberlands were cheap and the burgeoning West was hungry for lumber. But that is not their legacy. I walk the logging roads, cutting across hillsides now covered with regrown woods. Here and there are the big stumps. The sequoias often splintered when they hit the ground. Other times, they were just too big to buck. In what is now called Stump Meadow, the wasted boles lie crowded together like the columns of a fallen Greek temple. In the evening, I sit on one of the stumps and have my dinner, listening to the frogs. It is a mournful place. Many young sequoias grow at the edges of this meadow and the others. Maybe someday people will travel to Converse Basin to see its giant trees. Maybe by then, the stumps will have rotted away and people will have forgotten the destruction. Maybe they’ll even have forgotten the name of John Muir, who by his foresight made himself memorable. It’s more certain that there will still be people looking for work, with kids to feed and rent to pay. In their need, they will often want to take for themselves things that are big and rare and old, and they will probably often take them. But hopefully not all of them. Zach St. George is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News, hcn.org. He is a writer in Oakland, California.

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[offbeat]

PLAYING THE HITS – Weird news is forever, but this is my last “News of the Weird” column, as I am now exhausted after almost 30 years in the racket. In this final edition, I remember a few of my favorites. My deep thanks to Andrews McMeel Syndication and to readers, who started me up and kept me going. Y’all take care of yourselves. —Chuck Shepherd (1995) Chesapeake, Virginia, inmate Robert Lee Brock filed a $5 million lawsuit against Robert Lee Brock—accusing himself of violating his religious beliefs and his civil rights by getting himself drunk enough that he could not avoid various criminal behaviors. He wrote: “I want to pay myself five million dollars (for this breach of rights), but ask the state to pay it in my behalf since I can’t work and am a ward of the state.” In April, the lawsuit was dismissed. (1996) A pre-trial hearing was scheduled for Lamar, Missouri, on Joyce Lehr’s lawsuit against the county for injuries suffered in a 1993 fall in the icy, unplowed parking lot of the local high school. The Carthage Press reported that Lehr claimed damage to nearly everything in her body. According to her petition: “All the bones, organs, muscles, tendons, tissues, nerves, veins, arteries, ligaments ... discs, cartilages, and the joints of her body were fractured, broken, ruptured, punctured, compressed, dislocated, separated, bruised, contused, narrowed, abrased, lacerated, burned, cut, torn, wrenched, swollen, strained, sprained, inflamed, and infected.” (2002) From time to time “News of the Weird” reported on the fluctuating value of the late Italian artist Piero Manzoni’s personal feces, which he canned in 1961, 30 grams at a time in 90 tins, as art objects (though, over the years, 45 have reportedly exploded). Their price to collectors has varied (low of about $28,000 for a tin in 1998 to a high of $75,000 in 1993). In June 2002, the Tate Gallery in London excitedly announced it had purchased tin number 004 for about $38,000. (The price of 30 grams of gold in 2002 was a little over $300.) (1994) The New York Daily News reported in April on a cellblock fight between murderers Colin Ferguson and Joel Rifkin at the Nassau County jail. Reportedly, Ferguson (convicted of six race-related murders on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993) was using a telephone and told Rifkin (a serial killer serving 203 years for nine murders) to be quiet. According to the Daily News source, Ferguson told Rifkin, “I wiped out six devils (white people), and you only killed women.” Rifkin allegedly responded, “Yeah, but I had more victims.” Ferguson then allegedly ended the brief incident by punching Rifkin in the mouth. (1999) At Last! A Job That Actually Requires Geometry! Commissioners in Florida’s Seminole County and Manatee County passed ordinances regulating public nudity by requiring women to cover at least 25 percent of the area of their breasts and at least 33 percent of the buttocks, with detailed instructions as to the points from which each coverage must be measured. (Refresher for law enforcement: The lateral area of a cone is pi (times) r (times) s where r=radius and s=slant height; for the surface area of a sphere, it’s pi (times) r (squared), and, alas, for a flat surface, it’s length times width.) (1998) On the day before Good Friday, reported the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Ernesto A. Moshe Montgomery consecrated the Shrine of the Weeping Shirley MacLaine in a room in the Beta Israel Temple in Los Angeles. Inspired by an image he said he had while riding in the actress’s private jet, Montgomery said a subsequent large photograph of him with MacLaine was “observed shedding tears,” which had inspired prayers and testimony of miraculous healings. (2001) A child pornography investigation in Minneapolis turned up 1,000 suspect images on the office computer of a 58-year-old University of Minnesota classics professor—named Richard Pervo. (1993) In May, Elk River, Minnesota, landlord Todd Plaisted reported that his tenant Kenneth Lane had fled the area, abandoning his rented farmhouse and leaving behind at least 400 tons of used carpeting, at least 10,000 plastic windows from Northwest Airlines planes, and rooms full of sofas, mattresses and washing machines, among other things. Lane told townspeople he ran a “recycling” company, but there was no evidence of sales. A deputy sheriff driving by the farmhouse the year before saw Lane burying carpeting with a tractor and said Lane merely muttered, “I don’t know what to say. You got me. I can’t even make up an excuse.” (1990) An FBI investigation into interstate trafficking by diaper fetishists resulted in the arrests of five men belonging to an organization called the Diaper Pail Foundation, which has a letterhead and publishes a newsletter and information exchange for members. A Madison, Wisconsin, man, arrested in April for possession of child pornography, was found inside a van taking pictures of a child relieving himself. The man had offered service to the child’s parents as a toilet trainer. (1992) The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in June on the local “Silent Meeting Club,” consisting of several people who gather at various spots around town and make it a point not to speak to each other. Founder John Hudak said his inspiration was his observation that people often feel obligated to talk when they really have nothing to say, such as at parties, and wondered how nice it would be “to have a group of people where you wouldn’t have to talk.” (1988) And, from the very first “News of the Weird” column came good ol’ Hal Warden, the Tennessee 16-year-old who was married at 15 and granted a divorce from his wife, 13. Hal had previously been married at age 12 to a 14-year-old (and fathered children with both), but the first wife divorced Hal because, as she told the judge, “He was acting like a 10-year-old.”

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[arts]

Over the wall Stephanie Frostad connects nature and politics by Erika Fredrickson

ast summer, artist Stephanie Frostad became preoccupied with walls. Donald Trump had yet to be elected president, but his campaign was in full force and single-mindedly focused on building a wall between Mexico and the United States. “I was thinking about what the appeal of a wall was,” Frostad says. “Even metaphorically, how is that resonating with people? It felt so troubling to me.” Frostad’s obsession with drawing walls became just as single-minded. Her walls were not the smooth, looming blockades of Trump’s imagination, though. They were dry-stone structures like those she’d seen in pictures of Irish pastures, and, like so much of her work, they were anachronistic in content and steeped in quiet beauty. They were also dark. Frostad deploys people and wild animals to depict tension, and in one piece, Frostad drew a coyote loping by a stone wall, nose in the air. It’s a riff on the human “coyotes” who help smuggle immigrants across the border, she says. But even her unpopulated images of walls contain their own eerie character. They feel on the verge, like a pastoral dream that might at any moment turn nightmare. By winter, Frostad had reached her limit with walls. She never did answer her own question about the appeal of Trump’s wall, but she did discover a love for the artisanal wall styles she depicted, with their gates and stiles and little archway paths for small animals. They were walls, yes, but walls that allowed for passage, and were built from earthen materials. “I had almost a villainous sense of what a wall was when I started the inquiry,” Frostad says. “But dry-stone walls are made of the place, and they can be returned to the place. You don’t import millions of dollars of steel and wreck the environment in an effort to erect such a wall.” Frostad destroyed a lot of her wall paintings (“They just didn’t go the way I wanted them to,” she says), but a few remain, and some of those will be on display at the Radius Gallery for Sonnets, an exhibit she shares with ceramicist Julia Galloway. The show’s title is based on D.G. Rosetti’s 1880 poem, which begins, “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument.” Frostad and Galloway chose pieces that work as reflection and rumination, though the artists offer starkly different tones. Galloway’s striking pottery is meant to be a celebration of simple pleasures and daily routines. Frostad’s works depict the moment before something is about to happen, and in that sense they can be disconcerting.

Stephanie Frostad’s diptych “Aftermath” is part of Sonnets, a new exhibit at Radius Gallery.

Frostad is a prolific artist who studied at Baltimore’s Maryland Institute College of Art and has been working in Missoula since she entered graduate school at the University of Montana in 1992. All the pieces Frostad chose for Sonnets feature accessible imagery. “Prodigal” has a boy basking on a hill above a freshly mowed hayfield. “Second Wind II” shows a windswept woman in a field holding the handle of a hoe as a flock of sparrows flies over her head. “Overseen” depicts an owl perched on a barn

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window, through which we can see a woman surveying the soil. As easy as they are on the eye, clues within provide tension. For instance, the owl looms over the woman, as if we are seeing the world from its point of view. “The owl seems benevolent, but there’s something also a little disconcerting about dwarfing the human subject,” Frostad says. “It subordinates the human drama into something else. It suggests a different thing about our relationship to nature.”

Frostad has been compared to regionalist artists like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, and there are similarities, but Frostad’s intent is based in feminism and social justice work, though subtly rendered. “There’s a lot to admire in the regionalists’ work,” Frostad says, “especially in the context of other American art movements of that time. But I think they’ve really consistently had a vision of white male dominion in relationship to all people and earth itself. And while I don’t consider myself a reactionary, I think my work takes a huge philosophical departure from them in that regard, whatever stylistic comparisons might be made.” Drawing is Frostad’s first love, and you can see that in her work. Even the most paint-saturated piece of her work could be drained of color and still maintain its pictorial presence. Some of her pieces look more like drawings than paintings, such as the images of women holding tools, which show only their hands against the backdrop of dresses and earth. Unable to see their faces, we’re left to guess their emotional state, but Frostad has captured determination in their grips. “I felt like I was creating this team, an army of women prepared to go out and cultivate what we need to sustain us,” she says. The stories behind Frostad’s pieces are expansive. “Second Wind I” and “Second Wind II” were inspired by the mythological furies, which Sophocles referred to as “daughters of earth and shadow.” Those paintings are especially dark in tone, and they came to her, Frostad says, in connection with her own fury at national politics. “Maybe the optimist and pessimist in me are in a continual dance or conflict,” she says. “I don’t want to put forward a negative vision, and I don’t want to be euphemistic either. And since I already seek beauty in my work, sometimes that feels like enough.” Especially revealing are the animals she depicts. Frostad says she paints animals as a celebration of nature, but, at least in Sonnets, they also seem to represent insurgency. The sparrows flying overhead in “Second Wind II” appear to have a fierce purpose. For Frostad, these small birds are the perfect example of activism’s role in fighting social injustice and the divisiveness of walls. “We can mass like sparrows,” she says. “We may be individually inconspicuous, but in our numbers we have a certain significance.” Sonnets opens with an exhibit preview at the Radius Gallery Thu., July 6, from 4 to 6 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Trinity forever Revisiting Cowboy Junkies’ perfect album Cowboy Junkies released 16 studio albums across their now 32-year career, but you’ll be forgiven if you’ve only heard the most popular one. Recorded in 1987, The Trinity Session is a hallmark in the world of alternative country, an album simultaneously subdued and bursting with loneliness and longing. That album solidified the Junkies’ status as alt-country giants, the Canadian siblings who created a damn-near perfect work of art. The Trinity Session is no clever title. With the exception of the a cappella opening track “Mining for Gold,” the entirety of the album was recorded in a single day at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto. It received no overdubs, mixing or mastering—in fact, it was recorded with a single overhead microphone. The church’s natural reverb saturates the album in a distinctive air of despera-

tion, like if Julee Cruise recorded a country record. The Timmins siblings wrote originals, and they are undeniably gorgeous, (see tracks “Misguided Angel” and “I Don’t Get It”). But their covers of other artists’ material are absolutely sublime, particularly their renditions of Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.” Now, without an album to tour behind, the band is making a stop in Missoula for a July 9 performance at the Top Hat. The show has sold out, but if you didn’t snag a ticket, you can still throw The Trinity Session on your car stereo and go on a long, solitary nighttime drive. It’s how it was meant to be heard. (Michael Siebert) Cowboy Junkies play the Top Hat Sun., July 9, at 9 PM. Sold out.

Toby Foster, 100 Ways There’s plenty to relate to on Toby Foster’s new album. For instance: Wishing we were younger and freer and healthier. Making promises to ourselves to live better, and then breaking them. 100 Ways is an album that sports all the hooks, shiny guitar riffs, welling pop-punk choruses and crisp drum beats necessary to deliver a sense of giddy melodrama. For those of us not still in college or in our 20s, 100 Ways is more nostalgic than immediate, especially since it evokes, just a little bit, bands like Jawbreaker and, if you were around in 1990s Missoula, the Oblio Joes. Foster, from Indiana, mines the manic rootlessness that people feel after they leave home and set foot in the “real world”

(though let’s be real: Restlessness isn’t just for the young). “Hands” and “The Settling” are both pop-perfect anthems, and “Restless, Tired, Uneasy,” is a good example of the way Foster captures youthful middle-class American angst with compassion and jabbing humor. “I’m feeling sentimental for lost T-shirts, certain hand soaps and math homework,” he sings. It sounds silly on the surface, but Foster’s sentiments are also about memory and time and the other ephemera that keep us awake at night. (Erika Fredrickson) Toby Foster plays the ZACC Below Fri., July 7, at 7 PM.

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Sneaky Bones Matthew Bean, aka Sneaky Bones, has a few dark things to say about the passage of time. On “Eternity,” off 2015’s Dream of the End, he sings about how time tricks us into thinking we’re wiser. “It can’t help being mean,” he sings. But the song also mocks the universal verities: The wind can’t walk the way you and I do, and the sea can’t love, and somewhere in that knowledge, Bean finds satisfaction. “Let’s take time away from eternity,” he sings, and somehow the song ends up feeling optimistic. Sneaky Bones’ upcoming album, High As the Stars, won’t be out until early August, but Bean will be in Missoula this week playing some of his new alt-coun-

try tunes. The Seattleite grew up listening to Paul Simon, Gram Parsons and the Grateful Dead, and he’s spent his young adulthood marinating in the music of Ryan Adams and Elliott Smith. His songs have the dusky loveliness that Adams brought to Whiskeytown, the kind that comes from both determination and damage. Songs like “Dreams” are glorious with pedal steel, but watching videos of Sneaky Bones playing them with just a guitar (which is how I expect this tour to present them) doesn’t diminish the effect of their burn-this-world-to-the-ground loveliness. (Erika Fredrickson) Sneaky Bones plays Draught Works Sat., July 8, from 6 to 8 PM.

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[books]

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Look: Sherman Alexie is a liar. He said so him- Some of those poems read like prayers. Some comself. He is also a relentless truth-seeker. In the first ment on events like a Greek chorus. Some feel like chapter of You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me—his spells, or curses. But they are all bits of a larger fabnew memoir about his mother, Lillian Alexie—he’ll ric, painstakingly stitched together the way Lillian tell and show you all of these things. His former Alexie sewed and sold quilts to buy food, pay rent teacher dubs him “the unreliable narrator of [his] or get the electricity turned back on. There’s a truism I’ve heard about memoir: that own life,” and from there, we launch into a story and characters so large I don’t know how Alexie fit the best ones are simultaneously about the self and something far larger. Alexie wrote a book about them into a 454-page book. Though many readers know Sherman Alexie for himself. He wrote a book about his mother. He wrote a book about our nation. his poems, short stories and A book about injury and grief. young adult novels, You Don’t “Yes, I have repeated myHave to Say You Love Me is his self,” Alexie writes. “Yes, I have first memoir. It is the story of his been repetitious. That’s what relationship with his mother, a grief is.” Grief is repetition, strong-willed Native American and in this book, the repetition woman who was one of the last creates weight, space, gravity fluent speakers of the Spokane and reverence. Reservation tribal language. She This story is more than a died in 2015, months before quilt or a curse or a chorus or a Alexie endured brain surgery to spell or a prayer. It is all of those remove a benign-but-life-threatthings, but it is first and foremost ening tumor. He said of his an honor song for Lillian. In the tumor, “Imagine that news end, what better honor can you headline: Native American poet give someone than understandkilled by oxymoron.” It is this ing? You may not say I agree but kind of humor, vulnerability and at least you can understand. honesty that propels this book. Writing about our lives From the get-go, Alexie ad- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir won’t end racism or violence, dresses the fuzzy, shifting nature Sherman Alexie but after reading Alexie’s book, of his own memory, and the unhardcover, Little, Brown and I understand ten times as reliable nature of the stories he’s Company 464 pages, $28 much about what it was like to been told. When he is young, grow up on the Spokane Sherman’s mother tells him she is a child of rape. After her death, he learns that others be- Reservation in the ’70s. One story, one human’s lieve she was the product of an affair, and that his older understanding expanded. That’s something. This is a book about loss, which means it’s a half-sister was conceived through rape. Alexie revisits this devastating story three times in his memoir, making book about love. And because it’s a book by Sheradditions and revisions to get as close as he can to the man Alexie, it’s brave and wild and equal parts reverent and inappropriate. Evidence: There is a emotional truth underneath the conflicting stories. I’ll admit I found the first chapters disorienting. chapter about taking a grief poop in the bathroom I kept waiting for a single narrative thread to emerge. at his mother’s funeral. (I won’t say more—I am You know, like one major event that the rest of the not going to ruin that gem for you.) I had the rare pleasure of hearing Alexie speak book unravels, in chronological order? Eventually, I came to understand the patchwork nature of this at the Wilma a few years ago, and I have never book’s structure. Halfway through, Alexie records his laughed and cried so hard at a single event in my life. wife’s observation: “Your book is constructed in fabric He is a whole other kind of powerful on stage, and if squares like one of your mom’s quilts.” His is a patch- you are in the Missoula area on July 7, you have the work narrative. The more stories he tells, the more rare chance to see him speak. Do it for yourself. Do it for your country. Do it because it feels good. stunning the bigger picture becomes. Sherman Alexie reads from You Don’t Have Though the book has a fat page count, there is plenty of space in those pages. I wanted to jump to Say You Love Me at the University Center up and cheer when I discovered a healthy third of Ballroom Fri., July 7, at 7 PM. Free. the chapters are poems. Poems! I have never seen a writer weave poetry and prose together so fluidly. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Playing with fire The Beguiled serves as a gothic Bachelor by Molly Laich

Nicole Kidman stars in The Beguiled.

It’s three years into the Civil War, and the girls at Farnsworth Seminary are growing bored and restless. The monotony is broken when one of the girls comes upon a wounded Union soldier and brings him back with her to the plantation. Now the headmistress has to decide between patriotism and Christian charity: Should they immediately turn him over to Confederate soldiers or let him stay until his wounds are healed? Having decided on the latter, is the soldier their prisoner, guest or some murky, erotic in-between? The Beguiled comes to us from writer and director Sofia Coppola, adapted from Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel. The film won her a best directing award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first for a woman in 50 years. And women are certainly running the show at Farnsworth. Nicole Kidman stars as Miss Martha, the headmistress who’s calculating but not without heart. Kidman brings to the table a kaleidoscope of subtle emotions, per her usual. Colin Farrell plays the Union soldier, and they’ve let him keep his accent—he’s a mercenary fresh off the boat from Ireland. Besides that, the school has five teen and pre-teen students. I relate most to the girls’ sadly unmarried schoolteacher Edwina, played by Kirsten Dunst. To her, the school has become an insufferable prison. If it were me, and I were trapped with a bunch of ladies deep in the Virginia woods for years on end, I’m certain that I would feel the same way about it. At its heart, The Beguiled is a story about the explosive and terrible potential of sexuality that burns deep inside the hearts of women. And what better time and place to explore that fire than during an era of high necklines and religious sincerity, in a secluded house built by slaves, lit only by candlelight? The girls’ nightly prayers feel particularly

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ominous: They’re praying to a God that most definitely probably exists, and of course He’s on the South’s side… or is He? Watching this film I couldn’t help thinking of reality television’s The Bachelor, a show in which dozens of women compete for a single man’s affection. Every week, more women are eliminated until there’s just one man and woman left standing, who presumably ride off together on a proverbial white horse. So much of the fun comes from the fact that each contestant has her own perception of where she stands with the Bachelor. Rachel finds real meaning in her relationship with Nick—and so do Raven, Vanessa and Corinne. In The Beguiled, Corporal McBurney forges alliances with each of the girls, and from our bird’s eye view, it’s clear that someone’s going to get hurt. Finally, I’m forced to mention that there exists as well a 1971 film, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood as the soldier. Coppola’s tried to distance herself from this take and I think I know why: In some ways, Siegel’s movie feels outdated and melodramatic, but it’s got more guts. The old version doesn’t shy away from slavery, it’s more salacious, and its violence doesn’t hide in ambiguity. I liked the older version so much that I almost wish I hadn’t seen it first—but films can’t be unseen. Coppola updates the story with a haunting, claustrophobic tone that really works, but comparatively, her version feels disappointingly safe. I still recommend 2017’s The Beguiled, but I’ll add some homework. See Coppola’s version, then go and watch Siegel’s. Mash the two together in your brain and you’ve got yourself a perfect adaptation. The Beguiled opens at the Roxy Fri., July 7. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK BAND AID A couple who can’t stop fighting embark on a lastditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band. Is this about the White Stripes? Not Rated. Stars Hannah Simone, Colin Hanks and Brooklyn Decker. Playing at the Roxy. THE BEGUILED After finding refuge hiding at an all-female boarding school, a Civil War deserter finds that he might have been in less danger at Gettysburg. Rated R. Stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Is he strong? Listen, bud, he’s got radioactive blood. Marvel’s friendly neighborhood wall-crawler battles supervillains while trying to not be outshone in his own movie by Robert Downey, Jr. Rated PG-13. Also stars Tom Holland, Michael Keaton and Marisa Tomei. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988) Have I got a story for you. Sure it might be the Age of Reason, but that’s not going to stop this aristocrat from traveling to the moon, battling Turkish armies and literally cheating Death. Rated PG. Stars John Neville, Uma Thurman and Eric Idle. Playing Sat., July 8 at 9 PM at the Roxy. BABY DRIVER A young getaway driver finds himself part of a doomed heist after getting grifted by a crime boss. Good thing he’s hell on wheels. Did I mention it’s also a jukebox musical? Rated R. Stars Ansel Elgort, Jon Hamm and Kevin Spacey. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. CARS 3 Pixar’s deeply troubling and confusing franchise about a world populated by talking cars returns to make sure the company has enough money to finance their good films. Rated G. Stars the voice talents of Owen Wilson, Kerry Washington and Armie Hammer. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

Spider-man is a menace! This security footage proves it! (Photo courtesy J. Jonah Jameson). Spider-man: Homecoming opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. DESPICABLE ME 3 Dreamworks drags out the Minions for another outing. This time Gru discovers he has an unknown twin brother. That should shake things up. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Trey Parker. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Newt Scamander explores the wizarding world of 1920s New York decades before Harry Potter would read about his exploits in a Hogwarts’ textbook. Rated PG-13. Stars Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell and Alison Sudol. Playing Thu., July 13 at 11 AM at the Roxy. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Marvel Comics’ ragtag group of space heroes are back for more action, more adventure and more hit songs from the ‘70s. Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Kurt Russell. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12. THE HERO Forty years ago Lee Hayden made a name for himself starring in a classic western. Since then it’s mainly been voiceovers for barbecue sauce. Now the aging actor decides to mend fences with his estranged daughter. Rated R. Stars Sam Elliott, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman. Playing through Thu., July 6 at the Roxy.

THE HOUSE After realizing they don’t have enough money to send their daughter to college, a suburban couple decides to open an illegal casino in their basement to make up the difference. Honestly, this sounds less shady than what Sallie Mae does. Rated R. Stars Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler and Jason Mantzoukas. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. . . tie in! Gotham’s Caped Crusader battles the Joker in the world of Lego. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera. Playing Thu., July 6 at 11 AM at the Roxy. THE MUMMY An ancient evil awakens in Egypt and the only person who can stop it is Tom Cruise. That guy sure gets around. Rated PG-13. Also stars Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis and Javier Botet. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. NEITHER WOLF NOR DOG Nearing the end of his life, a Lakota elder asks a white author to help him write a book. Not Rated. Stars Dave Bald Eagle, Christopher Sweeney and Richard Ray Whitman. Playing through Thu., July 6 at the Roxy.

STAND BY ME (1986) Everyone’s second favorite ‘80s movie starring Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland and some lost boys kicks off Missoula Outdoor Cinema at Headstart School. Rated R. The screening starts at approximately 9:20 PM. TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Indistinguishable robots beat the gears out of each other for three hours. Rated PG-13. Stars Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel and Anthony Hopkins. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. WONDER WOMAN Like most of us, Diana, princess of the Amazons, was trained on a sheltered island paradise to be a warrior. When an American pilot shows up to tell her about a massive conflict raging in the outside world, she joins the fight and becomes Wonder Woman. Rated PG13. Stars Gal Gadot, Robin Wright and Chris Pine. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn and Erika Fredrickson. Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.

For tickets, visit the MSO Hub in downtown Missoula, call 543-3300 or go to

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Saturday

Portland’s Crow and The Canyon deliver a shipment of Americana to the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. The Clark Fork Market features farm-fresh produce, live music and delicious food every Saturday in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM– 1 PM. Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club takes you on a run through Missoula. A free breakfast follows. 8 AM. Email hillaryo@runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. Explore your running options at the Missoula Marathon Expo hosted in the heart of downtown Missoula in Caras Park. The daylong event features health and fitness vendors, samples of healthy snacks and info on upcoming races. 8 AM–4 PM. The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses and diverse delicacies.

Join the fun every Saturday through September. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM–12:30 PM.

The Montana Folk Festival continues in Butte. Visit montanafolkfestival.com for more info.

I beg your pardon, but I certainly didn’t promise you this. The Missoula Rose Society displays beautiful roses grown by local gardeners. 10 AM–5 PM. Southgate Mall Clock Court.

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Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of hipster Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM.

David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the tunes at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free.

Gayle Morrison and Susan Lindbergh Miller offer an intimate look at the exhibition From Flower Cloth to Story Cloth: Hmong Textiles in the MAM Collection at Missoula Art Museum. 11 AM. Free.

Tango Missoula hosts beginners lessons at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight every second Saturday. No experience or partner necessary! Potluck food and refreshments. Downtown Dance Collective. $10 per person.

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Seattle’s Sneaky Bones creeps into Draught Works for an evening of folk. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Beware of unidentified flying condiments. Flyin’ Hot Saucers play Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free. Watch stars under the stars at the season opener of Missoula Outdoor Cinema. This evening’s screening features the Rob Reiner’s classic cilm about a group of boys looking for a dead body. Stand By Me starts at approximately 9:20 PM at Headstart School at the corner of Worden and Phillips. Free, but donations accepted. (See Spotlight) Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. Portland’s Crow and The Canyon deliver a shipment of Americana to the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Spotlight Stephen King has always been incredibly critical when someone adapts his writing for the screen. This makes sense as the vast majority of these adaptations suck. Sure there are classics like The Green Mile, Misery and The Shining. But for every WHAT: Missoula Outdoor Cinema's screening of Stand By Me WHERE: Headstart School at the corner of Worden and Phillips WHEN: Sat., July 8 at approximately 9:20 PM. HOW MUCH: Free, but bring some cash for donations MORE INFO: nmcdc.org

Shawshank Redemption that's released, a dozen Children of the Corn films, Sleepwalkers and Under the Dome gleefully turn the master of horror's writing into schlocky camp. King himself isn't immune from this either, having directed the baffling Maxi-

king’s ransom mum Overdrive and then remaking Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in the ‘90s with the guy from the sitcom Wings. But of the hundreds of adaptations of his work—most of which are unwatchable—King has always had a soft spot in his heart for Stand By Me. King was leery going into the premiere of the Rob Reiner film about a group of boys searching for a dead body in the late 1950s. But after the credits rolled King went out to his car and sat in the silence. Here was a movie that not only captured the spirit, rhythm and power of his writing, but also recreated aspects of King's own childhood. If you want to catch the movie that rocked Stephen King to his core, Missoula Outdoor Cinema kicks off its 15th season with a screening of the 1986 classic. All the films this season were chosen from the biggest and most popular films from Missoula Outdoor Cinemas’ history, and then voted on by Missoulians. The film starts at sundown, so grab a blanket, grab your best friends and create your own summer memories. —Charley Macorn

Stand By Me

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Cowboy Junkies play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Sold out. Ready, set, go! The Missoula Marathon and Half Marathon are flat, fast and USATF certified. I assume that means something if you’re a runner. Sprint to missoulamarathon.org for registration, schedule and more info. The race starts at 6 AM.

nightlife The Montana Folk Festival continues in Butte. Visit montanafolkfestival.com for more info. The Mary Place Trio plays Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

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Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band is taking a break from annoying the Ralph Kramden Orchestra to put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery from 6 PM–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com. I guess someone is back on the horse. Spend an evening with

Cowboy Junkies as the Torontobased group shows what 20 years of alt-country sounds like at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Hope you got your tickets, because this show is sold out. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

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Monday Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM– 8 PM. The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.

nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. Musician Sean Gaskell presents a performance and educational demonstration on the kora, an ancient, 21-stringed harp from West Africa. Missoula Public Library’s Large Meeting Room. 6:30 PM. Free. Singer-songwriter Sista Otis brings Big Easy tunes to the Red

Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hiphop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

Singer-songwriter Sista Otis brings Big Easy tunes to the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

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Spotlight How much do you know about Thomas Meagher? You probably at least know that his name is frequently mispronounced. You

WHAT: Meagher of the Sword WHO: Neal Lewing WHEN: Tue., July 11 at 7 PM WHERE: Heritage Hall at Fort Missoula HOW MUCH: Free

may have seen his famous statue, riding a horse and holding a drawn sword, at the capitol building in Helena. You may even know a bit about his history. But if you want the in-depth scoop on Montana's first acting territorial governor set to a toe-tapping

by the sword tunes, Fort Missoula has you covered. Actor, writer, performer and historian Neal Lewing performs his one-person show Meagher of the Sword, tracing Meagher’s path from his early life as an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders during the Rebellion of 1848 to his mysterious death aboard a steamboat in Fort Benton 150 years ago this month. Lewing explores the life of a man who escaped a death sentence in Great Britain to be a prisoner in Australia, before fleeing to the United States and becoming a general for the Union forces during the American Civil War. Blending music and drama with catchy songs, Meagher of the Sword fills in the blanks on a notable Montanan.

—Charley Macorn

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Tuesday Celebrate the 27th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a community picnic and adaptive recreation clinic at McCormick Park. 10 AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 PM. Free. Shootinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 PM.

nightlife Enjoy beer and wine from around the world every Tuesday at Wine Tasting at the Iron Griz. 5 PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM. $18. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets

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Tuesdays at 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted. Missoula Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tuesday Evening Market runs every Tuesday through September. Enjoy fresh produce, baked goods, flowers and more at the north end of Higgins at the XXXXs. 5:30 PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7 PM. Authors Kayla Cagan and Nicole Decker read from their new books at Fact and Fiction. 5:30 PM Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picking circle, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Poet Philip Schaefer celebrates the release of his new book of poems, Bad Summon, with a book launch party at Montgomery Distillery. 6 PMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 PM. Free. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10/$35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@ umontana.edu or call 5497933 for more information.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest musical talent at the Badlander. 8 PM. Free. Actor, historian and artist Neal Lewing gives a presentation on Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first acting governor Thomas M e a g h e r, w h o s e n a m e tourists have been mispronouncing for years, at Heritage Hall at Fort Missoula. 7 PM. Free. (See Spotlight) Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more information. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Someone didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss their shot. The first U.S. Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with what U.S. Vice President on todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s date in 1804? Answer in tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nightlife. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

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Wednesday The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park. The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water. 8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere.space/ coffeeclub for more info. Out to Lunch presents the music of Bob Wire and the Bob Wire Trio (featuring Bob Wire) in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from 20 vendors. 11 AM–2 PM. Free. Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness at 2 PM. A dollar from every glass of wine sold at Missoula Winery and Event Center goes to support PEO and its work to empower local women attending college for the first time. 3 PM–7 PM.

nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, videos and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week: Garden City Harvest. 5 PM–8 PM.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. Rock and blues jam band JJ Grey & Mofro perform the music Glide Magazine describes as a “high stepping parade (with) a tonguein-check tone” at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$27.50 advance. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Aaron Burr. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Let the drums roll out, let the trumpet call. Strike up the Missoula

City Band. See local musicians perform together every Wednesday at the Bonner Park Band Shell. 8 PM.

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South Carolina reggae-rock group The Movement plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance. Show your Press Box buddies just how brainy you are at Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 prize to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

Thanks for helping create a more vibrant and sustainable local economy in Missoula. And thanks for voting us BEST GREEN BUSINESS 3 years in a row!

After a month-long, 700-mile cycling odyssey across Montana, the students of Cycle The Rockies 2017 give a presentation on their journey. Adventure Cycling. 5:30 PM. Touring singer-songwriter Bill Price serenades the beer at Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

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Thursday Hello Muddah, hello Father, here I am at Camp Daze, three-days of the best music you won’t find on your mainstream radio. This year’s line up includes Choir Boy, Fantasy Suite and more. Visit campdazemusic.com for a full lineup. Enjoy live music in the great outdoors at the Bob Marshall Music Festival in Seeley Lake running through Sun., July 16. Compete in a 50K Trail Run, mountain bike races and paddle boarding while enjoying the music of Deer Tick, Dead Man Winter, Birds of Chicago and more. Visit thebobmusic.com for a full lineup and ticketing. $60/$50 advance.

nightlife Take a weekend camping trip to discover the birds of Glacier National Park with Five Valleys Audubon. Participants will camp and explore both the east and west sides of the park. Meet at St. Mary campground on Thursday at 5:00. Visit fvaudubon.org for more info and registration. $10. Wait, exactly how big is this band? Lyle Lovett & His Large Band provide a night of music at the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $35$50 at logjampresents.com

These are the good old days.

Celebrate the lands we love so much with the Summer Open Lands Celebration at the Line Ranch, 113 S Whitaker Dr. Food, drink and live music by the Idle Ranch Hands. 5:30 PM. Free. Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with Marshall Catch playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park every Thursday night between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free. I bet Pebbles Flintstone had to read Charlotte Brontësaurus in high school. Yabba plays Draught Works. 6 PM. Free.

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Missoula Folklore Society hosts a potuck dinner and Contra Dance at Missoula Senior Center. All dances will be taught and called. 6 PM. $5 donation. Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to Silver Park. 6 PM–7 PM. $3. Djebe Community Drum and Dance immerses you in the dancing and drumming of many countries at Barn Movement Studio at 6 PM. $5 donation. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. Nic Armstrong & The Thieves mix British sound with Texas dressing at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. .

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Agenda Before the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, things were pretty dour for the one in five Americans living with a disability. These Americans could be refused service at businesses, barred from public transportation or refused any number of basic rights people without disabilities take for granted. By the 1970s, nearly 60,000 people with disabilities were sterilized without their consent thanks to draconian laws and systemic bigotry. The ADA added protections for Americans with disabilities, ensured their civil rights and redefined what it meant for buildings and companies to be accessible. And while the battle for equality for people with disabilities is far from over—have you been paying attention to the news?—the ADA was a landmark piece of legislation that has helped millions of Americans lead fuller lives, engaged with society. In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the signing of the ADA,

THURSDAY JULY 6 Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints can interfere with everyday tasks, but those living with arthritis can find support at Summit Independent Living. The Arthritis Support Group meets every first Thursday of the month, from noon-1 PM.

SUNDAY JULY 9 The monthly LGBTQ Spirituality Group meets to discuss queer perspectives on spirituality at the Western Montana Community Center. 3-4 PM.

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Summit Independent Living, a nonprofit organization that offers services to help people with disabilities gain independence, hosts a community picnic and adaptive clinic at McCormick Park. The clinic will demo all-abilities bicycles and other gear in order to give everyone access to Missoula's parks. —Charley Macorn The ADA Community Picnic and Adaptive Clinic runs from 10 AM to 5 PM at McCormick Park. The picnic will be held from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at McCormick Park. Free.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM. The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.

TUESDAY JULY 11 Celebrate the 27th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a community picnic and adaptive recreation clinic at McCormick Park. 10 AM–6 PM. Free.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY JULY 12 NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. A dollar from every glass of wine sold at Missoula Winery and Event Center goes to support PEO and its work to empower local women attending college for the first time. 3 PM–7 PM. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week: Garden City Harvest. 5 PM–8 PM.

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hese days, a typical completed marathon ends with high-fives, celebratory drinks and a nice, long sleep. That’s significantly less dramatic than the first marathon, in which an ancient Greek messenger ran almost 25 miles in 490 B.C. from a battlefield to Athens to report the news of a victory against the Persians and then promptly dropped dead. Naturally, people heard this story and said, “That sounds fun, let’s try it.” The 26.2 mile distance has been standard since the 1908 Olympics, and it’s the time of year again that people from around the world will come to Missoula to pound the pavement in hopes of slapping that legendary number on a bumper sticker on the back of their Subarus. The rest of us, who perhaps enjoy running in a less punishing fashion or maybe just enjoy drinking, have our own designated activity: the Beer Run. A comparatively leisurely three-mile loop start-

THURSDAY JULY 6 Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to McCormick Park. 6 PM– 7 PM. $3.

FRIDAY JULY 7 Join the Great Burn Study Group for a two day camping trip as they explore the heart of the Great Burn Wilderness to remove trash and pull knapweed in upper Cache Creek. Call Nick at 415-847-5402 for more info and registration. B double-E double-R U N! Missoula’s legendary Beer Run starts and ends at the Caras Park Pavillion. This relaxed run features live music, beer and wine and a gaggle of thirsty Missoulians. Visit missoulamarathon.org for more information. Things kick off at 5 PM. Free.

SATURDAY JULY 8 Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club takes you on a run through Missoula. A free breakfast follows. 8 AM. Email hillaryo@runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. Explore your running options at the Missoula Marathon Expo hosted in the heart of downtown Missoula in Caras Park. The daylong

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ing and ending at Caras Park, the Beer Run is a perfect opportunity to get to know the runner next to you (after all, that’s one of the secrets of long distance running—a pace slow enough to hold a conversation). And if you need more than the promises of human interaction to motivate you, then picture yourself, sweaty and accomplished, stretching out your quads and sipping a beer. Look how Missoula you are! Marathon weekend also features a host of other activities, including a 5K and a kids marathon on Saturday and then the main event—the half and full marathon—on Sunday. Check out missoulamarathon.org for a schedule.

—Margaret Grayson The Beer Run starts at 6 PM on Friday, July 7 at the Caras Park Pavilion. Free, with drinks available for purchase.

event features health and fitness vendors, samples of healthy snacks and info on upcoming races. 8 AM–4 PM.

SUNDAY JULY 9 Ready, set, go! The Missoula Marathon and Half Marathon are flat, fast and USATF certified. Sprint to missoulamarathon.org for registration, schedule and more info. The race starts at 6 AM.

WEDNESDAY JULY 12 The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park. The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water. 8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere.space/coffeeclub for more info. After a month-long, 700-mile cycling odyssey across Montana, the students of Cycle The Rockies 2017 give a presentation on their journey. Adventure Cycling. 5:30 PM.

THURSDAY JULY 13 Take a weekend camping trip to discover the birds of Glacier National Park with Five Valleys Audubon. Participants will camp and explore both the east and west sides of the park. Meet at St. Mary campground on Thursday at 5:00. Visit fvaudubon.org for more info and registration. $10.

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FALLING IN LEAVE My relationship ended recently, and I asked my ex not to contact me. But just as I’d start feeling a little less sad, I’d hear from him and fall apart. I’ve now blocked him on my phone and social media. This seems so immature.Why can’t I be more grown up about this? —Incommunicado For you, breaking up but staying in contact makes a lot of sense—about the same sort as trying to drop 20 pounds while working as a frosting taster. Sure, there’s this notion that you “should” be able to be friends with your ex. Some people can be—eventually or even right away—especially if they had a relationship that just fizzled out instead of the kind where you need a rowboat to make it to the kitchen through the river of your tears. However—not surprisingly—clinical psychologists David Sbarra and Robert Emery find that “contact with one’s former partner ... can stall the emotional adjustment process” by reactivating both love and painful emotions. For example, in their survey of people who’d recently gone through a breakup, “on days when participants reported having telephone or in-person contact with their former partner, they also reported more love and sadness.” It might help you to understand how adjusting to the new “no more him” thing works. In a serious relationship, your partner becomes a sort of emotional support animal—the one you always turn to for affection, attention and comforting.This habit of turning toward him gets written into your brain on a neural level, becoming increasingly automatic over time. Post-breakup, you turn and—oops— there’s no boo, only a faint dent in his side of the bed.Your job in healing is to get used to this change—which you don’t do by having him keep popping up, messing with your new belief that he’s no longer available for emotional need-meeting. That’s why, in a situation like yours, breaking up with your boyfriend should work like breaking up with your couch. When the thing gets dropped off at the city dump, it stays there; you don’t come out on your porch the next morning to it saying, “Hey, babe ... was in the neighborhood, so I thought I’d bring over some of your stuff—36 cents, a pen cap, and this hair elastic.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Unless you were raised by a pack of feral raccoons or a fundamentalist cult, now is a perfect time to dive in to your second childhood. Is there a toy you wanted as a kid but never got? Buy it for yourself now! What were the delicious foods you craved back then? Eat them! Where were the special places you loved? Go there, or to spots that remind you of them. Who were the people you were excited to be with? Talk with them. Actions like these will get you geared up for a full-scale immersion in innocent eagerness. And that would be just the right medicine for your soul.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What I wish for you, Taurus, is toasted ice cream and secrets in plain sight and a sacred twist of humorous purity. I would love for you to experience a powerful surrender and a calm climax and a sweeping vision of a small but pithy clue. I very much hope that you will get to take a big trip to an intimate turning point thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too far away. I pray you will find or create a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Dr. Seussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, Horton Hatches an Egg, an elephant assumes the duty of sitting on a birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s egg, committed to keeping it warm until hatching time. The nest is located high in a tree, which makes the undertaking even more incongruous. By the climax of the tale, Horton has had to persist in his loyal service through a number of challenges. But all ends well, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an added bonus: The creature thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s born is miraculously part-bird, part-elephant. I see similarities between this story and your life right now, Gemini. The duty youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re carrying out doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come naturally, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not even sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it right. But if you keep at it till itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completed, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll earn a surprising reward.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime time for you to break through any inhibitions you might have about accessing and expressing your passion.To help you in this righteous cause, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve assembled a batch of words you should be ready to use with frequency and sweet abandon. Consider writing at least part of this list on your forearm with a felt-tip pen every morning so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always close at hand: enamored, piqued, enchanted, stirred, roused, enthused, delighted, animated, elevated, thrilled, captivated, turned-on, enthralled, exuberant, fired up, awakened.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Matt Groening, creator of the cartoon series â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Simpsons,â&#x20AC;? says that a great turning point in his early years came when his scoutmaster told him he was the worst Boy Scout in history. While this might have demoralized other teenagers, it energized Groening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be the worst,â&#x20AC;? he triumphantly told the scoutmaster. And then, â&#x20AC;&#x153;instead of the earth opening up and swallowing me, instead of the flames of hell fire licking at my kneesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nothing happened. And I was free.â&#x20AC;? I suspect you may soon be blessed with a comparable liberation, Leo. Maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be released from having to live up to an expectation you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even live up to. Or maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be criticized in a way that will motivate your drive for excellence for years to come.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Nineteen of my readers who work in the advertising industry

a petition requesting that I stop badmouthing their field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without advertising,â&#x20AC;? they testified, c signed â&#x20AC;&#x153;life itself would be impossible.â&#x20AC;? In response, I agreed to attend their re-education seminar. There, under their tutelage, I came to acknowledge that everything we do can be construed as a kind of advertising. Each of us is engaged in a mostly unconscious campaign to promote our unique way of looking at and being in the world. Realizing the truth, I now feel no reservations about urging you Virgos to take advantage of the current astrological omens. They suggest that you can and should be aggressive and ingenious about marketing yourself, your ideas and your products.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your riddle: What unscratchable itch drives you half-crazy? But

the unscratchable itch will lead you to the experience or resource that will finally relieve the itch. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your homework: Prepare yourself emotionally to fully receive and welcome the new experience or resource. Make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not so addicted to scratching the unscratchable itch that you fail to take advantage of the healing itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bringing you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The best way to go forward is to go backward; the path to the bright future requires a shadowy regression. Put another way, you should return to the roots of a triumph in order to find a hidden flaw that might eventually threaten to undo your success. Correct that flaw now and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make it unnecessary for karmic repercussions to undermine you later. But please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get all solemn-faced and anxious about this assignment. Approach it with humorous self-correction and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ensure that all goes well.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the midst of being intoxicated by one of those creatures from inner space. Though g animus? you may not be fully conscious of it, you women are experiencing a mystical marriage with an imaginal CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you familiar with the psychological concepts of anima and

character that personifies all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masculine in your psyche.You men are going through the analogous process with a female figure within you. I believe this is true no matter what your sexual orientation is. While this awesome psychological event may be fun, educational and even ecstatic, it could also be confusing to your relationships with real people. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect them to act like or live up to the very real fantasy youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re communing with. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a recovering save-the-world addict, I have felt compassionate skepticism towards my fellow junkies who are still in the throes of their obsession. But recently Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discovered that just as a small minority of alcoholics can safely take a drink now and then, so can a few save-the-world-aholics actually save the world a little bit at a time without getting strung-out. With that as a disclaimer, Aquarius, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m letting you know that the cosmos has authorized you to pursue your own brand of fanatical idealism in the coming weeks.To keep yourself honest, make fun of your zealotry every now and then.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The potential breakthrough I foresee for you is a rare species of joy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gritty, hard-earned pleasure that will spawn beautiful questions youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be glad to have awakened. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a surprising departure from your usual approach to feeling good that will expand your understanding of what happiness means. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one way to ensure that it will visit you in all of its glory: Situate yourself between the fabulous contradictions in your life and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Squeeze me, tease me, please me.â&#x20AC;? Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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soula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 8th day of June, 2017. /s/ Ross H Bittner, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP-16-31 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: VALUENT DAVID THOMPSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Barbara A. Doty, has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Barbara A. Doty, Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 17th day of February 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 17th day of February 2016. /s/ Barbara A. Doty, Personal Representative NOTICE OF HEARING ESTABLISHING SPEED ZONES ON MULLAN ROAD WEST OF FRENCHTOWN Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a Public Hearing on establishing speed zones on Mullan Road west of Frenchtown. Concerns for driver and pedestrian safety have been raised by many residents from this area. Upon completion of the Hearing, the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will consider a resolution that will establish speed zones on Mullan Road. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at a Public Meeting on Thursday, July 27th, beginning at 1:30 PM, at the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Room 151.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 be submitted any time prior to the Hearing by phone, mail, fax or e-mail to the Board of County Commissioners, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@missoulacounty.us. Comments may also be submitted by personal delivery to the Commissioners at the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine, Missoula, MT 59802, Second Floor. Additional information on the

Hearing may be obtained from Erik Dickson (258-3772, edickson@missoulacounty.us). Printed copies of the draft resolution are available for review at the Missoula County Commissioners office (199 West Pine) and the Missoula County Public Works office (6089 Training Drive). BY ORDER OF THE MISSOULA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE OF TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on October 5, 2017 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: Missoula County Courthouse, on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joeâ&#x20AC;? Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Fesaltu F Samuela and Makereta A Samuela joint tenants and not as tenancy in common as Grantors, as conveyed said real property to I.R.E. Processing as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated December 12, 2005 and was recorded on December 16, 2005 as Instrument No. Book 765 of Micro Records at Page 1627; Instrument No. 200533225, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Propertyâ&#x20AC;?) located at 500 Sherwood St., Missoula, MT 59802 and being more fully described as follows: LOTS 11 AND 12, BLOCK 3 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER.The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Noteâ&#x20AC;?) secured by

PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments beginning September 16, 2016 through May 18, 2017 in the principal amount of $4,395.26; plus escrow in the amount of $1,379.27; plus total uncollected in the amount of $1,955.91; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $73,966.93 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.75000 percent per annum beginning August 16, 2016 in the amount of $3,086.71; plus deferred amounts of $7,281.16; plus other fees and costs in the amount of $1,962.91; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: May 4, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on October 18, 2017 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: Missoula County Courthouse, on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Paul R. Barber and Annie Barber, husband and wife, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to David G. Sweiderk and Robert Bystrowski as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Chevy Chase Bank FSB. A Corporation, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated July 20, 2006 and was recorded on December 15, 2006 as Instrument No. 200632053, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 2631 Valley View Drive, Missoula, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 7 OF COUNTRY CLUB NO. 1,A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON BEING KNOWN AS 2631 VALLEY VIEW DRIVE BEING THE SAME LOT OF GROUND AS SHOWN ON A DEED DATED AUGUST 8, 2000 AND RECORDED AUGUST 10, 2000, AS DOCUMENT NO 200016477. IN THE RECORDER OF DEEDS OF THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 7 OF COUNTRY CLUB NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF.The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Capital One, N.A., successor by merger to Chevy Chase Bank FSB. The Beneficiary has

declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments beginning October 30, 2016 through June 9, 2017 in the total payment amount of $681.19 plus other fees and costs in the amount of $490.79; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $27,925.55 with interest thereon at the rate of 3.50000 percent per annum beginning September 30, 2016 in the amount of $788.30; plus other fees and costs in the amount of $472.79; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: May 19, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar,Attorney of

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

default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning September 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed im-

mediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $180,906.07, interest in the sum of $5,045.27, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $411.58 for a total amount owing of $186,362.92, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and

protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. 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.

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 142. 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 7/10/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 7/13/17 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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, ex-

press or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the

Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually in-

curred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the

successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 28th day of March, 2017. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 48810

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on September 6, 2017, 09:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: The North 71.4 feet of Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Block 72 of SCHOOL ADDITION, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat

thereof.. More commonly known as 1539 Sherwood Street, Missoula, MT 59802. Matthew D. Stafford, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on June 12, 2008, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Mon-

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PUBLIC NOTICES tana, on June 13, 2008 as Instrument No. 200813255, in Book 820, at Page 833, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Assignment Dated: December 27, 2011 Assignment Recorded: January 3, 2012 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201200134, in Book 887, at Page 1011, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on April 12, 2017 as Instrument No. 201706131, in Book 977, at Page 389, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning November 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $235,057.86, interest in the sum of $6,856.88, escrow advances of $981.62, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,124.97 for a total amount owing of $244,021.33, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed,

without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 28th day of April, 2017. Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 49497 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 17, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 108 OF PINEY MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK

AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Rodney Paul Braae and Tammy Jean Braae, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Finiti Title, LLC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiFinancial, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 15, 2008, and recorded on August 22, 2008 as Book 825 Page 273 Document No. 200819690. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability 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 beginning September 16, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 23, 2016 is $131,784.99 principal, interest totaling $13,859.03, escrow advances of $6,038.07, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,481.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser 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: June 12, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 12th day of June, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC vs Braae 102192-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 26, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6085, a tract of land located in the S 1/2S1/2 of Section 8,Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Kenneth E Oliver and REBECCA L OLIVER, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Western Title And Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 15, 2009, and recorded on May 20, 2009 as Book 839 Page 1133 Document No. 200911895. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning June 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 9, 2017 is $280,370.38 principal, interest totaling $14,331.88 late charges in the amount of $67.07, escrow advances of $9,855.48, suspense balance of $-130.71 and other fees and expenses advanced of $74,227.80, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed

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

knowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Seterus vs OLIVER 102247-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 4, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 29 IN BLOCK 2 OF LAKEVIEW ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Edna B. Herron and Michael R. Herron, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 23, 2007, and recorded on February 26, 2007 as Book 792 Page 863 Document No. 2007704588.The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning April 28, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 12, 2016 is $159,990.30 principal, interest totaling $17,394.74, escrow advances of $9,648.60 and other fees and expenses advanced of $699.54, plus ac-

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

County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 09-062022 Caliber Home Loans vs Edna B. HerronMichael R. Herron 101800-2 SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF KING NO. 17-5-00497-0 SEA SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF PETITION/HEARING RE RELINQUISHMENT OF CHILD/ TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF INFANT BOY BAUMBACH, a person under the age of eighteen. TO: JOHN DOE (UNKNOWN) AND TO ANY OTHER INTERESTED PARTY You are hereby summoned to appear within thirty days after the date of first publication of this summons, to-wit, within thirty days after the 30th day of June, 2017 and defend the above-entitled action in the above-entitled court, and answer the petition of the Petitioner, OPEN ADOPTION & FAMILY SERVICES, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Petitioner, OPEN ADOPTION & FAMILY SERVICES, at the office below stated; if you fail to do so, judgment may be rendered against you according to the request of the petition which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court.YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a petition has been filed in this court praying that the parentchild relationship between parents of the above-named child and the above-named child be terminated. The object of the action is to seek an order relinquishing the child to the Petitioner for adoption and to terminate the parentchild relationship. The child was conceived in October 2016 in either Missoula, Montana or Kalispell, Montana and was born in Washington on June 11, 2017.The child’s birth mother is Natasha Baumbach. The court hearing on this matter shall be on the 31st day of July, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in the King County Superior Court; address: King County Courthouse, Ex Parte Department, Court Room W325, 516 Third Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104. YOUR FAILURE TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING MAY RESULT IN A DEFAULT ORDER PERMANENTLY TERMINATING ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED CHILD. NOTICE: State and federal law provide protections to defendants who are

on active duty in the military service, and to their dependents. Dependents of a service member are the service member’s spouse, the service member’s minor child, or an individual for whom the service member provided more than one-half of the individual’s support for one hundred eighty days immediately preceding an application for relief. One protection provided is the protection against the entry of a default judgment in certain circumstances. This notice only pertains to a defendant who is a dependent of a member of the national guard or a military reserve component under a call to active service for a period of more than thirty consecutive days. Other defendants in military service also have protections against default judgments not covered by this notice. If you are the dependent of a member of the national guard or a military reserve component under a call to active service for a period of more than thirty consecutive days, you should notify the plaintiff or the plaintiff’s attorney in writing of your status as such within twenty days of the receipt of this notice. If you fail to do so, then a court or an administrative tribunal may presume that you are not a dependent of an active duty member of the national guard or reserves, and proceed with the entry of an order of default and/or a default judgment without further proof of your status. Your response to the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorneys about your status does not constitute an appearance for jurisdictional purposes in any pending litigation nor a waiver of your rights.You are further notified that any non-consenting parent or alleged father has a right to be represented by an attorney, and an attorney will be appointed for an indigent parent who requests an attorney. You are further notified that your failure to file a claim of paternity under Chapter 26.26 RCW within thirty days of the first publication of this notice or to respond to the petition within thirty days of the first publication of this notice is grounds to terminate your parent-child relationship with respect to the child. You are further notified that your failure to respond to the termination action within twenty days of service, if served within the state of Washington, or thirty days if served outside of this state, will result in the termination of the parent-child with respect to the child. You are further notified that if you are the alleged father of an Indian child, and you acknowledge paternity of the child, or if your paternity of the child is established prior to the termination of the parent-child relationship, your parental rights may not be terminated

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unless you: (i) give valid consent to termination, or (ii) your parent-child relationship is terminated involuntarily pursuant to 26.33 or 13.34 RCW. One method of filing your response and serving a copy on the Petitioner is to send them your written response by certified mail with return receipt requested. WITNESS the Honorable BRAD MOORE, Judge/Court Commissioner of said Superior Court and the seal of said Court hereunto affixed this 20th day of June, 2017. /s/ BARBARA MINER, King

County Superior Court Clerk By: /s/ T. LAMBETH Deputy Clerk FILE RESPONSE WITH: Clerk of Court King County Superior Court King County Courthouse 516 Third Avenue Seattle, WA 98104 SERVE A COPY OF YOUR RESPONSE ON: Petitioner’s Attorney: Albert G. Lirhus Lirhus & Keckemet LLP 1200 5th Avenue, Suite 1550 Seattle, WA 98101 The Missoula City-County Health Board will hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. or

shortly thereafter on proposed adoption of trailer court regulations in the Missoula City-County Health Code, to incorporate existing state laws and regulations by reference, and establish a reinspection fee for courts that require a third or subsequent inspection. The hearing will be held in the second floor conference room at the Health Department at 301 West Alder in Missoula. The Board will take public comments at the hearing. Written comments may be submitted on or before July 31, 2017 by

mailing them to Health Code Comments, MCCHD, 301 W Alder St., Missoula, MT 59802; faxing them to (406) 2584781 or emailing them to envhealth@missoulacounty.us. For more information, a copy of the proposed trailer court regulations, or to sign up for the Interested Parties mailing list, email envhealth@missoulacounty.us, visit missoulacounty.us/EnvHealth, or call 258-4755.

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

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

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REAL ESTATE

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

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

Homes: 835 Stephens - This one-bedroom home has a great yard, a full basement with 2 bonus rooms, storage everywhere.........$244,000 1543 34th St. - The downstairs boasts an established 3 bedroom Airbnb/VRBO rental with its own kitchen and gas fireplace which can be used as a private mother-in-law apartment or rolled back into the main home if desired. .........................................$375,000 230 Lakeside Drive, Lolo- Amazingly sweet lot with peaceful and private back yard complete with small pond/water feature, beautiful rock and garden landscaping. ...........................................................................................................................................$250,000 425 S 5th St W- This beautiful Victorian was built in 1890 and has that absolute charm of yesteryear. ................................$650,000 2883 E Fork Rd. Sula MT. - This 2 bedroom 1 bath home is located up the scenic East Fork with incredible access to fishing, hunting, and public lands galore .....................................................................................................................................................$230,000 1839 Mansfield - Wonderful 5 bed/2.5 bath home in the University area on a corner, double lot. Large, tiled entry with glass brick, windows and great light.............................................................................................................................................................$575,000 9 Main St- St. Regis - Sweet 2 bed, 1 bath in St. Regis on 4 lots. Fully fenced. Adjacent to park, baseball fields and pond. $110,000

Townhomes/Condos

1400 Burns St #6 - Walk out your back door to a beautifully landscaped courtyard and pop over to the Burns Street Bistro for a great cup of coffee--or an amazing meal. ..................................................................................................................$115,000 801 N Orange - Uptown Flats #303. Third floor, south facing. 1 bed 1 bath. ................................................................$159,710 801 N Orange - Uptown Flats #308. Quick access to downtown, the river, Farmers Market, and only a few steps away from Northside Kettlehouse. ...........................................................................................................................$159,000 801 N Orange - Uptown Flats #301. Larger than most units in The Uptown Flats. 814 sf 1 bedroom plus a bonus room. $184,000

For Lease: 255 South Russell St - LEASE SPACE IN THE SOURCE HEALTH CLUB. .........Modified gross lease of $21 sqft/year/$2,660/month

Featured: 2883 E Fork Rd. Sula MT. This 2 bedroom 1 bath home is located up the scenic East Fork with incredible access to fishing, hunting, and public lands galore $230,000

1543 34th St. - The downstairs boasts an established 3 bedroom Airbnb/VRBO rental with its own kitchen and gas fireplace which can be used as a private mother-in-law apartment or rolled back into the main home if desired. $375,000

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

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

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