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nside Cover Story Bob Clark first glimpsed it a decade ago from the summit of Grave Peak, in eastern Idaho. Looking north, he saw a stretch of jagged forestland with snowcapped peaks, granite cliffs and grand vistas—and asked himself, “What the hell is that?” Cover photo by Chad Harder He was looking at the Great Burn, a vast and still little known area that Clark calls “a hidden large gem.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

News Letters Lookout outlooks, circus animals, cannabis concerns ..................................4 The Week in Review Bear attacks, lion spotted, Osprey win...................................6 Briefs Pov pressures, sign standoff, pedal powers, dirty Libby .................................6 Etc. When polling becomes fantastic..........................................................................7 Upfront Exxon’s spill could be just the beginning....................................................8 Upfront Montana’s newspapers shrink a notch.........................................................9 Ochenski A word to the Democrats .......................................................................10 Writers on the Range Justice at last for Native Americans .....................................11 Agenda Spirit of Montana benefit concert ...............................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Chicken man corrupted ...............................................................20 Happiest Hour Lambkin’s Lounge...........................................................................21 8 Days a Week Alaska, come on down!...................................................................23 Mountain High A trout education ...........................................................................29 Scope Eat Our Words storytelling ............................................................................30 Noise Tornado Rider, Mudslide Charley, Gillian Welch, Night Beats.......................31 Books Melanie Rae Thon’s stories reviewed............................................................32 Film Sixty-second homegrown movies.....................................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk ..................................................................................................................4 In Other News..........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ...............................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ..............................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle ................................................................................................C-10 This Modern World..............................................................................................C-15

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Molly Laich STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITORS David Loos, David Merrill ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jenn Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Rhonda Urbanski, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Jon Baker MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, George Ochenski, Nick Davis, Andy Smetanka, Jay Stevens, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Ali Gadbow, Azita Osanloo, Cathrine L. Walters, Anne Medley, Jesse Froehling

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Asked Monday afternoon at Bonner Park. In response to his company’s accidental pumping of more than 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River, Exxon Mobil’s pipeline president apologized for any “inconvenience” the incident is creating. How do you feel about that? Follow-up: Will this spill affect your oil consumption?

John Gunhold: Well, that’s about all he can do, isn’t it? Other than turn around and make his company’s pipelines safer by using double-walled pipelines any time they go through rivers. Then any spill will at least be on land and not in the water. After BP & Valdez? No.

Brandy McCrackin: I think that sounds like not a very good apology. I hope they do a lot more to make sure the river’s cleaned up and the wildlife’s protected. I mean, they should—we know they have enough money. Already there: Probably not. I already don’t use a lot of gas, so I’m not that big a contributor in the first place.

Paige Griffith: I think at least the governor’s doing a good job at keeping Montanans’ interests in mind and not allowing that Exxon Mobil guy to get away with ignoring the disaster and leaving it to the state. If not there, where? Probably not, just because I have to use the car to get around. I think it affects everyone in Montana’s perception of Exxon though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if people stop buying gas there.

Kristin Holes: I’m disappointed there’s not more remorse, but at the same time, I drive a vehicle, so… I think the question is, “What are they going to do in the long term, and what are its effects on wildlife and the environment in general?” Not happnin: But I do drive, because there’s things I have to drive to. So admittedly, no, it won’t change my oil consumption.

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Lookout outlooks Ana Maria Spagna’s piece “Cabin Fever” (see Writers on the Range, July 7, 2011) profoundly missed the mark. While the author may dislike Wilderness Watch’s work to protect the Glacier Peak Wilderness by taking the Forest Service to court over this unlawfully built replica, her opinions and emotional attachment to the structure don’t change the facts surrounding its construction and history (or lack thereof ). Putting aside for the moment the fact that the Wilderness Act prohibits the construction or reconstruction of non-essential buildings in wilderness, the Forest Service dealt history the deathblow in 2002 when it tore down what remained of the original hand-built and mulehauled Green Mountain lookout constructed in 1933. What’s now standing at the top of Green Mountain in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in Washington is a new structure built in 2009 that was helicoptered in, not packed on mules; supported by concrete footings rather than native stones; assembled with power tools, not hand saws and hammers; and built without any public notice or environmental analysis. Its construction is a testament to modern engineering and transportation technology rather than the pioneering wilderness skills by which the original lookout was hewn. To be sure, the agency re-used some of the original materials and the “cabin” looks like many old lookouts, but to equate the historic value of this new building to the original is akin to placing a grizzly from the taxidermist’s shop in the forest and pretending it to be the living, breathing, wilderness beast that once roamed there. No proper “hoops were hopped,” as Ms. Spagna likes to say, likely because the agency knew it would be breaking the law and preferred not to announce the fact in advance. Wilderness Watch’s lawsuit seeks to restore the wilderness character of the Glacier Peak Wilderness by returning Green Mountain to its natural condition. To claim the basis of the lawsuit is the use of helicopters disregards too many important facts. It’s not the “offense of hearing a helicopter” that deserves a lawsuit, but rather the Forest Service’s disregard for

the Wilderness Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, and the resulting harm done to the wilderness. Everybody has a reason for giving his or her particular interest precedence over the law and the restrictions imposed on others. But the Wilderness Act and its founders got it right in setting wilderness

whole of North America, the Wilderness Act protects extraordinary places like the Glacier Peak Wilderness so future generations can know wild, unsettled and undeveloped lands. Dawn Serra Wilderness Watch Missoula

Circus slaves

“To equate the historic value of this new building to the original is akin to placing a grizzly from the taxidermist’s shop in the forest and pretending it to be the living, breathing, wilderness beast that once roamed there.”

apart from all other public lands “as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man…retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions.” As “increasing populations accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization” spread across the

Anyone driving down South Avenue past the fairgrounds entrance July 9 or 10 prior to one of four circus performances might have seen a group of citizens protesting the abusive use of animals in circuses. Our numbers ranged from three at one performance to 10 at another, but regardless, our message was the same: captive animals don’t belong in circuses. Carson & Barnes, the circus in question, has a string of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection violations including transport accidents, injuries, poor health maintenance, escapes, and more. But even if no violations occurred, animals don’t belong in circuses where they are simply slaves with broken spirits trained to perform through abuse and intimidation. Where’s the entertainment in that? Many thanks to the kind parents who, with youngsters in tow, turned around and left when they learned the circus featured captive animals. They refused to support animal exploitation and taught their kids a beautiful lesson in compassion. People concerned about animals and those in a position to sponsor circuses can find more information (including animal-free alternatives) at www.OtherNationsJustice.org. Animalfree circuses are growing in popularity, as are the locations around the U.S. and world that have pledged to contract with humane, non-animal circuses only. Can Missoula County join their ranks? It depends on us—the species that can either exploit fellow sentient animals for entertainment or treat them with dignity, compassion, and justice. Kathleen Stachowski Lolo Correction An image in last week’s Best of Missoula issue incorrectly identified Loose Caboose general manager Stefanie Rixford. The Independent regrets the error.

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Protect and serve?

Cannabis vs. opiates

It’s time for Police Chief Mark Muir to get a new job (see “Up in smoke,” July 7, 2011). When the Police start arresting sick people and legitimate business owners it’s time to rethink “protect and serve.” I’m glad Muir, Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg, and the rest of their cronies are getting a good chuckle out of destroying the lives of citizens they were hired to protect. July 7, 2011 at 9:04 a.m.

A very high percentage of us “green card” holders have jumped through ridiculous hoops just to get a card, even though we have legitimate pathologies (see “Up in smoke,” July 7, 2011). My medical file is six inches thick and my regular doctor would have prescribed it…if it wasn’t scrutinized by the DEA and therefore not allowed by his facility’s administration. The doctor was more willing to give me more addictive

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painkillers (read: opiates) than to give me a medical cannabis card. Which one does more damage? People that reject cannabis’s efficacy as a painkiller have not done one lick of research and should be required to do so before they contribute their uninformed, anecdotal opinion. July 8, 2011 at 4:14 p.m.

Backdoor business I’d like to believe that Gov. Schweitzer now understands that Exxon

Mobil does not care for the health or livelihood of the citizens of Montana, but more likely he’s just trying to publicly distance himself from the very people he’s been snuggling up to these past few years (see Ochenski, “10,000 toothbrushes?” July 7, 2011). If Schweitzer truly stood with the people, he would tell Exxon, “No Megaloads.” Turning highways 12 and 200 into an industrial high-and-wide corridor puts at risk pristine rivers and fisheries

and the tourism industry that relies on them. Once Exxon gets its 200 loads to the tar sands they’ve got the way paved to start trucking the crude back down 12 and 200 so they can ship it out to China and Korea. Megaloads pose risks but Exxon keeps saying “Trust us.” How stupid are we continue to trust and that we let our politicians continue to do backdoor business with the likes of Exxon while we take all the risks? July 10, 2011 at 5:19 p.m.

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A grizzly sow mauls and kills Brian Matayoshi, 57, of Torrance Calif., in Yellowstone National Park. Park officials say Matayoshi encountered the sow with her cubs on a popular backcountry trail. The fatal bear attack marks the first within Yellowstone’s boundaries in 25 years.

• Thursday, July 7 Missoula Sen. Dave Wanzenried announces he’s dropping out of the Montana governor’s race. Wanzenried’s cites lackluster fundraising as a primary reason. The decision fuels rumors that Attorney General Steve Bullock is poised to throw his hat in the ring.

• Friday, July 8 A homeowner in Missoula’s Target Range spots a mountain lion near her backyard birdbath, KPAX reports. Local wildlife officials say they’ve been receiving two or three cat calls a week. “This is not a localized situation,” says FWP’s Mike Thompson. “They are on the perimeter, and it’s not good that they are this close.”

• Saturday, July 9 At Ogren-Allegiance Park, the Missoula Osprey score four runs in the eighth inning en route to an 8-5 win over the Billings Mustangs. The Osprey improve to 11-9, tied with the Mustangs for first place in the Pioneer League’s North Division.

• Sunday, July 10 In the fifth annual Missoula Marathon, Kalispell’s Elliot Welder, 23, breaks the course record with a time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 25 seconds. Katherine Georger, 26, of Boise, Idaho, places first among women with a time of 3:10:30.

• Monday, July 11 The deliberate homicide trial of Jeffrey Allen Nixon, 20, opens in Kalispell with co-defendant Karrolyn Robinson testifying that Nixon and another man injected her neighbor, Wesley Collins, with drugs, strangled him and beat him to death with hammers before stealing his marijuana and cash.

• Tuesday, July 12 Kenneth Cadieux, 25, of Missoula, pleads guilty to criminal endangerment in the wake of the March overdose and subsequent death of his 23-year-old girlfriend, Riley Rochelle Boyer. Cadieux admits to grinding up the prescription painkiller Dilaudid and giving it to Boyer who, the Missoulian reports, was found lying dead next to her 4-month-old son.

Children crowd around to inspect a crayfish caught by Matt Hauser (left) in Silver’s Lagoon in Missoula Tuesday morning. The crustacean was the first catch of the day for the kids, who are participating in a weeklong Parks and Rec “Adventure Fishing Camp.”

Happiness The power of pedaling An analysis published in The Atlantic last month suggests that because Missoulians bike more than people in other communities, we may be happier and more educated, and our community more diverse. “The percentage of cycling commuters is positively associated with levels of happiness and well-being,” according to the study, by wizardly demographer Richard Florida. According to the U.S Census Bureau American Community Survey, Missoula ranks third among metropolitan communities nationally, behind Fort Collins, Colo. and Eugene Ore., for the highest proportion of residents—4.8 percent, in Missoula—who regularly commute by bicycle. Florida and colleague Charlotta Mellander wrote that Missoula stood out when they scrutinized commuter data alongside, among other things, Gallup surveys in which respondents talked about happiness.

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Missoula Bicycle Pedestrian Program Coordinator Phil Smith considers himself a happy enough guy. He bikes a lot. But he’s not sold on the idea that cyclists overall are more content. “I don’t think I can go as far as to say it’s a cause-effect,” he says. “I have to say I find a few people on bikes that don’t seem to be very happy.” It is clear that people who commute regularly on two wheels are generally healthier. That’s largely why Missoula continues to invest in non-motorized transportation options, Smith says. Missoula has roughly 32 miles of bike lanes and steadily adds more non-motorized trails. Just last month, the city painted roughly 170 white symbols on roadways around town that portray a cyclist beneath two arrows. The “sharrows” are an effort to remind locals to share the road on thoroughfares where there isn’t enough room for an actual bike lane. “We want bike riders to know—and we especially want drivers to know—this is an intended roadway for bikes,” Smith says. Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation director Bob Giordano says while

more work needs to be done, he appreciates the city’s efforts, and the sharrows specifically. “That seems to be a long time coming,” he says. Jessica Mayrer

Downtown Sign standoff Seven sepia-colored panels on a brick building at the corner of Broadway and Higgins illustrate scenes from Missoula history. Men in white shirts swing sledgehammers. With bent backs, they extend a railroad line, tie-by-tie, farther west. A horse-drawn carriage meanders downtown. This Hadley Ferguson mural, called “The Heart of Missoula,” has been at the center of a debate over the past two months on how to balance the needs of commerce with the value of art. In 2005, the city signed off on a perpetual easement with the Cowell estate, which holds title to the building that bears the mural, and Rick Bice, a Cowell Building tenant who owns Allegra Print and Imaging. According to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, Bice picked up

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roughly half the muralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $35,000 price, while the MRA contributed the other half. Bice and the property owner assured the city that the art would remain in perpetuity. Last year, Bice opened another business, Signs Now, in the building. Two months ago, hoping to draw more foot traffic, he submitted an application to the Office of Planning and Grants proposing a 43-square-foot sign above the Signs Now Broadway Street entrance. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Art Committee, however, bristled at Biceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to hang the sign smack in the middle of the mural. In a letter to Bice dated July 1, art committee chair Joan Jonkel wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your suggested â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Signs Nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; signage compromises the brown wall that is considered the necessary visual frame of the artwork and this usage of it cannot be approved by the Public Art Committee.â&#x20AC;? Bice says the easement doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t specify anything about signs and the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stance doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account the trying economic environment downtown business owners face. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I care very much about the art, and I appreciate how it has enhanced the downtown,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I also care deeply about trying to make a living and support nine employees.â&#x20AC;? By Tuesday of this week, Bice capitulated. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreed to erect his sign 90 feet from the business entryway, away from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heart of Missoula.â&#x20AC;? That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy about it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the funds, or the time, or the energy right now to fight,â&#x20AC;? he says. Jessica Mayrer

Libby The chips are down W.R. Graceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vermiculite mine did a number on the Libby community. Asbestos-related diseases have claimed hundreds of lives and left over a thousand more people ill. The town itself is widely considered the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dangerous Superfund site. This spring, news broke that the damage may be even more widespread. An investigation by the Associated Press revealed that a pile of wood chips commonly used by locals for landscaping tested positive for trace amounts of asbestos. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse, the EPA has known about the potential for exposure for years and did nothing to stop the use of the chips at park, at schools and in backyards. Rep. Denny Rehberg chastised the EPA last week for shirking its responsibility in assessing

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the wood chips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The folks in Libby want to put the asbestos mess behind them, but they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that while they are waiting for the EPA to do its job,â&#x20AC;? the Congressman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They want answers, and so do I.â&#x20AC;? In Libby, however, the reaction wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly so hostile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get these [scares] about every six months or so, and people are just pretty much desensitized to it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid,â&#x20AC;? says Libby city councilman D.C. Orr. Orr first heard rumors about the potential contamination back in February. He pressed the EPA for more definitive data on the level of asbestos in the chips, but found the agency unresponsive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They hid from the issue,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That raises more red flags than if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d lied to us.â&#x20AC;?

The EPA still hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taken a stance on the dangers posed by the wood chips. The AP report revealed that only four in 20 samples showed traces of asbestos. But Orr says the newly constructed Lincoln County Credit Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which used the chips for landscapingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taking any chances. The bank vacuumed up the chips this spring, replacing them with rocks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beautiful material, and consequently everybody in the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used them,â&#x20AC;? Orr says. Orr placed chips under his maple trees, in his flowerbeds, even beneath his grandkidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; swing set. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would still like to buy the stuff and use it because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such great stuff,â&#x20AC;? Orr says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the EPA has to give us some definitive scientific analysis before Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to use any more of it.â&#x20AC;? Alex Sakariassen

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The Pov The clock ticks On Monday, Ellie Hill, the high-profile director of Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poverello Center, stepped down after five and a half years helming the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest homeless shelter. Hill, a representative for House District 94, will move on to co-chair the Montana Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Where the Pov will move, though, is unclear. Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure comes as the Pov attempts to drum up public support for its long-overdue relocation. And it has to do so quickly: Its $500,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could fall through if it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t secure a new site by Oct. 1. The shelter had planned to move to the former Trails End Bar, at 1112 West Broadway, but Mayor John Engen put that plan on ice last month after Westside neighbors protested. Now the nonprofit has only two and a half months to identify a site, address neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns, and finalize a deal. Engen and the Pov will soon kick off a series of public meetings on the matter, which, according to city spokeswoman Ginny Merriam, probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last longer than six weeks in order to accommodate the Povâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deadline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The process has to be adequate,â&#x20AC;? says Eran Fowler-Pehan, the Povâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acting executive director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it has to be lengthy to be adequate.â&#x20AC;? The West Broadway site remains an option. Board president Kate Gadbow says the Pov asked for an extension of the buy-sell agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping the property will still be available after weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked through all of this,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;or that something else will surfaceâ&#x20AC;Śthatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fairly close to the city, but not necessarily right in the center of town.â&#x20AC;? And if that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen by Oct. 1? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it would be a big detriment to the community to lose that significant of a portion of money that could assist with the relocation of the shelter, which absolutely needs to occur,â&#x20AC;? Fowler-Pehan says. As for Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure, Gadbow says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It became clearer and clearer to all of us that it was going to be hard for her to be here and focus in the way that an executive director needs to in order to move us through this process, and for her to still be keeping some of these political commitments sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made. I actually think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be great for the Pov to have her advocating for the poor in a larger sphere.â&#x20AC;? Matthew Frank

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Public Policy Polling last week released a hypothetical match-up for the 2014 senate race. The poll, which included lots of â&#x20AC;&#x153;wouldâ&#x20AC;?s and â&#x20AC;&#x153;ifâ&#x20AC;?s, pitted Sen. Max Baucus against Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the Democratic primary and found Schweitzer would trounce the six-term senior senator 51 to 34. Rumors of a 2014 bout between Schweitzer and Baucus have run â&#x20AC;&#x2122;round the mill for more than a year. Never mind that Schweitzer dismissed the notion last summer when he told Chuck Johnson of Lee Enterprisesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; state bureau, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no interest in being in the United States Senate.â&#x20AC;? With the 2012 senate and gubernatorial races in Montana getting hotter every week, speculation about 2014 seems more like a fun distraction than a forecast. And we think we can top this latest poll with our own hypothetical match-ups. Pundits posit that Missoula City Councilman Dave Strohmaier is a tad too liberal to win his bid for the U.S. Congress. That leaves us dreaming of a race between Strohmaier and former University of Montana law professor, perennial right wing gadfly and Tea Party darling Rob Natelson in the 2013 Missoula mayoral election. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tangled peripherally at least once before. Two months after council passed a law introduced by Strohmaier and councilperson Stacy Rye making it illegal to discriminate against gay or transgender people, Natelson maligned the lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passage online. He called it bad for business and took a jab at â&#x20AC;&#x153;cross-dressers and similar oddballs.â&#x20AC;? Rep. Denny Rehberg has been criticized for his political decisions not just by those across the aisle but from within his partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranks. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raised the Tea Party banner constantly. But Montana Shrugged co-founder Eric Olsen took Rehberg to task this spring for opposing a budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., that included drastic cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Should Tester hold strong against Rehberg next year, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be tickled to see a 2014 Republican primary clash between Rehberg and Olsen. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d certainly give Olsen a chance to blast anti-earmark Rehberg for proposing $9.6 million in pork barrel spending this year. Why stop ourselves there? Looking ahead to 2016, could we hope to see a gubernatorial race pitting David Letterman against Ted Turner? What about Michael Keaton against Huey Lewis? Or, wait: Connie Chung takes on Maury Povich! Seriously: why should pollsters have all the fun?

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Oil and water Yellowstone River spill fuels Keystone XL debate by Matthew Frank

In the days following the July 1 Exxon Mobil pipeline rupture that sent an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil down the Yellowstone River, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer lambasted the Texas oil giant. He claimed the company downplayed the spill’s impacts, he promised legal action, and he even pulled the state out of an Environmental Protection Agency oil spill command center because he claimed Exxon Mobil had hijacked it. Through it all, Schweitzer has displayed his signature folksy shtick, saying, “ain’t nobody gonna blow smoke up the south side of this north-facing governor,”

On Tuesday, environmental activists staged a protest of Keystone XL in Schweitzer’s office. Last week, eastern Montana landowners sent a letter to Schweitzer asking that his outrage over the Yellowstone River spill result in the state requiring a series of landowner-protection measures before Keystone XL is approved. “We are glad that you have made it your cause to make Exxon fix the mess, but there is some damage that won’t ever be fixed,” wrote Darrell Garoutte, Tim Hess, and Doris Frost, members of the Northern Plains Resource Council. “The best medicine is preventative and it is time to be pre-

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The route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through Montana

and that he’ll “stay on this like smell on a skunk until it’s cleaned up.” But while Schweitzer portrays himself as an enviro-populist fighting the transgressions of Big Oil, he’s also defending Keystone XL, a proposed $7 billion, 1,711mile pipeline between Alberta’s tar sands and Texas, 250 miles of which would pass through Montana. It’s a tricky tightrope to walk even for the popular, pro-energydevelopment Democrat, underscoring that two of his core policy positions—close-tohome energy production and protecting Montana’s environment—could be at odds. The Yellowstone River oil spill escalated the debate over TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, which would carry about 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day (compared to the 40,000-barrel capacity of Exxon Mobil’s ruptured Silvertip pipeline). Groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council say the spill should be a wakeup call, but Schweitzer told reporters recently: “I don’t think one ought to confuse what happens with this particular old technology, Silvertip, with what will occur in the future.”

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ventative on the Keystone XL pipeline.” The EPA agrees. In early June, the agency said the Keystone XL proposal hadn’t sufficiently accounted for the potential for oil spills. It pointed to TransCanada’s Keystone I pipeline, which transports crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma. “Just in the last month, the Keystone Pipeline experienced two leaks…These events…underscore the comments about the need to carefully consider both the route of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline and appropriate measures to prevent and detect a spill.” At least 12 Keystone spills have been reported since May 2010. The biggest occurred in Sargent County, North Dakota, where, on May 8 of this year, witnesses reported seeing a “six-story geyser of oil gushing from a pump station,” according to news reports. We should expect more spills from Keystone XL than TransCanada wants to admit, according to University of NebraskaLincoln civil engineering professor John Stansbury. On Monday, he released a study that found that TransCanada lowballed spill

risks. The company estimated that the Keystone XL pipeline would experience 11 significant spills of more than 50 barrels over 50 years; Stansbury says it should be more like 90. “If you are going to develop energy in this country, there are consequences, there’s give-and-take,” Schweitzer says. “But if we don’t develop energy in this country, we know the consequences.” He adds that he’ll never have to send Montana troops to defend the Bakken oil fields, the proposed Otter Creek coal mine, or the Alberta border. Before the Silvertip spill, 34 members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on June 23 requesting, among other things, a full lifecycle assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands oil to ensure that the pipeline is consistent with the administration’s clean energy and climate change priorities. The EPA estimates that the greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands oil is 82 percent greater than those produced by conventional crude oil. “People beat up on the oil sands, saying the footprint is higher,” Schweitzer says. “No, it’s not. If you compare the way they develop their oil in Nigeria or Angola, and what we have to pay to have our military—which, by the way, has the largest carbon footprint of any organization on the planet—ensconced in the Middle East to protect that oil supply, suddenly the footprint doesn’t look so big in Alberta.” On July 7, TransCanada sent a letter to Congress clarifying the steps it would take to protect the Yellowstone and other rivers the pipeline would cross, including the Missouri. Among them, it said the pipeline would run 25 feet below Yellowstone’s riverbed, compared to the five- to eight-foot depth of the Silvertip. TransCanada also disputed Stansbury’s findings. The Keystone XL Pipeline is awaiting a presidential permit from the U.S. State Department, required because the pipeline would cross an international boundary. Last October, Clinton said she was “inclined” to approve the proposal. A decision is expected by the end of the year. Montana must also grant a permit. “The permitting process for Keystone XL is currently in progress, and you are in a position to prevent a disaster from Keystone XL,” the Montana landowners wrote to Schweitzer last week. “Please use your position toward that end.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Read all about some of it Newspapers in Montana lose a few more pounds by Alex Sakariassen

Late last month, two Lee Enterprisesowned Montana newspapers announced they were consolidating their editorial operations under a single editor. The move, which ousted Helena Independent-Record editor John Doran, placed both newsrooms under the leadership of Montana Standard editor Gerry O’Brien, in Butte.

Randy Rickman, the publisher of both papers, cited declining revenues and the loss of several major Helena advertisers as the impetus for the consolidation. Readers responded with concerns that news coverage in the state’s capital city would suffer for lack of a local editor. Rickman attempted to counter such fears by assuring that city editors would keep coverage at both papers focused locally. He declined to comment for this story. The question of what the IR-Standard consolidation means for Montana media consumers could remain unanswered for some time, but it’s a question many feel warrants asking, especially considering the increasingly tenuous financial position many large news companies like Lee have found themselves in lately. “It’s not just Lee,” says Dennis Swibold, a University of Montana journalism professor and former managing editor of the Bozeman Chronicle. “It’s a lot of newspaper groups that are in this situation…I think there is a concern that you’re losing local coverage, and to the extent it’s lost, I think that’s one of the prices people are going to pay.” In April, Lee announced plans to sell junk bonds to repay the company’s $1 billion debt. But the company retracted its

offer a month later after reporting a $1.47 million loss in the first quarter of 2011 and deeming the bonds too tough a sell. “We will continue to pursue alternatives and fully expect to refinance our long-term debt before it matures in April 2012,” Lee CEO Mary Junck wrote to stockholders after the retraction. She added that the

January; the Great Falls Tribune was among them. The IR-Standard restructuring isn’t Lee Enterprises’ first nip-and-tuck job in Montana. Last year, the company shifted newsroom oversight of the Ravalli Republic to Missoulian editor Sherry Devlin. No employees were laid off as a direct result of the editorial merger. Wayne Adair has followed the Republic online since the merger. He is now the managing editor of the Lone Peak Lookout weekly newspaper in Big Sky, but served as editor of the Republic from June 2001 through July 2005. He says he was fired over disagreements with the publisher over how he ran the newsroom. But he still has an emotional connection to Hamilton’s daily. And he says space devoted to Bitterroot coverage on the Republic’s pages has already eroded. “When I was editor there, we had a standing rule that all the front-page stories would be local,” he says. “We didn’t use any AP, we didn’t use any of the Lee news wires. We’d use those inside, but the front page was pretty dedicated to just local news stories, local bylines.” Illustration by Pumpernickel Adair fears a similar erosion of company was continuing to pay down its local news in the wake of the IR-Standard debt rapidly. “We are not, as some in the consolidation. Of now-regional editor national media have imagined, staving off Gerry O’Brien, Adair says he’s worked with bankruptcy.” Junck also disclosed in early him for years and has “great respect” for May that she purchased 100,000 shares of him. “But he’s only human, and there’s Lee stock. only so many hours in the day. When these According to Poynter Institute positions are consolidated, it’s just virtually researcher Rick Edmonds, the first three impossible for one person to do as good a months of 2011 were hard times for most job as two people.” Amy Cannata, communications direcmajor newspaper companies. Advertising fell nearly 7 percent, Edmonds wrote last tor for the American Civil Liberties Union in week, and the search for alternative rev- Helena and a former reporter for The enue streams continues to languish. On Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Wash., the last day of 2010, Lee stock traded at isn’t as quick to cast a shadow over Lee’s lat$2.46 per share. By June 30, 2011, that est Montana consolidation. The ACLU relies value had dipped to 89 cents. In a special heavily on media in Helena and across the report July 7, The Economist wrote that state to spread its message, she says. “for American regional and metro-area Although it’s preferable to have an editor at newspapers, further job cuts, closures the IR who “is intimately familiar with what goes on in the community” and although and consolidation now seem likely.” Poynter’s Edmonds also shed light it’s “a huge loss to lose John Doran,” last month on troubling developments Cannata has faith that readers will continue for another major media company with to see a quality product. But, she adds, “It’s ties to Montana. Gannett announced 700 hard all around in the print world these layoffs nationwide in late June. Edmonds days, and I think communities really rely on referred to the layoffs as “a vote of no these print media to have their issues covconfidence in the future of print by ered. People really don’t understand how America’s largest newspaper company.” much they lose when print outlets have to It was the company’s fourth round of cut back.” staff cuts since 2008. Gannett also ordered furloughs at 81 newspapers this asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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For those of us out here in the real world, the bizarre scene in Washington, D.C., these days as the deadline for national default draws nigh seems like a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. There’s a complete cast of characters from the insane asylum, starring intransigent Republicans full of sound and fury, willing to bring the nation to its knees for political advantage. In the meantime, Democrats, who still control the Senate and the White House, are in disarray and apparently incapable of even keeping the promises they already made. So here’s a warning to President Obama and those Democrats who think they can tinker with Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid: Abandon your base and your base will abandon you. The quandary facing Congress and Obama is not something that just popped up. For many years now, Congress has been spending more money than the American people are willing to give it in taxes. The result has been a snowballing national debt that now burdens every citizen, from the moment of birth, with $50,000 dollars in federal debt. Because Congress now borrows 40 cents of every dollar it spends—often from economic competitors such as China—federal debt is growing at an astounding rate. And there’s the rub: unless Congress raises the debt ceiling by trillions of dollars by August, the United States, for the first time in its history, will begin to default on its debt payments. Partisans from both parties love to point their fingers and try to assign blame for the situation. Democrats look at the massive expansion of debt under President George W. Bush and say he did it. Republicans look at the massive expansion of debt under Barack Obama and say he’s responsible for this reckless federal spending binge. Yet in all the wabba-jabba emanating from D.C.’s chorus of insane singers, where are the voices of reason stating the undeniable reality that both parties have been responsible, since both parties have alternated in positions of control and power over the last 3 decades? Instead, what we’re treated to on an increasing basis is both parties telling us how we’re going to have to suck it up and adjust to a “new normal” that includes cutting bedrock social programs, education, health care (what little we get), and environmental protection. In the meantime, the Republicans go even further and promise that they won’t raise a dime in new revenue. They even want to cut

taxes further for the wealthy, whom they have re-named “job creators,” despite the fact that the wealthy are now sitting on trillions in available capital but are not using it to create jobs. But that’s nothing new. Republicans have always serviced the rich. That’s why rich people vote for, donate to, and elect Republicans. All we’re seeing from the Republican-dominated House is what we’ve seen for years: policies and prac-

For some reason, Democrats aren’t standing up for their foundational tenets now. In fact, starting with Obama and working down, it appears the party somehow thinks it can garner a continuing existence by becoming Republican Light. They’re dead wrong.

tices that funnel money upward to a tiny percentage of the population that controls vast wealth while the economic divide between them and everyone else yawns larger by the minute. But Democrats, well, that’s supposed to be a different story. Democrats have traditionally been the party of the working people, the middle class, and organized labor. They’re supposed to be the party that takes care of those in need. But for some reason, Democrats aren’t standing up for their

foundational tenets now. In fact, starting with Obama and working down, it appears the party somehow thinks it can garner a continuing existence by becoming Republican Light. They’re dead wrong. Those of us who have worked our whole lives and watched tens of thousands of our dollars funneled to federal programs such as Social Security are in deep shock right now, as Obama seems more than willing to put everything on the table to avoid the looming default should the debt ceiling not be raised. When I hear Obama say Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are all part of what might have to be chopped in his secret deal-making with Republican leaders, deep resentment wells up in me. And I am not alone. There are some 78 million American Baby Boomers right now who are furious at the thought that a Democrat President would ever think about pulling the rug out from under them as they enter retirement age. And older people are more likely to vote than any other group. Yet extending Medicare from 65 to 67 is definitely in play, as are amorphous changes to Social Security and Medicaid. And already the federal government has quit paying into some pension programs under the phony rubric of “austerity” budgeting. True, there are a handful of Democrats, including former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who say they will never renege on Social Security. But it’s a very tough thing for Democrats who want to keep faith with the party’s working-class base when their President is so obviously willing to give in to outrageous Republican demands. Nor do the Democrats have the guts to take on the one glaring sector of federal spending that is both unnecessary and incredibly unproductive: the wars. While the rest of government is being cut, the Pentagon’s budget is enjoying double-digit increases as Obama starts new wars. Last week, the House passed a $659 billion one-year military budget 336-87. Only 76 Democrats and 12 Republicans voted against it. So here’s the simple message to Democrats: We are watching and we are fed up with you selling us out. Your choice at this juncture is equally simple: Listen up—or lose. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Justice delivered How Native Americans finally got their money back by Paul VanDevelder

When federal District Judge Thomas F. Department of Justice, the Interior few months later, Cobell prevailed again. One hundred and twenty-four years Hogan approved a $3.4 billion settlement Department and the Bureau of Indian with several hundred thousand Native Affairs. On the other side were Cobell and after the passage of Dawes, this disgraceAmerican plaintiffs last month, it was the the 390,000 Indian plaintiffs who became ful scandal has finally reached a conclulargest court-ordered payout in the history part of her suit. Now, all of them wanted to sion. Cobell, who is currently being treatknow where their money had gone, and all ed for cancer, will receive $2 million. of the United States government. Three other named plaintiffs will receive The restitution finally closes an unsa- of them wanted their money back. payments ranging from vory chapter in American histo$150,000 to $200,000, and ry that began more than a cenhundreds of thousands of tury ago, when Congress plaintiffs will receive a check passed the Dawes Act and from Uncle Sam for $1,000. At threw open Indian Country to Cobell’s request, $60 million settlement by whites. The law will also be set aside to facilirobbed all the tribes that had tate educational opportunities treaties with the government— for Indian students. treaties that involved roughly “I spent a lifetime trying to 120 million acres of their get justice,” says the 65-year-old ancestral homelands—and Cobell. “This has been with me turned over the management since I was a child, hearing of any Indian-owned mineral about people not having royalties to the Interior money, hearing people say, ‘If I Department. had money I would buy clothCourts were soon picking ing for my child.’ I feel very forapart the legality of Dawes, but tunate that I was able to fight the flood of homesteaders for the under-represented.” made it impractical to return Eric Eberhard, one of the all of that stolen land to the nation’s authorities on federal Indians. As the years passed, Indian law, says he hopes the Indian Country turned out to Cobell case will lead to lasting be much more than land for Photo by Cathrine L. Walters reform in the management and homesteads; it held a treasure administration of tribal and chest of gold, silver, uranium, Elouise Cobell individual trust assets. copper, zinc, cadmium, virgin Cobell alleged that the federal govern- ”Ultimately,” he adds, “the tribes should be timber, pure water, coal, gas and oil. Though the accounts held in trust for ment ignored its fiduciary duties to the managing their own trust assets, consistent Indian people at the Interior Department plaintiffs by absconding with mineral royal- with the principles of self-determination should have been swelling with royalties, ties owed to the Indians since the passage and self-governance, without diminishing of Dawes decades ago. In 1998, account- the federal trust responsibility.” somehow they never were. Like the plaintiffs, President Obama Time and again, the evidence present- ants for the firm of Price-Waterhouse told ed in the 15-year-old legal marathon known federal District Judge Royce Lamberth that said he viewed this lawsuit as a stain on simply as Cobell—the case that was just set- some $50 billion had gone missing from the nation; he hailed the settlement as “an important step towards sincere reconcilitled—revealed that asking the Interior Indian accounts. In 2003, after twice citing secretaries of ation between the government and the Department to make the captains of American industry play fair was like turning the Interior for contempt of court, Indians.” We’ll see. I happen to think Gen. Fort Knox over to a gang of safecrackers. Lamberth, a conservative west Texan appointed by the first President Bush, made William Tecumseh Sherman had it right a And they got away with it, year after year. Then, in 1994, as extractive corpora- a landmark ruling in favor of the plaintiffs: long time ago. After spending 20 years in tions were discovering new oilfields on “This case serves as an appalling reminder the West dealing with white settlers and Indian reservations across the West, along of the evils that result when large numbers Indian tribes, he was asked by a reporter came a feisty woman named Elouise of the politically powerless are placed at the in Washington, D.C., to describe the new Cobell. A banker for the Blackfeet Tribe in mercy of institutions engendered and con- reservations for the Sioux and Cheyenne. Montana, she had discovered irregularities trolled by a politically powerful few.” “The Indian reservations are parcels of in her own trust accounts, including the Lambert was removed from the case at the land set aside for the exclusive use of fact that royalties were not showing up as request of the second Bush administration, Indians, that are surrounded by thieves,” which alleged that he was being “too harsh he said. credits in her annual statements. The research Cobell conducted into on the government.” In 2008, the government offered the the Interior Department’s royalty program Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to led her to file a lawsuit in 1996, accusing Indians $455.6 million to make their claim Writers on the Range, a service of High the federal government of gross misman- go away. Cobell scoffed. “It’s factually Country News (hcn.org). He is the author of agement. Soon, her case grew into an enor- wrong and legally wrong,” she declared, Savages and Scoundrels, the Untold Story of mous elephant camped out in the govern- “so we have to challenge it.” The Interior America’s Road to Empire, and lives in ment’s living room. On one side were the Department filed a counter-appeal but a Portland, Oregon.

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The spirit of Montana is a moody bison mugging for the camera with snow in his beard. It’s also the name of a benefit concert for the Missoula Food Bank this Wednesday at the University Theater. The musical lineup is predominantly clad in cowboy hats and features some of Montana’s premium Country & Western heavyweights. Rob Quist is the son of a rancher and has been playing evocative and versatile Montana music for years, some of them in a bolo tie. Tim Ryan is so Montana he grew up on the Flathead Indian reservation and played UM Grizzly football. Ellie Nuno plays the fiddle like her life depends on it. Finally, and not to overdo it, LeGrande Harvey

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THURSDAY JULY 14 The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Karol K. Truman’s book, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.

FRIDAY JULY 15 Summertime rides get dirty, and the Talbot Summer Day Program wants to help dust them off with a car wash this and every Fri. through the summer to benefit the Missoula Youth Homes at Holiday Station Store, 605 S. Higgins. Donations only.

SATURDAY JULY 16 Load up on stuff you didn’t know you needed at the Clinton School Rummage Sale and Carwash Fundraiser, featuring the usual goods, plus coffee, baked treats, and a free car wash, all to benefit 8th graders going to DC. 20397 E. Mullan Rd. in Clinton. My old MFA friends are running a free summer workshop on campus called the Montana Free School, this and every Sat. through the summer from 11 AM–1 PM in LA233 on the UM Campus. No registration or sign up required, just bring yourselves and your writing. Free. Help a brother with a double lung transplant out at Blaine Lovell’s Benefit, featuring family friendly street dance, auctions, food and live music event, with bands like Baby & Bukowski, the Boxcutters and more. The street dance is free, and food is $7 for adults/$5 for kids, and it all goes down starting at noon at The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demer St. in Frenchtown. Call 626-4272. The Western Montana Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation are hosting a banquet, barbecue, and silent auction for the good of the animals at Marshall Mountain, 5250 Marshall Canyon Rd. Show up any time between 2–6 PM to help the animals. For tickets call Chelsea at 721-7171 or visit MTmuledeer.org. Volunteer fire fighters benefit from the 14th Annual Somers Cajun Street Dance, which features fami-

wrote Montana’s official state ballad, “Montana Melody.” Wednesday’s concert is all about quenching local hunger pains alongside the soothing sounds of rocksolid local music. The spirit of Montana is both a benefit concert and a ridiculous bison standing on a hill in silhouette while homegrown melodies churn through his head. —Molly Laich Spirit of Montana, a benefit concert for the Missoula Food Bank goes down this Wed., July 20, 7 PM at the University Theater on UM’s campus. $25 Adults/$15 for 18 and under. Reserved seating. Visit spiritofmontana.net.

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MONDAY JULY 18 They stole my name sort of for MOLLI Summer Adventures in Science: Connecting the Circle, a summer camp from 9 AM–4 PM July 18–19, for kids 6–12 along with their grandparents. Cost is $100 per kid/adult pair. Call 243-2905. Lit makes for rad Monday nights when Paul Berkowitz signs and reads from his book, The Case of the Indian Trader in the cupboard with the dog in the night time, 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

TUESDAY JULY 19 Pretty in Pink is a really good movie. On an unrelated note, it’s Ladies Day at the southside Kettlehouse, aka Pints for Pink, where portions of sales of the cream ale pints and pink T’s will be donated to Pink Boots Society (women Brewsters) and Breast Cancer Foundation, 602 Myrtle St. Bring along your posters and activists attitude for a Rally to Support & Stand with Israel in front of the Main Post Office on E. Broadway, 11 AM–1:30 PM. Call Gloria at 251-5961. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY JULY 20 Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week. This week’s beneficiary is IWFF. Free.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Authorities charged Carl Muggli, 49, with murdering his wife in Ray, Minn., despite his insistence that the 17-foot-tall totem pole the two were carving slipped out of its cradle and fell on her accidentally. Investigators became suspicious when they found Facebook entries, which the criminal complaint described as “very intimate in nature,” between Muggli and a Texas woman around the time of Linda Muggli’s death. The officers went to the Mugglis’ home to re-create the circumstances of her death. After failing five times to topple the totem pole the way Muggli described, sheriff’s deputies arrested him. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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James Edward Russell, 39, escaped from the Washington state penitentiary but was recaptured the next day when he knocked on the door of a cabin, still wearing his prison uniform, and asked to use the phone. Department of Corrections official Chad Lewis said the man who answered the door was an off-duty guard at the prison Russell had fled and recognized him. (Associated Press) SEX IS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT - A 39-year-old woman was injured when a tombstone at Ahavath Israel Cemetery in Hamilton, N.J., fell on her leg while she and a male companion were engaged in what police Capt. James Stevens termed “extracurricular activities.” (Trenton’s The Times) CONCRETE EVIDENCE - Police responding to reports of an alligator sighting in Independence, Mo., had been advised by a conservation agent to kill the gator if they thought it posed a danger. When the three officers saw it lurking in the weeds leading down to a pond, they opened fire. The first round hit the gator in the head, but when the second one bounced off, the officers realized they’d been shooting at a concrete lawn ornament. Homeowner Rick Sheridan explained he bought the life-size gator to keep people off his property. (Associated Press) SHUTTLECOCK TEASERS - Declaring it needed to create a more “attractive presentation” for female badminton players, the Badminton World Federation decreed that all women competing at the elite level must wear skirts or dresses, not shorts and pants. “We’re not trying to use sex to promote the sport. We just want them to look feminine and have a nice presentation so women will be more popular,” BWF deputy president Paisan Rangsikitpho said, noting that some women compete in oversize shorts and long pants and appear “baggy, almost like men.” Male players are required only to dress in “proper attire,” officials said. In a nod to Muslim women, the BWF said women could still wear shorts or long pants for cultural and religious reasons but only beneath a proper dress or skirt. After widespread protests against the rule, labeling it sexist, offensive to Muslim women and a cumbersome hindrance to performance, the BWF withdrew it three days later. (The New York Times) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Three tourists watching an Old West gun battle in Hill City, S.D., were wounded when a 49-year-old re-enactor fired live ammunition instead of blanks. One of the victims, Carroll Knutson, 65, said she was disappointed that the injury cut short her vacation but relieved that it was a performer who fired the shots rather than one of the 100 tourists watching the show. (Associated Press) IF ENGLAND HAD A SECOND AMENDMENT - When security guard Sean Murphy, 38, used a stolen shotgun to remove a wart, the blast also removed his left middle finger. “There was nothing left, so no chance to reattach it,” Murphy said when pleading guilty in Doncaster, England, to using an illegal firearm, adding, “The best thing is that the wart has gone.” District Judge Jonathan Bennett gave Murphy a 16-week suspended sentence, telling him, “I don’t know what was going on in your mind.” (Yorkshire Post) FIRE BUGGERY - Deana Melendez, 51, decided to get rid of an oil painting by her husband that she hated by burning it in the fireplace of their home in Meadow Pointe, Fla. The fire somehow spread from the painting to the walls and roof. Missing her cat, Melendez refused to leave, cursing at a firefighter who tried to remove her and kicking him in the knee: “F—k you,” she told him repeatedly. “I’m looking for my cat.” After the blaze left the house a charred frame, husband Rubely Melendez, 50, said he kept most of his money in cash in the house, and it had all burned. (St. Petersburg Times) Jena Liberty, 48, locked her keys in her car at 4 a.m. on a freeway north of Santa Clarita, Calif. The freeway callbox she tried using to summon help was disconnected, so, according to sheriff’s Lt. Joe Efflandt, “To get attention, she decided to set the hillside on fire.” The fire burned about a half-acre of brush before firefighters extinguished it. (Los Angeles’s Daily News) BALL PLAY - Three players on a gay softball team in Washington state sued after they were disqualified from taking part in a statewide tournament because they weren’t gay enough. Organizers of the Gay Softball World Series declared the men to be bisexual, not gay, and said their team thus exceeded the limit of two non-gay players. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said the suit could proceed to trial but ruled that the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has a First Amendment right to limit the number of heterosexual players on each team. (Associated Press) Umpires disappointed baseball fans in Alaska attending a traditional midnight game on the summer solstice by suspending play with the score tied, 1-1, after a visiting California team complained it was too dark. The Alaska Baseball League’s “Midnight Sun Baseball Game” had been played without lights on the longest day every year since 1906. Play resumed the following evening, and the California team eventually won, 2-1. (Reuters) IDENTITY CRISIS - Police arrested a divorced couple in Stillwater, Okla., who admitted trying to fake the man’s death to escape some outstanding arrest warrants and so he could start a new life as a woman and “return to the family with a different identity,” police Capt. Randy Dickerson said. Heather Davis and William Davis previously lost custody of their children after their underage daughter caught her father having sex with a blow-up doll. (Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV) FIRST THINGS FIRST - Authorities needed a five-ton dump truck to rescue a 35-year-old woman who drove into Souris River floodwaters in Minot, N.D. Police said the woman was driving drunk in water over the wheels of her vehicle trying to get to a bar to play Bingo. (Associated Press)

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Today, the Great Burn, at 275,00 acres, Ten years ago, he joined the Great Burn ob Clark first glimpsed it a decade ago from the summit of Grave Peak, encompasses just a fraction of the 1910 Study Group as a volunteer. Now he mainin eastern Idaho. Looking north, he blaze. Of that, 100,000 acres are within the tains a strong connection to the place as the saw a stretch of jagged forestland with snow- Lolo National Forest in western Montana, regional representative of the Sierra Club in capped peaks, granite cliffs and grand vis- with the balance in eastern Idaho’s Missoula. “If you’re an art student or a photas—and asked himself, “What the hell is Clearwater National Forest. The Bitterroot tographer, you’d be in heaven” in the Burn, Divide separates the two chunks along the he says. “The snags that are left from the that?” He was looking at the Great Burn, a vast Idaho-Montana border, between Interstate Great Fire that are still standing are like amazing pieces of sculpted art. They’re from and still little known area that Clark calls “a 90 and Highway 12. Because the 1910 fire burned so the 1910 fires, so they’ve been standing for hidden large gem.” “You can’t see the high peaks in the wild intensely, altering the forest’s ecology, the 100 years and haven’t toppled over. Many of country from any of the paved roads such as Great Burn is touted by both environmental- them have [toppled], and they’re left in snag I-90 and Highway 12, which basically you ists and recreationists as one of the most graveyards across the alpine-subalpine should, because they’re fairly close to it,” natural, least manhandled swaths of forest in areas.” Clark says. “If you weren’t into maps, you the region. Timber interest in it spiked in the mid 20th Century and has since subsided. A forest discovered might not know it existed.” There’s a 1971 snapshot from the Great What Clark first saw in the Great Burn The mining industry has turned a blind eye were Williams and Rhodes peaks, dominat- to the area. The Burn is a quarter-million Burn. Eleven shaggy-haired young adults ing the horizon. And he knew he had to get acres of pristine roadless wilderness. But for from Missoula stand around the forest, posin there. He tried to scale Rhodes twice that summer; washed-out roads foiled both attempts. A year later, he accompanied Missoula environmentalist Dale Harris into the Burn, traveling up the west fork of Fish Creek, a tributary of the Clark Fork River, surrounded by forests of red cedar and wide gravel banks, in a drainage prized by some anglers for its bull trout, brook trout and mountain whitefish. Harris ultimately led Clark still higher—to the fire-scarred wilderness surrounding Fish Lake. Harris first saw the Burn in 1971 and had much the same reaction as Clark: unshakable awe. After their return, Harris and 10 other people from that trip formed the Great Burn Study Group, dedicating themselves to keeping this hidden gem of wilderness intact, a photo courtesy Great Burn Study Group commitment that has lasted his adult life. He still heads the organization. The founders of the Great Burn Study Group in 1971. That first trip, Harris says, “was about wind and water…Going through those a network of trails and diligent volunteer ing in varying states of silliness. A woman cedar forests on the north fork and the west management, it’s untouched by the modern kisses at the camera. A guy curls his lips and snarls. One individual bends at the waist, fork, rushing water, crystal clear. I grew up world. That the fires of 1910 saved the Burn mooning the camera with his pants on. They in Michigan, and I’d spent a lot of time in the Beartooths, so I’d seen water like that—but from the kinds of industry encroachment look to be having the time of their lives. seen in some other wilderness areas seems These are the eleven founders of the not through cedar forests.” Forty years later, Harris and the study an ironic twist. The same fires spawned an Great Burn Study Group, including Harris, group are celebrating an important anniver- aggressive Forest Service firefighting policy during the trip that eventually defined a sary. By many measures they’ve succeeded that most now blame for the rash of large swath of forest in Montana and Idaho. Backed by funding from the Ford beyond their expectations in keeping the megafires in recent decades. By 1935, the Forest Service had adopted Foundation, the group of University of Burn intact. But all is not well in paradise. a fierce approach to wildland fires known as Montana students and two instructors drove the “10 a.m. policy,” which dictated that all a bus up Fish Creek in 1971 and spent 21 Scorched earth The Great Burn of 1910, sometimes fires be controlled no later than the morning days exploring the area. Harris and his called the Big Burn or the Big Blowup, after the day the blaze was discovered. Fire cohorts instantly recognized an area in need torched three million acres of private and was viewed as a serious threat to the nation’s of protectors. On their return, they arranged federal forestlands in Montana, Idaho and thriving timber industry, with the memory a group independent study course on the northeastern Washington. More than 1,700 of 1910 and subsequent hot summers Great Burn that fall. Their coursework confires erupted in the area that summer, the spurring the agency to start a public aware- tributed to the first report recommending driest then on record. The fledging Forest ness campaign that led to the creation of wilderness designation for the Burn, and the Service was overmatched. President Taft sent Smokey the Bear. Meanwhile, deadfall and Forest Service’s first Roadless Area Review 4,000 soldiers to assist the civilian firefight- undergrowth that normally succumbed to and Evaluation came out a year later. The Great Burn Study Group was born. ers. In August, Wallace, Idaho was overtaken uncontrolled fires stacked up. Today, Clark pronounces the Burn’s Many have come to refer to the GBSG’s by the flames, which consumed 100 buildings, nearly half the town. Smoke from the unusually low-elevation alpine surroundings model of conservation as “place-based fires reached New England. The soot and large open meadows of beargrass “phe- adoption.” It’s an approach that has garreached Greenland. By the time it was all nomenal.” The forest’s unique character has nered respect even from the motorized user drawn him back to it time and time again. community. over, 80 people were dead.

The group kept monitoring the Burn through the 1980s. The founders funded the operation themselves until obtaining nonprofit status in 2000. Their data and analysis influenced revisions to forest management practices in both the Lolo and Clearwater national forests. Harris says it was never about public recognition—the GBSG kept an intentionally low profile. By operating without much attention they were able to keep overhead low and maintain a strict focus on on-the-ground work. “We’re not known for extreme obstructionist activity,” Harris says. “In our 40 years, I think we’ve filed nine administrative appeals and two lawsuits.” The administrative appeals were primarily over timber sales and roadless areas, and motorized trail reconstruction in a non-motorized location. Handfuls of volunteers have joined the GBSG over the decades to find out why the Burn is so appealing, and to help defend it once they have. They collect data on illegal motorized use. They inventory wildlife. They survey campgrounds and trails for humancaused degradation. They’ve packed herbicides into the Kelly Creek drainage, among other places, to control invasive weeds such as spotted knapweed and sulfur cinquefoil. Last year, several GBSG volunteers installed a wilderness-friendly pit toilet at Heart Lake in response to pollution concerns. The group has even gone so far as to sue the Montana Snowmobile Association over use of the area. “Every place needs its advocates, and the Great Burn area has benefited a lot from having a group that has focused so much energy and effort on protecting it,” says Wilderness Watch Executive Director George Nickas. “I think that that’s wonderful. It’s too bad that lots more areas don’t have citizen groups who are as committed and dedicated to protecting them.” In short, the GBSG does what the understaffed and under-funded Forest Service can’t. “We’ve gained so much respect, it’s been an incredible cooperative relationship,” Harris says. The GBSG’s latest report to the National Forest Foundation—one of its primary financial backers—speaks to the scale of their efforts to aid the Forest Service. Between April of 2010 and April of 2011, volunteers conducted 3,094 hours of work in the Burn. They listed or killed weeds on 102 miles of trail, restored or removed 30 campsites and monitored 1,200 miles of trail for illegal motorized use, they reported. Last year they got $158,393 from the National Forest Foundation and private donors. The group spent $154,450 on salaries and operations. Harris calls the study group a “citizen’s brigade.” And the brigade has been mushrooming. In 1999, the GBSG had a dozen regular volunteers. Last year, the total was 195. They’ve gained significant momentum without lavish fundraising events, a central office or even a website.

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But now the GBSG is tiptoeing into the limelight. It’s the group’s 40th anniversary, and this year it is changing its tactics. They launched a website in early summer. They’re putting out louder calls for help on projects, including another pit toilet installation this August. Policy and field studies director Beverly Dupree refers to this as the Great Burn Study Group’s “coming out year.” Coming out after 40 years, Harris says, “is an acknowledgement that a group of humans fell in love with a place, persisted to make sure it was protected, increased our circle of supporters, and in certain ways mainstreamed into different avenues of society.” It’s the group’s way of saying “we’ve done this, we’re going to continue to do it,” he adds. After running under the radar so long, there is a degree of nervousness about trying something new like the website. But Dupree believes that as long as they don’t lose sight of the original spirit of the study group, a higher profile will only add to their effectiveness. “We’ve got all these people who love the place, and now there’s a cyber connection I guess,” she says. “For us for so long it’s been about having your feet on the ground and being in a place. Because of the way the world’s changing, we’re changing with it. But I don’t want to lose the feet-onthe-ground part.” Yet for all their quiet success, the GBSG still faces its greatest challenge: getting the Great Burn designated as wilderness. It’s what the group set out to do from day one. And after four decades of fieldwork and lobbying, it’s still just beyond the horizon.

Fight for big ‘W’ Harris can pinpoint the GBSG’s greatest setback in seconds. “President Reagan’s pocket veto (of a

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wilderness designation) in 1988 was devastating,” he says. “We were one signature away. All he had to do was sign the thing. And it would have been a shitty bill. They cut 10,000 acres off at the last minute for Champion International…But looking back, hell, I don’t care if it’s shitty or not. It would have been 80,000 acres instead of zero on the Montana side. It took me a year to recover. And that’s when we start-

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ed to wake up and realize we can’t rely on the legislative process. We ultimately have to run that gamut, but it’s something we can’t influence. What we can influence is bringing together a group of people that might love a place and slowly and quietly introduce them to the Great Burn.” On both the Idaho and Montana sides, the Forest Service has recognized the Burn’s potential as pro-

tected wilderness since the 1980s. The Lolo National Forest has even taken to managing the proposed wilderness area as designated wilderness—a directive passed down from its regional administration. But the situation on the Idaho side remains uncertain. Recently, the congressional delegations of Montana and Idaho have produced their first wilderness bills in more than 20 years. Sen. Mike Crapo’s bill establishing the 517,000-acre Owyhee-Bruneau Wilderness in southern Idaho passed Congress in 2009. But pro-wilderness advocates have loudly criticized wilderness attempts by Rep. Mike Simpson and Sen. Jon Tester in other areas of Idaho and Montana, respectively. Wilderness Watch’s George Nickas says that’s largely due to the fact that both bills contained “really crummy provisions” like logging mandates and public forestland “giveaways.” “You clean up the bills and you push a decent bill, and Simpson would have had a wilderness bill by now,” Nickas says. “I think Tester’s forest jobs bill would be in the same boat.” Other congressmen—Rep. Denny Rehberg and Sen. Max Baucus in Montana, and Sen. James Risch and Rep. Raul Labrador in Idaho—have either ignored or spoken out against setting aside more wilderness. Crapo says the nature of wilderness designation has been altered in the last 20 years: “Wilderness legislation has become very divisive and the battle over whether to declare wilderness at the congressional level is very engaged. National stakeholder groups these days, from whichever perspective they come, are very, very well organized and capable of stopping legislation.” That in turn puts pressure on local groups to craft strong, cohesive proposals.

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Wildlife and Parks made a bust by helicopter at nearby Kid Lake. Five snowmobilers were caught riding through a non-motorized area. FWP mailed all of them citations, which typically average just $150. The incidents served to further stimulate the Great Burn Study Group’s concerns. Motorized use in Montana’s portion of the Burn has been flatly prohibited for decades. And if the Clearwater National Forest acts on several suggestions from 2005 for management changes, the Idaho side may soon be shut to over-snow vehicle use. Sandra Mitchell is the Rolled over public lands director for the Conservationists such Idaho State Snowmobile as Clark and Harris contend Association and the executive that the Clearwater National director of the Idaho Forest exhibited a lack of Recreation Council. She says foresight in drafting its 1987 the Idaho side of the Burn is forest plan, because off-road currently popular with snowvehicles were not yet as mobilers from across the popular then or as capable state. “It’s truly a classic backof getting deep into the country,” she says. The riders backcountry. In 2005, even like that there are no forest officials admitted the groomed trails, no parking Forest Service had failed to spots. It’s simply a beautiful adequately consider the open area to ride in. “Plus it future of motorized use brings snowmobilers to the when it opened up large Hiking on Trail 171. area,” she says, “which of areas to off-road vehicles. Motorized use is “the threat” to the Great Burn, course is good for the economic stability of the area.” Motorized use of the Burn has been a contentious says Clark. “It threatens the wild character of it for people’s enjoyment. It displaces wildlife at critical topic on the Idaho side. Reaching a consensus on times. And it sets a precedent that would make it more acceptable motorized use once seemed impossible, difficult for the area to be designated wilderness in the Harris says. “When we first started talking about wilderness, we almost got lynched.” But now the two future.” Two years ago, two snowmobilers entered the sides are talking to one another. The situation’s Montana side of the Burn near Irish Basin. They meant become more civil. “I think there’s just a handful of to retrieve two broken-down sleds from an earlier trip the same people that keep going there and they know in the Fish Creek area. Law enforcement officials with that it’s illegal,” Harris says. He adds that’s something the Forest Service caught wind of their plans through a wilderness designation probably won’t change. On July 30, 2006, Bob Clark and five other hikers an online snowmobile forum. The forests and meadows there had been off limits to motorized use since were headed down Trail 35 in the Crooked Fork the 1980s, and the snowmobilers found authorities drainage. They were returning from a three-day trip waiting for them. At the same time, Montana Fish, into the Burn. Their wilderness experience had been As the battle for official designation continues, Harris has grudgingly accepted the words offered to him nearly 40 years ago by a Montana conservation legend. “Cecil Garland, who was single-handedly responsible for the Scapegoat…one day came up to me when I was 24, at the [UM] science complex, and said, ‘Dale, this is a lifetime adventure.’ Some dude comes up and says, ‘It’s going to take you a lifetime to do that’—and I was like, ‘fuck.’.. “Here I am. And it isn’t out of obligation. It’s out of love.”

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A motorcyclist runs down Bob Clark on a non-motorized trail in the Great Burn in 2006.

marred that morning by the sight of motorcycle tracks in the mud. Trail 35—on the Idaho side— is designated nonmotorized. The group stopped for lunch just off the trail. A short time later, they heard motorcycles in the distance, and then a trio of riders approached. Says Clark: “I grabbed my camera, went down to the trail, and when I lifted up my camera the lead rider gunned his bike right at me, popped a wheel right at my head. I snapped a picture just as the bike’s front tire was coming at my head—and he hit me and knocked me off the trail. He fell on top of my friends…my friend was underneath trying to defend himself and kick him off. There was a verbal exchange. He got back on his bike and the three of them raced off.” After a yearlong investigation, using Clark’s photos, law enforcement identified the lead biker as Timothy D. Turner of Stevensville, who authorities subsequently charged with felony aggravated assault. Clark hoped the catch would become a major deterrent for

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illegal motorized use in the Burn, and perhaps force the Clearwater National Forest’s hand in a crackdown. But a plea bargain knocked Turner’s punishment down to $150 in fines and court costs. “I really give the Forest Service a lot of credit,” Clark says. “Their law enforcement did an excellent job of tracking this person down. It’s the courts that failed us. They found him. They spent a lot of money and a lot of resources finding this person, and he’s a repeat offender. This is a serial trail poacher, an obvious anti-rules guy. This was no accident. He was up there on purpose—and he got away with a slap on the wrist.” Sandra Mitchell says such incidents are regrettable. But she adds that the actions of one person should not decide the fate of access for all. Motorized users enjoy the Great Burn in their own way, she contends. “Until Congress acts and says it’s wilderness, we see no reason why our use should be eliminated.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Fear has been bred out of the Cornish Cross breed. Typically, even the chickens that know you won’t let you get too close. But the Cornish Crosses ran toward you, probably hoping for a snack. Despite their gluttonous habits the meat birds were sweethearts, and killing them was going to be a lot harder than killing Rusty. But there wasn’t any choice. Cornish Cross birds aren’t genetically programmed to handle old age. Their fragile bones break, their joints dislocate, and their hearts stop as they get bigger. At least their lack of fear makes it easier, when the time comes, to catch them. And at least they all look alike—bright white with big feet. Needless to say, they were not given names. I referred to Gary Snyder’s poem “The Hudsonian Curlew”(from his collection Turtle Island, for butchering guidance: “…a transverse cut just below the sternum/the forefinger and middle finger/forced in and up, following the/curve of the rib cage./then fingers arched, drawn slowly down and back,/forcing all the insides up and out,/toward the palm and heel of the hand./firm organs, well-placed, hot. save the liver; finally scouring back, toward the vent, the last of the large intestine…” If you already know a little about what you’re doing, these stanzas could be helpful. Photo by Ari LeVaux But despite my affection for the poem, there The augmented flock, chosen and doomed are irreconcilable differences between wild Hudsonian alike, integrated happily, oblivious to the fact that in Curlews and Cornish Cross chickens. These days I use just six weeks the meat-birds would be ready for Herrick Kimball’s less elegant but more detailed advice slaughter. After a week the meat-birds were bigger at www.butcherachicken.blogspot.com. The site conthan the four week-old layer chicks. When I poured tains 10 illustrated chapters on slaughtering and cleanfeed into the yard, the meat-birds would park them- ing chickens, including one on removing the uropygial selves right in the middle of the feed and clear a cir- oil gland at the base of the tail. The image Kimball provides of his young son cular patch around themselves with a radius equal to singing Bible camp songs while slitting chicken their neck length. Not only did the meat-birds grow fast physically, throats is a bit creepy. But in fairness, it’s rare to get but other aspects of their development were expe- through the process of “dressing out” a chicken dited as well. At two weeks they were sheltering the without getting creeped out one way or another. older but smaller layer chicks under their wings like And I think that’s OK. This business of eating dead mama hens. When they were three weeks old, Marco animals is a messy affair. It should make you Pollo was already giving them his chicken love, and uncomfortable—because it’s a big deal. Which is they would shake exuberantly when he finished. It’s why I believe all meat-eaters should participate, at good that there were 12 of them among which to least once, in the real work of bringing the meat to the table. spread his passion. proved to the world, and especially to Annabelle 2.0, that he isn’t gay. With Annabelle 2.0 no better off than she was before, the only good that came from killing Rusty was the spectacular coq au vin I made. Annabelle 2.0 finally died, in her sleep, just hours before the new shipment of baby chicks arrived. She was my first chicken to die of old age, marking the moment with both triumph and sadness. As I watched Marco Pollo raise the new brood alone, the memory of that coq au vin, and the lusty red wine sauce that tamed Rusty’s sinewy flesh, kept me up at night. Breaking my no-kill promise had opened a door in me. A few weeks later I purchased 12 baby Cornish Cross meat-bird chicks.

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the sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius. Family Dental Group Southgate Mall 541-2886 Stress is tough on your teeth. People with a lot stress are more likely to grind their teeth. This can cause jaw pain and loss of tooth structure. Your dentist can help by making night guards to reduce the affects of grinding. Of course, managing the source of your stress is much better than just treating the symptoms. Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula 424 N. Higgins 542-3847 www.flbcofmissoula.com Known for their “Bar Burgers” a masterpiece of deliciousness; Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is unfiltered sophistication atop the skyline of Missoula Montana. Downtown or Uptown, any way you look

at it, Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is your best destination for great food, wine and spirits. Come on in and join us. We can't wait to see you. Cheers!!! $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. WE DELIVER On Campus & to the area between Beckwith, Higgins & 5th Street. Delivery hours: M-F 11-2. Monday-Friday 7am-3pm. Saturday & Sunday 8am-3pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Enjoy Happy Hour every afternoon from 4 to 7 pm on the Patio at Brooks and Browns. Microbrews or margaritas are $3.00 or enjoy a Micro pitcher with friends for $9.00. Our full menu runs the range from homemade Chips and Salsa up to a 16 oz. Ribeye steak with Bistro fries. You can bring your family, too. It’s a perfect spot to play Bocce or Croquet. Pastimes are family times, so enjoy time with yours in Bess Reed Park while we cook dinner for you. Brooks and Browns is the most peaceful patio in town. 200 S. Pattee Street, just off the Atrium at The Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center 101 East Front St hunterbay.com 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees

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HAPPIESTHOUR Lambkin’s Lounge Why you’re here: It’s summer, you’re road tripping on Highway 200 and the sun’s been beating relentlessly through the windshield for hours. Maybe your AC is on the fritz. Maybe you just need to escape the monotony of dashed yellow lines and Maroon 5 CDs. Doesn’t matter. Lambkin’s comes into view as you slow down through Lincoln, and you think to yourself: Why not?

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What you’re drinking: Provided you’ve timed your stop to coincide with happy hour— every Monday through Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m.—you’ll probably be sipping a Miller Lite. A six-pack in a bucket of ice goes for $9. Well drinks and canned beers are $1.75, but the $1 draft pints of Cold Smoke or Big Sky IPA will really do your wallet a favor. If you miss happy hour, or arrive too early, Bloody Marys and Caesars are the recommended boisson de choix. Where you’re sitting: The lounge has five large flatscreen televisions, visible from the bar or, if you’re ordering from the restaurant next door, the tables. Feeling lucky? Keno machines literally crowd the bar. Most popular at this point in the year, however, is the patio out back. At this particular spot on Highway 200, you can catch some rays without gripping the wheel.

Who you’re drinking with: According to bartender Darcy Jorgensen, pretty much everyone. Given the bar’s location along a major state highway, the guy or gal sitting next to you could be from Great Falls or Australia. Travelers congregate here constantly, whatever the season. “It’s a major stopping point for Griz fans,” Jorgensen says. “Cat fans, too.”

Why you’re staying: Prying yourself away from Lambkin’s can be a real challenge sometimes. The lounge hosts bingo every Wednesday. It has karaoke one Saturday a month—though what Saturday tends to remain a bit of a mystery. Lambkin’s even has seasonal parties like Mardi Gras and their annual gambling extravaganza, “Vegas night.” How to find it: Take Highway 200 east from Missoula until you hit Lincoln. Watch for Lambkin’s on the left. If you get to Roger’s Pass, you’ve gone too far. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

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Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Spring weather brings patio seating! Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5 - 10. Late night happy hour 9-10pm. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all-new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Oil & Vinegar Southgate Mall 549-7800 Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM-9:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM6:00 PM. With a visit to Oil & Vinegar, you will discover an international selection of over 40 estate-produced oils & vinegars suspended in glass amphora-shaped containers on a dramatic backlit wall. Guests can sample the varieties and select from various shapes & sizes of bottles to have filled with an “on-tap” product of choice. Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$

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Pita Pit 130 North Higgins Avenue 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Share a meal within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues-Sun 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ The Sunrise Saloon & Casino 1100 block of Strand 728-1559 Every day is a great day at the Sunrise Saloon! Enjoy two happy hours daily, plus daily drink specials. Wednesday is Ladies night. Missoula's only dedicated country bar with live country music Thursday Saturday. Play our liberal machines while enjoying great entertainment and friendly service. 21+ only. Open daily 8 a.m. 2:00 a.m. NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 5497979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right. Home of the Famous Fish Taco. Crowned Missoulas best lunch for under $6. Mon-Sat. 11-10 Sun. 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER.

Paradise Falls 3621 Brooks St. 728-3228 paradisefallsmissoula.com Come in for sports, food and socializing…whatever you’re looking for, Paradise Falls has it: breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Happy Hour M-F 3-6, space for your special events and catering. Paradise calls at Paradise Falls! $-$$

Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$

Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun Wed 8-3pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$

Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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Don’t even bother trying to control yourself, because Wild Theater Thursdays are back at the Roxy Theater, which features a different award winning wildlife film every Thu. at 10:30 AM, now through Aug. 18. Tickets ar $3. See wildlifefilms.org/ showing.html. The Missoula Writers Colony 16 are meeting for a week of readings and workshops designed to help you bring the weird people who live inside your head and talk to each other to life as well as celebrate the weird inner lives of others, with events beginning at 11 AM July 10–16 on the UM campus. Pay $50 for full access or pay for individual shops and performances. Visit montanarep.org for all the details.

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Dreadlocks bigger than a baby’s arm! Steel Pulse plays Tue. July 19, 8:30 PM at the Wilma. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 1-877-4FLY-TIX and online at TicketFly.com. $24 day of/$22 advance.

The streets of downtown Kalispell are hopping this and every week this summer for Thursday Fest, with food, beverage, and tunes at Third St. E. between Main St. and First Ave. E. from 5–7:30 PM. This week catch Fresh Ink (Billy Angel). Call 253-6923.

the layperson begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

For those about to rock, you’re probably in Caras Park this and every Thu. night from 5:30–8:30 PM for Downtown ToNight, this week with Tom Catmull and the Clerics. Free. Funky grooves, earthy percussion, and vocal harmonies come pouring out of San Fran’s Alma Desnuda, 6 PM at Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. Free. The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Karol K. Truman’s book, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s trivia night for

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Revel in the glory of debauchery with hosts Mike Gil and Chris Baumann. Cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip hop, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3. Gatherings are magic during Synergy Sessions, a DJ night featuring all varieties of electronica spun by PandAura, 35th Octave, Dagga and Logistcalone, along with live painting by Zinnia Zafrira, 9 PM, Free. Hang out with old timey movie stars, sort of, at the Bitterroot Library’s Outdoor cinema presentation of The African Queen, 9 PM, 306 State St. Call 363-1670. Under the bridge downtown you’ll find Missoula Spaces: A Festival of One-

Minute Films—the Higgins Ave. bridge, to be exact, from 9–10:30 PM. Bring a chair and enjoy this unique and local film event. You can also meet up with them beforehand from 6–7 PM for a Film Festival Workshop on how to contribute your films to the festival with as little as a camera phone. astoutart.com. (See Film in this issue.) He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Two bands with topography themes in common, Town Mountain and Broken Valley Roadshow play bluegrass at the Top Hat, 10 PM, cover TBA. (See Noise in this issue.) end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 15, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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The Creative Self with Ken Silvestro · Feel lost and stuck? · Experiencing traumatic stress from the past? · Experiencing depression? · Have a general feeling of low energy and lack of vitality? Experience how tapping into the creative self can help shift fixed patterns of behavior, reveal hidden wounds, and empower through creative change!

Wednesday, July 20, Noon-1:00pm For more information or to register, please contact Kathy Mangan

at 406-721-0033 or rwlcmt@gmail.com. For a complete listing of our classes, please visit www.redwillowlearning.org. Sliding scale fee available. Red Willow Learning Center, 825 West Kent Street, Missoula

Summertime rides get dirty, and t h e Ta l b o t S u m m e r D a y Program wants to help dust them off with a car wash this and every Fri. through the summer to benefit the Missoula Youth Homes at Holiday Station Store, 605 S. Higgins. Donations only. If three days of backpacking sounds like your idea of a good time, join the Sierra Club for the Great Burn High Country Backpack expedition, July 15–17 which begins and ends at Schley Mountain Trailhead. To sign up, email trip leader Bob Clark at bob.clark@sierraclub.org. Your objection to bluegrass is sustained, man. Check out Green Grass: A Sustainable Bluegrass festival July 15 & 16 at Lolo Hot Springs Resort, with bands like Jackstraw, Shook Twins, Little Smokies, Dodgy Mountain Men and so many more. $30 for day passes. Visit greengrassfestival.info. The Missoula Writers Colony 16 are meeting for a week of readings and workshops designed to help you bring the weird people who live inside your head and talk to each other to life as well as celebrate the weird inner lives of others, with events beginning at 11 AM beginning July 10–16 on the UM campus. Pay $50 for full access or pay for individual shops and performances. Visit montanarep.org for all the details. And the living’s easy with The Top Hat’s Summa Time Evening Marketplace, 4–8 PM and every Fri. through the summer.

nightlife The gutbucket blues band Mudslide Charley are holding a release party for their second album, RamShackle Soul, and you’re invited! Meet them outside at Old Post for food and music and stuff. Free. (See Noise in this issue.) Let’s let babies in bars for The Top Hat’s Family Friendly Fridays at 6 PM, this week with Gwyneth & Monko. July 15: Caroline Keys & Friends, all ages, free. Long to be kept by the music of Andrea Harsell, 6 PM at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Dr. Free. Reach your highest summits of wet painting when Killdeer Artisans Guild member Karl Stein teaches a class, Watercolor Basics & Beyond, 6–9 PM at Hangin’ Art Gallery, 92555 US Hwy 93 in Arlee. $30 a class. Call Kelley at 726-5550.

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Look at this tall drink of water named Sara Bareilles come to swoon us at the Wilma with guest Raining Jane, Fri., July 15 at 8 PM. Reserved seating $27 with tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 800-514-3849 or online at JadePresents.com.

El-3Oh! my god this gypsy jazz band plays all the time, I can’t think of any new jokes. See them this week at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 6:30 PM, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Free. You’re a cheap date, not a cheapskate: The Missoula Public Library hosts another installment of its cheap date movie night, which screens True Grit at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. When summer comes the fish start acting funny. Learn all about it from fish biologists at Bitterroot National Forest for their awesomely named event, Walk by the light of the Moon - Nocturnal Fish Moon, along Blodgett Creek at 7 PM. Visit fs.usda.gov/bitterroot or call 3637100. 1709 N. First St. (See Mountain High in this issue.) Robbie Springs explains it all at a talk about her exhibition, Hidden Landscapes / Healing Soul, 7 PM at River’s Mist Gallery, 317 Main St. in Stevensville. Call 7770520. Free. Kinesthetic poet and contemplative juggler Thomas Arthur will doubtless put on a weird performance called Earthanima, 7:30 PM at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Visit earthanima.net. $10/$8 members. Sara Bareilles is flying into town on a butterfly I think for her Kaleidoscopic Heart Tour, with guest Raining Jane, 8 PM at the Wilma. Reserved seating $27 with tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 800-514-3849 or online at JadePresents.com. He’s been everywhere and played with everyone awesome you can think of. Now you can catch Ron Renninger’s eclectic style live at Missoula Winery, 8 PM for $5. 5646 W. Harrier. missoulawinery.com. Sell your suit and tie and Get Loose! with a night of DJ spinning at the Badlander featuring house

music by DJs Vyces, Stolin and Arahant, plus visuals by v3r, starting at 9 PM, free. DJ Emily Newton-John will spin rock music and confuse you with her Grease-like but not DJ name, 9 PM at the Palace. Free. Get ready to dance when Beyond the Pale plays celtic music that will make you believe, 9 PM at Union Club, Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. In case the name didn’t tip you off, Ivan Nevilles Dumpstaphunk specialize in bringing the funk to the Top Hat, $15/$13 advance, 10 PM. Free.

SATURDAY July

Your objection to bluegrass is sustained, man. Check out Green Grass: A Sustainable Bluegrass festival July 15 & 16 at Lolo Hot Springs Resort, with bands like Jackstraw, Shook Twins, Little Smokies, Dodgy Mountain Men and so many more. $30 for day passes. Visit greengrassfestival.info. Embody love and compassion with David Curtis, during his one day meditation retreat for both beginning and experienced meditators, taking place at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Missoula, 102 McLeod. $25 to 50. Visit tibetanlanguage.org. Huff through the scenery with the Sierra Club Day Hike to Peterson Lake, an 11-mile trip with 3,100 feet of total elevation gain! To sign up, email Mary Owens at mowens320@gmail.com. The People at Citizen Scientists are taking a series of wilderness study expeditions through the backcountry of the Gallatin

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National Forest in southwest Montana. July 16–18 you can join them in Rock Creek Loop, where you’ll hike through the Gallatin Petrified Forest to Lake Elsie. Check out cfc.umt.edu/wi/citizen_science.html. To sign up call 24 3 - 5361 o r e m a i l c i t i z e n science@cfc.umt.edu. Load up on stuff you didn’t know you needed at the Clinton School Rummage Sale and Carwash Fundraiser, featuring the usual goods, plus coffee, baked treats, and a free car wash, all to benefit 8th graders going to DC. 20397 E. Mullan Rd. in Clinton. You try painting a moving landscape. Or better yet, leave it to the pros for The Dana Gallery’s Ninth Annual Western Montana Plein Aire “Paint Out!” Catch 25 artists working around the downtown area this saturday afternoon. The exhibit runs July 21–Aug. 31. Visit danagallery.com for the lowdown. Keep it local every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the M i s s o u l a Fa r m e r s ’ M a r k e t (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If you’re after non-edibles, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymar-

ket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample. Luckily this event comes with the pun already included: Blow your train whistle and help Alberton celebrate Railroad Day with a pancake breakfast from 8–11 AM, then the parade, plus food, vendors, music and more! Contact Richard at 722-2614. The Missoula Writers Colony 16 are meeting for a week of readings and workshops designed to help you bring the weird people who live inside your head and talk to each other to life as well as celebrate the weird inner lives of others, with events beginning at 11 AM beginning July 10–16 on the UM campus. Pay $50 for full access or pay for individual shops and performances. Visit montanarep.org for all the details. (See Spotlight in this issue.) They don’t make them like they used to, am I right? David Martin Anderson is signing his novel, The Last Good Horse at Barnes & Noble at noon, 2640 N. Reserve. Check out TheLastGoodHorse.com. Free. Help a brother with a double lung transplant out at Blaine Lovell’s Benefit, featuring family friendly street dance, auctions, food and live music event, with bands like Baby & Bukowski, the Boxcutters and more. The

street dance is free, and food is $7 for adults/$5 for kids, and it all goes down starting at noon at The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demer St. in Frenchtown. Call 626-4272. The Big Hole National Battlefield Summer Speaker Series continues with featured speaker Dr. Robert Brown’s first person historical account of Major Rawn during his time at Fort Missoula during the 1800’s. July 16 talk at noon and 3 and July 17 at Noon. 16542 Hwy 43 W. in Wisdom. Call 689-3155. Eight other times has the 9th Annual Higher Mountain Boys Barbecue commenced, and so it shall again, beginning around 2 PM at the Turah Pines. $6 includes food and camping with music by Vo o d o o H o r s e s h o e s , B l a c k Mountain Moan, Dodgy Mountain Men, and the Josh Clinger Trio, with in between sets by DJ

Mankiisi. Bring a potluck dish if you want. 12370 US Hwy 10. Fee fie fo fum, I smell the wrong play. The Missoula Children’s Theater presents, The Wizard of Oz, 3 PM and 5 PM at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9 adults/$7 seniors/$5 children. Call 728-7529 or visit mctinc.org. Just $10 will get you 10 4-oz pours, plus a day of food, music and more as part of Brewfest at Big Sky Resort beginning at 3:30 PM, 1 Lone Mountain Trail. bigskyresort.com.

nightlife I always want to make fishing jokes when Marshall Catch plays their catchy rock music anywhere, like tonights show at the Craggy Range, 10 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Cost and time TBA. Volunteer fire fighters benefit from the 14th Annual Somers Cajun Street Dance, which features family fun, live music by Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe from

Lousiana, plus the Smokehouse Blues Band, food, dancing, beverages and more! $20 at the gate in downtown Somers. Call 857-3119 or 857-3351. Kathleen Sheard has captured the fine art of wildlife in glass and wants to show you at her exhibition, The Passion, The Perseverance = The Process with an opening 6–9 PM. Show runs through Oct. 8 at Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton. Call 3633338 or visit brvhsmuseum.org. Free. Drink it up under the stars for a live musical performance by Richie Reinholdt at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 6:30 PM. Free. Eat Our Words, sponsored by Garden City Harvest, invites you to sit on a hay bale and here some personal stories told extemporaneously on the theme, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, beginning 7 PM at PEAS farm, 3010 Duncan Dr. in the Rattlesnake. Free. (See Scope in this issue.)

SPOTLIGHT m y f ox i s s t o n e d The Stone Foxes and I go way back, like to last summer when they played here and I shook hands with the gent coming through the doorway. Make no mistake; I am a scenester. I just can’t bring myself to dress the part. The Bay area group specializes in vintage style blues-rock and is comprised of Aaron Mort, plus brothers Shannon and Spencer Koehler. This is their second time through Missoula in support of their sophomore album, Bears & Bulls. Rob Weldon is the band’s manager and my exboyfriend’s best friend. I met him around 2007 when he visited us in Detroit from his home in LA. He was the first person to teach me about Emergen-C: drink it with a tall glass of water before bed and you won’t have a hangover! Emergen-C has since taken off, but back then I thought, “Who is this West-coast sorcerer?” The next time I saw Weldon he had nothing but The Stone Foxes on the brain. They were these amazing, young, talented musicians he just had to represent, and he gave up his lucrative but awful job at Road Runner Records to take care of them full time. Imagine a hen sitting on a nest, except it’s a man on a band, cooing at them to incubate. The ex and I broke up (hence the moniker) and I moved to Missoula. Luckily there’s Facebook and Weldon doesn’t take sides. He put me on the WHAT: The Stone Foxes WHEN: Sat., July 16, 10 PM WHERE: The Top Hat HOW MUCH: $10 MORE INFO: thestonefoxes.com

list for their show last summer at the Top Hat. I brought a handsome man as my plus one who took the band’s name a little too literally. Weldon tried to make conversation and my friend just kept repeating, “It is what it is.” “My fox is stoned,” I told Rob, by way of explanation. But let’s not get too distracted by my personal life, because here’s the thing: The band is really good. They are 20-somethings who play ’70s style rock music with unabashed passion and earnestness. Members switch around instruments throughout the set like a game of musical chairs. They write with the intention of playing live, and the spontaneity of their process shows. You can check out the band’s latest album for free on their site, and you so should! I know you, Missoula. You have particular tastes and you’re grumpy about out-of-towners, but I promise, The Stone Foxes are way palatable. —Molly Laich

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“If those trees would just stop moving…” Catch 25 artists working around downtown Missoula this Sat., July 16 as part of The Dana Gallery’s 9th Annual Western Montana Plein Aire “Paint Out!” Visit danagallery.com.

Confederate Railroad are chugging through the Sunrise Saloon or whatever, 7:30 PM, 1100 Strand. $15/$12.50 advance. No material sanity here. Join the Dark Horse for a night of free Metal Madness, featuring OF KINGS, Red Seas Rise and Judgement Hammer. 1805 Regent St. 8 PM. Swig drinks while listening to oldschool rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free. The martial arts are unleashed when Kung Fu Kongress plays music by the legendary funk group Tower of Power, 9 PM at the Palace, $5. Rock steady and the hound and The Stone Foxes play rock and blues, 10 PM at the Top Hat, $10. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

SUNDAY July

Ride around the ‘root in order to help benefit the Bitter Root Land Trust during the 2011 Tour of the Bitterroot, a one-day biking event that features a 46-mile, non-competitive tour through the Skalkaho Drainage, plus a family challenge, and a kids’ dirt road derby. Push to tourofthebitterroot.org for details. Locavores unite at the Target Range Community Farmers’

Market, which features a plethora of local foods and assorted goods and runs from 10 AM–1 PM every Sun. until Oct. 9 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free. Call Peggie at 728-5302.

All aboard who’s coming aboard when Stellarando plays music on The Far West as it departs from Lakeside at 7 PM. $19 a d u l t s / $ 9 . 50 k i d s 6 - 12 / K i d s under 6 free. Contact Caroline at 529-9985.

Yet another opportunity to peruse and purchase local crafts and produce hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 11 AM–3 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 16 at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park Pavilion. This week’s music is by Cory King and The Shenanagans. Visit carrousel.com/carousel-sunday-market-and-fes.

Flowing skirts are strongly recommended for a live show with bluegrass folk sensation Gillian Welch, 8 PM at the Wilma. $26.50 advance tickets at 877.4.FLY.TIX or TicketFly.com. $30 day of. (See Noise in this issue.)

Fee fie fo fum, I smell the wrong play. The Missoula Children’s Theater presents, The Wizard of Oz, 3 PM and 5 PM at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9 adults/$7 seniors/$5 children. Call 728-7529 or visit mctinc.org. My lucky number of strings are at work with Kentucky-based bluegrassers The 23 String Band who are playing as part of the Ruby Jewel Jamboree Concert Series. Potluck starts at noon and the band plays 4 PM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $10.

nightlife No need to murder a flower to find out the truth, just see the Alpine Theatre Project’s production of She Loves Me, running July 12–29, Tue.–Sat. at 8 PM and Sundays at 6 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreprojects.org.

Enjoy a brew and a moving picture when the Palace hosts a movie night, which kicks off July’s theme, “Here’s Looking at You” with screenings of Blue Velvet and The Third Man starting at 9 PM. Free. Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike. This week features Amur River Jazz and $4 martinis as always, plus Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel spinning between sets, beginning around 9:30 PM. Free.

Register now for the last Summer Day Camp! Camp is designed for kids entering grades 1–12 and runs Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Performances are on Saturday or Sunday (you choose when you register). All children participate in an audition, are cast in a role, and perform in the show.

MONDAY July

Start your future field scientists off on the right foot with the Watershed Scientists Day Camp as sponsored by the Watershed Education Network. This camp is for ages 8–14, July 18–22 from 1–5 PM. Visit montanawatershed.org for the particulars.

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Kittens with claws meets Words with Wings, an intensive writing program at the University of Montana for kids aged 8–14. Attend July 11–15 9 AM to Noon and/or July 18–22, 9 AM to Noon. $175/$320 for both weeks. Call 549-3348 or visit missoulawritingcollaborative.com.

nightlife Lit makes for rad Monday nights when Paul Berkowitz signs and reads from his book, The Case of the Indian Trader in the cupboard with the dog in the night time, 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Improvisational Theatre & Movement Night this and every Tues., 6:25 PM at Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. 3rd St. W. $5 Night/$15 Month. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What famous document begins: “When in the course of human events...”? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

Sip some wine and listen to some music at the same time, like watching and chewing gum, 7–10 PM at Red Bird Wine Bar, this week featuring the debut performance of Candace Neaves & DR Halsell, free.

WEDNESDAY July

Your weekly lunch date with almost everyone comes at 11 AM at Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by The Hayrollers Free. Call 543-4238 or visit missouladowntown.com. Country bumpkin needs will be met at the Jocko Valley Farmer’s Market this and every Wed. through Oct. 5th from 4–7 PM, located on Hwy 93 in down-

pus. $25 Adults/$15 for 18 and under. Reserved seating. Visit spiritofmontana.net. (See Agenda in this issue.) Music lover’s rejoice: The Missoula City Band is playing their concert series tonight and every Wed. this summer at Bonner Park. This week features Idaho Air National Guard Band. Show starts at 8 PM and please bring your lawn chairs. Call 728-2400 ext. 7041. Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays and Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where drink specials mix with music by The Tallest

Pretty in Pink is a really good movie. On an unrelated note, it’s Ladies Day at the southside Kettlehouse, aka Pints for Pink, where portions of sales of the cream ale pints and pink T’s will be donated to Pink Boots Society (women Brewsters) and Breast Cancer Foundation, 602 Myrtle St. Bring along your posters and activist attitude for a Rally to Support & Stand with Israel in front of the Main Post Office on E. Broadway, 11 AM–1:30 PM. Call Gloria at 251-5961.

nightlife There’s a new sheriff in town, but he has no judicial authority, he just loves to rock. The Tuesday Night Open Mic/Jam Night is now at the Lucky strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave, hosted by Louie Bond, Teri Llovet and the UFOkies. Sign up is at 6 PM and music goes 7–10 PM. Shake what your chosen deity and/or science gave you at

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The streets of downtown Kalispell are hopping this and every week this summer for Thursday! Fest, with food, beverage, and tunes at Third St. E. between Main St. and First Ave. E. from 5–7:30 PM. This week catch Raymond Charles and the Caribbean Authentics. Call 253-6923. For those about to rock, you’re probably in Caras Park this and every Thu. night from 5:30–8:30 PM for Downtown ToNight, this week with Locust Street Taxi. Free.

It may or may not just be a clever name: Slightly Stoopid play the Big Sky Brewery, with guests Rebelution, Shwayze & Cisco Adler, 6:30 PM, 5417 Trumpeter Way. $37/$32.50 advance tickets at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 877-4-FLY-TIX, or at TicketFly.com.

Kick off your week with a drink, free pool and a rotating cast of electronic DJs and styles for your booty during Milkcrate Monday’s Live and Local Hip Hop Night, with MCs Pallas Athena, Tahjbo, Woodworm, Linkletter, Tons of Buns, Mite Aswel and Dj Enkrypted, 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

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I’m guessing The Accousticals are unplugged but really I don’t know, 6–8:30 PM at Bitter Root Brewery. Call 363-7468 or visit bitterrootbrewing.com. Free.

Everyone but the kitchen sink are playing with Cash for Junkers at Red Bird Wine Bar, like Tyler Roady, Grace Decker, Nate Beihl, John Rosette and John S p o r m a n , 7 – 10 P M , 111 N . Higgins Ave. Free.

TUESDAY

Pass. It’s technical. You’ll be harnessed and belayed, ages 13-18, $15 for members only, 7:30 AM–6 PM, Register at 1515 Fairview Ave. or citylifemt.com. Call 532-1558.

There’s some sort of nautical theme at work during BassFace Floodwaters Edition at the Palace, featuring electronic music by Inevitable Thought, Keishie and Buckaroo. This press release says to tell you to wear goggles, flippers, etc. Your call. 9 PM. Free.

Just the right amount of twang is in play with the Kentucky-based bluegrass group 23 String Band, who are playing as part of the Ruby Jewel Jamboree Concert Series on Sun., July 17, 4 PM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $10.

Put your thumb on the Steel Pulse and listen to their music too, 8:30 PM at the Wilma. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 1-877-4FLY-TIX and online at TicketFly.com. $24 day of/$22 advance.

town Arlee and now accepting SNAP, credit and debit cards. Call 726-5550.

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DJ in America every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Put on your trance pants and get groggy when the Palace hosts Progressive, a night of progressive house music and trance spun by local DJs starting at 9 PM. Free.

All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features free pool plus reggae, dancehall and hip hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace. This week features DJs Supa J, General Smiley and Green. Free.

Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Nor thside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week. This week’s beneficiary is IWFF. Free.

Seattle’s Night Beats are into Texas psychedelic rock, UK blues, and funk and soul from all over the woorld, with locals Shah and 10yoGF, 9 PM at the Badlander, $5. (see Noise in this issue.)

Twister was a really good movie and so can you! Oakland’s Tornado Rider plays punk, pop, rock, electric cellos and who knows what else, with openers Tidal Horn and Dead Me Downs, 9 PM at the Badlander, $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

In Montana, opera comes to you! The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts a series of shows this and every Wed. in HD at The Roxy Theatre. This week they bring you Tosca, 6:30 PM. $12.50 at morrisproductions.org. P u b Tr i v i a A n s w e r : T h e Declaration of Independence.

THURSDAY

You’re in good hands when folk/rock troubadours Javier Ryan & The Chrome Kings play a free show at the Top Hat, 10 PM.

Spirit of Montana, a benefit concert for the Missoula Food Bank, goes down at 7 PM at the University Theater on UM’s cam-

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Rock Climbing and Rappelling with City Life community Center at The Heap at Lolo

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Oh so much, so much More Than Lights are involved when this socalled band plays funk and rock at the Top Hat, 10 PM, cover TBA.

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Do country dancers cut a rug? Give it a shot anyway at Julie Bug & Company, 9 PM at Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand. Call 728-1559. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. For those about to rock: great job. Good for you. James McMurty is about to as well, along with Jonny Burke, 10 PM at the top Hat. $15/$13 advance. By the time you read this, I’ll be in Detroit, surrounded by concrete and forgetting to lock my car door all over again. I know what you’re thinking: who goes on vacation to Detroit? Molly Llama, that’s who. Can’t wait to check my inbox when I get home! Please send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 15 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternatively, snail mail your events to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 543-4367. You can submit things online in the arts section of our website. Scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says, “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH W alk by the light of the nocturnal fish moon until you lose your legs and go under. You’re a trout now—coldblooded and swayed by the touch of things. Light and temperature moves you, like the river or a sad song. There’s only on or off, two seasons, are you a fish in or out of the water? It’s summer now but wait until winter when the cold turns you into a beast you can’t recognize. Enthusiasts gather along the creek bed to marvel at how you’ll change “It’s just the seasons,” you gasp. “A little winter in the blood never hurt anyone.” You jump and the cold Montana air portends your future.

The snow waits upstream on the heads of mountains, a sweating brow rolling towards you. Listen. If they didn’t want me to write a poem, they shouldn’t have called their event “Walk by the Light of the Moon – Nocturnal Fish Moon.” What would you have done? Fri., July 15 from 7–8:30 PM, meet at the Blodgett Canyon Campground on the Bitterroot National Forest to learn about behavioral changes in trout as the result of the seasons. Visit fs.usda.gov/bitterroot and click on “learning center” or call 363-7100.

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THURSDAY JULY 14 Send your little one tiptoeing through tulips for the miniNaturalists at the Gardens program, which lets kids explore the natural world through hands-on activities and play, 10–11 AM at Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens (under the big silver water tower). $3/$1 MNHC members. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org. Don’t even bother trying to control yourself, because Wild Theater Thursdays are back at the Roxy Theater, which features a different award winning wildlife film every Thu. at 10:30 AM, now through Aug. 18. Tickets ar $3. See wildlifefilms.org/showing.html.

FRIDAY JULY 15 If three days of backpacking sounds like your idea of a good time, join the Sierra Club for the Great Burn High Country Backpack expedition, July 15–17 which begins and ends at Schley Mountain Trailhead. To sign up, email trip leader Bob Clark at bob.clark@sierraclub.org.

SATURDAY JULY 16 Huff through the scenery with the Sierra Club Day Hike to Peterson Lake, an 11-mile trip with 3,100 feet of total elevation gain! To sign up, email Mary Owens at mowens320@gmail.com. The People at Citizen Scientists are taking a series of wilderness study expeditions through the backcountry of the Gallatin National Forest in southwest Montana. July 16–18 you can join them in Rock Creek Loop, where you’ll hike through the Gallatin Petrified Forest to Lake Elsie. Check out cfc.umt.edu/wi/citizen_science.html. To sign up call 243-5361 or email citizenscience@cfc.umt.edu. Cycle it up while retracing the steps of Lewis and Clark during the Helena Bicycling Club’s One Helena Hundred ride, a jaunt that begins in Cascade and offers participants the chance to bike 100 km or 100 miles alongside the Missouri River and several rolling hills. Brake for details at helenabicycleclub.org.

silent auction for the good of the animals at Marshall Mountain, 5250 Marshall Canyon Rd. Show up any time between 2–6 PM to help the animals. For tickets call Chelsea at 721-7171 or visit MTmuledeer.org. Gather around the campfire for a riveting tale of elk in the Fish Creek drainage, as told by Vickie Edwards, 7 PM at Big Pine (FAS) Fishing Access Site in Alberton. Contact Valerie at 722-1553. Free.

SUNDAY JULY 17 Ride around the ‘root in order to help benefit the Bitter Root Land Trust during the 2011 Tour of the Bitterroot, a one-day biking event that features a 46mile, non-competitive tour through the Skalkaho Drainage, plus a family challenge, and a kids’ dirt road derby. Push to tourofthebitterroot.org for details.

MONDAY JULY 18 Start your future field scientists off on the right foot with the Watershed Scientists Day Camp as sponsored by the Watershed Education Network. This camp is for ages 8–14, July 18–22 from 1–5 PM. Visit montanawatershed.org for the particulars.

TUESDAY JULY 19 Know your roll in the fine world of kayaking for this intermediate kayaking class put on by the University of Montana, $45 on July 19 and 21. Register by July 18 at campusrec@mso.umt.edu.

THURSDAY JULY 21 Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Rock Climbing and Rappelling with City Life community Center at The Heap at Lolo Pass. It’s technical. You’ll be harnessed and belayed, ages 13-18, $15 for members only, 7:30 AM–6 PM, Register at 1515 Fairview Ave. or citylifemt.com. Call 532-1558.

Bag a slippery one during the Broadwater Rod & Gun Club’s Walleye Derby, a catch-and-release format derby at Goose Bay Marina on Canyon Ferry Lake that offers the best fishers a $1000 cash prize. Cast off by calling 266-5279.

The Western Montana Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation are hosting a banquet, barbecue, and

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Tell tale Storytellers reflect on being at the wrong place at the wrong time by Erika Fredrickson

Last summer, Mayor John Engen stood in front of about 100 people sitting on hay bales and told them a story about leaving. Engen was born and raised in Missoula and, in his 45 years, he had never left his hometown. But the theme of the Eat Our Words storytelling night was “Leaving Home,” and so instead of telling stories about heading out into the vast world, Engen talked about the many homes—addresses and dates—he’d occupied in Missoula and what had happened to him in each one. There were Norwegian grandmothers, cat smells and toilet mishaps. He fell in love in one house. He learned to be a handyman in another. And, at the end of his 10-minute story, he revealed that just a month earlier he had moved his parents from his childhood home on South 2nd Street West—their home for 45 years—to an assisted living facility in town. “They left home,” he told the audience. “They have a million-dollar view of our city from the ninth floor on the south side, and I think they’re settling in. But the other day my dad said to me, ‘When are we going home?’ I said, ‘Mom’s here, Pop. You’re home.’” If you’ve ever listened to The Moth on National Public Radio, you know how this works. Everyday people (and, sometimes, celebrities) get up on stage and tell a short true story, without notes, to a live audience. The first of The Moth series kicked off in New York in 1997 and since

then it’s been aped in other places. The tales range from tragic to the hilariously absurd, and everywhere in between: An Irish Catholic family spies on the Kennedy compound. Stand-up comedian Colin Quinn gets in over his head when he is asked to perform at Robert DeNiro’s birthday party. A stuttering child finds solace in talking with animals. Eat Our Words is one Missoula version, which takes place one night each summer at the PEAS Farm in the Rattlesnake. It was started in 2009 through Garden City Harvest by writer Jeremy Smith and PEAS Farm director Josh Slotnick. While The Moth deals in a selection process that pits winning stories against each other and then pares down the best for radio, Eat Our Words handpicks a diverse group of local people—musicians, politicians, teachers, and farmers—for each event. The Moth allows people five minutes, Eat Our Words gives everyone 10. But the idea is the same. “When you’re a writer you’re working with a net, because no one else is there and you can edit as many times as you want,” says Smith. “When you’re telling a story live, onstage with no notes, it’s a lot more of a high-wire act. Not only are you up high, because you’re in front of everybody, but the wire is going to disappear from underneath you in 10 minutes. It’s a whole new challenge. At the same time it’s a whole new pleas-

ure. You get to see your audience and they respond instantly.” The 2009 theme was “You Broke My Heart.” Smith’s wife, Crissy McMullan, a local food activist, told a funny and heart-wrenching story about how Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” impacted her childhood. Last year’s, event “Leaving Home” where Engen spoke, also included a story from Missoula musician Caroline Keys. She talked about how on an epic tour of Western China with her band Broken Valley Road Show, she got over her abhorrence for John Denver’s “Country Roads.” This year’s theme, “Wrong Place, Wrong Time,” showcases a group of storytellers including chief of police Mark Muir, community activist Sue Talbot, teenager Noah Callaghan, youth counselor Laurie Strand Bridgeman and Jeremy Smith. “It’s all about choosing themes that can go anywhere,” says Smith. “Every great story could fit under one of the themes, so it’s not really a restriction. Look at The Odyssey: It fits ‘you broke my heart,’ ‘leaving home’ and ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ You look at Hamlet, it’s the same. It’s fun to see the variations on the theme. How do people interpret it? What does ‘wrong place, wrong time’ mean for a police chief who sees it every day?” Telling a story in 10 minutes without notes is one thing; giving it the arc it needs to move the audience is another. There are rules for this kind of form, says Smith. “Something has to happen by the first sentence. It doesn’t start with getting in the plane. It doesn’t start with stepping out of the plane. It doesn’t start with pulling the parachute cord. It starts when the parachute doesn’t come out.” And by the end of the 10 minutes, some realization has to come from the story—some wisdom or change of heart or lesson learned. It doesn’t have to be a story made for the big screen; it doesn’t have to be unbelievably action-packed. It just has to carry the audience on a ride in which something surprising happens. “Often we don’t realize until we start telling stories that they’re funny or that they’re heartbreaking,” says Smith. “The best stories are both. I think that’s something that’s fun in the format. It brings that all out in a pressure cooker, egg timer situation. You can’t make Hamburger Helper as fast as you’re going to hear a great story from five different people in a row.” Eat Our Words presents “Wrong Place, Wrong Time” at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive, Saturday, July 16, at 7 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Tornado Rider With cello strapped on and slung low across his shirtless torso à la Dee Dee Ramone, Sneth Goblin (aka Rushad Eggleston) of Tornado Rider rips through daft, distorted hot licks powered by a Marshall stack. This isn’t some prog-rock peckerwood’s yawn-inducing synthesis of classical and rock. The TR sound is a drunken sea shanty, an impish late-night jam session in the wilderness, a dosed-up band of renfaire jesters high on Four Loko and shrooms. Nothing complicated, the rhythm section locks it in and keeps the party bouncing, allowing Eggleston to do his best W. Axl Rose meets Chuck Berry as he slides across the stage on sweaty knees in a spastic blur. A Venn diagram of TR’s lyrical content would contain the words of Dr. Suess, Anthony Keidis, and a stoned five-year-old. Magic Falcons, golden apples, and dinosaurs abound. For example, “I’m a falcon, I’m a falcon / vicious bird,

Mudslide Charley RamShackle Soul self-released

Just in time for all this warm weather come locals Mudslide Charley with a new album. It’s blues, but the kind you dance to down at a park during any Missoula festival. Fortunately, it’s not just for background celebration; RamShackle Soul has its gritty tunes, too. “Little Lu La Lay” sounds like the band took over a tavern down by the train tracks. You can just imagine the door wide open as the band plays, people sitting outside smoking cigarettes and taking nips from a bottle of homemade apple jack as hot blue skies

Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest Acony Records

Some things are worth waiting for and Gillian Welch’s first release in eight years is one of them. Already a star among folk troubadours, Welch–accompanied by long-time partner David Rawlings—has cemented her reputation with The Harrow & The Harvest, a masterly album. Fans of Welch will find familiar terrain in these 10 new songs—sparse guitar and banjo, lyrics that invoke the spirit of Appalachia and the Ozarks, whiskey and fallen angels. And, as always, that otherworldly harmonizing the duo is known for, which is better now than ever. But keen-eared fans might hear something new, too. These songs sound more personal; this isn’t ficti-

Night Beats The H-Bomb Trouble In Mind Records

I’ve been spending a lot of time alone in the evenings, sitting on the back porch and taking in the expansive surroundings of this damn fine town that I now call home. As I bask in the majesty of the mountains, the for-real big sky, and relative silence, the anxiety that plagues me takes a backseat to a new sense of freedom and optimism—my chain has gotten a little bit longer. During these nightly meditations, personal cinematic masterpieces pop out of

powerful bird!” The same diagram could be used for the band’s appearance: neon, capes, coonskin caps. Band geeks with rock ’n’ roll aspirations haven’t had many musical Dutch uncles since the third wave ska nightmare of the 1990s. TR might turn would-be “new-grasser” cellists and fiddlers into 21st century Hendrixes. (Jason McMackin) Tornado Rider plays the Badlander Tuesday, July 19, at 9 PM with Tidal Horn and Dead Me Downs. $5. turn to dusk. The air is full of sex and sweat. There might be a fistfight but it’ll end in forgiveness over a last-call beer. “Liquid Velvet” emits raw sass as it chugs along like a train burning through the prairie. “Swish” slows to molasses with smooth interjections of harmonica from Charlie Hopkins. Marco Littig sings with gravelly playfulness, and backup singers, aka The Black Haired Angels, inject loads of soul. The song “Black Haired Angel,” however, dallies too long in predictable riffs and a stagnant muddiness. And “Texas BBQ” reminds me of “The Monster Mash,” which is weird. Altogether, though, it’s an album with good flavor: wicked danger mixed with summery glee. (Erika Fredrickson) Mudslide Charley plays a CD release party Friday, July 15, at the Old Post Pub and Saturday, July 16, at the Bitter Root Brew Pub in Hamilton. Free. tious “Miss Ohio” shirking a wedding gown, there’s something intimate going on here. “In The Way that it Goes,” Welch tells of friends lost and lives gone awry, while “Tennessee” (a song with a phenomenal chorus) reflects on weakness, desire, and home. Yet amidst such bluesy laments, some sun shines. In “Hard Times,” a plowman reflects to his mule, “It’s a mean old world” but “hard times ain’t gonna rule my mind no more.” In the plowman, we hear Welch’s long-awaited triumph. (Melissa Mylchreest) Gillian Welch plays the Wilma Theatre Sunday, July 17, at 8 PM. $30/$26.50 advance. Sold out. my subconscious. The rambling, gritty tunes of Seattle’s psychedelic sons, Night Beats, make for a perfect soundtrack to the films that play in the theater of my mind. While they give an undeniable nod to Texas psych-rock godfathers The 13th Floor Elevators, Night Beats avoids falling into the pit of pastiche. The H-Bomb EP is a collection of freewheeling, burnt out blues that mirror my feelings of optimism couched in anxiety perfectly. There’s something incredibly creepy and dark about each of the tracks, but you can still see the sunlight through the cracks. The band has no trouble shaking the shackles of daily existence—they are most definitely unchained. (PJ Rogalski) Night Beats plays the Palace Wednesday, July 20, at 9 PM with Shahs and 10yoGF. $5.

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unflinching outlook, all you want to do is read it again. And then again. And maybe once more to make sure you’ve absorbed it all. Raised in Kalispell and now a teacher at the University of Utah, Thon is the author of four novels (including Sweet Hearts) and was deemed a Best Young American Novelist by Granta magazine. In This Light—handpicked from her two previous collections of short gems and supplemented by three unpublished stories—displays an uncanny ability to disrupt and to restructure our senses in settings so darkly intimate they seem to be vignettes from a very dysfunctional memoir. Like Flannery O’Connor without the Catholic undertones (Thon’s secular mysticism concerns the body and the mind, as opposed to any overt Christian deity), her impressionistic prose is so reflective of her artistic vision that these tales read as though she’s pursuing some elusive theme. Characters exist on the fringes of consciousness. Horrible things are always about to happen to the innocent and corrupt alike. Hope is a transient moment spotlighted for an instant

and left to casually slip away. A writer’s writer, Thon told Bomb magazine she was influenced early on by Faulkner and Toni Morrison (and also by her native state and its topography: “No matter how long I live somewhere else, those images are embedded in ways I can’t escape,” she says of Montana), and while their lingering inspiration is present, she holds her own as a poetic stylist. Likewise, Thon’s storylines are never linear, but seem as though to take place behind a window of frosted glass. In what is arguably the finest crystallization of Thon’s daring story-telling, “Punishment” is based on the hanging of a wronged slave girl in 1858, for the murder of the unreliable narrator’s brother; the story manages to both convey the barbaric mindset of a preCivil War slave-owning family, and also dig into the primitive taboos that have remained a part of our collective psyche. “Father, Lover, Deadman, Dreamer” concerns a girl who runs down and kills a drunken American Indian on a lonely Montana road and the subsequent help from her good-hearted father in covering up the crime. But these stories don’t jolt the reader because of any graphic shocks (although there are a few of those, too); instead, they always stun with the author’s crisply precise use of language and imagery, such as this passage from “Iona Moon”: “Daddy sat on the porch with Leon and Rafe and Dale. They rocked in the great silence of men, each with his pipe, each with the same tilt of the head as if a single thought wove through their minds.” That alone could teach a short course on descriptive writing. Some of the collected works here are undoubtedly more powerful than others. The snapshot of an unconscious girl in a refrigerator in the middle of a field, from “Necessary Angels,” will stay with me far longer than I would like, whereas “Tu B’Shvat”, the lengthiest and weakest of the selections, is by turns probing, meandering and overlong. But even with her less viscerally startling pieces, Thon is a master of encapsulating volumes of beauty and dread in a single tale, and making each sentence resemble a new form of expression. In This Light haunts like a well-constructed, moody nightmare, best savored in small doses. Her themes are those of the Greek tragedians: merciless lust that manifests as incest and rape, violent men and quietly desperate women and carnal metamorphosis. Alcoholism and prostitution are thrown in for good measure. And yet, Thon raises these stories beyond gritty realism and into the lyricism of compassion and understanding. Thon’s voice is her plot: her graceful images like a chorus dissecting her characters innermost flaws. Behind the ageless horror and veneration of the body, the forbidden acts and the monologues with dead people, In This Light is about common individuals draped in longing, aimlessly seeking redemption. arts@missoulanews.com

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Missoula’s newest documentary film festival makes its debut this evening, but don’t look for it at the Wilma, or even the Roxy. And it won’t be playing at either Carmike. You’re not going to find this screening at any movie theater, for that matter. If you want to see the films of Missoula Spaces, you’ll need to take a stroll over to the south side of the Higgins Avenue Bridge around twilight, make like a troll and dip down to the banks of the Clark Fork, where you’ll find these movies projected onto a freshly painted pylon. And the venue isn’t even what makes this inaugural festival most intriguing. Because if we’re being honest about it, you know the worst part of most documentary film fest screenings—especially a program of shorts—is that a handful are going to be subpar, or in some unfortunate cases, achingly unwatchable. We expect a similar quality ratio from Missoula Spaces—a local film festival in its inaugural year—only the beauty here is than

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any lemon will be over in less than minute. And even the ones you love will, like the Nicolas Cage movie, be gone in 60 seconds. Here, all the shorts are extra short, and while this isn’t the first film festival of its kind, the one-minute feature is still a rarity in the increasingly crowded world of documentaries. Some credit Josh Ippel and Charlie Roderick—the duo of artists behind Hideous Beast—for reinvigorating the genre with their Mini Movie Fests. Local artist Amy Stout, who returned to her adopted home less than five months ago and has spearheaded Missoula Spaces, also credits Hideous Beast, especially for their willingness to share a how-to manual for other mini film fest organizers like herself. She says she also was inspired by a one-minute film festival in Red Lodge, where she lived before returning to Missoula. But Stout is quick to point out that the one-minute film is as old as the film technology itself. Around the same time Thomas Edison was tinkering away with the filming process, French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere were creating motion pictures using 55-foot rolls of film. When hand-cranked through a projector, the resulting movie was about 50 seconds long. “This is a way of capturing what the Lumiere brothers were doing,” says Stout. Stout’s call for submissions is broad, requiring only that the film be less than a minute and attempt to

ing a one-minute poem to the faceless voice at the other end of a fast food drive-through order station. Or the woman who takes 60 seconds to explain why the Russell Street pedestrian underpass is one of her favorite Montana places. Others are more slice of life; there’s the bizarrely docile confrontation between doe and dog in the backyard. In another, two kids spray each other with silly foam in front of the house. Yes, it’s a home movie, but remember, it’ll be over before that surge of annoyance can become anything more than slight irritation. “There’s crazy variety,” explains Stout. “Some of it is fantastically artistic, and some are just everyday things that turn into something extraordinary.” Will her first foray into film festivals become an annual one? Stout is non-committal: “I’ll see how it goes and then take it from there.” The choice of venue, nestled against land owned by the Boone & Crockett Club near the Missoulian building, is a deliberate one. “It brings it down to a human space,” says Stout. “I wanted to separate it from anything commercial.” Missoula Spaces: A Festival of One-Minute Films kicks off under the Higgins bridge tonight, Thursday, July 14, at 9 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise Books Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Harry Potter and his friends aren’t done conquering evil yet! They’ve still got three more of The Dark Lord’s horcruxes left to destroy in a final epic battle to round out the series. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson star. Carmike 10: 11:30, 1, 2:40, 4, 5:45, 7, 8:50, 10 and midnight. in 2-D: 11, 12, 2, 3:05, 5:10, 6:15, 8:15, 9:20 and 11:30. Thu. July 14 at midnight. Village 6: 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10:45. in 2-D: 10, 1, 4, 7 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:15 show on Sun. Showboat in Polson: 4, 7 and 9:20. July 14: 11:59 PM only. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:30, 4, 6:50 and 9:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 with Fri. and Sat. shows at 10 and

BUCK This acclaimed documentary from Sundance takes an in-depth look at the life and psychology of a horse trainer named Buck. Think The Horse Whisperer without Robert Redford. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7. No shows on Fri. July 15 or Sun. July 17. CARS 2 Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Caine lend their voices to some cars on an adventure to overcome an obstacle. The straight man, the hick, and a British voice of sophistication add to the intrigue of this Disney Pixar sequel. Carmike 10: 11:30, 2. in 2-D: 1 and 4. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Showboat in Polson: 4, 7, and 9:15 Mountain in Whitefish: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:10, 4:10,

4:15, 7 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:15, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Woody Allen continues recent trends by taking his story out of New York. This time, the rich people are on vacation in Paris. They fight, cry, confront their own existential malaise and more. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates star. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 9 with no show on Fri. July 15 or Sun. July 17. MONTE CARLO In an everyday case of mistaken identity, three girls are whisked away from Paris to Monte Carlo when one of them is thought to be a British Heiress. Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy star. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15 and 9:35.

Hamilton: Nightly shows at 7 only. Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3. Entertainer in Ronan: 3:45, 6:45, and 9:40. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 12:45, 3:45, 6:45 and 9:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. 2:45, 8:45, 12:05, 3:30 and 6:45 with Fri. and Sat. shows at 10 and midnight. Mon.–Thu: 8:50 show replaces the 8:45 show. in 2-D: 5 and 8:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. TREE OF LIFE Director Terrence Malick’s highly anticipated, atmospheric film centers on a family with three boys in the 1950s and their loss of innocence. Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain star. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9:30. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS It’s 1963, JFK is prez, and mutants are on the loose. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence star as mini versions of the X-

“This magic moment. Your lips are close to mine…” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Opens Thursday at midnight at the Carmike 10.

midnight. Thu. July 14 at midnight. in 2-D: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

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WINNIE THE POOH The gang from Pooh Corner is back in Disney’s classically animated family film about a yearning for honey based on a basic misunderstanding between animal and boy. Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson and John Cleese lend their voices and hearts. Carmike 10: 12, 2, 4 and 6. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12, 2, 4, and 7.

CHILDREN OF PARADISE The Carmike 10 is holding a special screening of the 1945 French classic about ill-fated love, directed by Marcel Carné. Carmike 10: Wed. July 20 at 7 PM only.

NOW PLAYING BAD TEACHER Cameron Diaz is a really bad teacher, motivated to improve her kids test scores so she can get a boob job in order to impress Justin Timberlake, an independently wealthy substitute teacher. I’m not making any of this up. Jason Segel plays the lovable dolt. Village 6: 10:30, 1 and 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:15, 2:45, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:45, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. BRIDESMAIDS Kristen Wiig realizes how difficult life is as a maid of honor when her best friend Maya Rudolph appoints her to the task in this new Judd Apatow comedy. Village 6: 7 and 9:50.

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HORRIBLE BOSSES Three friends commit the common but understandable mistake of thinking that if they kill their bosses that others won’t just crop up in their place and continue to make their lives miserable. Look out for hilarious antics along the way! Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jennifer Aniston star. Village 6: 10:30, 1, 4, 7 and 9:20. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. Matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25 and 9:50, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. LARRY CROWNE Tom Hanks plays the title role as a man who gets fired from his ho hum retail job and goes on a hilarious jaunt of self discovery, which includes going back to school. Also Julia Roberts is there. Carmike 10: 11:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 PM show on Sun. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:45,

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow in the fourth edition of this popular pirate adventure/fantasy series. This time around, Depp must contend with the sultry Penélope Cruz, along with zombies and Ian McShane, on his quest to find the Fountain of Youth. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 9 PM, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. SUPER 8 In a film season where original screenplays are rare, J.J. Abrams of Star Trek fame brings us a group of kids hanging out in a quiet summer town during the summer of 1979, until a train wrecks, and guess what? Mysterious things start happening. Spielberg produces what may be the The Goonies/ET for this generation. Carmike 10: 7 and 10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 4 and 6:55, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Michael Bay throws a bunch of money and machinery at the screen in this third installment of the popular series. Shia LaBeouf, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich and Leonard Nimoy star. Carmike 10: 4:35, 8:15 and 11:45. in 2-D: 11:50, 3:25, 7 and 10:35. No 7 PM show on Wed. July 20. Village 6: 12:35, 4:10 and 7:45. Pharaohplex in

Men in this prequel to the Marvel Franchise. Carmike 10: 8 and 11. ZOOKEEPER Animals at the zoo have been able to talk all this time, but it’s only when Kevin James can’t seem to find a date that they’re willing to break their inexplicable silence. Rosario Dawson also stars in this family friendly comedy. Carmike 10: 12:05, 1:10, 2:35, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 and Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Village 6: 11, 1:45, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. 3 PM matinees and no Sun show at 9. Showboat in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:10. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:20, 7, and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:30, 8:45 and 10, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Capsule reviews by Molly Laich. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., July 15. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 0 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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Blackfoot due to FWP's occasional flyovers to drop thousands of nymphs into the river to extend the season since Rock Creek was such a bust. This has been a good thing unless you're one of the few people that have been severely injured by the 25lb biodegradable "blocks" that FWP is using to contain and deliver the nymphs to the river from altitude. Wearing a motorcycle helmet if you decide to fish this river would surely demonstrate your level of astuteness. That being said, you may want to wait a few more days. While there are a ton of bugs up here, water conditions are still murky and less than ideal. With just a LITTLE more clarity, good things will happen. We just have to hope FWP continues to seed the river with the aerial bombardments of extended hatch!

members is Adam Sandler or Keanu Reeves. GEEEEEZE . . what could have been!!! We are on the verge of Oscardom on the Clark right now, but it's still community theater at this point. Give it a few more days of drop and clearing and it'll be lights out. This weekend should be SICK!!! Green drakes are motivating some fish to the surface in specific areas and tandem San Juan rigs are mining up fish in areas where the water has begun to settle down a bit. The streamer and caddis dry fishing should rock here shortly.

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There are a LOT of reasons why the snow has begun to melt for real now but mostly it's from the collective body heat of all the tourists now in town. The marathon over the weekend created TON of Clark Fork heat in the valley which got things melting even Kinda sort of . . . Right now the Clark is like a mar- faster! Also, you can't overlook the heat from the ginal sequel which builds up your expectations devil. It's not a big deal though, since water Blackfoot The salmonflies are still going strong up the only to reveal mid happiness that one of the cast demands from these same groups have resulted in

falling water levels. The creek is the perfect example. Flows are dropping like a rock making for very good fishing pretty much creek-wide. Golden stones, caddis, green drakes, PMDs are all taking fish on the surface. Smaller streamers as well as a variety of nymph rigs are working too. The river's still high, so finding "slower" water is key.

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The Mo saw a BIG drop in flow yesterday falling from 22,200 all the way down to 17,600. Nice to see things beginning to calm down over here. Expect the crowds to become less of an issue as well with other rivers west of the divide coming into shape fast. There are some bugs kicking around in the evenings that are affording spotty dryfly action, but all in all, expect to be slinging junk whether that's in the form of buggers or nymph rigs for at least a bit longer. The dropping water levels will go a long way towards jump starting the surface action.

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THE SHOPPING CART BEFORE THE HORSE I had to talk a guy friend out of showing up on a first date with a rose and a book the woman had casually mentioned she liked. He’s a genuinely nice guy and professionally quite successful, but he repeatedly turns women off by coming on too strong too soon with these gifts. Can you please explain to guys why they shouldn’t do this? —Woman Who’s Been There It’s a really bad idea for a guy to give flowers to a girl he’s just meeting, unless she’s just won the Kentucky Derby. In that case, he could also slip her a carrot and slap her on the rump. Unless a woman shows up for your first date wearing a saddle, limit your gifts to an on-time arrival and smelling like you’ve showered recently. Anything more comes off like a sales promotion: “Date your way to a free panini maker! Trip to Mazatlan after five completed sex acts!” Selling a woman on liking you before you see whether you like her suggests you have wildly low standards. Never mind who she is; you’ll take any woman who’s a woman and not in jail or too busy filing a restraining order against you to meet you for a drink. Evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad, author of the terrific new book The Consuming Instinct, has studied the timing of gift-giving in romantic relationships. He explained to me that courtship behaviors need to be modulated in their timing and frequency. “Telling a woman that she looks beautiful is nice. Repeating it 35 times during dinner is not. It creates an asymmetry in the power dynamics that renders the guy less attractive.” Likewise, giving gifts too early in dating “reeks of desperation,” Saad said. “Recall that many women are attracted to alpha males who can otherwise only be ‘tamed’ by the love of the one unique woman (the classic rendition of the male archetype in romance novels). If the guy is swooning all over the woman on the first date, there is nothing to tame.” There’s that saying that gifts should be given from the heart, which always makes me flash on gift-wrapping Grandpa’s stent. But, as a rule, you shouldn’t give a present to a woman until you’ve worked up some affection for her and she seems to have some for you. Expensive gifts early on tend to make a woman who isn’t a gold digger uncomfortable and tell a woman who is that you’re a prime chump. Instead, give

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “He got a big ego, such a huge ego,” sings Beyonce in her song “Ego.” “It’s too big, it’s too wide / It’s too strong, it won’t fit / It’s too much, it’s too tough / He talk like this ‘cause he can back it up.” I would love to be able to address that same message to you in the coming days, Libra. I’m serious. I’d love to admire and marvel at your big, strong ego. This is one of those rare times when the cosmic powers-that-be are giving you clearance to display your beautiful, glorious self in its full radiance. Extra bragging is most definitely allowed, especially if it’s done with humor and wit. A bit of preening, mugging, and swaggering is permissible as well.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of my readers sent me an interesting tale. He said the teacher Rudolf Steiner “once had a devotee who complained that after years of meditating and studying sacred texts he had not yet had a spiritual experience. Steiner asked him if he’d noticed the face of the conductor on the train on which they were riding. The man said no. Steiner replied, ‘Then you just missed a spiritual experience.’” This is a good tip for you to keep in mind in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’ll be a time when you could dramatically expedite and intensify your education about spiritual matters by noticing the beauty and holiness in the most mundane things.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Russia has more psychic healers than medical doctors. Research done by the World Health Organization says so. While licensed physicians number around 640,000, there are 800,000 witches and wizards who use occult means to perform their cures. Personally, I prefer a more balanced ratio. I feel most comfortable when there are equal amounts of officially sanctioned practitioners and supernaturally inspired mavericks. In fact, that’s my guiding principle in pretty much every situation. I want as many unorthodox rebels who mess with the proven formulas as serious professionals who are highly skilled at playing by the rules. That helps keep both sides honest and allows me to avoid being led astray by the excesses and distortions of each. May I recommend a similar approach for you in the coming week?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The most frequently leveled criticism of Jimmy Fallon is that he laughs too much.” So begins a New York magazine profile of the late-night talk show host. “He laughs before jokes, after jokes, during jokes.” He is “TV’s most inveterate cracker-upper.” Cynics point to this as proof that he’s suffering from a profound character defect. But there is another possibility, says New York: “Fallon laughs so much because he’s just having a really good time.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, you’re primed to have a Fallon-like week—a period when the fun is so liberating and the play is so cathartic and the good times are so abundant that you’ll be in a chronic state of amusement. In response, people addicted to their gloom and doom might try to shame you. I say: Don’t you dare let them inhibit your rightful relief and release. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA COMPETETIVE SEALED PROPOSALS (CSP) TO DESIGN, PROCURE AND INSTALL A PICNIC PAVILION & CONCRETE PAD IN MALONEY RANCH PARK The City of Missoula (City) is requesting proposals to design, provide and install a picnic pavilion & associated concrete floor system in Maloney Ranch Park, City project No. PR 11-07 MRP. The City will select one (1) Respondent to design, provide and install a Pavilion for the Park as outlined in the CSP request. This project consists of the design, procurement and installation of a Pavilion and floor system at an established park, Maloney Ranch Park in Missoula, Montana. Work is to include the design, generally meeting the concept as represented by the shelter in Playfair Park in Missoula Montana; provision of the pavilion, whether by purchase or by fabrication; and the installation of the pavilion and the associated concrete floor system. All required elements are fully detailed in the CSP request. The funding source for this project is through a Park Development SID and contribution by the Maloney Ranch Neighborhood HOA. Copies of the detailed Competitive Sealed Proposal request, including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, may be obtained on the city’s website: http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids or at the Parks & Recreation Office during normal business hours at 600 Cregg Lane, Missoula MT, 59801, starting July 5, 2011. For more information, contact Alan White, Parks & Recreation at (406)5522.6261, or emailing awhite@ci.missoula.mt.us. Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 3:00 pm MST, July 18, 2011 at 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802-4297. A Selection Committee Meeting will be held at 3:30pm on July 19, 2011, in the Parks & Recreation Conference Room at 600 Cregg Lane, Missoula MT, 59801. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CCM City Clerk

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MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARINGS The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold budget hearings on the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2012. The PRELIMINARY budget hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at approximately 3:00 p.m., following the regularly scheduled Public Meeting, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. The FINAL budget hearing will be held on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at approximately 2:30 p.m., following the Special Public Meeting in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE OF THE FINAL BUDGET HEARING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON THE RECEIPT OF CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUES FROM THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The Commissioners will meet to Adopt the Final Budget and make appropriations at their Administrative Public Meeting on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 204 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any taxpayer or resident may appear at the hearings and be heard for or against the proposed budget. PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE OF ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON THE RECEIPT OF CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUES FROM THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The proposed budget is open for inspection in the Missoula County Commissioners’ Office. For further information, contact Andrew V. Czorny, Chief Financial Officer, at the Missoula County Courthouse, 258-4919, or by e-mail at aczorny@co.missoula.mt.us BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MISSOULA COUNTY LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808, until 10:00 am., Wednesday July 20, 2011, at which time bids will be opened and read in the Public Works Conference Room for the purpose of constructing a walkway and bicycle path adjacent to Highway 12 near Lolo, Montana, from Hwy 93 tying into the Lolo Creek Trails Subdivision. The project will involve installation of a pedestrian actuated crossing signal, earthwork excavation and embankment, crushed sub-base and base rock, asphalt surfacing, topsoil and seeding. All work is to be performed in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and plans and with

specifications on file in the Missoula County Public Works Office, Missoula, Montana and shall be performed under the supervision of the Director of Public Works or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Office of Public Works at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for work on Bike-Ped Path - Lolo, Control Number 6406, STPE 32(62)” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, Montana, 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING FOR SEELEY LAKE REFUSE DISTRICT The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold a budget hearing for the Seeley Lake Refuse District budget and annual assessment for Fiscal Year 2012. The budget hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at approximately 3:00 p.m., following the regularly scheduled Public Meeting, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex at which time a proposal to increase the annual assessment from $125 per year to $150 per year for the Seeley Lake Refuse District will be heard. Any taxpayer or resident within the Seeley Lake Refuse District boundary may appear at the hearing and be heard for or against the proposed budget and assessment increase. The proposed budget resolution for the Seeley Lake Refuse District is open for inspection in the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder’s Office. For further information, contact Jeff Seaton, Assistant Director of Public Works, at 6089 Training Drive, 2584916, or by e-mail at jseaton@co.missoula.mt.us BY ORDER of Vickie Zeier Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer Missoula Housing Authority wishes to receive bids for Pavement Rehabilitation and Drainage

Improvements at its Charlo Court property. Bids are due by 3:00 PM on July 19th at the MHA office at 1235 34th Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801. The project will consist of reconstruction of 400 to 500 square yards of parking lot, installation of 1 to 2 dry well sumps, and associated work. Bid packages are available from Jeff Smith, WGM Group, Inc., 1111 E. Broadway, Missoula, Mt, 59802. A $20 deposit will be required for all bid packages. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-09-53 Department No. 3 District Judge John W. Larson SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING Q.K. A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: WALTER WILLIAMSON KROSINSKI Re: Q.K. born October 25, 2005 to Lanica Ray in Havre, Montana YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Father’s Parental Rights and Award CFS Permanent Legal Custody with the Right to Consent to Adoption or for said youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 28th day of July, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the father’s rights should not be terminated; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Walter Wiliamson Krosinski is represented by Court-appointed attorney Clare Anderson, 210 North Higgins, Suite 302, Missoula, Montana 59802, (406)549-1009. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406)258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable John W. Larson, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 9th day of July, 2011. /s/ John W. Larson, District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-123 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RICHARD M. GOTTLIEB, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to KYLE GOTTLIEB, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorney, Dirk A. Williams of Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22nd day of June, 2011. /s/ Kyle Gottlieb, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-11-755 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Jonathan William Pangborn, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jonathan William Pangborn to Jonathan William Rodriguez. The hearing will be on July 19, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Dated: June 10, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Richard Goodwin, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-11-30 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF FRED L. LEHMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Christopher D. Henretta has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christopher D. Henretta, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o David J. Steele II, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of May, 2011. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ David J. Steele II, Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-07-92 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CARSON J. WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be either mailed to Laurie White, the personal representative, return receipt requested, c/o Attorney John W. Hart, Rossbach Hart, P.C., PO Box 8988, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of June, 2011. /s/ Laurie White, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-130 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY JANE WARD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to IRIS K. WARD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyler, PLLC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of June, 2011. /s/ Iris K. Ward, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-156 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CLAIR WILLIAM KAMRATH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Molly K. Howard, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above court. DATED this 21st day of June, 2011. /s/ Molly K. Howard, 201 West Main, Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-11-129 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LYLE ALLEN WINK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to NICHOLE ROBERTSON, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 30th day of June, 2011. /s/ Nichole Robertson, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC/s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DR-11-196 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION In Re the Marriage of: Penny McClurg, Petitioner and Gary McClurg, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof, upon the Petitioner’s attorney within twenty days after the service of this Summons for Publication, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in this Petition. This action is brought for the purpose of Dissolution of Marriage in Missoula County, State of Montana. DATED this 28th day of March, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court (SEAL) By: /s/ Angela M. Phillips, Deputy Clerk. 6/30/11, 7/7/11, 7/14/11 Auction Storage Contents 16L. 10:00 a.m. 7/20/11. 2122 South Avenue West, Missoula. Cash. 240-9371 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER DEEDS OF TRUST TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1. Notice is hereby given to

the public and to the following: Thomas Bruce Maclay 8337 Lamar Trail Lolo, MT 59847 Thomas Bruce Maclay 8337 Lamar Trail Florence, MT 59833-5957 Bitterroot Trails, LLC 17005 Old Highway 93 Florence, MT 59833 Thomas Bruce Maclay a/k/a Thomas B. Maclay, Tom B. Maclay and Tom Maclay 17000 Old Highway 93 Florence, MT 59833 WGM Group, Inc. 1111 E. Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Lynn Louise Jacobson Maclay c/o Evonne Smith Wells 222 East Pine P.O. Box 9410 Missoula, MT 59807 Bank of Montana 125 Bank Street Missoula, MT 59802 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802-4216 Bitterroot Trails LLC 8337 Lamar Trail Florence, MT 59833-5957 2. Property. This Notice concerns the following described real property: A. The “Maclay Property”, located at 17000 Old US Highway 93, Lolo, Montana 59847, more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate Survey No. 4449, located in the SE1/4SW1/4 of Section 14, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana. B. The “Bitterroot Trails Property”, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 of CARLTON, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 26 of Plats at Page 11. 3. Loans Secured by the Maclay Property and the Bitterroot Trails Property. A. Loan No. 1401615858: First Interstate Bank made a loan to Bitterroot Trails LLC. Thomas Bruce Maclay executed a Commercial Guaranty to guarantee payment and satisfaction of the indebtedness of Bitterroot Trails LLC to First Interstate Bank. Thomas Bruce Maclay also executed a Deed of Trust dated September 12, 2007 encumbering the Maclay Property to secure payment and satisfaction of a Promissory Note in the original principal amount of Two Hundred Twenty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Thirty One Dollars and Fifty Cents ($227,531.50) from Bitterroot Trails, LLC to First Interstate Bank. A Change in Terms Agreement was executed by Bitterroot Trails, LLC on March 18, 2008, which extended the maturity date of the loan to September 12, 2008. A subsequent Change in Terms Agreement was executed by Bitterroot Trails, LLC on December 17, 2008, which extended the maturity date of the loan to March 12, 2009. Bitterroot Trails LLC/Thomas Bruce Maclay entered into a Workout Agreement with First Interstate Bank dated April 28, 2010. In accordance with the Workout Agreement, Bitterroot Trails LLC executed a Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2010 encumbering the Bitterroot Trails Property to secure payment and satisfaction of loan number 1401615858; B. Loan No. 1401616770: First Interstate Bank made a loan to Bitterroot Trails LLC. Bitterroot Trails LLC executed a Commercial Security Agreement wherein it pledged two Wheatland Grain bins to secure payment and satisfaction of a Promissory Note in the original amount of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) from Bitterroot Trails LLC to First Interstate Bank. The maturity date was March 20, 2009. Bitterroot Trails LLC entered into a Workout Agreement with First Interstate Bank dated April 28, 2010. In accordance with the Workout Agreement, Bitterroot Trails LLC executed a Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2010 encumbering the Bitterroot Trails Property to secure payment and satisfaction of loan number 1401616770. 4. Deeds of Trust Securing the

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PUBLIC NOTICES Loan Obligations. A. Deed of Trust September 12, 2007: Grantor Thomas Bruce Maclay executed and delivered to First Interstate Bank (beneficiary) a Deed of Trust described as follows: Date: September 12, 2007 Grantor: Thomas Bruce Maclay Original Trustee: Western Title & Escrow Lender/Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank Recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana, as follows: Date: September 18, 2007 Book/Page: Book 805, page 1341, Document No. 200724335 Substitute Trustee. The following was substituted as Trustee: Dean A. Stensland Boone Karlberg PC 201 West Main, Suite 300 P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, MT 598079199 Telephone: (406) 543-6646 Facsimile: (406) 549-6804 by a written document recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana as follows: Dated: October 15, 2009 Recorded: October 19, 2009 Document No.: 200925243 Book/Page: Book 849 of Micro Records at Page 491 B. Deed of Trust - April 28, 2010: Grantor Bitterroot Trails LLC executed and delivered to First Interstate Bank (beneficiary) a Deed of Trust described as follows: Date: April 28, 2010 Grantor: Bitterroot Trails LLC Original Trustee: Western Title & Escrow Lender/Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank Recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana, as follows: Date: April 30, 2010 Book/Page: Book 859, page 9, Document No. 201008122 Substitute Trustee. The following was substituted as Trustee: Dean A. Stensland Boone Karlberg PC 201 West Main, Suite 300 P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, MT 59807-9199 Telephone: (406) 543-6646 Facsimile: (406) 549-6804 by a written document recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana as follows: Dated: September 15, 2010 Recorded: September 15, 2010 Document No.: 201017874 Book/Page: Book 865 of Micro Records at Page 1367 5. Default. Thomas Bruce Maclay and Bitterroot Trails LLC are in default of the terms and obligations contained in the Promissory Notes, Deeds of Trust, Workout Agreement and related documents. Thomas Bruce Maclay and Bitterroot Trails LLC are in default due to the failure to timely pay First Interstate Bank. 6. Amount Owing. The amounts owing are as follows: A. Loan No. 1401615858: Principal: $217 ,531 .50 Interest through 3/30/11: $ 47 ,005. 30 Late Charges: $ 191 .16 Attorney Fees, costs and taxes (4/28/10): $ 10 ,739 .46 Fees and Costs (4/30/10 - 4/19/11): $ 5 ,823 .51 Trustee’s Sale Guarantees (10/8/09; 4/30/10; 8/30/10; 3/28/11) $ 3 ,481 .54 Delinquent property taxes (2nd of 2009; 2010) plus penalty and interest: $ 2, 796. 72 TOTAL $287 ,569 .19 Interest continues to accrue on this Promissory Note and loan at the daily rate of $58 .1077 from March 30, 2011 until paid. The total balance due on this obligation secured by the Deeds of Trust is the sum of the above items, plus attorney fees and costs allowed by law. The exact amount owing as of the date of sale will be provided upon request made to the under signed prior to the date of said sale. B. Loan No. 1401616770: Principal: $ 6 ,000 .00 Interest through 3/30/11: $1, 313 .42 Late Charges: $ 100 .00 Fee balance: $ 266.76 $ 7, 680. 18 Interest continues to accrue on this Promissory Note and loan at the daily rate of $1.6438 from March 30, 2011 until paid. The total balance due on this obligation secured by the Deeds of Trust is the sum of the above items, plus attorney fees and costs allowed by law. The exact amount owing as of the date of sale will be provided upon request made to the under signed prior to the date of said sale. 7. Acceleration. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Deeds of Trust previously elected to consider all principal and interest immediately due and payable as a consequence of the default of Thomas Bruce Maclay and Bitterroot Trails LLC under the Promissory Notes, Commercial Guaranty, Deeds of Trust and Workout Agreement. 8. Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Deeds of Trust and the Trustee hereby elect to sell or cause to be sold the Properties described above to satisfy the obligations secured by the Deeds of Trust. The sale will be held at the following date, time and place: Date: September 13, 2011 Time: 10:00 a.m. Place: Missoula County Courthouse 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT The Trustee will sell the Properties at public auction to the highest bidder, in cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of the sale. DATED this 19th day of April, 2011. By: /s/ Dean A. Stensland Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA): COUNTY OF MISSOULAThis instrument was acknowledged before me on the 19th day of April, 2011, by Dean A. Stensland. SEAL /s/ Lisa Radcliffe Wallace Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Florence, Montana My Commission Expires: April 8, 2014 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FIRST INTERSTATE BANK, the Beneficiary, and MARTIN S. KING, the Successor Trustee, under the Deed of Trust described in this notice (referred to in this notice as the “Trust Indenture”), have elected to sell the property described in this notice, on September 13, 2011 at 10:05 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, and on the terms described in this notice, in order to satisfy the obligations described in this notice, pursuant to the terms of the Trust Indenture and the provisions of the Small Tract Financing Act, Mont. Code Ann. 71-1-301, et. seq. DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST INDENTURE: Grantor: Sean Scally Original Trustee: Insure Titles Successor Trustee: Martin S. King, Esq. Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank Date: August 10, 2006 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE TRUST INDENTURE: Lot 1B-1 of Springer’s Orchard Homes, Lots 1B-1 and 1B-2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat

thereof. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as NHN River Road, Missoula, Montana 59804 RECORDING REFERENCE: Deed of Trust recorded on August 17, 2006, in Book 781 at page 247 as Document No. 200620833 records of Missoula County, Montana OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE TRUST INDENTURE: Appointment of Successor Trustee, appointing Martin S. King as trustee in the place of Insured Titles dated April 26, 2011, and recorded April 28, 2011, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, as Document No. 201106996. DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE: The Grantor has defaulted on the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that he has failed to pay the payments required thereunder when due. AMOUNTS OWED ON THE OBLIGATIONS SECURED BY THE TRUST INDENTURE as of May 9. 2011: Principal: $19,251.84 Interest: $967.25 Late Charges: $298.88 Trustee’s Sale Guarantee: $86.04 Attorney Fees: $83.52 Total: $20,687.53 In addition, the Grantor is obligated to pay the expenses of this sale, which include the Beneficiary’s costs and expenses advanced to preserve and protect the property, real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, Beneficiary’s costs and attorneys’ fees, and the Successor Trustee’s costs and fees. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, they will be added to the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. THE TRUSTEE’S OR BENEFICIARY’S ELECTION TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE OBLIGATION: The Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Successor Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. DATE, PLACE and TIME OF SALE: Date and time of sale: September 18, 2011, at 10:05 a.m. Place: At the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana This communication is from a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 10th day of May, 2011. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee, Worden Thane, P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806-4747 STATE OF MONTANA):ss. County of Missoula) On the 10th day of May, 2011, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula My commission expires: January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FIRST INTERSTATE BANK, the Beneficiary, and MARTIN S. KING, the Successor Trustee, under the Deed of Trust described in this notice (referred to in this notice as the “Trust Indenture), have elected to sell the property described in this notice, on September 13, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, and on the terms described in this notice, in order to satisfy the obligations described in this notice, pursuant to the terms of the Trust Indenture and the provisions of the Small Tract Financing Act. Mont. Code Ann. 71-1-301, et. seq. DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST INDENTURE: Grantor: Sean Scally Original Trustee: Insured Titles Successor Trustee: Martin S. King, Esq. Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank Date: June 22, 2006 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE TRUST INDENTURE: Lot 1B-1 of Springer’s Orchard Homes, Lots 1B-1 and 1B2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as NHN River Road, Missoula, Montana 59804 RECORDING REFERENCE: Deed of Trust recorded on June 23, 2006, in Book 777 at page 690 as Document No. 200615317 records of the Missoula County, Montana. OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE TRUST INDENTURE: Appointment of Successor Trustee, appointing Martin S. King as trustee in the place of Insured Titles dated April 26, 2011, and recorded April 28, 2011, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, as Document No. 201106995. DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE: The Grantor has defaulted on the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that he has failed to pay the payments required thereunder when due. AMOUNTS OWED ON THE OBLIGATIONS SECURED BY THE TRUST INDENTURE as of May 9, 2011: Principal: $86,690.40 Interest: $1,377.54 Late Charges: $338.96 Trustee’s Sale Guarantee: $391.96 Attorney Fees: $380.48 Total: $89,179.34 In addition, the Grantor is obligated to pay the expenses of this sale, which include the Beneficiary’s costs and expenses advanced to preserve and protect the property, real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, Beneficiary’s costs and attorneys’ fees, and the Successor Trustee’s costs and fees. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, they will be added to the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. THE TRUSTEE’S OR BENEFICIARY’S ELECTION TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE OBLIGATION: The Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Successor Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. DATE, PLACE and TIME OF SALE: Date and time of sale: September 13, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Place: At the front steps of the Missoula County

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Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. This communication is from a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 10th day of May, 2011. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee, Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806-4747 STATE OF MONTANA): ss. County of Missoula) On the 10th day of May, 2011, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula My commission expires: January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/16/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200718743 Bk-802 Pg-145, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ronny L. Straight and Vicki L. Straight as joint tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14 in Block 2 of El Mar Estates Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/20/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 26, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $95,329.82. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $87,224.22, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 5, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.16012) 1002.195340-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 6, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. 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: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE N1/2 OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 17 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT D-2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4671. Jamie Lee Jarvis, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 27, 1999 and Recorded May 28, 1999 at 11:29 o’clock P.M. in volume 584 of micro records, Page 170, under Document No. 199914526. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation f/k/a Cendant Mortgage Corporation f/k/a PHH Mortgage Services Corporation. Jason J. Henderson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,035.67, beginning January 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other

charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 22, 2011 is $85,749.55 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $1,878.93, late charges in the amount of $35.03 and other fees and expenses advanced of $42.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.74 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 27, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 27, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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/ Stephanie L Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 PHH v Jarvis 41392.890 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 6, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. 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 34B OF ORCHARD HOME COMPANY’S ADDITION NO. 6, LOTS 34A AND 34B, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Lloyd Bruce, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Valley Bank of Ronan, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 1, 2010 and recorded on March 12, 2010 in Book 856, Page 1023 under Document No. 201004939. The beneficial interest is currently held by Valley Bank of Ronan. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1085.00, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 12, 2011 is $197,750.00 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% now totaling $5315.46, late charges in the amount of $251.71, and other fees and expenses advanced of $47.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.09 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale

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is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 27, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 27, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Valley Bank V. Bruce 41769.002 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 6, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE WEST ONE-HALF OF LOT 11 AND ALL OF LOTS 12 AND 13 IN BLOCK 2 OF MCLEOD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Leslie A. Largay and John F. Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 8, 2007 and recorded March 8, 2007 under Document# 200705490, Book 793, Page 305. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,400.49, beginning January 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 18, 2011 is $179,091.53 principal, interest at the rate of 6.250% now totaling $4,252.41, late charges in the amount of $231.48, escrow advances of -$734.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $34.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.67 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 26, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG

LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 26, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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/ Judy Johnson Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 04/04/2017 Citimorgage Vs. Largay 42011.424 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 6, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. 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 13 AND EAST ONE-HALF OF LOT 14 IN BLOCK 6 OF GLENWOOD PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. Leslie A Largay and John F Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 8, 2007 and recorded March 8, 2007 in Book 793, Page 307 under Document No. 200705492. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,591.03, beginning January 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 18, 2011 is $209,707.47 principal, interest at the rate of 6.2500% now totaling $5,194.82, late charges in the amount of $532.78, escrow advances of $-695.36, and other fees and expenses advanced of $47.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.91 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 26, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 26, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Citimortgage V Largay 42011.428 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 6, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. 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 25 OF WILLIAMS ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Nicholas O. Weiss and Kristine D. Weiss, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic

Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 11, 2006 and recorded on May 11, 2006 in Book 774, Page 233 under Document No. 200610879. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,130.82, beginning September 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 1, 2011 is $167,655.87 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $9,256.00, late charges in the amount of $2,060.56, escrow advances of $3,220.14, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,014.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.43 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 28, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA )) ss. County of Stark) On April 28, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, 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/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 GMAC v. Weiss 41965.454 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/11/2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DANIEL G FIX, CAROLINE C FIX, AS JOINT TENNANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/18/2007 and recorded 04/25/2007, in document No. 200709879 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 795 at Page Number 1574 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 5 OF REHDER HOMESITES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2213 42ND ST, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is

PUBLIC NOTICES secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $215,739.48 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 10/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 27, 2011, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request for a public forum by the Missoula Parking Commission, represented by MMW Architects, to exceed the maximum signage allowance for a parking structure on a property zoned CBD and located at the southeast corner of Pattee Street and Front Street. SEE MAP X

2. A request by Sara Simkowitz, represented by Paradigm v2 Architects, for variances to expand an existing nonconforming detached garage on a property zoned RT2.7 and located at 438 Brooks. SEE MAP L 3. A request by Jared Langley to

reduce the Shindig Street front yard setback from 20 feet to 7.5 feet to build a single family residence on a property zoned B2-2 and legally described as Lot 28 of The Valley Subdivision, Section 14, T13N, R20W. SEE MAP Y If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please

provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the same number or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.

amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/25/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0045476 FEI NO. 1006.137138 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/19/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEO C. HANSEN AND SANDRA D. HANSEN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/17/2007 and recorded 12/21/2007, in document No. 200732755 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 810 at Page Number 1083 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5319, LOCATED IN THE

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Rezoning & Planned Variation Request – Canyon Gate Apartments A request from TriEast, Inc., represented by James Hoffmann of Hoffmann and Associates Architects, to rezone property located at 3705 Highway 200 E from C-C2 (General Commercial) to C-R3 (Residential) with a Planned Variation to modify lot size and lot width to accommodate the existing smaller lots, and side yard setbacks to allow for townhomes. See Map O.

The Missoula Board of County Commissioners public hearing on this item has been RESCHEDULED from July 20 to July 27, 2011. The hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, 2011, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (SW1/4NE1/4NE1/4) OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 19148 LEO HANSEN ROAD, Florence, MT 59833. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $360,989.20 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 10/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 40, 145, 160, 184, 218, 226, 336, 381, and 405. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Tuesday July 5, 2011. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, July 7, 2011, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/03/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0047302 FEI NO. 1006.137646 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/19/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KRISTINE K WALTERS-CARTE, AND DANIEL CARTE, WIFE AND HUSBAND AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE CO. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 03/10/2006 and recorded 03/20/2006, in document No. 200606076 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 770 at Page Number 1070 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE W1/2 OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4722. Property Address: 6029 OCEAN VIEW DR, Clinton, MT 59825-9758. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 34, 90, 105 & 106. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting July 25, 2011 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to July 28, 2011, 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.

NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-6CB, MORTGAG E PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,SERIES 2006-6CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $184,432.70 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 02/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/03/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0047718 FEI NO. 1006.137647 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/19/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TROY A MAGRUDER, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/13/2005 and recorded 06/14/2005, in document No. 200514382 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 754 at Page Number 687 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: TRACT 5-B-1D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2595 LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR ACCESS AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2595. Property Address: 14010 SAPPHIRE DR, Lolo, MT 59847-9637. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the

Missoula Police Department NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES This notice is hereby provided in order to determine the legal registered owner and/or Lien holder of the following described vehicle(s). The following vehicle(s) will be sold at auction after 30 days of this notice unless reclaimed by the legal registered owner(s)/Lien holder(s) showing proof of ownership/lien, picture ID, and paying all fees due at the Missoula Police Dept., 435 Ryman Missoula, MT 59802. Notice is given to provide notice to the legal registered owner(s) and/or Lien Holder(s) in accordance with MCA61-12-402 (5).

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"Nose Job"–whaddya say?

by Matt Jones

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1 Hit in the ring 4 Llama lookalike 10 "___ la Vida or Death and All His Friends" (Coldplay album) 14 "Can ___ now?" 15 Play ___ (feign death to trick a predator) 16 "The pressure ___" 17 "Black Swan" footwear 19 NPR correspondent Totenberg 20 "I'd Rather Go Blind" singer ___ James 21 L.A.'s area 23 Schedule abbr. 24 Emotional debate topic 28 Photographer Adams 29 Apprehensive feeling 30 Toast at a bar mitzvah 35 Business execs who crunch numbers 36 Bubble gum sold in pouches 40 Tramp's companion 41 Do story time for (the kids) 42 Deck out 44 Packs down 48 It may be answered with "Who, me?" 53 1988 Dennis Quaid remake 54 "___ Johnny!" 55 Cough syrup amts. 57 Figure skating move 59 What you might say after hearing 17-, 24-, 36- or 48-across? 62 Other, in Spanish 63 Complete 64 Genetic material 65 Reasons 66 Anne Rice vampire 67 Lovemaking

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1 Agree 2 First name in mystery authors 3 "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" singer Michael 4 Mimic 5 Auction section 6 "Hey, over here!" 7 Take ___ in the dark 8 Actress Kaley ___ of "The Big Bang Theory" 9 "...sure plays ___ pinball" 10 Sports announcer Scully 11 Question asked many times in "Marathon Man" 12 "Reversal of Fortune" family name 13 Wreath-like garlands 18 Back muscles 22 Non-solid state: abbr. 25 Taco ___ 26 Stomach trouble 27 Quite 31 Possess, to a Scotsman 32 ___ Khan 33 Birth control option 34 ___ World Peace (Ron Artest's newly-proposed name) 36 Talk smack about 37 Image worship 38 Greek wrap 39 Anorak, e.g. 40 Didn't attract attention 43 Traditional Japanese drama 45 Tall tale 46 They're playing to the camera 47 Lying on one's back 49 Pelvic floor exercise 50 "Fame" actress Cara 51 Egg holders 52 Astronaut's outerwear 56 Lay's competitor to Pringles 58 "___ in 'zebra'" 60 Shooting org. 61 "Hill Street Blues" rank: abbr.

Agency # . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vehicle Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VIN # PAV11 208 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dodge D100 Tk Pk Blu . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1161299481 PAV12 001 . . . . . . 1998 Volkswagen Jetta 4D White . . . 3VWSB81H3WM153500 Dated this the 6th day of July, 2011. Mark Muir, Chief of Police • Suzanne Mirabito, Abandoned Vehicles

montanaheadwall.comMissoula Independent Classifieds Page C7 July 14 – July 21, 2011

PUBLIC NOTICES obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $128,422.50 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.75% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/03/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 100110367 FEI NO. 1006.110534 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/25/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash,

the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ERIN O DOHERTY, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, AND RODNEY W WASHATKO, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/26/2007 and recorded 10/01/2007, in document No. 200725854 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 806 at Page Number 1007 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 3 OF BITTERROOT HOMES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 417 KING ST, Missoula, MT 59801-8607. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately

due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $242,280.35 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 03/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/09/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110048321 FEI NO. 1006.138101

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Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Roger E. Indreland Missoula County Treasurer First Security Bank of Missoula Elo A. Indreland Collection Bureau Services, Inc. Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 14N 19W 07 NW2 NW4SW4 NW4 AND NW4 SW4, SUID #1001506. Parcel No. 1001506. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: All of Section 7, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. LESS AND EXCEPTING the NE 1/4 SW 1/4 , N 1/2 SE 1/4 AND SE 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 7, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference in Book 602 at Page 1547 Micro Records. ALSO LESS AND EXCEPTING the S 1/2 SW 1/4 of Section 7, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference in book 306 at Page 2103 Micro Records. ALSO LESS AND EXCEPTING the S 1/2 SE 1/4 of Section 7, Township 14 North,

Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference in Book 306 at Page 2105 Micro Records. ALSO LESS AND EXCEPTING the N 1/2 NE 1/4, the SW 1/4 NE 1/4 and the SE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 7, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference in Book 792 at Page 1091 Micro Records. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2008. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $27,.6. 80 Penalty $5. 54 Interest $91..13 Costs $550.67 Total $922. 14 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 14th day of July, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC

Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Thomas H. Campbell Christina I. Campbell Missoula County Treasurer Citifinancial, Inc. Bruce M. Spencer c/o Smith Law Firm, P.C., attorney for Plaintiff Charles Dendy c/o Johnson, Rodenburg & Lauinger attorneys for Plaintiff Craig D. Charlton c/o Smith Law Firm, P.C., Attorney for Plaintiff CACV of Colorado, LLC Pursuant to section 15-18212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-OGD OGDEN ADD Lot- 010 Block- 074 13N 19W 29 OGDEN ADD, OGDEN OGDEN-E 75’ OGDEN ADD, OGDEN OGDEN-E 75’ OF LOT 10 BLK 74, SUID #180905. Parcel No. 180905. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: The East 75 feet of Lot 10 in Block 74 of OGDEN ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 174 Page 2281 Micro Records. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $ 4,085.15 Penalty $ 81.70 Interest $ 1,258.07 Costs $ 558.82 Total $5974.58 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date

on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 2584847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 7th day of July, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC

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Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Watson L. Hancock Missoula County Treasurer L & S Development Corporation Sharon A. Roske a/k/a Sharon Roske Collection Bureau Services, Inc c/o Michael J. Moore and Bruce J. Allison Collection Bureau Services Inc. C/O Michael J. Moore & Alison Howard Unifund CCR Partners Assignee of Palisades Acquisition XVI, LLC c/o Charles L. Dendy of Johnson, Rodenburg & Lauinger Rex G. Kofford Collection Professionals, INC. Pursuant to section 1518-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 11N 16W 09 PLAT A/B’, PARCEL XXX, TR 1A COS 4666 IN NW 1/4 PLAT A 9-11-16 107.82AC & IN NE 1/4 PLAT B’ 8-11-16 64.78AC TOTAL 172.6AC, SUID #1162701. Parcel No. 1162701. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Tract 1A of Certificate of Survey No. 4666, a tract of land located in the Northeast one-quarter of Section 8 and the Northwest one-quarter of Section 9, all being in Township11 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula, County, Montana. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax

lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $276 80 Penalty $5.54 Interest $91.13 Costs: $550. 67 Total $922.14 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 14th day of July, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC

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Renting vs. Buying: What you need to know! By Diane Beck, 2011 MOR President The excitement and energy that Missoula’s University of Montana brings also comes with a tradeoff. As a community, we have far more renters than the national average, making the rental market even more competitive. According to the 2011 Missoula Housing Report, the split is about 50/50 renters versus owners. On a national level that rate hovers on the side of homeownership at about 65%. Adding to the student factor is the housing prices that have been, for many years, out of reach for many individuals and families who live here. The high cost of housing has forced residents to rent when buying might have been their ultimate goal, further straining the rental market. According to the Housing Report, vacancy rates for rentals are perched around 3%. What has happened since 2007? A decrease in the cost to purchase housing in Missoula. While I cannot report on that trend locally yet for 2011, on a national level a survey found

that 48% of respondents reported that they saw rental rates increase. For many, that means they can now carry a mortgage for the cost of what they had been paying in rent. In addition, homeownership is still a priority for US citizens. A majority of renters aspire to homeownership as a long-term goal. According to the "2011 National Housing Pulse Survey" released by NAR, 72 percent of renters surveyed said owning a home is a top priority for their future, up from 63 percent in 2010. Fun facts on renting versus buying: • Median Price of a Home: $200,500, down from $219,550 in 2007. • Housing Affordability Index for Four Person Household in 2011: 107, meaning they can afford 107% of a median priced home. • Mortgage Interest Rates hovering around 4.25%. • Rents increased in 2010 to an average of $740 per

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LAND FOR SALE Huge Price Reduction! Beautiful building site with a 40x72 Agricutural Building. 20.78 Acres. $230,000. MLS# 20111015. 10900 Crystal Creek Road, Clinton. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. KING PROPERTIES around Charlo/Ronan for sale. Incredible view of Mission Mountains and National Bison Range. Fantastic recreational area. Call Paul Lodge, Realtor at (406)544-4746 Natural Housebuilders, Inc., *AFFORDABLE small homes*

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COMMERCIAL The famous nine mile house is back on the market and ready for someone to bring it back to its former glory! Purchase the

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OUT OF TOWN 3 bed 2 bath home on 1.41 acres southeast of Florence off ESH. MLS 20112619. 209 E. Pine Ct. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Log Home with rustic studio on 1.83 wooded slope just minutes from Missoula. MLS 20112917. 10250 Valley

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UPSCALE DOWNTOWN LIFESTYLE AT THE UPTOWN FLATS 1 and 2 bedroom condos available

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