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Voices/Letters The Merc, climate change and mandatory minimums ...........................4 The Week in Review Missoula Marathon, wildfire and sensitive drums .......................6 Briefs Neighborly concerns, mailbox wars and Missoula Senior Center........................6 Etc. Assessing the fallout from “tow-a-thon” ...................................................................7 News Adventure Cycling looks to rekindle the spirit of Bikecentennial ........................8 News New vaccine requirements prompt more parents to find religion .......................9 Opinion Montana takes a stand on trans students using the bathroom ......................10 Feature Shooting the moon ..........................................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Two playwrights dig into the dark net ...................................................................18 Music Candace, Cave Singers and Wizzerd...................................................................19 Books Light and dark in Joe Wilkins’ When We Were Birds ..........................................20 Film Irresponsibility finds equality in Mike and Dave..................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 The Real Dirt Herb your enthusiasm ...........................................................................23 Happiest Hour Long Island Iced Tea at The Rhino......................................................25 8 Days a Week But it took us years to get to Mars.......................................................26 Agenda Missoula Urban Farming Forum ......................................................................34 Mountain High The Montana Bicycle Celebration Expo .............................................35
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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
by Tess Haas
Asked Tuesday, July 12, in downtown Missoula. This is a big weekend for bicyclists as Adventure Cycling celebrates its 40th anniversary with the Montana Bicycle Celebration. What do you think Missoula does well to help promote local biking? Followup: What could the community do better? Dave Oberbillig: It has several programs that raise awareness, like Bike Walk Bus Week, that really promotes the idea that Missoula is a bike-friendly town. Bike Street: Dedicate some streets around town strictly for biking. There could still be local access for people who lived on them, but it would be nice to have. I know it has worked in other cities. The white lines don’t always work to protect bikers. Leslie Anderson: I like the bike lanes everywhere. Even when a street is squeezed, [bike lanes] alert cars to the existence of bikers. I also like the bike paths along the rivers and even extending to Lolo. Curb danger: The bulb-outs are really dangerous, especially if you’re not paying attention. I have seen people notice them at the last minute and pull out into traffic.
Tanner Curey: People are pretty accepting of bikes here compared to other places in Montana. Brooks Street blues: Brooks Street after Mount—you can’t ride your bike ... You just have to find a better route.
Rachel Just: Missoula does a good job providing bike lanes. Rules of the road: Even more bike lanes and more education about etiquette and how bicyclists should interact with drivers.
Jiah Turner: I do like the insane amount of bike racks, especially the artsy ones. Free Cycles really helps a lot of people too, especially the homeless people I know. Obstacle course: Improving the sidewalks would help. There are a lot of places where if you’re biking at night you can fully wipe out.
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Voter project I loved reading about the upcoming Montana-based climate ride (see “Staff Pick: Best Way to Fight Climate Change,” in the July 7 Best of Missoula issue). Lots of my friends ride in it and hike in Glacier to raise funds for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a volunteer organization working to create the political will for Congress to enact legislation to cut emissions and stabilize manmade climate change. Did you know that a sizable percentage of Americans who are considered to be “super-environmentalists” don’t vote? Researcher Nathaniel Stinnett found that even though tens of millions of Americans are super-committed environmentalists, as a group they have only about an 8 percent turnout rate on Election Day. For more information, please contact Stinnett’s Environmental Voter Project or Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Judy Weiss Brookline, Mass.
A worthy investment Allow me to represent the moderate view on what I think should happen to the Mercantile. As a builder and Realtor, I understand that building up makes economic sense for the developers of the Mercantile and for the rest of the downtown. I agree that having an indoor mall on the main floor and a hotel above would be a great use of space. What I do not understand is why this issue is so black and white. It seems there are plenty of people who think the entire building should be demolished and perhaps an equal number of people who think that it should be completely preserved. There should be more discussion of how we can restore and preserve facades and then build up multiple stories. In every large city around the world there are examples of this kind of architectural ingenuity, where unique modern architecture is built behind and above historical facades. I admire these buildings because of how they illustrate the passage of time and creatively provide solutions without destroying our heritage. The Mercantile is the cornerstone of our downtown not only in location but origin as well. The Mercantile represented fair dealing and was the largest department store between Minneapolis and Seattle. It established downtown Missoula as a center of commerce that still thrives today. My concern is that downtown will lose some of its character if we demolish its roots. I hear the argument that restoring and preserving the facades will be cost prohibitive. It will cost more initially to restore the facades, but in the end I believe the return on investment will be higher, because it will
attract more people who want to shop in a unique mall with historical significance and stay in a hotel with a story. The only reason Chelsea Market of New York is a household name is because it was built in an old factory. Otherwise I think it would just be another American mall with a fraction of the visitors. The city of Missoula is subsidizing the redevelopment of Southgate Mall, so why couldn’t the city subsidize the cost of preserving facades? I think this would be a worthy investment both financially and for the legacy of our town. Holly Deluca Missoula
“Sometimes they leave behind their own children, creating a cycle that is incredibly difficult to break.”
Break the cycle Native American girls face the highest rates of incarceration of any ethnic group. They are five times as likely as white girls to be sentenced to time in a juvenile detention facility. Incarceration rates for Native American women are also disproportionately high. For you this is probably just a startling statistic—for me it hits very close to home. My daughter is currently in her 12th year of a 20year sentence for drug possession. It’s an all-too-common story on the reservation: our young people making serious mistakes with drugs and being sentenced to lengthy stretches in federal prison. When they go away, they leave behind their families and their culture. Sometimes they leave behind their own children, creating a cycle that is incredibly difficult to break. There is no doubt the drug epidemic on our reservations is one of the greatest challenges we face. But it has also become clear that the main thing we’ve done to combat that epidemic—lock away the people who use drugs—has not accomplished what we need it to. Native Americans make up a disproportionate population in our prisons. Because crimes on the reservation are prosecuted in federal court, this is especially true in federal prison.
Part of the reason Native Americans are so overrepresented when it comes to incarceration is the mandatory minimum laws that were enacted by Congress in the 1990s. The mandatory minimum movement was intended to bring more consistency to federal sentencing by restricting the discretion of judges and setting in place rules to guide appropriate sentences for similar crimes. The majority of criminals behind bars today were sentenced under these mandatory minimum regulations. And most of those are incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses. But the high incarceration rates, especially among minority groups, that resulted from mandatory minimums have also resulted in prison overcrowding and have become very expensive. Those factors have prompted a real bipartisan movement in Congress to reform judicial sentencing. That’s come in the form of a bill called the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, or SRCA, which would reduce mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenders from 10 to five years and give more discretion to judges in sentences for first-time offenders. To be clear, the bill would actually increase sentences for serious drug offenders—those who are involved in production, distribution or gang activity related to drug trafficking. We need to continue to be tough on the individuals who have brought the scourge of drugs to our communities. But I believe more leniency is needed for our young people who make the serious mistake of using drugs. The SRCA will allow judges to do what they should be doing— judging each case and each individual on its own unique circumstance. Sen. Steve Daines recently cosponsored the SRCA, along with 14 Republicans and 19 Democrats in the Senate. For that, I want to say a heartfelt thank you. With significant and growing bipartisan support, there is a very good chance for the SRCA to pass into law this year. That’s a rare occurrence in Congress these days, but it’s heartening to see it’s possible. The only thing holding up a vote is Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. I hope you’ll join me in encouraging him to put this important measure on the schedule. We have to do something for the thousands of Native American women who are behind bars, away from their families and their communities. Drugs have decimated our reservations, but lengthy prison sentences have not stemmed their impact, and have arguably made the situation on the reservation worse. Rep. G. Bruce Meyers Box Elder
missoulanews.com • July 14–July 21, 2016 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Amy Donovan
Wednesday, July 6 Officials lift evacuation notices for the Observation Fire in the Bitterroot, as firefighters declare the blaze more than 80 percent contained.
Thursday, July 7 The University of Montana announces Paula Short, a bureau chief at the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, will become the new director of communications. Outgoing Vice President of Communications Peggy Kuhr will “work on special projects” until her retirement in December.
Friday, July 8 The sixth annual Montana Folk Festival in Butte kicks off its three-day weekend of global music in Butte. Wet weather later prompts lineup changes, including the cancellation of a Korean dance group due to “sensitive drums.”
Saturday, July 9 In response to recent attention-grabbing headlines regarding hipsters and farmers market vendors, the Ninja Mike’s breakfast stand at the Clark Fork Farmers Market puts up a sign reading “Hipsters Welcome.”
Sunday, July 10 Missoulian Trisha Drobeck and Coloradan Geofrey Terer win the respective women’s and men’s categories of the 10th annual Missoula marathon. This year’s 275 awards are locally made by Merrill Bradshaw Carpentry out of recycled steel, copper and lumber.
Monday, July 11 Missoula City Council hears more public comment on the Missoula Mercantile hotel proposal, which is then passed back to a July 13 committee agenda. City staff say there’s no deadline yet for a final decision.
Tuesday, July 12 The recent cool, wet weather prompts the Missoula County Fire Protection Association to drop fire danger from high to moderate.
Tarn Ream leads Unity Dance & Drum’s African Dance Class with, from left to right, live musicians Scott Ayers, Nicole Dunn and Roger Moquin July 12 at the Missoula Senior Center.
Postal service
Mailbox wars Keith Baity decided to set a trap. The Lolo resident became so frustrated with the unremitting “robots” at the U.S. Postal Service that he took the promotional flyers he’d printed up for his small business, Grout Rite, grabbed some tape and walked the neighborhood. He strategically taped his flyers to different parts of each mailbox—one to a supporting post, another to a weather shade and a third to a “cute little house” covering one box. Baity pulled out his smartphone, switched on the video recorder and waited to see how the mail carriers would react. Baity did this for weeks, and every time the carriers removed his Grout Rite flyers, one by one, no matter where he’d fastened them. On one occasion, he recorded as a carrier wadded up eight flyers that were taped to the outside of mailboxes and took them to the USPS truck. “We will remove every flyer we find,” the carrier
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promised Baity, while his smartphone was “in plain view.” Baity has been waging war with the USPS for four months, beginning in April, when he decided to advertise his small business by taping flyers to mailboxes. Local carriers and USPS officials have repeatedly told Baity what he’s doing is illegal, but the grout and tile specialist insists they’re the ones who are out of line. Now, he’s suing the postal service to prove it. In his June 20 filings with Missoula County District Court, Baity is seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop the USPS from removing his flyers and end what he describes as an “illegal and malicious campaign” against him. The details of his encounters, which have included seven local post offices and more than 10 USPS employees, are outlined in court filings Baity prepared personally. He initially agreed to speak with the Indy about his case, but later declined to comment after speaking with a federal attorney in Washington, D.C. Baity says he wants to give the government some time to resolve the dispute.
He’s not the first person to fight the USPS over rights to mail receptacles. Thirty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a USPS rule barring non-postmarked materials from the inside of letterboxes. Federal rules published in the Domestic Mail Manual extend the prohibition to any part of a mail receptacle. Baity accuses USPS of “brainwashing” its employees into believing the DMM “guideline” is actually a law. Baity’s lawsuit indicates that in addition to videotaping carriers, he posed as a flyer recipient at post office counters to record clerks’ responses. The employees unfailingly became “very, very short and rude.” Baity says he was pressured to provide his address and “start an official something.” He also claims he was assured that Grout Rite would be “gone after.” In a statement, a USPS spokesperson outlines the applicable postal regulations, which he says were adopted through a public notice process, and says the service typically confiscates unauthorized material and notifies the violator of postage due.
[news] Still, Baity may have a point. The DMM states the mailbox post or other support “is not part of the receptacle.� Yet even there, his suit claims, the carriers took his flyers away. Derek Brouwer
Seniors
Finding a center The last few yoga class students mill around the entrance of the Missoula Senior Center on a recent afternoon, chatting while they hold their mats and blocks. In the dining area, women sip ice water and wait for pinochle to start. They discuss some of the recent proposals for a new senior center elsewhere in town. “Don’t you agree that we could use a bigger space?� asks Inez Stacy, 76. “The older people, they’re just not able to do the volunteering that we used to do,� says Fay Wages, 88. She recalls how senior center members used to put on fundraisers like coat-checks and raffles. “And then all of the projects that we seemed to have went by the wayside for some reason or another,� Wages continues. “That leaves you with, how do you make money?� Many longtime members are happy with the Higgins Avenue building—which has served as a senior center since 1974—just the way it is, according to Executive Director Michelle Hastings. But funds are dwindling, and Hastings says the membership lacks the drive to keep the center self-sustaining. She’s hoping that proposals from Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Missoula International School will enable the nonprofit to move into a more modern space and find long-term financial support. Without outside help, Hastings estimates the center’s funds will last only another 2 to 4 years, barring any emergencies. In coming months, a feasibility study funded by the city will determine the best place for an intergenerational community center, which would incorporate senior needs and solve many of Hastings’ problems. The options include a new building adjoining Currents at McCormick Park and the Missoula International School’s proposal to offer an intergenerational community space next to its forthcoming school on Third Street. The MIS proposal includes everything Hastings would like to see in an up-to-date senior center, such as a commercial kitchen, dance floor and an indoor park. Whether it’s a city- or community-led project, Hastings is just hopeful that something works out.
“That’s still in the discussion stage,� Hastings says. “I don’t really know how all these wheels turn and how they get turned. This is all new to me.� Missoula City Council has approved up to $40,000 for the feasibility study, although councilwomen Gwen Jones and Emily Bentley both expressed hesitation about giving city funds to MIS, which is a private school. Parks and Rec Director Donna Gaukler says she appreciates councilors’ concerns about the private school, but wherever the new senior center lands, the goal will be to appeal to a broad swath of Missoula residents. “As boomers are retiring, we find they want to remain active in a different way than their predecessors,� Gaukler says. “It’s important for us to consider how every generation best engages with their community.� Kate Whittle
University District
Frustration on Hastings For Michael Alterowitz, the new house going up in his Bonner Park neighborhood has become an “unsettling� presence on nightly walks with his dog. Over the past six years he’s found Hastings Avenue to be a quiet, friendly place, a “flashback to the 1950s� lined with neatly kept lawns and modest homes. Why anyone would build so large a structure confuses and frustrates him. “I think some sort of harmony with the surrounding structures would have been infinitely better,� Alterowitz says. “I was shocked that anyone would build something that was so totally out of character with the neighborhood.� The 6,800-square-foot house has been a topic of discussion both among Alterowitz’s neighbors and in the broader Missoula community. Correspondence from Alterowitz and others prompted Councilwoman Gwen Jones and Missoula Development Services to circulate a survey in June among University District residents to gauge interest in additional zoning regulations. Jones says the city received approximately 140 responses, and that it does appear there’s support for a conversation about further size restrictions on residential housing. She adds that since the city is currently tied up with the budget and proposed demolition of the
BY THE NUMBERS Percentage of Montanans without health insurance in 2016. The number is down from 15 percent in 2015 and 20 percent in 2012, according to data published July 12 by the state auditor’s office.
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Merc, the matter will be taken up before the University District Neighborhood Council this fall. The level of attention paid to their new home has perplexed owners Laura and Anuj Timblo. It’s not the first piece of contemporary architecture in the University District, Laura Timblo says, though she understands her soon-to-be neighbors have questions and concerns. She’s willing to answer them as best she can, she adds. Beyond that, she’s not sure what else she can do. “How do I make people feel better?� she asks. “Other than having a conversation, I don’t know what else to really do, and to just be involved with my neighborhood like I am now.� John Snively, who lives around the corner from the new house, says he wishes the Timblos had consulted neighbors prior to commencing work, as his next-door neighbor George Halverson did before a remodel several years ago. Snively says he’s sure the Timblos are nice people, but there’s “a lot of bitterness in people’s hearts about this,� and the topic comes up frequently in conversation around Bonner Park. “We’re all trying to adjust to it,� Snively continues, “and we’ve reconciled ourselves to the fact that it’s here, that it’s not going away.� Snively feels Missoula’s zoning regulations “failed us in this regard,� and he shares in Alterowitz’s hope that the discussion they pushed for with Jones can help spare other neighborhoods similar issues in the future. “The only thing we can hope for is if there is enough [response] to express a real concern that perhaps it can be looked at for future construction,� Alterowitz says, “because it’s changing this neighborhood and I would hope that maybe there wouldn’t be others that would change other neighborhoods.� Alex Sakariassen
ETC. In Missoula, locals love floating as much as the Whos in Whoville love Christmas. So perhaps that’s why many residents had reason to call the county Grinch after the July 1 “tow-a-thon.� Dozens of floaters found out the cars they’d left at Kona Ranch Road bridge that day had been towed—and drivers were on the hook for tow bills ranging from $200 to $300. The parking crackdown didn’t come as a surprise to Kona Ranch Road residents, who’d been growing increasingly irritated with the summertime traffic. One of those residents is Democratic state Rep. Willis Curdy, who’s lived in the area for 34 years. “When we moved out here, Kona Ranch Road didn’t exist,� he says. The bridge was built in 1986 and quickly became a popular fishing access spot. Curdy says residents watched over the years as their rural neighborhood attracted more and more users, including summertime floaters. In 2005, the county and Fish, Wildlife and Parks recognized the demand and established a formal boat ramp, parking area and latrine, but it wasn’t enough. Traffic jams and blocked driveways continued. In response to resident complaints, the Missoula Board of County Commissioners voted in March to increase parking restrictions. “I don’t have any problem with people using the river,� Curdy says. “It’s there. I’m glad they’re using it.� The problem, he says, reflects a larger issue with public access to outdoor recreation. “With the population changing in Missoula County, we’re going to need more opportunities for people to get to and use the river,� Curdy says. Curdy would like to see public funds put toward easements to secure parking at Kona and other sites of contention, like Maclay Bridge. Alas, the program that could pay for those easements is currently suspended. Last year, the Montana Legislature froze funding to Habitat Montana, a program that uses recreation license fees to pay for conservation easements and public access rights of way. Curdy’s hoping to draw attention to Habitat Montana during next year’s legislative session—but he acknowledges that’s a long way off. In the meantime, Curdy says, the county should make people aware that it’s not bluffing with the “No Parking� signs at Kona. “I made a suggestion to the county, per a citizen’s request, to change the signage so people know the county will tow if you’re parking in that area,� Curdy says. At least 60 people have already learned that lesson the hard way.
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Back pedaling Adventure Cycling rekindles the spirit of Bikecentennial by Alex Sakariassen
Up until 1976, Virginia native David multiple stories about how people decided ready the trail’s expected completion later French had never traveled farther west than they were going to change occupations be- this year has sparked interest among BitterOhio. The high plains and mountains be- cause their career wasn’t meaningful to root Valley communities hoping to see an yond the Mississippi were the stuff of them, or they decided to move to Missoula economic benefit associated with cycling. movies and television shows, and witness- or they met their spouse through Bikecen- Adventure Cycling worked with various ing it all for the first time from the seat of a tennial. A lot of people decided they could agencies, organizations and nonprofits like the Bike Walk Alliance for Missoula to probicycle remains one of his most profound live much more simply.” French has spent much of the past year mote the trail in time for the celebrationmemories. The Bikecentennial ride along the TransAmerica Trail was a “life-changing” helping the nonprofit prepare for the cele- pegged inaugural ride. “It may not be perfectly finished,” says experience, he says. Forty years later, nos- bration, reviewing decades-old trip logs for talgia is prompting French and other riders inclusion in a book on the TransAmerica Missoula County Parks and Trails Manager to rally in Missoula for a celebration French Trail and contacting former Bikecentennial Lisa Moisey, “but we didn’t want to let that likens to a high school reunion, only per- riders who responded to a survey put out hold up the opportunity to take advantage by Adventure Cycling last year. French esti- of this fantastic event Adventure Cycling is haps more meaningful. “Going to high school, everybody does,” says French, who moved to Missoula in April 2015. “But participating in a onetime event to celebrate the bicentennial and ride your bicycle across the country is a significant event in anybody’s life.” On July 15, the Missoulabased Adventure Cycling Association kicks off its Montana Bicycle Celebration aimed at commemorating the group’s 40th anniversary and the Bikecentenphoto courtesy of Adventure Cycling nial from which it was born. According to Events and Outreach In 1976, more than 4,000 people nationwide participated in a series of bicycling was also the Coordinator Eva Dunn-Froebig, tours to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. That Bikecentennial genesis of Adventure Cycling, which is hosting a 40th anniversary celebration in roughly 600 cyclists from across Missoula this weekend. the globe have registered for the weekend-long event, which is set to feature mates he’s reached out to 60 of those re- hosting. There’s just so many good reasons bike rides, a bike expo and presentations spondents, all of whom—like himself—were to celebrate the opening of the trail at this particular time.” from cycling luminaries such as Lael Wilcox, “very excited” about getting involved. French says he plans to be on that ride, “I don’t think I got a definite ‘no’ from who has been traveling the world by bike for eight years, and Erick Cedeño, founder anybody for either volunteering or attend- then follow it up with a cruise along the Hiawatha Trail a few days later. Like the rest of of Bicycle Nomad. Many of those attending ing the events,” he says. For French, it’s been an opportunity to Adventure Cycling’s volunteers, staff and are biking in from various corners of the U.S., Dunn-Froebig says. Given the connec- lend a hand in recapturing the romanticism partners, he’s been working hard to get the tion to the Bikecentennial, the nonprofit of a cross-country bike ride that introduced Montana Bicycle Celebration off the ground. also decided to host a DIY reunion guide on him to the West. But for Adventure Cycling, On a recent Friday, he’d just finished stuffing its website for those looking to recreate the Montana Bicycle Celebration has been the last of 600 goodie bags for the first their experience from 40 years ago. Eight- years in the making, an event requiring ex- night’s reception. Asked if he feels the comeen groups have registered reunion gather- tensive planning and outreach. The celebra- ing weekend’s lineup of activities will come tion has also offered Adventure Cycling and close to evoking the same excitement and ings or rides. “For a lot of the people coming, this its partners an opportunity to showcase cy- connectedness he felt during the Bikecenwas a life-defining experience for them,” cling’s future in the region, namely the long- tennial, he doesn’t even hesitate. “Right on target,” he says. says Dunn-Froebig, who has been sharing anticipated Lolo-to-Missoula stretch of the Bikecentennial stories on Adventure Cy- Bitterroot Trail, which will have its grand asakariassen@missoulanews.com cling’s blog for the past year. “There are opening July 16 as part of the festivities. Al-
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Shot down New vaccine requirements prompt parents to find religion by Derek Brouwer
The Ravalli County Public Health Department pulled out all the stops last year in an effort to get kids vaccinated. Officials extended clinic hours, ran ads in the newspaper and pushed their message on Facebook for the first time, all in hopes of preventing the types of outbreaks that have previously plagued the county. “We probably did more this year than the last five combined,” Director LuAnn Burgmuller says.
Local health officials have a hunch as to why the numbers are going up. Last year, the state began requiring vaccination against chickenpox, as well as tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis boosters. The change is why Ravalli County ramped up its outreach efforts. But some parents, particularly those with older students, appeared to have a religious conversion over summer break. Montana law allows families to opt out of vaccination requirements by signing and
Ten area elementary schools with highest religious exemption rates Hamilton Christian Academy 19.51%
Pines Academy 82.14%
Victor School 16.26%
*Data provided by DPHHS includes compliant public and private schools. Schools with K-5 populations under 20 were suppressed.
The efforts don’t seem to have paid off. In fact, more families in the county filed religious objections to vaccine requirements last year than during any other recent stretch. Immunization rates in Ravalli County schools remain near the lowest in the state, according to 2015–2016 data provided to the Indy by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, with the number of school-age children who are exempted on religious grounds increasing to nearly 10 percent. While the exemption rate in the Bitterroot is more than triple the state average, the county wasn’t alone in last year’s trend. Exemption rates increased statewide by more than half a point to 3.10 percent. In Missoula, the rate is now 2.64 percent.
Quentin Brown Primary K-4 11.93% Darby School 9.09% Washington School 8.21% Edna Thomas School 7.62% Daly School 6.09% Stevensville K-6 5.99% Valley Christian (Missoula) 4.96%
notarizing a religious exemption form each year. While reviewing records collected by local schools last fall, the Missoula CityCounty Health Department noticed an uptick in older students for whom exemption forms were filed for the first time, says Cindy Hotchkiss, director of the Health Promotion Division. With the new vaccine requirements, there was bound to be a scramble. Missoula County identified more than 1,000 students who were missing the chickenpox vaccine, so the health department added staffing and clinic hours, while Missoula County Public Schools increased parent outreach. In all, 15 of the 23 public and private elementary schools in the county that reported data to DPHHS managed to immunize more than 95 percent of students against chickenpox.
Hotchkiss is hopeful the exemptions surge is a one-time anomaly, and that families who opted out for convenience last fall will get the vaccine this time around. Down in the Bitterroot, however, Burgmuller is at her wits’ end over the county’s low immunization rate. She, too, believes the new requirements might have “skewed” exemptions upward some, but acknowledges that the county’s advertising blitz, paid for with grant funds, failed to bring more kids to the clinic. Communities rely on high immunization rates to protect against outbreaks of infectious diseases such as measles and whooping cough. The strategy, known as herd immunity, is how certain devastating illnesses have been eradicated over time. Localities with low immunization rates, like Ravalli County, are susceptible to outbreaks. Whooping cough swept through the Bitterroot in 2012, forcing the temporary closure of Pines Academy in Pinesdale and the exclusion of unimmunized students from classes in Victor and Corvallis. Elementary schools in those three communities still have among the lowest vaccination rates in the valley, school-level data indicates. The data was released by DPHHS in response to an Indy request after being made public for the first time in 2015. The herd immunity minimum threshold for whooping cough is 92 percent, according to The Centers for Disease Control, but only 14 percent of K–5 students at Pines Academy, a private school serving a fundamentalist religious community, were immunized against the disease last year. The diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough vaccination rate at Victor School was 83 percent, while Corvallis’ Quentin Brown Primary School was at 91 percent. “It’s certainly not good,” Burgmuller says. “Historically, Ravalli has always been one of the counties in Montana with the lowest immunization rates, and we do tend to have the outbreaks. “If I had a crystal ball,” she adds, “I would tell you I expect one again one of these days.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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by Dan Brooks
Last week, Montana joined nine other states that are suing the federal government over a directive requiring public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms of their choice. Once again, Attorney General Tim Fox has put our great state on the right side of history. President Obama believes regulations prohibiting gender discrimination mean trans children should get gender-neutral bathrooms or even be admitted to whatever bathrooms they like. Although the president’s “guidance” does not bear the force of law, it might put noncompliant schools in danger of losing federal funding under Title IX. That’s an abuse of power, according to Fox. “President Obama’s administration is attempting to usurp local control of our schools—not by signing legislation passed by Congress, not by the agency rule-making process, and not even by executive order,” the attorney general said. “Instead, the administration has issued a decree and is threatening our schools using flawed interpretations of longstanding law.” I applaud Fox for standing up to the president’s attempt to control where children go to the bathroom. If the last few decades have taught us anything, it’s that any expansion of civil rights is usually just a fad. Every once in a while, the feds try to tell us which minority group can use what public restroom or swimming pool or whatever. But once individual states start standing up to them, public opinion changes and everything goes back to the way it was. Sure, people seem to be in favor of letting trans people live according to their own preferences today. But decades from now, when our children’s children are happily presenting their birth certificates to the bathroom supervisor at school, they’ll be glad Fox took the long view. Montana hasn’t boldly stood up to federal overreach like this since last
year, when Fox appealed a circuit court decision overturning the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Now that issue has been resolved, of course. My internet is down, so I don’t remember the exact details, but I’m pretty sure the federal government’s attempt to deprive America’s straight states of their constitutional right to prevent people from getting married failed, too.
“If the last few decades have taught us anything, it’s that any expansion of civil rights is usually just a fad.”
When everyone gets caught up in some crazy idea like “gay people can get married” or “girls we think are boys can use the bathroom” or “black people can eat in a restaurant,” it’s up to state officials like Fox to put the country back on track. But even though states that sue the federal government over civil rights almost always win, it still costs a lot of money. The trick is to use taxpayer money strategically, by choosing to litigate only the most important issues. Here, too, the attorney general earns high marks. Statistics are not compiled on the number of transgender K-12 students in public school in Montana, so it’s hard to know exactly how many children Fox will save from
federal overreach. But we can estimate. I’d say about 40 percent of high school students are transgender. Assuming every cisgender student who uses the same bathroom as a trans student will be sexually assaulted, we find that President Obama is jeopardizing the safety of nearly half of the 1 percent of students who are willing to use the bathrooms at their schools. But we also have to factor in the cultural cost. Some public schools, such as Bozeman High, have created gender-neutral bathrooms. Once we include the students who abandon their religions and embark on lives of genderless depravity as a result of seeing other students use these facilities, we find that the number of Montana children affected by transgender bathroom use approaches 100 percent. So I applaud Attorney General Fox for his wise stewardship of Montana’s resources. In recent years, we have watched the executive branch of the federal government dramatically expand its reach, fighting undeclared drone wars abroad and implementing broad, warrantless surveillance at home. It must have been tempting for Fox to try to litigate one of these superficial political distractions, but he waited for an issue that affects all of us: where, exactly, transgender children can pee. Montanans of the future will look back on his decision in gratitude. No matter how much it costs to bring the federal government to heel and stop this temporary, historically unprecedented advancement of individual rights, it will be worth it. The values of the majority must be protected with lawsuits. I know that when I use the bathroom at a public school, I need to be absolutely certain there are no secret girls in there. Like Fox, I am prepared to go to any lengths to make sure. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the boys who are girls who affect us all at combatblog.net.
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BLESSINGS, GUARANTEED – More and more churches (”hundreds,” according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a “money-back guarantee” if they tithe 10 percent or more of their income for 90 days–but then feel that God blesses them insufficiently in return. The South Carolina megachurch NewSpring instituted such a program in the 1990s and claims that, of 7,000 recent pledgers, “fewer than 20” expressed dissatisfaction with the Lord. Advocates cite the Bible’s Book of Malachi, quoting God himself (according to Christianity Today): “Test me in this.” “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse” and “see if I will not pour out so much blessing” that “there will not be room enough to store it.” NEW WORLD ORDER – A leading Chinese orthopedic surgeon continues to believe that “full-body” transplants are the next big thing in medicine, despite worldwide skepticism about both the science and the ethics. The plan by Dr. Ren Xiaoping of Harbin Medical University calls for removing both heads (the deceased donor’s and the live recipient’s), connecting the blood vessels, stabilizing the new neck, and “bath(ing)” spinal-cord nerve endings chemically so they will connect. Critics say it is impossible to “connect” spinal-cord nerves. According to a June New York Times dispatch, doctors regularly denounce China’s ethical laxities (though Chinese officials term such denunciations “envy” at China’s achievements). SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED – In June, District Attorney Jerry Jones in Monroe, La., dropped drug and gun charges against college football players Cam Robinson and Hootie Jones (who play for University of Alabama but are from Monroe)–declaring that the “main reason” for his decision is that “I refuse to ruin the lives of two young men who have spent their adolescence and teenage years working and sweating, while we were all in the air conditioning.” A Philadelphia “casting” agency solicited “extras” to show up at polling stations on the April 26 Pennsylvania primary day for candidate Kevin Boyle, who was running against state Sen. John Sabatina–offering $120 each plus lunch and an open bar. Since most polling-site “electioneering” is illegal, the job was probably merely to give voters the impression that Boyle was very popular. (Sabatina narrowly won.) In January, a Chicago Tribune investigation revealed only 124 of the roughly 12,000 Chicago cops were responsible for the misconduct complaints that resulted in settlements (since 2009)–with one officer, for example, identified in seven. A June Chicago Reporter study claimed the city paid out $263 million total on misconduct litigation during 2012–2015. OUT OF CONTROL – (1) Nelson Hidalgo, 47, was arrested in New York City in June and charged with criminal negligence and other crimes for parking his van near Citi Field during a Mets game and drawing players’ complaints when he ramped up the van’s 80-speaker sound system. “I know it’s illegal, but it’s the weekend,” said Hidalgo. “I usually (just) get a ticket.” (2) Trina Hibberd of Mission Beach, Australia, finally showed concern about the python living inside her walls that she has known about for 15 years but, perhaps “Australian-ly,” had chosen to ignore. In June, it wandered out–a 15foot-long, 90-pound scrub python she calls “Monty.” “All hell broke loose,” a neighbor said later, as snake-handlers took Monty to a more appropriate habitat. A WOMAN AT THE TOP OF HER GAME – In Nashville, Tenn., in June, sex worker Jonisia Morris, 25, was charged with robbing her client by (according to the police report) removing the man’s wallet from his trousers while he received oral sex seated in his car, extracting his debit card, and returning the wallet to his pocket–without his noticing. FETISHES ON PARADE – Recidivist Jesse Johnson, 20, was charged again in June (for suspicion of disturbing the peace) after he had crawled underneath a woman’s car at an Aldi store’s parking lot in Lincoln, Neb., waited for her to return, and then, as she was stepping into the car, reaching out to fondle her ankle. It was Johnson’s third such charge this year, and he initially tried to deny the actual touch, instead claiming that he was underneath the car “simply for the visual.” Johnson acknowledged to the judge that he needs help and that he had been in counseling but had run out of money. At press time, the status of the latest incident was still pending. NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (AUGUST 2012) – When the assistant manager arrived early on June 26, 2012, to open up the Rent-A-Center in Brockton, Mass., he encountered a man on the ground with his head stuck underneath the heavy metal loading-bay door (obviously as the result of a failed burglary attempt during the night). “Hang tight!” the manager consoled the trapped man. “The police are on their way.” Manuel Fernandes, 53, was arrested. Thanks this week to Michael Brozyna, Bruce Leiserowitz, Paul Peterson, Robin Daley, Edgar Pepper, Neb Rodgers, Steve Dunn, Dan Bohlen, Peter Wardley, Joseph Brown, Brian Rudolph, Elaine Weiss, D.I. Moore, Jack Miller, Gwynne Platz, Charles Lewer, Dave Shepardson, Chuck Hamilton and Katy Miketic, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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n July 4, 1997, the Pathfinder spacecraft ripped through the Martian atmosphere. Not for 20 years had human machinery been so close to the Red Planet, with several failures in between. Unlike the first successful missions, which entered the planet’s orbit and used rockets to land gently on the surface, Pathfinder was headed straight in, relying on just a parachute and a giant airbag cocoon to withstand the high-speed impact. It was a harebrained plan, but it was NASA’s only shot. The 1976 Viking missions had cost more than a billion dollars each, and by the ’90s public priorities had shifted. So the government decided to be thrifty. They’d try to land on Mars for one-tenth the price. “At the time, it was an absolutely crazy, radical idea,” says Missoula City Councilman Bryan von Lossberg. Von Lossberg still exudes a sense of awe when he talks about Pathfinder’s rover, Sojourner, unfolding from its airbag cocoon after bouncing more than 15 times across the Martian ground. He helped design a component of the lander as a 20-something Stanford engineering graduate working in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His “insulated structural
assembly” is easier to explain with a diagram, he says. A month after Congress gave the green light in 1993 to what would become the Pathfinder, lawmakers passed the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, or Brady Bill, creating the federal background check system for firearms purchases. The U.S. has landed on Mars four times since the success of
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Pathfinder, but U.S. lawmakers have never passed another piece of major gun legislation. Now, on city council, von Lossberg finds himself at the center of a trailblazing effort to do so within city limits. As with any gun policy in America, and especially in Montana, the proposal to expand background checks to private gun sales is bitterly
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contested. Von Lossberg and other supporters have been called “traitors,” accused of attacking “the culture that makes Montana the Last Best Place” and faulted for wasting taxpayers’ time and money on a measure that could very well be doomed the day after it’s passed. The effort, von Lossberg says, has already proven his most difficult as a councilman. Getting it through the left-leaning council isn’t the problem— it’s engineering a gun control measure that actually works. The process reminds him of the Pathfinder mission. “There’s hardly anything more valuable than being part of something so much bigger than yourself that is so risky and bold, that when it succeeds ... it gives you a sense of the possible,” he says. “It becomes a part of you. It doesn’t matter if you’re raising a 4-year-old, it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to do background check legislation on city council. We’re all faced with issues of, ‘Do you only take on the things you know are doable? Do you only take on things where success is guaranteed?’ “How do you take them on, when success is not guaranteed?”
The 18 states that have extended background checks to private sales tend to have lower rates of gun-related suicide and domestic violence, advocates note. For example, Montana women are three times as likely to be shot to death by their intimate partners than women in states with universal checks. The state’s suicide rate is the highest in the country, and nearly two-thirds of those suicides are completed using a gun. “States that have universal background checks are safer,” says Heidi Kendall, a volunteer with Moms Demand Action and suicide prevention coordinator for the Missoula City-County Health Department. Expanded background check policies have wide support in public opinion polls, but legislation has gone nowhere with lawmakers in Helena.
group, though none of those battles involved background checks. It’s unclear if any city has done what von Lossberg hopes to pull off. Virtually as soon as the ordinance was drafted, Marbut promised to challenge it in court. He may not even need to go so far. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox can void local legislation with a pen stroke if asked to issue an official opinion by eligible elected officials, including legislative leaders. Days ahead of the Oct. 19 public hearing, Fox indicated his leanings in a press release saying he believes the proposed ordinance is prohibited by state law and “likely violates our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” Von Lossberg maintains the ordinance has strong legal footing. Despite its broad wording, the state’s
50 of about 6,000 private sales were blocked statewide during the law’s first 14 months. Missoula has just 70,000 residents, and the county line is never more than a 10-minute drive away. “It’s just a political joke,” says Kris Bonner, owner of Accu-Arms, a gun dealership. “The smart thing to do is to find out where the city limits sign is, the border, and just step on the other side of it.” Even within city limits, the proposed ordinance wouldn’t make background checks a “universal” mandate. Von Lossberg and cosponsors Marilyn Marler and Emily Bentley have revised it to include exemptions for family members, certain temporary transfers, exchanges of antiques and concealed carry permit holders. Von Lossberg acknowledges his proposal’s practical shortcomings, and adds that even national
More than 300 people packed city council chambers last October for the first public hearing on von Lossberg’s proposal. The crowd stretched down the hallway as residents first watched local advocates from Moms Demand Action, a group supporting the ordinance, square off with a representative from the National Rifle Association. When members of the public had their turn at the microphone, they spoke for more than three hours. The scene was never supposed to happen. Montana, like most other states, has a law written specifically to stop local governments from regulating guns. Known as “preemption,” it states that no city, town or other local government body may “prohibit, register, tax, license, or regulate the purchase, sale or other transfer (including delay in purchase, sale, or other transfer), ownership, possession, transportation, use, or unconcealed carrying of any weapon, including a rifle, shotgun, handgun, or concealed handgun.” The law’s reference number, 45-8-351, flows effortlessly from the lips of Gary Marbut. Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, likes to note that he literally wrote the book on the state’s gun laws—Gun Laws of Montana is now in its fourth printing—and he’s also helped write many of laws themselves. He counts 67 progun bills approved by the state legislature that he’s either penned or lobbied for over the last three decades, resulting in a gun rights environment in Montana considered the envy of Second Amendment advocates nationwide. Passed in 1985, Montana’s preemption law was the first piece of Montana gun legislation Marbut lobbied for, before the MSSA was founded. He says it “helps articulate and preserve a fundamental constitutional right” and prevents gun owners from being forced to navigate a dizzying patchwork of rules. It’s also the product of a nationwide lobbying effort by the NRA, beginning in the ’80s, to keep gun regulation out of the hands of local officials. Today, 43 states have done just that. But preemption wasn’t on von Lossberg’s photo by Amy Donovan mind when he was first approached by members of the local chapter of Moms Demand Ac- While refining his proposed background check ordinance, Ward 1 Missoula City Councilman Bryan von Lossberg says he decided to extion. Rather, he was struck by data they perience the process firsthand by undergoing a check before taking possession of a friend’s hunting rifle. But finding a local dealer to presented to argue that expanding background perform the service was a challenge. checks could reduce gun-related violence. Under the Brady law, gun purchasers at licensed Von Lossberg sees this as an opportunity for Missoula law includes language that allows local governments legislation wouldn’t stop all, or even most, gun vioto “prevent and suppress” the possession of firearms lence, including mass shootings. But he argues that a dealers must be screened through the National to take the lead. “If they’re not going to be talking about this at by convicted felons, adjudicated mental incompe- local ordinance would have value nonetheless. Instant Criminal Background Check System. But the “We’re going to enshrine this in law and we’re federal law does not apply to transactions among the state level, and Congress continues to be dead- tents, illegal aliens and minors. The background private parties or at gun shows, which make up a locked, what I can look to influence is right in front check ordinance, advocates and the city’s attorney going to hold it up as ‘this is what is responsible,’” von Lossberg says. “And we do this because this is best argue, has precisely that purpose. substantial portion of sales. Gun control advocates of me,” he says. In addition to legal issues, the ordinance faces for all of us, gun owners and non-gun owners alike.” City government faces a number of challenges to often put that “substantial portion” at 40 percent, After the ordinance’s public hearing in October, but the figure is two decades old and based on a implementing background checks, the least of which practical questions, like whether background checks limited survey. A forthcoming study out of Harvard is the state preemption law. Nationwide, a few cities on a small scale would make a difference. In Wash- political and public will seemed to be in its favor. A corroborates the 40 percent statistic, its researchers in preemption states have had their gun regulations ington state, where voters approved universal back- survey of 350 Missoula County residents, commisupheld in court, according to a national gun policy ground checks through a 2014 ballot initiative, only sioned by advocates, found that 82 percent of gun have said publicly.
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owners, including 73 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of independents, supported requiring background checks on all gun sales. The majority of submitted public comment and testimony was in favor of the ordinance. And the votes from council appeared to be there. But von Lossberg didn’t call for a vote. Instead, he shelved it.
The Pathfinder lander plays a key role in the film adaptation of The Martian. In one pivotal scene of the 2015 blockbuster, astronaut Mark Watney, played by actor Matt Damon, retrieves a piece of communications equipment from the long-dormant probe to contact NASA scientists. Visible in the frame is the component designed by von Lossberg’s team. “I’m sitting there watching Matt Damon grab this high-gain antenna that is mounted to the assembly that my team built, and he grabs the high-gain antenna and he points it at Earth to reestablish connection,” von Lossberg says, “and, you know, I’m in the movie theater crying.” A friend who watched the movie with von Lossberg and saw him shed tears “over an inanimate object” is also the person who introduced the councilman to hunting. Von Lossberg didn’t grow up around guns, and it was only once he moved to Montana that he came to appreciate the lifestyle surrounding them. That included learning to shoot, at which point his friends became his mentors, teaching von
Lossberg how to use a rifle and how to do so responsibly. His first rifle was given to him by the same friend from the theater, originally purchased for the friend’s father but used only once before the father unexpectedly died. After proposing the background check ordinance, von Lossberg decided to formalize the transfer by undergoing the process himself.
ordinance could become a practical disaster: a law with which residents have no way to comply. That’s the primary reason he decided to shelve the proposal in October, he says. Based on prior public testimony by opponents, von Lossberg knew some dealers might be unwilling to run a background check on him. But he says he was surprised by how difficult it was to find one will-
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox believes the proposed ordinance is prohibited by state law and “likely violates our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” Only gun dealers with a federal firearms license, or FFL, have access to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. As the proposed ordinance stands now, it would fall on the 59 FFLs in Missoula to actually provide the service for customers. Without willing providers, von Lossberg fears the
ing to perform the service. Cabela’s wouldn’t perform it as a matter of corporate policy, while a dealer at one local shop seemed to dissuade von Lossberg’s friend from taking the precaution. “The guy behind the counter said, ‘You know you don’t need to do that.’ And my friend’s like, ‘I
understand that, I want to do it.’ And he said, ‘You don’t understand, you don’t have to do that,’” von Lossberg says. “I think that is an unbelievable situation to comprehend.” It makes perfect sense to Axmen Firearms salesman Danen Brucker. He says the administrative requirements involved in the background check process put dealers in an awkward position, including potential legal liability “for a gun we don’t own, never inspected, never gone through. “So it’s not an appealing thing for a licensee,” he says. Axmen is a popular local gun shop, but its store is located outside city limits, so Brucker doesn’t anticipate many gun owners walking inside to fill out additional paperwork on a deal they could close with a handshake in the parking lot. Von Lossberg and his friend eventually found a local dealer to conduct their checks, but he declines to name the shop after suggestions by some ordinance opponents that cooperative FFLs could face a boycott. Von Lossberg says the process took less than 15 minutes, and if his last name were easier to dictate over the phone, it would have been even quicker. “I learned just what a ‘no big deal’ it was,” he says. But von Lossberg’s proof of concept hasn’t alleviated his concerns about the ordinance’s practical viability. Even now, he knows of just two FFLs who have indicated they would offer the checks for private transactions. Von Lossberg calls that encouraging, but adds that he’s also investigating other ideas he hopes could provide a surer route for gun owners to comply with the ordinance. At this point, he says, “I’d feel more comfortable seeing one of those come to fruition.” If von Lossberg can find a different solution, Brucker says, his own attitude toward the ordinance could change, adding that he’s not opposed to background checks in principle. “If it was a matter of, ‘Hey, we’re just here to facilitate a background check between two people,’ I might feel differently,” he says. “You bet.” For now, Brucker says only that Axmen doesn’t have a policy on whether it will conduct background checks on private sales.
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Longtime gun owner and Missoula resident Tom Platt says he became an advocate for the proposed background check ordinance because his view of “reasonable gun ownership” isn’t well represented by the National Rifle Association. He sees background checks as a “minor imposition” that can help keep the community safe.
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During the marathon public hearing in October, one public commenter held up a large, color image of his personal vehicle, which he said had been burglarized the day before by a “scoundrel.” The man, Dean McCollom, told council that he usually stores his handgun in a friend’s safe before traveling to gun-free zones, such as a city council meeting. “However, as written, this ordinance will make this illegal and require me to keep it in my car,” he said. “This picture is a good illustration of why this ordinance is a bad idea and should not be adopted.” McCollom stepped aside, resting his case, and was followed at the microphone by a man wearing glasses and a camouflage hat. Tom Platt identified himself as a hunter, gun
owner and father. He kept both hands in his pants pockets as he offered his testimony. “I consider background checks to be protection for both the buyer and the seller, because the seller can gain some sense of security that the firearm that you’re selling is not going to go to a criminal, which cannot be guaranteed when you sell a firearm at a gun show or a face-to-face transfer,” Platt said. “And for the buyer, the background check helps to ensure that you’re not going to buy a stolen gun, because somebody who’s selling a stolen gun is not going to want the serial number transferred in their name.” When ordinance supporters talk about the potential for background checks to reduce gun crime, they don’t focus on those intent on skirting the rules. Instead, they point to how people like Platt would create another check in the system. “I want the firearm-owning, -buying and -selling community to stand up and say, ‘Yeah, we recognize this is a best practice, and we can do this, and over time we can save lives doing it.’ And not doing it because it’s the law, but doing this because it’s the right thing to do,” von Lossberg says. “That’s leadership in my book, and there need to be more of those folks standing up and saying, ‘This is a terribly small inconvenience to do something that benefits all of us as a community.” Platt has been a Missoula resident for 25 years. He’s an avid hunter who says the pracphoto by Amy Donovan tice makes a significant contribution to his family’s food supply. He’s a registered Demo- Gary Marbut, an outspoken Missoula gun rights advocate and lobbyist, recently produced an online guide for responsible gun sales. He says it’s the crat who was, for a time, also a card-carrying result of “constructive thinking” about how to encourage gun safety, but a note posted to his Montana Shooting Sports Association website says NRA member. Platt says he decided to advo- the guide comes in response to “agitation” for government background checks. cate the proposed ordinance because he now sales while avoiding a mandate he believes is illegal. to transfer a firearm (or even a car) to another person pistol, as well as an AK-47 and other semiautomatic feels left behind by the gun rights association. “It’s always sort of rankled me that my perspec- He recently presented those ideas in a meeting with who would use it to jeopardize or injure an innocent weapons, from a seller located in “downtown Mistive on reasonable gun ownership isn’t well repre- von Lossberg and Marler, where the three discussed person,” the guide reads. “We want to have some as- soula” with several previous listings on the site. The seller, in an email, declined to discuss his surance that the buyer is not a criminal or dangertheir perspectives on the issue. sented,” he says. During the meeting, Marbut suggested the city ously careless person, and not flaky or unstable. Thus, sales practices with the Indy. A week later, the post Platt calls background checks a “minor imposition” that doesn’t outweigh his responsibility to “use consider passing a resolution, rather than an ordi- it’s helpful in assessing character issues to be selling was removed from Armslist after being flagged by multiple users. the system that was put in place to prevent criminals nance, to encourage voluntary background checks. to someone we know well, personally.” In addition to selling to acquaintances, Marbut’s Von Lossberg sees Marbut’s private gun sales guide or domestic abusers from getting firearms.” He’s con- And if council is interested in promoting responsible ducted several online gun purchases, which legally gun ownership, he said, city officials could contribute guide also suggests requesting to see a buyer’s con- as a positive sign that ordinance opponents are willing require a background check by an FFL dealer to com- to the gun safety and education programs that gun cealed weapons permit or other personal identifica- to engage in discussion about how to buy and sell guns tion. Its last bit of advice? responsibly through sites like Armslist. But it’s a small plete. So he finds it puzzling why anyone would balk groups have been running for years. “If all usual vetting fails to get a seller into a com- step. The “tenor of the public hearing,” as well as the “We can do some things that will move the ball at conducting checks for private sales. Marbut frames the issues in terms of civil liberty down the field, [will] satisfy a lot of the constituents fort zone about a particular buyer, yet the seller really broader debate over the issue, gives him the impression and privacy. He, as well as the NRA, opposes the fed- out there who want you to do something, and will wants to make the sale, the seller can always ask the that people like Tom Platt, who are willing to put the talk buyer to meet him at the location of a willing licensed into action, are a minority among local gun owners. eral background check system on the grounds that survive legal scrutiny,” Marbut says. At his meeting with von Lossberg and Marler, firearms dealer … where the buyer can be run “How do you create more Toms in the commuit’s a form of gun registration. Asked last fall whether gun safety responsibilities extend to sales practices, Marbut also presented a guide he recently created for through a Brady Law check for the sale,” the guide nity, who lead by example?” von Lossberg asks. It’s just one of the questions the councilman Marbut told the Indy that gun owners don’t need him private firearm sales that outlines moral responsibili- reads. ties and legal requirements. He posted it to the MSSA hopes to answer soon. Von Lossberg raised the ordior anyone else telling them how to responsibly sell website, and it has since been picked up by other gun nance again for committee discussion last month, their guns. enthusiast websites, such as AmmoLand. Similar with plans to push for a vote later this summer. In the Eight months later, Marbut’s tone has changed. More than 140 guns in Missoula are posted for meantime, he’ll continue to navigate existing laws and “I revise that,” he says. “There are a lot of them guides aren’t easy to find online, including on the sale on the website Armslist, which serves as a kind collaborate with Montana’s gun community. who don’t need it, who already know this stuff, but NRA website. “If the NRA doesn’t already have something like of Craigslist for firearms. Private sellers and buyers “I’m glad we have a rocket scientist who’s workthere’s probably some out there ... who could use this this, it’s probably time to produce something like determine how to conduct the transaction. The list- ing on this issue,” said Heidi Kendall at the June cominformation.” ings include everything from 9mm handguns to AR- mittee meeting, “because this is complex.” Marbut says he did some “constructive thinking” this,” Marbut says. 15s to hunting rifles. One recent post advertised a “As a moral person and a responsible, law-abiding once von Lossberg reintroduced the ordinance in dbrouwer@missoulanews.com June, looking for other ways to promote safe gun member of society and gun owner, we do not want gun collection including a 1989 AP-9 semi-automatic
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[arts]
Deep down At Missoula Colony 21, two playwrights dig into the dark net and Persephone’s underworld by Erika Fredrickson
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n perhaps the most popular version of the Greek myth, Hades abducts Persephone while she innocently picks flowers with the Oceanids. Hades flies her to the underworld by chariot and keeps her there, while Persephone’s mother, Demeter, roams the earth desperately looking for her. In a new theatrical retelling of the story, playwright Molly Rice and actor Heather Benton give Persephone much more agency. Dark Matter is a contemporary piece—still in progress—wherein Persephone becomes intrigued by the underworld and contacts Hades through her computer to find out more about it. The underworld is really a stand-in for the dark net and deep web, and Hades is the technology through which that world can be accessed. “The cool thing about the Persephone myth is there are different versions with different attitudes and actions,” Rice says. “Sometimes she is abducted and sometimes she is raped. But sometimes—sometimes—she goes because she wants to. That became the most interesting idea for us—that she is willfully sucked into this world.” The seed for Dark Matter was planted in 2007 at the Missoula Colony, where Benton and Rice first met. The four-day summer festival of staged readings and workshops, hosted by the Montana Repertory Theatre, allows playwrights and actors to collaborate on works-in-progress. Rice had shown up to the event with a play called Don’t Stop, and Benton helped her on its staging. Behind the curtain, they discussed Persephone and the underworld. Neither of them forgot the conversation. In fact, the idea of it began to needle its way into their personal lives. “I have two young children and I’ve been grappling with my own fears,” Benton says. “I felt really connected to Demeter. And the dark net felt very much to me like Demeter’s worst nightmare: That a young, innocent child—or any person—could get into this place where you’re completely anonymous and untraceable and where you can go into whatever wormhole and disappear forever. Or be forever changed. Or have terrible things happen.” Benton, now an acting instructor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, helped produce an early version of Dark Matter last year with 22 actors at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in Los Angeles. She asked each performer to answer the question, “If you could do anything in the world and there would be no consequences and no one would ever find out, what would you do?” The 45-minute piece that came from that exercise weaves in the answers as well as themes of the underworld and the dark net. Rice, who currently teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, also helped workshop the play. In addition,
photo courtesy of Molly Rice
Molly Rice, pictured here on her Saints Tour, returns to the 21st Missoula Colony with Dark Matter, a play she’s developing with actor Heather Benton.
she’s written other plays in the past few years that tie back loosely to the idea of parallel and other worlds. She’s a musician—having played in punk bands since the age of 16—who often looks for ways to fit other people’s music into theater. One of her most recent and most elaborate pieces is Saints Tour, which she’s taken to Louisville, Ky., West Village and Lower Manhattan, and Braddock, Pa. Audience members board an actual bus where an actor plays a tour guide, telling real and fictional stories about the hidden saints of each town or borough. (Rice adapts each play to the town she is in). The stories are born of real-life street musicians, cemeteries and art studios, which the bus passes along the way. The play highlights people and things that might otherwise go unnoticed. It’s not exactly an underworld or alternate dimension, but something close.
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Over the past year, Benton and Rice have continued to develop Dark Matter. The play explores the theory of hypothetical matter invisible in an otherwise observable universe—another perfect symbol for the underworld. And they’ve pushed even deeper into the realm of humankind’s obsession with violence and the taboo. They read The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett, featuring interviews with people who have gotten lost in the deep web and live double lives. The personal connection for Rice came from a much different direction than Benton’s fear about parenthood. A few years ago, her husband left her after meeting someone else in the virtual world Second Life. “And I’m finally ready to write about it,” she says. “And that’s part of what we’re looking at. How are these realities that are existing simultaneously, minute-to-minute, in real-time, in our world—how
are they affecting our relationships and our sense of honesty? How are they affecting what happens, for good and for bad?” For the upcoming Colony 21, the playwrights will bring Dark Matter and all the questions they have about its themes to Missoula for more experimentation. “We’re probably both very sick,” says Rice, laughing. “We both grew up nice girls, but there’s an element of us that likes looking toward the darkest parts. We are both very interested in the idea of what would be the furthest you’d go, and why.” Montana Repertory Theatre presents the Missoula Colony 21, Thu., July 21–Sun., July 24. Visit montanarep.org for full schedule of readings and workshops. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Stir it up What’s underneath Candace’s dreamy reverb? Candace has a satisfying, cinematic feel to their songs. I can imagine a music video where a vintage car races along the northern California coast as waves explode against the rocky shore. It also seems just right for Super-8 home movie footage showing families and friends laughing and basking in a summer afternoon. I enjoy the shiny, poppy lightness just fine— the way it washes over you without doing much damage. It’s easy listening. Any raw emotion is buried beneath the tide of reverb. The Portland-by-way-of-Minneapolis band changed their name recently from Is/Is (for obvious reasons) and they’ve been through Missoula before. New Future, their new album under their new name,
has a lot more happening underneath the surface than in previous releases. In “RTZ Baby,” you can hear an almost country strut in the rhythm section, and in “Midnight Blue” riffs snake along like a Reigning Sound tune. Dream pop has its particular aesthetic—the best versions of it, like Candace’s, give you intriguing elements to hold onto beneath the distant, filtered gauziness. But I can’t help but think that if the trio stripped out the reverb and picked up the pace, the sinewy, unpasteurized skeletons of these songs could prove mind-blowing. (Erika Fredrickson) Candace play the Badlander Mon., July 18, at 9 PM, along with MASS FM, Shahs and Cairns. Cover TBA.
Cave Singers, Banshee This Seattle electric folk rock band is pedigreed and the members have their papers: Past bands include 1990s and early 2000s groups Pretty Girls Make Graves and The Murder City Devils. Cave Singers is to me, mostly a vehicle for singer Pete Quirk, who has range and talent and a sound of his own. I think a decent reference point is Devendra Banhart, whose either cloyingly affected or distinctly beautiful voice, Donovan-worship and ululating are all divisive subjects in rock fan circles. I come down on the side of “not a fan” where Banhart’s concerned, but I still can’t figure out where I come down on Quirk and Cave Singers. For a band that can’t help but be about Quirk’s voice, the other players are adept at creating their
own spartan sound, using restraint to great effect. It’s a vibe that’s hard to place. I remember seeing Baltimore band Lungfish play in the ’90s and having a similarly hard time figuring them out. Some music just doesn’t reveal itself immediately, and either you keep trying and are rewarded or give up. With Lungfish I stuck it out and learned to enjoy Dan Higgs’ singing and got a lot of good music out of the deal. After my first listen to Banshee, I struggled to care much until the second-to-last track, “Christmas Night,” which is a straight uptempo pop tune and has a huge hook. Maybe I’m too old for making Lungfishsized investments. ( Josh Vanek) Cave Singers play the Palace Fri., July 15, at 10 PM, along with Dræmhouse and Cairns. $14.
Wizzerd, Doomchild With roadside “Ten Commandments” billboards seemingly every half mile along the Flathead Valley, I shouldn’t be surprised that Kalispell would produce a raging, doom-based backlash of longhaired rockers like Wizzerd. On the quintet’s debut, even their song titles sound like they were conjured by a bunch of tree-hugging, dirt worshippers. Besides the title track, there are four other songs on Doomchild: “Desert,” “Forest,” “Ocean” and “Sky.” I realize this grounding in certain tropes might make those of us in the jaded camp wince, but I love these dudes. I don’t care about originality, I care about quality—and these guys are great.
If Wizzerd’s sound seems based on anything, it might be the first couple records from The Sword. They also borrow from dusty doom relics like Black Sabbath, but lean more metal, like the Bay Area’s Saviours. Quieter mood passages overlap with heavy riffs and shredding guitars, and I don’t disagree with a friend’s assessment that singer Jhalen Salazar kind of channels a young Chris Cornell. There is an energy and enthusiasm in these five songs that I find refreshing, particularly from a tiring genre. Thank you, Kalispell, for your craziness. Worthwhile art is always born from your kind of thing. (Chris La Tray) Wizzerd play Stage 112 Sat., July 16, at 9 PM, along with Heavy Eyes and Swamp Ritual. $5.
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[books]
Imperfect truths Light and dark in Joe Wilkins’ When We Were Birds by Melissa Mylchreest
what else do we have? Stranger, a scuff Joe Wilkins’ words unspool down the page like the of light shatters highway runs off forever into the empty spaces of Monthe linoleum. Let me lay my hand a tana’s Big Dry, the eastern reaches of the state where moment in yours, he was born and raised. Populated by chokecherry, dry count out for you these few coins. riverbeds, overgrown roadside ditches, lean cattle and leaner people, his books—poetry, nonfiction and ficNo matter where Wilkins’ travels find him, his aption—all speak of a world that is scarred, broken, damaged and dusty, but never irredeemable and never proach to the world is the same. He’s perceptive, revwithout beauty. Swaybacked barns groan slowly back erent, big-hearted, but also angry, sad, lost and grieving. to earth and rusted wrecks sit abandoned where the The title of the book suggests a kind of inevitable falling from grace that is both a tragedy and two-track goes to nothing. Pre-pubesa blessing. In certain poems we find cent boys rage blindly, swigging a bird’s-eye view, soaring, untramwarm beer, gathered in headlight meled, light as air. And in others we beams, their hollering and swearing are undeniably earthbound, with grit just another kind of unsung hope. in our teeth and eyes, our knuckles The heron threads the line between and knees bloody and stinging. water and sky. There’s a good reason Wilkins knows better than anyWilkins is currently my favorite one that we are all flawed angels, let poet. When these kinds of wild, imloose in this mystifying world. Dogged perfect truths rear back and lay you by the loss of his father, grappling with out cold, what else can you do but the injustices of the world, outfitted fall, and fall hard? with an eye for decay, Wilkins reminds Wilkins’ newest book of poetry, us that even as we wreck ourselves, we When We Were Birds, finds him writstill contain the capacity for compasing deftly about the Montana that still sion and vulnerability. Indeed, it’s the haunts him. But he also writes with only thing we have. equal skill about Mississippi, where When We Were Birds If this sounds like a recipe for he spent a number of years teaching, Joe Wilkins Paperback, University of soft sentiment or unearned earnestand other locations in the Midwest, Arkansas Press ness, don’t be fooled. For every which in many ways stand in for the 94 pages, $17 bright moment in these poems— rest of America as a stage on which triumphs and tragedies play out. He adopts voices of the promise of a soon-to-be-born son, the garden full other characters, steps into different lives and finds of ripeness, a star-studded sky—there is an equal and small sympathies and poignant moments in unlikely wrenching sadness: the undone old man with a shotplaces, such as in “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night gun at his temple; the escaped convict frostbitten and caught; the meth-addled couple and their child, dead Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods”: in the winter ditch. But it’s the job of the poet—a job that Wilkins performs with grace and humility—to balfor I do not understand but understand ance darkness and light in such a way that we see ourthis night you need selves in both. Through him, we notice the many weights of the world—the bodies of animals, the boda jackknife, a box of condoms, NoDoz, ies of gods and children, the lucky stories that play NyQuil—I will, out in unlucky lives. How much better to have carried & without slinging a single word, ring the weight and been made fiercer and stronger for it? up each item Love—or something like it—is everywhere in Wilkins’ lines, a bright-eyed beast in its own right, marred & place each in a small, white sack & and unpredictable, dragging barbed wire and dead fish bless & bless and slim-hipped girls and the brokenness of the world. these hungers, these throat-wracking It is irresistible. It calls to us. It reminds us there is noththirsts—like hope ing for us to do but tear into these words like the hungry dogs we are and find ourselves filled. they are what we have, here in the far Joe Wilkins reads from When We Were Birds corner of the night, at Fact & Fiction Tue., July 19, at 7 PM. among the bean-rusted fields & gutted factories of the Midwest— arts@missoulanews.com
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“Will you marry us?” It’s beyond absurd, but the trope creates a comforting fantasy: You and your bestie will never be separated, so long as you meet your soulmates together. The girls see Mike and Dave on “The Wendy Williams Show” and conspire to con their way into a Hawaiian vacation. A romcom needs to be based on a series of elaborate and unnecessary lies, so just answering the ad won’t do. Instead, the girls put on pastel dresses and Tatiana hurls herself in front of a car, requiring Mike to save her life with CPR. If you’re playing along at home, “fake car accident as meet cute” may or may not win you the game in Predictable Movie Bingo. The girls will make it to Hawaii and, at first, use the men and then grow to like them. And of course, in the grand tradition of movies whose plot culminates at an expensive wedding, someone gives an embarrassing toast. Mike and Dave is dumb and sloppy, but there’s a certain levity and joy among these four leading actors that make it hard for me to dismiss it entirely. Men and women are equally prone to irresponsible behavior, and it’s nice to see that reality play out on screen, like when Alice steals away with the bride before the wedding night to trip balls in a field of horses. A lesser movie might have had the girls stumble onto the drugs by accident, but Alice had them tucked away in her bra. Call me old-fashioned, but I have a soft spot for any movie starring women who have their own dealer. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates continues at the Carmike 12.
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[film] exes while finding his biggest foe is himself. Starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Anna Kendrick. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Roxy.
OPENING THIS WEEK GHOSTBUSTERS From the director of Bridesmaids and Walk Hard comes the remake of the classic ’80s comedy. A group of scientists are on-call to defend Manhattan from ghosts, ghouls and boogeymen. Starring Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Carmike and the Pharaoplex.
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS The creator of the Minions series lets us in on what our pets do while we’re at work. If they’re anything like humans, I imagine they probably scroll through Facebook and think about writing a novel while worrying about student loan debt. The Secret Life of Pets stars Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Dana Carvey. Playing at the Carmike 12.
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THE SHALLOWS The Upper Eastside sharks of “Gossip Girl” don’t compare with the real thing when Blake Lively comes face-to-face with a great white shark on a secluded surfing beach. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY A man in a giant space phallus tries to find a giant yonic space obelisk while fighting with Siri’s big brother in Stanley Kubrick’s classic. Rated G, but a 1960s kinda G. Showing at the Roxy. THE BFG Roald Dahl’s classic story about the Big Friendly Giant, an outcast who refuses to eat children, comes to life in the hands of director Steven Spielberg. Starring the voices of Rebecca Hall, Mark Rylance and Bill Hader. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharoplex. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Dwayne Johnson teams up with Kevin Hart to prevent worldwide chaos. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. DIRTY DANCING Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey get over their differences to have the time of their lives, make an iconic movie and hope you don’t remember that terrible sequel. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Roxy. FINDING DORY When Finding Nemo came out, my kid was two. Now he’s 15 and he won’t go see Finding Dory with me. Join the beloved cast once more for an adventure with Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, as she tries to find her family. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE Because right now the world needs more movies about the potential for total annihilation. And Liam Hemsworth. Showing at Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. THE KARATE KID (1984) Ralph Macchio wants to be the best around, but bullies keep kicking him in the head. Maybe his
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters opens at Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. cleanliness-obsessed next-door neighbor can help him turn the tables. Rated PG. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN From the director of the good Harry Potter movies. Everyone’s favorite suspiciously beardless jungle hero swings into action, hoping we all forget about 2012’s John Carter. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson and Margot Robbie. Showing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharoplex. MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES Two slacker brothers need dates for their sister’s wedding. Instead of doing the honest thing and faking an explosive breakup with their respective Canadian girlfriends, they find dates who are crazier than they are. Starring Zac Efron, Aubrey Plaza, and Anna Kendrick. Playing at the Carmike 12. NOW YOU SEE ME 2 The sequel to 2013’s box office hit has gotten mixed reviews. Starring Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman. If you’re going to bomb, you ought to have a cast like that on your side. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
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NT LIVE: THE AUDIENCE 2016 ENCORE The Queen of England has been meeting with the Prime Minister every week in a series of secret meetings dating back decades. No one knows what the meetings are about, but I think they’re probably arguing over Doctor Who continuity. Part of National Theatre Live. Playing at the Roxy. THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR In the third installment of The Purge series, police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for U.S. Senator Charlene Roan, who’s running for U.S. president on a platform to eliminate the sadistic 12-hour annual tradition of legal murder. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 12. RIO 2 The goofy family of macaws returns for an Amazon adventure and more bird-brained antics. Starring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and Jemaine Clement. Rated G. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD A classic in the Sad-Canadian-Martial-Arts genre. A young man has to kung fu fight all of his girlfriend’s
SHREK The Big Dipper 20th Anniversary Pajama Party features the animated movie that turned kids’ fairy tales inside out. Mike Myers voices the big green galoot who just wants to be left alone in his swamp. You’ll wet your jammies when Princess Fiona, Lord Farquaad and a host of delightfully twisted childrens’ story characters spin one of the wildest fairy tales ever. After the movie, it’s off on a quest to Big Dipper for some ice cream. PJ Party at the Roxy, Mon., June 29, 6:30 PM. $5, kids 12 and under free. SING STREET It’s a tale as old as time. A young Irish lad pretends to be a rock star so a girl will talk to him. Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Lucy Boynton. Playing at the Roxy. SWISS ARMY MAN It’s like Castaway, but instead of Tom Hanks it’s Paul Dano, and instead of Wilson the volleyball it’s a dead Harry Potter. Starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. Playing at the Roxy Thu., July 14. Capsule reviews by Gaaby Patterson, Charley Macorn and Erika Fredrickson. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Herb your enthusiasm by Sarah Johnson It’s that wonderful time of year when the garden is starting to fill in and long gone are the first cold days of spring. It’s the time of year when the parsley you planted starts to produce, the basil begins to bud and the spring arugula begins to go to seed. Buying bunches of fresh herbs at the farmers market is practically irresistible. With just a little effort you can keep them fresh for up to a week or longer, or you can use different methods to freeze or dry your herbs, keeping summer flavors available throughout the year. How to keep herbs fresh: Whether your herbs are freshly harvested or purchased, trim the ends and place them in a glass of water. Most herbs will keep on the counter for several days. To keep them fresh longer, place a plastic bag over the herbs and place them in the fridge; some herbs will keep up to a week or more this way. Rinse your herbs if they appear wilted or muddy before trimming the ends and placing in water. Drying herbs: There are multiple ways to dry herbs. Some herbs have higher water content than others and respond better to one method of drying versus another. Low water content woody herbs like oregano and rosemary dry well tied into little bundles and hung upside-down in an out-of-the-way place. The herbs may be placed inside a paper bag while hanging to catch any fallen leaves. Cutting holes into the side of the bag increases the ventilation. Herbs with higher water content such as basil, mint or tarragon can mold easily and dry better with plenty of air circulation. Spread the leaves out flat and don’t overlap. An old window screen set in an area with good air circulation and out of direct sunlight makes an excellent drying surface. They can also be dried on the lowest oven temperature spread out
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on a cookie sheet or dried on a low setting in a food dehydrator. Freshly dried herbs should be stored in an airtight container such as a repurposed glass jar or a plastic Ziploc bag. Dried herbs can be kept for 2-3 years, but are best used within one year, as the intensity of the flavor decreases over time. Freezing Herbs: This method works well for small amounts of leftover herbs. Simply chop the herbs with a knife or food processor, press them into an ice cube tray and cover with water or an oil of your preference. Place into the freezer and, once frozen, transfer from the ice cube tray to a plastic bag or jar to help avoid freezer burn. These frozen herb cubes make great additions to sauces and soups in the middle of winter. Larger amounts of herbs may be processed as pesto. Traditionally thought of as an Italian sauce made of basil, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil and Parmesan cheese, the basic ingredients can be substituted to create a pesto alternative of your choice. I typically fill my food processor with my chosen herb (think cilantro, dill, parsley, basil or mint), drizzle with a generous amount of oil and then pulse until the herbs are chopped. I then add the sunflower seeds, garlic, cheese and any other addition that I fancy. Blend until the desired consistency is reached, adding more oil as needed. Salt to taste. Use a spatula to transfer the pesto into containers or plastic freezer bags. Frozen pesto keeps well for a year or longer if kept in an airtight container. Sarah Johnson is a Northside Community Garden leader and contributor to The Real Dirt, Garden City Harvest’s blog. For more Dirt, visit gardencityharvest.org.
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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 • asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's Bakery is a Missoula Landmark. 36 years of baking goodness. Open 6a8p Bernice's offers an incredible selections of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you've never been in you're mission' out. And if you haven't been in lately you really should make it a point to stop by. July is a great month for slow walks along the Clark Fork while you sip Bernice's iced-coffee, newly added espresso, or a refreshing Arnold Palmer and nibble on a coconut macron. Picnic? Bernice's is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice's made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. xoxo bernice. Open 6a-8p seven days a week. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $
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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries &
gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 • grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway • 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula’s only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our house-made Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$
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[dish] Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegranate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it's coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula's largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa's BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you've come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa's best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 • themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 • missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins • 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
The Rhino’s Long Island Iced Tea
HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: Equal parts well vodka, rum, gin and tequila, all mixed together in a pint glass over ice with a splash of triple sec, sour mix and cola, and garnished with lemon. The result is an inexpensive Long Island Iced Tea that’s perfect for summer sipping. Why you’re drinking it: The Long Island Iced Tea gets a bad rap because it gets you drunk for cheap. But Rhino bartender Anne Hancock says the cocktail is making a comeback. “Within the last couple of months they’ve been all the rage,” she says. Hancock says she’s always had a few regulars who enjoy the drink, but now all kinds of customers order them. She guesses that when people hear others order it, they’re inspired to try one. “It’s like milkshakes,” she says. “When you see someone drinking one, you want one too.” Origin story: Though it may have been invented as early as the 1920s, most accounts credit the Long Island Iced Tea as we know it today to Robert “Rosebud” Butt. He invented the drink in 1972 after entering a cocktail competition that called for creations made with triple sec. The competition took place at the infamous Oak Beach Inn, located, of course, in Long Island, N.Y. What it tastes like: Despite its alcohol content, The Rhino’s Long Island Iced Tea has a light, citrusy finish. The only distinguishable liquor is a hint of tequila.
photo by Tess Haas
“Ingredients like sour mix and cola shouldn’t go together,” Hancock admits. “But somehow it works.” Hancock adds that the cocktail should always be made according to the recipe. Her only secret to making a good Long Island Iced Tea? Make it with love. Where to find it: The Rhino is located at 158 Ryman Street. —Tess Haas Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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FRI | 7PM | BIG SKY Barenaked Ladies play Big Sky Brewing Fri., July 15, at 7 PM. $40 at knittingfactory.com.
SAT | 9PM | SEELEY LAKE Country music royalty Shooter Jennings headlines the Bob Marshall Music Festival at Seeley Lake. Go to thebob music.com. $20.
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SAT | 8PM | WILMA Catch Josh Ritter at the Wilma Sat., July 16. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45/$35 advance at thewilma.com
FRI | 8PM | WILMA Grace Potter brings her killer pipes for another great show. The Wilma, Fri., July 15. Door at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$29.50 at ticketfly.com
THU | 7/14 | 10PM | TOP HAT Come listen to some rawk at the Top Hat when the band Tauk play the official String Cheese Incident after-party. Thu., July 21, 10–11 PM. $10 advance.
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Thursday The 10th International Choral Festival continues with vocal groups from all over the world. Admission button gets you into all events. $20 at choralfestival.org. Missoula, land of fresh produce, provides yet another weekly market for all your local food needs. The Grizzly Green Market runs from 10 AM–2 PM every Thursday in the mall outside the Mansfield Library on campus. Missoula Public Library hosts family movies every Thursday at 2 PM. Free.
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday at Caras Park. This week listen to the music of The Bent Bones. 5:30–8:30 PM. Check missouladowntown.com for details. Free. Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class in dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. every Thursday from 6–7 PM. $5 donation. Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month. Community Room, 6–7:30 PM. Free and open to the public. The Full Draw Film Tour stops by the Wilma for a series of short films about bowhunting. Door at 6 PM. Show at 7 PM. $13/$8 for kiddos in advance. With a name like that, you just know they aren’t talking about North Dakota. Great States provide the tunes at Draught Works. 6–8 PM. Free.
photo courtesy of Nicholas Carman
Lael Wilcox, pictured, and Nicholas Carman speak about the rewards and challenges of biking Baja during a July 14 presentation at Free Cycles, starting at 7 PM. Free. Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash. Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg features the Vaudeville Variety Show. See operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. The rewards and challenges of bicycle touring in Baja are featured in a presentation by Nicholas Carman and Lael Wilcox. Free
Cycles Missoula, 7–9 PM. Free. RSVP by emailing bpetersen@adventurecycling.org or call Beth at 721-1776. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The hardest band in the world to Google, Highway 93, play two nights at the Sunrise
Saloon. 8 PM. Free. Hone your performance skills at Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with singing and prizes at 9 PM. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover. Hand me my glowsticks, Mama wants to jiggle. Dead Hipster Dance Party is tonight at the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Polson’s Off in the Woods play the Top Hat for a night of smooth sax and funky bass. 10 PM. 21-plus. Free.
For tickets, visit the MSO Hub in downtown Missoula, call 543-3300 or go to
MissoulaOsprey.com. Thursday, July 21
Friday, July 22
Saturday, July 23
Sunday, July 24
KIDS EAT FREE NIGHT
ADAM EATON T-SHIRT!
WEEKLY BREWFEST
SENIOR SUNDAY
With the purchase of a full-priced child’s ticket at the MSO Hub or stadium, each child will receive a voucher good for a FREE Hot Dog, bag of chips & regular soda.*
Eaton hit .385 with 7 home runs & 20 stolen bases for the Osprey in 2010. He is currently an outfielder in the major leagues with the Chicago White Sox. The first 750 fans get a FREE Adam Eaton T-Shirt!
Arrive early to sample select local micro brews.
Sponsored by Grizzly Peak Retirement & The Hawk Classic Country.
Sponsored by Westside Lanes & Mountain FM
Sponsored by Missoula Federal Credit Union & Fox 23.2
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Launch-A-Ball after the game. Sponsored by The Trail 103.3
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2-for-1 tickets for anyone 55+ with ID.
KIDS’ DAY The game is centered on kids’ promotions, music & activities. Following the game, all fans can run the bases and play catch on the field. Sponsored by Star FM
Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05
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Gates 6; Game time 7:05
Gates 4:30; Game time 5:05
Friday Adventure Cycling celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding event, Bikecentennial. The threeday weekend includes parties, speakers, music, art, film, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly minted Missoula-to-Lolo Trail, bike rides along the Bitterroot Trail and Bikecentennial ‘76 reunions. Sunday Streets and BIKEapalooza, a community bike ride around Missoula, round out the celebration. For details and a schedule of events visit adventurecycling.org. The 10th International Choral Festival continues with vocal groups from all over the world. Admission button gets you into all events. $20 at choralfestival.org. You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library in the board room from noon-2 PM Fridays. No registration required, just show up! The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.
Catch the Cave Singers in Missoula's own beloved musical cave, The Palace, with Dræmhouse and Cairns. Fri., July 15. Doors at 9 PM. Show at 10. $14. Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly Crawford and Russ Roca with The Path Less Howard Jones and OMD. Doors 5:30 PM, Catch country-rock band Ugly Pony at the statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Pedaled. Also enjoy a cash bar, hors d’oeu- show at 7. $40 general admission at tick- Eagles Lodge. 8 PM to 1 AM. Free. Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info. vres, and live music by Ben Sollee. Univer- etweb.com or knittingfactory.com. DJ Matt Jackon claims he’ll “spin house sity Center Ballroom, 4:30–7 PM. $30. Making God Laugh depicts one family as Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two music so dirty you’ll have to bring a towel.” they move through 30 years worth of holi- nightlife cops and three crooks through eight doors The last time someone was instructed to days. Oy! See www.operahousetheatre.com at the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre. See bring a towel some place the Vogons blew for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. Greece is the word! The third annual Mon- operahousetheatre.com for show times. up the Earth. Featuring Dave Keset, Matt tana Greek Festival returns to the Garden Jackson and KDUB. The Badlander, 9 PM. Shooter Jennings headlines the Bob Marshall City for two days of music, food and com- $20/ $10 for kids. Music Festival in Seeley Lake. Two days of munity. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Poets Lisa Ciccarello and Jeff Alessandrelli Seattle’s The Cave Singers are joined by music, camping and outdoor activities. Go Church. 5–10 PM. Free admission. (See read from their respective new collections, Dræmhouse and Cairns at the Palace for a to thebobmusic.com for tickets, full lineup Spotlight.) At Night and This Last Time Will Be the First night of the music that made America great: and schedule. at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. singing in caves. Doors at 9 PM. Show at Bring an instrument or just kick back and Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session Your paramour will appreciate your thrifti- 10. $14. Visit thecave singers.com for tickGroup every second and fourth Friday of the every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 ness at Cheap Date Night, when the Mis- ets. month at Summit Independent from 2–4 PM. PM. No cover. soula Public Library screens a free, recently Do not let the behavior of others destroy Call 728-1630. The music of Charla Bauman provides the released motion picture. Doors open at 6:45 your inner peace. Come dance like no one’s I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my soundtrack to a summer’s evening at Ten PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front watching when Joan Zen plays at the Union work week by watching some poor cricket Spoon vineyard. 6 PM. $8–$10. Street side of the building. Club. 9:15 PM. Free. getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula Basses Covered are going to get you up and Grace Potter returns to the Wilma with her Cycling nut Ben Sollee’s music has been feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and dancing for a night of rock, folk and killer pipes and big ol’ rock band for compared to that of Nickel Creek and the another show after her sold-out performance Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. Free with doo-wop at The Keep. 7–10 PM. Free. Punch Brothers. See for yourself when he in February. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $4 admission to MBHI. plays the Top Hat, part of Adventure Cycling It’s been... a long time since Barenaked $29.50/$35 at ticketfly.com. Association’s Montana Bicycle Celebration. Enjoy a reception honoring Bikecentennial Ladies graced Missoula. But now they’re founders Greg and June Siple and Dan bringing their Last Summer on Earth tour to Wild Coyote Band plays Cowboy Troy’s in Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15/$12 adand Lys Burden. Films presented by Laura the Big Sky Brewing amphitheater with Victor. Music starts at 8 PM. vance at tophatlounge.com.
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Saturday Adventure Cycling celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding event, Bikecentennial. The threeday weekend includes parties, speakers, music, art, film, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly minted Missoula-to-Lolo Trail, bike rides along the Bitterroot Trail and Bikecentennial ‘76 reunions. Sunday Streets and BIKEapalooza, a community bike ride around Missoula, round out the celebration. For details and a schedule of events visit adventurecycling.org.
Bozeman to see KISS on their Freedom to Rock Tour, with opener Caleb Johnson. Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, 8 PM. $55–$125 at ticketswest.com. Catch country-rock band Ugly Pony at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM to 1 AM. Free. Life’s a drag, but that’s a good thing. The Imperial Soverign Court of Montana presents the Country Bash Drag Show at the Palace. Your favorite drag kings and queens are ready for a rip-roaring time. Door at 9 PM. Show at 10 PM. $5
The 10th International Choral Festival continues with vocal groups from all over the world. Admission button gets you into all events. $20 at choralfestival.org. Missoula’s Farmers Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave. Missoula’s Clark Fork Market features vendors offering local produce and meats as well as locally made products, hot coffee and prepared foods. Music starts at 10:30 under the Higgins bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October. The inaugural Seeley Lake SUP race starts at Lindey’s Prime Steakhouse. A 3-mile paddleboard race is sure to be a wet and wild time. Tickets available at runsignup.com. Boards are available for rent, but numbers are limited. 9 AM. $20.
Canyon Collected and their mascot, the world's worst table, play the Top Hat, Sat., July 16. Door at 9:30 PM. Show at 10. Free. Joanna Reed Shelton signs copies of A Christian in the Land of Gods, a book about missionaries in Japan in the 1870s. Fact & Fiction Downtown. 10:30 AM to 1 PM. The third annual Montana Greek Festival continues. Swing by to check out the venders, music and dancing. 11 AM–10PM. Free admission. (See Spotlight.) Bike the almost complete Lolo-toMissoula trail after a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Sen. Jon Tester and Gov. Steve Bullock. Travelers’ Rest State Park, noon. Free. Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre features the Vaudeville Variety
See operahouse Show. theatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids.
Wilcox and Willie Weir. Holiday Inn Downtown, 5:30–9 PM. $60 at adventurecycling.org.
The Montana Bicycle Celebration Expo features bike demos, bicycle nonprofits, cycling services and products, food vendors, activities for people of all ages and live entertainment. Silver Park, 2–5 PM. Free.
nightlife
The fourth annual Northside/ Westside Block Party kicks off on North 1st between the ZACC and the Kettlehouse. 3–9 PM. Free. (See Spotlight.) The Missoula Bicycle Celebration hits its peak at a dinner featuring a cash bar, music by Mark Baker, and speakers Erick Cedeño, Lael
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Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band share the stage with JJ Grey & Mofro for a big rock show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45/$35 advance at thewilma.com. You wanted the best, you got the best! But you’ll have to drive to
DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover. The Jack Saloon and Grill presents live music on Saturdays. Pull up a log at 7000 Graves Creek Road in Lolo. 9 PM. Free. See Colorado’s commanding combo, Canyon Collected, circumvent categories and chuck convention. The Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM. Show at 10. Free. Perfect your headbanging technique with Heavy Eyes, Swamp Ritual and Wizzerd at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. 18 and over.
it’s all greek to me
Spotlight In Greece, the phrase “It's all Greek to me” doesn't get a lot WHAT: 2016 Montana Greek Festival of traction for obvious reasons. This expression, like most things WHEN: 5 PM July 15 to 10 PM July 16 we say, was created by William WHERE: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Shakespeare, a person who Church., 301 6th St W. couldn't read Greek, and refers to an inability to understand HOW MUCH: Admission is free something. Interestingly enough there is a phrase in Greek that the phrase “Did a ghost write this?” to indibasically translates to “It's all Chinese to me,” which is used for the same effect and general cate the same feeling that English speakers meaning. China, interestingly enough, uses have been putting on the Greeks and the
Have a howling good time while wolfing down some beers with your pack at Draught Works and listening to the Americana sounds of Wolf and the Moons. 6–8 PM. Free.
Seattle’s Youth Rescue Mission, joined by locals Tiny Plastic Stars, Boston Tea Party and Jespa Beatzlevox, stumble into the VFW for a night of music. 9 PM.
Greeks have been putting on the Chinese. Ghosts, having gained an understanding about the shortness of human life, have no such phrase aside from booing while rattling chains and crying under your bed. We can really learn a lot from ghosts. We can probably learn a lot from the Greeks, too. The third annual Montana Greek Festival is two days of food, dance and family fun. – Charley Macorn
Sunday Adventure Cycling celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding event, Bikecentennial. The threeday weekend includes parties, speakers, music, art, film, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly minted Missoula-to-Lolo Trail, bike rides along the Bitterroot Trail and Bikecentennial ‘76 reunions. Sunday Streets and BIKEapalooza, a community bike ride around Missoula, round out the celebration. For details and a schedule of events visit adventurecycling.org. Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session on Sunday mornings. Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you move like nobody is watching at the Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM–noon, $5. Sunday Streets Missoula returns for an afternoon of downtown fun. Several blocks of North Higgins St. are closed to traffic from noon–4 PM, and the streets fill with bikers and walkers celebrating a human-powered community. Games, prizes, and lots of local businesses providing products and services. For details visit sundaystreetsmissoula.org. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Saturday and 2 PM on Sunday at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Sunday Streets Missoula returns to downtown July 17, with four hours of car-free playtime starting at noon.
Authors Mac McCoy and Greg Siple sign copies of their new book America’s Bicycle Route – The Story of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail at Adventure Cycling. 2–4 PM.
nightlife Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two cops and three crooks
through eight doors at the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre. See operahousetheatre.com for show times. $20/ $10 for kids. The Kimberlee Carlson/Ron Meissner Jazz Quartet is joined by Pete Hand and Mickey Singer at Draught Works for some of that sweet, sweet jazz. 6–8 PM. Free.
Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up. No cover. Bicycling superstars Willie Weir and Erick Cedeño put down their kickstands at the Crystal for an
evening of bike stories. Perhaps there will be some SPOKEn word performance. 7–8:30 PM. Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free.
Monday Steven Faulker reads excerpts from his new book Bitterroot at Fact & Fiction Downtown. 7 PM. Mountain Dance Fest is a week-long training event focused on contemporary dance, improvisation and performance. Aimed at young and professional dancers. Visit mountaindancefest.com for more info, schedule and registration. Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon–1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 drop-in. Call 7210033 or visit redwillowlearning.org. Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a
refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25.
nightlife Prepare a couple songs and take your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Mon. from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. I like my jazz like I like my depression over dead tongues: blue and Latin. Enjoy some wine while Luna Blue play the Red Bird Wine Bar along with Mary Place, Andy Huppert and Mikel Greathouse. 7–10 PM. Free.
Author Shobha Rao’s new book, An Unrestored Woman, features love, crime and death. She’ll be reading and signing copies at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays. Our Missoula City Band rehearses each Monday eve at the Sentinel High School Band Room from 7–9. Open to all adult musicians. Come and join us!
Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Portland’s Candace are joined by Shahs, Mass FM and Cairns at the Badlander. Door at 9 PM. Show at 10. 21-plus. Free. Live in SIN at Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
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Tuesday Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly class at Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from noon–1 PM. $35 for four classes or $10 drop-in. Visit redwillowlearning.org. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. Jean Matthews Tuesdays at Twelve is a summer concert series, named after its founder, on the lawn of the Ravalli County Museum. Today’s music features Bitterroot Community Band. Noon–1:30 PM. Free. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.
Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday in June and July at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM. Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at Wapikiay Park, 5 PM. Free.
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Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Take a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.
Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Greenough Park for your down dog. 6–7 PM.
Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What classic 1986 film features Kiefer Sutherland and Corey Feldman and some lost boys? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Draught Works hosts Cheers for Charity. A portion of every pint go to the Montana Natural History Center’s summer camps and kids’ programs. 5–8 PM. Free.
Releasing Anxiety is a six-week program to help you learn practical tools for restoring a comfortable connection to your own life energies and emotions. Red Willow Learning Center. Tuesdays from 6–7:30 PM. $125 for four weeks.
Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.
Poet Joe Wilkins will be reading excerpts from his collection When We Were Birds at Fact & Fiction Downtown. 7 PM. (See Books.)
Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in
Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior
Mike Avery hosts a Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM to 1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@ live.com. It’s a perfect summer night to enjoy the dub sound of Protoje and The Indiggnation at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16, all ages.
Wednesday Bears vs. Humans: Round 4. Author Kathleen Snow reads from her new mystery about bear murder in Yellowstone and from her nonfiction book about the history of human/ursine interactions in the same park. Fact & Fiction Books. 7 PM. Free. Out to Lunch features live music in the riverfront setting of Caras Park every Wednesday through August. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from more than 20 vendors.This week check out Zeppo Blues. 11 AM–2 PM. Free.
nightlife FC Missoula is a nonprofit whose goooooooaaaaaaaaal is to support youth soccer programs in Missoula. Dive into Great Burn Brewery to help support their cause. 5–8 PM. Free. The ancient Egyptians worshipped cats as gods. If I had a laser pointer and a time machine, they’d worship me as a god. The Humane Society hosts the Internet Cat Video Festival at the Roxy Theater. Proceeds benefit kitten adoption in the lobby. Screenings at 5:30 and 7:30 PM. This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.
The West Coast/East Coast swing rivalry is heating up. Pledge yourself to a side by taking West Coast swing lessons at the Sunrise Saloon. 7– 8:15 PM. $5. Patrica teaches West Coast Swing dance classes at Sunrise Saloon. 7–8:30 PM. Beginning level II, so you better know how to jive. $5 per person. Jazz and the Top Hat go together like peas and carrots. The Kimberlee Carlson/Ron Meissner Jazz Quartet are joined by Pete Hand and Ed Stalling. 7–9 PM. Free.
The String Cheese Incident play Big Sky Brewing Wed., July 20, and Thu., July 21. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $60/$49.95 advance at knittingfactory.com.
Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Stand by Me. Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson.
Double the cheese, double the fun. The String Cheese Incident comes to town for back-to-back shows at Big Sky Brewing. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $60/$49.95 advance at knittingfactory.com.
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Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Missoula City Band performs in the beautiful Bonner Park Band Shell from 8–9 PM through Aug. 10. Free. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover. Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial
Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover.
Spotlight good ‘hood Block parties, as we know them, aptheater and a cake walk. There will be parently originated on the East side of water activities, giant Jenga and interacNew York City during World War I as a tive games (courtesy of Big Sky Breakout). way to honor people from the block who Plus, the theme is “party like it's 1999,” so went off to war. A there will be Princefew streets would and 1990s-inspired be shut down exdisplays. Not sure cept to foot traffic what kind of fare th WHAT: 5 Annual and the neighborthey had at original Northside/Westside Block Party hood would make block parties, but this way for parades WHO: Zootown Arts Commuone has a little bit of while people ate nity Center something for everyfood together and one, with vendors sang patriotic WHERE: North First St. beselling pizza, hot songs. That sounds tween the ZAAC and Stensrud dogs, Indian cuisine okay and all, but building and beer, among I'm pretty sure the WHEN: Sat., July 16, from 3 other things. As in block party mon- PM to 9 past years, the Garsters of yore would den City Ladies Arm be pretty jealous if HOW MUCH: Free to attend Wrestlers will be they could hop in there to make the a time machine crowd cheer with and check out the their flashy tussling. Northside/WestAnd patriotic songs side Block Party. Now in its 5th year, the are replaced by the setlists of local musievent has the old-school flair of a neighcians Critical Failure, Spencer, the borhood shindig mixed with the newZootown Arts Community Center kids rock school touch of pop culture and bands and Rooster Sauce—because contemporary art and rock and roll. what's more American than songs about This year, you can expect activities inaliens? cluding bike polo, screenprinting, puppet – Erika Fredrickson
Thursday nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday at Caras Park. This week listen to the music of The Bent Bones. 5:30–8:30 PM. Check missouladowntown.com for details. Free to attend. Lochwood brings more strings than you can count to Draught Works for an evening of bluegrass and beer. 6–8 PM. Free. County Line celebrate Missoula Brewing Company’s one-year anniversary with some classic outlaw country. 6–8 PM. Free. The way things are going in the world, it might not be a bad idea to learn how to grow your own food. Galactic Farms host the Missoula Urban Farming Forum, where you can hear live music, eat locally grown foods and see practical demonstrations. 6–9 PM. $28. Visit galacticfarms.com for more info. Feed your astronomy jones with UM’s Summer Planetarium Series. Two 50-min. shows per night, 6:30 PM and 8 PM. Payne Family Native American Center Stargazing Room. $6/$4 for kids 12 and under. Double the cheese, double the fun. The String Cheese Incident comes to town for back-to-back shows at Big Sky Brewing. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $60/$49.95 advance at knittingfactory.com.
Terry Tempest Williams will be reading and signing copies of The Hour of the Land at the University Center Ballroom. 7 PM. Free. Colony 21 kicks off four days of theater with 2014 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship recipient Samuel D. Hunter’s keynote address at 7 PM. A reading of his play The Hunter follows at 8. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Thom Simon is joined by local favorites Pale People and Wrinkles for a night of rocking and rolling. 8– 11 PM. ZACC. All-ages. Free. Fresh from Los Angeles, Plum is joined by Fallow and Holy Totum at the Palace for a night of rock and roll. 18-plus. $5. 9 PM. Wauk on down to the Top Hat for the official String Cheese Incident after-party featuring fusion rockers TAUK. 10–11 PM. $10 advance.
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Statistically, it's very unlikely the world is going to go all Thundarr the Barbarian on us. What are the chances a rogue planet would ever rocket between Earth and the moon, causing widespread destruction and leading to a world of savagery and sorcery? This doesn't mean we shouldn't prepare for the worst-case scenario, however. And while some folks might prep for the End Times by storing weapons and leather pants, it is the ability to make new food that's really going to stand out in the post-apocalyptic world. And it’s not just about growing food. In The Martian, Matt Damon proved anyone can grow potatoes. It’s the ability to garden efficiently that's really going to prolong your life in the cinder-blasted crags of whatever comes after America. But, on the off chance the Black Swan Event doesn’t happen, learning to grow food in your own backyard is still a really important skill to have. Galactic Farms, who are much more optimistic than I am, are hosting the Missoula Urban Farming Forum. You’ll get to hear live music and eat a locally grown meal while checking out practical demonstrations and panels. The event serves to strengthen community food networks and help support the Alternative
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The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent from 2–4 PM. Call 728-1630.
SATURDAY JULY 16 Caregiving for Veterans, a four-hour workshop at Learning Center at Red Willow, is designed to empower caregivers of veterans by creating a bridge of communication, a support network and discussiion of post-tramatic stress. 1–5 PM. Free for caregivers, spouses or partners of veterans. Visit redwillowlearning.org for more info.
MONDAY JULY 18 Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
TUESDAY JULY 19 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday in June and July at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.
Energy Resources Organization’s aim of creating a sustainable Montana. Plus, you might just pick up on the skills it takes to really take your wasteland survival skills to the next level. —Charley Macorn The Missoula Urban Farming Forum is hosted at Galactic Farms, 1732 DeFoe, Thu, July 21, from 6–9 PM. $28 per plate. Visit galacticfarms.com for more info and registration. Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 7287682 for more information. Feel good about yourself while drinking delicious beer. Draught Works hosts Cheers for Charity. A portion of every pint will go to the Montana Natural History Center’s summer camps and kids’ programs. 5–8 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY JULY 20 Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12 noon-1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or call 406-4433439 for more information. Take a lunchtime tour at homeWORD to learn more about how to promote sustainable communities. Food will be provided. Call 532-4663 ext. to RSVP. Free. FC Missoula is a nonprofit whose goooooooaaaaaaaaal is to support youth soccer programs in Missoula. Dive into Great Burn Brewery to help support their cause. 5–8 PM. Free. The ancient Egyptians worshipped cats as gods. If I had a laser pointer and a time machine, they’d worship me as a god. The Humane Society hosts the Internet Cat Video Festival at the Roxy Theater. Proceeds benefit kitten adoption in the lobby. Screenings at 5:30 and 7:30 PM.
THURSDAY JULY 21 The way things are going in the world, it might not be a bad idea to learn how to grow your own food. Galactic Farms host the Missoula Urban Farming Forum, where you can hear live music, eat locally grown foods and see practical demonstrations. 6–9 PM. $28. Visit galacticfarms.com for more info.
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MOUNTAIN HIGH CONGRAT A t the age of 12 I crashed my little purple bike with the banana seat into a fence and got wrapped up in barbed wire like a character in a Clive Barker book. Bleeding, unable to move and feeling fairly embarrassed that I had wrecked in front of my crush, I looked up to the overcast gray sky. Bicycles just aren't for me, I thought. As the weeks went on, and people kept giving me that little famous bit of Mayberry advice about getting right back on the horse, I just told them I had a phobia. It seemed like a neat and perfect little lie that would let me lead my life in peace. After all, it's not like I had to deal with bikes on a daily basis, living in rural Montana. Then I moved to Missoula, where biking isn't just a transportation method, it's
a way of life. Good thing we have events like the Montana Bicycle Celebration Expo, where you can catch bicycle demos and exhibits and pick up information about bicycling organizations while grabbing food from a selection of vendors. The Expo is part of Bikecentennial, a city-wide event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1976 establishment of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail. All this makes me think maybe I should give biking another shot. —Charley Macorn Visit The Montana Bicycle Celebration Expo at Silver Park from 2–5 PM on Sat., July 16. Free.
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WINNERS! Alex Sakariassen: Best Enterprise Journalism, Montana Newspaper Association – Third Place Dan Brooks: Best Column Writing, Montana Newspaper Association – Second Place; Best Journalist, Best of Missoula – First Place photo by Cathrine L. Walters
THURSDAY JULY 14 The Full Draw Film Tour stops by the Wilma for a series of short films about bowhunting. Door at 6 PM. Show at 7 PM. $13/$8 for kiddos advance.
FRIDAY JULY 15 Adventure Cycling celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding event, Bikecentennial. The threeday weekend includes parties, speakers, music, art, film, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly minted Missoula-to-Lolo Trail, bike rides along the Bitterroot Trail and Bikecentennial ‘76 reunions. Sunday Streets and BIKEapalooza, a community bike ride around Missoula, round out the celebration. For details and a schedule of events visit adventurecycling.org.
SATURDAY JULY 16 The inaugural Seeley Lake SUP race starts at Lindey’s Prime Steakhouse. A 3-mile paddleboard race is sure to be a wet and wild time. Tickets available at runsignup.com. Boards are available for rent, but numbers are limited. 9 AM. $20. Bike the completed Lolo-to-Missoula trail after a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Sen. Jon Tester and Gov. Steve Bullock. Travelers’ Rest State Park, noon. Free. The Montana Bicycle Celebration Expo features bike demos, bicycle nonprofits, cycling services and products, food vendors, activities for people of all ages and live entertainment. Silver Park, 2– 5 PM. Free.
SUNDAY JULY 17 Sunday Streets Missoula returns for an afternoon of downtown fun. Several blocks of North Higgins Ave. are closed to traffic from noon–4 PM, and the streets fill with bikers and walkers celebrating a
Pumpernickel Stewart: Best Front Page, Montana Newspaper Association – First Place
human-powered community. Games, prizes, and lots of local businesses providing products and services. For details visit sundaystreetsmissoula.org.
Robin Carleton: Best Lifestyles Photo, Montana Newspaper Association – Second Place
Authors Mac McCoy and Greg Siple sign copies of their new book America’s Bicycle Route – The Story of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail at Adventure Cycling. 2–4 PM.
Erika Fredrickson: Best Journalist, Best of Missoula – Second Place
TUESDAY JULY 19 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at Pineview Park, 5 PM. Free. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Silver Park for your down dog. 6–7 PM.
WEDNESDAY JULY 20 Learning to Survive in the Outdoors is a class that will cover the basics of survival, shelter/warmth, water and signaling, plus putting together a survival kit. Participation on an outing July 23–24 is encouraged but not required. Missoula Public Library, 6–8 PM.
THURSDAY JULY 21 Feed your astronomy jones with UM’s Summer Planetarium Series. Every other Thu. through Aug. 18, two 50-min. shows per night, 6:30 PM and 8 PM. Payne Family Native American Center Stargazing Room. $6/$4 for kids 12 and under.
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By Amy Alkon THE GIFT OF BLAB My girlfriend tells her mother and her friends pretty much everything. Literally four of her friends and her mom were weighing in on her recent urinary tract infection. I just don’t get why she feels the need to let everybody know her business, and it’s the opposite of what I do. I’m very private, and I’d like us to have some things that stay between us–especially stuff that goes on in the bedroom. How would I set boundaries like this? And does this mean that we are ultimately incompatible? –Mr. Uncomfortable Being compatible with somebody doesn’t mean you’re like them in all ways. I’m an extrovert, which is to say I see a dead car battery as an opportunity to learn about some tow truck driver’s childhood in Guatemala. Contrast that with my introvert boyfriend, who recently turned down an invitation he got to this really cool event, telling me, “I already said hello to somebody this week.” Beyond individual human differences, there are some male-female differences, like in feelings–and information–sharing. Sex differences researcher Joyce Benenson explains that men evolved to be the physical defenders of the species, and it would have put a man at a deadly disadvantage to show the enemy his emotions – like if he went all scaredypants from fear: “Oh my God, is that the enemy? I’m gonna throw up.” Women, on the other hand, evolved to build support networks and avoid social exclusion by convincing other women that they aren’t a threat. A woman does this not by hiding her vulnerabilities but by putting her problems and weaknesses on parade– a la “My ladyparts have been declared an EPA cleanup zone!” In other words, your privacy nightmare–the scrapbooking circle getting together to focus-group your medical issues–is your girlfriend’s emotional comfort zone. But this isn’t necessarily a sign that your relationship is toast. For a relationship to make it, you and your partner don’t have to be the same; you just have to have enough in common and be loving in dealing with each other’s differing bizarro needs. If there were such a thing as psychological catnip for humans, it would probably be feeling understood. So, tell your girlfriend that you understand it helps her to hash things out with her mom and the ladypeeps and that you think that’s great. You’re just wired differently. Explain how, and then – sweetly–make your request: You’d feel most comfortable if what hap-
GENERAL pens between you stays between you...given that your idea of openness involves making people sign a 30-page nondisclosure agreement before viewing the heavily encrypted photos–of Steve, your dog.
LAST YEAR’S SHAGGAGE I’m a woman who’s had a casual hookup thing with a guy for almost two years. I want a serious relationship, and I really like him and would like it to be with him. When we’re together, we have a great time, but he can go a week or two without contacting me. Last week, he showed up late to my birthday, with no present and not even a card. I know I should cut him off, but the sex is great, and there’s nobody else on the horizon. Any chance he’ll finally realize I’m a catch and come around? –Hoping The guy didn’t even give you a birthday card. Even the car wash gives you a birthday card. Any guy with an IQ exceeding the highway speed limit gets that birthdays are a big deal to most women. And if you care about birthdays and a guy cares about you, he’ll step up – at the very least by running into a drugstore, grabbing a card, and checking that the pre-printed heartfelt message inside isn’t “To my very special grandson! On his very special day!” In a hookup situation, it actually isn’t crazy to hope for an upgrade from sexfriend to girlfriend. In a survey by Kinsey Institute researcher Justin Garcia, 51 percent of the people who had hookups went into them hoping to kick-start a romantic relationship. In another survey, 9.8 percent of hookups led to committed relationships. However, there’s a progression that takes place in going from lust to emotional attachment. It has a hormonal profile and a general timetable, and, well, two years into a sex thing, the attachment train is probably well out of the station. In other words, it’s time to take this relationship to the next level–“the end.” On a positive note, it’s possible that removing yourself from this guy’s life will make him realize that he loves you and needs you in it–leading him to start showing boyfriendtype attentiveness. Either way, you’re setting yourself up to have a man you can count on to be there for you–and not just naked and at the ready whenever his Wi-Fi goes down.
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Accounting Clerk Enterprising Company seeking a Temporary Accounting Clerk to assist the Payroll Manager with a variety of projects highly focused on detailed data entry. This position will also assist in applying daily cash receipts, create and maintain Excel spreadsheets. This position will tentatively be a 2-3 month assignment, M-F, 8: 00-5: 00. Must have the ability to work well with others under pressure, resolve practical problems, and be proficient in Microsoft applications, specifically Excel. Education and experience: BA degree in accounting or related degree. $12.00. See full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #28091
Bistro Server/Bistro Prep Cook. Applicants must be able to work WEEKENDS and at least 2 days during the week. The shift will be 4pm -11pm . You must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test. This is a part-time job that could be a full-time position. Barista experience a plus. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10216821
Administrative Assistant The United States Courts for the District of Montana are accepting applications for the position of Administrative Assistant. The incumbent will be stationed in our Missoula office and will provide administrative support to the Clerk of Court. This position is full-time, Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week. Please go to our website, http://www.mtd.uscourts.gov/e mployment for a copy of the vacancy announcement and required job application form. Only complete applications will be reviewed. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10218973
Customer Care Associate An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a long term employee for a Customer Care Associate. The Customer Care Assoc. Is responsible for providing effective customer service for all internal and external customers by using excellent, in-depth knowledge of company products and programs as well as communicating effectively and professionally with all team members. Accurately processes orders according to established department policies and procedures, answers multi-line phones, communicates with customers regarding their orders and pricing, accurately prepares invoices and shipping documents. Partners with other departments to meet and exceed customer s service expectations. Must be proficient in data entry and Microsoft Office. Have strong administration and organizational skills. Attention to detail a necessity. $10.00$12.00/DOE.. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28110
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Looking for a person to do multiple things in a warehouse environment as well as driving and delivering water, and servicing water coolers as needed. Must be able to lift 50# repetitively, good organizational skills, and cleanliness are required. The ability to work positively with coworkers is essential, as well as the ability to stay on task when working independently. Ideal candidate will possess great customer service skills, have a valid DL with a clean driving record. This is a full-time position, hours are Monday thru Friday 8: 00am to 5: 00pm, weekends and Holidays off. Generous benefits and raise after successful completion of probationary period. Position starts at $10/hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28089 Head Brewer Responsible for the successful and efficient production and packaging of world class craft beer at three locations. Primary function will be oversight of the new production facility which will brew for wholesale distribution. Additionally, this position will support the existing two breweries in producing beer for our taproom locations. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10216893 HOME RESOURCE IS HIRING! Home ReSource seeks a Reuse Specialist to help reduce waste and build a vibrant and sustainable local economy at our retail store. To apply visit: homeresource.org. Kennel Maintenance Missoula County is seeking a temporary, full-time KENNEL MAINTENANCE WORKER. High School graduation or GED is required for this position. Requires one year of animal handling or animal care experience. Will perform a variety of animal care and cleaning duties for the Animal Control Program of the City/County Health Department. Work is temporary, full-time and pay is $11.71/hr. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10216462
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that you’ll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course. The transformations I’m referring to may not be visible to casual observers. They will mostly unfold in the depths of your psyche. But they won’t be merely symbolic, either. There’ll be mutations in your biochemistry that will expand your sense of your own gender. If you respond enthusiastically to these shifts, you will begin a process that could turn you into an even more complete and attractive human being than you already are.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ll name five heroic tasks you will have more than enough power to accomplish in the next eight months. 1. Turning an adversary into an ally. 2. Converting a debilitating obsession into a empowering passion. 3. Transforming an obstacle into a motivator. 4. Discovering small treasures in the midst of junk and decay. 5. Using the unsolved riddles of childhood to create a living shrine to eternal youth. 6. Gathering a slew of new freedom songs, learning them by heart, and singing them regularly–especially when habitual fears rise up in you.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your life has resemblances to a jigsaw puzzle that lies unassembled on a kitchen table. Unbeknownst to you, but revealed to you by me, a few of the pieces are missing. Maybe your cat knocked them under the refrigerator, or they fell out of their storage box somewhere along the way. But this doesn’t have to be a problem. I believe you can mostly put together the puzzle without the missing fragments. At the end, when you’re finished, you may be tempted to feel frustration that the picture’s not complete. But that would be illogical perfectionism. Ninety-seven-percent success will be just fine.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are smoothly attuned with the cosmic rhythms and finely aligned with your unconscious wisdom, you could wake up one morning and find that a mental block has miraculously crumbled, instantly raising your intelligence. If you can find it in your proud heart to surrender to “God,” your weirdest dilemma will get at least partially solved during a magical threehour interlude. And if you are able to forgive 50 percent of the wrongs that have been done to you in the last six years, you will no longer feel like you’re running into a strong wind, but rather you’ll feel like the beneficiary of a strong wind blowing in the same direction you’re headed.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How often have you visited hell or the suburbs of hell during the last few weeks? According to my guesstimates, the time you spent there was exactly the right amount. You got the teachings you needed most, including a few tricks about how to steer clear of hell in the future. With this valuable information, you will forevermore be smarter about how to avoid unnecessary pain and irrelevant hindrances. So congratulations! I suggest you celebrate. And please use your new-found wisdom as you decline one last invitation to visit the heart of a big, hot mess.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My friend Athena works as a masseuse. She says that the highest praise she can receive is drool. When her clients feel so sublimely serene that threads of spit droop out of their mouths, she knows she’s in top form. You might trigger responses akin to drool in the coming weeks, Virgo. Even if you don’t work as a massage therapist, I think it’s possible you’ll provoke rather extreme expressions of approval, longing, and curiosity. You will be at the height of your power to inspire potent feelings in those you encounter. In light of this situation, you might want to wear a small sign or button that reads, “You have my permission to drool freely.”
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The latest Free Will Astrology poll shows that thirty-three percent of your friends, loved ones, and acquaintances approve of your grab for glory. Thirty-eight percent disapprove, eighteen percent remain undecided, and eleven percent wish you would grab for even greater glory. As for me, I’m aligned with the eleven-percent minority. Here’s what I say: Don’t allow your quest for shiny breakthroughs and brilliant accomplishments to be overly influenced by what people think of you.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are at the pinnacle of your powers to both hurt and heal. Your turbulent yearnings could disrupt the integrity of those whose self-knowledge is shaky, even as your smoldering radiance can illuminate the darkness for those who are lost or weak. As strong and confident as I am, even I would be cautious about engaging your tricky intelligence. Your piercing perceptions and wild understandings might either undo me or vitalize me. Given these volatile conditions, I advise everyone to approach you as if you were a love bomb or a truth fire or a beauty tornado.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here’s the deal: I will confess a dark secret from my past if you confess an equivalent secret from yours. Shall I go first? When I first got started in the business of writing horoscope columns, I contributed a sexed-up monthly edition to a porn magazine published by smut magnate Larry Flynt. What’s even more scandalous is that I enjoyed doing it. OK. It’s your turn. Locate a compassionate listener who won’t judge you harshly, and unveil one of your subterranean mysteries. You may be surprised at how much psychic energy this will liberate. (For extra credit and emancipation, spill two or even three secrets.)
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What do you want to be when you grow up, Capricorn? What? You say you are already all grown up, and my question is irrelevant? If that’s your firm belief, I will ask you to set it aside for now. I’ll invite you to entertain the possibility that maybe some parts of you are not in fact fully mature; that no matter how ripe you imagine yourself to be, you could become even riper – an even more gorgeous version of your best self. I will also encourage you to immerse yourself in a mood of playful fun as you respond to the following question: “How can I activate and embody an even more complete version of my soul’s code?”
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On a summer day 20 years ago, I took my five-year-old daughter Zoe and her friend Max to the merry-go-round in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Zoe jumped on the elegant golden-maned lion and Max mounted the wild blue horse. Me? I climbed aboard the humble pig. Its squat pink body didn’t seem designed for rapid movement. Its timid gaze was fixed on the floor in front of it. As the man who operated the ride came around to see if everyone was in place, he congratulated me on my bold choice. Very few riders preferred the porker, he said. Not glamorous enough. “But I’m sure I will arrive at our destination as quickly and efficiently as everyone else,” I replied. Your immediate future, Aquarius, has symbolic resemblances to this scene.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Early on in our work together, my psychotherapist confessed that she only works with clients whose problems are interesting to her. In part, her motivations are selfish: Her goal is to enjoy her work. But her motivations are also altruistic. She feels she’s not likely to be of service to anyone with whom she can’t be deeply engaged. I understand this perspective, and am inclined to make it more universal. Isn’t it smart to pick all our allies according to this principle? Every one of us is a mess in one way or another, so why not choose to blend our fates with those whose messiness entertains us and teaches us the most? I suggest you experiment with this view in the coming weeks ARIES (March 21-April 19): Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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PUBLIC NOTICES FT Harrison Contract Bid Submission. Fort Harrison Billeting Fund Advisory Council is accepting bid submissions to run our front desk reservation program. Duties include: running ‘Front Desk Anywhere’ software; greeting guests; managing reservations; issuing keys; and general office work. To receive a copy of the billeting RFP bid submission process email Mr. Chris Herskind at christopher.r.herskind.mil @mail.mil. IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV2016-1100 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION CARAS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, Plaintiff, v. CALEB CRUSE, et al., Defendant. TO: Caleb Cruse 1400 D. Sunset
Pines Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 20th day of June, 2016. By: /s/ Karen A. Orzech MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-16-125 Dept. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ANTHONY Eugene T.
MNAXLP Corntassel, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Rodney D. Corntassel, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Dirk A. Williams, Crowley Fleck PLLP, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 5th day of July, 2016. /s/ Rodney D. Corntassel Personal Representative of the Estate of Eugene T. Corntassel, Deceased MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-16-124 NOTICE TO CREDI-
TORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BONNIE L. THOMPSON, 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 DIANNE M. THOMPSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of July, 2016. /s/ Dianne M. Thompson, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representa-
tive By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-1696 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RITA C. SHARBONO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jason C. Harby, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2016 ST.
PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ /Jason C. Harby I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2016. /s/ Dean Sharbono, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Honorable Judge Larson Cause No. DR16-286 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION In re the Parenting of A.L., Minor Child, CHAD GRENZ, Petitioner, and TERRY LYNN LORENZEN, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to
file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twentyone days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a third party parenting interest and third party parenting plan between you and Chad Grenz regarding A.L., the child of your (now deceased) former spouse. GIVEN under my hand this 23rd day of June, 2016, at the hour of 3:36 o’clock p.m. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 PROBATE NO. DP-16116 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR
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PUBLIC NOTICES CRAIG EDDY, a/k/a A. CRAIG EDDY, a/k/a A. CRAIG EDDY, M.D., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MARGARET T. EDDY, M.D., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2016. /s/ Margaret T. Eddy, M.D. c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq.
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-114 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARK DOTY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, c/o Aaron M. Neilson, return receipt requested, at 310 W. Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 27th day of June,
MNAXLP 2016. /s/ Janice Givler, Personal Representative /s/ Aaron M. Neilson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Case No. DP-16-104 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ROBERT EUGENE PIPINCH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Eugene Robert Pipinich, c/o Tipp & Buley, Attorneys at Law, PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2016. /s/ Eugene Robert Pip-
inich, Personal Representative. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 3 John W. Larson PROBATE NO. DP-16-33 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALLEN M. TRIMP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Nancy J. Trimp, c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 28th day of April, 2016. /s/ Nancy J. Trimp, Personal Represen-
tative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-16-119 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOIS M. MARCINKOWSKI, 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 Michael J. Marcinkowski, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana
59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 11th day of July, 2016, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Michael Marcinkowski, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Mary Cile Glover-Rogers For: Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Michael J. Marcinkowski, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 4 PROBATE NO. DP-16110 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BONNIE EDITH GRAHAM, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All
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persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to ALTA MARINA GRAHAM, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of June, 2016. /s/ Alta Marina Graham c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-73 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JEAN LOUISE SHEPPARD, Deceased.
PUBLIC NOTICES 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 return receipt requested to Thomas Gregory Hintz, the Personal Representative, c/o Darla J. Keck, at 201 W. Main, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of July, 2016. /s/ Thomas Gregory Hintz Personal Representative DATSOPOULOS, MacDONALD & LIND, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Darla J. Keck Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, Cause No. DV 2011-923, Robert James Wilkes v. State of Montana, Hon. Ed. McLean presiding. Please take notice the Montana Innocence Project (MTIP) seeks to contact S.W., date of birth 12/19/1982, recently known to be a resident of Helena, MT, Missoula, MT, and Casper, WY. MTIP seeks S.W.’s consent for the release of her confidential medical records in relation to the abovementioned case. Please contact MTIP at 406-243-6698, or MTIP Legal Director Larry D. Mansch at larry@mtinnocenceproject.org, with any information about how to reach S.W. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 24, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 47 OF
MALONEY RANCH PHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. CHAD M BAUER, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank- Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on October 15, 2007, and recorded on October 15, 2007 as Book 807 Page 612 under Document No. 200727252. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,388.38, beginning August 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 29, 2016 is $298,328.28 principal, interest at the rate of 4.62500% totaling $25,204.46, late charges in the amount of $208.26, escrow advances of $13,530.97, and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,041.59, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to
MNAXLP 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, whereis 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 INFOR-
MATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 14, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of April, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 6-9-2021 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs BAUER 101086 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 25, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF EUGENE KARL SCHAFER and JANET LINDQUIST SCHAFER, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp., A California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on May 8, 1998, and recorded on May 13, 1998 as Book 541 Page 296 Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Bank USA,
National Association as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2004-SC1. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $945.00, beginning November 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 29, 2016 is $79,863.64 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00000% totaling $4,605.83, late charges in the amount of $425.25, escrow advances of $496.74, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,409.84, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee,
may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis 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
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 26, 223, 237 Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 7/18/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 7/21/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.
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 14, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of April, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 6-9-2021 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs SCHAFER 101179 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 1, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County,
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 15, 40, 136, 142, 296, 301, 318, & 538. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday July 25th, 2016. 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 Wednesday July 27th, 2016 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 final
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1 Spanish-born NBA star ___ Gasol 2 "Cosmo" competitor 3 "Saw" actress Meyer 4 Lose one's poker face 5 Symbol that looks like January 2nd? 6 Soft ball maker 7 Horses' paces 8 Chant in the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" 9 Xavier Cugat's ex-wife Lane 10 With everything on the line 11 Voice actress Kath of "Dexter's Laboratory," "Rugrats," and "Animaniacs" 14 Silky wool source 15 Teary-eyed 18 "The Tortoise and the Hare" author 20 Sandwich after a sandwich? 24 "That hits the spot" 25 Poli ___ (college major) 26 Right this second 28 Small combo 30 "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" band 32 Lava, for one 33 Dominique Strauss-Kahn's former org. 34 Austrian physicist Ernst 38 Ludd from whom Luddites got their name 39 African antelope 41 Causes of some infections 42 Move emotionally 43 Pueblo Revolt tribe 44 Monogram character 45 Sidewalk issue 46 Pacific Ocean phenomenon of lower water temperatures 51 "That's the cost of ___ business" 52 Water-based abode 54 "I want!" 56 Some "Gods and Generals" extras 57 Home that gets lined 58 TV kid who said, "Pa, just what can you do with a grown woman?" 59 Scarf target 62 Word with Palmas or Vegas
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PUBLIC NOTICES Montana: LOT 30 IN BLOCK 6 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 5, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. JOHN G JACOBS, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to ZEN TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on January 24, 2007, and recorded on September 11, 2007 as Book 805, Page 667 under Document No. 200723661. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for certificateholders, of CWABS, Inc., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES
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2007-5. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,323.38, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 4, 2015 is $172,802.03 principal, interest at the rate of 8.75000% totaling $79,504.91, escrow advances of $12,440.01, and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,759.91, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary
MNAXLP 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, whereis 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 O B TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 18, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 18 day of April, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc.,
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REAL ESTATE More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com
Beautiful upgraded home in an awesome location with immaculate landscaping! A Must See! $270,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
Natural Housebuilders, Inc. Building comfortable energy efficient craftsman homes with radiant floor heat. 406369-0940 OR 406-6426863. Facebook/Natural House builders,inc. Solar Active House. www.faswall.com. www.naturalhousebuilder.net
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES
Trail Street 2144 Trail Street.
3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, Franklin to The Fort condo. $130,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16 Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats #105. Ground floor condo offers extra large south-facing patio. 1 bed, 1 bath. $161,900 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816 annierealtor@gmail.com The Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com The Uptown Flats #303. 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com
MANUFACTURED HOMES 2011 16x80 3 bed 2 bath includes Skirting, A/C. Delivered and setup within 100 miles of Billings. $39,900 3 left. Call Now! 406-259-4663 4033 Matthew Street. 2 bed, 1 bath mobile home in Westview Park with deck & mountain views. $38,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND FOR SALE 156 ACRES, EASY ACCESS. $199,900. Bordered by USFS lands. Prime hunting. 15 minutes to Superior MT. Southern exposure, good mix of trees and meadows. Power nearby. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-8801956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 20 acres Granite County $44,900. Wild Horse Road: Gated access, prime hunting area. Timber, views, usable terrain. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • newhomes@
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2598 WHISKEY JACK, HAMILTON MT. $89,500. 20+ acres South of Hamilton. Bordered by USFS lands. Gated community access. Sweet seller terms available with 20% down. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@ Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 3.52ac $259/month Boulder, MT- 2.12ac $391/month Absarokee, MT21.3ac $203/month Red Lodge, MTMore properties online. Justin Joyner Steel Horse RE www.ownerfinancemt.com 406-539-1420 320 ACRES, GRANITE COUNTY. $172,000. Located about an hour east of Missoula. Bordered by BLM and State lands. Good grazing area. Prime hunting area. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 40 ACRES- 2 CREEKSSELLER TERMS. $69,900. 2 perennial streams. Gated legal access. Seller terms w/20% down. Easy year around potential. Off the grid. Great southern exposure. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #5. Development opportunity. 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@ gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #7. Great Development opportunity. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714
POLSON: 3-bedroom+office, 2-bath manufactured home in Eagle Nest Park-Seniors only, carport, ramp, deck, amenities 406-883-2119.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 BELLA BLUE• Bella Blue is a 2-year-
old female American Pit Bull Terrier. She is a very sweet and submissive girl. Bella really just wants someone to give kisses and snuggle with. She has great manners and always looking to please. Bella gets along well with other dogs and would do well in a home with a canine companion.
CORA•Cora is a 2-year-old female American Pit Bull Terrier mix. She is a very sweet girl that gets along well with most other dogs. One of the quietest dogs in the kennel, Cora is a very well mannered girl. She waits patiently for you to put her leash on and off in hopes that you'll offer her a little extra affection. She takes treats very gently and loves to give hugs and kisses.
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AMBER•Amber is a 2-year-old female Tortie cat. She is a quirky little girl who has run the entire personality gamut. When she first came to the shelter, Amber was very timid and scared. Then, as she became more confident, Amber showed us her very affectionate and playful side. Lately, she's been telling us that she's sick of shelter life with her rather cranky mood. BARTHOLOMEW•Bartholomew is a 4year-old male buff-colored cat. He has not adjusted to shelter life well, and spends the majority of his folding himself up in a box to hide. He is a very affectionate and sensitive cat who displays the perfect of example of just how stressful and scary shelter life can be. Once he's acclimated himself to a home, this large cat would make a great lap cat.
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FRANCIS• Francis is a 1-year-old male orange and white cat. Francis has an eye condition where the eye lids fold inward and irritate his eyes. When he came to the shelter, his eyes were so swollen and painful, he wouldn't even open them. Francis has undergone several surgeries to help correct this congenital issue and now sees the world through rose tinted glasses.
KENAI•Kenai is a 1 1/2-year-old female Catahoola Malamute mix. She can be timid with new people at first, but is a very active and affectionate girl once you've built her trust. Kenai needs an owner that is willing to work give her the time she needs to feel confident in her home environment and then the time to wear her out so she can be a calm, balanced dog.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 DEKE• Deke is a handsome Lab/Chessie Mix. He's a smart one and knows sit, down, stay and fetch. He'd love to learn more at a Basic Manners Class here at the Humane Society of Western Montana. This multi-talented guy loves fetching, hiking, swimming and playing with other dogs.
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SHANDY• Shandy is a beautiful cat looking for a loving retirement home. In her golden years Shandy enjoys the finer things in life such as being held and sleeping. When she isn't resting this curious lady loves looking out the window and rubbing on visitors, seeking attention. Shandy loves attention so please come meet her today!
HOLLY•Holly may be 8 years old, technically making her a senior lady, but she certainly doesn't act old! Holly is a very active girl, who loves going on walks, hiking, and playing lots and lots of fetch. She loves children, but she can sometimes be a little overwhelming for smaller children with her endless energy. Come meet this friendly lady today and watch as she jumps her way into your heart!
SAMI• This gentle gal is looking for a quiet furever home where she can engage in meaningful conversation and then join you for a nap. Sami can be a bit bashful at first, but once she warms up she's the perfect lap cat. Stop by The Humane Society of Western Montana today and let this sweet girl steal your heart.
AUDREY•Audrey came to us from an overcrowded facility in hopes that her luck will change in Missoula. While she seems to have had a bit of a rough start, she is still optimistic for her furrever family. She is young, sweet, and ready to learn all kinds of new tricks! If you would like more information on this sweet girl, please call the shelter at (406) 549-3934.
BABETTE• This lovely older gal has found herself in our care due to a sad turn of family events. She is looking for a quiet home where she can relax. Babette would be a perfect lounging partner in the beautiful summer days to come and a warm companion in the cold months. If you are looking for a sweet, calm feline, Babette may be the cat for you!
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REAL ESTATE
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3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties
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122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
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1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home on .47 acre lot. $337,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Wonderful home on quiet street located close to schools and shopping. Hardwood floors, tiled entry, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath. Dining area enters the backyard from French doors onto the back trex deck to fully fenced large backyard with swing set included. Raised garden beds, raspberry patch, and a fruit tree. Basement completely remodeled in 2010 with family room, recessed lighting, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath with stained concrete floors and deep soaking tub. New plumbing and updated electrical in 2010. 90% efficient furnace in 2009 MLS #21607661
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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $315,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info callMindyPalmer@239-6696,orvisit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home. $230,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 BEDROOM HOME ON 12+ACRES. $349,900. Bring the Horses! Well kept home, 45x60 shop. All irrigated land. Less than an hour to Missoula. 2 story home. Incredible views and plenty of solitude. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com Hot Springs 205 E Street, Hot Springs. Super-efficient 1 bed, 1bath. $139,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gar-
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2370 COTTAGE COURT $220,000 2 bed 1 bath Located on a quiet cul-de-sac with upgraded cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and granite countertops.
408 Oak Street • $206,888 River Front Park Gem! Remodeled 1 bed, 1 bath with wood floors, lots of natural light & large fenced yard.
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REVERSE MORTGAGES: Draw eligible cash out of your home & eliminate mortgage payments. Seniors 62+! FHA insured. Purchase, refinance & VA loans also. In home personal service. Free 28 page catalog. 1-888660-3033. All Island Mortgage. www.allislandmortgage.com